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Features of Time Perspectives in High School Students in the Migration Mobility Region (on Example of Magadan)
Authors: Kuznetsova S.A. , Orekhova A.O.
Published: December 2015

The study of personality time perspective in terms of cultural activity approach takes into consideration not only the features of its formation at each stage of ontogeny, but also social conditions. According to the hypothesis of the study, the time perspective of high school students in Magadan region should be linked not only to professional self-determination (which is specific for age), but also with migration intentions and attitudes. The study involved 286 high school students of Magadan. We used the following methods: Questionnaire of professional perspectives and migration systems, Zimbardo ZPTI Questionnaire, the scale of migration settings of personality (by S.A. Kuznetsova). Testing hypotheses with Student t-test showed (at p <0,05), that focus on the future of the Magadan high school students is linked to a greater extent with the migration intentions than with professional plans. Lack of support for the migration settings from relatives of students leads to fixation on the negative past. These results confirm the need for continuing studies of migration systems within the social psychology of development.
The Main Directions of Research Volunteer Activities
Authors: Korneeva E.L.
Published: December 2015

Despite the growing popularity of the volunteer movement in Russia, there is a clear gap between the number of participants in this movement, and the number of people potentially ready to participate in it. Meanwhile, the accumulation of data on volunteering can contribute to the development of programs to involve more and more people. This might have a special significance for young people - not only for the development of special personal qualities, but also for professional life preparation. The article describes the main areas of study of volunteerism, formulated in the form of questions about the subject: "Who?" - about the features of the volunteers, "Why?" - about the motivational factors of meaning, "How?" - about the practical aspects of this type of activity. The possible areas for further research include determining the specificity of voluntary activity, the accumulation of data on Russian regions, looking at the work and its meaning through the eyes of its members (volunteers and recipients of assistance), as well as the development of respect for the culture of volunteer resources in general.
Mammalian Target of Rapamycin (mTOR) Inhibition in Advanced Bronchial Carcinoids
Authors: Fazio Nicola , Frezza Anna Maria ,   Director,   Medical Oncologist, Unit of Medical Oncology Gastrointestinal and Neuroendocrine Tumors, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy
Published: December 2015

Bronchial carcinoids (BCs), comprising typical (TC) and atypical (AC) carcinoids, account for 1–2 % of all lung cancers and approximately 20–30 % of all neuroendocrine neoplasms (NENs). They represent the low- and intermediate-grade lung NENs, whereas small cell lung carcinoma (SCLC) and large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma (LCNEC) represent the high-grade entities. While the prognosis of BCs is favourable at early stages, it is poor when distant metastases are present. Unfortunately, there is a lack of therapeutic options as well as limited data to support the use of standard therapies and sequences of treatments. Some chemotherapeutic regimens have been reported to be active, but their efficacy has not been validated so far. Somatostatin analogues (SSAs) as single agents can be an option for very slow-growing disease, but their role in combination with other therapies has not been established. Among the new targeted agents, data from clinical trials showed that everolimus is a promising one.
Autologous Transplantation in Relapsed or Refractory Hodgkin’s Lymphoma – The Challenges
Authors: Gisselbrecht Christian ,   Professor of Haematology, Hôpital Saint Louis, Paris
Published: December 2015

Failure to initiate treatment remains a challenge in Hodgkin’s lymphoma (HL). For years, chemotherapy and stem cell transplantation salvaged less than half of relapses. Nowadays, positron emission tomography can predict the outcome under treatment. Two targeted agents are dramatically improving therapy, alone or in association with chemotherapy or stem cell transplantation. Brentuximab vedotin is an immunoconjugate anti-CD30 and anti-programmed death 1 nivolumab induces blockade of immune checkpoint. How to use them are discussed in the context of relapses/refractory HL.
Antibody–Drug Conjugates in Relapsed/Refractory CD30-positive Lymphomas
Authors: Jager Ulrich , Hutchings Martin ,   Professor of Hematology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; Head of the Clinical Department of Hematology and Hemostasis at Vienna General Hospital, Vienna, Austria,   Clinical Oncologist, Department of Hematology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
Published: December 2015

