Escrita colaborativa na Biblioteca Universitária: O uso do Google Docs na construção do conhecimento

Abstract

The Information and Communication Technologies affect the changes and innovations in the information dissemination processes. This fact can be checked especially in relation to the environment of the Internet and the Web. One example is the importance of the Collaborative Writing (CW), with emphasis on the use of Web 2.0 technologies, since the CW should be seen as a social process and also as a new type of collective construction of knowledge, where different collaborators may engage in a virtual platform to build a single document. Within this context, we present our experience in the construction of Biblionotícias - the Newsletter of the Library System of Federal University of Cearm, which has existed for 24 years and has always been produced through the collaborative writing, and since 2011 is edited using the text editor application Google Docs. This change is dynamizing production, helping to maintain the periodicity and keeping it updated on the information disclosed on a monthly basis throughout the academic community, indicators that reinforce the relevance of the use of collaborative technologies for the production of qualitative knowledge.