The importance of teaching the Brazilian Sign Language for the formation of the librarian

Abstract

It deals with the history of the Brazilian Sign Language (LIBRAS) and its legalization as a language, as well as, the importance of its teaching and knowledge by information professionals, specifically the Librarian, where it brings the idea of the insertion and teaching of this language among students who are graduating in the course of Librarianship, as an incentive to mediation of information in libraries. It presents the need to understand this language and use it in the care and treatment of deaf users, using it as a bridge to spontaneous inclusion. It will also be addressed the training of the librarian, his way of acting in the information space and the use of communication among much of his activities, which leads us to the use of it as a bridge between User X Librarian and the primary need for understanding the needs of deaf users. The research is of bibliographic nature, where it was made a survey on the subject based on authors who address the same theme in their productions. As a result, we obtained a new look at the language in an interdisciplinary way that confirm the need and reflection on the insertion and presence of this context in the training of these professionals.