At the scientific conference Libraries in the 21st century the vision of the library of the third millennium was accepted. In the centre of its future role stands a fully-educated librarian. In Serbia specialized library education started in 1948. In 1963 education of librarians started also at the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade.
Describes a process of gradual implementation of authority control in the COBISS library informationsystem in Slovenia (COBISS.SI). The CONOR.SI initial authority database contained, at thetime of its implementation, over 24,000 authority records for personal authors, mostly Slovenian,from publishing production of the last few years.
The Matica Srpska Library (Biblioteka Matice srpske, BMS) has entered the major part of its collection of rare publications into an online union catalogue. Software solution, based on temporarily added fields 370–379, has been used for the description of old and rare books, as well as for the preparation of printed catalogues.
Leading governments, with democratic intent, are incorporating information and communication technologies into their e-government activities. This trend necessitates the establishment of outcomes and goals to guide such efforts.
The impetus for this article was the campaign conducted on the Internet last year and the year before by anonymous individuals trying to discredit Izum’s management. Some of the legal and technological aspects of cyberstalking are pointed out, and ways of dealing with the problem of cybercrime, based on US and EU legislation, are also presented.
IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing) has been working on professional codes of deontology for the last 10 years. Lessons have been derived from that experience and most probably are applicable in the general field of engineering, especially when the pending question is related to the information society.
The objectives of the total quality management concept and business process reengineering are to increase the efficiency of business processes; yet Slovenian companies do not have much regard for the integrity of these two concepts and often view them in an insufficient and too technical manner. Slovenian companies have not yet become interested in the lea rning organisation concept, which is based on having people more involved in the busi ness process.
The way to IT-mize the home has been described. It should be done under the guideline different from the way to introduce IT to the office. The main purpose of office IT-mization is work efficiency, while a major purpose of home IT-mization may be entertainment. In this context R&D works on computerized entertainment should be done more actively in academic communities.
Rapid technological development and increasing quality requirements have been accompanied by the development of quality control standards, including the ISO family of standards. In Slovenia, as elsewhere, an increasing number of organisations are deciding to establish a quality system in accordance with ISO 9000 and to obtain the certificate.
