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National Library of the Czech Republic decided to draw its new strategy at the beginning of 2023 up. The creation of this strategy was not prescribed us by our founder, the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic. On the contrary - it was an internal decision of the institution. We started to prepare it mainly because we want to have it for ourselves, because it can be a support in the further negotiations for us, the pillar of the advocacy towards the decision-making sphere and of course for all the steps we will take in the near future. This approach also had a major impact on the process of its creation, as it was a collective work of multiple institutional working teams across the organizational structure of the library, involving both managers and ordinary staff, both older and younger generations of the library employees. The content of the strategy is also interrelated with the external and internal factors that will affect the library and the complex process of discussions on strategic dilemmas. During the presentation, you will learn not only about the key areas of development of the National Library of the Czech Republic, the basic steps that awaits us and the goals we want to achieve, but also about the process of the creation of the strategy. This turned out to be perhaps more important than the strategy itself. Find out where the modern national library is heading, what its vision is and what it wants to achieve in key areas of its work. And most of all: Shape the library with us. The NATIONAL!
The exceptional sixteenth-century Mexican manuscript, La historia general de las cosas de nueva España (1577), better known at the Florentine Codex, was created by Spanish Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún and a team of Indigenous scholars, scribes, and artists. This encyclopedia of Nahua knowledge and language is divided into twelve books, featuring three narratives: a primary Nahuatl text, a Spanish interpretation, and some 2,500 images. Modeled after European encyclopedias, the codex is renowned as a key primary source on Nahua culture and for its history of the conquest of Mexico told from the Mexica perspective. Although penned in Mexico, it was ordered by royal decree to be sent to Spain but ended up in the private library of the Medici family in Florence by 1587; it is still housed in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana.
In 2016, the Getty Research Institute initiated a major collaborative initiative to transform the codex into an enhanced digital critical edition. Launched in 2023, the Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital (DFC) presents the newly digitized codex alongside its bilingual transcriptions and translations. Texts and images are searchable, achieved by tagging images with keywords. This image metadata is available in four languages—Classical Nahuatl, Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl, Spanish, and English—and was generated following a rigorous research process by an interdisciplinary team of scholars, including native Nahuatl speakers.
Additional resources for the conquest history in Book 12 especially serve contemporary Nahuatl speakers: chapter summaries written in Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl and voice recordings of the Nahuatl text. They aim to contribute to language revitalization. The DFC gives unprecedented access to this manuscript of human cultural heritage and may be considered a digital repatriation to Mexico. This presentation will detail the collaborative process for this ambitious project and demonstrate the newly launched DFC.
Relaunch of the Database Information System DBIS: Open Data, Local Views, Global Collaboration
(2024)
The German scientific landscape is becoming increasingly international, and with it the Database Information System (DBIS). As a result of the DFG-funded project, a modernized version will be released in 2024, in which English-language use and thus more international cooperation will be possible. DBIS is a digital reference tool developed by the University Library of Regensburg, which supports its users in selecting the academic databases they need for their research. Since its foundation over two decades ago, DBIS has grown into a supra-regional service. DBIS is currently being expanded and adapted to the new needs of the community of institutions, data exchange partners and end users (funded by the DFG -440516279). Several hundred libraries are working together openly, locally and globally according to the guiding principle of "quality through cooperation":
Open
The development of the new DBIS was designed to be open and the community was closely involved from the outset.
When the new version goes live, the metadata will be provided with a cc0 license. DBIS using institutions can also agree that their license data can be exchanged with other systems via the new REST API.
Local
Metadata in DBIS are currently and will continue to be maintained cooperatively by all participating libraries. This combines high data quality with labor savings for the individual institution. There is also a local view of an institution's database holdings. Libraries can place their corporate design, including the logo and main color.
Global
To ensure that DBIS can be made accessible to a more international community in the future, English as well as German user interfaces and administration tools are now available. Institutions from non-German-speaking countries such as the USA and Sweden have already shown interest in joining the DBIS community. DBIS offers international newbies the advantage of a large data pool - there are currently almost 7,000 freely accessible databases in DBIS!
