Bibliotecologia y Ciencias de la Informacion
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ItemLa alfabetización informacional como estrategia para enfrentar la brecha digital: concepciones actuales y perspectivas de futuro en la biblioteca municipal Pedro Elio Cevallos Ponce en el periodo 2022-2023(Universidad Técnica de Manabí, 2023)Information literacy is a discipline that has gained space and importance in academic training, especially in higher education. Because this disciplinary approach includes a set of skills and abilities to perform tasks related to information is that it constitutes a fundamental strategy to combat the digital divide, defined as the distance between individual, residential, academic and geographical areas at different socio-economic levels in relation to their opportunities to access new information and communication technologies as well as the use of the Internet, which ends up reflecting differences both between different countries or institutions at the local level. In this context, the purpose of this research work is to analyze how information literacy is used as a strategy to address the digital divide; For this, the current conceptions and future prospects are addressed in the Municipal Library Pedro Elio Cevallos Ponce in the period 2022-2023. Based on a qualitative, quantitative and descriptive methodological orientation, this study analyzes and investigates how Information Literacy provides tools to combat the digital divide and can make good use of information, in addition to evaluating and organizing the data to which they have access.
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ItemUna mirada hacia los repositorios institucionales en las universidades manabitas(Universidad Técnica de Manabí, 2022)Higher education institutions are generators of large volumes of information resulting from research work, therefore, the usefulness of capturing it and preserving it for later viewing is increasing. The objective of this research is to characterize the institutional repositories in the universities of the province of Manabí. For this, a descriptive and exploratory study of the current state of Open Access academic repositories was carried out, using the database records of national and international directories and the information available on their own websites. The approach is mixed considering that the information is examined from quantitative and qualitative perspectives. Direct observation was used as the data collection method. For the parameters to be measured in the description, the RECOLETA Guide of the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT, 2021) was used, adapting 5 of the 8 criteria defined as basic for institutional research repositories, such as: Visibility; Policies; Legal aspects; Logs and Statistics and Added Value Services and Features. According to these indicators, various problems were detected in the repositories of the universities of the province, which constitutes a limitation to appear in international aggregators or collectors such as: LA Reference, OpenDOAR and ROAR, which negatively impacts their visibility.
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ItemPromoción de la lectura en los estudiantes de la carrera de ingeniería eléctrica de la universidad técnica de Manabí.(Universidad Técnica de Manabí, 2022)The promotion of reading is a social practice aimed at transforming the way of conceiving, valuing, imagining and using reading. The aim is to promote this practice as a space for the production of new senses and to foster the encounter between readers and reading materials. In this context, the purpose of this research lies in the fact of analyzing the strategies of promotion of reading from the perspective of library science in students of the Career of Electrical Engineering of the Technical University of Manabí in the semester may-September 2021. From a mixed, qualitative and quantitative perspective, this study aims to determine the functions, characteristics and importance of the promotion of reading, and emphasizes how the techniques and methodological strategies of this initiative are interrelated to improve these processes. Therefore, and considering the importance of the university library, this study investigates a current problem aimed at transforming the way of conceiving, valuing, imagining and using reading in the population group addressed.
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ItemLas revistas iberoamericanas de bibliotecología y ciencias de la información en el emerging sources citation index (ESCI): tendencias disciplinarias(Universidad Técnica de Manabí, 2022)The objective of this research was to analyze the disciplinary trends of Ibero-American journals of Library and Information Science present in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI). For the search of information, the Web of Science platform was used, where twelve journals were identified and a descriptive study was carried out with a qualitative approach and applying bibliographic and statistical methods. Consequently, the Statgraphic Centurion XVIII and VOSviewer programs were used to carry out a statistical analysis. The results show that Spain is the country with the highest number of Ibero-American journals published, and that educational institutions are the most prevalent in terms of institutional origin. On the other hand, regarding the position in quartiles of the journals of Library and Information Science in Ibero-America during the year 2020, four journals have Q4 in that year, one Cuban, one Costa Rican and two Spanish, while only one Spanish journal obtains Q1. Consequently, the journal Perspectivas em ciencia da informacao, is the journal with the most papers per year in the period 2015-2020.
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ItemLas necesidades de información de los usuarios de la biblioteca Alejandro Muñoz Dávila de la UTM en el contexto de la pandemia por covid-19, 2021(Universidad Técnica de Manabí, 2022)The information needs are the lack of knowledge and information about a phenomenon, object, event, action or fact that a person has, produced by external and internal factors that cause a state of dissatisfaction. In this context, this academic work aims to analyze the way in which users of the Alejandro Muñoz Dávila Library of the Technical University of Manabí have modified their procedures for access to information in the wake of the pandemic caused by the Covid-19. From a quantitative and qualitative methodological perspective, this study analyzes the diverse information needs that users of the Alejandro Muñoz Dávila Library of the Technical University of Manabí have had in the January- January semester January-June 2021, in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. In addition, a literature review approach addresses the sources of information concerning the main trends in information needs, consulting various articles previously published in books, theses and indexed and specialized journals related to this research. This is complemented by a user survey and an interview with the director of the Alejandro Muñoz Dávila Library of the Technical University of Manabí. As a result, it is intended to identify the management strategies that have been used in this documentary centre to meet information needs during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. Finally, it is concluded that libraries in times of pandemic, such as the one under study, play an extremely valuable role because they have the mission of providing the university community with quality information resources and services, with efficiency, timeliness and technological reliability.