Scientific researchers’ perceptions regarding information on mediation concepts

Abstract

In the 20th century, the approach of Library Science and Documentation Science with the introduction of information science created a scenario, in which despite professionals’ high use of these Sciences they did not clearly comprehend concepts and practices. This article presents mediation as one of those concepts present when practice is a part of a discipline and theoretical discussion is another part; that is library science and documentation, respectively. This article discusses mediation including its different conceptions in information science, and ponders on the main ideas of the zone and of the recent production of this concept via Delphi methodology to verify if there is a consensus among researchers in the field. These researchers have had jobs at the (NISE) national information science research event (In Spanish, Encuentro Nacional de Investigación en Ciencias de la Información -ENANCIB) in the last 3 years. This work presents mediation as a concept of information science based on different fields of knowledge where there is a professional interferes; and therefore, there is no access to information.