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With the proliferation of the social web, questions about information quality and optimization attract the attention of IS scholars. Question-answering (QA) sites, such as Yahoo!Answers, have the potential to produce good answers, but at the same time not all answers are good and not all QA sites are alike. When organizations design and plan for the integration of question answering services on their sites, identification of good answers and process optimization become critical. Arguing that ‘given enough answers all questions are answered successfully,’ this paper identifies the optimal number of posts that generate high quality answers. Based on content analysis of Yahoo! Answers’ informational questions (n=174) and their answers (n=1,023), the study found that seven answers per question are ‘enough’ to provide a good answer.

Paradigmatic issues related to Information Science have molded a global scenery. This is seen and reinforced in the last decades of the twentieth century and beginning of the twenty-first century mostly due to the valorization of information. Thus, libraries are a reflection changes generated by the Information Society once these try to adapt and promote service improvement for library users. These considerations point out that this work aims to present partial results of a PhD research that has as an objective to analyze in a comparative fashion the impact of digital technology in academic libraries in Portugal and in the northeastern part of Brazil. The results related to the perception of paradigmatic changes in the info-communication actions in the libraries that were researched are discussed. The methodology used was based on the quadripolar model. This model emphasizes four different poles the epistemological one, theorectical, technical as well as the morphological one. An on line questionnaire was used as a data collection instrument, addressing the technical angle of the methodology. Thus, some results can be already pointed out. A great majority of librarians in both countries believe that the infocommunicative relations were improved by the digital technologies present in the libraries. On the other hand there is a certain fear on behalf of the librarians related to the speed in which these changes happen, these are not in the same pace of the present reality. Finally either by structural or ideological issues there are still some barriers that prevent acknowledgement of what is understood as the focal point of the post-custodial informational and scientific paradigm, all of which takes us to experiment paradigmatic tension.

Shows a specific panorama related to some concepts and developments on Open Access journals in digital libraries by means of a brief analysis on remarkable issues. Provides enriching observations to describe OA definition, a historical approach, authors, librarians, editors and academic institutions’ perspectives; additionally, it presents concrete examples of digital journals universe.

The article made ​​public the achievements and the prospects of the State Scientific Pedagogical Library of Ukraine. Sukhomlinskiy as scientific and methodical center of a network of educational libraries MONMS NAPS of Ukraine and Ukraine according to research as it develops. Characterized prospects information and communication libraries interaction with regional libraries.

In recent years the agenda on research about information users has centered on the search for a theoretical foundation that made ​​more rigorous the research process and the search for the most appropriate methodology for the study of the various aspects of information search process. Regarding the theoretical foundation, it has been a proliferation of models for the study of these aspects, which has impacted positively on the research done in this field. Regarding methodology, it is possible to see greater diversity of approaches, unlike in the past. However, despite the significant achievements in the theoretical and methodological, a gap still exists as a result of unresolved motivations and needs that guide user research units information. In this situation, it is necessary to seek necessary and possible interaction between the process of user-centered research and management cycle of an information unit via a feedback to determine future courses of action, both in the field of research as in the management information units.

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).

The platonic nexus between texts life and the vitality of knowledge communities that insisted on them was very important and evident. The problem about the theories' paternity remained secundary: “auctor” was him who was able to establish a durable knowledge community. In an industrial and centralized system of information distribution, texts go away from knowledge communities. Scientific Community itself, trying to survive, has to become a publisher, by adoption of peer review. Unlike printed publishing Internet enables low cost reproduction and distribution of texts.

From Silicon Valley to BIBLIOPOLIS. Micro-cluster of Poznań libraries collecting legal and economic literature. The aim of the following presentation is to show the experience and initiatives of the co-operating informal working group composed of the representatives of different libraries of the town. The novelty included in the venture is that it concerns co-operation and joint activities of libraries of different types despite formal constraints hampering this co-operation within the broadly understood scope the target subject, i.e.law and economics. In practice, the co-operation involves specialization in relevant collection holding areas through consultations as to the acquisition of sources (both traditional and electronic), information of the collections and joint (and thus more economic) use of own resources as well as through popularization of modern economic knowledge within the library community. This activity is presented in the light of one of the most modern and dynamically developing theories of regional co-operation known as clusters.

The scientific and professional work of a librarian is strictly linked to its international dimension. The ability to put together library science research and international working tools, and the peculiarity of the local tradition is up to the librarian, to his professionalism and skills.

