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Covid-19 started a process of digital acceleration that has continued unstoppable as it has also been identified as one of the keys to getting out of the current economic and social crisis. Within this framework, the Spanish government has published the Charter of Digital Rights that aims at anticipating future conflict scenarios resulting from the new digital context. By sharing the main aspects of the digital divide with the principles established in the Charter, the social risks of an accelerated digital transformation are analysed. It is determined that the digital gaps of access, use and appropriation can limit people's access to certain rights, some of them fundamental.

A brief reflection on the university link between Social Library training within the University of Buenos Aires with current society in times of pandemic and its necessary consolidation, reformulation and reflection of the necessary curricular spaces linking, information and knowledge is proposed. with the necessary social practices in times of emergency.

Studies about the level of satisfaction of library users in regard to the services offered by libraries have been carried out for decades. Nevertheless, the library bus is a service that has not yet been studied profusely. This mobile service caters for the reading, study, and information access needs of population centres which, due to different reasons, do not have a permanent library service. With the aim of examining the profile of the users of this service, together with its impact and the users’ level of satisfaction, we propose a methodology of analysis which is able to capture the users’ perception of the quality of the library bus service. Importantly, our methodology is applicable to any geographical area. Accordingly, the goals of the present study are the following: (1) to identify and describe the characteristics of the library bus users in a specific region and time period; (2) to formulate proposals of intervention and improvement through the identification of the users’ needs and demands according to the results of the users’ study. The proposed methodology was defined on the grounds of three elements. First, a bibliographic revision about the state of the arts, which was based on two aspects: the current vision of the library bus service and the theoretical or normative models, such as the one by the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) and the Association of Mobile Library Professionals (ACLEBIM, for its initials in Spanish). Second, we applied quantitative data analysis techniques for the collection of social and demographic data, together with statistics on the use of libraries at the local, regional, and national level. Finally, qualitative methods were employed to obtain specific information, namely a user survey (interview with the personnel in charge of the service, selection of the data collection technique, sample selection, etc.). The result was a survey. The questionnaire was selected as the method for data collection and the survey was implemented through open and closed questions which were presented and formulated to guide the user throughout the process. Future work might see how this methodology is applied to a practical case, specifically to the quality analysis of a library bus service in the Region of Murcia, a service that has been active in this Spanish autonomous community for more than forty years.

A brief reflection on the university link between Social Library training within the University of Buenos Aires with current society in times of pandemic and its necessary consolidation, reformulation and reflection of the necessary curricular spaces linking, information and knowledge is proposed. with the necessary social practices in times of emergency.

This paper seeks to present a general view of the presence or not of Colombian researchers in the main scientific networks and portals, which account for: who are having more relevance, how much need for training in scientific management have these researchers and what libraries should support in the framework of their Information Literacy training programs, in order to achieve best presence of researchers, and thus, achieve better visibility results that make possible in the short, medium and long term greater scientific and social impacts of their work.

Libraries of all kinds are already part of the Social Web. More than ten years ago they started to open their blogs and profiles on social networks, and what has been called "Library 2.0 ". Although this type of library is no longer spoken of, some authors claim that it has passed fashionable and that is a somewhat old concept, outdated. However, something has left us, which is not little, among other things, that libraries try to adapt to technological changes in pursuit of needs of its users. In this reflection document, we start with a first approach to public libraries and the use of social networks. Then, we continue with a description of the ways in which citizenships or communities are using social networks. Finally, I will take the challenge that they have libraries and librarians so that social networks are our allies to obtain support both of citizenship with the political sector and in the contribution to the development of libraries. By example, the case of the New York public libraries and their use of social networks to influence parliamentary decisions to increase the budget for libraries the next year.

The aim of this quantitative study is to know the state of the situation of female theses, directors, co-directors and consultants in non-dental theses deposited in the Library "Prof. Dr. José Arce ", from the Faculty of Dentistry of the University of Buenos Aires, with the aim of knowing what place they occupy and how they have arisen in the chronology from 1937 to 2015, to identify: in the first instance, those who have Marked an innovative process within the scientific production, secondly, to help establish transparent systems for the evaluation of such production, and finally, to analyze the election criteria with a gender perspective and to detect possible biases, which are cementing the Academic career of many women within Dentistry.

This paper presents an experience made for the Chair Free Social Librarianship (CaLiBiSo ), Buenos Aires University over Services and information needs of the community GLTTIBQ in Argentina. We have designed a workshop which aims to use information technology and communication to increase student motivation and improve, therefore, the teaching-learning process.

