Contribuição para o desenho e proposta de laboratorio de pesquisa e ensino a partir da análise de iSchools de referência

• Autor(a) principal: Paletta, Francisco Carlos
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Silva, Armando Malheiro da
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://hdl.handle.net/10216/127293
• topic: Ciência da Informação; Information science

This paper presents the results of a research project undertaken in the Information Science Center of the Communication and Information Science Department of the Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto. It discusses the qualification of the information professional in the Digital Era, pointing out the importance of education as a tool associated to the promotion of economic growth, generation of wealth and income distribution. In the context of Information Science, Librarianship, Archival Science, Museology, and related areas, the reviewing of educational projects is necessary as the result of the new demands for professionals with inter-trans-multidisciplinary skills, with the ability for innovation and the capacity of dealing with digital technology tools, unhindered by geopolitical limitations and able to deal with cultural diversity. In this context, the objectives of this article are, firstly, to analyze the organizational model of teaching and research of a sample of the information schools of the iSchools consortium, with a focus on helping decision-making with regard to modernization and innovation in the teaching and research plans in the field of Information Science; and secondly, to contribute to the design of teaching and research laboratories applied to information, communication and culture, in line with the demands of the Network Society and the Digital Era, having as a basis an analysis of the model followed by iSchools.