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Discutindo combinatória em um processo de formação continuada com professores dos anos iniciais
Authors: Assis Adryanne Maria Rodrigues Barreto de ,   Faculdade Metropolitana da Grande Recife, Brasil, Pessoa Cristiane Azevêdo dos Santos ,   Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil,   Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil,   Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
Published: December 2015

Resumo: Propõe analisar o efeito de uma formação continuada baseada nas situações, nos invariantes e nas representações simbólicas dos problemas combinatórios. A pesquisa constitui-se em entrevista inicial individual, quatro encontros de formação e, em seguida, entrevista final, também individual, com os professores participantes. Para este artigo, analisa-se o desenvolvimento de uma professora participante do processo. Os resultados apontam dificuldade no reconhecimento e na abordagem de combinatória na entrevista inicial, no entanto, após as intervenções, há o reconhecimento mais detalhado das diferentes situações e seus invariantes, assim como das representações. Percebe-se, assim, que a formação continuada em combinatória pode se constituir em uma ação importante, pois estimula os docentes a refletirem sobre esse conteúdo, que pode ser trabalhado desde os anos iniciais.
Perfil dos alunos internos no ensino profissional agrícola federal mantido pelo Ministério da Agricultura em Sergipe (1934-1967)
Authors: Conceição Joaquim Tavares da ,   Universidade Federal de Sergipe,  Brazil,   Universidade Federal da Bahia,  Brazil
Published: December 2015

Resumo: Aborda historicamente a condição socioeconômica dos alunos assistidos no internato da instituição de ensino profissional agrícola mantida pelo Ministério da Agricultura no estado de Sergipe, no período de 1934 a 1967. A operação historiográfica seguiu separando, reunindo e transformando em documentos históricos as informações coletadas. Foram manejadas fontes diversas, como relatórios, livros, imagens fotográficas, legislação, jornais e relatos de memórias. A pesquisa, recepcionando as contribuições de trabalhos sobre a história do ensino agrícola, procurou compreender o internato como uma marca significativa do ensino agrícola. Transparece, no decorrer do período pesquisado, especialmente da década de 1930 a meados de 1950, uma dualidade de atuação da instituição: a formação profissional agrícola e o assistencialismo mediante o internato público e gratuito.
Jogo tradicional-popular e aprendizagem: uma análise teórica das comunicações dos jogadores
Authors: Cruz Rodrigo Wanderley Sousa ,   Instituto de Educação Superior da Paraíba, Brazil, Gomes-da-Silva Pierre Normando , Ribas João Francisco Magno ,   Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Brazil,   Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Brazil,   Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil,   Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Brazil,   Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil
Published: December 2015

Resumo: Objetiva estabelecer dupla abordagem teórica sobre a comunicação no jogo. Para tal, propomos a praxiologia motriz, com o fim de analisar a lógica interna do jogo, e a pedagogia da corporeidade, com sua analítica existencial do movimento, para compreender o modo de agir dos jogadores. Na especificidade das abordagens, o jogo tradicional-popular recebeu uma análise objetivo-funcional e subjetivo-cultural das ações dos jogadores em sua interação com o ambiente do jogo. Assim, neste ensaio analítico-propositivo, o jogo foi apresentado como situação de movimento privilegiada para os processos de ensino-aprendizagem na escola.
Religious and philosophical psychology in the works of N.M. Bogolyubov
Authors: Stoyukhina N.Y.
Published: December 2015

We present the results of historical and psychological research filling the gaps of contemporary knowledge about personalities of religious and philosophical direction of Russian psychology in late XIX – early XX centuries. The author introduces the biography of events and the views of Russian psychologist N.M. Bogolyubov – a man of uneasy fate, embodied in his work the idea of spiritual practice in the analysis and description of a person's inner world. Psychological works of N.M. Bogolyubov reflect the views common for Russian spiritual direction in psychology: consideration of man's inner world by revealing how mental experience is given to the person, his self, recognition of the soul as a sphere of inner reality, recognition of the mental world of a person as an independent entity, living by its own laws, which do not depend on the laws of the material world, asserting that faith can be a valid knowledge. In the arsenal of creative achievements of N.M. Bogolyubov are determination of the value of psychology in studying the problem of religious consciousness and professionalism as a necessary quality of a researcher psychologist in the field.
Congruence problem in Christian communication
Authors: Gavrilova T.P.
Published: December 2015

