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I am Pedro Lázaro Rodríguez. I have a Ph.D. in Social Sciences by the University of Granada (Spain) and my research is focused on Information and Scientific Communication. My thesis was on the analysis, evaluation, and the development of tools and methods for the improvement of both public and university libraries.

In this webpage you can read information about my teaching activity, research, impact, contact and my blog.

I work as an Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science at the Complutense University of Madrid. As a researcher, I am a member of INFOBISOC, a research group on Information, Libraries and Society. As well, I collaborate with Secaba Lab (University of Granada) keeping up to date the tool Secaba-Rank that I developed and implemented during my Ph.D.

On the other hand, what I enjoy the most in my day to day is playing to music (guitars and drums), reading and re-reading, hiking, picking mushrooms, campervanning, and especially using FLOSS (Free/Libre and Open Source Software) and leading a vegan life style. In that sense, I volunteer at Fundación Santuario Vegan and I collaborate with the Free Software and Open Technologies Office of the Complutense University of Madrid.

You can find me on ORCID, Google Scholar, Scopus, WOS, Open Science Framework, Figshare, TubEdu, Mastodon (Política ConCiencia and Scholar Social), PixelFed and on my Blog.

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Teaching

During the last years I have taught several courses:

  • NEW: Introduction to Information and Documentation (Library Sciences) Technologies. Degree in Information and Documentation (Library Sciences). Complutense University. Academic course: 2022/2023. You can find the program of the course here (link to PDF)
  • NEW: Quality and Evaluation of Library and Information Services. Degree in Information and Documentation (Library Sciences). Complutense University. Academic course: 2022/2023. You can find the program of the course here (link to PDF)
  • Information Seeking and Information Retrieval. Degree in Information and Documentation (Library Sciences). Complutense University. Academic course: 2021/2022. You can find some materials that I used in the course licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0) here
  • Quality and Evaluation of Library and Information Services. Degree in Information and Documentation (Library Sciences). Complutense University. Academic course: 2021/2022. You can find the materials as well under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0) here. Also, I have published some videotutorials for this course on TubEdu (tubedu.org)
  • History of Libraries. Degree in Information and Documentation (Library Sciences). Complutense University. Academic course: 2021/2022. You can find the materials that I used in classes licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0) here
  • Information and Computing in Educative Centers. Master's Degree in Leadership and Management of Educational Centers, International University of La Rioja (UNIR). [Información e Informatización en los Centros, Máster Universitario en Liderazgo y Dirección de Centros Educativos]. Academic courses: 2020/2021 and 2021/2022
  • Quality Management: Evaluation and Improvement Plans of the Center. Master's Degree in Leadership and Management of Educational Centers, International University of La Rioja (UNIR). [Gestión de la Calidad: Evaluación y Planes de Mejora del Centro, Máster Universitario en Liderazgo y Dirección de Centros Educativos]. Academic courses: 2020/2021 and 2021/2022
  • Final Master's Projects (TFMs). Master's Degree in Leadership and Management of Educational Centers, International University of La Rioja (UNIR). [Dirección de Trabajos Fin de Máster, Máster Universitario en Liderazgo y Dirección de Centros Educativos]. Academic course: 2020/2021
  • Final Master's Projects (TFMs). Master's Degree in Educational Technology and Digital Competencies, International University of La Rioja (UNIR). [Dirección de Trabajos Fin de Máster, Máster Universitario en Tecnología Educativa y Competencias Digitales]. Academic courses: 2020/2021 and 2021/2022
  • Final Master's Projects (TFMs). Master's Degree in Inclusive and Intercultural Education, International University of La Rioja (UNIR). [Dirección de Trabajos Fin de Máster, Máster Universitario en Educación Inclusiva e Intercultural]. Academic courses: 2021/2022
  • Information Resources for Translators and Interpreters. Degree in Translation and Interpreting, University of Granada. [Recursos Informativos para la Traducción y la Interpretación, Grado en Traducción e Interpretación]. Academic courses: 2019/2020, 2018/2019, and 2016/2017
  • Documentation Skills for Translator and Interpreters. Degree in Translation and Interpreting, University of Granada. [Documentación Aplicada a la Traducción, Grado en Traducción e Interpretación]. Academic courses: 2018/2019 and 2017/2018
  • Organization of Libraries. Degree in Library and Information Sciences, University of Granada. [Organización de Unidades de Información, Grado en Información y Documentación]. Academic courses: 2019/2020 and 2016/2017

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Research

My main research line is the evaluation of libraries. Currently, I am also focusing my research on Communication and Media Studies. You can find listed below my:


papers:


  1. NEW (preprint): Lázaro-Rodríguez, Pedro. A vueltas con los datos: ¿inconsistencias en las estadísticas de bibliotecas públicas de España 2019? Recomendaciones para la mejora. OSF preprints. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/8a9dq; suplemental material: https://osf.io/3bfmd/
  2. NEW: Lázaro-Rodríguez, Pedro (2022). News about school libraries on Spanish digital media: a Proposal of categorization and an analysis of Facebook interactions. Métodos de Información, vol. 13 n. 24, pp. 109-117. https://doi.org/10.5557/IIMEI13-N24-109125
  3. NEW: Lázaro-Rodríguez, Pedro (2022). Impact of Covid-19 on the use of Spanish university libraries during 2020: a web tool for the analysis. Anuario ThinkEPI, 16. https://doi.org/10.3145/thinkepi.2022.e16a05
  4. Lázaro-Rodríguez, P. (2021). Lethe and aletheia: a study on cases of sexual harassment towards public library staff in Spain”. Profesional de la Información, v. 30, n. 3, e300319. https://doi.org/10.3145/epi.2021.may.19. You can read the English version here and the Spanish one here
  5. Lázaro-Rodríguez, P. (2021). Digital news on public libraries: Media mapping and thematic and consumption analysis based on Facebook interactions. Profesional de la Información, 30(1), e300115. https://doi.org/10.3145/epi.2021.ene.15. | PDF (English); PDF (Spanish). Please, consider that according to the copyright information of the journal, this link must be added here: http://www.profesionaldelainformacion.com
  6. Lázaro-Rodríguez, P. (2020). COBib-Públicas: observatory of public libraries in Spain during the Covid-19 pandemic based on digital news. Anuario ThinkEPI, v. 14, e14b01. https://doi.org/10.3145/thinkepi.2020.e14b04
  7. Lázaro-Rodríguez, P. (2020). Covid-19, digital media and Facebook: Interactions, treatment, and content analysis based on keywords of news by okdiario.com and eldiario.es. Profesional de la información, v. 29 n. 4, e290409. https://doi.org/10.3145/epi.2020.jul.09. Link to E-LIS repository
  8. Lázaro-Rodríguez, P.; López-Gijón, J.; Alonso, S.; Herrera-Viedma, E. (2020). Current topics in LibQUAL+® studies: the paradigms of the informative and the social-maker library and the gender issue as reflections of the social reality. Revista Española de Documentación Científica, v. 43 n. 2, e264. https://doi.org/10.3989/redc.2020.2.1649
  9. Lázaro-Rodríguez, P. (2020). Libraries and the Pygmalion effect: the importance of results interpretation and other methodological issues based on a critique of the 2019 Spanish report on reading Barómetro de hábitos de lectura y compra de libros en España. Anuario ThinkEPI, v. 14, e14b01. https://doi.org/10.3145/thinkepi.2020.e14b01
  10. Lázaro-Rodríguez, P.; Herrera-Viedma, E. (2020). News on Covid-19 and 2019-nCoV in Spanish media: The role of digital media in times of confinement. El profesional de la información, v. 29, n. 3, e290302. https://doi.org/10.3145/epi.2020.may.02
  11. Lázaro-Rodríguez, P., López-Gijón, J., Herrera-Viedma, E. (2020). Libraries and efficiency: adapting the Sistem Potency indicator from the Secaba-Rank methodology for new needs in the context of a changing society. Bid= textos universitaris de biblioteconomia i documentació. Bid= textos universitaris de biblioteconomia i documentació, n. 44 (junio). https://dx.doi.org/10.1344/BiD2018.40.7
  12. Lázaro-Rodríguez, P.; López-Gijón, J.; Herrera-Viedma, E. (2019). Testing the Secaba-Rank tool: validating its methodology to measure the efficiency of libraries versus Data Envelopment Analysis and the Finland method. El profesional de la información, v. 28, n. 3, e280316. https://doi.org/10.3145/epi.2019.may.16 | PDF. Please, consider that according to the copyright information of the journal, this link must be added here: http://www.profesionaldelainformacion.com
  13. Lázaro-Rodríguez, P.; Vakkari, P. (2018). Modelling public library use by library characteristic: a comparative study between Spain and Finland for loans and visits. Revista Española de Documentación Científica, 41 (4): e216. https://doi.org/10.3989/redc.2018.4.1544
  14. Lázaro-Rodríguez, P., López-Gijón, J., Herrera-Viedma, E. (2018). Spanish media coverage of public libraries and reading compared to other cultural institutions and practices: measures to promote and disseminate libraries and reading. Bid= textos universitaris de biblioteconomia i documentació, n. 40 (junio). https://dx.doi.org/10.1344/BiD2018.40.7
  15. Lázaro-Rodríguez, P.; López-Gijón, J.; Alonso, S.; Martínez-Sánchez, M.Á.; Herrera-Viedma, E. (2018). Secaba-Rank: An online tool to analyze and evaluate libraries. El profesional de la información, v.27, n. 2, pp. 278-288. https://doi.org/10.3145/epi.2018.mar.06 | PDF. Please, consider that according to the copyright information of the journal, this link must be added here: http://www.profesionaldelainformacion.com
  16. Cabrerizo, F.J.; Martínez, M.A.; Cobo, M.J.; Lázaro-Rodríguez, P.; López-Gijón, J.; Herrera-Viedma, E. (2017). Aggregation operators in group decision making: Identifying citation classics via H-classics. Procedia Computer Science, Volume 122, 2017, Pages 902-909, ISSN 1877-0509. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2017.11.453