Although chemotherapy and radiotherapy are associated with good outcomes in patients with advanced Hodgkin’s lymphoma (HL) and systemic anaplastic large cell lymphoma (sALCL), there is a need for alternative approaches to maximise control of the lymphoma in refractory and relapsed cases. Antibody–drug conjugates (ADCs) allow specific targeting of drugs to neoplastic cells. The ADC brentuximab vedotin (BV) has the ability to target cluster of differentiation (CD) 30+ tumour cells and initiate cytotoxic effects. In two phase II trials, BV resulted in objective responses in 75 % and 86 % of patients with refractory or relapsed HL and sALCL, respectively, with an acceptable toxicity profile. Based on these data, BV was granted accelerated approval by the US Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of refractory and relapsed HL and ALCL. A promising indication for BV is acting as a bridge to stem cell transplantation (SCT). Numerous studies are currently examining the role of BV as salvage therapy prior to autologous or allogeneic SCT, as well as in other clinical settings.
Contribution of the Prosigna® (PAM50) Gene Signature Assay as a New-generation Genomic Test for Treatment Decision-making in Early Breast Cancer
Authors: Harbeck Nadia , Wuerstlein Rachel , Sotlar Karl ,   Breast Center, Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, University of Munich and Comprehensive Cancer Center (CCC) of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU), Munich, Germany,   Breast Center, Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, University of Munich and Comprehensive Cancer Center (CCC) of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU), Munich, Germany,   Institute of Pathology, University of Munich, Munich, Germany
Published: December 2015

The Prosigna® Breast Cancer Prognostic Gene Signature Assay is based on the characterisation of 50 genes relevant to breast cancer biology and provides intrinsic subtype identification based on the individual tumour biology, a prognostic risk of recurrence (ROR) score and a risk group classification, for each individual patient tested. The Prosigna assay is indicated for post-menopausal women with early-stage hormone receptor-positive breast cancer with or without nodal involvement. Running on the NanoString nCounter® DX Analysis system, which allows direct digital counting of target molecules, the assay offers a simple, reproducible and reliable method to profile many genes simultaneously with high sensitivity and precision. The Prosigna Breast Cancer Prognostic Gene Signature Assay has received 510(k) clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration. It has also received a CE mark and is available for use, among other geographical areas, in the EU, Israel and parts of the Middle East, through qualified local pathology laboratories. The de-centralised testing enables timely result delivery and direct interaction between the laboratory pathologists and treating physicians. The analytical reproducibility, precision and robustness of Prosigna have been demonstrated. Moreover, it has been clinically validated in two independent prospectiveretrospective studies using >2,400 samples from post-menopausal patients enrolled in the Austrian Breast & Colorectal Cancer Study Group 8 (ABCSG 8) and Arimidex, Tamoxifen Alone or Combined (ATAC) trials (Level 1B Evidence). These validation studies show that Prosigna identifies a clinically relevant low-risk subgroup among both node-negative and node-positive patients with 1-3 involved lymph nodes. Moreover, the ROR score predicts risk of late distant recurrence as well as for high risk of local recurrence. Prosigna thus can offer clinically relevant information, which may help guide treatment decision-making in early breast cancer.
Co-teaching in information literacy during work placements: the librarian’s role
Authors: Kolstad Anett Kristin
Published: December 2015

Introduction: This article presents findings from a development project designed to improve Information Literacy (IL) education by linking it to nursing students’ application of evidence-based practice during work placements. The Learning Centre at Oslo University College in Norway aimed to find out, what interactions and conditions influenced the librarian’s role in the context of interdisciplinary supervision of nursing students’ assignments and the development of a common supervision culture. Research Design: The librarian involved in the initiative had a dual role as both researcher and practitioner. Besides direct experiences from being a participant in the project, the empirical material consists of observation notes, meeting notes, presentations, guideline in IL, e-mails, an interview, 285 comments from students, nurse educators, nurse supervisors and librarians, through blog and the Wiki Learning Management System (LMS). The evidence on which this article is based involved analysis of both oral and written communication, framed in practice-oriented approaches. Findings: The conditions influencing the changing position of the librarian from an ‘outsider’ to becoming a member of the community of practice with common structures for the collaboration and supervision included meetings, a blog and a Wiki. Multidisciplinary, complementary skills in the supervision teams provided improved quality of supervision and led to a new joint supervision community. Conclusion: Together with the nurse educators and the nurse supervisors, the librarian was able to be a partner and a catalyst of IL workplace learning. The LMS was a decisive tool in the process. However, to be successful, this changed role for the librarian may require further pedagogical training and expertise in the development of interdisciplinary educational supervision.
New Types of the Regional Atlases (On the Example of the Kraków Voivodeship Computer Atlas)
Authors: Trafas Kazimierz
Published: December 2015

When new technologies were introduced in cartography, and especially computer technologies and Geographic Information Systems (GIS), maps and atlases began to be used in a different way. Passive forms (reviewing, overlap drawing) have been replaced by more active forms (generating new information, visualisation and animation of the spatial data). Thus cartographic collections in libraries are to play a different role. It is necessary to adjust them to the use of maps existing on electronic media, recorded on disks or CD-ROMs, offering a possibility to scan and print the data. Simple programmes which visualise spatial data should also be available in libraries. In the near future the major role in cartographic collections will be probably played by electronic atlases consisting of aggregated data bases (geographic, statistic and others) composed of many layers and attributes which will be combined according to the user’s needs and thus new maps will be created. The Kraków Voivodeship Computer Atlas (KVCA) which is now being prepared in Kraków is such an electronic atlas. In this paper, the author presents some remarks about this new type of the regional atlas on the basis of experience acquired in preparing of this atlas.
Legal Deposit in Denmark - the New Law and Electronic Products
Authors: Dupont Henrik
Published: December 2015

