The reading practices of students at a Federal Institute of Education

an analysis of borrowing statistics from users of a multilevel library

Abstract

This study analyzes the reading practices of students at the Federal Institute of Goiás on the Águas Lindas de Goiás campus through the extraction of management reports extracted from the Sophia software. Its objective, in general, is to identify the main statistics on borrowing works from students at the Federal Institute of Goiás in the library on the Águas Lindas de Goiás campus from April 2022 to December 2022. Specifically, its objectives are: to identify the main statistical management reports on loan of student works; verify the main subjects borrowed by students; and identify statistical differences between the subjects borrowed from the library of the Instituto Federal de Goiás in the library on the Águas Lindas de Goiás campus from April 2022 to December 2022 at the different educational levels of users. It constitutes basic qualitative-quantitative, exploratory, descriptive, bibliographic and documentary research. The results demonstrate a greater amount of borrowing by students of “non-curricular” works and a lower amount of practice by non-full-time students. It concludes that students' reading practices can be based on identification with the context, with the offering of classes in full or non-full periods and with their age group.