Alexandria: The Journal of National and International Library and Information Issues最新文献

{"title":"News Round-up","authors":"I. Darby, IAEAXSpe Elettra","doi":"10.7748/en.11.4.3.s7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7748/en.11.4.3.s7","url":null,"abstract":"Two like-minded organizations, AfLIA (African Library and Information Associations and Institutions) and EBLIDA (The European Bureau of Library, Information and Documentation Associations) signed a Memorandum of Agreement in August 2019. The aim is to foster closer collaboration between these two organizations in advancement of knowledge and access to information to drive sustainable development and the implementation of UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.","PeriodicalId":431623,"journal":{"name":"Alexandria: The Journal of National and International Library and Information Issues","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125641170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The National Library of Russia","authors":"Alexander Verschinin","doi":"10.1177/0955749019878366","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0955749019878366","url":null,"abstract":"The National Library of Russia (NLR) in Saint Petersburg is the first state public library in Russia, one of the largest libraries in the world and the second largest in the Russian Federation; it is an all-Russian information, scientific and cultural center. The year 2020 will be an anniversary year – 225 years since the establishment of our library. In 1795, the Imperial Public Library was founded by order of Empress Catherine the Great. A special library building designed by the architect Egor Sokolov (1796– 1801) was erected in the capital of the Russian Empire: Saint Petersburg. Nowadays, the building is a part of a unique architectural complex in the historical city center. The ‘Publichka’ (informal colloquial name of the library) was opened in January 1814 and since then the library has been constantly increasing its funds, developing collections and improving readers services. Since 1810, the library has received legal deposit documents. In 1992, the State Public Library became ‘The National Library of Russia’ and by Decree of the President of Russia, it was included in the list of cultural heritage sites that represent historical and cultural heritage of the peoples of the Russian Federation. The Library receives more than 400,000 new documents annually, most of them under the legal deposit law; more than 80% are in the Russian language. Today the NLR collections exceed 39 million documents and include 38 million printed documents, more than 450,000 manuscripts, including 40,000 handwritten books. The electronic library contains 600,000 digitized editions; network access to 60 million electronic documents is provided. The library holds collections of handwritten books in different languages, including West European and Eastern ones, collections of rare books (incunabula, palimpsests); there are rare books of the 15th to 18th centuries in West European languages and the ‘Rossica’ department founded in the middle of the 19th century by the then director","PeriodicalId":431623,"journal":{"name":"Alexandria: The Journal of National and International Library and Information Issues","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116187306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Celebrating the dynamic legacy: Envisioning a purpose-built National Library of Jamaica","authors":"Beverley Lashley","doi":"10.1177/0955749019878369","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0955749019878369","url":null,"abstract":"The year 2019 marks a special year for the National Library of Jamaica (NLJ) with the celebration of 40 years of sterling service to the cultural development of Jamaica. Under the theme ‘The Dynamic Legacy: Celebrating 40 Years with 40 Projects’, the 40 signature projects will showcase the NLJ’s depth of value and its myriad contributions to national development since its establishment in 1979. The NLJ originated from the collection of the West India Reference Library (WIRL) that was founded in 1894 as a section of the Public Library of the Institute of Jamaica. This public library was the first of its kind in Jamaica. The NLJ became an autonomous body in 1979 with its own budget and operations. The National Library of Jamaica Act, 2010 confirmed the autonomy of the NLJ, making it a corporate body with a legal framework to formalize the mandate and operations of the library. As an agency of the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the NLJ’s mission is to ‘enhance the quality of life and prosperity of all citizens by acquiring, preserving and providing access to Jamaica’s cultural and historical information through research and education’. The NLJ is unique in its role in the formal and informal education of the people and is the only library on the island positioned to serve an audience wider than its residents and its diaspora in the global information network.","PeriodicalId":431623,"journal":{"name":"Alexandria: The Journal of National and International Library and Information Issues","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121983520","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sino-Singapore Friendship Library: A collaboration between librarians in China and Singapore","authors":"Ngian Lek Choh","doi":"10.1177/0955749019872933","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0955749019872933","url":null,"abstract":"In 2015, the National Library Board (NLB) Singapore was invited to participate in a project to set up two public libraries of about 1500 sq m each, within a larger public library of 67,000 sq m in the Tianjin Eco City. This was the