We reveal possible approaches to the interpretation of the congruence phenomenon and its projection in the Christian community. Congruence is regarded as intrapersonal and interpersonal feature. Matching and mismatching of intrapersonal and interpersonal congruence depends on the degree of integration of human personality, his attitude towards himself and others, communication skills, willingness to maintain contact or to engage in dialogue. The article emphasizes the importance of integration of Christian personality and authenticity for his progress towards spiritual growth. These types of religious persons differ in the nature of response to the sins of others, are analyzed in terms of congruence / incongruence and personality integration / disintegration.
Holiness representation in modern children and their parents: towards a research methodology
Authors: Abramenkova V.V.
Published: December 2015

Theoretical consideration of the phenomenon of holiness at different levels of methodology (general scientific principles and forms of research, specific discipline research level and operational level) led the author to the conclusion that the traditional socio-psychological questionnaires on human values sphere are not relevant to the problem, and there is a need for new approaches that reflect personal semantic sphere of human existence, get and as close as possible to those essential characteristics of holiness that are prevalent in representations of modern people. The article pointed the issue of possibilities of solving the scientific and methodological problem of studying the various aspects of the spiritual and moral development of a person, presented an innovative author's technique to study the views on the holiness in people of different age groups, and the results of its application on the basis of educational institutions and Orthodox schools, revealed the phenomenon of mismatch between ideas about the ideal norm and real choice of respondents.
The problem of research on the socio-psychological characteristics of persons who have committed serious and heinous crimes of violence for ideological reasons
Authors: Stadnikov M.G. , Scheglov A.A.
Published: December 2015

The article presents the results of a content analysis of the interviews of participants of radical nationalist groups who committed serious and heinous crimes of violence motivated by racial and religious hatred and enmity ("hate crimes"). The study involved 20 people aged 18 to 30 years. As the results of the interview, the subjects demonstrated the need for "black and white" perception of the world in which there is necessarily an image of an enemy to be destroyed. This makes them particularly susceptible to the incentive effects of extremist communications. We showed very similar socio-demographic and socio-psychological characteristics in respondents which suggest the presence of a common set of character traits that form a stable syndrome. We highlighted the socio-demographic and socio-psychological traits of individuals who are prone to commit "hate crimes".
Personal Determinants of Formation Disease Adaptation in Patients with Active Pulmonary Tuberculosis: a Comparative Analysis from the Standpoint of Gender Approach
Authors: Sevostyanova M.S.
Published: December 2015

We present the design and results of empirical research, facing the actual problem of integration of theoretical and methodological knowledge of different areas of psychology to solve actual applied problems of modern physical medicine. For the first time, we described the use of gender-based approach to the study of psychological structures of disease internal picture in men aged 25 to 49, suffering from various forms of active pulmonary tuberculosis no more than 3 years. The hypothesis that individual gender characteristics are personality determinants of formation specific adaptation to the disease is confirmed by the results of empirical research. The main conclusions of the work: 1) individual gender appearance is an important psychological factor in the development of a healthy personality; 2) internalization of certain personal characteristics in individual gender space affects the features of the formation of certain types of patients relationship to the disease. The study conclusions highlight the need to complement the complex biopsychosocial rehabilitation programs of somatic patients by methods of psychological intervention from the standpoint of gender mainstreaming, thereby having significant practice oriented focus.
Emotional intelligence and features of social and psychological adaptation in adolescents with deviant behavior
Authors: Degtyarev A.
Published: December 2015

The problem of social-psychological adaptation of adolescents with deviant behavioral today is of particular relevance in relation to the current process of restructuring of educational institutions - the merging of general and specialized schools for adolescents with behavioral problems in a unified educational complexes. In these circumstances it is necessary to find an efficient tool that will simultaneously accelerate the process of adaptation and have a positive preventive effect. In this article, the author shows that such a tool can become the emotional intelligence as a construct that includes various abilities of the emotional sphere. The main hypothesis of the study was that the socio-psychological adaptation of adolescents with deviant behavior has its own characteristics, different from the norm group, and is interconnected with the components of emotional intelligence. The study was conducted on the basis of general education school № 2077 formed by the merger of five educational institutions: the former school № 738, № 703, № 702, № 7 and № 77. The study involved 222 teenagers from 14 to 16 years (111 girls and 111 boys).
Athlete and Coach Relationship as a Factor of the Success in Sports Activities
Authors: Svetlova A.A.
Published: December 2015

We present the results of a theoretical analysis of the psychological bases of success of athletes. We provide an overview of studies of the factors influencing the success of the activities in the sport. Sports activities are considered as a joint activity of athlete and coach, the success of which is affected by the personal qualities and characteristics of the relationship of its members. We summarize the main approaches to the study of personality and social psychological aspects of successful athletes and coaches. As the main factors in the success of sports activities, we considered individual psychological characteristics of athletes (motives, attitudes, modes of behavior and response), and socio-psychological characteristics of the interaction of coach and athlete (leadership style, the nature of interpersonal relationships and role expectations). We emphasize the importance of mutual role expectations of athlete and coach to achieve high results of sports activity.
Death Attitudes in Students of Medical, Humanitarian and Technical Specialties: the Issue of Suicide Risk
Authors: Chistopolskaya K.A. , Enikolopov S.N. , Nikolaev E.L. , Semikin G.I. , Hramelashvili V.V. , Kazantseva V.N.
Published: December 2015

