Busca e uso da informação pelos docentes dos programas de pós-graduação do CCSA/UFPB

Abstract

This paper presents the professors profile of graduate school at Federal University of Paraiba (UFPB) campus I, also identifies their needs, uses and barriers found during the process of information search and use for professional practices. Among the existing centers on campus I (UFPB), this work chose use only the center where the course of Library Science is on (Center for Applied Social Sciences - CCSA). This center has three graduate programs. The study is a descriptive and quali-quantitative, to data gathering instrument we used the mixed questionnaire, with closed and opened questions, created in Google Docs and send by email. In the analysis/interpretation for quantitative data, we use basic statistical resources and for qualitative data, we used categorization technique. After the analysis/interpretation, it was possible to learn how the CCSA’s professors are. A lot of them are male, aged between 40 and 49 years old, Caucasians, married, and coming from the Northeast. In case of needs and uses information, the professors behavior is centered on the use of new technologies, where the majority use the internet to conduct their information searches on daily basis, looking for specialized publications, the tools utilized is search engines as Google and digital repositories. These searches have as central motivation, the updating knowledge to the aid of their activities of teaching and researching. Finally, in case of barriers/obstacles findings by them during the searching process of information, the barrier with most highlight was the legal barrier.