The librarian in the post-truth era: information, memory and power in social
networks.
Memory, truth and power. Post-truth. Social networks. Sources of information.
Informational literacy. Librarian – professional performance.
This work discusses some issues in emphasis on the media and the scientific community of information
professionals in the so-called era of the post-truth. Proposes to in this paper we analyze the following
questions: (1) How does the epistemological and historical context of information and memory focus on
the post-truth and impact on the information society? (2) is the role of the librarian, through informational
literacy and skills development, able to help your community cope? (3) The training/training of users,
through mediation and training of competence exercised by the librarian, can instigate the reading, critical
analysis and filtering of news in the formal media, social networks and messaging applications, Fighting
the proliferation of false news? The aim of this proposal is to generally diagnose the particularities of the
conceptual and historical origins of information and collective memory and its effects in the contexts of
misinformation and dissemination of false news. To this end, we intend to plan the following steps: (a)
analyze the concepts of memory and truth in the historical and cultural focus of their relations with the
conceptions of power; (b) To investigate similar phenomena of post-truth and the possible consequences
of their uses on a wide scale in social networks in the context of liquid modernity; (c) Elaborate training
of good practices to filter information in the media, social networks and messaging applications, directed
to the needs of the academic community of IFMA, Campus Caxias, developing critical reading skills,
Source check and use of reliable search sources. Through a qualitative methodology in the approach of
the phenomenological paradigm using two stages for data collection: bibliographic Research to identify
the problem, its concepts Current and historical; and action research for the application of debates,
trainings and questionnaires to diagnose the informational need in the community studied, for the
possession of these data elaborate the final product, A Appropriate training to the information needs
identified. The acting librarian is assumed as an informational mediator in the development of
informational competence of the Community belonging, will lead users in the process of filtering, critical
use, verifying information and interactions in the networks Social. This will cause positive impacts on its
social mission, based on the belonging and place of action in the current society, it will be remembered as
a next step in the evolution of its professional attributions.