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Coleman, Anita Sundaram, and Maliaca Oxnam. "Interactional Digital Libraries: introduction to a special issue on Interactivity in Digital Libraries." IAM Research Group, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105812.
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Advances in Internet technologies have made it seemingly possible and easy to create digital collections, repositories and libraries. However, supporting diverse information uses that facilitate interaction beyond searching and browsing is in the early stages. Interactive digital libraries, or interactional digital libraries as we prefer to call them, are still evolving. This special issue tries to bring together work that is being done to incorporate interactivity in digital libraries.
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Syphus, Matthew. "The marketing of university libraries, with special reference to South African university libraries." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8365.
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Bibliography: leaves 251-262.The investigation was undertaken to establish, in the first place, whether it is correct to assume that university library managers in South Africa do understand the main tenets of marketing. Secondly, the investigation was undertaken to determine whether these librarians actually do implement some or all of the principles of marketing in the management of their libraries. The study was carried out in two parts: a literature survey and an empirical investigation. The investigation was confined to university libraries in South Africa. The literature survey of the relevant marketing literature had a twofold purpose. In the first place, the marketing of libraries could only be properly appreciated within the context of understanding what is meant by marketing. Secondly, it was an underlying assumption of the investigation that in order to determine whether the management of South African university libraries did understand and apply the principles of marketing, the questions posed to them in the survey would of necessity have to reflect the principles, concepts, terminology and techniques of marketing, as established in the literature survey. The survey of marketing literature therefore endeavoured to establish clearly the main tenets of marketing and the techniques of marketing planning, the broadened marketing concept which has extended marketing to non-profit organizations, and, the significance of the interactive relationship of services marketing. A survey of the relevant literature of librarianship was undertaken to gain an insight into how marketing was perceived by the Anglo-American library world. It was against this broader background of the literature of librarianship that the South African experience was considered. As part of the empirical investigation a questionnaire was constructed and mailed to the respondents in order to determine whether the principles of marketing are understood and implemented by university libraries in South Africa. The analysis of the data obtained from the questionnaire indicated that the management of South African university libraries have a general understanding of the principles of marketing, although at present only a small minority have an in-depth knowledge of it. From the analysis of the data it is also apparent that South African university library managers to a greater or lesser extent do carry out some of the main activities of marketing, although, for the present, they do not necessarily consider that they are implementing formal marketing planning in their libraries. Only a small minority of university libraries are actually engaged in some formal marketing activities.
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Borbinha, José Luís 1963. "Digital libraries-The future through the traditional library." Phd thesis, Instituições portuguesas -- UTL-Universidade Técnica de Lisboa -- IST-Instituto Superior Técnico, 2000. http://dited.bn.pt:80/6562.
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This dissertation addresses the problem of the «Digital Library»
from the point of view of the «Traditional Library». The work comprises an
analytical approach to the problem, being proposed a model for the «Digital
Library» according to the perspective and requirements of the «Traditional
Library» in face of the new emerging technological paradigm. This model is
analysed for the cases of the specialized library and the deposit library, when
facing the problem of the digital publishing. As a result, it is proposed a
strategy for the deposit library based on the identification of scenarios and
publication genres. As a consequence of this process, there were also
identified and analysed new problem, such as the new concept of agent, the
relationship of the concept URN identifiers? space with the problem, and the
problem of the metadata. Metadata is now a new concern for the «Digital
Library», from which results new requirements and scenarios raising the problem
of the interoperability.O trabalho desenvolvido nesta dissertação gira em torno do termo «Biblioteca Digital» e daquilo que ele poderá significar quando considerado segundo os requisitos da «Biblioteca Tradicional». O resultado consistiu numa abordagem analítica ao problema, propondo-se um modelo para a «Biblioteca Digital» gerado segundo a perspectiva da «Biblioteca Tradicional» quando confrontada com o novo paradigma tecnológico emergente. Este modelo é analisado para os casos da biblioteca especializada e da biblioteca de depósito quando posta perante o problema do depósito de publicações digitais, propondo-se ainda uma estratégia para a mesma baseada na identificação de cenários e géneros de publicações. Como consequência são ainda identificados e analisados novos problemas, especialmente os do agente enquanto novo conceito, a relação do problema com o caso do espaço de identificadores URN, e o problema da metadata. Conclui-se ainda ser esta agora uma nova preocupação na «Biblioteca Digital», de onde resultam novos requisitos e cenários que nos conduzem ao problema da inter-operação.
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Skepastianou, Maria. "Promotion of preservation and conservation in Greek libraries with special reference to the education of Greek librarians." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.327354.
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Halsban, Megan. "Stereographs as Scholarly Resources in American Academic Libraries and Special Collections." Thesis, School of Information and Library Science, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1901/543.
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This paper examines stereographic images as scholarly resources, and begins with a brief history of the stereograph. A discussion and review of the literature related to the stereograph as well as the preservation of photographic objects follows the introduction. In addition to the literature review, collections of stereographs at four repositories were evaluated for usability: The Keystone-Mast Archive at the University of California, Riverside; The Eliot Elisofon Archive at the Smithsonian Institution; the George Eastman House; the Library of Congress. The paper ends with suggestions for future work with the stereograph, in order to facilitate access and use by researchers.
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Kelley, Robert E. (Robert Emmett). "An analysis of factors in the adoption or non-adoption of videodisc technology in North American academic and special libraries." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1992. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc935670/.
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The study addressed the problem of the relationships between adoption or non-adoption of a technology in libraries and factors such as budget, personnel, number of clientele served, size of collection, type of library, and concerns about a possible successor technology "waiting in the wings."
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Mayekiso, Nozibele. "Knowledge sharing practices in academic libraries with special reference to the Unisa Library." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11685.
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In recent years it has been acknowledged that the practice of knowledge management can play an important role to ensure an organisation’s competitive edge within an industry. This study focuses on knowledge sharing practices in university libraries with special reference to the Unisa Library. The aim of the research project was therefore to establish whether the Unisa Library is receptive to knowledge sharing practices,whether there is a need for knowledge management and more specifically for a knowledge sharing strategy. Thus the objective was to establish the extent to which knowledge sharing practices occur among professional library staff, albeit unknowingly, in their daily activities.The study employed both quantitative and qualitative research approaches. A questionnaire was delivered in person to professional librarians while interviews were conducted with managers from the various directorates of the library. The questions explored the knowledge sharing practices, including challenges within the library. They were based on internationally accepted knowledge management themes which include the role of leadership, organisational structure, organisational culture,technology, processes in enabling the effective practice of knowledge management.
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Majal, Sulaiman. "Redesigning academic library spaces for 21st century users with special reference to CPUT Libraries." University of the Western Cape, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/5540.