Institutional support for Open Access is well established and movement in research data management (FAIRness) support continues to rise. However, other aspects of Open Science have received much less attention. While Open Access deals with opening up the end stages of the research process, Open Science encompasses the entire research pipeline and how it can be made more transparent and reproducible. This includes practices such as preregistrations, registered reports, and reproducible analysis/code which can be challenging for researchers, and support may be sought after. We believe that, with the necessary resources, libraries are well placed to add such Open Science services to their portfolio.
The University of Mannheim allocated resources and established an Open Science Office in 2021 as part of the library. The initial funding from the university was for three years with an evaluation of the impact afterwards, which was used to make the Open Science Office permanent. In this talk we will focus on the process of institutionalizing our Open Science Office and our impact report together with the evaluation dimensions (i.e., training, support and services and networking). Broadly, we have learnt that measuring impact is challenging and that impact on research and researchers is likely to develop over longer periods of time. Nevertheless, it was possible to determine quantitative and qualitative aspects in our impact report.
Therefore, outlining our institutional process and our approach to evaluate the impact of the Open Science Office and what was learnt can help other institutions to expand their service portfolio with respect to Open Science. Finally, we are interested in exchanging with like-minded institutions to collaborate on Open Science services for researchers.
Wir benötigen in der Forschung, und für ein qualitätsgerechtes Forschungsdatenmanagement, neue infrastrukturellen Dienste, die langfristig im Sinne von FAIR, sehr wichtig sind und die sich zum Teil erst weiter mit den wissenschaftlichen Bibliotheken zusammen, etablieren. Universitätsbibliotheken sind oft PartnerInnen der forschungsnahen Dienste, sowohl lokal als auch global, wenn sie sich den neuen Themen öffnen.
In einer CoRDI 2023 Keynote in Karlsruhe im vergangenen September präsentierte Christine Borgman von der University of California, Los Angeles es so:
“Knowledge Infrastructures: The Invisible Foundation of Research Data Or, How Infrastructure Connects and Disconnects Research Communities”.
In diesem Einzelvortrag soll der Verbund Base4NFDI, insbesondere die Task Area 3, näher vorgestellt werden. Der Verbund der Basisdienste hatte im März 2023 seine Arbeit aufgenommen. Bei Base4NFDI geht es um NFDI-weite Basisdienste, die Effizienz sowie Nutzung der Services zum Forschungsdatenmanagement verbessern. Die Initiative ist eine gemeinsame aller NFDI-Konsortien. Institutionen aus der wissenschaftlichen Infrastrukturversorgung sowie aus allen großen Forschungsorganisationen in Deutschland sind aktiv bei Base4NFDI beteiligt. Die gesamte NFDI-Gemeinschaft ist Zielgruppe und arbeitet vernetzt zusammen:
“Base4NFDI is a joint initiative of all consortia within the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) to foster and establish reliable NFDI-wide basic services. Therefore, various groups and individuals within the initiative are working together to build a network for the ongoing identification, support, development, operation and evaluation of NFDI-wide basic services.”
Task Area 3 etabliert den Prozessrahmen für die Auswahl und Entwicklung von Basisdiensten (transparente und nachvollziehbare Entscheidungsfindung zur Fortführung oder Einstellung von Dienstentwicklungen). Die Rolle der Bibliotheken bei Base4NFDI wird auch erörtert und abschließend diskutiert.
The National Library of the Czech Republic started collaborating with Wikipedia in 2006 by linking its authority records to corresponding Wikipedia articles. In 2014, the National Library and Wikimedia Czech Republic began working together to educate librarians and library users. Joint projects on linked data and the use of authority records in Wikidata followed. For these projects, it proved important to have the National Library's databases licensed under CC0. This was eventually achieved and from 2022 the National Library is making most of its databases available as open data under a CC0 license. In 2023, the National Library and Wikimedia Czech Republic signed a Memorandum of Collaboration and the National Library officially launched its Wikimedians in Residence Programme. This paper will present joint activities that benefit both organizations and especially their users.