first time NLB had the opportunity to plan two libraries concurrently within a larger library, from conceptualisation to delivering the final product of two working libraries. The libraries were completed and opened in September 2018. This article describes the journey, opportunities, challenges and lessons learnt.","PeriodicalId":431623,"journal":{"name":"Alexandria: The Journal of National and International Library and Information Issues","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126490415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The National Library of Naples","authors":"Francesco Mercurio","doi":"10.1177/0955749019878365","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0955749019878365","url":null,"abstract":"The National Library of Naples, originally the Royal Bourbon Library of Naples (i.e. the National Library of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies), is one of the main conservation libraries in Italy for the preservation of Italian history and culture. In recent years, however, we have witnessed a thorough, generational change in library users. Such ‘sea change’ concerns the requests of new services and new uses of the library space. As far as services are concerned, the demand is decisively shifting toward remote, online and digital services. As for library space, on the other hand, the question concerns a rather less formal, more friendly use of the available space. The essential problem to be faced in the next decades will therefore concern the need to reconcile conservation, easy access to information and diversification in the use of library space. We have identified five strategic lines of activities that will characterize our institution for the next decade.","PeriodicalId":431623,"journal":{"name":"Alexandria: The Journal of National and International Library and Information Issues","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125688857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The National Library of New Zealand (Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa)","authors":"Bill Macnaught","doi":"10.1177/0955749019871427","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0955749019871427","url":null,"abstract":"The National Library of New Zealand (Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa) Act 2003 sets out the legal purpose and function of our national library. As there have been many developments since that legislation was drawn up, we decided to look ahead to 2030 and consider what might still be required of the National Library of New Zealand. During 2016 I consulted with stakeholders and staff about several system-level challenges facing the library sector and New Zealand as a country. The challenges focused on how to enable New Zealanders to access knowledge and share it more easily; how to ensure that New Zealanders have the right literacies to succeed; and how to ensure that we preserve knowledge for the future. Our stakeholders and staff supported a strategic focus on these three areas and reinforced the need to work in partnership to achieve change for New Zealand. We then developed a draft strategic directions document for public comment, outlining three areas of focus for the National Library along with examples of potential programmes under each area. This document proposed a new way of working for the National Library and a strong focus on cross-sector collaboration to ensure the best possible outcomes for New Zealanders. The public were asked to comment on the overall directions as well as the specific initiatives proposed and to reflect on the future role of the National Library. At the end of 2016 we published the final document on our website, setting out our strategic directions to 2030. We have called it Turning Knowledge into Value (National Library of New Zealand, 2016). In it, our new mission to 2030 states that we will create","PeriodicalId":431623,"journal":{"name":"Alexandria: The Journal of National and International Library and Information Issues","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128099080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Library and Archives Canada","authors":"Guy Berthiaume","doi":"10.1177/0955749019867769","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0955749019867769","url":null,"abstract":"My vision for the next ten years at Library and Archives Canada—LAC for short—only makes sense if one keeps in mind the tremendous democratization of knowledge we have seen in the wake of digitization. At one time, only graduate students, faculty, and researchers visited national libraries. That was certainly my personal experience at the Bibliothèque nationale de France’s Salle Labrouste, when I used to go there 45 years ago. Access to the 320 seats in Salle Labrouste was reserved for faculty and graduate students, and you had to get there early in the morning, at the rue de Richelieu, to line up so you could get one of those coveted seats once the doors opened. These days, thanks to the web, anyone and everyone—not only from our own countries, but from anywhere in the world—has total and unimpeded access to our documents. This has awakened an appetite for knowledge that we frankly find difficult to satisfy. In the French-speaking world, a turning point in the conception of the role of national libraries happened on July 14, 1988, when President François Mitterrand announced his intention to create an entirely new kind of library, one that would be open to everyone and that would be equipped with all types of supports. Since then, the longstanding distinction between a national library and a public library has blurred, and the unprecedented traffic we are seeing today at places such as the British Library (BL) and the Bibliothèque