The historical and epistemological relations between Librarianship and Information Science in the Brazilian scientifi c production

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This is an exploratory qualitative and bibliographic research without a chronological framework that addresses the historical
and epistemological relations of Library Science and Information Science from the Brazilian scientifi c production in Information
Science. This study addresses how and which aspects in the historical and epistemological relation occur between Information
Science and Librarianship in Brazilian scientifi c production. The general objective is to identify to what extent the content of
publications brings the two fi elds together. Specifi cally, the objectives were as follows: list works within the Brazilian scientifi c
production in Information Science that deal with the history and epistemology of Librarianship and Information Science; verify
which works correlate historical and epistemological aspects of librarianship with Information Science; elicit some refl ections on
the historical and epistemological relations from the analysis of this research. The data collection was carried out in the Journal
Portal of Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education
Personnel) database of the Scientifi c Electronic Library Online, Library and Information Science Abstracts, Web of Science and
Scopus. Based on the analysis of the corpus of 21 articles, the most predominant themes were the history of Librarianship,
the development of Information Science, the documentation of Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine, and interdisciplinarity.