Pretende-se identificar a dimensão do papel social da Biblioteca Pública (BP) brasileira traçando um paralelo com dois países da América Latina, Chile e Colômbia. O estudo se desenvolve levantando dados que contribuam para ...

Knowledge Alert uses periodicals in ten Chilean universities and the latest automated, computer and telecommunications technologies available, to provide the services of cooperative serials acquisition, and current ...

The following research seeks to describe the legal context that is limited to the public library in Latin America and the Caribbean, and identify through the literature review which of the elements in their laws could serve ...

In the last twenty years, public libraries have become a relevant issue in the reading promotion in Chile. Have contributed importantly to reduce lack of reading skills - important factor of exclusion- which produces ...

The following research seeks to describe the process of growth and projection that public libraries have been developed in Chile since the return to democracy in the country. Based on literature review and interviews with ...

BACKGROUND: Triatoma infestans is the main vector of Chagas disease in South America. As in all hematophagous arthropods, its saliva contains a complex cocktail that assists blood feeding by preventing platelet aggregation ...

Drawing on de Sousa Santos’s work on Epistemologies of the South (2014), this paper critically examines the patterns of publication in higher education studies in mainstream and non-mainstream journals in Latin American ...