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Established in 1973, The Indonesian Library Association has contributed significantly for the development of professional librarian in Indonesia. It has branches in every province and serving million people every year. With robust network and solid organization, the association has regular annual meeting attended by almost thousands of its loyal members making it one of the largest professional organization in Indonesia. It is the only one formal library association in Indonesia dealing with librarians. Provoked by monetary crisis in Indonesia which melted down the fragile economic foundation and forced the longest served president, the late Soeharto to quit, Indonesia suddenly become a “new state” adopting democratic styled government, more open society And real free market. These unexpected changes have had tremendous impacts on many walks of life including professional institutions. Euphoria that followed reform movement has dispersed power concentration by the establishment of new political parties. Fortyeight new political parties joined eligibly the first democratic general election in 1999. Reform spirits also intruded to The Indonesian Library Association (ILA)locally known as Ikatan Pustakawan Indonesia (IPI). It faced highly demanding members who wanted some substantial changes in the organization structure and custodians and the implementation of power sharing favoring the association branches and chapters in the provinces and districts. Up to the present the top position of the association traditionally goes to the head of National Library. With his or her beauracratic style in leadership, some consider not suitable anymore for the new paradigm of modern and democratic organization.To compound the problems, some librarians have established four forums and one scholars association namely Public Library Forum, University Library Forum (FPPTI), School Library Forum (APISI/FPS), Special Library Forum (FPK) and The Association of Indonesian Library and Information Scholars (ISIIPI). They are autonomous semi formal entity. Judging this unfavorable condition, the board and management of ILA has taken some bold measurements by inviting some new faces, young librarians with strong commitment and high competency to participate actively and directly in decision making process in the association board meeting and put them in strategic position in the organizational structure. Moreover, the association has no objection in the implementation of power sharing making its branches and chapters more autonomous and creative as well. It also simplified its organizational structure to accommodate some changes in modern setting and globalization era. By reinventing its management style and streaming line the organization,the Association has managed to satisfy the majority of its members and attracting more new members especially the young professionallibrarians.

[The present paper is based on a curricular traineeship, part of the Degree in Information Science, under the theme of the implementation of Quality Management Systems, occurred at the Documentation Services of the University of Minho (SDUM).] The SDUM have their main purpose in providing the best resources, services and easy access to all the community of the University of Minho (formed by students of several areas, teachers, collaborators and investigators). In order to fullfil the users’ needs, it was essential for SDUM to grow and mature as an organization. The main objective of this paper is to give a general vision of all the work executed at SDUM, emphasizing this project, pioneer in Portugal: the implementation of Quality Management Systems, based on ISO 9001:2000 and Balanced Scorecard, in order to obtain the services’ certification. Between the amount of steps needed for a complex process as this one is, it is important to have the perception that Libraries are now dealing with a new “generation” of users and it’s important, not only to understand their needs, but knowing how to satisfy them and supplant what their expecting. The Quality, allied, most of the times, to Innovation, is a new opportunity to change what is not working the way it was supposed to but, more important than that, to involve and motivate all the collaborators, making them feel as a real team. And it will surely reflect in the services rendered to the users. From mapping processes, to documental management, passing through the Quality Manual, Benchmarking and the issues related to the human side of this question, the present paper aims to be an example of what is Quality applied to this area and also encourage

Building an effective and sustainable curriculum-integrated information literacy initiative requires several key ingredients, from securing support by identifying and aligning the library with key strategic partners on campus and providing convincing evidence of the need for attention to information competencies, to planning and designing information literacy development and assessment opportunities across the curriculum. Participants will hear case studies from two very different institutions and begin to build a strategic action plan for their own institutions.

CNBA was created in 1977 by a group of librarians operating in the architectural field, animated by a strong feeling of cooperation, which has remained the main characteristic of the association. There have always been two lines of action: one addressed to members (professional courses, stages, conferences and publications), the other addressed to users, students, professors and professional architects. In the latter direction can be mentioned the participation to national and international projects meant to offer tools for an improved access to documents in the field of urban planning and architecture

Information is an object of marketing, it is bought and sold, and it can provide, to those who own it, some actual and effective profits. This evidence is so obvious that the major companies leaders have designed policies to manage this resource in the interests of their company. However, sometimes also confused because of this situation, they simplify the information management with the mere addition of information technology of the last generation which, although having fundamental importance as tools for the very information management, the can only be seen as a support to cover that management of the information.

