Calidad bibliotecaria: los indicadores como herramientas de medición

The quality indicators are used in measurement models to assess library services. The indicators provides the relevant quantitative and qualitative information which allows us the ability or the capacity to meet the needs of library users. The needs must be fully satisfied in the end, the ultimate goal of any process or evaluation plan for public service

Ressenyes

Obra ressenyada: Josetxo BERIAIN, El sujeto transgresor (y transgredido): Modernidad, religión, utopía y terror. Barcelona: Anthropos, 2011.Obra ressenyada: Joseba ZULAIKA, Terrorism : The self-fulfilling prophecy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.La presente recensión pretende realizar, desde la perspectiva de las ciencias sociales, un análisis comparativo de dos obras que han estudiado en profundidad una de las contrafiguras fundamentales de nuestro tiempo: el terrorista suicida. Este es, sin duda, uno de los grandes extraños de la sociedad global -físicamente próximo pero culturalmente alejado-rechazado, como diría Georg Simmel. Son personas que parecen actuar en otro plano de la realidad y con otros códigos de conducta. Josetxo Beriain en su obra El sujeto transgresor (y transgredido) y Joseba Zulaika en Terrorism: The self-fulfilling prophecy estudian al terrorista suicida desde dos enfoques diferentes e innovadores que nos permiten comprender mejor su complejidad y los matices adscritos a sus acciones. El mártir nihilista que presenta Beriain y la versión subjetivista del terrorista suicida envuelto por el contraterrorismo que nos ofrece Zulaika nos aportan nuevas herramientas de análisis y estrategias de conocimiento para comprender mejor un fenómeno capital de nuestra sociedad

Tres bibliotecas académicas internacionales de Roma

Se detallan las características generales, historia, fondos bibliográficos, servicios y otros aspectos de tres bibliotecas de academias internacionales en Roma: Academia Americana, Real Academia Española y École Française. Las bibliotecas de estas tres instituciones son muy reconocidas entre los investigadores por la calidad de sus servicios y la riqueza de sus colecciones, todas ellas especializadas en Humanidades, como Arqueología, Estudios Clásicos, Bellas Artes, Arquitectura, Historia Antigua y Medieval, Historia del Arte, o técnicas auxiliares, como Numismática, Epigrafía, Paleografía y otras

The beauty of the mammalian vascular system

Beauty is a characteristic of objects that provides a perceptual experience of pleasure. In nature, aesthetic appreciation thereof has given rise to the mathematical search for good series (e.g. the Fibonacci series) and proportions (e.g. the Golden proportion) as important elements of beauty. In 1928 the mathematician George David Birkhoff introduced a formula for aesthetic measurement of an object. Birkhoff equation defines the aesthetic value as the amount of order divided by the complexity of the product. These two features can be measured easily in poetry, music, painting, architecture, etc. In the fine arts, it is the artist who manipulates both these features, but how does nature manage order and complexity in living organisms or their parts? Here we show how Birkhoff equation, applied to the mammalian vascular system of eight representative animals, results in new insights into the organization of the animal vascular system. We found that order and complexity are highly correlated in the mammalian vascular system (_R^2^_=0.9511). Accordingly, in nature both features are not independently managed in the manner of artists. We found significant differences among the Birkhoff aesthetic values in the mammalian arterial system, whereas no such differences exist in the venous system. We anticipate our approach to be useful in the study of morphogenesis and evolution of tree-like structures, employing the Birkhoff aesthetic value as a simple tool for conducting such studies

A hermeneutical review of the internalist tradition in the philosophy of sport

En este trabajo proponemos un análisis hermenéutico de la tradición dominante en filosofía del deporte: el internalismo. Para ello, identificamos los prejuicios que dirigen su concepción del deporte, a saber: el prejuicio platónico-analítico. Tras ello, ponemos en cuestión cuatro consecuencias problemáticas de seguir este prejuicio: (a) sesga la realidad sin que lo percibamos; (b) dulcifica la realidad del deporte al apelar únicamente a la idea de excelencia física; (c) la idea de excelencia física en que se basa es problemática; y (d) nos hace dar un salto cuanto menos dudoso e injustificado de la descripción del fenómeno deportivo a los requisitos normativos referidos a cómo debe practicarse el deporte.In this paper, we make a hermeneutical analysis of the prevalent tradition in the philosophy of sport, that of internalism. To do so, we identify the prejudices that guide the internalist conception of sport, namely: the Platonic-Analytic prejudice introduced by Suits, who is one of the forefathers of the internalist approach. Then, we critically analyze four consequences of following such a prejudice: (a) unknowingly reduces reality; (b) generates a sugar-coated view of sport; (c) the idea of physical excellence is fuzzy; and (d) misguided because it generally leads to an unjustified and problematic leap from the descriptive analysis of the sporting phenomenon to the setting of normative requirements about how to practice sport

The influence of maritime spatial planning on the development of marine renewable energies in Portugal and Spain: legal challenges and opportunities