Open science principles are becoming more prominent in academia. University libraries play a central role in encouraging researchers to openly share their findings and data. They support community-driven publishing platforms and provide non-commercial open infrastructures. However, their communication strategy to promote these services often still relies on ‘closed’ and commercial online services, such as Twitter/X.
Motivated by its commitment to open science, the University of Groningen Library was looking for a more inclusive and collaborative medium to communicate with its community. In our talk, we motivate our strategic shift from Twitter/X to Mastodon, a decentralised and community-driven social media platform.
We discuss how we integrate open principles into our strategic online communication and examine the impact of platform features on how we contribute meaningful content to academic discourse. We share challenges and successes we encountered during the transition towards a community-run platform: from taking our first steps on Mastodon to preparing our Twitter followers for the transition to leaving the birdsite for good (and communicating that!) - resulting in a 900+ follower gain within 4 days, shifting from a rather local audience on Twitter to an international community on Mastodon.
We also provide insights into a detailed follower analysis on Mastodon and into our tailored content strategy that supports our mission to not just locally but also internationally highlight the University of Groningen Library’s role as a partner in open science. We discuss guidelines about whether, when and how (academic) libraries should join the Fediverse for more interaction with our target audiences and their role in promoting a less clickbait-driven communication approach.
Libraries play a pivotal role in advancing open science initiatives, serving as hubs for knowledge dissemination. However, communication strategies about open science support for the academic community are often shaped by policy rather than the input of the target audience and a focus on peer-to-peer communication. For this reason, the University of Groningen Library developed a dialogue-based communication approach: to gather input, build consensus, identify multipliers to convey the message, share best practices and let researchers speak for themselves.
In this presentation, we will explain our communication approach and highlight the key tools that help us engage in a dialogue with the academic community. Our Open Science Ambassadors at the university’s faculties provide valuable feedback on policies and services to be developed and serve as a thermometer within our community. We join forces with bottom-up initiatives such as the Open Science Community Groningen for collaborative efforts such as the lottery-based Open Research Award. The Open Science Blog and Open Science Bites podcast feature interviews with researchers sharing their views or hands-on tips for their peers, and through our recently established presence on Mastodon, we seek interaction with academia beyond the Groningen or even the Dutch community.
This article will provide information on the history of the development and transformation of libraries in general in Kosova.
According to related evidence and arguments, we will notice the rise and fall of the development of libraries in different periods of time.
These periods of growth but also those that marked the beginning of the collapse, continue until the last decade of the 20th, century when the apartheid practiced by the Serbian system in the 90s in the educational and cultural institutions of Kosovo, in this case the libraries of Kosovo, was not spared. The burning and destruction of libraries is an argument that reveals their only goal, the disappearance of a history, culture and its people. Albanian professionals in Kosova, and academic sources became pawns in a murky political game which resulted in violent conflict latter. Despite the great losses that the libraries in Kosovo suffered, especially in 1999, where in addition to the destruction of the collections, and their burning, the burning and destruction of these library locations also followed suit. The beginning of the 21st century also brings a will to develop libraries in step with the times. Different projects, different initiatives for the reopening and development of libraries, and then the continuous education of library staff, the creation of the library network and digitization, are just some of the projects that the National Library of Kosovo has carried out and implemented.
However the goals of the National Library of Kosovo for the transformation of the libraries in Kosovo, in order to preserve the cultural heritage of our territories, but also to serve the general public with collections and information about the cultural heritage of our country. NLK aims to inform the local, but also foreign public, as well as future generations, with academic, historical and factual information and resources.
In den letzten Jahren haben sich die Anforderungen an akademische Such- und Discovery-Systeme erhöht. Neben dem stark steigenden Wachstum an Publikationen werden im Zeitalter von Open Science auch neue Output-Typen wie Datensätze, Software und Bilder publiziert. Es geht somit nicht nur um die Frage der Bewältigung der Menge an Publikationen, sondern auch um den Umgang mit der Vielfalt der Output-Typen [1].
