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The eighteenth century books from the collection of the old digital library of the Library University Seville are analyzed to locate the parts made with decorated papers, in order to classify and describe them according to the proposals of specialized literature. For this, the records included in the repository of the digital collection are recovered, the digital reproductions of the books are visualized, the parts with decorated papers are identified and described following the decorated papers classification model, previously elaborated, based on the research of Professor Carpallo Bautista. The model is made up of 6 techniques and their variants. Of the more than 6.700 records from the 18th century in the collection of the digital ancient collection, 511 include decorated papers in their bindings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper shows how Plan S arises and works, the impact it can have on the subscriptions of the scientific and academic journals of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), as well as the first approaches of some publishers who see in this University and Latin America an opportunity to implement this new publication model. The way of publishing has changed due to the use of technologies that have brought with it the emergence of the Open Access (OA) movement derived from the Budapest Open Access initiative proposed by the Open Society Institute in 2001. Plan S is an initiative that arises in 2018 to accelerate the transition to Open Access, which will allow research results to have greater visibility and citation. Plan S includes transformative agreements that can be established between publishers and libraries, since it is intended to change the payment for subscription to journals for the Read and Publish model, where the publisher receives a payment to read and a payment to publish in a single contract, while under the Publish & Read model the editor only receives payment for the publication of articles by authors from an institution and the reading of journals is included at no additional cost, precisely at this point, the library plays a relevant role among the initiative and its academic community. Therefore, we agree that Plan S, the cOAlition S initiative and the transformative agreements are a great support for open access publishing, since they directly lower the costs of the Article Processing Charges (APC) and offer researchers various options for publish their findings or advances. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Due to the increase in neurodivergent students in higher education and the strengthening of the neurodiversity paradigm as a social movement, academic libraries must consider these users. The objective of the present study was to identify - through a systematic literature review - the actions that academic libraries have implemented in collections and services to address the need to include neurodivergence, focusing especially on diagnoses of dyslexia, attention deficit and hyperactivity, and autism spectrum disorder. A bibliographic search was conducted in the databases Web of Science, Scopus, Taylor & Francis, E-LIS, EBSCO, Jstor, Wiley, Network of Latin American Repositories, Web of Science, Scopus, SpringerLink y and Emerald. Out of the 799 initial results, 36 final papers were selected to review. It may be concluded that the actions carried out by academic libraries are diverse and heterogeneous, both in their conception and in their execution, and vary widely depending on the institution in which the library is framed. Services have been the elements most adapted to neurodivergent users, while collections are the least considered when taking inclusion actions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article examines the presence of students from the National University among the readers of the National Library during the first half of the 1870s. Although some contemporary observers considered the library to be inoperative, the institution was an active agent in the circulation of books in Bogotá: a space of student sociability and a place of university knowledge. Methodology: First, the paper examines the institutional relationship between the library and the university. Then, it characterizes the students and their readings at the library. Finally, it analyzes the recorded readings in relation to the programs of courses taught at the National University, the academic performance of students, the presentation of public speeches, and library attendance by students from regions other than Bogotá and its surroundings. Originality: In a scenario of educational reforms promoted by liberal governments during the 1870s, the National Library was described as “anachronistic” and “useless” by the agents themselves of the nineteenth century. These critical judgments have become a commonplace in historiography. The analysis of new documents, especially library reader records—an unpublished source—, enriches the field of reading appropriation and offers empirical elements that vindicate the institution’s centrality at a time of political and ideological struggles. Conclusions: The article demonstrates that young students at the National University used books from the public repository in academic spaces of professional training, which calls into question the idea of its inoperative character as well as the reasons that originated this liberal criticism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper addresses the issue of risk management in relation to a specific type of library, the university library. A bibliographic review is carried out from different fields and connects it with the reality of this kind of institutions. Also, an analysis of the interviews with the libraries' directors of the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina, is presented. These interviews included different axes such as policies and procedures, the interest of the authorities about the topic, staff and users training, measures adopted, risk factors, among others. The results show that although some specific implementations have been developed in this sense, there is still a pending account in issues related to the implementation of risk management in Universidad Nacional de La Plata university libraries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores strategic ideas and views on the creation and development of an Information Technology Unit as essential part of an academic library. Within this context, the paper also mentions fundamental reasons to create an Information Technology Unit, as well as how to follow-up managing activities. The paper also focuses in (a) information training needs, (b) procedures to reach good level of interactions among automated information systems providers and organisational ICT's managers, (c) process to manage technological projects, and (d) measurement and outcomes applied to the information services production. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper focus on a critical analysis of a discursive formation in Spanish academic libraries: social responsibility and sustainability. The concepts that make up the discourse are historically contextualized in order to clarify their origin and social affiliation. Although the enunciation of social responsibility and sustainability content is formulated ambiguously, its articulation as a discursive practice within the framework of the new corporate management university libraries leads us to infer bias in their rhetorical formulation. We consider that, from a fuzzy concept and its integration into technocratic practices, the discourse can be used as a tool for legitimizing the deregulation of public educational institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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%. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Opinion survey on the presence of the ebook in the environment of Libraries Groups on Science (GBC). Two questionnaires, one applied to the head librarians and another aimed at end users (researchers, teachers and students) were performed. In this paper the results corresponding to the survey of head librarians. The percentages allocated by libraries to purchase electronic books, factors that influence their purchase, most appropriate purchasing model, most used formats, means offering ebooks, advantages and disadvantages compared to the printed book and diffusion are treated points. The results are useful indicators for decision-making regarding the acquisition and use of these materials in academic libraries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper presents the findings of an investigation aimed at describing aspects of the process of online journals subscription in Argentina. From April to September of 2007 a survey was conducted via electronic mail to special and academic libraries to inquire about Argentine actors involved in the identification, evaluation, and selection of titles, in the negotiation and signing of the licences, the subscription methods, and type of resources subscribed for those information units. There was a high participation of librarians in the process that decreased in the stage of negotiating and signing the licencing agreements where institutional managers and administrators had a more prominent role. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the value of the Mexican academic library along the lines proposed by the ACRL in its document Value of academic libraries: A comprehensive research review and report. It is a first advance of a broader research on library indicators of the Knowledge Society in Mexico. A general view on the role of the academic library in Mexico emphasizes the information literacy and services and electronic resources as the key factors to evidence the value that the library has for its institution success. Some of the main challenges that will be faced by the academic library in the near future are analyzed within the Mexican context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Academic libraries are facing the changes imposed by the information and knowledge society, and, in particular, the need to achieve a consistent qualitative change in their processes and services. Incorporating to the traditional flow of library work areas such as information literacy, evaluation and innovation is an essential challenge for present and future universities. This paper describes how these concepts are beginning to join the working philosophy of these institutions and how the new competencies that librarians and archivists must learn to achieve the advancement of the profession to new horizons are being incorporated. It is based in the results and conclusions from a focus group conducted by professionals from Latin America and the Caribbean in the field of library and information science. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to propose an evaluation method for measuring the quality of World Wide web reference resources (dictionaries and encyclopaedias) that Library of University of León make available through its Digital Library under the heading of "Resources on the internet". The project, undertaken by the Library Working Group on Electronic Resources, consists on evaluating all web resources included in each of the mentioned categories in order to determine their suitability. The results obtained after the quality assessment, will help us to select, among the list of proposals submitted at the beginning, those electronic reference resources that are more useful for the university community members, discarding those which fail to achieve the scoring proposed and recommending other that fulfill the parameters outlined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we analize the role of the university library as a provider of quality information services that collaborate with the basic functions of the University and its commitment with society: teaching well prepared professionals in vast areas of knowledge who possess the capacity of acquiring all the new information that is produced in their field and in their working environment. Skills and abilities in the search and retrieval of information is a must in the formation of our students, if we want them to be immersed, not only in the informational context and in the new methodologies of information, but also in the steady process of scientific research that a good university education implies, process that any country needs for getting a sustainable development. Our proposal of informational literacy includes required application forms, interviews with professors and instructors of classroom courses, an interactive manual for the development of competence in the use of digital resources the university offers, and one on line course presenting the manual. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper evaluates shelf availability of monograph titles requested at a university library. The evaluation has been carried out by an external group. Goals, steps and evaluation criteria, as well as evaluation design and implementation are described in detail. The research has used two different techniques: simulation (with two variants) and users' interviews, according to ISO 11620, B2.2.2 indicator «Required Titles Availability» (ISO 11600 Standard). Survey results are analyzed and compared. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the operationalizing of perceived service quality of the instrument SERVQUAL like subtractive scale (perceptions-minus-expectations) in its application to a public and educational service as academic libraries are. The realized analysis is focused on expectations under two points of view: (1) expectations in public and educational services work like values under the preference's maximization principle and this causes a distortion in the zero breakpoint of the subtractive scale, since it would not be associated to an inflection point of perceived quality, and (2) expectations don't work appropriately with perceptions because both of them operate as a measure in clearly differentiated planes. In this sense, the subtractive scale would make no sense. In any case we defend the use of expectations in the measuring quality of public and educational services, but as a pondering of the importance of perceptions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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