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Comparative Analysis of Motivational Readiness for Professional Self-determination in Adolescents in Specific Social Situations of Development
Authors: Aron I.S.
Published: December 2015

We present the results of investigation of the motivational component of psychological readiness for professional self-determination in adolescents in specific social situations of development. It was assumed that in a particular deficit social situation of development under the influence of negative social context the formation of motivational readiness for professional self-determination is hindered. We revealed significant differences in the level of development of motivational readiness for professional self-determination of pupils of the school for children with behavioral problems, pupils of boarding school for orphans and pupils of regular secondary school. It is shown that the motivational sphere of adolescents with deviant behavior and adolescents without parental care is characterized by focus on the failure avoidance, predominance of external motives of choice of profession, lack of awareness of their values and motives. The obtained results can serve as a basis for the development of technologies of psychological and pedagogical support of professional self-determination of teenagers with consideration of their age and development and of the individual characteristics due to the aggravation of social situation of development.
The Organizational Model of Psychosocial Support of Substitute Families
Authors: Oslon V.N.
Published: December 2015

The article presents the organizational model of psychosocial support for families with adopted children. We show that the organization of such support is considered in our country among the most important tasks of the state policy in the field of family support and protection of the rights of children without parental care. The methodological basis of this model is ecodynamic approach. We substantiate the necessity of levels in model of support of the replacement family in accordance with its needs and state. We reveal the content of the activities of social officers, algorithms of their interactions with family and with professionals in interdisciplinary and interdepartmental team. We present forms and methods of support service at every level. Particular attention is paid to psychosocial support for families with adopted children with disabilities, teenagers in pubertal crisis from families with kinship and non-kinship care, and siblings.
The Current Mental State of School Students in Online Learning Conditions
Authors: Kovalevskaya E.V.
Published: December 2015

This article discusses the results of a study of actual mental state of high school students who are active subjects of career self-determination in terms of interactive learning. There are four groups of methods of interactive training: psychological training, art therapy, cognitive, and game training. The main task, which is solved by a researcher in a formative experiment with the use of each of these methods, is to establish significant differences in health, activity and mood as the indicators of current mental state of students in the classroom. As a result, we found that the most significant improvements in the current mental state takes place when using art and game therapy, so these techniques should be used in groups of students with low motivation to work, as well as in the adverse psychological climate. Less significant was the improvement of the current mental state after psychological training due to the fact that this method allow to update and seek solutions to the most important intrapersonal issues and require the implementation of a deeper reflection.
The Contents of Value Orientations of Students in the Conditions of Military Education
Authors: Zvereva I.I.
Published: December 2015

We reveal the axiological aspect of the content of cadet education. An empirical study of value orientations content in military education students was conducted with the use of M. Rokeach Value survey. We analyzed the effectiveness of military education in terms of its influence on the formation of students’ values from the perspective of all the participants of the educational process: students (N = 75), teachers (N = 7), and parents (N = 22). The sample of students comprised cadets (N = 44) and students of secondary schools (N = 31) aged 15 to 17 years (25 girls). An expert survey (N = 7) was conducted, relating to the definition of values that are relevant to the content of military education. The results supported the hypothesis that the degree of values acquisition relevant to the content of military education, is higher in the cadets compared to the students of secondary schools. We discuss the causes of these differences. We conclude that teachers play the leading role in the development of the specific valuable orientations content in cadets. These findings can serve as a basis for the design and improvement of the content and forms of military education.
Multifunctional Perceptual Mapping of the Various Components of the World Image in Students
Authors: Kostyuchenko E.V.
Published: December 2015

The article analyzes the products of artistic, graphic and verbal activity, objective measures of actualization of the world image in students of different majors and courses of Kiev National University of Culture and Arts on the basis of allocation of the dominant dichotomous signs, and criteria of interrelated components of the world image (physical, cognitive, psychosomatic, emotional and social). We compared the representation of these characteristics in all artworks (group 1: 1438 students) and in a dedicated group of pictures of students, for whom the dominant channel of verbal representation of the world image is perceptual one (group 2: 145 students). We revealed the multifunctional indicators of perceptual representation, and composition category in the mapping of the various components of the world image: harmony, integrity and consistency of form, proportionality and flexibility, structuredness. The perceptual image of the world as a reference image is displayed in the form of compositional integrity, it corrects all the other images, affects the peculiarities of their manifestations in artistic activity; it has a personal meaning, which characterizes the attitude of the individual to the world.
A study of the interrelationship of the integral characteristics of representation
Authors: Peskov V.P.
Published: December 2015

