http://hdl.handle.net/1889/1208 Bridging the digital divide: libraries providing access for all? 2013-05-22T18:28:16Z http://hdl.handle.net/1889/2108 Title: Introduction to the conference theme Authors: Venuda, Fabio Abstract: Introduction to the theme of the conference: the digital divide. 2009-12-31T23:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1889/1307 Title: The 21st Century Information Professional Authors: Ennis, Kathy; Rees-Jones, Lyndsay; Martin, Jill Abstract: Our workshop session has been developed to help the next generation of practitioners to learn from our experience and to help them identify and acknowledge the skills that they will bring to the workplace. Following is a brief write-up from the session, including photos. 2010-01-24T23:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1889/1299 Title: Bibliographic control of foreign languages: the case of displaying Cyrillic characters in online catalog at the University of Florida Authors: Aissing, Alena Abstract: Libraries hold foreign language collections that include non-Roman alphabets (e.g., Cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, Japanese, etc.). Students are faced with challenges when they wish to access these publications due to transliteration schemes that have been used for many decades. While there are various different transliteration systems in the world, the American libraries use the Library of Congress system. The libraries’ integrated systems could only display the Romanized text in bibliographic records. This creates barriers for students to access, for example, Russian publications in online catalogs. Today, there is a new universal multi-script character set, International Standard ISO/IEC 10646 – the Unicode. The Unicode Consortium, the nonprofit organization that coordinates Unicode's development, has the ambitious goal of eventually replacing existing character encoding schemes with Unicode and its standard Unicode Transformation Format (UTF) schemes, as many of the existing schemes are limited in size and scope and are incompatible with multilingual environments. This standard, if implemented in the library system, enables not only to convert Romanized bibliographic data into a linguistically accurate display in the original alphabet but also users would be able to search and print in non-Roman scripts. Libraries are slowly implementing systems based on this new standard. There are some crucial issues that involve Unicode implementation in the libraries. What are the solutions for multiple languages in library systems? The University of Florida holds collections in several non-Roman scripts. As Slavic Studies specialist, my attention has focused on integrating records for Russian into the main OPAC, which now includes over 10,000 bibliographic records for monographs in original Russian alphabet. 2010-01-25T23:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1889/1289 Title: Students' of information science and book studies websites as library-around community platforms Authors: Jurkowski, Rafal Jerzy; Wroblewski, Pawel Abstract: Students' of information science and book studies websites as library-around community platforms 2010-01-26T23:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1889/1288 Title: Private library collection Pavle Tekavčić: solutions for efficient preservation management and use Authors: Markulić, Maja; Hasenay, Damir; Krtalić, Maja; Vrkić, Martina Abstract: Valuable private library of professor Pavle Tekavčić was donated to the University of Zadar. It contains monographic and periodical publications. 2010-01-26T23:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1889/1287 Title: The impact of Erasmus programme on meeting personal and academic expectations Authors: Sultan Oğuz, Esin; Önderoğlu, Selda; Turhan, Bugay Abstract: In this study, the academic- and personal development expectations of 408 students who have benefited from Erasmus exchange program between academic years 2006/2007 and 2007/2008 have been compared with the level of satisfaction of these expectations after completing the Erasmus program. The Hacettepe University, where research has been carried out, ranks among the most important universities of Turkey with more than 26.000 students. In a survey conducted with students who have participated in the Erasmus program, a group of questions measures the academic expectations of students and the level of their satisfaction after the program. Similarly, the effects of the program on their personal development have been evaluated by a group of questions. In consequence of the evaluation, it has been seen that the personal development-oriented expectations of the students who have participated in the Erasmus program were higher than their academic expectations. In this study figure the demographic distribution of Hacettepe University students who have participated in the Erasmus program along with measurements relating to their academic and personal development expectations as well as assessments regarding the degree of their satisfaction. 2010-01-25T23:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1889/1286 Title: Access for all and for how long? Authors: Serbanuta, Claudia; Chao, Tiffany; Takazawa, Aiko Abstract: The paper presents a case study of the “Twitter Revolution” that took place in Moldova in April 2009. The fight for democracy in a small country with a totalitarian history received global attention also because it was portrayed as an event in which Web 2.0 tools were empowering the citizens. Online commentary through Twitter posts (that included video recordings and images of the protests) were made in tandem with the onsite events. Blogs and youtube.com provided additional venues for commentary and access for individuals following the events. However, there is no process or device to effectively gather the rich contextual information generated by these online sources in a structural way and save it for future research use. Many of the electronic documents that circulated, such as some video recordings from the events and thousands of twitter messages, cannot be accessed online anymore. 2010-01-26T23:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1889/1285 Title: Undergraduate LIS education in the U.S. and Europe: practices and trends Authors: Dugan, Charlotte Abstract: Literature will be reviewed to analyze the LIS undergraduate programs in the U.S. and Europe. Curricula for these programs will be analyzed by looking at course offerings and descriptions online and contacting the identified schools to obtain pertinent information. 2010-01-25T23:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1889/1284 Title: Cultural institutions in Osijek map by OpenStreetMap Project Authors: Đaković, Biljana; Ferko, Martina; Jakopec, Tomislav Abstract: OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a collaborative project for freely editing the world map through GPS. It is founded in July 2004, with the aim of encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free geospatial data. Starting map contained drafts of volunteers who used manual GPS for marking certain things and places and later entered it to the OpenStreetMap database via computer. 2010-01-25T23:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1889/1283 Title: What is worth of digitizing: the selection criteria Authors: Bašić, Josipa; Hasenay, Damir; Krtalić, Maja Abstract: Digitization over the years became integral part of library management and many library projects are oriented toward digitizing library material, for preservation purposes as well as accessibility of library materials. The key factor in such projects is good organization based on clearly defined goals and selection criteria. The purpose of this paper is to examine selection criteria for materials which are being digitized and the most common criteria in the existing digitization standards and guidelines. The special emphasis is put on the differences between selection criteria in several countries, which have already implemented such criteria in digitization projects, and those developed within Croatian national digitization project “Croatian Cultural Heritage”. 2010-01-25T23:00:00Z