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This study examined perceptions and attitudes towards the uses of manual and automated catalogues among undergraduate students with a focus on three selected university libraries in North Central Nigeria, namely the University of Abuja Library, Abuja, Federal University of Technology Minna Library, Niger State and Kwara State University Library, Malete. The research design used in this study is a descriptive survey. The research population comprises the total number of undergraduate students registered with each of the libraries of the three selected universities in North Central, Nigeria. The University of Abuja Library had two thousand and seventeen (2,017) registered users, Federal University of Technology Minna, Library had two thousand four hundred and forty (2,440), and Kwara State University Malete library had four thousand eight hundred and twenty-four (4,824). This brings the total number of undergraduate library users registered with the three university libraries to 9,281. The sample size for the study was established using the random sampling table published by Israel in 1992. The table provided 200 for a population of 10,000 at ±7% Precision level and 95% confidence level. Therefore, 200 respondents were selected randomly which represent a cross-section of the population in each of the three selected universities in North Central. The instrument used to collect data was a structurally designed questionnaire. To ensure clarity of expressions and appropriateness of language used, the instrument went through face validation from some lecturers in library and information science in the selected universities. Reliability Test measurement yielded a value of 0.71 for Cronbach’s Alpha. A total number of two hundred (200) copies of the questionnaire were distributed randomly to the selected samples from the three selected institutions. Out of this, one hundred and twenty (120) copies, forty from each university library, were successfully filled, retrieved and found usable for the analysis, giving a response rate of 60%. The data generated from the questionnaire were analysed using descriptive statistics. Results were then presented in tabular forms and charts using simple percentages and frequency counts to facilitate a better understanding of the proportions in terms of particular responses. The study concluded that undergraduate students in the three selected university libraries prefer OPAC over the card catalogue; and that despite the availability of the OPAC many students still patronized the card catalogue, which means that in terms of patronage the gap between the OPAC and card catalogue is not that much. A periodic user education program for undergraduate students should be organized by the library management. This will give them the knowledge and abilities they need to find books and other information resources in the library using the card catalogue and OPAC as an effective searching tool.

This article reviews the development of a digital inventory tool developed specifically for secondary material markets. Unlike other available inventory tools, this tool aimed at including environmental assessment features, that would allow warehouse managers to have an estimation of their environmental contribution associated to their sales performance without having to engage environmental experts regularly. The resulting open source software allows to keep an inventory of items available at the warehouse, export to an online shop and generate reports of the sales and environmental benefits of reusing some of the secondary materials sold. This article explains how the tool was developed, how the simplified LCA calculations were done and integrated to the tool, the difficulties encountered when compromising ease of use with the need for reliable data to do the environmental calculations, and reflects on the reliability and scalability of the developed tool.

The paper aims at determining the attitude of the managers of companies from the center of Romania, with a turnover of more than 100,000 euros, regarding the collaboration with the Transilvania University of Brasov in order to create a promotion catalog that uses augmented reality. During the research, the degree of knowledge of the augmented reality concept was identified, as well as the opinion of the subjects regarding the attractiveness, the effectiveness and utility of this technology in promoting the company’s image and activity.

