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La inserción profesional de los graduados en Información y Documentación: el caso de la Universidad de Salamanca

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Any de graduació

Objective: This paper analyses the employability of graduates in the bachelor’s degree in Information and Documentation of the University of Salamanca.

Methodology: A questionnaire consisting of closed-ended questions (suggested response, evaluation) and one open-ended question was administered in web format to the graduate students who had completed the degree in the period 2009-2012.

Results: Information and documentation graduates from the university in question were most commonly women whose motivation to become professionals was vocational. The respondents’ evaluation of the knowledge acquired during their degree was positive. The professional tasks they engaged in most were technically complex tasks requiring a level of expertise, and the majority of the respondents were employed. In what appears to be a new trend, in certain cases respondents had found employment in the private sector. An increase was also observed in the use of the Internet to obtain a professional position and in respondents’ professional interest in acquiring project planning and management skills in information and documentation.

La gestión de proyectos como materia en los estudios universitarios de Información y Documentación en Iberoamérica

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Gráfico 1. Distribución porcentual y por países de la presencia de gestión de proyectos en las titulaciones universitarias de Información y Documentación en Iberoamérica

Objective: This paper examines the current offering of the subject Project Management in bachelor’s and master’s degrees in information and documentation in Ibero-America, focusing on the countries Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Puerto Rico, El Salvador, Spain, Uruguay and Venezuela. The paper analyses different features of the subject in these degree courses to provide a general overview.

Methodology: A search obtained information about the offering of the subject Project Management in degree courses at an international level and the results were examined by university and by degree course. The university curricula were then analysed according to specific selection criteria, as outlined in the paper, and the researchers corresponded by email with the teaching staff responsible for these courses. Various parameters were studied and then recorded in a database. Finally, the results were analysed.

Results: After the universities, degrees and subjects had been identified and selected according to the research criteria, it was observed that 77% of the entire offering that included the degree course subject Project Management was to be found in first-cycle (bachelor’s) degrees, and that Mexico, Colombia and Spain were the countries where the offering was greatest. The study also showed that Project Management was a compulsory subject in 86 % of the sample analysed.

Mercado de trabajo en información y documentación y crisis económica en España: una aproximación a partir de las ofertas publicadas en IweTel entre 2008 y 2013

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Nombre d'ofertes per any

Objective: This paper analyses the number, nature and conditions of job offers in the job listings published by the internet forum IweTel during the period January 2008-December 2013.

Methodology: The characteristics of job offers were analysed using statistical analysis. In many cases, the data had to be normalized before it could be used.

Results: Employment in information and documentation clearly fell during the six-year period studied, from 2008 when a total of 190 job offers were listed, to 2013 when that figure had dropped to 35. The precarity of the labour market was also noted, especially in the length of employment time offered. The organization that most frequently used the forum was typically a document service company with headquarters in Madrid, and the jobs most frequently advertised were for professionals in cataloguing. The IweTel forum was considered a valuable source of data because it has the largest mailing list for information professionals in Spain; its disadvantage was that IweTel is most frequently used by private ventures who are familiar with the sector, while other types of company advertise there less frequently or not at all.

Análisis de los estudios bibliométricos en Cataluña

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Evolución del número de estudios bibliométricos en Cataluña, respecto a los de la base de datos ISOC

Objective: This paper describes the production of bibliometric studies in Catalonia in quantitative terms. It examines publications that use bibliometric tools to determine features of scientific production but excludes journals that present or discuss bibliometric methods and techniques.

Methodology: Bibliometric tools were used to analyse the registers of a relational database obtained from various sources, including the bibliographic databases of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA), Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA), and the index Library Literature and Information Science. Searches were also performed using PubMed, Dialnet, and Google Scholar, and references were obtained by citation chaining.

Results: A total of 297 documents were identified, of which 76.8 % were journal articles. These examined a substantial number of knowledge areas, of which biomedicine was especially prominent. The subject matter of the documents ranged across the spectrum of the knowledge areas analysed. In general, the studies that predominated addressed Spain, although there were variations that also responded to this range of areas. The predominant language was Spanish, most papers were co-authored by two or more authors and the most common author arrangement was a collaboration between departmental members.

Detección y motivación de alumnos interesados en información y documentación: el caso de Extremadura

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Figura 1. Valoración de los indicadores de identificación de; las capacidades del alumnado de 1º y 2º del grado en INDO

Objectives: This paper examines how student interest in the scientific field of information and documentation can be identified and motivated, using the results of a study in the Spanish autonomous community of Extremadura.

Methodology: A 15-item questionnaire was administered to identify the value students assigned to creative, volitional and intellectual skills and a 25-item questionnaire was administered to identify the value they assigned to specific skills in information and documentation. Student interest was motivated by group discussions and specialized seminars. The respondents were first- and second-year university students at the University of Extremadura studying the bachelor’s degree Information and Documentation in its face-to-face mode during the academic year 2011-2012, and sixth-form students in centres of secondary education in the city of Badajoz, especially students of social sciences.

Results: In their assessment of creative, volitional and intellectual skills and of specific skills in information and documentation, the first- and second-year university students’ average score was higher than 83%. The interest shown in skills in information and documentation by the sixth-form students was also high, and the average score given was 66%. However, both groups assigned greater value to general skills than to specific skills. We argue that this is indicative of students’ customary lack knowledge of the subjects which the degree is supposed to make them specialists of, and that educators must therefore find more effective ways of promoting the importance of these subjects.

