Library Science in Uruguay: notes from Escuela de Bibliotecología y Ciencias Afines

• Autor(a) principal: Yañez-Gonzalez, Mónica Elizabeth
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Karpinski, Cezar
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Ibero-americana de Ciência da Informação
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/RICI/article/view/29211
• topic: História da Biblioteconomia; Ensino Superior; Formação profissional; Bibliotecário; Historia de la Bibliotecología; Enseñanza superior; Formación profesional; Bibliotecário; History of Library Science; Higher education; Professional qualification; Librarian

The article discusses the history of Library Science in Uruguay, focusing on the development of the area from the Escuela Universitaria de Bibliotecología y Ciencias Afines (EUBCA) of the Universidad de la Republica Oriental del Uruguay (UDELAR). The general objective is to research the history and acting of the Library Science Course in Uruguay. Specifically, it aims to: to describe the historical process emergence of Library Science in Latin America; discourse about the historical process of constitution of Library Science in Uruguay; to identify the research themes, on the part of the professors and students of the course of Library Science of the Universidad de la Republica until the first decade of the 21st Century. Methodologically, the research is exploratory, descriptive and bibliographic, also using documentary analysis on the Library Science course at UDELAR. The main result is the constitution of a historical route of higher education in Library Science in Uruguay, of the pedagogical conception and of the main themes developed by the professors and student until the year 2008.