Identities, Values and Changes: the power of the professional identity. Do the librarians survive in the information age?

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  • Maria Tereza Machado Teles Walter

Keywords:

Professional Identities. Librarians. Information Professionals.

Abstract

Construction and deconstruction of professional identities are discussed focusing librarians and information professionals, who have had their work deeply affected by information and communication technology. Factors helping to build professional identities and difficulties in establishing professional frontiers are analysed, especially regarding librarians. Rethinking librarianship is pointed out as a need (in spite of legal protection) resulting from the emergence of technologies coming from other groups of information professionals acting in the same area, aiming at the survival of librarians as an occupational group.

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Maria Tereza Machado Teles Walter

Mestre em Biblioteconomia e Documentação pela Universidade de Brasília. Doutoranda em Ciência da Informação pela Universidade de Brasília Bibliotecária do Supremo Tribunal Federal, Brasília. DF Membro do Grupo de Pesquisa sobre Formação Profissional e Mercado de Trabalho da Unb. Currículo Lattes

Published

2006-12-09

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WALTER, Maria Tereza Machado Teles. Identities, Values and Changes: the power of the professional identity. Do the librarians survive in the information age?. Em Questão, Porto Alegre, v. 10, n. 2, p. 287–299, 2006. Disponível em: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/EmQuestao/article/view/96. Acesso em: 28 oct. 2026.

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