Institutional representatives of Information Science in Brazil: a study about your disciplinary profile

Abstract

Institutional representatives of Information Science in Brazil are related to different areas of scientific knowledge and can characterize different backgrounds that, consequently, allow influences on the current profile of this science. It aims to analyze the academic degree/title of institutional representatives of Information Science in Brazil with a view to understanding the current disciplinary profile of the area, through a descriptive research, starting from a documentary analysis carried out in the web environment. It uses the documents that regulate the Postgraduate Programs in Information Science arranged in the Sucupira Platform of the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel, the Lattes Curricula of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development and, also on Program websites as sources for data collection. It identifies a total of 36 institutional representatives of Information Science in Brazil. As a result, it points out the areas of Library Science, History, Archival, Computer Science and Administration, Communication and Sociology as more incidents about the area of training / qualification of representatives. It concludes that Information Science has appropriated in its origin and, currently, concepts, methods and techniques from other areas for the solution of problems that are pertinent to it, being, thus, a juxtaposition of knowledge, being characterized, in this research clipping, as a multidisciplinary science.