BiblioJornal CAZMA: estudo de caso

Abstract

This academic work presents a case study on the BiblioJornal, a publication in the form of a virtual newsletter by the Centro Academico Zila Mamede (CAZMA), an entity representing the students of the Library Science Course at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), in the year 2021. It aims to understand the role of the librarian as a mediator of information and in the area of publishing, in particular in the preparation and dissemination of a publication by an Academic Center, in virtual mode in the midst of a Covid-19 pandemic. Discusses information sources and their types; the mediation of information through products and services, including the figure of the librarian as an editor, his relationship as a mediator with society, information, social protagonism and newspapers and newsletters as products; the student movement, history, ramifications and communication; CAZMA, the production of the newsletter and its importance. It uses as research sources several authors from the areas of Information Science, Social Communication and Education, documentary research on the student movement and on the highlighted publication, and report on the production of the newsletter. It shows the viability of producing and disseminating a virtual newsletter by the librarian, with the appropriate tools, knowledge and information, combined with technological advancement. The interest in the subject initially arose from the concern with the memory of the CAZMA itself, accompanied by questions about sources of information, the figure of the mediating librarian and fields of work such as publishing, the student movement and its communication, and how to prepare a newsletter.