A competência informacional do profissional bibliotecário do Instituto Federal de Sergipe (IFS) em relação às tecnologias assistivas

Abstract

Access to information is a right for everyone and offer resources and services to retrieve it and necessary and important. People with visual impairments need assistive technologies as well as a professional who guides them until they become autonomous. In this way the following question arose: how does the use of assistive technologies assist the visually impaired person in the university libraries, considering the informational competence of the librarian in the use of the services? The objective of this research is to verify the informational competence of the librarian in relation to assistive technologies for visually impaired persons in the provision of library services. The chosen library was the Federal Institute of Sergipe (IFS), Aracaju fields. The research was done through an interview, where a questionnaire related to the professional competence of the librarian and the assistive technologies was elaborated and applied to the librarians, the target public of the research. In the theoretical framework, it is important to highlight the historical context of the disabled person, the varied technological resources that support these people, especially the visual impairment, as well as the mission, attributions, and possibilities of the professional to improve these people. Through the application of the Sense Making informational behavior model, the informational competence of the librarians was evaluated. In general, the IFS (Aracaju) librarians do not have the informational competence to use the assistive technology to care for the visually impaired, and although they realize the importance of being sensitive to people with disabilities, of hiring and having skilled labor for this purpose, none of the participants are up to date, in favor of building meaning and improvement for the care of people with visual impairment