The author alerts us: what we do, see and imagine using a digital device is, to a great extent, programmed. Our activity and our looking have been kidnapped by the screens. We live supersaturated and exceeded by the virtual reality. We cannot process it and give it sense. We cannot even control it for using in our interest. But the technology can help us to construct and protect life projects, both personal and collective.

The use of new technologies gives way who combine new ways of producing and exercise rights, affirming cultures, learn, and become part of networks. One wonders about the possibilities that exist for anyone who is interested in cultural buildings, educational projects, through the use of technology as teaching strategies of cultural heritage. Through the Free Chair of Social Library (CaLiBiSo) of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the National University of Buenos Aires the following objectives: Consider that the use of digital technologies to human development provides opportunities to reduce social gap for individuals or communities. Collaborate in the appropriation of knowledge and network applications to spread the heritage and culturaleslocal and regional goods. Recognize the interdisciplinary contribution of Information Sciences about the scope of inclusion and social proximity on the digital divide. Develop digital strategies for knowledge and ownership of cultural property.

Se comparte la trayectoria del Grupo de Investigación sobre Usuarios de la Información perteneciente a la cátedra “Usuarios de la Información” de la Escuela de Bibliotecología, Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina. Se muestra la evolución, desarrollo y crecimiento del mismo, así como de las investigadoras que lo integran. Se exponen y explican brevemente las investigaciones realizadas y la investigación en curso, partiendo de la teoría de la sociedad de las tecnologías de la información (Castells, 2002), de las que aportaron a la evolución de la alfabetización en información (Kunhlthau - 1987; Bruce - 1997, Eisenberg - 1998, SCONUL - 1999; ACRL - 1989; Webber y Johnson - 2002; Walter - 2007 y UNESCO - 2008). Como así también las teorías de Aprendizaje de Bruner, Ausubel y Vygotsky. Se finaliza la presente ponencia realizando una proyección sobre el futuro de este grupo tomando como referencia los frutos resultantes de las investigaciones que marcaron esta trayectoria.

Paper which aims to observe the manifest behavior of authors who publish in Kurtziana - edited by the Museo Botánico, and is dedicated to pure and applied Botany. It studies the numbers 34 to 36, published from 2009 to 2011. Interprets, the forms of the items studied, by preparing tables and statistical interpretations. Concludes that the authors would have a collaboration index of 3,42 per work, would use English as their first language of consultation, that the primary source of consultation is the periodical, and belong primarily to the scholar environment. Besides the autorial gender distribution has a slight male predominance.

The arrival of the new digital environment has led to a revolution in the creation and the access to the information. One of the most remarkable consequences of this phenomenon is the Big Data, which refers to the huge amount of digitalized data that is used by distinct stakeholders for their analysis and use with different goals. This paper analyzes the consequences in the context of Personal Data Protection and lists the challenges and problems the Big Data implies in order to the legal principles that defend the privacy of the citizens.

The experience of the Social Chair Free Librarianship ( CaLiBiSo ), Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, Buenos Aires University in relation to their university extension as educational training device is presented.

Community service is a training opportunity within the Library, in the form of service-learning for students to adopt theoretical and practical tools aimed at selfless action undertaken with the community and their main information needs; by requiring them, knowledge of the strengths and weaknesses disciplinary in which are being formed, and through which contribute to the community they serve. Developing a Community Service within the Library, involving the active participation of students and community, guided by a draft joint action by the teacher specialty, they seek to address, from the diversity of perspectives, an information problem or training detected in the community. This complex task involves factors of all kinds: theoretical resources, organizational, political, administrative, digital environment, among others.

In this paper the importance of knowledge mediation is analyzed, confirming its presence in an explicit and transversal way within the competence profile of the information professional from the School of Library and Archival Science at the University of Zulia. Starting from the premise that mediation is a macro-transversal process, in which the to do is assumed in the informational area from a cognitive-communicative approach, it is established that this process defines the nature and scope of the so-called knowledge organizations (Libraries, archives, museums, documentation centers and information). The theoretical foundation is based on the contributions of Pirela and Delgado (2012), Martin-Serrano (2007) and (2008), and Pirela (2007), among others, related to the transversal knowledge mediation as a core category for epistemological construction of information sciences. The documentary methodology is supported on a critical review of the new competency profile from the School of Library and Archival Science at the University of Zulia. Results indicate the presence of mediation components in the three groups of competencies defined and articulated in the professional profile: 1. Among the eight general competencies, six provide the foundation for knowledge mediation in an overview manner (research, critical thinking, communication, information and communication technologies, cultural identity, social responsibility and citizen participation) 2. Mediation of knowledge is assumed as basic and explicit competence of the information professional, which is also shared with other similar professionals and 3. Knowledge mediation is transversely presented in the three defined specific skills: organizes and represents information and knowledge; manages resources and information services and develops preservation processes and documentary heritage diffusion. As a main conclusion, it is worth to emphasize that the professional mediating dimension and knowledge organizations can have a significant impact on increasing the cognitive array of social actors.

