Purpose

This paper aims to confirm the importance of developing knowledge, skills and attitudes in the permanent use of digital scientific information, which complements the training of professionals in the biomedical and health areas, considering that this type of user communities require up-to-date and truthful information for future decision-making which will directly affect the health of patients.

Design/methodology/approach

The study started from the elaboration of a diagnosis on learning styles in a student community at the undergraduate level in the area of biomedical and health sciences of the Autonomous University of San Luis Potosí (Mexico) (UASLP), through the application of the Honey-Alonso Learning Styles questionnaire (CHAEA), and by using such results it was possible to derive learning strategies for the achievement of digital information competencies that were effective in practice.

Findings

According to the diagnostic results, the learning styles with the greatest presence in students in the area of Biomedical and Health Sciences were identified and from this, precise didactic strategies were derived to enhance information skills in the use of digital sources. For this case, the Big6 Model was used and its implementation was combined (face-to-face and virtual) in the academic community studied, integrating an information skills development program in the digital library of the Center for Information in Biomedical Sciences (CICBI) from the university itself.

Originality/value

A practical experience is presented, which also offered concrete solutions, based on particular characteristics of the users. There is a low presence of studies of digital libraries’ users that consider aspects related to learning styles, especially applied from the perspective of information sciences and the digital library.

中文翻译：

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数字图书馆中的学习方式及其在生物医学和健康领域的学术团体中的应用

目的

本文旨在确认在永久使用数字科学信息中发展知识，技能和态度的重要性，这是对生物医学和卫生领域专业人员培训的补充，因为此类用户社区需要最新的信息和最新信息。为将来的决策提供真实的信息，这些信息将直接影响患者的健康。

设计/方法/方法

该研究始于在圣路易斯波托西自治大学（墨西哥）（UASLP）的生物医学和健康科学领域，对本科生的学习风格进行详细的诊断，然后通过应用Honey-阿隆索学习风格调查表（CHAEA），通过使用这样的结果，可以得出在实践中有效实现数字信息能力的学习策略。

发现

根据诊断结果，确定了生物医学和健康科学领域学生中出现率最高的学习方式，并由此得出了精确的教学策略，以增强数字资源使用中的信息技能。在这种情况下，使用了Big6模型，并在研究的学术界中将其实施方式（面对面和虚拟）进行了组合，将信息技能开发计划整合到了生物医学科学信息中心（CICBI）的数字图书馆中来自大学本身。

创意/价值

提出了实践经验，并根据用户的特定特征提供了具体的解决方案。关于数字图书馆用户的研究很少，这些研究考虑了与学习风格有关的方面，尤其是从信息科学和数字图书馆的角度来看。