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The Colloquia were held from September 19 to 21, 2023. This This year, the greatest challenge for Brazilians was and continues to be the rescue of democracy. that restores dignity, strengthens citizenship, reduces inequalities and ensures welfare. It is a practical task to which we must direct our thinking critical. The central theme of the Colloquia was "Democracy in Reconstruction: Justice social and environmental sustainability". The issue of the crisis of democracy, particularly the tendency to Crisis Crises legitimacy in advanced capitalist societies, is part of the thinking of Habermas, at least since the publication of his work Crisis of Legitimacy in the Late Capitalism (1971). However, when he addressed this issue in the 1970s, the emphasis is on the crisis tendencies inherent in the process of development of capitalism as a result of the increasing globalization of capitalism trade relations between countries and the consequent weakening of the state to fulfill certain tasks with the guarantee of fundamental rights, which generates among other things, the loss of mass loyalty and deficits of legitimacy. At this point, Habermas only begins to sketch the broad outlines of the theory of communicative action, particularly with the introduction of the distinction between work and interaction in Technique and Science as 'Ideology' (1968).The publication of Theory of Communicative Action (1981) introduces the concepts of articulated aspects of the system and the lived world, and the vision of the growth process of the instrumental rationality, through the colonization of the world experienced by the system and the consequent deficits of legitimacy that this type of process entails. The growing influence of rationality with respect to ends in different spheres of Human life increasingly steals space from the lived world and results in pathologies social deficits and deficits of legitimacy.

Berd Frohmann’s works have contributed to debates developing the field of Information Science, particularly in Brazil. Highlighted in this text are guiding elements of his neodocumentalism proposal concerning the documenting process. The aim in this context is to situate perspectives of the documentary practices, i.e. the documentation agency or documentation, in materiality regimes, based on Frohmann’s works, focusing on Foucault and Latour’s starting points. To achieve this, multiple aspects of the materiality of the document are considered, from a stratum of Frohmann's work, which feature mutual complementarity in at least three compositions: a) the permanence and strength of the materiality of the utterance influencing social and discursive practices in certain forms of institutionality (foucaultian archeology); b) the strength of the materiality of the document stemming from the relational dimension of power from the notion of device (foucaultian genealogy); and c) the materiality of the discourse, reaching materiality in artifacts and documents, produced from actors’ associations (latourian perspective). In these, both immanence and materiality value are regarded as relational toward the documentation agency, depending on the forms of institutionality guiding and guided by the actors, their associations, their relations of power, and their effects.

This communication deals with the university library of arts and its relationship with cultural sustainability. I will deal with a bibliographic collection belonging to the Museum of Contemporary Art MAC USP and how informational resources can be participants in the process of building cultural sustainability. The work deals with the donation of Walter Zanini's private library and its role as an informational resource insofar as it is willing to be a public resource for research. Secondly, the text also proposes the question of inserting a new bibliographic collection in a public and university space. The third question seeks to understand in which situation this resource can be the new potential for the transformation of this university and cultural institution into a reference center for research in the field of the arts. The fourth issue is that the new collection can be the link and connection in the interrelationship of sustainable development, combining socio-economic as well as organizational aspects in a process of building cultural sustainability. Fifth, there is the question of the collection as a participant in the cycle that includes the three main actions of heritage: collect, preserve and research, in a planning of actions aimed at making the bibliographic collection available. Access to the bibliographic collection will be the central action in the search for the construction of a conscious space for research focusing on the various subjects of the donated collection.

The Colloquia were held from September 13 to 15, 2022. This year, the biggest challenge for Brazilians was to rescue democracy, which would restore dignity, recognize citizenship, reduce inequalities and guarantee social well-being. It is a practical task to which critical thinking can contribute a lot. The central theme of the Colloquia was “Solidarity, public policies and democracy”. The Covid-19 pandemic and the global health emergency situation proclaimed by the World Health Organization since the beginning of 2020 have aggravated and exacerbated chronic problems of unemployment, extreme poverty and hunger, while at the same time bringing enormous pressure on health systems. . The school system suffered a strong setback, with the suspension of classes as a strategy to prevent the incidence of cases. All of this took on the appearance of a tragedy because it happened when the Brazilian government was in the hands of the extreme right. The execution of its neoliberal agenda attacked and reduced the social security system, with disregard for human and social rights. The pandemic found the health system in full dismantling of its primary care network. The end of the Mais Médicos program was just a visible part of this process. What happened to the Brazilian school system from the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic was terrible. Millions of children and adolescents were left without face-to-face classes, and most of them did not have effective conditions to seek distance learning. Education implies socialization and two years of reduced interactions certainly have strong consequences for learning and sociocultural development.