The article raises the issue of representation, indicating that multi-dimensional representation as a psychological phenomenon requires consideration in different coordinate systems. We show that system consideration is not only its study as a multifunctional education complex structure, but also the study of its integral characteristics, as the minimum set of characteristics is required, that provides its short description. We conclude that it is necessary to integrate different measurements, various order qualities and properties of representations, the allocation of determinants system, reflecting its diversity, multidimensionality and correlation of different measurements (characteristics) to each other, as well as their complementarity. We point out that the study of multi-dimensional representation involves the analysis of the relationship of its integral characteristics (controlled, vividness, brightness, sharpness), which will clarify the nature of the desired integral factors and create a common system of methods for studying the representation. We provide the results of correlation analysis of the integral characteristics of representation at different age stages of schooling.
The Structure and Content of Social Representations of Lawyers, Psychologists and Journalists about Mentally Ill People
Authors: Yakushenko A.V.
Published: December 2015

the various professional groups of young people. This study involved 60 people aged 20 to 30 years (50% of respondents were girls, 50% were boys), specializing in psychology, law and journalism. We used semi-structured interview, associative method with elements of ranking and emotional attitude, and drawing techniques. We tested the following hypotheses: 1) the social representations of the mentally ill people contain elements with negative valence in all investigated occupational groups of young people; 2) social representations of the mentally ill people are based on such constructs as "otherness"; treatment (hospital, pills, experts); disease (synonyms, names of diseases, symptoms); the attitude of society; 3) social representations of the mentally ill people of lawyers and journalists are simpler and more consistent than those of psychologists. These hypotheses were supported by the empirical results.
Therapy for Multiple Myeloma – Quo Vadis?
Authors: Rasche Leo , Kortuem Klaus Martin , Einsele Hermann ,   Consultant Physician,   Consultant Physician,   Director, Department of Internal Medicine II, Hematology and Oncology, University Hospital of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany
Published: December 2015

Two major developments are changing our current understanding of cancer: (1) the in-depth analysis of tumour-harbouring mutations and (2) the generation of highly active T cell-involving immunotherapies. In this editorial, we focus on its impact on myeloma therapy and speculate on future treatment concepts.
The Use of Brentuximab Vedotin with or without Subsequent Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation in Selected Patient Groups
Authors: Jager Ulrich , Keil Felix , Hutchings Martin ,   Professor of Hematology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; Head of the Clinical Department of Hematology and Hemostasis, Vienna General Hospital, Vienna, Austria,   Professor of Hematology, Hanusch Hospital, Vienna, Austria,   Clinical Oncologist, Department of Hematology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
Published: December 2015

While combined chemotherapy regimens can be effective in classical Hodgkin’s lymphoma (cHL) and systemic anaplastic large cell lymphoma (sALCL), around a third of patients are unresponsive or relapse within a few years of treatment. Allogeneic stem cell transplantation (allo- SCT) may achieve long-term disease control in patients with chemoresistant disease, but many patients are unable to undergo allo-SCT. Brentuximab vedotin (BV) is a novel antibody-drug conjugate targeting CD30. Recent data have suggested that this treatment may be beneficial in patients who have had an unsatisfactory response to at least two prior treatments and are not eligible for allo-SCT. In addition, BV may be used to reduce tumour burden, allowing patients to subsequently progress to allo-SCT. This article discusses case studies of treatment-refractory patients with cHL and sALCL, for whom BV has provided durable complete responses (CRs).
Lenalidomide – A Brief Review of its Use in Myelodysplastic Syndromes
Authors: Sejpal Jaykumar J , Belagali Yogesh R , Barkate Hanmant V ,   Senior Medical Advisor (Researcher),   Medical Advisor (Researcher),   Vice President (Researcher), Department of Medical Affairs & Clinical Research, Intas Pharmaceuticals Limited, Ahmedabad, India
Published: December 2015

Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) are a heterogeneous group of blood diseases mainly affecting older people. Deletion of the long arm of chromosome 5 (del[5q]) is reported in approximately 10–15 % of all MDS cases. Lenalidomide is an immunomodulatory, anti-cytokine and anti-angiogenic agent, which leads to red blood cells transfusion independence in patients of lower risk MDS with del(5q). This review briefly describes role of lenalidomide in treatment of lower-risk MDS with del(5q) as well as non-del-5q MDS. Recent evidence also suggest a potential role of lenalidomide in combination with other agents for treatment of higher-risk MDS
How Do We Move Forward with Vaccines in Lung Cancer?
Authors: Ottevaere Anouck , Brucker Nele De , Vansteenkiste Johan ,   Consultant,   Consultant,   Professor of Internal Medicine, Respiratory Oncology Unit (Department of Respiratory Diseases) and Leuven Lung Cancer Group, University Hospital KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Published: December 2015

