Informação utilitária na biblioteca comunitária Gaivota

Abstract

Presents one brief dealing with some theoretical concepts of information and their importance into the inforrnation's society, dealing with information's politics focused in your relations with the technologies, and make commentaries about citizenship and its origins. Also it concepts utilitarian information, your origins in the Latin America and some European countries mentioning your categories and types of sources of utilitarian information, and still the context of these information with the technologies. It also presents a brief approach on the Society of the Information, presenting some concepts and the context in Brazil. For this was used as source of exploring research the Communitarian Library Gaivota, which had been made some visits intending to identify enough subsidies for accomplishment of this work. The used methodology was the dialetic and the technique was fhe application of a questionnaire with analysis of the data, which the questionnaire that could be consulted in the ANNEX A, with 14 questions and counted with the participation of 43 users of the library. Finally, the conclusion is the library is worried in supplying useful information to the community, tracing the profile of users and identifying the Communitarian Library Gaivota as circulating local of utilitarian information.