The work presents the results of the first stage of the research on the insertion of competence in Information in the curricula of two courses of Library Science in Brazil and Mexico. Therefore, it is adopted as a methodological approach to exploratory research of a bibliographic nature. The empirical material examined was the curricular flows, the elements and, in some cases, the programmatic contents of the disciplines of two Library Science courses and similar ones existing in Brazil and Mexico. Collect and analyze two due dice by means of the content analysis of the items and discipline programs. The results reveal that Competência em Informação is more and more present in the format of disciplines in the curricula of two courses of Library Science in Brazil and Mexico, well as contained as a programmatic content of some discipline of the curriculum. Furthermore, the analysis reveals that the curricula do not have a standardization of the use of the term "competence in Information" in both countries. I conclude that competence in Information is a content that is presented in both a disciplinary and transversal way in some curricula, but that still no two curricula are found in most of Brazil, differently from Mexico.

The world is currently experiencing one of the greatest health crises in human history. Despite all the technological progress that has been achieved, the number of human lives that have been lost (and that continue to be lost) to diseases directly or indirectly associated with the COVID-19 pandemic only increases daily, on an increasingly variable scale, but always tragic. Called to take a stand, Philosophy, whose historical vocation has been, with few but important exceptions, the conceptual and the universal, lacks a sufficient collection of specific reflections on disaster events. One of these very famous exceptions was the Lisbon Earthquake of 1755, which sparked philosophical debates about its causes, its reconciliation with divine goodness, and our position in the multiplicity of possible worlds, better or worse, in which they took part. thinkers such as Immanuel Kant, in the wake of the contributions of Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The millions of fatal victims and daily victims of experiences of suffering, exposure to health risks, the asphyxia of the health system and unemployment and hunger make the pandemic a privileged topic for reflection, criticism and discussion. Our collective experience is very intense and painful, in light of everything we witnessed and learned from the beginning of 2020. On April 12, 2020, Jürgen Habermas gave an interview to the French newspaper Le Monde in which he addressed important philosophical issues from the COVID-19 pandemic. Habermas emphasized that catastrophic events such as a pandemic force human beings to seriously consider and take a responsible stand on health, political and legal issues, often restricted to their respective circles of experts. Everyone needs to reflect on the best behavior and make decisions with the presence of a highly contagious and lethal infectious disease in the social space. We all need to find ways to protect human life, even in situations that conflict with economic interests, both of individual political agents who debate in the public sphere, and of large capitalist corporations that seek to overcome the democratic debate. The rule of law is not authorized, Habermas claims, to make decisions that directly result in the death of the citizens under its protection. Responsible governments should, in theory, take all necessary measures to preserve the greatest number of lives. In practice, however, it is seen on a daily basis that not all governments and bureaucracies are committed, beyond the protocol rhetoric, to the fundamental principles of the rule of law, including the principle of human dignity. Habermas points out that not only political authorities, but also common people are faced with the important decision to respect sanitary rules or not, whether because of economic interests (in some cases, due to extreme need, poverty) or because of ideological convictions (such as the deniers). Failure to comply with health rules, including social isolation, has widespread consequences, often fatal and massive, which make these decisions more serious and relevant. Thus, the number of infected people increases and enormous pressure is created on the health system. Life-or-death choices are imposed by physicians due to the strong demand on scarce resources, such as intensive care beds and respiratory support equipment. The persistence of prioritizing the systemic imperatives of money and power in the debate around the pandemic shows that we live in a society fraught with pathologies, which in this context become more salient. Although the current pandemic is causing illness and death for people from different social strata, the effects of death, suffering, deprivation and exposure are, as always, more intense among the poorest. It is from this perspective that Habermas highlights in the aforementioned interview: “Solidarity is the only solution”. It is in the footsteps of this suggestion by Habermas that the choice of the central theme of the XVII Habermas Colloquium and the VIII Colloquium on Philosophy of Information, held between 14 and 16 September 2021, is justified: “Pathologies of reason and social rights during the Pandemic”. Although, as is often the case every year, the events welcome diverse contributions from the work of Habermas and other leading critical thinkers (in particular, this year, contributions on the theory of justice by John Rawls, given the anniversary of his main work), we would like the space for discussion of the events to serve for qualified and collective reflection on the economic, social and environmental causes and consequences of the pandemic. It is necessary to investigate and discuss the responsibilities (and livelihoods) of States, markets and citizens to control the spread of the disease and reduce its damage. The obstacles that the imperatives of money and power, especially in the current form of neoliberal capitalism, represent for the protection of life and work and the preservation of dignity in the exceptional context of the pandemic must be discussed and deeply evaluated. It is worth highlighting the role of the public sphere and of philosophers and scientists as public intellectuals in combating misinformation and denial and in providing guidance on ways of collectively and in solidarity with the local and global challenges of the health tragedy. It is also up to them to discuss the role that social rights and policies, especially those aimed at more vulnerable social groups, can and should play to alleviate or overcome the effects of social pathologies emerging or aggravated by the pandemic.

