O profissional bibliotecário e arquivista em atividades estratégicas nas organizações

Abstract

This research study consists of a theoretical and critical reflection on the performance and activities of information professionals: librarians and archivists. It offers a brief overview of their activities, which are considered strategic in the literature of this field. It addresses Information Management (IM), Knowledge Management (KM), DocumentManagement (DM) and Competitive Intelligence (CI), which support the informational activities and administrative processes in the organizations. It concludes that the profile of both professionals include training, skills, technical activities (traditional activities), theoretical activities, as well as managerial and strategic activities to be executed within an organization. It shows that, for managers and leaders, an archivist is the one thatholds the greatest strategic position. It explains how business managers have a great influence on the team and on strategic activities, and how it is still necessary to rethink their management styles for a company to be really innovative.