This hands-on guide provides both new and seasoned information professionals with a practical foundation for electronic resources management: how it came to be, where it is today and the essential tools needed to get the job done. Electronic resources management is a dynamic and ever-changing area of librarianship. Fundamentals of Electronic Resources Management cuts through the complexity of the role and offers advice on methods, tools and workflows with emphasis on the interconnection between workflows and systems. Content covered includes: - the full range of purchasing options, from unbundling package subscriptions to pay per view - evaluating both new content and current resources - common clauses in licensing agreements and what they mean - selecting and managing Open Access resources - understanding methods of e-resources access authentication - using a triage approach to troubleshoot electronic resources access issues - the basic principles of usage statistics, and ways to use COUNTER reports when evaluating renewals - tips for activating targets in a knowledge base - marketing tools and techniques - clear explanations of jargon, important terms, and acronyms. This guide will prove invaluable, both as an introduction for those preparing to enter the field, as well as a ready reference for current practitioners.

The importance of data has never been greater. There has been a growing concern with the skills required to exploit the data surfeit; the ability to collect, compute and crunch data, for economic, social and scientific purposes. This book, written by two working data librarians based at the Universities of Oxford and Edinburgh aims to help fill this skills gap by providing a nuts and bolts guide to research data support. 'The Data Librarian's Handbook' draws on a combination of over 30 years experience providing data support services to create the must-read book for all entrants to this field. This book zooms in to the actual library service level, where the interaction between the researcher and the librarian takes place. Both engaging and practical, this book draws the reader in through story-telling and suggested activities, linking concepts from one chapter to another. This book is for the practising data librarian, possibly new in their post with little experience of providing data support. It is also for managers and policy-makers, public service librarians, research data management coordinators and data support staff. It will also appeal to students and lecturers in iSchools and other library and information degree programmes where academic research support is taught. The importance of data has never been greater. There has been a growing concern with the 'skills gap' required to exploit the data surfeit; the ability to collect, compute and crunch data, for economic, social and scientific purposes. This book, written by two working data librarians based at the Universities of Oxford and Edinburgh aims to help fill this skills gap by providing a nuts and bolts guide to research data support. The Data Librarian's Handbook draws on a combination of over 30 years' experience providing data support services to create the 'must-read' book for all entrants to this field. This book 'zooms in' to the actual library service level, where the interaction between the researcher and the librarian takes place. Both engaging and practical, this book draws the reader in through story-telling and suggested activities, linking concepts from one chapter to another. This book is for the practising data librarian, possibly new in their post with little experience of providing data support. It is also for managers and policy-makers, public service librarians, research data management "coordinators" and data support staff. It will also appeal to students and lecturers in iSchools and other library and information degree programmes where academic research support is taught.

This volume, the second of two in the series Creating the 21st-Century Academic Library that deals with the topic of open access in academic libraries, focuses on the implementation of open access in academic libraries. Chapters on the legalities and practicalities of open access in academic libraries address the issues associated with copyright, licensing, and intellectual property and include support for courses that require open access distribution of student work. The topic of library services in support of open access is explored, including the library's role in providing open educational resources, and as an ally and driver of their adoption, for example, by helping defray author fees that are required for open access articles. A detailed look at open access in the context of undergraduate research is provided and considers how librarians can engage undergraduates in conversations about open access. Chapters consider ways to engage undergraduate students in the use, understanding, evaluation, and creation of open access resources. Issues that are of concern to graduate students are also given some attention and central to these are the development of Electronic Thesis and Dissertation (ETD) programs. A chapter examines the library's role in balancing greater access to graduate student work with the consequences of openness, such as concerns about book contracts and sales, plagiarism, and changes in scholarly research and production. The book concludes with issues surrounding open data and library services in critical data librarianship, including advocacy, preservation, and instruction. It is hoped that this volume, and the series in general, will be a valuable and exciting addition to the discussions and planning surrounding the future directions, services, and careers in the 21st-century academic library.

Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Bibliothekswissenschaften, Information Science, Note: 1,0, Hochschule fur Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg, 47 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit ist ein Versuch, ausgewahlte Open Source Lernplattformen zu analysieren, zu bewerten und aus den gewonnenen Erkenntnissen konkrete Aussagen uber deren Anwendung im Hochschulbereich zu machen. Hierzu wurde, nach einer allgemeinen Einfuhrung in das E-Learning und Open Source Thema, eine Auswahl von Lernplattformen anhand eines Kriterienkataloges dargestellt und verglichen. Im Anschluss wurde empfohlen je nach Anzahl und Qualitat der vorhandenen Werkzeuge, die Produkte an Universitaten, Einrichtungen usw. effektiver einzusetzen. Bei der untersuchten Software handelt es sich um Open Source Lernplattformen: ILIAS, Moodle und Stud.IP."

Magisterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Buchwissenschaft, Note: 1,0, Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz (Buchwissenschaft), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Fnac (Federation Nationale d'Achat des Cadres) gehort zur Gruppe Pinault-Printemps-Redoute und ist fuhrend auf dem Gebiet der Distribution kultureller und technologischer Produkte. 1954 von Andre Essel und Max Theret in Paris als Konsumentenvereinigung gegrundet, verfugt das Unternehmen heute uber 67 Ladengeschafte allein in Frankreich sowie 45 weitere in Belgien, Spanien, Portugal, Italien, Schweiz, Brasilien und Taiwan. 2004 wurde ein Umsatz von 4,1 Mrd. Euro vermerkt. Die Fnac ist in jeder ihrer Produktgruppen Marktfuhrer. Sie gilt heute als die erste Adresse unter den Buchhandlungen in Frankreich. 2004 wurden hier mehr als 36 Mio. Bucher verkauft. Aber nicht nur Kommerz, sondern auch Beratung und kulturelle Aktion werden mit dem Namen Fnac verbunden. In Zusammenarbeit mit nationalen und lokalen Partnern werden jahrlich mehr als 15.000 Aktionen unterschiedlichster Art prasentiert. Ausserdem ist sie fur ihr soziales und politisches Engagement bekannt. Dieses ist heute notwendig, denn mehr denn je gilt: Be different or die " Auch im verbreitenden Buchhandel spielen Markenbildung und Markenpflege eine zunehmend wichtigere Rolle. In diesem Zusammenhang sind folgende Fragen von besonderem Interesse: 1. Welche Konzepte fuhrten zum Erfolg der Fnac? 2. Welche Strategien sichern diesen heute? 3. Wie innovativ sind die Ideen und inwieweit lassen sie sich auf den internationalen Buchmarkt ubertragen? 4. Inwiefern konnen sie richtungweisend fur deutsche Buchhandlungen sein? 5. Kann man im Zusammenhang mit der Fnac von einer Kulturmarke sprechen? Der Fokus der Magisterarbeit liegt damit auf einer Analyse der Strategien im Stammland Frankreich und den internationalen Marketingmassnahmen der Fnac sowie der Frage nach ihrem Status als Kulturmarke. Die Arbeit leistet eine gut reflektierte Einleitung, eine knappe,

Volume 7 of the series Creating the 21st-Century Academic Library is focused on new approaches and initiatives in marketing the academic library, as well as the importance of outreach through partnerships and collaborations both internal and external to the library. Implementation of social media strategies, the use of library spaces for collaboration and inspiration, planning events and extravaganzas in the library, librarians as event coordinators and user-centered programming, the delivery of library services through digital engagement, using Instagram to create a library character for the YouTube generation, using workshops to promote digital library services, an examination of the new librarianship paradigm, the process of marketing and constructing a digital collection based on U.S. Highway 89 and the Intermountain West, and how librarians at Loyola University New Orleans have embedded their expertise and practice into their university culture, are the primary topics in this book.

Metaliteracy in Practice will provide inspiration for librarians and educators in need of up-to-date and thought-provoking information literacy curricula and instructional approaches. Editors Trudi E. Jacobson and Thomas P. Mackey, respected leaders in distance education and library instruction, reframed information literacy in their acclaimed previous book, Metaliteracy: Reinventing information literacy to empower learners, which provided an inclusive framework that encompasses all the newer literacies such as digital, visual, cyber and media literacy. Metaliteracy in Practice follows on from this book, placing its concepts firmly in real-world practice and delivering a compilation of innovative and practical teaching ideas from some of the leading thinkers in library and information literacy instruction today. Each chapter takes readers through the process of using the metaliteracy framework in new and exciting ways that easily transfer to the classroom and to work with students. These ideas are grounded in teaching traditional information literacy competencies but brought up-to-date with the addition of methods for teaching and learning about metacognition, information creation and participation in learning communities. The case studies contained in this collection detail the hows and whys of curricular design for metaliteracy, suitable for both beginners and seasoned professionals. Readers will also benefit from the book's practical ideas for: * teaching students about the importance of format choice * assessing user feedback * creating information as teachers * evaluating dynamic content critically and effectively * sharing information in collaborative environments. The collection has some of the most innovative teaching ideas for inspiring librarians and educators to revise lessons on critical thinking and information literacy, so that their students will graduate with the ability to formulate and ask their own questions.

