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This study investigates the relationship between School Library and Students’ achievement on a population sample of 9896 Schools. Many international researches confirmed the importance of the School Library for the Students learning. Recently the IEA PIRLS survey has revealed a positive relationship between the Reading comprehension performance and the size of the School Library collection. In this paper, we verify the relation between the results of INVALSI tests in Italian and Mathematics - on school grades 5,8,10 - with the presence and functioning of the School Library. The information on the School Library comes from the School Questionnaire compiled by the School Principal in the course of the Self-evaluation Report. The analysis confirm a positive relationship in each school grade and in both subjects of investigation.

The Statement of International Cataloguing Principles (2009, under revision) by IFLA declares to be "applicable to online catalog and beyond as its primary objective with respect to the text of 1961." In fifty years the technology changed so much in depth the bibliographic universe and the possible ways to describe it, it was necessary to update the founding principles of the catalog (not the catalog!). Similarly, it is assumed that the skills required to cataloguer has to be changed with respect to this despite the recent past. It is easy to think of how many new knowledge are essential today, such as software for cataloging. Instead, we can say that some first necessary skills now they are not more? We create granular data and related that they may be reused by Google: just about data or cataloging is also something else? The use of our data on the local and global at the same time also as formative consequences door cataloger? You can think of, so to speak, of the catalogs regardless of their reality, yesterday's paper and bits today? You can even talk about data regardless of how and where will they appear?

The paper briefly describes the context and the origin of the Open Access (OA) movement whose main goal is to maximise the dissemination and the impact of publicly funded scholarly research results published in peer reviewed journals and more recently of underlying data collected or generated during a research. It continues with a short analysis of OA main features and benefits for the various stakeholders (researchers, academic and research centres, research funders, publishers, librarians, SME) followed by a description of the main barriers and obstacles that delay the OA process. It concludes presenting the necessary actions to its full implementation.

Library catalogs automation and bibliographic data management in electronic format have almost half a century of life. In recent years the media through which the information is spread, the conceptual models that describe the bibliographic universe, the structures of the data, the cataloging rules that provide guidance and constraints on the content of the data have changed. Through a diachronic overview of the evolution of the tool we still call OPAC, the purpose of this paper is to outline the state of the art and the future of library catalogs, focussing in particular on opening the catalog and data which contains the semantic web environment.

The Department of Musicology houses a collection of nearly 1000 piano rolls. Most of them were produced by FIRST, the most important company of perforated rolls at the time, which had its headquarters in Cremona. This collection is one among the widest collections of FIRSTS's production concentrated today in a single institution. Together with the publishers' catalogs, this fund is an essential basis to reconstruct and appreciate the importance of the Cremonese company. To ensure its conservation a digitization project (in collaboration with AMMI) has been planned, as well as a cataloging action. The cataloging of the piano rolls requires a preliminary study on descriptive criteria. The aim is to examine themorphological peculiarities of the carriers for the mechanical music and to establish a correct and complete description within the cataloging current rules. In fact, they do not explicitly cover this type of material: it is therefore necessary to propose appropriate amendments to them.

E-books are slowly appearing on the scene of the Italian academic libraries because the format of the book is not perceived by users in the same way as journal articles, and commercial offer is still inadequate.

These slides have been presented at the Stelline 2013 National Congress. In this work is analysed the relationship between science and society, and how the role of the academic library acts inside new balance environment changed by new technologies. The first point treated is the market of economy of knowledge focused on the value of the information chain in scholarship communication which can not be merely an "economic" value. Then we arrive to the role of the academic library in penetrating the society ... passing through the reflection of business models, not so much what are existing today, but what is meant by business model ...towards distribution model. Open Access is perceived as social pervasiveness tool. On the basis of the old paper (published 15 years ago) by the Dutch Roosendaal and Guerts focused on the forces and functions of scientific information we reflect and compare on the light of their recent work (written after 15 years) the new strategical positioning of scientific research towards social environment. In this dimension we detected 4 possible ways to act as researchers in the social environment. Because as a result of the platforms and social networks 2.0, research and society meet emerging new ways of communicating science and new ways to incorporate scientific results within the social environment. The researchers, in other words, leave the Ivory Tower and placed in a new way in order to build a real scientific citizenship (mode3 research entrepreneuse). The libraries in this dimension are placed in constant equilibrium with new professions emerging, and some of which are the legacy of a tradition passed, but some are new activities and also strategically positioned relative to the ecosystem.

