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Knowledge Organization has been generated primarily within universities. The university will establish that space which states and defines each knowledge and organizes all disciplines. It is necessary to address a genealogical and historical perspective of universities to analyze and identify the artificiality of our concepts, knowledge and classifications. The origin of the University dates back to the Middle Ages, the first University was in Córdoba, and how this institution influenced decisively in the knowledge that encouraged and organized themselves. In late Western Middle Ages, the organization of knowledge in universities is at the service of the Church. The modern world is going to separate the doctrine of the Church from University knowledge. And, subsequently, in various periods that there was a suppression of freedoms it has reversed immediately in the scientific content itself and in the bias that has characterized it. The construction and structuring of knowledge requires, as a fundamental value, a context of freedom. Globalization contributes to deconstruct organizations among knowledge while the technocratic discourse is imposed over other discourses and also over the critical capacity to develop global approaches. The university develops a performative discourse, that is the discourse itself producing the event to talk, words, language and classifications create reality. That is why scientific discourse is performative and shapes the knowledge itself. In the University context one must raise divergent approaches against existing systems and the dominant paradigms of thought. Thus the University has to fulfill a key role in stimulating critical thought. The University must pursue performing its tasks in freedom. What reports a fragility against the powers that seek to violate as it should have its own sovereignty. The University collects the accumulated knowledge and organizes it. It should question the order of knowledge and propose new models

The work assumes that the classification of records is a matrix function of archival practice and plays a key role in records management. Unrated is almost impossible to work with evaluation and the description, which together form the heart of archival practices. Provide the basis for other archival functions is not the only purpose of classification, it is crucial for the maintenance of the archival bond and to allow access to records and information. It searches from a flyover in the literature on the topic, discuss sensitive aspects to the classification of records, such as: the change in the ways of searching for documents and information in contemporary organizations; risks of leverage plans for classification in search tasks; the limitations of the functional method for structure classification schemes, among others. And in the end, it proposes ways to overcome some of these problems.

Within the realm of Information Science, information retrieval is a seminal issue. Knowledge organization systems are instruments that organize knowledge by connecting concepts through semantic relations for purposes of information retrieval. One of the most important of these semantic relations is the so-called part-whole relation. In this paper, we revisit some peculiarities of part-whole relations that are often overlooked by the Information Science community. In order to do this, we provide a theoretical investigation of two perspectives used to explain the notion of parts and wholes: a formal perspective, which is based on the philosophical study usually called mereology; a non-formal perspective, which is based on the linguistic study about a relation called meronym. We discuss the relationship between these perspectives through the issue of transitivity, which is an important property of part-whole relations for information retrieval. We find that these perspectives, although distinguished, are somehow complementary. The results of our analysis suggest that the choice for either a formal or a non-formal perspective could be based on a pragmatic criterion in the scope of development of knowledge organization systems. We conclude by offering some considerations correlating two main sorts of these systems, namely ontologies and thesauri.

The subject analysis is an intellectual stage of subject cataloging process in which the cataloguer is subject to internal and external inferences. The result of the subject analysis process is reflected directly in information retrieval because it must be compatible with the user's information needs during the formulation of your search strategy for subject in the catalog. Despite the standardization have the function to clarify and systematize procedures performed by various professionals at the same time, it is observed that it is necessary to update them and improve them. Accordingly, there was observational study of the subject analysis process when cataloging in university libraries in order to provide support for the improvement and updating of standards and procedures the subject analysis, the documentary reading, the identification and selection of concepts. Observation was performed with individual verbal protocol application and ethnographic research in 16 university libraries, 12 in Brazil and 4 in Spain. And as a result it was observed that the absence of methodological tools causes the cataloging develop their own methods, such as the recovery of subjects recovered in cooperation catalogs.

The purpose of this research is to map patterns of health information need, seeking and use of deprived families in Kabupaten Bandung, West Java. This study used the survey method towards 136 people belonging to the deprived population. The results show: (1) the most prominent information need dimension is related to the basic needs comprising food, clothing, shelter (housing), health, and education, (2) the most prominent health information seeking dimension is related to seeking actively for informal interpersonal sources, and (3) the most prominent information use dimension is the type of health information acquired from selected health experts, neighbors and family as well. The main conclusion is the need for health information has not yet become a priority for the poor people, however when they need the information they will seek actively to informal information sources and they use this information to solve their health problem.

