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Digital technologies have transformed archives in every area of their form and function, and as technologies mature so does their capacity to change our understanding and experience of material and performative cultural production. There has been an exponential explosion in the production and consumption of video online and yet there is a scarcity of knowledge and cases about video and the digital archive. This book seeks to address that through the lens of the project Circus Oz Living Archive. This project provides the case study foundation for the articulation of the issues, challenges and possibilities that the design and development of digital archives afford. Drawn from eight different disciplines and professions, the authors explore what it means to embrace the possibilities of digital technologies to transform contemporary cultural institutions and their archives into new methods of performance, representation and history.
The second edition of this practical handbook informs library and information service managers at all levels on how to deal with budgeting, resource management, financial decision making, types of cost studies, managerial economics, and much more.
Power and Authority in Internet Governance investigates the hotly contested role of the state in today's digital society. The book asks: Is the state "back" in internet regulation? If so, what forms are state involvement taking, and with what consequences for the future? The volume includes case studies from across the world and addresses a wide range of issues regarding internet infrastructure, data and content. The book pushes the debate beyond a simplistic dichotomy between liberalism and authoritarianism in order to consider also greater state involvement based on values of democracy and human rights. Seeing internet governance as a complex arena where power is contested among diverse non-state and state actors across local, national, regional and global scales, the book offers a critical and nuanced discussion of how the internet is governed - and how it should be governed. Power and Authority in Internet Governance provides an important resource for researchers across international relations, global governance, science and technology studies and law as well as policymakers and analysts concerned with regulating the global internet.
Qualitative Research and the Modern Library examines the
present-day role and provides suggestions for areas that might be
suited to this type of research for the purposes of evaluation. The
author discusses how the results from such research might be
applied, and the overall impact of using this type of research to
inform development of a more user-centred organisation. The book
provides a thoughtful look at the implications of using qualitative
research to inform decision-making processes within libraries and
is written by an author and library researcher with international
experience in various types of libraries, implementing/improving
programs and services, and supporting user needs.
This book examines the difficulties confronting information
professionals who, due to financial downturns, technological
change, or personal crises, are forced to re-evaluate their career
options. It is divided between a case study (based on the author s
own experiences) of career dislocation and eventual career renewal,
and several sections that offer pragmatic advice on how to recover
from job loss, conduct a skills assessment and develop a practical
job search strategy. The author, with honesty, confronts the
serious and sometimes troubling psychological and professional
consequences of layoffs and job burnout. This book presents an
overall positive outlook on personal growth and the opportunities
our new information environment holds.
As the world becomes smaller and user populations grow ever more diverse, the seemingly intractable problems associated with multilingual and multi-script electronic bibliographies are increasingly relevant to all sectors of the library community. Beyond the substantial technical issues, automation presents challenges of an administrative, professional, and human nature. This series of reports discusses the progress made and issues involved within a variety of language and political systems: the rocky beginnings of bibliographic automation in Turkey ... the challenges presented by data written in Arabic script ... the creation and maintenance of catalogues including different languages and character sets ... a case study of a major Russian research library's efforts to automate its multilingual catalogue ... and the viability of an international standard, derived from Unicode, that could cover all scripts. They reveal common elements which may be fruitfully addressed by joint international effort and will act as a sourcebook of ideas and action. (IFLA Publication, Vol. 85)
This book addresses the question of how knowledge is currently
documented, and may soon be documented in the context of what it
calls semantic publishing . This takes two forms: a more narrowly
and technically defined semantic web; as well as a broader notion
of semantic publishing. This book examines the ways in which
knowledge is represented in journal articles and books. By
contrast, it goes on to explore the potential impacts of semantic
publishing on academic research and authorship. It sets this in the
context of changing knowledge ecologies: the way research is done;
the way knowledge is represented and; the modes of knowledge access
used by researchers, students and the general public.