In 1997 Denmark celebrated the tricententenary of its legal deposit legislation and at the same time created a new law that surpassed the former 1927 text, which was out of date due to technological and political developments. In the first law on legal deposit, maps were not mentioned explicitly and we have no known examples of maps delivered before a revision of the law in 1781, which explicitly stated that maps and prints had to be deposited. It was only after 1850 that it became possible to follow what was deposited exactly. The number of maps deposited before was limited, not even including the first national survey maps. Maps were only produced in a limited number and the annual deposit did not exceed 600. We assume that all in all some 40,000 maps have been delivered to the collections by legal deposit. Each year since the Second World War the maps have been listed in the annual „Dansk Kortfortegnelse” and since 1980 all new maps have been catalogued in the REX database of the Royal Library.
JSTOR: Large Scale Digitization of Journals in the United States
Authors: Guthrie Kevin M.
Published: December 2015

The JSTOR database now includes well over 2 million pages from 61 important journals in 13 academic disciplines. Additional journal content is being digitized at a rate of more than 100,000 pages per month. More than 320 libraries in the United States and Canada have become participating institutions, providing support for the creation, maintenance and growth of this database. Outside of North America, we have established a mirror site in the United Kingdom. Through a novel collaborative relationship with the Joint Information Systems Committee, the JSTOR database is now being made available to over 20 higher education institutions in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland from a mirror site at the University of Manchester. In addition, plans are underway to establish a second overseas mirror site in Budapest, Hungary to serve institutions in Eastern Europe and Russia. As each day passes, new opportunities are presented to us to extend the reach of this enterprise. It is an exciting and challenging time.
Training for Preservation Management
Authors: Foot Mirjam M.
Published: December 2015

In August 1997 the first of a series of summer schools in Preservation Management was held at the Archivschule in Marburg (Germany). The school was organised by the ECPA, the LIBER Division on Preservation, ICA and the Archivschule itself and was aimed at archivists and librarians in management positions from European institutions. It dealt with managerial, organisational and financial aspects of preservation and required active participation by those attending. Apart from introductory sessions by the teaching staff at the Archivschule, a large part of the course took the form of working groups, discussions, assignments and role play, to which participants were expected to take their own experience and problems. The school was conducted in German. Topics, spread over five days, ranged from preservation in the context of the core activities of libraries and archives; planning of preservation projects; general management issues, such as resource management, budgeting, priority setting, communication and effecting change; to more detailed considerations of day-to-day issues, such as storage, disaster control, microfilming and digitising, mass conservation processes, and moulds and fungi.
Doctoral Dissertations in the Internet: A Good Start in Finland
Authors: Häkli Esko , Lehtinen Henna
Published: December 2015

At the present stage of the IT-applications the change from print publishing into electronic publishing of doctoral dissertations is not only a question of technology but it is also, and possibly even to a greater extent, a question of thinking. Although there is a large selection of technologies and publication formats available, none of them seem to be mature enough to be a self-evident choice. But obviously a greater obstacle can be found in the minds of people. In many cases legal regulations also have to be revised. Academic traditions still prefer properly printed dissertations and the attitudes of the academic community are not necessarily favourable towards electronic publishing in general. Young post-graduate students are obviously not able to appreciate a virtual dissertation. They seem to need a real tangible thing, which they also can show to their parents! And finally, the whole organization and financing of publishing may need to be revised, an exercise which is far more difficult than only starting to use new technology.
LIBER/OCLC Fund for Central and East European Libraries
Authors: LIBER Quarterly
Published: December 2015

The Ligue des Bibliotheques Europeennes de Recherche (LIBER) is delighted to announce the LIBER/OCLC Fund for Central and East European Libraries, which is generously supported by OCLC. The Fund will offer membership of LIBER to individual libraries in Central and Eastern Europe for a period of years in order to assist them to support their membership of LIBER from their own resources at the end of the period of support from the Fund.
The Open Library. Financial and Human Aspects
Authors: Mittler Elmar
Published: December 2015

The year 2000 Seminar of the LIBER architecture group in Warsaw provided an opportunity to discuss new frontiers in the development of library buildings. New ways of financing are needed in an economically fast changing world. It was impressive to hear from Robert Rzesos about the successful financing activities for the University library of Warsaw. Alan MacDougall gave an outstanding paper concerning successful fundraising activities for new library buildings, based on experiences he has made in Dublin. Graham Bulpitt gave an overview on income generation through library buildings.
The Kneiphof-Library: International Library for the Kaliningrad State University and the City
Authors: Bloech Jürgen
Published: December 2015

