Abstract

GONZALEZ-GUITIAN, María Virginia; MARTINEZ-RIOS, Marcos Antonio; ZAYAS-PEREZ, María Rosa de  and  LOPEZ-PORRAS, José. New Opportunities and Challenges for Today’s Information Professionals. Rev. Interam. Bibliot [online]. 2017, vol.40, n.3, pp.317-325. ISSN 0120-0976.  https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.rib.v40n3a10.

This study approaches new opportunities for information professionals and the multiple facets in which they currently perform. This approach is marked by the globalization of info Communication and its intensive introduction in productive and service processes, e-commerce, corporate interconnection, social networks, ethical commitment and social responsibility, new ways to conduct research and socialize scientific findings, difficulties in storing and preserving documentary heritage and transformations in the professional’s ways of operating. These aspects are assessed based on the perspective of a change of paradigm in the information professional's practice assuming a more active protagonism in these scenarios. Thus, becoming an all-purpose professional who will be an innovator, a researcher, an educator, a consultant and a trainer who will continuously update and learn to be able to evolve and readjust to these new realities.

Keywords : Information professional; professional ways to practice; web environments; professional challenges; information Technologies; professional ethics.

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