The changes and transformations in the different areas of knowledge have been happening in an evident way, demanding from the information professional new functions and professional activities in the labor market. Among ...

This literature review retakes the discussion of the profiles and competences of the information area professional, specifically, in the health field. Therefore, the aim here is to outline the new fields of performance for ...

The more organizations invest in information technology (IT), the more the concern with IT personnel management has increased, namely the hiring, training and retaining of IT professionals needed to deal with such investments. ...

Information professionals are challenged to work with the speed imposed both by the generation of information and data, as well as by the variety of sources in which they are found, thus their performance is fundamental ...

Maria Cristiane Barbosa Galvao is Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Medicine at the Ribeirao Preto Medical School of the University of Sao Paulo. She has a PhD in Information Science by the University of ...