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February 27, 2008
Gold Medal of Merit at Work for a librarian
The Minister of Labour today delivery Gold Medal of Merit at Work Jose Rincon, who has developed his career as a librarian at the University of Salamanca. Pepe Rincon has worked since 1961 in the General Library of the Historical USAL, being responsible for submitting their collections and explain their story to the many visitors who have this symbol library. The nomination was submitted by the chancellorship of the University of Salamanca in April and granted by the Council of Ministers in December 2007. The press office of the USAL has published a note with the portrayal of this librarian who can be represented in the professionals who make the library part of their lives.
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Permanent link: P.URL | Category: News | Published: February 27, 2008
February 26, 2008
How to keep the computer equipment in public libraries: the project MaintainIT
MaintainIT is a project of TechSoup, a non-profit organization that provides integrated resources to solve technology needs, and funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It is designed to share ideas and experiences among public libraries in the United States and Canada (focusing primarily in 18 states, which receive free upgrades software). The goal is to identify best practices in support of the public computers and share them with others, using the collective intelligence of professionals.
Its Web site can be found, as well as information about the project, in the short articles that librarians tell their stories, and cookbooks or recipe books. These are documents prepared by working groups and open licensed under Creative Commons, which contain "recipes" for the maintenance of computer equipment based on the ideas and feedback from the professionals. So far created two cookbooks, including one focused on the issue of libraries in rural areas, who tend to have less training, time and resources.
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Permanent link: P.URL | Category: Public libraries | Published: February 26, 2008
February 25, 2008
The new concept of 'reference'
The reference is one of the practices library that has evolved with the development of information technology, communication and participation. The consultation desks have expanded their powers and their spaces. The reference service, especially in public libraries, is available to anyone requesting information. The reference library is not what it was, because the media are more and greater resources to learn. Public services digital reference is a way to meet users beyond our buildings and geographies. This is evidenced by Pregunte: las bibliotecas respoden (Ask, libraries respond), which these days is the protagonist of a corporate promotion campaign and has already committed nearly forty thousand questions from its public release in June 2000. The reference is in the process of change and thus believes the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), section of the ALA which brings together professionals from the library services information and referral, which at its meeting on January 14, 2008 approved A new definition of the concepts' transaction reference '(Reference Transactions) and' reference work '(Reference Work). The definitions are the result of the debate emerged on the blog of this entity to delimit the work of reference. Using an unofficial translation, the definition of transactions is reference in this way: "Reference Transactions are information consultations in which library staff recommend, interpret, evaluate, and/or use information resources to help others to meet particular information needs. Reference transactions do not include formal instruction or exchanges that provide assistance with locations, schedules, equipment, supplies, or policy statements". Thus, it is determined that user training is not in reference to the questions about services, collections and rules of the library and not be considered as a reference for consultations this partnership. Moreover, the RUSA determined that "Reference Work includes reference transactions and other activities that involve the creation, management, and assessment of information or research resources, tools, and services". The definition adopted explained that Creation and management of information resources includes the development and maintenance of research collections, research guides, catalogs, databases, web sites, search engines, etc., that patrons can use independently, in-house or remotely, to satisfy their information needs, and that Assessment activities include the measurement and evaluation of reference work, resources, and services. New definitions for new ways of providing services old.
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Permanent link: P.URL | Category: Information services | Published: February 25, 2008
February 22, 2008
Permalinks records in the catalog at the Library of Congress
The Library of Congress has come to link the records of its catalogue with permalinks, persistent URLs, which do not change with the passage of time. These links are constructed from a control code, which is nothing more than an identifier assigned by the library, as stated in its page devoted to FAQs. Thus it is possible to cite the bibliographic records linking with your URL and check the availability of a document quickly. You can also link to the formats MARCXML, Mods and Dublin Core of those registrations adding to the URL the subdirectory / marcxml, / or mods / dc, as in this example. This development, which had already been discussed previously for services like Google or LibraryThing Books, expands the ability to add records catalográficos to social bookmarking sites like del.icio.us, as The Geek Librarian and improve their visibility.
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Permanent link: P.URL | Category: Processing | Published: February 22, 2008
February 21, 2008
What gives Google Books?
In late 2003 Google launched a new service, Google Print, which promised digitizing millions of books that would be available to full text via the Internet. We all remember the controversy that arose around the intellectual property of the texts and the reactions of the European authorities to the danger that suffered European culture of being overshadowed by the United States on the website.