The overall objective of the Kneiphof-Library will contain easy access to a modern stock of literature of scientific subjects and international view, preservation of valuable books and information about the history of the region, the Wallenrodtsche Library and other scientific goals.
The University Library in Tromsøas a Learning Centre
Authors: Salvesen Helge
Published: December 2015

The University Library in Tromsø is the library of the most northerly university in the world. We have a special responsibility when it comes to taking care of and making available those documents and traditions that pertain to the northern parts of the world. It is also our goal to document and make available to a wider public the University’s own research activities. We want too to stand out as the central learning centre in the University both for students and researchers at all levels.
Case Study: The University of Teesside Learning Resource Centre: Access to Knowledge, Imagination & Learning
Authors: Butchart Ian C.
Published: December 2015

The University of Teesside is located in Middlesbrough, a major North East town at the heart of the Teesside region. Over 14,000 students are currently studying at Teesside on a range of courses, from diplomas and first degrees to postgraduate qualifications. The University’s £11 mill. Learning Resource Centre is at the heart of the Teesside learning experience and is a landmark for the region.
The Dance of Change. Staff and User
Authors: Jouly Hannelore
Published: December 2015

In the beginning I would like you to imagine a picture: there are people lying in deckchairs, young, cultivated, relaxed, surrounded by books. Are this the staff of the library thinking up ways of making the Stuttgart City-Library more attractive? Or are this the customers, who dream of their ideal library, which is open all day and all night, providing access to the global data networks and housing all the books you could possibly want to read, a library whose staff are highly competent and unshakably charming, a library with an inspiring and relaxed environment?
From a Reservoir Building to the Main Library of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Authors: Magre Anna
Published: December 2015

The lecture deals with the challenge of converting a reservoir building dating from the nineteenth century into the main library of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and of maintaining an equilibrium between the functional requirements of a modern university library and the architectural and historical features of the building.
The British Experience in Preserving Digital Library Collections
Authors: Beagrie Neil
Published: December 2015

The increasing amount of information being produced digitally is impacting on and changing forever the expectations of users in all spheres of life. Digital access has many advantages over paper-based access in terms of convenience and functionality. However there are challenges, not yet wholly resolved, associated with ensuring that the many and varied digital resources being created will continue to be accessible. The long-term preservation of research collections in digital form is therefore an issue of increasing concern to research libraries around the world. Preservation and access to this information is dependent on impermanent media and technologies and adapting or re-engineering existing organisational and legal frameworks.
Preservation in New Buildings
Authors: Kitching Christopher
Published: December 2015

In the United Kingdom (as in many other countries) increasing attention is being paid to the importance of each library and archive having a written preservation strategy endorsed by its governing body. So increasingly we are asking: where does „preservation“ begin and what are its top priorities? Some would say preservation begins with the definition of collecting policies to ensure that only relevant items are acquired in the first place, and therefore that no unnecessary costs are incurred on the long-term care of unwanted and unconsulted items. Others might argue that the first priority must be the careful appraisal of existing holdings to determine their preservation and conservation requirements and to prioritise their treatment. Or should preservation begin with damage-limitation: restricting the physical handling of books and documents, on the one hand by providing whenever possible surrogate copies in digital formats or microform, and on the other hand by offering at least basic protection through appropriate boxing and packaging? This, surely, goes hand-in-hand with the education of staff and readers about the importance of treating rare or unique materials with proper respect.
Les collections deux ans après le déménagement
Authors: Sanson Jacqueline
Published: December 2015

Toutes les bibliothèques – et particulièrement les bibliothèques nationales dont la mission essentielle est de conserver le patrimoine – sont confrontées à des problèmes de place. Le bâtiment de Tolbiac a été en grande partie créé pour répondre aux besoins croissants de stockage de la Bibliothèque nationale et par conséquent assurer une meilleure conservation à ses collections. Mon exposé s’articulera en trois parties: en premier lieu, il me paraît nécessaire de donner un bref rappel de la situation antérieure; ensuite, seront abordées la logique d’implantation, les spécifications techniques de magasinage et de conservation dans les nouveaux bâtiments; enfin, le point sera fait sur les améliorations et les difficultés rencontrées à peine deux ans après le déménagement des collections.
Where are Map Libraries Heading? Some Route Maps for the Digital Future
Authors: Campbell Tony
Published: December 2015

