The paper presents the situation in Serbian village libraries. It also points out that these libraries do not keep pace with the development of library and information activities in Serbia and that among their users, similar to those in public libraries in cities, there is only a small number of farmers.
In 1901, the Slovenian newspapers Slovenec and Slovenski narod uniformly reported on the fight for the Slovenian university, although they represented two different political options and were too many times biased in their reporting on current issues. At times, they were even very offensive towards the leaders of the opposition party.
Musicology is in danger of becoming an “orchid-like profession” with no significant role in understanding the spirit of the time because it has remained too concerned with the glorification of the 19th century’s Eurocentric composers. What we need is comparative musicology to capture all the complexity of music – the phenomenon that is deeply implanted in our consciousness and is present in many areas of human life, such as cults, politics, medical treatment, work and law.
A research field dealt with in a bibliographic source is not easily identifiable from the COBISS bibliographic data on Slovenian researchers. Keywords are the best way to identify research fields. Our aim was to sort (classify) keywords of researchers’ bibliographic units. To this end, we have chosen as the classifier the classification of the Slovenian Research Agency. A special attention has been devoted to the selection and preparation of texts intended for machine learning in order to achieve best results.
In recent years, encouraging early reading and developing literacy as an important competency for lifelong learning, success in education and life in modern society have become an increasingly important topic among experts and scientists of various profiles. One begins to realise that this complex pedagogical and psychological activity, if it is to be implemented efficiently and effectively, requires adequately competent providers and creators and suitable programs to be developed for this purpose.
The paper deals with the history, operation and organization of the Library and Information Association of New Zealand (LIANZA). It shows the general characteristics and development of the Association and its role in the social, cultural and economic life of New Zealand.
The paper describes the upload of bibliographic records from the COBIB.SI shared database as well as holdings data of certain Slovenian libraries into WorldCat, the Online Union Catalogue. In 2009, the initial upload of records was made and a regular quarterly upload followed.
The reference service is an important part of every library, whose purpose is to help users find the information they want and need in order to satisfy their information needs. With the increasing influence of information-technology is also developing tools that allow users remote access to reference services, irrespective of whether they are members of any library.
Dramatic social and economic crisis that all economies have been witnessing in the last few years, and the environmental crisis the planet is currently going through have made people re-think the limits of the free global market enlargement. What kind of future are we preparing for the next generations? Will billions of dollars keep flowing each day in the global marketplace?
echnology’s positive promises for fulfillment of what is best in humankind often result in unexpected disasters or usable systems. When malevolent people develop software such adverse outcomes are understandable. Unfortunately, too frequently, even the systems developed by good well-intentioned people have similar negative results.
