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Study of the motivation factors that influence in the negree selection. It has been carried out among the Ciencia da Informaçâo, Arquivistica e Biblioteconomica Coimbra’s University degree students and the Información y Documentación Salamanca’s University degree students. Targets and analysis identification have been compared from the compile results by MODO questionary, made about targets and student profiles

This work aims to present a proposal as "Reflections and additional suggestions for the development of a postgraduate ICT for graduates of Library" in the context of the conference "Elvira Lerena" 5th through the platform EUBCA EVA. The text presents a brief review of the history of the professional practice of librarianship and the challenges of the Information Technology and Communication (ICT). Finally, some suggestions arise to guide content development for ICT for Postgraduate Degree in Library Science in the EUBCA institution.

History is not made in the present, but by looking to the past. So, with that perspective, I turn to the experiences I lived and that brought me to the Library and Information Science course at UFSCar (BCI/UFSCar). Remembering such memories that, although individual, are entangled with collective memories, with the intention of collaborating for the construction of the social memory of the BCI/UFSCar course, is part of a project, submitted by me on account of the celebration of the 45th anniversary of the UFSCar, entitled "Memory of the BCI course: between remembering and forgetting 20 years later!" Much of my professional history intersects with the history of the BCI/UFSCar course.

At present the information and communications technology are undergoing rapid changes, affecting virtually the entire society in which we are immersed, and education is no exception. These rapid technological changes are increasingly present in the daily chores in teaching, increasing knowledge and education demands a high level constantly updated become a permanent requirement for educators. This document aims to clarify how teachers face challenges in making use of ICT in their teaching practice.

ACO – Ant Colonies Optimization is a collaborative information retrieval technique, belonging to the wider area of AI (more specifically, swarm Intelligence). ACO aims at improving search engines’ performances by exploiting users’ behavior. Bookmarks, comments and tagging (i.e. ‘like’) are processed in an algorithm which makes the search engine work in order to recommend the ‘best way’ to users with similar information needs. Postings and comments are the ‘pherormones’ left by previous users throughout information hunting. However, the metaphor of ant colonies foraging for food stimulates further questions. In fact, the optimization of information seeking could reveal a controlling attitude, urging everybody to seek for the same target, minimizing individual choice, freedom and awareness. Could ‘ants’ be easily exploited by a single-minded ideological thinking or by a market-oriented society? Indeed that was what Norbert Weaner predicted in far-off 1950.

The research and development (R&D) project «Institutional Repository Model as an Alternative to Social Scientific and Technological Development of the Country» is presented. A group of researchers of the school of Library and Information Science of the University of the Republic (Escuela Universitaria de Bibliotecología y Ciencias Afines de la Universidad de la República-UDELAR-) are responsible for carrying out the project financed by the «Sectorial Commission of Scientific Research» (Comisión Sectorial de Investigación Cientifica) of such University. This research is innovative and lacks previous studies in our nation. The intention is to promote free access to the scientific knowledge generated in our country. The theoretical basis of the project is based on the philosophy of the Open Access movement (OA). The research is carried out in stages that respond to the proposed objectives combining quantitative and qualitative methods. It is sought to determine the patterns that characterize the model of scientific communication of Uruguayan scientist based on their publications. The data source used is the Curricula Vitae of all the active researchers of the Nation System of Researchers (Sistema National de Investigadores- SNI-) of the National Agency of Investigation and Innovation (Agencia Nacional de Investigación e Innovación –ANII-). The catalogues of the university libraries of the University of the Republic are consulted to determine to what extent publications are registered and available. The publishing policies of the magazines in which the considered researchers publish are analyzed in order to estimate the viability of creating a repository at a national level. Interviews to qualified informers are realized to know policies towards the management of knowledge generated within the framework of public institutions. The perception of OA and the opportunity of promoting actions in this regard are collected. The analysis of the precedent elements will allow the formulating of guidelines to define a digital OA repository that is appropriate to the reality of the country, as a complimentary mechanism to the traditional scientific publication. In presence of the importance of this subject, it is intended to consolidate this line of investigation and strongly relate it to regional and international initiatives.

Short review of Fauconnier, S., Lemmens, B., Direickx, B. (2015). Wikidata: Flemish art collections, Wikidata and Linked Open Data/Whitepaper.

