Abstract

GALVAO, Maria Cristiane Barbosa. Construção de conceitos no campo da ciência da informação. Ci. Inf. [online]. 1998, vol.27, n.1, pp. 0-0. ISSN 0100-1965.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0100-19651998000100006.

In this article, the basic premisse is that conceptual construction interfere on epistemoly and on scientific models development that helps analyse, describe and interpret the theorical and empirical objects of a knowledge area. A conceptual framework draft of librarianship and documentation was stablished and, trough it, many conceptual problems were detected in this area like absence of methological concepts construction and eclecticism. Afteward, the conceptual construction in Information Science is questioned.

Keywords : Librarianship; Documentation; Information Science; Concepts construction; Epistemology.