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19. 6. 2020

Updating records in VIAF and recommendations for higher quality display of Slovenian authority records in VIAF

Andreja Krajnc Vobovnik

The article describes the process of updating Slovenian authority records in VIAF, the entry of identifiers into the CONOR.SI database and their display in COBISS+. For most authority records, the updating in VIAF went smoothly, whereas in some records for personal names errors occurred during the process of putting them into clusters, which were then sorted into four groups and compared with the typical entry-related issues described in the VIAF Guidelines.

21. 5. 2020

COBISS, Libraries, User studies

Users in the COBISS environment – experiences at the Public Library of Užice

Gordana Bacotić, Biljana Ristović

In 2019, the Public Library of Užice conducted a survey to assess the level of user knowledge of the search process in COBISS/OPAC (now COBISS+). The survey consisted of the following segments: user profile, most commonly used access points, use of screen tips and ease of searching, and user evaluation of the search results obtained.

12. 5. 2020

Cataloguing

Improving WorldCat quality

Jay Weitz

OCLC’s WorldCat approaches 475 million bibliographic records. Many of those records have been created manually by members of OCLC’s worldwide cooperative. Others have been added to WorldCat en masse from institutions large and small, from national libraries, from cultural heritage institutions, or from rural public libraries.

2. 3. 2020

Cataloguing

Archival description using UNIMARC: Presidential Library experience

Olga Zhlobinskaya

The paper presents basic approaches to managing archival resources in the Presidential library (Saint-Petersburg, Russia). All resources in the collection are described using the RUSMARC format (national implementation of UNIMARC), which provides sufficient instruments to keep the hierarchical structure of archival description and to give detailed characteristics of the materials.

3. 12. 2019

Education, Libraries

Competencies of librarians and informatologists: challenges in the time of social and cultural changes

Tatjana Aparac-Jelušić

In this paper we discuss the competencies of librarians and informatologists, terminological disagreements as well as attempts to investigate the various paths of influence on academic education in the field of Information sciences.

3. 12. 2019

Education, School libraries

New approaches to didactics and the role of school librarian in the educational process

Tatjana Aparac-Jelušić

The paper presents a critically based overview of didactic approaches and models that have been developing as a part of the education idea in 21st century. The discussion is focused on challenges provoked by information and telecommunication technology and its applications in the educational processes.

3. 12. 2019

COBISS, School libraries

Library System Development Centre, National and University Library, and integration of school libraries in COBISS

Eva Kodrič-Dačić

The amendments to the Librarianship Act in 2015 redefined the status of school libraries and assigned new tasks associated with the monitoring of the activities and development of school libraries to the National and University Library (NUL). The statistical monitoring of activities performed by school libraries, the designing of the school library development strategy, the concept of three-year development plans and the development of regulations on the conditions to be met by school libraries in the field of education are among the new activities of the Library System Development Centre, NUL.

3. 12. 2019

IZUM

About strategic objectives of the Institute of Information Science

Davor Šoštarič

In autumn 2019, IZUM prepared the medium-term strategy for 2019–2024. Seven strategic objectives are identified. They are described based on the common methodology (situation analysis, description of the objectives, planned measures to achieve the objectives, expected results and effects, indicators and specific risk factors with risk control measures).

3. 12. 2019

Cataloguing, COBISS

COBIB.SI: increment of bibliographic records in 2018

Ema Dornik

The article presents an analysis of the increase in bibliographic records in COBIB.SI in 2018. The data collected during the year were included in the analysis. Emphasis is placed on bibliographic data (n = 169,226), as well as data on the increase of normative records for personal names in the CONOR.SI database (n = 63 716) and data on downloaded records from other databases. Included is the analysis of the increment of bibliographic records by months for 2018 and the most productive days of the year.

3. 12. 2019

Science

Hoaxes, myths and prejudice in science: example of Pierre Trémaux

Tvrtko-Matija Šercar

The literature review is an integral part of research. The story of Pierre Trémaux (1818–1895) illustrates how factors, such as hoaxes, fabrications, untrue stories, myths and prejudice, which have nothing to do in science, difficulties in comprehending and accepting new scientific paradigms and also slow and geographically limited dissemination of scientific findings, which results in not being familiar with scientific findings and discoveries elsewhere in the world, are harmful for the ecology of scientific communication.