Constitution, agents and uses of a library for the training of teachers (1897-1923)

Abstract

School libraries are special objects of research in the History of Education. We seek to analyze this space from the point of view of cultural organization, of the agents involved, and the specific school space. The library at the Piracicaba Complementary and Normal School is our chosen object. From it, we learned the constitution and uses, from a period starting in 1897, with the deployment of the Complementary School of Piracicaba to recent records on the collection made by the director of the school Honorato Faustino, in 1923. The selected sources are reports, Yearbooks of Education and state law. Authors such as Marta Carvalho and Antonio Viñao-Frago collaborate with the analysis, check the library while collection and space. The difficulties faced by the agents, the consolidation of a space and the structuring of a substantial collection are analyzed in this Article.