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This communication deals with the university library of arts and its relationship with cultural sustainability. I will deal with a bibliographic collection belonging to the Museum of Contemporary Art MAC USP and how informational resources can be participants in the process of building cultural sustainability. The work deals with the donation of Walter Zanini's private library and its role as an informational resource insofar as it is willing to be a public resource for research. Secondly, the text also proposes the question of inserting a new bibliographic collection in a public and university space. The third question seeks to understand in which situation this resource can be the new potential for the transformation of this university and cultural institution into a reference center for research in the field of the arts. The fourth issue is that the new collection can be the link and connection in the interrelationship of sustainable development, combining socio-economic as well as organizational aspects in a process of building cultural sustainability. Fifth, there is the question of the collection as a participant in the cycle that includes the three main actions of heritage: collect, preserve and research, in a planning of actions aimed at making the bibliographic collection available. Access to the bibliographic collection will be the central action in the search for the construction of a conscious space for research focusing on the various subjects of the donated collection.

The Colloquia were held from September 13 to 15, 2022. This year, the biggest challenge for Brazilians was to rescue democracy, which would restore dignity, recognize citizenship, reduce inequalities and guarantee social well-being. It is a practical task to which critical thinking can contribute a lot. The central theme of the Colloquia was “Solidarity, public policies and democracy”. The Covid-19 pandemic and the global health emergency situation proclaimed by the World Health Organization since the beginning of 2020 have aggravated and exacerbated chronic problems of unemployment, extreme poverty and hunger, while at the same time bringing enormous pressure on health systems. . The school system suffered a strong setback, with the suspension of classes as a strategy to prevent the incidence of cases. All of this took on the appearance of a tragedy because it happened when the Brazilian government was in the hands of the extreme right. The execution of its neoliberal agenda attacked and reduced the social security system, with disregard for human and social rights. The pandemic found the health system in full dismantling of its primary care network. The end of the Mais Médicos program was just a visible part of this process. What happened to the Brazilian school system from the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic was terrible. Millions of children and adolescents were left without face-to-face classes, and most of them did not have effective conditions to seek distance learning. Education implies socialization and two years of reduced interactions certainly have strong consequences for learning and sociocultural development.

The work presents the results of the first stage of the research on the insertion of competence in Information in the curricula of two courses of Library Science in Brazil and Mexico. Therefore, it is adopted as a methodological approach to exploratory research of a bibliographic nature. The empirical material examined was the curricular flows, the elements and, in some cases, the programmatic contents of the disciplines of two Library Science courses and similar ones existing in Brazil and Mexico. Collect and analyze two due dice by means of the content analysis of the items and discipline programs. The results reveal that Competência em Informação is more and more present in the format of disciplines in the curricula of two courses of Library Science in Brazil and Mexico, well as contained as a programmatic content of some discipline of the curriculum. Furthermore, the analysis reveals that the curricula do not have a standardization of the use of the term "competence in Information" in both countries. I conclude that competence in Information is a content that is presented in both a disciplinary and transversal way in some curricula, but that still no two curricula are found in most of Brazil, differently from Mexico.

The evolution of recent years in the profession has shown that our capacities and competences require a radical adaptation for insertion in the transition from industrial society to the information and knowledge society. This poses, from our point of view, a greater number of opportunities than threats; We hold this position based on the idea of ​​promoting and re-categorizing the profession by incorporating new technologies, within a framework of transdisciplinarity and multidisciplinarity. The role that we must assume is undoubtedly a leading one in which, through our professional expertise, we provide work teams with robustness in the search and information retrieval processes, but at the same time, we share with the users around us In this new paradigm, the same needs for that information and the interest to produce with those results, the transformation into knowledge of it. Taking as a premise that digital information is ubiquitous, we propose that he and the librarian be so in turn, or at least as some have already come to call, homeless librarians. It is in this sense, that transcending the physical limits of libraries and through the application of tools typical of library science, now ordered within a structured, iterative and sustained over time system such as Surveillance and Strategic Intelligence, some INTI information professionals are promoting this new integration model.

