Cobertura do acervo do Sistema de Bibliotecas da UFC: importância para a avaliação do MEC

Abstract

With the advent of the National System of Higher Education Evaluation (Sinaes), the library system of the Federal University of Ceara tries to meet the new requirements of the regulating bodies regarding to the archive developing policy. However, such adjustments only occur alongside with the participation and collaboration of both coordinating bodies, namely, the undergraduate courses and the Dean of graduate courses. To better understand this correlation, this study aims to evaluate the overall development policy of the archive of the Federal University of Ceará Library System and its interface with the evaluation process of undergraduate courses. For such a task four specific objectives were proposed; identify and analyze with the coordinating bodies of both courses, the structural difficulties and suitability upon requesting books from the library updated archive , correlate basic titles present in the political pedagogical project of courses and programs of academic subjects with the listing requested by different fields of study; to find out how often these updates are performed by the coordinating bodies, verify with some students their expectations regarding the archives of the libraries; research and analyze the results of the evaluation of undergraduate courses in basic aspect updating bibliographies over the past two years. For such research the descriptive method as methodological procedures were used and adopted. Collecting data in five courses chosen in Fortaleza campus, Geography, Nursing, Metallurgical Engineering, Home Economics and Law. The data collecting used the bibliographies of these basic courses, their lists sent to the University Library, as well as structured interviews with coordinators of the courses, library users and the personnel of Dean of Undergraduate. The data collected by the survey points out the lack of titles that make up the basic bibliography of the five undergraduate courses of the Federal University of Ceará. Partial results of the analysis show that accommodation, resistance, autonomy and lack of communication are basic factors that cause a disorderly development of the archive and that does not meet the either new requirements demanded by MEC nor the students.