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In order to promote citizen awareness of the principles of transparency and open government, through access to information from public institutions from a gender perspective, we believe that identifying trends and possible inequalities based on the data that are published is essential to be able to define public policies that guarantee equality and non-discrimination.

BiblioEstructura of BiblioMadSalud was proposed as a work-group to develop a structure, organization and performance of health libraries to be acknowledged by Community of Madrid administration. Start of your work with an internal analysis which result was presented at BiblioSalud 2019, XVI Jornada Nacional de Información y Documentación en Ciencias de la Salud with the title “Institutional status of health science libraries in the public hospitals of the community of Madrid”. In this work we propose to carry out an external analysis with the objective of knowing the legal structure in which the Health Sciences Libraries are framed within the institutions at the national level. Methods: A telephone survey is made to the coordinators of the Virtual Libraries of the 17 Autonomous Communities of Spain. with 4 questions, 2 basic and other two conditioned to the previous answers. Result: This study shows that only three Autonomous Communities have organized and regulated a system that establishes the mode of operation, structure and organization of their Health Sciences Libraries of their Public Hospitals. In the rest of the Communities, in the best of cases, there is a Virtual Library that acts as a working link between the rest of the libraries in your Community and coordinates some functions and services. Conclusions: It is essential to carry out a consensus work in which a legal document is formalized, supervised and approved by the Autonomous Administration, which defines the organization, structure and functioning of the Health Sciences Libraries in Public Hospitals, which It would provide stability to the system and a reference to the workers of the system.

BiblioEstructura of BiblioMadSalud was proposed as a work-group to develop a structure, organization and performance of health libraries to be acknowledged by Community of Madrid administration. Start of your work with an internal analysis which result was presented at BiblioSalud 2019, XVI Jornada Nacional de Información y Documentación en Ciencias de la Salud with the title “Institutional status of health science libraries in the public hospitals of the community of Madrid”. In this work we propose to carry out an external analysis with the objective of knowing the legal structure in which the Health Sciences Libraries are framed within the institutions at the national level. Methods: A telephone survey is made to the coordinators of the Virtual Libraries of the 17 Autonomous Communities of Spain. with 4 questions, 2 basic and other two conditioned to the previous answers. Result: This study shows that only three Autonomous Communities have organized and regulated a system that establishes the mode of operation, structure and organization of their Health Sciences Libraries of their Public Hospitals. In the rest of the Communities, in the best of cases, there is a Virtual Library that acts as a working link between the rest of the libraries in your Community and coordinates some of the functions and services. Conclusions: It is essential to carry out a consensus work in which a legal document is formalized, suppervised and approved by the Autonomous Administration, which defines the organization, structure and functioning of the Health Sciences Libraries in Public Hospitals, which It would provide stability to the system and a reference to the workers of the system.

BiblioEstructura of BiblioMadSalud was proposed as a work-group to develop a structure, organization and performance of health libraries to be acknowledged by Community of Madrid administration. Start of your work with an internal analysis which result was presented at BiblioSalud 2019, XVI Jornada Nacional de Información y Documentación en Ciencias de la Salud with the title “Institutional status of health science libraries in the public hospitals of the community of Madrid”. In this work we propose to carry out an external analysis with the objective of knowing the legal structure in which the Health Sciences Libraries are framed within the institutions at the national level. Methods: A telephone survey is made to the coordinators of the Virtual Libraries of the 17 Autonomous Communities of Spain. with 4 questions, 2 basic and other two conditioned to the previous answers. Result: This study shows that only three Autonomous Communities have organized and regulated a system that establishes the mode of operation, structure and organization of their Health Sciences Libraries of their Public Hospitals. In the rest of the Communities, in the best of cases, there is a Virtual Library that acts as a working link between the rest of the libraries in your Community and coordinates some of the functions and services. Conclusions: It is essential to carry out a consensus work in which a legal document is formalized, suppervised and approved by the Autonomous Administration, which defines the organization, structure and functioning of the Health Sciences Libraries in Public Hospitals, which It would provide stability to the system and a reference to the workers of the system.

