O Desenvolvimento de Novos Serviços de Informação em Bibliotecas Públicas
| Main Author: | Vieira, João Luciano Rodrigues Mota |
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| Format: | Thesis PeerReviewed application/pdf |
| Bahasa: | pt |
| Terbitan: |
, 2003
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| Online Access: |
http://eprints.rclis.org/8239/1/tese_joaolucianovieira.pdf http://eprints.rclis.org/8239/ |
Daftar Isi:
- The possibility of developing new services for public libraries, profiting from the potentialities of Information and Communication Technologies, is explored. The outburst, expansion and generalized use of new technologies challenges public libraries, especially those concerned with the development of new online information services. The main international guidelines ascribed to public libraries, as community information centres, are described. Some of the social consequences of new technologies are presented and their impact on libraries, particularly in Portugal, is discussed. Examples of information services that can be made available by libraries are also presented, with special relevance to online community services. The implementation of such services represent technical and social changes that may be studied in a common framework. In order to understand this process, the Actor-Network theory and its main concepts are presented and its use as a methodological framework is fundamented. Its relevance in the field of information systems development is particularly discussed presenting examples and suggesting possibilities. A case study is presented, taking into account the possibilities of development for these new services. The study and knowledge of the situation allowed us to specify some of the new information services to offer, discussing this process from an Actor-Network perspective. This research aims to contribute to the creation, in the middle run, of new information services still non-existent in a great number of Portuguese libraries. Actor-Network Theory is proposed as a methodological tool to develop such services.