The Library as a Source of Social and Cultural Balance

Abstract

This paper aims to address the key elements that make the library an institution contributing to the cultural and social equilibrium, and requiring a better understanding and harmonization of phenomena such as globalization, multiculturalism, information society and knowledge society, so that they can be reconsidered to allow a gradual increase in the number of persons acquiring habits that pose a continuous cultural growth. It considers, first, what is meant by social and cultural balance and what are its main features; second, it examines how the library will contribute to human development with the correct appropriation of the dynamics inherent to globalization, multiculturalism, information society and knowledge society, and finally it defines new paths which from philosophical realism allow to foster formative activities generating social and cultural cohesion processes within the framework of a genuine pluralism.