Uvodni dio rada prikazuje povijest fotografskih zbirki Muzeja grada Zagreba u kojima se fotografije kontinuirano prikupljaju od osnutka Muzeja 1907. godine. Fotografije u zbirkama imaju veliku dokumentarnu i umjetničku vrijednost, dok su interesi i zahtjevi stručnjaka i šire javnosti za korištenjem građe iz ovih zbirki sve veći. Iako su fotografske zbirke već predstavljane kroz niz izložbi, kataloga i drugih muzejskih publikacija, samorazumljiva je potreba komuniciranja i u digitalnom obliku. Danas je mrežni katalog primarno mjesto pristupa zbirkama u digitalnom okružju. Suvremeni muzejski, javnodostupni mrežni (online) katalozi temelje se na bazama podataka sustava za upravljanje muzejskim zbirkama i dokumentacijom te omogućuju pristup informacijama o muzejskim predmetima (metapodacima) i njihovim digitalnim reprezentacijama (u ovom slučaju digitaliziranim fotografijama). U mrežnom katalogu će se kontinuirano objavljivati odabrani predmeti koji time postaju dostupni za pretraživanje i pregledavanje, ali i ponovnu uporabu u različitim modelima komunikacije. Takvom javnom dostupnošću podataka i digitalnih reprezentacija predmeta ostvaruju se preduvjeti za razvoj niza novih funkcionalnosti koje omogućuju komunikaciju i interpretaciju baštine, kao što je kreiranje “digitalnih priča”, galerija, interaktivnih lenti vremena, interaktivnih zemljovida, virtualnih izložbi. Mrežni katalog tako postaje komunikacijska platforma koja djelatnicima muzeja (kustosima, dokumentaristima, muzejskim pedagozima) omogućuje komuniciranje tematskih i drugih aktualnih sadržaja te aktivnu suradnju s korisnicima. Primjerice, putem komunikacijske platforme fotografskih zbirki Muzeja grada Zagreba omogućilo bi se predstavljanje fotografske građe u sklopu kratkih narativa o povijesti i sadašnjosti Zagreba, a u skladu s načelima interpretacije baštine i digitalnog pripovijedanja. Razvoj Komunikacijske platforme bit će planiran i strukturiran prema Specifikaciji digitalnog baštinskog proizvoda (Šojat-Bikić, 2013). U posljednjem dijelu rada predstavljeno je istraživanje mnijenja korisnika, ispitano je njihovo zadovoljstvo formom i sadržajem Mrežnog kataloga kao komunikacijske platforme fotografskih zbirki Muzeja grada Zagreba. Istraživanje je obuhvatilo studente preddiplomskog i studente diplomskih studija na Odsjeku za informacijske i komunikacijske znanosti Filozofskog fakulteta u Zagrebu The introductory part of this paper presents the history of collections of photographs in Zagreb City Museum, where photographs have been collected since 1907. The photographs have a high artistic and documentary value. Accordingly, the interest and requirements of experts and the public alike is on the increase. Even though the photo collections had already been presented through exhibitions, catalogues and various other Museum publications, there has been an obvious need for an additional medium of digital communication. Today the online catalogue represents a keyway of access to the Museum's digital collections. The modern museum public online catalogues are based on museum collections and documentation databases and give access to museum data (metadata) and its digital representations (in this case digitalised photographs). The above-mentioned items will continue to be published in the online catalogue as well as be available for viewing in searches and in various other communication models. The public availability of data and digital representation of items makes possible the development of a different other functionalities, enabling communication and interpretation of heritage (creation of digital stories, galleries, interactive timelines, maps, virtual exhibitions and the like). The online catalogue has therefore become a communication platform enabling Museum staff (curators, archivists, museum educators) to present the users with topical and other current and interactive content. For instance, the communication platform of photograph collections of Zagreb City Museum will enable presentation of the photograph collections in the form of short narratives about the past and present of Zagreb, in line with the principles of heritage representation and digital narration. The development of Communication Platform will be planned and structured according to the Specification of the Digital Heritage Product (Šojat-Bikić, 2013). The final part of the paper analyses a user satisfaction survey regarding the form and content of the Online Catalogue as a communication platform of photograph collections of Zagreb City Museum. The survey participants were students of Bachelor and Master Studies on Information and Communication Science Department of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2008-06-19Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:13:58Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 goncalves_mc_me_mar.pdf: 1162867 bytes, checksum: 8b9ed32237e8a820e2467cd33a8cf082 (MD5) Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) A indexação em catálogos on-line na percepção de usuários integrantes de grupos de pesquisa contribui no aprimoramento da recuperação por assunto conforme os seus interesses e necessidades informacioanais. No entanto, os usuários possuem dificuldades no momento de realizar as buscas por assunto, pois os termos que utilizam não coincidem com os atribuídos na indexação. Essa problemática do catálogo de assunto, muita vezes, é o reflexo da falta de estudos de usuários e de uma política de indexação que oriente a indexação. Com o objetivo de contribuir para a elaboração de política de indexação em bibliotecas universitárias realizou-se o estudo diagnóstico do contexto sociocognitivo de usuários integrantes de grupos de pesquisa nas áreas de Ciências Biológicas, Exatas e Humanas da UNESP, para obter sua percepção com relação à indexação. O desenvolvimento do estudo diagnóstico constou de fundamentação teórica sobre o processo de indexação no âmbito da política de indexação em ambientes institucionais; estudo de percepção de usuários para investigar metodologia de abordagem sociocognitiva mediante Protocolo Verbal; e análise da percepção do usuário de grupo de pesquisa acerca da indexação em bibliotecas universitárias para o desenvolvimento dos catálogos on-line. Os resultados demonstraram que alguns elementos de política de indexação fazem parte do processo da indexação, como por exemplo, exaustividade, especificidade e escolha da linguagem. Sobre a investigação de metodologia sociocognitva, o protocolo verbal em grupo revelou ser uma técnica que permite fazer um estudo da realidade do usuário e das variáveis que influenciam o seu contexto. A abordagem metodológica que permitiu obter a percepção do usuário caracteriza-se por indicadores de conhecimento, interesse e atitude... The indexing in online catalogues in the perception of users who are members of research groups becomes crucial in an environment of university libraries so that the catalogue of subject, first restricted to the physical limits of the library and containing only bibliographic records of documents ordered in bookshelves, becomes virtual nowadays. However, users have difficulties when they do their search by subject, because the words they use do not coincide with the terms used by the librarian at the time of indexing. Consequently, the retrieval of information becomes silent and with noise. This issue of the catalogue of subject is often the reflection of a possible deficiency of the work done by librarians, since they do not study about users in order to know their interests and opinions concerning the treatment of the documents content. It is also a reflection of the lack of an indexing policy that guides the steps of indexing. Aiming to contribute to the development of an indexing policy in university libraries under the users’ perspective, the proposal os this research was to do a study of the socio-cognitive context of users who are members of research groups in the areas of Biological and Exact Sciences and Humanities from UNESP, to get a diagnosis of their perception regarding the indexing context. The specific objectives were: developing a study on the indexing process under the indexing policy in institutional environments; investigating a method of a socio-cognitive approach by Verbal Protocol to study the users’ perception; verifying the perception of the user who participates in a research group on indexing information in university libraries for the development of online catalogues. The results showed that the indexing process has some elements of policy, such as completeness, uniqueness and language choice. Both indexing and policy aim to answer the...(Complete abstract, click electronic access below)