Vaccination for non-small cell lung cancer has been studied in several large phase III trials over the past decade. They confirmed excellent tolerability, but could not demonstrate outcome benefits, despite promising earlier phase II randomised studies. MAGE-A3 as Adjuvant Non-Small Cell LunG CanceR ImmunoTherapy (MAGRIT), the largest therapeutic trial ever carried out in lung cancer, with appropriate setting, power and design, answered a long-existing question: therapeutic vaccination with current technologies does not work in lung cancer. The best strategy forward may be combination of neo-epitopes vaccines and checkpoint inhibitors.
Physicochemical Investigations of Scheelite Concentrate Decomposition
Authors: Yar-Mukhamedova G. , Darisheva А. , Kasimzhanov K. , Babazhanov D. , Barkitova B.
Published: December 2015

In the article results of kinetic studies of autoclave-carbonate decomposition of scheelite concentrates are presented. Studies are carried out in temperature range of 368–523 K, at mixing with a speed of 100–400 revolutions per minute. Solutions of sodium carbonate, mol/ dm3: 0.5, 0.75, 1.0, 1.25, 1.5, 2.0 was used to determine the dependence of the degree of tungsten leaching from scheelite on concentration. It was established, that with increase of concentration of sodium carbonate leaching degree increases and at the concentration of 1.5–2.0 mol/dm3 it is reached rapid, within 45–60 min, 80−90% of leaching, and the almost complete  leaching of tungsten (95.2–99.3%) achieved in 2 h. For interaction of WO3 with Na2CO3 solution it was obtained the kinetic mode. In this case there is practically no concentration gradient of sodium carbonate at an oxide surface. It is obvious, that increase of the hydrolysis takes place due to the fact that to oxides reaction with a reagent-solvent precedes hydration of their surface. In the adsorbed water molecules due to their interaction with the oxide surface intramolecular bonds are weakened, thereby hydrolysis of
 oxide ions coming to the hydrated surface flows more fully.
A Quantitative Study of History in the English Short-Title Catalogue (ESTC), 1470-1800
Authors: Lahti Leo , Ilomäki Niko , Tolonen Mikko
Published: December 2015

This article analyses the publication trends of history in early modern Britain and North-America, 1470-1800, based on the English Short-Title Catalogue (ESTC) data. Its most important contribution is a demonstration how digitized library catalogues can become a crucial tool for scholarship and part of reproducible research. The article also suggests a novel way how to make a quantitative analysis of a particular trend in book production, namely publishing of history. This study is also our first experiment with the analysis of paper consumption in early modern book production. It demonstrates in practice the importance of open science principles for library and information science. The article studies three main research questions: 1) who wrote history 2) where was history published, and 3) how did publishing of history change over time in early modern Britain and North America. As the main findings, we demonstrate that the average book size for history publications becomes smaller over time and that the octavo-sized book is the rising vehicle of history in the eighteenth century that tells us factually about widening audiences. The article will also compare different aspects of most popular authors on history such as Edmund Burke and David Hume. While focusing on history publishing, these findings may reflect more widespread trends in publication in the early modern era, and this article illustrates how some of the key questions in this field can be assessed by statistical analysis of large-scale bibliographic data collections.
Knowledge Representation in Map Collections for Information Retrieval Systems
Authors: Babik Wieslaw
Published: December 2015

In this article, I will deal with the issue of the knowledge representation about maps kept in libraries or available through Internet from the viewpoint of information retrieval. Representation of knowledge belongs to those fields, which have undergone dynamic change in recent decades. The interest it not only raises among specialists, but also among librarians and information scientists indicates the viability of this field of study. Many scholars conduct research in the respective areas. Articles on the subject related to the documentation are also published. The knowledge of the contents of a map collection is represented in the information retrieval system by metainformation kept in databases, which also perform regular retrieval process. Indeed, we are talking about the problems of access to the contents of map collections through respective information retrieval systems requiring such a system of map description and formal and subject cataloguing which would allow for searching maps relevant to the needs of their users. Using documentation terminology, first of all we mean the issue of information retrieval languages designed for such collections and primarily the method of representing knowledge for the needs of such materials classification which so far may be one of the basic tools of map collection organisation.
Préservation et les possibilités d’ usage les techniques modernes dans les principales cartothéques d’ Estonie
Authors: Tohver Margit
Published: December 2015

Le problème le plus difficile en Estonie est qu’ au cours de l’ histoire, des collections de cartes ont été créés auprès des institutions très différentes aussi bien en ce qui concerne leur structure que leurs fonctions. Par conséquent, l’organisation, la description des documents, les conditions d’ utilisation ainsi que l’ encadrement matériel sont très variés.
The DIEPER Project, DIgitised European PERiodicals
Authors: Schwartz Werner
Published: December 2015