A SWOT analysis on 54 health sciences libraries -related libraries from Community autonomous of Madrid (Community of Madrid) was presented at BiblioMadSalud 2016. Results revealed some internal weaknesses: lack of coordination, communication and institutional involvement with libraries, and lack of insight on them. In order to find solutions, BiblioEstructura was proposed as a work-group to develop a structure, organization and performance of health libraries to be acknowledged by Community of Madrid administration. Its main objective was to gain insight on health libraries at hospital settings. The first line of work was to review current documentation on hospital structure, organization and performance; the second line was to conduct a survey on libraries from national health system hospitals. Current regulatory documentation on internal organization of national-wide and Community of Madrid hospitals was revised. We were assessed by expert, hospital managers. Surveys were performed with phone interview on 25 health libraries, through 12 open-ended questions that answered anonymously. Legislative documentation, i.e., Royal Decree 521/1987 and Regional Law 11/2017 do not mention health libraries. Responses from phone interviews showed great heterogeneity in management of libraries. Some self-named terms was general-purpose library, medical library, health library or professional library. Also, libraries can belong to Management Board of the Health Service or share their affiliations. Although 44% of hospital have a Library Committee, sometimes they have unified commissions. Library staffs are sometimes members of other hospital committees. 72% of libraries deliver certified training and offer lectures. Research foundation is present in 19 hospitals, but just 10 are connected with it, 4 have it in their web page, and one of them mentions it in its annual report. Our current research shows how diversity of terms and affiliations, and lack of involvement in management boards allow the poor acknowledgement of health libraries within the hospitals. These circumstances call for the need for regulation that fix those drawbacks. The opportunity to build a single entity for all CAM health libraries and work-groups is the key to work in common lines that enable the achievement of a common goal.

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.

The conference "Data in the current context: Analysis of applications" is part of the V Festival of Books and III Conference on knowledge "The world of data" organized by the EPM library (Empresas Públicas de Medellín) held on 2, November 3 and 4, 2017 in Medellín - Antioquia (Colombia). This event tries to answer a series of questions to bring attendees to the current reality and the progress that is taking place in this area, therefore, the scheme is: ¥ What information is considered valuable in the search for solutions to emerging problems? ¥ What are the most useful tools for this? ¥ How to analyze and manage the enormous amount of digital data that we are generating? ¥ How and why implement Open Data in libraries? ¥ What is the information we need to boost global development? As an added value, there are two projects of great interest and impact for citizens developed in the scope of the Chair of Transparency and Data Management.

Introduction to records management in the Andalusian Governement and its relationship to the transparency of the management of government, for accountability and access to documents of public ownership.

Official statistics play a fundamental role in today's society. The availability of impartial and objective statistical information is essential for all decision-makers. Statistical information underpins transparency and openness of policy decisions, and official statistics therefore represent a public good providing a basis for the smooth functioning of society

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).

The unrelenting rise of digital tools like social network sites, blogs, wikis, micro and miniblogs is forcing all the players of political communication to adapt their discourse and language to these new scenarios and their audiences. The main working hypothesis of this paper is that those responsible for the cabinets of political communication are required to take the skills of CM profile in order to improve their job, according to the actual theories that teach the organizational communication has to be developed by all its departments and members, in a global and coherent way, but always under the direction of the cabinet.

University libraries are institutions that, by continuously flourishing on new information resources and presenting the latest scientific findings, directly support the education provided by and the research and academic studies conducted at universities in line with the universities’ missions and functions. Moreover, university libraries significantly contribute to creating course contents and to enabling students and researchers attain the required skills to effectively search-access-use-evaluate information resources available in print and digital environments. In this regard, university libraries should be sufficiently equipped with fundamental elements such as facilities, personnel and collections in order to fulfill their missions and objectives. This study aims to provide the fundamental elements of university libraries and to analyze the current status in Turkey in order to discuss the relevant primary issues and suggest solutions.

All through four years, the Work Group on Local Archives has been carrying out a research on archives management measurement. As a result of this work has outcome this book titled Management Measuring Standards for Local Archives and edited by the Province Council of Valladolid. It aims to set a reference model to evaluate and planning archival function. Main features of this model are identifying and description of archives services, of procedures carried out to provide them, and of indicators that are needed in order to evaluate each service. Procedures that have one or several indicators connected to main archival functions had been analyzed and the template for analysis has been standardized: function and procedures definitions, trace frame for each with its flowchart, and a form to identify given indicators, to analyse them and its measuring unity. This job also incorporates a vocabulary that establishes standard definitions of used terms, another section with laws and standards on this matter, and a bibliography compilation.

Analysis about the scientific productin in topics of health in Latin America

The Electronic Health Record Project in the National Health System (HCDSNS) is intended to ensure the public and health professionals with access to that information relevant to clinical care of a patient from anywhere in the NHS, ensuring the citizens that the consultation of your data is restricted to who is authorized to do so. The aim of this presentation is to show the semantic services developed for the National Health System in the Electronic Health Record Project in Spain. The different slides show the roadmap for reaching semantic interoperability in the NHS.

