Bibliotecário escolar e fake news: evidências da contribuição da biblioteca escolar

Abstract

Fake news or fake news has gained international repercussion and its spread is mainly through social networks. This article seeks to understand the role of the school librarian in this scenario and its general objective is to raise the awareness of high school students about the circulation and use of false news, as well as to structure a training action for them. The research has a quanti-qualitative approach and the instruments of data collection used were a questionnaire with closed questions and an open question at the end of the talk. The lecture for 45 high school students had direct participation of the students of the Library and Information Science course of the Federal University of Sergipe and the librarian of the private college. The main results pointed out that the lecture was quite enlightening for the class, in several aspects. He also showed that high school students rarely attend high school libraries and that they develop some important reading projects. The young people pointed out several methods of evaluating information on the internet. It is suggested that the librarian develop projects in partnership with teachers on the practice of research and development of informational literacy of students in basic education.