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“Participating in what? And for whose benefit?”. Notes on collective participation and creation

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  [Versió catalana] [Versión castellana] Antoni Roig Lecturer Faculty of Information and Communication Sciences Universitat Oberta de Catalunya aroigt@uoc.edu     As the title of an essay written in response to Martin Butler’s discussion of the “precarious alliances” that constitute participatory cultures, cultural theorist Henry Jenkins’s pithy “Participation? It’s Complicated” (Jenkins, 2015) makes the situation … Read more

The evolution of the Web of Science from the Science Citation Index

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  [Versió catalana] [Versión castellana] Eugene Garfield Doctor Honoris Causa Universitat de Barcelona eugene.garfield@thomsonreuters.com     A month ago, I was informed by Professor Ernest Abadal that I should prepare a brief comment for this occasion. Since I was not told what subject to address, I assumed that it would be relevant to discuss the … Read more

The challenges of training in Library and Information Science

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  [Versió catalana | Versión castellana] Ernest Abadal Dean of the Faculty of Library and Information Science University of Barcelona abadal@ub.edu   1 Training, a cause for concern It is perhaps hard to experience in first person as many sad endings in university Library and Information Science (LIS) centres as Blaise Cronin has. Cronin studied in … Read more

Research challenges: The pathway to engagement and progress

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  [Versió catalana | Versión castellana] Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Ph.D Senior Research Scientist OCLC Research connawal@oclc.org   When I was invited to speak about the challenges of library and information science (LIS) research at the III International Seminar on LIS Education and Research (LIS-ER) I was honored but as an optimist wanted to also call … Read more

The knowledge hierarchy: does DIK really lead to W?

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  [Versió catalana | Versión castellana] Julià Minguillón Lecturer Computing, Multimedia and Telecommunications Studies Universitat Oberta de Catalunya jminguillona@uoc.edu     In today’s information society our intangible assets count for more than our tangible ones, and knowing how to use a product or service is considered more important than understanding how it was conceived or … Read more

Cinema in the digital age

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  [Versió catalana | Versión castellana] Esteve Riambau Director of the Filmoteca de Catalunya   The cinema has well and truly entered the digital age. Ever since Spielberg’s computer-generated dinosaurs first crossed the screen in Jurassic Park some twenty years ago, the invention patented by the Lumière brothers at the end of the nineteenth century … Read more

Why Libraries? A Call for Use-Centered Assessment

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  [Versió catalana | Versión castellana] Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Ph.D. Senior Research Scientist OCLC Research Chair of Excellence, 2014 Departamento de Biblioteconomía y Documentación Universidad Carlos III de Madrid connawal@oclc.org   It is often difficult for library and information professionals to accept “that the majority of the population does not use libraries to get information” … Read more

The Quality of Information in the Web

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  [Versión castellana | Versió catalana] Michael Buckland Professor Emeritus School of Information University of California, Berkeley buckland@ischool.berkeley.edu   All communities, all societies, all collaborations arise through and depend on interaction and communication among their members. There must have been concerns about the honesty, accuracy, completeness, currency, and verifiability of communications in prehistoric times. The … Read more

Le retour des collections

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  [Versió catalana] [Versión castellana] Bertrand Calenge Directeur des études Département des Études et de la Recherche ENSSIB École Nationale Supérieure des Sciences de l’Information et des Bibliothèques Université de Lyon bertrand.calenge@enssib.fr   En réfléchissant à ce propos liminaire à la revue BiD: textos universitaris de Biblioteconomia i Documentació, j’ai opéré un retour sur vingt … Read more

Editorial

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  [Versió catalana] [Versió castellana] Mario Pérez-Montoro Universitat de Barcelona perez-montoro@ub.edu Candela Ollé Universitat Oberta de Catalunya collec@uoc.edu   Back in June 1998, an enthusiastic group of professors in library and information science at the University of Barcelona launched the first issue of the journal BiD: textos universitaris de biblioteconomia i documentació. The new publication … Read more