¿Por qué enseñar métodos de investigación en las facultades de Biblioteconomía y Documentación?

Abstract

The aim is to show why teaching research methodology in library and information studies is necessary. The opinions by several professionals, teachers and scholars are presented. The author maintains that by learning about scientific methodology the students will first develop their critical spirit and secondly acquire the necessary tools that will make them act rationally and systematically in their professional careers contributing as well to broaden the scientific base of library and information science. Next, a brief overview is given of the appearance and development of the teaching of scientific methodology in library and information schools. Introduced in the North American schools in the 30s, the teaching of research methods has now become a subject of growing importance in school curricula. The same opinion is shared by the professionals associations which consider it as a core subject. It has the same consideration in Spain, where it is a compulsory subject in the curriculum at the master's level