EL APORTE DEL PROFESIONAL GRADUADO DE LA CARRERA DE BACHILLERATO Y LICENCIATURA EN BIBLIOTECOLOGÍA Y DOCUMENTACIÓN DE LA ESCUELA DE BIBLIOTECOLOGÍA, DOCUMENTACIÓN E INFORMACIÓN DE LA UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL (COSTA RICA), A LA SOCIEDAD DE LA INFORMACIÓN

La presente investigación describe el aporte del profesional graduado de la Escuela de Bibliotecología, Documentación e Información de la Universidad Nacional a la Sociedad de la Información.

UPDATE NEEDS OF PROFESSIONAL LIBRARY: Diagnosis of teachers and graduate degree from the School of Library, Documentation and Information (EBDI), National University of Costa Rica

This project is a diagnosis of update needs and training for professionals in bibliotecology and its results will be used for the design of a Program of Permanent training in bibliotecology, which will be implemented in Bibliotecology School, Documentation and Information of the National University.The studied population is composed by all the teachers of Bibliotecology School, Documentation and Information of the National University, in October, 2007, and all the graduated students of licentiate of the EBDI from 2000 to 2007.The results of this investigation were obtained by means of a questionnaire that was filled by each one of the members of these two populations, who corresponded to 25 teachers of the EBDI and 18 graduates of licentiate. This one also presents the information that was obtained in interviews realized to the managers of the principal institutions who are professionals contracted in bibliotecology.The results obtained of this diagnosis will allow the elaboration of the Program of Permanent training in bibliotecology, considering the formative needs of the professionals in bibliotecology of the EBDI. This project includes the following products:a) Description of the social and demographic characteristics of teachers and of graduated of licentiate of the EBDI.b) Diagnosis of needs to update and training of bibliotecology professional teachers and of graduated of licentiate of the EBDI.c) Determination of the knowledge and skills that the needs to satisfy what big employers ask for.d) Recommendations for the program. Implementation.

PART STUDY OF PERCEPTION OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS IN THE LIBRARY COMMUNITY: OPINION (AS) EMPLOYERS (AS) AND GRADUATES (AS) SCHOOL LIBRARY, DOCUMENTATION AND INFORMATION FOR THE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

This article provides a brief description of some general aspects of self-evaluation process conducted in the School of Library, Documentation and Information from the National University of Costa Rica, to obtain accreditation from the career of Library and Documentation in 2005 and to achieve re-accreditation in 2009.The objective consists in a comparison between the two evaluation processes from the point of view of two specific sectors, employers and graduates, and presents the views provided by each of them as a partial analysis of the social impact assessment of educational programs in the community librarianship as a first input to raise awareness of the importance of these studies in the institutional and national level.

COMMUNICATION, SUBJECT, CULTURE: JOYS AND SOLITUDE INAUGURAL LECTURE OF THE SCHOOL YEAR 2002 OF THE SCHOOL OF LIBRARY, DOCUMENTATION AND INFORMATION

When you are invited to offer a conference like this, can not stop having a series of questions and considerations about the very fact of speaking to an audience informed and educated about the issues that the title might suggest exposure and how without falling into the usual cliches, without repeating the views and opinions set forth, if not obvious. I propose, then, establish, as a starting point, two things: the first is a promise: I will not talk about internet, a recurrent theme in his classes and activities. The second is a kind of contract between you and me: check out the obviousness of some views and question it, see it from behind, because that is where we might find the seams, some of the patches, if not outright nudity. I wonder if this is not precisely one of the first tasks of teaching in the University: to force what seems obvious to justify its obviousness, which is not easy.We can start messing things up a bit, looking like a very smooth and made ​​some surrealist poets to cut one by one the words of poems and writings, throw them into the air and read with amazement the order they fall to form a new verse, Perhaps more interesting and evocative than the first. Is not this somewhat random operation of new blends the fundamental operation of so many new discoveries and innovative ideas in the fields of science, culture, arts? Some of you know the thought of Pascal says: "Do not say that I am not proposing something new: the order in which the material presented is different."

Twenty years of the Foundation of the School of Library, Documentation and Information of the National University Intellectual Property in Costa Rica - The information technology environment

This year the School of Library, Documentation and Information is twenty years from its beginning as Unit Library.

Inauguration Speech of the school year 1993 of the School of Library, Documentation and Information

Since the child starts in the teaching - learning is made aware that there is a division of natural resources: renewable and nonrenewable. It also says that every natural resource is useless unless it explodes. But to apply such resources necessary knowledge. We realize today that the same biological systems of living things (renewable resources) are transmitters of information. He uses that information to nurture their knowledge, and this is essential for the use and conservation of resources, making valid then the principle that "there is no knowledge without information."

