Competências informacionais em gestão de bibliotecas na Universidade Federal do Pará

Abstract

The aim of this dissertation is the information literacy of professionals who are library managers from the Library System of the Federal University of Pará. What are the information competences required to library managers of the Library System of the Federal University of Para? Which of these competences are already part of daily work and which one need to be developed by those managers? These were the questions that guided this study. The research was grounded in proceeding blending quantitative and qualitative approaches, conducted at first, as an exploratory study using a questionnaire addressed to those professionals – librarians and managers. Five of these librarians were interviewed, they were chosen by their representativeness and stage of development of these libraries, at this time using life history as methodology. All those data and its analysis allowed us to know who these managers have their competences, their profile, their most frequently difficulties, and their functions and work that they have developed and what resources or practices they use to build capacity and keep up to date in their position and profession. The results confirm the absence of a ground-work, even small one, to act as manager of libraries and indicate the needing to create training programs for information literacy for these professionals and thus fill the current lacks.