1. The author explains how cultural heritage organizations, such as museums, libraries, archives and historic sites, can forgo the "best" in favor of "good" and "better" approaches to collections care. Giving examples of implementation and easy-to-follow guides, Forsko demonstrates how preservation can become a component of any collections care program - even one with little to no resources. 2. The book will be an essential tool for anyone who cares for collections, particularly collections managers, registrars, and archivists. It will be suitable for professionals working in any type or size of institution and will also be of interest to students who are learning how to become practitioners. 3. The book will be the first to take a realistic, sustainable approach to collections care, rather than a "best practices" approach. Drawing on more than a decade of experience working with over 40 libraries, museums, archives, and other historic sites, the author encourages the reader to start by taking small, manageable steps and explains that even the smallest of actions can make a difference that will ultimately help to preserve collections
Title on added t.p.: W'orterbuch des Bibliothekswesens.
iPhone application development is explained here in an accessible
treatment for the generalist Library and Information Science (LIS)
practitioner. Future information-seeking practices by users will
take place across a diverse array of ubiquitous computing devices.
iPhone applications represent one of the most compelling new
platforms for which to remediate and re-engineer library service.
Strategies of efficient mobile design and delivery include adapting
computing best practices of data independence and adhering to web
standards as articulated by the W3C. These best practices apply
across the diverse range of handheld devices and accompanying
software development tools. This book is essentially a how-to guide
for application development, laying out foundational principles and
then moving toward practical implementations.
This volume deals with the relation between heritage, history and politics in the Balkans. Contributions examine diverse ways in which material and immaterial heritage has been articulated, negotiated and manipulated since the nineteenth century. The major question addressed here is how modern Balkan nations have voiced claims about their past by establishing 'proof' of a long historical presence on their territories in order to legitimise national political narratives. Focusing on claims constructed in relation to tangible evidence of past presence, especially architecture and townscape, the contributors reveal the rich relations between material and immaterial conceptions of heritage. This comparative take on Balkan public uses of the past also reveals many common trends in social and political practices, ideas and fixations embedded in public and collective memories. Balkan Heritages revisits some general truths about the Balkans as a region and a category, in scholarship and in politics. Contributions to the volume adopt a transnational and trans-disciplinary perspective of Balkan identities and heritage(s), viewed here as symbolic resources deployed by diverse local actors with special emphasis on scholars and political leaders.
The primary purpose of Pursuing Information Literacy is to inspire
individual thinking and application. The book reviews important
information literacy and its social significance and the
application of information literacy in a number of different
sectors. The future of information literacy is explored in
concluding chapters.
The period that began with the peaceful destruction of the Berlin Wall and culminated in the unraveling of the former Soviet Empire has been viewed as "the age of parliaments", with legislatures becoming more assertive and playing a more active role in setting policies that govern their nations. The key to democracy is an effective legislature. By the same token, the key to an effective legislature is the knowledge and information that permit it to make informed decisions on specific issues and to play an active role in the policy-making process of the nation. Library and research services are the principal sources for meeting the information and analysis needs of effective parliaments. The section on Library and Research Services for Parliaments has become an important mechanism for sharing ideas on how to improve services to our respective legislatures. Presented here are papers outlining current strategies within the new democracies of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, and others. (IFLA Publication, Vol. 87)
Transforming Research Libraries for the Global Knowledge Society
explores critical aspects of research library transformation needed
for successful transition into the 21st century multicultural
environment. The book is written by leaders in the field who have
real world experience with transformational change and
thought-provoking ideas for the future of research libraries,
academic librarianship, research collections, and the changing
nature of global scholarship within a higher education context.
This book has been written with a view to understand the validity
of the perceptions of Open Access (OA) e-journals in the Library
and Information Science (LIS) field. Using relevant OA journals
this book presents and evaluates journals qualitatively and
quantitatively. Over the last three hundred years scholarly
journals have been the prime mode of transport in communicating the
scholarly research process. However in the last few decades, a
changing scenario has been witnessed in their form and format. OA
is an innovative idea that attracts a fair amount of support and
opposition around the world because it bridges the gap between
digitally divided scholars by solving the pricing and permission
crises that have imbalanced the scholarly communication process.
