Gestão de bibliotecas: avaliação estrutural das bibliotecas do Instituto Federal de Educação Ciência e Tecnologia do Amazonas - IFAM

Abstract

The aim of this study was to evaluate the Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Amazonas structure libraries according the SINAES/INEP s evaluation principles which attend institutional accreditation in libraries. The evaluation has considered some aspects consisted in the IFAM s Development Intuitional Plan and Internal Assessment Commission reports. This analysis covered the elements that compose an organization: people, structure, and technology. As methodology was done a data collection considering nine libraries from three universities known as reference for the higher education in Brazil, and they has been denominated as: University A ; University B and University C in order to compare the three IFAM s libraries (CMC, CMDI, CMZL) chose for this research. Besides, it was seek identify what substantial changes occurred during the organizational process in the institute and then define a structures standardization to the IFAM s libraries. This study was consisted of a documental descriptive research using the data collection technique realized by the direct observation and survey. The results showed that IFAM s libraries are still in a position to adjust within the higher education, but their structures are getting beyond of those are well classified according to the Brazilian standards, realizing a great difference between INEP s evaluation requirements and the structures available in the libraries units. Thus, there is need of a review about the criteria establish by institute evaluators, such structural patterns met on IFAM s libraries in order to define indicators and parameters.