Following technical developments digitising of printed information is being done on a large scale in many countries. Publishers and libraries are exploring a range of technical approaches for creating digital documents from books. In part this activity may be motivated by curiosity about the feasability of new electronic concepts. But in an increasing number of cases a very practical approach is underlying present projects of so-called retrospective digitising. I will concentrate on libraries here. Today users request books, journals or photo-copies by the way of interlibrary loan or other document delivery services. Libraries with large holdings and with users well beyond the campus try to keep up with this ever increasing demand. However, this heavy use of library holdings is damaging books, which are out of print in most cases. In addition there is the threat of the brittle paper phenomenon. Although it is well known by now to every librarian and remedies have been sought intensely for more than two decades, it is still far from having been tackled.
The View of Elsevier Science on Licensing
Authors: Snijders Paul
Published: December 2015

Licenses need to be carefully prepared and lengthy periods of negotiations may occur.
Access and the Changing Mission of Research Libraries
Authors: Wätjen Hans-Joachim
Published: December 2015

The session of this morning deals with the coming century. But I am not a prophet foreseeing the future. I agree with the economist Edgar Fiedler who said in his Law of Prediction, „Forecasting is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.” And Mirjam Foot is on the right side too. In the afternoon she will talk about change as the only certainty. Or in other words: today we live in an age of uncertainty and it will increase in the future!
La Numérisation des Thèses en France: Pour une Meilleure Valorisation de la Recherche Scientifique Française
Authors: Okret Christine
Published: December 2015

Tels qu’ils existent actuellement, les procédés institutionnels de valorisation des thèses soutenues dans les universités et grands établissements français reposent sur deux circuits concomitants. En premier lieu les thèses soutenues sont déposées sous forme papier dans la bibliothèque de leur université de soutenance, où elles peuvent être consultées sur place, et prêtées par le biais du réseau de prêt entre bibliothèques. En second lieu, un exemplaire papier est transmis aux ateliers nationaux de reproduction des thèses chargés du microfichage des textes et de la diffusion systématique de ces microfiches auprès de toutes les bibliothèques universitaires. Ces deux formes de diffusion non commerciale présentent en regard des exigences des chercheurs trois inconvénients majeurs: la diffusion des thèses est géographiquement restreinte, puisque limitée aux bibliothèques universitaires; le support microfiche est jugé peu convivial; le prêt entre établissements est parfois trop lent ou onéreux, ce qui peut décourager les utilisateurs qui désirent consulter sur papier les thèses non conservées dans leur bibliothèque universitaire.
Electronic Theses: Swiss Perspectives
Authors: Niederer Ulrich , Weigel Ulrich , Gillieron-Garber Marie-Pierre , Böhler Karl
Published: December 2015

To offer theses electronically to its users is something that has been discussed in Swiss university libraries for some time now. There are two main reasons that it has not yet been realized anywhere in Switzerland: On the one hand, the two large university library networks have had big library system migrations to cope with (first the „Réseau Romand” in the French speaking part moved to VTLS, then, in the last two years, the „Informationsverbund Deutschschweiz, IDS” in the German speaking part switched to Aleph by Ex Libris). These migrations used up all available personnel resources. On the other hand, the federalist organization of all things politic in Switzerland, including the university system, means that there are hardly any national programmes to further and finance projects on a national level (or cantonal, for that matter) - in contrast to most other European countries where such programmes have proved to be a very strong incentive for developing various aspects of the digital library.
Digital Dissertations in the United Kingdom
Authors: Matheson Ann
Published: December 2015

In the United Kingdom a user wishing to consult a UK thesis has traditionally had the following choices: the thesis may be consulted in the Library of the Higher Education Institution (HEI) to which it was submitted; the thesis may be borrowed from the library of the HEI; a copy of the thesis may be purchased form the library of the HEI; the thesis may be borrowed through inter-library loan; or the thesis may be made available through the British Library’s British Thesis Service, which was set up in 1971. This Service currently holds more than 150,000 UK theses, which are added to at a rate of around 7,000 a year, with the participation of about a hundred Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). With the development of new technology, however, an interest developed in examining the feasibility of making theses available online to users. In the United Kingdom, the University Theses Online Group (UTOG) was established as a consequence of a proposal to the Follett Implementation Group on Information Technology in 1994. The University Theses Online Group (UTOG) is a working group of UK university librarians: the Group’s aims are to investigate the technical, cultural and administrative issues associated with the storage and delivery of theses in online form. The Group is made up of representatives of the British Library Document Supply Centre (BLDSC), British Thesis Service, and the university libraries of Cranfield, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester, Plymouth, Robert Gordon, University College London, Kent, University of London and Warwick.
Perception and the Mood of Change
Authors: Hollender Henryk , Kobierska-Maciuszko Ewa
Published: December 2015

