Estudos das âncoras de carreira dos profissionais bibliotecários formados pela Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)

Abstract

It aims to investigate the Career Anchors of the professionals Librarians graduated by the Federal University of Ceará (UFC) in counterpoint with the desired profile to the modern professional Librarian in the light of the established in the report of the “IV Encuentro de directores de escuelas de Bibliotecología y Ciencia de la Información del Mercosur”, held in the city of Montevideo, Uruguay, in the year 2000, using as an instrument of collection the inventory of Career Anchors, developed by Edgar Schein, idealizer of such theory, as well as the concept of Organizational Culture. The present study also lists some of the theories of the development of the career choice and the professional profiles from the orientations of the respective career anchors. For that, a study was elaborated on the concepts of vocation, career, such as the moments and reasons for the individual's choice, as well as their perception about themselves, their self-image. As for the methodology, it is a research of mixed character and can be classified as descriptive, through the analysis of applied content in data collected through the application of the inventory of career anchors, through which only the partial contemplation of the skills to the modern professional Librarian. Such a conclusion suggests the present study, the proposal of improvement in the curriculum regarding theoretical and practical approaches and activities aimed at the development of such skills and competences in its students aiming at a better formation and contemplation of the aspirations of the job market.