Social responsibility: Action at Cesar Lattes central library

Abstract

On the context of social practices, the information is an essentially important element, since it is by intormational interchange that human beings communicate and become aware of their rights and duties. From this moment, they make decisions about their lives, whether in an individual or collective way. In this sense, this work's purpose is to identify and create instruments that can mediate the individual and research object, creating an interface that gradually establish the knowledge construction, arising on the individual the questioning and definition of the information problem. The methodology used to develop mediating interfaces between individual and information was the exploratory nature and grounded on distinct stages. I: user's needs study; II: research on available tools with open source and playful instruments for learning; III: instruments/tools creation, definition; IV: instrument availability and assessment. The results obtained are a set of inclusive and mediating actions: 1. Project preparation, aiming to the library's participation in various editions of the programs Ciência e Arte nas Férias [Art and Science on Holidays] and Iniciação Científica Júnior [Junior Scientific Research], sponsored by Pro-Research Rectorate. 2. Workshop preparation for students of the UniversIDADE Program, denominated "Páginas da Vida: composição e construção" [Life Pages: composition and construction]. The participation in these actions require various elements from the students: self-reflection, stimulus to reading in its various formats, access to information, research, experience with culture and arts, creativity, as well as the awakening of its action as a social player when building citizenry, constituting a legitimate perspective of social, cultural and digital inclusion.