It was already four years ago when one of us had a chance to present the design of the new building of the Warsaw University Library on the LIBER seminar in Paris. Nearly four months ago first patrons entered the building. Four years is not much when compared to the 195 years of Warsaw University (and its Library!), but considering us librarians those fours years brought about a real revolution.
The National Library of Norway, Oslo Division: Is it Possible to Make a 1913-Building Accessible for the Library User of 2005?
Authors: Nilsen Sissel
Published: December 2015

National Libraries are mostly regarded as important national institutions, but very few people outside the school and academic circles believe that there can be anything of interest for them inside such an institution.
From the Storage of Tobacco to a Research Library: The Conversion of the Toulouse Tobacco Factory
Authors: Heusse Marie-Dominique
Published: December 2015

Today, Toulouse has got three plain Universities, two polytechnics, as well as a large number of superior schools, mostly dedicated to aeronautics and chemistry. With nearly 100,000 students and a very strong research activity, all university institutions have united to create the Toulouse University Network and the libraries of these universities have built their own documentary network and common catalogue (Toulouse University libraries Network).
The Johannes a Lasco Library Emden – on the Way to a Self- supporting Library
Authors: Schulz Walter
Published: December 2015

The focus of this conference is new library architecture, so in my short lecture I will describe our new building and explain how it works. But to understand the special situation of the Emden library it is quite important to know the special and that means too the historical backround and to see the different ways we use the library - really uncommon for a church-library. Most of the libraries represented at this conference are university or state libraries. The Emden library project is not comparable to most of them. The Johannes a Lasco Library was for centuries the book collection only of the reformed communitiy at Emden and just the last ten years we started to build up a compehensive special-library in the field of reformed protestantism on the basis of this old collection, not a particularly large but a well sorted specified one. Today the library is organized as a foundation or registered charity according to German law and belongs to the Reformed Church of Germany.
Scientific Information: A Partnership between the Library and the Academic Community
Authors: Dekeyser Raf
Published: December 2015

Libraries are sometimes erroneously considered to be rather passive recipients for the conservation of literary and scientific production. Such a picture was never correct, since there has always been a strong relation between the libraries and the centres of book production. Such a relation is even more strongly present today in our modern universities and other centres of research. Our budget is always too limited to allow anything but an acquisition policy that is tailored as much as possible to the specific needs of our customers. In the library lies the beginning of every research project, since it contains the necessary sources of information; the library forms also the ultimate goal of a research project, since this is the place where the publications that consolidate its results should be deposited. The activities of a research institute and its supporting library are so strongly intertwined that a librarian cannot afford to remain ignorant about the mechanisms through which scientific and scholarly information are established.
The Role and Responsibility of the University Library in Publishing in a University
Authors: Savenije Bas , Grygierczyk Natalia
Published: December 2015

As a consequence of developments in information technology, the traditional information chain is subject to change: the separate functions in this chain become more and more integrated and the roles played by the traditional parties are most uncertain. Several new models in scholarly publishing and communication are emerging, in which the scientific community and the scientists themselves play a central role. It is more than natural for universities to support these developments in order to realise new models of scientific communication that are more in tune with the needs of the academic community than the traditional model, which has led to a serious serials crisis. An important step in this direction is that each university encourages scientists to make more use of ICT in their research publications. However, it is also necessary to give serious attention to organisational matters: in this respect every university should take responsibility for collecting, archiving and disclosing the scientific output of its own scientists. The provision of scientific information is the traditional core business of university libraries and it is a natural extension of this role for university libraries to support this development and to organise the processes needed. The paper describes the role that universities and their libraries have to play. It also gives some examples of library initiatives in this field, including an evaluation of their impact on the innovation of scientific communication.
The Integration of Internet Resources into a Library’s Special Subject Services – the Example of the History Guide of the State and University Library of Goettingen
Authors: Enderle Wilfried
Published: December 2015