We discuss the problem of variability of defenses from fears of death, and their dependence on the obtained profession. We describe a study with the sample was 757 subjects 18-25 years old (398 males, 359 females) from Moscow (N.E. Bauman Moscow State Technical University, engineers, n = 283), Cheboksary (Chuvash State University, physicians, psychologists, and Cheboksary Branch of RSSU, lawyers, managers, n = 323), and Odessa (Odessa National University of Economics, economists, n = 151). During the study, the subjects filled in questionnaires on time-perspective, hardiness, death attitudes and fears of death. The study confirmed the hypothesis that medical students in relation to the problem of death are significantly different from non-health professions students in relation to the problem of death ana pattern of defenses. The article presents a comprehensive picture of each of the professions of the students enrolled in the study, considering the heightened risk of suicide. The results of the study can be used to form the training courses that take into account the specifics of the future work of students in their chosen specialty.
Professional Self-determination of Modern Teenagers: Problems and Solutions
Authors: Ilyina O.B.
Published: December 2015

Professional self-determination in adolescence for many years has been one of the hot topics of psychological theory and practice. Research in the field of personal and professional self-determination, career choice, continues to be a priority. Professional self-determination is part of the general process of socialization of adolescents, a necessary condition for their success and competitiveness in today's socio-economic realities. And it raises the question of what should be psychological and educational support in these conditions? Problems of career choice are considered on three sides: in the context of the social situation in which there are modern teenagers; from the perspective of adolescents themselves, choosing the profession; taking into account the peculiarities of psycho-pedagogical support of professional self-determination of teenagers nowadays. Analysis of problems leads us to the possible ways of solving them, and the need to build a new model of career guidance.
Social Distance and Tolerance of Students Secondary Vocational Inclusive Schools
Authors: Gladilina L.S.
Published: December 2015

The study aimed to assess the changes in the level of tolerance of healthy students to the students with HIA, we discuss the change of the social distance between patients with HIA and healthy students in secondary vocational schools that have implemented programs of inclusive education. The primary survey was attended by 222 people: 66 people with the HIA and 156 people without the developmental disease, the follow-up study - by 222 people: 66 people with the HIA and 156 people without the disease. The basis of the study was the measurement of social distance using questionnaires developed by S.B. Fedorov, under the supervision by L.M. Shipitsina at the Institute of Special Pedagogy and Psychology (2000). We revealed the specific features of the formation of tolerance among students without pathology to the persons with HIA. We show different students' attitudes toward people with different developmental pathologies and multidirectional dynamics in relation to social interactions in various forms in healthy students and students with the HIA. The joint training of healthy students and those with HIA revealed a trend towards more conscious understanding of the characteristics of social interaction with persons with HIA in healthy students.
The Use of Symbolic Means for Solving Cognitive Tasks in Older Preschoolers
Authors: Tsybulskaya E.A.
Published: December 2015

We present the results of a replication of the study carried out under the supervision of O.M. Dyachenko in 1995-1997, aimed at studying the individual characteristics of the cognitive development of preschool children. The aim of the presented study was to determine the characteristics of modern symbolic means for solving cognitive tasks use in preschool children. The relevance of replication is due to the importance of the study of the formation and development of various forms of mediation in the preschool age in general and the specific symbolic means in particular, as symbolic means being paired with meanings, are of particular importance in the regulation of human behavior. The study involved 40 students of the Moscow kindergarten at the age of 5 to 6 years. It was shown that the senior preschool age children successfully use symbolic means when performing productive tasks and the performance in cognitive tasks solving using symbolic means in older preschoolers has not changed over the past 20 years.
Problems of Understanding the Text and Symbolic Information in Teaching Mathematics
Authors: Bragina O.I.
Published: December 2015

