A relação de usuários com deficiências visuais e a biblioteca: perspectiva de atendimento inclusivo

Abstract

This review is part of the research line “Organization and Memories of Pedagogical Spaces in Professional and Technological Education (EPT)”, and had the general objective of verifying if the IFG libraries, in the current context, provide information and knowledge to the visually impaired, in an inclusive way. The question that problematized the research was: In the current context, do the IFG libraries provide the socialization of knowledge and information for visually impaired users in an inclusive way? The theoretical basis searched a joint between inclusive education in Brazil and the inclusion of people with visual impairment or low vision in the IFG libraries, having as main revisited authors: Mantoan (2003; 2004), Mazzotta (2011), Sassaki (2003), etc. In the methodological framework, it was chosen a case study, with a qualitative approach of a bibliographic and documental nature. As a data collection instrument, a questionnaire was applied, converted to an online format, using the Google Forms tool, to the research participants (24 subjects, aged between 31 and 53 years old). Through hermeneutic analysis, the data were analyzed, bringing the following results: None of the participants have training in Special Education, Inclusive Education or related to the inclusion of Persons with Disabilities (PwD); 83% of the participants asserted that they understood the topic, but their answers when justifying the statement showed that they had no contact or affinity with the subject; 80% of the participants alleged that there is no encouragement in the IFG libraries for visually impaired users to read and search for information. The study reveals that efforts by the IFG are still weak to implement effective ways of including blind or low vision students in libraries. From these results, the Educational Product was elaborated, which is a digital guide of guidelines for librarians and library assistants on the IFG campus, with the objective of collaborating in the promotion of a service to users with visual impairment, in an inclusive way, contributing to guarantee their right of access to information and knowledge.