15 Spectacular Libraries in Europe. We've posted photos of gorgeous libraries before, but we just can’t get enough of these stunning book repositories. For those of you who share this opinion, here are fifteen of the most beautiful libraries throughout Europe, in no particular order. Trinity College Library, Ireland Aside from being absolutely gorgeous, with two story dark wooden arches, this is also the largest library in all of Ireland. It serves as the country’s copyright library, where a copy of all new books and periodicals must be sent when they apply for copyright protection.
The library is also home to the famous Book of Kells, an illuminated manuscript created by Celtic monks around the year 800. Image courtesy of Irish Welcome Tours' Flickr stream. Bristol Central Library, England This library, completed in 1906, is fascinating for its unique combination of architectural styles. Image courtesy of Steve Cadman's Flickr stream. Codrington Library, England Bibliothe? Image courtesy of Wikipedia user Zubro. The Constant Innovator: The Academic Library as a Model of Change Management | Backtalk.
By Ben Showers It sometimes feels as though libraries are always behind. In the academic sphere this is amplified by the perception of cutting-edge research and activity that goes on elsewhere in a university. Yet it is often the case that libraries are already testing ideas and new technologies and services. Indeed, one might argue that the recent history of the library is one of adaptation and new technology innovation. Libraries are often contrasted with the private sector, in particular with what are seen as highly innovative companies such as Google, Amazon and Apple. In many ways the library makes the ideal site of resistance to a dominant language of polarization and reduction. Changing models of access to library services and content is an example of where libraries have been able to meet student expectations and improve the student experience for the institution as a whole.
An organization that works to bring innovation to UK higher education institutions is JISC. Sociala medier på biblioteken. Vad kostar ett digitalt skolbibliotek? | skolbiblioteket – det obegränsade rummet. En av våra utgångspunkter är att rummet, det fysiska biblioteket, kan kompletteras med det digitala biblioteket. Kanske skulle man till och med på sikt kunna tala om en ”interfoliering” mellan dessa. Utan att just här exakt gå in på hur ett digitalt bibliotek skulle kunna fungera, så är grundidén att ett sådant bibliotek skulle kunna organisera en rad resurser som bedöms vara av värde för elevernas lärande och som lätt görs tillgängliga genom samsök. Men kommer inte ett digitalt skolbibliotek kosta en massa pengar? Kommer skolor och kommuner att ha råd med det nu, när eleverna också måste ha tillgång till ett fysiskt bibliotek? Ökade kostnader kan motiveras på olika sätt.
Ja, jag tror att på sikt kan vi få mycket välfungerande skolbibliotek, både rumsligt och digitalt att förbättra elevernas lärande. Om varje skola, kommun eller friskola ska skapa sitt eget digitala bibliotek då kommer det att bli dyrt. Hur vet jag det? | Kompetensutveckling för Stockholms stadsbiblioteks personal. Det finns över en halv miljon appar att välja mellan i Appstore, och nästan lika många i Google Play, som Android Market heter numera! Så visst kan man väl behöva lite tips om vilka som faktiskt är värda att ladda ner? Här tipsar våra utbildare om några av deras favoritappar. Katarina Jag älskar Google skymap för Samsung. Inte så skönlitterär men å så informativ när man står en stjärnklar kväll, blickar upp mot himlen och undrar vad det är man ser. Eva ESAOL:s app finns för Iphone och Android. Örjan En favorit som jag använder mycket till min egen padda och läsplatta är eBook Search.
Hanna En av mina favoritappar är Readmill för ipad. ElisabetPaper, en digital moleskineanteckningsbok att skriva och skissa i. Draw something, rita gissa spring i modern form. Things, en avancerad att-göra app. MickeSom gammal Londonresenär gillar jag två appar från Museum of London, Street Museum (även till Android) och Londinium (endast till iOS), med bilder och text om London förr. Redesigning libraries for today's climate and tomorrow's needs | Local government network | Guardian Professional. The financial pressures facing libraries today are arguably the most challenging for years, with cuts and closures making the headlines. What is less evident is the way that libraries are tackling the challenges they face through radical new ways of working: merging services across authorities, forging new partnerships, and moving into community management. Peers and colleagues working in library services across local government represent a huge pool of untapped knowledge.
