ABSTRACT
The aim of this essay is to discuss the participation of public libraries in the intersubjective development process of identity references. It was tailored as theoretical framework the concepts of identity, rooting and sociability. For such, adopt as a premise that identity is to be seen as a discourse in constant development, expressed and enhanced through the contact with each other in many spheres of socialization that ensure the existence of a collectivity, stimulated dynamic, also by public libraries because of the representational status that crosses their collections and services sectors. The propositions were confirmed by the analysis of the life stories of two users of the library “Biblioteca Pública Estadual Luiz de Bessa”. Evidencing in the statements the different anchor points that support their interpersonal references and the importance of Luiz de Bessa - symbolic dimensions, affective and structural - throughout this formative process, the narratives erected by the deponents reveal that the Library exerts a force of impregnating on their individual biographies and put itself as a place of rooting and representational frame of the identity discourses forged by them.
Key Words:
Public Library; Identity; Rooting, Sociability, Life Stories, State Public Library Luiz de Bessa