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The use of reliable data from scientific literature through models close to evidence-based clinical practice are basic to foreseeing the consequences of clinical decisions in contexts of uncertainty. To take informed decisions it is needed to have the ability to to recover, analyze and critically judge the quality of sou rces and evaluate the levels of scientific evidence for later application. This process can be either endangered or enhanced by several factors. The aims of this paper are to analyze the key aspects in which librarians influence the integration of scientific evidence in clinical practice and to discusse on the role that health libraries should have. A literature review was conducted using MEDLINE, Embase, CINAHL and LISA. Review articles and original research aimed to study the role of health librarians in improving the integration of scientific evidence in clinical practice have been analyzed. Works related to critical thinking, clinical decissions processes and library services have been taken into consideration as well. Several organizational and individual factors act as barriers to informed clinical decision making, as lack of time for reading and implementationof the results, lack of skills or experience in searching for information, lack of training or participation in projects of research, etc. If several interventions are combined, including active and continued training by health librarians, it can help improve the weaknessess. The evidence shows that excellence in informed clinical decision-making requires well trained health professionals to conduct a search for effective information and to evalua te critically the results. Librarians can contribute to this process and, consequently, improve patient attention through team work with health professionals. This scenario raises the need to expand the training of librarians and redefine library tasks and services to other disciplines.

This work aims at discussing the built-in Zotero that strengthens as social software and therefore extends its possibilities for collaborative learning. Among the new features are the groups that allow collaborative networking between students-teacher-community, share bibliographies, find people with common interests in a subject, etc.

The developments of information and communication technologies shape the way libraries, and more specifically higher education libraries, are organized and provide their services. The traditional reference service is reinvented in a digital component. The awareness of the advantages and the importance of this service availability today and predictably in the future, suggest the reflection on current reference service situation in Polytechnic Institutes, and the contribution to its knowledge and development. In the empirical part of this study a survey was sent to all Polytechnic Institute libraries and its schools. The research is based on the reference services which Polytechnic Public Higher Education libraries provide, even if almost all institutions assume having one or two active reference services, these being identified, often, as traditional or digital. This mediation of the information professional has not been neglected in the digital reference service. The analysis of the collected enquiries' results showed that, despite almost all the libraries which filled them have a Traditional Reference Service, only very few provide digital reference services.

The universe of schools integrated in the public polytechnics located in different geographical areas of Portugal keep in their libraries, documentation centers, documentation services or other designation, all areas of human knowledge. We propose to reflect about the importance of reference services on libraries on public polytechnics and diagnose the existence of reference services in these institutions and how they are offered, traditional or digital. These spaces are privileged to offer this service to the user of the standard service or one that uses new technological tools of digital services environment. The impact felt in the academic community, with the provision of these services will be also subject to thorough analysis and evaluation thereof.

This presentation aims to describe the creation of a portal. The role of portal is the localisation, in the internet, of web pages relative with concrete scientific area. Each portal, is usually specialised in a scientific area, e.g. Mathematics, or in a total from sciences, e.g. Positive Sciences. The information that is provided is various, e.g. articles of electronic journals, papers, studies or presentations in congresses that have been published in the internet. The library of Agricultural University of Athens created a gate that covers subjects with regard to the agricultural sciences, as plant production, animal production, geology, biology, biotechnology etc. Its creation was separated in three stages: planning, creation and maintenance-evaluation. In the stage of planning the library determined the objectives of the portal. Moreover, became research for the cost and the essential personnel. In the stage of creation was drawn the essential software, which locates web pages in the internet relative with the subjects that covers the particular portal. Also, was created a database, in which are stored this sources and an effective environment of work (Interface), with which the users have the possibility of seeking the data using different methods of search. Finally, in the stage of maintenance and evaluation the library is called to maintain the particular database, but also to evaluate the portal providing likely improvements.

This is a detailed study of the college library situation in India. It points out that in India the importance of library in higher education was emphasized by many educationists experts and committees from 1950 and of them Ranganathan Committee (1958) of UGC, Education Commission (1966) of Government of India chaired by D.S. Kothari and Expert Committee on College Libraries of government of Kerala chaired by V.P Joy (1994) are very important. But even with all these exercises no serious attempt for reform was initiated in this aspect. Government could not even prepare minimum standards for college libraries which would have served as guidelines for the development of 9000 and more colleges in the country. One reason was education being a State subject technically Union Government could not go beyond giving suggestions. After a detailed evaluation of the reports the study concludes by stating that as recommended by them; librarian also should be brought under the definition of teacher, and that the college librarian should be given academic status, and rank and salary as recommended by UGC subject to satisfying the qualification and other conditions. The study opines that if the recommendations of these committees had been implemented in time the country would have by now gone a long way in improving the quality of information support for higher education and research.