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Course: 2025/2026

Seminar: Information and Library Science
(17473)
Bachelor in Management of Information and Digital Contents (Study Plan 2017) (Plan: 376 - Estudio: 340)


Coordinating teacher: MORALES GARCIA, ANA MARIA

Department assigned to the subject: Library and Information Sciences Department

Type: Electives
ECTS Credits: 6.0 ECTS

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Objectives
The main objective of the subject is to analyze the different aspects that contextualize the global environment of the information and documentation. To understand the tendencies that configure the actual ecosystems and the challenges that must be assumed by the main intermediaries of the information in the digital context. At the end of this subject, the student must be able to: At the end of this subject, the student must be able to: 1. Identify the tendencies and threats that characterize the global world of information. 2. Make known national and international information policies. Limits of access to information, transparency and data protection. 3. Understand the actual information ecosystems and threats that must be taken by the information intermediaries in the digital context. 4. Know the processes of the information management and documentation management in the digital context. 5. Identify the new roles of the main intermediaries of the information as a service for the digital citizenship: empowerment, innovation and perseverance of the digital patrimony. 6. Know the implementation of AI in heritage institutions. 7. know the initiatives oriented to preserve the documental patrimony on the Internet. 8. Know the characteristics of the digital culture and postmodern folklore.
Learning Outcomes
K1: Know the principles and values of democracy and sustainable development, in particular, respect for human rights and fundamental rights, gender equality and non-discrimination, the principles of universal accessibility and climate change. K2: Know basic humanistic contents, oral and written expression, following ethical principles and completing a multidisciplinary training profile. K3: Identify and analyze research methodologies and sources to develop academic work in the field of digital information management K4: Understand and apply the fundamental theories, instruments and techniques to manage information in digital media, covering its organization, control, communication and preservation K5: Know the fundamental theories, instruments and techniques for managing information in digital media, covering its organization, control, communication and preservation S1: Plan and organize teamwork by making correct decisions based on available information and gathering data in digital environments. S2: Use the information by interpreting relevant data, avoiding plagiarism, and in accordance with the academic and professional conventions of the area of study, being able to evaluate the reliability and quality of said information. S3: Apply digital information management principles in different organizational environments, ensuring effective communication of processes and results to stakeholders. S5: Be able to design, manage, and operate with information through database systems, demonstrating skill in information retrieval and the use of query languages to meet complex information needs. S7: Experiment with data visualization tools to represent information intuitively, properly presenting the results to different types of audiences. S8: Develop skills in the creation of digital content and multimedia editing by applying usability principles. S11: Operate on social networks and manage user communities, ensuring audience growth and loyalty. S12: Be able to advise on the definition of strategy and project management regarding tracking, indexing, content structuring, link building, etc C1: Know and be able to manage interpersonal skills on initiative, responsibility, conflict resolution, negotiation, among others, which are required in the professional field. C2: Be able to apply knowledge in a professional way in solving specific digital information management problems using the tools and techniques learned in the academic field C3: Demonstrate ability in the development and execution of digital content projects autonomously working in multidisciplinary teams. C4: Capacity for continuous autonomous learning that facilitates adaptation to new situations and the updating of knowledge in the field of digital information.
Description of contents: programme
TOPIC 1: CURRENT STATE OF THE GLOBAL INFORMATION ENVIRONMENT 1.1. The global information environment: trends 1.2. Design and evaluation of information and innovation policies 1.2.1. Information policies in the European Union 1.2.2. Information policies in Spain 1.2.3. Information policies in the United States 1.2.4. International policies for a global challenge: the case of the SDGs 1.3. Reuse of public information and open data: towards an open information society 1.4. Limits to access to information: concept of access, transparency, and active disclosure TOPIC 2: INFORMATION INTERMEDIATION AND CITIZENSHIP: THE ROLE OF LIBRARIES AND HERITAGE INSTITUTIONS 2.1. Libraries and public service: functions, services, and empowerment in times of uncertainty 2.2. Information ecosystems as digital meta-media in the post-truth era 2.3. Disinformation and parallel realities: source evaluation, fact-checking, gamification, and newsgames 2.4. Implementation of AI in heritage institutions 2.5. Heritage institutions as mediating agents of cultural management and their new roles: new trends, valuation, and tools TOPIC 3: DIGITAL CULTURE AND HERITAGE DISSEMINATION 3.1. Communication and digital culture 3.2. Postmodern digital folklore: preservation strategies 3.3. Memes, ideology, semiotics, and intertextuality 3.4. Video games and audiovisual heritage TOPIC 4: PRESERVATION OF DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE ON THE INTERNET: THE WEB ARCHIVE 4.1. Guardians of collective memory: challenges for heritage institutions 4.2. The concept of the digital dark age: issues arising from digital obsolescence 4.3. Who archives the internet? Internet Archive and web archiving projects
Learning activities and methodology
Acquisition of theoretical and practical knowledge (4 ECTS) through theoretical classes, lectures discussions, as well as debates in physical and virtual environment, problems solving and practical cases, individually and in teams. Acquisition of competences and skills (2 ECTS) in the use of sources and resources related with the information and documentation world, problems solving and real-life applications. The days and hours of the tutorships could be consulted in the space of the subject in Aula Global.
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination/test 40
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 60

Calendar of Continuous assessment


Extraordinary call: regulations
Basic Bibliography
  • CARIDAD SEBASTIÁN, Mercedes, coord. . La información en la posmodernidad: la sociedad del conocimiento en España. Madrid: Editorial Universitaria Ramón Areces. 2004
  • CARIDAD SEBASTIÁN, M.; García López, F.; Martinez Cardama, S. y Morales García, Ana María. Infomediación y posverdad: el papel de las bibliotecas. El Profesional de la lnformación, Vol. 27, Núm. 4 (2018). 2018. Disponible desde: https://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/EPI/article/view/epi.2018.jul.17
  • CARIDAD SEBASTIÁN, M.; García López, F.; Martinez Cardama, S. y Morales García, Ana María. Biblioteca y empoderamiento: servicios innovadores en un entorno de crisis. Revista española de Documentación Científica, Vol 41, No 2 (2018). 2018. https://doi.org/10.3989/redc.2018.2.1486
  • CARIDAD SEBASTIÁN, Mercedes (coord.). La sociedad de la información. Política, Tecnología e Industria de los contenidos. Madrid: Centro de estudios Ramón Areces.. 1999
  • CARIDAD SEBASTIÁN, Mercedes; Morales García, Ana María; García López, Fátima . La estrategia Europa 2020 y la Sociedad de la Información como instrumentos de cohesión e integración en época de crisis. ¿Utopía o realidad? / Europe 2020 Strategy and Information Society: tools of cohesion and integration in time of crisis. Utopia or reality?. Investigación Bibliotecológica: Archivonomía, Bibliotecología e Información, Vol. 28; Nº 64 (2014). 2014. Doi: 10.1016/S0187-358X(14)70911-6

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