The article presents a case study of school practices of Child School Library of Institute of Education Caetano de Campos, between 1936 and 1966, under the administration of teacher-librarian Iracema Marques da Silveira and her students-librarians. It aims to understand the social place, political acting and cultural strategies of child and school libraries, regarding present and past in theirs (dis)continuity. To do so, the article is structured into three parts. The first one is about the spread of public child and school libraries in the 1930s as a way to promote reading. The second is a narrative of Institute of Education Caetano de Campos experience. The last part sketches some comments in order to instate a discussion.
School Library; Progressive education; School culture; Childhood
