Ciência da informação trans e interdisciplinar: para a superação de equívocos...

Abstract

There is a lack of epistemological consensus on what is Information Science (IS) and there is also no consensus on the use of this expression. This evidence is very much known and repeated, but it seems an insoluble inevitability. In fact, and until now, the practical impossibility of a clear tendency for an open and constructive dialogue that leads to the effective overcoming of the misunderstandings, appears to be a serious obstacle to a common epistemological position. We intend, therefore, to highlight the most significant misunderstandings and deconstruct them, presenting as alternative the defense of a trans and interdisciplinary IS, irreducible to a specific professional activity and, at the same time, founder of a profession adjusted to the present and future times and including previous professions (archivist, librarian, documentalist and museologist), whose main functional features integrate, in a mixed form, the 'information manager'.