Miguel Ángel Marzal

Incorporating Data Literacy into Information Literacy Programs: Core Competencies and Contents

Abstract The growing importance of data in society in general and scientific domains in particular, mirrored in the Open Data initiative and in the advent of eScience, requires public, school and academic libraries to contribute to both data and information literacy, as part of their mission to further knowledge and innovation in their respective fields of action. No specific library standards have been proposed to date, however, and most research studies conducted adopt a partial view of data literacy, stressing only the components needed in any given context. The present paper aims to contribute to the advancement of data literacy with the proposal of a set of core competencies and contents that can serve as a framework of reference for its inclusion in libraries’ information literacy programs. The various definitions of data literacy are discussed, the coverage of the competencies listed in information literacy standards is described, and the competencies considered in the experiments conducted to date in education and libraries are identified. The conclusion drawn is that the model proposed can favour the development of data literacy support resources and services. Topics for further research are also specified.

La cooperación de la biblioteca escolar y la pública: alfabetización en información, "biblioteca integrada" y el mundo virtual

The stimuli of educative convergence between the school and public libraries are examined, within the framework of the new environments and educational models that the Society of the information is trying, a few stimuli tending to a model of cooperation more effective than till now existing. There is studied, then, the educational convergent process, based on the informative competitions on the electronic discourse, for major efficiency of the collaborative and lifelong learning in formal and non-formal education, in order to reach a convergent educative model, whose engine is the information literacy, phenomenon that transforms the educational role of the libraries, particularly the school and public, who find new ways of cooperation, as he is credited in different actions. Authors analyse, finally, two scenes of this partnership working between school and public libraries: the model joint-use, that is defined, describes its typology and their possibilities in future; the virtual world, Second Life and the MMORPGs, that are described, score their formative applications and their incorporation at libraries.

Analysis of information use in agricultural science PhD theses at Central University of Venezuela (1986-2002)

Purpose – To analyze information use in agricultural science PhD theses submitted between 1986 and 2002 in the Faculty of Agronomy, Central University of Venezuela (UCV).Design/methodology/approach – The source of information was the UCV Faculty of Agronomy, Librarys database, “Tesis”. The unidimensional production and use indicators analyzed included: scientific production, reference density, self‐citations, document contemporaneousness and type of documents cited, reference scattering and accessibility of the journals cited.Findings – The analysis of the data obtained from 4,646 bibliographic references in 42 agricultural science PhD theses provides insight into information use in a Venezuelan agricultural science community. The mean number of references per thesis found was 113 ± 21. The number of women earning a PhD in agriculture was observed to grow. The percentage of self‐citations varied widely. The half‐life was 11 years and the Prices Index 22 per cent. According to the distribution by documen...

Un modelo y un método para la transformación de la biblioteca escolar en centro de recursos de enseñanza y aprendizaje

El proposito de este trabajo es presentar un modelo y un metodo para la transformacion de la biblioteca escolar en Centro de Recursos para la Ensenanza y el Aprendizaje que permita avanzar en la cultura bibliotecaria y la integracion curricular de la alfabetizacion informacional en los centros publicos de ensenanza secundaria de la Comunidad de Madrid. Dichos modelo y metodo se proponen a partir de un estudio de la realidad y expectativas de la comunidad educativa madrilena, para el cual se realizaron encuestas a directores, profesores, responsables de bibliotecas y alumnos de 10 Institutos de Educacion Secundaria. Los resultados del estudio sugieren la necesidad de un modelo de Centro de Recursos para la Ensenanza y el Aprendizaje integrado en la actividad escolar a cargo de un bibliotecario escolar cualificado y a tiempo completo, capaz de colaborar con los docentes en el desarrollo del curriculo asi como con otras bibliotecas. Para su implementacion se propone un metodo de evaluacion basado en indicadores relativos a aspectos clave de su actuacion, asi como una serie de aplicaciones practicas del Centro de Recursos para la Ensenanza y el Aprendizaje en el ambito escolar. Se concluye, finalmente, que el Centro de Recursos para la Ensenanza y el Aprendizaje asi definido puede contribuir a potenciar la inclusion digital de los escolares. Palabras-clave: Alfabetizacion en informacion. Biblioteca escolar. Centro de recursos para la ensenanza y el aprendizaje. Indicadores educativos.

Diagnóstico del estado de la alfabetización en información (ALFIN) en las universidades chilenas

This article outlines the theoretical foundations, methodology, survey findings, analysis and discussion of results of a fieldwork project to assess the implementation of information literacy programs at Chilean universities. The project approach is analyzed: the epistemological foundations, the conventions of what is understood for information literacy and competencies, and their projection in educational programs using a model (Tuning), as well as in the curriculum; and finally the analysis of information competencies to define instructional and curriculum design of information literacy programs. The methodology used to know the state of the art of these programs at Chilean universities includes the survey that was applied and the analysis of its results, from which recommendations were drawn to support a way to establish a model for the integration of information literacy programs within university curricula.

Analysis of bibliographic references in Zootecnia Tropical

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the bibliographic references contained in the scientific papers (articles and technical notes) published from 1985 to 2005 in Zootecnia Tropical (ZT), a scientific journal.Design/methodology/approach – A retrospective descriptive study is conducted using one‐dimensional bibliometric indicators such as: output, bibliographic density, institutional affiliation, recentness of the documents cited, document typology, self‐citations and scientific collaboration. Univariate descriptive analysis is used to study the indicators.Findings – A total of 349 scientific papers (300 articles and 49 technical notes) are reviewed; output ranged from a maximum of 34 papers in 2001 to a minimum of four in 1990, with a mean of 15 papers per volume. The papers analyzed contain a total of 5,651 bibliographic references, with an average of 19 ± 9 references per paper; the largest number of references (19 ± 33) are found in the articles and the smallest (10.5 ± 13) in the notes. V...