The Internet has created a unique type of media for scholarly information and publication, the subject-specific web site. Sometimes subject-specific web sites reveal still striking similarities to examples derived from the world of print, like electronic journals or text archives, but it is becoming more and more obvious that this is largely due to their authors’ adherence to traditional ways of thinking rather than to a lack of knowledge about the new type of media. It is beginning to get through that we have to cope with a new type of media requiring new organisational and technical models. It is crucial to understand how insufficient it would be to try to handle these new media types in the same way as their printed predecessors. Largely there are two reasons why subject-specific web sites require new approaches to dealing with them: unlike printed books web sites do not have a fixed status and even after making them available to the public they are often changed, revised, and enlarged. Once published they do not have a fixed status but are changing regularly. They are to a large degree dynamic compared to printed resources librarians are familiar with. And secondly they are representing networked information, which does not have to have a fixed place like a library building any more because it can be accessed from all over the world via the Internet.
University-Publisher Relationship Revisited – ‘Policy Statement by Academic Libraries on the Pricing of Scholarly Journals’
Authors: Roosendaal Hans E.
Published: December 2015

The consortium of Dutch universities, the Dutch Royal Library and the Netherlands Institute for Scientific Information have summer 1999 developed and implemented a new strategy in its relationship to scientific publishing houses.
EDINA Digimap: New Developments in the Internet Mapping and Data Service for the UK Higher Education Community
Authors: Morris Barbara , Medyckyj-Scott David , Burnhill Peter
Published: December 2015

Following successful trials in six United Kingdom university map collections, the EDINA Digimap web-based mapping service was launched on 10 January 2000. Digimap gives access to current Ordnance Survey of Great Britain (OS) maps ranging in scale from 1:1,250 to 1:250,000 and also to the raw digital map data. This paper looks at the background to the service, the facilities it offers to the UK Higher Education (HE) community, and future plans for incorporating other data, including historic mapping and aerial photography.
Map Collections and the Internet: Some Ideas about Various Online Map Services, Based on the ETH Map Collection in Zürich
Authors: Bühler Jürg
Published: December 2015

The Internet enables a map collection to be easily available to the general public. The Internet allows worldwide usage of map libraries. It is well suited for public relations and therefore important for today’s map libraries.
Map ‘Webucation’: Using the World Wide Web for the Continuing Education of Map Librarians
Authors: Bauer Theo , Bühler Jürg , Crom Wolfgang
Published: December 2015

This paper introduces the Working Group for Education of the Groupe des Cartothécaires (GdC) de LIBER and gives a progress report of the Group’s activities from 1998 to the present. It also discusses the impact of the Working Group’s decision to put up an Internet platform in terms of the opportunities, achievements, and difficulties encountered when using this particular information platform.
The Situation in the Sphere of Consortia and Licensing of Information Sources in the Czech Republic
Authors: Pilar Jindrich
Published: December 2015

The primary reason for founding „consortia“ (open associations) of information services in the Czech Republic seems to be the possibility of obtaining access to extensive and highly expensive information sources under more convenient conditions than if each of the participating institutions had to organise this access separately.Licensing the access to information sources within special purpose association of information services is a relatively recent innovation in the Czech republic practice. It has started at the end of the nineties (except for the CrossFire and Chemical Abstracts system users). Therefore, there has not been created any methodology of selecting „suitable“ members for forming a consortium nor for selection of partners, information source producers yet.
KVK - a Meta Catalog of Libraries
Authors: Mönnich Michael W.
Published: December 2015

Over the past years, the majority of libraries worldwide implemented interfaces to allow users to access to their bibliographic databases through the WWW. Usually these interfaces consist of HTML-pages with an embedded FORMS template where the search terms are entered. Thus for the first time it was made possible for the user to access almost every library using only one software: the WWW browser. However, if the user has to search more than one library catalog, e.g. when searching literature for a PhD thesis, he has to access a multitude of catalogs deal with different search forms, different search syntaxes, wildcards etc. This is the case especially for users in Germany. Faced with this situation in 1996, our team at the university library of Karlsruhe came up with the idea to create a virtual catalog enabling our library patrons to search several catalogs simultaneously. The idea was inspired by the successful introduction of meta search engines like metacrawler which perform the same function with internet search engines. So why not try to do it with library catalogs? The idea was discussed, and with support from the faculty of computer science, a prototype was built in July 1996. It proved surprisingly easy to do, so we included not only union catalogs but also bookshops. The meta catalog showed so much potential that we decided not to limit access to our local library patrons but to offer it as a service to the internet community as Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog (KVK, Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog). Once the KVK was announced in several mailing list, the usage peaked within a few weeks and has continued to do so.
National Libraries – A Dumping Ground or a Source of National Knowledge
Authors: Larsen Steen Bille
Published: December 2015

