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May 27, 2008
Castilla y León Public Libraries Portfolio of Services
This past May 14 was published in the Official Gazette of Castile and Leon order the approval of each of the letters of the nine services of the State Public Libraries and the Library of Castilla y Leon. The annexes include an excerpt from the same, also released a publication that will be available to citizens at the library. At each service charter specifies, among other information, contact details and location of the library, its services to citizens, the rules by which it governs, rights of citizens, the quality commitments assumed (expressed as a list of objectives to achieve tangible) and related indicators that will measure the degree of compliance with these commitments, as well as the ways in which citizens can participate in the improvement of library services.
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Permanent link: P.URL | Category: Public libraries | Published: May 27, 2008
May 26, 2008
Plan to improve school libraries
The Council of Ministers on May 16, 2008 adopted a new budget for improving school libraries. The government allocated nine million euros to buy collections and computer and audiovisual materials to libraries in schools. The plan to improve school libraries began in 2005, having spent the ministry of education (in its various denominations) totalling 52 million euros. It is also a programme for interregional cooperation, as the Autonomous Communities are committed to invest an amount identical to those received for improving their school libraries. The plan for 2008 has focused especially for the libraries of schools and artistic language, while addressing primary and secondary education. The distribution is done according to the number of public schools and pupils, so Andalucia and Catalonia are the communities most benefit, followed by Valencia and Madrid.
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Permanent link: P.URL | Category: School libraries | Published: May 26, 2008
May 23, 2008
Growth of the School Libraries Directory
The Board of School Libraries, available since November 2006 on the website of the German Sanchez Ruipérez Foundation, has reached 140 entries. This directory is intended to be a tool to identify and facilitate the location of school libraries functioning in Spanish at different educational levels and a specimen of good practice. The entries in the directory containing information of a different character for each registered library: identification data, location, contact, facilities and services. In addition, it includes the project developed by the library and a picture gallery. Currently, there are a representation of all the autonomous communities, as well as all levels of education. Schools wishing to join the directory are available in a form that must be completed with the information and data requirements.
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Permanent link: P.URL | Category: Information resources School libraries | Published: May 23, 2008
May 21, 2008
Meeting Portuguese and Spanish on public libraries
On 20 and May 21, 2008 took place in Lisbon on 8th Meeting Luso Spanish Public Libraries. Since 1990 these days come sucediéndose professional cooperation, which are organized on an alternative by those responsible for the central administration in terms of libraries of Spain and Portugal. The topics are usually treated related to the situation of public and school libraries of both countries as well as experience building reader. The agenda of the meeting which ends today have participated professional Spanish and Portuguese, who have sought to cross-border cooperation, networking libraries, copyrights and loan payment in libraries, collaboration between public library and school and promotion of reading. Also, there has been the experience of twenty years of the programme of the National Network of Public Libraries in Portugal. This time the meeting has been open and free.
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Permanent link: P.URL | Category: Conferences Public libraries | Published: May 21, 2008
May 16, 2008
Reviewing the international principles of cataloguing
The IFLA has disseminated the draft Declaration of Principles of International Cataloguing. The document presents the latest version of these principles and is subject to review international levels in order to obtain the final version. Professionals who want to contribute their comments may send their comments until June 30, 2008. The document now being presented for final review began in 2003 and developed after successive meetings, upon receipt and evaluation of the comments sent in this review period, would be adopted in final form by specific sections of IFLA. The principles that we want to adopt are recorded in the foundation catalog, as well as on the conceptual models of the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) and the Functional Requirements for Authority Data (FRAD).