The practice of evidence-based medicine becomes necessary for the health professional trying to keep up. The vast amount of information available to be selected, analyzed and synthesized to facilitate decision making based on good quality information. Systematic reviews are the type of study that performs this function, and their development must work at different stages, one of which is the search for information, work should ideally be done by a librarian with the training necessary for that process . This paper describes the methodology used by the Biomedical Library of the Catholic University of Chile to meet your institution's researchers who require support in this area.

When considering the field of book (including production, editing, distribution, supply, sale, exchange, reading, etc.) we consider as supports both the printed book materials and ebooks-our particular interest in this paper - that require reading devices called e-readers, like other digital texts. The field has undergone some significant changes since the extension of the digitization of texts and their distribution through the Internet, which are based on a trend of digitization of most of the processes of cultural production and communication to function as products of a field mostly dominated by economics.

This paper try to solve the necessity of collect the profile, followers and followed of a Twitter user via API and develop a crawler application use the library Python-Twitter, with the aim of make an analysis and visualization of the Twitter users network.

Practices of literacy informational in El Salvador it`s a subject still remote from different educative levels, there aren`t specific networks that work or push in this matter. With the objective to put into effect the project guided to incorporate the curricula to the students of the Francisco Gavidia University from El Salvador topics about to improve the skills and competency in how to use efficient information, to realize technique of the analyze documentary checking documents to exhibit initiative similarly at international levels, also we realize interview to the teachers, students and deans of each faculty to determine the feasibility. As an initial phase it is developing a workshop studio to the teachers that approaching the related topics being they those who will be work altogether with the libraries.

Presentation (in Spanish) at Open Science Iberoamerican Congress, Virtual, 24 November 2022. Organized by Fundación Openlab Ecuador; the Research Network of Knowledge, Software and Free Hardware; the Innovation HUB of the city of Quito; and the Organization of Iberoamerican States for Education, Science and Culture (OEI). Virtual, November 24, 2022. https://cienciaabierta.info/agenda.

Digital Identity in Research

The essay starts with an abstract of a few college publications about bibliometric and its study in universities, to begin with a context before going into the main subjects, the situation of Spanish research in documentation in a worldwide context. Then, it presents an investigation about methodological considerations, where it shows the data production of Spanish based authors, comparing it with other countries. Finally, some notes about the LIS (Library and Information Science) illustrated with graphics of the studies made about citation.

The research group is actually the main institution and executer of science in Spanish public universities, although its study in cybermetrics and bibliometric levels is yet very limited because of some methodological problems. This essay presents a cybermetric analysis about the web sites of the research groups in information and documentation belonging to public Spanish universities, with the goal to identify its presence in the web, know their adequacy to a webometric analysis, as well as compute its size (number of records) and visibility (URL mentions, external links, linked sites and popularity). The results show a gentle presence of groups with wide diversity in URLs syntaxes (most of it inadequate), and a discrete presence and visibility. The sites with better results belong to groups with a creation politics and open disposition of the general activities of the group as well as the obtained results, where the existence of products makes an important impact in size and in visibility. The webs politics relative to universities web sites should favor creation and maintenance in an independent and flexible way of group web sites, which would allow a improve in diffusion and transparence of their activities.