Finding a way to access this knowledge is an essential plank in the foundation of a new age of libraries. While individual library professionals have been generous with their experience for years, some library authorities have put this on a more formal footing by setting up library consortiums; 15 London boroughs make up the London Libraries Consortium, and five west of England councils have now formed the LibrariesWest Consortium. Typically, teams are formed within the consortiums to spearhead new projects. The Future of Science. Editor’s note: This guest post was written by Richard Price, founder and CEO of Academia.edu — a site that serves as a platform for academics to share their research papers and to interact with each other. Almost every technological and medical innovation in the world has its roots in a scientific paper. Science drives much of the world’s innovation. The faster science moves, the faster the world moves. Progress in science right now is being held back by two key inefficiencies: The time-lag problem: there is a time-lag of, on average, 12 months between finishing a paper, and it being published.The single mode of publication problem: scientists share their ideas only via one format, the scientific paper, and don’t take advantage of the full range of media that the web makes possible.
The stakes are high. The time-lag problem The first major inefficiency is the time-lag problem for distributing scientific ideas. Science is fundamentally a conversation between scientists around the world. Gamifying Your Library. Before the grammar police break down my door, allow me to defend my use of “gamifying”. If “gamification” can have its own Wikipedia page, and no less of a respectable source than National Public Radio can use it, then I think I’m good. So save your vitriol for those using “cyberspace”. I mean, srsly. Librarian gamers have long worked to bring gamers into the library through such offerings as “game nights” at the library.
But what if you could make using the library a game in itself? This is the premise behind a product produced by the likely-named outfit Running in the Halls. Dubbed Librarygame™, it comes in two “flavors”, “Orangetree” for public libraries and “Lemontree” for academic. The description for librarians offers more detail: Librarygame™ adds elements that make games engaging and delightful, directly into the library experience.
Game like facets: Here are some of the core features of Librarygame regardless of the flavour: The Ins and Outs of Evaluating Web-Scale Discovery Services. Exploring WSD Discovery Layers While the central index is the heart of any WSD service, the discovery layer is the public face. So long as the results list contains a smattering of good hits, users’ responses to the WSD service are likely to be based solely on their experience with the interface. Like the central indexes, the discovery layers have much in common. Branding and customizations. Searching. Advanced discovery.
Different approaches to accomplish the same result Special fields or facets that capitalize on the central index’s strong content areas Where one service will provide a field on the advanced search screen, another may use a limiter or facet on the results page to narrow the results set. The discovery layers each capitalize on the specific content strengths of their central index. Relevancy and refinement. Currency/date of publication Inclusion of the search term in the title, subjects, or author fields Proximity of the terms to each other in the results.
Idébiblioteket - home. Future of the Academic Library Symposium: Service To Continue, but in What Form? Around the Web: A library for human capital, Talking about search & discovery, Why libraries still matter and more : Confessions of a Science Librarian. Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy - tidsskrifter - idunn.no - tidsskrifter på nett. Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy retter seg mot forskere, skolemyndigheter, skoleledere i grunnskole og videregående skole, faglærere ved høgskoler og universiteter, og andre som er opptatt av utdanning og IKT.
