Resumen

ALFARO LOPEZ, Héctor Guillermo. Reading and knowledge in Library Science. Investig. bibl [online]. 2021, vol.35, n.89, eib0895838104.  Epub 22-Mar-2022. ISSN 2448-8321.  https://doi.org/10.22201/iibi.24488321xe.2021.89.58381.

The intention here is understanding how reading develops cognitively through the Library Science field, mainly in its education and research dimensions, resorting to the following concepts of sociologist Bruno Latour: mediators, intermediaries and translation. The intermediaries consist of the actions that transport content without undergoing changes, so that the reading (conceived as an intermediary) has predominated in the Library Science field and besides is also determined by objectivity. The mediators transform the meaning of its contents by undergoing translation. Reading as a mediator entails the transformation of information into different or new knowledge as it is translated, through the posing of problems and questions to the text, all of which encourages a reading marked by subjectivity, which can become a transforming factor in the Library Science field.

Palabras llave : Reading; Knowledge; Mediator; Intermediary.