Speech by Mr. Alban Sandi Bonilla, Dean, Faculty of Arts at the Inauguration of Professional Lecture "Managing Information in Specialized Areas in Costa Rican

Friends: Although we have not devoted special sessions to discuss the matter, the truth is that in some informal occasions we talked lightly about the relevance of the School of Library, Documentation and Information is at the Faculty of Arts. We have consistently defined our School Faculty as a humanist. The human reality in all its modes of symbolic production is the object of study that brings us together as an area of knowledge. A school is that, a major academic unit, which it brings together different disciplines deserve epistemological affinity for joint development. Cooperation, ease of interdisciplinary association are elements that justify the existence of the faculties. And our conversations, I insist, casual and light, have led us to establish two positions may seem superficially divergent, but are not. The Library mates look as techniques themselves, and feel that can be placed almost anywhere Faculty, and at first glance does not explain its presence in a humanities faculty. Let me turn away from this self-image.

Teaching Library and Documentation at the School of Librarianship, Documentation and Information of the National University

The key to graduate professionals with sufficient capacity to meet the research demands of users, should be the vision and the commissioning of schools and their academic library. All these efforts must be linked systematically to ensure the use of data recorded on their knowledge and information units.

Comparative and international education: policy transfer, context sensitivity and professional development

This paper examines the intellectual and professional contribution of comparative and international studies to the field of education. It explores the nature of the challenges that are currently being faced, and assesses its potential for the advancement of future teaching, research and professional development. Attention is paid to the place of comparative and international education (CIE)-past and present-in teacher education, in postgraduate studies, and in the realms of policy and practice, theory and research. Consideration is first given to the nature and history of CIE, to its initial contributions to the field of education in the UK, and to its chief mechanisms and sites of production. Influential methodological and theoretical developments are examined, followed by an exploration of emergent questions, controversies and dilemmas that could benefit from sustained comparative analysis in the future. Conclusions consider implications for the place of CIE in the future of educational studies as a whole; for relations between and beyond the 'disciplines of education'; and for the development of sustainable research capacity in this field.

Supporting English language teachers doing further degrees at a distance:a web based strategy researched

This thesis explores how the world-wide-web can be used to support English language teachers doing further studies at a distance. The future of education worldwide is moving towards a requirement that we, as teacher educators, use the latest web technology not as a gambit, but as a viable tool to improve learning. By examining the literature on knowledge, teacher education and web training, a model of teacher knowledge development, along with statements of advice for web developers based upon the model are developed. Next, the applicability and viability of both the model and statements of advice are examined by developing a teacher support site (bttp://www. philseflsupport. com) according to these principles. The data collected from one focus group of users from sixteen different countries, all studying on the same distance Masters programme, is then analysed in depth. The outcomes from the research are threefold: A functioning website that is averaging around 15, 000 hits a month provides a professional contribution. An expanded model of teacher knowledge development that is based upon five theoretical principles that reflect the ever-expanding cyclical nature of teacher learning provides an academic contribution. A series of six statements of advice for developers of teacher support sites. These statements are grounded in the theoretical principles behind the model of teacher knowledge development and incorporate nine keys to effective web facilitation. Taken together, they provide a forward-looking contribution to the praxis of web supported teacher education, and thus to the potential dissemination of the research presented here. The research has succeeded in reducing the proliferation of terminology in teacher knowledge into a succinct model of teacher knowledge development. The model may now be used to further our understanding of how teachers learn and develop as other research builds upon the individual study here. NB: Appendix 4 is only available only available for consultation at Aston University Library with prior arrangement.

Editorial

En el marco del 30 aniversario de la Escuela de Bibliotecología, Documentación e Información de la Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, se presenta el número 25 del boletín Bibliotecas, el cual cuenta con la participación no solo de especialistas e investigadores del exterior, sino también de profesores de la Escuela.Encabeza el boletín, un artículo producto de una investigación sobre los procedimientos pedagógicos utilizados en el curso práctica supervisada, la formación del profesional y su incursión en el ámbito laboral por medio de la práctica profesional.¿Qué requiere América Latina en materia de formación bibliotecológica? Es la pregunta que solemos hacer para responder a un usuario cada vez más exigente, rodeado de grandes cantidades de información que lo abruma y que, para desempeñarse con éxito en un mundo globalizado requiere el conocimiento que le permita seleccionar y utilizar esta información de manera eficiente, razón que le lleva a demandar servicios eficaces y efectivos. 

