FACILITY

In 2005, the Lima Barreto Popular Library was created to meet the demand of young people and adults in Maré for a place where they could read and study. To further expand the space's performance, the Maria Clara Machado Reading Room was opened in 2011 for children.

The project invites children and their family members to living with books and reading; contributes to the formation of new readers; it provides experiences of creation and expression processes through reading and writing, promoting a safe learning space.

In this trajectory of more than 15 years, the Library has worked in partnership with local institutions such as Residents' Associations, Early Childhood Education Spaces (EDI) and NGOs, strengthening education development networks in Maré.

The numbers prove how the Library is a reference in the region:

It has an annual average of 12,000 services to children and adults, between Loans and Consultations from a collection of 14,000 books, CDs, DVDs and participation in activities.

The Library is a place of meeting, knowledge and above all, hospitable!

Watch our library's 16th anniversary video:

Discover our rooms

The young room is a meeting point for people preparing for high school and college entrance exams. A concentrated group that usually exchanges experiences and teachings, with a favorable environment, where there are textbooks, silence, wi-fi and air conditioning.

In the children's room, with 300 square meters, there is always a facilitator to interact with children, storytelling, workshops, material for drawing, painting, and a variety of games. Both the construction and maintenance of the Lima Barreto Popular Library and Maria Clara Machado Room depended on contributions. Donations of literature and poetry books for all ages are accepted. You can donate by contacting our team by e-mail library@redesdamare.org.br or telephone +55 21 3105 8421.

HOW DO WE FACE THE PANDEMIC?

As of March 2020, the Library was closed to the public but, with the help of partners, we created strategies to strengthen bonds, despite the social isolation imposed by the pandemic, encouraging the habit of reading, which today occupies a smaller place in people's lives.

Thus, we created the Reading Club, meetings that happen weekly, in a virtual way, with children who attend the Library. The creation of this project arose after the demand they brought, the longing they felt for the activities and the contact with the Library team.

Favoring children's protagonism, the actions of the Reading Club are designed and developed based on the wishes and interests of children. Learn more by watching the video below.

Information:

Meetings: Weekly

Duration: 1:30pm

Exchanges: Direct contact with the regular public and family members through different WhatsApp groups (already existing before the pandemic)

Number of children: 25 who already attended the Library

TEAM

Coordinator: Luciene de Andrade
Reading Mediation: Claudia Ferreira, Shirlane Lorindo and Matheus Siqueira
Librarian: Sandra Santos
Library Assistant: Alessandra Cotta
Financial Manager: Carlos André

INSTITUTIONAL PARTNER

Caju

ADDRESS

Rua Sargento Silva Nunes, 1014 – Nova Holanda
Phone: +55 (21) 3105-8421

OPENING HOURS

Lima Barreto Popular Library: 09 am - 21 pm
Maria Clara Machado Room: 14 pm - 20 pm

LIBRARY CONTACT

Email: biblioteca@redesdamare.org.br | eixoarteecultura@redesdamare.org.br

Phone: +55 (21) 3105-8421

WhatsApp Redes da Maré: +55 (21) 99924-6462

HIGHLIGHTS

2021

Realization of the 4rd edition of the Maré of Reading project through the ISS Law. | Realization of the project “From Maré I read the world”, in partnership with UNESCO-Criança Esperança. The activities of this project are carried out in partnership with the Lima Barreto Popular Library and Cleia Santos de Oliveira Child Development Space. | 2nd edition of the partnership with the project Once Upon a Time, which enable the writing and illustration of 3 more books made by children attending the Lima Barreto Library and Jorge Amado Library. | Delivery of childrens literature books to childrens homes, and virtual meetings of the Reading Club for adults and the Reading Club for children. | Workshops in partnership with Rolé Carioca, in addition to the daily and sensitive struggle to adapt to the emotional and socioeconomic conditions of each family.

2020

Realization of the 3rd edition of the Maré of Reading project through the ISS Law. | Renewal of the Library´s collection through donations during the period of the 'Maré says NO to coronavirus' campaign.

2019

Realization of the 2nd edition of the Maré of Reading project with support from the Incentive Law (ISS). | External cultural activities, such as guided tours of exhibitions; field class in partnership with Maré Open Air and Azulejaria, where the children of the Library walked the streets of Nova Holanda and Parque União, making references to their memories and also sharing the historical knowledge of Maré neighborhood. | #CampanhaAcervo: donation of books to Redes in partnership with Livro Labirinto. | Training meetings with educators from Maré. | Gastronomy Workshop with the children of the Library in partnership with the Flavors of Maré project at the House of Women of Maré. | Regular game workshops, reading wheels, folding workshop.

2018

Approval of the Maré of Reading project by the ISS Law for reading workshops and staff training. Partnership with project Livro Labirinto in literary meetings with teachers and writers. Launch of the book “Convidador de Pirilampos” with the presence of Angolan writer Ondjaki and the Portuguese illustrator Antonio Gonçalves.

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2017

Reading Workshop in partnership with actress Joice Marino, which resulted in the event Ocupação Carolina de Jesus, in the spaces of the Library; | Project Livro Labirinto, a partnership between Redes da Maré and Caju Projetos, divided into two work fronts: a series of classes/debates, in which writers, literary critics and essayists discuss great titles of literature with the approximately 240 students of the Pre-College Course; and a collection part, in which volunteers donate specific titles to the Library.

2016

“Maré de Histórias Brincantes”, winner of a public notice from the Municipal Department of Culture, which, among other activities, offered photography, musical awareness and toy building workshops; | Project in homage to the 400th anniversary of death of the Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes, with the support of Instituto Cervantes, and participation, among others, of Kátia Oliveira Machado, author of Don Quixote's Amusing Journey to Rio de Janeiro; | Project Book´s Nest, by Producer Satrapia, in partnership with Natura: installation of a little wooden house, like a birdhouse, so that residents of Maré can exchange books simply and quickly. | Meeting for conversation and storytelling with elder residents of Maré.

2015

Meeting with writers, among them Pedro Gabriel (Eu me chamo Antônio); | the cartoonist António Jorge Gonçalves (Barriga de baleia), the Dutch Janny Vander Molen (author of The world of Anne Frank, a research on the best-seller The Diary of Anne Frank) and the young indigenous of the Huni Kuin tribe Uma Isi Kayawa, who wrote the Book of Healing.

2014

Maré de Reading launched the book All My Dreams, by Ivan Zigg.

2013

“Pelo Prazer de Ler”, National Library Award notice for community libraries: with support for storytelling and meeting with authors.

2011

Expansion works on the Library and opening of the Maria Clara Machado Room. The expansion and equipping of the Lima Barreto Popular Library building had the cooperation of “Criança Petrobras” Program, the Rotary Club of Rio de Janeiro, Geraldo Jordão Pereira Family, Livraria Saraiva, the Municipal and State Departments of Culture of Rio de Janeiro, Futura channel,Petrobras, Debora Bloch, Hélio Aleixo da Silva, in addition to other people and institutions that help Redes da Maré; | Visit of writer Talita Rebouças.