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Defining what it takes to act entrepreneurially is fundamental to identify what competences shall be nurtured to cultivate the entrepreneurial capacity of European citizens and organisations. The Joint Research Centre and Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion of the European Commission have developed a Reference Framework, turning a very broad definition of entrepreneurship into learning outcomes that facilitate the promotion of entrepreneurial learning across sectors.

Automation makes the library system, resources and services more attractive and interactive, helping libraries to meet their users' expectations.

The objective of this work is to create awareness about the importance of modernizing libraries and train staff in charge of them technologically. This because the library is synonymous of progress for any people in the world. The library is analyzed as an institution that must develop technology skills, abilities and competencies of information on their users. Reality tells us that there is much work to be done in the technological part of many libraries, mainly due to its lag in individual knowledge and training of each librarian. It is necessary to train professionals through courses, reading journals, looking for information on the Internet, and sharing information with colleagues, then go and continue towards organizing communities of our country. As immediate conclusions we found imperative that librarians have high computer skills, a parallel career or opt for extra courses, extension, summer or otherwise, in accordance with the theme and to help with the task at hand versus users , which are becoming more aware of technology. Moreover, the current library should have technological resources as a primary tool that is necessary to maximize. The librarian should also be prepared to meet this challenge with a trained staff, stimulated by new things and targeted.

Savoie-Biblio: departmental libraries of the Savoie and Haute-Savoie redefine their territory and their model At the beginning of the year 2000, a wish to bring together the departmental libraries of Savoie and Haute-Savoie was expressed by the representatives of the two departments. A feasibility study has been the opportunity to challenge the traditional model of departmental lending libraries centred around the quarterly deposit of books with the help of the mobile library. A new model is in the process of emerging with strong central themes: advice and training, shared management of the collections and the promotion of cultural activities. The chosen legal form will permit progressive experimentation with the new model.

Ten Years After : How County LibrariesHave Evolved Since Decentralization The Central Lending Libraries were exterior services of the Ministry of Culture until December 31st 1985 when they were transferred to the County Councils on January 1st 1996. They officially took the title of Departmental Lending Libraries (bibliothèque départementale de prêt) in 1992. From the seven successive editions of Guide des bdp, published by the Association des directeurs de bdp, this article examines the principal developments, quantitatively as much as qualitatively, that occurred between 1986 and 1996 in matters of personnel, buildings, vehicles, computers, stocks, policy, and network structures. It shows that the new orientations have been superimposed on the old, without always replacing them completely.

CREADIS (Electronic Resource Center for University Students with Disabilities). Academic initiative inspired by the principles of equal opportunity, non-discrimination and universal accessibility. Fruit of the social responsibility of the university and information professionals to promote the previous values, is directed at college students, alumni, or pre-university with a disability. With the aim of becoming a free resource with quality content aimed at to other persons, associations, educators, performing advisory duties. CREADIS is created with the purpose of being a repository of quality electronic resources, with added value to serve as the window to information, knowledge and long-life learning.

Libraries, Archives and Museums (LAMs) should respond as one articulated entity to the user informational needs and to the demands of the scholarly electronic communication. LAMs are stepping forward into the arena of digital stewardship and this move requires new skills and abilities. The specialists are adapting practices and instruments to the pressing needs for digital curation and preservation. The necessity for an active and continuous partnership between the information-intensive organisations, the scholarly community and general public, must be ensured while incorporating the paradigm of guiding the user and empowering the researcher. There are important questions that future digital stewardship raises related to how the professional profile will look like for those powering the specialised structures put in place to safeguard cultural and scientific heritage. What will be the core competences based on what set of skills and abilities? How will the facilities look like? What will be the general environment, and most importantly, will there be a space for common knowledge exchange for those entrusted with maintaining vast bodies of information. The article searches for answers related to the shifting core competencies, future set of skills and abilities and how future facilities will be shaped by these evolutions. The first step is the establishment of spaces especially destined for knowledge exchange to help converge disciplines within LAM framework. Different structural and cultural chances are revealed, starting from job adverts up to the policies addressing the needs of information and knowledge management.

This article presents three (3) prototypes of what an agent could be through the practice and different strategies for information retrieval. It is important to point out that while it does not correspond to an exact definition of what an intelligent agent is, it is an approach and a tool to improve efectiveness for information retrieval. In the same way they are free software so anyone could take advantage of these services, whithout any additional cost trying in this way to become a guide in the acquisition of a basic tool for information retrieval.

This paper will describe the results of an environmental scan of some of the most successful Information Commons in North America and elsewhere, focusing on the elements of their service and program model that in the authors’ opinion foster e-lit integration.

At the University of Auckland the University Library has been a strong voice in lobbying for a more coherent and integrated approach to developing computer and information literacy skills across the university. Several plans and reports such as the Academic plan, draft IT and Information Literacy policy, graduate attributes and recommendations from the Student Life Commission and Curriculum Commission highlighted the need for collaboration between stakeholders to put plans into action. Progress in implementing recommendations and developing initiatives had been slow until the opening of the Kate Edger Information Commons at the end of April 2003. The Kate Edger Information Commons very quickly became the heart of the City Campus and a catalyst for change and collaboration. The Information Commons, the University of Auckland’s leading edge student-centred learning facility, provides a collaborative interdisciplinary environment where over 500 full-productivity workstations, electronic classrooms, and an additional 500+ flexible study and social spaces have been combined with proactive, integrated learning support and e-Literacy skills development. It provides the infrastructure for the functional integration of the information and the technology services, information literacy, learning support and language skills development offered by the University Library, IT Directorate, Student Learning Centre and English Language Self-Access Centre, consequently creating an enhanced learning environment that reflects the transformations in higher education. The development of IT and information literacy (e-Literacy skills) is a key focus for the Information Commons and opportunities for skills development are integrated into all aspects of service delivery. The paper will look at new partnerships and new service models and initiatives that have arisen from the various collaborations, together with a growing integrated approach to e-Literacy development.

The report is based on the survey carried out during October 1971 to June 1972 about the availability of the resources in the CFTRI library. The Report highlights among others the necessity of undertaking the survey, its scope and limitations, the methodology adopted. It gives a brief history of the Parent Organisation – CFTRI and a general description of its library in terms of the holdings, services and activities. The core theme of the paper is to evaluate whether the available reading and informational materials in CFTRI library are adequate, current and useful to its readers. These three criteria have been applied separately and also collectively to all types of reading and informational materials adopting mainly opinion survey of readers, checklist method and also quantitative method. Besides presenting the results of the survey, a few suggestions have also been made based on the data so collected.