The metaphorical route maps I shall be offering will be highly selective, and sometimes personal. But I shall try to raise fundamental issues that I believe are relevant for all map libraries. Given the mixed nature of this audience, I hope that what I have to say may have some interest for those who are deprived of the enjoyment of handling maps. Much of what I say will relate to the Internet. ‚Maps and the Internet‘ is the focus for a growing number of symposia. Recently, the British Ordnance Survey hosted a three-day meeting of 25 European countries on just this subject. We have, quite rightly, talked a lot about the Web this week.
The Long Road to Becoming a “Consortium of Swiss University Libraries”
Authors: Neubauer Wolfram , Piguet Arlette
Published: December 2015

Although the idea that co-operative licensing of electronically researchable information products would bring positive benefits for academic libraries has probably been grasped by libraries in general, what is often lacking is a highperformance infrastructure, which would ensure its complicated management and extend the consortium in the medium term. This leads to the conclusion that the benefits of consortium-based solutions are relatively easy to present and would easily be accepted by those „affected“. On the other hand, the concrete workload often falls upon a few enthusiastic librarians. Up to a few months ago, the situation in Switzerland was no different, whereby in this country, the complex underlying political conditions made the situation particularly difficult for academic libraries. In the meantime, a consortium has managed to establish itself on a national level and the first products licenced in co-operation are in use. The following exposition gives a brief introduction to Switzerland’s specific situation and also sketches the basic structures of this co-operation model.
The Dutch Deposit of Electronic Publications (DNEP) - 1995-2000
Authors: Sijtsma Lex
Published: December 2015

In 1993 the Internet took off with the introduction of HTML and the first browser (Mosaic). Two years later, in 1995, the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB) decided to start a series of experiments and projects which would lead to a deposit system for Dutch Electronic Publications. In the same year the KB made a policy decision to include electronic material into its deposit. That marked the start of the Dutch Deposit for Electronic Publications (DNEP). Both as an operational service and at the same time as a test-bed for research into digital archiving. Early 1999 a Request For Information (RFI) was sent out to selected companies. This was done to establish whether the functionalities the KB deemed neccessary for a digital deposit were available in the marketplace. On the basis of the positive outcome of this Request a European Tender was started. The KB developed a process model for a digital deposit as well as detailed functional requirements for such a system. A supplier, IBM, was selected. At the moment (early June 2000) talks about the implementation are in progress. The project will start in the summer of start of autumn of 2000 and will take 24 months. The Dutch government has acknowledged that the establishment of the Dutch electronic bibliography and the DNEP itself are indeed tasks of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek. We expect that appropriate structural funding to supports these tasks will become available. In this paper an overview is given of what the KB has done since 1995 up till now and how this has led to the implementation-project that is about to start.
L’Offre en Ligne de la Bibliothèque Nationale de France: Quelle Évaluation? Quelle Évolution?
Authors: Jouguelet Suzanne
Published: December 2015

La Bibliothèque nationale de France a ouvert son site Web dès 1996. Entre 1997 et 1999 il a essentiellement offert l’accès aux catalogues en ligne, aux expositions virtuelles puis à la bibliothèque numérique (Gallica), à partir d’octobre 1997, avec l’accès à distance gratuit aux collections numérisées libres de droits, et aux „signets” de la BnF à l’automne 1998. Le site s’est progressivement développé, augmentant l’offre de notices et de documents numérisés et introduisant des services nouveaux. Le volume du site – hors information dynamique – a été multiplié par six depuis 1999: il est actuellement de 25 000 pages. Une version anglaise – test, beaucoup moins complète que la version française et réclamant de nombreuses améliorations, a été créée à l’automne 2000. Le site a connu en mars 2001 une refonte importante: contenu des informations, graphisme, page d’accueil, modes de navigation ont été revus, avec l’aide d’un prestataire. La mise à jour des contenus se poursuit.
German Initiative of Networked Information
Authors: Schirmbacher Peter
Published: December 2015

In this paper I want to give few details, both about our ideas, our motivation to found DINI1, and our primary objectives, our intended methods and steps we have taken so far. I shall start with a description of the problem, then go on to explain the Foundation of DINI and finally give you some examples of how DINI works.
Cataloguing in the Digital Age
Authors: Ede Stuart
Published: December 2015

Some fundamental changes are happening, or will have to happen, to adapt our catalogues to cope with what I call the Digital Age - an age in which we have to meet our users’ requirement to find the information they want irrespective of whether it is in print or digital form and whether it is held locally or on the Web. This is posing some huge challenges - indeed it is forcing a radical rethink of what libraries are for and what their role should be. The whole of the information world is at a crossroads. It is my belief that cataloguing in some form or other is still the key to access - indeed it is even more important if users are to find the knowledge and information they need amongst the tidal wave of raw data. However, cataloguing is an expensive business, and the economic pressures will be made worse by the increase in publishing in both digital and print formats. This will force the even wider re-use of records than is already occurring, but efficient re-use is only possible if records are prepared to common standards. A major focus of this paper is therefore the development of standards and the factors that will influence the direction that takes.
Why the Bath Profile Makes Z39.50 Work
Authors: Gethin Peter
Published: December 2015

