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This presentation is part of a lecture given to librarians interested in libraries and documentation centers related to the arts, specifically contemporary art in Mexico, whose aim was to generate a network that can provide: resources, training and updating in library matters .

This paper, “The end of tenure and the advent of renewable contracts for all in LIS,” as part of a topic suggested by the organizers of the Part-Time and Adjuncts SIG Session of ALISE 2014, whose title of proposed session is: Casualties and Collateral Damages: A Critical Look at Educational Entrepreneurship, written and proposed by a Mexican LIS scholar educated at national and international universities, LIS at undergraduate level at UANL, Mexico, one (Muela-Meza) in the USA at Master level (SUNY-Buffalo), and PhD (Muela-Meza, in Information Studies at the University of Sheffield, UK). Having a long tradition employing critical librarianship conceptualizations to his LIS practice and scholarship at UANL, and to his journal Librarianship (LIS) Critique: Journal of the Sciences of Information Science. And having researched and faced since 2008 many situations as part-time and adjunct professor at UANL, hampering his mobility towards full tenure. Thus, if accepted this proposal for participation by presence at ALISE in Philadelphia, would give the author the chance to bring forward some international insights on the issues of fading out of tenure and the advent of renewable contracts with critical epistemology and critical theories and concepts, mainly comparing the U.S., British, Spanish, and Mexican librarianship. Based on some international critics of capitalism and neo-liberal policies (Bouzas and de la Garza, 1998; Berry, 2002; 2005; Giroux, 2012), and underpinned with critical epistemology and critical librarianship concepts, they will try to analyze these issues as how they affect LIS theory and practice (as in e.g. Horner, 2000).

The traditional LIS education is more than hundred years old. In India, LIS education started in the year 1911. The information explosion and subject proliferation in the post industrial society brought major changes in global information environment. The second major thrust on global information scenario was imposed by internet and communication revolution since the late nineties of the last century. Meanwhile, a new global movement in LIS education started to incorporate paradigm shifts of information behaviour, which is known as i-school movement. In this paper, a brief description of global i-school movement is given with special emphasis to India. In India, though this movement was initiated less than a decade ago, but its preamble was started since after independence through the inauguration of INSDOC followed by DRTC. The course structure of the new courses has also been discussed and its similarities with traditional courses are highlighted.

An analysis of management in recent years for the National Library of Argentina, discussed current state and prospects of planning for the improvement and preservation of historical documents and reconditioning work of various sectors.

We present a theoretical approach of a context model suitable for the proper administrative and accounting professional library associations, based on the theory and its corresponding case study applicable to the Asociación de Bibliotecarios Graduados de la República Argentina (ABGRA).

The speaker reported his experience of the 77th IFLA General Conference (WLIC) in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to the middle managers of the National Library of China

Consortium is a group of libraries that cooperate each other for their mutual benefit. The paper analyzes the different type of consortiums in India. The main objective of the paper is to review the IIM consortium, which was formed in the year 2000, to benefit the IIM libraries in developing their collection and enhancing the services. The paper describes the IIM Library Consortium Model, cost benefit analysis and discusses the future direction of the same

We try to explain a new challenge for the profession of librarian. The challenge is give a name to be understood by small and medium enterprises, it is speaking their language. This type of organization can not afford a librarian or an information manager full time so you should train staff so they can meet their needs and organizational information. We define the tools and skills that are accorded to people who want to dedicate this occupational field. Is a translation of user training in the field of libraries, applied to the business world.

Turbulent times led firms to a flat organization structure, process management and decentralization. In spite of the fact that we have sophisticated tools of communication in firms, exchange of information and knowledge in companies with a flat organizational structure are not satisfactory. It is evident that although there is very flexible and fast communication in contrast to the vertically managed organizations, we often struggle here with a great deal of information noise, loss of information and knowledge throughout the enterprise. Deficiencies in communication do not concern the core processes but mainly the support processes. These support processes are high demands on documentation and information exchange. We face here the human factor and its variety in action, which is very difficult to cultivate with organizational culture. The culture helps create information environment and behavior of individual elements of broadly conceived information system or information ecosystem of organization. One of the ways to streamline enterprise information ecosystem and reduce the error rate is outsourcing of record management and outsourcing of archival and administrative services.

The speaker talked about his experiences in IFLA general conferences (WLICs) as standing committee member, working group member and translator, and his ways of sharing information with others through social media.

