Nuevos espacios y retos para los actuales profesionales de la información

Abstract

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

• professional ways to practice
• Information professional
• web environments
• professional challenges
• information Technologies
• professional ethics