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Chapters and conferences proceedings:


  1. NEW (preprint): Lázaro-Rodríguez, P. (2022). El discurso de odio en la prensa de España: análisis basado en un mapeo de medios por tipo, medios y evolución de la publicación de noticias. OSF Preprints. XI Seminario Hispano-Brasileño de Investigación en Información, Documentación y Sociedad. https://doi.org/ 10.31219/osf.io/wvjda
  2. NEW (preprint): Lázaro-Rodríguez, P. (2022). Descompensación y desajuste en la financiación de las bibliotecas públicas de España y relación con su uso: análisis basado en los indicadores de esfuerzo por comunidades autónomas. OSF Preprints. XVIII Seminario Hispano-Mexicano: Espacios creativos y respuestas a los retos actuales en información y documentación. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/9eym8
  3. Lázaro-Rodríguez, P., Cascón-Katchadourian, J. (2019). "Bibliotecas universitarias y cultura digital: breve análisis bibliométrico de la producción científica en la Web of Science". Alfabetizando digitalmente para la nueva docencia / coord. por Clara Janneth Santos Martínez, Soledad María Martínez María-Dolores, Natalia Martínez León, 2019, ISBN 978-84-368-4262-3, págs. 203-214; Ediciones Pirámide. DOI of the preprint project: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/Y27PJ; Preprint: https://osf.io/n3mz2/download
  4. Cascón-Katchadourian, J., Lázaro-Rodríguez, P. (2019). "Proyecto Histocarto, geoportal para viajar por la historia de Granada". Textos de innovación investigadora universitaria", coordinado por Lorena Busto Salinas, Javier Serrano Puche y Clotilde Lechuga Jiménez, 2019, ISBN 978-84-368-4270-8, pág. 31-44; Ediciones Pirámide.
  5. Lázaro-Rodríguez, P., López-Gijón, J., Herrera-Viedma, E. (2018). "El espacio como prioridad en los modelos de gestión de las bibliotecas públicas". IX Congreso Nacional de Bibliotecas Públicas - Bibliotecas públicas: profesionales para todos los públicos; p. 145-153. Here is the link to the full book; and here is the preprint retrieved from osf.io/dnvms. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/yvq74
  6. Lázaro-Rodríguez, P. (2019). "Bibliotecas y visualización de la información: análisis del mapa de la lectura pública en España basado en la herramienta Secaba-Rank a través de su representación gráfica". LIS Scholarship Archive Works. Presented at: III Jornadas de Estudiantes de Ciencias de la Documentación - Universidad Complutense de Madrid. https://doi.org/10.31229/osf.io/knjmg
  7. Lázaro-Rodríguez, P., López-Gijón, J., Herrera-Viedma, E. (2019). "La eficiencia de las bibliotecas públicas y universitarias de Cataluña: ¿Modelos de buenas prácticas? Evaluación y análisis a partir de la herramienta Secaba-Rank". LIS Scholarship Archive Works. Presented at: IX Encuentro Ibérico de la Asociación de Educación e Investigación en Ciencia de la Información de Iberoamérica y el Caribe (EDICIC). Universidad de Barcelona. https://doi.org/10.31229/osf.io/m8ykf
  8. Lázaro-Rodríguez, P. (2018). "Relación entre el uso de las bibliotecas universitarias y el desarrollo académico: el caso de las universidades públicas españolas y los estudiantes de grado". Cultura digital y las nuevas políticas educativas / Javier Rodríguez Torres (dir.), Coral Ivy Hunt Gómez (dir.), Almudena Barrientos (dir.), Elena Alarcón Orozco (aut.), 2018, ISBN 978-84-17690-20-5, págs. 251-264; Gedisa. Preprint available at osf.io/yqpvw. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31229/osf.io/fzy97

