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This essay on librarians’ roles uses some of the metaphors used to talk about books and the information world as its theoretical approach. The purpose is to justify the [...]

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The new ISI Web of Knowledge interface includes several changes in the way information is searched for and retrieved, which we examine. The new version enhances information [...]

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Library cooperation in Germany is a tradition that predates the emergence of internet. This is explained partly by the absence of a “classic” National Library, as a single [...]

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Since March 2007, a group of information professionals from the autonomous region of Madrid has been working voluntarily and independently on the creation of a professional [...]

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A 2007 survey and the views expressed by professionals active in the discussions generated by the Col·legi Oficial de Bibliotecaris-Documentalistes de Catalunya provide relevant [...]

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The application of the Cameo (Characterizations Automatically Made and Edited Online) bibliometric technique -one of the most advanced methodologies for the analysis and representation [...]

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Applying metric analysis to the information contained in patent documentation has become one of the principal techniques for modeling technology scenarios for government, [...]

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Publication of scientific journals is governed by a management model that controls multiple processes and roles, and affects the quality of the published contents. The advantages [...]

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Academic libraries are facing a range of new challenges in the 21st century. Models of scholarly communication are experiencing a revolution with the advent of open access, [...]

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A study was designed to determine how the degree programs in Information and library science available in 2000-2005 at the public universities of Madrid fit the labour market [...]

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The work is focused on the present and future features of our profession. Especially we are taken into account the modernization needs of Information and Library Science. [...]

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La biblioteca, espacio de cultura y participación. Coord. José-Antonio Gómez-Hernández, Pedro Quílez-Simón. Madrid: Anabad; Murcia: Consejería de Cultura, Juventud [...]

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The field of Physical Activity and Sport Sciences (PASS) in Spain requires activities that contribute to the improvement of its journals quality. Thus, journals may become [...]

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EL PRIMER SEMINARIO DE L’AULA JORDI RUBIÓ I BALAGUER tuvo lugar el pasado 24 de octubre en la Facultat de Biblioteconomia i Documentació de la Universitat de Barcelona [...]

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John Lake cuenta con una importante experiencia profesional en el campo de las bibliotecas públicas en Gran Bretaña, y desde 1987 colabora de modo permanente con las secciones [...]

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Maria-Antonia Carrato-Mena es subdirectora general de coordinación bibliotecaria del Ministerio de Cultura desde 2005. La Subdirección es responsable del desarrollo y la [...]

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Innovative Interfaces Inc., III, maker of the Innopac Millennium integrated system for public libraries, has introduced new products that are primarily related to user access [...]

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In recent years, governments have spent large amounts of money to computerize the public administration, but unfortunately they have forgotten to consult those most aware [...]

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The more structured is a scientific system and the greater the degree of integration of its entities the more efficient is its management. Curricula vitae (CV) of researchers [...]

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The accessibility of the internet contents are not limited nor to web pages or Xhtml format. In this work, is explained that pdf format is every time more and more used in [...]

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Understanding why information technology is accepted or rejected by society has become one of the most challenging issues for researchers in our field. In order to understand [...]

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In various contexts, a concern has been expressed, both implicitly and explicitly, that search engines in general, and Google in particular, may be using some system that [...]

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In 2006, the Municipal Libraries Network of L’Hospitalet (Barcelona) was invited to participate in a youth rehabilitation programme aimed at the social integration of problematic [...]

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The Subdirecció General of Biblioteques take part as trial in the project of change toward a new culture of management and production of contents that the Culture and Mass [...]

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The inclusion of Andalusia in the “Internet in the libraries” programme has allowed an increase in the number of libraries offering free internet access to their users [...]

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Self-archiving was studied in 3,495 papers in 109 core journals that published 50% of Valencia’s scientific production in biomedical and health sciences included in the [...]

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Public libraries are the entrance to a knowledge society with equal access for everyone and are also a suitable place for the social integration of many different groups of [...]

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A user-centred public library must focus its innovation in ways that will attract and satisfy users, building user loyalty. This relates not only to technological innovation [...]

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The evolution of information technology and its relationship with libraries is reviewed, from the end of the twentieth century to the present, with a discussion of libaries’ [...]

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Innovation does not only apply to technology. In public libraries, exploring and developing new links with the community, promoting new services, designing new models of internal [...]

