A biblioteca pública e a inclusão digital: desafios e perspectivas na era da informação

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2006

RESUMO

The presence of information and communication technologies has been an impacting factor of the every-day routine of the Public Libraries of the Federal District, mainly because of the necessity to introduce the community to the information society. The aim of the present research is to identify the difficulties experienced by the information service offered by these libraries and to create means of systemizing a proposal for an accessible action that might result in the social insertion of citizens. The intention of this research is to design a profile of the public libraries and their users, who already have been subject of a research in order to identify factors that may be interfering with the development of the dissemination of information; help with the search for alternatives and solutions which may result in improving the aptitude of information units; identify, in literature, theoretical and practical support for the information service in public libraries as well as propose forms of digital inclusion to the already researched society by means of partnerships with public, private and non- governmental organizations, aiming at facilitating access to information. Furthermore, the research intends to contribute with a proposal of public politics to be implemented in favor of citizenship, character and conscience and a permanent intellectual growth. The study was made in public libraries in Ceilândia, Museu Vivo de Memória Candanga, Gama, Riacho Fundo I, Núcleo Bandeirante and Brasília. The definition of the study was based on fundamental questions that became the scope of the research meant to add a subsidy to the understanding of how certain phenomena occur or how they can be influenced by others. These questions make possible an outline of the several stages of the research: the first one, related to bibliographic research, the second of an exploratory nature and the third of an analytic and conclusive character. The research had its theoretical references based on the science of information that explains and characterizes all processes related to the practice of organization, utilization and manipulation of information. The results obtained revealed that the Public Libraries of the Federal District are going through a process of developing and facing the challenge that resulted from the socio-cultural changes and that they make an effort to incorporate into their new role the transfer of knowledge and information to users of the society of information. The social inequalities have been a determining factor for the use and access to means of information, making it difficult for users of the Public Libraries of the Federal District to interact with the new technology of information. Therefore, the conclusion is that there is a necessity of establishing public politics in order to strengthen actions of disseminating the habit of reading and using communitary information, thereby promoting a social and digital inclusion as a form of diminishing existant social inequalities.

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tecnologia da informação community telecenters aspectos sociais internet política pública public library bibliotecas pública public politics community information services. social and digital inclusion ciencia da informacao integração social

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