The relentless rise in the cost of research publications has lead to the increasing isolation of research scientists and other academic communities in the developing world. Furthermore, printing and distribution problems have lead to the invisibility of much of the research publications from less advantaged nations. The effect has been a growing north-south, south-north, and south-south poverty of research information which has had a damaging impact on the progress of research globally. The extent of typical pre-OA deprivation was highlighted in 2003 by a WHO survey of access to peer-reviewed journals by medical institutes in low-income countries. This showed that the institutes in the poorest countries had purchased NO journals in the previous 5 years, and the situation was only marginally better in slightly more economically strong countries. There have been a number of initiatives aimed at improving this unacceptable situation, including donor programmes and exemption from subscriptions for selected countries or reader-communities. However, by far the most encouraging development has been the growth in international acceptance of free and open access to publicly funded research output. The establishment of interoperable institutional repositories (IRs) holding an organisation’s published research, together with the conversion of journals to open access models has been widely welcomed by many organisations in the developing world and is a sustainable solution to access problems. The Electronic Publishing Trust for Development has been advocating this approach and promoting developments regionally. This presentation outlines the overall growth in IRs and the establishment of OA journals in developing regions and presents encouraging usage figures by their research communities, indicating the value of increased access for developing a strong science base. An example is provided by statistics available from Bioline International, a non-profit Canada/Brazil/UK initiative, supporting the OA distribution of journals published in developing regions. OA developments in economically strong countries, both regarding policies and technical infrastructure initiatives, are considered in relation to the needs of the developing regions. To build on current progress, a series of awareness-raising and technology transfer workshops are required, together with the development and acceptance of national and institutional OA policies. Support from major international organisations should be accelerated since if global problems are to be solved, global access to research findings are a prerequisite.

The recent publication of the European and Spanish interoperability frameworks implies that public organizations should start a change management process in order to adapt their technologies and procedures to the new standard as a way to guarantee information interoperability across e-government services. The main justification for this research is to disseminate the interoperability standards among Spanish public organizations and to provide methodological and technical guidelines to facilitate the adaptation process, and to foster the usage of new techniques and procedures for information integration and management. The aim of the research consists on identifying the essential aspects to take into consideration to guarantee the information and knowledge interoperability in e-government services. In this context good practices in information interoperability are taken into account and three basic approaches are identified: (1)Information and knowledge management: mark-up languages, open software and formats, and electronic document processing; (2) Metadata for knowledge representation in electronic resources; and (3) Web accessibility to improve access for all.

It is proposed B.I.B.I.R, a library networking as a viable solution to information needs of the community of the Province of La Pampa (Argentina). This network popular library will be a bridge between pampeanos and its institutions, integrating,optimizing and distributing resources, services and benefits, public and private, so mitigate the existing gap informational. The aim is also that this work synergistically to join the actions and undertaken in the local ecosystem, serving as the trigger generator and concrete actions towards electronic government in the province. In the first stage, the paper describes the changes that the information society has brought on communities, their governments and institutions. The following defines and analyzed the electronic government and specifically, the electronic government in the province of La Pampa. It continues with an exhibition of the situation of the libraries popular pampeanas well as of B.I.B.I.R. Finally, presents the final conclusions of work.

The aim of this document ("The public library as a determinant factor for the people's utilization (use, usefulness N.Tr.)of the laws of transparency and access to public information") is to present a proposal that allows to assess the participation of public libraries as a determinant factor for the people's utilization (use, usefulness, N.Tr.) of the laws of transparency and access to the public information in Mexico. The results of more than three years of experience on the subject are presented and a main area of opportunity is detected: the marginalization of the potential users of those laws because they lack of Internet access. From this proposal it is stated the attention to harmonise the functions of the public library with the services potential users require from the laws of transparencey and access to public government information. The electronic systems of public information requests are highlighted as central elements of the positive results that have been obtained in the federal government as for the access to public information, and they are shown as a suitable opportunity to make easy the utilization (use, usefulness, N.Tr.) of this right to those who have not exercised it due to the their lack of guidance and the resources to make it. [tr.ZMMM.2007.01.15].

Public informaton is essential for everyday life and its management is important due to several reasons: it facilitates the internal processes of public organizations and promotes the citizen' integration in democratic processes. The dispersion of public information and the lack of accessible information causes important constraints for citizens, business and public organizaions. Therefore, the development of well organised and efficiently managed information repositories (portals) which integrate public information and services is seen as a useful tool to foster e-government services.

