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  • New Aspects of Library Design 
    Hohmann, Tina (Igitur, 2006-07-03)
    New planning principles are required to meet the changing needs of the users of the library of the future. The digital revolution has changed the appearance of today’s libraries entirely. The majority of today’s information ...
  • The New Law Library of the University of Zurich 
    Strehler, René; Niederer, Ulrich (Igitur, 2006-08-01)
    The article presents the new Law Library that was opened to the public in 2004. It was integrated in the courtyard of an existing building; its creator was the engineer and architect Santiago Calatrava. The article touches ...
  • Editorial 
    Bakker, Trix (Igitur, 2006-08-17)
  • Workshop <i>Hands On</i> Preservation Microfilming, Lisbon, February 2006 
    Van Dormolen, Hans; Cabral, Maria Luísa (Igitur, 2006-03-22)
    On February 23 and 24 of 2006, a Workshop on Preservation Microfilming was held at the National Library of Portugal in Lisbon. The workshop was set up as a joint initiative of the Biblioteca Nacional (Lisbon) and the ...
  • The Ten Commandments revisited: the Qualities of Good Library Space 
    McDonald, Andrew (Igitur, 2006-06-20)
    An increasing diversity of imaginative new academic libraries are being constructed around the world, successfully combining exciting architectural expression, inspiring internal spaces and good functionality. Library ...
  • The LIBER Workshops on the “Open Archives Initiative” at CERN, Geneva 
    Dekeyser, Raf (Igitur, 2006-04-19)
    In 2000 the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) was still in its early stages. It was often still called the Santa Fe Convention, which refers to a meeting in October 1999 of representatives from a number of institutions that ...
  • Changing LIBER 
    Fox, Peter (Igitur, 2006-04-05)
    LIBER, the Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche, has as its mission the representation and promotion of the interests of research libraries in Europe, the improvement of access to collections in European research ...
  • 8th International Bielefeld Conference 2006: Academic Library and Information Services: New Paradigms for the Digital Age 
    Gastinger, Almuth (Igitur, 2006-03-22)
    From 7-9 February 2006, Bielefeld University Library in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, was host to the 8th International Bielefeld Conference. The subject this year was Academic Library and Information Services: New ...
  • The Shared User File of the University Libraries in German Speaking Switzerland as a Tool for Cooperation 
    Niederer, Ulrich (Igitur, 2006-03-22)
    The seven universities in the German speaking part of Switzerland started to evaluate jointly a new library management system in 1996. During that evaluation they also decided to form the IDS, the Informationsverbund ...
  • BibliOpass – An Open Library Network in Switzerland 
    Rivier, Alexis; Rod, Jean-Marc (Igitur, 2006-04-19)
    The idea underlying BibliOpass is very simple: extending borrowers' rights to all libraries participating in the network. As in other countries, users of Swiss libraries are more and more mobile, especially the categories ...
  • SCONUL Research Extra 
    Hall, John (Igitur, 2006-04-12)
    SCONUL Research Extra is a cooperative access and borrowing scheme for staff and research students in UK and Irish higher education institutions. Under the terms of the scheme, eligible researchers may visit any participating ...
  • A LIBER Passport? 
    Ayris, Paul (Igitur, 2006-04-04)
    The Bologna Process started on 19 June 1999, when 29 European Ministers responsible for Higher Education signed the Bologna declaration, in which they undertook to create a European Higher Education Area. The creation of ...
  • Maintaining Access to print Materials – a Finnish Model 
    Vattulainen, Pentti (Igitur, 2005-11-18)
    Even though there are signs that the end of the hybrid library might well be in sight within a few years, we still have to manage and develop the hybrid library. Hybridism manifests itself in all sectors of the library ...
  • From Libraries to ‘Libratories’ 
    Waaijers, Leo (Igitur, 2006-04-05)
    While the eighties of the last century were a time of local automation for libraries and the nineties the decade in which libraries embraced the internet and the WWW, now is the age in which the big search engines and ...
  • Editorial 
    Bakker, Trix (Igitur, 2006-04-28)
  • Cooperative Collection Management in the Humanities in the Netherlands 
    Voorbij, Henk (Igitur, 2005-09-29)
    In 1998 a project was started in the Netherlands, which aimed to increase the coverage of specialised publications in the humanities. Seven academic libraries participate in the project. The project has been made possible ...
  • The CURL-CoFoR Collaborative Collection Management Project 
    Walker, Gregory (Igitur, 2005-09-28)
    CoFoR originated from an initiative by CURL, the Consortium of Research Libraries in the British Isles. CURL’s Task Force on Resource Management proposed a project, which would develop and test several interrelated aspects ...
  • The DFG National Research Collection System (Sondersammelgebietssystemplan -SSG) for Print and Electronic Publications 
    Mittler, Elmar (Igitur, 2005-11-23)
    Germany (the sum of the sixteen states of the Federal Republic) is historically and politically a decentralized country. The influence of the states is very significant, particularly in cultural and educational affairs ...
  • Merger and Centralisation : can We be Big AND Good 
    Simpson, Bill (Igitur, 2005-11-17)
    The merger of the Victoria University of Manchester and UMIST in 2004 to create Britain’s largest university (though the achievement of world-class status rather than mere size was the real objective of the merger) raised ...
  • Small is Beautiful...or Not? 
    Verhagen, Nol (Igitur, 2005-09-28)
    This paper explores recent developments within library organisations and their impact for the functioning of university libraries, and more specific, the relations between the central library and decentral libraries. ...