Namen: Namen raziskave je bil zasnova prototipnega katalogizacijskega sistema, ki omogoča lažji vnos bibliografskih podatkov, temelji na prednostih modela IFLA LRM in sledi miselnemu procesu katalogizatorjev.
 Metodologija/pristop: Pred konceptualno zasnovo novega sistema smo za celovito razumevanje miselnih procesov katalogizatorjev v različnih kontekstih izvedli pet kvalitativnih raziska...

There is an abundance of evidence in the literature that corroborates the hypothesis that African librarianship has its roots in the colonial era. In developing African librarianship, the colonial masters set in place a library and information service infrastructure that propagated western philosophies and imperatives. As pointed out by duPlessis (2007), the colonial powers, to support their an...

The emerging ISO/IEC 29110 standard Lifecycle profiles for Very Small Entities is targeted at very small entity (VSE) having up to 25 people, to assist them unlock the potential benefits of using software engineering standards. VSEs may use semantic web technologies to improve documentation management infrastructure and processes. We proposed to use a semantic wiki for documentation management ...

This issue of Library Trends explores parliamentary libraries in different parts of the world in the past and present and also offers some thoughts about their future. We are grateful for having been given this opportunity to publish the papers presented at the World Library and Information Congress: 75th IFLA General Conference and Assembly, Milan, August 2009. The papers were presented in a j...

The overall theme of this current issue is encapsulated in the title of the first paper by Patrick Cadell, former Keeper of the Records of Scotland. ‘Building on the Past, Investing in the Future through Genealogy and Local History Services’ is the title of Mr Cadell’s keynote address to the Glasgow meeting of the new IFLA Section on Genealogy and Local History. The paper points out that, while...

Purpose: The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) shows the political dimension of the global information society. This article considers the state of WSIS after the second phase and shows possibilities for libraries to participate in the WSIS implementation. Furthermore, relations between WSIS, GATS and the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultura...

This paper attempts to present an overview of and discuss innovations in main government information service institutions in Japan—the National Diet Library (NDL) and the National Archives of Japan (NAJ)—in the electronic environment. This paper examines two approaches of the NDL and the NAJ toward innovative projects: (1) retrospective digitization of historical publications and documents and ...