A perspective of the competencies of Information Professionals in the second decade of the 21st century

Abstract

The last two decades have brought new challenges to information professionals, in a context of accelerating digital information production, digitalization in the information society and the challenge of media obsolescence and information preservation and reuse. Important changes have occurred in the scientific field of information, in the profiles and competences of professionals. The main objective of this communication is to identify new competences, to present the recommended changes in the context of the current information society, based on the analysis of referentials, from the Euro-Referential I-D (2005) to more recent documents such as Records and Information Management Core Competencies (2017), especially from referentials presented by professional associations in the sector and others around the world.