LIBRARY: is it a preservation institution of the dominant culture

Abstract

Many studies analysing the role of the institutions try to prove that they preserve and reproduce the values of the dominant classes. Since libraries are runed by the State, acording to this thinning trend, they woul d reproduce and legitimate the dominant behavoir. This paper intends to point out the fact the strieness of these analyses hides the complexity an d reciprocity that do exist in the cultural production process.