Technological changes in recent years have encouraged many libraries to deliver digital images of their materials over the Internet. For larger items, including maps, high resolution images of research quality can now be ...
This paper introduces the Working Group for Education of the Groupe des Cartothécaires (GdC) de LIBER and gives a progress report of the Group’s activities from 1998 to the present. It also discusses the impact of the ...
The metaphorical route maps I shall be offering will be highly selective, and sometimes personal. But I shall try to raise fundamental issues that I believe are relevant for all map libraries. Given the mixed nature of ...
Within a brief span of time, maps on CD-ROM and on the Internet have become the most effective means of paperless information transfer. Map departments of the national libraries have found themselves up against the reality ...
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 ...
The Internet enables a map collection to be easily available to the general public. The Internet allows worldwide usage of map libraries. It is well suited for public relations and therefore important for today’s map libraries.
Following successful trials in six United Kingdom university map collections, the EDINA Digimap web-based mapping service was launched on 10 January 2000. Digimap gives access to current Ordnance Survey of Great Britain ...
This is intended as a short discourse to explain the current policies for the development and management of the Map Collection, and for the provision of services, at Aalborg University Library, Denmark.
This was another stimulating and enjoyable conference of the Groupe des Cartothécaires held in the impressive gravity-defying new extension to the Kongelige Bibliotek. The papers and issues discussed ranged from the everyday ...
The consortium of Dutch universities, the Dutch Royal Library and the Netherlands Institute for Scientific Information have summer 1999 developed and implemented a new strategy in its relationship to scientific publishing houses.
In Europe we tend to think of cultural diversity as the very essence of our European fabric. This conference has also underlined the necessity for sticking to internationally recognised standards if we want a seamless ...
Libraries today, amongst other research institutions, are solicited more and more to take part in programmes of digitisation of their collections. Apart from the way these programmes affect the public image of the institution ...
Toutes les bibliothèques – et particulièrement les bibliothèques nationales dont la mission essentielle est de conserver le patrimoine – sont confrontées à des problèmes de place. Le bâtiment de Tolbiac a été en grande ...
There is no point in rehearsing the lengthy saga of building the new British Library in North London. The media made much of it − much of it inaccurate − and the Library, its staff and its users are now only too pleased ...
The increasing amount of information being produced digitally is impacting on and changing forever the expectations of users in all spheres of life. Digital access has many advantages over paper-based access in terms of ...
In the United Kingdom (as in many other countries) increasing attention is being paid to the importance of each library and archive having a written preservation strategy endorsed by its governing body. So increasingly we ...
The Internet has created a unique type of media for scholarly information and publication, the subject-specific web site. Sometimes subject-specific web sites reveal still striking similarities to examples derived from the ...
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 ...
OSIRIS and ELIB are two cooperative projects at the Osnabrück University supported by the German Research Society (DFG) and the Ministry of Science and Culture (MWK) Niedersachsen (Germany). They deal with natural language ...
As a consequence of developments in information technology, the traditional information chain is subject to change: the separate functions in this chain become more and more integrated and the roles played by the traditional ...