Competência em informação e perfil dos bibliotecários da área de Ciências da Saúde: investigando os hospitais universitários

Abstract

Qualitative research that aimed to verify how librarians with different performance profiles, medical, clinical or informationist, develop information literacy in health. It is a descriptive exploratory research by a case study about librarians who work in libraries at federal and state university hospitals. The method used to collect data was online questionnaire. Content Analysis was the methodological technique applied for data analysis. Results point out that librarians are predominantly females, above forty years old, with more than ten years after graduation and less than ten years working at his/her institution. They also perform activities mainly related to the medical librarian profile. The skills and literacy required are also related to the same profile. Librarians prefer to improve themselves in information literacy by classroom courses and/or online learning. They indicated the difficulty to take courses, the difficulty with technical words and relationship with target audience as barriers to achieve self-development. Most of the respondents have an optimistic perspective about the future of their profession within university hospitals. This research indicates the significance of continued and specialized education as a way to librarians improve and, consequently, develop better information literacy, particularly in health.