Theoretical aspects of the problem of designing information and educational environment and electronic resources are considered. The directions of research of the specified problem in scientific and information researches during 2015-2020 are allocated and outlined. The basic stages of the decision of this problem according to requirements of modern tendencies of informatization of library and information sphere are substantiated and resulted.

Theoretical aspects of the problem of designing information and educational environment and electronic resources are considered. The directions of research of the specified problem in scientific and information researches during 2015-2020 are allocated and outlined. The basic stages of the decision of this problem according to requirements of modern tendencies of informatization of library and information sphere are substantiated and resulted.

The Habermas Colloquium has been held since 2010 in Rio de Janeiro, organized by the research group Philosophy and Information Policy of IBICT. The Colloquium on Philosophy of Information takes place simultaneously from 2014. These two events also signal the relevance and relevance of critical thinking and Critical Theory in the context of scientific and technological research in Brazil. Each year the Colloquiums have a central theme: Representation, democracy and social control in 2014; The limits of communicative freedom in 2015; Contemporary conflicts: human rights and solidarity in 2016; The inclusion of the other in 2017; Law and democracy: between facts and norms in 2018; Recognition of the other and the rule of law in 2019. The theme of the 2020 Colloquia, Public Sphere in Internet Times, was chosen at the beginning of the year in which it took place. However, in April 2020, the entire organization process was suspended due to the global emergency caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. The health crisis imposed restrictions on social interactions to control the circulation of the offending viral agent. Face-to-face activities at research institutes and universities have been suspended. In mid-2020 the multiple experiences taught that events, meetings and research meetings can be carried out satisfactorily through the Internet. The organizing committee of the Colloquia then decided to hold the event, transferring the dates from September to November. The central theme was maintained. The holding of the Colloquiums should be understood as an act of resistance by researchers and students of Critical Theory, particularly the thinking of Jürgen Habermas, and the Philosophy of Information. In the second half of 2020, there was a confluence of two obscure forces in Brazilian society: on the one hand, the denial of science to face the pandemic; and on the other, the cut in public spending on education and research.The three days of the Colloquia were a good opportunity for interaction and discussion. It was a joy in itself, when many researchers and students were tired of social isolation and remote work. Finding colleagues and friends who share ideas and interests is always invigorating. And it was. 12 sessions were held, between round tables, coordinated communications and conference. The event was broadcast on YouTube and the recorded sessions are available on that platform. Now we are making available the texts of the presentations. The Proceedings of this edition of the Colloquia, as well as those of the previous editions, can be found in open access on the Internet. The research group Philosophy and Information Policy at IBICT thanks its partners in organizing this long journey: researchers and students from the federal universities of Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro, UniRio, Alagoas, Paraíba, from the State University of Londrina, from PUC in Rio Grande do Sul and from the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation. We hope with this publication of the Annals of Colloquia 2020 to contribute to the dissemination and discussion of critical thinking and to the defense of human rights and democracy. To think is to resist.

