Library speeches about reading in Argentina during the first decades of the twentieth century. Some keys to the constitution of an object of knowledge

Abstract

This paper studies the production of a reading discourse associated with the expansion and incipient professionalization of popular and worker's libraries during the first three decades of the 20th century. In the recovered documents, it is analyzed: the pedagogy of reading; the knowledge of the librarian space and its rules of use; the professionalization demands of the librarian. Among the main conclusions, the presence relations of difference and opposition between the participants of the field is verified.