Temas de concursos em Biblioteconomia: universidades federais da região Nordeste

Abstract

The objective of this work is to identify the most recurrent thematic areas of public tenders for the position of librarian, with a special focus in the northeast region. As a theoretical reference, a historical curricular panorama of the Biblioteconomy course in this region was taken and used as a parameter to classify the subjects that make the competitions in 08 states of the Northeast region, in the period from January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2017. In this sense, this work aims to analyze and classify the most recurrent themes of the questions of competitions in Librarianship with data extracted from among other sources cited, contents from CAPES, The project organizes and analyzes 19 disciplines, distributed among 275 questions. It also addresses the contextualization of public tenders and identifies works related to it in the area of Librarianship. In its methodological procedures, it uses the site "Questão de Contests" as a source of collection of the 09 tests of 2016 and 2017, in a total of 275 questions. This is an applied research with quantitative character, with analysis of the competitions tests of the selected institutions. The results are based on comparisons between the competitions focusing on the disciplines presented in the contents of the tests, the emphasis is on topics: "Organization and planning of information, Cataloging, Indexing, Classification Systems, Reference Service and Information Sources, Automation" ; adding a subtotal with 37% of frequency, thus presenting the highest number of classified questions. Second, "Bibliographic Control, Marketing, Cultural Action, The Professional Librarian and Code of Ethics and Scientific Communication" appear, accounting for 26%. Thirdly, "Foundations of information, Bibliometric studies and Bibliographic switching" appear with 21%. Fourth place in penultimate place was repeated in two groups, "User Study" and "Copyrights", had together a constancy of 11% and lastly with 5% Brazilian Association of technical standards (ABNT) / documentation. In the comparative analysis by type of events, it exposes a balance of representation of percentage among the types of study benches, reflecting the orientation of the coverage and repetitions that took place in the events, which form content in the use of professional selection to act in response to the demands requested by the universities of the Northeast region during the period. It concludes that the technical approach is the most demanded in competitions tests and suggests other topics for future research, such as the cross between the disciplines requested in competitions.