Gestão da Informação: desafios e competências para preservação digital

The objective of this paper is to make an analysis and reflection about the Information Management (IM), digital preservation and the skills of the information professional, especially, the Librarian. This research is from qualitative nature and exploratory character, with the purpose of providing to researchers a better familiarity with the problem pointed in this study and build reflections based on an expanded knowledge about the imposed challenge by the information management and by the scope of the digital preservation, pursuing evidences of the studied subjects. The paper, initially, addresses the concept of the Information Management (IM), the challenges of Big Data and the information cycle. Secondly, explicit and analyzes politics, proceedings, and strategies of preservation of digital documents. Further, explicit that beyond a so challenging scenario, where the information object dialogs preferentially with the Digital Technologies,the chosen of the professional with the desire skill and abilities becomes a strategy for the success of the adopted model. When realized the need of the integration of multiples knowledge, developing a set of skills, the librarian, professional chosen as the studied object, must be prepared to answer the market of digital preservation. On this stage of the research there are no findings yet that could trace a safe conclusion. However, the question is evident - educate information professionals with the capacity to face the challenges of a digital economy is an attitude to be consider for the universities that intend to engage in the digital transformation.