A formação do acervo em bibliotecas infanto-juvenis : o caso da biblioteca pública infantil de Sergipe e da biblioteca comunitária viajando na leitura (BCVL)

Abstract

This work consists of verifying the process of formation of the collection of children's literature in the Sergipe Children's Public Library and the Community Library Travel-ing in Reading (BCVL), based on the criteria established by the collection develop-ment process (selection, acquisition and evaluation of the collection) and as specific objectives: a) verify the existence of the selection process to incorporate the items in the collection; b) to pick up the forms of acquisition adopted for the formation of the collection (purchase, donation or exchange); c) verify that the libraries analyzed have the formal Collection Development Policy document and / or adopt specific proce-dures for the collection's formation; d) in the absence of the formal document, pro-pose a model for the establishment of the Collection Development Policy; e) check if there is a library committee constituted to support the decisions in the composition of the collection and f) to verify if the libraries evaluate their collections periodically. The research methodology consisted of two phases: in the first phase a bibliograph-ical research was carried out, which included the consultation of various information resources such as articles from periodicals, books, which served as a basis for the theoretical reference and to support research. In the second phase, we performed a descriptive research. As a data collection tool, a questionnaire was created consist-ing of 17 questions, divided between closed and multiple choice sent to the manag-ers via email. It was concluded that both libraries are similar in regard to the process of formation of the literature collection juvenile child