em que a cidadania não se constrói apenas a partir do acesso material aos conteúdos informacionais, devendo compreender também a capacidade de interpretação da realidade e de construção de significados nos âmbitos individual e coletivo, a identificação e análise dessas quatro dimensões da competência informacional permite clarificar aspectos complexos da informação e da competência. Palavras-chaveCompetência. Dimensões da competência. Informação. Competência informacional. Profissionais da informação. AbstractThis article aims to develop reflections on the dimensions of information literacy, with focus on educational and philosophical aspects, trying to show some developments that now present themselves as a key issue: which dimensions make information literacy an essential issue to the foundations of information science? Technical, aesthetic, ethic and political dimensions are analyzed from Rios ' (2006) theoretical framework, as well as from the research already started and published. The technical dimension is related to the skills and tools to find, evaluate and appropriately use the information that is needed, while the aesthetic dimension derives from the subjectivity implicit in the reception and transmission of informational content, since every action carries a personal content, a specific way of expression, which is configured as an aesthetic form. Because the production, dissemination and use of information are closely linked to the involvement of individuals in a community, these processes invariably assume an ethical and political aspect. Being ethical, the political activity has an educational function: the transformation of men into citizens. Therefore, as citizenship is not built only from the material access to informational content, also including the ability to interpret reality and construct meaning, the identification and analysis of these four dimensions of information literacy allows clarifying complex aspects of Information and Competence.

This dissertation purposes an interpretation of the short stories that constitute the last stage of Luigi Pirandello's artistic production, followed by the translation of the most important narratives inside the context of this work, some of them unpublished in Portuguese. Our approach is based on the treatment given to the tensions and contradictions of the subjectivity, that here tends to desintegration or waste in the Nature, and its relevancy for the modern aesthetics, both under formal and thematic prisms. The essay is formed by four chapters, discussing the general subject from different works: C'è Qualcuno che Ride, Soffio, Un'Idea and La Casa dell'Agonia, beside the novel Uno, Nessuno e Centomila, privileged as convergence point of the Sicilian writer's main themes and procedures. We attempt to show how the utopic will of regression to a conciousness primitive condition, that permeates these texts as main tension component, tends to definitely confirm the reality of the social relationships loss, subject chased by the author all over his work.

Recent years have witnessed the increasing interest in studies focused on information literacy, which is reflected mainly in the number of publications on the subject and goes beyond the fields of Librarianship and Information Science. The purpose of this paper is, therefore, to offer an outlook, historical and conceptual, of international researches on information literacy, trying to show some of the different ramifications which the discussion on the subject has exhibited in past few years in countries where its process of legitimation is already well established, in order to illuminate possible areas of research and action for the librarian professional. This research indicates that if the initial studies on this topic tended to be devoted to conceptualize it, discussing its relevance and determine the skills and knowledge related to information literacy, in the last decade can be noticed a proliferation of researches aimed at describing initiatives or proposing models in areas beyond the usual field such as Medical Sciences, Law, Politics or Computers, among others. The first results of this research refer to a philosophical and educational perspective of information literacy, which suggests the need for deeper understanding and characterization of information literacy in four dimensions: technical, aesthetic, ethical and political, serving both to competence as to information.

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