nationale de France are but two examples of that manifestation. Over the past years, LAC has plunged head first into this movement by bringing itself physically closer to public libraries. In November 2017, we moved our Vancouver offices that used to be located in a technology park in a remote suburb, to the premises of the Vancouver Central Library, which, as its name suggests, is located right in the heart of that Pacific Coast city. This shift has borne fruit, not only in terms of attendance, but","PeriodicalId":431623,"journal":{"name":"Alexandria: The Journal of National and International Library and Information Issues","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131288052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Swiss National Library","authors":"Marie-Christine Doffey","doi":"10.1177/0955749019868923","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0955749019868923","url":null,"abstract":"In Alexandria 12(3) 2000, as part of a series of pieces on The next ten years in national libraries' the then director of the Swiss National Library, Jean-Frederic Jauslin, outlined some plans and predictions for the next decade, including attempts to achieve legal deposit, gaining more autonomy for the library in order to increase its decision-making powers and working both on conservation of acidic paper and digitization for access. Nearly ten years later, we summarize the results and attempt the same exercise for the next ten years.The library's autonomy has increased as planned, and significant work has been carried out in conservation and preservation of both print and digital material. Plans for legal deposit were not fulfilled but fortunately the long-standing cooperation with the Associations of Swiss publishers has seen continued voluntary deposit of print material and discussions are under way with online publishers to achieve the same.The last ten years have seen a huge growth in online material but little or no decrease in print; in the next years, storage capacity for all media will be required. New underground stacks, inaugurated in August 2009, provide the library with space until 2030 at the current rate of print production. A major challenge will be the increased requirements for electronic storage capacity and preservation; not just for Web archiving and borndigital material but also for the large amounts of digitized material that are being produced.As new formats emerge in the next ten years, the library and others will face its first major tests in migration and/or emulation to secure access over time. The electronic book, long hailed as imminent, seems finally to have arrived. The proliferation of reading devices such as the Kindle may change both collection management and user expectations. Digitization on demand, currently a niche product for the library, will increase if e-readers make loading and access more user friendly. Ten years ago, Google was unknown; today the company is ubiquitous and its impact on digitization and the difficult question of copyright undeniable.The Google Book project has highlighted the difficult areas of orphan works, and varying durations of copyright across countries; these questions will continue to be particularly pertinent for comparatively young institutions such as the Swiss National Library, much of whose collection remains subject to copyright. Cooperation with rights holders will be essential: the Library has already started working in public/private partnerships to digitize and allow widespread access to material, especially newspapers. This form of cooperation will increase over the next years, also in partnership with other Swiss libraries to avoid duplication of effort and share costs in a financial climate that will continue to be challenging.National libraries around the world are seeking increasingly to underline their relevance to all sections of the public, not just a researc","PeriodicalId":431623,"journal":{"name":"Alexandria: The Journal of National and International Library and Information Issues","volume":"302 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128880307","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Translator in Residence at the British Library (2017–2018)","authors":"J. Calleja","doi":"10.1177/0955749019844684","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0955749019844684","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":431623,"journal":{"name":"Alexandria: The Journal of National and International Library and Information Issues","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115336329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Behind the scenes of the British Library Qatar National Library Partnership: Digital operations and workflow management","authors":"R. Davies, Sotirios Alpanis","doi":"10.1177/0955749019839604","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0955749019839604","url":null,"abstract":"The British Library and Qatar National Library have been working in partnership since 2012 to make an extraordinary tranche of material available for everyone to access for free via the Qatar Digital Library. This article delves behind the scenes of the partnership, highlighting some of the operational and workflow lessons learnt when running this major digitisation programme. We look in detail at workflow management and coordination, how to use management information to find efficiencies, as well as providing a supportive team atmosphere for creative use of the collections via ‘Hack Days’.","PeriodicalId":431623,"journal":{"name":"Alexandria: The Journal of National and International Library and Information Issues","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134269892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}