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Magister Bibliothecologiae - MBiblThe use and design of library spaces in higher education is a theme that has come to the forefront of user needs in the past few years. Academic libraries are redesigning their spaces to accommodate the 21st century user. The 21st century user is often labeled as Generation Y and requires a different set of knowledge and skills. In today’s knowledge economy, core skills include creativity, problem solving and collaboration. Libraries are creating space to accommodate the needs of these new users. They are developing group work areas, relaxation or pause areas, technology hubs and discussion rooms. This study has investigated how to redesign academic libraries, using Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) Cape Town branch as a pilot study. The researcher used the concept of library "as place" or "3ʳᵈ place" as a theory. The framework interrogated the ten qualities of a good library space. The researcher used a mixed method research design to conduct this study. A questionnaire of which multiple copies were made, interviews and internal statistics were used to gather data. The results of the study reflected that the library is functional, can be adapted, the space is accessible and varied, it is conducive to motivating and inspiring people, it does promote interactivity between users and library services, and is environmentally suitable, flexible and has a wow factor. All of these characteristics conform to McDonald’s ten qualities of a good library space.
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Rutledge, Hazel. "Public library provision of resources for dyslexic individuals." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2000. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/7373.
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"Dyslexia is best described as a specific difficulty in learning, in one or more of reading, spelling and written language which may be accompanied by difficulty in number work, short term memory, sequencing auditory and/or visual perception, and motor skills." (British Dyslexia Association) This thesis aims to investigate the extent to which public libraries attempt to meet the needs of the dyslexic community. Libraries are key resource centres for reading and accessing the written language and should aim to meet the needs of their various user communities. Libraries should, therefore, be in the forefront in assisting users in overcoming this disability. Although much is written on the subject of dyslexia and most libraries have descriptive material on the subject, public libraries do not appear particularly proactive in providing material for use by dyslexic individuals. There is a tendency for dyslexia to be seen primarily as an educational issue. However, iflibraries are to continue to have a role in self improvement, literacy and life long learning, they should be addressing areas such as dyslexia. A survey of the literature revealed that little has been written in the professional literature about public library resource provision for dyslexic users. A questionnaire was sent 152 Public Library authorities in the United Kingdom (excluding Scotland) to ascertain the range of services and initiatives offered to people with dyslexia. The results indicate that a modest number of authorities have dedicated collections for people with dyslexia as well as material on the subject aimed towards parents, teachers and carers. The findings suggest that although interest in the potential role of libraries in serving the needs of the dyslexic community is high, relatively little is being done to address the issue in a structured way. Library authorities with dedicated collections for people with dyslexia have been investigated as comparative case studies covering themes such as composition and funding of collections, involvement with other agencies, methods of communication, location and lessons learned. Other case studies explore user needs and actions undertaken by a specialist resource centre. Supporting studies include a survey of resources available from specialist publishers. The thesis concludes witl a summary of findings ancLrecommendations for public libraries on the way ahead in terms of best practice to meet. the needs of dyslexic individuals.
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Dasgupta, Arjun, and Jatindra Nath Satpathi. "Continuing education programmes of Library & Information Science (LIS) professionals in the Universities of West Bengal (India) with special reference to the University of Calcutta." School of Communication & Information, Nanyang Technological University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105941.
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The paper starts with the need of Continuing Education for the LIS professionals in this modern era of information and technology. It narrates the activities of Continuing Education and Professional Development (CEPD) in different developed and developing countries of the world. It enumerates the role of various associations and institutions of India such as ILA, IASLIC, BLA IIMs, ICSSR, AIIMS, which are actively connected with programmes of continuing education. The authors highlight some of the universities and academic institutions of our country which have centres and departments of continu-ing education & critically analyze the work and activities of eight universities of West Bengal based on survey work. The paper suggests some measures to improve the existing conditions and status of con-tinuing education programmes for the university-library professionals of West Bengal.
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Schirmer, Gillian Russell. "The fiction problem in public libraries : a study with special reference to Cape Town City Library Service." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17150.
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Includes bibliography.The focal point of this study emanates from both personal observations formed in public library branch work and questions raised in the subject literature to the effect that tension appears to exist between the wants of the majority of users and the perception of the dominant goals of the public library by their staff, resulting in differing views as to the book selection policy of this institution. Book selection policies have been taken to reflect the attitudes of library staff towards users' wants in terms of their adherence to the tenets of Anglo-American public library objectives.
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Tang, Jinhong. "Educational reform and the emergence of modern libraries in China with special reference to the Metropolitan Library of Beijing, 1909-1937." Thesis, View thesis, 2004. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/23658.
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This thesis examines the rise of modern Chinese libraries between the1840s and the 1930s in the context of educational reform, intellectual development, national regeneration and state building. It focuses on how educational reform and other factors influenced the way in which modern libraries came into being in China. It argues that the establishment of modern libraries in China was a complicated and long process, as China followed neither the “industrialisation and democracy” model of the United States nor the “modernisation” model of Meiji Japan. Modern libraries were introduced into China in the closing years of the Qing Dynasty (1644–1911) to facilitate educational reform and national regeneration. The Nationalist government, established in 1928, further stimulated the expansion of Chinese libraries as part of the government’s state building efforts. This thesis examines the Chinese case in the emergence of modern libraries: the case of “underdevelopment” with distinctive Chinese characteristics. To explore the factors that contributed to the underdevelopment of modern Chinese libraries as they emerged, this thesis employs a case study of the Metropolitan Library of Beijing—the predecessor of the National Library of China—between 1909 and 1937 in terms of its formation, early development, and problems. This analysis reveals that both the macro and micro factors conducive to library development were not present in China before the 1920s. Even when the conditions improved during the 1920s and the 1930s, especially during the Nanjing Decade, the development of modern Chinese libraries was far from satisfactory for various reasons, with low library consciousness being an important one. The Conclusion of this thesis outlines the continuing impediment of low library consciousness in China today.
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Lephoto, 'Mapasane. "Information technology and deskilling of professional cataloguers with special reference to academic libraries in the Western Cape." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17439.
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Bibliography: pages 77-81.An investigation was undertaken to establish whether it was possible to assume that information technology has had an influence of the skills levels in the jobs of cataloguers. The research was conducted in two parts: the literature survey and the empirical investigation. The survey of literature was done on the literature from the United States of America (USA), from the United Kingdom (UK) and also from limited South African resource. The overseas literature was related to the situation in South Africa. The empirical investigation was confined to the academic libraries in the Western Cape region of South Africa. For the empirical investigation a mail questionnaire was constructed and sent to respondents in order to determine whether information technology was indeed affecting the skills of cataloguers in the academic libraries. 'The analysis of data obtained from the results of the questionnaire indicated that there was no sign of a negative influence in the skills levels of cataloguers in Western Cape Africa. Indeed, it seemed was apparent from the analysis of data that cataloguers find information technology to be a positive influence on their skills and on enhancing their status.
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Riddar, Johnson Matilda. "Kungliga bibliotekets fotografiska förvärv : En undersökning av Kungliga bibliotekets förvärv av fotografier under 1958‒2008." Thesis, Uppsala University, Department of ALM, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-105610.
