Nuevos desafíos para la formación del profesional de la información frente al surgimiento de la cibersociedad: un enfoque de competencias

Abstract

Today’s world raises new and complex challenges for the formation of professionals linked to knowledge management; thus, a literature research intends to go deeper into the theoretically aspects of the educational concept of competence; to characterize such a scheme of education for the teaching of information sciences; and to propose abilities for the information professional in the context of cibersociety. It is concluded that the idea based on abilities or competence makes the education and training of professionals more significant, and that contextualization and application of new knowledge, self-learning and the socialization of the individual point in the same direction. A displacement of the emphasis on the purely technical-instrumental and documentary-informational is observed, and a tendency towards a complex, integrative holistic and cognitive-informational vision of things. Such a perception would widen the scope of librarians, archivists and documentalists as knowledge professionals. New professional profiles are also proposed: information engineer, manager of intellectual capital, information middle-man, and communicator of knowledge registered in digital and printed formats