Designed for the digital world and an expanding universe of metadata users, RDA: Resource Description and Access is the new, unified cataloguing standard. Benefits of RDA include: A structure based on the conceptual models of FRBR (functional requirements for bibliographic data) and FRAD (functional requirements for authority data) to help catalogue users find the information they need more easily A flexible framework for content description of digital resources that also serves the needs of libraries organizing traditional resources A better fit with emerging technologies, enabling institutions to introduce efficiencies in data capture and storage retrieval. The online RDA Toolkit provides a one-stop resource for evaluating and implementing RDA, and is the most effective way to interact with the new standard. It includes searchable and browseable RDA instructions; two views of RDA content, by table of contents and by element set; user-created and shareable workflows and mappings - tools to customize RDA to support your organization's training, internal processes, and local policies; Library of Congress-Program for Cooperative Cataloging Policy Statements (LC-PCC PS) and links to other relevant cataloguing resources; and the full text of AACR2 with links to RDA. This full-text print version of RDA offers a snapshot that serves as an offline access point to help solo and part-time cataloguers evaluate RDA, as well as to support training and classroom use in any size institution. An index is included. The online RDA Toolkit includes PDFs, but purchasing the print version offers a convenient, time-saving option. The 2015 RDA Print Revision contains: A full accumulation of RDA - the revision contains a full set of all current RDA instructions. It replaces the previous version of RDA Print rather than being an update packet to that version. Numerous changes to the text of RDA have been made since the publication of the 2014 Revision. Cataloguing practice described by RDA has not altered dramatically due to these changes, but over a significant number of the pages in RDA Print were affected by the changes, making an RDA Print update packet impracticable.. The most current RDA - the revision contains all changes to RDA up to and including the 2015 RDA Update approved by the JSC. There are two types of changes to RDA that routinely take place-"Fast Track" changes and RDA Updates. The JSC periodically issues Fast Track changes to RDA to fix errors and to clarify meaning. These changes do not typically change cataloguing practice as described by RDA. An RDA Update is issued annually. In an Update process the JSC considers proposals to enhance and improve RDA as a cataloguing standard. An Update can and often does change the cataloguing process described in RDA. The 2015 Revision includes all Fast Track changes and RDA Updates since the 2014 publication of RDA in August 2014.

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Buchwissenschaft, Note: -, Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der Buchhandel und die Bibliotheken haben es in der heutigen Zeit schwer auf dem Buchmarkt attraktiv zu bleiben. Die Autorin Verena Tesar beschaftigt sich in ihrer Bachelorarbeit, im Studiengang Buchwissenschaft an der Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz, mit einigen Online-Verleihmodellen und wie diese den Buchereien als Konkurrenten gegenuberstehen. Es werden E-Book-Verleihmodelle fur Offentliche Bibliotheken, z.B. die Onleihe, aber auch Modelle von privaten Anbietern, z. B. Skoobe und 24symbols, vorgestellt. Zum Schluss stellt sich die Frage, wie sich Bibliotheken und Buchereien in Zukunft ausrichten mussen, um den Bedurfnissen des modernen Lesers gerecht zu werden.