Science Commons serves the advancement of science by contributing to the removal of unnecessary legal and technical barriers to scientific collaboration and innovation. Built on the promise of Open Access to scholarly literature and data, Science Commons identifies and eases key barriers to the movement of information, tools and data through the scientific research cycle. The long term vision of Science Commons is to provide more than just useful contracts. We will combine our publishing, data, and licensing approaches to develop solutions for a truly integrated and streamlined research process.

In the language of e-learning, teaching and learning contents are often organized in ‘learning objects’: molecular assets that may consist of texts, audio or video lessons, presentations, tutorials, self-evaluation tests, all adequately described and packaged. The idea that open access could and should be applied to learning materials is not new: recent initiatives such as MIT’s OpenCourseWare or Open University’s OpenLearn are clearly moving toward the right direction. However, the problem of the repositories to be used in order to collect, describe, preserve and distribute open access learning assets is still an open one. Learning Content Management Systems (LCMS) are the tools of choice in centralized management of learning assets, but while most LCMS adopt well-established standards for metadata (Learning Object Metadata – LOM) and packaging (SCORM) of learning objects, few of them explicitly address the problem of metadata harvesting by adopting the OAI-PMH protocol. On the other hand, most institutional repositories based on OAI-PMH do not address the specific problem of learning content metadata, for which the Dublin Core metadata scheme is painfully inadequate. The optimal solution seems therefore that of integrating basic LCMS features within existing Open Archives, allowing for both CD and LOM metadata handling and harvesting. This would also have the effect of actively promoting open access distribution for learning contents, by using a widespread and successful paradigm for their distribution. The paper will suggest a relatively simple model for such an integration.

The Italian Ministry of Health launched in 2001 a national program to support “independent information”. The dissemination included the translation and free distribution to all health professionals (300.000) of three reference books – British National Formulary; Medicines for Children and Clinical Evidence. The implementation plan includes the development of a free-access e-learning Continuing Medical Education (CME) system, based on Clinical Evidence, called ECCE. Doctors have access to a Clinical Evidence electronic version and related clinical vignettes. Solving the vignettes provides CME credits. Our objective was to understand the factors influencing knowledge transfer using a CME distance programme, based on clinical vignettes driven by the Clinical Evidence in general medical practice. As of June 10th 2007, more than 30 000 doctors voluntarily subscribed to ECCE (11.8%). Two surveys assessed doctors’ judgement about Clinical Evidence and ECCE. Free distribution and implementation of Clinical Evidence to Italian doctors have been well received, confirming their preference for problem-driven information and the key-role of a strong endorsement from Health Authorities for their implementation.

Recent reform processes affecting European and national research systems (mostly Higher Education and Public Research Institutes) enhanced the need of research evaluation as Government steering tool as well as mean for supporting allocation of public financial resources. Moreover, different methodologies for ranking Universities at international level on the basis of research quality are emerging, pushing institutions toward improving their visibility through the search of excellence. In both cases, peer review and bibliometrics are the chosen methods. The paper wants to discuss how considering concepts and means related to the Open Access (OA) context can influence these practices. Questions addressed are: how can peer review be implemented according to the OA initiative? Are there new tools other than bibliometrics, which can be used in order to reinforce peers’ outcome? Evidences from the Research Evaluation Exercise (VTR) recently developed in Italy by the National Committee for the Evaluation of Research (CIVR) will be presented.

While open access archiving and publishing are already common practices in many scientific, technical and medical (STM) fields, we cannot say the same for the humanities - especially in Italy. It is true that "information wants to be free" and ideas spread also in spite of all the copyright and closed access obstructions. However, the by-product of a such a situation is what we can call an incomplete library, which exacerbates the typical fragmentation of these disciplines. At the beginnings of Western philosophy, Plato dealt with the transition from orality to literacy, and met the challenge by combining freedom of the texts and knowledge communities. Now humanities have to face a similar challenge. And their fragmentation and lateness in the open access publishing can offer the opportunity to try out new filtering criteria, like open peer review, retroactive peer review and soft peer review. Outside the scientific community, a new kind of peer reviewing is emerging on-line - a kind of wisdom of the crowds that applies to de facto open access objects (see Chris Anderson, Wisdom of the crowds ). Although such a wisdom is not flawless, for humanities - which deal with human beings - it is crucial to communicate and to energize the new. cultivated public opinion that is arising from the Internet, if they want to preserve their eminence In a situation if information abundance, the well-known academic motto "publish or perish" might also be interpreted as "make your texts public, or perish".

