A biblioteca universitária na avaliação de cursos de graduação pelo Ministério da Educação: o caso da Biblioteca Central da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora

Abstract

The present dissertation is developed under the Professional Master in Management and Evaluation of Education (PPGP) of the Center for Public Policies and Education Evaluation of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (CAEd/UFJF). The management case studied will discuss the preparation of the Central University Library (BU) of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora for the evaluation of undergraduate courses by the Ministry of Education (MEC). The objectives defined for this study were: to analyze the conditions of the library before the MEC Evaluation Instrument and its evaluation criteria for libraries; the preparation of this library for the on-site visit of the evaluators; the conditions of the Political Pedagogical Project of the courses that this library subsidizes with regard to the indications of the bibliography of the disciplines. In this sense, the question that guides this dissertation is: how to adapt the structure and the collection of the library to the evaluation instrument of undergraduate courses of MEC? We hypothesize that the library should: have a time to adjust to the evaluation instrument, know the date of the on-site visit to ascertain the evaluation requirements demanded, review the quantitative indicators of teachers in the subjects and their bibliographies‟ constructions to be properly in accordance with the collection available in the library. For that, we used as methodology for this dissertation a field research, supported by a case study and using the research techniques of semi-structured interviews that were carried out with three coordinators and a vice-coordinator of the courses that the BU subsidizes, the coordinator and the manager of the Knowledge Diffusion Center that manages the UFJF libraries. As a theoretical reference, we will use the analyzes of Lancaster (1996), Oliveira (2004), Xavier Junior and Gomes (2004), Machado (2009), Almeida (2000), France and Portela (2016), Oliveira 2002), Brazil (2012), Dziekaniak (2006) and Maia and Santos (2015). At the end of this dissertation is presented an Educational Action Plan (PAE), composed of recommendations and actions aimed at adapting the university library to the MEC undergraduate evaluation instrument, based on the work carried out at SISBI/UFU.