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The public library fulfills a permanent formative role in the field of knowledge and culture, one of its main objectives is to meet the needs of the community in which it is immersed. Through the provision of various services, one of them being the local issues section, which is responsible for providing citizens with all the information related to the history of the community in its different manifestations. This paper exposes the importance of the contribution and social projection provided by this section contextualizing its work in the population of Simat de la Valldigna in Valencia, Spain. There are also described, by means of examples, different materials that make up this information reservoir. It concludes by highlighting the responsibility of the public library in keeping alive the local history of Simat as a contribution to the preservation of the memory of their ancestors.

This paper, of a descriptive/exploratory nature, conducts an analysis of a series of cooperative repositories belonging to academic institutions of Latin America, focusing on the importance of cooperation as a long-standing practice amongst libraries. Many of these have become leaders or key participants both in the implementation and in the development of repositories at their respective institutions. This paper studies the informational flows underpinning such repositories in order to understand how these are shaped and developed in the context of academic institutions of a certain size and complexity, through an analysis of documentation. Emphasis is placed on the informational flow models as detected in these cooperative repositories, and on how their uniqueness favors the visibility and dissemination of existing academic and scientific knowledge in digital format.

This paper presents an experience of standardization in the development of subject guides for the Information and Technology Center (CITec), Faculty of Natural Sciences, Río Piedras Campus, University of Puerto Rico. Thematic guides are information resources that support research in different disciplines. CITec needed to update their own guides and develop new ones. To work the initiative, we used an open source tool and applied the systematic, planned and structured five phases of the ADDIE model consisting of analysis(A), design(D), development(D), implementation(I) and evaluation(E), to both the guides and the whole work. As a result, topic and specialized guides were developed, letting users retrieve reliable information from the SubjectsPlus open source platform. The realization of the project facilitated the standardization of the guides, their online creation and immediacy of their updates via their website.

This paper presents an experience of standardization in the development of subject guides for the Information and Technology Center (CITec), Faculty of Natural Sciences, Río Piedras Campus, University of Puerto Rico. Thematic guides are information resources that support research in different disciplines. CITec needed to update their own guides and develop new ones. To work the initiative, we used an open source tool and applied the systematic, planned and structured five phases of the ADDIE model consisting of analysis(A), design(D), development(D), implementation(I) and evaluation(E), to both the guides and the whole work. As a result, topic and specialized guides were developed, letting users retrieve reliable information from the SubjectsPlus open source platform. The realization of the project facilitated the standardization of the guides, their online creation and immediacy of their updates via their website