The Habermas Colloquium has been held since 2010 in Rio de Janeiro, organized by the research group Philosophy and Information Policy of IBICT. The Colloquium on Philosophy of Information takes place simultaneously from 2014. These two events also signal the relevance and relevance of critical thinking and Critical Theory in the context of scientific and technological research in Brazil. Each year the Colloquiums have a central theme: Representation, democracy and social control in 2014; The limits of communicative freedom in 2015; Contemporary conflicts: human rights and solidarity in 2016; The inclusion of the other in 2017; Law and democracy: between facts and norms in 2018; Recognition of the other and the rule of law in 2019. The theme of the 2020 Colloquia, Public Sphere in Internet Times, was chosen at the beginning of the year in which it took place. However, in April 2020, the entire organization process was suspended due to the global emergency caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. The health crisis imposed restrictions on social interactions to control the circulation of the offending viral agent. Face-to-face activities at research institutes and universities have been suspended. In mid-2020 the multiple experiences taught that events, meetings and research meetings can be carried out satisfactorily through the Internet. The organizing committee of the Colloquia then decided to hold the event, transferring the dates from September to November. The central theme was maintained. The holding of the Colloquiums should be understood as an act of resistance by researchers and students of Critical Theory, particularly the thinking of Jürgen Habermas, and the Philosophy of Information. In the second half of 2020, there was a confluence of two obscure forces in Brazilian society: on the one hand, the denial of science to face the pandemic; and on the other, the cut in public spending on education and research.The three days of the Colloquia were a good opportunity for interaction and discussion. It was a joy in itself, when many researchers and students were tired of social isolation and remote work. Finding colleagues and friends who share ideas and interests is always invigorating. And it was. 12 sessions were held, between round tables, coordinated communications and conference. The event was broadcast on YouTube and the recorded sessions are available on that platform. Now we are making available the texts of the presentations. The Proceedings of this edition of the Colloquia, as well as those of the previous editions, can be found in open access on the Internet. The research group Philosophy and Information Policy at IBICT thanks its partners in organizing this long journey: researchers and students from the federal universities of Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro, UniRio, Alagoas, Paraíba, from the State University of Londrina, from PUC in Rio Grande do Sul and from the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation. We hope with this publication of the Annals of Colloquia 2020 to contribute to the dissemination and discussion of critical thinking and to the defense of human rights and democracy. To think is to resist.

The evolution of recent years in the profession has shown that our capacities and competences require a radical adaptation for insertion in the transition from industrial society to the information and knowledge society. This poses, from our point of view, a greater number of opportunities than threats; We hold this position based on the idea of ​​promoting and re-categorizing the profession by incorporating new technologies, within a framework of transdisciplinarity and multidisciplinarity. The role that we must assume is undoubtedly a leading one in which, through our professional expertise, we provide work teams with robustness in the search and information retrieval processes, but at the same time, we share with the users around us In this new paradigm, the same needs for that information and the interest to produce with those results, the transformation into knowledge of it. Taking as a premise that digital information is ubiquitous, we propose that he and the librarian be so in turn, or at least as some have already come to call, homeless librarians. It is in this sense, that transcending the physical limits of libraries and through the application of tools typical of library science, now ordered within a structured, iterative and sustained over time system such as Surveillance and Strategic Intelligence, some INTI information professionals are promoting this new integration model.

Considering information materiality and physicality as topics privileged to, respectively, information physical and social paradigms, this paper aims to discuss these terms conceptually so as to propose theoretical paths to help formulate questionings on political and epistemological implications such concepts confer to the field of information and documentation sciences. By means of a qualitative approach, the theoretical analysis led through paths to achieve results concerning [i] cultural and bureaucratic materiality and information policies; [ii] differentiation between information materiality and physicality, finding reference in reality representation modes, regarding [iii] the monumental and proof character of information and document. Final considerations brought questionings on political and epistemological implications of informational approaches, especially in digital contexts and on network, where phenomena such as datification, under the influence of information regimes, become the topic.

The importance of the human element in the creation, development and evaluation of information systems and services has often been relegated to the background. The rediscovery of individual experiences in informational studies should be a theoretical and applied imperative of Information Science. Observing and knowing the informational phenomena from their creators, users or final beneficiaries is an arduous epistemological task and has known different investigative experiences over the last decades. This communication aims to present phenomenological research as a qualitative research strategy that can contribute to a greater focus on human perceptions. It presents the general picture of the Phenomenology, its methods and techniques, as well as its applications in the Information Science landscape. This methodological proposal aims to add to the information services an additional analytical possibility for the development of their work.

In this work the development of pluralistic approaches in the process of maturity of the information sciences is exposed, without this entailing putting aside the elements that have defined their paths of tradition. Three modalities of pluralism will be discussed (which can also be interrelated through an informative pluralism), which have involved a reconfiguration in some conceptions —but also a conduit for certain practices— within the Library Science or Archival Science, namely : epistemological pluralism, pluriculturalism and political pluralism.

Analysis of professional discourse as an exercise in reflexivity about the place of the user in work performance. For this purpose, the texts of the proceedings of two conferences are selected and the interpretative repertoires are extracted.