High Energy Physics (HEP) spearheaded the Open Access dissemination of scientific results with the mass mailing of preprints in the pre-WWW era and with the launch of the arXiv.org repository at the dawn of the '90s. The community is now ready for a further push to Open Access while retaining all the advantages of its peer-review system. CERN, the world leading HEP laboratory which gave to the world the WWW, has now taken the lead in furthering Open Access publishing, leveraging on its experience and assets in world-wide collaboration. In recent months, HEP funding agencies, laboratories and library consortia joined forces to establish a single body, called SCOAP3: the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics. SCOAP3 will engage scientific publishers towards building a sustainable model for Open Access publishing, transparent for HEP authors. In the SCOAP3 model, subscription fees from multiple institutions are replaced with contracts with publishers of Open Access journals where SCOAP3 is a single financial partner. The publishers' role of assuring the high quality of published scientific literature through the peer-review system is at the basis of this model. Publishers would receive financial compensation for the costs incurred in the organisation of the peer-review service, while assuring Open Access to the accepted articles. We discuss the HEP publishing landscape and its links to the Open Access tenets leading to the basis of the SCOAP3 model. An outline for the transition of the entire HEP corpus to Open Access is then presented and the recent steps towards the establishment of SCOAP3 are reviewed.

Over the last years, the CRUI (Conferenza dei Rettori delle Università Italiane) has acknowledged the importance of full and open access to information and data belonging to the public domain for scientific research and education. Therefore, it has been fostering the web dissemination of scientific knowledge produced by Italian Universities and Research Institutions. In November 2004, the CRUI promoted the agreement of the Italian Universities to the "Berlin Declaration to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities", on the occasion of the Messina Conference on "Italian Universities for Open Access: towards open access for scholarly literature", in order to spread the advantages generated by open-access publishing. At the beginning of 2006, within the CRUI Libraries Commission, the Italian Group for Open Access has been set up, targeted at carrying out the principles of the Berlin Declaration. This Group is drawing up the guidelines, in order to make the academic community aware of the advantages due to Open Access, and to provide definite indications for the creation of open archives and the actualization of e-publishing initiatives. More precisely, the group is working on the laws and the ways of publishing Ph.D. dissertations in the archives.

In the preservation of the author’s rights often prevails some aspects that can be brought back to the creative autonomy of authors and publishers, like a vertical system in which every distribution or fruition act of the creative contents is authorized and controlled. On this point are well known those prejudicial opinions and critical positions that seem to prevent any opening policies in the name of unspecified “international treaties”. However, a social opening is present in the international area and there could be forms of opening and mediation – even if this social opening does not have a defined content and is subdued to state legislation. The international organisation is well aware of this need of differentiation that often appears and which requires an adaptation to some limitations without that the whole discipline of the auhtor’s rights (sometimes confused with copyright) risks to be misconceived. Then, there must be discovered the exceptions to the legislation that refer to the payment of the author’s and the related rights to assure, from one hand, the social opening to the system in a responsible way. In other words, the matter is not to rewrite all the author’s rights issue, but to focus better its application.