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My master’s thesis is a study of acquisition of photographies during 1958-2008. The questions I proceed from is what patterns lies behind the Royal library's acquisition of photography and how the process of acquisition looks like. The theoretical base which I lean on consists partly of a problematization of the process of cultural heritage and partly of organizational theory. The problematization of the process of cultural heritage is my foundation of this essay. My starting point is that the Royal library make a choice when they collect material to be a cultural heritage and the memories gathered for future generations. I used organizational theory to find answer to how the collection been gathered through studies of the organizations interaction with the members of the organization, the process in the organizations, like goals and policy, and the organizations interaction with other organizations. I used case-study as my method. I interviewed most of the chiefs who were in charge of the unit during the period 1958-2008 and worked through journals of acquisition, annual reports, letters of regulation, exchange of letters and other in-house material. My results are that the acquisition of photography follows the Royal library's acquisition of picture at large. The culture heritage that the library collect for future generations is based on the content rather than the form of the material. This aspect was founded early in the creation of the library and has kept its status as a guiding line ever since. The main categories of collection are based on the motif of the photography and are the following; portrait, topography and events. Events is a new category but a sequel of an old category, historical wall chart. The material that the photographies are made of has varied but the majority have been photographies on paper. Gifts and purchases have been the most common ways for the library to collect photographies. Gifts have been treated differently through the years, from the beginning all gifts were received and the library asked actively for special gifts, later the library decided whether or not they should accept a gift. The policy from both the library and from the government have been vague, but lately they have been working on a new and more detailed policy from 2008.
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Hyland, Margaret, and n/a. "Task overlap of librarians and library technicians : a study comparing the duties of librarians class one and library technicians grades two and three in special libraries in Commonwealth Government Departments and Statutory Authorities in the Australian Capital Territory." University of Canberra. Communication, 1990. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20060801.120814.
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The present study attempted to measure the overlap of tasks being
performed by Librarians Class One and Library Technicians Grades Two
and Three in special libraries located in Commonwealth Government
Departments and Statutory Authorities in the ACT. Overlap was also
measured between the two groups in libraries with six or more staff,
since size of library could have affected the results; and between
graduates (those employees with university or college of advanced
education degrees or graduate diplomas in library and information
science), and nongraduates (those without such qualifications).
To measure the overlap, a task list questionnaire was devised based
on task lists utilised in other research studies or which had been
the outcome of professional workshops. Work level guidelines and
position classification standards developed by pertinent Australian
employing authorities and the Library Association of Australia were
also used.
Results suggested that there may be considerable overlap in work
being performed by Librarians Class One and Library Technicians
Grades Two and Three in the nominated libraries. Of the eight
functional areas of library work into which the task list
questionnaire was divided, only two areas, Reference, and Current
Awareness and User Services, resulted in proportions of the groups
tested being assigned the tasks in significantly different
proportions. For the six other functional areas, representing 125 of
the 160 tasks Librarians Class One and Library Technicians Grades Two
and Three performed the same tasks in similar proportions. Testing
for size of library and qualifications of respondents made very
little difference to these results.
Conclusions drawn from the present study are limited because the
questionnaire ignored the level of importance and the time occupied
in completing these tasks. Other constraints occurred in relation to
conclusions which could be made. The questionnaire methodology as
utilised by the present study is more likely to evoke responses to
what is there; and it does not identify what should be done or how
well tasks are performed. The study is limited to special libraries
within Commonwealth Government Departments and Statutory Authorities
and is confined to three levels of staff only, Librarians Class One
and Library Technicians Grades Two and Three.
Despite these limitations, it seems clear that the levels of staff
included in the present study are often assigned tasks on the basis
of what tasks have to be done, rather than with regard to matching
level of task to level of position within the boundaries of the work
level guidelines; and this situation is also true of the larger
libraries with six or more staff.
These results have implications for those involved in educating
professional librarians and library technicians, for the
interpretation given by the profession to the meaning of
professionalism and for staff relations between librarians and
library technicians. Debate by the profession concerning the roles of
librarians and library technicians is an issue demanding urgent
attention.
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Mahlangu, Nomoya. "Barriers to information access and provision in academic libraries with special focus on the Cape Technikon Library." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11584.
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Bibliography: p. 81-88.This dissertation examines difficulties experienced by users from the moment they enter the library to search for information, up to the point where they achieve the objective of their search. It also explores the processes that happen "behind the scenes", before the sought information can be located and utilized. These include the requisite funding to obtain the information, ordering, acquiring and cataloguing and finally shelving the material in an accessible manner.
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Nicholson, Scott, and Jeffrey M. Stanton. "Gaining Strategic Advantage through Bibliomining: Data Mining for Management Decisions in Corporate, Special, Digital, and Traditional Libraries." Hershey, PA: Idea Group Publishing, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106383.
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Library and information services in corporations, schools, universities, and communities capture information about their users, circulation history, resources in the collection, and search patterns (Koenig, 1985). Unfortunately, few libraries have taken advantage of these data as a way to improve customer service, manage acquisition budgets, or influence strategic decision-making about uses of information in their organizations. In this chapter, we present a global view of the data generated in libraries and the variety of decisions that those data can inform. We describe ways in which library and information managers can use data mining in their libraries, i.e. bibliomining, to understand patterns of behavior among library users and staff members and patterns of information
resource use throughout the institution. The chapter examines data sources and possible applications of data mining techniques and explores the legal and ethical implications of data mining in libraries.
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Tang, Jinhong. "Educational reform and the emergence of modern libraries in China with special reference to the Metropolitan Library of Beijing, 1909-1937." View thesis, 2004. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20051102.152412/index.html.
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Bradley, Fiona. "Information literacy and news libraries: the challenge of developing information literacy instruction programs in a special library environment." Thesis, Curtin University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1395.
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This study examines the current situation of training provided to journalists by news librarians in the United States and Australia. The study examines the factors affecting the provision of training and the potential for information literacy instruction to comprise most of the training provided. The definition of information literacy was explored in the context of journalists and news organisations. The study questions the adaptability of the concept to a workplace environment, where organisational and individual development is important. The results of a self-administered questionnaire are presented. Respondents indicated that news librarians are very willing to plan and conduct training, a clear majority agreeing that they should train journalists to search for their own information. Respondents also expressed a need for more training themselves with regard to the skills needed to deliver instruction. The results also found that training is at an early stage in news libraries, with few hours available for planning and conducting training, and mixed success with different training methodologies. A model is suggested as a method of selecting information literacy competencies for individual journalists. The model describes the relationships between individual, organisation, and occupation determined competencies. The study also discusses the implications of the lack of workplace training for journalists, which has impacted upon news libraries' ability to introduce training services. News librarians are providing training, and are pro-active in providing services and information to journalists, but managers do not yet recognise this as a major role for librarians in news organisations.Information literacy instruction needs to become an organisational goal in order to succeed. The difficulties of assessing and evaluating information literacy instruction in the workplace are outlined. The need for measurable outcomes and preevaluation in training are emphasised. Several considerations for further research are detailed, including the need for further clarification of the nature of information literacy in the workplace, as well as the relationship between the role of information literacy instruction in formal university education and the workplace.
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Bradley, Fiona. "Information literacy and news libraries : the challenge of developing information literacy instruction programs in a special library environment /." Curtin University of Technology, Department of Media and Information, 2003. http://espace.library.curtin.edu.au:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=14147.