Dies bringt auch Herausforderungen für bibliothekarische Suchsysteme mit sich. Klassische, listenbasierte System alleine können beispielsweise keinen adäquaten Überblick über die 800.0000 zum Coronavirus publizierten Texte und deren verknüpften Daten geben. Alternative Technologien wie Empfehlungssysteme, semantische Suche und Visualisierungen können hier Abhilfe bieten und erfreuen sich immer größerer Beliebtheit bei Forschenden und Studierenden [2].
Für Bibliotheken stellt sich nun die Frage, wie sie diese neuen Ansätze in ihre Suchsysteme einbinden können. In diesem Vortrag wollen wir ein Modell für die Einbindung anhand der Integration des visuellen Discovery-Systems Open Knowledge Maps in die bibliothekarischen Infrastrukturen der TU Wien und der Universität Wien (AUSSDA) vorstellen.
Bei Open Knowledge Maps kommen Wissenslandkarten (Knowledge Maps) zum Einsatz. Wissenslandkarten bieten einen Überblick über einen Suchbegriff, indem sie die Hauptbereiche und die zu den einzelnen Bereichen gehörenden Dokumente auf einen Blick anzeigen. Auf der Webseite des Vereins (https://openknowledgemaps.org) können Nutzer*innen eine Wissenslandkarte für beliebige Suchbegriffe erstellen. Mittels einer speziellen Technologie-Schiene, den sogenannten Custom Services, können Institutionen nun ihre Discovery-Angebote um visuellen Suchkomponenten von Open Knowledge Maps erweitern. Diese werden wahlweise als Cloud-Komponenten eingebunden oder können als Open Source-Software am eigenen Server installiert werden.
Custom Services-Komponenten werden in Abstimmung mit der Community entwickelt und sind unter anderem bei der ETH Zürich (https://eth.swisscovery.slsp.ch/) und der EOSC-Plattform GoTriple (https://gotriple.eu) integriert. In Österreich sind die ersten beiden Anwendungsfälle an der TU Wien und an der Universität Wien entstanden.
An der TU Wien wurde Open Knowledge Maps in den Bibliothekskatalog “Catalog PLUS” (https://catalogplus.tuwien.at/) als erweitertes Suchangebot integriert. Die Suchkriterien, die im CatalogPlus erstellt bzw. gefiltert werden, steuern die Suchmaschine PRIMO an, parallel gibt es die Möglichkeit, mit den gleichen Argumenten Open Knowledge Maps über die Custom Services als externe Ressource abzufragen. Integriert wurden dabei die Darstellungsformen “Knowledge Map”, eine Clusterung nach ähnlichen Begrifflichkeiten, und “Streamgraph”, welche einen Überblick über die zeitliche Entwicklung von Themen gibt. In einem nächsten Schritt wird die TU Wien Bibliothek die Nutzung der Custom Services als thematischen Use Case zum Forschungsoutput in Bezug auf die UN SDG (https://sdgs.un.org/goals) weiter vorantreiben.
An der Universität Wien wurde Open Knowledge Maps im Rahmen eines Pilotprojekts in das Datenarchiv von AUSSDA - The Austrian Social Science Data Archive eingebunden (https://aussda.at/ueber-aussda/projekte/open-knowledge-maps/). Es zeigte sich, dass sich auch die vielfältigen Themen von Forschungsdaten visuell darstellen lassen, um einen Überblick zum Datenbestand zu erhalten. Die Darstellung bietet einen Themenüberblick mit einfachen und intuitiven Interaktionsmöglichkeiten zum Hineinzoomen und Navigieren zu einzelnen Studien.
Die Dienste von Open Knowledge Maps werden kostenlos und als offene Infrastruktur bereitgestellt. Um die Infrastruktur zu finanzieren und aufrechtzuerhalten, betreibt der Verein ein Crowdsourcing-Modell mit Fördermitgliedern. Fördermitglieder werden Teil der Governance der Organisation und sind direkt in Entscheidungsprozesse um die technische Roadmap eingebunden.