University libraries are institutions that, by continuously flourishing on new information resources and presenting the latest scientific findings, directly support the education provided by and the research and academic studies conducted at universities in line with the universities’ missions and functions. Moreover, university libraries significantly contribute to creating course contents and to enabling students and researchers attain the required skills to effectively search-access-use-evaluate information resources available in print and digital environments. In this regard, university libraries should be sufficiently equipped with fundamental elements such as facilities, personnel and collections in order to fulfill their missions and objectives. This study aims to provide the fundamental elements of university libraries and to analyze the current status in Turkey in order to discuss the relevant primary issues and suggest solutions.

BCLA 2011 Conference Session: "Sitka For Trustees"; Public library trustees were invited to attend this panel session covering an overview of the Sitka Project and its provincial vision and marketplace context. Questions addressed included: What is an Integrated Library System (ILS)? How does the Sitka project fit into the provincial strategic plan for Public Libraries, Libraries Without Walls? What is the role of the BC Libraries Cooperative and who are the people behind that organization? How does the Sitka project differ from a commercial solution and what are its consortial advantages? Who are the other players in the ILS marketplace? What’s the current status and future prospects for Sitka?

Introduction: Current era in which new technologies and the Internet are the communication medium has led many libraries to offer information and provide their services through these medium and / or tools. Objective: Analyze the visibility on the web of libraries health sciences Spanish hospitals and provides information to users. Material and methods: We have analyzed the current situation. Sample includes those public hospitals that have web page, institutional or non institutional, for the library service. We have conducted a trawl or browsing through the Internet in order to determine which sites had web page and wich services had been offered. Results: Number of sites visited and recovered is 124, with links available on the National Catalogue of Hospitals page of the Ministery of Health and the Catalog of journals in Libraries Health Sciences (C17). It has been analyzed the presence or absence of information, digital services, their types, which one are the most frecuent: general information (schedules, directories, regulations...) interlibrary loan, access to catalogs, databases, electronic journals, other services such as training users, news

The membership in the consortium is a way to increase the effectiveness and the stability of services of academic libraries, based in the main measuring cup on teleinformatic technologies. Of lending interlibrary, access to shared - of central online catalogues, using from the access to huge information resources in order to satisfy determined needs of users, joint financing mutually advantageous projects, in particular concerning the access to resources electronic whether involvement in conferences paid by the consortium or trainings for librarians it is basic, indeed important benefits resulting from such a form of cooperation among libraries.

The aim of this paper is to present a proposal for professional development supported by the theoretical foundations of information science, professional practice and organizational culture. The emphasis is on communication and transdisciplinarity to generate a positional change of the librarian in information management and professional group of the institution. Proposes professional development guidelines grouped into four core program areas: Professionalism, Research, Participation and visibility, permanent education

The factors affecting the success and efficiency of information systems are always an important and critical aspect for the structure, proper operation, and improvement of the produced services and products of an organization for its end users - both for the internal ones (employees) and for the external ones (public). At the present, the need to create suitable parameters, assisting in evaluating and measuring the successful operation of an information system in an organization is constantly growing. The purpose of the specific thesis is, firstly, to introduce us to the environment of the organizations’ information systems, while also providing us with a complete and extended presentation of their operations, processes, infrastructures, and factors of success. Through Systems Theory, we shall examine the analysis and design for an information system, while identifying the quality parameters necessary for measuring its success. In addition, we shall employ the model for measuring quality for an information system called: “DeLone & McLean Information Systems success model”. We shall see what each parameter of the above model examines, by investigating concepts such as system quality, information quality, user satisfaction, effect of quality on users and organization. At the same time, we shall develop an application for evaluating the quality of an information system, the so-called: "Organizational Memory Information Systems Quality" which builds on the success model of DeLone & McLean. The main objective of this thesis is to reach into a fruitful discussion regarding quality in the operation, infrastructure, and provided services of institutional organizations. Moreover, we shall focus on the usefulness and importance of measuring factors regarding efficiency for an information system, as this procedure is used by modern Society of Information, in order to be transformed to Society of Knowledge.

The presentation shows various aspects of cooperation between the Institute of Information Science and Book Studies NCU in Torun and libraries in Poland and abroad.

This paper tries to offer a clear and basic vision of what IFLA and the Government Libraries Section are and how they can help libraries and librarians. It describes the role of the Section, why and how a library, an association, an institution or an individual may join, and what could they do within the Section frame once they are their members.