Ostensibly, there has been a recent rise in ‘post-truth’ thinking (Higgins, 2016; Rochlin, 2017; Speed & Mannion, 2017; Suiter, 2016). The Oxford English Dictionary, which made ‘post-truth’ its word of the year for 2016, defines post-truth as “[r]elating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping political debate or public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief” (“Post-truth,” 2017). Going into more detail, post-truth is described not just the (i) proliferation of false information, but also (ii) the attitude that truth is, at best, a convenient coincidence that can be superseded by ideological, instrumental, and/or emotional concerns and that (iii) acting on certain beliefs, specifically false ones, can be a good in and of itself. While this seems like an apt way of characterizing ‘post-truth’, I argue that (i) post-truth is, at most, a rhetorical strategy, (ii) that it is a concept grounded in vicious circularity, and (iii) that it equivocates between things being true with those that merely pass as true. The very fact that so-called instances of post-truth are under scrutiny and that purveyors of post-truth often have to frame their views in terms of truth claims, provides evidence that truth still has currency in most discourse. The question is whether these truth claims or assertions are, in fact, warranted. The purpose of my talk is to question the widespread use of post-truth as a term and concept. I propose alternative ways of describing and assessing the contemporary situation regarding disinformation and misinformation. Namely, I focus on the role of norms in the act of assertion (e.g., putting factual claims forward) and how clarifying these might help us manage the ‘post-truth’ phenomenon. My contention is that focusing on justification as a norm of assertion, provides useful tools for dealing with disinformation that sidesteps the problematic conceptual issues associated with post-truth. I will end by providing a few examples of how my focus on this justificatory project has influenced my approach to teaching information literacy to students.

Presentation of the paper "Research experiences. Understanding the information user through QUALITATIVE RESEARCH" at the I JORNADA EM PRÁCTICAS INFORMACIONAIS organized by the EPIC research group (Estudos em Práticas Informacionais e Cultura) of UFMG (Universidade Federal Minas Gerais) in March 2018.

Information literacy is a set of skills required recognizing the need for information, finding, Evaluate and use of generated information in legal, economic, cultural and ethical manner. To achieve information literacy an individual should have critical evaluation abilities and also need to acquire required skills of handling latest information technology in information seeking process Indigenous librarianship is a professionalism which required patriotic professionals to protect knowledge of aboriginal peoples of the country. Implementation of information literacy through the indigenous librarianship will develop the local, national and international bibliography. This paper focused on the importance of librarianship in the implementation and growth of information literacy as well as the possible problems or challenges need to be faced by the information professionals in society. Keywords: Information literacy. Indigenous librarianship, Indigenous knowledge; Information professionals, Literacy standards.

The American Library Association’s Reference and User Services Association division, STARS Rethinking Resource Sharing Policies Committee (Sharing and Transforming Access to Resources Section), has unveiled an updated version of the STAR checklist. Find out how your library can be a STAR and how the checklist can help to shape your library’s resource sharing policies. The ALA RUSA STARS Rethinking Resource Sharing STAR Checklist provides library staff an opportunity to review and reflect on the policies and processes that comprise the resource sharing service they provide. This article describes how to implement STAR checklist standards to help serve patrons to their fullest potential. This article also expounds about the process of completing the checklist, the history of the STAR checklist, and how to strive to become a four STAR library! Earning STARS by completing the STAR Checklist can help libraries save money and impress administration.

Could it be that the destruction of a text, an archive, a library, respond at a desire to destroy systematically the thought of an individual or a human group? Even, would it reflect the desire to end that individual or social group? The issue of biblioclasm is clearly ethical, because involves professional responsibility in the management of information. And, as a philosophical issue requires thinking in any categories of situational analysis. The elimination of texts at different levels could respond to the identity between the subjects and the information that they produce (or possibly require), hiding the desire of destroy both present and future possibilities that the knowledge open them. Through violent acts occurring in a real dimension, by substitution, is projected the symbolic destruction of a rival. Elucidation of the mechanisms operating in the relationship between subjectivity and information, illuminate the denied places of diverse speeches that are in conflict. Thus, it is proposed to analyze the phenomenon of biblioclasm through language as their main socio-analytic mediation, suggesting the addition of other disciplines (eg, anthropology, psychology, sociology) that contribute to the understanding of how some ancestral mechanisms that are operate and subconscious, in the silencing of subjects.