Information Behavior in Researchers at the Institute of Political Studies of the University of Antioquia

The following study explores concepts related to factors involved in scholars´ information and seeking behavior and subjectivities researchers from Institute of Political Studies – IPS at the University of Antioquia, have to choose and select information, their sources and preferences and formats, print and digital. This study reveals IPS researchers, according their background and culture, are biased to use print sources, but, because of technological, social and working implications they are facing and using even more digital tools to find, retrieve and store information for their activities on a regular basis. They are aware of the advantages digital information can bring to their academic performance versus print information and they are using digital content and tools more often

La formación en competencias informáticas e informacionales desde la Escuela Interamericana de Bibliotecología con el apoyo una plataforma de e-learning. Experiencias y resultados.

The internet, as the most important media in the development of the information society, has generated a new type of user of information, a new type of student, commonly described as digital native. This text presents how in library education in the InterAmerican School of Library and Information Science at the University of Antioquia (Medellin, Colombia), using an online learning platform (Moodle), through different personalized and collaborative learning activities and tools, that helps students, the future's librarians, to acquire computers and information competencies in several academic courses since 2007 with excellent experiences and outcomes

De las alfabetizaciones y competencias en la era digital: estudio de caso

There is a lot of information about what digital skills people should have to communicate successfully on the internet. The literature on the subject refers to a range of disciplinary fields that analyze the different meanings and variables of the term "Literacy" (Bawden, 2002), although these notions are more related to library and information science. This article outlines some concepts and terms that are intended to describe the competences and skills in information management that a person must have to be considered information literate. Finally, this paper presents the results of a research made on researchers at the Institute of Political Studies of the University of Antioquia (IPS), Medellin, Colombia. Some of their skills and literacies are analyzed, related to how they search and retrieve information and the level of knowledge researchers need to have to function in an environment that has changed substantially from the traditional paper format, which they were fully used to, to an increasing prevalence of electronic and digital media.En la actualidad se discute acerca de cuáles son las competencias digitales que deben tener los ciudadanos para comunicarse exitosamente en internet.  La literatura sobre el tema hace alusión a una serie de campos disciplinares que analizan las diferentes acepciones y variables del término “Literacy” o alfabetizaciones (Bawden, 2002), aunque estos conceptos se encuentran más relacionados con la bibliotecología y las ciencias de la documentación. Para explicar este panorama más detalladamente, se esbozarán algunos conceptos y términos que pretenden describir las competencias y destrezas en el manejo de la información que debe poseer una persona para poder considerarla alfabetizada informacionalmente. Por último, este trabajo presentará los resultados de una investigación realizada a los investigadores del Instituto de Estudios Políticos de la Universidad de Antioquia (IEP), Medellín, Colombia, en donde se analizarán algunas de sus competencias y alfabetizaciones relacionadas con la búsqueda y recuperación de la información y el nivel de conocimiento con el que cuentan los investigadores para desenvolverse en un entorno que ha cambiado sustancialmente del tradicional formato papel, al cual estaban completamente habituados, a un predominio cada vez mayor por parte de los medios electrónicos y digitales que cada día generan más información

