Proposal to study librarianship and archives studies: A contribution to the analysis from the professionalization process

Abstract

Society creates professions in accordance with its own requirements, a process that implies technical and social characteristics which allow to know how these careers have been developed and cope with the realities of their present. This article presents a proposal to study the library and archival profession within the Colombian context, departing from a mixed methodical design, qualitative and quantitative, using the Delphi method, whose aim pretends to reveal convergence of opinions and attainment of consensuses around the formation of categories and subcategories in order to structure a proposal of study of this career. Departing from there, three mayor categories were created: professional characterization, professional identity, and professional practice which are the basis for building the suggested outline to create thorough studies of library and information science according to the context of every region.