[1] Kraker, P., Schramm, M., & Kittel, C. (2021). Discoverability in (a) Crisis. ABI Technik, 41(1), 3–12. https://doi.org/10.1515/abitech-2021-0003
[2] Matthews, D. (2021). Drowning in the literature? These smart software tools can help. Nature, 597(7874), 141–142. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02346-4
Libraries have a track record of developing and contributing open source software to deliver solutions where propriety software may have come to a standstill. From solutions for institutional deposits to data crosswalks, analytics and indeed the Library Services Platform, open-source software delivers important business value to libraries. How then can libraries take advantage of open source initiatives, contribute to continued innovation and meet evolving needs? And how can open source software further address the need for improved interoperability with proprietary solutions to which the library may subscribe? In this presentation, the presenter will discuss the approach and status of FOLIO, the open source library services platform supported by service providers and libraries alike. The presenter will thereby discuss aspects of “open” including the need for interoperable applications within the library’s technology infrastructure. And the presenter will look at a variety of solutions that interoperate with FOLIO including the EBSCO suite of services and beyond.
Academic Libraries in the Czech Republic: Co-Operation to Support Teaching, Learning and Research
(2022)
Academic libraries support the mission, goals, and strategic plans of their universities. Learning, teaching, research, and the third role of the university are all areas where libraries provide spaces, collections, services, and expertise of individual librarians. Join us for the story of the efforts of academic libraries in the Czech Republic. The presentation will focus on critical activities that Czech academic libraries develop. They are providing online information resources, developing information literacy programmes, and supporting open science. That is to mention just a few priorities in strategic documents of academic libraries in the Czech Republic. Co-operation between individual academic libraries is a crucial aspect of success in those efforts. Association of Libraries of Czech Universities (ALCU) was established in 2002 to support academic libraries and academic librarians and represent this group of libraries in discussions and negotiations on various platforms. The mission and priorities of ALCU will be mentioned. The presentation will also highlight ALCU working groups, current activities, and plans for the coming years. The crucial aspect of each library is the team of librarians, their expertise, and their development. Getting inspiration from abroad and developing its educational programmes for librarians and library managers is one of ALCU´s priorities. Various formats of professional development are taking place each year. The presentation will provide details on the most successful events and the feedback from participants.
Libraries as intensively used learning places face special challenges these days. To support students holistically in their learning and work, concepts are needed that combine the library's traditional core competencies with innovative services. Because learning is an individual process, very different and sometimes contradictory expectations and needs of users must be recognized and taken into account when developing a learning space. Libraries are evolving into places of residence. They are learning places and information centers and offer space for work individually and in groups. Customers' needs are different: they want to be "alone but not alone" and want an "atmosphere that promotes concentration, encouragement, contagion", in which it is possible to "stimulate space and concentrated separation" at the same time. In Macedonia, too, libraries are increasingly oriented towards the international development of libraries as "teaching libraries", which transfer information and media skills far beyond conventional user training. The role of the library will increasingly be that of the so-called "third place", which, in addition to our home ("first place") and workplace ("second place"), will be of greater importance for the functioning of a society. "Third places" offer everyone the opportunity to spend time with others in an unrelated way, for no apparent or obvious reason. Libraries are destined for this. The project Young St. Clement's University in NUL"St.Clement Ohridski" - Skopje, is an example of developing certain skills among users, using traditional sources, go beyond the everyday, stimulate their creativity and expand opportunities in many areas of living. Keywords: place to study, teaching library, free space, Young St. Clement's University
