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Summaries
John
Lubans: Je li prošla baba s kolačima?: the Academic Library
in “Novel Circumstances”
Summary:
This talk addresses the effect of the several economic and technological
forces on academic libraries. Two kinds of change are discussed:
change that we initiate and change that is imposed. Libraries
have at least two strategies for dealing with change, one autocratic
and one democratic. Each strategy has techniques to promote
change, including a transformational process called the Future
Search. The author’s personal preference is for democratic change
based on his experience in teamwork in large libraries, his
review of the research literature and from his studies on organizations
like the conductor-less Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. The author
concludes with a discussion of the required personal skills
and attributes for new librarians working in the post-departmental
library to assure that libraries and librarians continue to
provide essential information services, whether in traditional
ways and structures or ones yet to be developed.
Valerija
Barada, Željka Zdravković, Ivan Pehar: Library as a Cultural
Hub of the City of Zadar: Methodological Approach and Survey
Results
Summary:
The City Library of Zadar, with its librarian and public activities,
generates cultural content, and influences the social context
of the urban life of Zadar. However, this context necessarily
influences the Library as an organization and as a social actor
in the city. Complex methodological strategy was used to explore
such a social relationship and the context in which the Library
works and creates. Various quantitative and qualitative methods,
such as survey, interviews, focus groups, (participant) observation,
were used.
In order to retrieve the whole and complex image, different
actors were included: the Library users and employees, Zadar
citizens, journalists, employees of the cultural and public
institutions, civil society representatives. The project also
included the ethnographic research of bookmobile, which connects
the city and its surroundings. From all the collected data,
survey results of user satisfaction will be presented, with
the emphasis on the quality of offered services and activities.
Damir
Hasenay: Changes in Education of Librarians - a Challenge or
Liability?
Summary:
The lecture will present the teaching efforts of Department
of Information Sciences at the Faculty of Philosophy in Osijek,
and the past experiences in education of librarians, that is,
information specialists. It will deal with the occurring changes
in information institutions management, and the possibilities
that, in this respect, the present educational system offers.
Flexibility and dynamism of educational system is a prerequisite
for educating the staff that is ready to help reorganize the
management system of information institutions, in response to
the present and emerging changes. In accordance with that, the
necessary skills, knowledge and competences will be taken into
consideration. We will take a hard look at the transmission
of the latest scientific and professional achievements into
the educational process, as well as at the conveyance of knowledge
from educational system to practice. The role of practical experiences
in creating an educational process will also be pointed out.
Dijana
Machala: Lifelong Learning
of Librarians: What and Why Do We Learn After Graduation
Summary:
Lifelong learning accepts the fact that we acquire learning
experience through formal and informal education programs as
well as by informal learning. In the dynamized information environment,
the knowledge acquired through initial education rapidly becomes
outdated, and the “lifespan” of obtained diplomas has more and
more limited duration. There are many actors, but before all,
librarians, whose scope of work includes the responsibility
to permanently maintain the achievement levels of librarians’
professional and personal competences. Results of the research,
conducted as a part of the project called “Lifelong learning
of Librarians: learning outcomes and flexibility” indicate which
competences librarians and chief librarians consider significant
for librarianship, and how they define the “essence” of librarianship.
Erik-Jan van Kleef: Real Facts, Hard
Facts!
Summary:
More in-depth look at Thomson Reuters' solutions and how they
support in effective research and its evaluation.
David Horky: InCites
- The New Tool for Effective Research Evaluation
Summary:
InCites is a customized, citation-based research evaluation
tool on the Web that lets academic and government administrators
conduct analyses on their productivity and benchmark their output
against peers worldwide. This comprehensive resource supplies
all the data and tools you need to easily produce targeted,
customized reports ... all in one place. You can conduct in-depth
analyses of your institution's role in research, as well as
produce focused snapshots that showcase particular aspects of
research performance.
Jelka
Petrak: Education of Users: What a Library Can Do?