In this work the development of pluralistic approaches in the process of maturity of the information sciences is exposed, without this entailing putting aside the elements that have defined their paths of tradition. Three modalities of pluralism will be discussed (which can also be interrelated through an informative pluralism), which have involved a reconfiguration in some conceptions —but also a conduit for certain practices— within the Library Science or Archival Science, namely : epistemological pluralism, pluriculturalism and political pluralism.

Information literacy is a set of skills required recognizing the need for information, finding, Evaluate and use of generated information in legal, economic, cultural and ethical manner. To achieve information literacy an individual should have critical evaluation abilities and also need to acquire required skills of handling latest information technology in information seeking process Indigenous librarianship is a professionalism which required patriotic professionals to protect knowledge of aboriginal peoples of the country. Implementation of information literacy through the indigenous librarianship will develop the local, national and international bibliography. This paper focused on the importance of librarianship in the implementation and growth of information literacy as well as the possible problems or challenges need to be faced by the information professionals in society. Keywords: Information literacy. Indigenous librarianship, Indigenous knowledge; Information professionals, Literacy standards.

This article is the text read at the presentation of the book Le Biblioteche di Luigi Crocetti, saggi, recensioni, paperoles (The Libraries of Luigi Crocetti, essays, reviews, paperoles), AIB, 2014, edited by Laura Desideri and Alberto Petrucciani. Luigi Crocetti (died in 2007) was one of the most eminent personalities in the Italian library world of the last fifty years. Some of the most significant milestones of his career are: Director of the Laboratory of Restoration at The National Central Library in Florence, after the flood of the Arno river in 1966; Director of the Library and Archives Department of the Tuscany regional government; President of the Italian Library Association (AIB), Director of the Gabinetto G.P. Vieusseux. Crocetti was also leader of, or influential partner in, the major projects and programs developed in Italy during his professional life, including: the DDC 20 Italian Edition, the project SBN (the Italian Library Network), Editor of the journal Biblioteche Oggi , as well as collaborator in various journals and publishing activities. The numerous writings of Luigi Crocetti, published throughout his professional life, register punctually the evolution of libraries and librarian profession in times of major technological, cultural and social changes. Nevertheless Crocetti’s writings are not only an historical record of a perceptive (and committed) observer; they also constitute a collection of profound reflections and inspiring input for further discussion on the role of libraries and of culture in the society. Gifted with uncommon erudition, Crocetti shows an extraordinary ability to interpret the current reality and for see the future with a remarkable farsightedness. His writings touch on all aspects of the profession, from book preservation and restoration to public libraries, from cataloguing and indexing to library cooperation and networking, from national libraries, archives and museums, to user services. It is quite evident that Crocetti is aiming to an audience far beyond librarians, to include policy makers, managers, intellectuals and all those who have contact with libraries; in a final analysis he addresses to all citizens, being convinced that "culture is for everyone" and that “libraries must by their nature be deeply immersed in the overall cultural flow”. Innovation and renovation of the professional mentality are recurrent themes in the writings of Crocetti. The Author - fully aware of the international debate and attentive to technological change - identified in the progressive loss of contact between libraries and cultural tradition one of the weak points of the Italian librarianship. According to his view, this situation emphasized the ‘bureaucratization’ of libraries and librarians, which is a major cause of the erosion of their intellectual function. "The Italian librarianship - notes bitterly Crocetti - is rich in the past and poor in tradition”. It is a controversial issue, like many others (too often passed over by the professional debate) highlighted by Crocetti in his writing with clarity and equilibrium, like the true intellectual he was, able to rise above the interests of their own sector, but also capable of representing the aspiration to renew the librarian profession in the global dimension of our times.

