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The eighteenth century books from the collection of the old digital library of the Library University Seville are analyzed to locate the parts made with decorated papers, in order to classify and describe them according to the proposals of specialized literature. For this, the records included in the repository of the digital collection are recovered, the digital reproductions of the books are visualized, the parts with decorated papers are identified and described following the decorated papers classification model, previously elaborated, based on the research of Professor Carpallo Bautista. The model is made up of 6 techniques and their variants. Of the more than 6.700 records from the 18th century in the collection of the digital ancient collection, 511 include decorated papers in their bindings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Spanish Regional Development Agencies (ADRs in their Spanish acronym) are organisms whose purpose is to promote the development of their regions, including direct support to firms established in their territories. This paper presents the results of a study conducted by means of a questionnaire whose objective was to determine the instruments and practices related to Competitive Intelligence (CI) developed by Spanish ADRs: the systems created, informative typologies and platforms used, functions of the IC units, training processes, personnel, membership of networks, and systems of promotion. Nine agencies responded. The findings point to the sparsity of official structures concerning Competitive Intelligence, although there do exist organisms in which Intelligence policies are more advanced. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the current context, in which universities and their faculty must adapt their roll to legislative requirements linked to increased research, libraries play a crucial role in responding to this demand, reinforcing the provision of specific services to support Researchers. It is in this sense that the present article aims to provide an overview of which are the research support services provided by the libraries linked to REBIUN. With this intention, a survey was conducted among libraries's directors of these universities, and those results are offered in this paper. Thus, this article presents and analyzes the data collected, with a special focus on services focused on training, counseling and helping to disseminate the results of researchers. Regarding to principal findings, there is a global behavior among libraries in issues related to use and training on information resources. But there is a huge difference between libraries when the services to be offered are related to the integration of library services into researchers's team. This, perhaps, is due to the structure of the university where the library is acting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]