Fernanda RibeiroFernanda Ribeiro (born 1958) is an associate Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of University of Porto (Portugal) and is member of the research centre CETAC.MEDIA (Centre of Studies in Technologies and Communication Sciences). Previouslyshe worked as an archivist at the Municipal Archives of Porto. She got a degree in History and obtained the diploma of the Librarian-Archivist Course from the University of Coimbra. Her PhD in Information Science is from University of Porto with a dissertation entitled The Access to Information in Archives. During the last 25 years she devoted her academic research to access and retrieval of information in archives, subject indexing, classification, information evaluation, theory and methodology of Information Science as well as LIS professional training. She is co-author of a Portuguese manual of Archival Science under the title Arquivística: teoria e prática de uma Ciência da Informação (1999), which got a prize from the Portuguese Association of Librarians, Archivists and Documentalists (BAD) and of another book entitled Das "Ciências" Documentais à Ciência da Informação: ensaio epistemológico para um novo modelo curricular (2002). Read More Read Less