Tidsskriftet inneholder fagfellevurderte artikler, konferansebidrag, debatter og kommentarer, programvare- og bokanmeldelser. Gjennom presentasjon av nasjonal og internasjonal forskning, skal tidsskriftet bidra til den utdanningspolitiske debatten. Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy har som mål å skape en arena for kritisk analyse av digital kompetanse og bruken av IKT i utdanningssammenheng, samt å åpne opp for dialog mellom ulike aktører på feltet. Alle innsendte bidrag blir først vurdert av redaktør (editor screening). Bidrag som vurderes positivt blir så sendt til fagfellevurdering, og vurderes av minst to anonymiserte internasjonale fagfeller. Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy ligger på nivå 1 i det norske tellekantsystemet. ILS - Informations- och lånecentraler i samverkan.
Sök. Avancerat sök. Dewey Decimal Classification / Summaries. Mobile Libraries. Stephen's Lighthouse: APIs and Libraries. The Library: Three Jeremiads by Robert Darnton. When I look back at the plight of American research libraries in 2010, I feel inclined to break into a jeremiad. In fact, I want to deliver three jeremiads, because research libraries are facing crises on three fronts; but instead of prophesying doom, I hope to arrive at a happy ending. I can even begin happily, at least in describing the state of the university library at Harvard. True, the economic crisis hit us hard, so hard that we must do some fundamental reorganizing, but we can take measures to make a great library greater, and we can put our current difficulties into perspective by seeing them in the light of a long history. Having begun in 1638 with the 400 books in John Harvard’s library, we now have accumulated nearly 17 million volumes and 400 million manuscript and archival items scattered through 45,000 distinct collections.
I could string out the statistics indefinitely. Despite financial pressure, we therefore are advancing on two fronts, the digital and the analog. Rdf.deichman.no. Presentasjon om semantiske data og Koha | Libriotech. Librarian of Fortune. Digitala Biblioteket SSB. Stockholmarnas digitala bibliotek, Biblioteket.se, listas av DN:s Lotta Olsson som ett av hennes favoritbibliotek i dag. Bland annat hyllas enkelheten på webbplatsen när det gäller att söka, hitta och låna böcker. Lotta Olsson lyfter också e-bokens stora fördel – att den går att ladda ner när som helst på dygnet, var man än befinner sig – en snabb väg till själva läsupplevelsen. Artikeln är förstås väldigt uppmuntrande läsning för oss som jobbar på det digitala biblioteket. Gladast blir vi kanske av att Lotta Olsson så självklart ser det digitala biblioteket som ett eget bibliotek. Tyvärr känner sig Lotta lite skuldtyngd när hon lånar en e-bok, trots att hon upplever det som så snabbt och smidigt, eftersom ”e-bokslån kostar skjortan för de stackars biblioteken”.
Den här inställningen har våra politiker, framförallt Madeleine Sjöstedt, stöttat på ett framsynt sätt. Så ni som besökare behöver inte fundera över bibliotekets kostnader när ni lånar e-böcker, utan låna på så mycket ni vill! .:: TAM-Arkiv ::. Medlemsservice. Open access i Sverige | Kungliga bibliotekets blogg för alla som arbetar med open access i Sverige. Libraries : Grow Blog. About a year ago, I got a memo about technologies that campus will no longer support in classrooms. One of my first reactions was surprise at how many of them are still supported in the library.
They’re not supported particularly well mind you: if you walked in off the street with a 3/4″ videotape, you Read more › They’re starting to get serious about this. I know they’ve been in there for two weeks, but so far we’ve only seen poking and prodding. Read more › Responding to a question regarding map taxonomy, I discovered that still, three years after I made this quick hierarchical view of the proposed headings, there’s not much good guidance on the use of LC Form/Genre Headings for Cartographic Materials.
Read more › Evenings recently I have been playing with a couple of the more well-known methods of generating slippy maps, with the eventual goal of being able to draw data on top of them. Read more › It’s almost embarrassing, the trip I just took. Sjukhusbiblioteken i Värmland. Perceptions of public libraries in Africa: research + results = change. Harnessing the potential of public libraries for community development Public libraries are uniquely positioned to change lives and build strong communities. In many parts of the world, where access to technology is extremely limited, libraries are often the sole source of access to computers and the internet.
