Contemporary librarianship

notes and perspectives

Abstract

This article is an excerpt from the reflections raised by the thesis entitled "Lankes's New Librarianship in the Brazilian context" and aims to present some contemporary perspectives that have transformed the way we theorize and practice contemporary Librarianship. It is configured as an exploratory and qualitative research and uses the identification of texts on contemporary Librarianship in the BRAPCI database for the constitution of the present text. We point out that Librarianship has been undergoing constant transformations in accordance with social and technological evolution. Thus, we can delineate three moments that mark the area's transformations: 1) at the beginning, in a perspective that can be called traditional, marked by a technical bias, by the accumulation of large collections and by the building; 2) in a second moment, we have a Librarianship focused on the access, availability and sharing of information; and, 3) the third moment, marks the contemporaneity, which privileges the use of the library space beyond the informational support, seeking a more participative, collaborative action and focused on learning and the construction of knowledge by the communities. Libraries in the current scenario, more than ever, must occupy their secular place as promoters of learning and the collective construction of knowledge.