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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).

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).

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 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 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.

In the current age, which is distinguished for the progress of technology and information the libraries have conspicuous place in the academic services of universities that are addressed in the instructive personnel, as well as in the students but also in the exterior users of libraries. In the frame of program E.P.E.A.E.K. titled “Pythagoras - Aid of Inquiring Teams of University Macedonia”, is held research titled “Investigation of Most optimal Practices: Growth of database from most optimal practices (Best practices) in administrative and organisational operations of universities of country”. Part of this study constitutes the investigation of most optimal practices from the libraries of Greek Universities. For the concretisation of research was realised recording of libraries of Greek universities. Followed the creation of questionnaire, which was based on qualitative and quantitative criteria, which was sent in all universities of country rectors in order that, it is transmitted in the persons in charge of academic libraries. Also were realised visits in the libraries of educational institutions for the collection of elements as well as search of information from the web pages of libraries. The particular statement will include the results and the recording of most optimal practices of services of Greek academic libraries, that corresponded in the research, as well as report in most optimal practices of services of library in foreigner universities.

In the season of electronic information it is required the re-examination of library scientists' role. The libraries supposed to be involved in the educational process, that is to participate in the process of growth of instructional strategy, as educational intervention in the growth of informative dexterities, as well as in instructional design, the process of content's planning and instructive strategy that will be used in educational environment. Instructional strategic as educational process and the instructional design are based on the theories of learning. There are exist a lot of theoretical approaches of learning. For the growth of instructional strategy the constructivism, that supports that individual acts in the objects and in the events and acquires his own perception for the world through the experience, he is presented offering the most mature approaches. Independent from the theory of learning that will be selected, in order to supported the obliteration of informative illiteracy it is necessary to recognized the dialectic relation of student and training process, the need of active attendance of librarians and the corresponding organisational support and crewing of libraries. The skills that are required for this work are taught this moment in the schools of librarianship in Greece. The librarians for supporting the work of informative literacy should be educated specifically in order to materialise such programs.

The ultimate use of library data is to help library managers in their decision making activities so that the organization works more effectively and efficiently. Focus on how libraries use statistics at the cross-institutional level. There are a variety of organizations that collect data on libraries in general and academic libraries in particular. Discuss examples of uses of data primarily collected by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) with an emphasis on the kind of information that potentially could be useful in the greek academic library environment. Academic libraries in particular face special challenges that need to be addressed with specially designed systematic data gathering activities accompanied by a wide distribution of the findings.