The Z39.50 standard has been in productive use for several years now. However, due to the way the standard has been interpreted by some Integrated Library System (ILS) vendors, the results of using the standard have often been somewhat varied at best and, at worst, non functional. The lack of consistency in the use of Z39.50 has lead to the standard being held in rather lower regard than it deserves in some quarters. It is a matter that can be debated whether the inconsistency in the implementation of the standard is the fault of the implementers ignoring aspects of the standard to make their task simpler or simply a lack of precision in the standard itself. To circumvent the debate, the Z39.50 Implementers Group (ZIG) has defined profiles for the use of the standard that are clearly defined and can be measured. This paper takes a look back at why the Z39.50 standard was invented in the first place and defines briefly how Z39.50 works. The paper then considers why implementations of the standard appear to fail and how those failures manifest themselves. With this information in hand, it is possible to make sense of the answer to the question, how does the Bath profile make Z39.50 work?
Metamorfoze, the National Preservation Programme for Libraries in the Netherlands: Results and Pespectives
Authors: Schouten Dennis
Published: December 2015

Metamorphosis: a word that means change but it also means keeping something from the original. Maybe even keeping the essence of that original. You can find metamorphosis in the classics, in literature, in art and, of course, in life itself: the changing of a caterpillar into a butterfly. In the Dutch language the word is spelled „Metamorfose”. The most famous late-nineteenth century author of the Netherlands, Louis Couperus, used an onorthodox way of spelling. His semi-autobiographical novel „Metamorfoze” with a „Z” which deals with the changes in an artist’s life was published in 1897. br> Exactly one hundred years later the Dutch National Preservation Programme was launched. And we decided to name it after this novel. The programme is all about change: from acid paper to microfilm or digital image, but it is also about keeping things from the past, preserving them. So the title of this nineteenth century novel seemed appropriate. And the Z could serve as an eyecatcher. This paper presents an overview of the programme, focusing on the following issues: • selection and setting priorities • method • approach • accomplishments (and setbacks) 1997-2000 • the second phase 2001-2004
„A Patchwork Quilt to a Grand Design” – A Planned Approach to Preservation for Libraries and Archives in the United Kingdom and Ireland
Authors: Marshall Vanessa C.
Published: December 2015

This paper is divided into five sections: 1. an introduction to the National Preservation Office (NPO): 1984 to 1995; 1996 – 1999, when a new funding basis and management structure was put in place 2. set out the NPO’s strategic aim, which is the adoption of a planned approach to preservation by libraries and archives in the UK and Ireland and lay before you the achievements of the Office since 1999 3. bring you up to date on digital preservation in the UK since 1996 4. touch briefly on factors affecting the preservation profession in the UK today, and 5. give some personal thoughts on where preservation management initiatives might advance the profession and where that could take us over the next three years (2002 – 2005).
Post-Occupancy Evaluation of UK Library Building Projects: Some Examples of Current Activity
Authors: Enright Suzanne
Published: December 2015

Post-occupancy evaluations of buildings ask questions and provide answers on how buildings actually work in technical, social and management terms for the end-users1. They can have a significant impact on creating change in terms of improving use of any building. Post-occupancy evaluations can show what works, and what does not – yet they are not common and apparently have been seldom done in a systematic way. Fortunately that picture is changing as post-occupancy evaluation becomes more action-orientated and more clearly based on addressing clients’ and architects’ needs. In the UK there are two formal schemes underway which have been applied to the Higher Education (HE) sector and to academic libraries – an external one led by the construction industry (PROBE or Postoccupancy Review of Buildings and their Engineering – which has undertaken over 100 studies to date) and the other, internal to the HE sector itself (led by the Higher Education Design Quality Forum). These are complimented by two 'softer’, qualitative forms of evaluation demonstrated by the efforts of (a) the library profession itself, led by SCONUL for academic libraries and by the Library Association for public libraries, and (b) the architecture and building related professions.
Learning from the First Step: UniMail, Geneva, Switzerland
Authors: McAdam Daisy
Published: December 2015

UniMail, which is the University of Geneva building dedicated to the humanities, is situated in the heart of the city. Students are an integral part of the life of the district with the university situated next to a beautiful landscaped park surrounded by 600 flats. A central lane lets local inhabitants stroll through the main building on to a square, then right into the park.
New Library Buildings and Library Reconstructions
Authors: Larsen Steen Bille , Niederer Ulrich
Published: December 2015

