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Finding approaches to share information science research with the GLAM and university sector can prove challenging. One avenue is to develop connections between researchers and information professionals through sharing ongoing research to initiate ideas and concepts to benefit current practice. At present, there is a distance between information professionals as the experts in their field; researchers, whose research is perceived to be rarely accessible; and communities, who often distrust GLAM and university institutions. Researchers collaborating with marginalised communities develop empathy and knowledge which can prove valuable to information professionals seeking to develop connections, not only with the communities but with other like-minded professionals. It is through working together to develop these relationships and share our knowledge that we can initiate changes to current practices to make them more sustainable and our cultural heritage collections more inclusive and diverse. In this study, we share our experience to highlight the benefits of developing collaborations between researchers and information professionals to facilitate connection-building across the sector and with marginalised communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the interrelationship between two essential concepts: information mediation and communicative competence. It emphasizes that information mediation, when viewed as a learning process, plays a significant role in promoting communicative competence and facilitating collaboration between information professionals and informational subjects. The research conducted in this context is of a qualitative and theoretical nature, employing bibliographic research as the methodological approach of the reconstructive method. The text is based on authors specialized in the field of information mediation, such as Almeida Júnior (2009, 2015, 2018), who explores concepts such as information appropriation and proto-information, and González de Goméz (2003), who investigates information action. In addition, the text incorporates the contributions of Habermas (1980, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1997, 2009), whose theories on communicative competence and communicative reasons are widely recognized. The research results emphasize theoretical perspectives that highlight the empowerment of individuals through the construction of discourse, dialogue, and solid justifications. This implies that information mediation can empower people, allowing them to participate in well-informed and well-founded discussions. The connections between information mediation and communicative competence become evident through the process of interaction and interpretation. This means that effective communication is not limited to mere information transmission; it also involves mutual understanding and proper interpretation of messages. The text highlights the importance of cultural influences in building the information and communication environment in social contexts, focusing on the informational environment. In summary, the text argues that information mediation plays a fundamental role in the development of communicative competence and in the promotion of individual emancipation. Furthermore, it suggests that future research should explore the relationships between communicative and informational approaches, both in the theoretical (epistemological) and practical (praxiological) levels, in order to enhance information mediation, making it more critical and effective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Technological surveillance and Strategic intelligence are areas of influence for library and information science (LIS), since they involve functions of search, management and dissemination of specialized information. They represent an expansion of professional concerns within the scientific and technological field, while necessarily involving an interdisciplinary approach. The present study describes the link between the profile of the information professional, the VTeIE process and the National System of Science, Technology and Innovation (NSSTI) in Argentina. To this end, a survey and analysis of the official websites of the public member agencies was carried out and interviews and questionnaires were conducted with experts. The results reveal that information professionals make up 31% of the work teams analyzed and that they are currently assuming a leading role in the NSSTI bodies that perform this type of process, generating products with high added value for knowledge management and innovation. In conclusion, these findings highlight the current technological profile of LIS, the importance of its participation in the scientific field and its fundamental role in the strategic monitoring of information through Technological Surveillance and Strategic Intelligence processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the evolution of digital platforms, ordinary users have gained the opportunity to participate in the organization of digital knowledge. This has given rise to folksonomies or social indexing, and the duty of information services to integrate user participation in the organization of their digital collections, and thus incorporate folksonomies in their information organization practices. This article presents a case study of the involvement of users of an academic museum and archive in the indexing of a set of resources within a project on digital preservation. The main objective of this study was to analyse the labels or tags suggested by a group of six students from several scientific areas who participated in the experience, and explain the criteria they used to choose and assign the terms to represent the content of the documents. The responses were categorized based on content analysis. The labels assigned by the students were also compared with the indexing terms used by information professionals. Although the students were not familiar with the methods of information professionals, they gained enough sensitivity to understand the need for term validation and recognize that term selection is a subjective choice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The information professional has currently been widely demanded for the journals management, the evaluation of science and scientific activity. In Cuba, the training of the information professional is carried out in four centers of higher education within those located at the Universidad Central “Marta Abreu” de Las Villas. In this center, the specialization in journals and scientific edition of the professional of the information has been offered through the signature Procesos editoriales since 2017. As part of the improvement of the training process, internationalization actions of the subject were proposed in order to be in accordance with international trends and standards. The study's objectives were: 1) to establish internationalization actions for the assignment of Editorial Processes and 2) to systematize the results obtained in the professional training of information for the scientific edition in the center of Cuba. The study was classified as descriptive with methodological contribution. In order to obtain results, methods were used at the theoretical levels, fundamentally the classic documental analysis. As main results, the methodological design of the editorial process assignment is shown and the main results obtained in the specialization of the information professional in the scope of the journals and the scientific edition, are systematized. The proposed internationalization actions contribute to the training of the information professional in accordance with the trends and international standards around the scientific edition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Culture and Museology use information and communication technologies as mediating communication tools, enhancing the conservation and ''socialisation'' of museum collections, promoting access to cultural information, through the interdisciplinarity required between the museologist and other professionals who, together, organize and disseminate the collections. In the age of digital transformation, we live in, this reality is even more evident. The museum transforms objects into perceptible information as it is a repository of information. The common link between Museology and Information Science involves valuing the human action of creating, interpreting, using, selecting and distributing knowledge products and records, thus creating a connection with the concept of information.Information is central to the process of cultural development. This communication clarifies the relationship between Information Science, Heritage and Museology, presenting the information professional as a partner of Museology, working the object as a document with communicative properties, as a message intended for a specific audience and as information that impacts that audience.