Teorijsko ishodište ovog rada je Pravilnik i priručnik za izradbu abecednih kataloga, Eve Verona koji u članu 96 Pseudonim propisuje pravila za izbor jedinstvenih odrednica i općih uputnica za pravo ime autora i pseudonim. Svrha ovog rada je istražiti na koji način katalogizatori izabiru jedinstvenu odrednicu, opću i unakrsnu uputnicu te navode li napomene o autoru kako bi korisniku knjižnice omogućio što jednostavnije pretraživanje kataloga pod imenom autora. Cilj rada je pokazati kako se u odabranim katalozima nacionalnih knjižnica rješava odnos pravog imena i pseudonima. Rad se sastoji od dva dijela. U prvom, teorijskom dijelu rada naglasak je na abecednom katalogu i zadacima abecednog kataloga, razlozima pseudonimnosti, pravom imenu autora i pseudonimu. Drugi dio rada je istraživački, polazi od člana 96 Pravilnika. Istraživano je pravo ime autora i individualni pseudonim; pravo ime autora i pseudonim kod različitih vrsta stvaralačkog rada i zajednički pseudonim dvojice autora. Pretraživani su online katalozi Nacionalne i sveučilišne knjižnice u Zagrebu, Francuske nacionalne knjižnice i Nacionalne knjižnice Njemačke te su odabrani primjeri za autore opisani, analizirani, uspoređeni i komentirani. Rezultati istraživanja pokazuju da navedene knjižnice za odabrane primjere imena autora u izboru jedinstvenih odrednica i općih uputnica uglavnom imaju istu praksu dok su uočene razlike u uporabi unakrsnih uputnica. The theoretical issue of this work is Eva Verona's Code of Rules for Alphabetical Catalogues with special emphasis upon the rule 96 Pseudonym which deals with various types of relationship between author's real name and its pseudonyms. The purpose of the paper is to research how does the cataloguer choose the uniform name access point, the cross-reference and see also reference in order to help the user to retrieve all the works written under the author's real name or his/her pseudonym. The aim of the paper is to represent the relationship between the real author's name and pseudonym in a few national library catalogues, e.g., The National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK), Bibliotetheque nationale de France (BnF) and Deutsche National Bibliothek (DNB). The work is split into two parts. In the first, theoretical part of our work the emphasis is on the alphabetical catalogues and its aims, author's individual name, the reasons of author's pseudonym, collective pseudonym of two authors and their creative work(s). The second part of the work is a research. The centre of our interest is to retrieve online catalogues: NSK, BnF and DNB where we find out several examples which we described, analysed, compared and commented. The final results of research show that libraries have same practices in some cases, such as choosing uniform name access point and see references, while in several examples of the use of cross-references we found some differences.

