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16. 12. 2022

Dialectical reflections on scientific and professional e-journals

Tvrtko-Matija Šercar

The paper presents the contributions of participants at the consultation on scientific and professional publications on e-journals at the beginning of the 1990s, which was organised at the Institute of Information Science (IZUM) in Maribor in December 1991. The emphasis is also placed on IZUM’s e-bulletin, which was entered into one of the first directories of e-journals and other e-bulletins worldwide from the same year. Communication is the essence of scientific progress, particularly e-journals.

9. 12. 2022

COBISS/Loan, Libraries

Monitoring user debts and debt recovery in public libraries: the case of the Kranj City Library

Darja Vajs Košir

Kranj City Library is one of the largest Slovenian public libraries, which, like most Slovenian libraries, also deals with the debts of its users. Prohit Claims Management Agency helps us to collect the debts. Before collection by an external contractor, we first carry out a series of procedures in the library to collect the debts ourselves. We regularly monitor the debts of library users and inform them about their debts.

20. 5. 2022

Bibliographies, Bibliometric, SICRIS

Overhaul of the application of the Slovenian Current Research Information System (SICRIS)

Andrej Korošec

The article presents upgrades and features of the new SICRIS application version, based on updated trasfer of data from ARRS, migration to open source environment and updated web services. In 2022, the project of migration from the Windows platform (MS SQL, ASP.NET, IIS) to the Linux platform (PostgreSQL, Java EE, Wildfly) was completed.

23. 12. 2021

Cataloguing, COBISS

COBIB.SI: increment of bibliographic records in 2020

Ema Dornik

The article presents in detail the data on the annual increment of bibliographic records in 2020 at annual and monthly levels. The analysis includes 185,518 bibliographic records created by 545 cataloguers from 247 libraries. In the last quarter of the year, 30.4% of bibliographic records were created.

20. 12. 2021

COBISS, COBISS.net

Applicability of COBISS Digital Repository (dCOBISS)

Miran Petek, Bojan Štok, Branko Namestnik, Andrej Krajnc

In 2020, IZUM released the first version of the COBISS Digital Repository (dCOBISS), which is an independent web app, intended for storing and managing digital content. It is available to all libraries in the COBISS system and it works by principles of shared access to publications in dCOBISS.

7. 12. 2021

Cataloguing

Quality control of daily bibliographic records production in the period from 2015 to 2020

Branka Badovinac

In this paper, the results of an analysis of the data quality performed within quality control of daily bibliographic records production in the period from 2015 to 2020 are presented. The sample included 13,478 bibliographic records with associated authority records. The analysis is based on the data quality dimensions that were attributed to the recorded errors of the reviewed bibliographic and normative records.

23. 4. 2021

Library and information science, Science

Connection between information science and psychology based on the example of the paradox of wisdom, part 1

Tvrtko-Matija Šercar

Wisdom is one of many human mental capabilities. Mental vitality is stereotypically associated with youth and mental decline with old age. However, also aging is a price of wisdom. The connection between neurological decline (senility, dementias) and wisdom development during aging is referred to as the paradox of wisdom.

23. 11. 2020

Cataloguing, COBISS

COBIB.SI: increment of bibliographic records in 2019

Ema Dornik

In Slovenia, 301 libraries and 689 cataloguers with permits for shared cataloguing of monographs participate in shared cataloguing. The article presents the annual increment of bibliographic and authority records in COBIB.SI in 2019.

12. 11. 2020

Computer science and informatics, History

The historical role of the VMS operating system in the development of COBISS

Davor Šoštarič

The paper reviews, with some historical distance, the circumstances leading to the VMS operating system becoming the basis for developing and implementing the COBISS national shared bibliographic system.

22. 6. 2020

Cataloguing, Computer science and informatics, Social science and humanities

Digital humanities: a whim or a (bibliographical) routine?

Sonja Svoljšak

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.