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A descriptive analysis of the Library's contribution to the internationalization of the University is carried out, based on the most significant fields of action indicated by the specialized bibliography: collection management and information resources, support for research and scientific publication, training aimed at the university community and the library staff, collaboration with exchange programs and professional stays, and participation in international projects. It is concluded that the Library has great potential to become an internationalization agent, by including this facet in its strategic planning, turning it into a mission or purpose, becoming a fundamental aspect in the implementation of functions, resources, and services, as well as in the development of processes and procedures.

Ornithology is one of the important branches of modern-day biology and deals with the methodologies and aspects related to the study of birds. This study collected a total number of 2699 keywords extracted from the titles, abstracts, and objects’ captions of 50 top-cited articles from the domain of Ornithology have been linguistically analyzed for this purpose. A total number of 938 subject-specific root words have been obtained from the analysis and also found that they are borrowed from 88 different subjects. Considering the existing theories of mode of formation of subjects in LIS field and viewing the results of the data analysis tables, it is interpreted that ornithology is multidisciplinary in nature and its mode of formation is distillation of Kind-2.

Berd Frohmann’s works have contributed to debates developing the field of Information Science, particularly in Brazil. Highlighted in this text are guiding elements of his neodocumentalism proposal concerning the documenting process. The aim in this context is to situate perspectives of the documentary practices, i.e. the documentation agency or documentation, in materiality regimes, based on Frohmann’s works, focusing on Foucault and Latour’s starting points. To achieve this, multiple aspects of the materiality of the document are considered, from a stratum of Frohmann's work, which feature mutual complementarity in at least three compositions: a) the permanence and strength of the materiality of the utterance influencing social and discursive practices in certain forms of institutionality (foucaultian archeology); b) the strength of the materiality of the document stemming from the relational dimension of power from the notion of device (foucaultian genealogy); and c) the materiality of the discourse, reaching materiality in artifacts and documents, produced from actors’ associations (latourian perspective). In these, both immanence and materiality value are regarded as relational toward the documentation agency, depending on the forms of institutionality guiding and guided by the actors, their associations, their relations of power, and their effects.

Modern academic librarians strive to qualitatively meet the information needs of their users. At the same time, librarians seek to take an active part in the organization and conduct of research. In this paper, we present the successful experience of Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University (Ukraine) in working on the wiki project “Dictionary of Borys Grinchenko” which uses elements of digital humanities, citizen science and gamification. The main aim of this project is to involve university students in getting acquainted with the Dictionary of the famous Ukrainian ethnographer and ethnographer Borys Grinchenko (1863–1910). During the project, students compete among themselves who will add the most quality explanations and visualizations of the Grinchenko’s Dictionary words to the University wiki portal. The results show that this project not only promotes the development of university web resources but also promotes cultural heritage, develop successful team building, helps to the involvement of students in research activities. This experience will be useful for other academic libraries looking for ways to join the digital humanities and can be replicated in small, low-budget academic institutions.

The CTBTO Library's main goal is to support novel strategy development by experts, ensuring sources of reliable information as well as keeping up to date the community with the latest research about the four main monitoring technologies of the verification regime by providing access to technical and scientific databases to the entire PTS. The CTBTO Library, as part of the Capacity Building Section, IDC Division (IDC/CBT), was tasked to develop a map of knowledge to understand accurately the specific information needed by the users, as well as to learn how CTBTO experts communicated with the scientific community. One of the best tools of Bibliometrics in Library Science to address this challenge is the social network analysis approach. This framework allows for identifying how the knowledge grows and learning when, how and who has established connections. The network visualization represents with bubbles the number of publications with links, direct connection and interaction in co-authorship, on the same organization or with many others every time one author recognizes its affiliation; countries in this analysis represent the collaboration between CTBTO State Signatories. This study provides insights where CTBTO may develop capacities with other institutions in terms of seismic, hydroacoustic, infrasound and radionuclide monitoring technologies to achieve its goal.