Since the aim of Open Access is the removal of any economic, technical and legal barrier to the access to peer-reviewed published output of research, the creation and implementation of Rights Management Policies in higher education is a strategic issue for an effective and really practice Open Access endorsement. Italian Universities' priority should be the identification of stakeholders and the allocation of their own interests. A policy statements should explain in a very clear way how each faculty member's ownership should accomplish their digital scholarly material ensuring that the availability and the accessibility of this material is not adversely affected by the copyright. Policies on Open Access should be a fundamental part of the mission of our Universities, because it is involved in any process from creation to dissemination of scholarly works; for this reason University policies should balance the interests of stakeholders - reserving rights or benefits for research uses or teaching activities and ensuring that the work it funds can be read and utilised by the widest possible audience. Managing copyright is a skill to be created. A variety of approach can exist even within one country, depending by laws or by habits to faculties. Copyright laws are inadequate to deal with the complex issues surrounding the management of intellectual works created at Universities. On Government side we need new legislations such as specific laws for the scholarship communication world. Nowadays the copyright is perceived as a very strong legal barrier for research and teaching, because copyright laws influence in a negative way the dissemination and the consequent impact of intellectual research output, with heavy cultural, social and economic relapses. On the administrative side we have to work inside our University. We need different levels of policies which foresee agreements that seek to assure to University and to its authors the ability to use and manage the works in fulfilment of their most important interests.

The Data, Data Analysis, and Visualization plan of the U.S. National Science Foundation's (NSF) Cyberinfrastructure Vision for 21st Century Discovery (see http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf0728/nsf0728.pdf) provides a framework in which NSF will work with its partners in the public, private, and international sectors to address data acquisition, access, usage, stewardship and management challenges in a comprehensive way. Motivated by a vision in which science and engineering digital data are routinely deposited in well-documented form, are regularly and easily consulted and analyzed by specialists and non-specialists alike, are openly accessible while suitably protected, and are reliably preserved, NSF’s five-year goal is twofold: To catalyze the development of a system of science and engineering data collections that is open, extensible and evolvable; and To support development of a new generation of tools and services facilitating data mining, integration, analysis, and visualization essential to turning data into new knowledge and understanding. The resulting national digital data framework will consist of a range of data collections and managing organizations, networked together and designed to contribute to the emerging global information commons. It will be simultaneously local, regional, national and global in nature, and will evolve as science and engineering research and education needs change and as new opportunities arise.

The presentation will describe the progress towards open access to UK research papers over the past two years, covering subject and instituional repository growth and "gold" open access developments. The JISC has funded many projects to support universities in repository development, and some universities have made new policy commitments in support of open access. The Research Councils have also made important policy decisions, and the Wellcome Trust has joined with other biomedical funding agencies in establishing UK PubMed Central. Many UK publishers now offer an open access option to authors and UK universities and funding agencies are currently developing procedures to enable authors to take advantage of these options.

In Germany, the members of the so-called alliance of research organisations (Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, German Rectors’ Conference, German Research Foundation DFG, Helmholtz Association, Leibniz Association, Max Planck Society) drive the open access agenda forward. Providing information for academics and scientists still plays a major role, and members of the alliance found various ways for adressing their often specific needs. A DFG-funded platform (http://www.open-access.net/) serves as a national focal point, providing information for different stakeholders involved or concerned with open access. Developing guidelines and policies can thus rely on the information provided (e.g. the resolution by the German Commission for UNESCO that was based on a handbook on open access, cf. http://www.unesco.de/reshv67-3.html?&L=0). Some organisations asked key researchers to provide their articles via repositories in open access to demonstrate that open access publications comply with the highest quality standards. At the same time, the infrastructure for open access archiving is continuously improved, be it by large-scale projects like eSciDoc (http://www.escidoc-project.de/homepage.html), be it by networking the repositories in Germany. Although there is a strong support for the so-called "green road", major German research organisations are also interested in contributing to the SCOAP3. Besides, providing open access to primary research data comes more and more into the focus of attention. The presentation will depict the major developments within Germany, pointing out the specific interests of the alliance’s member organisations.

The authors present a summary of the results obtained from a survey made to members of the professional association SEDIC in 2006. Data are analyzed with the aim of identifying origin and needs on continuous formation, labour and professional situation, different profiles in the profession and degree of job satisfaction of SEDIC members. The results are compared with the survey made in the same association in 2001, with the aim of drawing conclusions to improve our knowledge on the labour and professional situation in the sector of the Information Science in Spain.

