Juan D. Machin-Mastromatteo, Information Research
I was just appointed associate editor in Digital Library Perspectives, a peer review journal, indexed in ESCI and Scopus, by Emerald Publishing
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I have the pleasure of presenting and recommending you to check out and participate in Qvadrata, a new journal on education, arts and humanities, where I participate as the scientific officer within its editorial board.
Evaluation of students’ engagement with PROMES2015 as a university mobility experience.
Abstract: Student mobility is among the most important internationalization initiatives for higher education institutions. This article describes the influence that student academic mobility has on the training of future professionals at the Autonomous University of Chihuahua (UACH, Mexico) and its students’ perceptions toward UACH’s Student Mobility Program (PROMES). Under such aim, the research objectives were to determine the opinion of participating students regarding the exchange process, the academic quality of the destination universities, the academic cooperation offices of the destination universities, and toward PROMES’ management. This research was quantitative, nonexperimental, and transversal. The methodology used was a case study conducted only within UACH using simple random sampling, which was selected from the 170 undergraduate students that participated in PROMES during 2015 (confidence level of 90%, margin of error of 7.5%). The survey consisted in four main sections, which were intended for students to evaluate four factors related to PROMES: a) exchange process; b) academic quality of the destination university; c) support of the academic cooperation offices; and d) PROMES’ management at UACH. Results are presented according to four dimensions that the survey evaluated, which include: the exchange process, academic quality of the destination university, support of the academic cooperation offices, and PROMES’ management at UACH. These results point toward important statistical correlations regarding the relationship between how students value their academic development and the quality of the facilities in the destination universities, as well as with the quality of the educational programs.
Text available at Tecnociencia Chihuahua
Referencia recomendada: Gutiérrez-Jurado, C., González-Quiñones, F., Fierro-Ramírez, L. and Machin-Mastromatteo, J. D. (2019). Evaluation of students engagement with PROMES2015 as a university mobility experience. TECNOCIENCIAChihuahua, 13(1), 24-39.
We present the experience of Chihuahua’s reading and conversation clubs, as a citizen initiative that emerged to reconquer the city spaces that were seized by violence, as well as the role of the Tips, Talks and Topics radio show.
Abstract: This article presents the generation of reading and conversation clubs in Chihuahua city (Mexico), which emerged from spontaneous initiatives by citizens, as a response to one of the most violent periods faced in the city. This report was developed with information gathered during interviews with members of reading and conversation clubs about their experiences, at the Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua’s radio station (Radio University), in the ‘Tips, Talks and Topics’ weekly show.
Full text at Sage Publications
Recomended reference: Machin-Mastromatteo, J. D., & Coughanour, G. L. R. (2019). The rise of reading and conversation clubs during Chihuahua’s violent times. Information Development, 35(3), 503–506. https://doi.org/10.1177/0266666919855147
Today we integrated a panel to discuss multi, inter and transdisciplinarity within the Humanities, together with Dr. José Luis Evangelista (representing philosophy), Dr. Erbey Mendoza Negrete (literature and translation) and myself (information science); part of the ‘Research Week’ in our University.
We published with Dr. Iram Evangelista, Dr. Erbey Mendoza Negrete and myself, an analysis of six Latin American identity traits from the perspective of four contemporary writers.
Abstract: This article presents certain Latin American traits from the works of four prestigious and contemporary Latin American writers: Gioconda Belli, Gonzalo Rojas, Augusto Monterroso y Juan José Arreola. The traits discussed include politics, the religious cult, the messianic vision, family, couples and the father figure. We argue that it is very important for people to understand their own culture and identity, to explore and not abandon the conversations about their countries’ literary works, as they reflect, report and critique them.
Full text available at Sage Publications
Recomended reference: Evangelista-Ávila, I. I., Mendoza, E., & Machin-Mastromatteo, J. D. (2019). What is Latin American? Literary perspectives for reflecting on our identity. Information Development, 35(2), 342–346. https://doi.org/10.1177/0266666919828979
Sent to the publisher, I’m exhausted!
Abstract: Given that strategic planning has traditionally worked by listening only to the voice of managers, in addition to studying their environments and functional processes, this initiative considers it fundamental to listen to the voice of the user, considering that they are the ones who truly face the conditions of the quality of library services. Therefore, the results of a user study are taken as a reference, where the Quality Function Deployment (QFD) tool was applied in public libraries in the municipality of Chihuahua, Mexico, which allowed identifying that the planning Strategic of libraries in an integral administrative system, can be sustained in the management of the quality and in the table of indicators of performance, whose implantation could be developed undera cycle of design, control, improvement and innovation to reach harmonic and systematic objectives.
Recomended reference: Romo-González, J., Tarango, J., & Machin-Mastromatteo, J. (2018). La voz del usuario en la planeación estratégica de bibliotecas públicas usando el Despliegue de la Función de la Calidad (QFD). Bibliotecas, 36(2), 1-29. https://doi.org/10.15359/rb.36-2.3
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