Two discourses on the integration between information science, archival science and library science

Abstract

Objective. The integration processes developed between the bodies of knowledge identified as archival science, library science and information science are examined, from the theoretical discourses of the scholars Miguel Ángel Rendón Rojas and Armando Malheiro da Silva. Methodology. Through documentary research as a tool, the institutional, professional, epistemological and scientific circumstances that conditioned the scenarios that served as a platform for the emergence of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives that marked the history of the informational field and the perspectives of the authors are examined. Results. The arguments of Rendón Rojas and Silva, who took up the disciplinary discussion in the informational field, are discussed and detailed, proposing their particular readings. Conclusions. It was concluded that the complex integration process is explained by an economic, scientific, informational and technological situation that has existed since the end of the last century, which served as a driving context for the phenomenon that Rendón Rojas and Silva developed from their point of view.