The paper explores the potential of Open Educational Resources (OER) in the current learning situation. It investigates the importance of Open Access Resources and Open Educational Movement in the changed society, which is network, oriented. The major benefits and challenges of creating and adopting OER as well as a few renowned OER initiatives are also explored in the study. It further examines the importance of Open Licenses for OER and the role of Library and Information Centres (LICs) in the promulgation of OER.

The headways and the democratization in the access to electronic tools for musicians have experienced a considerable increase, both in diversity and versatility of contexts. In this digital environment, libraries may act with the purpose to offering services that are quite unlikely in previous years. On the occasion of the centenary’s ephemeris of the Catalan cuplé, a pilot project with this musical heritage was proposed to the Library of Catalonia. The main objective of this project was the conversion of a score set of this music genre to its digital equivalent. In this way, the next following tasks were considered: the exploration of the maturity of Optical Music Recognition’s technologies, the appraisal of open-source music notation software’s and the planning of contexts and digital products to help with the promotion of the research and the dissemination of the Catalan musical heritage.

Promoting collaboration among the academics can improve the quality and visibility of research at global level. This paper discusses publication strategies that can help to achieve maximum research visibility and enhance the chances of collaboration among the academic and research community. Also presents how research and publication marketing tools such as Researcher Identifiers and Profiles, Academic Social Networking Sites, Online Reference Management Tools, Blogging and Online Magazines, Personal or Institutional Websites and Open Repository System can support in disseminating the scholarly publications for its optimal visibility. Stresses the role of librarians in guiding the academic and research community to use publication marketing tools, which can improve the visibility of their research and help them to create collaborative networks

The work brings together exploratory research and theoretical reflection on the relations between institutional spaces in the area of culture-information and the territories and communities in which they are registered. The focus of the discussion was to realize that defining today what would be a Culture and Information Unit (CIU) has become increasingly difficult, given the variety and complexity of possible profiles they can adopt. From examples of initiatives in the cities of São Paulo, Medellín and Madrid, the discussion of some related topics, such as mediation, mediatization and cultural collectives, is undertaken. Reflecting on these experiences, we raise the possibility that these units can increasingly incorporate the cultural practices of the subjects, increasingly mediated/ mediatizated by information and communication technologies (ICT). An aspect related to the hybridity of the spaces configured by the CIU is also related to the set of subjects involved in the processes that occur there and their relations with the urban contexts increasingly marked by the information flows. How do CIU align with these social and cultural movements? Based on this question, we also sought to systematize some reference points for infocultural policies and actions within the CIU

Introduction: this work is based on a historical-sociological approach, with the intention of using the conceptual dialogue of the social sciences with the informational concepts in the reorganization of the culture of the Paiter-Suruí ethnic group in its relation with contemporary culture and the digital world. Far beyond cultural exchanges and impositions, the imperative of acquisition through the social appropriation of technologies, communication and information (ICT) induced the Paiter-Suruí to a cultural adaptation and resistance to the network society. Objective: the paper proposes to present the process of transition from oral memory to digital memory. Methodology: This is a case study with documentary survey of the period of 2006: Paiterey Garah Indigenous Land Management Plan, Ethnozoneament and Oral Transcriptions to the present day of the Paiter-Suruí partnership with Google Inc., bibliographical review of information science, dialoguing with the social sciences. Results: the research reveals the process of cultural transition through social appropriation, reflecting the consequences, pros, cons and perspectives. Conclusions: social appropriation did not replace Paiter-Suruí´s oral tradition. Their expressions extended and the digital media became one of their presentations. The preservation of culture continues to be oral, but virtual sharing with other cultures announces them to the world. Their frontiers expanded beyond the real territory, their virtual expansion allowed them visibility and that, now, their voice echoes.

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.

Based on a brief review of the most recent evolu-tion stages of the public management, emphasizing the role that information management has had in them, the open government model is introduced as a tool of the collaborative government to form an objectively informed society. With this aim, the pillars of the open government model are explained, finding open government data as its main ally to make government's actions transparent and involve citizenship in the decision-making process. We conclude locating intermediary agents -including librarians- as bridging agents joining open govern-ment data and population through the development of platforms and skills included in the data-literacy concept.

