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Presentation of information resources of Social Sciences for Postgraduates students, professors and researchers of he Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires

Harvesting digital data owned by information centers into common data repositories provides significant benefits in the research process. Common data repositories open the way for the research process to be carried out correctly, quickly and reliably. However, it is imperative that the digital data be structured according to the standards of information profession. After describing the usefulness of common data pools in this study, examples are given to common data pools developed around the World here. Then, the digital archives catalog of the General Directorate of State Archives is compared with the examined systems. At the end of the research, the general situation of the catalog is evaluated and solutions for the improvement are presented

The story of an experience developed in the Library of the Faculty of Dentistry, National University of Cordoba, which describes the process through which a collection of literature was created Recreativa presented. the need It is based on based on the results of user studies conducted in 2012, where 80% opined in favor of the creation of such an area, as an alternative reading, different from that traditionally offered. the different stages of the process, preliminary design, digital marketing strategies, donation campaign material contacts with local authors, budget allocation for the purchase of new material, launch and implementation of the collection are detailed. This action resulted in the need to rethink the library not only as a documentation center reserved for the acquisition and maintenance of specialized intellectual heritage, but as a cultural institution with an integrated look to the community in which it is inserted. From this concept, it developed during the month of April 2016 a release of books in public places of this faculty. This action was carried out in the framework of the International Movement BookCrossing which lets you keep track of the books released through registration in an online system. It is concluded that this collection of literature Recreativa joined BookCrossing action within an Academic and Specialized Library, is new to the community, not only unprecedented but so creative, inclusive and extension

The paper aims to present the documents from the library catalogue of NBU, connected with the topic of wine. Books, periodicals, bachelor’s thesis and works from the electronic scholar repository of NBU are reviewed. Additional information about the authors and their works is submitted. The search in the electronic library catalogue is analysed as a process and as an opportunity for quick and easy access to the library collections. The wine topic is viewed through the perspectives of authors with different specialties and interests.

The last decade transformed faceted navigation from a “nice-to-have” into a “must-have functionality” for all online web services that contain a search function. The movement has been started by commercial websites, such as online clothing stores, with the purpose of facilitating access to the products. Now, faceted search seems to be more and more well-known within the community of information institutions and their digital services, too, as for example the online catalogue of the Library of Congress or Europeana show. In this context, as well, the feature is often sold as an added value to access the content of their sites in a more effective way. Still, experience shows that the use of faceted navigation in a digital library context is more complex than for online clothing stores. For this reason, it is important to focus on the usability of such functionalities and to test it as often as possible during implementation and regular use, as well. Site providers have to be aware of one important fact: a faceted search that has not been implemented correctly or does not work in the way the user expects it, will create frustration and/or not be used at all. This implies in a worst case scenario that users don’t come back to the site anymore, and may even spread their negative experience among the community. To prevent this, usability tests, either with experts or real users, should be conducted regularly. This can be done with common usability tests, using direct human interaction with a system, or with online tests, where test user are free to fill in the test whenever they want. In both cases, test results illuminate a system’s weaknesses and expose dysfunctional issues, which should be improved in order to offer a positive experience to its users. For more than five years, the project ACCEPT, a subproject of a Swiss national project called e-lib.ch, analyzes the usability and usefulness of digital libraries, by using user oriented methods. Experience has shown that filters provided through faceted navigation are considered as positive and very useful by end users. Nevertheless, based on different test results, several returning mistakes have been detected and it turns out that there are some ‘unwritten standards’ concerning e.g. position, labelling or ranking which should be respected to fulfil the aim of a good usability which users do expect of such web services. In this poster we will first give an introduction to faceted navigation, actual design issues and their use in digital libraries and then present testing methods, which can be easily applied in a digital library context. Together with a list of best practices concerning faceted navigation drawn out of different test experiences, the paper should give the reader all important information to evaluate its current faceted navigation and see where improvements could be made.

