During the COVID pandemic, some commentators thought that early career researchers (ECRs) would become a ‘lost generation’. Yet the Harbingers (H-2) longitudinal study, which followed ECRs for 2 years during the pandemic found that ECRs took things in their stride. More than 2 years on, we returned, as part of the AI stage of the Harbingers study (H-3), to see what has transpired and interviewed nearly 70 ECRs ...
The Harbingers study of early career researchers (ECRs), their work life and scholarly communications, began by studying generational—Millennial—change (c.2016), then moved to pandemic change (c.2020) and is now investigating another potential agent of change: artificial intelligence (2024–). We report here on a substantial scoping pilot study that looks at the impact of AI on the scholarly communications of in...
The Degree in Library Science and Documentation of the University of León started during the 1990- 1991 academic year. This first curriculum suffered from a large presence of humanistic subjects and a low rate of experimentation granted to many subjects, caused by the integration within the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters. In the first courses, there were a high number of students. Subsequently, the decrease ...
The dynamics and emergence of new knowledge requires building new knowledge organization systems and reviewing others for the location and access of knowledege. In this process the structures of knowledge organization assume particular relevance, as effective instruments to accomplish these purposes. For its longevity, the bibliographical classifications stand out and among them particularly the Dewey Decimal C...
El acceso a contenidos de calidad es clave para la investigación y uno de los valores principales que los académicos asignan a la biblioteca. Los datos bibliográficos desempeñan un papel trascendental en las bibliotecas universitarias, que dedican abundantes recursos a su obtención y disposición para el acceso. El estudio indaga sobre dónde y cómo se descubre la información bibliográfica, y pone de manifiesto e...
The aim of the research undertaken was to get to know the degree of implementation of discovery tools in university libraries in the Iberian Peninsula. It also allowed an initial evaluation of the facilities offered by the tools implemented. With regard to the presence of discovery tools we find a different situation in the two countries, with a higher degree of implementation in Spain. As for the behaviour of ...