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The purpose of this paper is to present the results of the archival organization and description process of the 1964-2002 INCORA Antioquia Land Acquisition Program. The Research Center at Escuela Interamericana de Bibliotecología (the Inter-American School of Library Science) provided resources to fund the process in 2013. At first, the program had proposed and approved the writing of an "institutional and organizational archival history of the 1961-2003 INCORA Antioquia land acquisition program documentation has produced ", but because of administrative reasons of the project and they transferred the documentation to the city of Bogota. Therefore, it was impossible to write the history of the Institution. INCODER received all of the documentation of the archive corresponding to this program satisfactorily, and INCODER conducted this after an archival organization and description process pursuant to the guidelines the Nation's General Archives established for internal control investigations and periodical documental transference. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a bibliometric analysis of Colombian scientific production, which SciELO has indexed in its citation index database. Some of the objectives were to determine the production volume and the degree of collaboration, to identify the most productive Colombian universities and determine whom the academic peers for scientific and technological research were in Colombia. The study analyzed 15302 documents published in 12 years. The study found a noticeable increase in production with a 0.75 degree of global collaboration. Public universities are the universities that most published highlighting Universidad Nacional y la Universidad de Antioquia. This work also confirmed an increase in international collaboration, especially, cooperation with countries in the Latin American region. Spain is Colombia's main academic partner. The study found unnoticeable increase in production with a 0.75 degree of global collaboration. Public universities are the universities that most published highlighting Universidad Nacional y la Universidad de Antioquia. This work also confirmed an increase an international collaboration, especially cooperation countries in the Latin American region. Spain is Colombia's main academic partner. There is the bias in pro of publications in Colombian magazines. The study confirm that Healthcare Sciences are the greatest nucleus scientific production in Colombia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper submits the results of a research named "Work Market Profile of Information Professionals and its suitability for information professionals in Colombia in the 21st century". It is a mixed approach research that applied documentary analysis, an interview, a survey and a focus group. These techniques enabled us to determine the main work market trends which include a strong incorporation of technological infrastructure and the demands of a developing a digital culture, designing and providing specialized information products and services with a high added value, a managerial conception of institutions related to the transfer of information, the creation and organization of library and documentary conception aimed at the user and at the development of research in the field. These are trends that require the development of skills as creativity, flexibility and imagination, which allow the development of new products and innovative service management. Although this research concludes that there is a correspondence between professional training and the requirements of the work market, it also warns that it is necessary according to the voices of alumni and employees, to strengthen ICTs, management, Analysis and Organization of Information, Services, Document management, and in research and teaching related aspects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The legal deposit, in addition to be the basis for the national collection constitution, is a sine qua non requirement for creating national bibliography, that is, the creation of the bibliographical records of every single new publication. Colombia has, since the 19th century, a regulation commanding editors around the country to submit to a governmental institution some copies of their editorial production; not being this the only ruling, since during the 20th century, many rulings were issued trying to regulate that action, some more successful than others. That is the case of Law 44 of 1993 and Decree 460 of 1995. This reflection paper analyzes that law to show how it is still insufficient to keep national bibliographical control. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]