The propose of the study was to survey the Brazilian public libraries activities, in view of the Covid-19 pandemic. More specifically, the objective was to define the products and services that these libraries are offering to their communities, emphasizing the hybridity as a way of managing environments. The approach is qualitative, and exploratory. The method was the Documentary Research, which comprised the website of the National System of Public Libraries (SNBP), as well as the website of the libraries who participated of the study. The Brazilian south and southeast regions were those that first presented these guidelines, hence are part of the research sample. Facing the new social context in the world, it is necessary to understand the current management of public libraries, to provide the exchange of information between institutions and society. In the case of a new global social phenomenon, in order to face a pandemic, it was necessary to understand the current management of public libraries, in order to provide the exchange of information between institutions and society. In this perspective, the ability to act with the hybridity process, brought indispensable subsidies to the modes of remote action of the analyzed libraries. Such localities used diversified means of entertainment activities and access to communication and information, to become participants in the current needs of society
Hybridity in Libraries, Public Libraries, Covid-19, Development of Communities
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Desenvolvido por Commscientia