Identities, Values and Changes: the power of the professional identity. Do the librarians survive in the information age?
Construction and deconstruction of professional identities are discussed focusing librarians and information professionals, who have had their work deeply affected by information and communication technology. Factors helping to build professional identities and difficulties in establishing professio...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2006 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Institution: | Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) |
| Repository: | Em Questão (Online) |
| Language: | Portuguese |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:seer.ufrgs.br:article/96 |
| Online Access: | https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/EmQuestao/article/view/96 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Identidade profissional bibliotecário profissional da informação Professional Identities. Librarians. Information Professionals. |
| Summary: | Construction and deconstruction of professional identities are discussed focusing librarians and information professionals, who have had their work deeply affected by information and communication technology. Factors helping to build professional identities and difficulties in establishing professional frontiers are analysed, especially regarding librarians. Rethinking librarianship is pointed out as a need (in spite of legal protection) resulting from the emergence of technologies coming from other groups of information professionals acting in the same area, aiming at the survival of librarians as an occupational group. |
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