UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES AND PUBLIC ACCESS TO INFORMATION: Articulating LAW, TECHNOLOGY, AND MANAGEMENT PRACTICES


Main Topics

1 – Knowledge organization and information services

  • Organization and information processing
  • Generation and development of collections
  • Culture and information behavior
  • Users and contemporary practices
  • Reference services (product innovation, marketing and service)
  • Products and services for people with disabilities
  • Rare and special collections
  • Professional profile and renewing practices
  • Information management systems

2 – Laws of public access to information

  • Contexts, historicity and rebound
  • Rules, access regulations and dissemination of information
  • Influence of the Access Law to Information in practice librarian
  • Scope of the Access Law to Information

3 – Management of University Libraries

  • Institutional policies
  • Strategic planning and sustainability
  • Evaluation and public management in information services
  • Continuing education
  • Accessibility (products, services and technology)

4 – Scientific Communication

  • Politics and economics of information (publishing, open access movement, copyright and licensing fees)
  • Editorial flow and librarian action
  • Production, scientific and technological communication (measuring, mapping, assessment and diagnosis)

5 – Technology

  • Institutional repositories
  • Communication tools and scientific collaboration
  • Mobile devices in academic context
  • Digital archives and e-books
  • Preservation of digital collections
  • University library and EaD