The research and development (R&D) project «Institutional Repository Model as an Alternative to Social Scientific and Technological Development of the Country» is presented. A group of researchers of the school of Library and Information Science of the University of the Republic (Escuela Universitaria de Bibliotecología y Ciencias Afines de la Universidad de la República-UDELAR-) are responsible for carrying out the project financed by the «Sectorial Commission of Scientific Research» (Comisión Sectorial de Investigación Cientifica) of such University. This research is innovative and lacks previous studies in our nation. The intention is to promote free access to the scientific knowledge generated in our country. The theoretical basis of the project is based on the philosophy of the Open Access movement (OA). The research is carried out in stages that respond to the proposed objectives combining quantitative and qualitative methods. It is sought to determine the patterns that characterize the model of scientific communication of Uruguayan scientist based on their publications. The data source used is the Curricula Vitae of all the active researchers of the Nation System of Researchers (Sistema National de Investigadores- SNI-) of the National Agency of Investigation and Innovation (Agencia Nacional de Investigación e Innovación –ANII-). The catalogues of the university libraries of the University of the Republic are consulted to determine to what extent publications are registered and available. The publishing policies of the magazines in which the considered researchers publish are analyzed in order to estimate the viability of creating a repository at a national level. Interviews to qualified informers are realized to know policies towards the management of knowledge generated within the framework of public institutions. The perception of OA and the opportunity of promoting actions in this regard are collected. The analysis of the precedent elements will allow the formulating of guidelines to define a digital OA repository that is appropriate to the reality of the country, as a complimentary mechanism to the traditional scientific publication. In presence of the importance of this subject, it is intended to consolidate this line of investigation and strongly relate it to regional and international initiatives.

Teaching guides are a very important document in a degree for checking the adequacy of curriculum competencies. The skills acquired by students are related to Information Management in work environments characterized by the use of technologies constantly evolving.In this context, it is necessary to review and analyze all the skills present in the teaching guides at the Degree in Information and Documentation in the University of Zaragoza. The objectives of this work are: a) to compare the degree of implementation of skills b) Identify the skills in different subjects repeated c) Assess the skills adjust to the professional profiles d) Identify the skills underdeveloped in the various subjects. The working method is the creation of a database with all the skills. Subsequently, we performed a lexical and conceptual analysis to compare the sources of information and establish competency maps for subjects to facilitate the identification of duplications and failures. Finally, you create a database with profiles and skills demanded by society. The results of the analysis of the skills will, overall, improve the quality of the degree, and specifically, implementing different corrective measures, like: a) harmonize contents and eliminate redundancies; b) identify specific skills contained in the Libro Blanco, but not to the degree at the University of Zaragoza, c) standardizing competencies; d) identify the strengths and empower them in studies of second and third cycle, and e), know the reality of the University of Zaragoza on competence in information management and adaptation to current demand.

The experiments carried out in the area of ​​Social Librariship in Argentina, in the period 2012-2013.

This work aims at discussing the built-in Zotero that strengthens as social software and therefore extends its possibilities for collaborative learning. Among the new features are the groups that allow collaborative networking between students-teacher-community, share bibliographies, find people with common interests in a subject, etc.

It is constructed and validated the profile for competitions of the professional of the information of the School of Library and Archives of the University of Zulia, starting from the design and execution of a methodology (cooperative technology) orientated, fundamentally, to stimulate and to propitiate through a permanent dialog with the society, the active participation of the actors that form part of the curricular dynamic (professors, students, graduated, designer and planners of the curriculum), as well as the strategic agents of the different social sectors. Mentioned methodology, it is executed through the development of three faces to know: 1) the Conceptual Architecture, based on the current flows and tendencies that orientate the changes of the superior education for the XXI century, with respect to the conception of the curriculum as materialization of a pedagogical theory established by Inciarte (2005), and of the Incardinated Cooperative Curriculum in the society proposed by Rincones (2007). 2) The Consult of the medullar actors, with this face, it was obtained the vision and contributions of the different actors of the society, with relation to the formation of the professionals of the Information, and 3) Revision of studies of markets that allows to detect the emergent, potential and real necessities of the labor market in countries of Latin American. As result of the application of this methodology, it was materialized the profile of the professional of the Information, attending four fields of competitions: management of the information and of the knowledge, mediation of the information, organization and representation of the information, knowledge and of the social-cultural promotion. It is concluded, that is only possible to guarantee the pertinence of the professional profiles based on competitions, if these are constructed on the base of the interactive participation of the society.

Presentation at the CLACSO-FOLEC Coloquium on Research Assessment in times of open, inclusive and relevant science. 9° Latin American and Caribbean Social Science Conference, UNAM, Mexico, 7-10 June 2022.

The role of the librarian in virtual environments

Some requirements and ways that information technology (ICT) can be used as a resource for entertainment, communication and culture of the community of people with disabilities are described. The importance of the issue is that communication, access to culture and the enjoyment of leisure time is right for this important sector of the population. The methodology is based on analysis of cultural practices and leisure, in detecting barriers to these practices for the disabled, and the search and reasoned presentation of ways of overcoming these barriers by leveraging the potential of ICT and especially the Internet, mentioning among them the realization of accessible sites, the use of technical aids, technological literacy and empowerment portal services for this sector.