Although the professional titles and ranks are different, everyone who is working in the field of information and documentation management has the responsibility of performing this profession in an ethical frame. This profession requires an academical education and specilisation as well as its service is required by certaing groups in society; and it has its own professional organisation and ethical rules. Anyone who choses this profession also carries the responsibilities of it. At the same he/she bears the honour of the profession that is different from any other pride and beyond of it. To systematically treat the people who work at lower rank in a manner that is hostile which can be accepted as psychological/moral harassment is againts the human rights and professional ethic; and it cannot be accepted whatever the reason. The starting point of the study is based on a hypothesis for which if anyone who is subject to a psychological/moral harassment is informed about the issue he/she can draw much easier a road map to find a solution to this unpleasant situation. The aims of this study are to determine the possible behaviours that will be described as psychological/moral harassment, and possible preventive actions againts them; and to inform the people who are working in the field of information and documentation management. In the research some of the moral harassment incidents in Turkey are taken as samples; those of incidents are examined according to the legal issues; and are compared with different overseas applications. As conclusion, the immediate actions against moral harassment; the legal rights of workers; responsibilities of employer; legal issues and human rights; and solutions are discussed.

The general objective of this research is to understand the characteristics of research training in undergraduate schools of Library and Information Science of the Argentine national universities. With a methodological quantitative and qualitative approach subjects programs with research content in existing curricula were analyzed, with special attention aspects of content, objectives and learning strategies. It is concluded that there is significant presence of subjects for research training in academic degree, although its distribution is not uniform and there are differences in content, objectives and activities. lines open questions for further research are discussed.

All research articles begin with a title. Most include an abstract. Several include keywords. All three of these features describe an article’s content in details. The title sends an instant reflection of the central theme of the research topic. The abstract summarizes the content. The keywords indicate the core and allied fields of concern. The researchers and indexers quickly and easily locate particular articles within their areas of interest with the aid of keywords. Keywords hold prime importance in abstracting and indexing services. Keywords play major role in information retrieval function. This paper is based on analysis of 14,221 keywords collected from 2,526 research articles published in three journals, viz. Chaos, Physics of plasmas and Low temperature physics since 2006 to 2012. Out of all these author-assigned keywords, the number of distinct bits obtained was 2571. After collection, the lexically close keywords are identified that form clusters. Several such clusters are found and the composition of keywords in nearly all clusters varies over the said time span. Four indicators have been defined on the basis of fluctuating keyword composition within clusters. The name given to these four indicators are stability index, integrated visibility index, momentary visibility index and potency index respectively. These indicators hold different values for different clusters. The value ranges of them are categorized in five groups, viz. very high, high, medium, low and very low. A new quantitative subject access tool has been proposed on the basis of these indicators, which can predict the probable new and obsolete keywords in any subject domain. The name given to this new tool is keysaurus, i.e. keyword-based-thesaurus.

Results of the 9th Congress Regional Information Health Sciences (CRICS)

This paper (An approximation towards the creation of a critical, analytical, and integral model of research in the sciences of information recorded in documents or the spirit of Eratosthenes) shows grosso modo an approximationn to the creation of an analytical, critical and integral model of analysis, based in the spirit of Eratosthenes for research in the sciences of information recorded in documents (e.g. LIS) in which the author (Muela Meza, 2010, 2009; 2008; 2007; 2006ª; 2005b; 2005c; 2004ª; 2004b) has been working in the last years. In addition, The construction of this model per se was part of the future themes for research that emerge from the author's doctoral thesis (Community Profiling to Analyse Community Information Needs, and Providers: Perceptions from the People of the Broomhall Neighbourhood of Sheffield, UK) (Muela Meza, 2010).

An analysis about careers guidance and situation of Library and information science is presented.

The present work is focused on describing the problem of theoretical construction of the concept of the Library. To do this, the author takes up the idea of epistemological obstacle proposed by Bachelard, to illustrate the way in how the empirical librarian work has not allowed to think the Libary from a theoretical point of view and scientific.