Iniciativas de difusión de calidad en Internet de los museos y las colecciones museográficas de Cataluña

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Gràfic 1. Captura de pantalla de la pàgina principal del MNAC a l'Art Project de Google

Objectives: This paper determines how Catalan cultural heritage is presented on the Internet by examining a selection of quality websites including the projects of the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (National Museum of Art of Catalonia, MNAC) at Google’s Art Project, the web archive Patrimoni Digital de Catalunya (Digital Heritage of Catalonia, PADICAT), the Government of Catalonia’s Museus en línia (Online Museums), the Provincial Council of Barcelona’s Xarxa de Museus Locals (Network of Local Museums, XML), Barcelona City Council’s Carta arqueològica de Barcelona (Archaeological Map of Barcelona), the CCCBLab project at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (Barcelona Centre for Contemporary Culture, CCCB), the webpage Museus de Girona (Museums of Girona), and finally the project Viquiprojecte:ICUB, which was created by the Catalan language edition of Wikipedia and the Institut de Cultura de Barcelona (Institute of Culture of Barcelona, ICUB).

Methodology: The study assessed the effectiveness, adequacy and usability of the websites by testing the quality of the features enabling users to consult, browse and view content.

Results: It was observed that museums use a wide range of methods to establish their presence online and that their public reach, the focus they choose (institution or exhibit) and the technology they use all vary considerably.

Uso, aceptación y expectativas del libro electrónico en una biblioteca de investigación

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Distribución de respuestas según estatus académico y edad

  [Versió catalana] | English version]   Irene-Sofía Romero-Otero Investigadora Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales (CCHS) Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) Grupo de Investigación de Evaluación de Publicaciones Científicas (EPUC) irenesofiar@yahoo.com Esperanza Iglesias-Fernández Directora de la biblioteca Biblioteca del Instituto de Química-Física Rocasolano (Biqfr) Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) esperanza.iglesias@iqfr.csic.es Elea Giménez-Toledo … Leer más

La consulta de mapas conceptuales: estudio mediante eye-tracker

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Ejemplo de mapa conceptual realizado de acuerdo con las teorías de Novak

Objectives: This paper examines how users read concept maps and seeks to identify those parts of concept maps that users focus on most and the order in which maps are reviewed.

Methodology: The study used eye-tracking methodology.

Results: It was observed that when reading concept maps users paid most attention to second horizontal entry levels and to the central area of the map. There was no significant difference of degree in the attention they paid to nodes or connecting sentences, and users initially read down the map, from one side to the other, from the root concept positioned at the top and in the middle of the map to the concept positioned at the bottom right-hand corner.

Los servicios 1.0 y 2.0 en las bibliotecas públicas en línea de los municipios de Bizkaia (Euskadi)

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Figura 1. Servicios 2.0 incluidos en las tecnologías de nivel 2

Objectives: This paper examines the provision of Web 2.0 services and the consequent exclusion of Web 1.0 services in different libraries in the Basque network of public online libraries (Euskadiko Irakurketa Publikoko Sarea) in the province of Biscay.

Methodology: The researchers conducted case studies of different libraries in the network using a series of parameters and indicators to determine the provision of Web 2.0 and Web 1.0 services. Some of the parameters that were used are customary in the field while others were tailored to the requirements of the study. The data were retrieved during the period between September 2012 and February 2013.

Results: A disparity was observed between the libraries where some libraries consistently offered just Web 1.0 services while others offered a wide range of Web 2.0 services, which were fully maintained and updated. The main findings of this study were presented in the formulation of a Web 2.0 drop rate, an indicator that quantifies the effect of the trend for Web 2.0 services.

Calidad de los sitios web turísticos oficiales de las comunidades autónomas españolas

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Índice de calidad web

Objectivo: analizar la calidad de los sitios web turísticos oficiales de las comunidades autónomas españolas.

Metodología: metodología propia, elaborada por el proyecto de investigación CODETUR, basada en una plantilla de análisis que contempla doce parámetros y un total de 127 indicadores. La combinación de indicadores y parámetros permite calcular un índice de calidad web (ICW) para cada sitio evaluado, un índice específico para cada parámetro e identificar aspectos sobresalientes y áreas de mejora en cada uno de los portales turísticos.

Resultados: la calidad general de los portales turísticos oficiales de las comunidades autónomas españolas se sitúa justo por encima de un nivel medio, con un ICW global de 0,51. La puntuación más elevada la obtiene el sitio web de turismo de Galicia, con un 0,66, y la puntuación más baja, el de Extremadura, con un ICW de 0,33. Los parámetros que obtienen la puntuación media más elevada son los referidos a usabilidad y accesibilidad (0,75), posicionamiento (0,73) y arquitectura de la información (0,69), aspectos consideradosObjectives: This paper assesses the quality of official tourist destination websites offered by Spain’s regional tourism boards.

Methodology: The system of assessment was designed by the research group Comunicación online de los destinos turísticos (Online Communication for Destination Brands, CODETUR) in the form of a template combining 12 parameters and 127 indicators to calculate a web quality index for each website and identify its strengths and weaknesses.

Results: The quality of tourist destination websites offered by Spain’s regional tourism boards was observed to be slightly above average, with an overall web quality index of 0.51 in which Galicia scored the highest (0.66) and Extremadura scored the lowest (0.33). Taken together, the Spanish websites scored highest in those areas the researchers had defined as technical, (0.75 for the parameter Usability and accessibility, 0.73 for Positioning and 0.69 for Web architecture) and scored lowest in those areas defined as relational (0.27 for Mobile communications and 0.28 for Interactivity) or as persuasive (0.29 for Commercialization).