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It describes the web visibility and accessibility of research in library and documentation in Argentina by studying dissertations submitted to qualify for the bachelor's degree. It is an exploratory study with quantitative approach where the visibility of theses in catalogs and institutional repositories, the number of theses visible on the web/amount accessible in full text, metadata records in catalogs, metadata records in the repositories, the production of dissertations per year according to web visibility, the number of authors per dissertation as web visibility and thematic distribution of the content of dissertations. It is concluded that the production of dissertations in library science in Argentina is spread on the web and that the visibility and accessibility of these is very low. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents the main elements of an exploratory research (undergraduate thesis to qualify for a sociology degree) on how Internet use is embedded in everyday life of Internet users of three public libraries in Bogota, Colombia: Tintal, Tunal and Virgilio Barco. As a result of the research we propose a map of the ways to access and use Internet, and we reconstruct the process of how these practices are embedded in everyday life of children, young people and adults. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]