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This paper presents a descriptive comparative correlational study, which analyzes documents to know professors - officials’ production in 6 years in physical education and Body Language Didactics in Spain in journals belonging to Web of Science and Scopus. The sample included 124 faculty members, 35 professors worked in the field of body language didactics and 89 in physical education. Regarding the objective of highlighting the average ratio of articles per professor, the study found that the rank ranges from six to fifteen. In the distribution by fields of knowledge, physical education has a higher h index. The mean of authors signing per article ranges from four to seven. The journals in which Spanish professors mostly publish are Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise and Archivos de Medicina del Deporte (Sports Medical Files) in the field of physical education. In body language didactics, they publish in (the international journal of medicine and science of physical activity and sports) Revista Internacional de Medicina y Ciencias de la Actividad Física y del Deporte. Results show that h index average values are much higher in Scopus. Finally, this paper concludes that Scopus is a necessary valid tool for Sports Science researchers, for it compliments Web of Science.

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 Haba); 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.

This paper presents an outlook on the research projects regarding the study of information needs and the information search process of high school teachers. Moreover, this paper initially describes some quantitative indicators, such as time, geographic distribution, thematic areas, types of information sources, methods, study strategies or tools, and language. Secondly, it presents the content of the research developed. Additionally, it discloses the objects of study that show the trends identified in the research projects, from the decade in which they started to be conducted until the present day, in order to determine the most researched phase: information needs or information behavior. Finally, some general considerations are presented as conclusions.

The findings from a paper-based review of the joint participation of professors and librarians in the development of informational skills of university students are described in this paper. Likewise, the differences regarding how both of them recognize the concept of ''informational competencies'' are presented. For such research, a comprehensive review of the related literature was carried out and the retrieved documents published in relation to previously established topics, especially in Mexico and Latin America, were analyzed too. The literature highlights the collaboration professor-librarian and its impact in student’s learning; nonetheless, one factor stands out in the results of the research, the papers published by faculty members reporting their experiences on the topic are minimum, librarians are the big contributors. This study is framed in a research carried out for obtaining a Ph.D. degree.

The environmental health subject has a significant growth in the international scientific production. The aim of this study was to characterize the generation of scientific papers in the field of environmental health for Latin America, over a period of 10 years. The methodology involved the use of bibliometric techniques. The results show that there are 1219 documents on the topic. Of these, 83.23% were produced by Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Chile and Colombia. The preferred language of publication is English, with 81.30% of the items, Spanish and Portuguese share equal figures, with a presence of 9,11%. The typology found indicates that 72.11% of the items were journal articles, 14.27% conference proceedings and 10.05% review articles. It is emphasized that all countries produce more than 60%. Other indicators show that Chile has the best average in citations per document, 8.02%.

This paper presents a characterization of the archival science training processes conducted at Escuela Interamericana de Bibliotecología at University of Antioquia. It starts reviewing the theoretical referents that support the overall development of archival science and training in particular in the geographical context of Latin America and Colombia. This characterization makes it possible to visualize the maturity of the program and the training-challenges.

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.

It is made a review of researchs and documents focused in the relation between photography and collective memory trough photoarchives of human rights, and the function that have the museums, documentation centers or memory places where they are. For the material's selection it was attended to their availability in indexed databases with prestige: Web of Science, Scielo, EbscoHost, DOAJ, and Dialnet, with descriptors as photograph and memory, photoarchive, collective memory and museums, and papers between 2006 and 2015. The material is organized in function of a series of questions about the conservation of a photoarchive and its role in collective memory of vulnerable population. The memory places reflects a tension between political interests and the vulnerable population's need for expression and for to testify about the human's right's violations. The photographic material organization set up difficults respect the conservation and classification with the quantity of digital images that are produced today.

This paper aims to explore the changes in the conceptualization of Information Public Policies that provide new tools in the treating and diffusion of public information. A qualitative change is produced in the ICT programs: From models based in the access to technology to other based in citizen participation in the re-use of public information and decision making. Thus, Information Policies in the present are being made with the constant presence of the citizenship. Open Government and Open Parliament initiatives are being developed in many countries and they are an effective proof of the public participation in information treatment, designing visualization tools to access and re-use of the public content. A review of the main Open Government and Open Parliament initiatives is performed as an evidence of citizen participation. Principal cases are explained, focusing on the Spain activities and its necessity to boost its initiatives in an institutionally way.

In this article, we present a chronology of the development of items that support reading and writing. The paper analyzes changes as well as the impact on social communicative relations. As a result of technological development, a current stage deemed determining, we make a revision of new reading and writing practices. From this revision, we conclude that we do not have forcible items that allow us to support the possible disappearance of printed books, yet we can speak of the rise of new ways to read and write.

This article analyzes the current epistemological status of the right to information, distinguishing it from earlier rights to information expression and access. It considers the inclusion of this right in an array of historical and social analyses: its object of study; the generations of the rights that come out it; its relationship to other rights (partly explained by its development in the 19th century together with the right of expression, but later gaining autonomy from the right to expression during the 20th century); its character as an individual right (and conversely, as a collective or social right); its character in respect to private life; and its relationship to denial, lying, and secrecy. In conclusion, the article presents a chart that summarizes the arguments of the paper and some of the authors discussed.

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.

The construct called ''information'' is a powerful and privileged but elusive and blurry concept. Wiener's problem tries to elucidate the fragmented nature of this concept, taking it apart from a merely physicalist point of view denying its hylemorphic condition. This paper examines surrounding and tangential issues regarding the ontological status of information and states a noetic notion on such concept, therefore serving as a basis for informational studies and science. The target is not only ending the discussion but stating a meticulous analysis, - from the information philosophy perspective- articulating some of the unfinished library science discussions.

