Heloá Cristina Camargo de Oliveira

Ph.D. in Information Science from São Paulo State University Júlio de Mesquita Filho (UNESP), Marília Campus, and in Formación en la Sociedad del Conocimiento from the University of Salamanca, Spain (2020). Masters degree in Information Science from UNESP Marília (2015). Bachelors degree in Library Science from the State University of Londrina (UEL) (2009). Currently serves as an Adjunct Professor at the Federal University of Rondonópolis (UFR), Mato Grosso Brazil, in the Institute of Human and Social Sciences (ICHS), teaching undergraduate courses in Library and Information Science and Psychology. She coordinates the research group ELOS Studies in Reading, Perspectives, and Society (UFR Brazil) and the research project Library Science and Society (UFR Brazil). Member of the research groups Information, Knowledge, and Organizational Intelligence (ICIO UNESP Brazil) and Teresa Andrés Información y Sociedad (GIR-TAIS University of Salamanca, Spain). Her professional background includes work as a librarian in university libraries, image archives (with experience in metadata creation, visual analysis, and research), corporate archives (with focus on information management and coordination), and in document digitization project management (including both current and historical collections). Her doctoral thesis investigated information mediation from a phenomenological perspective, exploring its nature and potential contributions to the practice of information professionals working with socially marginalized groups. Her main research interests include: Library Science and society, information mediation, reading mediation, reading promotion practices, social engagement, professional performance, knowledge and information management, critical librarianship, information services for marginalized communities, multiculturalism, and interculturalism. Contact: heloa.oliveira@ufr.edu.br | heloaoliv@gmail.com (Source: Lattes Curriculum)