Competências digitais dos bibliotecários : estudo de caso do SIBIUFS

Abstract

With the encouragement and advancement of Information Technologies (TIC), the role of the librarian becomes an agent that organizes and transmits information to its users quickly and efficiently, which requires the development of skills to handle information as " digital competence”. The general objective of this work is to point out the skills of digital librarians belonging to SIBUFS in the context of technologies. As specific objectives, we sought to identify the learning process for developing information literacy in digital environments; identify which digital tools are used by SIBIUFS librarians in the development of their activities and point out the necessary digital skills for the librarian to work in the university context. Under the justification of the interest in the continuing education of the librarian, given the need to master digital informational skills and competences. As for the methodological aspects of the research, it is characterized as an exploratory-descriptive study, with a qualitative approach, having as a data collection instrument a dialogue with closed and open questions, in which it was applied to a population of twenty-seven librarians and obtained a sample of seven respondents. As a result, it was possible to identify that librarians seek training in TIC in order to develop new essential and/or strategic skills for the organization and carry out their activities with more autonomy and independence.