Starting from the experience of the Puntobiblio network who build a union catalog of libraries of different types: public/popular, school, special, and others, the argentinean Comisión Nacional Protectora de Bibliotecas Populares (Conabip), asked Veronica Lencinas, the technical manager of the project and the IT specialist Pablo Bianchi to present a project to implement a new integrated library system since the old Sigebi system had become obsolet. Once approved the new system, now called Digibepe -Koha pre-configured to the needs of popular libraries- was implemented and part of the work was the migration and reformat of library data that was not in the Marc 21 format. The migración not only includes Sigebi-records but also those from Aguapey, Winisis, Trooya, Pergamo, Catalis, OpenMarcoPolo, and other systems based ​​mostly on MS Excel, Clipper, FoxPro and MS Access. This contribution describes strategies and techniques used in various data migrations to the Marc21 format as implemented Digibepé system (Koha).

Now a day’s libraries have deployed the ICT facilities, along with high speed internet connectivity, photo- copiers, and soft copy drop facilities via USB drives, DVD R-W, micro SD drives, fax, scanners and computers. When all such facilities are backed by Government aids, the support of a trained librarian having very right orientation and attitude becomes very important. The infrastructural facilities and the services of library professionals are to go hand in hand to utilize the ICT to the full. The studies reveal that lack of ICT awareness and psychological barriers against advanced technologies create hurdles in providing ICT based LIS services.

Tese de mestrado em Informação, Comunicação e Novos Media, apresentada à Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra O desenvolvimento das novas tecnologias da informação e da comunicação, surgidas na segunda metade do século XX, veio trazer à comunidade científica novas formas de comunicar a ciência, interagindo numa dimensão globalizada e tornando as fronteiras do conhecimento cada vez mais esbatidas. A comunicação científica, sujeita aos interesses das grandes editoras comerciais tem tentado libertar-se das grilhetas por elas impostas, procurando obter uma autonomia que tem sido difícil de conquistar, mas paulatinamente conseguida graças ao Movimento de Acesso aberto, permitindo, desse modo, o acesso e a partilha do conhecimento e potenciando a investigação, os investigadores e as instituições a que estão umbilicalmente ligados. Os repositórios institucionais, estrategicamente definidos como ferramentas de divulgação do conhecimento produzido, sobretudo nas instituições de ensino superior, permitem a prossecução dos objetivos estabelecidos por aquele movimento, contribuindo para dar a visibilidade e o impacto tão necessários ao labor científico, sobretudo em situações de conjuntura económica, política e social mais difíceis cujas consequências se refletem junto da comunidade científica. O trabalho que ora se apresenta, pretendeu compreender as atitudes e os comportamentos da comunidade docente do Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra (IPC), no que respeita ao acesso à informação científica e à necessidade de publicação por parte dos docentes, procurando identificar os potenciais constrangimentos ao desenvolvimento de um repositório próprio, tendo sido utilizado, para esse efeito, um questionário sob a forma de inquérito em linha junto da comunidade docente do IPC. Conclui-se que a comunidade docente faz um amplo uso das tecnologias digitais na procura da informação necessária ao seu trabalho de investigação, mostrando-se favorável aos princípios do Acesso aberto que considera ser mais eficaz para divulgação da literatura científica. No entanto, evidencia uma prática diferente, resultante de alguns constrangimentos relacionados com direitos de autor, custos de publicação e alguns receios, mostrando-se favorável à implementação de uma política baseada neste modelo. The development of new information technologies and communication, which arose in the second half of the twentieth century, the scientific community has brought new ways of communicating science, interacting on a global scale, making the boundaries of knowledge increasingly blurred. Scientific communication, subject to the interests of large commercial publishers have tried to free themselves from the shackles imposed by them, seeking an autonomy that has been difficult to achieve, but gradually achieved thanks to the Open Access Movement, thereby allowing access and sharing of knowledge and enhancing research, researchers and institutions to which they are inextricably linked. Institutional repositories are strategically defined as dissemination tools of the produced knowledge, especially in higher education institutions, enabling the pursuit of the objectives set by that movement, helping to provide the visibility and impact so necessary for scientific work, especially during economic, political and social difficult times with consequences that have an effect on the scientific community. The work presented here had as objective to understand the attitudes and behaviour of the teaching community of Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra (IPC), in relation to access of scientific information and the need for publication by teachers, seeking to identify potential constraints to the development of a own repository, having been used, for this purpose, a questionnaire with a form of an online survey near the IPC teaching community. This study has shown that the teaching community makes extensive use of digital technologies to look up necessary information for their research work, thus supporting principles underlying Open Access, which considers this an effective and efficient means for the diffusion of scientific literature. However, this study has also indicated that in practice there are some drawbacks due to constraints related to copyright laws, publication costs and other worries, thereby supporting the implementation of a policy based on this model.