The librarian as professional of the information and representations of your personal and professional skills for work in libraries

Abstract

The objective of the study was know the representations of competences socially built by the professional of the library information inserted in the present setting of the blast informational, consequence of the technological innovations and of the globalization of the information. These representations were collected next to the active professionals in the libraries of the Universidade Federal do Amazonas (UFAM), having for theoretical base the Social constructionism treated by Berger and Luckmann (1995), the Theory of the Social Representations presented by Moscovici (2004) and complemented by the theory of the Civilizing Process of Elias (1994). Methodological, carried out itself to research in two phases. In the first one, utilized itself a questionnaire as data collection instrument for characterization and highlight of the sample of the research. In the second one, utilized itself a script for interview the sample and proceed to the analysis of discourse. Like this, it employed itself to technical of the Collective subject discourse (DSC) treated by Lefèvre and Lefèvre (2003) and theoretical recommendations of Elias (1998). The analysis of discourse, qualitative and exploratory in the collection of the manifestations and opinions of the librarian, enabled presentation of the DSC individual of each question that finally itself mix for constitute the DSC unique about the competences that the librarian perceives and manifest with property. As result standed out some factors of competence of this DSC: the personality, the character and the love to the profession; the union of the knowledge, values and experiences; the creativity, the personal compromise and the work in team; the updating continued professional and the adaptability to the floating reality and to their social paper, in the meantime others cited