In these four years, the Google Books now appears to have weathered the stakes suffered, and has incorporated new possibilities: downloading books in PDF, search the text of books, appeared versions in different languages, including Spanish, the search libraries (in the Spanish version of the catalogue REBIUN) and retail sites such as Amazon books online, and so on. Among the most recent is the option of creating a collection of books individually, in the purest style of Library Thing, which can be added documents, comment, and label them puntuarlos; this makes it one of the services on the web social or Web 2.0, which calls for the participation of Internet users.
At present Google Books is a collection of digitized books that are obtained through agreements with publishers and libraries. There are therefore two programmes for these two groups: the first allows publishers and authors to promote and market their books through this platform, while the second is possible to access documents and Discontinued. Among the participating libraries Spanish, along with several other American and European are those of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and the National Library of Catalonia.
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Permanent link: P.URL | Category: Information resources | Published: February 21, 2008
February 19, 2008
Statistics libraries 2006
The National Institute of Statistics (INE) has just published the Statistics libraries belonging to 2006, which collects, as has been done since 1975, information concerning the National Library, Central Library CA (7), public libraries (4,115), libraries for specific user groups (317), libraries of institutions of higher education (334) and specialized libraries (1,749). You can consult the detailed results of 2000 to 2006 from the server statistical INE, which allows consultation detailed data for the generality of Spain and the different Spanish regions. Overall, according to data from 2006, a press release issued by the agency highlights the increased use of library services; a continuous process of modernization of facilities, as well as a better allocation of computing and Internet access. However, the library staff is professional again in indexes that do not reach 30%.
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February 16, 2008
150 years of library profession
Between 13 and February 15, 2008 took place in Madrid on VIII Congress ANABAD, under the slogan Memory and technology and which have commemorated the hundred and fifty years after the creation of the first group of officials librarians. On July 17, 1858 establishing the body optional class work and that the administration wants to bring professionals to the archives and libraries Spaniards. The professional development of this scale was considered one of the papers of the congress, headed by Augustine Torreblanca, Technical Advisor of the Ministry of Economy and Finance. In addition, it was reported that the National Library is developing a biobliografía body, which will update the data collected during the editing done on the occasion of the centennial of this body of librarians. The conference offered simultaneous meetings in specialties: archives, libraries, museums and documentation. Indeed, the concluding observations were made separately, as they were submitted to the general and other archival section.
The Ministry of Culture was a large representation at the conference, with the active presence of the deputy heads of archives and libraries. The General Coordination Branch Librarian presented the results of their activity, while some gave information that will be of great importance for the librarian Spanish landscape, including the formation of the Council of Library Cooperation, a body created recently by Royal Decree 1573 / 2007 (BOE 1/1/2008). This Council will be constituted on March 12, 2008 in Jaca, in the days of Library Cooperation to be held annually. The Council consists of five technical committees: national and regional library, public libraries, school libraries, university libraries and specialized libraries. It is anticipated that all are incorporated in those days. Among the conferences devoted to libraries highlighted by the sharp Lluis Anglada, dedicated to libraries in the digital society, which gave a historical overview of the relationship between libraries and technologies from a thoughtful and analytical perspective. For Anglada, at the present time libraries should recover as a space (physical or telematics), think of people as objects (using information literacy) and the purpose (facilitating informed of the fact). The congress was continuing information collections digital repositories and collectors. In addition to a workshop on the subject offered by Digibis, was scheduled a conference on the various digital libraries coordinated by the Ministry of Culture, who confirmed its policy of support for the creation of repositories and announced the release of aid for 2008. Very interesting was the conference on fifty years of legal deposit in Spain, offered by Montserrat Olivan, head of this service at the National Library, who reported on the current status of legislation pending reform. The cooperation was one of the major themes of the section of libraries. Bethlehem Llera, Technical Director of the National Library, presented the national and international cooperative plans, especially those that are derived from European eContentplus programme in which our country participates, as ENRICH, devoted to manuscripts. According to Maria Antonia Carrato, Assistant Director-General for Coordination Librarian, it is expected that libraries Spanish participate in other projects of this initiative, to be launched shortly, as ED Local Interoperability between local collections, and MICHAEL plus, which will conduct a inventory multilingual digital collections. The university libraries were represented by Margarita Taladriz, who reported the involvement of Madroño in national projects such as E-Science and Europeans, as a driver. Taladriz, director of the library at the Carlos III University of Madrid, also reported the involvement of their university consortia as Nereus and NEEO, both related and related information economy. Another of the panels was dedicated to libraries and cultural management. Two sessions of communications on libraries, with experience on public libraries and specialized basically. At these sessions was presented the experience of BiblioRedes, Chilean project for digital literacy and informational. The inaugural lecture was given by the professor of philosophy Jose Luis Villacañas, while the closing was offered by the novelist Luis Mateo Diez, who championed the literary memory as a tool against oblivion.
