XXVI Meeting of SIIDCA

On Thursday, November 10, the XXVI meeting of the Central American Integrated 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 to enrich the collections, strengthen the services to offer information that responds to the needs of the university community, giving special attention to the control, digitization, safeguarding and dissemination of the Central American university institutional memory.

Among the actions carried out at this meeting, the conference “CSUCA Perspectives on the Challenge of Open Science” was presented 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.

To generate this meeting, it was sought to work from two spaces within which the work has been developed collaboratively, the first being a space for the directors of libraries where the objective 4 of the program “Research, science, technology and innovation for integration and regional development” of the Fifth Plan for the Regional Integration of higher education in Central America and the Dominican Republic was presented, 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 catalogers where they presented the monitoring and tracking of the repository and collective catalog by country, as well as the update of the metadata guide. They also reviewed the cataloging section of the metadata policy guide, with the aim of presenting proposals to organize the metadata guide.

Finally, the report on computer scientists and catalogers in the joint space was presented, and the agreements from this important meeting were developed.