Some scholars are of the opinion that OA has led to a chaotic
environment where anyone can publish anything. Scholarly
Communication in Library and Information Services records, in
detail, the impact by accessing the journals web site qualitatively
and quantitatively in measuring the important elements such as
articles, authors, countries, subjects and cited references.
Finally, the book calculates the impact factor using synchronous
and asynchronous approaches.
Power and Authority in Internet Governance investigates the hotly contested role of the state in today's digital society. The book asks: Is the state "back" in internet regulation? If so, what forms are state involvement taking, and with what consequences for the future? The volume includes case studies from across the world and addresses a wide range of issues regarding internet infrastructure, data and content. The book pushes the debate beyond a simplistic dichotomy between liberalism and authoritarianism in order to consider also greater state involvement based on values of democracy and human rights. Seeing internet governance as a complex arena where power is contested among diverse non-state and state actors across local, national, regional and global scales, the book offers a critical and nuanced discussion of how the internet is governed - and how it should be governed. Power and Authority in Internet Governance provides an important resource for researchers across international relations, global governance, science and technology studies and law as well as policymakers and analysts concerned with regulating the global internet.
This book Presents documentation as an expanded practice that is radically changing the ways in which to look at, participate in, and generate art. Brings together expertise from different disciplines and provides an in-depth investigation of the development of documentation as a set of production, circulation and preservation strategies. Illustrates how these strategies are often led by artists, audiences and museums, the contributions offer new insights into digital art and its history, curation and preservation, through documentation. By considering documentation as the main method of preserving these art forms, analyses how it can address the inherent challenges of capturing live events, visitor experiences, and evolving artworks. Will appeal to researchers and students engaged in the study of museums and curation, art and art history, performance, new media and digital art, library and information science, and conservation.
This book showcases new interdisciplinary academic research on the relationship between information literacy and learning. It combines findings with new understandings drawn from theoretical and empirical research conducted in primary and secondary schools, higher education, workplaces, and community contexts. The studies offer new insights into questions such as how transferable are the information practices and skills learned in one context to other contexts? What is the degree to which information competences are generic, to what degree are they domain and context specific? What are the kinds of challenges and outcomes that emerge from incorporating information literacy into education and training courses? And, most importantly, what kinds of theories and philosophies regarding the nature of learning, information, and knowledge, should information literacies education and research efforts be based on?
Virtual Research Environments examines making Information and
Communication Technologies (ICT) usable by researchers working to
solve grand challenge problems in many disciplines from social
science to particle physics. It is driven by research the authors
have carried out to evaluate researchers requirements in using
information services via web portals and in adapting collaborative
learning tools to meet their more diverse needs, particularly in a
multidisciplinary study.
The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. It is the global voice of the information profession. The series IFLA Publications deals with many of the means through which libraries, information centres, and information professionals worldwide can formulate their goals, exert their influence as a group, protect their interests, and find solutions to global problems.
This book analyses: the 'dysfunctional' concept in the professional and academic LIS discourse by exposing the internal problematics of libraries, especially at the social and organizational level. dysfunctional nature of modern libraries, while simultaneously proposing solutions to reduce and alleviate dysfunction. This book will be essential reading for librarians and LIS students currently working or preparing to work in public, college, and university libraries.
Reviews the current landscape of scholarly communications and
publishing and potential futures, outlining key aspects of
transition to best possible futures for libraries and librarians.
The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. It is the global voice of the information profession. The series IFLA Publications deals with many of the means through which libraries, information centres, and information professionals worldwide can formulate their goals, exert their influence as a group, protect their interests, and find solutions to global problems. |
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