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Provides overview of need, technologies and importance of library portal and dynamic websites. Discuss the user needs in terms of easy access to library online resources and need for libraries to adapt to such demanding requirements.

In the Spanish language there are few collections of decodable books (Sánchez-Vincitore, 2018) and those available belong to commercial publishers or are for private use. Understanding the importance of explicit and progressive teaching of the alphabetic principle, as well as the need for high-quality texts for reading practice, the USAID-Leer project created a collection of decodable and leveled books to support the learning of reading from girls and boys of the first cycle of primary school. To guarantee that these educational resources can be easily found, accessed, used and distributed (Veras, 2020), the Universidad Iberoamericana (UNIBE) defined a strategy for the open dissemination of this content, also aiming to contribute to the creation of more inclusive knowledge societies (UNESCO, 2019). The initiative has involved the work of the Resource Center for Learning and Research (CRAI-UNIBE) and consists of the creation of a digital collection that organizes, preserves and offers online access to the books created by the project. Previous studies indicate that digital platforms that host this type of resources require software and interfaces designed according to the needs and particular characteristics of their users (DeJongh, 2014). Future actions of the UNIBE strategy and the USAID-Leer project are aimed at responding to this need.

There are several methods and tools to measure web quality. Some allow to evaluate any site and others are specialized in a specific sector: sectoral analyzes. This study presents a review of the works that focus on the education sector, composed of the websites of universities, libraries, schools and distance training platforms, among others. The objective is to identify the most relevant publications and to know which are the main authors. For this, a systematic literature review of 161 articles was carried out among more than seven hundred published between 2000 and 2018 in Scopus, Web of Science and other databases, together with the citations received in Google Scholar. As a result, it is found that almost one third of the evaluation instruments are formulated from the computer sciences. The vast majority of the works correspond to articles university sites, being also the most cited. It is concluded that web quality in this sector arouses interest in the scientific community and becomes increasingly specialized.

Access to information is one of the factors that promotes the inclusion of people in society. However, the perception of accessibility depends on individual needs, considering that there are many types of users. This work seeks to analyze the accessibility in two institutional portals of education with the use of automatic validating software. It has a qualitative approach, descriptive purpose and the data collection was based on the reports of the validators ASES and AcessMonitor. The results point to the attention that should be given to the access characteristics of the various users on the Web.

This resource offers a compilation of different approaches on Infoxication and content curation from a multidisciplinary perspective, with the possibility of recovering the physical dimension and the socializing function of the Library and the role of the information professional in this field. A series of techniques that can be applied are mentioned and some sources related with the subject are suggested. An analogy of content curation with the common processes in the information units and the opportunity to enter this field with all propriety is made. These issues are linked to information audits, information architecture and the relationship between content and people, adding value to the information.

Regarding the high importance of credibility evaluation of health information online in every day and career life, the current research aimed to explore how expert users including students and faculty members evaluate health information on the web especially with regard to their personality trait of conscientiousness. By considering the extensive body of literature and research methodologies, a random sample including 148 students and faculty members located at the two faculties of Medicine Sciences and Nursing and Midwife at the Tehran University of Medical Sciences was the population of the study. Two validated questionnaires related to credibility and conscientiousness was distributed among the participants. Gathered data were then analyzed by SPSS software. Data analysis showed that there existed some problems in evaluating the credibility of online health information and quick retrieval. About half of the participants evaluate web health information as credible often and very often. Most important quality assessment criteria were objectivity, currency, and authority. There was a significant correlation between conscientiousness and credibility assessment of the students and faculty members. There appears a change in trust to information found accord with the change in conscientiousness levels. There was no significant correlation between conscientiousness and trust to information among ill people. Quality and credibility were identified as most important problems in assessing health information on the web. There is a significant and meaningful correlation between conscientiousness and trust or mistrust to health information available via the Web.

The mobile web, in a nutshell, and simply has to do with the possibility of accessing the World Wide Web through a mobile device, that is, from a cell phone or from a tablet. The attractiveness of mobile communication technologies is that they allow immediate communication on the move, making it easier for people to come into contact with each other, regardless of time and place. Smartphone applications are leading the digital universe and are now close to being what we invest the most time in all digital media. Some of these applications may not seem readily applicable to libraries, but it is necessary to take into account that other public or private entities are making use of these mobile technologies, and that this can be very valuable in triggering new ideas and initiatives, and That innovation in any arena is built on a knowledge base. Therefore, libraries must take into account the technologies that our users are using to offer new, more robust services without making users leave their comfort zones to integrate the services of the library into the behavioral patterns of daily life of people. At its most basic level, an increasing number of libraries are creating mobile versions of their websites to facilitate their users' access to the contents and services offered by the library. These applications provide information on library services and collections, access to catalog search, digital content, location, schedules and thematic guides through formats adapted to the small screen. But the universe of applications goes further, When we talk about mobile applications in libraries we have to take into account at least three areas of application: applications of libraries. Applications of reading and investigation and useful applications for the daily life

