The users of legal information

Authors

  • Fabio Assis Pinho Universidade Federal de Pernambuco - UFPE
  • Ângela Maria da Silva Barbosa Universidade Federal de Pernambuco - UFPE

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5195/biblios.2011.44

Keywords:

User studies, Information needs, Special libraries, Legal information

Abstract

The decision making needs must be based on current and reliable information, especially in legal environments. In Brazil, the changes in legislation are constants because of the enactments of the provisional measures. In this sense, it is necessary to know the sources and changes to satisfy the needs of users of legal area. Therefore, through an exploratory research, it aimed to do a user study, experts on legal aspects in the law library of the Regional Procurator of the Republic of the 5th Region (Brazil), which is a unit belonging to Brazil's Federal Public Ministry, with the use of a questionnaire as data collection tool. The results shows that users of legal information is more demanding and expert in their search and uses various sources, because their information needs has a high degree of difficulty.

Author Biographies

Fabio Assis Pinho, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco - UFPE

Licenciado en Biblioteconomía y Ciencia de la Información por la Universidad Federal de São Carlos (Brasil). Maestro y Doctor en Ciencia de la Información por la Universidad Estadual Paulista – UNESP – Campus de Marília/SP (Brasil). Profesor Adjunto del Departamento de Ciencia de la Información de la Universidad Federal de Pernambuco (Brasil). Docente de los Cursos de Licenciatura de Biblioteconomía y Gestión de la Información y del Programa de Pos Grado (Master) en Ciencia de la Información. fabiopinho@ufpe.br

Ângela Maria da Silva Barbosa, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco - UFPE

Licenciada en Biblioteconomía y Documentación por la Universidad Federal de Pernambuco. Especialista en Gestión y Tecnología de la Información por la Universidad Federal de Pernambuco. Jefa titular de la biblioteca de la Procuraduría Regional de la República 5ª Región - Brasil.

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Published

2012-04-29

How to Cite

Pinho, F. A., & Barbosa, Ângela M. da S. (2012). The users of legal information. Biblios Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, (44), 50–61. https://doi.org/10.5195/biblios.2011.44

Issue

No. 44 (2011)

Section

Case report

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