Competência em informação na formação do profissional arquivista

Abstract

To meet the demands related to the search of information in the archival scope, it is necessary to train professionals Archivists innovative and competent in the use of information. The research was based on a questionnaire regarding the informational behavior of undergraduate students in Archival Science at the UFPB, aiming to identify the status of the main strategies and skills in information competences where the students were considered as final year students of the undergraduate course in Archivology of the University Federal University of Paraíba, comprising the period 2016.1. The applied methodology is characterized by being a bibliographical, exploratory research with a quanti / qualitative approach, whose purpose is to analyze perceptions and meanings referring to information competence. For data collection a questionnaire was used with open and multiple choice questions that enabled the analysis of the information through statistical procedures, as well as descriptive analysis. Using the model proposed by Kuhlthau in 1987, which focuses on the moments of the information search process (acronym in Portuguese MPBI), results were obtained showing, through the definitions and analyzes presented in the research, that it is necessary to improve the studies of the information Competences in the area of Archivology.