Gestão ecológica da informação : uma adaptação do modelo de Davenport para um sistema de bibliotecas subordinado à administração pública federal.

Abstract

Information ecology is a model of information management, advocated by Davenport (1998) and that differs from the others by comparing the organizations with the environment in which everything works in an interconnected way. From the problematic of how to develop an information management model based on the approach of the information ecology of Davenport (1998), for a university library of one Federal Institution of higher education, it was defined as the general objective of this study the development of a model that takes into account the specificities and particularities of these institutions, establishing as a starting point the library system of the University Federal of Ceará (UFC). Regarding the nature of the research, it is classified as applied and as for the objectives assumes a descriptive research feature. For adaptation of the Davenport model (1998) questionnaires were applied to employees, bosses and leaders who integrate the UFC library system. With the analysis of the questionnaires and support from the scientific literature, the Davenport model (1998) was adapted to the reality of a system of libraries subordinated to the Brazilian Federal Public Administration. After adapting this model, a proposal was made to a specific library of that system, in this case Library Central Campus of Pici (BCCP). As a result it puts the group who presents better performance, in relation to the information ecology, in the perception of the servers is the one that deals with the information team, while the group with the lowest performance is the one who works with architecture of information. It is also accepted that the application of the information in the library system of the Federal University of Ceará is possible, once the particularities of the administration are considered, it was also possible to identify that the library system studied has already policies which are in accordance with the information ecology and for the full development of such information it is necessary that a program of incentive to servers be developed in parallel. It's also possible to realize that Davenport (1998) when dealing with aspects of the information team, takes a wrong stance regarded to the professionals librarians, an inference which can be made from the analysis of publications prior to the year of 1998.