Atuação do bibliotecário na cidade de Teresina, PI: identificação dos campos tradicionais e em expansão, aptos a sua atuação profissional

Abstract

The objective of this work was to identify the workplaces occupied by librarians and others in expansion in the city of Teresina-PI. As a research object, the librarian in the labor market and the possible fields of action that involve his professional diversity, was used a questionnaire with 12 (twelve) questions, with 1 (one) closed question and 11 (eleven) open questions - because it is considered an instrument of great efficiency, in the context of the qualitative-descriptive research being the type of research developed in the work. The research subjects were fifteen (15) professional librarians residing in the city of Teresina, capital of the State of Piauí. It was concluded that the consultancy is an expanding option for the librarian's performance only that they are timidly practiced by them, they believe that to be a professional consultant, librarians constantly need professional updating to adapt to market demands, and that more traditional fields of activity, libraries, are considered monotonous different from the consultancy that provides more dynamic and innovative environments, and that it gives the professional a greater freedom as to their pace of work enabling him to act simultaneously in more than one place and to have greater gains.