The archivist as a modern information professional: analysis of skills in light of literature and curricular training and training course

• Autor(a) principal: Santa Anna, Jorge
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Digital de Biblioteconomia e Ciência da Informação
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/rdbci/article/view/8644523
• topic: Ciência da informação. Arquivologia. Arquivista. Moderno profissional da informação. Competências profissionais.; Profissional da informação - perfil profissional; Competências profissionais em informação; Gestão da informação.; Information science. Archivology. Archivist. Modern Information Professional. Professional skills.

The demands of the job market in the information field trigger the need to improve professional practices that refer to the curricular reform, due to the formation of competent professionals that meet the social needs. Archivists, when categorized as information professionals, also fit into this context, and must acquire the status of a Modern Information Professional (MIP). Thus, this study analyzes the skills of the MIP relating them to the archivist, based on literature and curricular training. Investigates in literature what has been published about the MIP; Compares MIP's skills to the archivist's; And investigates these skills in the field of archival training. Methodologically, a review of the MIP's skills and its relations to the archivists' and analysis of ten curricula of Brazilian archival schools was carried out, in order to detect subjects focused on the construction of MIP skills. After theoretical and documentary research, it was noticed that most of the studies (80%) compare the MIP to the librarian. The literature is scarce (10%) by directing the MIP to the archivist, but also without delineating it to specific professionals (10%). As for the academic formation, the schools, in general lines, offer subjects, whose curricular approach contemplates the four competences of the MIP. It was found that schools recognize the need to extend the skills of archivists to the point where they become MIPs, in order to adapt to the new challenges posed by the job market.