Una Maestría en Ciencia de la Información para Colombia

This paper describes the foundations that support the Master in Information Science Program that the Interamerican Library School of the University of Antioquia, will offer in 2011. On the basis of the criteria of pertinence, aspects related to the denomination of the program, its justification in the Colombian context, information transfer as object of study, and the interdisciplinary conditions derived thereof as well as the support from the research lines in the Research on Information, Knowledge and Society Group of the School