Biblioteca escolar: competências e habilidades do profissional da informação

Abstract

The present work aims to present the librarian's skills and competences in the management of a school library. Demonstrates theoretical basis with clipping on the theme "school library" in Librarianship. The general objective is to suggest improvements for the management of school libraries, focused on the librarian's skills and competences. The methodology adopted was bibliographic research under exploratory investigation. As an intensive research technique, it uses the semi-structured interview as it is adequate to compose the analysis of this monograph. The interview highlights the management difficulty faced in school libraries, mainly in the acquisition of informational materials and in the sensitization of the institution and the user in the context of the importance of this unit of information for the formation of subjects. As a result, it indicates suggestions for improvements for the management of school libraries, understanding possible institutional realities and considering the librarian's skills. It considers that the challenges inherent to the librarian's performance in the school library are vast, reaching the objective of the work and suggesting a future study that considers more school libraries of private education institutions, in the State of Rio Grande do Norte/Brazil.