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The situation of documentary information services (SID) in Morocco raises the question of their ability to support the country in its major projects and its various reforms. It also questions their ability to support effective information governance in public and private organizations. But the absence of a national information policy weakens these informational and cultural structures and exposes them to a real crisis of identity and positioning. This article attempts to provide an answer to its central question: why are IDS struggling to safeguard their role in the democratization of knowledge? To answer it, it proposes to identify the different stations and to draw up a map of the different mutations that have directly and indirectly impregnated the SIDs and the job of the information professional. Given its particularities, the information and cultural public service is visibly the most affected by these changes. Our objective would be to highlight the imperfections that hinder the evolution and continuity of the latter and force it to rethink its mission of mediation, its practices, its resources, its collections, and its management models, by crossing several concepts and disciplines

The paper focused on the role of library and information professionals in the provision of financial literacy in developing countries. The highlights of the paper are explanation of financial literacy as a concept, necessity for financial literacy in a depressed economy, role of libraries in the provision of financial literacy in developing countries. The strategies that can be adopted for effective provision of financial literacy were identified which include collaboration with financial institutions; establishing synergy between library and information professionals and successful entrepreneurs, exploring grass root options; collaboration with non-governmental agencies and use of social media platforms. The challenges acknowledged include inadequate knowledge of the workings of the financial system, inadequate knowledge of the financial information needs of patrons and members of the host communities. The study recommends introduction of financial management courses to library science education curriculum, requesting for adequate financial support amongst others. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study focused on competencies of library and information professionals, using technological paradigm shift as yardstick. The study used a survey method and questionnaire to collect data from the respondents in 3 universities in south west, namely Augustine University Library (AUL), Epe, Lagos State; Sola Akinrinade Library (SAL), Osun State University, Osun State, Albert Ilemobade Library (AIL), Federal University of Technology, Akure, Ondo State, Nimbe Adedipe(FUNAAB) Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta, Ogun State and Olabisi Onabanjo University(OOU), Ogun State. 84 respondents were randomly selected for the study, from which 73 respondents completed and returned their questionnaires, representing 86.90%. The findings revealed that the possession of IT skills is a major requirement for effective job performance and effective library service delivery, and also they are good in using various technologies for their job performance. Also, the major challenge they face is inability to acquire relevant technologies and skills due to social economic factors. The study recommends that library management should provide more ICT trainings for their staff, and also provide adequate ICT facilities to enhance productivity of staff. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Information professionals' Knowledge, Abilities/Skills, Competencies and Aptitudes are concepts widely discussed in the literature, both in academic and professional references, and the term ‘information professional’ is not rarely used in the literature, in different ways. Despite the published works, there are differences between the concepts and their application, especially when analyzing works by authors from different countries and different approaches. The purpose of the ongoing research work is to find out if there are differences regarding the main Knowledge, Abilities/Skills, Competences and Aptitudes of information professionals, perceived either by Portuguese or Brazilian professionals, from the perspective of Information Science. This article presents a discussion of the main concepts related to information professionals, as well as a brief description of the research work that is intended to be carried out.