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Permanent link: P.URL | Category: Processing | Published: May 16, 2008
May 13, 2008
Innovation in public libraries
The magazine Professional information has dedicated his number March / April 2008 at public libraries. It is appreciated that publications like this, scientific rigor and international projection, chosen as the theme to cover public libraries, major centers of information dissemination. The special opens with an article by Roser Lozano, director of the Public Library of Tarragona, who offers an excellent summary of issues relating to innovation in library management. Fernando Juarez provides an eloquent text on social Web technologies and applied to libraries, giving the event of the Library of Muskiz, which is responsible. The innovation projects oriented users is the theme chosen by Jose Pablo Gallo, who explained the actions carried out in the Regional Library Murcia, which is the director. Jesus Maria Romera is the author of an article on innovation in services multicultarales of public libraries. In addition, among others, are included collaborations on projects and services of the Network of Public Libraries in Andalusia and on the Portal Biblioteques of the Generalitat of Catalonia. The magazine includes an interview with Maria Antonia Carrato, Assistant Director General for Policy Coordination Librarian librarian in Spain and another interview with John Lake, president of the Public Libraries Section of IFLA, on the adaptation of public libraries in the digital environment.
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Permanent link: P.URL | Category: Public libraries Serials | Published: May 13, 2008
May 10, 2008
Special libraries in environmental information
During 7, 8 and May 9, 2008 has taken place in Valsaín (Segovia) VII Seminar Documentation Centres Environmental and Natural Protected Areas. Since 2002, and annually are being developed these meetings where those responsible for specialized libraries and documentation centres related to environmental information come together to share experiences and participate in various workshops. The 2008 edition has benefited from the presence of half a hundred professionals linked to the administration, universities and various agencies of environmental research and protection of natural heritage. The coordination of this seminar falls on the Library of CENEAM, entity under the Ministry of Environment and Rural Affairs and Marine dedicated to education and environmental disclosure. The seminars are conducted in an environment of cooperation and work to be translated into proposals for collaboration between centres. The Red Point Environmental Information and Documentation Centre (REC) has a specific mailing list and is developing a portal on the common themes of this network of centers.
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Permanent link: P.URL | Category: Special libraries | Published: May 10, 2008
May 05, 2008
Growing use of the Web's social services
Universal McCann has just published the third "wave" (corresponding to March 2008) of its annual reports on the global impact of the Web's social services, which measures the use of active Internet users (those who use the Internet almost daily) make some of these services, their attitudes and interests. In the latter report extending the study to 29 countries, among which is also Spain, and compared the results with two previous reports, corresponding to September 2006 and June 2007, which allows for interesting evolutionary data.
Among the most significant findings is the significant growth on a global basis that these services have experienced over the past three years, which seem to be those of his popularity, and confirmation of a lesser use of content creation and participation in front of the consultation, confirmed that the predominance of a passive attitude. Blogs have been consolidated as an important tool on the Web, with greater participation.
In our country the most popular videos are consulting (86.6% of Internet users do declares, while less than half, 30.8% rises) and blogs (77.8%, compared to 41.4% said they had begun one). Other activities are evaluated downloading podcasts (51%), rising to sites to share photos (46%), membership of a social network (44.6%, one of the fastest growing in recent years) and subscription to RSS feeds (33.6%). It is paradoxical that in a country where blogs are more popular than in most of the rest, the proportion of subscriptions to organize channels is too low.
If a growing number of Internet users who use these services, why not use them since our libraries to create our own digital identity and offer our users the ability to interact with us through them?
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Permanent link: P.URL | Category: Social web | Published: May 05, 2008
May 01, 2008
Information and Documentation Research Meeting
The Universidad de Salamanca will host the Third Meeting of Ibero Lecturers and Researchers in reports and documents, which will take place between 5 and May 7, 2008 and which has been organized by the Regional Group of Ibero EDIBCIC, the association that brings together to teachers and researchers of Librarianship and Documentation of Latin America. In this issue the central slogan is "Training, Research and Labor Market in reports in Spain and Portugal" which takes place in a comprehensive program that includes six papers and more than half a hundred communications. In addition to Spain and Portugal, the speakers came from several Latin American countries. Among the topics to be addressed in different interventions highlights the degree of adaptation to current European Higher Education Area. EDIBCIC was born in 1996 and holds regular meetings to discuss research and education in information and documentation. The next congress will be held in Mexico City in November 2008.
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Permanent link: P.URL | Category: Conferences | Published: May 01, 2008
