Análise dos Websites das bibliotecas públicas estaduais do nordeste sob a ótica da arquitetura da informação

Abstract

This paper work has as its central theme the investigation of the employment of Information Architecture concepts. Its main objective is to analyze the websites of the State Public Libraries of the Northeast through a survey of the structure of their main components, which are: the organization system, the labeling system, the navigation system and the search system and suggest possible improvements. And as specific objectives: to survey the State Public Libraries of the Northeast that have their own websites; perform a diagnosis of the website organization system; carry out a diagnosis of the website's labeling system; perform a diagnosis of the websites navigation system; carry out a diagnosis of the websites' search system and suggest improvements to the weaknesses found. The research is configured as a qualitative case study that used the non-participatory observation method to analyze the websites, taking into account the concepts proposed by Morville and Rosenfeld about the main systems for the development of Information Architecture. As a result, the research indicated that the libraries that fit the established criteria were the Biblioteca Pública Benedito Leite the Biblioteca Pública Estadual de Pernambuco and the Biblioteca Pública Epifânio Dória. After the analysis, it was found a greater adequacy of the website of the Biblioteca Pública Benedito Leite the website of the Biblioteca Pública Epifânio Dória needs improvements in its systems, especially in its home page and finally the website of the Biblioteca Pública Estadual de Pernambuco is outdated, needing a restructuring of all systems.