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

The current paper covers the subject related with the official Spanish translations of the Dewey Decimal Classification, seeing as a support for its development and update. However, even this development has been influenced specially by the inclusion of new geographic terms; it has not been less important for the internationalization process of the Dewey Classification itself.

The Learning (or Information) Commons concept has transformed and extended library services in universities worldwide and most university libraries have adopted aspects of the concept. At Victoria University (VU) the Commons has co-located related student services. Student Rovers are a key feature of the service offered. To build an online community of practice for the Rovers, VU experimented with open source social networking software. A central lesson is that, while web-based social networking is essential, the usability and reliability of any particular software is less important than the way in which such tools are used by participants. This paper will outline preliminary results of VU's evaluation of the pilot and dispel some of the myths and fairy tales around using social networking software in an educational context.

The outline of a theoretical frame is attempted, concerning the formation of a national policy for the libraries, based on the exploitation of the strategic cooperation that are being developed between libraries, The main core of library activities is taken as the starting point i.e. the exploitation of the particular characteristics, features or properties of the (digital) information on behalf of the users. Through the identification, research, study and recognition of these particular properties, a corpus of safe and objective criteria can be created which will help in checking the soundness of the proposals and activities that are undertaken i.e. if the subject of the library activities, the user, is facilitated to exploit the particular properties of the digital information.

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.

This paper talks about the origin, scope and definition of Information Architecture. Information Architecture is involved in the processes of creation and implementation of a Web site. These processes have been related with the Viscaya´s Life Cycle of Information, with the aim to propose a life cycle of information in a web environment.

Academic Libraries of 21st century have to face numerous challenges from the internal and external environment. The effect of technology is reflected in the transformation of their collections, services and their disposal, in the policies that are followed, in the distribution of sources, such as, in the ways that personnel deal with all those changes. This moment of changes and increasing flexible structures in all organizations, the libraries today, more than never, can focus their services in the content and they can create a system of information delivery orientate to the person-user. Those prerequisites and skills which place Librarian and general the Information Scientist, capable enough to come up successfully in today’s role of Library, have not been fully investigated. Although the role of organizational characteristics in the change process has been extensively analyzed and discussed in the literature, individual characteristics, which are equally crucial for the success of change, have been neglected. Evidence exists to suggest that intelligence alone will not explain our achievement at work or life and that emotion plays a key role in organizational success. Emotional Intelligence (EI) is the ability to monitor one’s own and others’ feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them and to use this information to guide one’s thinking and actions. EI, according a lot of researchers of the field, constitutes one of the main elements of success in life, probably with much more influence than the one of knowledge intelligence, in many aspects of human behavior, including work and education. The concept has been argued and discussed at length by psychologists and it appears to have key applicability in the management area in debates over differences between management and leadership and whether the difference between a manager and a leader can be attributed to an understanding of emotional intelligence. As a result of EI, according several researchers, is the increasing cooperation between staff, the staff motivation from the leaders and as a result of all these, is the high productivity and outcome. Low percentage of conflicts and higher levels of readiness for creation and innovation are observed in staff with increasing EI. Incorporating the model of EI in their daily routine, librarians can develop skills which will lead them to a successful interpersonal contact with users, targeting to accomplish their informational needs. This paper, based to the existing literature, attempts to analyze the concept of EI and to emphasize its value, in relation with the possibilities can exist after its use in the work field and especially in Academic Libraries. As a conclusion, through bibliography, it seems that EI is a field for research and practice with lots of promises.

Reflecting the importance of activities and services in the children's library in vulnerable areas to train children's readers, planning and implementing specific activities through the provision of services to small users, achieve their full development in the habit of reading, this increase creativity, the ability of expression, concentration, memory, communication and socialization to make use of leisure time through recreational activities.

The basic characteristics of Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs)and e-learning are presented. The issue of information overload and the production and dissemination of digital information is discussed. The importance and the necessity of access in evaluated information are reported. It is concluded that for underpin of VLEs, the organization of information literacy programmes with the collaboration of faculty members and library personnel, is essential.

Facilitating the access to our digital cultural heritage is one of the biggest challenges for the moment within the domain of museums, archives and libraries. The development of ontologies which would formalize the relations between cultural ressources, creators, places and time of production could offer new exciting possibilities. However, if the development of a thesaurus is already highly problematic for most cultural institutions, is the idea of implementing ontologies not all to ambitious ? Independant of the academic research on ontologies, another new approach regarding the indexing of digital documents has risen, under the name of social tagging or folksonomies. This form of uncontrolled indexing by the user community emerged from the blogosphere, but has recently been implemented within collection management systems of certain museums and libraries. But what is exactly the added-value of folksonomies and do they really offer a more democratic access to our heritage ?

