Ana Lúcia Terra

Associate Researcher

Ana Lúcia Terra is an assistant professor at the Department of Philosophy, Communication and Information, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra, where she is the director of the bachelor's degree in Information Science. She teaches on the MA and PhD in Information Science. She was a senior lecturer at the Polytechnic Institute of Porto, from 2002 to 2020, where she was the coordinator of the bachelor's degree in Library and Information Sciences and Technologies, director of the master's degree in Business Information, among other management positions. She is the elected chair of the Spain-Portugal Chapter of ISKO (International Society for Knowledge Organization), since November 2019. She is a board member of the Bobcatsss Association, since January 2021. In 2009, she received the Raul Proença prize, sponsored by the General Directorate for Book, Archives and Libraries. Her main research interests include Information Behaviour, namely Personal Information Management (PIM), Information Behaviour in Everyday Contexts and Information Literacy; Knowledge Organisation, particularly in Institutional Repositories and Information Management, with a focus on Organisational E-mail Management.