Bibliotecas publicas, sociedad de la información y tecnología: Una comunicación sobre los aspectos teórico-metodológicos de una investigación en curso 10.5007/1518-2924.2001v6n12p54

The research team focuses in the influence that Argentinian public libraries (popular and public) have with library automation and public services oriented to the use of information\udtechnologies, and the acquisition of communitarian information skills within the information society. The methodology consists of a survey already successfully approved in previous\udinvestigations by the research team (UBACYT FI013 and TF06). The questionnaire focuses on related variables. On one hand, the variables were related to libraries automation processes\ud(equipment, information systems,working modules, retrospective conversion, digitization, networks,and so on). And on the other hand, with given information technologies services\ud(access to networks and documents in every media, Web navigation assistance, information technology local server, services to minorities, and so on). Data would be gathered with\udspecific applications from the social sciences field. The final stage would be to study specific aspects of the automation processes of the libraries surveyed, in order to verify the reciprocal relationship between the automation level reached. And subsequently, to examine the likelihood of establishing new services that respond to the community information trends\udwithin the information technology and telecommunications development context