BCSalut 17 Meeting: Management of information in a digital environment

On 8 and 9 June, Barcelona was host to the 2nd Meeting of Libraries and Health of Catalonia 2017, where TicSalut attended the first morning session. The meetings were attended by documentarists, librarians, researchers and professionals related to ICT and health, in a session where special stress was placed on analysing and discussing the use that documentarists/researchers make of the social media to disseminate scientific production.

The welcome and opening were made by Pilar Roque and Xavier Rodriguez, who fired the gun to start the Meetings. This was then followed by the round table chaired by Carme Pérez-Ventana, between Virgili Páez, Montse Álvarez and Daniel Giménez, who talked about the role of practice communities in libraries, the operation of the XBM Network of public libraries of the province of Barcelona and the rebihealth project on the creation of a network of virtual health libraries.

It was then time for the first of the work sessions. Antoni Parada (AQuAS) chaired the meeting at which Xavier Lusaka, Head of Management of Knowledge and Information Systems in R&D of the Department of Enterprise and Knowledge, and Ernest Abadal, Dean of the Faculty of Librarianship and Documentation of the University of Barcelona were the speakers.

The central subjects of the first session were the social networks, research and altimetry (measurement of the social impact of a publication), where there was discussion on different questions like the use the researchers make of the social media and the criteria for assessing the impact of a scientific publication, with the support of certain information of interest:

-Social Networks: The research source most widely used by researchers (2017). 
-The tools 2.0 most widely used by researchers: Linkedin, Research Gate, academia.edu and Facebook. 
-The main reasons for using the social media: disseminating research, establishing connections, creating discussion and interacting.
-Researcher skills 2.0: Listening, creating, communicating, connecting and sharing. 

The second session, led by Àngels Carles (UAB Library of Medicine), received an intervention from the Contents Manager of Wallapop, Carlos Macho and Anna Bröll, Technical Manageress of Coordination and Services of Libraries of Barcelona. The two speakers presented the main tools for managing contents in a network: mobile technology and libraries, through a mobile success case (Wallapop, 35 million downloads) and the presentation of statistical data of the sector that reaffirm the outstanding role played by the social networks and mobile technology in libraries, research and health.