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Presentation of "VÖB-Kommission Universitätsbibliotheken an österreichischen Privatuniversitäten".

In 2014 in two cases the Medical University of Vienna was able to elicit the rightful owners/heirs of expropriated goods during the Nazi-regime. Restitution was made to the heirs of Hans Peter Kraus and Philipp and Wilhelm Suschitzky.

Report on the activities of the executive committee and the board of the Association of Austrian Librarians.

The article presents the results of the first qualitative investigation promoted by the Interuniversity Group for monitoring university library systems (GIM) that was carried out in June 2009. Its aim was to stimulate a reflection on the past and current situation and on future prospects of university libraries. The Investigation intended collecting experiences and considerations of those in charge of the SBA and the librarian delegates of the CRUI with regard to information gathered at national level and reported in the last survey of the GIM. The survey tool used was a questionnaire with open and closed questions, which allowed individual opinions and motivations to be expressed and, at the same time, the comparison and measurement of some transversal aspects, on a sample of 40 persons replying. During the analysis of the information gathered and the drafting of the research report an approach typical of qualitative methods was preferred, developing the subjective contributions and highlighting conceptual categories constructed afterwards on the basis of the material collected. In the Italian library world qualitative methods of social sciences are still little known and practiced and it is hoped that this contribution will be an incentive in this direction, presenting an experience and providing a reference theoretic framework.

BACKGROUND: One of the frequently used measures of research performance of a country or a university is counting the related scientific production. In the present study the number of scientific production including research projects, books, journal articles and conference proceedings published under the name of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences were identified and then compared with those reported by Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education for the year 1384. The purpose of this study was to identify one-year research performance of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences and to show the growth rate of scientific production of this university from 1384 to 1385. METHODS: The present cross-sectional study was carried out by reviewing related official documents and running advanced searches in some of the most important databases. The time limitation was set on 1385 hijri shamsi, which is equal to the beginning of April 2006 till the end of March 2007. RESULTS: During the period of the study, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences published 56 books. The total number of approved research projects was 1080, most of which (61.67%) were descriptive studies. A total of 721 journal articles published by the university researchers of which 146 papers were indexed by ISI, 26 papers were indexed by MEDLINE, 194 papers were indexed by EMBASE, Scopus, Biological Abstracts, Chemical Abstracts and CINAHL, 318 articles were indexed by other databases. Only 37 articles published via non-indexed journals. 74.2% of the articles appeared in domestic journals while only 25.8% published in foreign journals. The total number of national and international conference proceedings was 726. The findings showed a significant increase (nearly 100%) in all kinds of scientific productions compared to those published in 1384 except the published books. CONCLUTIONS: The present study indicates that despite suffering from limitations in annual research budgets and facilities, research performance of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences has increased appreciably during the last year.

Presentation of the Consorci de Biblioteques Universitàries de Catalunya (CBUC) --which brings together Catalan universities and some of other regions-, describing their activities through an interview with their managers Lluís-Maria Anglada i de Ferrer (director), Marta Tort Pascual (head of Library Support) and Núria Comellas Gaya (project technician). Aspects treated: advantages and disadvantages of the consortia, collective catalog, big deals, Digital Library of Catalonia, library loan, databases, etc.

Present study has been conducted regarding the importance of medical researchers’ access to information resources and non-arrangement of interlibrary-loan project in medical sciences universities in the country. Its purpose is to determine effective factors on interlibraryloan in these universities. This study has used descriptive survey method. Results show that technological factors are the most effective factors on interlibrary-loan and organizational factors are located at the second grade. Humane and economical factors are third and fourth effective factors on interlibrary-loan in medical sciences universities of the country, consequently.

We describe the case of Facso, a database of the minutes and other documents of the Board of the Faculty of Social Sciences, which illustrates the integration of Unesco’s WinIsis database management system with Dropbox acting as a “virtual hard disk” on the cloud. Various routing options are shown, even incorporating the old Ms-dos .bat executable commands. This has been tested in a 64-bit version with Windows XP, Windows 7, and Windows 8 using Oracle’s Virtual Box, and on 32-bit PC desktop, notebook, and netbook platforms.

The current status of the academic libraries in Greece is examined. A brief summary of each academic institution and its library is given. Collection development, staff, and the bibliographic organization of the materials are described. The bibliographic standards that libraries apply, automation and retrospective conversion are presented. General assessments, short presentation of automation systems and areas for development are also provided.

Review of: Michele Menna, "Il nuovo mosaico della conoscenza. Biblioteche e bibliotecari di fronte ai processi di transizione professionale. Il caso dell'Università di Bologna". Since universities declare themselves knowledge industries, it seems that also for us are available that thought and those realizations of organization science which before were confined in the world of for money firms. In the same way, we've had the privilege of being able to begin experimenting on ourselves a process of dissolution of the work as derived by a solid tradition. The case of librarians (and of the growing almost myriad of related professions) seems exemplary; LIS area has always been the one most positively sensible to the enrichments of professional profiles and to forms of rational work organization.