This paper proposes a conceptual model for cataloging which gives primacy to a text-level bibliographic entity, with the aim of approaching critical issues involved in current cataloging practice, such as the so-called ‘multiple versions’ and ‘content versus carrier’ issues. Although several models proposed by researchers contain a text-level entity (or object), including the model by the IFLA ...

Electronic resources, as defined by the International Standard Bibliographic Description for Electronic Resources (ISBD(ER)) are all those materials codified for computer elaboration, including material which requires the use of a peripheral. (IFLA, 1999; Saur, 1997). They constitute a constantly growing patrimony within the bibliographic resources of the university library system (Snowhill, 20...

Introduction It is considered unfashionable in many quarters to announce oneself as a librarian. Yet librarians have produced one of the most remarkable feats of international co-operation in the last fifty years, which has gone unheralded, unannounced, but whose characteristics should be informing the development of standards for the Internet and the World Wide Web. Indeed so great is that suc...

This paper examines some issues relating to the development in Latin America and the Caribbean of the managerial expertise that underpins the modernisation of library and information services. It reports on part of a joint IFLA/FID project, principally funded by the UNESCO Participation Programme, and reviews results from two surveys. One obtained responses from Schools of Librarianship and Inf...

The main objective of this research is, to develop metadata scheme for the management of digitized PLMs to increase efficiency in the search, access, management and use. The research framework was based on Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) model developed by International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), while the metadata development process wa...

Linked data is the current paradigm. All works, projects and applicationshave it as main tool, because of its potentiality. In linking data, the selected infor-mation, authorized, validated, recorded and structured in their databases for longtime by cultural institutions as libraries, necessarily is going to play an importantrole. The work carried out by IFLA ISBD Review Group h...

Objectius: els objectius principals de l'article són descriure les característiques del personal bibliotecari dades (data librarian), justificar-nela rellevància en un context creixent adopció pràctiques ciència oberta el si la biblioteca universitària, i aportar pautes per a recapacitació que ja ofereix serveis als investigadors institucions recerca. Concretament, es pretén definir desgranar q...

During the first half of 2000 a pilot project on library and information science (LIS) journal quality was undertaken in the Asian region for the IFLA Round Table on Library and Information Science Journals (RTLISJ). It showed that a simple but effective methodology could be used to determine the most commonly acepted criteria for evaluating LIS journal quality, the success or otherwise of LIS ...