This paper, written for the Biblioteca di Scienze sociali dell’Università di Firenze (Library of Social Sciences, University of Florence), proposes the verbal description of the Dewey Decimal Classification classmarks by using the indexing language drawn up by GRIS, Gruppo di ricerca sull’indicizzazione per soggetto (Research Group on Subject Indexing). In the subject strings that are descriptions of the Dewey notations, the indexing terms should be controlled by the same thesaurus used for subject indexing, to establish a common language for all the semantic indexes of the catalogue. This proposal was presented during the meeting L’indicizzazione semantica nei cataloghi italiani (Semantic indexing in Italian catalogues), at the Biblioteca nazionale centrale di Firenze (Central National Library of Florence), on 13 September 2004.

Extract from speech at the conference "Convegno delle Stelline" «La biblioteca che cresce», in the Section "Collections building" (Milano, Palazzo delle Stelline, 14-15 marzo 2019). https://www.editricebibliografica.it/scheda-ebook/aa-vv/la-biblioteca-che-cresce-9788893570763-579263.html In the complex and "fragmented" information ecosystem, which also includes the world of academic publishing, are emerging controversially and illegally "shadow" channels, defined as Shadow Libraries, "duplicate or substitute copies" and "counterparts" of the official ones, with the "pirate libraries" Library Genesis (LibGen) for e-books and "Scientific Hub" (Sci-Hub) for articles in academic periodicals. For full version of this presentation or for full text published, please send email: f.giuseppe.meliti@gmail.com

This article points out the difficulty of finding computer assisted language learning (CALL) software that is both appropriate for teachers' pedagogical needs and user friendly. Authoring programs offer simplicity but little flexibility. Innovative software requires the use of authentic programming languages or more sophisticated software. The ideal place to create programs is a university language center. Two examples in which such centers played a fundamental role are presented. The first is a "musical dictation," which develops and tests listening comprehension, phonetic-phonological discrimination, and spelling. The student listens to the Italian song "Belli Capelli" and completes the text that appears on the computer screen with missing words. The program then analyzes the student's responses. The second example is CALIS (Computer Assisted Language Instruction System). A fundamental characteristic of CALIS is the various categories of windows available to the author and to the student (question, text, and tutorial windows). The second important characteristic is the organization of the program in tasks. The student must give a correct answer before proceeding to the next task. The program allows the insertion of sound tracks and films in the tasks. Although this program has tremendous flexibility, it is not particularly user friendly for the author-teacher. Contains 18 references. (CFM)

The Coming AUTH project is about the enrichment and deduplication of authority data in SBN catalogue; the project will have both a professional procedure and a social one. Thanks to the cooperation between ICCU and AIB Lazio, the first one involves young professionals, and the choice of the data to be enriched will be decided later on. The second one will take advantage of services like Wikimedia Mix’n’match, and will be open to everyone; anyone could register and then try to match the names of different entities.In doing so, we will be able not only to clean and enrich the authority data, but also to improve the visibility of the SBN catalogue and the participation of users to its improvement.

SHARE Catalogue is part of well defined and wide project named SHARE (Scholarly Heritage and Access to Research) aimed at promoting local cooperation and sharing library and documental services between the following Universities: University of Naples “Federico II”, University of Naples L’Orientale, University of Naples Parthenope, University of Salerno, University of Sannio, University of Basilicata, and University of Salento. Hence, SHARE strives to facilitate the access to librarian resources, distributed over a large territory, and to meet the needs of information and research of the users. In SHARE Catalogue, all the data from the bibliographic catalogues of the accredited librarian systems, are converted in Linked open data (LOD), according to the Resource Description and Access (RDF, the data model codifying, exchange and re-use of metadata in website). Through a single navigation interface, organized according to the Functional Requirement for Bibliographic Records (FRBR), the final user can easily utilize a new tool, enriched by the connection with external projects, mainly related to Authority file and Encyclopedia online, such as: VIAF, Library of Congress Name Authority File, ISNI, Wikipedia, Wikidata. Furthermore, it is important to underline the role of SHARE Catalogue as a useful reference system for all the librarians involved in sharing and managing information.