En aquest Treball Final de Màster s'aborda la fase de conceptualització i disseny d'una aplicació mòbil, d'ús exclusiu en tauletes, per facilitar la feina de l'equip comercial de Grabeplast S.L. i millorar alguns aspectes de la gestió interna de l'empresa, com la recepció de les comandes. L'aplicació que es pretén dissenyar servirà per agilitzar la presa de comandes i la seva tramitació fins a la seu central, on s'han de processar i enviar al seu destí. Disposarà del catàleg online de tots els productes que es comercialitzin, per facilitar la presa de la comanda i el seu enviament. En este Trabajo Final de Máster se aborda la fase de conceptualización y diseño de una aplicación móvil, de uso exclusivo en tablets, para facilitar el trabajo del equipo comercial de Grabeplast S.L. y mejorar algunos aspectos de la gestión interna de la empresa, como la recepción de los pedidos. La aplicación que se pretende diseñar servirá para agilizar la presa de pedidos y su tramitación hasta la sede central, donde se tienen que procesar y enviar a su destino. Dispondrá del catálogo online de todos los productos que se comercialicen, para facilitar la presa del pedido y su envío. This Master Final Project deals with the concept and design phase of a mobile application, for exclusive use in tablets, in order to facilitate the work of the Grabeplast S.L.'s sales team and improve certain aspects of the internal management of the company, including the receipt of orders. The application will speed up order taking and processing to the company headquarters, which must be processed and sent to its destination. It will have the online catalogue of all marketed products to facilitate order taking and shipping.

Predmetno pretraživanje je način na koji se podacima o dokumentima u katalogu može pristupiti na osnovu njihovih sadržajnih obilježja. Sastavnice u predmetnom pretraživanju, u računarskom okruženju su pristupnice (access point), poput klasifikacionih oznaka, predmetnih odrednica, deskriptora, riječi iz naslova. Predmetno pretraživanje u današnjem svijetu se vrši preko online kataloga. Godine 1997. IFLA je izradila studiju Funkcionalni zadaci bibliografskih zapisa (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records), a za bibliografsko označavanje zapisa koristi se MARC (Machine Readable Cataloging) format. Da bi se omogućilo predmetno pretraživanje, ključna je sadržajna obrada dokumenta. Predmetnu odrednicu čini skup ili niz riječi koje su pojmovne oznake, a koje kao cjelina daju sažeti iskaz o predmetu. Pretraživanje i označavanje su dva međusobno povezana procesa koja se moraju bazirati na istoj terminologiji., Subject search is a way to access document information in the catalog based on their content features. Components of subject search in the computer environment, are access points, such as classification tags, subject words, descriptors, title words. Search is done in a nowadays world via online catalogue. In 1997, IFLA developed a study “Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records”, and for bibliographic marking of records, MARC (Machine Readable Cataloging) format. To enable the subject search, the key is the document subject processing. Subject heading is made of a set or line of words, that are term designations, which as a whole, give a concise statement about the subject. Search and designation are two interrelated processes that must be based on the same terminology.