Through public libraries, people can discover knowledge and learn new skills, get informed about personal health and well-being, find out about government and local authority services, and seek information about employment and business development. Public libraries help foster a common sense of place and identity for people of all ages, backgrounds and cultures in the community, and link communities to the wider world.
In December 2010, EIFL’s Public Library Innovation Programme (PLIP) commissioned a groundbreaking research study into perceptions of public libraries in six African countries . Perception study findings EIFL-PLIP pilot projects Research + results = change PDF version. The Library Minute: The Social Connection - a must for all libraries! | Social Networking for Information Professionals. Kirjastokaista. Is the Line Between Librarianship and Journalism Blurring? What do journalists and librarians have in common? How can collaboration on their common ground make libraries and the media better for our democracy? More than 125 attendees worked on these questions for two days in April at the first-ever conference of its kind—“Beyond Books: News, Literacy, Democracy, and America’s Libraries”—immediately preceding the National Conference for Media Reform in Boston.
The group was convened by Journalism That Matters, a Seattle-based organization dedicated to making the media more accessible, diverse, and conducive to civic engagement. Protecting sources Both the library and journalism professions are undergoing profound transformations essential to their survival. Newsrooms and libraries produce information essential to the healthy functioning of democracy. David Weinberger, senior fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, presented a provocative model of “Knowledge as Transitional.”
Ny "stjärnkikare" kan avslöja framtidens Nobelpristagare - Vetenskap & miljö. Att bli citerad är avgörande i forskarvärlden - precis som inom många andra områden där det är viktigt i dag att sticka ut i mediebruset. Hur mycket och ofta som kollegorna hänvisar till en viss forskares arbeten blir ett mått på framgång. De schweiziska och italienska forskarna granskade miljontals citeringar av artiklar som skrivits av 124 forskare som senare fått Nobelpris. De frågade sig hur mycket en forskares olika artiklar citeras efter den tidpunkt då han eller hon publicerade en banbrytande artikel och hur mycket författaren blev citerad före sin viktiga publicering. Resultatet syns som en kraftig topp i en kurva, och toppen är tydligare och syns också tidigare än de vanliga metoderna, där kurvorna brukar stiga långsamt. Det visar sig också att det är inte bara just den mest uppmärksammade artikeln som skapar den här vågen av citeringar, utan även äldre artiklar av samma forskare får mer uppmärksamhet i efterhand och därmed också högre anseende.
Bookless Library Trend: Designing Space for Digital Learning. Libraryassessment.info : A blog for and by librarians interested in library assessment, evaluation, and improvement supported by the Association of Research Libraries. New Friday Fun. Världens 20 vackraste *moderna* bibliotek - mymarkup. Samtidsobservatorium. How to Clip, Sort, and Cite the Entire Web with Zotero. Våra svenska dialekter - SweDia 2000. Library 2.0: Not Just for Users. Phil Bradley:Internet search, Librarians, search engines, web search. LibraryThing | Catalog your books online. Betabarn - Hjem. Praktiska Open Source-verktyg för bibliotek.
3 stages of library websites ... Socialamedierobibliotek openspace. What's Your Story?: Dutch Library DOK's New Cutting-edge Community Tech Projects. ACRL Value of Academic Libraries | An initiative from the Association of College and Research Libraries. Practical Open Source Software for Libraries. U Texas San Antonio Opens Bookless Library. DeweyDigger. Should academic libraries default conservative on discovery systems? "Open Source Software Libraries" by Sherry Lochhaas and Melissa Moore. Special Issue of ‘The Reference Librarian’ – Papers from the Handheld Librarian Conferences. 3 | Yleinen suomalainen ontologia - YSO/ALLSO.
A SWOT Analysis for Social Media in Libraries | Online | Find Articles at BNET. E-journals: their use, value and impact - final report. How We Know by Freeman Dyson. The Hyperlinked Library: A TTW White Paper.