We posed the problem of understanding the text and symbol messages by students. We considered the interpretation of the concept of "understanding" in philosophy and psychology, presented psycholinguistic aspect of the concept in detail. We proposed a general classification of problems of perception of speech by students in teaching mathematics. We identified two broad categories of problems of understanding the language statements (direct problematic language codes perception and incorrect perception of the context). We introduce the concept of "reversible language constructs”, discuss the various types of reversible language constructs found in educational materials on math. The analogy is provided to demonstrate the similarity of reversible structures of natural language with constructs of algebraic material. The author presents the classification of reversible constructs. We substantiated the importance of the study of reversible structures decoding by students, identified properties of reversible constructs perception, the conditions for their understanding. We revealed the further ways to study how to create an effective technique for decoding reversible constructs (with the use of educational material on algebra).
Accounting of Motivation in Professional Development of a Federal Fire Service Specialist
Authors: Karabin A.S.
Published: December 2015

The main problem of psychological training of specialist in the field of technological safety is the formation of his motivation, adequate to professional goals and professional development. We studied the motivational sphere as a basis for the success of the professionalization and training of fire service specialists by identifying the different subgroups of subjects – the carriers of holistic integrative features that promote or hinder professional development. The empirical study involved students of the Training Center of the Federal Fire Service (age 20 to 52 years, the majority were men, 9 were women). On the basis of cluster analysis we identified risk groups for professional development. Significant differences were revealed between groups of officers and men of fire in the parameters of motivation of affiliation, fear of rejection and the level of empathy. Based on the study results, we defined the main problems of training specialists of Federal Fire Service.
The RTU Graduate School Executive Master’s Program for School Year 2011-2012 as Viewed by its Respondents
Authors: Crisostomo Leonila C.
Published: December 2015

This study was conducted to ascertain the views and opinions of the faculty and personnel as recipients of the Rizal Technological University (RTU) Graduate School Executive Master’s program as to its reasons for availment, importance of the core and major subjects of the curriculum, lecturers’ professional skills, duration/time allotment, level of satisfaction, significant difference of the two programs, problem encountered and gathered possible solutions to the problems; determine whether the Executive Master’s Program was able to realize its goals and objectives and find out the overall impression of the recipients about the Executive Master’s Program. A total of fifty (50) RTU faculty and personnel graduated from this Executive Master’s program, twenty six (26) Master of Arts in Education (MAEd) and twenty four (24) Master of Arts in Engineering (MAE).
Forecasting Change Based on Employees’ Work Engagement: Case Study (Civil Servants in Government Organizations in Sanandaj)
Authors: E'temad Khaled , Rahmanseresht Hossein
Published: December 2015

The study tries to identify predictors of change acceptance based on work engagement of civil servants in government organizations in Sanandaj. The population of the study is 4235 civil servants in government organizations in Sanandaj. The present study uses stratified random sampling method. Using Cochran’s Formula, as many as 352 people were set as the sample size and the same number of questionnaires was filled by the participants. The study was descriptive co relational and was carried out through a descriptive method. A questionnaire was used for data collection to measure the level of work engagement, the questionnaire proposed by Schaufeli and Becker (2003) was used. To measure change acceptance in the respondents, the questionnaire proposed by Saeatchi, Kamkari and Askarian (2010) was designed according to the model by Kurt Lewin. After the validity and reliability of the questionnaires were confirmed, the questionnaires were distributed among the participants. Cronbach's alpha in work engagement and in change acceptance questionnaires were 0.84 and 0.82, respectively. After completing the questionnaire using SPSS20, Pearson correlation analysis and multivariate regression analysis were calculated and analyzed. The results of regression analysis showed that the dependent variable (change acceptance) was directly affected by liveliness and eagerness of the staff. This variable alone explains 44% of acceptance of change variance in this study. The independent variable is directly affected by eagerness variable. This variable alone accounts for 39% of accepting change variance in the population under study. The third determinant of accepting change is the employees’ dedication variable. This variable alone amounts to 31% of change acceptance variance by staff in the population under study.
Organizational E-Readiness Web: A Model for Evaluating E-Readiness of Iranian Commercial Banks in Order to Develop E-Banking
Authors: Keimasi Masoud , Chitsazan Hasti
Published: December 2015

E-banking through mutual benefits for customers and banks has become a necessity in the banking industry nowadays. In spite of this, e-banking has not spread in Iran as it is appropriate.In a general categorization it can be said that E-readiness of banks and environmental e-readiness are two effective factors on development of e-banking which have been referred in different studies some models have been proposed in this regard in macro industries and others. However, no specific model has been proposed for the banks. This paper focuses on the first factor of "organizational e-readiness ".therefore, the main question of this study is that according to which model and toolthe state banks’ readiness are evaluated in the field of development of e-banking in the state banks and how much is the current state of e-readiness of banks in this area?Accordingly, a model is presented as an organizational e-readiness web in this research, reviewing the organizational e-readiness evaluation models, and carried out research to identify organizational barriers and motivators of business/ e-banking development. According to the introduced dimensions, the banks enjoy relative readiness for the development of e-banking.
Collapsing Time, Chaotic Consciousness: Reading Don DeLillo's Point Omega from the Perspective of Postmodern Gothic
Authors: Ghafoori Mina , Ramin Zohreh
Published: December 2015