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Actas de la conferencia sobre edición científica celebrada en Bruselas, 15-16 de febrero de 2007

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CELEBRAMOS EL E-LIS Meeting: “Enhancing the access to LIS literature”, Valencia, 13-14 de noviembre de 2007

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ISIS –the popular software developed at UNESCO– is a classic tool for database management. Nonetheless, in some cases the fact that it is freeware has made it seem less [...]

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Implementation of the e-government law guaranteeing Spanish citizens electronic access to public services (Ley para el Acceso Electrónico de los Ciudadanos a los Servicios [...]

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Practical recommendations are offered for usability testing to meet the needs of users who are blind, including a detailed explanation of best practices in planning, implementation, [...]

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Description of an ongoing project that aims to model the cultural heritage domain in an ontology, the Cantabria’s Heritage Ontology, lead by Fundación Marcelino Botín. [...]

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The development of an ontology for information control is proposed to manage visual images of and references to individuals in information management systems of television [...]

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The internet’s evolution toward a scenario of greater potential, with users increasingly involved in its development and management, demands a lower level of semantic ambiguity [...]

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The selection of a library management system is often affected by social, economic and political conditions that may result in an inappropriate choice for a library’s needs, [...]

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When the Latin America and the Caribbean Social Sciences Network of Virtual Libraries was created 10 years ago, it was an easy decision to work with open software because [...]

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We reviewed projects and outcomes in the implementation and use of free software in the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) libraries. Free software is a growing movement [...]

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University libraries manage not only commercial electronic resources, but also documents generated by research and educational activities at their own institutions. Libraries [...]

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Several indicators of production and participation in Spanish library and information science blogs are analysed, based on a sample of 46 personal and corporate weblogs. The [...]

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This longitudinal study of the development of Spain’s ISI scientific domain examines three key time periods: 1990-1995, 1996-2000 and 2001-2005, with the goal of describing [...]

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A practical approach to the development of ontologies from thesauri is presented, using the Methontology methodology, which permits the use of any language developed so far [...]

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One of the main consequences of publishing a program as libre (free, open source) software is that its source code is made available to anyone who wants to look at it. In [...]

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The paper shows the intrinsic difficulties found in the numerical simulation of industrial casting processes using finite element (FE) analysis. Up until now, uncoupled pure [...]

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 Algunos temas tratados en esta sección: Estudios de Biblioteconomía y Documentación, Hábitos de lectura

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Open source software is a key component in the technological development of Central and South American nations. In many cases, it is the only option that avoids the problems [...]

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Emergency and crisis management professionals work in complex conditions. Information management is a key factor in ensuring the efficiency of their work. In this area of [...]

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A picture is presented of the state of library and information professionals and disciplines in Spain. Statistical data are provided about both the number and type of Spanish [...]

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As we believe they are very interesting and enlighting, we collected the messages of several members of the email list IweTel on software licenses.

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In the past year and a half, we have seen a forceful consolidation of what is called the Mobile Web. Parallel to its development, an ample number of devices (mobile telephones, [...]

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Videoconferences, collaboration tools, or virtual meeting software have all been in use for years on the Internet and have steadily become more affordable and accessible. [...]

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The need for real usability testing analysis is discussed, since the assumption that classical usability heuristics are not capable to cope every possible web information [...]

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This insightful introduction to understanding mashups describes them as a kind of content aggregation that permits mixing several information sources or applications, in an [...]

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We describe the activities and concerns of public library professionals with respect to the digital press, beginning with comments made by librarians themselves in the forums [...]

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The report “Our libraries: where has all the cash gone?” by Tim Coates , which describes the situation of the public libraries in London, is the starting point for reflections [...]

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This is the second part of the analysis of the complex relationships between information technologies and information professionals in an environment in which, for the first [...]

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The relationship between information technologies and information professionals is becoming more complex in an environment in which, for the first time, standards and legislation [...]

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This short paper reviews the new model of content management that users are implementing with Web 2.0 tools. Usability and integration with social networks are noted as success [...]

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Details are presented from the study being carried out by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science about applications and enrollment by first-year students at Spanish [...]

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Recent developments in ontology research in the fields of Library and Information Science (LIS), Computer Sciences, and other related disciplines are examined through a bibliometric [...]