Assumed that hermeneutic and heuristic are no more than words, Digital Library world abounds with words unclear, not only to users but to operators, too. It is worthy to add to the tangled world of DL 2.0 these two words, unheard in the theorethical books of the Library Science 1.0, though obstinately proposed by many of pur "classics". Our task is that of simplify to us and to the others the language of communication, of the reaching of the DL Manifesto and related studies. In this effort for a generalized simplification of all the words unclear to most of the users and operators, it is essential a propaedeutical work of "taking possession" of the deep meaning of such terms, first of all understanding what are the meaning and need of hermeneutic and heuristic in Digital Library, then achieving, following and founding on such bases our studies, and in the end preparing and communicating the DL to a world that is waiting for it.

In the information lifecycle, libraries, traditionally, have a tertiary position: they select, mediate and diffuse existing information and documentation. Digital libraries, instead, add a fourth function: they support the documents production, with e-prints repositories, e-journals and other open access instruments.

The speech rebuilds some passages of the debate on information and knowledge in the postwar period, epitomizing the turn happened at the end of the 20th century with the description of Gibbons about a mode 2 opposed to a mode 1, of R&D, about an interdisciplinary way of producing knowledge and abput the valorisation of a mute knowledge. On the epistemologic level it is proposed a position that introduces the role of the cognitive processes in the knowledge building, distinguishing itself from the model that has prolonged until now as the basis of the information science. The idea of information as the objectifying of a structured knowledge of the mode 1 and as a product of the collaboration and the sharing of the mode 2, finds its correspondence the model of the participated library proposed by Lankes.

This position paper argues that the Web 2.0 phenomenon is an important object of study for information systems research, and that a social informatics approach to understanding Web 2.0 is particularly relevant and useful. We discuss Wikipedia as an example of empirical research on Web 2.0 that can help bridge the divide between academic and popular discourse on new technology movements.

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.

The question of research raised in this paper is how typologi, viewed here as a subject organization of information categories, in the field of contemporary art, can be of some help in the criticism of the information sources and their accessibility. In a first part, we study typology as a theoretical tool of documentation and research. A second empirical part is devoted to the elaboration of a typological chart based on the analysis of five major websites and gateways on plastic arts and art history.

This paper analyses metadata practices and needs in the French research community. It focuses on PhD theses whose life-cycle is totally controlled by the academic institutions. It uses information treatments dealing with setting up research policy as samples for an e-research orientation. Several case-studies illustrate the fundamental role of various repositories containing affiliations, authorities or linguistic items. ARTIST, the collective author of this paper, is introduced.

The Library and Information Studies programs at Islamic universities in Indonesia were born from the idealism thought that the advent of globalization era is a reality fact that we have no choice but to face and anticipate it. This is, not only as a challenge toward social culture and social religious for each society group or country, but also as an opportunity for all people to enrich their vision and empower their identity. The establishment of these library studies programs at state Islamic universities in Indonesia also has a pragmatic background, the real needs of professional librarian provision to fulfill the expectation of people in improving the quality of Islamic educational institutions is very high. It means that the absence of this library and information education, including that is characterized by Islamic literatures, in Indonesia will cause stagnation of our efforts to improve the quality of Islamic educational institutions as a whole. In Indonesia among Islamic universities, which are offering library and information science program, are Arraniry State Islamic University, Imam Bonjol State Islamic University, Sunan Kali Jaga State Islamic University and Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University. In general, at least, there are three similar elements in the mission of the library and information program offered in Islamic Universities. Firstly, to be involved actively in developing librarianship sciences in Indonesia, specifically related to Islamic sciences. Secondly, to fulfill the needs for professional librarians for all kinds of library, documentation and information centers, especially in Islamic educational institutions like madrasah libraries (Islamic school libraries) and Islamic university libraries. And finally, to apply and anticipate the global development of information technology for improving library services. Our mission in establishing the program of library and information sciences is not only to prepare professional librarians but also to keep in touch with all our stakeholders in the government and private sectors.