Within the past year something very unusual has taken place – namely a public debate on the national library task. What actually started this debate was that some scholars were voicing their criticism of the Danish legal deposit act for failing to ensure that sufficient collection of texts from the Internet was being effected and that nothing has been done to preserve these texts for posterity. The discussion was concentrating on how to solve the question of the national library’s main obligations – collection, preservation and accessibility in terms of publications on the Internet. Preservation of digital documents is a new task, but the traditional types of material have not disappeared. Thoughts on how to preserve digital documents will influence opinions on how to handle traditional media and are bound to challenge some of the traditions associated with this. The digitisation issue will set the agenda. Priorities will be necessary in order to focus on the media of the future. The answer to this is a Dual strategy for traditional as well as digital media.
Adding Effectively to the National Resource on Art, Craft and Design: A View from a Museum Library
Authors: Watson Rowan
Published: December 2015

In these times of intensified resource constraints, our task is to reflect on the essential nature of our collections, to identify what makes them distinct from others, and to capitalize on that distictiveness for the benefit of all. Only then can we see how best to contribute to the collective bibliographical resource that the web begins to deliver to us in our offices and living rooms.
OCLC / PICA – A New European Organisation to Build Transatlantic Library Cooperation
Authors: Lees Janet Mitchell
Published: December 2015

Today I would like to explore some of the issues relating to transatlantic library cooperation as an important element within the concept of global library cooperation. I would like to explore some of the issues and indeed some of the barriers and to discuss this within the context of the new OCLC Pica European library organisation.
SPARC: Igniting Change in Scholarly Communication
Authors: Baker Shirley K.
Published: December 2015

I am speaking today about the current state of SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, initiative of the Association of Research Libraries. I am titling my presentation Igniting Change in Scholarly Communication, because that is what has happened. When SPARC was formed, Ken Frazier, the engine behind its formation, said that a spark could be two things: something easily extinguished or the cause of a conflagration. We are delighted and proud to say that this SPARC seems to have ignited a conflagration. Your inviting us here to talk about SPARC is evidence of that.
Management of the Life Cycle of Digital Library Materials
Authors: Deegan Marilyn
Published: December 2015

This paper does not deal in any detail with digital preservation, rather it examines the development of digital content and digital libraries in the broader content of digital developments and library developments. Implicit throughout this is the need to create or acquire digital content for long-term access, which means that preservation needs must be foregrounded at all stages of the digital lifecycle.
The Share of Preservation Issues when Planning a Library Building
Authors: Varlamoff Marie-Thérèse
Published: December 2015

Primarily and historically a library was a place where books or manuscripts were kept. „ Thékos” means warehouse or storage area in Greek. But nowadays a library is more than a depository. It is also a place where you can read books and access the information they contain. In the case of a new building or of the rehabilitation of an old building it might also serve as a showcase for politicians or decision makers. Hence the necessity to combine preservation issues, accessibility and architecture.
An Assessment of New University Library Building in France during the Period 1990-1999
Authors: Bisbrouck Marie-Francoise
Published: December 2015

Following implementation of two governmental programs a third such plan, referred to as the „ Third Millennium University”(„U3M” ) was considered, with an initial work phase stretching from 2000 to 2006. In view of implementing the latest plan, and given the objectives outlined just now, the Ministry of Education, as the authority responsible for university libraries, thought fit to undertake an assessment of at least one part of those buildings newly opened to the public. The aim of this assessment was to ensure that future library construction and refurbishment programs would incorporate the changes achieved, both as regards pedagogical methods employed in university teaching, and the development of information technologies. I should now like to describe the methodology of this assessment, then present some data regarding the results obtained. In April 1998 a think-tank was set up under my responsibility, comprising around fifteen project managers, university library managers or document-section heads in charge of the building or restructuring project for their particular libraries.
Library Buildings: a User’s Viewpoint
Authors: Line Maurice B.
Published: December 2015

There are many studies of users and their behaviour and needs, but very few studies of their likes and dislikes where buildings are concerned. Actually, we could get quite a lot of useful information by noting down every irritation we ourselves experience in libraries other than our own.
Virtual Reference Services: Connecting Users with Experts and Supporting the Development of Skills
Authors: Bakker Trix
Published: December 2015

Virtual reference - a service that allows librarians and patrons to communicate with each other in real time through the Internet by e-mail, chat or instant messaging - is currently a hot topic in libraries. In a way the commercial sector has challenged the reference function by offering Question & Answer services. To librarians this represents a threat and an opportunity. They can benefit from technologies and service models developed for the commercial arena by adapting these to virtual reference applications that will more effectively meet the needs of libraries on the Web. The literature provides many examples of pilots and experiments in taking reference into cyberspace. After an introduction to the in-and-outs of virtual reference, follows a short exposition of a virtual tour in the Netherlands where 7 of the 13 university libraries and the Royal Library have a basic ‚virtual helpdesk’. One thing is clear: virtual reference services are definitely put high on the agenda of the Dutch libraries. The Royal Library is one of the Dutch libraries, which is going to participate with QuestionPoint, formerly called Collaborative Digital Reference Service (CDRS), jointly developed by the Library of Congress and OCLC, which will provide web-based reference service to researchers anytime, anywhere, through an international, online network of member libraries.
Combining Teaching and Library Work: the Hybrid Academic
Authors: Sheridan Dorothy
Published: December 2015

