Gestão da informação e do conhecimento na formação do profissional da informação: arquivistas, bibliotecários e museólogos no Brasil

Abstract

From the perspective of the Information and Knowledge Society, information and knowledge become determining factors in the socioeconomic development of countries, regions and organizations. In the context of higher education institutions, it could not be different. The academic curricula of information professionals must include subjects with content on information and knowledge management, so that students can be trained to meet the demands imposed by the job market. Integrated information and knowledge management (GIC) is considered an inherent process in organizations, a necessity of today's society. As an organization, the information units are included in this vision, since, in addition to providing information environments, they are knowledge managers to serve information users. The research analyzes the approaches of the subjects of information management (GI) and knowledge management (GC) in the curricula of the undergraduation courses in Archival Science, Library Science and Museology of Higher Education Institutions (IES) in Brazil. As for the methodological procedures, the study is characterized as documentary, developed in the web environment, as for its nature, it is characterized as applied research and, related to the objectives, it is an exploratory and descriptive study. To achieve a full understanding of the studied reality, it uses quantitative and qualitative approaches when applying the method of content analysis in the formation and organization of categories and interpretation of data. The results achieved make it possible to show that the courses of Archival Science, Library Science and Museology in Brazil are committed to training information professionals with profiles, including information and knowledge managers, although there are courses that still need to adapt to the requirements of the job market in compliance with the indicators of current society. The approaches that stood out in the GI and/or GC subjects of the Archival, Library and Museology courses of public IES in Brazil refer to Introductory Conceptual Aspects, Management of Information Units, Intelligence, Use of Tools, Relationships and Social Networks, Document Management, Information and Knowledge Society, Knowledge Processes, Information Philosophy and Ethics, Information Professional, Information Policies, Entrepreneurship, Culture and Collection Management. Proposals for approaches concerning information and knowledge management, such as: Organizational Knowledge, People Development, Valuing People, Knowledge Audit, Organizational Memory, Strategic Information Management and Organizational Behavior, among others, are presented in the insertion of content in the approaches to information and knowledge management, as a contribution to the training of Brazilian archivists, librarians and museologists.