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This study examines the current situation of training provided to journalists by news librarians in the United States and Australia. The study examines the factors affecting the provision of training and the potential for information literacy instruction to comprise most of the training provided. The definition of information literacy was explored in the context of journalists and news organisations. The study questions the adaptability of the concept to a workplace environment, where organisational and individual development is important. The results of a self-administered questionnaire are presented. Respondents indicated that news librarians are very willing to plan and conduct training, a clear majority agreeing that they should train journalists to search for their own information. Respondents also expressed a need for more training themselves with regard to the skills needed to deliver instruction. The results also found that training is at an early stage in news libraries, with few hours available for planning and conducting training, and mixed success with different training methodologies. A model is suggested as a method of selecting information literacy competencies for individual journalists. The model describes the relationships between individual, organisation, and occupation determined competencies. The study also discusses the implications of the lack of workplace training for journalists, which has impacted upon news libraries' ability to introduce training services. News librarians are providing training, and are pro-active in providing services and information to journalists, but managers do not yet recognise this as a major role for librarians in news organisations.Information literacy instruction needs to become an organisational goal in order to succeed. The difficulties of assessing and evaluating information literacy instruction in the workplace are outlined. The need for measurable outcomes and preevaluation in training are emphasised. Several considerations for further research are detailed, including the need for further clarification of the nature of information literacy in the workplace, as well as the relationship between the role of information literacy instruction in formal university education and the workplace.
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Möller, Allison Melanie. "The case for open access publishing, with special reference to open access journals and their prospects in South Africa." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/1607.
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Magister Bibliothecologiae - MBiblOpen access publishing is an initiative that aims to provide universal, unrestricted free access to full-text scholarly materials via the Internet. This presents a radically different approach to the dissemination of research articles that has traditionally been controlled by the publishing enterprise that regulates access by means of subscriptions and licences fees levied on users, predominantly academic libraries. In presenting the case for open access publishing, the thesis explored the contemporary research environment, changing modes of knowledge production, the problems associated with the existing academic journal system, and the subsequent growth of the open access movement as an intervention to reclaim scientific communication. It highlighted the ways in which open access better answers the requirements of researchers, funders, governments, and society more broadly.
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Maclean, Anne M. "The acquisition of literary papers in Canada." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/26050.
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During the past thirty years Canadian literature has developed at a remarkable rate, with the result that many Canadian writers now enjoy national and international recognition. The personal papers of these writers have undergone a corresponding increase in their research and monetary value. Literary papers have therefore become highly attractive to archival repositories and libraries, many of which compete to acquire these papers through sales or donations. Open-market competition may be advantageous to authors because it allows them to sell their papers to the highest bidder, but it is harmful to archivists because it creates animosity within the archival community, inflates prices and causes collections to be split. This clash of interests between authors and archivists, and among archivists themselves, must be resolved if literary papers are to be preserved and administered properly.
A questionnaire was sent to 29 Canadian repositories to determine the ways in which archivists deal with the complex issues associated with acquiring literary papers: acquisition policies; acquisition budgets; the suitability of certain types of institutions to acquire literary papers; copyright/literary rights; tax credits; monetary appraisal; and automation. Results from this survey indicate that an increasing number of archival institutions now recognize the need for developing systematic collections policies in order to reduce competition and encourage cooperation among archivists. However, the majority of institutions in Canada still do not have any formal written policies for acquiring literary papers and have no plans to develop such policies in the near future. It will be some time, therefore, before a complete cooperative network among archivists in Canada becomes a reality.
Diverse types of institutions acquire literary papers; university archives and special collections, provincial archives, the National Archives and National Library of Canada, and smaller thematic archives are all involved in this type of acquisition. The survey sought respondents' opinions on this question: can or should the acquisition of literary papers be limited to certain types of institutions? Judging from the responses, the answer is a qualified no. Universities are a logical repository for authors' papers because literary research is largely an academic activity, but it is not possible to prevent other types of institutions from acquiring in this area through laws or regulations. Donor preferences play a critical role; ultimately it is the author or his executors who have the last word on where the author's papers are deposited.
The author-archivist relationship lies at the heart of this issue. The onus is on the archivist to educate authors on the nature and function of archives and the legal implications of acquisition. Archivists can also educate themselves regarding authors' economic concerns and the literary activities which produce their records; such understanding will help to resolve the conflicts between authors and archivists and improve acquisition negotiations. Finally, archivists need to develop more systematic written acquisitions policies for literary papers in order to reduce competition and ensure the continued preservation of this important cultural resource.Arts, Faculty of
Library, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS), School of
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Loree, S. "Is Citation Analysis Worth It: A Comparison of the Usefulness of Local Citation Analysis, Interlibrary Loan Records and Usage Statistics for Collection Development Purposes in a Special Library." Thesis, School of Information and Library Science, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1901/369.
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This study evaluates local citation analysis in comparison to interlibrary loan records and usage statistics as indicators for collection evaluation and development purposes in a special library setting as evidenced through a case study at the Environmental Protection Agency’s Main Library in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. More specifically, it examines how data gathered from these three tools compare as predictors for future trends in use of journals and as tools for developing parameters and guidelines for anticipatory collection development decisions in a scientific research library. Ultimately, citation analysis is the most successful in predicting the following year’s usage.
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Fedeli, Alba. "Early Qur'ānic manuscripts, their text, and the Alphonse Mingana papers held in the Department of Special Collections of the University of Birmingham." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2015. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/5864/.
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The Special Collections of the Cadbury Research Library at the University of Birmingham hold seven early Qur’ānic pieces on parchment and papyrus dating from the seventh century. Alphonse Mingana purchased them from the antiquarian dealer von Scherling in 1936. Through investigation of the private correspondence of Mingana and archival documents, this research provides new information about the origin and history of the fragments, whose reception has been influenced by the European cultural context at the beginning of the twentieth century, in contrast with the public image proposed in catalogues, official documents and previous studies. Furthermore, this research is an attempt to initiate an alternative perspective in analysing and editing the physical objects and texts of early Qur’ānic manuscripts by applying digital philology, thus using XML-encoded expressions to transcribe all of the richness of manuscripts in reconstructing the history of their transmission. This perspective interprets the process of the making of the manuscript text and the context in which the manuscript was written, thus editing its mobile and multi-layered text, differently from previous examples of the edition of early Qur’ānic manuscripts.
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De, Jongh Martha Susanna. "A national electronic database of special music collections in South Africa." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/2370.
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Thesis (MMus (Music))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009.In the absence of a state-sponsored South African archive that focuses on collecting, ordering, cataloguing and preserving special music collections for research, the Documentation Centre for Music (DOMUS) was established in 2005 as a research project at the University of Stellenbosch. Music research in South Africa is often impeded by inaccessibility of materials, staff shortages at archives and libraries, financial constraints and time-consuming ordering and cataloguing processes. Additionally there is, locally, restricted knowledge of the existence, location and status of relevant primary sources. Accessibility clearly depends on knowing of the existence of materials, as well as the extent to which collections have been ordered and catalogued. An overview of repositories such as the Nasionale Afrikaanse Letterkundige Museum and Navorsingsentrum (NALN), the now defunct National Documentation Centre for Music and the International Library of African Music (ILAM) paints a troubling picture of archival neglect and disintegration. Apart from ILAM, which has a very specific collecting and research focus, this trend was one that ostensibly started in the 1980s and is still continuing. It could be ascribed to a lack of planning and forward thinking under the previous political dispensation, aggravated by policies of transformation and restructuring in the current one. Existing sources supporting research on primary materials are dated and not discipline-specific. Thus this study aims to address issues of inaccessibility of primary music materials by creating a comprehensive and ongoing national electronic database of special music collections in South Africa. It is hoped that this will help to alert researchers to the existence and status of special music collections housed at various levels of South African academic and civil society.
