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Surely, every building has a production purpose. Also the library building is designed and constructed to create a space for resources that will meet the knowledge needs of humanity and activities that will contribute to their cultural development. However, the library building is a public space where many numbers of people are together at the same time. Anyone who is in the building, regardless of the reason for being there, is considered to be the user of the building. When the users are evaluated in terms of the time they have been in the building, they can be examined in two groups as permanent and temporary users. The library building is designed, constructed and used to meet the needs of these users. Building affects users and users affect the building. The failure to determine the user requirements correctly during the design process of the library building is reflected in the production phase and creates dissatisfaction on the users during the use of the building. In some scientific studies on the subject, it has been determined that there is a close relationship between the spatial characteristics of the building and the frequency of use. Due to problems caused by the building, users whose requirements are not met may experience health problems, and consequently, their time in the library is shortened. This is situation reduces the utilization efficiency of the building. The incidence of health problems is higher, especially for library staff who have to be in the building (Küçükcan, 2007 ; Hazal ve Emsen, 2020). Consequentially, the inability to provide user comfort is a cause of dissatisfaction. Therefore, the idea of how to design a better library building for librarians and collection users who manage knowledge has been the starting point of this study. Architectural design is momentous. Because it is very difficult and costly to correct the deficiencies and errors in the design phase later, this study mostly focuses on this phase. The aim of this study is to raise awareness of both information and documentation scientists and architects interested in library building design, about the design features of the library building and to draw their attention to a better understanding of what the user expectations may be. For this purpose, it is emphasized how the spaces should be for libraries that collect, organize and deliver information carriers in different formats to the users who need them, in other words, libraries that manage information. Furthermore in the conclusion part, some suggestions are made for buildings that can meet the needs of their users in the future.

Turkey has experienced many natural or human-caused disasters, especially earthquakes, as of the geographical region in which it is located. For example, the Covid-19 epidemic, which has spread rapidly in recent months and has affected the whole world, is a biological disaster that forces the state and individuals to take precautions in this regard and to regulate business and private life accordingly. Past and present disasters caused the loss of life of libraries in many parts of the world, because it is damaged or even destroyed the cultural heritage of humanity on these issues in a number of scientific research are abundant. But a very large part of this work was done not directly to the library building, but to protect the non-structural elements inside the building and the collections. Although damage to non-structural elements in disasters leads to greater loss, if structural elements are disaster-resistant, non-structural elements are also largely protected. Undoubtedly, everything under a collapsed building will be damaged. With this study, it is aimed to draw attention to the importance of the design of the library building, to make up for this deficiency in the literature and to help the future studies on the subject.

Proposal to generate a theoretical construct that relates theoretical topics of infoethics with information management from a library perspective, and then apply it to a proposal for the exchange of scientific resources in digital support within the National Agricultural Information Network (CEDNIA). The research approach is mixed and according to development it is exploratory and descriptive. The research subject is the Agricultural Information and Documentation System of Latin America and the Caribbean (SIDALC), according to its website. Through it, around 2.7 million references are available and an approximate of 25.00 full-text documents whose collaboration is distributed in 170 institutions belonging to 23 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, specifically for Costa Rica, are attached to this platform 16 specialized information units on the subject and reference.

This study is aimed to investigate the conservation, restoration and preservation state of manuscripts in Pakistan. The study was conducted on 13 selective institutions of Pakistan, holding MS collections. Through interviews and documentary research the conservation and preservation situations were inquired.

"Dr. Raúl Prebisch" and "Tornquist" libraries of the Bank Central of the Republic Argentina in order to preserve and disseminate the information contained in its historical collections, maintain existing within their permanent tasks program of preservation and conservation of the documentary bibliographic heritage. They specialize in economy, devoting special attention to monetary and financial issues. Its bibliographic holdings cover in addition areas of economic history, statistics, finance, banking law, sugar industry, national finance, agriculture, settlement and other related materials. Collections that treasures, unique in the country some have placed them at a level of recognized position in the academic areas of the country and abroad. They possess a valuable Sector of historical documents pertaining to national public credit and former banks, under the Central Bank functions as ente Rector of the financial system, along with historical documents of interest for researchers and scholars of our economic and financial history. The ultimate goal is to achieve the society have free access to the information that is part of the economic, financial, political and social history of our country.

This article presents three (3) prototypes of what an agent could be through the practice and different strategies for information retrieval. It is important to point out that while it does not correspond to an exact definition of what an intelligent agent is, it is an approach and a tool to improve efectiveness for information retrieval. In the same way they are free software so anyone could take advantage of these services, whithout any additional cost trying in this way to become a guide in the acquisition of a basic tool for information retrieval.

This paper describes the relation between mankind and diseases. HIV/AIDS is no exception; since it first appeared on the scene; many sectors within society have searched for ways to reduce its impact. Therefore, we consider that a better informed society can generate answers on this scourge and find effective alternatives to reduce and or prevent the impact of the pandemic. The paper provides a general view of the HIV/AIDS situation in Mexico and its impact over the last years, as well as discusses national , regional and worldwide proposals, and actions taken by institutions engaged in the fight to prevent and control HIV/AIDS. We also include examples of some of these initiatives such as international congresses, paper presentations, advocacy and promotion activities, and articles in the media. We conclude that due to the fast growing of HIV/AIDS, information professionals should collaborate more actively in the organization and sistematisation of documental information systems, using the Communication and Information Technologies (ICT’s) as a crucial resources.

Historically the communication of the results of scientific research in a peer-reviewed journal played as a distinctive seal in the scientific communication. However, such results have also been communicated in many other forms; recently the models for scientific communication have been updated to include the access to online publications, videoconferences, e-mailing discussion lists, news boards, e-mail, and access to electronic documents. With the advent of the first scientific journals by the end of the 18th century it allowed the creation of a flexible channel of publication, with an increasing value until our present days, that made easy, both, the recording of ideas and the exchange of ideas and experiences among scientists. Nowadays the Internet network has stimulated the offer to alter the traditional channels of communication; it came to take care of (release) the anxiety of scientists and other academics to disseminate fastly their knowledge and to learn knowledge from the studies and research of others, likewise it contributes to diminish the problem of the difficulty to locate and access grey literature documents. At the beginning of the 1990s decade, in the pure sciences, remarkedly in physics a new channel has come on board that has been conducive to the dissemination and full access to the research results. They have been named "e-print" servers or archives, and they have been converted into an autonomous circuit of information with its own rules of functioning, cristalizing in a primary source of information and a labour tool of inestimable value.

The report has presented the New Bulgarian University Library (NBU) in brief. The authors described the NBU library foundation and background, organizational structure, acquisition methods, libraries collections and statistical data 1994-2001. The NBU Library SWOT analysis has been mentioned as a conclusion.

The study argues that Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Development in a university, research institute or organization whose mandate is not electronics, computer hardware or software development and or related research is not acquisition, research, development or distribution of ICT related stacks and solutions. It is mainly application of ICT to improve speed, efficiency and quality of activities which are the institute’s mandate, and development of an ICT infrastructure to facilitate that. Hence ICT should mean there the convergence of information recorded in traditional and digital media, their storage, organization, retrieval and dissemination and application of ICT related tools for these functions. These are the functions traditionally undertaken by library and information service professionals. Information or content which is to be the life blood of an organization is to be pumped by its heart the library. Hence the paper strongly recommends that in forming ICT Strategy and in ICT Infrastructure Development in an Institution the major role is to be played by librarian or the Head, who is responsible for managing the information resources of that Institution.