This paper describes the information-seeking behavior of medical professionals at a public university hospital, according to the different roles that professionals can take on these institutions, namely physician and teacher, as well as to major tasks associated with them, which are clinical care, teaching and research. The research was conducted at the Hospital of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (HC/UFMG), by applying an electronic questionnaire to medical professionals who have there their clinical care, teaching and research activities. The main information needs of these professionals and the influence of contextual factors, the professional role and the activity performed in the emergence of these needs and in the information search process configuration were identified. The results also show the sources of information most used, electronic sources, the influence of the characteristics of these sources and prior knowledge about them in choosing a particular source, besides the problems commonly encountered by medical professionals in their quest for information. Besides obtaining a profile of activity of medical professionals at the institution, it was also characterized the influence of the professional role and the activity performed in the information retrieval process of these professional setting.

This paper discussed about the trends and development Institutional Repository (IR) in south Asian countries. And it further deals about the name of the repositories, size, type, content and languages and various software. South Asian countries like India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka have institutional repositories in their respective libraries but Bhutan and Maldives are not having any repositories. Among the 75 institutional repositories it has 3, 46,785 records which consists of 321435(92.69%) records in India, 8540 (2.46%) in Bangladesh, 10027(2.89%) records in Pakistan, 6688(1.93%) records in Sri Lanka and 95(0.03%) records in Nepal.

The Information Access law, sanctioned in November 18, 2011, regulates the constitutional right of access to public information by Brazilian citizens. Although this law requires the provision of information of public interest, it does not define how such information should be made available. Ideally, information should be in an open format, allowing its use in an efficient and fast way. In the official sites of the federal government the way information is currently available does not allow its reuse as they are presented in dynamic pages from the selection parameters and filters. The objective aim of this paper is to present the system called MDDIR Tool, which proposes ways to persist, represent and retrieve digital information resources generated by the Federal Government official sites. Although this system had been designed for a specific purpose, it may be applied to other fields with similar characteristics. The purpose is to facilitate the access to open data, allowing such data to be consolidated and organized , generating new knowledge and information easy to be interpreted by the general population.

This article discusses what are e-books, the possibilities of acquisition and the difficulties of use and access of these resources observed by libraries. The importance of information literacy and its relationship to electronic books is displayed, and how the skills and abilities are used as a turn point is analyzed. Reports of experiences of information literacy and e-books in libraries in United States and United Kingdom are presented with the difficulties and solutions developed related to the location and use of e-books, providing reference to Brazilian university libraries, related to finding and utilizing e-books. Concludes stressing the importance of develop of information literacy in the use of e-books by libraries as a management tool.

Diplomatics rises as a study field in the 17th century with a juridical purpose related to the verification of authenticity of “diplomas”. Along the 18th and 19th centuries, Diplomatics is deeply influenced by the European scientific and historiographical movements and gets the status of a scientific discipline devoted to the study of the authenticity of documents as a basis for historical research. This article characterizes Diplomatics during the mentioned period in order to point out the main historical factors which have contributed to the development of the discipline, especially in terms of the author that have been responsible for the theoretical foundation of Diplomatics.

This study focuses on the scientific production of postgraduate programs in Information Science from 2008 to 2012. It aims to list the scientific production recorded in the Lattes curriculum of Professors connected with the Graduate Program in Information Science accredited by the Coordination improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) with grade five. Through qualitative and quantitative research, the literature review sought to align itself with the Assessment System for Postgraduate deployed by CAPES. The methodological procedures identifies the registered Professors within these programs, collecting data in the Lattes curricula, and treating them from the bibliometric and scientometric assumptions to weave analysis and validation of results. It discusses scientific production in relation to the Information Science in the country. It analyzes that there is a difference of almost 50% between the first placed with the third and the fourth in the ranking of scientific output. The estudy argues that qualitative criteria could improve the systems of evaluation of programs that would contribute to the development of scientific production. It concludes that the different rates of production of scientific programs with the same note could be the main snag CAPES evaluation. At the same time, this study suggests, for example, postgraduate programs to adopt criterion focused on responsibility or requirement of publication policy by students of graduate programs within the programs.

Brazilian Journal of Information Science has started a new moment from 2014 on, in order to promote deeper international scientific dialogues in the LIS field. In this sense, now it has a larger Scientific and Editorial Board, comprised of more than 40 members from 11 countries and 31 different universities all over the word and in different LIS specialties.

Starting from the traditional conception of classification, with an emphasis on its role as exomemory, but warning of the dangers of the symbolic violence, this article analyzes two dimen-sions that complement each other; reason as a belief and knowledge organization as bureaucracy for a subsequent approach to the epistemic obstacles to a cross-cultural dimension that subsidizes what might be called declassification, while adopting a complex approach that does not exclude any pre-, post- or para- epistemological tool.

Considering Knowledge Organization as belief and reason as bureaucracy, the epistemic obstacles that prevent the adoption of a cross-cultural approach to subsidize what might be called declassification are presented, which, in its complexity, do not exclude any pre-post- or para-epistemological tool.

