Tendências temáticas do curso de graduação em Biblioteconomia da Universidade Federal da Paraíba: revelações dos Trabalhos de Conclusão de Curso

Abstract

Research carried out in areas of knowledge is of paramount importance for up-to-date contributions on their respective subjects, generating a range of knowledge that serves as a scientific basis. It aims to analyze the thematic trends in the final works of the undergraduate course in Librarianship at the Federal University of Paraíba between the years 2017 and 2021. Methodologically, it is a descriptive, quantitative and qualitative research, of an applied nature and of the documentary type. It adopts the institutional repository of the UFPB as a source of data collection and is anchored in the quantitative and qualitative approach for data analysis. In the results, 115 works from the UFPB institutional repository corresponding to the period from 2017 to 2021 were identified; the guiding teachers and the most incident themes that outside: encouraging reading, school library, user study, marketing in libraries, information and knowledge management, cultural action, bibliotherapy and memory preservation. It concludes from the findings the areas in which students show more interest in research, also suggesting actions that can encourage such students to write in other areas that are little explored.