A biblioterapia como um campo de atuação para o bibliotecário: perspectivas dos discentes do curso de biblioteconomia da UFBA

Abstract

Bibliotherapy is one of the possible fields of action of the librarian, but the lack of approach to this subject in the classroom and the fact that the students' competences to take on this field are not developed to the satisfaction can be considered barriers for the formation of future professionals. These aspects also motivated the choice of this research theme. Thus, the objective of this study was to investigate the perspectives of Librarianship students about their work in the field of Biblioterapia. For that, questionnaires were applied with the students of the Federal University of Bahia, to know their opinions on the subject. In addition, a mapping was carried out in the literature ofInformation Science to know what skills librarians must master in order to perform in Biblioterapia and that need to be developed by the students during graduation. With these steps accomplished, it was possible to observe that the students have already heard about bibliotherapy, but most do not feel prepared to work in the field because of the lack of specific curricular components that approach them in this theme. It is concluded that, although these professionals know a little about the subject, it is still necessary that curricular matrices are updated and address new fields of their performance in the classroom.