O papel da bibliografia na construção do conhecimento em ciência da informação: O caso da escola de ciência da informação da UFMG

Abstract

This paper aims at characterizing the role of Bibliography as a discipline in Information Science having as reference how this subject was appropriated by the School of Information Science/UFMG, since the beginning of the Librarianship course, in the beginning of 1950 up to the present day. Firstly, this paper brings a conceptual systematization on this topic with the purpose of putting into question the inaccuracies linked to the notion of “bibliographic”. Then it presents a report of academic experience in order to show the evolutionary process of the course Bibliography in the history of the School of Information Science/UFMG: from the initial years to the organization in departments; from the didactic transposition of contents of Bibliography in the undergraduate course in Librarianship to the postgraduate course in Information Science; from the significant scientific production of students and research professors to the devaluation of that course as a theoretical field, in the wake of a worldwide trend. As a conclusion, the importance of Bibliography as a strict course is emphasized, as well as studies about the bibliographic system as a device designed to function as a cognitive path on documents so as to contribute to foster the qualified use of information, promoting the cultural insertion of the subject in the informational world.