This paper focuses on some of the issues raised when professional library staff combine archive management with an active teaching role, drawing on my own experience as an archivist in the University of Sussex Library. There are of course many archivists who are also teachers on professional training courses for prospective archivists but my concern here is teaching in higher education in subject areas other than library, archive and information sciences while using archival resources.
Information Literacy – Curriculum Integration with Medical School’s Syllabus
Authors: Haraldstad Anne-Marie
Published: December 2015

The medical students are the researchers and clinicians of the future, and becoming information literate is of utmost importance. In our library medical students is a user group of high priority, and in the following I will present the information literacy programme developed for this group, and some future plans.
‘IN PLACE’: Making the British Library’s Collections ‘Local’ as well as ‘National’
Authors: Shaw Graham
Published: December 2015

‚In Place’ is the name of a government-funded digitisation project currently underway at the British Library which when completed in 2004 will be the premier web-showcase for the Library’s collections. It focuses particularly on the Library’s holdings relating to the United Kingdom itself, and is targeted specifically at ‚lifelong learners’, although many of the items being digitised for the first time will equally be of interest to the Library’s core academic clientele.
Digitising Complex Data: Integrating Text, Images and Physical Organisation
Authors: Ore Espen S.
Published: December 2015

The National Library of Norway (NLN) is the Norwegian national deposit library and has a history going back to 1815 when national library functions were taken care of by The University of Oslo Library. In 1989 the Rana Division of the National Library was established and given the responsibility for the administration of the Norwegian arrangement of legal deposit. In 1992 the Norwegian Parliament decided to establish a unified self-contained National Library with its main office located in Oslo. The Office of the National Librarian came into operation in 1994. The Oslo Division (NLN-O) was established in 1999 based on national functions and collections separated from the University of Oslo Library.
An Organisational Model for University Libraries in Transition
Authors: Savenije Bas
Published: December 2015

This article describes the tradidional university library organisation, but it also gives an overview of a possible new structure which is in line with the demands described above. It is a flexible structure, in the sense that it can accommodate the present situation, but also the changes that are coming forward and are desirable from a policy as well as a managerial point of view.
'Golfiana': A Theft from the National Library of Scotland
Authors: Matheson Ann
Published: December 2015

The American writer, Paul Gallico, once commented: ‚If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out’. This case study deals with the theft of three golfing pamphlets from the printed collections of the National Library of Scotland in the autumn of 1993. Unusually, in the context of theft, it is a story with a happy ending, but my account deals with our experiences in dealing with the incident, and it illustrates some of the points that we will wish to discuss at this conference. The central character in this particular drama has since become known in other research libraries in Europe. His name was Perry, although as we discovered in the aftermath, he turned out to have a plethora of names and identities.
La Numérisation dans les Bibliothèques de l’Enseignement Supérieur en France
Authors: Neouze Valerie
Published: December 2015

En quelques années, l’arrivée d’Internet et le développement des nouvelles technologies ont profondément transformé le paysage des bibliothèques de l’enseignement supérieur en France, comme ailleurs. Constitué de 96 bibliothèques universitaires et de six bibliothèques de grands établissements, ce vaste réseau documentaire s’est enrichi d’une offre numérique de qualité qu’elle met à disposition d’un public sans cesse élargi. Poursuivant leurs missions traditionnelles d’acquisition, de signalement et de diffusion de l’information, ces bibliothèques ont depuis longtemps pris conscience des potentialités offertes par le format numérique pour diffuser à distance une offre documentaire enrichie: acquisition de documents nativement numériques, numérisation de collections matérielles au sein même des établissements, voire édition électronique de documents créés dans le cadre de l’Université. La maîtrise de ces nouvelles technologies, alliée à un savoirfaire professionnel acquis au fil du temps, entraîne ainsi une évolution du rôle de médiateur de la bibliothèque qui se double à présent d’un rôle émergent de producteur de l’information scientifique et technique. Les bibliothèques de l’enseignement supérieur, en France, s’inscrivent très précisément dans ce contexte où les frontières traditionnelles entre la production, l’édition, le traitement et la diffusion de l’information sont d’ores et déjà abolies.