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Buchwissenschaft, Note: -, Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Charlotte Kempf widmet sich in dieser Arbeit der Rezeption von antiker Literatur in der Epoche der Renaissance. Dabei wird untersucht, welche Auswirkungen die Erfindung Gutenbergs, der Druck mit beweglichen Lettern, auf die Antikenrezeption im 15. Jahrhundert hatte und wie sich die Wahrnehmung antiker Literatur dadurch anderte. Der Wandel der Schriftkultur in der Renaissance fuhrte zu einer Verbreitung, Bewahrung und teilweise auch Wiederentdeckung antiker Literatur, die ohne den Buchdruck nicht moglich gewesen ware. Diese Untersuchungen fuhrt Kempf exemplarisch an der Literatur des antiken Autors Plinius dem Jungeren durch, dessen Epistulae" vor dem Hintergrund des Medienwechsels im 15. und fruhen 16. Jahrhundert zum ersten Mal einem grosseren Publikum in seiner Gesamtheit bekannt wurde, da der Buchdruck eine weite Verbreitung des kompletten Werks in Europa erlaubte. Zu dieser Verbreitung von antiker Literatur trug vor allem auch die 1508 von Aldus Manutius gedruckte Ausgabe der Epistulae" bei, die in mehreren Auflagen bis weit in das 16. Jahrhundert hinein nachgedruckt wurde. Charlotte Kempf studierte an der Johannes Gutenberg- Universitat in Mainz Buchwissenschaft und Lateinische Philologie, seit 2011 widmet sie sich ihrem Masterstudium in Mittelalter- und Renaissancestudien an der Albert- Ludwigs- Universitat Freiburg

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Buchwissenschaft, Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg (Buchwissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Geschichte der Schriftformen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Derrick de Kerckhove spricht in seinem Essay Text, Kontext, Hypertext" davon, dass es drei Bewusstseinsstadien mit jeweils assoziierten Typen des Sprachgebrauchs gebe: eines der mundlichen, eines der schriftlichen und eines der elektronischen Sprache. Die Schrift erfullt gewisse Funktionen fur die Kollektive, die sich ihrer bedienen: Sie entlastet ihre Erinnerung und macht allgemein mehr Wissen in weniger Zeit verfugbar. Dadurch verandert sich auch das Bewusstsein. Diese Arbeit beruht im Wesentlichen auf der Annahme, dass auch die elektronische Revolution der (Schrift-)Sprache durch die Entwicklung moderner Computer und die Vernetzung uber das Internet eine ahnliche Auswirkung haben wird. Hier stellt sich die Frage, was genau diese Auswirkungen verursacht: Ist es tatsachlich die Elektronifizierung, oder ist es die neue strukturelle Anordnung von Textteilen, die sich aus der Verwendung von Informationskanalen wie dem World Wide Web ergibt? Sollte man kunftig zu dem Schluss kommen, dass die unterstellte Anderung der Denkgewohnheiten darauf zuruckzufuhren ist, dass im Web der Hypertext2 dominiert, konnte man auf die Idee kommen, dass dessen Konzept gar nicht so neu ist wie der Aspekt der Elektronifizierung bzw. Digitalisierung. So lesen wir in der Wikipedia: "Hypertextuelle Strukturen sind seit Jahrhunderten bekannt; die im Aufschreibesystem der Neuzeit ausdifferenzierten Erschliessungshilfen fur lineare Texte wie Inhaltsverzeichnisse, Indizes, Querverweise und Fussnoten sowie jegliche Verweissysteme entsprechen funktional einem Hypertext." Grundlegende These dieser Arbeit ist, dass wir daruber hinaus noch weitaus mehr Hypertexte in praelektronischer Zeit finden konnen. Das Ziel wird im Folgenden sein, zu uberprufen, ob insbesondere Handschriften des Mittelal

From the Forward by Michael Lesk: Google has now developed services far beyond text search. Google software will translate languages and support collaborative writing. The chapters in this book look at many Google services, from music to finance, and describe how they can be used by students and other library users. Going beyond information resources, there are now successful collaboration services available from Google and others. You can make conference calls with video and shared screens using Google Hangouts, Writing documents with small numbers of colleagues often involved delays while each author in sequence took over the writing and made edits. Today Google Docs enables multiple people to edit the same document at once. An ingenious use of color lets each participant watch in real time as the other participants edit, and keeps track of who is doing what. If the goal is to create a website rather than to write a report, Google Sites is now one of the most popular platforms. Google is also involved in social networking, with services such as Google+ Other tools view social developments over time and space. The Google Trends service, for example, will show you when and where people are searching for topics. Not surprisingly, searches for "swimwear" peak in June and searches for "snowmobile" peak in January. The Complete Guide to Using Google in Libraries, Volume 2: Research, User Applications, and Networking has 30 chapters divided into four parts: Research, User Applications, Networking, Searching. The contributors are practitioners who use the services they write about and they provide how-to advice that will help public, school, academic, and special librarians; library consultants, LIS faculty and students, and technology professionals.