Archival literacy: estreitando as relações entre a competência em informação e a Arquivologia

Abstract

Archival Literacy, translated in this research as Competência Arquivística, is considered in the current international academic-scientific scenario as an aspect of Information Literacy. This research aims to propose a concept for the term Archival Literacy adequate to the Brazilian archival scenario. To achieve this goal, the research proposes to systematize the themes related to Archival Literacy, to investigate the bibliographic production on the subject in order to identify the characteristics and perspectives of Archival Literacy and, finally, to propose a concept for the term Archival Literacy. For the operationalization of the objectives presented, it was opted to carry out different methodological procedures to reach them: the Bibliographical Survey, the Systematic Bibliographical Review and the Grounded Theory. The data collection procedures of the Systematic Bibliographic Review occurred in the period from October 2020 to April 2022, in the Periodical Portal of the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Level Personnel, in the Library & Information Science Abstracts, in the Web of Science and in the Knowledge Library Online. This phase was divided into three stages with distinct objectives: 1. Understand the essence of Archival Literacy using the search string "Archival Literacy"; 2. Understand the fields of knowledge that compose Archival Literacy using the strings: Domain Knowledge, Artifactual Literacy and Archival Intelligence; 3. know the national debates around Archival Literacy using the expression itself (in Portuguese) and possible variations. From the analysis of the data obtained in the Systematic Bibliographic Review in combination with the Grounded Theory it is presented the proposition of a concept for the main theme of this research. Thus, exposing that the relationship between Information Literacy and Archival Science is characterized as a fertile field for the development of new research. Finally, this study identifies the existence of application contexts that modify the development of Archival Competence according to their singularities and that, for a better understanding of these contexts, it is necessary to study the informational practices of each possible subject inserted in the contexts