Fontes de informação para usuários surdos

Abstract

The sources of information exist since the antiquity and can be found in various forms of knowledge. The following research, in exploratory, aimed to survey the information sources to/about deaf users at the Federal University of Paraiba. The study methodology includes three phases: a bibliographic, documental and web research based on a quantitative and qualitative approach. The research environment was the Federal University of Paraíba, especially the Sistema Integrado de Gestão de Atividades Acadêmicas (SIGAA). Upon completion of the data collection, the references were organized in a bibliographic standard and conducted a bibliometric analysis of the information sources for / about deaf. The results identify many types of information sources to / about deaf as: books, dissertations, Internet texts, monographs, laws, theories, encyclopedias, dictionaries, events works, conferences proceedings and journal articles. Among the collected sources, the book was the predominating source with 58%, followed by dissertation with 13%. The survey also allow us to identify the institutions involved in education / inclusion of deaf people, the many types of information sources to / about deaf people, the elite of these sources authors, publishers that publish informational resources about deafness and Brazilian Sign Language, the journals that list the collected bibliography, the languages, sources and the places where the information sources to / about deaf are distributed in UFPB libraries. Concluding the research can be affirmed that the information sources to / about deaf are very diverse and are widely expanding. Every day brings new signal language courses and new information sources, the concern about diversity, the access to the differences are characteristics of the time we are experiencing, post-modernity.