SITUATIONAL DIAGNOSIS: the look at the informational behavior of the users of the bioscience center sector library
Library management. University library. Informational behavior. User.
The technological advance contributed positively to the social and cultural development of society, causing changes in services, products and information systems, directly reflecting the way the libraries operate. Thus, this study presents the concept, historical evolution, characteristics and challenges of libraries from antiquity to contemporaneity. It emphasizes the university library, its function and the management model, as well as its relation with the university with respect to support to teaching, research and extension activities. Considering that the user is the central element of the library, the paper discusses the change of terminology from user study to informational behavior and the importance of user participation in the decision making process. In this perspective, the study aims to perform a research to identify the needs of users of the Sectoral Library of the Center of Biosciences of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte regarding infrastructure, information sources and services. To achieve the research will be done a bibliographical survey with the subject in question and a field survey. The target audience of the research will be undergraduate and graduate students of the UFRN Bioscience Center and will be used as research instrument, questionnaires containing open and closed questions. The analysis of the data will be made through the technique of descriptive statistics presented in the form of graphs.