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Mass Digitisation by Libraries: Issues concerning Organisation, Quality and Efficiency

Verheusen, Astrid (Igitur, 2008-03-07)

Ever since the world-wide web made it possible to display graphics on the Internet, libraries have been scanning their older documents and pictures to provide access to them. From the middle of the 1990s thousands of ...
Digitisation of Library Material in Europe: Problems, Obstacles and Perspectives anno 2007

Nielsen, Erland Kolding (Igitur, 2008-06-20)

This paper is a short introductory policy paper about the state-of-the-art of digitisation of library material in Europe, seen from the chief executive point of view of a big national and university library in the autumn ...
Editorial

Angevaare, Inge (Igitur, 2008-03-05)
LIBER-EBLIDA Digitisation Workshop

Ayris, Paul (Igitur, 2008-03-06)

95 participants from 23 countries attended a Workshop on the Digitisation of Library Material in Europe, from 24 to 26 October 2007 in the Royal Library, Copenhagen, Denmark. The Workshop was jointly organised by LIBER and ...
Co-operation Amongst Polish Research Libraries

Dobrzyńska-Lankosz, Ewa (Igitur, 2007-11-20)

Polish research libraries have a long tradition of co-operating with one another, particularly when certain solutions require a collective effort. Co-operation can take place either at local, national or international ...
User-Centric Solutions for Scholarly Research in the Library

Sadeh, Tamar (Igitur, 2007-12-11)

In recent years, the behavior of library users has been undergoing change, as they rely increasingly on web search engines and internet services, rather than libraries, to fulfill their information needs. This paper describes ...
How much does it cost? The LIFE Project - Costing Models for Digital Curation and Preservation

Davies, Richard; Ayris, Paul; McLeod, Rory; Shenton, Helen; Wheatley, Paul (Igitur, 2007-11-20)

Digital preservation is concerned with the long-term safekeeping of electronic resources. How can we be confident of their permanence, if we do not know the cost of preservation? The LIFE (Lifecycle Information for ...
A sustainable business model for Open-Access journal publishing: a proposed plan for High-Energy Physics

Vigen, Jens (Igitur, 2008-01-08)

The High Energy Physics community over the last 15 years has achieved so-called full green Open Access through the wide dissemination of preprints via arXiv, a central subject repository managed by Cornell University. ...
Measuring Research Impact in an Open Access Environment

Scholze, Frank (Igitur, 2007-11-29)

This paper focuses on electronic publication impact as a limited, but rather well defined sub-field of research impact. With Open Access, a much bigger corpus of data has become available for statistical analysis. Publication ...
Review of the LIBER “Think Tank on the future value of the book as artefact and the future value of digital documentary heritage”, National Library of Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden, 24-25 May 2007

Langendoen, Andrea; Schouten, Dennis; Shenton, Helen (Igitur, 2007-12-11)

What is the future of the book, or maybe rather, does the book have a future at all? These are questions that are raised again and again within different disciplines in the digital age, from e-strategists to historical ...
The Digital Challenge - New perspectives for the Metamorfoze Programme

Schouten, Dennis (Igitur, 2007-11-29)

2007 is an important year for the Metamorfoze programme. The budget has increased substantially, which allows the programme to be carried out on a much larger scale. Government archives are now included in the programme ...
A Building as a Catalyst for Change: the New British Library Centre for Conservation

Shenton, Helen (Igitur, 2007-12-12)

The new Centre for Conservation at the British Library (BLCC) opened in London this year. This 2600 square metre, purpose-built Centre is connected to the main British Library by a new public terrace and is adjacent to the ...
The changing role of the subject specialist

Cotta-Schønberg, Michael (Igitur, 2007-11-13)

As we all know, libraries are these years rapidly undergoing change on unparalleled scale. Evidently, this applies to librarians, too, and not the least to that important category of library staff, the subject specialist. ...
Acquiring E-Books for academic libraries

Woodward, Hazel (Igitur, 2007-11-06)

This paper outlines the recent work of the UK’s Joint Information Systems Committee ( JISC) in the area of e-books. The JISC Collections Team is responsible for negotiating deals with publishers and aggregators of e-content ...
Who will take over the libraries of the New Europe?

Hollender, Henryk (Igitur, 2007-11-14)

When we take a look on any map, we see that the 2004 and 2007 enlargements of the European Union can’t help but have a tremendous impact on the future of the continent. It cannot go unnoticed that the shape of the continent ...
Improving access to information – defining core electronic resources for research and wellbeing

Hormia-Poutanen, Kristiina (Igitur, 2007-11-06)

Research and innovation are listed as the key success factors for the future development of Finnish prosperity and the Finnish economy. The Finnish libraries have developed a scenario to support this vision. University, ...
Growing Your Own: developing leaders through succession planning

Murray, Anne (Igitur, 2007-12-12)

Few professions have spent as much time contemplating their present and future as have academic librarians. Conspicuous by its absence until recently has been any systematic discussion of leadership, and more specifically ...
ISO 2789 and ISO 11620: Short Presentation of Standards as Reference Documents in an Assessment Process

Renard, Pierre-Yves (Igitur, 2007-11-27)

The aim of this paper is to show how international standards dealing with library statistics and indicators (ISO 2789, ISO 11620 and others projects which are still under development) can be used as reference documents and ...
Measuring Quality in Libraries

Bayır, Didar; Simpson, Bill (Igitur, 2007-11-15)

This paper is based on the proceedings of a Seminar held at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris on 23 March 2007. The Seminar involved 26 invited participants from eleven countries and included nine presentations followed ...
National and International Library Collaboration: Necessity, Advantages

Mark, Timothy (Igitur, 2007-11-20)

The advantages of cooperation between research library associations can be demonstrated quite clearly. Where cooperation becomes essential is where there is a common cause to champion or an initiative to pursue for the ...

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