Learning resource center: school library for the XXI century

Abstract

This work reports an educational experience on planning, construction and operation processes of the Learning Resource Centre (LRC), of the Marist School, in Brasilia (Brazil). The LRC constitutes a local access to information, learning and knowledge, integrated to the school pedagogical objective of training critical and autonomous citizens. It is emphasized that, in order to be effectively used as a Learning Resource Centre, it must adopt more flexible curriculum and methodological procedures with the main task of solving problems.