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Les collections cartographiques numérisées de la BnF

Loiseaux, Olivier (Igitur, 2005-04-18)

Depuis 1997 la Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) propose en accès libre sur son site internet dans la rubrique Gallica de vastes collections de documents numérisés. Les fonds de Gallica, extraits de la vaste bibliothèque ...
Digitised Maps in the Danish Map Collection

Lenschau-Teglers, Annie; Rønsberg, Vivi Gade (Igitur, 2005-04-06)

As in the rest of the library world, The Royal Library in Copenhagen is in the process of digitising its collections. At the moment we are mainly working on the handwritten manual catalogue - but digitising the material ...
The LIBER Groupe des Carthothécaires Map Library Usage Survey, Summer 2003: a Mandate for Change?

Millea, Nick (Igitur, 2005-04-06)

At the 2002 Helsinki meeting, the LIBER Groupe des Cartothécaires Working Group for Education suggested a survey of map usage in our libraries. Using Jan Smits’ 1987-88 survey as our reference point, we decided to re-examine ...
Digital Map Soup: what's Cooking in British Academic Libraries and are we helping our Users?

Moore, John (Igitur, 2005-03-31)

My original intention had been to consider the roles being developed in British academic libraries to assist users in making full use of cartographic material that is available for their requirements - an almost predictable ...
Crossroads - Bridging the Digital Divide

Cobb, David (Igitur, 2005-03-31)

It’s so good to be in Cambridge, it feels almost like home. Let me start by stating that in the past year ITMB, a successful map publisher in British Columbia, Canada published more paper map titles than at any time in ...
Report on the 14th Conference of the Groupe des Cartothécaires de LIBER, 31st August to 4th September, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Jones, Pete (Igitur, 2005-04-13)

The 14th conference of the LIBER Groupe des Cartothécaires was held in Cambridge in what proved to be warm and sunny conditions, very unusual for a late English summer. The conference was excellently organised by the ...
Editorial

Bakker, Trix (Igitur, 2005-04-25)
From Library Co-operation to Consortia: Comparing Experiences in the European Union with the Russian Federation

Van Borm, Julien; Sokolova, Natalia (Igitur, 2004-10-19)

Copeter is one of the few Tempus/Tacis projects about consortium building: bringing libraries together in a consortium in order to achieve common goals. This article will attempt to answer three main questions: 1. What ...
Challenges in Digitisation - Paper given in honour of Esko Häkli, Helsinki, 23 November 2001

Mittler, Elmar (Igitur, 2004-11-16)

The digitisation of information seems to be the realization of mankind's dream. We can - in principle - get seamless information everywhere and at any time. Digital information seems therefore to be a victory in terms of ...
The SPARC initiative: a catalyst for change

Savenije, Bas (Igitur, 2004-08-05)

SPARC was started in 1997 by a number of large research libraries in the US. Its main goal was to restore a competitive balance of the STM journals publishing market. A number of programmatic areas were initiated in order ...
EBLIDA's action in Europe

Häggström, Britt Marie (Igitur, 2004-10-04)

EBLIDA is the European Bureau of Library, Information and Documentation Associations. EBLIDA is an independent umbrella association of national library, information, documentation and archive associations and institutions ...
Changing libraries, encountering the law

Giannattasio, Isabelle (Igitur, 2004-10-04)

The technical and legal issues associated with digital material, originally the concern principally of audiovisual librarians, now impact upon library management in general. Three factors, occurring simultaneously, have ...
Our cultural heritage and its main protagonists - libraries and archives, a comparative study

Lidman, Tomas (Igitur, 2004-10-04)

The very notion of a 'cultural heritage' needs to be considered. During one of my first years as National Librarian and Head of the Royal Library in Stockholm I came across a museum director who put forth an insistent case ...
Cost Models in Digital Archiving: An overview of Life Cycle Management at the National Library of the Netherlands

Oltmans, Erik (Igitur, 2004-10-27)

The number of institutions that are either considering the implementation of a digital archive or already started with an operational digital archive service is increasing. While technological and organisational challenges ...
An Assessment of Deltaplan: The Dutch National Preservation Strategy

De Bruin, Gerrit (Igitur, 2004-11-16)

I am very pleased to be here in this beautiful city, standing before colleagues and friends from the Library sector. In my opinion there are only emotional borders between Libraries, Museums and Archives. In a way we all ...
The Transitional Period of the Periodicals Format Shift

Fenton, Eileen Gifford; Schonfeld, Roger C. (Igitur, 2004-09-28)

One of the more dramatic shifts affecting libraries in the past decade has been the rapid pace of technological change. In particular, the ongoing transition from print to electronic periodicals has challenged librarians ...
A New Cross-domain Strategy for Safeguarding the Danish Cultural Heritage

Mark, Niels (Igitur, 2004-10-20)

In the spring of 2003, the Danish Ministry of Culture launched a report, which comprised an evaluation of existing strategies for safeguarding the Danish cultural heritage and recommendations for future development. The ...
Collaboration to Unlock Access : Presentations at the LIBER Conference in ST Petersburg

Friend, Frederick J. (Igitur, 2004-09-01)

The opportunities provided by open access to journal literature have generated much interest and discussion. LIBER's approach to this important topic at the St Petersburg Conference was through the theme of collaboration. ...
Developing an Electronic Resource Management System: Verde from Ex Libris

Sadeh, Tamar (Igitur, 2004-10-06)

Rapid growth in the number of electronic resources and the complexity of managing e-collections has posed new challenges for libraries and hence requires the development of new tools. To meet this need, Ex Libris is ...
Six Flavors of Open Access: Successes and Possibilities for STM Journals

Okerson, Ann (Igitur, 2004-09-01)

A broad commitment among participants in the scientific and scholarly publishing community to achieving the widest possible access to the literature has begun to bear fruit. Many of the players have had this kind of ...

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