The intense concerns with time, space and consciousness structure modernist and postmodernist Gothic narratives with the elements been treated much differently in these periods from the previous ages, owing to the hypotheses of great twentieth and twenty first century philosophers such as Henri Bergson, Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre, later to be followed by Gilles Deleuze, for whom the linear spatialized concept of time and the traditional notions of space and consciousness are no more than ideal speculations and to whom the existential views of time, space and consciousness make reasonable substitutes.Don DeLillo's Point Omega is among the postmodern works which touch upon philosophical contemplations on metaphysical dilemmas such as the meaning of true life, ultimate consciousness, unanimity of perception and reality, and extraterrestrial concepts of time and space. It is set in a traumatized present, outside of history while the very absence of future and the grip of the past it represents as well as the melancholy stasis it imposes become at once sources of revelation and triggers for a sense of uncanny to evoke. The reflections of irregular movements of time, space and memory as well as their constant "becoming" in postmodern Gothic can be used in suggestive assemblage with Gilles Deleuze's philosophical ones. It seems that the filmic desert wherein most of the narration takes place is ineluctably haunted by the Gothic spirit of Psycho, a terror-inspiring film with which it shares a number of images and incidents. However, it is the Deleuzian essences of time and space that most contribute to Point Omega's Gothic texture.By dissolving the two texts, Point Omega and Psycho, into each other and constituting a labyrinthine network of Gothicized associations and affinities, DeLillo has presented a magnificent work within the tradition of postmodern Gothic, which exceeds in both intellect and percipience from most of his contemporary novels'. Like the unnatural slowed-down time and space it presents, Point Omega demands a slow and conscientious reading while at the same time promising new ideas and revelations to the critics and scholars each time they attempt to work on it with devoted attention and mediation.
Some Translation Peculiarities of Economic Texts (On the Basis of Economic Texts Translation Form English into Ukrainian)
Authors: Borysova Olesia
Published: December 2015

This paper deals with some translation peculiarities of economic texts and analyses the ways of rendering economic terms, metaphors and phraseological units, acronyms and names of organizations in the economic texts. It describes translation transformations used in the process of rendering the above mentioned lexical units.
Lexical and Grammatical Means of Expressing Modality in the German Language as one of the Aspects of Teaching a Foreign Language while Training Post-Graduate Students
Authors: Ponomaryova Liliya , Osadcha Elena
Published: December 2015

The aim of the article is to analyze lexical and grammatical means of expressing modality in the literature on technical sciences in German and the ways of their translating. Basing on the aim of the research, it is necessary to solve the following problems: 1) to distinguish the means of expressing modality in the literature on technical sciences; 2) to define the role of lexical and grammatical means of expressing modality in a special test; 3) to identify the means of expressing modality which are the most difficult to translate and to understand in the test; 4) to give some recommendations as to developing and improving the skills of translating and using the means of expressing modality in speech.
Public Participation in the General Elections of India: An Overview since 1951
Authors: Pandita Ramesh
Published: December 2015

Democratic process of any country is based on the participation of the public to form the government through their elected representatives, and the nation having an electoral system in place to choose their representatives can be termed as a nation living true to its democratic essence, while as, the nation elusive of ground level public participation in forming governments can never be termed as living true to democratic colour. The present study is an attempt to understand the electoral process of India, the public participation in the democratic process of the country, which is already fifteen general elections old, lasted over the period 1951 to 2014. Attempt has been made to understand the areas like, growth of parties over the period of time, seat distribution, reservation of seats, electoral participation, polling stations, performance of major national political parties along with electoral turnout both collectively and on gender basis etc. Existence of the multi party system in India and the growth in parties over a period of time gets equally reflected by the fact that in 1951, 54 parties participated in the electoral process and the number grew up to 466 in 2014, reflecting a growth of over 792%. During all the general elections contested by candidates 77.43% contestants forfeited their deposits with an average of 135 political parties contested each general election. Over 80.45% elected candidates to the parliament during all the general elections held so far, represent national parties.
Research for all, an Initiative to Promote Research in the Mauritian Society
Authors: Betchoo Nirmal Kumar
Published: December 2015

