This book presents a comprehensive, international and up-to-date review of the key contributions of information services to the Knowledge Economy. Chapters contributed by experts in different areas of LIS focus on the crucial roles libraries, archives and museums are playing in their home institutions -private, public, non-profit-, as much as their impact on the economy and society as a whole. Boosting the Knowledge Economy: Key Contributions from Information Services in Educational, Cultural, and Corporate Environments has a particular interest in learning services, exploring principles and strategies for their implementation - from marketing strategy to analytics -, and covers implications for the LIS profession. - Provides new insights into the value of information services in the context of the Knowledge Economy - Presents an overview and analysis of cutting-edge practices in information services, with a particular focus on learning services and their particular contribution to LAMs' (Libraries, Archives, and Museums) brand awareness and to social capital building - Introduces a collaborative reflection on the role of information professionals at challenging times, with implications for the design of educational programs in the informationfield

Benchmarking Library, Information and Education Services: New Strategic Choices in Challenging Times provides the foundations of ongoing research in the development of collections and services. The book contributes to practical outputs of general benefit to the sector, including customers, clients or stakeholders, offering ideas for how to identify comparative strengths and weaknesses and improve or enhance present practices regardless of how well institutions currently perform. The centerpiece of the book is a description, report and analysis of a major international QB exercise that culminates in a set of good practice statements. The benefits of the QB methodology are applicable to individual institutions. Because of the current global turbulence, individuals, leaders and whole institutions are keen to learn more about what is happening and how they can develop sustainable solutions to both immediate challenges and longer-term scenarios. These include an analysis of third sector organizations, e-libraries, marketing information services, vocational training in higher education, the creative arts, and the role of partnerships in organizational openness. - Discusses qualitative benchmarking and it's core tenets - Helps readers understand the experiences of others and compare their own experiences to learn and adapt practices - Presents tactics readers can use to identify their organization's professional identity, value and purpose - Provides an idea of what the future state of library, education and public services will look like

En el ambito del desarrollo local la informacion constituye un recurso fundamental para impulsar los cambios economicos, culturales y sociales de la sociedad en general y de la comunidad en particular. Con frecuencia se da el caso que la informacion que existe en una biblioteca no satisface las necesidades de informacion de las personas o grupos sociales, organizaciones e instituciones, que intervienen en el desarrollo economico y social de la propia comunidad, lo que conlleva a que los servicios de informacion que se brindan no tengan una repercusion directa en el desarrollo o promocion de la comunidad. En el libro se presenta una estrategia de superacion sobre el proceso de relacion biblioteca, informacion y comunidad, dirigida a los bibliotecarios, como propuesta a la problematica presentada. Se toma como base la Bibliotecologia y la Ciencias de la Informacion, a partir de los elementos teoricos acerca de la relacion ciencia, tecnologia y la sociedad.

Ensayo del año 2018 en eltema Bibliotecología, ciencia de la información / documentación, , Idioma: Español, Resumen: El presente ensayo académico aborda conceptos que permiten comprender a las bibliotecas del presente y del futuro, desde su arista conceptual se trata el tema de las bibliotecas públicas como una institución social, sus funciones y la atención que le deben a los más diversos sectores poblacionales. Se hace alusión a las temáticas directa o indirectamente vinculadas con el Estudio de Necesidades informativas y la expresión de este estudio en términos de requisitos para el diseño de los productos - servicios que se brindan en las bibliotecas y centros de documentación de salud, servicios que deben estar dotados de un alto valor agregado y realizados de forma planificada, dirigida y controlada por los especialistas que tienen a su cargo tales servicios. Queda claro en este ensayo las razones por las cuales las bibliotecas en ciencias de la salud son bibliotecas especializadas y cómo estas se diferencian del resto de las de su tipo en función de un conjunto de características que las hace únicas. The present academic essay deals with concepts that allow to understand the libraries of the present and the future, from its conceptual edge is the issue of public libraries as a social institution, their functions and the attention they owe to the most diverse population sectors. Reference is made to the topics directly or indirectly linked to the Study of Informative Needs and the expression of this study in terms of requirements for the design of the products - services that are provided in libraries and health documentation centers, services that must be endowed with a high added value and carried out in a planned manner, directed and controlled by the specialists who are in charge of such services. It is clear in this essay the reasons why libraries in health sciences are specialized libraries and how these differ from the rest of their type in terms of a set of characteristics that make them unique.