Visits to libraries have always been an important part of the LIBER Architecture Group Seminars, as they add practice, concrete examples of success and mistakes to the theory of the seminar presentations. The programme of the Leipzig seminar thus offered quite a few library visits: Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, Thüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek, Jena, Universitäts- und Forschungsbibliothek Erfurt, Herzogin-Anna-Amalia-Bibliothek, Weimar, Universitätsbibliothek der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Deutsche Bücherei, Leipzig and Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staatsund Universitätsbibliothek, Dresden. The following is a short report about the libraries visited during the week. The reports are combined with quotations from the libraries’ presentation of their building projects and in some cases also with facts and figures.
The Quality Management of Norwegian Universities and its Influence on University Libraries
Authors: Salvesen Helge
Published: December 2015

In recent years many universities in the western world have been going through different crises, most notably of a financial nature. To date the reaction has been to set up evaluation schemes, to reorganise, to create strategic plans for teaching, research and promotion policy, whilst retaining the classic values of the university. What has not been clearly grasped is that the crisis is very largely one of relevance.
Promoting the Use of E-books by the Use of Electronic Enrichment
Authors: Gethin Peter
Published: December 2015

Since the arrival of the Internet and, so called „ dot com” companies embarking upon e-commerce on the information super highway, we now see books being sold online. Dot com companies setting out to sell books online have to achieve the same result as the conventional bookshop. It is not surprising, therefore, that they have also begun to develop techniques to promote the sale of books in their particular environment.
Shaping a Strategy for E-books: the JISC E-Books Working Group
Authors: Edwards Louise
Published: December 2015

This paper outlines the strategy being developed for the growth of electronic books within the UK higher and further education sectors but the intention is that the broad strategic analysis will be of interest to all librarians.
User Orientation as an Organizational Principle: the Warsaw Experience
Authors: Stepniak Jolanta
Published: December 2015

Warsaw University Library (WUL) was already more than 180 years old, with a traditional and stable organization, when it made its first attempts to bring modern library concepts to a newly-constructed building in December 1999. It was high time for a change. Nineteenth-century, monumental construction could no longer keep pace with those goals established for the university community. Overloaded stacks were partly inaccessible; an underdeveloped local network was permanently overworked; and small reading rooms were inadequate for our growing number of students. Even great commitment by library staff was insufficient to users’ requirements and newly-created tasks.
Library Security Management: An Introduction
Authors: Nielsen Erland Kolding
Published: December 2015

During the last week of January 2001, the Royal Library suffered serious thefts in both its special reading rooms for maps and for manuscripts and rare books. Precious maps were removed from folio editions and smuggled out by a thief who was something of a magician. For years the Royal Library has been one of the most effectively secured buildings housing cultural assets in Denmark. Nevertheless, this incident happened and apparently could happen. The thefts were discovered the same day, but the thief had become suspicious and did not reappear over the next few days as expected. However, because the theft had been filmed on security cameras in the reading room, we had very good photographs of the thief. After days of hard work we were able to discover from the security film how the theft had been carried out and how the items had been smuggled out of the reading room. On the second day after the incident, I warned my fellow directors in the Nordic national libraries and in a number of university libraries with historical collections. Nevertheless, the following week the thief or his accomplice visited Helsinki University Library, and later we discovered that they had been in the Royal Library in The Hague at almost the same time, as well as some months earlier, and in the Royal Library in Stockholm on numerous occasions from the autumn of 2000 onwards.
Preservation Policy: A Challenging Task Both on a National and Local Level
Authors: Häkli Esko
Published: December 2015

This presentation is an updated and edited version of a lecture which was given at the Preservation Management Summer School organized by the Nordiska vetenskapliga bibliotekarieförbundet (NVBF) in Mikkeli, Finland, June 18.-22., 2000.
German Alliance for the Protection of the Written Heritage
Authors: Leskien Hermann
Published: December 2015

In March 2001, the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in collaboration with the Bayerische Versicherungsbank (a corporate subsidiary of the well-known insurance company „Allianz”) organized a congress on „Strategies of Preservation and Conservation”. During the meeting it was proposed not to wait for comprehensive solutions offered by the governmental authorities responsible for the maintenance of libraries and archives, but to tackle the problem by initiatives started within the respective organizations. As early as in June, a steering committee of representatives from libraries and archives met to establish a study group called „Deutsche Allianz zum Schutz des schriftlichen Kulturguts” (German Alliance for the Protection of the Written Heritage). At present, the committee is about to define its status and functions, its main objectives and its organizational form, but there are some clear indications of future activities which will be analyzed below.
The legal deposit of digital spatial data in the United Kingdom
Authors: Fleet Christopher
Published: December 2015

