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The article announces that researchers Miranda Bevan, Chloe Peacock, and Emma Young have received the 2014 John Sunley Prize award for their Masters dissertations which shows insights into the justice system and penal reform in Great Britain.

The article presents the author's views about the importance of individualized professional learning for teachers in creating a relevant education system and individualized learning for students.

The article discusses the 50th anniversary of publication of the Alberta Teachers' Association's (ATA) "ATA News." Topics covered include the 1999 proposed amendment to the School Act abolishing the Board of Reference through which teachers could appeal a suspension or dismissal, the publication of the newspaper's first issue in 1967 which featured the dispute between ATA and the Alberta School Trustees' Association, and Tom McConaghy's idea of publishing "ATA News."

In this paper we use a literature review to analyze the authority control and the role of authority data in book and cardcatalogs. Considering the ambiguity in the relation among the entities used as access points in catalogs (persons, corporatebodies, concepts, etc.) and the names by which these entities are known, we discuss authority control and the conceptsrelated to it. Then, we describe book catalogs and card catalogs focusing on their arrangement and access points, and wehighlight the main contributions of Panizzi, Jewett, Cutter, and American Library Association related to authority control. Asconclusions, we point out that current authority records had their functions and elements defined in analogic catalogscontext, especially in card catalogs. The results presented in this paper contribute to understanding of the current authorityrecords and files and of the authority control concept itself, as well as they support the discussion about new descriptiverules, data interchange standards, practices and technologies used in the publication of bibliographic and authority data.

The article presents the results of the 2015 reader survey of the periodical on customer readership on connecting teachers to their profession. The survey reveals that teachers has faced struggles in finding time to read the news papers and cites the aspects for improvement to the periodical. The survey also indicates the readers interest in reading information about teaching tips, trends in teaching technology and national education.

An introduction is presented in which the editor explores the changes to the publications, challenges on published for systematically news content on social media and web and education issues.

This paper tries to contrast digital decay with paper decay, explains how digitisation further accelerates accessing information through the trio factors accessibility, ease of use and perceived utility. Also discusses related issues including proliferation of gray content on the Web.

This paper discusses certain issues of Public Library Act implemented in Karnataka state, particularly about collection of Library cess, delay in transfer of collected cess amount to the department, non-use of the accrued fund and lack of adequate library services in rural areas. With more than half of population residing in rural areas and having lower than average literacy rates and per capita income, without adequate funds rural libraries have not been able to provide services comparable to those in urban areas. At the present rate, the Department may take a couple of hundred years to establish public libraries in all Gram panchayats in the State. As against the norm of every 3000 people should have a Library, the state has a library for every 15,600 people. The paper analyses the per capita library membership, book borrowing, books in stock and compares the same with that of developed countries. Part-time untrained staff with meager honorarium and poor collection reflects the pathetic condition of rural public libraries in the State. Few private trusts and foundations have been making significant impact on library movement with considerable success in promoting library services in the rural areas. Paper concludes stating that public-private partnership is likely to prove more efficient and a better alternative model to present government-run public libraries.

At the end of the 20th century it was common to hear voices announcing the extinction of libraries. Undoubtedly, these omens were related to the imminent disappearance of paper books and, more generally, to the dematerialization of the world and the ways in which information and culture were transmitted and stored. But if we stick to the facts, things have not been like that. Quite the opposite.

"The book: from papyrus to bytes" deals with the definition of book (in paper or electronic), starting from the concepts stablished in 1965 by the french sociologist Rober Escarpit. The next section "The book until yesterday" describes the "old" definition of the (paper) book, from cost and benefits to printing presses and a brief history from Gutenberg to the Americas. Wondering about a "electronic book", we ask ourselves: what is an electronic book? To respond with some consequences of these change. The paper continues with metaphores about the electronic [digital] revolution: coexistence with the traditional paper form; traditional and customized liaison with the printed information and the mandatory mediation. We conclude that the old fashioned relation between book and reader remains unchanged: free and freedom to choose; knowledge search and hoarding.

This paper gives an overview of Koha Open Source integrated library system, its general characteristics, and the major modules available for handling the housekeeping operations of a library. Also, discusses the surveys popularity of the usage of Koha software in Indian libraries.