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Al-Anzi, Khalid Sghayyer. "A study of the factors involved in the development of information technology in higher education libraries in the Arab countries with special reference to Kuwait." Thesis, De Montfort University, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/6255.
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The developed countries are_moving swiftly and steadily towards electronic information handling and exchange. The speed of this progress needs to be matched in Higher Education libraries in the Arab countries to cope with the advancement of research and scientific activity. There are hundreds of academic libraries in Arab countries with an enormous wealth of library collections and a rapid growth of potential library users. This study aims to investigate the main factors involved in the development of IT, Arabisation, cooperation and telematics, in the AC Higher Education libraries with special reference to Kuwait. Kuwait has suffered severely owing to the Iraqi invasion in August 1990. Most of its Higher Education libraries are in the process of being rebuilt. Therefore, this study comes at a suitable time to analyse the requirements for the implementation of IT at this stage. critical literature review has been carried out to examine the three main aspects namely,, IT, Arabisation, cooperation and telematics. A questionnaire survey was conducted inselected university libraries in AC. A field work study and a comprehensive survey including questionnaires, interviews and observations, were conducted in the Higher Education libraries in Kuwait specif icallY. This included a detailed study of user opinions, regarding IT, Arabised library system and cooperation and telematics The study shows that university libraries in AC are still at an early stage in the development of IT, Arabisation and cooperation and telematics and most of the progress in this field is to be found in certain GCC countries. Although KU and PAAET are the only two Higher Educational institutes in Kuwait their libraries lack IT, Arabisation and cooperation and telematics. Library users are dissatisfied with the current traditional library system and services being used and offered in these libraries. Both librarians and library users, although they have limited IT backgrounds, have high expectations and positive attitudes to the importance of -the above IT facilities for improving their library services. The study identifies the main critical issues affecting IT, Arabisation and cooperation and telematics in Kuwait Higher Education libraries and explores possible solutions and practical recommendations. This study also considers whether the results of the Kuwait study could be generalised to apply to other similar Arab countries
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Leipnitz, Fernando. "Política de avaliação e seleção de doações em acervos particulares a serem incorporados às Bibliotecas da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, RS." Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, 2017. http://repositorio.ufsm.br/handle/1/11883.
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This work, by causing the dialogue between the private library and the
university library, to propose an acquisition and management of private
collections policy and a model contract for the donation of private collections to
the libraries of the Federal University of Santa Maria. To do so, is used the
analytical-comparative methodology to explain the concept of special
collections, exemplifying some universities that guard private collections in their
various characterizations, and types of management applied to these
collections. It discusses the importance of the development of collections in
university libraries, with emphasis on the evaluation and selection of books
received in donations. Debate the institutionalization of private bibliographic
collections in universities seeking to list the various issues that need to be
studied in order to be able to effect such a process. As a result of the analysis, it
proposes a policy of evaluation and selection of bibliographical works received
in donation, listing criteria that guide the reception and technical treatment of
the material. Also, it guides the importance of the analysis of the biography of
the donor when a whole particular collection is received. Due to the relevance of
this study and the complexity of the incorporation of private libraries in university
libraries, it was necessary to prepare a proposal of donation contract so that the
Federal University of Santa Maria can receive private collections that deals with
property and rights issues and make it public for research.Este trabalho, ao provocar o diálogo entre a biblioteca particular e a biblioteca universitária, propõe uma política de aquisição e gerenciamento de coleções particulares. Propõe um modelo de contrato de doação de acervos particulares às bibliotecas da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria. Para tanto, na fundamentação da construção do produto, utiliza-se a metodologia analíticocomparativa para explicar o conceito de coleções especiais, exemplificando algumas universidades que fazem a guarda de acervos particulares em suas várias caracterizações, e tipos de gestão aplicados a estas coleções. Discute a importância do desenvolvimento de coleções em bibliotecas universitárias com ênfase na avaliação e seleção de livros recebidos em doação. Debate a institucionalização de acervos bibliográficos privados em universidades procurando elencar as variadas questões que precisam ser estudadas para que se possa efetivar tal processo. Como resultado da análise, propõe uma política de avaliação e seleção de obras bibliográficas recebidas em doação, listando critérios que orientam as formas para o recebimento e o tratamento técnico do material. Ainda, orienta sobre a importância da análise da biografia do doador quando se tratar de uma coleção particular recebida no todo. Devido a pertinência deste estudo e a complexidade da incorporação de bibliotecas particulares em bibliotecas universitárias, fez-se necessário elaborar uma proposta de contrato de doação para que a Universidade Federal de Santa Maria possa receber acervo particular que atenda às questões de propriedade e direitos de uso para tornar públicas as obras para a pesquisa.
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Backman, Helena. "Kompetent för specialsamlingar : Utbildningsmöjligheter för studenter och kompetensutveckling för verksamma vid folkbibliotek." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för ABM, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-296642.
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The purpose of this thesis is to compare international ideal competencies for Special Collections librarianship to the possibility to acquire these competencies as a student of library education or as a professional librarian with the care of special collections in a public library in Sweden today. The questions posed are: How are international ideal competencies concerning special collections looked upon in Swedish public libraries? How can students or professional librarians today acquire competences necessary for the work at hand in special collections? Suggested in this thesis is to emphasize the importance of understanding that handling special collections demands other skills and belongs to other practices than ordinary work in a public library. The major discrepancy with international ideal competencies consists in the lack of ways for education in the field of special collections for both students and professional librarians in Sweden today.
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Ruppelt, Niels. "The development of the notion of libraries in the ancient world with special reference to the Middle East, the Roman Republic and the Royal Alexandrian Library." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13399.
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Bibliography: leaves 252-256.The Royal Alexandrian Library (RAL) is considered by modern scholarship to represent the epitome of the development of ancient librarianship. Its extensive holdings imply the application of modern organizational procedures such as collection development, information retrieval and promotion of use - terms identifiable as elements embodied in the conceptual framework of librarianship (for the purposes of this study the latter two concepts - information retrieval and promotion of use - are combined into the simplified general concept of "collection accessibility"). The RAL therefore constitutes a key development phase in the evolution of modern librarianship. However, scholars have disputed the origins of the RAL and Mouseion or university it was attached to. The socalled "Greek thesis" emphasizes the purely Greek origins of both the Mouseion and the RAL. Conversely, the "Ptolemaic thesis", while acknowledging the Greek origins of the Mouseion, argues that the RAL (as an independent institution distinguishable from the Mouseion proper) is derived from Middle Eastern institutions. This study traces the origins of the RAL from the textual collections of the early Mediterranean and Middle Eastern civilizations, through the period of Greek and the subsequent Hellenistic cultural dominance - culminating in the legacy of Hellenistic librarianship as inherited by the Roman Republic, since the newly emerging Roman empire was to exert a deciding influence upon the historical development of the RAL. Within these civilizations and regions a brief overview is undertaken to gauge the extent of literacy and literary output prevalent in each as well as a general assessment of librarianship and library practices. The major and most noteworthy archival and book collections are then analysed according to the organizational procedures identified in the outlined conceptual framework of librarianship. For this purpose sufficient information has been obtained from archaeological evidence and primary and secondary sources to allow for the analysis of forty-three libraries throughout the ancient world. In this way predominantly Middle Eastern as well as Greek elements have been identified as contributing to the creation, organization and functioning of the RAL.