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Reports:


I have co-authored some reports analyzing the quality of libraries based on LibQUAL and "ad hoc" surveys. We carried out studies for some public and university libraries such as the University of Granada (2017-2018; 2018-2019; 2019-2020), the University of Alcalá (2017 and 2019); the University of Salamanca (2017 and 2019); the public library Jovellanos in Gijón, Asturias, Spain (2017), the Federico Santa María Technical University (2017) or the Catholic University of Argentina (2018).

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Projects:


  1. NEW: Impact of Covid-19 on the use of Spanish university libraries during 2020: a web tool for the analysis: the results of an analysis of the impact of Covid-19 on the use of Spanish university libraries during 2020 are presented, taking the use of 2019 as a reference. The results have been published in a web tool that allows deeper analysis of the libraries individually and for the whole of them: https://pedrolr.es/impactocovid19bibuniversitarias2020/
  2. COBib-Públicas is an observatory of public libraries in Spain during the Covid-19 pandemic based on digital news. The project has been published as a web page including digital news on public libraries from January to May 2020. COBib-Públicas is conceived as a place to get information about the Spanish public libraries during the Covid-19 pandemic
  3. Secaba-Rank: Secaba-Rank is an online tool that includes Secaba-Rank Universitarias and Secaba-Rank Publicas, which can be used to evaluate both Spanish university libraries and public reading networks. Using a systemic approach, the methodology makes use of second level indicators focused on efficiency. This methodology facilitates the benchmarking of libraries to find models of good practice in order to improve. Secaba-Rank is an essential tool for decision making by researchers and managers in libraries
  4. Libraries in the electoral programs for the 2016 general elections of Ciudadanos, Unidos Podemos (IU and Podemos), PP and PSOE [Las bibliotecas en los programas electorales para las generales de 2016 de Ciudadanos, Unidos Podemos (IU y Podemos), PP y PSOE]: This web page contains information about libraries in the electoral programs for the general elections of June 26th in Spain in 4 (certainly 5) of the proposals, namely those of Ciudadanos, Unidos Podemos (IU and Podemos), PP and PSOE

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My thesis:


  1. Lázaro-Rodríguez, Pedro. Analysis, Evaluation, and Development of Tools and Methods for the Improvement of Libraries [Análisis, evaluación y desarrollo de herramientas y métodos para la mejora de bibliotecas]. Granada: Universidad de Granada, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10481/59348

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Posters and oral presentations:


