Competencies, profiles and social aspects of the librarian in education

• Autor(a) principal: Castro Filho, Claudio Marcondes de
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Digital de Biblioteconomia e Ciência da Informação
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/rdbci/article/view/8643650
• topic: Aspecto social. Biblioteca escolar. Bibliotecário. Competência. Tecnologias da Informação e Comunicação.; Biblioteca escolar; Social. School library. Librarian. Competence. Communication and information technologies.; Biblioteca escolar; Biblioteca escolar. Bibliotecario. Competencia. Social. Tecnologías de información y comunicación.; Biblioteca escolar

The school library should be acknowledged as a cultural facility, a social institution, in order to integrate the information society, establishing new concepts and adapting itself to the social, cultural, educational and technological realities of society. With the information boom, contemporary society requires librarians working in the school library with competencies that meet the new demands of information products and services. So which are the roles and skills of these professionals? Are they prepared to fulfill the social demand of our readers? Thus, the goal of this study is to point out the profiles, competencies and social aspects of the librarian in the contemporary space, within the scope of the school library. For our investigation, we use exploratory research as the scientific method, which aims to develop and clarify concepts and ideas that usually involve the bibliography and documentary research. Regarding the school librarian, they should have the following as acting practices: the mediation among the library, the reader and the context, the technique and the promotion of reading; they should be alert to help alleviating the digital divide and the lack of access to information; they should make available a set of approaches, skills and competencies that certify them to  work and contribute in a positive way; they must be flexible and must be able to manage the school information unit, generating information services and resources, to work with the tools made available by information and communication technologies and to bring the school community closer to the library space.