Distance education, libraries polo and resources informational: a research-action

• Autor(a) principal: Costa, Maria Elizabeth de Oliveira
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Outros Autores: Cendón, Beatriz Valadares
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Encontros Bibli
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/eb/article/view/1518-2924.2016v21n45p82
• topic: Educação a Distância (EaD); Biblioteca Polo de Apoio Presencial; Biblioteca Universitária, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG); Distance Learning (DL); University Libraries; Polo’s Support Classroom; Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG)

The research deals with the theme of Distance Education (DE), Polo Libraries and Information Resources available to students of distance education. The research is exploratory and uses both qualitative and quantitative approaches as methodological procedures to collect dada. It addresses the following questions: How the University Libraries could support the libraries in distance education poles? How to offer support and information access to distance education students? And how to ensure that distance education students receive the information resources required for their research activities? The methodology consisted of two phases, the first of which is the object of this article. The article reports the research conducted on-site in the polo libraries in order to verify the information resources that students have at their disposal, comparing them with the basic bibliography of this modality courses. Data shows that the bibliography at the polos when compared to basic bibliography of the courses do not meet the required demands of users and the ideal of a library. The first part of this study is also characterized as research action, and its results have been presented to the institution.