When information professionals deal with other disciplines in the course of digital humanities projects, they often assume that they are dealing with 'needful users' who have an 'information gap' to fill. This paper argues that the traditional view that information/knowledge is transferred from an information specialist donor to a domain specialist receiver is no longer appropriate in the digital humanities context, where the gap-and-search (or gap-and-filler) approach to information has given way to more direct, explorative engagement with information. The paper asks whether information science and the practising profession are ready for this paradigm shift and examines information science conservatism in two common collaboration scenarios, library support and digital development. It is shown that information science theory still assumes a traditional donor role in both scenarios. How information scientists deal with conservatism in practice is discussed in the example of the Prior project, in which the information science team exerted an ambiguous, hybrid approach with both conservative and non-conservative elements. Finally, two rather hypothetical answers are offered to the question of how information professionals should approach scholarly collaboration in the digital humanities context, where users have ceased to be supplicants. From a purely pragmatic perspective, information scientists need to shift their focus from information needs to research practices and the implications of these practices for digital information systems. More fundamentally, the emergence of digital humanities challenges information professionals to transform information systems designed for searching into digital objects that can be explored more freely by the digital humanities community.

Digitization of information assests so called records are seen as a new strategy for nowadays organizations towards modern dynamic conconceptualized services. Due to this reason, initiatives towards records digitization in Malaysian public agencies are been structured accordingly to ensure it accomplishment. Nevertheless, only few have succeeded in realizing it. Thus, this paper is aims to examine the challenges of records digitization's works in Malaysian public sectors. Relevant literatures on records digitzation in Malaysian were reviewed. The article presents that technical expertise, funding and costs, lack of specialize policy and guidelines, technological issues, poor knowledge and skills, lack of training and collaborations, low understanding of digitization as well as technical issues as the impediments to digitization projects for Malaysian public sector. The discussion brought in this paper is expected to increase the awareness and the readiness of related agencies in addressing the issues on their digitization projects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The closure of an information centre be it a library, archives or a museum should be cause of concern for the information professional considering the fact that information contained in there could be a risk especially when there is joint ownership which for some reasons collapses due to conflict leaving the record in both physical and electronic form vulnerable. To compound the situation, the lack of a proper transition mechanism to oversee that library and archives equipment with the information contained in there is handed over to the new custodians of the material for temporary storage has far reaching consequences in terms of access and preservation. The dramatic scenes that ensued at the Lutheran Theological Institution’s Library and Archives are worth documenting for the benefit of sister institutions and for the information sector in general especially in situations where conflict is concerned as was the case here. The demise of LTI was an unmitigated disaster owing largely to internal dissension. The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions [IFLA] (2017) and Ngulube (2018) acknowledged that like many other forms of cultural heritage, documentary works are under constant threat of destruction due to a number of reasons and conflict was singled out as was the case at the LTI Library. However, a number of lessons can be learnt from this debacle and a few will be highlighted here. Firstly, faith based collections (religious archives) need to be legislated like their counterparts public archives. Secondly, sister institutions need to ensure that both records and archives management functions are harmonized to minimize over reliance on donors for material in the archives.

Introduction. This study identifies training activities for librarians and archivists in relation to professionalism for the development of learning society. The research aims to explore the training potentials in Indonesia between 2015-2017. Data Collection Method. The paper used quantitative method with samples of training advertisements and reports on the online media. Analysis Data. The collected data was tabulated into the table, calculated by the tally method. Results and Discussions. The implementation of training reached 239 times in various regions in Indonesia. The organizers are dominated by PNRI and ANRI. There is a balance between library and archive management topics, as well as an improvement of the implementation, creative content, and methods of training. The organizers and the trainers support each other to create content materials to meet the society needs. Conclusions. The understanding of the importance of working in a responsible manner, based on the knowledge and awareness to continuously improve the competence of the librarian and archivist, increased. However, the material should be improved to better achieve critical thinking skills. The paper suggests improving archival, research materials, and soft skills.

In den letzten Jahrzehnten der Globalisierung und des Internet-Booms hat sich die Wirtschaftsrecherche, oft auch als Business Research bezeichnet, etabliert. Nicht nur bei großen Konzernen, auch bei Unternehmensgründern oder kleinen und mittelständischen Unternehmen. Sie ist nicht mehr „Nice to have“, sondern zur unternehmerischen Notwendigkeit geworden. Noch vor etwa zwei Jahrzehnten waren viele Informationen schwer zugänglich und ihre Beschaffung aufwändig und teuer. Heute steht uns durch die Digitalisierung und das Internet eine Flut von Informationen zur Verfügung. Was sind typische Fragen? Welche Informationsquellen werden genutzt? Wie hat sich die Wirtschaftsrecherche in den letzten Jahrzehnten verändert? Was sind aktuelle Entwicklungen?

