Natalia Arroyo-Vázquez

• Master of Library and Information Science
• University of Leon

El Anuario ThinkEPI cumple dieciocho años con este nuevo número que presentamos, y lo hace manteniendo el mismo espíritu con el que nació, en 2007, de la mano de Tomàs Baiget: el análisis de las tendencias en información y documentación, a las que después se ha sumado la comunicación, a través de notas breves y revisión por pares abierta. Para anal...

Goals: The objective of this paper is to describe the characteristics of the profiles and publications of Spanish university libraries on TikTok: to what extent they are present in this medium, what their posts are like, the topics they cover and how many interactions they receive, in order to identify good practices to help other libraries. Method...

Al presentar el volumen 17 del Anuario ThinkEPI correspondiente al año 2023 no podemos dejar de hacer una mirada retrospectiva de agradecimiento a los cientos de autores que han contribuido en estos 17 años a mantener viva una publicación útil desde su singularidad, diferente desde un primer momento a lo que se entiende por una revista académica al...

Las bibliotecas de universidades que imparten titulaciones online o a distancia se enfrentan a la dificultad de facilitar a sus alumnos el acceso a la bibliografía recomendada de las asignaturas. Este problema se ha extendido a todas las universidades durante la pandemia de Covid-19. La solución más evidente consiste en dar acceso a esa bibliografí...

In September 2022, the sixth edition of the ISO 2789. Information and documentation. International library statistics standard was published, replacing ISO 2789:2013. This text analyzes the novelties introduced in this new version, which principally have to do with digital resources and services and with the incorporation of data on research suppor...

Starting from the importance of public library statistics collected in Spain, the value and usefulness of these statistics are analyzed from the different perspectives that the authors have gained throughout our professional careers: librarians, library associations, and researchers. Finally, we conclude that several improvements are necessary to e...

A partir de la bibliografÌa profesional, se recopilan y sistematizan veinte formas en las que las bibliotecas pueden integrarse en la docencia online, con el objetivo de que puedan ser de utilidad pr·ctica para quienes estÈn planteando abordar dicha integraciÛn. Todas estas acciones se agrupan en dos grandes apartados: integraciÛn de recursos y ser...

Spanish university libraries have had to adapt their services to the virtual environment after the classroom-based teaching lockdown in March 2020 due to Covid-19. Given the possibility of a greater virtual dimension of learning and teaching during the next academic year, these library services should be improved. This paper analyzes how university...

Se analizan los últimos datos publicados por el Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte sobre las bibliotecas públicas españolas, correspondientes al año 2017. Se comparan con los del período 2010-2016, analizados previamente en el Informe Fesabid. Las bibliotecas públicas en España: diagnóstico tras la crisis económica. En 2017 se comenzaron a ver los pri...

In order to diagnose the situation of Spanish Public libraries System, their statistical data are extracted from 2010 to 2016, period selected to understand their evolution during the global economic crisis. A global description and an analysis based on comparison and criticism are made. The key elements identified for the diagnosis of the System a...

En el ámbito académico han cobrado interés las altmétricas para describir las dinámicas de la difusión de la investigación en los medios sociales. Para que esta difusión alcance los mejores resultados posibles las revistas académicas están empleando técnicas de marketing digital y de marketing de contenidos. En el presente texto se analizan las pec...

La conversación se ha trasladado a los medios sociales, también en el ámbito de la comunicación científica. En los últimos años, se viene analizando cómo los investigadores utilizan los medios sociales y cómo difunden los resultados de investigación y se han introducido las métricas alternativas, que más bien parecen complementarias. Un estudio del...

Participation and communication with users are the key elements that distinguish social media from regular web sites. This article analyzes the interaction on Facebook pages of Spanish university libraries both from a quantitative and qualitative focus. On the one hand, the number of followers of the page are analyzed, as well as the number of like...

Apps are used by university libraries to disseminate their collections and services. In 2011 the University of Salamanca (USAL) launched the first mobile app for libraries in Spanish-speaking regions: Biblio USAL. Usage data was gathered for this app (2011-2015) and analyzed and compared to that of the university library's mobile website. The findi...