Architecture is an inter-disciplinary field, with an emphasis on creative design skills. Students’ questions at the library’s reference desk relating to their studio design work can be classified into seven categories: architectural history, building types, materials and technologies, construction details, design manuals, precedents and case studies, and visual inspiration. Whereas the first six are similar to those encountered in other disciplines, and can be fulfilled in a straightforward manner using standard library search and discovery tools, visual inspiration poses a challenge to students and librarians. Where does this challenge originate? For over a century the tools and methods used by libraries for subject access, have been developed for predominantly textual materials. A key assumption underlying classification and indexing is that a document is about something, and that this something can be expressed in words. But how can this notion of aboutness be extended to a medium using nonverbal symbolism? This implies that the library’s search and discovery tools and the accepted models for information seeking behavior are not well suited for visual searching. Recent studies in human cognition have shown that the brain is capable of rapid image processing, requiring just a few tens of milliseconds to recognize an image that meets a predefined criteria presented among other images. Therefore, browsing images appearing in search results is more efficient than browsing text. This can be implemented by extracting images from documents in databases and library collections, and displaying them as thumbnails in previews of documents that appear in search results.

Normally users of a virtual health library have different professional profiles (physicians, nurses, pharmacists...) and/or they are from different specialties (Primary Health Care, Internal Medicine, Oncology...). This poster shows the experience of the Virtual Health Sciences Library of the Balearic Islands (Bibliosalut) of creating thematic web portals, which aims is to improve the experience of our users to browse and query to information resources and services of the virtual library and to increase its use. Different information resources that Bibliosalut offers were selected for each thematic web portals, according to the interest and frequency of use that they may have for users of professional profiles. From the backend of the Bibliosalut Content Management System (Joomla), the necessary modules were created to present the selected information in various thematic web portals: featured resources, e-journals and e-books of each specialty that are available in the virtual library, journals of each specialty with impact factor ISI, clinical practice guidelines, useful links, etc., as well as featured information of library services, such as training courses from the Users Training Service of Bibliosalut aimed at specific groups. Nowadays, we are working to offer more thematic web portals of others specialties to Bibliosalut users and in the future we are going to evaluate their satisfaction about the usefulness of creating these thematic web portals. The result is a bilingual website (Catalan and Spanish), which consists of a main home page (www.bibliosalut.com) with a sort of thematic home pages, and customized URLs depending on the specialty or the professional profile of the users of the virtual library (e.g. Bibliosalut for Primary Health Care professionals: www.bibliosalut.com/ap). In addition, it includes several sections with information resources (data bases, e-journals, e-books, and the like) available for each specialty in Bibliosalut. We believe that the presentation of information in a virtual health library, highlighting the most useful resources and the most used by professionals who have a specific profile or a specific specialty, will help the usability of the web, it will improve the experience of our users to browse and it will increase/promote the use of information resources and services of Bibliosalut.

Proposes to directly prompt reputed database use over search engines by means of a 3D self- test method and a Linguistic Storm. A 3D self-test schema is used to make users aware of the existing databases within their own libraries pointing to exploit them. The 3D schema consists of three graded axes that involve: a) users´ academic level; b) electronic resources; and, c) linguistic steps to make the IR results pertinent, not repeated (relevant). Additionally, a brief didactic procedure to profit the library’s collections is presented. Furthermore, some editors (Proquest, Elsevier and EBSCO) approaches to include their collections references into the popular search engine Google, are discussed. Finally, some remarks on the didactic procedure are included.

Analyzes 12 softwares used in Metric Studies of Information: BibExcel, CiteSpace II, CitNetExplorer, CoPalRed, LoetLeydessdorf, Network Workbench, Science of Science, VosViewer, HistCite, Pajek, Publish or Perish and Scholarometer. This study found that the informatic programs presented four levels of data manipulation: recovery, preparation, analysis and data visualization. The methods of data analysis used are bibliometric mapping, geospatial, thematic, temporal and network analysis. The input sources data includes: Web of Science, JCR, Scopus, PubMed, arXiv, Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic Search, NASA ADS, National Science Foundation.

