Innovation Practices of Librarians in Virtual Environment

• Autor(a) principal: Tomaél, Maria Inês
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Outros Autores: Zaninelli, Thais Batista, Prado, Maira, Feitoza, Leonina, Costa, Eliandro dos Santos, Pallisser, Allyson
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Encontros Bibli
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/eb/article/view/1518-2924.2014v19n39p83
• topic: Práticas de Inovação; Bibliotecário; Ambiente Virtual; Web 2.0; Computação em Nuvem; Dispositivos Móveis; Innovation practices Librarian; Virtual Environment; Web 2.0; Cloud Computing; Mobile Devices

The technology resources of information have imposed some changes about the role of the librarian’s practices. This role begins to develop from the changes concerning the professional focus on the virtual environment and also the activities that this professional develops in the cyberspace. Thus, this article has as its main objective to study the innovative practices of librarians on the Web environment. In order to achieve this objective, a bibliographic research was conducted, in which the literature was analyzed and identified the necessary premises to achieve this goal. It was verified several initiatives for librarian performance within the virtual environment, such as: a) Web 2.0 through social media; b) Cloud Computing through database, online union catalogue, and resource for the organization of books; c) applications on mobile devices with the intention of reaching young people and adolescents, besides other equipments such as tablet in libraries for reading and appropriation of information. Librarians innovate their practices performance as they change the way of offering services and products to users. However, there is a long way to go to consider the librarian an innovator par excellence.