If you want to work efficiently and economically in research and teaching there is a condition precedent: the admission to expert literature. To guarantee appropriate literature, interlibrary loan and document delivery is essential. Via interlibrary loan different media can be ordered at national and international libraries. As the first library in Austria we use the Aleph Sharing system for interlibrary loan. This system develops the base for computer based working in libraries and enables cooperation between libraries in Austria. For document delivery we collaborate with Subito. Subito is a document delivery service of research libraries in Germany, Austria and Switzerland from where we order most of the articles. Our users have the possibility to order their documents by a web form on our homepage. The huge number of orders shows us how important, for research and teaching, such a librarian service is.

This paper discusses the massive changes over the last 25 years particularly in medical libraries. The modernisation and upgrade of catalogues, bibliographies and journals is been accomplished by now while the transformation in the book sector is only in the beginning. With the help of new search engine technology the idea of a one-stop-shop was implemented to complete the change from printed to online media. In order to outlast future years medical libraries will have to handle the constant pressure for change and innovations while budgets are shrinking. Der Beitrag thematisiert die massiven Veränderungen, die von wissenschaftlichen Bibliotheken, insbesondere Medizinbibliotheken, in den letzten 25 Jahren bewältigt worden sind. Während der Medienwandel beim Katalog, den Bibliografien und den Zeitschriften vollständig vollzogen worden ist, ist der Zeitpunkt der vollständigen Transformation der Bücher noch offen. Ergänzend zum Wandel von Print zu Online-Medien wurde die Idee des One-Stop-Shops umgesetzt, was mittels Suchmaschinentechnologie ermöglicht worden ist. Um in Zukunft bestehen zu können, werden Medizinbibliotheken auch weiterhin den Veränderungs- bzw. Innovationsdruck, in immer kürzeren Intervallen bei zunehmend limitierten Budgets, bewältigen müssen.

I u muzejskim knjižnicama, ormarići s kataložnim listićima počinju pripadati prošlosti te ih postupno zamjenjuju OPAC-i i WebPAC-i, uvjetovani informacijskom i komunikacijskom tehnologijom. Internet je postao novi medij za širu prezentaciju muzejskih knjižnica, njihove građe. Tako je i Knjižnica Muzeja Slavonije svoju jedinstvenu zavičajnu građu, iz prvoga sveska Osječke bibliografije Marije Malbaše, odlučila učiniti dostupnom široj zajednici pomoću mrežnoga kataloga. Upravo je jedan od osnovnih ciljeva mrežnoga kataloga Zavičajne zbirke Essekiane upoznati zajednicu sa zavičajnim fondom, osvijestiti o tome koja se sve vrijedna zavičajna građa krije u najvećoj muzejskoj knjižnici u Hrvatskoj. Muzej Slavonije jedini je muzej u Hrvatskoj koji na svojim stranicama ima mrežni katalog zavičajne zbirke i ujedno prvi hrvatski muzej općega tipa koji se na mreži pojavio s katalogom., Influenced by the information and communication technology, the library card filing cabinets in museum libraries are being replaced by OPAC and WebPAC. The Internet has become a new medium for wider presentation of museum libraries and their holdings. Following this tendency, the library of the Museum of Slavonia decided to make its unique local history collection of books accessible to the wider public through a web catalogue. The bibliography of the collection is published in the first volume of Maria Malbaša’s Osječka bibliografija (Osijek Bibliography). One of essential goals of the online catalogue of the Essekiana collection is to present its local history books to the community and raise awareness of the value of the books kept in the biggest museum library in Croatia. The Museum of Slavonia is the only museum of a general type in Croatia that made its local history collection available thorough an online catalogue published on the museum web site.