Work experience of each library is as unique as personal one. It concerns all fields of the library activity: collection development, library management and services etc. The main library mission is to support all needs of the university community or every other community for which library works. Libraries in Ukraine. Ukraine has quite diverse library network. It consists of 37 466 libraries, among them 18 000 are public libraries, the rest are academic, medical, school, special etc. We have 9 national libraries. The major challenges that faced our libraries are: postcomunistic factor (more than 70 years libraries had been working as ideological centers), the bad state funding and support, the absence of many very important standards for some processes, the lack of personnel. Because of some reasons the amount of libraries is shortening, especially in the countryside. The level of libraries development differs from library to library. The most developed are national libraries, state level libraries, regional libraries, academic libraries. They have their own information resources: websites, catalogues, electronic libraries and so on. On the other hand, only 12% of public libraries have Internet access and only 2% of them have their own e-catalogues. There are no corporate projects in cataloguing in the country and there is no intention to do it. There are no coordinated cataloguing standards (in use MARC 21 and UniMARC at the same time), there are no attempts to even discuss on the cataloguing problems of electronic resources or RDA implementation. Federative search and discovery systems are used only in some lonely libraries in the country. There is no Center for creation and dissemination of bibliographic records at the national level. The same situation is with authority data. In spite of all these problems we are developing and trying to support main progressive initiatives in the contemporary library science. National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA) Library. NaUKMA Library is a library of one of the oldest university in Ukraine (was founded in 1615 and revived in 1991). Our main patrons’ categories are more than 3500 BA and MA students from 6 faculties and also University professors and staff as well as patrons who do not belong to NaUKMA community (for example, patrons of Viktor Kytasty American Library). By the Jan. the 1st 2013 the number of our patrons has reached 10 944. Web OPAC at NaUKMA Library. The automation project has been started in 1996 with usage of ILS ALEPH 500. Bibliographic data presentation format – MARC 21. The catalogue (http://aleph.ukma.kiev.ua/F) counts more than 300 000 bibliographic records , more than 600000 items, 700+ authority records, 13 virtual collections including American Library which is public one and has got 2 separate virtual collections. General principles of catalogue structure: user-friendly intuitive interface, broad search possibilities, tools for search results processing. So, these are the principles that can be standards and fit the requirements of usability and some Web 2.0 recommendations. Except this we use also best practices of other libraries that use the same ILS (as an example we can name the virtual collection design of new acquisitions and lists of related editions in bibliographic record). The main specifics of the library e–catalogue: our library an academic one and our catalogue has special virtual collection for Course Reserves. Collection consists of course-related materials recommended by University professors; simple work with new acquisitions. Because of big importance of new documents for the university community we are trying make information about new acquisitions as broad and opened as possible to every member of community. Information is accessible through e-mail and RSS feeds. Each library patron (and each catalogue user) can choose topic on which he/she’d like to receive information and the way in which this information could be delivered; library catalogue gives access to the electronic resources: digitized items provided by university professors and lecturers for course learning, uploaded bibliographic records from purchased databases; the catalogue contains some virtual collections related to the university materials: Scholars works, Publications about the University, materials from University Institutional Repository, full text articles from “Scientific papers of NaUKMA” serials; part of the catalogue – the American library catalogue. This is public library and contains virtual collection that is more interesting for public library patrons; web-OPAC is source for extended communication with patrons. Patrons could receive the email letters when hold request is fulfilled, hold request is cancelled, courtesy notices or overdue letters; catalogue has the elements of interactivity. Each library patron can became the member of library collection development team. The acquisition request via the OPAC allows the patrons to request materials for purchasing that are absent in library at the moment; authority data – Name Authority Files: authority file of personal names and authority file of personal names university scholars; link to Google Books Service which is displayed from record’s full view; as a searching aid on different topics, catalogue shows related books from the record’s full view. There are established such types of relationship: books frequently read by people who have borrowed this particular item, books with equal or the same subject headings, or other editions of the same published work. Web OPAC management. The most important thing in the library Web OPAC management is creation of the strong relationship between technical specialists and all library departments. It requires the different work groups to maintain different functions of the ILS. Because all processes at the library are interrelated and aimed at a single result – creating and maintaining services that satisfy the needs of our patrons.

Using Vantagepoint software in the data extraction for statistical yearbook USP.

The catalogues of the Portuguese public libraries participating in the Network of National Public Libraries are analyzed in order to assess their proximity or remoteness in relation to the new catalog model designated by catalog 2.0 or Next Generation Catalog. The results of this analysis suggest that the catalogs of these libraries are still far away from implementing a new catalog model. Verifies the existence of some cases that already incorporate some new features, but, somehow within the previous paradigm. It is also noted that the libraries do not seem to distinguish clearly the various functions that the catalog must play and blend, so for the public interfaces, solutions not intended this audience and that are far to respond to their interests, needs and skills. The diversity and complexity of options, especially on crucial aspects such as types of search and indexes make the task very complicated to the user. The language used to designate the various options does not contribute too, in many cases, to clarify the user. Finally, it seems clear that libraries ignore the diversity of audiences to which it shall address in particular the juvenile audience, given that it is almost non-existent any catalog solution for this type of public.

The main purpose of the study is to identify the role of university and library websites in marketing the library collection, services and products. The findings reveal that University and library websites failed to publicize the library collection, products and services.

