1 INFORMATION SCIENCE: INTERFACES AND LIMITS

Information is an integral part of the world in which we live. To understand its characteristics will surely contribute to the future development of society. To study processes that involve information means to study social systems, human interactions, cognition, language, literature, art forms, technology and history. It means to study any representation of information, whether verbal, visual, printed or preserved in an electronic format and the interactions of human beings with these representations. This paper intends to reflect the development of Information Science from its origins and its interfaces with other sciences. It discusses, mainly, the relations of Information Science with technology and the role of technology in this trajectory of mutations. It calls the attention for the importance of this field, and the role of information professionals in the mediation of users in the information society, focusing, mainly, Brazilian reality. 2005 by MDPI (www://mdpi.org). Reproduction for non commercial propose