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Eklöf, Sara. "Gråberg och grå litteratur : Förändringar i informationsförsörjningen på Sveriges geologiska undersökning." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för ABM, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-387344.
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The aim of this study is to investigate how employees at the Geological Survey of Sweden (SGU) and librarians at SGU and Uppsala university library (UUB) experience challenges and changes in the information provision for geologists at SGU after an organizational change of the library function at the survey. After the closure of the library at SGU in 2015 the survey buys some of their needed library service from UUB, while most of the SGU library collections are left at the survey. To investigate the experiences I conducted interviews with current and former geologists and former librarians at SGU and a librarian at UUB. I also investigated some key documents to provide a framework to the interviewee’s experiences, to compare this with the goals of the coordination between SGU and UUB, and to try and shed light on the role of the library within the survey. The study was based on a constructivist point of view where the interviewee’s experiences of the changes is in focus, giving a deeper understanding of their information needs and how they have been affected by the changes of the library function. I have looked at the changes in information provision for the employees at SGU as a result of changes in SGU’s library activities, that is, changes in the organization of SGU. The results were therefore analyzed using a combination of organizational theories on public administration and business concept approaches, which is motivated by how public administration has changed in recent decades. The results show that geologists at SGU rely heavily on old publications, grey literature and publications about Swedish conditions. This is opposed to what UUB offers in terms of ”hot science” and international literature to meet the needs of the researchers and students at Uppsala university. Also, since UUB only took over a small part of the collections from the SGU library as part of the agreement, the SGU employees have a significant need for help obtaining literature that is left at the former SGU library. As a result of the changes in information provision, the interviewed geologists at SGU feel that the closure of the library at SGU has had a negative impact on their work performance. Because of this they also feel that there is a contradiction between the regulation of the survey, which states that the main focus for SGU is to collect, manage and disseminate information, and the decision to close the library. The conclusions are that although the libraries at SGU and UUB both offer literature in the field of geology there are big differences in the kind of geological literature that the users need and what the different libraries can or could offer. In a larger perspective, this study can contribute to a deeper understanding of the role of special libraries and what can happen to the information provision when a library closes. This is a two years master’s thesis in Library and Information Science.
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Washburn, Adrianne J. "Executive Information Seeking and the Corporate Library." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2015. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc801910/.
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This study began with an interest in corporate libraries and a genuine curiosity in the information preferences and resources valued by executive leaders at JET Aircraft Co. Executive information preferences and the downward trend in special libraries initiated the investigation of information seeking among executive leaders and yielded the inquiry: What resources do JET Aircraft Co. executives value when they need information? Employing an ethnographic approach, this study investigated what JET Aircraft Co. executives know about information resources, what they believe about information resources, and how they act when they require information. While JET Aircraft Co. maintained a special corporate library called the Company Research Library (CRL), the purpose of this study was to determine what resources were of value to executives at JET Aircraft Co., understanding that the CRL may or may not be a resource executives’ value. As a byproduct, this study also sought to establish executive information preferences and perceptions of the CRL. Information seeking at the executive level, studied through an ethnographic lens, provided insight into how executives at JET Aircraft Co. work and what they prefer, and it established a baseline for the Company Research Library’s position among the resources valued by executives.
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Titi, Mavis Nozikhumbuzo. "The relationship between curriculum, learning and teaching in library and information science, with special reference to the University of Transkei." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2001. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/7529.
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Curriculum development involves considerations about curriculum relevance. Thus it is necessary that the curriculum should identify with the needs of the graduate and with professional practice. This requirement shoNAt-hsa t curriculum relevance is not fixed, a view that is consistent with a dynamic, situational approach to curriculum development. The basic categories which define librarianship curriculum development are library activities, theory, innovation, teaching and learning, employers, students. lecturers. These are influential factors in curriculum relevance. Variables in curriculum content such as theory and practice affect curriculum relevance. Librarianship curriculum development should aim at relevance by integrating academic study and practice. Hence, the goal of study towards librarianship education must be focused on the activities performed in library and information services. The need for innovation in library and information services means that novel viewpoints and solutions must be practical. For example, this requirement indicates that curriculum development must take into consideration leamt attributes which are aerieral and transferable in a changing world. This is in view of the employers' requirement that graduates should have critical intellectual ability and the capability to learn rather than their just immediate attributes, skills and knowledge. With teaching and leaming there is abundant rationale for the development of more effective delivery systems than traditional lecturing. If outcome-based learning is valued, individualised, self-directed learning is a prerequisite. The practices of the task-based curriculum, with its focus on student learning and on the development of transferable skills more closely approximate the ideal approaches to librarianship education. The teaching of transferable skills is more likely to define the conditions under which critical reasoning can develop. It has an advantage over the students' abilities to learn to function in the profession outside the university and for continuous development. In this respect task-based education has much wider implications than that of simply providing students with skills. Professional practice does not always fit with the curriculum that is developed by the experts. The expert-developed curriculum also poses a problem for those who interpret it, learn it and receive the products. Thus, a strong joint partnership in which the library and the library school are both recognised in curriculum development is essential if the profession is to fulfil effectively its unique role in society.
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Souza, Ingrid Lopes de. "Patrimônio bibliográfico de C&T em universidades: proposta para formação das coleções especiais da Biblioteca Paulo Geyer." Museu de Astronomia e Ciências Afins, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11422/2500.
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Trata do patrimônio bibliográfico de C&T em universidades. O objetivo geral desta pesquisa é propor critérios aplicáveis a bibliotecas universitárias na formação de suas coleções especiais, a partir da experiência da Biblioteca Paulo Geyer. Caracteriza a Biblioteca Paulo Geyer como espaço de guarda de patrimônio bibliográfico universitário de C&T no contexto da Escola de Química. Analisa as bibliotecas como lugares de memória. Aborda a importância das bibliotecas universitárias como guardiãs do patrimônio bibliográfico de C&T. Estuda a importância do desenvolvimento de coleções e da formação das coleções especiais. Ressalta a relevância da Biblioteca Paulo Geyer, no contexto da Escola de Química, da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ. Conceitua o patrimônio, analisando-o segundo a legislação nacional e internacional. Lista as obras que podem vir a compor a coleção especial, utilizando-se de tabelas. Define os critérios para a escolha das obras. Como metodologia, realiza uma pesquisa bibliográfica com características de pesquisa aplicada, dado seu interesse prático.