India is a country located in southern Asia. With a population of over 1.3 billion people, in 29 states and 7 union territories, India is the most populous democracy in the world. Every state has unique traditional clothes that women wear. However there are three prominent types of clothes worn by women in India i.e. Sari, Salwar Kameez and Kurti. Over time, the sense of dressing has evolved and changed. Due to factors like globalisation and westernisation, today’s women take a modern approach when it comes to dress. The paper focused on female librarians’ clothing in India. The survey was conducted by inviting women librarians in every state to give their opinions about today’s clothing styles and their preferences of clothes for daily use and for special occasions such as conferences/ workshops/meetings, etc. The study also explored piercing and tattooing styles and their preferences, and use of jewellery by women library professionals. It was found that Salwar Kameez, Chudidar/Kurta and Saree were most preferred on weekdays, similar outfits were preferred on weekends or Saturdays including Kurti with jeans. Almost all feel comfortable and confident in the outfits they commonly wear. Respondents select outfits considering their profession and status. The majority felt that clothing/outfits have the influence on approachability of students/library users. Jewellery and other accessories were preferred by a moderate number of respondents whereas tattooing practice was totally absent. In case of stereotyping of librarians, respondents felt that librarians have had not been stereotyped in media as far as Indian media is concerned.

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are recent innovative addition to the online learning landscape and spreading rapidly in all disciplines including Library and Information Science (LIS) profession. MOOCs proliferates, LIS professionals have the opportunity to leverage this technology to improve their professional skills. This paper, intended to understand the MOOCs concept, MOOCs and LIS Education, MOOCs Benefits, Why LIS should be part of MOOC, and at the end discussed feasible areas of application of MOOCs in LIS domain etc.

As part of the 50th anniversary of EINA Centre Universitari de Disseny i Art de Barcelona, the History and Design Studies Research Group (GRHED) and the EINA Archive have produced a chronology that summarises the fifty years of the institution's history, from its foundation at the height of Francoism to the present day. It is an informational project, but one that, without neglecting academic rigour, aims to place EINA in the historical-social and cultural setting of the last five decades. The first part of the chronology, corresponding to the period between 1953 and 1980, places the background, the founding and the early years of the school in the context of a Francoist Spain that, more than a decade after the end of the Civil War and the initial severe repression, has relaxed slightly, favouring a more propitious scenario for the arrival of new educational experiences whose principles incorporate the ideas of progress and modernisation of society. Another of its main characteristics is the fact of having been undertaken from the perspective of the digital humanities. The digital humanities are an area of research, teaching and creation in which the studies of the different disciplines related to human culture and computer science converge, tackling projects such as the design and implementation of collections and digital repertories, the analysis and visualisation of large volumes of cultural data, and digital publishing in new formats of academic production in the humanities. The aim of the paper is to place the EINA chronology project in the context of the digital humanities, addressing aspects that range from the conception of the initial proposal to its final design.

The Web is the privileged place for seeking information. The potential of the so-called semantic web to enhance retrieval of relevant information seems essential. In Information Science (IS), this idea was developed from the Otlet’s “analogic semantic web”, justifying the connection between the Semantic Web (SW) and the field of IS. We aimed to exam and analyze the presence of subjects related to SW in the output of IS master and PhD courses in Portugal and Brazil (2005-2015). Specifically, we aimed to: identify IS courses, master's dissertations (MD) and PhD thesis (PD) associated to SW; identify the points of confluence between the IS and the SW in these works; characterize the academic profile of these works’ authors and advisors. Based on a qualitative approach, we performed a literature review and an empirical study focused on content analysis of the retrieved works (RCAAP and OASISbr). As results, we have: verified 4 unique records in RCAAP and 40 in OASISbr; identified 4 Master’s and 3 PhD courses (Portugal) and 16 masters and 9 PhD courses (Brazil); retrieved no MD/PD in Portugal, 16 MD and 5 PD in Brazil; identified 3 confluence points: a) mutual contribution (62%), b) WS as an interdisciplinary theme (29%) and c) complementary knowledge (9%); identified 11 works (52%) were the respective researchers have training in IS and Computer Science (CS). The study points to the WS as a field of investigation in IS, although essentially theoretical, insofar as practical interdisciplinary works in CI/CS are incipient and not representative.