Subject repositories are targeting exhaustivity within a domain. They want to be a central source of information for researchers: they tend to be very large. Those repositories also require precise indexing and controlled multilingual vocabulary for efficient retrieval of documents answering the explicit and tacit interests of the researcher. After presenting in Göteborg (DSUG 2009, Sweden) how we integrate thesauri and authority lists (organized along the W3C SKOS standard) into DSpace, we present to DSUG 2011 what discovery tools are now available for the users of WindMusic.org. We hope that this presentation will be felt very practical and that it will spring ideas and discussions for potential evolutions of DSpace.

In the first part, from a theoretical perspective are different models of catalogs and their relevant characteristics. Then it focuses on the situation of Argentine catalogs belonging to inter university networks. It provides a brief account of the origin and typology, a study of the main characteristics, analyzes the difficulties that arise to manage and update and future prospects.

Nowadays, many libraries have developed social tagging services, after the considerable use of social tagging and deployment as key components of Web 2.0. Another set of libraries have enriched the search and indexing services of their OPACs with the folksonomy of Library Thing. The evaluation of these metadata (folksonomies) and further their exploitation is one of our challenges. At the same time, we explore ways to define a methodology for the exploitation of user’s vocabulary by the traditional indexing systems maintained by information organizations. Firstly, our research focused on the user acceptance for the OPACIAL an OPAC 2.0 with social tagging functionalities. The users’ behavior was studied by qualitative evaluation using questionnaires and structured interviews. Social tags are then analyzed and categorized to identify the users’ needs. After finding that a large number of tags consist new terms for the authority file of a Library, these tags were searched in other authority files. The research was completed by developing a methodology for social tagging evaluation and a proposal for developing policies to integrate social tags in their indexing processes. Moving to a new study, librarians - cataloguers assessed the value of the semantics of inserted tags and also investigated the possibility of using them for the subject indexing. Before the new experiment a new set of tags from LibraryThing’s folksonomy had been added to the library. The experiment aimed to compare the two vocabularies and the participants recommended to develop the cooperation with users’ communities in matters of terminology and apodosis of scientific terms.

This paper explores the issues surrounding a children's OPAC.

A study has been performed to evaluate the use of online collective catalogs from university libraries in view of the interface of information retrieval and in the users’ socio-cognitive context. The methodology dealt with the elaboration of an organizational diagnostic study in order to characterize the organizational/academic context of UFSCar’s university libraries, by means of the application of a questionnaire to the directors/responsibles of the three libraries and data collection using the Verbal Protocol technique (PV). The PV was performed with eight undergraduate students from the courses of Chemistry, Biological Sciences and Pedagogy, three of which from the campi of São Carlos and Sorocaba and two from the campus of Araras in the information retrieval, for the information retrieval by the access points of author, title, subject, among others in UFSCar’s collective catalog. The Users from the campus of Araras did not perform information retrieval in Pedagogy, because that campus does not offer courses in Humanities. From the analysis of the data collected by questionnaires, as especially shown by the partial results, there is an absence of training with the users on the use of UFSCar’s catalog by most libraries and the need to increase communication with the users about the dissemination of products and services offered by them. It was concluded that libraries need to actuate systemically, prioritizing the development of an indexing policy that comtemplates the definition of a catalog that reflects the socio-cognitive view of users on information retrieval and in the perspective of the university libraries.

Introduction: This communication explains the creation of the collective monograph catalogue of the Balearic Islands Public Health System. Objectives: Before this project the libraries of the regional Public Health System had no automated catalogue of these monograph batches. We knew that this was a big handicap for our libraries, and thus we needed to create the catalogue in order to improve collection control and the reference batch service. Methods: Primarity we set out the objectives and then we continued with the analysis of the situation in each library, the creation of technical cataloguing guidelines, classification, indexing and reproduction of the project so that we could have a defined timescale. After studying all the software available for cataloguing we chose PMB, which is open access. All the public health system libraries staff participated in the catalogue creation. Results: The publication of the monograph registers from the Public Health System Libraries on a collective automation catalogue. We hope to be able to include the collective acces catalogue in the Virtual Health Sciences Library of the Balearic Islands. Conclusions: The creation of the automated catalogue has resolved the access document problems and improved the library services on offer.

The Historic Collection of the Library of the University of Barcelona has approximately 150.000 copies of editions printed between 1465 and 1800. Most of them come from the collections of convents seized by the State in 1835, due to the suppression of religious orders decreed by the Mendizábal government. The creation of a Provenance Database of the Historic Collection of the Library of the University of Barcelona will be made available to researchers and librarians and provide an indispensable tool for the reconstruction of the bibliographic collections of Barcelona’s former convents libraries. Their role in the cultural history of the city is fundamental as some of them functioned as public libraries. The poster justifies the need of this database and shows a prototype of it.