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.

The construct called “information” is a powerful and privileged but elusive and blurry concept. Wiener’s problem tries to elucidate the fragmented nature of this concept, taking it apart from a merely physicalist point of view denying its hylemorphic condition. This paper examines surrounding and tangential issues regarding the ontological status of information and states a noetic notion on such concept, therefore serving as a basis for informational studies and science. The target is not only ending the discussion but stating a meticulous analysis, —from the information philosophy perspective— articulating some of the unfinished library science discussions.

This paper explores the public library as a system, looking for contributing to the understanding of its organizational condition. The study starts from the following consideration: the library is a social institution and its organizational setting is oriented to the fulfillment of social targets. The study takes libraries as systems neither deterministic nor closed for which a systemic complex approach is used to create a concept and characterization proposal of the library as a living organism, derived from the historical effort of the systemic differentiation regarding other social organisms, able to socialize and adapt to its environment and transform it, mainly, by means of its self organization and the urgency. Regarding methods, this study was carried out supported on documentary research.

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.

This paper presents a series of considerations on the role that leadership plays or should play during the development of a class session, that is regularly 60 minutes, before and with the group. It also presents the conception of teaching from the curricular and pedagogical perspectives and defines leadership in an operative way, explains its roots, fundamentals and features. Besides, it approaches the explanations given about the role of leadership in teaching. Finally, it notes and explains what Information Science is and how knowledge, skills and attitudes integrating leadership are applied in Information Science classes.

This reflection paper emerged from a meeting and a suggestive image in which several topics that have motivated some of my studies and research topics condense. Memory, uses of the past, creative flow of cultural beings, processes of heritage construction from a communication perspective, all those topics are stated there, the glass case carefully displays a special book: the fourth book of Alegría de leer by Evangelista Quintana. Based on the theoretical assumptions of Yves Jeanneret and Jean Davallon regarding “patrimonialization”, the particular case of an object (this student handbook vested with resignifications revealing a missing past in the present) is illustrated. The sentimental value given by societies to certain objects promotes the generation of preservation strategies and stimulates new circulation means aiming at creating materialities able to support collective memories.

This paper aims to outline the theoretical principles for the creation, design and organization of Knowledge Networks based on the Knowledge Management (KM), case RITCS (Transdisciplinary Research Network on Social Sciences), through strategies that support the generation and adaptation of new models of frontier teaching and research in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) that are immersed in scenarios of the third environment.

This paper aims to show the contribution of the states of the art, seen as a research modality in the production of knowledge in Social Sciences, particularly, the contribution to the development of Political Science. The authors discuss the idea that states of the art are limited to the organization and systematization of knowledge. The main purpose of the text is to demonstrate that states of the art, seen as a research modality, produce knowledge. This statement is based on theoretical analysis and on the study of an empirical case: the academic output of the Institute of Political Studies of the University of Antioquia, in 20 years.

The emergence of the digital order renewed the Victorian civilizing ideal and strengthened a world order of techno-economic dependence. The new grand narrative is the urgency of digital transformation of societies; a dream pursued without reflection by the populations of the "periphery" that ended into in a collision between McLuhan’s two informational orders: cold and hot societies. Latin America as part of the "periphery" did not participate in the development of the informatic technologies and its historical legacy made the appropriation of these technologies more difficult. This paper examines the historical circumstances of this process: the development of a discourse around the digital networks, the consequences of this social construction in the region, the fragile efforts of Brazil to create technology, and the entrance of IT networks in the region. The results showed that the status of this kind of research in the region is weak so we alert about its consequences. We concluded that to create an informational order that may serve as a space of self-affirmation, freedom and heterogeneity, it is necessary to have a deep knowledge of the social and historical context that created its basic technologies, but Latin America is indifferent in such regard. Information Science has a central role in the region within this process but it has not developed it yet.

The proliferation of electronic resources, technological advances and the Internet has led to a dramatic change in the operations of libraries, publishers and subscription agents. The libraries used agents to concentrate subscription orders, invoices and payments. The agent paid directly to the publisher on behalf of multiple libraries so that customers have the information requested.This paper mentions the main characteristics and expectation of electronic journals and their advantages over the printed journals. The role of the subscription agent is analyzed in the digital environment, which includes the process of managing access to electronic journals. We describe the main types of information providers, also how subscriptions are offered and validation systems for access to the e-journal.

Educational digital resources stored in repositories require metadata in order to describe them properly, and are fundamental for searching and retrieval processes. The aim of this paper is to present an approach for the calculation of metrics that determine the quality level of labeling digital resources, specifically Learning Objects (LOs). We describe how to evaluate resources considering three dimensions such as completeness, consistency and coherence, based on the standard IEEE LOM. In order to validate the results that such metrics exhibit, some experimental tests were performed with synthetic and real OAs, concluding that they allows evaluating the quality of the metadata involved. This way, the proposal presented turns to be a plausible and relevant input for the automatic evaluation of metadata, as well as for the LOs repository management and recommendation processes.

The paper, which is part of a parallel study between Mexico and Spain, analyzes the environmental information requests that are made by users in the Spanish public sector bodies. Furthermore, a webcrawler, which was designed for this purpose, analyzes many parameters of the information displayed on the website of 30 environmental public bodies such as the number of documents, providers, types of environmental information, document formats ... Results highlight the use of metatags instead of metadata and descriptor analysis shows a lack of relationship between the requests and the descriptors which are used to identify such information on the Web.