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The eighteenth century books from the collection of the old digital library of the Library University Seville are analyzed to locate the parts made with decorated papers, in order to classify and describe them according to the proposals of specialized literature. For this, the records included in the repository of the digital collection are recovered, the digital reproductions of the books are visualized, the parts with decorated papers are identified and described following the decorated papers classification model, previously elaborated, based on the research of Professor Carpallo Bautista. The model is made up of 6 techniques and their variants. Of the more than 6.700 records from the 18th century in the collection of the digital ancient collection, 511 include decorated papers in their bindings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

El objetivo es analizar cómo el texto fundacional y el reglamento de la Biblioteca Pública de Buenos Aires interpelaron a los usuarios y cuál fue la reacción del público una vez que la institución abrió sus puertas. Por lo tanto, se rastreó la tensión entre un paradigma bibliotecológico que apelaba al fomento del saber y al bien público como objetivo institucional y las demandas de los usuarios por el horario restringido de la biblioteca. Se analizaron desde la historia de la cultura impresa las representaciones de la lectura y de la sociabilidad letrada al leer la correspondencia entre Bernardino Rivadavia y Luis José de Chorroarín, el reglamento de la Biblioteca Pública de Buenos Aires y los periódicos porteños. Se concluyó que la negativa en ampliar el horario de atención al público conspiró con el acceso a la biblioteca de los empleados. The objective is to analyze how the founding text and regulations of the Buenos Aires Public Library challenged users and what the public's reaction was once the institution opened its doors. Therefore, we traced the tension between a library paradigm that appealed to the promotion of knowledge and the public good as an institutional objective and the demands of users due to the restricted library hours. From the history of printed culture, the representations of reading and the sociability of the reader when reading the correspondence between Bernardino Rivadavia and Luis José de Chorroarín, the regulations of the Buenos Aires Public Library and the Buenos Aires newspapers were analyzed. It was concluded that the refusal to extend the opening hours to the public conspired with the access to the library of the employees. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes different strategies that can be applied when upgrading a digital repository from DSpace 6 or earlier to DSpace 7. An analysis of this software is made, with emphasis on the architectural and functional changes of the different versions. Then, it is described the experience obtained from the upgrade to DSpace 7 of the CIC DIGITAL repository, detailing the path followed through the process and highlighting the conflicts that arose during this process, related to the upgrade of the source code and the software platform as well as to the migration of data to the new schema proposed by DSpace 7. Finally, it is reflected on the different strategies of adoption of this software for the different scenarios in which a digital repository that intends to face a migration of similar characteristics may find itself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Metadata is a precise focus of academic research and professional practice within the disciplines of information, documentation and librarianship. This article is an exploration of its conceptualisation. It introduces the subject from a high-level perspective and discusses the main research problems and applied challenges. The paper discusses the different conceptions of its meaning, origin and evolution as a topic within the field of data and information, as well as identifying the essential characteristics. Metadata can be understood as both a process and a product, being the result of both human action and automated processes. Because of the central role they assume today as a support for knowledge - they embody evidence - it is necessary for researchers and practitioners in the field to reflect critically on what our practices are with them and the systems in which these elements are embedded. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Spanish Regional Development Agencies (ADRs in their Spanish acronym) are organisms whose purpose is to promote the development of their regions, including direct support to firms established in their territories. This paper presents the results of a study conducted by means of a questionnaire whose objective was to determine the instruments and practices related to Competitive Intelligence (CI) developed by Spanish ADRs: the systems created, informative typologies and platforms used, functions of the IC units, training processes, personnel, membership of networks, and systems of promotion. Nine agencies responded. The findings point to the sparsity of official structures concerning Competitive Intelligence, although there do exist organisms in which Intelligence policies are more advanced. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper a brief analysis of the 35 National Libraries' websites of the Americas is presented, considering both the main website features and the online services provided. These services have been categorised to ease the statistical data processing. The results highlight the relevance of the Web as a platform from which National Libraries can make public their collections and get closer to their users through online services, but they show as well a great gap between them regarding the technological solutions adopted and the range of services provided. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the current context, in which universities and their faculty must adapt their roll to legislative requirements linked to increased research, libraries play a crucial role in responding to this demand, reinforcing the provision of specific services to support Researchers. It is in this sense that the present article aims to provide an overview of which are the research support services provided by the libraries linked to REBIUN. With this intention, a survey was conducted among libraries's directors of these universities, and those results are offered in this paper. Thus, this article presents and analyzes the data collected, with a special focus on services focused on training, counseling and helping to disseminate the results of researchers. Regarding to principal findings, there is a global behavior among libraries in issues related to use and training on information resources. But there is a huge difference between libraries when the services to be offered are related to the integration of library services into researchers's team. This, perhaps, is due to the structure of the university where the library is acting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents an analysis of proposals about library building and facilities identified in the electoral programs published by the Political Parties competing in regional elections during the economic crisis in Castilla-La Mancha. The objective was to evaluate how these proposals reflect social and political interest in public libraries. Despite the digital dematerialization of library services in nowadays hybrid environment, the projection of the public library as a service to society requires a physical presentiality that supports its current role as an agora, a place for socio-intellectual exchange and training for its community. This should be translated into a social interest in library spaces that can be tested through its presence in the electoral programs, which reflect the issues that shape the political agenda. The work concludes a trend that prioritizes the reform and continuity of the libraries rather than projects for new libraries. It is also found that the programs have a very traditional view of on-site services. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The professional and technical aspects associated with the management of research data have advanced: technical infrastructures or descriptive metadata schemes. There are others, related with the research field, which are still under study due to the need now to make them available as open data. This paper makes a bibliographical review and reference web sites that allow to identify the latest advances and research trends on issues related with research data. Some of them need to be addressed urgently in our opinion and experience in this field: data publication in journals, study of the behaviour of authors and methods to measure the impact of the data. The aim of this work is to highlight the outstanding challenges in a moment when there is a disruptive change in its exchange given the amount of data available as open data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Digital reading development has reached turning point. In view of the recent data, the edition of electronic books has dropped for the second consecutive year in 2014, while paper books production has increased (MECD, 2015). The last report from the Fundación Telefónica (2015) points out that six out ten Spanish people prefer printed books instead of the digital ones. This article presents the symptoms of a possible change of tendency in digital books. There is a need for a new digital ecosystem of digital texts production and reception. Its major focus should be the social reading, understood as a space for reception, interpretation, and creation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is an abstract of the dissertation Profitability of a library using social media and highlights research carried out in order to demonstrate the profitability of libraries that make use of social media both to offer products and services to the users in line with their expectations and needs and to deliver different types of ROI. A set of social media indicators to measure the evolution and results has also been established. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]