Content and Connectivity in the Age of Digital Libraries

"Behind the world of virtual university is more than a method or system of work, you need to own, develop and master a connectivity structure of both technological and content development in multimedia digital text and then implement teaching methods line. "

Editorial

La Escuela de Bibliotecología, Documentación e Información Pública en su único número del Boletín Bibliotecas para 1998, una selección de las ponencias presentadas en el Congreso Internacional sobre Información Electrónica y Bibliotecas Digitales, celebrado en setiembre de 1997 en Costa Rica bajo su auspicio.

Editorial

The School of Library, Documentation and Information meets its twentieth anniversary by holding an International Congress on: Electronic Information and Digital Libraries will be held from 23 to 26 September 1997.

Information Literacy in Costa Rican Universities. Viewing Levels of Incorporation from the Information Published on the Websites of their Libraries

Training in information competencies or information literacy is one of the current challenges of university libraries at the possibilities of access to vast information resources that facilitate digital media, which require a better understand and apply the selection and assessment criteria to retrieval the highest quality and relevance of information as needed. In this situation, Ibero-American university libraries (Latin-America, Spain and Portugal) have been slowly incorporating this training either from direct training programs, offered from the library or through collaborative work with teachers and schools in curricula of various universities as a whole or in specific disciplines. In this text, it was identified that, at present, from the information displayed on Web sites of universities-HEI in Costa Rica, a very small percentage of university libraries would find taking actions in a level 1 or 2 of incorporating information literacy, since a large most developed is still very focused programs and processes to the traditional user training, while another large majority, unfortunately, has no action-information about actions from the forming perspective that should be any library.