Uso da Biblioteca Central da UFPB pelos alunos pré-concluintes do curso de Biblioteconomia.

Abstract

The information units has to adapt their costumer services to the users information needs. The following text is about the a descriptive research, with the quantitative and qualitative approach the has the general goal of investigate the use of Central Library by the pre-concluding students of the Library science course in the Federal University of Paraíba. The justification for this work is that the theme was studed during the course, and by the necessity of findding if the choice for the Central Library of UFPB was for been a important source of research for the university users, in special for the Library Science students. The methodology used includes a biblioghraphic search to compose the review of the literature that gave theoretical support to teh research and covered the themes: users studies, use studies, universitary library, information access barriers, sources and chanels of information. Also inccluded a field research that used as instument of collect of data a questionnaire with open and closed questions, applied personally in the classroom. The research results point that the pre-concluding students of the Library science course rarely use the Central Library of the Federal University of Paraíba. The most of these students is satisfied with the costumer service of the information unit and with the collection organization, its update and conservation. The research also showed the need of publicity of the services offered by the Central Library in UFPB, to attract more rea and potential users. Concludes that the use of the Central Library of UFPB by the researched students occurs in sporadic forms, once that the most of them rarely frequents the library.