This paper describes a new system for digitizing ceramic fabric reference collections and a preliminary evaluation of its applicability to archaeological ceramics identification. An important feature in the analysis of ceramic fabrics is the surface texture of the fresh cross section. Visibility of surface characteristics and fabric constituents on images strongly improves with the facility to rotate a sample or vary the angle of illumination. Interactive online catalogues, showing these variations using sequences of images, offer the means to imitate visual examination of the real sample. Accordingly, we have developed a system for automatic acquisition of image sequences and software to show and interact with the sequences on the web. Our system improves the visualization of the fabric characteristics to a substantial degree and may encourage the scientific use of online image reference collections. Furthermore, this system is applicable to other material where visual surface characteristics are important for identification.

This paper describes a new system for digitizing ceramic fabric reference collections and a preliminary evaluation of its applicability to archaeological ceramics identification. An important feature in the analysis of ceramic fabrics is the surface texture of the fresh cross section. Visibility of surface characteristics and fabric constituents on images strongly improves with the facility to rotate a sample or vary the angle of illumination. Interactive online catalogues, showing these variations using sequences of images, offer the means to imitate visual examination of the real sample. Accordingly, we have developed a system for automatic acquisition of image sequences and software to show and interact with the sequences on the web. Our system improves the visualization of the fabric characteristics to a substantial degree and may encourage the scientific use of online image reference collections. Furthermore, this system is applicable to other material where visual surface characteristics are important for identification.

This paper describes a new system for digitizing ceramic fabric reference collections and a preliminary evaluation of its applicability to archaeological ceramics identification. An important feature in the analysis of ceramic fabrics is the surface texture of the fresh cross section. Visibility of surface characteristics and fabric constituents on images strongly improves with the facility to rotate a sample or vary the angle of illumination. Interactive online catalogues, showing these variations using sequences of images, offer the means to imitate visual examination of the real sample. Accordingly, we have developed a system for automatic acquisition of image sequences and software to show and interact with the sequences on the web. Our system improves the visualization of the fabric characteristics to a substantial degree and may encourage the scientific use of online image reference collections. Furthermore, this system is applicable to other material where visual surface characteristics are important for identification.

Posljednjih desetljeća većina je europskih nacionalnih i znanstvenih knjižnica pokrenula retrospektivnu konverziju konvencionalnih izvora podataka o svojim starijim fondovima. Svrha je retrospektivne konverzije poboljšanje kvalitete usluga knjižnice osiguranjem informacija o starijoj građi putem mreže kroz knjižnične kataloge i skupne kataloge kooperativnih sustava te ubrzavanje i olakšavanje radnog procesa. U radu se prikazuju iskustva retrospektivne konverzije u europskim knjižnicama s obzirom na izvor i obuhvat konverzije, metode i financiranje. Opširnije je opisan dosadašnji rad na projektima konverzije u Nacionalnoj i sveučilišnoj knjižnici u Zagrebu., Over the last few decades, the majority of European national and university libraries started the procedure of retrospective conversion of the conventional sources of information on the older parts of their collections. The aim of the retrospective conversion is to improve the quality of library services by providing information on old publications through the web via library catalogues and group catalogues of cooperative systems, as well as to improve the speed and efficiency of work flow. The article presents several models of retrospective conversion in European libraries regarding the source and scope of the conversion, as well as the methods and organisation of the work. The article describes in more datail the work conducted on the projects of conversion in the National and University Library in Zagreb.