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June 28, 2008
11 Spanish Conference on Documentation
The Spanish XI Conference Documentation, to be held in Zaragoza between 20 and May 22, 2009, are already under way. The organization of Fesabid 2009 has disseminated the information paper which describes the thematic lines of communications and conference calls and proposals for carrying out professional activities. The overarching theme of the conference is "interinformation" which is defined this way: "Participation, integration, effectiveness, interaction, cooperation, accessibility, intermediation, openness, distribution, are concepts that perfectly describes the current stage of our activity, both from a technological point of view from any perspective as a professional. People are intertwined and resources to provide better information services. interinformation is the term he wants to synthesize all of this". The web Fesabid detailing the thematic lines, as well as different types of actions for which it requires collective collaboration of: communications, professional experiences, seminars and forums sectoral analysis. In addition, the conference will have presentations, expert panels and workshops.
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Permanent link: P.URL | Category: Conferences | Published: June 28, 2008
June 20, 2008
Quality indicators in the promotion of reading
This was the subject of this edition of La Jornada training for persons responsible for libraries, on June 17 at the Public Library of the State of Merida and attended by over a hundred librarians from Extremadura. Throughout the day speakers talked about the need for planning library and its systematic assessment across quality indicators; studies of how to take advantage of reading habits extremeños for matching resources, collections and services, needs of users, presence and potential of the library; of factors to take into account the success of a project and the Library Spanish Yearbook 2008 as a source of resources and ideas for librarians. It also used the event to introduce the new Platform of Readers and Books in Extremadura: Between books and the new direction and format of the Bulletin of the Observatory of the Book and Reading in Extremadura, with permanent sections devoted to public libraries, libraries and the school books and publishing.
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Permanent link: P.URL | Category: Conferences | Published: June 20, 2008
June 17, 2008
ThinkEPI Yearbook 2008
The ThinkEPI Group, consisting of several professional information science in all its areas, published in April the second edition of the Yearbook ThinkEPI, which portrays the profession during the past year 2007. In this release of nearly three hundred pages are collected the notes disclosed by the Group during that year states on the issue in different subjects of today through his blog and mailing list IWETEL, as well as the discussions in line with them. Also contains a selection of news coming out of IWETEL and DocuMenea on the most important events of the past year in this area. It closes the document with an article by Emilio Delgado Lopez Cozar and Mercedes de la Moneda Corrochano in which the figures are broken down by the profession during that year: statistics library and publishing, library administration bodies, professional groups and conferences, congresses and meetings.
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Permanent link: P.URL | Category: Monographs | Published: June 17, 2008
June 16, 2008
Reading and universities
The magazine education and library has spent the dossier of their number in May / June 2008 to the experiences of promoting reading that are developed from universities. The case has been coordinated by Javier Perez Iglesias, who is also the author of the introductory article that provides the framework for this issue. Javier Garcia writes about the cultural mission of the university library, while Dídac Margaix it does on reading, and university resources 2.0. In this special report reflects abundant samples of reader-building initiatives undertaken since universities, like Club reading of the University of Murcia, cultural portals of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, the collection Extra BUC at the University of Cantabria, and as various blogs university libraries devoted to books and reading, like 365 days of books (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), connect to reading (Polytechnic University of Valencia) or Biblio-Polis (Universidad Complutense de Madrid). In the dossier had also accommodate two collaborations Magda Pole on college edition, and Maria Jesus del Olmo, on reading and youth in the United States.
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Permanent link: P.URL | Category: Reading Serials | Published: June 16, 2008
June 11, 2008
EDOCPA 2008
Today Wednesday June 11, 2008 has started the Second International Symposium E-DocPad 2008, which comes to continue the work begun in E-DocPad 2006. The aim of the conference on electronic documents in the Principality of Asturias is to analyze the presence of information technology in government. The edition that begins today under the title The infoesfera on innovation of e-administration, accompanied by the caption as Knowledge process of modernizing the document management and relations with the public. The program began with presentations by Daniel Pepper and Jorge Wagensberg. The first panel will focus on electronic administration and information services for digital citizenship. On Thursday, 12, the symposium begins with the round table that has organized apei Practitioners, industry and market information and includes sessions dedicated to integration and interoperability in information systems, as well as the Society entitled, and access to scientific output information. The meeting on Friday, June 13 begins with presentations on The document management content and tools will also offer corporate and the submission of the report Digital Asturias. All Symposium can be followed through the Web. During the afternoon sessions will be conducted videoconferences with the National University of Mar del Plata, with the Universidade de Sao Paulo, with the De La Salle University and Stanford University.
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Permanent link: P.URL | Category: Conferences | Published: June 11, 2008
June 10, 2008
Plenary of the Observatory of the Book and Reading
On Monday, June 7, 2008 was set plenary of the Observatory of the Book and Reading, a body attached to the Ministry of Culture whose mission analysis of books, reading and libraries. The Observatory was regulated by the Council of Ministers on November 30, 2007 and by Royal Decree 1574/2007 of 30 November, which regulates the Centre of Reading and Book (BOE 01-01-2008) . According to the Regulations "The Observatory is made up of House representatives from the Ministries of Culture, Industry, Tourism and Trade, Education and Science, and the National Institute of Statistics, the chairman of the Cooperation Council Librarian; six representatives of the Autonomous Communities , Appointed by the Sector Conference on Culture and a representative of the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces. Also has representation from the universities, various professional associations of booksellers, writers, publishers, collecting societies of copyright and professionals of archives, libraries and documentation. The House on a proposal by the President, shall appoint up to five experts in the field of reading the book and libraries. " Experts appointed in the House to join the observatory were Jose Antonio Marina, Jose Antonio Millán, Alejandro Tiana, Alfonso Garcia and Jorge Urrutia. The autonomous regions that have been incorporated into the House are those that have similar observatories, which are Andalusia, Castilla-La Mancha, Castilla y Leon, Ceuta, Extremadura and Madrid.
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Permanent link: P.URL | Category: Law News | Published: June 10, 2008
June 09, 2008
Readings and workshops for holidays
As every year, the Center for International Paper's Children and Youth (CILIJ) from the German Foundation Ruipérez Sanchez has made his selection of readings for holidays. This is a brief guide to the four titles on offer for every age group from 3 years old, from 6 years old, from 9 years old and 12 years from 15 years. It is twenty books for children and young people selected from quality criteria on which the premium tasteful. In all cases the reference and provides a description of argument. Works to spend a summer fun with the company a good book. In addition, the CILIJ has also prepared its list of summer courses related to libraries, reading and children's literature.
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Permanent link: P.URL | Category: Information resources | Published: June 09, 2008
June 03, 2008
Reading habits in Madrid
We have presented the results of the survey analysis and diagnosis of reading habits in the population of the Comunidad de Madrid. This is a survey conducted by telephone in population over 14 years resident in Madrid between October and November 2007. The 55.7% of respondents are considered frequent readers, a percentage much higher than the national average, which was at 39.6%. The average number of weekly hours devoted to reading stands at 8.20, while those devoted to television were 10.29 and 7.37 hours Internet. The percentage of respondents who are not library users has grown since the survey in 2004. In that year 82.9% said they were not library users, a percentage that has grown up to 83.8% in 2007. The 16.2% of users employ essentially the library loan service (45.3%), followed by the reading room (18.5%) and the study room (13.8%). The survey also examines the reading on the Internet. The 55.9% of respondents used the Internet as an information resource, the professional information being sought in a 33.3% and 30.2% a leisure.
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Permanent link: P.URL | Category: Reading | Published: June 03, 2008