INVESTIGACIÓN CUALITATIVA APLICADA EN EL DESARROLLO DE LA PRÁCTICA PROFESIONAL SUPERVISADA

Se describen los procedimientos pedagógicos utilizados en el curso BGE215 Práctica Profesional Supervisada, en la Escuela de Bibliotecología, Documentación e Información (EBDI) de la Universidad Nacional (UNA) en Costa Rica y se comparan con los métodos, técnicas e instrumentos utilizados en la investigación cualitativa. Además, se aplica la triangulación para determinar la validez de las técnicas utilizadas para evaluar la práctica profesional supervisada, realizada en la Escuela.Los Sujetos de esta investigación fueron: 22 estudiantes de bibliotecología de tercer año, 20 encargados directos y dos académicas. Los objetos analizados fueron 22 tipos diferentes de productos elaborados en la práctica, 40 Informes de estudiantes y supervisores, las fichas catalográficas elaboradas, las bases de datos actualizadas. Además, se utilizaron como instrumentos en la recolección de la información hojas de cotejo, diario de visitas, entrevistas, informes impresos y orales, opiniones y la observación. 

CONFERENCIA MAGISTRAL ¿QUÉ ES BIBLIOTECOLOGÍA Y DOCUMENTACIÓN? CRÓNICA DE UN CONFLICTO TERMINOLÓGICO Y CONCEPTUAL

Ciertamente llama sobremanera la atención tener que reflexionar sobre un conflicto –bastantes tenemos ya en nuestro mundo- aunque se trate de un conflicto podríamos decir de carácter epistemológico, de fundamentación paradigmática de qué es o qué debe ser la disciplina a la que con tanto entusiasmo nos dedicamos. Me refiero, naturalmente, a la Bibliotecología. Y aquí arranca el primer conflicto:. ¿Cómo llamar a esta disciplina o, tal vez, conjunto de disciplinas: ¿Bibliotecología? ¿Biblioteconomía? ¿Documentación? ¿Ciencia de la Información? ¿Y cómo llamar de modo unánime a los componentes, factores y aspectos diversos de las actividades documentales? Esto es algo que no ocurre en las disciplinas consagradas como Historia, Medicina, Química, Derecho, etc. e, incluso, en las todavía relativamente recientes como el Periodismo, el Marketing, la Publicidad, etc. Si grave es la inexistencia de unanimidad en los términos que empleamos, más grave es sospechar que, tras estas dudas, se pueda esconder una falta de unanimidad en su concepto, en su definición, en su fundamentación epistemológica, en suma.Ambos conflictos, si no se resuelven provocan, indefectiblemente, consecuencias de incertidumbre a la hora de planificar líneas docentes y de investigación, a la hora de establecer la figura del estudioso o profesional que debemos formar en nuestros centros. Se impone, pues, la construcción definitiva de un paradigma, en definitiva de una teoría de la documentación siempre actualizada y que sea objeto de estudio preliminar y piedra angular en nuestros centros docentes. Y yo les invito desde aquí a pensar en esta cuestión y a proponer elementos que contribuyan a su construcción. 

ALGUNAS RAZONES ASOCIADAS A LA DESERCIÓN UNIVERSITARIA EN EL NIVEL DE LICENCIATURA: El caso de la Escuela de Bibliotecología, Documentación e Información, Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica

La deserción estudiantil es un tema de mucha actualidad, el cual, a pesar de su importancia para el sistema educativo - especialmente, porque afecta diferentes áreas del desarrollo nacional y personal, por ejemplo: económicas, sociales, morales, emocionales y profesionales - ha sido estudiado fundamentalmente bajo un enfoque cuantitativo.El desconocimiento de las razones que tiene el estudiantado en la Escuela de Bibliotecología, Documentación e Información, de la Universidad Nacional, en Costa Rica; para abandonar las aulas, impide detener el aumento en la cantidad de deserciones, con lo que se produce una brecha difícil de nivelar entre graduados y aspirantes. Esta, situación afecta además la imagen de la Escuela y de su personal académico.Esta investigación consideró como objeto de estudio la deserción de los estudiantes en el nivel de Licenciatura, por el incumplimiento con el TFG4, a pesar de tener los otros requisitos para elaborarlo. Los datos de este trabajo se obtuvieron de los alumnos que han cursado las materias de Licenciatura de la Escuela de Bibliotecología, de la Universidad Nacional durante el período 1996-2006, los cuales no llegaron a concluir su plan de estudios, lo que los hace que permanezcan como egresados de la carrera, por un largo periodo.

Editorial

En este número del Boletín Bibliotecas se recopilan cuatro artículos de distinguidas colegas que con su aporte enriquecen el quehacer de la Bibliotecología en diferentes ámbitos geográficos. La presentación de varios trabajos finales de graduación por alumnas de la Escuela de Bibliotecología, Documentación e Información para obtener el título de Licenciatura es un hecho que nos llena de mucho orgullo y satisfacción, principalmente por el esfuerzo personal y profesional que implica su culminación exitosa.