Summary:
The lecture will give an overview of Central Medical Library
participation in formal education at the University of Zagreb
School of Medicine, single out the reasons of the expanding
scope of tutoring, and give a survey of students' opinions about
information literacy tuition.
Vedrana
Juričić: The Library of Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
– the Coexistence of the Old and New
Summary:
Early this year, The Library of Croatian Academy of Sciences
and Arts moved to a new building at 14 Strossmayer Square in
Zagreb, and was opened for public on April 29 2009. It was a
huge positive change for both librarians and users, and especially
for the Library holdings. The more spacious premises, with new
furniture and new computer equipment, and even the new location
in the mere city centre, make it pleasant to work and stay in
the Library. The only disadvantage for users is that the Library
works only 4 hours a day, which is determined by the fact that
no more than 15 librarians work there. And this is the exact
reason why no major breakthrough has been observed in the scope
of Library’s work.
Irena
Kranjec, Iva Melinščak Zlodi, Dorja Mučnjak, Višnja Novosel:
The Faculty of Philosophy Library: New Services in New Premises
Summary:
At the beginning of 2009, the Faculty of Philosophy department
libraries were united and moved to a new building. The new modern
premises stipulated new ways of library management, and opened
up the possibilities for introducing a whole range of new library
services. Many of the services are not a novelty in librarianship,
but for the Faculty Library users, they represent a significant
and welcome progress (12-hour work days, full-time availability
of information service at several locations in the Library,
a significant number of employees and student computers, open
access to library collections, automated circulation, coordinated
interlibrary loan…). In the new library building, the adequate
storage and preservation of special collections is facilitated:
AV collection, old and rare books collection, periodicals and
reference books collections. Modernly equipped PC laboratory
and multimedia hall provide an opportunity for a systematical
realization of user education programs and organization of various
events through which the Library is included in the Faculty
activities.
By contemporary IT technology, and integration of several available
information systems (integrated library management system, AAI@EduHr
user authentication and authorization system, RFID system, and
photocopy and print control system), a range of benefits, which
make it easy and more pleasant to use the Library, is offered
to users: self-circulation, self-photocopying, scanning and
printing at self-service machines in the Library.
Krešimir
Zauder: Zotero and Reference Management
Summary:
The workshop will teach Zotero, a personal reference management
software. The attendees will learn how to use the mentioned
application to gather and manage bibliographic references as
well as attachments to them (e.g. full texts, snapshots of web
pages), how to automatically create bibliographies and how to
send citations to MS Word. In addition, synchronisation with
Zotero web service and across different computers as well as
collaborative uses of this application will be discussed. Besides
practical work with Zotero, which will be the largest part of
the workshop, an overview of similar software and new developments
in the field influenced by World Wide Web will be given.
Jasna
Tingle, Dragutin Nemec: Copyright Protection in E-learning
Summary:
The workshop will address the issues related to the production
and use of digital learning materials and to the copyright protection
in the context of e-learning. Is copyright protection in e-learning
specific as a consequence of digitization or online access and
distribution? What is the role of the author, the copyright
owner, the user, the teacher, the library and the research or
the teaching institution? What is the copyright status within
the Learning Management System?
Bojan
Macan: Scientific Journals
Evaluation Criteria: Advantages and Disadvantages
Summary:
Nowadays, scientists are forced to publish scientific papers
in top-quality scientific journals in their field of interest
in order to satisfy various criteria needed for scientific promotion,
scholarships, etc. But, how should one define which are the
top-quality journals in a specific field? What are the indicators
of journal quality? Information about whether a journal is included
in certain databases, as well as various bibliometric characteristics
of the journal, which are based on citation figures, like impact
factor, SJR indicator, h-index, etc., are often used for that
purpose. However, what do these facts exactly tell us about
the quality of a journal? Can such information about journals
from different scientific areas be compared? Could we decide,
on the basis of these facts, whether certain journal articles,
or even a particular scientist’s paper, are of high quality?!
This workshop will try help understanding and properly interpreting
different bibliometric and other scientific journal performance
indicators.
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