It contains the project of creation of the Research Centre in Documental Information (CINFODOC), which is projected as being the first organism of academic excellence of the School of Philosophy and Letters of the Nuevo Leon Autonomous University (UANL), Mexico and of the library and information science programs. The centre will carry out research with leadership and vanguard in the solution of the most grave social problems related to the processes of documental information in Nuevo Leon state, in Mexico and the world.

It contains the original preliminary research project as of 14 November 2007 for the creation of the first Research Centre in Documental Information (CINFODOC), which is projected as being the first organism of academic excellence of the School of Philosophy and Letters of the Nuevo Leon Autonomous University (UANL), Mexico and of the library and information science programs. The centre will carry out research with leadership and vanguard in the solution of the most grave social problems related to the processes of documental information in Nuevo Leon state, in Mexico and the world. This preliminary project was sent by the authors in direct communication to the Chancellor of the Nuevo Leon Autonomous University, Mr. M.C. José Antonio González Treviño on 16 november 2007.

It contains the original preliminary research project as of 14 November 2007 for the creation of the first Research Centre in Documental Information (CINFODOC), which is projected as being the first organism of academic excellence of the School of Philosophy and Letters of the Nuevo Leon Autonomous University (UANL), Mexico and of the library and information science programs. The centre will carry out research with leadership and vanguard in the solution of the most grave social problems related to the processes of documental information in Nuevo Leon state, in Mexico and the world. This presentation was attended besides of the authors by Mtro. José Reséndiz Balderas, Director of FFyL, UANL, Mtro. Rogelio Cantú, Academic Secretary FFyL, UANL and Mtra. Claudia Solano, Coordinator of LIS undergraduate programs at FFyL, UANL.

What are libraries really about? If libraries and librarians cannot compete with information technology giants like Google, how can they remain relevant to their communities of users? Crowley explores ways to understand how the general public and students view libraries. Bluntly stated, there is no longer any way that librarians and trustees can convince residents of local communities and members of college and university campuses that libraries are their primary information source. Given this reality, Crowley introduces the concept of lifecycle librarianship, offering a useful way of considering library roles and securing the necessary human and financial resources to carry them through. This presentation will encourage realistic and original thinking about the future of libraries and professional librarianship by redefining their primary roles from information suppliers to education providers and self-learning facilitators.

A brief revision is made on the evolution of the Documentation in Antena 3 Television between 1989 and 2006 on three fundamental aspects: systems of computerization, infrastructure of archive and orgnizational criteria. Also the opened process of transition of the analogical Documentation to the one of the new digital systems of production is analysed, identifying the main questions on the immediate future of the profession in this sector: changes in the models of business of the audio-visual production, new parameters from accessibility to the corporative archives of images, compatibility between yield and documentary management, and definition of new professional profiles of the documentalist of television.

A brief revision is made on the evolution of the Documentation in Antena 3 Television between 1989 and 2006 on three fundamental aspects: systems of computerization, infrastructure of archive and orgnizational criteria. Also the opened process of transition of the analogical Documentation to the one of the new digital systems of production is analysed, identifying the main questions on the immediate future of the profession in this sector: changes in the models of business of the audio-visual production, new parameters from accessibility to the corporative archives of images, compatibility between yield and documentary management, and definition of new professional profiles of the documentalist of television.

