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  • German Alliance for the Protection of the Written Heritage 
    Leskien, Hermann (Igitur, 2002-04-03)
    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 ...
  • La Numérisation dans les Bibliothèques de l’Enseignement Supérieur en France 
    Neouze, Valerie (Igitur, 2002-03-31)
    En quelques années, l’arrivée d’Internet et le développement des nouvelles technologies ont profondément transformé le paysage des bibliothèques de l’enseignement supérieur en France, comme ailleurs. Constitué de 96 ...
  • The LIBER Security Network of 2002 – The Copenhagen Principles 
    Unknown author (Igitur, 2002-03-30)
    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 ...
  • Preservation Policy: A Challenging Task Both on a National and Local Level 
    Häkli, Esko (Igitur, 2002-03-30)
    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 ...
  • ‘Paradise Lost’: A Theft from Helsinki University Library 
    Häkli, Esko (Igitur, 2002-03-30)
    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 ...
  • ‘Catch as Catch Can’ 
    Van Eijck van Heslinga, Els (Igitur, 2002-03-30)
    Having been asked to speak on security prevention and actual incidents, I will start with the latter. After some sad stories, I would like to give a more general analysis, and then I will explain our thinking in the ...
  • 'Thieves in Our Cultural Heritage’: Crime and Crime Prevention Measures in the Royal Library, Stockholm, 2000-2002 
    Lidman, Tomas (Igitur, 2002-03-30)
    It is almost like the introduction of what promises to be a thrilling crime novel. Unfortunately, the outcome is extremely deplorable. In February 2001 a crudely drawn copy of a map was found on one of the reading room ...
  • 'Golfiana': A Theft from the National Library of Scotland 
    Matheson, Ann (Igitur, 2002-03-30)
    The American writer, Paul Gallico, once commented: ‚If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out’. This case study deals with the theft of three golfing pamphlets from the printed collections of the National ...
  • Library Security Management: An Introduction 
    Nielsen, Erland Kolding (Igitur, 2002-03-27)
    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 ...
  • The Blue Shield Initiative. Joining Efforts to Preserve our Cultural Heritage in Danger 
    Varlamoff, Marie-Thérèse (Igitur, 2002-07-23)
    Each year dramatic and unexpected events erase part of our memory by destroying the documentary heritage that has been accumulated in our libraries, archives or museums. Two world wars, as well as unavoidable and recurrent ...
  • Editorial 
    Te Boekhorst, Peter; Scholle, Ulrike (Igitur, 2002-03-27)
  • User Orientation as an Organizational Principle: the Warsaw Experience 
    Stepniak, Jolanta (Igitur, 2002-07-23)
    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 ...
  • Changing the Organization for Cataloguing in the BnF: a Long-term Project 
    Raccah, Philippe (Igitur, 2002-07-23)
    An inter-departmental committee of the French National Library has been working since the beginning of the year to review the overall cataloguing processes and the specific roles of the different sections within the library. ...
  • An Organisational Model for University Libraries in Transition 
    Savenije, Bas (Igitur, 2002-07-23)
    This article describes the tradidional university library organisation, but it also gives an overview of a possible new structure which is in line with the demands described above. It is a flexible structure, in the sense ...
  • Shaping a Strategy for E-books: the JISC E-Books Working Group 
    Edwards, Louise (Igitur, 2002-07-23)
    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.
  • Promoting the Use of E-books by the Use of Electronic Enrichment 
    Gethin, Peter (Igitur, 2002-07-23)
    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 ...
  • Librarians Working with Publishers on E-book Provision 
    Loarer, Pierre Le; Salaün, Jean-Michel (Igitur, 2002-07-23)
    The traditional library builds a world of limited knowledge for a limited number of people: the economy of the traditional library is based on the service for an identified community of people. This community is limited ...
  • eBooks for Libraries and Patrons: Two Years of Experience 
    Rosy, Richard L. (Igitur, 2002-07-23)
    A little over two years ago, netLibrary defined its primary mission to encompass a singular focus on developing and offering library-centric solutions for organizing, hosting, and serving digital learning content in ways ...
  • Digitising Complex Data: Integrating Text, Images and Physical Organisation 
    Ore, Espen S. (Igitur, 2002-07-23)
    The National Library of Norway (NLN) is the Norwegian national deposit library and has a history going back to 1815 when national library functions were taken care of by The University of Oslo Library. In 1989 the Rana ...
  • ‘IN PLACE’: Making the British Library’s Collections ‘Local’ as well as ‘National’ 
    Shaw, Graham (Igitur, 2002-04-15)
    ‚In Place’ is the name of a government-funded digitisation project currently underway at the British Library which when completed in 2004 will be the premier web-showcase for the Library’s collections. It focuses particularly ...