This study investigates the relationship between School Library and Students’ achievement on a population sample of 9896 Schools. Many international researches confirmed the importance of the School Library for the Students learning. Recently the IEA PIRLS survey has revealed a positive relationship between the Reading comprehension performance and the size of the School Library collection. In this paper, we verify the relation between the results of INVALSI tests in Italian and Mathematics - on school grades 5,8,10 - with the presence and functioning of the School Library. The information on the School Library comes from the School Questionnaire compiled by the School Principal in the course of the Self-evaluation Report. The analysis confirm a positive relationship in each school grade and in both subjects of investigation.

The changes between the models for the accreditation of higher education educational institutions (approved as of 2017, and its predecessor) implemented by the National System of Evaluation, Accreditation and Certification of Educational Quality - SINEACE are presented. The standard referred to the information units is particularly reviewed.

In this paper we evaluate the theoretical assumptions of the discourses of the institutional repository (IR) innovation discipline. We argue that current theoretical assumptions of the discipline are limiting. We then propose that a new theoretical assumption that sees IR stakeholders as rational social actors is likely to aid the emergence of new insights in the IR discipline. To achieve our aim, we adopted insights in the institutional theory, social shaping of technology theory and stakeholders theory. We used insights in these three theories to propose a new theoretical assumption for the IR innovation discipline. The proposed theoretical assumption is vital because it explicates the importance of identifying IR stakeholders and how their everyday life realities lead to the construction of institutions which inform their concepts of IR and assumptions about how it should be innovated. We conclude that the theoretical assumption that evolved in this study is helpful to the IR community in two ways. First it provides the community with new constructs and concepts that are useful for empirical studies on IR innovation. Second, it facilitates the development of a model that explains how to overcome practical IR innovation barriers. From a wider perspective, our study supports socio-technical oriented approaches to investigating and implementing IR innovation.

The Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) of ASEE has been in existence since 1967, and since then, members of this division have been active participants in the programs of the ASEE annual conference. In this survey, we will present a descriptive analysis of articles published in the Proceedings of ASEE. Data was collected from the ELD webpage, the ASEE Proceedings webpage, and from Ei Compendex for the last 40 years (1976-2016). This study is based on bibliometric analysis and includes the use of visualization techniques with Sci2 Tool software. Although it is recognized that publishing policies for the Proceedings by the ELD Division and ASEE have changed throughout the years, this study aims to present an analysis of the papers published during this period.

The Future Library. The Library of Unborrowed Books. The Reanimation Library. A Library of Approximate Location. These are not typical names for libraries but they are tantalising and they are real. Each of these libraries has been created by an artist and they are not the only ones. These libraries function both as libraries and as art installations and can be temporary exhibitions or permanent installations. Some are recognisably libraries and others are not. Some are tied to a specific place and others are peripatetic. They are scattered around the globe and, as well as investigating artistic themes of time, loss, place and memory, consider the library as subject as well as object. As such, they raise interesting questions for librarians. What does the library symbolise for the artist and the audience? What are the motivations of the artists involved? What purposes do these libraries aim to achieve? What does it mean for the artist to become the librarian? What are the implications for us as librarians? What can we learn from these artist libraries? This paper will explore these questions and attempt some preliminary answers.

A PAST FOR THE FUTURE: THIRTY YEARS OF SBN, the Italian Library Network. This article is the text of a talk given by the author at a conference on the thirtieth anniversary of the Italian Library Network, SBN (Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale). With more than six thousand libraries of different types, and tens of thousands of users who search daily its online catalog of 15 million titles, SBN represents today a great achievement for the Italian library community. Strategies and critical issues of the various stages of the program development are stressed, as well the new challenges emerging from the technological and social changes of the last decade. Finally, future prospectives are outlined and discussed, taking into account the strong points of SBN and the library’s changing role in the new communication environment.