The objective of this study is to analyse, from a legal point of view, the influence of the transposition of Marine Spatial Planning Directive into both Spanish and Portuguese domestic laws on the development of marine renewable energies in both countries. This article concludes that the Portuguese legal system is more favourable for the development of marine renewable energies than the Spanish legal regime, since the former establishes a more flexible planning system, sets criteria for the prioritisation of marine uses, incorporates trade-off mechanisms, introduces an electronic single-window system and regulates a pilot zone. These measures can help streamline licensing processes, avoid and resolve conflicts with other sea users, and adapt planning instruments to the rapid development of new marine renewable technologies. However, both legal regimes lack specific legal mechanisms aimed at offering effective protection of the marine environment against negative effects arising from the installation of such devices. Similarly, there is a lack of coordination between maritime spatial planning instruments and land planning instruments, and between the Central Government and the autonomous regions. This may hinder the installation of marine renewable energies. This study has implications in relation to the EU integrated marine policy aimed at achieving a balance between blue growth and the conservation of the marine environment, as well as an inter-administrative coordination improvement in decision-making.Xunta de Galicia | Ref. ED481A-2016/36Programa IACOBUS (Galicia-North Portugal Euroregion

Declaración Universal de Derechos Humanos: 1948-2008

Manifesto that recalls the first 60 years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, particularly its articles 18 and 19 where it is defended the liberties of thought, expression, opinion; the rights to research and to receive information and to disseminate it without censorship. It also calls on the worldwide LIS community to remember this declaration and that they become aware and make theirs its principles in their daily practice

Morphometrics as a robust tool for disambiguation in plant taxonomy: the case of Lactuca livida, a commonly accepted but never delimited taxon

An important goal of taxonomy is to clarify the identity of ambiguous taxa. Since lineage divergence usually involves ecological shifts that are associated with plant morphology, we propose that searching for fixed, non-overlapping morphological characters and specific associations of features should be the first task in disambiguation. We applied this idea in an analysis of the taxonomic identity of Lactuca livida, an Iberian endemic relative of L. virosa that, despite an extremely imprecise delimitation, is usually recognized in standard floras and germplasm banks. We analysed 24 possible diagnostic characters across the Iberian Peninsula, drawn from related taxonomic literature. No discontinuities in frequency variability distribution characters were found, even in two bimodal quantitative characters: leaf lobation and number of florets per capitulum. There were no notable patterns of association among characters, and the PCA/PCoA score plots did not show any distinctive groupings. Leaf lobation followed a significant geographic pattern, but there was no effective segregation of leaf shapes. We conclude that the variability found is symplesiomorphic, as it is present throughout the Serriola group of Lactuca, to which L. virosa belongs. The analyses, together with previous biological knowledge, indicates that Lactuca livida should be considered a synonym of L. virosa

Biblioteca Complutense de Madrid: evaluando cargas de trabajo para la mejora del servicio público

En el ejercicio del Plan Estratégico 2007-2009 y del Plan de Mejoras de la Biblioteca de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid (BUC), su Servicio de Evaluación de Procesos y Centros ha elaborado un estudio de distribución e indicadores de cargas de trabajo correspondiente al año 2008 para evaluar el desempeño bibliotecario en todos los centros que conforman la BUC, con el fin de mejorar sus servicios al usuario. El estudio se ha realizado a partir de los datos arrojados por la Encuesta de Evaluación del Desempeño suministrada a todo el personal de la biblioteca. Dicha encuesta ha sido respondida por el 99,9% de la plantilla de la BUC. Se contemplan datos relevantes para el análisis de las cargas de trabajo, tanto de la BUC en su conjunto, como de cada uno de sus centros, tales como: número de horas anuales de dedicación a cada actividad en cada biblioteca; PETC (Personal Equivalente a Tiempo Completo) según el área profesional, los turnos de trabajo, el sexo o el tipo de personal, etc. Con este estudio, se pueden conocer aspectos determinantes del servicio de biblioteca, como el nivel de eficiencia de cada centro, en función del número o porcentaje de PETC dedicado a una tarea y la producción generada.Ebsco, Libera, Elsevier, Emerald, Asociación Andaluza de Bibliotecarios, Springer, Cambridge University Press, RSC Publishing, ISOTool

Spherological sport hermeneutics: on the impacto f Sloterdijk’s work in the philosophy of sport

En los últimos años se está produciendo un giro hacia la hermenéutica en la filosofía del deporte. En otros trabajos, hemos defendido que la hermenéutica puede usarse para superar el paradigma internalista dominante en la filosofía del deporte. Filósofos del deporte como Kenneth Aggerholm y Ron Welters han propuesto que la obra del filósofo alemán Peter Sloterdijk, especialmente, de su libro Has de cambiar tu vida, puede usarse para explorar los limites del paradigma internalista. En este articulo, presentamos y analizamos la interpretacion que Welters y Aggerholm realizan de Sloterdijk. Luego, proponemos una mejor comprensión de su propuesta con el fin de desarrollar de modo más pleno nuestra propuesta de una hermenéutica del deporte.Lately, there has been a shift toward hermeneutics in the philosophy of sport. In other places, we have argued that sport hermeneutics can help us go beyond the dominant internalist paradigm in the philosophy of sport. Sport philosophers Ron Welters and Kenneth Aggerholm have drawn on Peter Sloterdijk’s work, especially on his book You must change your life to explore the limits of the internalist paradigm. In this paper, we present and analyze Welters’ and Aggerholm’s interpretation of Sloterdijk work, which we take to be too narrow. Then, we provide a broader interpretation of Sloterdijk’s philosophy. In doing so, we lay the ground for the hermeneutic study of sport