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Introduction: The ethical performance of the librarian is addressed, considering its challenges and perspectives. Objective: to enhance the development of the professional ethics of the librarian, through the socialization of the proposed actions. Materials and methods: theoretical methods that were used: historical - logical, modeling, analysis-synthesis and induction-deduction. The empirical analysis correspond to surveys conducted on librarians, managers and users; as well as interviews to prioritized staff and bibliotechnology personalities. Descriptive statistics were used for information processing. Results and discussion: the application of these methods enabled the theoretical foundation of the topic addressed, the characterization of the current state on the ethical performance of the librarian and the elaboration of the proposal for actions to fulfill the objective of the research. Conclusions: the implementation of the proposed actions promotes the strengthening of the professional ethics of the librarian, by influencing his preparation for the mastery of information and communications technologies, and also favors cultural improvement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Cuba, there is little qualitative research in the context of public libraries. Incidentally, the research group Public Library and community turns its attention to the development of transformative qualitative research. The result of two of his most recent research focuses on the discourses of the participants. These are the discourses of workers of municipal public libraries of «La Lisa» and «Habana del Este» and members of their communities. The discourses revolve around the functions of these libraries, services and activities in their communities. Also, allow to notice the importance of the performance of these social institutions. The methods and techniques of research are discourse analysis and content analysis, and indepth interviews, focus groups, participant observation and social mapping. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The environment in which the work of the librarian develops supposes the reconsideration of already traditional values and the emergence of new ones in the profession. The aim of this research is to describe and analyze the deontological library codes of France, Italy, the United States, Chile, Singapore and Israel and to state reflections about the progress of the deontology of the librarian. The relevant deontological norms have been consulted through the IFLA Web site. Common features in the European and Asian codes are confirmed such as the conservation and preservation of collections, the maintenance of networks of cooperation among libraries and the need to preserve the collective memory and the cultural heritage. The educational character of the Chilean Code is put into context. Some outstanding improvements are provided for its inclusion in the ethical precepts of any country, regardless their situation and culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this article is to reflect on ethics in the use of information from the perspective of the reference services of information institutions in the frame of the so called Society of Information and Knowledge where the unequal access to information among countries with different development levels prevails and within these countries, among their citizens, due not only to available infrastructure, but also to population capabilities to manage new technological developments inside the Information Society. The endeavors of information professionals aimed, as an ethical principal of our profession, at reducing the digital gap to provide the knowledge and training that citizens must possess in order to reach an adequate informational capability being able to use the tools resulting from the technological convergence and therefore modify their daily cultural practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Digital libraries are one of the content managers that centers and institutions use more frequently nowadays. The data volume they can store, the diversity of formats that can be used, the many domains of knowledge that are present in their contents, and the complexity of human teams that create and maintain them result in great management difficulties, mostly if the idea is to provide users with a customized service. This paper proposes an architecture to manage the user model in a digital library. Said library is focused on integrating emerging technologies based on semantics and diverse techniques for capturing user preferences, in order to facilitate generation of the user model that interacts with a digital library, to semantically annotate the digital objects a digital library contains, and to manage contents taking into account their meaning according to the semantic preferences of users. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

El artículo discurre sobre los servicios ofrecidos por la Biblioteca Nacional de Francia. La autora comenta sobre el uso de las salas de lecturas y a distancia de la biblioteca, incluyendo la sala de investigaciones bibliográficas, de audiovisual y de literatura y arte. También se considera la multitud de servicios para los usuarios de la biblioteca.