Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-04T18:36:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Elaine Formentini Caldas.pdf: 593672 bytes, checksum: 78c93511d4fd07ff0828c99abf68d19e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005-12-07 / Presentation of the trajectory of the programs of reading and of the Public Library in Brazil, through the laws and decrees that set them up and that recognized officially, when the laws are considered as an object of analysis, because of treating as legal acts of the state for introduction of programs made a list to the reading and also attributions been intended for the Public Library. Through this study a historical picture was prepared making a list of the dates in which there were petitioned the laws and decrees and the regime of government in force. There was observed the trajectory of the Programs of Reading in Brazil as well as of the importance attributed to the Public Library like stimulating of the reading in front of the population. The study includes the period of 1937 in which the first mention is to the First National Institute of the Book up to the year of 2004, in which Brazil is inserted in the process of globalization, which remodeled the structures of the societies causing to necessity of the power of the reading and writing, i.e. to the forms of access to the ways of circulation the information, of which the written register is exemplary. / Apresenta??o da trajet?ria dos programas de leitura e da Biblioteca P?blica no Brasil, atrav?s das leis e decretos que os institu?ram e os reconheceram oficialmente, considerando-se as leis como objeto de an?lise, por se tratarem de atos legais do estado para implanta??o de programas relacionados ? leitura e tamb?m atribui??es destinadas ? Biblioteca P?blica. Atrav?s deste estudo elaborouse um quadro hist?rico relacionando as datas em que foram impetradas as leis e decretos e o regime de governo vigente. Observou-se a trajet?ria dos Programas de Leitura no Brasil bem como a import?ncia atribu?da ? Biblioteca P?blica como incentivadora da leitura frente ? popula??o. O estudo abrange o per?odo de 1937 em que se encontra a primeira men??o ao Primeiro Instituto Nacional do Livro at? o ano de 2004, em que o Brasil se insere no processo de globaliza??o, o qual remodelou as estruturas das sociedades ocasionando a necessidade do dom?nio da leitura e escrita, isto ?, as formas de acesso aos meios de veicula??o da informa??o, da qual o registro escrito ? exemplar. Palavras-chave: Biblioteca Nacional; Biblioteca P?blica; Leitura no Brasil; Pol?tica de Leitura.