This study is focused on bibliographic heritage of Science and Technology in universities. Its main objective is to propose criteria that can be applied to university libraries in the formation of their special collections, based on the Paulo Geyer Library experience. Characterizes the Paulo Geyer Library as a guardian of university bibliographic heritage of S & T in the context of the School of Chemistry. Analyzes libraries as memory places. It also tackles the importance of university libraries as guardians of bibliographic heritage of Science and Technology, and the relevance of developing special collections. It proposes to highlight the significance of Paulo Geyer Library as well as the conception of heritage, analyzing it according to national and international legislation. Ranking the works which could be part of the special collection using tables. It defines some criteria for selecting the works. As a methodology it carries out the bibliographic research with characteristics of applied research given its practical interest.
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Barkelind, Malin. "De nordiska biblioteken : En undersökning av Nordisk kulturkontakts och Nordens hus biblioteks identitetsskapande." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för ABM, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-390459.
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The aim of this thesis is to examine the construction of Nordic and organizational identities performed by the libraries of two Nordic cultural institutions: the Nordic Culture Point in Helsinki, Finland, and the Nordic House in Reykjavik, Iceland. To do this, three main methods were used: (a) Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis was employed to interpret the institutions’ self-representations, (b) the topics of debates and talks organized by the institutions were analysed and (c) interviews were performed with librarians currently working at these libraries. The results show that the institutions are (re)presented as two separate units rather than two parts of the same organization. The Nordic Culture Point is more explicitly connected to the Nordic Council of Ministers while the Nordic House presents itself as an iconic building in a marketing manner. The institutions are affected by politically defined themes and values, which permeate their events. The most common themes for talks and debates were literature, environmental issues or sustainable development, and politics. Even though there is a clear influence from political strategy documents, many topics with little or no connection to these documents were found. In addition, the literature selection processes at these libraries do not seem to be largely affected by politically defined priorities, based on the librarians’ views. According to the librarians who were interviewed, the aim of the Nordic libraries is to offer literature in the Nordic languages that would otherwise be difficult to access, gather this literature in one location, and promote interest in the Nordic region. While they agree that the main point of reference for the Nordic libraries is public libraries, the librarians differ on the role digital technology should play in the library. This is a two years master’s thesis in Library and Information Science.
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Freedman, Phyllis D. "Information technology (IT) and the special library an exploratory study of special libraries in western Pennsylvania /." 1989. http://books.google.com/books?id=CqbgAAAAMAAJ.
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Abdullahi, Ismael. "A study of cooperative programs among university and special libraries in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Tanzania." 1989. http://books.google.com/books?id=-LPgAAAAMAAJ.
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Jayaswal, P. K. "Professionals in organisations: A study of trained librarians in university, public and special libraries." Thesis, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2009/3363.
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蔣慧玟. "Quality of Work Life of Special Librarians– a case study of Academia Sinica Libraries." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/db5jga.
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碩士國立政治大學
圖書資訊學數位碩士在職專班
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This research was taking Academia Sinica Special Library librarians as the research object. The purposes is to investigate the status of librarians’ life quality at work ,and to learn about the five facets of satisfaction with the quality of work life offered by Academia Sinica's librarians such as : "Job Responsibility", "Salary ,Benefits and Assurance", "Relationship with Supervisor and Peers ", "Professional Competence" and "Personal Quality of Life". In addition, through this survey, I collected those librarians’ methods and suggestions for improving their own working quality. This study is going through questionnaire survey to conduct a comprehensive survey of 105 specialized librarians in 19 libraries of the Academia Sinica. Statistical analysis results show as below: According to the analysis of the respondents' basic information, the majority of librarians from the Academia Sinica Special Library are women. Most of their age are below 30 and among 30-39. As for marital status, married librarians are more than single ones. Also, the numbers of librarians with children are more than the ones without children. Most of these librarians’ education background is bachelor's degree. Most of their major is Library and Information Science .The majority of these workers have been working there for 11-20 years. To distinguish all the librarians within their study groups, Humanities and Social Sciences Group shares more numbers. In terms of current job responsibilities, Technical Service Department librarians are the majority. About working position, the major of these employees are contractors. At last, considering their working years from job rotation into their current duty, most of them have been working there for 11-20 years. The result of study has shown that the interviewees of Academia Sinica Special Library librarians got their average points above 3.0, according to the five facets, which are ordered as: "Job Responsibility", "Professional Competence", "Personal Quality of Life", "Relationship with Supervisor and Peers", "Salary, Benefits and Assurance”. Interviewees show the highest satisfaction in "Job Responsibility", meanwhile, the satisfaction of "Salary, Benefits and Assurance” is the lowest.
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CHANG, YA-JHU, and 張雅筑. "Survey on special collection preservation in university libraries." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/55549829659660055983.
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University Libraries, categorized as research libraries, are the heart of universities. The Special Collections are important assets of these libraries, and how to protect them from deteriorations requires our attention. In Taiwan, there has been not research on special collection preservation in university libraries. This thesis involves field trip in university libraries’ special collection department, literature review on papers in this topic and interviews with librarians and conservators. The goal is to provide a reference resource for the librarians to consult with while choosing suitable solution for special collection preservation and to understand the difficulties in special collection preservation. As a result, the cultural development of the school and the community can be reflected by preserving and promoting the unique resources of the university. Data in this thesis are collected from interviews and observation. After generalizing these data, this thesis focus on three aspects: 1. The management status of special collections in university libraries. 2. Security measures on special collections. 3. Preservation measures on special collections. 4. The preservation and management difficulties in special collections. The finding of this thesis shows the following suggestions: 1. Set up special collections preventive conservation and security maintenance policy, and organize alliance to preserve special collections; 2. Promote special collections, and highlight the importance to increase the sense of identity of people related with school. 3. Promote and value the notions of preservation and preventive conservation.
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Lee, Shu-hsia, and 李淑霞. "Use and User Studies for the Special Libraries: Executive Yuan Economic Related Libraries Examples." Thesis, 1999. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/50018825350784858615.
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The main aims of the thesis are to research the whole libraries service in Excutive Yuan related economic libraries and understand readers'' character and some information about them. The research will investigate how the whole employees in Excutive Yuan related economic departments use the libraries and we would like to know how much they feel satisfied with library service from the study at the same time. By analyzing satisfaction degree of service from the readers, the ideas can make reference to improve library service , promote the efficiency and the quality of library service and build the structure of evaluation system of library service. The results of the study is that the Excutive Yuan related economic libraries are small special ones. Their library space, their librarians, their collections, their budget, and their facilities seem deficient. So one of the most important jobs in the future is how to overcome these difficulties----government system, their conception, and their manner for example. In fact, what we must do now is to develop better managing policies of libraries in order to promote library service. The main reading aims for the employees in the Excutive Yuna related economy departments are to get some information which has something to do with their jobs. The information that they read is about Chinese publications. The sources of information are from newspapers, periodical publications , Internet, academic thesis, minutes, and personal files. The important ways which they get information are from Internet firstly. Secondly , they borrow information or data from the related other departments. Thirdly, they themselves get it in bookstores ; fourth, they get it from their colleagues in the same department ; fifth, they get it in their own library. We know the library is the last choice which they get information. And we want to know how the users use the library from the research. They read current periodical publications, library collections, newspapers most often. Sometimes they will borrow periodical publications and copy something that they need. As regards satisfaction degree of library service, what the employees are satisfied with in order are the hard facilities of library surroundings, librarians, librarian manner, the process which they borrow books, collections, the ways of library service and library education, and consulting information. However the users* satisfaction degree for library service are different with the users* age, education, and the years that the employees work
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Hyry, Tom. "In, Out, and Beyond: Integrating Special Collections at UCLA Library." 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/222232.