Because of a variety of procedures related to design and presentation of web content and structure, there would be a pressing need to consider issues of quality of web information in upcoming years. It is argued, in the current paper, that evaluation issues related to credibility and quality assessments are of high importance in web environment in comparison with traditional information environments. Some evaluation skills like authority, coverage, currency, objectivity, accuracy, critical thinking and information literacy all of which could be categorized as Web Literacy would be fruitful in doing so. There exists, however, lack of evaluation skills among users caused by their cognitive styles, prior knowledge, information skills and of web resources characteristics as well. Some other solutions like dialectical reading, information ethics and also institutional policymaking will also be taken into account at the end of the paper.

The advent of electronic technology as a natural evolution of the environment, of the spaces and the tools for reading was quickly assimilated. Immediately there was talk of new eras, neurological changes and relational, in the meantime our habits and the way we do research in books and in the spaces made for reading were changing. McLuhan and De Kerckhove urges us to think that the electronic media is an extension of the body, a component that belongs to us and aid in the accomplishment of certain actions, necessary today. The reflection has the objective to chart the path started by new technologies and social networks in relation to the reading of his consumption and its diffusion. The interest in virtual and not perceptible materially has very accentuated in the last decades. Depart from here, from a set of codes that approached according to rules and precise calculations originate the grammar binary.

The visibility of Cybertesis UNMSM (http://cybertesis.unmsm.edu.pe/) is analyzed by cybermetric criteria (co-citations, web visibility and impact) and webometric criteria (analysis of web visits). Online Crawlers were used to determine the amount of co- citations from the repository (March 2013 - March 2014); the tool AWStats was used to identify the temporary number of visits; and for the number of downloads, the own statistics from DSpace, open source software used for managing and publishing content Cybertesis UNMSM, were used.

The presentation steps on the idea how user satisfaction, which is completely subjective factor, raises the efficiency experience of the libraries, by applying multi-functional library card. The New Bulgarian University Library (NBU Library) membership card saves time, efforts and minimizes the necessity to use additional identification proves.

Given the focus on Information Literacy in an academic context, this contribution to the “Torrossa Retreat 2013” examines the Torrossa platform as a tool for bibliographical research. First, we will consider the educational objectives and methods that should be taken into account when organizing training activities in order to develop information skills, according to international guidelines and standards for Information Literacy. Secondly, using the example of an Italian University Library (Milano-Bicocca), we will observe various Information Literacy-based activities both online and on-site. We will outline indications of efficiency and effectiveness and review data gathered from a Customer Satisfaction survey. We will then put forward a useful model to guide users through the search process, and provide examples of preparatory activities necessary prior to the use of search tools, from subject analysis to the determination of search strategies. Finally, we will look at the various search functions offered by the Torrossa platform and offer a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) analysis, demonstrating the following aspects: the utility of the resource as a search tool for the Humanities and Social Sciences, the importance of continual content development and enrichment, the need for further promotion of the resource and for greater user training.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the use of RSS by library professionals in India. A structured online questionnaire was posted in LIS-forum mailing list to collect data for the study. The study found that majority of the respondents are aware of RSS and they are using it for providing various library services. Majority of the respondents use RSS several times a day and most of them subscribes new RSS feeds through search engines. Current Awareness Service and news updates are the major RSS based services provided by librarians. According to a majority of the respondents the major disadvantage of RSS is that not every website offer RSS feed. This study provides useful information about the current use of RSS by the library professionals in India.

The Information Architecture (IA) provides insight into the structure and organization of information available in digital information environments, providing facilities for society regarding the use of information and equitable access to knowledge. The objective is to discuss the application of IA elements within the archives and identify them on the web site of the National Archives of Australia, which was randomly selected for analysis. The evaluation revealed the absence of some important elements and demonstrates the relevance of the discussion and application of IA into archives web sites with a view to its accessibility and usability.

The paper stems from elaborated PhD thesis focused about different law information systems and their comparison with similar information systems in Germany and USA. The paper deals with methods of evaluation of various kinds of law information systems. The paper also deals, why it is so difficult to evaluate the quality of legal information systems, and about the (in)applicability of the conventional evaluation methods as efficiency or effectiveness. The paper brings its own criteria to evaluate legal information systems with, as connectivity or provided user help. These criteria will be explained using different kinds of Czech and foreign legal information systems.

