LIS Education in Portugal between academia and practice

摘要

There is a brief exposition, in a historical perspective, about the evolution of the professional educationnin Portugal, in the area of Library and Information Science, since the creation of the Curso de Bibliotec´ario-nArquivista, in 1887, until its closure in 1982, when it was replaced by the Curso de Especializac¸˜ao emnCiˆencias Documentais (CECD). After that, there is an analysis of the CECD, a two years postgraduatencourse that constitutes the indispensable requirement to occupy the places of librarian, archivist or documentalistnin the public administration’s institutions and which represents the dominant model in Portugal.nSome new education models, at postgraduate and undergraduate level are also approached, especially thenalternative course that appeared in 2001, at under graduated level, in the University of Porto, because itnconstitutes an innovative proposal in the scope of Information Science, oriented to educate informationnprofessionals able to act in any organizational context.