About Literacies and Competences in the Digital Age: Case Study

RESUMEN: En la actualidad se discute acerca de cuáles son las competencias digitales que deben tener los ciudadanos para comunicarse exitosamente en internet. La literatura sobre el tema hace alusión a una serie de campos disciplinares que analizan las diferentes acepciones y variables del término “Literacy” o alfabetizaciones (Bawden, 2002), aunque estos conceptos se encuentran más relacionados con la bibliotecología y las ciencias de la documentación. Para explicar este panorama más detalladamente, se esbozarán algunos conceptos y términos que pretenden describir las competencias y destrezas en el manejo de la información que debe poseer una persona para poder considerarla alfabetizada informacionalmente. Por último, este trabajo presentará los resultados de una investigación realizada a los investigadores del Instituto de Estudios Políticos de la Universidad de Antioquia (IEP), Medellín, Colombia, en donde se analizarán algunas de sus competencias y alfabetizaciones relacionadas con la búsqueda y recuperación de la información y el nivel de conocimiento con el que cuentan los investigadores para desenvolverse en un entorno que ha cambiado sustancialmente del tradicional formato papel, al cual estaban completamente habituados, a un predominio cada vez mayor por parte de los medios electrónicos y digitales que cada día generan más información.ABSTRACT: There is a lot of information about what digital skills people should have to communicate successfully on the internet. The literature on the subject refers to a range of disciplinary fields that analyze the different meanings and variables of the term "Literacy" (Bawden, 2002), although these notions are more related to library and information science. This article outlines some concepts and terms that are intended to describe the competences and skills in information management that a person must have to be considered information literate. Finally, this paper presents the results of a research made on researchers at the Institute of Political Studies of the University of Antioquia (IPS), Medellin, Colombia. Some of their skills and literacies are analyzed, related to how they search and retrieve information and the level of knowledge researchers need to have to function in an environment that has changed substantially from the traditional paper format, which they were fully used to, to an increasing prevalence of electronic and digital media

Repositories as Tools for the Bibliographical Patrimony Recovery : The Case of Six Municipal Public Libraries of the Department of Antioquia

RESUMEN: El siguiente artículo tiene como objetivo principal evidenciar la importancia de implementar un repositorio digital en la investigaciones sobre la recuperación del patrimonio bibliográfico de seis bibliotecas públicas de los municipios de Andes, El Carmen de Viboral, Puerto Berrio, Sonsón, Turbo y Yarumal del departamento de Antioquia, Colombia. Se presenta brevemente el concepto de patrimonio-bibliográfico y se abordan los repositorios institucionales y digitales como categoría analítica y alternativa para la recuperación, organización y difusión de información patrimonial.ABSTRACT: The following article has as main objective to demonstrate the importance of implementing a digital repository in the research about the bibliographical patrimony recovery in six public libraries in municipalities located in the department of Antioquia, Colombia such as Andes, el Carmen de Viboral, Puerto Berrío, Sonsón, Turbo and Yarumal. The concept of bibliographical patrimony appears briefly in the article and the institutional and digital repositories are approached as an analytical and alternative category for the recovery, organization and dissemination of the patrimony information

Local information services in medellin: technology, institutions, communities and power

This article examines the politics of technology and information by exploring a case study of local information service provision in Medellin, Colombia. Local Information Service (LIS) is defined as a community centre where information deemed relevant to local communities is generated, stored, organized and disseminated through print and digital means. Using a social construction of technology approach, the article attempts to deconstruct the implementation and delivery of LIS in Medellin, Colombia and analyse how empowering and disempowering discourses form through relationships between institutions and citizens laden with social and economic inequality. The article analyses the development and deployment of this artefact and positions LIS as a socio-technical system, embedded with political, social, cultural, and economic values. We describe the unintended consequences of this deployment through a multilevel perspective of the head organisation and the smaller 195 local institutions that support it. The article challenges and operationalises the social construction of ‘local’ in local information by highlighting practices of social exclusion and resistance embedded within the design of the service. This case provides a vantage point from which to examine how relevant social groups interpret and engage with technological devices and the implications of this for the communities the device is intended to serve

El audiotexto, una forma de oralidad terciaria y una experiencia alternativa de lectura

Based on the research “The text-to-speech resource beyond assistance”, it is suggested that reading through voice synthesis applications entails a double relationship with the text: hearing and visual. This article proposes the term audiotextual reading, which is a textual format different from the traditional audiobook and it must be integrated into the category of tertiary orality. Finally, some research findings based on the perceptions of the audiences are considered. The term audioreaders is also suggested in this article. These insights contribute to the understanding of the conditions in which text-to-speech is used as an alternative form of reading experience