The designation of digital natives is originally associated with an optimistic mindset about the effects of information technology on contemporary students, who supposedly possess greater mental flexibility and therefore greater capacity to adapt and generate responses than those from previous generations. However recent studies reported adverse effects in schoolchildren exposed to the new digital media. The first generations of digital natives is arriving to universities, and knowing their habits, expectations and practices provides important inside for modeling digital reading services than publishers and vendors offer to library users. From the summary of informative habits that distinguish this first generation fully digital and its context, we explore the possibilities of digital reading as a an effective way to deliver academic content.

An analysis of management in recent years for the National Library of Argentina, discussed current state and prospects of planning for the improvement and preservation of historical documents and reconditioning work of various sectors.

In order to provide seamless user experiences, the brand new libraries are far better positioned. They do not have to manage much in print, at least for the journal section, but huge electronic collection accessible via Internet. They do not worry about migrating to new systems or technology; they just start with whatever the latest available in the market, whether it is new generation ILMS, discovery tools, content management systems, mobile technologies, cloud computing etc. Patrons’ expectations for seamless experience are met - regardless of their location, device and service they opted for. The story of the two and half years old, Saudi Arabia’s brand new King Abdullah University of Science and Technology’s Library is not different. Huge amount of electronic resources also provide ever increasing challenges to the new generation libraries in collecting, organizing and delivering the right information, to the right person at the right time. Implementation of a good ILMS supported with better electronic resource management features will help in setting the house right. Well-designed user interfaces, supported with the web scale discovery tools will help the users to have a better search experience. Availability of library collection through the campus mobile applications, latest proxy technologies for out-campus access and integrating the resources to the campus e-learning platform are the main features of the library’s seamless experiences. Libguide platform is used for the first time in Saudi Arabia, to create online research guides by subject librarians. An institutional repository, based on D-Space platform is about to release. Ninety percent of our collection is online; they are purchased, organized and accessed online, like any other brand new academic research libraries. Analysis of usage statistics of different resources show that they are highly used and usage is increased over two years, as the technology improved and implemented.

Web environments scenarios have become increasingly used by organizations of common religious heritage. But despite its broad scope is not always achieved the desired visibility and communication with the visitor. This paper will present the need to evaluate and optimize the web sites of religious heritage, according to the standards and quality parameters in place. This is to make them as accessible, useful, usable, reliable, findable, credible and valuable as possible to attract and provoke so much desired that communication with users. It will end by reflecting on the advantages and impacts that carries a quality website for the dissemination of religious heritage in general.

The role of ICTs for the Democratization of Public Information: The Librarian as Manager ICT Projects

Virtual worlds are objects of much research. Such research is needed for future wider application within education, science field or market domain. For instance, Hype cycle presents that virtual worlds are coming in productive phase in 5-10 years. Virtual world as we know today are not user friendly or effective as a seriously used communication tool. Of course, there is a lot of progress in this area. Let me consider Facebook plug-in for instance, which brings much easier login process compared to Second Life or Open Simulator installed client. Second thing could be release of SL Viewer 2.0. However, studies show that there are a lot of users demotivated or disappointed from the virtual world`s environment and after their first visit they never come back. That has to change. Paper focuses at the problem from Information science point of view. Specifically, the author takes user-centered design as a core approach, which is needed to improve software usability. Usability as a broader term for experienced usability, apparent usability, user friendliness, quality of user interface, etc. must be measured and evaluated. The target of the paper is to present methodology of testing and evaluating virtual world environments. Paper summarizes core steps within user-center design, which is user task analysis, expert guidelines-based evaluation, formative user-centered evaluation, summative comparative evaluation. More closely, user task analysis contains pre-research, which is needed for understanding of users` needs, their work culture and their work goals, which they perform daily. There are work scenarios developed within expert guidelines-based evaluation and then users go through them within formative user-centered evaluation. After redesign of environment users go through two or more variations of developed user interfaces and analyze which one is better. There is going to be a short overview of the virtual region VIAKISK within Open Simulator presented as well.

Is your library implementing or considering a “discovery” technology? Are you wondering if this will really bring into relief everything your users are “licensed to read”? Are you considering what the effects may be for public-facing services such as reference and instruction, or just curious about experiences at other libraries? Academic librarians using two different discovery products, EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) and Summon, will consider the transformative potential of these tools in light of the learning outcomes that guide us. Drawing from our experiences, we will discuss possibilities, issues and questions that emerge in a discovery environment, including: - ways to conceptualize information literacy - consequent changes to practices in reference and instruction - technical decisions/infrastructure - implications for user experience - proliferation of entry points - issues related to branding and wayfinding