  1. NEW: Cuevas-Cerveró, Aurora; da-Silva-França, Fabiana; Lázaro-Rodríguez, P. (2022). "Competencias digitales para el uso didáctico del Smartphone en el aula y la seguridad digital: aplicaciones móviles (proyecto 258)". Jornada AprendeTIC. Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid (Spain)
  2. NEW: Lázaro-Rodríguez, P. (2022). "Descompensación y desajuste en la financiación de las bibliotecas públicas de España y relación con su uso: análisis basado en los indicadores de esfuerzo por comunidades autónomas". XVIII Seminario hispano-mexicano de investigación en Biblioteconomía y Documentación Espacios creativos y respuestas a los retos actuales en Información y Documentación. Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid (Spain)
  3. Lázaro-Rodríguez, P. (2019). "Bibliotecas y visualización de la información: análisis del mapa de la lectura pública en España basado en la herramienta Secaba-Rank a través de su representación gráfica". III Jornadas de Estudiantes de Ciencias de la Documentación - Universidad Complutense de Madrid . Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid (Spain). Doi: https://doi.org/10.31229/osf.io/knjmg
  4. Lázaro-Rodríguez, P., López-Gijón, J., Herrera-Viedma, E. (2019). "La eficiencia de las bibliotecas públicas y universitarias de Cataluña: ¿Modelos de buenas prácticas? Evaluación y análisis a partir de la herramienta Secaba-Rank". IX Encuentro Ibérico de la Asociación de Educación e Investigación en Ciencia de la Información de Iberoamérica y el Caribe (EDICIC). Universidad de Barcelona. Doi: https://doi.org/10.31229/osf.io/m8ykf
  5. Lázaro-Rodríguez, P. (2019). "Analizando el trabajo de los bibliotecarios hoy: Relación entre la tasa de profesionalización y el uso de las bibliotecas públicas españolas". XVII Congreso Internacional sobre Nuevas Tendencias en Humanidades. Ciudad de celebración: Granada, Andalucía, España. Fecha de celebración: 03/07/2019; Entidad organizadora: Common Ground Research Networks
  6. Lázaro-Rodríguez, P. (2019). "Evolución del uso de las bibliotecas públicas españolas como instituciones culturales y creativas: ¿Del paradigma informativo al social-creador?". Nombre del congreso: Creative Industries Global Conference 2019; Ciudad de celebración: Orihuela, España; Fecha de celebración: 24/10/2019; Fecha de finalización: 24/10/2019; Entidad organizadora: Universidad Miguel Hernández
  7. Lázaro-Rodríguez, P. (2019). "Comparando ránquines de eficiencia en bibliotecas públicas españolas: Secaba-Rank, técnica DEA y método Finlandia". II Congreso Nacional / IV Jornadas de Investigadores en Formación - Fomentando la interdisciplinariedad. Universidad de Granada, Granada (Spain)
  8. Lázaro-Rodríguez, P. (2019). "Un análisis de las bibliotecas públicas y universitarias de la Región de Murcia a partir de la herramienta Secaba-Rank". V Jornadas Doctorales de la Universidad de Murcia. Universidad de Murcia, Murcia (Spain)
  9. Lázaro-Rodríguez, P. (2018). "Las redes de lectura pública y las bibliotecas universitarias de Andalucía: un análisis de la eficiencia a partir de la herramienta digital abierta Secaba-Rank". I Congreso Nacional / lll Jornadas de Investigadores en Formación JIFFI - Fomentando la interdisciplinariedad. Universidad de Granada, Granada (Spain)
  10. Herrera-Viedma, E., López-Gijón, J., Lázaro-Rodríguez, P. (2017). "La importancia de Secaba-Rank como herramienta digital en la investigación sobre bibliotecas públicas y universitarias [The value of Secaba-Rank as a digital tool for research on both public and university libraries]". I Congreso Internacional “Territorios Digitales” – Construyendo unas Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades Digitales. Medialab UGR, Granada (Spain)
  11. Lázaro-Rodríguez, P. (2017). "Un enfoque interdisciplinar para las bibliotecas: biología, estadística, comunicación y política [An interdisciplinary approach for libraries: biology, statistics, communication and politics]". II Jornadas de Investigadores en Formación: fomentando la interdisciplinariedad. Universidad de Granada, Granada (Spain)
  12. Lázaro-Rodríguez, P. (2017). "Dyapos: alternativa libre y open source para presentaciones digitales [Dyapos: a free and open source tool for digital presentations]". II Jornadas de Educación Abierta. Medialab UGR, Granada (Spain)

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Research stays and other merits:


  • 2017: I spent 3 months at Tampere University (Finland) with Pertti Vakkari as my research host. Thanks to this stay with Pertti Vakkari, I learned Regression Analysis and we published a paper entitled "Modelling public library use by library characteristic: a comparative study between Spain and Finland for loans and visits". https://doi.org/10.3989/redc.2018.4.1544
  • 2018: I spent 3 months at University of Amsterdam with Frank Huysmans as my research host. Thanks to Frank Huysmans I learned statistical analysis with R (using RStudio). Since them, it is the software I use for my research. Also, we started a project about latent variable analysis comparing the Spanish, the Dutch and the Finnish public library sistems
  • 2019: I spent 40 days again at Tampere University (Finland) with Pertti Vakkari as my research host. We focused our research on a study entitled: "Library Use, University Resources and Student Quality in Predicting Students’ Academic Performance: The Case of Spanish On-Site Public Universities". It is available as a chapter of my thesis (Chapter 8.1)
  • 2019: I was awarded the prize "Luís de Camões Chair of the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid" to the best study by young researchers (under 35 years old) presented as a communication to EDICIC 2019 (Iberian Meeting of the Iberoamerican and Caribbean Association of Education and Research in Information Science)

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Also, I have been a reviewer for some journals:


Please, if you want me to review a manuscript, consider that I took the pledge of "No free view? No review!", and I "will avoid serving as peer reviewer for venues that do not make publicly available the research that I review".

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Impact

Here you can find information regarding the social impact of my research:

And here a brief sketch of the scientific/academic impact of my research (updated: September 29th 2022):

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Contact

Please feel free to contact me at pedrolaz[at]ucm[dot]es if you need any further information.

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