The text tries to situate Information Science in the present scenario of the information and knowledge society, explaining the new information processes that come from the emergence of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT's) and the pressure over the services and products. It approaches the role of Information Science before the new directions of social sciences, contributing with theoretical choices to restructure discourses and practices of research in Information Science. It points at Information Science's strategies to be adequate to the new model of development..
Information and knowledge society; Information processes; Reconstructive thinking; Information science