The National Central Library of Florence takes care of and develops semantic indexing tools which are usable in libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions. In the last few years, the interoperability between Nuovo Soggettario and other knowledge organization systems, accessible for free on the Web, has increased significantly in order to give users the opportunity to search and identify relevant information from among vast collections and other resources. In this context, one of the most interesting experiences has been the mapping between Nuovo Soggettario Thesaurus’s concepts/terms and DDC’s concepts/notations (in WebDewey Italian version) established and maintained by the BNCF. The criteria adopted for the creation of concordances between equivalent concepts are being clarified continually and are in compliance with the latest international standards and suggestions of the EDUG group (European DDC Users Group). Thanks to the collaboration with AIB, the interaction between the two tools is visible not only in the record of Nuovo Soggettario terms but also in the WebDewey (IT) notations in which the Nuovo Soggettario verbal equivalents are next to those of the LCSH.

ACO – Ant Colonies Optimization is a collaborative information retrieval technique, belonging to the wider area of AI (more specifically, swarm Intelligence). ACO aims at improving search engines’ performances by exploiting users’ behavior. Bookmarks, comments and tagging (i.e. ‘like’) are processed in an algorithm which makes the search engine work in order to recommend the ‘best way’ to users with similar information needs. Postings and comments are the ‘pherormones’ left by previous users throughout information hunting. However, the metaphor of ant colonies foraging for food stimulates further questions. In fact, the optimization of information seeking could reveal a controlling attitude, urging everybody to seek for the same target, minimizing individual choice, freedom and awareness. Could ‘ants’ be easily exploited by a single-minded ideological thinking or by a market-oriented society? Indeed that was what Norbert Weaner predicted in far-off 1950.

Wikidata is a free knowledge base that can be read and edited by humans and machines alike, published under a free license, allowing to everyone the reuse of the stored data for every purpose, included commercial ones. The main goal of Wikidata is to centralise access to and management of structured data about every subject covered by Wikipedia and its sister projects (i.e. the exact number of inhabitants of a country, the apparent magnitude of a celestial body, the birthplace of a Chinese Emperor, and so on). Data are organised into ‘statements’, i.e. a property-value pair such as ‘Location:Germany’, with optional qualifiers and with their original sources (such as books, reviews, authority databases…). Officially released on October 30, 2012, Wikidata now stores 18,8+ million items, and in June 2016 has surpassed the 100 million statements threshold. Wikidata is run by a community of voluntary editors, which decide on the rules of content creation and management, and look eagerly at collaboration with Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums (GLAM). Some interesting collaboration are already ongoing since years with many institutions – such as National Central Library of Florence, Central Institute for the Union Catalogue, MoMA of New York, Tate Gallery, Rijksmuseum, or the Human Genome Project. But how does Wikidata works? Can its data be actually reused? And how? This presentation will answer to these and many more questions about it.

The great European libraries devote energies to realize the model of linked data. The analyzed projects cover four countries. France: data.bnf.fr project of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BNF) uses the linked open data to publish and make better use of their data on the Web: the catalogs of the Library and the data of the Gallica digital library. Great Britain: the bnb.data.bl.uk project of the British Library publishes a part of the English national bibliography in linked open data. Germany: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (DNB) has initiated in 2010 the project of conversion and publication of its authority records in linked open data; in 2012 the Library extended the project to bibliographic records. Spain: the datos.bne.es project of the National Library of Spain reflects the French project, from the three types of treated resources: Composers, Works, Persons.From this brief analysis of the most important European projects of publication of data in linked open data it is possible to draw some reflections: •the FRBR model is strongly recognized in all projects; •they push the limits of existing data, transforming them into linked data; •the same philosophy in all projects: the paradigm of linked data and the Semantic Web; •huge financial investments. The language of the linked data is often accomplished with the simultaneous membership of RDA and BIBFRAME.