It contains relevant information with some options for extra official funding for projects in public libraries. It presents data of contacts with organisms for libraries.

Regional development requirements and technological advancements set the basis for new forms of cooperation between libraries and local authorities. A powerful motivation for such cooperation is government information, as it is the focal point of the citizen's information needs. This paper suggests a cooperation model between Academic Libraries and Public Libraries, along with Regional Authorities. The main goal of this collaboration is the creation and operation of Covernment information Centers (GIC). These GIC aim in organizing the government information by developing a digital library and providing automated information services. GIC will contribute to economic and social development of regions. This assumption is based on the fact that none business-culture activity is performed without the enlightenment of the interested party on government policy issues and legislation. Specifically: a) Regional Authorities generate or receive government publications from the Central Administration Offices (circular letters, announcements, etc.), which hold and manage. Therefore, the Regional Authorities are able to define access, acquisition and maintenance rights of such publications. Within the suggested model, Regional Authorities have the role of Content Producer. b) Public Libraries consist the physical provider of government information to regions. Within the suggested model, Public Libraries have the role of Content Provider. c) Academic Libraries, because of their scientific specialization and research character, able to define the structure of the digital library. Moreover, they can prescribe the information management procedures. Within the suggested model, Academic Libraries provide the know-how and contribute to the development and maintenance of the suggested digital library. The creation and development of GIC requires the determination of parameters regarding: The digital library content. Within this framework, the following criteria must be defined: a) information typology and user needs, b) methodology for the information location and acquisition c) access and acquisition rights • The information structure, and particularly: a) information description standards and b) maintenance and material update criteria. Digital Library context consists of: Digitized legislation documents Digitized government publication documents (characterized by regional impact and interest) Database of the digitized material metadata. This database consists of: a) bibliographic records for the coding and bibliographic description of the texts, b) authority records for the thematic indexing of the digitized material. The analysis and study of the existing standards for information description will indicate the required metadata model that meets the needs and specifications of the digitized content. A thesaurus will be developed within the database; its thematic terms will be derived from the process of the digitized documents. The thesaurus will be structured according to international standards for thesaurus development (ISO 2788 and ISO 5964). However, its function will be based on authority standards. The thesaurus, which will operate within the bibliographic database: a) will guide the user to his/her search, b) will enable the execution of combined queries, c) will establish controlled language and descriptive terminology in specific scientific fields, d) will define the methodology for the thematic heading construction, and e) will facilitate the data exchange procedure in machine readable form. The conjunction of academic libraries and regions may be realized via a collaboration network between academic and public libraries along with local authorities for the flow of government information.

This paper (The Mexican public library within the framework of the General Law of Libraries) analysis the Mexican General Law, in which it is considered the public library as an object of the ruling order, it has been more commented than analized, it has been dealt with more on opinion grounds than on reason, more on praising it than criticising it, or reviewed more on the general angle than the particular one. A motivation underpinning this document where we emphasize the analysis and study of this legal rule. We propose as starting point to argue, in the current federal Public Administration (under President Vicente Fox), for the derogation of the current law, and for the drawing up and passing of a new bill specifically for public libraries.

Outline of work plan for the Coordination of the Nuevo Leon State Public Libraries Network, from April 2002 to April 2003, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico

The present article contains a transcription of the discussion held between the audience of the 8th Panhellenic Conference of Academic Libraries and representatives of the Greek Ministry of Education, which is the official funding agent. This discussion is part of an informing session on behalf of the Greek government for future developments in Greek academic libraries.

The paper starts with a short critique on the substance level of the used terms “Information Society” and “Information Era”. Then the characteristics of the “citizen-user” are examined. Short definitions are provided for the terms Electronic, Digital, Virtual Library and Library Networks. A questioning is following concerning the level of development and the extent of exploitation of the Greek Libraries. The decisive factors that have formed the existing situation are underlined. The available tools and mechanisms that have been created and are provided by the National (Hellenic) Documentation Centre for the support and the development of the Greek Libraries are described. The exploitation of these tools combined with the ensuring of a series of presuppositions; permit the consideration of an optimistic perspective for the evolution of the Greek Libraries. This evolution is not expected to be other but their rendering into modern centres of identification, gathering, management and forwarding of what constitutes the essence of the “Information Era or Society”: the (information) content.

Presentation of academic library's function rules in Greece and the necessity for change to organisation model. Comprehensive presentation of National Technological Institute of Athens library's function rules.