As www, and now web 2.0 is growing by the second, it gives us new possibilities of pedagogical forms, and the main following outcomes: resources, implementation, usage, practice. We will re-evaluate and examine new forms of social networking - theoretical and practical knowledge in academia and science: from implemetation of web roots practice, listservs, eBoards, eZines (alternative art and education forms –then), the usage of eResources in academia, education profession to the wider audience: using larger online open archives, Consortias, digital libraries, repositories, to online social networking applications, science and education blogs. Author uses and presents data from her Master research paper with relevant results about the usage of the precious online resources, electronic publishing materials within Consortia (that are available in science institutions, academia and libraries). More than thousands and thousands available resources are not used because of many factors that the author explained in one of the chapters in master paper. As indicated in outlines, e-tensions play themselves differently in various institutional geographies. Author took empirical research on three geographic points: USA, Europe (UK and Nederlands) and Serbia. The Scopes are two paradigms: human factor and digital media educational tools (human-computer interaction and its social impacts), that we use in education systems and professional practice. For the first one is indicated open source educational software, applications and tools for giving information and knowledge. We will also give a short notice on the interest and the usage of the aimed groups of those possiblities (at classes, lectures). For the second, in professional practice we will see how those social knowledge tools have impact on larger science commnity groups (science, educational institutes and institutions) as well as the outcome-feedback. The point will be given on interaction in open knowledge and education, as well as the notice to the audience of the recent exemplar of implementation of social, interactive knowledge into professional practice and educational system - the concept of web of science which founder is the father of World Wide Web Tim Berners- Lee.

The availability of broad characterizations of campus information systems for students can be useful for the strategic information management of higher education centres. First we describe and contextualize a characterization model for on-line campus information systems for undergraduate students. This serves as a framework of conceptual reference for empirical work on Spanish universities. Information was gathered by means of structured visits to institutional websites and structured interviews with undergraduate students. Analyzing the information collected enables us to classify Spanish higher education institutions into three clusters with homogeneous characteristics, in the sense of their information system and organizational aspects. Finally, we discuss future research on this subject.

This study examines how collaboratories affect informal scientific communication. Collaboratories are virtual organizations, where various information technologies are adopted to support distributed scientific work. In this paper, a framework to understand factors affecting informal communication are presented and how these factors play out in collaboratories are discussed. The results of data analysis suggest that collaboratories bring about new opportunities, but there are also barriers to informal communication in collaboratories. Peripheral scientists encounter more barriers than their partners in US and Europe. The paper concludes with a discussion of areas for future research and implications of this study.

Today’s knowledge workers rely increasingly on information to get their job done, and the availability of search engines to locate relevant information is thus essential. Understanding how users interact with search engines is a prerequisite for the successful design of useful systems and a body of knowledge has in recent years begun to compile. However, all previous studies have focused on the public web, not acknowledging the fact that much business-related information seeking occur on corporate internal networks. In this exploratory study, we have collected and analysed intranet search engine log files from three different years – 2000, 2002, and 2004 – enabling us to detect shifting trends in intranet search behaviour. Comparing our data to what has been reported from the public web we conclude that intranet searchers are both similar to and different from searchers on the public web. In sum, it appears that intranet users are more extreme in their behaviour and that qualitative studies are needed to understand the motives and rationales governing their actions.

In the current age, which is distinguished for the progress of technology and information the libraries have conspicuous place in the academic services of universities that are addressed in the instructive personnel, as well as in the students but also in the exterior users of libraries. In the frame of program E.P.E.A.E.K. titled “Pythagoras - Aid of Inquiring Teams of University Macedonia”, is held research titled “Investigation of Most optimal Practices: Growth of database from most optimal practices (Best practices) in administrative and organisational operations of universities of country”. Part of this study constitutes the investigation of most optimal practices from the libraries of Greek Universities. For the concretisation of research was realised recording of libraries of Greek universities. Followed the creation of questionnaire, which was based on qualitative and quantitative criteria, which was sent in all universities of country rectors in order that, it is transmitted in the persons in charge of academic libraries. Also were realised visits in the libraries of educational institutions for the collection of elements as well as search of information from the web pages of libraries. The particular statement will include the results and the recording of most optimal practices of services of Greek academic libraries, that corresponded in the research, as well as report in most optimal practices of services of library in foreigner universities.

In this presentation, the basic characteristics of electronic records are analyzed in the frame of operation of an organisation. Then, three systems of electronic management of records and the basic characteristics of them are presented, as well as the frame in which these were developed. Finally, there is an attempt to investigate the application of these models in a Greek organisation.