The DFP database contains many resources of environmental interest, but still lacks an important area: the information on nuclear safety and radiation protection. This information is of considerable importance because in Italy there are nuclear facilities and radioactive waste to be disposed of, but this kind of information is not prominent on institutional sites. Information and documents can be found at the local level, on the websites of the Regions, of the ARPA (regional environmental agencies) or in databases such as the Valutazioni ambientali (environmental impact assessment).

Analysis of the relationship between E. Morel and P. Otlet

Given the focus on Information Literacy in an academic context, this contribution to the “Torrossa Retreat 2013” examines the Torrossa platform as a tool for bibliographical research. First, we will consider the educational objectives and methods that should be taken into account when organizing training activities in order to develop information skills, according to international guidelines and standards for Information Literacy. Secondly, using the example of an Italian University Library (Milano-Bicocca), we will observe various Information Literacy-based activities both online and on-site. We will outline indications of efficiency and effectiveness and review data gathered from a Customer Satisfaction survey. We will then put forward a useful model to guide users through the search process, and provide examples of preparatory activities necessary prior to the use of search tools, from subject analysis to the determination of search strategies. Finally, we will look at the various search functions offered by the Torrossa platform and offer a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) analysis, demonstrating the following aspects: the utility of the resource as a search tool for the Humanities and Social Sciences, the importance of continual content development and enrichment, the need for further promotion of the resource and for greater user training.

The presentation analyzes risks and future opportunities for public libraries from the analysis of two important phenomena of the current socio-economic context: the evolution of the public / private relationship and the crisis of the welfare state on the one hand, the profound transformation of goods and services within an urban setting and the knowledge economy on the other. the author then offers a brief description of some models of contemporary public library and outline the main features of the multipurpose library. What emerges is a picture of great complexity, which opens many questions about the future of public libraries, crushed mechanisms in general and that they are often unable to govern.

Presentation focused on free digital libraries in the world at the LinuxDay2011

A teaching course on Google, specially designed to information specialists. The presentation overview on the Google story, than it focused on four points: - the differents and ambiguous faces of Google; - the dialogue between Google and information specialists; - if you can't beat Google, than join him; - strategies to implement Google's tools in the daily work of information specialists.

Papers on language difficulties encountered by migrant workers' children include: "Anomie in Bicultural Education" (Hugo Baetens Beardsmore); "An Investigation into Bilingual Education for Children from Favoured Socio-Economic Backgrounds" (Hugo Baetens Beardsmore); "Orientations of Foreign Children Relating to Placement in Special Classes" (in French) (Jean Clevy); "Contribution to Reflection on the 'Training' of Teachers with Foreign Children" (in French) (Jean Clevy); "Bilingual Education for the Children of Migrant Workers: The Adaptation of General Models to a New Specific Challenge" (Joshua A. Fishman); "Prospects for Family Training" (in French) (Jean-Pierre Lagarde); "Contribution to the Understanding of Scholastic Problems of Migrant Workers' Children" (in French) (Xavier Piolle); "An Experiment in Multicultural Education in a Portuguese Migrant Situation" (in French) (Iraci Poleti); "Critical Description of an Experiment on the Teaching of the Native Language to Migrant Children" (in French) (Bernard Py); "Placement of Migrant Children in the Genevan Community and Schools" (in French) (Micheline Rey-Von Allmen); "Migrant Languages: Linguistic Change in Progress" (Mario Saltarelli, Susan Gonzo); "Implications of Recent Sociolinguistic Research for the Problems of Migrant Worker Children" (Roger W. Shuy); "Helping Migrant Children to Communicate: Some Implications of the Council of Europe Work in Language Systems Construction" (J. L. M. Trim); and "Linguistic Problems of Immigration and Proposal for Language Instruction Appropriate to the Level of Children" (in Italian) (Teresa Di Fonzo, Patrick Van Molle). (MSE)