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Grgic, Victoria M. "Entre el Silencio y la Memoria: la existencia de Servicios de Bibliotecas para los Pueblos Originarios." Thesis, 2016. http://eprints.rclis.org/29884/1/TESIS%20VERSI%C3%93N%20FINAL%20-%20Grgic.pdf.
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This thesis, devoted to the study of the existence of library services that meet the needs of native users in Argentina, is the expression of two desires: on the one hand complete the requirement to access the degree of Bachelor of Library Science and Documentation, and another, give visibility to achieve a collective generally unknown.
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Mendoza, Ramos Miriam Hortensia. "Función de la biblioteca del Centro Femenil de Readaptación Social Santa Martha Acatitla." Thesis, 2011. http://eprints.rclis.org/16099/1/FUNCI%C3%93N%20DE%20LA%20BIBLIOTECA%20DEL%20CENTRO%20FEMENIL%20DE%20READAPTACI%C3%93N%20SOCIAL%20SANTA%20MARTHA%20ACATITLA.pdf.
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Getting involve in a prison library’s function is to sink into the penitentiary architecture’s context, is recover the perception of all those that take part in it: institutions, authorities in charge, library staff and, especially the most important is to know the users perception about their own library, a community conformed by women in reclusion, whom, for first time have had the approach to a library. For women of the Centro Femenil de Readaptación Soacial Santa Martha Acatitla their library is something more than just a support tool for the reinsertion program; is, in their words: a way to survive inside. That currently, Santa Martha’s women have access to a library is to implement the exposed in The Public library service: IFLA/UNESCO guidelines for development. Nowadays, librarianship professionals’ work will turn the look and perceive the pressing need of the librarians’ presences in libraries prisons to which professionals’ skills must be accompanied, at any moment of the “human being”.
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Senf, Rebecca. "A Library Special Collection in a Unique Collaboration: The Center for Creative Photography and the Phoenix Art Museum." 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/337098.
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Breakout session from the Living the Future 7 Conference, April 30-May 3, 2008, University of Arizona Libraries, Tucson, AZ.Learn about a real life collaboration between institutions from Becky Senf, Norton Family Assistant Curator of Photography, who has a joint appointment at the University of Arizona and the Phoenix Art Museum. She will highlight the advantages and benefits that have become evident in the collaboration’s first 18 months. She will also discuss the challenges she has encountered and answer questions based on her experiences
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Waters, D. H(David Hugh). "University library administration, with special reference to new technology : a Tasmanian case study." Thesis, 1985. https://eprints.utas.edu.au/21838/1/whole_WatersDavidHugh1986_thesis.pdf.
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This thesis examines the impacts of new technology on university
library administration as reflected in a case study. The
institution chosen for the study is the University of Tasmania
Library, which has recently adopted a totally integrated
automated library system based on the Library's own mini-computer.
The opening chapter introduces the topic, and puts forward five
propositions. These include propositions about the use of new
technology to reinforce the organization's niche within the
parent institution; the role of technology in environmental
turbulence and uncertainty; the effects of new technology on
routineness, standardization, formalization and flexibility;
the structural impacts of new technology; and the human and
social impacts upon organization members. The chapter
continues with a review of relevant literature, and concludes
with a description of the methodology employed. Subsequent
chapters consider the University Library in the light of each of
the propositions. Two chapters are devoted to the background
and particular circumstances of the organization - one on its
history, nature and technology, and another on its task
environment. The nature of the technology employed by the
University Library is then examined in more detail in an attempt
to classify it. Perrow's scale of routineness is chosen as a
suitable classification scheme, and the effects of automation on
the level of routineness of the organization's technology are
considered. A tendency towards increased routineness,
standardization and formalization is observed, but there is little
corresponding loss of flexibility. Rather, new opportunities for
creativity and flexible services are noted. Structural impacts
of the introduction of automated systems are examined. While the
formal structure remains virtually unchanged, there are changes
occurring in the informal organization. The results of a survey
of organization members indicate that the human impacts of
automation generally have been minor, although a small group of
employees experiencing loss of job satisfaction and deteriorating
social relationships is identified. Finally, the impacts
observed in the case study are considered in the context of the
particular circumstances of the University of Tasmania Library -
its history, nature, technology, environment and management, as
described in the earlier chapters - and concludes that these are
all contributing factors to the nature of the impacts of the
introduction of new automated systems in the particular
organization.
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Harinarayana, N. S. "An evaluative study of automation in selected special libraries in South India." Thesis, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/2009/5933.
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Lai, Ya-Jou, and 賴雅柔. "A Study of the Development of Special Collections in Taiwan’s University Libraries." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/77732258005702068777.
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Through the development of special collections, university libraries may be able to introduce certain characteristics, highlights and uniqueness into their holdings. This thesis attempts to investigate the development of special collections in Taiwan’s university libraries, and examines special collections that have already been established. This is done by recording the insights and development processes of some libraries that have experiences in developing special collections, including their development motivation, the establishment process , current status, factors affecting development, possible effects, and collection management, use and promotion. This thesis adopts the qualitative research approach, and the data were collected through conducting semi-structured in-depth interviews and questionnaires. Twenty eight libraries participated in the questionnaire survey, and twenty five librarians from sixteen of the university libraries were interviewed in depth. The findings of this thesis are as follows: (1) The three major reasons that contribute to the development of special collections in university libraries are: the inheritance of existing resources, superiors’ instructions and project funds. (2) In many libraries, the collection development policies include special collections development. The acquisition methods for special collections are similar to those of general collections, including the suggestions of faculty members and acquisition through exchange and gifts. (3) The three most common development types of special collections are subject disciplines, material formats and historical periods. (4) According to literature review and respondents from interviews and questionnaires, the three major factors that influence the development of special collections are library space, budgets and staff. IV (5) According to the respondents, the biggest incentives for the development of special collections include enhancing the quality and quantity of the collection, and helping answer more in-depth information demands. However it may also lead to the neglect of the development of general collections. (6) There are no standard rules for special collections management in staff, display and classification in university libraries. Each library uses a different management style, and the same library may have a number of management styles. Usually, libraries use the same management rules for special collections and general collections, although the special collections are kept together on display and are marked by special codes. (7) Special collections are almost always limited to library use only. And due to the concept of resource sharing, most university libraries provide equal access to their special collections for both internal and external patrons. However, some special collections are accessed in different ways because of user identification or the characteristics of collections. (8) Using library websites is the most common way to promote special collections. Sometimes libraries also plan promotional activities to create more diversity in their marketing.
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Gandhi, Ramesh R. T. D. "A study of problems and prospects of libraries and publishers with special reference to collection development in University libraries in Karnataka." Thesis, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2009/2934.
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Saha, Karuna. "Factors related to organisational effectiveness: A study based on special and academic libraries." Thesis, 1986. http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/12345678/5690.
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Saha, Karuna. "Factors related to organisational effectiveness: A study based on special and academic libraries." Thesis, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/2009/4560.
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