Estudo sobre o comportamento leitor dos alunos do curso de biblioteconomia e ciência da informação da Universidade Federal de São Carlos

TLDR: In this paper, the authors investigate the behavior of the reader students of Library and Information Science, Federal University of Sao Carlos (UFSCar), Brazil, and identify the profile of the sample, identify the profiles of readers and non-readers of course, show the reading preferences, expose the frequency of reading, expose how students have access to books, expose what the main barriers to fluency reader.

Abstract: Regardless of the professional field is essential reading and reading competence. The intention of this work, to investigate the behavior of the reader students of Library and Information Science, Federal University of Sao Carlos (UFSCar). Specific objectives were established: to identify the profile of the sample, identify the profile of readers and non-readers of course, show the reading preferences; know the meaning of reading by students; expose the frequency of reading, to know the motivations for reading students, know how to read, identify the key influencers in reading; expose how students have access to books, to know what the main barriers to fluency reader. Chose to study the behavior of students in this course player, because he understands that, as a future librarian, there is this intrinsic relationship with others and new readers, to influence them and encourage them to the habit of reading, using a diverse range of reading materials written and also the fact that reading permeates professional activity. The work had as main basis for comparative analysis, research Portraits of Reading in Brazil, held in 2008 by the Office Pro-Book. The development work was based on quantitative and methodological procedures we adopted the questionnaire as a research tool. For the study and treatment of the data used the statistical approach, expressed in tables, graphs and figures. Thus it was possible to establish relationships between the profile of the student of Library and Information Science, answers to questions and, consequently, test hypotheses and to check the range of goals. As a result of the study identified itself as the profile of the students, mostly female, enrolled in second semester, aged between 21 and 25 years with public school students in most school life with some kind of occupation between work and training; as a profile of readers and non-readers, was characterized as most readers (60% among males and 67.27% among women), among which 77.55% have any occupation, 38.77% are between 21 and 25 years old and 75.51% spent most of school life in public school, about the reading preferences of students: the genre's most widely read novel and the type of material is predominant college texts; as to the meaning of reading: a source of knowledge for life, however, indicate that few are concerned with reading in his free time as to the frequency of reading: reading 2-4 books and more than 10 articles over the last three months, and dedication from 40 to 10 hours per week reading; between motivations for reading: Most read for pleasure, taste, or spontaneous option, and the factor that most influences the choice of a book is the theme, when the mode of reading: in the first half, the entire book and, finally, changes to more than one book at the same time, there is a preference for quiet places, and there is usually read in another language, among the key influencers in reading: there is the mother, or a responsible woman, the constancy of the fact that they have someone reading at home, and receiving reading material as present in infancy with regard to access to books, the majority stresses the use of libraries; and as the main barriers to reading: difficulty concentrating.