Marketing de atracción y marketing de contenidos dibujan un escenario para los medios sociales que los sitúa como un recurso para conseguir los objetivos de una marca y atraer clientes. Sobre la aplicación práctica de ambos conceptos para las bibliotecas se reflexiona en este texto, en el que se proporcionan ejemplos y se exponen algunas implicacio...

Objective: This paper reports on the most notable examples of library projects using augmented reality technology, focusing on the results, the contributions this technology has made and the various difficulties librarians should bear in mind when planning such projects. Methodology: The paper provides a literature review and analyses a series of p...

Objectiu: donar a conèixer les experiències més significatives d'ús de la realitat augmentada en biblioteques, fent una especial atenció als resultats obtinguts, les aportacions i les limitacions que s'han de tenir en compte. -- Metodologia: revisió bibliogràfica, selecció i anàlisi d'experiències sobre l'ús de la realitat augmentada en biblioteque...

Like other electronic resources, mobile applications (apps) can be part of library collections, so it is necessary to include them in the collection development policy, or even implement a specific policy in order to draw attention to their existence. Again, it is necessary to establish selection criteria, but also to have a budget available, if ne...

Se muestran tres soluciones para llevar el carnet de la biblioteca en el smartphone: la reproducción del código de barras, aplicaciones tipo PassBook y la tecnología NFC, así como sus ventajas e inconvenientes. Algunas son sencillas de implementar y otras más complejas, pero todas son técnicamente factibles y podrían ponerse en marcha en este momen...

Las bibliotecas en España, como otras instituciones, se están viendo afectadas por la crisis económica. Se analiza, a la luz de los datos estadísticos disponibles, en qué manera y cuáles son sus primeras consecuencias. Además de la importante disminución del gasto en adquisiciones y la consecuente desactualización de las colecciones, en 2012 se obs...

Libraries in Spain, like other institutions, have been affected by the economic crisis. The effects and their consequences are studied in this paper, based on available library statistics. A significant decrease in expenditure for materials, the downgrading of collections, library closures and a growing increase in usage were observed in 2012. Chan...

Foursquare is a tracker-based service in which users share information about the places they visit by adding their details, discussing or recommending products or services offered to them. This text outlines this service and provides some guidelines for its integration into the social network strategy of libraries.

Foursquare is a tracker-based service in which users share information about the places they visit by adding their details, discussing or recommending products or services offered to them. This text outlines this service and provides some guidelines for its integration into the social network strategy of libraries.

Report on the 4th International LIS-EPI Meeting which was held in Valencia in November 2009, under the title “Information in 2015”. The topics covered were the future of information and libraries, Rich Internet Applications (RIAs), free software in libraries, open access, and mobile devices.

El desarrollo de la web móvil en los últimos años abre amplias posibilidades para el acceso a la información, que llega a través de ellos a la palma de la mano en cualquier lugar y momento. Las bibliotecas públicas, como proveedoras de información y garantes de su acceso, deben comenzar a plantearse estrategias para el aprovechamiento de los dispos...

The 11th Spanish Documentation Conference (Jornadas Españolas de Documentación) was held May 20-22, 2009 in Saragossa, Spain, organized by the Spanish Federation of Societies of Archivology, Librarianship, Special librarianship and Museology (Fesabid). Socioprofessional networks served as a thread this year and provided cohesion to a large number o...

Mobility and access to web contents and services from any place having an Internet connection are both advantages of using mobile devices like mobile phones, PDAs, smartphones, ultra mobile PCs or ultra low cost PCs. But also new questions arise, mainly related to contents accessibility through that kind of devices: their characteristics, connectio...

Social network sites like MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn or Hi5 have increased their popularity worldwide over the last years, and some libraries and librarians have found some possibilities using them. On this communication those possibilities are explored from two perspectives: users-centered and professionals-centered. Main social network sites are...

: En los últimos dos o tres años se viene empleando el término web 2.0 para designar a una nueva generación de servicios web basados fundamentalmente en la mayor participación y colaboración de los internautas y de una serie de tecnologías. A pesar de todas las objeciones que se han puesto a esta etiqueta no se puede negar la aparicion de unas herr...