At a time when leaders are globally discussing of the impact of climate change on the environment, it has become a necessity for strategists to think of democratising research to enable the wider community to get opportunities to undertake and participate in research. Very often, this aspect is dismissed and the lack of citizen involvement in research leaves a majority as users of models prescribed by knowledgeable people. This paper addresses a broad concept ‘Research for All’ with the intention of sensitising information on allowing the community to develop, create and contribute to research in a meaningful way since bright ideas sometimes come from the community and these are commercialised by researchers. The effort of the community is usually underestimated with biased thoughts like they are not deep enough to be claimed as research but, in essence, have their contribution in society. The paper focus is on initiatives to democratise research and see how the wider community provides useful input to innovation, research and development.
Sustaining Innovation
Authors: Nadig Toni
Published: December 2015

I’ve been asked by the organisers of this event to speak about the subject of change management. I can imagine that a few of you in the audience have had experience with this ‚bugaboo’ called change. It’s certainly nothing new, in fact it’s become a standard companion in most industry sectors. With a constant metamorphosis in external environments around us there is a real and pressing need to adjust our organisations, their structures and resources to changing conditions. And then to change again. And again.
European National Libraries: A Review of the Year’s Activities
Authors: Smethurst Michael
Published: December 2015

This review of the activities of the National Libraries in membership of the Conference of European National Libraries during last year has been compiled from the summary reports for 1998 submitted by the Directors to the CENL Secretariat at the Koniklijke Bibliotheek at The Hague in the Netherlands.
Report of the Preservation Management Summer School Held at The Public Record Office and The British Library, 19th-23rd July 1999
Authors: Foot Mirjam M.
Published: December 2015

In July 1999 (19th-23rd) one of the first comprehensive summer schools to be organised in the UK on preservation management was held at The Public Record Office, Kew and The British Library, St Pancras, London. Organised by The Public Record Office (PRO) and The Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche (LIBER) in conjunction with The British Library (BL), The European Commission on Preservation & Access (ECPA), University College London (UCL) and the International Council on Archive (ICA), the goal of the Summer School was to introduce key elements of preservation management to archivists and librarians in middle managerial positions, and to give participants practical insights to the problems that arise and the possible solutions, thereby helping delegates to develop and plan preservation policy and practice for their own organisations. In a wider context the aim was to initiate and establish training specific to the requirements of institutions in the increasingly specialist field of preservation management.
Digitising Journals: Conference on Future Strategies for European Libraries
Authors: Klugkist Alex C.
Published: December 2015

The growing use of electronic journals leads to an ever increasing and widespread wish to retrospectively digitise journals. The process, however, is both costly and complicated and furthermore - basic standards are missing. With a view to working out a better basis for decision-making and examining the possibilities for European co-operation we are pleased to announce that a conference will be organized about: Digitising Journals: Conference on future strategies for European libraries. The Conference is organised by LIBER and Denmark’s Electronic Research Library Programme in co-operation with the European project DIEPER, the North American JSTOR project and NORDINFO, the Nordic Council for Scientific Information.
Income Generation from Library Buildings:the UK Experience
Authors: Bulpitt Graham
Published: December 2015

This paper has been prepared to contribute to the financial theme of the Warsaw Conference by considering ways in which library buildings may be used to generate income, drawing on the experience of a number of university libraries in the United Kingdom. Although almost all libraries generate income, it is often difficult to identify income generation activities which are based on buildings as a physical resource and experience here is much more limited.
The University Library in Warsaw – Symbols and Climates
Authors: Budzynski Marek
Published: December 2015

The competition design for the library originated in 1993 in the fourth year of the new Poland. A time of hope, muddle, and confusion between the new and the old. For me these were years when I felt a strong urge to seek a new way of relating to the reality of the times, to formulate and declare my beliefs, and it was a time of a straightforward fight for survival. In general I try to follow a direction of what we call sustained development. The atmosphere of space and the symbolism of forms of the library are a result not only of this imperative, but also a fascination of the team of designers by the idea of the University to have a library which links free access to books with formal access via a catalogue and librarians, together with the possibility of accessing information form foreign university library collections by computer. Equally exciting for us was the way the procurement of the project was financed, and associated with this the connection of the space occupied by the library with commercial space.
New Roles for Academic Libraries in Scientific Information
Authors: Bertnes Pål A.
Published: December 2015

In this presentation I will focus on the situation and development of academic libraries both in a macro and micro perspective. The macro perspective comprises society as a whole, higher education and research – areas in which libraries believe they have little or no influence. The micro perspective comprises conditions within the libraries or within the political and economic framework of the libraries.
Four years of Oddens’ Bookmarks: The Fascinating World of Maps and Mapping
Authors: Oddens Roelof P.
Published: December 2015

