University digital libraries in Spain and TIC as paradigms of the information needs for teachers and students

Abstract

The university digital libraries have experienced an improvement in recent years, allowing easy retrieval of information in different media. The objectives of this research are to verify the suitability of online catalogs to meet the information needs of teachers and students in the area of Library and Information by evaluating a sample of 23 University digital libraries, and raise the necessary improvements. The results verify the suitability of online catalogs to solve the information needs of teachers, researchers and students, being the University libraries of Barcelona, Granada and Sevilla the most relevant in the area of documentation, as well as the professionalism of librarians to heed the needs of users. Among other improvements, raised teacher education and students in using electronic resources and the creation of online help to improve user interfaces-Web in order to retrieve information quickly and efficiently.

Keywords

• Bibliotecas universitarias
• Bibliotecas digitales
• Catálogo de acceso público en línea
• OPAC
• Evaluación
• Interfaz de usuario
• Necesidades de información
• Tecnologías de la Información