(Training in computer and information competencies at the Inter-american School of Library and Information Science using an e-learning platform. Experiences and outcome

RESUMEN: Internet, como el medio más importante en el desarrollo de la sociedad de la Información, ha generado un nuevo tipo de usuario de la información, un nuevo tipo de estudiante, comúnmente descrito como nativo digital, que requiere el acompañamiento de profesionales de la información-bibliotecarios acordes a estas realidades. En este texto se presenta cómo en la formación desde la Escuela Interamericana de Bibliotecología de la Universidad de Antioquia (Medellín, Colombia), utilizando una plataforma de aprendizaje en línea (Moodle) y a través de diferentes actividades y herramientas personalizadas y colaborativas, se ha ido acompañando y formando a sus estudiantes, futuros bibliotecólogos, en competencias informáticas e informacionales en varios cursos académicos desde 2007 con excelentes experiencias y resultados.ABSTRACT: The internet, as the most important media in the development of the information society, has generated a new type of user of information, a new type of student, commonly described as digital native. This text presents how in library education in the InterAmerican School of Library and Information Science at the University of Antioquia (Medellin, Colombia), using an online learning platform (Moodle), through different personalized and collaborative learning activities and tools, that helps students, the future's librarians, to acquire computers and information competencies in several academic courses since 2007 with excellent experiences and outcomes

Technology use in Government School Libraries in Medellin, Colombia

School libraries have been widely studied in Colombia from infrastructure capacities to their importance in educational institutions. However, these studies have failed to illustrate librarians’ perceptions of technologies, their adoption and how students use technologies within their schools. This research presents a new approach to school libraries in Colombia by identifying technology adoption, use and use of open source materials within public school libraries using a mixed-methods approach. Results reveal low technology adoption among school librarians and high use for students in social media and mobile devices

Hacia dónde debería ir la formación en TIC en la Escuela Interamericana de Bibliotecología. Una mirada a partir de los programas de educación bibliotecológica en América Latina y las tendencias mundiales.

RESUMEN: Este texto tiene como propósito identificar qué tan actual y relacionada, con la educación bibliotecológica en América Latina y las tendencias mundiales, está siendo la formación en tecnologías de la información y la comunicación (TIC) que se está impartiendo en la Escuela Interamericana de Bibliotecología (EIB) de la Universidad de Antioquia en los últimos años. Para lograr esa identificación, se hace una recopilación a partir de los programas de estudio de las unidades académicas que imparten formación de pregrado o segundo ciclo, en bibliotecología (ciencia de la información) en América Latina. A su vez, se comparan esos temas de formación actual con las tendencias que distintos estudios de diferentes países revelan sobre hacia dónde debe dirigirse la formación en TIC para los nuevos y futuros bibliotecólogos. Como resultado se encuentra que los temas sobre TIC en los programas de bibliotecología en América Latina guardan muchas similitudes no solo entre sí, sino también en relación con los de la EIB. Sin embargo, las tendencias internacionales sobre TIC que impactarán las ciencias de la información difieren significativamente de los contenidos ofrecidos en América Latina y en la EIB, lo que implica la necesidad de revisar esas tendencias y reflexionar sobre su incorporación dentro de los planes de estudio.ABSTARCT: The purpose of this study is to identify how current and related the education in information and communication technologies - ICT for the program of Library and Information Science of the University of Antioquia is according with library education in Latin America and the ICT global trends. A compilation of the different undergraduate programs of library and information science was conducted for Latin American countries. The results are compared with the trends that several studies from different countries reveal about where ICT education should lead for new and future librarians. Findings reveal many commonalities for the topics on ICT in library science programs in Latin America, not only among them, but also in relation to those taught in the Interamerican School of Library and Information Science - ISLIS. However, the international trends on ICT that will impact the information sciences differ significantly from the contents offered in Latin America and ISLIS of the University of Antioquia. Hence, this study suggests the need to review these international trends and reflect on their incorporation into the library and information science curricula