En las cuestiones teóricas que envuelven la discusión sobre el origen de la Ciencia de la Información (CI), se observa la existencia de dos concepciones: la norteamericana y la europea, las cuales presentan como pilar conceptual dos discursos distintos. Mientras la corriente norteamericana argumenta que la CI nació con la Biblioteconomía, en particular la Biblioteconomía especializada (Shera, 1980; Saracevic, 1992) y con las tecnologías de Recuperación de la Información – RI – (Bush, 1954); la vertiente europea, de orientación francesa (Otlet, 1934; Briet, 1951; López Yepes, 1993, 2002; Sagredo Fernandes, 2005), posee un discurso pautado en la Documentación, considerada por Rayward (1995) como el “germen” de la CI. Por lo tanto, se tiene en cuenta analisar esas principales concepciones en debate de la CI mediante un estudio investigativo, teórico y documental, para lo cual deberemos observar en qué medida las discusiones sobre su objeto, la información (y el documento) son esenciales para la sedimentación de esa área en desarrollo. Algunas veces se entiende la CI como una prolongación (aunque todavía controvertida) de la Documentación, debido al hecho de que ésta traiga, desde su creación, elementos relevantes para la comprensión de esa ciencia como área del conocimiento, identificándose sobre todo dos procesos que propiciaron su desarrollo teórico: la Organización de la Información – o del conocimiento – (el sentido en el cual se valoriza el contexto en que la información fue generada, para una mejor accesibilidad), que se refiere, nuclearmente, a las formas calitativas de relación de los contenidos informacionales, los elementos técnico-científicos y los elementos éticos y humanos de la disponibilización de esos contenidos a diferentes usuarios que pueden tener distintas necesidades; y la Recuperación de la Información (con el substancial soporte de la tecnología), principalmente después de las contribuciones de Bush (1954) que permitieron su considerable expansión en el aspecto teórico y tecnológico. De esta manera, la junción de ambas concepciones (la europea la norteamericana) establecen un importante vínculo de identidad para que se pueda pensar una CI en busca de su consolidación como área científica. En estos términos se busca, en la constante re-lectura de los autores clásicos del área, una identidad ubicada “más allá” de sus dudosas relaciones interdisciplinares, que algunas veces fortalecen esa disciplina (importando elementos teóricos y metodológicos de otras importantes áreas), y otras seducen hacia el equívoco de la no identidad (por ejemplo, cuando se confunde la CI con la misma tecnología que la sirve instrumentalmente). Partiéndose de ese diagnóstico, se ha realizado una discusión epistemológica sobre esa área del conocimiento, teniéndose como recorte el análisis de Capurro (2003) que mostró un mapeamento de los principales paradigmas (el físico, el cognitivo y el social) que sobre ella influyeron e influyen, en el cual la hermenéutica se revela una importante vertiente epistemológica presente y necesaria para el intento de solucionar los actuales problemas que emergen en la CI. Sumándose a eso, las vertientes paradigmáticas cognitiva y socio-cognitiva, en parte, atribuyen la causa de esos problemas al cambio en el papel del conocimiento (Wersig, 1993), lo cual lleva la CI a la preocupación de cuadrarse en una “ciencia pos-moderna”, posibilitándose así las relaciones interdisciplinares (Wersig, 1993; Ingwersen, 1992), principalmente con la Ciencia de la Computación, la Comunicación, la Inteligencia Artificial y la Biblioteconomía (Saracevic, 1992). Sin embargo, se ha considerado que, en gran medida, la indefinición, la imprecisión y la poca confianza que inspira el concepto de información reflejen la dificultad de una definición de los límites disciplinares de la CI, pues las “fronteras-límite” dentro de un discurso interdisciplinar de “pos-modernidad” son tenues, complejas y casi imperceptibles. Además, por ser una disciplina relativamente reciente, la CI todavía busca pilares conceptuales para definir su objeto, para bosquejar una “teoría general” y de métodos propios para la construcción de su identidad. En la busca de esa identidad, se observó que el objeto de la CI ha trascendido el libro (objeto de la Biblioteconomía clásica); el diploma, documento medieval de valor eminentemente histórico (objeto de estudio de la Diplomática Clásica); el documento diplomático moderno de valor histórico y jurídico-administrativo o archivístico (objeto de estudio de la Diplomática Moderna); y el mismo documento según la concepción otleiana (objeto de estudio de la Documentación), pues al abarcar un gran número de disciplinas con enfoque en los “haceres” o en el campo aplicado (Biblioteconomía, Documentación, Archivología y Museología), la CI eligió la información registrada en un soporte documental como objeto de estudio. Para llegar a ese resultado, se han llevado en cuenta, particularmente, dos concepciones distintas de información como objeto de la CI y que de alguna manera sintetizan dos polos de comprensión. Una de ellas es presentada por Malheiro y Ribeiro (2002), quienes han considerado no solamente las informaciones cosificadas, o registradas y materializadas (pues para los autores la información existe aún antes de su exteriorización y representación en un soporte documental); #aprehendiéndolas, también, bajo la forma intangible, o sea, propia de aquellas que son transmitidas en un proceso comunicativo, que en la interacción con el individuo posibilitan la creación de un nuevo conocimiento aún no materializado (o documentado), en una actitud particular de comprensión en el plano cognitivo, estando bajo la constante influencia del medio externo (o socio-cultural). Y la otra es presentada por Buckland (1997), quien al hacer una re-lectura del concepto de documento para la Documentación (tomandose como base referencial a Otlet y Briet), ha mostrado que el mismo puede ser caracterizado como tal a partir de la percepción y del énfasis de cualesquier atributos funcionales dirigidos hacia el contenido documental, o sea, las informaciones en él contenidas. De esa forma, para la CI esas informaciones adquieren características particulares, interesando, por lo tanto, en los términos de Buckland (1991), la llamada “información-como-cosa”, que se refiere a aquellas tangibles y pasibles de ser incorporadas a Sistemas de Información, pudiendo presentarse en una gama de soportes y eventos informativos, objetivadas o no, revalorizados circunstancialmente dentro de diferentes contextos socio-culturales e históricos. Se ha constatado que la información objeto de la CI es aquella que se encuentra registrada (o documentada). De esa manera, la realización de la pesquisa teórico-conceptual de documentos se vuelve relevante, pues su comprensión es fundamental para el entendimiento disciplinar de la CI y la comprehensión de su polémico objeto. Se ha comprendido, igualmente, que la relación entre información/registro y documento es “visceral”, o sea, es difícil definir conceptualmente cual de ésos sobresalen, pues en el contexto del objeto de la CI la ausencia del soporte documental ha excluido la posibilidad de la existencia de una información tangible y la no existencia de esa información (o su no percepción) anula la posibilidad de que se le atribuya significado al objeto/soporte que se volvería un documento.

