Library professionals' education in the Mercosur countries

Article type: Research Article

Authors: de Oliveira, Ely Francina Tannuri^{; *} | Guimarães, José Augusto Chaves

Affiliations: Department of Information Science of Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Marília, Estado de São Paulo, Brasil

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author. E-mail: tannuri@terra.com.br

Abstract: This paper deals with library professionals education in Mercosur – the Common Market of South America – established on 29 March, 1991 to expand the national markets of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, and promote free circulation of goods, services and production agents in that region. The paper presents, through a descriptive study, the undergraduate and graduate courses in Library Science, how many and what schools there are, and what programs are developed. It ends by identifying the directions in which they are moving and the challenges they are now facing.

DOI: 10.3233/EFI-2004-22104

Journal: Education for Information, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 31-39, 2004