Biography

Paula Sequeiros is a researcher at the Centre of Social Studies. Member of the Research Group Urban Cultures, Sociabilities and Participation. Her main research areas are information literacy and scientific writing, a social and cultural policy vision of public libraries. She coordinates enLeio, a Research Network on Libraries, Policies and Reading, since 2018. Former scientific co-editor, with Teresa Cunha, of the Oficina do CES, coorganiser and trainer in the program Publish do not Perish, Survive the Stampede at CES since 2019, and coorganiser of the program Readings in Cultural and Linguistic Diversity addressed to the UC community. She developed her postdoc project The Library in Time: Libraries from the Print, Oral and Digital Paradigms at the CES. Former member of the Executive Board of the international disciplinary Repository e-LIS, present Editor for Portugal. Engaged with Open Access to scientific publishing. Degree in History, University of Porto (U.P.); Post-Graduation in Librarianship and Information Sciences, U.P.; Masters in Information Society and Knowledge, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, 2002-2004; Doctorship in Sociology, U.P., 2010, thesis on the uses and representations of the public library and the inscribed interactions of readers, space and the Internet. She taught in postgraduate courses of Information and Documentation Sciences, 1988-2006. Former specialized librarian in corporations and academic libraries director.