Abstract

ANZOLIN, Heloisa Helena  and  CORREA, Rosa Lydia Teixeira. Biblioteca universitária como mediadora na produção de conhecimento. Rev. Diálogo Educ. [online]. 2008, vol.08, n.25, pp.801-817. ISSN 1981-416X.

This work aims at analyzing the manner the production of knowledge takes place at the university, through research professors who have participated in Research Groups and through those professors who just teach in classrooms and PIBIC students in a higher learning institution. These three categories are being investigated based on the use of services/products available at university libraries, which epitomize the center for culture and knowledge accrued through time. This work examines the relationship between the library and knowledge, and therefore, how it contributes to scientific production and faculty performance at the university. One of the functions of the university is to be a space that enables students to awaken to critical thinking, which may be brought about either through teaching or through research. The effort spent in this investigation was in order to answer the question that is part of an investigation at the master’s degree level, which is the following: has the university library, as a center for spreading knowledge, contributed to faculty teaching and research? The answers of the interviewed point to an affirmative answer, which says that the Library is in fact contributing to the production of knowledge by opening up various possibilities of access to information and by making available services and products to the IES academic community.

Keywords : University; Knowledge; Professors; Research; University Library.

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