Formación de bibliotecarios en las escuelas universitarias de bibliotecología del Mercosur : impacto de las tecnologías de información en los planes de estudio

The contemponary world, dominated by the perspectives, both of information and knowledge, suggests the overbearing necessity of educating and enabling library personnel in sustainable professional competeces. Todays personnel will have to subject to the challenges and the impact of the Information Technologies and shall have to make important contributions to the Society of Information. The present work presents the educational scenery of the university schools of Library Science and Information Science, at Mercosur wtih respect to the inclusion of the Technologies of Information in their programs of study, underlying the necessity of an standardized model, flexible and up to date which allows to give the knowledges and skills requiered to work successfully and a good professional performance. It shows some reflexions about the new technological paradigms, its impact over the librarian profession, the structures of the programs of study and the differences between the schools evaluated