This essay will explore the impact personal style has on information behaviour, with
particular reference to information seeking and subsequent information searching, and to
what extent personal style is related to academic subject choice. Through this exploration,
this essay will suggest the provision of adaptive tools, customised user…[Read more]

Libraries and information services have long since been champions of equitable access to
information. As the popularity of open access grows, the GLAM (Galleries, Libraries,
Archives and Museums) sector investigates how to further develop their service and enrich
their collections through knowledge collaboration. With the increased…[Read more]

The pervasiveness and increasing usage of digital technologies and information
communication technologies (ICTs) influences not only how we view the world around us,
but how we view ourselves. We are plugged in to an incessant stream of information and
networked to other informational entities – or inforgs (Floridi, 2010) – and in order to…[Read more]

Talk presented at London Open Research Week 2021 which describes Kanye West’s way of being a creator of helps explain scholarly communication.

Introduction: Open Science (OS) is a movement within the field of science to enable the free accessibility of honestly generated and truthful scientific research possessing the capabilities of reproducibility and re-use with the input of and benefit for all stakeholders of science. Purpose: The purpose of this masters dissertation it to…[Read more]

Background: COVID-19 has changed many aspects of life and work and meant altering or developing new processes to meet those changes and continue to deliver services. This has also been the case within academic libraries, who although were already largely shifting towards digital collections, found they had to continue to deliver services to…[Read more]

La educación en el contexto actual, se encuentra cada vez más relacionada con las Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones. Los procesos formativos se realizan con mayor independencia por parte de estudiantes y profesores. El presente texto aborda los cambios contemporáneos que suceden en el proceso de enseñanza – aprendizaje, funda…[Read more]

Public libraries, while providing a standardised general service, are often tailored to the communities they serve. This relies on the visibility and understanding of social groups within the local population. Across the country, the social, cultural, political, and historical local contexts influence the size and/or prominence of the LGBTQ+…[Read more]

An overview and analysis on the Information Literacy activities and programmes organized by the Universidad de Málaga Library is offered, from their beginnings in 1991-92 to the current programmes. The goals, methodology and main outcomes are presented as well as some conclusions.

We analyse and reflect on the workshop developed in several secondary schools, under the title “Beyond copy and paste: do original works and improve your grades!” and whose objectives have been to assume the importance of gathering reliable and adequate information, knowing some sources of information and documentation useful for academic work,…[Read more]

PowerPoint of the webinar given at the Andalusian School Libraries Conference on the newest trends and proposals in relation to media and information literacy.

Starting from a review of the recent bibliography, we reflect on the role of libraries in promoting innovation. Training in media, informational and digital competencies is considered as a playing field in which librarians, educators and Administration have to come together, contributing their experience from complementary perspectives. Based on…[Read more]

Starting from a review of the recent bibliography, we reflect on the role of libraries in promoting innovation. Training in media, informational and digital competencies is considered as a playing field in which librarians, educators and Administration have to come together, contributing their experience from complementary perspectives. Based on…[Read more]

For almost as long as there has been recorded information, there has been a perception that humanity has been overloaded by it. Concerns about “too much to read” have been expressed for many centuries, and made more urgent since the arrival of ubiquitous digital information in the late 20th century. As society fully experiences Floridi’s Fourt…[Read more]

Open citation data, open peer-review, and open access produce essential materials to transition toward meaningful reform in scientific research assessment. Current research assessment tools notably include, but are not limited to, citation-based measures (Journal Impact Factor, h-index) and article level metrics (download counts, social media);…[Read more]

Often collaborators come together to teach digital humanities (DH) in the hope of modeling for students what the humanities can be — generous, collaborative, publicly engaged. At times, though, collaborative DH pedagogy in fact reproduces power structures inherent in academic institutions, placing faculty, students, and staff in the same strict c…[Read more]

In this paper, I explore organisational space through the analogy of the hedgerow. This is a locale of difference that signifies the boundary it simultaneously enacts; a trickster landscape of ‘semiotic uncertainty’; a place of unease but also one of congregation and exchange. I report on my research into the liminal spaces of organisational…[Read more]

En la construcción del conocimiento se evidencian enfoques dominantes y emergentes, manifestándose estos en las formas de investigar y socializar el conocimiento. La constitución del campo de los estudios sociales acerca del desarrollo comunitario en América Latina y el Caribe se encuentra en un proceso constante de cambios y contradicciones. Se…[Read more]

Las bibliotecas públicas son instituciones que contribuyen al desarrollo de las comunidades donde están situadas. Los servicios de punto de encuentro como servicio de información comunitario, constituyen una vía para el desarrollo de los usuarios. La ausencia de servicios de punto de encuentro, ha caracterizado a casi toda la red de bib…[Read more]

For this poster, we propose to highlight how the Florida Digital Humanities Consortium (FLDH) used the virtual environment necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic to reinvent itself through the creation of new content and outreach opportunities.

FLDH is a collective of 16 institutions in the State of Florida that seeks to highlight the digital…[Read more]