O bibliotecário como agente mediador da informação, cultura e educação.

In the society of information, the work of librarian plays an important role: being a disseminator. As that, he/she is responsible for dissemination of information to his/her user community. This procedure is strictly linked to the Reference Service. Although is primal to act diligently in technical service, understand this kind professional as a disseminator of information may not give the extent of his/her activities. This subject seeks to reaffirm the librarian as mediator of information, once he/she is a pro-active professional; in other words, he/she creates information areas which can assist the community. Based in this concept, our main objective is to discuss points that show the librarian as a mediator of information, who is able to develop educational activities and for encouraging the culture, in a way to meet the proposals for the educational guidelines. It will be carried out through literature that will serve as support to develop the concept that the librarian is also a professional of Education