The article is one of the results reached within the frames of a broader project Selective bibliography of key contributions to the development of the information science, in which the authors have been involved since 1995. The result of the project should be a special bibliographical history of the information science. The authors established that beside librarianship, information technology and informatics, computer science and cognitive science (psychology), the information science strongly interacts with information sociology (in statu nascendi), information macro- and microeconomics as well as with the information (meta)physics (in statu nascendi). The article is a contribution to the theoretical and methodological statement of information sociology as a possible special (sub)discipline. To avoid the double meaning of the term economics of information, the authors suggest new designations for this term: information macroeconomics and information microeconomics. In the section dealing with information (meta)physics the authors, attempting to contribute to the establishment of the science on the physical basis of information, emanate from Tom Stonier's information physics. Once we are able to experimentally examine and measure physical basis of information, information physics will be hard science. For the time being, the most critical problem seems to be the non-existence of a device to detect and observe infons as the physical forms of information, the existence of which is presumably objectively real, and of which, together with matter and energy, space is made.
The paper describes the methodology of a study of reading habits and reading culture of librarians and library management in Slovenian libraries, which is a part of a broader survey in the project Reading role models: reading habits of professional staff in kindergartens, schools and faculties and public libraries – i.e. a study of all professionals involved in and influencing reading literacy and reading culture, as well as of students for these professions.
Kranj City Library is the central regional library, which, among other things, implements programs for reading literacy, information literacy, lifelong learning and intergenerational cooperation. In this context, we joined the international project Libraries of Emotions with the aim of introducing an innovative reading promotion service. In the paper, the project and the process of implementing practical content were presented.
The article presents and analyses selected digital humanities projects and research initiatives in which libraries and other heritage institutions participate actively. These ambitious global projects supplement the existing knowledge on general and specific social and cultural-historical phenomena in the field of written cultural heritage with the help of web-based applications, tools and the collaborative location-independent research approach.
Modern systemization of work must become a process just as other organizational processes monitored by it. The purpose of our research was to create an SWP model (systemization of work as a process model) for knowledge-based business functions, which will be useful in practice and will make it possible to organise work on the basis of employee competencies and to form salaries on the basis of effective work time, and complexity and quality of work. During research we designed an SWP model and presented how to determine the complexity of tasks based on the required competencies, the criteria for determining the quality of work and the method of recording effective work.
Avtorska pravica je vrsta intelektualne lastnine. Beseda "avtorska pravica" ni najbolj posrečen prevod izraza "copyright" (pravica do kopiranja izvoda), hkrati pa je tudi zavajajoča, kot da bi bil osrednja oseba avtor, ne pa imetnik pravice do kopiranja. Avtor je vsekakor imetnik moralne avtorske pravice, vendar je zelo redko tudi imetnik materialnih pravic. Moralne avtorske pravice nimajo tržne vrednosti in so s stališča družbenega sistema, v katerem šteje le denar, nepomembne. Stališče do avtorske pravice je odvisno tudi od poslovnega modela, kot sta npr. model "dolgega repa" ali model "zastonj".
Learning and knowledge acquisition with new forms of learning in the education process is based on one"s construction and deconstruction of meaning and the learner"s interaction with the world in a certain social and cultural environment. Each person is responsible for their own learning and how to manage it. As active learning is based on independent and active engagement in the teaching and learning process, finding and gathering information from various sources is an important part of any form of learning and teaching, particularly in the academic environment.
Copyright is a type of intellectual property. Not only is the Slovene term "avtorska pravica" (author's right) not the best translation of the term copyright (i.e. the right to copy an item), it is also misleading, as if the central person is the author and not the holder of the right to copy something. While the author is undoubtedly the holder of the moral copyright, he is rarely also the holder of the material rights. Moral copyright has no market value and is insignificant from the perspective of a social system where only money counts. The attitude towards copyright also depends on the business model, e.g. "long-tail" or "freechange".
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