Blog de SEDIC
SEDIC Yearbook 2026
Once again, SEDIC places the Yearbook in the hands of its members—an initiative launched in 2019 that, since then, has made it possible to compile all the articles published in Clip de Sedic: Journal of the Spanish Society for Documentation and Scientific...
Interest Group “Sound and Audiovisual Documentation”
Image generated by AI through the graphic design platform Canva Professionals dedicated to the preservation of memory are required to have specific training to properly manage, retrieve, and preserve sound and audiovisual information. There are also other formats...
Intellectual Property, Libraries, and Artificial Intelligence: A Balance Under Review
The recent approval of the European Parliament’s report on copyright and generative artificial intelligence has reopened a debate that directly affects libraries and information services. The text stresses the need to ensure transparency, fair remuneration, and...
Visit to the exhibition “300 years of Joaquín Ibarra: the legacy of an enlightened printer” at the Library of the Bank of Spain
On January 26, we welcomed at the Library of the Bank of Spain a group of 17 SEDIC members for a guided visit to the exhibition that was then on display in the reading room. As shown in the brochure produced for the occasion, the exhibition consisted of 17 items...
Document Digitization in Archives and Libraries: From Preservation to Digital Workflows
Document digitization has become one of the strategic tasks for archives, libraries, documentation centers, and administrative management units. The pressure to preserve fragile collections, improve remote access, streamline internal processes, and ensure digital...
Talking Machines: The Art of Capturing Sound
Phonography, Heritage, and Sound Memory The exhibition Talking Machines: The Art of Capturing Sound offers a journey through the origins of sound recording and reproduction, highlighting a form of heritage that for a long time has been less visible than other types...
The 8th Conference on Museum Libraries at ARQVA (Cartagena)
On 20 and 21 November 2025, a new edition of the Conference on Museum Libraries was held, organized every two years by the Museum Libraries Network (BIMUS) of the Ministry of Culture. This network “was created with the aim of optimizing resources and processes,...
Ethics and Deontology for Information Professionals
Last Monday, February 9, SEDIC (Spanish Society for Scientific Documentation and Information) presented the working paper “Ethics and Deontology for Information Professionals”, number 13 in the collection published by the Association, at Universidad Carlos III, in...
Data visualization with Power BI in libraries and documentation centers: from Excel to dashboards
Those of us who work in libraries and documentation centers know that we generate a growing volume of data about services, collections, and users. Circulation statistics, usage metrics for electronic resources, footfall data, satisfaction indicators, figures on...
Visit of SEDIC to the Library of the Parliament of the Balearic Islands and to the Municipal Library of Cort (Palma, Mallorca)
Fotografía: Biblioteca de Cort - Trabajo propio, CC BY-SA 4.0, EnlaceThe visit to the Municipal Library of Cort arose as an idea during a meeting of SEDIC delegations. Initially, we thought of this library for several reasons: it is located right in the center of...
The 17th Castilla-La Mancha Conference on Research in Archives
The 17th Castilla-La Mancha Conference on Research in Archives, “What Remains After Forgetting Everything”: Culture, History, and Archives, held at the Provincial Historical Archive of Guadalajara, once again demonstrated why it is a well-established and eagerly...
Illuminated Manuscripts
Laudario Magliabechiano (Ms Banco Rari 18), lauda Co[n] la madre del beato digitized manuscript by Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze – https://teca.bncf.firenze.sbn.it/ImageViewer/servlet/ImageViewer?idr=BNCF00004335151...
