O papel do bibliotecário no processo de formação dos discentes: estudo nos cursos de história, jornalismo e pedagogia da Universidade Federal do Ceará

Abstract

The present work has as main objective to analyze the perception of the students of the courses of History, Journalism and Pedagogy of the Federal University of Ceara (UFC) regarding the performance of the librarians in the teaching-learning process. For that, the following specific objectives were established: to verify the level of knowledge of the students about the librarian's professional practice; to identify if there is interaction between the Librarians of the UFC Library System and the students of the sixth semester of Social Communication / Journalism, History and Pedagogy in the course of the graduation and how it occurs, and, finally, to understand the relevance of the librarian for the teaching-learning process of students during graduation. Through bibliographic research, we present the concept of knowledge, university, teacher, library, profession, Library Science and librarian, trying to identify and understand their interrelationships, with the objective of pointing out the role and contribution of information professionals to the academic community. In addition to bibliographic research, we also conducted a field research, through the application of a questionnaire with UFC students. The results of this study pointed out that a closer approximation between librarian and user is necessary, and that it is fundamental to carry out more research regarding the students' understanding of the role of this professional. It is concluded that it is necessary to identify the yearnings and needs that the undergraduates have in order to make changes on the part of the librarian, and that activities should be developed in order to attract and approximate the students to the librarians.