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This work contextualizes the state of research in the areas of Communication Sciences and Information Sciences and presents new national and international methodological experiences that allow enriching the research experience of groups and lines of research developed in both thematic areas. The intersections between qualitative and quantitative methodologies, cases and ways of approaching research are explored, and new knowledge is provided both from studying the context of the situation and from the actual practices that allow opening doors and consolidating research in emerging areas, such as communication and information. The knowledge transfer carried out in this work is the result of the research work of consolidated research groups that carry out their research financed by public and private bodies of the first order and that are developed in Higher Education centres. The result is a volume directed at researchers and carried out by researchers who are looking for the intersection and collaboration in experiences that may allow the enrichment and progress of investigation.

Resources prepared by Spanish university libraries are compiled and described to support the preparation of final degree projects. The results of the analysis of the websites of 47 public university libraries are shown by applying an Excel template with six columns: location, access address (URL), access type, name/format, content type, content structure. 53.19% of libraries include resources of this type. The characteristics and scope of each one are explained.

The book explains the social and cultural role of public libraries, and made a theoretical approach to plannnign and marketing of cultural and social services in public libraries.