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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 exploratory paper analyzes the definition of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the role played by data to feed decisional systems, bearing in mind that a library does not store data, but identifies the relationships between them and performs a constant work of verification. Evidences the pathology of intelligent systems in today's world and the lack of human ethics, with examples that warn about it. Indicate how Artificial Intelligence will affect future jobs, and how it relates to culture and libraries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper studies the manuscripts of the Ducal Library of Medinaceli. First of all, we give a general vision of the collection, put together in the 18th Century in certain special rooms in the Library. To achieve this, we make use of its catalogues, kept today in the Library of Fundación Bartolomé March, (in Palma de Mallorca). Secondly, we detail the methodology followed in the reconstruction of this part of the collection, determining the origin of the volumes and identifying and locating some of the currently existing copies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

e purpose of this paper is to offer an unexplored approach to the studies of the old printed books in Argentinian libraries: the presence of medieval and humanistic manuscript fragments used as binding material. We will offer a typology of in situ fragments according to their function through some exemplary cases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study analyzes the scientific productivity on library buildings and spaces based on the analysis of the publications indexed in Scopus and LISTA in the period 2010-2020. The data extracted allow us to draw the general panorama of research works on this subject. The results include 305 papers pertinent to the research topic, related to 284 authors, 120 journals, 304 institutions, 46 countries and 9 languages. The most productive years are 2015 and 2016. The topics are grouped according to these 4 categories, which have emerged from the analysis itself: spaces, design and construction, remodeling, and trends. The conclusions show an outstanding scientific productivity on buildings and library spaces, quantitatively abundant and at the same time stable with fairly constant figures throughout the period. In the authorship variety and a certain dispersion can be appreciated. Co-authorship is present in 58 % of the works. 91.4 % of the publication sources are scientific journals, 6.5 % conference proceedings and 1.9 % book chapters. Scientific production is concentrated in university-level institutions. The variety of perspectives on which the theme of library buildings and spaces is addressed indicates that it is consolidated as an area of research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Spanish university libraries have had to adapt their services to the virtual environment after the classroom-based teaching lockdown in March 2020 due to Covid-19. Given the possibility of a greater virtual dimension of learning and teaching during the next academic year, these library services should be improved. This paper analyzes how university libraries are strengthening their support for online learning and are progressively being integrated into the virtual campus, as well as the actions that are necessary to enhance these services and the main difficulties perceived by their librarians. For this purpose, a sample of professionals from university libraries was interviewed, and the research literature on this subject was also reviewed to identify the main international experiences that can be considered as benchmarks for improving virtual library services. Both the research literature and the librarians interviewed agree on two aspects: the need to increase collaboration with other university departments and the wide scope for improvement in the integration of the library into online learning, which is currently limited. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to evince some indications of the development of the sermon of Córdoba (Argentina, 17th to 19th centuries), mainly the Jesuit one, to account for the historicity of the rhetorical procedures and the characteristics of its writing. This kind of texts, belonging to the sermon structural tradition, have stamped rhetorical, linguistic, and discursive traces on the way of diffusing ideas, a clerical paradigm that has survived for a long time. In this model, the Jesuit libraries played a central role, because they promote the circulation of the book and nurture the composition of sermons in frank intellectual connection with the linguistic, literary, and doctrinal heritage of the Christian world of those times. The enquiry into the degree of literary elaboration of the discourse allows us to recognize the defining features of the sermon, despite the historical evolution of contexts and audiences, and to locate the genre on the long path of rhetoric towards its transformation into the art of discourse, such as we know it today. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article reflects on the connection between libraries and peace. Libraries depend on the peace in order to exist, develop and survive. In turn, libraries contribute to build and preserve the peace. The first part of this paper analyses the emergence of internationalist and pacifist movements during the 19th century and its relation to the modern advent of both the documentation science and the library science. Next, this paper discusses the role of the libraries in the consolidation of the peace as conceived of by the UNESCO and inquires into the different contemporary conceptions around the concept of peace. Finally, the role of the libraries in the construction of the peace is explored. