The NEMLA Music Librarianship Course working group developed a syllabus for a course that is centered around the principles of critical music librarianship with a particular focus on social justice and antiracist practices. This initiative is unique from general music librarianship courses offered in LIS programs currently, because we specifically…[Read more]

Los estudios sociales acerca del desarrollo comunitario en América Latina y el Caribe constituyen un campo científico que ha sido poco estudiado y delimitado. Los paradigmas euro centristas y de la colonialidad del saber han influido en la comu-nicación científica. La investigación tuvo como propósito delimitar la estructura del campo…[Read more]

La formación de valores humanos ha sido uno de los aspectos priorizados por el sistema de educación superior en Cuba. La carrera de Ingeniería Automática de la Universidad Central “Marta Abreu” de Las Villas, Cuba, ha desarrollado una concepción sistémica de la educación sustentada en valores, sin embargo, no existen estudios que analicen s…[Read more]

Audiovisual archives in local television stations favor the processing and preservation of audio-visual information for his retrival. The peculiarities of the processing of audiovisual information on local television stations archives have been little addressed from the scientific production. In the methodological order, there is a…[Read more]

Teaching role of library staff is studied as established in the national and international professional frameworks and guidelines (CCB, REBIUN, ECIA, ALA, ACRL, IFLA), as well as the main aspects dealt with in professional literature. The specialized and academic publications analyzed deal with aspects such as the evolution of the concept; the…[Read more]

This article presents a commentary on the recent resurgence of interest in the practice of rights retention in scholarly publishing. Led in part by the evolving European policy landscape, rights retention seeks to ensure immediate access to accepted manuscripts uploaded to repositories. The article identifies a trajectory in the development of…[Read more]

La formación de profesionales especializados en archivística o gestión documental en Cuba ha sido una necesidad constante. No existe a nivel nacional un programa de formación que permita constituir un referente para llevar a cabo acciones de superación para profesionales que se desempeñan en el sistema institucional de archivos. A partir de lo an…[Read more]

The multimedia aspects of one of the most beautifully illuminated charters is in the focus of this paper.

Th is essay deals with the relevance of medieval grants of arms in art history, focusing on the aspects of innovation and quality. Th e fi rst part discusses the origins of innovative prototypes that did not yet match the quality of later grants of arms. Th e second part presents a selection of qualitative landmarks in the history of grants of…[Read more]

This article invites the reading of Fernando Pessoa’s Fausto as a rhizomatic work, via three different critical lenses that lead to plurality: Traditions, Transcriptions, and Translations. Regarding different Faustian traditions, instead of seeing Pessoa’s Fausto merely as a competition with Goethe (as proposed by Eduardo Lourenço in his pref…[Read more]

The musical chapel of the Collegiate Church of Santa María la Mayor in Talavera de la Reina is a significant case of how an ecclesiastical institution articulates the musical life of a city: in this sense, it can be stated that the main musical activity in the aforementioned Toledan city has revolved around the chapel of the Collegiate Church…[Read more]

An overview of the principles, evolution and context of media and information literacy in university libraries is offered, as well as the fundamental role that professionals who work in libraries play as trainers. It is, therefore, a proposal for a synthesis of the path traveled by the media and information literacy in Higher Education, an…[Read more]

Focussing on the Duchy of Cornwall’s organisational structure during the Wars of the Roses, this survey examines the principal offices (which evolved around administration of its marine and terrene regalities) and personnel (administrative elite) in Cornwall and Devon. Consideration of successive Princes’ Councils and counsellors (and Councils of…[Read more]

Avery Cornburgh (d.1487) of Bere Ferrers (Devon) and Dovers (Essex) – a Lancastrian, Yorkist, and Tudor household servant – was one of the appreciable numbers of crown servants utilised in local government during the fifteenth century. Serving in Cornwall and Essex as JP, MP, sheriff, and commissioner, he was prominent in Cornish affairs as a res…[Read more]

Four colleagues–a faculty member, a digital services librarian, a research librarian, and a curator of Special Collections–take turns describing their role in creating an undergraduate student project around an eighteenth-century almanac that belonged to Marie-Antoinette. In recounting the steps taken, the collaborative process, the student…[Read more]

Las políticas públicas sobre ciencia, tecnología e innovación tienen la función social de dirigir los procesos de construcción y socialización del conocimiento y los hallazgos científicos. Existe en la literatura científica publicada vacíos de conocimiento que contribuyan a fundamentar las políticas públicas en materia de ciencia, tecnología…[Read more]

From the review of the most significant bibliography, the role that the library plays in the internationalization of the university is analyzed. In order to move forward in this field, it would be very convenient that Spanish academic libraries focus their resources and services in terms of internationalization, investigate the different library…[Read more]