In the season of electronic information it is required the re-examination of library scientists' role. The libraries supposed to be involved in the educational process, that is to participate in the process of growth of instructional strategy, as educational intervention in the growth of informative dexterities, as well as in instructional design, the process of content's planning and instructive strategy that will be used in educational environment. Instructional strategic as educational process and the instructional design are based on the theories of learning. There are exist a lot of theoretical approaches of learning. For the growth of instructional strategy the constructivism, that supports that individual acts in the objects and in the events and acquires his own perception for the world through the experience, he is presented offering the most mature approaches. Independent from the theory of learning that will be selected, in order to supported the obliteration of informative illiteracy it is necessary to recognized the dialectic relation of student and training process, the need of active attendance of librarians and the corresponding organisational support and crewing of libraries. The skills that are required for this work are taught this moment in the schools of librarianship in Greece. The librarians for supporting the work of informative literacy should be educated specifically in order to materialise such programs.

The present article has aimed to introduce the possibilities for scholarly communication improvement through matrix organizational structure of the New Bulgarian University Library.

Library associations have had a presence in India since early nineties currently experiencing a remarkable increase in numbers and facing significant challenges as they move into digital future. An attempt has been made to comprehend the status of library associations in India through SWOT analysis and in this way this paper intends to identify the strengths & potential weaknesses and draw attention on the immediate need of restructuring and merging these associations for new working model should function in close partnership with other groups; could be stronger financially and have more clout in pursuing and meeting the objectives and goals of its members. Author has tried to explore the extent to which library associations seek to protect and advance the interests of members and responding to the ongoing changes and preparing them for the future. At the conclusion recommendations are made for carefully planned public relations programs by leveraging convergence Technologies could guarantee long- term success of library associations.

An overview of the University of Auckland Library, its services, facilities and budget is provided.

New forms of coordination are supported by information and communication technologies where face to face working situations are becoming less and less frequent, where the question of "locality" becomes essential for those engaged in the concret activity of information sharing. Two distinct information systems are developping simultaneously in enterprises : an individual information system and a collective information system. The study shows that while these two systems may be complementary, they reveal the shortcomings of the internal communication strategy of the enterprises : sharing information is sometimes difficult, even non existant. How to escape from the localised aspect of information ? how to go from personal-level information to enterprise-level information ? When global information integration processes are set up, how do they affect individual, local practices ? These questions are explored through a survey of ten enterprises and an in-depth study of document transformation and underline the complexities of information sharing.

The paper briefly traces the development of CONSAL as a regional library organization and also discusses in depth, the CONSAL WEB, the communication infrastructure for professional development and communication amongst Southeast Asian Librarians. CONSAL WEB is assessed against the lessons learnt in implementing the infrastructure. In a region where IT infrastructure is weak, a centralized internet based communication platform helps to disseminate information quickly to the entire professional body distributed across government andprivate institutions. The implementation surfaced problems of use to outcomes and the paper adequatelyaddresses these concerns and draws conclusions for library associations that seek to utilize the webfrontfor communication purposes.

"Indonesian Library Association auto critics as a Profession Organization towards Regional Autonomy". This paper discuss about the role of Indonesian Library Association as a Profession Organization to support Regional Autonomy Policy. The Author suggests some suggestion for how ILA should take a place in the future, spesifically in Regional Autonomy Era, when regional/district has a more powerful than before.

The ultimate use of library data is to help library managers in their decision making activities so that the organization works more effectively and efficiently. Focus on how libraries use statistics at the cross-institutional level. There are a variety of organizations that collect data on libraries in general and academic libraries in particular. Discuss examples of uses of data primarily collected by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) with an emphasis on the kind of information that potentially could be useful in the greek academic library environment. Academic libraries in particular face special challenges that need to be addressed with specially designed systematic data gathering activities accompanied by a wide distribution of the findings.

Is presented the international informative system for agriculture AGRIS, is analyzed his aim, is described the possibilities that provide the system in the information of individuals that deals with the agricultural subjects, but also in the international projection of scientists that provides data in the system. Is described also the significance of AGRIS, the countries that participate, the subject units that covers, the work that becomes from Centres AGRIS of countries-members and from national centre AGRIS in Greece, the software that is used and proposed metres for the further growth and its exploitation in Greece.