The purpose of this paper consists in the making of a syllabus for the Logics course into the programs of Undergraduate Degrees of Librarianship and Archives Science at the School of Librarianship and Information at the University Autonomous of San Luis Potosi, Mexico. [ZMMM 07.02.07]

This paper discussed the role journals play in the development of emerging LIS scholars. It describes the characteristics of merging LIS scholars and concludes that editors are not doing enough to encourage emerging scholars in LIS. The paper recommends that there is a need for LIS Professional associations to provide an enabling environment for emerging LIS scholars in Nigeria.

This work aims to study the nature of information, taking as a starting point the cybernetic movement developed during the 40's and 50's of the last century. The development of this work will be carried out in two contexts: the biological, in which the materiality of information is generally considered; and philosophical, in which the notion of information is mainly linked to its conservation and transmission. In short, from these two contexts, we seek to emphasize the ontology according to which the world is ordered and organized in itself.

PhD Research Proposal for the PhD thesis preliminary title: "An Application of Community Profiling to Analyse the Information Needs and the Community Issues Affecting the People in Broomhall and Broomhill, Sheffield, and to Evaluate the Roles of Their Information Providers." This is the final PhD research proposal presented by the author to Professor Bob Usherwood, Professor Nigel Ford, and Lecturer Briony Train on 11 May 2005 and officially approved by them and the Research Committee at the Department of Information Studies of the University of Sheffield, England, UK.

An analysis of evaluation methods used in scientific journals in the area of Information and Library science is presented.

The present article approaches aspects related to them demarcating pillars of the Science of the Information, its field of domain, still analyzes aspects related to the concepts formed in literature and the divergence or convergence of the authors in the presented speeches.