Browsing 16th BOBCATSSS Symposium 2008 BOBCATSSS 2008 (Zadar, Croatia, 28.01.2008 - 30.01.2008) by Subject "02 Schrift, Buch, Bibliothek, Information und Dokumentation"
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2008-01-19KonferenzveröffentlichungA Virtual Exhibition of Open Source Software for Libraries Frequently the choice of a library management program is conditioned by social, economic and/or political factors that result in the selection of a system that is not altogether suitable for the library’s needs, ...
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2008-01-19KonferenzveröffentlichungAccess With(out) Anonymity Anonymity in Public Libraries in Modern TimesAccess to information is one aspect; collecting and retaining data of people accessing information is another aspect of library services in modern times. Users can benefit from new technologies applied in library services, ...
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2008-01-19KonferenzveröffentlichungAdult Learners and Public Libraries The UK Government’s ten year strategic vision for public libraries in England was defined in Framework for the Future, which set out current strengths and key areas for development for public libraries in supporting ...
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2008-01-19KonferenzveröffentlichungAre Portuguese School Libraries Providing Access toInformation for Everyone? The Case of 20 Selected OnesThis paper aims at describing the today’s reality of 20 school libraries (SL) belonging to Portuguese public basic integrated schools (Escolas Básicas Integradas, EBIs), which were in the school libraries network (Rede ...
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2008-01-19KonferenzveröffentlichungAre You Giving Me Attitude? The Attitudes of Three Researchers in Sweden Concerning the Open-Access InitiativeOur goal with this study is to gauge the attitudes towards Open-Access publication amongst researchers in Sweden. Open-Access is a relatively new concept, which emerged in formalised form for the first time in the 2001 ...
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2008-01-19Konferenzveröffentlichung“Book Banning and Boggarts” Harry Potter and Issues of Accessibility to Children’s LiteratureThe Harry Potter series has become an international children’s literary sensation. But despite his popularity, Harry Potter has had to face real life evils in the form of would-be censors. While book banning and censorship ...
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2008-01-19KonferenzveröffentlichungCollaborating through Real-Time VoIP and Visual Search This paper describes the importance of allowing human-human collaboration in the information-seeking task by modeling the task using Charnov’s Marginal Gain Theorem. Highlighting areas of potential gain, the paper then ...
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2008-01-19KonferenzveröffentlichungCorpus-Based Word Information Systems for the GermanLanguage on the Internet Aspects of Usability and Applicability in the Focus of Scholarly NeedsIn this paper I will describe usage possibilities of two major lexicological resources for the German language on the internet. The two databases in my focus will be the elexiko-project by the IdS (=Institute for the ...
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2008-01-19KonferenzveröffentlichungCreative Commons Licences New Ways of Granting and Utilising Access to InformationThis paper is introducing Creative Commons Licences (CCL) as an innovative model of flexible open content licences. After integrating this concept in the conflicting priorities of „intellectual property“ and „digital ...
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2008-01-19KonferenzveröffentlichungDesigning Library Facilities for Everyone? Providing Space for Informational ParticipationThe concept of informational participation is a holistic approach to the problems associated with the 'digital divide'. It assumes that 'digital divide' is not only a dichotomizing problem of having physical access to ...
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2008-01-19KonferenzveröffentlichungDevelopment of Legal Deposit in Latvia In previous Legal Deposit Law the number of legal deposits was too large and publishers were discontent with this factor, because the expenses of publishing through years have grown, publishers didn’t want to deliver ...
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2008-01-19KonferenzveröffentlichungDiscourses of Accessibility in a Digital Context This paper is based on early reflections from the ongoing work with my Master`s thesis about the present digital terms of accessibility. Libraries have throughout their history shared a common objective; to make information ...
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2008-01-19KonferenzveröffentlichungDo Knowledge and New Technologies Need a NewEpistemology? We suggest a historical and epistemological treatment of the theme of access to information and its means: the changes in the means of access and the value given to knowledge in Western history from Plato to nowadays. ...
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2008-01-19KonferenzveröffentlichungGoing Digital in Italy Obstacles Concerning Access to Digital LibrariesThis paper presents the findings of a user survey, promoted and financed by the Digital Renaissance Foundation in Italy. Digital resources and the Web are continuing to offer many opportunities to improve the access to ...
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2008-01-19KonferenzveröffentlichungHelp Users Search! Prototyping an Online Help System for OPACsOnline Public Access Catalogues (OPACs) are not self-explanatory, and help searching them should be a standard feature. Access to library information should not be an adventure game. Unfortunately that goal is far away. ...
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2008-01-19KonferenzveröffentlichungICT in the Workplace Access for All or Digital Divide?The paper presents the findings of research into the extent and impact of restricted access to ICT based communications for specific groups of staff in UK further and higher education organisations. Educational institutions ...
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2008-01-19KonferenzveröffentlichungImproving Subject Searching in Databases through aCombination of Descriptors and UDC Problems with subject access to online catalogues and databases are not new. Studies on the use of OPACs have revealed two apparently endemic problems: on the one hand, the large number of searches with zero hits (failed ...
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2008-01-19KonferenzveröffentlichungInformation Access for Disabled Students Disabled students who makes relatively small part of the academic society are in risk to disappear among all other students, due to their communication and mobility difficulties have less possibilities to satisfy their ...
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2008-01-19KonferenzveröffentlichungInformation Literacy and Communication A Theoretical Approach to an Interdisciplinary IssueAs the existing literature shows, many models of IL, as well as curricula point towards the close ties between IL and communication. IL is closely connected to literacy and functional literacy in their traditional sense, ...
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2008-01-19KonferenzveröffentlichungKeeping Libraries Alive Behind Bars A Study of NSW Corrective Services LibrariesLibraries in prisons in Australia are traditionally repositories of old, second hand books, staffed (if at all) by an inmate who can hopefully read. The NSW Department of Corrective Services is attempting to change this ...
