[ Profil et compétences des spécialistes de l’information documentaire à l’ère du numérique: Cas des professionnels africains ]
Volume 39, Issue 2, April 2023, Pages 730–741
Tang-Irmi Dinza1 and Dia Mamadou2
1 Fonds des Nations Unies pour l’Enfance (UNICEF), Ndjamena, Chad
2 Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF), Laboratoire de Recherche en Sciences de l’Information et de la Communication (EBAD, ETHOS - Université Cheikh Anta Diop), Dakar, Senegal
Original language: French
Copyright © 2023 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are profoundly transforming contemporary archival science. Thus, archives, libraries, documentation services and documentary information science actors come up against several dilemmas/technological obstacles such as the management of the hardware and software infrastructure of the services, obsolescence and the fragility of the supports, the volumetric growth of the supports to name but a few. Faced with these obstacles, the traditional skills of the specialist in documentary information are called into question and his career takes shape in an uncertain way. An updating of the profiles of the skills of actors in the management of documentary information is unprecedented. This leads to the review of university and professional training programs followed by themes in capacity building and knowledge management. Archival sciences, librarianship and documentary engineering are at the heart of the dematerialization carried by several more or less related disciplines, and which are the subject of the additional skills that documentary information specialists are supposed to provide. Our article will reveal this aspect of interdisciplinarity which represents a weapon to defy the digital locks/handcuffs that arise for actors in the archiving, librarianship, and documentation professions. The article conducted by surveys and interviews allows us to constitute an up-to-date profile of the skills necessary for the management of information on several counts. We also look at the key skills and qualities documentary information professionals must possess to succeed in today’s digital environment.
Author Keywords: Archivist, Librarian, digital, skills, information management, Africa.
Volume 39, Issue 2, April 2023, Pages 730–741
Tang-Irmi Dinza1 and Dia Mamadou2
1 Fonds des Nations Unies pour l’Enfance (UNICEF), Ndjamena, Chad
2 Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF), Laboratoire de Recherche en Sciences de l’Information et de la Communication (EBAD, ETHOS - Université Cheikh Anta Diop), Dakar, Senegal
Original language: French
Copyright © 2023 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are profoundly transforming contemporary archival science. Thus, archives, libraries, documentation services and documentary information science actors come up against several dilemmas/technological obstacles such as the management of the hardware and software infrastructure of the services, obsolescence and the fragility of the supports, the volumetric growth of the supports to name but a few. Faced with these obstacles, the traditional skills of the specialist in documentary information are called into question and his career takes shape in an uncertain way. An updating of the profiles of the skills of actors in the management of documentary information is unprecedented. This leads to the review of university and professional training programs followed by themes in capacity building and knowledge management. Archival sciences, librarianship and documentary engineering are at the heart of the dematerialization carried by several more or less related disciplines, and which are the subject of the additional skills that documentary information specialists are supposed to provide. Our article will reveal this aspect of interdisciplinarity which represents a weapon to defy the digital locks/handcuffs that arise for actors in the archiving, librarianship, and documentation professions. The article conducted by surveys and interviews allows us to constitute an up-to-date profile of the skills necessary for the management of information on several counts. We also look at the key skills and qualities documentary information professionals must possess to succeed in today’s digital environment.
Author Keywords: Archivist, Librarian, digital, skills, information management, Africa.
Abstract: (french)
Les technologies de l’information et de la communication (TICs) transforment profondément l’archivistique contemporaine. Ainsi, les services d’archives, des bibliothèques, de la documentation et les acteurs des sciences de la discipline se heurtent à plusieurs dilemmes/verrous technologiques tels que la gestion de l’infrastructure matérielle et logicielle des services, l’obsolescence et la fragilité des supports, la croissance volumétrique des supports pour ne citer que ceux-là. Face à ces verrous, les compétences classiques du spécialiste de l’information documentaire sont mises en cause et sa carrière se dessine de manière incertaine. Une réactualisation des profils des compétences des acteurs de la gestion de l’information documentaire est inédite. Ce qui conduit à la revue des programmes de formation universitaire et professionnelle suivi des thèmes en renforcement de capacités et de la gestion des connaissances. Les sciences archivistiques, la bibliothéconomie et l’ingénierie documentaire sont au cœur de la dématérialisation portée par plusieurs disciplines plus ou moins connexes et qui font l’objet des compétences supplémentaires que les professionnels de l’information documentaire sont censés procurer. Notre article dévoilera cet aspect d’interdisciplinarité qui représente une arme pour braver les verrous/menottes numériques qui se posent aux acteurs du métiers d’archivage, de bibliothéconomie et de la documentation. L’article conduit par des enquêtes auprès des professionnels nous permet de constituer un référentiel des compétences à jour nécessaires à la gestion de l’information à plusieurs titres. Nous examinons également les compétences et les qualités clés que les professionnels de l’information documentaire doivent posséder pour réussir dans l’environnement numérique d’aujourd’hui.
Author Keywords: Archiviste, Bibliothécaire, Documentaliste, Numérique, Compétences, Gestion de l’information, Afrique.
How to Cite this Article
Tang-Irmi Dinza and Dia Mamadou, “Profile and skills of documentary information specialists in the digital age: Case of African professionals,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 730–741, April 2023.
