This article examines the field of information science through the articulations among its graduate programs, research sector, and the professional development at the undergraduate level. It analyses how information science has faced the present challenges in Brazil to expand and consolidate itself as a field of study and gain more visibility. Therefore, it analyses how this field has been responding to the various demands made by the society in general, regarding the professional development of teachers, researchers, managers, and highly specialized technicians. From this perspective, this work was divided into four parts: in the first one, we construct the present profile of the graduate courses in information science in Brazil within the National System of Graduate Studies (Sistema Nacional de Pós-Graduação); in the second part, we focus on research and its present tendencies; in the third one, we draw a general panorama of the undergraduate courses and analyse how they are articulated with the graduate courses and the research field. In the fourth part, we comment on the complexity of the articulations within these areas.
Articulation Undergraduate Studies; Graduate Studies and Research in Information Science; Present Challenges