Fenómenos estudiados desde una perspectiva cualitativa en Bibliotecología y Estudios de la Información

Abstract

It is convenient to appreciate that the term phenomena is employed here as a principal element for conforming the nucleus of fields and themes of study, this is due to the qualitative focus which is based in phenomenology, which establishes a particular form of boarding the research problems, justly based in this concept; as a phenomenon it is understood as something that is lived and it is always given to a subject, someone who attends to his perception not only of his senses, but also of his conscience; the given, that which must be appreciated from the intentional conscience with a holistic perspective. Thus, the objective of this book is to identify the nucleus of phenomena and problems that are being studied within the Bibliothecological disciplines, of the information and related ones, through the utilization of methods, techniques and qualitative instruments. In order to obtain a panoramic vision, the text organizes itself in five great fields: I. Users of information; II. The book, and reading; III. Training in research; IV. Organization of information and knowledge; and V. Information, knowledge and society.