Not everyone will be interested in maps showing the distribution of various species of earthworms in North Dakota, especially as the design of these maps is not be very impressive either. Nevertheless, there is a link to such maps in Oddens’ Bookmarks. This is a Website that tries to provide as complete a coverage as possible of all Websites containing cartography. This paper is not attempting to show examples of Websites the bookmarks are linked to. Rather, it gives a short introduction to Oddens’ Bookmarks, referring to the history and development of the site, its contents, the problems I am faced with, and my views of its near future.
Academic Library Consortia in the United States: An Introduction
Authors: Bostick Sharon L.
Published: December 2015

Library consortia in the United States arose from a need for sharing when resources or funding for those resources were scarce. This is as true today as it was over 100 years ago when the first American consortia were formed. Consortia continue to be a growing and important part of the library profession. This article will give an overview of academic library consortia, with special emphasis on the history and modern developments in the United States and provide a general introduction to the concept of library cooperation.
Library Consortia in Croatia
Authors: Jokic Maja
Published: December 2015

The problem of the increasing number of information sources and their costs as well as more demanding users on the one side, and limited financial resources on the other, has not avoided Croatia. One of the attempts to deal with this state of affairs is associating libraries into consortia. A consortium could, through cooperative cataloguing, help optimise the processing of library material, it could help in solving the problem of rational ways of continuous education of staff and users and coordinate acquisition policy through common purchasing of information resources, from bibliographic databases to electronic journals under various licensing conditions. This last aspect of cooperation in a consortium will be dealt with in detail in the text that follows.
Library Consortia in Germany
Authors: Reinhardt Werner , Te Boekhorst Peter
Published: December 2015

Looking at the present situation in Germany consortia show a considerable variety of organizational forms. Only in the case of the Friedrich-Althoff-Consortium in Berlin-Brandenburg a corporate body with deed of partnership does exist. In other German states consortia have been formed which are represented by an individual library (e.g. Baden-Württemberg) or by a central institution such as the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Bavaria or the Hochschulbibliothekszentrum NRW in North Rhine-Westphalia. Rarely contracts for nationwide consortia have been signed; resulting from an initiative of a professional society, the „Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker“, an agreement was reached allowing for the use of the Beilstein-Crossfire-database in participating universities all over Germany.
Theory and Practice: Reflections on Convergence in United Kingdom Universities
Authors: Field Clive D.
Published: December 2015

This paper reviews the extent and nature of convergence of information services in the United Kingdom higher education sector. It traces the history of the process of convergence since the 1980s; considers the principal drivers behind it; outlines some of the implementation issues which have arisen; and evaluates its impact. Although drawing upon a fairly substantial published literature, and the author’s personal knowledge of convergence in a number of institutions, extensive use is made, especially in the second half of the essay, of the experience of convergence at the University of Birmingham (through Information Services) since 1995. In this way, the paper updates and extends the description and analysis of Birmingham developments previously reported in Field (1996, 1999) and Pugh (1997a: 50-62). While the Birmingham model of convergence is certainly not being held up as a blueprint for other services to follow, it is of some wider interest for two reasons: in being the first major example of convergence in a very large, diverse, traditional and researchintensive British university (with an annual turnover of £250 million and 35,000 registered library users); and in adopting a fairly radical approach to management structure, one in which „existing departmental barriers have been completely removed and a quite new structure developed” (Law, 1998: 55).
The Right Statues of the Librairie in the Université
Authors: Idrac Michel
Published: December 2015

This is a story of a series of crises. The programme for building the campus, dating from 1967, was for a university with 8,000 students. When it opened there were 12,000 students… At the end of the 1980’s there were more than 20,000. The university was expanding so fast that it was becoming very hard to find sufficient space for lectures and classes. In 1989, emergency funding was made available to build a teaching block, with further funding in 1990 & 1991. In 1990, after these initial additions, an outline plan was drawn up featuring a „ large library” . This was a means of recognising the extent of the needs, and this simple unofficial document had its role to play in the unfolding of events.
OCLC PICA: a European Library Membership Organisation
Authors: Lees Janet Mitchell
Published: December 2015

As always it is a great pleasure to attend a LIBER conference and be once again at the University of Graz. I am sure this past year has been a busy one for you – it certainly has for me in terms of the creation of the new OCLC PICA organisation. My purpose today is to provide you with an update on these events, to outline OCLC’s strategic priorities and OCLC PICA’s involvement in them. Before I do so I would like to say how much OCLC PICA welcomes the opportunity to become a LIBER Main Sponsor. Both OCLC Europe and Pica have been active within LIBER for many years and this new more formalised relationship has the opportunity to strengthen that link.
Denmark’s Electronic Research Library: A single Virtual Research Library for Denmark
Authors: Öhrström Bo
Published: December 2015

