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© Revista Digital de Biblioteconomia e Ciência da Informação,Campinas, v.2, n. 2, jan./jun. 2005 – ISSN: 1678-765X. Dear Readers,
The Digital Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, the electronic publication of UNICAMP Library System (SBU), presents a new issue for the enjoyment of the scientific community. In this edition we have 04 (four) Articles and 02 (two) Reports of experiences.
In the ARTICLES SECTION we present “On-line information sources on the Health Sciences area” of the authors Silvana Beatriz Bueno and Ursula
Blattmann, both of the Federal University of Santa Catarina. This article focus on
“The importance of access and use of on-line information sources in the context of Health Sciences”. It presents the information management regarding procedures adopted in a medical information center concerning description of activities and actions taken to organize its specific collection. It reports the experience of a probationary period in the Center of Studies Dr. Ewaldo José Ramos Schaefer, in Florianópolis – Santa Catarina State, Brazil.
Fábio Mascarenhas e Silva, professor of PUC-Campinas University, wrote
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On “Identification of Arts serials in Brazilian institutional libraries”, the third article, the authors Viviane Rummler da Silva and Guido Rummler, focus on a research based on the Brazilian Union Catalog (CCN - Catálogo Coletivo Nacional), presenting a list of the serials in Portuguese, Spanish, English, French, Italian, German and Dutch which have some issue published in 2000 and/or in the following years in the holdings of the Brazilian cooperating libraries. Besides the serial titles, and respective ISSN, it is provided information on the regional or national origin of them, scope of subjects, and year of the first issue edition.
The fourth article, “Digital Acess: the right to information in health area versus intelectual property of technological information”, written by Rosana Evangelista, Vanda de Fátima Fulgêncio de Oliveira, Sandra Lúcia Pereira and
Valdinéa Sonia Petinari, three professionals of State University of Campinas
(UNICAMP). It analyzes the possibility of implementing the digitalization of documents, stored at Reference Center on Medical Equipments of the Center of Biomedical Engineering of the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), which are available only in printed form, restricting the access. The technical professionals and remote institutions will be benefited with this action. The copyright, software infrastructure, digital libraries development, the characteristics of publications and users will be discussed. As a result the authors could identify, qualify and group together the users of the documentation. This survey offered subsidies to support decision making, referring to the best way of supporting these virtual clients.
The first report of the Section EXPERIENCE REPORT, brings a research developed by Fátima Aparecida Colombo Paletta, Marina Mayumi Yamashita and
Débora Ferrazoli Penilha with the title “Individual Protection Equipments (EPIs)
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exhibitions, lectures and trainings. As a result, the authors emphasize that the right use of individual protection equipments give more security and physical integrity, besides, guarantee a better life quality to the ones who perform this task.
Robson da Silva Teixeira, in his report “Reporting an experience: a study
to identify the relationship between user and information service retrieval of
a pharmacy laboratory library, describes users study, aiming at identify which is
the relationship between information user and the Information Retrieval Service (SRI) in a library of pharmacy industry, establishing a methodology for checking profiles of potential users. Through a questionnaire with 22 questions, applied to 70 collaborators, the author got 36 questionnaires back, 51,4% of the sample. The results revealed that relationship between users and SRI is between good and excellent.
This way, we finish one more issue of this journal, and hope to count on your collaboration for future issues. Enjoy the reading. We are grateful to all the ones who contributed for the coming true of this edition.
Gildenir Carolino Santos Danielle Thiago Ferreira Leonardo Fernandes Souto
