The importance of sustainability, in libraries in Villahermosa Tabasco, for the design of a proposal

Abstract

Objective. Analyze the Sustainability in the libraries, throught applied research, in Villahermosa City, Capital of the Tabasco State. Methodology. The research is nonexperimental, descriptive and correlational. In this research, the sustainability of libraries is analyzed considering the behavior of the research variable (Sustainability) in the different international, national and local contexts, as well as the theoretical foundations, on which this research variable is based. Then an instrument is designed that was applied to the libraries of the city of Villahermosa, for the collection of information through the Self-diagnosis tool based on ten elements (Measurements related to the end user, Measurements and / or performance of the process, Alliances with providers, Documentación, Training, Benchmarking, Adaptability Process, Cotinuous improvement, Human resource evaluation, Management level evaluation), which generated results on the current situation of the libraries, which served as a basis for their analysis. Contribution. From the results obtained in the application of this instrument, a model was designed to improve the sustainability of libraries, which will allow them to be more competitive in their field.