A training program on access and use of information developed with seniors in the "Hall of Elders" of the University of Murcia is described. This teaching was done by designing a course called "Access and Use of Information in today's society", which was held in the third year of the "Diploma" studying at the University of Murcia people between 50 and 80 years old. The contents of the course included the teaching of search skills, location, analysis and use of information from all kinds of sources, including technology literacy-related skills such as using e-mail, databases and Internet exhibitions covering teaching methods, group work, analysis of institutions and practices in the use of information technology. Once designed and delivered, the evaluation of the results was performed using the methodology of the survey, concluding a positive assessment of these learning.

It is proposed in this paper, practical experience, the implementation of librarians theme and Resilient libraries, courses 'Social Librarianship : from theory to practice', dictated by Professor Julio Diaz Jatuf, teaching career Librarianship and Information Science at the University of Buenos Aires.

Maredata is a thematic network focus on open data for researchers. This poster presents the main objectives, the semminars and conferences organized and also information about the productivity done.

Presentation of the importance of Social Librarianship with socio-community practices based on practical experiences carried out in the Free Library of Social Librarianship (CaLiBiSo).

The object of study in this work will be the approach of the implementation of the first virtual Diploma in Library Science - specialized in Social Librarianship - by the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Buenos Aires

In the Knowledge Society, Information and new technologies, current learning is established with critical thinking, where the debate - as in antiquity - re-emerge as protagonist elements in the aulic spaces. Debate involves valuable skills such as: knowing how to speak, transmitting ideas and opinions, listening, sharing positions, refuting and being prepared to change your mind. The debate is the process of presenting arguments for or against a proposition and its basic elements of constitution are: the question, the mediator, members of a form of opinion, members of a contrary position and arguments.

Libraries, as social institutions, must establish close links with the entire community they serve through information, knowledge, accessibility and services, within the framework of Human Rights and in close relation with the needs of information of the different communities.

Throughout history, different media have occupied and play an important role in the production and circulation of different social meanings, including how people live their different sexual orientations represented in different media: press, cinema, radio , television and cyberspace. There are not many jobs carried out in Latin America, but Brazil has the largest production on the subject. The need and justification of this work, in the first instance has been reflected in the work of Díaz-Jatuf (2017a), leading to an approach to the subject of memory and journals establishing the "... imperative need to constitute a new historiographic field within of the cultural, social and political history of the GLTTIBQ magazines, and to form cultural and political networks, so that they help to preserve and promote the magazines of the mentioned collective. "

Project Management has become a core activity for organizations and profes-sionals, independently of their area of expertise. Bearing in mind that the objec-tive of Project Management is the application of knowledge, skills and techniques to implement, manage and develop projects effectively and efficiently. It is nec-essary for organizations and professionals to develop a results-oriented culture, effective decision-making and collaboration through the development of profes-sional skills associated with its. To this purpose, there are different competency development models, including the ICB 4.0 model of the International Project Management Association (IPMA). In this way, this research proposes a biblio-metric analysis of the main scientific journals within Project Management field, in order to know the main research lines and see how these are related to the ICB 4.0 model. To do that, a bibliometric techniques and tools have been used to analyze and visualize the intellectual structure of the scientific journals of project man-agement.

Information needs and library services in the GLTTIBQ community (gay, lesbian, transvestite, transsexual, intersexual, bisexual, queer)

Nowadays and due to environmental awareness, many libraries have transformed their infrastructures and services responding favorably to the demand of the UN 2030 Agenda; and that based on this, this investigation exploratory analyzes the proposals that have considerably reduced the ecological footprint in these institutions. The analysis realized that the ecological paradigm is growing considerably, which generates the construction and conditioning of more bioclimatic libraries.

Nowadays and due to environmental awareness, many libraries have transformed their infrastructures and services responding favorably to the demand of the UN 2030 Agenda; and that based on this, this investigation exploratory analyzes the proposals that have considerably reduced the ecological footprint in these institutions. The analysis realized that the ecological paradigm is growing considerably, which generates the construction and conditioning of more bioclimatic libraries.

This work offers a concrete action for the inclusion of the group of people with visual discapacity in higher education, with the aim of promoting their dissemination in areas of interest in librarianship.