Manuela Barreto Nunes is an invited professor in Information Science at the University of Coimbra and a researcher at CEIS20, the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of the University of Coimbra, where she coocordinates de research group of Digital Humanities. She is a member of the scientific committee of PNL2027, the portuguese National Reading Plan (Ministry of Education). Furthermore, she is a member of BAD, the Portuguese Association of Librarians, Archivists and Information and Documentation Professionals, where she was elected to the northern regional delegation board between 2008 and 2023. She is a member of the scientific council of the journals EduSer, Cadernos BAD and Boletim Cultural de Vila Verde. She is the general cocoordinator of AquaLibri, the Digital Library of the Cávado Region and she coordinates the public libraries of the municipality of Vila Verde. She concluded her doctoral studies in Documentation at the University of Granada in 2003, having studied the websites of portuguese and Spanish public libraries. Between 2003 and 2017 she was an assistant professor at Portucalense University, period during which she was the director of the University Library (2004-2017), an elected member of the scientific committee and research manager at the Portucalense Law Center (Instituto Jurídico Portucalense). She also belonged to several academic and administrative committees. While at Portucalense University, she founded the post-graduation in Information Science and later the master course in Information Science, having coordinated both courses. She also cofounded and coordinated the master in Education and Libraries. She supervised 40 master thesis and 3 doctoral thesis and is currently supervising four doctoral thesis, two master dissertations and a pos-doctoral study. She has more than fifty publications, in books, scientific journals and conference proceedings, but also in professional and general journals and newspapers, for one of her major concerns is the communication of science to the general public. Her main research interests lie in the area of Information Science and Digital Humanities, specially public and school librarianship, documentary and bibliographic heritage, collections management and digital libraries.