Diagnóstico de uso de fontes de informação para gestão de coleções em bibliotecas da Rede Municipal de Educação de Belo Horizonte

Abstract

Considering the importance of the availability of book collections in school libraries to meet the needs of students and to help making them citizens who read and think critically, this paper seeks to identify and diagnose the sources of information used by librarians to support their decision-making in their book collection management activities in the libraries of local public schools controlled by the Prefecture of Belo Horizonte (referred to as RMEBH, in Portuguese). Public schools were chosen because the students attending these schools find it harder to buy their own books. Literature review was conducted on the following topics: school libraries and development of book collections. This is a documentary research study analyzing the Book Collection Development Policy from the school system under study in comparison with theliterature indications for the development of book collections and schoollibraries; the librarians were asked to answer questionnaires in order to diagnose their sources of information. This paper presents the analysis of the data collected and its conclusion brings a brief overview of the condition of book collections in RMEBH public school libraries, supervised by the professionals interviewed.