Políticas de indexação em bibliotecas escolares: um estudo comparativo entre as bibliotecas escolares públicas e privadas de Londrina

Abstract

This article presents an analysis about the presence of indexing policies in school libraries of public and private schools. The article has as general objective to verify the presence and effectiveness of indexing policies and librarians in public and private school libraries in the city of Londrina, in the State of Paraná.  Therefore, the methodological path includes the case study, to understand the indexing policies and the presence of librarians in school libraries, and the comparative study to understand the differences and possible consequences between indexing policies in public and private school libraries. Data collection was used a questionnaire sent to the selected schools, interviews with professionals and observations in libraries. From the research it was possible to observe in the public and private school libraries of Londrina that they integrated the researched universe that the existence of the indexing policy is not guaranteed by the presence of the librarian, since none of the libraries interviewed has an indexing policy.  In addition, the need for the  librarian professional in all school libraries is emphasized,  and it was observed that the state network does not have the position of librarian and, therefore,  employees who do not have adequate training work in libraries or reading rooms, making the organization precarious, mediation almost non-existent and poor management, without the presence of any policy that indicates which actions to implement for the good function and organization of the library.