COMPETÊNCIAS EMPREENDEDORAS PARA PRESTAÇÃO DE SERVIÇOS DE INFORMAÇÃO POR BIBLIOTECÁRIOS NO BRASIL

Abstract

This work aims to analyze the entrepreneurial skills of librarians who have companies in the area of Information Management in Brazil. In order to do this, we sought to know the entrepreneurial skills according to the literature, the librarians who have a company in Brazil and the services provided, the entrepreneurial training of these librarians and their perception of the skills required to undertake new businesses. The universe was composed of Brazilian librarians mapped through contact to class entities and via Portal EmpreendeBiblio, totalizing 46 librarians who accepted to participate in the research. To analyze the competences, the conceptual model of entrepreneurial skills of Cooley (1990) was used. The results point to the predominance of the female gender among the entrepreneurial librarians, in the age range between 31 and 40 years; the companies are located mainly in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Santa Catarina, most of which are formalized and have business oriented to the management of conventional and digital documents and files, consulting in the elaboration of projects, organization of libraries, standardization of works and projects, among other services. Most of them took specialization courses. Regarding the category of entrepreneurship competences, it is evidenced by the participating librarians that the most important ones were commitment, information search, persuasion, networking and persistence. Finally, based on all the information obtained, a map of enterprising skills of the librarians was elaborated. It was concluded that, although librarians have indicated that they possess all entrepreneurial skills, there is a tendency that some skills are more important than others.