Introduction: The ethical performance of the librarian is addressed, considering its challenges and perspectives. Objective: to enhance the development of the professional ethics of the librarian, through the socialization of the proposed actions. Materials and methods: theoretical methods that were used: historical - logical, modeling, analysis-synthesis and induction-deduction. The empirical analysis correspond to surveys conducted on librarians, managers and users; as well as interviews to prioritized staff and bibliotechnology personalities. Descriptive statistics were used for information processing. Results and discussion: the application of these methods enabled the theoretical foundation of the topic addressed, the characterization of the current state on the ethical performance of the librarian and the elaboration of the proposal for actions to fulfill the objective of the research. Conclusions: the implementation of the proposed actions promotes the strengthening of the professional ethics of the librarian, by influencing his preparation for the mastery of information and communications technologies, and also favors cultural improvement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The information professional is gaining more and more space in the current information society. Information and communication technologies appear to facilitate the performance of work in the digital environment. With the increasing amount of information, either digitized or born digital, the care of digital objects has become urgent. Digital curation appears as an alternative in the care of digital objects, ensuring that they have a longer life and can be used. It is believed that activities related to digital curation have required constant updates and other competencies for the information professional. Therefore, we intend to know: what are the information professional's practices that contribute to digital curatorship? General Objective: To identify which types of information professionals perform activities related to digital curatorship. Specific objectives: to highlight the literatures that deal with the information professional in digital curatorship; to verify the necessary competences for the information professional to act as digital curator; to specify the similar and different aspects in the typologies of the information professional. Results: Most digital curators are librarian, archivist or museologist professionals, with master's degrees in the areas of librarianship, records management, archivists or in information science. Few specialize or have master's degrees in digital curation or data curation. Some of the activities that the digital curator performs include the following services: creating metadata; accessing, collecting and manipulating content; discarding; maintaining resources; developing policies and managing data plans and procedures for digital content. Conclusion: Digital curation is important to ensure the long life and integrity of the digital object, so organizations adapt to their reality, life cycle models to work with these digital objects. The specialized training for digital curators is directly linked to the areas of Librarianship and Information Science. This research highlights the type of information professional: the librarian, who most performs activities related to digital curation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It discusses the perception of information professionals - archivists, librarians and museologists - about work practice, in the perspective of Covid-19's pandemic scenario. It focuses on professional action to face the health crisis, use of friendly and reliable information resources, as well as expressions that show the experience and overcoming of professionals from the point of view of the concept of informational resilience and the contributions of Information Science in labor practice. It results from a quantitative and qualitative research, with exploratory research. For data collection, a questionnaire built on Google Forms was used as an instrument, having as the number of respondents: 14.8% of archivists, 79.3% of librarians and 5.8% of museologists. Data analysis was performed using Bardin's content analysis with the establishment of categories. It is observed that professionals continue their work in the face of informational uncertainties that the Brazilian epidemic context presents, and see their activities as potential to disseminate essential information for the benefit of science and the future, demonstrating the protagonist consolidation of their actions before society. It is concluded that, despite all the challenges imposed by the current moment with work overload, isolation and concern, the archivists, librarians and museologists participating in the research have tried to reinvent themselves, adapting to the imposed context and trying to practice resilience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The paper investigates the supporting role of information professionals in interdisciplinary digital research projects. It identifies three encounter scenarios in which information professionals meet domain researchers (as research librarian, as information specialist, and as iHumanist) and links them to the domain researchers 'modes of orientation'. We examine these theoretical distinctions by discussing three cases from our own practical engagement in the Prior project. Our discussion shows that the scenarios help to understand information professionals' supporting work, explain the conflicts that emerge, and explicate information professionals' shifting conceptions of what they are doing in terms of the shifting encounter scenarios. In short, the paper presents methodological and theoretical insights that can be useful in understanding encounters between information professionals and domain researchers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Top-level domains, in addition to fulfilling the technical function of enabling access to network resources, allow information professionals in general—and content managers in particular—to work with domain names for branding and search engine optimization (SEO) purposes. Likewise, they facilitate the performance of metric analyses thanks to their hierarchical structure. The massive creation of new TLDs that was started in the early 21st century by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) opened the possibility of being able to select (or even register) a wide variety of web domains. However, the sources of information about TLDs as well as their management and usefulness for both the commercial sector (SEO, web content management, and digital analytics) and scholarly community (webometrics) are not well known among information professionals. The objective of this text is to explain the meaning and function of TLDs, to highlight their different categories, and to show their evolution over time, in order to provide useful information for professionals dedicated to the generation, dissemination, storage/retrieval, and analysis of online content. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This study approaches new opportunities for information professionals and the multiple facets in which they currently perform. This approach is marked by the globalization of info Communication and its intensive introduction in productive and service processes, e-commerce, corporate interconnection, social networks, ethical commitment and social responsibility, new ways to conduct research and socialize scientific findings, difficulties in storing and preserving documentary heritage and transformations in the professional’s ways of operating. These aspects are assessed based on the perspective of a change of paradigm in the information professional's practice assuming a more active protagonism in these scenarios. Thus, becoming an all-purpose professional who will be an innovator, a researcher, an educator, a consultant and a trainer who will continuously update and learn to be able to evolve and readjust to these new realities.