The terms web 2.0 and social web have been employed to design a new generation of web services which main feature is to encourage user’s participation and communication between them. In this paper main features of web 2.0 are explained, as well as the philosophy supporting it and services making it up.

En los últimos dos o tres años se viene empleando el término web 2.0 para designar a una nueva generación de servicios web basados fundamentalmente en la mayor participación y colaboración de los internautas y de una serie de tecnologías. A pesar de todas las objeciones que se han puesto a esta etiqueta no se puede negar la aparicion de unas herram...

The Spanish Statistical Institute (INE) has been publishing statistical data for libraries for thirteen years. The origins of this publications, the information collected, methodological and displaying changes are covered in this paper in order to provide a comprehensive overview of this important source for the study of Spanish public libraries in...

Methods to investigate the structure of the Web graph in order to better understand its properties are of interest to many researchers. The scale and complexity of the Web-page digraph is typically managed by aggregating together or clustering individual Web-pages in order to form "Websites". It is the properties of these Websites which then become...

This document contains a list of bibliographic references and electronic resources about two main aspects. The first of them could be called “Free applications” and is related to free software, freeware, open access, open source, digital libraries, repositories, copyright, copyleft and intellectual property licenses. And the second one, named “Soci...

La extracción de datos en Cibermetr'ia se ha realizado tradicionalmente a través de los motores de búsqueda, pero también se ha empleado software académico y comercial adaptado para este fin. En este trabajo de grado se realiza un estudio comparativo de varios programas con el fin de conocer sus ventajas e inconvenientes a la hora de aplicarlo a ta...

At the end of the nineties Cibermetrics and Webometrics came into existence by applying Bibliometrics, Scientometrics and Informetrics to Internet studies. The objective is to describe contents and communication processes though quantitative methods. In this paper we study literature of this young area in order to identify the trends and emerging r...

Traditionally in Cybermetric studies, data extraction has been done through search engines, but scholarly software and commercial software have also been used. In this work compares several applications in order to identify advantages and disadvantages.

The invisible Web, also known as the deep Web or dark matter, is an important problem for Webometrics due to difficulties of conceptualization and measurement. The invisible Web has been defined to be the part of the Web that cannot be indexed by search engines, including databases and dynamically generated pages. Some authors have recognized that...

This report tries to explain the techniques used in gathering quantitative web data and it contains a first and brief description of the work done and of the results obtained with the methodology applied. The work done has consisted in the collection of the web sites included in the European academic cyberspace (EU-15) and their subsequent quantifi...

In this paper an "institutional web site" concept-based methodology is purposed. The "Institutional web site" concept can be used in web mining in order to achieve results for cybermetric studies. The stages of this methodology are as follows: identification, selection and institutional web sites collection; description of coding web sites; automat...

Methods to investigate the structure of the Web graph in order to better understand its properties are of interest to many researchers. The scale and complexity of the Web-page digraph is typically managed by aggregating together or clustering individual Web-pages in order to form "Websites". It is the properties of these Websites which then become...

The rising of new services and tools on the web whose contents are added by the users has originated new information sources, with special features, offering us information never known before. In this paper main services on the social web are analysed from a documental perspective, as information sources they are. Their main characteristics, peculi...

The Book and Reading Observatory in Extremadura is a pioneering initiative of the Extremaduran Reading Pact, that began working at the end of 2004 and is carried out by the Germán Sánchez Ruipérez Foundation in order to monitoring the development of a reading society in this region, in which the public library plays a main role, guaranteeing citize...

Review of the book by Antonio Fumero y Genís Roca "Web 2.0". Madrid: Fundación Orange, 2007.

This document collects materials edited in a Community of practices on promotion of information services in the social networks. The authors propose a guide to deepen in how to use the tools of the social website in the programmes of information services marketing and promotion. The document shows several experiences of good practices in social net...

The increase in the use of the mobile web in the last years opens new opportunities for information access. A few Spanish libraries are developing interfaces adapted to mobile devices and providing their patrons new services that exploit the functionalities of handhelds. Aspects of the mobile web that libraries can exploit and the options that mobi...