Sistema de informação aberto como recurso para organização do conhecimento e de mediação da aprendizagem

Abstract

Libraries, archives and documentation centers can be considered socially oriented information systems whose function is to develop management processes in order to facilitate the dissemination of information to the user, aiming to expand the individual's knowledge base and consequently of the society. Thus, these systems are designed to operationalize the infor-mation flow and enable access and use of information by the user, by integrating methods, people and equipment. In this paper aims to show how an open information system, which aims at communication and mediation of information, can provide enabling tools for learning. To achieve these goals, this article pro-ceeded to a review of literature on the subject in fo-cus, seeking to establish theoretical and conceptual assumptions, subsidized by the dialogue with national and international authors. It is concluded that the construction of an open information system - founded on the sharing of knowledge, social responsibility of the Information Science, in the communicative pro-cess, mediacional, interactive and dialogical with professional information - enables the dissemination of knowledge and facilitates learning of users.