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This text reports on the early success of a technology training program designed to introduce incoming first-year students to the basics of academic technologies they will use during their undergraduate career on a campu...

Users of Institutional Repositories and Digital Libraries are known by their needs for very specific information about one or more subjects. To characterize users profiles and offer them new documents and resources is on...

Abstract BackgroundMedlinePlus, developed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) in the United States, is one of the most widely used, authoritative, consumer-grade health information resources on the web....

This study investigates the library experiences of transfer students at an urban commuter campus in the United States with approximately 20,000 students, 8,500 of whom previously attended another institution. Using a mix...

This article shares research findings to support the case for media literacy education to facilitate robust media engagement by Slovenian citizens. It shares the outcomes of a project MELIA Observatory funded by the Inte...

The fight against street‐level drug crime cannot be won by spending more resources on traditional, reactive style police work. Rather, partnerships between the police and other “third parties” should be applied, su...

Users of Institutional Repositories and Digital Libraries are known by their needs for very specific information about one or more subjects. To characterize users profiles and offer them new documents and resources is on...

Fil: Fushimi, Marcela. Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Instituto de Investigaciones en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales; Argentina. El objetivo de este trabajo es investigar la evolución y el proceso de construcción d...

This research describes the challenging task of identifying new required competencies and responding with new ITL programs in two different regions. The first one, in Chile, is part of an Ibero-American initiative, ALFIN...

Los Repositorios Institucionales (RI) se han consolidado en las instituciones en las áreas científicas y académicas, así lo demuestran los directorios de repositorios existentes de acceso abierto y en los depósitos ...

El artículo explora las significaciones imaginarias en el campo de la bibliotecología en relación con las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación. Para el estudio se utilizaron entrevistas en profundidad qu...

Fil: Manzo, Laura. Universidad Nacional de Quilmes; Argentina. Fotografías de Laura Manzo y recordatorio de Roque Dabat, para quien fuera la primera directora de la Biblioteca de la Universidad Nacional de Quilmes.