Cultural aspect is an interesting subject to study. In the global changing context, all nations become multicultured. We need to understand that this aspect is one of the factors causing something to work or will not work. There are cultural clashes, differences of norms, values, customs, and so on. Studying these cases of JIBIS & Humanities and Pustaka Bersama, two local library networks working in the same field performed by non-government organizations (NGO), we can make an analogue about the whole description of the cooperation of the Indonesian society. We do not make generalizations but at least we will learn the development process, that cultural aspects influence the system. We can use this own experience to build better networks, in local, national or even international levels. Library networks are built based on the following reasons: information explosion, fast development of technology and the cost of efficiency. These three reasons are the basic factors. On other case, there are special reasons for the libraries, they are: developing relationship, cost efficiency of their in-frastructure, and developing their professionalism. Although, in the global context, where the information are available everywhere, and the explosion of information technology, however, among libraries should build a cooperation. The fundamental reason is no single library could fulfill its information to its users needs by itself. The research shows that there are constraints in limitation of librarian behavior and lack of financial support. One of the JIBIS founders, Blasius Sudarsono, at Portal JIBIS dan Humaniora launching, in 26th May 2005, convinced the result, and he added that network activities have the lack of their institution responsibilities. The social phenomenon, which is observed from cultural perspectives, will be understood comprehensively. Library network activities emerged in 1971 when Workshop in Documentation and Information Network System in Indonesia, was held in Bandung. The meeting found that Indonesia needs 4 information networks. They are in the field of science and technology, Agriculture and biology, health and medicine, and social sciences and humanities. But there are several libraries and information networks in Indonesia, in various fields, such as law, agriculture. Unfortunately, only few networks can run continuously in the long period. Though the networks can run, it is limited to the information exchange of collections, the informal meetings between librarian members, etc. Based on the problem above, the paper will be focused on analyzing why individuals who engaged in the networks of JIBIS & Humaniora and Pustaka Bersama could not performed well. With the quali-tative approach, analyzing its cultural aspects. Concerning the data collection, I will use interview method and reviwing the documentation, the cooperation attributes, the websites home page and their symbols. The signification of this paper is to enhance and develop the library network processes in Indonesia to aim their objectives; to introduce new cultural perspective of the network for the library and information science in general. By examining the network problems from multidiscipline approaches which are holistic, we can map their strength and the weaknesses, so we can build a better strategic to develop local and international network in the global change. To understand this paper better, this study uses assumptions. First, the rapport between two individuals or more is based on the similarities on behavior, values, beliefs, and commitment of related individuals. The similarity of basic assumptions on ‘network’ facilitates the integration and adaptation of individuals to enter new environment. The idea is supported by cultural and behavioral organizational theory from Tuckman (1965), diffusion process from Rogers (1995: 335). The second, the cultural organization influences the cultural individual (corporate culture from Schein in Hampden-Turner, 1990: 13 and Rogers, 1995: 335). The third, the individual behavior is related to the organizational policy, such as financial policy, or other interest. If there are such conflicts, individuals ma y sustain the network. These assumptions are used as a guide to collect data as social phenomena and used in doing the study stages. Data collected from interviews and observations are interpreted based on the cultural concepts.

Freedom of Information is the air for democracy to breathe, and in Indonesia the initiatives on drafting an FOI Bill was led by a group of NGOs in 2000. This writing presents the background history of FOI Bill in Indonesia, the role of NGOs in drafting the bill and the progress of the FOI bill to date.

This presentation tried to explore several information theories and the research on Information. Multidicipline is the keyword for the information research in nowadays.

Presents refletions about subjets that rises from the context of scholarly communication in the 21 Century. One of them refers to distintion between electronic publications, as scientific production, and news forms of organization of this production in institutional or disciplinaries repositories. Other subject refers to OAI (Open Archives Initiative)framework that allowed a new arrangement of the online scientific production and also become fundamental to scholarly communication cicle in the digital context. The conclusion is that infra-structure, that allow online publication and constitutes repositories and services provides, is essencial to all subjetct fields to promote scientific development.

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]

Considering the need to identify epistemological foundations to better understanding Informatin Science (IS) as a scientifical branch it seeks elements from Knowledge Organization (KO) as an intermediate activity between the production and the use of knowledge in order to analyse how the concepts of document and knowledge articulate each other on it. In this sense, the historical background (DAHLBERG, 1993, 1995) is approached as a starting point to reach the concept (HJORLAND, 1994, 2003; BARITÉ, 2001; JAENECKE, 1994) and, as a consequence, the object of KO, when it is possible to discuss the conceptual relations between Knowledge and Document (GARCÍA MARCO, 1995; HJORLAND, 1994, 2003; BARITÉ, 2001). As a result, it is possible to observe that the concept of document can be considered a basis in such a sense that IS and KO can establish dialogs in order to proceed to the construction of their epistemologial universe, since it furnishes a convergence between information and knowledge.