Acessibilidade em biblioteca escolar: estudo de caso do Instituto Federal do Rio de Janeiro - Campus Paracambi - RJ

Abstract

It studies the school library of the Federal Institute of Rio de Janeiro Campus Paracambi-RJ’s accessibility, between January and March 2017, from the perspective of Brazil’s Law No. 13146/2015 and its standard NBR 9050: 2015, as regard architectures, urbanities and instrumentals aspects. It aims to investigate the conditions of locomotion of disabled users in favor of their informational accesses. The methodology is a descriptive case study and operates with nine indicators of the occurrence of barriers relatives to the surroundings of the investigated library, its entrance and its internal spaces, floors, corridors, toilets, counters, users' desks and shelves. It is supported by documentary, bibliographical and field research. The data treatment was qualitative. It was identified the existence of barriers and found that the solution of the problem is the object of efforts of the institution’s administration, which seeks to solve it with equipment and works, such as the installation of elevators. It concludes that the method used to study accessibility by indicators can be a useful decision support tool for library managers because it allows establishing criteria of priorities in processes of changes in favor of accessibility.