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Permanent link: P.URL | Category: Professionals | Published: February 16, 2008
February 14, 2008
Habits readers and buying books of the Spanish in 2007
Last week the Federation of Unions of Editors of Spain issued each year as a barometer of habits of reading and buying books in Spain, from 2007. The main novelty this time is the expansion of the sample study to the age group between 10 and 13 years with the aim of extracting information about the children.
While data and purchasing habits of book readers seem to improve with respect last year only comes to correct the decline in the results of 2006. The percentage of people reading (over 14 years) is thus a 56.9% could be regarded frequent readers to 41% of Spaniards. In analyzing the data strip infant improve considerably: 65.5% are frequent readers and 19% casual. As far as buying books deals, a 56.2% of the population said they had bought a book, including text.
The profile of the reader remains related variables such as sex, age, level of education, housing and occupancy levels. Thus, the reader often tends to be female, under 44 years, with secondary or university education, living in a big city (more than one million) and occupied or student, while the reader does not usually men, more than 55 years, with primary education, housewives or retired and live in nuclei fewer than 50,000 inhabitants.
Other aspects are analyzed assistance to libraries, the provision of books in the home, leisure habits and the use of the Internet. The latter point seems to have a close relationship between reading and the Internet, as there are more readers than readers not among Internet users: if 50.8% of the population state to use the Internet when we ceñimos to readers the figure increases by more of 14 percentage points.
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Permanent link: P.URL | Category: Book and publishing | Published: February 14, 2008
February 11, 2008
The rise of the harvesters
The Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) and the University Libraries Network Spanish (REBIUN) just to launch gathers: Collector open science, which joins the different collectors (harvesters) who were already operating in Spain, as ROAI, maintained by the Ministry of Culture, Dialnet offered from the University of La Rioja and constantly growing or Global TDX, managed by the Consortium of University Libraries of Catalunya and from there you can check the thesis in open access in Spain. These collectors national him join other internationals of great importance, because in their databases hosting a thousand information repositories, such as OAIster oScientific Commons. Collectors are metabuscadores employing descriptive data (metadata) of the documents contained in the various repositories existing and available for free consultation. Most of the software that are used to manage repositories use the OAI-PMH, which uses Dublin Core metadata for the representation of its contents. Collectors stored metadata from different repositories elected to provide the user with information on documents in open access and a link for downloading from the repository where they are stored. Thanks to OAI-PMH, the chances of recovery of the information contained in a repository multiply, and that the documents can be accessed directly from the repository that contains or reach them through the various collectors who have included such repository among his collection of resources on open access.
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February 05, 2008
Libraries of the Ministerio de Defensa
The Official Gazette of January 30, 2008 issued the Order DEF/92/2008, which approves the Regulation of Libraries of Defense, which said Margarita Garcia Moreno, Chief Librarian Coordination Unit of the Ministry of Defence Iwetel the list, is composed of more than 200 libraries. The regulation was drawn up under the legislation that affects the structure of the Ministry of Defence, taking into account the state library standards, including those affecting the coordination of the libraries of the State General Administration. In addition to the adoption of the regulation, announced this Order processing, within one year of a census of the Network of Libraries of Defense. The new law distinguishes between three types of facilities: general libraries and historical; specialized libraries and documentation centers, and libraries of schools and training. Set the type of personnel who served basis, as well as planning tools, establishing mandatory multi-year strategic plans and annual programmes of action. The order ensures public access to the libraries of defense, but allows restrictions depending on the location, purpose or nature of the funds. The Order repealing existing legislation on military libraries, mostly approved between 1941 and 1943 and the years 1973 and 1974.
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February 02, 2008
Angouleme rewards quality
The international festival of comics, which is held annually in Angoulême (France), it remains essential to find a reference publishing projects devoted to graphic literature in all its variants. Each January, the Festival International de la Bande Dessinée celebrates its exhibition, which presents news, discusses comics and delivered the prizes to the best album released in the previous year. Between 24 and February 27, 2008 has taken place the 35 th edition of this important festival, which gave his Fauve d'Or prize for best album at best, to work Là où vont nos pères, Shaun Tan, edited by Dargaud. Unlike in other years, the winning entry was published in Spain. With the title Emigrants, Barbara Fiori editorial published in April 2007 this conmevodora history, where the words are substituted by locuaces images created by Shaun Tan, author of international standing, whose previous works have also been published in Spain by Editorial Cadiz. The award recognizes both the value of a story full of humanity, as the quality of an artist that has been established between the major representatives of a realistic illustration and personnel. In addition, the award should serve as an impetus to new Spanish publishers, who are offering collections laden with beauty and risk.
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Permanent link: P.URL | Category: Library collections | Published: February 02, 2008