ABSTRACT: This paper identifies the patterns of library use of undergraduates from discipline context based on their personal traits and attitude or Mode of library use. Medical and Arts undergraduates’ personal traits and attitudes are examined. Twelve variables which represent personal traits and six attitudes are observed. Descriptive analysis is used to measures the personal traits by mean values and Chi-square and ANOVA tests was used to identify the statistical differences of attitudes by disciplines. The results found that personal traits make them different in libraries. The students in the two discipline areas turned out to have very similar characteristics in traits and displayed most pronounce diversity in library use. There are significant differences in the attitude of library use by discipline. Need of library services by personal traits and attitudes in discipline context are highly required. Incorporating these findings with the existing libraries or ameliorating the services in general has a practical impact on utmost user satisfaction.

Study shows the importance of using knowledge management approach in digital libraries context. Using two different government entities, Ministry of Health and Infraero - Brazilian Airports, both cases are treated under knowledge management principles, particularly measure of knowledge and socialization. The methodology applied involved two surveys in different groups: a survey to identify the existence of knowledge management parameters applied to the library employees and a survey to validate a digital library proposition applied to managers and decision makers. Results showed that knowledge management tools are not completely applied in libraries and there is a large worked field to be done, mainly in digital libraries.

Interoperability is one of the fundamental requirements to enable electronic government. Its implementation can be classified into technical, syntactic, semantic, and organizational levels. At the semantic level, ontology is regarded as a practical solution to be considered. In this context, its adoption was identified in several countries, with different levels of maturity and so many focuses as the specific implementations. One of the main challenges to be overcome is the legal question that refers to the legislation to assure “the preservation of the legal meaning of data”. The lack of efficient mechanisms to support the deployment and use of ontologies can turn the overall task time-expensive, restricted in scope, or even unfeasible. Additionally, many initiatives are recent and need to be validated over time. This paper presents a non-exhaustive survey of the state of interoperability in e-government from the perspective of ontologies' use. The cases of Palestine, European Union, Netherlands, Estonia, and Brazil are discussed.

Se estudian los procesos de normalización de la descripción desarrollados en Portugal y Brasil. Se analizan las características generales e internas que presentan las Orientaciones de Descripción Archivística y la Norma Brasileña de Descripción. Para ello, se investigan aspectos vinculados con los principios teóricos, las entidades de descripción, los elementos obligatorios, la estructura, los contenidos y la tipología normativa. Finalmente, se determinan las analogías, las diferencias y las aportaciones entre estos textos normativos y los estándares internacionales.

This paper investigated information needs, accessibility and utilization of library information resources as determinants of psychological well-being of prison inmates in Nigeria. Survey research design of the correlation type was adopted. The stratified random sampling was used to select 2875 inmates from the population of 4,823 in 12 prisons with functional libraries. A questionnaire titled Information need, accessibility, utilization and psychological well-being of Prison Inmates was used to collect data on the sampled 2875 inmates out of which 2759 correctly completed questionnaire resulting in a response rate of 95.34%, were used in data analysis. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics of percentages, mean and standard deviation and inferential statistics of correlation analyses. The study found that there was significant multiple correlation among information needs, accessibility to library information resources, utilization of library information resources and psychological well-being of the inmates (r=0.665.p? 0.05). Also, there was significant relationship between: psychological well-being and accessibility to library information resources by prison inmates (r=0.438; p? 0.05); utilization of library information resources (r= .410; p?05), and information needs (r=.454; p? 05). Result also indicated that information needs, accessibility to library information resources and utilization of library information resources are very critical ingredients in determining the psychological well-being of prison inmates. Consequently, all stakeholders should endeavour to equip prison libraries with relevant and current information resources for improved psychological well-being of prison inmates

This article investigate the creation, in 1911, of the Serviço de Bibliographia e Documentação in the National Library from Brazil and what would have been the influence of the International Institute of Bibliography (IIB), founded in 1895 by Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine. Seeks to demonstrate that the creation of the Bibliography and Documentation Service can be considered part of the international cooperation project by Otlet and La Fontaine. It intends to contextualize the period of transformations by which the Brazilian National Library went through, especially during the construction of a new building and its further occupancy as well as the administrative changes implemented by its director at the time, Manoel Cícero Peregrino da Silva. The methodology consisted of bibliographic and documentation based research in the archives of the Brazilian National Library and the Mundaneum Archives Centre in Belgium as well as the Brazilian Historic and Geographic Institute and the Foreign Ministry. The article argues that the establishment of the Serviço de Bibliographia e Documentação and Boletim Bibliographico da Bibliotheca Nacional were results of the contact maintained between the two institutions. It concludes that the International Institute of Bibliography and the Brazilian National Library sustained a close relationship for some years which apparently contributed to introduce the Documentation as a discipline in Brazil.