Ramón Alberto Manso Rodríguez

Universidad Central "Marta Abreu" de las Villas · Ciencias de la información

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the use of different mobile devices by libraries to develop programs for information skills training, focusing on the application of quick response (QR) codes for such a purpose. Design/methodology/approach – The study was developed in two stages; primarily an analysis of the literature was conducted to determi...

We reflect on the challenges posed by technological advances for the library sector, primarily those associated with the so-called social Web and their potential to implement actions that help foster and promote a love for reading in new generations of readers. Thus, at first, we analyzed the current trends in terms of reader behavior and technolog...

Objectives: to validate and develop a methodology for answering consultations (passive information) to the drug information services in Cuba.Methods: five stages were used for the Literature Review, the Diagnosis of Drug Information Service at the community and at the hospital, the Design of the methodology proposal, the Validation through the expe...

Introduction: information services on drugs have a well-known positive impact on the drug therapy and on the quality of life of patients. However, there has not been an assessment made in the national territory, which allows diagnosing their situation from a comprehensive perspective. Objective: to evaluate the drug information service of the Cente...

Introduction: the Center for Study, Documentation and Information of Drugs has set out to develop and implement an overall quality management system that allows the evaluatioand certification of the quality of its services. It was then imperative for this organization to make a diagnosis of its performance, to identify strengths and weaknesses and...

Objetivo: evaluar los recursos de información disponibles en el Centro de Estudio, Documentación e Información de Medicamentos (CEDIMED). Métodos: se identificaron aquellas fuentes, servicios y sistemas que pudieran llegar a alcanzar la categoría de entidad o recurso de información dentro del CEDIMED, empleando la metodología INFOMAP. Se recolectar...

Introduction: The Center for Study, Documentation and Information of Drugs has set out to develop and implement an overall quality management system that allows the evaluation and certification of the quality of its services. It was then imperative for this organization to make a diagnosis of its performance, to identify strengths and weaknesses an...

Objective: to evaluate the information resources available at the Center of Study, Documentation and Information on Drugs (CEDIMED). Methods: identification of those sources, services and systems that might attain the category of entity or of information resource within CEDIMED by using the INFOMAD methodology. Data on the cost of identified resour...

Implementing Information Technologies in library services requires some dynamic issues in its design and development, as the case of 'Virtual Reference Services' (VRS), which also must be evaluated on a regular basis. The aim of this study was to establish from the opinion of a group of librarians, participants in courses, about "how to build an VR...

Resumen Se analiza la incidencia de las redes sociales en el desarrollo de los clubs de lectura como servicio para el fomento de la lectura. Mediante un análisis documental se presentan los puntos de vista de varios autores y se examina la presencia de los clubs de lectura en la red social Facebook. Se mencionan sus características, se presentan al...

La implantación de las tecnologías de la información proporciona a los servicios bibliotecarios cierto dinamismo en su concepción y desarrollo, como el caso del Servicio de Referencia Virtual (SRV), que además se debe evaluar con regularidad. El objetivo de este estudio es conocer la opinión de un grupo de profesionales, que trabajan en bibliotecas...

Se realizó una auditoría de información al Centro de Estudios, Documentación e Información sobre Medicamentos radicado en la ciudad de Santa Clara (CEDIMEVC); con tal fin se utilizó el Modelo Integral para Auditar Organizaciones de Información en Cuba. A propuesta de los autores a dicho modelo le fue adicionada la variable Investigación. Fueron ana...

Purpose – This paper aims to analyse the common features of the virtual reference services provided by European and American libraries in order to evaluate the service from the user's perspective, taking into account the potential of Web 2.0 applications. Design/methodology/approach – This research adopts a quantitative approach, to contribute to...

This article has as its main purpose to present the current state of the question related with the challenges and opportunities imposed to the library sector by a changing technological environment. The analysis of the literature focuses on three key elements for the development of libraries today: the readers -the reason for the existence of libra...

To take into account the challenges imposed by the information technologies and particularly, the philosophy 2.0, must to be a basic principle for any offer that information institutions want to implement in the virtual space. Reference service has to do with this problem, thus present communication describes the risks and chances representing for...

Every library service to be implemented requires a definition of its policies for its successful development. In that sense, the virtual reference service is not an exception and the same happens with the rest of services provided by any information institution at this stage of policy desing. Unfortunately this kind of service does not have an inte...

Every library service to be implemented requires a definition of its policies for its successful development. In that sense, the virtual reference service is not an exception and the same happens with the rest of services provided by any information institution at this stage of policy desing. Unfortunately this kind of service does not have an inte...

This paper sets out different opinions about information management, virtual reference and the process shaping it. There is an emphasis on the importance of human resources for it. It is specified that any information service results from a process that is systematically organized, pursuant to the goal for which it has been created.

Se aborda el servicio de referencia virtual: concepto, elementos que intervienen en su proceso, tipología, organización, ventajas y deficiencias, herramientas más idóneas para su implementación, métodos de evaluación de su calidad; así como el desarrollo de fuentes y recursos propios para apoyar dicha prestación.

Las técnicas de representación de la información, como el análisis de coautoría y el escalamiento multidimensional (MDS), permiten obtener una imagen clara del funcionamiento de una realidad particular mediante el análisis de forma gráfica de estas relaciones. Se exponen los resultados de la aplicación de estas técnicas a la publicación seriada Aci...

For anyone, today, after surfing the Internet for information of value is as if you were looking for a needle in a haystack: The volume of information that is generated by minute, what of it scattered and lack of truthfulness or form check its authenticity has become the tool in that great chaos. University libraries, in this context, trying to res...

Theoretical issues about the origin, development and organization of virtual reference services are presented. Conceptualization and evaluation criteria are also described.

Tomando en consideración el aumento de literatura en soporte electrónico y como parte del desarrollo de sus sistemas automatizados de gestión bibliotecaria, el Centro de Documentación e Información Científico – Técnica de la Universidad Central de Las Villas, Santa Clara, Cuba, construyó su biblioteca virtual utilizando los campos especificados en...

Tomando en consideración el aumento de literatura en soporte electrónico y como parte del desarrollo de sus sistemas automatizados de gestión bibliotecaria, el Centro de Documentación e Información Científico ¿ Técnica de la Universidad Central de Las Villas, Santa Clara, Cuba, construyó su biblioteca virtual utilizando los campos especificados en...

Teniendo presente el desarrollo alcanzado en el campo de la información y el conocimiento con la introducción de las tecnologías de la información y la comunicaciones, y la necesidad de contar en las organizaciones con sistemas de información capaces de resolver el exceso de ésta, el presente trabajo aborda la implementación en intranet de producto...