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Visibility in the Web of Science databases differs between the hard sciences and the social sciences, and between scholarship in English and in other languages. Quantitative [...]

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In recent years, information managers have seen increased opportunities as a result of the evolution of technology. However, as time goes by we can see that many professionals [...]

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We believe that librarians have a proactive attitude to give better services to their users, and to have a specific role in the present social context characterized by an [...]

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Many different situations and factors can be obstacles to the professional growth of those who manage information and documentation. Some proposals are presented to try to [...]

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A review of the state of digital media in Spain in 2007 considers the following aspects: redesign, new newspapers, use of video services, participation services, and free [...]

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A review of the history and development of OCLC, the large international organization for information and library services, reflects especially on OCLC’s history in Spain [...]

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The evolution of subject portals is described, from their origins in the late 1990s (the era of Yahoo directory, Altavista and other search engines that did not use link analysis) [...]

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Although the web has become, as a general rule, the main source of information and its use as a reference source is growing, disproportionate attacks on the reliability of [...]

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If there is a company that has transformed the World Wide Wide, it’s Google. Today, Google is much more than just a search engine. The Mountain View enterprise is known [...]

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The numeric data provided by search engine results pages is analyzed using correlation coefficients. The conclusion is that numeric data is reliable for studies that compare [...]

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The difficulty of gathering information from databases not indexed by search engines is the origin of what is called the deep or invisible Internet. In bibliographic and cataloguing [...]

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A workshop on the search engine market, organized by Atos Origin in Madrid, is described. The key players in Spain’s market, from Google to the national distance learning [...]

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The most recent conference of Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (DC-2007) was held in August 2007 in Singapore. The main developments in metadata, especially the Dublin [...]

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International projects for reforming and broadening the scope of the current technical guidelines and standards on thesauri are presented. The aims of these projects are to [...]

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A paradigm shift is taking place in cataloguing codes. After the massive success of simple information retrieval systems like Google, some cataloguers are calling for a simplification [...]

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Knowing the factors that search engines consider in their ranking results is key for webmasters. This knowledge is an advantage for a website’s owner, as the site improves [...]

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Starting with the concept of vaporware, we present a critical point of view about the Web Semantic Project. Both positive aspects and others that may only represent a new [...]

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Opac has been in the eye of the hurricane for a number of years, evolving to provide management programs with more functionality in terms of accessibility, understood as the [...]

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Current trends in natural language processing and information retrieval are briefly analysed to show their impace on the search engine market. Powerset and Hakia are highlighted [...]

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La Web semántica aún parece una promesa de futuro, y corre el riesgo de pasarle como a muchos jugadores de fútbol, que se quedan en promesas y luego nunca llegan a nada. [...]

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A semantic browser is any tool for browsing semantic content, or for browsing content based on semantic data. Other systems exist that let users make use of Semantic Web content [...]

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The profitability of information and documentation services, whether public or private, is discussed, with special attention to the relationship with the organization that [...]

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Advanced information services developed in Spanish public libraries are examined, as well as some of the information resources widely available online. The author calls for [...]

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The development of the European Digital Library, a project that will give European citizens access to our cultural heritage, raises many questions about this project’s compatibility [...]

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Distributing news summaries by means of content syndication significantly improved access to current information, but has had only moderate acceptance despite optimistic predictions. [...]

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Books and the public libraries that house them are immersed in a society that is undergoing continuous transformation and are influenced by the growing commercialization of [...]

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University studies of Library and Information Sciences (LIS) in Spain are experiencing a setback in the number of students enrolled. This also happens in other disciplines, [...]

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This paper recovers the original spirit of the continuous crack approaches, where displacements jumps across the crack are smeared over the affected elements and the behaviour [...]

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In the audiovisual field, mystery journalism has historically been considered as a smaller and disdained gender, reduced to a ridiculous situation by the lack of absolute [...]

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Movies are one of the objects of study for Social Psychology because they are not only art or industry; they are a way of socialization. Therefore, movies show behaviour models, [...]

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The analysis of the educational function of television should not be strictly limited to the contents of the programmes, but it should also examine the way in which these [...]

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«The television magnifying glass» is a multimedia project for secondary school students that use a Web site to offer advice and proposals for learning to watch television. [...]