This paper critically reviews progress and problems in the uptake of digital cartographic data in UK legal deposit libraries over the last few years. The details and effect of the Voluntary Code, introduced from January 2000, are examined, along with the technical, practical and political reasons for its relatively limited effects. Second, the progress map libraries have made in setting up Ordnance Survey digital data systems are examined, along with the problems that have delayed work and the discussions about obtaining other cartographic data sources. The paper concludes by offering suggestions on possible methods of future progress
Who's saving the files? Towards a new role for local map collections?
Authors: Parry Robert B.
Published: December 2015

Today's geography is tomorrow's history. As spatial data become digital, we are in danger of losing that history. The high profile of government mapping agencies has ensured the preservation of present and future time slices of our evolving topography, but there are many other data sets to consider: thematic, often ephemeral, and sometimes of only local significance. Digital data are more easily lost than paper-based records. Should it be the responsibility of the data providers to archive their data, or do national and local map collections have a role to play in acquiring, archiving, and making such data available? The paper considers these issues, taking examples from the UK and from the author's local region.
Knowledge in Time: Strategic Perspective for Danish University Libraries
Authors: The Danish Rectors' Conference
Published: December 2015

In a letter dated 7 December 2001, the Danish Rectors' Conference asked its Library Committee to describe the prospects and problems of university libraries seen from a visionary, strategic perspective. Subsequently the Committee decided to make a survey of how the more important university libraries viewed their future. Wilbert van der Meer of the Danish Rectors' Conference Secretariat carried out this survey, and it was integrated into a vision paper, which the Committee discussed at number of meetings. Following this phase, the Library Committee of the Danish Rectors' Conference prepared the present report "Knowledge in Time" / "Timely Knowledge" on the strategic perspective for Danish university libraries. The Paper was not conceived as a Master Plan for the future library development of Danish universities, but as an outline of the most important developmental perspectives discernible today. At a time in which events develop with unparalleled turbulence, it is important for university libraries to ensure that their knowledge development is not determined by plan-thinking, which is not tantamount to saying that it should not be based on functional planning, and that important elements in their strategic competence - in addition to a clear-cut perspective - are the ability to improvise together with healthy self-assurance. Only if they posses these qualities will they be able to aim for a strategic horizon which is itself constantly moving.
LIBER Workshop "Microfilming and Digitisation for Preservation"
Authors: Cabral Maria Luisa
Published: December 2015

The Workshop on "Microfilming and Digitisation for Preservation" which is presented here through papers brought forward held at The Hague on 14-15 April 2003 in the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the National Library of the Netherlands, was the outcome of a long process which started nearly three years ago. Cooperation is a good thing - the right thing, hélas! - in all circumstances of life. For libraries, the European Union has been an elected stage to perform all sorts of alliances. We all have memories of successful partnerships; we all have tried to learn from each others 'projects' which swept over Europe. This Workshop was the result of our previous cooperative experience, but also of our conviction about library needs. The LIBER Preservation Division together with the Koninklijke Bibliotheek and European Commission on Preservation and Access (ECPA) elaborated a programme based on different inputs and viewpoints which after long discussions via e-mail finally built up a structure. To identify the appropriate speaker, and to guarantee his/her presence was another organizational level not less arduous, though. Sharing the same commitment was decisive to the success of the Workshop.
Microfilm and digitization as choices in preservation
Authors: De Lusenet Yola
Published: December 2015

The first conference the European Commission on Preservation and Access (ECPA) organized, 'Choosing to preserve', took place in Leipzig in 1996. For the keynote lecture we had invited a scholar, Professor Bernhard Fabian. This was a very deliberate choice, as the ECPA subscribed to the view that academic researchers, as users of the resources kept in libraries and archives, have to be involved in discussions about their preservation. The conference had attracted quite a crowd, around 150 people who were of course all there for the opening lecture. We invited Professor Fabian because he was a very good speaker, who could really present a convincing case to an audience, which he did also on that occasion. He devoted a large part of his presentation of 45 minutes to the horrors of microfilm, showing us pictures of illegible film, with bits missing, that was impossible to use. He explained how distressing it was for scholars to be forced to use surrogates that don't do justice to the originals that they need to study.
On the importance of recording microforms and digitised versions produced for preservation on the international level, with a focus on standards
Authors: Schwartz Werner
Published: December 2015

When we think about preserving our cultural heritage the first thing that comes to mind is how to find ways to properly store and protect the original works of art, literature and science. Our aim is to save them for our time and for generations to come. We wish to restore them in such a way that their original structure and content is respected and remains unaltered while the material is strengthened to withstand the pressure exacted by use, climate and many other hazards. Very notable aims. Reality, however, is quick to bring disillusion. User demand far exceeds our possibilities to sufficiently prepare the original items or even to restore them diligently enough not to alter their originality. True restoration is bound to consume resources and time to such an extent that we cannot but treat only a relatively small number of items.