The paper focuses on librarians and information professionals in health care within the context of lifelong learning. In 2017, a survey was conducted by questionnaire in 115 medical information institutions in which 160 respondents participated. The survey was focused on determining librarians’ lifelong learning needs. The survey supported the basic hypothesis that the education of medical librarians must be complemented with specialisation not only with regard to medical specialties, but also with regard to knowledge of information technologies, basic economics, pedagogy, legislation, communication, statistics, and other subjects. Based on the interpretation of the survey results, a lifelong professional educational programme concept, entitled Competencies of a Medical Librarian for the Performance of Library and Information Activities, was laid out. Two areas of the educational programme were defined: a. Basic professional knowledge (theoretical) and skills (practical) related to library and information activities; and b. Specific professional knowledge (theoretical) and skills (practical) related to healthcare. The objective of specialised education in the area of medical libraries is to give professionals the theoretical knowledge, practical skills and experience necessary to perform work in a specialised library. The contribution will present the results of the statistical survey, the further educational needs that were determined, and the content of both areas of the educational programme in more detail. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this article is to report the experience of the Tribunal de Contas do Estado de Minas Gerais, through Coordenadoria de Arquivo Geral and the Permanent Records Evaluation Group, in the elaboration of its Filling Plan, including core and common functions. To achieve it, it was used the ISO 15.489-1 methodology, detailed by the National Archives of Australia, which forecasts the creation of multidisciplinary team to execute the tasks. In this article we adress the needed changes to train the team in the face of the reality of the institution and its servants and the relationship of cooperation and exchange of knowledge between the information professionals and the expert servers in the areas of the Tribunal de Contas. Such cooperation has resulted in the opening of a dialogue channel among those involved, that made it possible to understand the needs of the producers / users of information and the responsible professionals for its treatment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The technological and informational scenario of contemporary society has demanded from the information professionals diversified knowledge to be applied in different perspectives, especially in contexts that involve the improvement of corporate processes. In the meantime, managing documents and information is a prerequisite in process mapping and modeling projects, since they support activities and record all legal and regulatory information in the context. This work presents a stage of the Aurus Project. The purpose of the Project was to specify the requirements for the development of an information retrieval system. The step here presented presents the follow-up of Information Science professionals during the business process modeling activities performed by Computer Science professionals. The skills and abilities of the information professional developed at the stage, initially little recognized, resulted in documentary modeling of the process, impacting greatly on the final product of the Project. The results show the importance of interdisciplinarity by linking the practice of documentary studies to the specification of requirements of a management technology, besides demonstrating the applicability of the practice to other organizational contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective – To provide a systematic review of the emerging or newly adopted roles of information professionals, over the past 14 years, as described in the Library and Information Science (LIS) professional literature. Design – Systematic review of the literature. Setting – Databases featuring information science content, including ACM Digital Library, Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts (LISTA), Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA), Citeseer, Google Scholar, e-prints in Library and Information Science (e-LiS), Digital Library of Information Science and Technology (DLIST), Scopus, and Science Direct. The database Library Literature & Information Science Index was not included. Subjects – Through a systematic literature search, the authors identified 114 peer-reviewed studies published between 2000-2014. Methods – The authors searched selected databases using the terms “librarian/s role” and “information professional/s role” to collect literature about the roles of information professionals. The authors searched the selected databases in two phases. The initial search yielded 600 search results and the authors included 100 articles about “roles” information professionals have adopted. The authors excluded articles focused on specific positions, health and medical libraries, librarians’ professional skills, and development of specific programs or initiatives within libraries. In the second phase of searching, the authors refined search terms to include phrases specifically related to the roles identified in the 100 articles initially included in the review. There were 48 articles identified in the second search and 14 were included in the final pool of articles. The authors also cross-checked the references of all included literature. Main Results – The authors identified six roles of information professionals described in the literature during the review period. The role of “embedded librarian” was described in the largest number of articles (42%), followed by “librarian as teacher” (20%), “knowledge manager” (20%), “technology specialist” (9%), “subject librarian” (6%), and “information consultant” (3%). The study did not identify a dominant journal title or professional conference publishing research