It aims to discuss how the digital tools contributed to the reinvention process of school
libraries from the pandemic context. It highlights that the pandemic caused by Covid-
19, led to the social isolation and closure of various sectors to contain the virus,
including libraries that, to offer information services, made use of digital tools that were
indispensable for the continuity of activities. It assumes as research theme the digital
tools, problematizes in the sense of understanding how libraries reconfigured
themselves to meet their users at the time of the pandemic, and which tools were used
to offer the services. It starts from the need to know how the digital tools can contribute
to the process of reinvention of school libraries in the context of the Covid-19
pandemic, exposing the theoretical basis in five sections: digital technologies of
information and communication, school library, the librarian professional, information
service in school library and digital tools, was based on, Côrte and Bandeira (2011),
Araújo and Vilaça (2016), Fernandes (2019), Paletta (2019), Voltoline (2019), Cunha
and Fioravante (2020). It points out the methodological path from the characterization
of the research, as to its nature, applied and exploratory. It highlights the application
of the bibliographical method as procedure and case study and as data collection
technique the questionnaire that was prepared in the online modality with the support
of the digital tool Google Forms. It points out that the research universe involves the
school libraries of the city of Manaus/Amazonas, composed of a random sample of 10
libraries, being seven municipal schools (SEMED), two of the state network (SEDUC)
and one of the private educational network. It indicates that the research subjects were
librarians from Seduc, Semed and Private network. It indicates that for data tabulation
were adopted technological resources with support from the Google Forms tool, Office
Microsoft Excel and Word. It points out the qualitative-quantitative approach and
content analysis technique based on the method of Bardin (2016). The result pointed
out that the digital tools were part of the reinvention process of school libraries during
the pandemic, however, this evolution happened in an unstable way due to the public
schools not being prepared with electronic resources available for all libraries. It ends
by highlighting the expectation of the research contribution for the use of other digital
tools that can streamline the services to users and cooperate with the improvement of
library services and engagement between librarians and users.
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