The Danish Electronic Research Library (DEF in Danish) is the realisation of a vision of a single virtual research library focused on the need for easy access to scientific information for researchers and students in Denmark. DEF is a large government funded project, which over a 5 year period spends 200 million Danish Kroner (27 million Euro) in order to build a national virtual research library in Denmark. The project aims to help the transition from purely paper-based services to electronic services in the library sector and focuses on organisational changes as well. This paper will describe the background and the present status of the project. The project is heavily based on co-operation on national and international level, and the strategy behind this is put forward.
‘Paradise Lost’: A Theft from Helsinki University Library
Authors: Häkli Esko
Published: December 2015

Traditionally, research libraries in the Nordic countries have followed the policy of being open, public libraries. They have been rather reluctant to apply restrictions even to the use of their rare materials. In this liberal atmosphere, libraries and, above all, their staff have based their own behaviour on trust. They have believed that their users are honest and will not cause any damage to the collections, much less display any criminal intent. Serious abuse of this trust – if we exclude the everyday behaviour of university students – has been extremely rare, and this has encouraged staff in these beliefs. Thefts and mutilation of items from the collections have seldom occurred. This background explains, at least partly, why the thefts last year in my Library were such a serious shock, and so upset some members of staff. We had to admit that we were no longer living in a paradise, or in a safe haven. As a result of the globalisation of crime, the world had lost its innocence even in remote Helsinki.
The LIBER Security Network of 2002 – The Copenhagen Principles
Authors: LIBER Quarterly
Published: December 2015

The last decade has seen the rapid development of a number of factors affecting the security of significant library collections. • The market value of large parts of library collections now equals the prices of the most expensive antiques and works of art; • The interest of the free market in items held in libraries is constantly increasing; • Valuable parts of library collections have been subject to grave instances of theft of a trans-national character across Europe. Recognizing these developments, we have decided to set up closer co-operation among libraries with the purpose of preventing or resolving such incidents.
Learning from the First Step. Uni Mail in Geneva
Authors: Goda Agnes
Published: December 2015

In 1559 Jean Calvin established the Genevan Academy to train students in humanist learning in preparation for the ministry and positions in secular leadership. The first building of the Academy, the so called „Auditoire de Calvin” still exists and is located next to St Peter’s Cathedral. Although law is also taught, the theological spirit remains predominant until the end of the 17th century.
Map Collections as National Treasures
Authors: Häkli Esko
Published: December 2015

Maps and cartographic presentations have always been highly valued, for the vital information they contain. Maps have been important to governments, companies and individuals. They have been used to defend and argue for political, military, economic and many other interests.
The Challenge of Preserving Digital Maps
Authors: Stenvall Jani
Published: December 2015

This paper addresses some general matters on the preservation of different types of digital materials. The well-known technical problems are explained and also some of the usual strategies to resolve these problems. Digital maps and their preservation is considered in the light of the future legal deposit act in Finland.
Quality management of microfilming projects
Authors: Van Dormolen Hans
Published: December 2015

I would like to tell you something about my work as quality manager microfilming and about the high quality standards for substitute microfilming we apply within the Dutch preservation programme Metamorfoze. Let me start with going back in time a bit. To be precise, to the year 1870. In this year, William Henry Jackson went riding into the hills of Wyoming, USA. Jackson was the chief photographer for the Hayden expedition. The aim of the Hayden expedition was to record the area as minutely as possible, in order to convince politicians to turn this area into a national park. There were two Hayden expeditions: in 1870 and in 1871. For both of these expeditions William Henry Jackson was the chief photographer. In 1872, the area was indeed proclaimed a national park as a result of the expeditions. And the pictures William Henry Jackson took played an important role in this US government decision. The reason I'm telling you this is not because I want to chat about the beautiful environment of Yellowstone National Park, nor do I want to emphasize the fact that it was quite an achievement that William Henry Jackson was travelling into the Wild West on horseback and coach without breaking the glass negatives he used. It's because I would like to focus your attention on the fact that today we still have access to these photographs made by Jackson and many others of his colleagues from the early days of photography, due to the excellent conditions under which these materials have been kept all this time. Without any doubt, these photographs have an important cultural and historical value.
Digitisation for access to preserved documents
Authors: Bremer-Laamanen Majlis
Published: December 2015

Today the digitisation of our collections is a goal for libraries all over Europe. The choices we make in digitisation and preservation now will have a significant impact on the future. Do we only emphasise access? How do we enable access and preserve our originals in a qualitative and productive way? What will actually be left of our cultural heritage in the next millennium? In this paper I am going to look at promoting access to preserved originals mirrored by the experience at the Helsinki University Library, the National Library of Finland: · Preservation activities as platform for digitisation and OCR · Processing access to collections · The future - looking ahead