IMAGINE Workshops Series | Databases and Library Research.

Seminars and Workshops
Fri . 13 Nov . 14h30
Sala Maria de Sousa - ICS-ULisboa
IMAGINE Workshops Series | Databases and Library Research.
Organização: 
Ramon Sarró, ICS-ULisboa / Chair Holder IMAGINE

On 13th November, Pedro Estácio and Isabel Rebolho, Librarians, School of Arts and Humanities - ULisboa (FLUL-ULisboa) will lead the session Databases and Library Research, part of the IMAGINE Workshops Series – The Research Journey: From Proposal to Impact, organized by Ramon Sarró. This session will take place in person in Sala Maria de Sousa at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa.

Please register here (entrance is free).

Abstract:

How do we transform a broad theoretical intuition or an early research question into a rigorously mapped state of the art? Navigating the vast ecosystem of academic literature, digital archives, and institutional repositories requires more than a simple keyword search; it demands a critical cartography of knowledge production.

Led by Pedro Estácio and Isabel Rebolho, librarians from the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon, this session of the The Research Journey workshop series explores the practical, methodological, and conceptual dimensions of bibliographic research. Designed for researchers across the social sciences and humanities—and particularly tailored to the interdisciplinary landscape of the IMAGINE project—the session guides participants through the effective use of university library infrastructures, multidisciplinary indexing tools (such as the EBSCO Discovery Service, b-on, JSTOR, and Scopus), and open-access repositories.

Beyond technical navigation, the speakers will address how systematic database exploration shapes, constrains, and expands imaginative horizons in research design—turning the library not merely as a site of retrieval, but as an active partner in the architecture of scholarly inquiry.

Short Bios:

Since 2007, Pedro Estácio has served as the Head Librarian at the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon, where he has also coordinated the FLUL American Corner in partnership with the U.S. Embassy since 2011. Over a career spanning nearly three decades, he has led academic and museum libraries across Portugal, taught Information Science at the university level, and trained generations of information professionals.
Alongside his leadership in library management, Pedro is an active researcher at the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies. His work bridges the worlds of special collections, digital humanities, information literacy, and cultural history.
 
Isabel Rebolho holds a BA in Línguas e Literatuas Modernas - variante Estudos Portugueses e Ingleses from Universidade dos Açores, a Postgraduate Diploma in Library and Information Science from Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa, and a Diploma de Estudios Avanzados (DEA) in the doctorate programe “Bibliografía y Documentación Retrospectiva en Humanidades” from Universidad de Alcalá.
From 1993 to 2000 she began her professional career at Centro de Documentação da Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa. Since December 2000 she’s a librarian at the School of Arts and Humanities Library of the University of Lisbon (FLUL), joining the Reference, Research Data and Users Instruction Unit team.