Perfil profissional do bibliotecário em ambientes de informação audiovisual

Abstract

This paper discusses some librarians’ competences and their professional profile to work inside audiovisual information environments, focusing on presenting mediation actions which may be developedin television stations.It is characterized as a bibliographical research through a literature review; from then on it was possible to collect the main concepts about the librarians’ competence, professional profile and also information mediation. Thus, technical, managerial and behavioral competences were put under discussion to define an ideal profile for librarians who intend to work in audiovisual environments, which have demanded specific attitude and skills from this kind of job market. It presents some concepts on protagonist librarian,archivist, video librarian, researcher and production research, based on a literature review. It also presents the workflow of a television station, which has the documentation department as a strategic sector that enables its librarians to carry out information mediation actions. Finally, it was established that audiovisual companies, or other kind of audiovisual institutions, would be able to maintain a competitive advantage if they had a librarian as a permanent manager in their team, taking into consideration that librarians can both develop technical activities and manage information in audiovisual archives.