Resumo:
The article registers a reflection about the role of information professional – the librarian – as
an information mediator in digital and social inclusion processes, with the objective of rethinking these
phenomena and how they can be reversible in the perspective of access and use of information in order to build knowledge. The thematic broached can be not only contextualized in Librarianship, as well as in
Information Science in an interdisciplinary way, considering the concern of these both areas with
information access that allows subjects‟ social inclusion, favoring technologies accesses as well as the
development of skills and competences associated to their uses. The informed subjects become active in the searching and requirement of their rights and so, it is a social responsibility of information
professionals‟ acting in the inclusion processes of these subjects to generate knowledge.
