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Resumen Este artículo aborda las necesidades y el comportamiento informativo de una comunidad no estudiada, se trata de los Grupos de Familia Al-anon, en donde asiste la familia de las personas que presentan problemas con el consumo de alcohol. Este estudio es exploratorio con un enfoque mixto, la muestra es no probabilística y participaron seis mujeres. Se empleó el instrumento de la entrevista y la encuesta. Se encontró que las principales necesidades informativas son el duelo (66 %) y la felicidad (50 %); y los temas: entretenimiento, superación personal, aceptación, tolerancia y primer paso; todas las anteriores con un porcentaje de 33 %. Los comportamientos informativos de estas mujeres son: el libro (83 %), el internet (66 %) y la televisión (50 %).
Abstract This article deals with the needs and informational behavior of a community not studied, the Al-anon Family Group for the family of people addicted to alcohol. This study is exploratory with a mixed approach, the sample is not probabilistic and six women participated. The interview and survey instrument were used. It was found that the main informational needs are: grief (66 %), happiness (50 %); and the subject of: entertainment, personal improvement, acceptance, tolerance and first step, all of the above with a percentage of 33 %. The informative behaviors of these women are: the book (83 %), the internet (66 %) and tv (50 %).
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Humans , Female , Adult , Middle Aged , Aged , Alcoholics Anonymous , Alcoholism/psychology , Library Services/organization & administration , Information Management , MexicoABSTRACT
Resumen El logro de este proceso informacional en la salud se encuentra centrado en el personal bibliotecario, por lo que resulta necesario fortalecer su desempeño en correspondencia con la identificación de sus necesidades de aprendizaje mediante la aplicación de una herramienta de alfabetización informacional en la provincia de Artemisa, Cuba durante el curso del período 2016-2017. Se realizó una investigación organizada por dos momentos y, con el empleo de métodos empíricos y teóricos, se propuso una herramienta de alfabetización informacional en soporte digital. La metodología utilizada se basó en un medio de enseñanza-aprendizaje de tipo software educativo. La herramienta contribuirá a la calidad en el desempeño del personal que labora en la red de bibliotecas médicas de la provincia de Artemisa.
Abstract The performance of librarians in the medical sciences is enhanced by identifying their training needs through the use of an information literacy tool. We performed this study between 2016 and 2017 with the staff of the medical libraries network at Artemisa province in Cuba. In the first stage of the study we assessed the initial state of the staff's information literacy, and in a second stage, we used empiri-cal and theoretical methods to propose an information literacy tool in digital format. The methodology used was based on educational software. The tool will contribute to enhancing the performance of librarians working in the network of medical libraries in the prov-ince of Artemisa, Cuba.
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Humans , Librarians , Information Literacy , Libraries, Medical/organization & administration , Library Services/organization & administration , Professional Competence , Software , Cuba , Library Services/standardsABSTRACT
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) of the United States of America, celebrates in 2011 its 175th anniversary. This Library, the largest biomedical library in the world, has a proud and rich history serving the health community and the public, especially since its transfer to the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, in 1968. It holds 17 million publications in 150 languages, and has an important collection of ancient and modern historical books as well as original publications of Vesalius and other founders of biomedicine. Its modern document collections illustrate the progress of medical sciences. These collections include laboratory notes from many scientists whose work forms the foundations of contemporary life sciences. The Library also provides several services for health research and for the public, including databases and services such as MedLine and BLAST. The NLM constantly strives to fulfill the information needs of its customers, whether scientists or the public at large. For example, as the Hispanic population of the Unites States has increased in recent years, the NLM has made larger and larger amounts of data available in Spanish to fulfill the health information needs of this population. NLM programs train professionals in library science and biomedical informatics and link biomedical libraries of 18 academic centers throughout the United States. The NLM funds competitive grants for training at the Library, organizing short instruction courses about library science and informatics, and writing books on health related matters including the history of medicine and public health. The NLM is managed and maintained by an outstanding and farsighted group of professionals and dedicated support staff. Their focus on serving and reaching both the biomedical community and the public at large has been crucial to its development into a world icon of biomedical sciences, information technology and the humanities.
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History, 19th Century , History, 20th Century , History, 21st Century , Humans , Library Services/history , National Library of Medicine (U.S.)/history , Library Services/organization & administration , Medical Informatics/organization & administration , National Library of Medicine (U.S.)/organization & administration , United StatesABSTRACT
Bajo los auspicios del Centro Latinoamericano y del Caribe de Informacion en Ciencias de la Salud, antes conocido como Biblioteca Regional de Medicina (BIREME), la Organizacion Panamericana de la Salud (OPS) y el Ministerio de Prevision Social y Salud Publica (MPSSP), Se establecio esta Red que fue avalada por una Resolucion del indicado Ministerio, en 1988, con el objeto de presentar mejor informacion, mediante un sistema de cooperacion entre bibliotecas destinada al profesional de la salud en cualquier nivel y lugar en que se encuentre en el pais.