The Cannabis sativa plant has been used by humans for millennia. Throughout this period the plant was employed in several ways, from its fibrous stem to its resinous blooms. Scientific research has shown positively that cannabinoids (substances present in Cannabis) can help in the treatment of various diseases, such as cancer, fibromyalgia, Parkinson's, among others. However, there is much difficulty for researchers to study this therapeutic potential in Brazil, given the current state of illegality of the plant. This paper aims to document the development of the Thematic Digital Library of Brazilian Academic-Scientific Publications on the Medicinal Use of Cannabis. The research is justified because, in addition, the topic is of interest to researchers, since adherence to social, educational and health problems, there are academic-scientific publications focused on the subject, and methodologies and tools of Information Science to organization, dissemination and access to such material. In order to fulfill the commented research, the following specific objectives are determined: to identify research that contributed to the consolidation of digital thematic libraries in Brazil from free access software; to present the contribution of scientific communication in academic research, with emphasis on open access publications; to identify open-access academic-scientific researchers and publications on medicinal use of Cannabis in Brazil in order to define the corpus of analysis for the thematic digital library; retrieve the identified articles; define a tutorial for the installation of the software, as well as its configuration and operation. It is believed that the organization of this information can collaborate for the scientific dissemination on the subject, as well as to promote the visibility of the subject between researchers and the dissemination and access to the information to the interested public.

This paper addresses the theme of accessibility and aims to develop prospective scenarios for accessibility on the web based on the bills of the Federal Senate and the Chamber of Deputies. It presents a survey about the main accessibility laws that are in force in Brazil. For this, it was used the cross-impact matrix method of Gordon. It was necessary to carry out a survey on the current bills that are in process to support the projection of scenarios. In this way, four bills have been identified about accessibility on the web. Based on the Gordon method, it was possible to develop three scenarios: a) pessimistic - no occurrence of expected events generating the archiving or non-approval of the projects being processed; b) realistic - occurrence of the development of Digital Inclusion Centers (CID) through the approval of Law no.28, of 2011; c) optimistic - in addition to the development of the CID, it is possible to implement software programs in public libraries for the use of the visually impaired, as well as to promote accessibility to public web portals in the medium term. Thus, we can see through the proposed scenarios a panorama of what can happen without future in relation to the bills projects.

This present paper aims to map and discuss concepts about folksonomy and tagging in Segmented Social Network Sites (SSNS) book-based. We ́re considering diferent ways of classification and categorization done by Goodreads users. Our investigation starts from theoretical debates about recommendation systems and folksonomy in social networking sites and their diferent uses. In order to develop the application of these concepts we ́ve made an exploratory observation of Goodreads and its potentialities of social tagging. Initial results shows that Goodreads folksonomy can be understood as a process for personal organization of readings and social tagging can work for searchability and visibility of the book reviews.

This paper presents the characteristics and history of the software Greenstone to create and manage digital libraries, initially developed by the University of Waikato, New Zealand in 1997. First, the user community is described at a global level, focusing on the current use that the software has achieved in Argentina: the number of implementations available, their evolution, the type, size and variety of the existing developments, as well as their application to the management of digital repositories of science and technology in the field of scientific, technological and higher education institutions in Argentina. Secondly, the actions carried out after the creation of the National Center for the Promotion of Greenstone in Argentina in 2009 are detailed. Data collected from surveys made it possible to observe that the predominant reasons for choosing this platform were, among others, its ease of installation and configuration, its low level of technological requirements, the general scarcity of human resources dedicated to this activity, and the complexity of the alternative software existing at that time. Throughout these 8 years, both the digital repositories and the systems that support them evolved drastically, modifying the current scenario. In parallel, in 2016 the new major version of Greenstone implemented a complete re-engineering of the software to adapt it to the technologies in use: XML, XSLT, Web-services and Java. As a consequence of this, the local development community poses new challenges for the migration of digital libraries and repositories implemented with previous versions.

This paper aims to address the relationship between professional ethics, deontology and union organization in Brazilian Librarianship, intending to understand how the process of political-institutional interaction of the area is situated in the professional and educational context. The methodology uses data collection, bibliographical and documental research. It presents concepts related to ethics as a science and its importance in the field of professions. It relates ethics and deontology, understanding this as a science of duty, responsible for ascertaining how the norms guiding the professional classes arise and are sustained. It evokes historical elements of the trade union movement in England, its arrival in Brazil and the beginning of unionization of Brazilian librarians. As a result, it highlights the need to broaden the debates about professional ethics and the maturation of class consciousness in Librarianship, which may have repercussions on collective actions of greater visibility with society.