The UB is the only Spanish university among the top 200 universities around the world and among the 100 top European level. In this presentation a short general information about the University of Barcelona is given. Most of the slides are devoted to the Faculty of Library and Information Science (LIS) --Facultat de Biblioteconomia i Documentació-, its historical background since it was created in 1915, career courses, masters, doctoral courses, research projects, etc.

DOC6 is a consultancy firm in corporative knowledge management, founded in 1988. They provide Electronic resources of information, Professional Services – Outsourcing, Training, etc. Has received the EUREKA label of R+D for its participation in project COGNOS (n.2734) for the development of knowledge maps in the organizations, as well as the IBEROEKA label (in May 2005). The company annually invests 12% of its benefits in research and development projects in order to offer better innovative solutions to its clients. DOC6 works in the HERMES Project for intelligent access to information.

Established in 1973, The Indonesian Library Association has contributed significantly for the development of professional librarian in Indonesia. It has branches in every province and serving million people every year. With robust network and solid organization, the association has regular annual meeting attended by almost thousands of its loyal members making it one of the largest professional organization in Indonesia. It is the only one formal library association in Indonesia dealing with librarians. Provoked by monetary crisis in Indonesia which melted down the fragile economic foundation and forced the longest served president, the late Soeharto to quit, Indonesia suddenly become a “new state” adopting democratic styled government, more open society And real free market. These unexpected changes have had tremendous impacts on many walks of life including professional institutions. Euphoria that followed reform movement has dispersed power concentration by the establishment of new political parties. Fortyeight new political parties joined eligibly the first democratic general election in 1999. Reform spirits also intruded to The Indonesian Library Association (ILA)locally known as Ikatan Pustakawan Indonesia (IPI). It faced highly demanding members who wanted some substantial changes in the organization structure and custodians and the implementation of power sharing favoring the association branches and chapters in the provinces and districts. Up to the present the top position of the association traditionally goes to the head of National Library. With his or her beauracratic style in leadership, some consider not suitable anymore for the new paradigm of modern and democratic organization.To compound the problems, some librarians have established four forums and one scholars association namely Public Library Forum, University Library Forum (FPPTI), School Library Forum (APISI/FPS), Special Library Forum (FPK) and The Association of Indonesian Library and Information Scholars (ISIIPI). They are autonomous semi formal entity. Judging this unfavorable condition, the board and management of ILA has taken some bold measurements by inviting some new faces, young librarians with strong commitment and high competency to participate actively and directly in decision making process in the association board meeting and put them in strategic position in the organizational structure. Moreover, the association has no objection in the implementation of power sharing making its branches and chapters more autonomous and creative as well. It also simplified its organizational structure to accommodate some changes in modern setting and globalization era. By reinventing its management style and streaming line the organization,the Association has managed to satisfy the majority of its members and attracting more new members especially the young professionallibrarians.

[The present paper is based on a curricular traineeship, part of the Degree in Information Science, under the theme of the implementation of Quality Management Systems, occurred at the Documentation Services of the University of Minho (SDUM).] The SDUM have their main purpose in providing the best resources, services and easy access to all the community of the University of Minho (formed by students of several areas, teachers, collaborators and investigators). In order to fullfil the users’ needs, it was essential for SDUM to grow and mature as an organization. The main objective of this paper is to give a general vision of all the work executed at SDUM, emphasizing this project, pioneer in Portugal: the implementation of Quality Management Systems, based on ISO 9001:2000 and Balanced Scorecard, in order to obtain the services’ certification. Between the amount of steps needed for a complex process as this one is, it is important to have the perception that Libraries are now dealing with a new “generation” of users and it’s important, not only to understand their needs, but knowing how to satisfy them and supplant what their expecting. The Quality, allied, most of the times, to Innovation, is a new opportunity to change what is not working the way it was supposed to but, more important than that, to involve and motivate all the collaborators, making them feel as a real team. And it will surely reflect in the services rendered to the users. From mapping processes, to documental management, passing through the Quality Manual, Benchmarking and the issues related to the human side of this question, the present paper aims to be an example of what is Quality applied to this area and also encourage

Building an effective and sustainable curriculum-integrated information literacy initiative requires several key ingredients, from securing support by identifying and aligning the library with key strategic partners on campus and providing convincing evidence of the need for attention to information competencies, to planning and designing information literacy development and assessment opportunities across the curriculum. Participants will hear case studies from two very different institutions and begin to build a strategic action plan for their own institutions.

