Reading spaces in educational institutions: reflections about the real and virtual reader

Abstract

It presents the importance to provide a quality environment to the physical and virtual space intented to reading and to knowledge production at educational libraries (educational institutions and research centers). The libraries become a positive differential at the learning process. To the librarians some dynamic competences and abilities are necessary to promote and manage interaction spaces to readers at the reading world. How to facilitate an environment for the intellectual studies, meetings, debates with authors and readings exchange experiences, is primordial to transmit , to generate and to do knowledge innovation at different areas of knowledge. Understand the transitions between the books reader (paper) to the person that interacts in the video: the screen reader in the world wide web. Some questions about how and why librarians have to build up spaces to access and use information resources to provide information literacy in the worlds of images, words, hipertexts and hipermídias. Digital division impacts, access and use of information resources have to be considerated to the development and construction of the Knowledge Society.