Powerpoint slides from a presentation at the 7th Conference of Spanish User Group of Innovative (GEUIN). We explain how to integrate in our OPAC (Millennium) different applications in the bibliographic record screen for example book jackets from Amazon, a direct export button to Refworks, Sfx services, Google books Api, “Cite me” from Worldcat and corrections in the bibliographic recod. Besides we explain how to integrate our OPAC in other sites like RSS feeds for the new acquisitions, Igoogle gadget, external form for the library webpage, LibX (a browser plugin for Firefox and Internet Explorer) and an application for Facebook.

This presentation is about innovations in OPAC's interfaces, in information retrival systems and in results presentation.

A case study is presented, Infobook, a library 2.0 social OPAC, designed within a knowledge management global proyect for the Innovation & Knowledge Management Information Centre at BBVA international bank. The design and development process is described. The software selected was Koha, integrated library system distributed under GPL license, having as a primary objective to give authomatized support to the Information Centre´s tasks, but also offering functionalities and services that needed to go ahead from the limits of the classical ILS. On Infobook, the Social Opac is not only a retrieval information system for the catalog of the library, but boldly goes beyond, having an innovative point of view: user participation to support the evolution of the knowledge management corporative library. This participation involves not only collaboration and development of 2.0 tools, but also the possibility for the patrons to upload and catalogue documents by themselves.

An analysis of library catalogue in Social and Human sciences is presented.

The main index/retrieval tool for records of physical objects inside a library is the Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC). Until now, the services that OPAC catalogues offer are item retrieval, availability status and loan services. The new generation OPAC, exploits the new Web 2.0 technologies (Web 2.0 refers to a second/new generation of Internet services) such as social networking sites, blogs, wikis, and various collaboration and annotation tools which emphasize on the user’s collaboration. The Library of Panteion University has developed a new social catalogue (OPACIAL) which has been enriched with Web 2.0 technologies (http://library.panteion.gr/opacial). Apart from these new features, this new catalogue can retrieve similar records from the digital library by exploiting the unified subject headings policy set by the library in all its resources. Moreover, OPACIAL can better display the records using various views (brief, full) and by using a better information abstraction schema. It can create a faceted browsing index using subject headings, display the record in XML, BibTex formats, export the record to various external social networking sites, etc.

The paper presents e-sources, computer tools and solutions used by the Main Library of Wroclaw University of Technology supporting e-learning projects. First part of the paper describes the use of home page, online catalogue (OPAC), databases, e-journals and e-books services, digital library, remote access tool, link resolver, A to Z list and federated search engine. Second part presents a model license agreements proposed by publishers in the context of e-learning.

This paper explores the use of Library Catalog Analysis (LCA), defined as the application of bibliometric techniques to a set of library online catalogs, to describe quantitatively a scientific-scholarly field on the basis of published book titles.

The paper illustrates the role of OPAC systems in the developing environment of the new technologies (preserving access to library collections, maintaining a consistent and authoritative form of bibliographic control, providing a targeted information environment for specific client groups).

In this paper we analyzed the publications presented by authors from Argentine and Brazil in specialized journals in chemistry open access. We found that although the tendency to publish in these journals is increasing year by year, is still at an early stage of development.

In this paper analyzed the publications presented by authors from Argentina and Brazil in specialized open access journals in Physics. We found that although the tendency to publish in these journals is increasing year by year, is still at an early stage of development.

Powerpoint slides from a presentation at the 2th Conference of Spanish User Group of Refworks. We explain how to integrate in our OPAC (Millennium) a direct export button to Refworks in the University of Navarra Library. It’s based on the scripts from Brown University.

Presentation about new generation OPACs, integrating features of Web 2.0. After a small theorical exposition, there is a large number of examples

Presentation of informative look of the OPACs and other digital resources of information in Catalonia in the area of the librarianship and the documentation.

Knowledge organization systems (KOS), like thesauri and other controlled vocabularies, are used to provide subject access to information systems across the web. Due to the heterogeneity of these systems, mapping between vocabularies becomes crucial for retrieving relevant information. However, mapping thesauri is a laborious task, and thus big efforts are being made to automate the mapping process. This paper examines two mapping approaches involving the agricultural thesaurus AGROVOC, one machine-created and one human created. We are addressing the basic question "What are the pros and cons of human and automatic mapping and how can they complement each other?" By pointing out the difficulties in specific cases or groups of cases and grouping the sample into simple and difficult types of mappings, we show the limitations of current automatic methods and come up with some basic recommendations on what approach to use when.

