A/O BIBLIOTECÁRIA(O)-DOCUMENTALISTA ANTE AS NOVAS TECNOLOGIAS E A FLEXIBILIZAÇÃO DO TRABALHO NO INSTITUTO FEDERAL DE EDUCAÇÃO, CIÊNCIA E TECNOLOGIA DE GOIÁS (IFG): 2009-2012.

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to research on the professional practice of the librarianarchivists from Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de Goiás (IFG), intending to understand how the materialization of men and women workforce happens, in times of flexible accumulation, in the environment of school library in the technological age. The practice of the librarian-archivist is here understood as a social and historical construction, permeated by contradictions between capital and labor. Considering that education is historically influenced by changes occurring in the world of work, according to Marxian and Marxist conceptions, it is pertinent to research on how labor relationships librarian professionals develop. Field research was conducted in the ten IFG campuses, with survey on empirical data, through questionnaires, semi-structured interviews and analysis of documents. The data were analyzed according to the principles of dialectical and historical materialism, mainly based on Marx, Antunes, Manacorda Frigotto, Hirata and Nogueira, with the purpose of articulating the object of research and its multiple historical, political, economic, social and cultural determinants. According to data analyzed, based on the theoretical frameworks adopted, we have understood that overcoming the existing limits, so as the librarian-archivists may reach decent working conditions, concerns the formation of a political identity, able to reveal the processes of alienation of capitalist mode of production, based on the understanding that omnilateral education of workmen and workwomen is the way towards some humanization of men and women. We have gotten to the conclusion that new technologies concerning professional practice of librarian-archivists at IFG are, at once, essential and contradictory: although they are crucial to facilitate work, they are also essential to promote extraction of relative surplus value, though not recognized by the professionals involved. The librarian-archivist plays a multifunctional role so as to perform institutional policies which diversify his/her practice with a variety of technologies, complexity of courses and users who wish having more autonomy on what concerns the use of services and, consequently, control over the librarian practice. Such tools also serve as a mechanism for flow control of production and quality of services performed by librarian-archivists. Besides, we have come across three differences in the performance of men and women: (1) in the way men and women deal with new technologies; (2) double shift performed by women, conciliating professional and domestic life, fact that happens at a lesser extent among men and (3) women are more interested in permanent qualification so as to deal with new technologies in their professional practice.