As questões étnico-raciais na biblioteca universitária : um estudo exploratório

Abstract

This article discusses ethnic-racial issues in university libraries and its main objective is to investigate the actions aimed towards ethnic-racial issues, with a focus on the black population, developed by two university libraries that make up the Library System of the Federal University of Sergipe: the Lagarto Library (BILAG) and the Central Library (BICEN). The specific objectives are: to verify how these actions are planned; to identify the challenges encountered in developing the actions in the two libraries and to analyze the contributions to ethnic-racial issues within the university. Methodologically, this is a bibliographical, exploratory and descriptive study. The data collection instrument was a questionnaire, stored on the Google forms digital platform, consisting of four qualitative questions and applied to the librarian managers of the BICEN and BILAG libraries. The results show that university libraries promote actions aimed towards ethnic-racial issues, but with little visibility, as there are no bibliographic materials in the collections with the theme of the black population. Furthermore, SIBIUFS has little or no involvement from librarians in the library system, making it even more difficult to disseminate ethnic-racial information in these spaces. Despite the lack of visibility, the ethnicracial issue brings contributions to the university, such as awareness and literacy for students and the entire academic community involved, thus promoting anti-racist education. Therefore, it is of the greatest importance to include ethnic-racial issues in university libraries so that information can be disseminated, favoring the visibility of the black population.