Usuarios en diferentes contextos informativos : aspectos teóricos y prácticos

Abstract

Information has constituted itself as an input for diverse economical, educational, political and governmental activities in the present time, but in order to be useful it has to fulfill with some criteria that are established by the context of users which consume it or need it. This means that each community determines the characteristics and the typology of information which they need, taking into consideration internal as well as external facts. Thus, this work intends to inquire, under the guidance of different experts in several areas, how this information is distributed in the intergovernmental, agrarian, educational, religious, etc. It also initiates the incorporation of research works in archives. For a very long time, the lifting of information needs studies has privileged mainly field studies in libraries; however in these late years, the approachment to users of archives has been gradual. This change is due to the fact that the social communities are starting to recognize the possibilities that these new conversations and searches offer us.