The public library : environment for the formulation of risk indicators in the information society

Pérez-López, Ana, López-Gijón, Javier and Gálvez, Carmen The public library : environment for the formulation of risk indicators in the information society., 2006 . In IFLA Council and General Conference (72nd : 2006 : Shangai), Shangai (China), 16-17 August 2006. [Conference paper]

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The beginning of this third millennium faces us to a set of changes that are the culminating point of processes generated from the second half of the 20th century and that they are directly linked to the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). The Information Society, through Internet, is favouring the globalization and simultaneously promoting social paradigmatic changes as the sustainable development and the risk society that slow –but of form maintained– go being outlined as an alternative, feasible, and necessary change. The indicators of management of risks are considered strategic for their application to the evaluation, control and adjustments of the process of sustainability prompted in the world environment, in which the Public Libraries become laboratories multicultural of measurement of the Information Society. With this communication we intend to contribute to the formulation of new indicators, inside the environment of the Public Libraries, to characterize and to measure the risks that exist in regions and countries, so much inside as out of the Information Society.Our proposal will be directed to two basic standpoints: (a) since a perspective of systems, that will advance the need to undertake new methodologies of work, that include the levels of uncertainty in which at present the company of risk is proclaimed and decisions make; and (b) by means of a holistic, interactive, participatory perspective, and flexible, just as is being achieved in the management of environmental risk. These approaches will investigate themselves in the framework of the instruments of strategic social management, such as the indicators proposed in the Manual of Lisbon (2004) for the Information Society, and them formulated inside the management of risks proposed by Ulrich Beck (2000).

Item type: Conference paper
Keywords: Public Library; Risk Indicators; Information Society
Subjects: B. Information use and sociology of information > BA. Use and impact of information.
B. Information use and sociology of information > BD. Information society.
D. Libraries as physical collections. > DC. Public libraries.
L. Information technology and library technology > LC. Internet, including WWW.
Depositing user: Ana Pérez López
Date deposited: 21 Sep 2012
Last modified: 02 Oct 2014 12:23
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/17583

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