The German Federal Ministry for Education and Research funded a major terminology mapping initiative, which found its conclusion in 2007. The task of this terminology mapping initiative was to organize, create and manage ‘cross-concordances’ between controlled vocabularies (thesauri, classification systems, subject heading lists) centred around the social sciences but quickly extending to other subject areas. 64 crosswalks with more than 500,000 relations were established. In the final phase of the project, a major evaluation effort to test and measure the effectiveness of the vocabulary mappings in an information system environment was conducted. The paper reports on the cross-concordance work and evaluation results.

In any organization which is into its service users must have procedures that are satisfied with them, within the scope libraryship not stay away. This is a work focused on assessing the wing search service information taking into account the implementation of an online catalog in the Library of the University TecMilenio(Toluca), taking into account the information needs of real users of the library will conduct a series of procedures / activities for the purpose of the library last satisfaction of users.

Web 2.0 has raised new expectations from the library users : after reading a book, they wish to rate it, provide some comments or review about it and tag it for themselves or for others. They also expect to discover other interesting books thanks to the contribution of other people. Those functions, summarized under OPAC 2.0, are now provided by several Integrated Library Systems (ILS), at least partially. But, due to the slow development of some products, other paths were also explored: Content Management Systems (CMS) or specific software. CMS does provide the required functionalities like tagging and commenting. Some pioneers thus decided to develop a new Web OPAC based on CMS. Another approach was to build an OPAC that is independent from any ILS and which offers the required functionalities. In this paper, we propose to review the options available for the librarians wishing to offer Web 2.0 functionalities to their users. We also provide a synthesis of our own experience in implementing an OPAC 2.0 into our Library.

In this paper fulfils a study of the concept of social OPAC as a tool of diffusion of the information in the Library 2.0. After a brief analysis of the concept of Library 2.0 the text centres on an element of Web on 2.0: harnessing the collective intelligence. Its scope is defined, its sources are identified at academic libraries and the ways for use it in the OPAC. There are described the models of social OPAC nowadays existing mentioning examples of each one of them and there is enumerated a list of functionalities that a social OPAC can fulfil to turn into a useful tool for the academic community and the library.

The author of this presentation compares traditional OPAC systems, OPAC enrichment projects and social networking systems about books. He also highlights new trends and presents a project of booklists sharing, AtipicheLetture, that is in the middle between traditional OPACs and new social networking systems.

In 2004, the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research funded a major terminology mapping initiative at the GESIS Social Science Information Centre in Bonn (GESIS-IZ), which will find its conclusion this year. The task of this terminology mapping initiative was to organize, create and manage ‘crossconcordances’ between major controlled vocabularies (thesauri, classification systems, subject heading lists) centred around the social sciences but quickly extending to other subject areas. This project is the largest terminology mapping effort in Germany. The number and variety of controlled vocabularies targeted provide an optimal basis for insights and further research opportunities. To our knowledge, terminology mapping efforts have rarely been evaluated with stringent qualitative and quantitative measures. This research should contribute in this area. For the NKOS workshop, we plan to present an overview of the project and participating vocabularies, an introduction to the heterogeneity service and its application as well as some of the results and findings of the evaluation, which will be concluded in August.

The paper regards to a proposition for coping with the problem of providing heterogeneous services through an integrated managerial system. The proposed system is being developed at the Panteion University Library and is complete at its main part as well as tested successfully. One of the main targets for the system is to demand minimum operational complexity on behalf of the librarians. Indeed, librarians are able to use an integrated management interface for entering data to different blocks, developing new services and (for example web forms or subject gateways), controlling logging facilities. Along with the other characteristics (such as scalability and interoperability) the system is innovative compared to other commercial or open source systems.

VIRTUEAL READING ROOM. POSSIBILITIES OF A USER-FRIENDLLY PRESENTATION OF COLLECTIONS VIA INTERNET. Three strategies are focused: First the representation of bookshelves such as the DeweyBrowser of OCLC, second the representation of spatiality such as the „Infosystem“ of the Philological Library of the Freie Universität Berlin, and third the communicative facet such as the platform LibraryThing. An adequate website architecture, information visualization and elements of library 2.0 can contribute to explore spaces virtually and accentuate real reading rooms.

It describes the implementation proposal of a managerial information system for the System of Libraries of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (SB/UFMG). It also reports on the current situation of the information management in the System of Libraries and emphasizes the importance of the information technology as an innovation in the reports management, with the purposes of optimizing processes and supporting managers during decision-making processes.