On Thursday, November 10, the XXVI meeting of the Integrated Central American Documentary Information System -SIIDCA- was held virtually, with the purpose of consolidating the interconnection processes of the Library Systems of the universities that make up the Central American Higher University Council.
SIIDCA seeks the enrichment of collections, the strengthening of services to offer information that responds to the needs of the university community, giving special attention to the control, digitization, protection and dissemination of Central American university institutional memory.
Among the actions carried out at this meeting, the conference ?CSUCA Perspectives on the challenge of open science? by Francisco Alarcón, Deputy Secretary General of the Central American Higher University Council, as well as the presentation of the report of the General Secretariat of CSUCA, by Aníbal Martínez, Director of Administration, Finance and Management of CSUCA.
For the generation of this meeting, we sought to work from two spaces within which the work has been developed collaboratively, the first being a space for library directors where objective 4 of the program ?Research, science, technology and innovation for regional integration and development? of the Fifth Plan for the Regional Integration of Central American higher education and the Dominican Republic, as well as the presentation of the report on repositories and collective catalogs and new competencies in the services of hybrid Libraries.
Within the second space, a space was created for computer scientists and cataloguers where they presented the monitoring and follow-up of the repository and collective catalog by country, as well as the updating of the metadata guide, likewise, they reviewed the cataloging part that refers to the guide of metadata policies, with the aim of presenting proposals to organize the metadata guide.
To finish, the computer and catalogers report was presented in the joint space and the agreements of such an important meeting were developed.
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