Cooperação bibliotecária entre bibliotecas universitárias: oportunidades e desafios de acordos cooperativos

Abstract

It deals with library cooperation and collaboration between the libraries of the Universidade Federal da Grande Dourados and Universidade Estadual de Mato Grosso do Sul. It investigates opportunities to implement new services through cooperation agreements between libraries of higher education institutions as an alternative to solve economic and allowing access to information resources to the user community. It shows that there are challenges to be faced for the implementation of proposals for cooperative services with new activities among the institutions investigated. The research is based on a brief literature review, analysis of the existing technical and administrative cooperation agreement and the result of the empirical research with the two groups of actors investigated in the libraries of these universities. Studies in the field of Librarianship point out that librarian cooperation is an alternative used for many years by the institutions and professionals of the area. Today the cooperation is present in several organizations with the purpose of promoting mutual assistance for the supply of products and services mainly to the users of libraries and to strengthen these institutions. The research is carried out with the general objective to present suggestions that express the challenges and opportunities with new activities for the provision of cooperative services between the researched libraries. It is an exploratory and qualitativequantitative research that investigates two groups in the empirical field: the users through the form of the Google Forms platform via the internet and the library team through the semistructured interview. In the analysis of the cooperation agreement between libraries, there is a cooperation from the beginning that allows some benefits for both academic communities and their universities, although restricted to borrowing materials and physical occupation of each other's libraries. The result of the empirical research indicates that the participants are interested in expanding the proposal of inter institutional cooperation between libraries with the inclusion of new cooperative activities. Users want to find in the library most of the information products and services presented to them. Library staff are interested in many joint actions, but highlight several challenges for the proposed extension of cooperative agreements with the new services to be shared. It can be affirmed that the study responds to the investigated problem of this dissertation, so that it reaches the objectives in presenting the suggestions. The eleven suggestions developed from this study represent guiding guidelines for the construction of future agreements, with new and more extensive activities among the university libraries studied.