The multilevel library in the IFPB campus Sousa

Abstract

Introduction: It presents a description of the Federal Network of Professional, Scientific and Technological Education and of a multilevel library in the State of Paraíba. This article is the result of research on the development of competences in information held at the master's level. Objective: Define and expose the purpose of the multilevel library, considered a new type of library that arises in 2008 along with the creation of the Federal Institutes of Education in Brazil. Methodology: The research that originated this work is delineated as action research, of qualitative nature and descriptive exploratory level in which the techniques of bibliographic research, documentary research, participant observation and organization of categories were used to reach the objectives outlined. Results: The description of the IFPB Campus Sousa library corroborates the type of multilevel library, being this classification the most adequate for the identity of the libraries in the context of the Federal Network of Professional, Scientific and Technological Education in Brazil. Conclusions: It concludes that the library in the Federal Institutes of Education is of the multilevel library type, because it understands that the library serves the users of all the different levels of education mentioned above and for defending that the definition of the identity of a library of this complexity is relevant to insert in the scientific field with property, and to guide the discussions between the librarians who are part of the practices and the policy adopted for its own information services.