on information professionals’ roles. Some included literature reported a specific method for investigation, including questionnaires, content analyses, and mixed methods. However, the researchers report that the majority of articles represented personal views or perceptions of the authors. Conclusion – The roles of information professionals are continually changing, both in practice and in description. In particular, information professionals expanded their roles in teaching during the review period, shedding light on institutional and professional priorities. Commentary The authors identified information professional roles that may have emerged or evolved during the review period. In synthesizing the reviewed literature’s discussion of each role, the authors offer a detailed view of the scholarly conversation about the evolution of the information profession. This research may indicate that information professionals have assumed new roles as embedded librarians, particularly in light of changing pedagogical resources and tools that foster new methods of patron interaction. However, the authors’ discussion of the other roles – librarian as teacher, knowledge manager, technology specialist, subject librarian, and information consultant – seem more indicative of changing rhetoric than the emergence of new conceptual roles for information professionals. A longer review period might alter this perspective. The systematic review method is a promising means of quantifying professional discussions on changing roles in the information field. The evidence presented in this article may largely apply to academic libraries because, as the authors note, the majority of articles included in the review were about academic libraries. The authors searched a wide range of databases, following the guidance of Hemingway and Brereton (2009). The focus on peer-reviewed literature discovered through database searches may be the reason that the majority of included articles address academic libraries. This limitation was acknowledged by the authors. While trade and grey literature published by professional associations and consortia may be more difficult to locate in databases, such literature might expand the subject matter to information professionals working outside of higher education. The inclusion and exclusion criteria employed by the authors reveal ambiguities in LIS professional rhetoric that this research may be unable to overcome. The search terms “librarian/s roles” and “information professional/s roles” were employed to search several databases. However, the authors do not define “role,” nor do they identify other terms they considered and discarded. Research about the “skills” of librarians was also excluded, though the 114 articles ultimately included do discuss librarian “competencies,” “expertise,” “knowledge,” and “training.” “Papers referring to specific positions or specific occupational groups” (p. 39) were excluded, though the article does not explain the distinction between a librarian’s “role” and “professional responsibilities.” For example, the authors indicate that the role of “embedded librarian” dominated the scholarly conversation in the included literature, but the exclusion criteria indicate that “embedded librarianship” is a “type” of librarianship that was excluded from systematic review (2015). New positions and titles in information organizations may well represent emerging roles in areas like scholarly communication, assessment, outreach, emerging technology, and instructional design. Are these roles, professional responsibilities, skills, competencies, or something else? How information professionals describe their work is a useful inquiry. As a survey of articles about the work information professionals do, this research may inform hiring managers or other librarians who seek to redefine existing roles or create new roles to fill needs within their libraries. This research could be expanded to include trade and grey literature. Practical applications of this research would be enhanced with refined search terms and terminology that distinguishes between librarian position titles, responsibilities, and competencies.

Culture and Museology use information and communication technologies as mediating communication tools, enhancing the conservation and "socialisation" of museum collections, promoting access to cultural information, through the interdisciplinarity required between the museologist and other professionals who, together, organize and disseminate the collections. In the age of digital transformation, we live in, this reality is even more evident. The museum transforms objects into perceptible information as it is a repository of information. The common link between Museology and Information Science involves valuing the human action of creating, interpreting, using, selecting and distributing knowledge products and records, thus creating a connection with the concept of information. Information is central to the process of cultural development. This communication clarifies the relationship between Information Science, Heritage and Museology, presenting the information professional as a partner of Museology, working the object as a document with communicative properties, as a message intended for a specific audience and as information that impacts that audience., Competing Interests: The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper., (© 2023 Published by Elsevier Ltd.)

In the last decades of globalization and the internet boom, business research has become established. Not only with big corporations, but also with company founders or small and medium-sized enterprises. It is not a “nice to have" but has become essential in today's business. Just two decades ago a lot of information was difficult and expensive to get. Today, digitalization and the internet are a rich source of information. What are typical questions? What sources of information get used? How has business research changed in recent decades? What are current developments? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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