CNBA was created in 1977 by a group of librarians operating in the architectural field, animated by a strong feeling of cooperation, which has remained the main characteristic of the association. There have always been two lines of action: one addressed to members (professional courses, stages, conferences and publications), the other addressed to users, students, professors and professional architects. In the latter direction can be mentioned the participation to national and international projects meant to offer tools for an improved access to documents in the field of urban planning and architecture

Information is an object of marketing, it is bought and sold, and it can provide, to those who own it, some actual and effective profits. This evidence is so obvious that the major companies leaders have designed policies to manage this resource in the interests of their company. However, sometimes also confused because of this situation, they simplify the information management with the mere addition of information technology of the last generation which, although having fundamental importance as tools for the very information management, the can only be seen as a support to cover that management of the information.

Science Commons serves the advancement of science by contributing to the removal of unnecessary legal and technical barriers to scientific collaboration and innovation. Built on the promise of Open Access to scholarly literature and data, Science Commons identifies and eases key barriers to the movement of information, tools and data through the scientific research cycle. The long term vision of Science Commons is to provide more than just useful contracts. We will combine our publishing, data, and licensing approaches to develop solutions for a truly integrated and streamlined research process.

In the language of e-learning, teaching and learning contents are often organized in ‘learning objects’: molecular assets that may consist of texts, audio or video lessons, presentations, tutorials, self-evaluation tests, all adequately described and packaged. The idea that open access could and should be applied to learning materials is not new: recent initiatives such as MIT’s OpenCourseWare or Open University’s OpenLearn are clearly moving toward the right direction. However, the problem of the repositories to be used in order to collect, describe, preserve and distribute open access learning assets is still an open one. Learning Content Management Systems (LCMS) are the tools of choice in centralized management of learning assets, but while most LCMS adopt well-established standards for metadata (Learning Object Metadata – LOM) and packaging (SCORM) of learning objects, few of them explicitly address the problem of metadata harvesting by adopting the OAI-PMH protocol. On the other hand, most institutional repositories based on OAI-PMH do not address the specific problem of learning content metadata, for which the Dublin Core metadata scheme is painfully inadequate. The optimal solution seems therefore that of integrating basic LCMS features within existing Open Archives, allowing for both CD and LOM metadata handling and harvesting. This would also have the effect of actively promoting open access distribution for learning contents, by using a widespread and successful paradigm for their distribution. The paper will suggest a relatively simple model for such an integration.

The Italian Ministry of Health launched in 2001 a national program to support “independent information”. The dissemination included the translation and free distribution to all health professionals (300.000) of three reference books – British National Formulary; Medicines for Children and Clinical Evidence. The implementation plan includes the development of a free-access e-learning Continuing Medical Education (CME) system, based on Clinical Evidence, called ECCE. Doctors have access to a Clinical Evidence electronic version and related clinical vignettes. Solving the vignettes provides CME credits. Our objective was to understand the factors influencing knowledge transfer using a CME distance programme, based on clinical vignettes driven by the Clinical Evidence in general medical practice. As of June 10th 2007, more than 30 000 doctors voluntarily subscribed to ECCE (11.8%). Two surveys assessed doctors’ judgement about Clinical Evidence and ECCE. Free distribution and implementation of Clinical Evidence to Italian doctors have been well received, confirming their preference for problem-driven information and the key-role of a strong endorsement from Health Authorities for their implementation.

Recent reform processes affecting European and national research systems (mostly Higher Education and Public Research Institutes) enhanced the need of research evaluation as Government steering tool as well as mean for supporting allocation of public financial resources. Moreover, different methodologies for ranking Universities at international level on the basis of research quality are emerging, pushing institutions toward improving their visibility through the search of excellence. In both cases, peer review and bibliometrics are the chosen methods. The paper wants to discuss how considering concepts and means related to the Open Access (OA) context can influence these practices. Questions addressed are: how can peer review be implemented according to the OA initiative? Are there new tools other than bibliometrics, which can be used in order to reinforce peers’ outcome? Evidences from the Research Evaluation Exercise (VTR) recently developed in Italy by the National Committee for the Evaluation of Research (CIVR) will be presented.