Databases are more than just registers providing bibliographic information because of the research history they contain. Database research involves five areas: management, usage, analysis, history/ sociology and methodology /epistemology. A distinction is made between a structural and sociological aspect of databases.
The paper is an adapted lecture presented to the COBISS 2007 International Conference in November 2007 in Maribor, dedicated to the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue.
Preserving cultural identity is equally important as preserving biodiversity. No country in the world can be regarded as culturally homogenous. Libraries are of key importance for coexistence in a multicultural environment and for the development of multicultural competence.
Incorporated inter and multicultural principles in Macedonian legislation represents society’s basic functioning postulates. Republic of Macedonia tends toward integration into European Union’s equal, balanced, qualitative and respectful representation of different cultures and different cultural identities.
Every 20 years, the development of IT has multiplied by 1000, and yet we are still at the beginning. The development entails great risks and we need to be constantly aware that high technology requires high ethics.