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes two popular libraries in the southwest province of Buenos Aires, Argentina--the Bernardino Rivadavia of Bahía Blanca Library, founded in 1882, and the Domingo F. Sarmiento de Tres Arroyos Library, inaugurated in 1899--and the creation of their respective children's sections in 1925 and 1928. This paper looks at the formation of these children's sections within the context of expanding public education and child readership in the province. By the end of the 1920s, a verifiable process of expansion and diversification of reading groups had unfolded that was both a product of, and, at the same time, an incentive for further library development and its related transformations. These institutions introduced modifications in order to respond to the growing demand and tried to play an active role in the configuration of a new readership, both by regulating behaviors and reading spaces as well as experience and tastes of the users. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: Fthe diagnosis of reading habits in the young population represents a vital tool for the design of solutions, aimed at improving said practices. Objective: to reveal the behavior of reading habits in young people in the city of Santa Clara, comparing it with similar studies in other countries to establish the parameters that must condition the establishment of policies and actions that contribute to making reading an option leisure and for personal and social development. Materials and methods: The research has a descriptive cut; it is based on the application, through the PAPI procedure (face-to-face + paper), of a questionnaire to a sample of 1138 young people, between 15 and 35 years of age, during the 2019. Results and discussion: among the main results are the recognition of the influence of the globalization of culture, technological development and the media on the reading habits of these young people, by presenting similar procedures, to surveys carried out in other contexts, and evidence of the need to provide initiatives to encourage reading among young people, tempered by a prolific use of audiovisual media and social networks. Conclusions: the work shows the need to apply this type of studies in the universe of users that the library serves before designing policies and strategies to promote reading and validates how these serve as a basis for establishing procedures and generalizing them according to the potentialities of any organization of information. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Botanical Garden located in what once was the Murcia "Instituto Provincial de Segunda Enseñanza", founded in 1837, is one of the few remaining gardens of the historical high schools of Spain. At that time, the school was considered to be one of the best in the country and it still keeps some of the specimens that were used to teach botany. During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries professors of Natural History and Agriculture developed the activity of their departments in connection with this space, giving way to an excellent collection of plants and a valuable set of scientific and teaching materials. Today the gardens are part of a public park where the activities carried out are very different from the teaching functions for which they were originally conceived, to the extent that the plants are even at risk. This paper seeks to explore both the history of this educational space and the intrahistory of the activities carried out in it in relation to the teaching of sciences and the staff involved. It also aims to safeguard the heritage of the educational institutions of the Region of Murcia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the content of the private library of the Dutch humanist Johannes Fungerius, a remarkable bibliophile, consisting of about 1100 titles, according to the public auction document of them, verified in Leiden in 1613. The set of theological books and especially the copies of the Sacred Scripture will be studied, in order to check if they responded to a Calvinist profile of the beginnings. Everything seems to indicate that they were the books of a northern humanist, a reformed Christian of moderate tendency, with broad intellectual interests. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a critique of the interpretation of the results and some other methodological issues of the 2019 Spanish report on reading Barómetro de hábitos de lectura y compra de libros en España. It is argued that both the methodology and interpretation are essential in any field of knowledge in order to reach valid conclusions that are in accordance with reality. The critique depicts a different scenario regarding the conclusions of the analyzed Spanish report. The categories used for the frequency of reading must be reconfigured. Otherwise, it is difficult not to conclude that people in Spain are avid readers (only by reading at least once a month). On the other hand, if three out of four people in Spain do not use the library, the optimistic conclusion regarding the evaluation rating of the few people who do use libraries should be revised to include the information about those who do not use them. Also, the poor attendance and scarce interest in such use are justified by the fact that public libraries only cover 9.2% of the total reading by the population. Thereafter, two ideas are presented: the first, based on the personal experience of the author of this work, relates to how the evaluation and use of libraries in Spain could be improved by comparison with libraries in other countries; the second suggests that carrying out studies of non-users could be interesting, due to the fact that three out of four people in Spain do not use the library. In conclusion, the misinterpretation of and the definitions of the methodology in the analyzed Spanish report are related to the Pygmalion effect from the field of Pedagogy and Education. Librarians and researchers should be conscious of the real situation of both libraries and reading in Spain, beyond the optimistic conclusions of the 2019 Spanish report on reading. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper exposes the advantages for library’s, archives’ and museums’ catalogs of being present in Wikipedia, one of the websites with the greatest number of visits, by providing users with data that allow them to navigate from Wikipedia articles to the aforementioned catalogs. For this, catalogs must have at least permanent URLs, being highly recommended http URIs as required by Linked Open Data. For that, it is necessary to link the descriptions contained in these catalogs with the Wikidata items, Wikipedia knowledge base and source for the control of Wikipedia authorities. The use of the Mix’n’match tool to facilitate links from Wikidata to LAM catalogs is described, exemplifying it in the Virtual Polygraph Library. In this way, LAM catalogs can overcome obsolete closed OPACs and become open catalogs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a brief look at the evolution of university libraries and a change to a new library model named "Learning and Research Resource Center - CRAI (in Spanish, Centro de Recursos para el Aprendizaje y la Investigación"). Here, the paper shows the results obtained on a diagnosis conducted in Universidad de la Havana's library network ( in Spanish, Red de Bibliotecas de la Universidad de La Habana); we propose a series of strategic lines to work and actions to transform this network into a CRAI, and finally, the paper proposes a CRAI model for Universidad de La Habana. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyses the work of the American librarian and educator Melvil Dewey (1851-1931). First, the paper examines the origin and structure of the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) and his contribution to organize libraries and categorize human knowledge. Secondly, the article underlines Dewey's involvement in other reforms than transformed the conventions to measure, store, and catalog books in libraries--mainly his interest in employing the decimal metric system. Finally, the paper explains how Dewey's projects were product of his interest to improve public education by using clearer and more efficient methods and procedures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the uses of the social network Facebook by popular libraries in La Plata, Berisso and Ensenada (Argentine). After a bibliographic review on the subject, we expose the methodological procedures employed to identify which institutions have an account on this social network and then the main uses they make of the tool in question. The uses by the libraries are analyzed according to several variables: The number of followers, the frequency and type of posts, and finally, the quantity and quality of the comments, the characteristics of the interaction with the environment, among others. In the results, a quantitative analysis of the established variables, shows an atypical case, who presents higher number of followers, greater frequency and number of postings and more interaction with the members of its community. The conclusion shows the late arrival of these libraries to Facebook, which places them in a learning period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The experience of the Library of the Faculty of Law of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) is presented, where patrons use tablets to access books that have been acquired in electronic format. In recent years, there has been an increasing number of titles that are being distributed in paper with an electronic copy attached (duo). These are characterized by the indivisibility of the pack and the increase in their price. This system encourages both the individual and private use of the copies by using a code associated with the user's profile. The creation of a specific system based on the use of a tablet in order to provide the user public access to these copies is described. The system duplicates the number of copies available to users. In addition to access to e-books, a selection of electronic resources and programs previously offered by the University has been included in the tablets. The tablets are also configured for teaching uses, both for seminars and exams. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A bibliometric and thematic approach of the journal Anales de Documentación (AD) is presented (1998-2007) on account of the celebration of its tenth anniversary. Productivity, collaborations patterns, research areas, visibility and journal impact are analysed. AD has published 153 research papers presented by 176 authors belonging to 56 institutions. AD presents a gender equality, with an institutional participation of 12 different countries. The main themes analyzed are Internet and Information and Communication Technologies, Library Science, information management and knowledge management, evaluation and quality of services, information resources and access to them and scientific publications. AD has received 54 citations corresponding to 64 authors, 30.7% papers being cited. Because of that, AD has reached a relevant position in the ranking of Library and Information Science Spanish journals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nowadays, many Library & Information Science (LIS) professionals still do not know their precise role in the development of the Semantic Web, especially those aspects concerning ontologies. This paper intends to contribute clarifying this issue in a twofold manner: 1) identifying main trends, issues and problems concerning ontology research; and 2) identifying possible contributions from the LIS area to the development of ontologies for the semantic web. To do so, a thorough literature review based on searches in international databases (LISA, SCI, SSCI, ACM Digital Library and IEEE Explore) is carried out. Then, the paper presents a discussion of the main trends, issues and problems concerning ontology research. Recommendations of possible LIS contributions to the development of ontologies for the semantic web are finally presented. [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]

Libraries and Web Analytics: a Privacy Matte. This paper describes the current web monitoring techniques, emphasizing on how these tools handle the data privacy, with the purpose of establishing guidelines for the adoption of web analytic tools in libraries. Hereby, it presents a comparative analysis of privacy in web analytic software: Google Analytics and Piwik, concluding that libraries aware of privacy matters should use Piwik before Google Analytics, for the blurry Google privacy policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a case study regarding the features and the usage perception of the Digital Library "Evaluation of Effectiveness in Health Promotion", developed as a documentary resource for the Latin-American virtual course on the same topic. The library was composed of one collection. The methodology used is grounded on the principals of usability tests of digital libraries' websites where users (students) develop processes and give feedback regarding the environment. Usage was measured taking into account these four factors: Effectiveness, Efficiency, Satisfaction and Usefulness. Results showed high perception of efficiency and effectiveness when carrying out browsing and searching activities. The only aspect showing difficulties has to do with the usage of the functions "Help" and "Preferences" in this course's web environment. Students reported a high degree of satisfaction with the use of the library, being the contents, the order and the searching ease, the aspects perceived with the highest value. Since digital libraries are relatively new resources, the need of presenting this resource at the beginning of the course to reach a higher rate of use and exploitation was evident. This experience suggests that the distribution of ex professo collections through digital libraries can be an effective way to provide learning resources to students and other users. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper describes the fundamental problems that libraries face in terms of long-term preservation of digital information, demonstrating the need to take action to protect the digital heritage against threats to which it is exposed. A summary of the most important technological solutions is performed, which are points of reference in terms of what is being done in the field of digital preservation systems. In general, it is valued the current state of digital long-term preservation in libraries and major software alternatives [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Chile the results of the Transparency and Access to Information Law adopted in 2009 have shown the need to improve records management practices in public institutions. However, there is still a lack of formally trained and experienced records managers and archivists to lead the process. For this reason many entities recruit librarians for these jobs, librarianship being the nearest available professional profile. This paper is an introduction to records management and archives aimed at Chilean librarians who are approaching this field for the first time especially in state institutions. In the text I try to make a "conceptual bridge" from the logic of librarianship towards the logic of records/archives management, highlighting particular issues that may be sources of misunderstanding among the "librarian/archivists" because they are new concepts foreign to the standard librarian's world view. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Libraries in Spain, like other institutions, have been affected by the economic crisis. The effects and their consequences are studied in this paper, based on available library statistics. A significant decrease in expenditure for materials, the downgrading of collections, library closures and a growing increase in usage were observed in 2012. Changes in content consumption habits are also highlighted, with special attention to adaptations to digital change. Facts 2012: the operating costs of Spanish libraries amounted to 990.1 million euros (+0.54% compared to 2010); if the increase in the CPI is taken into account, the cost increase is actually 5%. Personnel expenses represent 66.9%. Public libraries (PLs) reported 594 fewer employees than in 2010 and there were 154 fewer in academic libraries (-5.6% and -2.6%, respectively). The PLs incorporated 3.5 million volumes (-31.2% compared to 2010). Visits to libraries: Total 216.4 million (in PLs +20.5% / 2010); 401 libraries (20%) did not have computers for public use and 46.5% had no opac yet. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]