In the multinational and interconnected world of the 21st century, many efforts to diversify or be more inclusive fall flat in achieving their goals. Social media managers post token diversity statements, change their flags to rainbows during Pride, or publish copied and pasted statements about support and solidarity in crises and tragedies. But the world’s events are showing more and more that these gestures and practices are not enough. This workshop will cover the various aspects of culture, visible and subtle, that affect how we and our target audiences see the world. Participants in this workshop will work as a whole and in groups of no more than five participants to examine texts about the perspectives of people of color and people of different minorities from around the world. They will participate in role-playing activities to increase empathy and awareness, and discussions about the challenges of reaching diverse populations. Case studies of multicultural challenges in workplaces and educational institutions will be taken from all over the world and analyzed in discussion groups. The discussion groups will work together to come up with action plans to make their own workplaces more acceptable and embraceable to diverse populations. These applications are relevant for interpersonal interactions within staff and patrons alike. Activities and discussions will be taken from the following sources, among others: Bridges Out Of Poverty: Strategies for Professionals and Communities (Payne, DeVol, and Smith, 2001) Palaces for the People: How Social Infrascructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life (Klinenberg, 2018) Courageous Conversations about Race (Singleton and Linton, 2006) A Framework for Understanding Poverty (Payne, 1996)
The historical facts and the methods and strategies on how threatened book collections
can be protected. What are the traumas from the past? What can we learn from these
for the future? How can libraries strengthen their position? How can they protect their
collections? In addition, the conference also looked ahead to also explore the digital
challenge for libraries in this context namely: how can digital technology and advanced
imaging techniques help preserve the traditional documentary heritage and moreover,
how can the born digital heritage itself be protected for future generations?
Part of the four part book series: Citizen Science for Research Libraries — A Guide
A practical guide designed to assist those organising and participating in a citizen science project to get the most out of the experience. The guide will enable you to have the skills to ensure a project is well set up from the start, is able to communicate to its stakeholders and citizens, manage its data and outputs, and overall ensure research benefits. The guide has been compiled by the LIBER Citizen Science Working Group and pulls on the generous contributions of the open science community.
How students get the materials they need as opportunities for higher education expand but funding shrinks.From the top down, Shadow Libraries explores the institutions that shape the provision of educational materials, from the formal sector of universities and publishers to the broadly informal ones organized by faculty, copy shops, student unions, and students themselves. It looks at the history of policy battles over access to education in the post–World War II era and at the narrower versions that have played out in relation to research and textbooks, from library policies to book subsidies to, more recently, the several “open” publication models that have emerged in the higher education sector.From the bottom up, Shadow Libraries explores how, simply, students get the materials they need. It maps the ubiquitous practice of photocopying and what are—in many cases—the more marginal ones of buying books, visiting libraries, and downloading from unauthorized sources. It looks at the informal networks that emerge in many contexts to share materials, from face-to-face student networks to Facebook groups, and at the processes that lead to the consolidation of some of those efforts into more organized archives that circulate offline and sometimes online— the shadow libraries of the title. If Alexandra Elbakyan's Sci-Hub is the largest of these efforts to date, the more characteristic part of her story is the prologue: the personal struggle to participate in global scientific and educational communities, and the recourse to a wide array of ad hoc strategies and networks when formal, authorized means are lacking. If Elbakyan's story has struck a chord, it is in part because it brings this contradiction in the academic project into sharp relief—universalist in principle and unequal in practice. Shadow Libraries is a study of that tension in the digital era.ContributorsBalázs Bodó, Laura Czerniewicz, Miroslaw Filiciak, Mariana Fossatti, Jorge Gemetto, Eve Gray, Evelin Heidel, Joe Karaganis, Lawrence Liang, Pedro Mizukami, Jhessica Reia, Alek Tarkowski
Libraries, archives and museums have traditionally been a part of the public sphere's infrastructure. They have been so by providing public access to culture and knowledge, by being agents for enlightenment and by being public meeting places in their communities. Digitization and globalization poses new challenges in relation to upholding a sustainable public sphere. Can libraries, archives and museums contribute in meeting these challenges?
Wikipedia and Academic Libraries: A Global Project contains 19 chapters by 52 authors from Brazil, Canada, Hong Kong, Ireland, Kyrgyzstan, Mexico, Netherlands, Nigeria, Scotland, Spain, and the United States. The chapters in this book are authored by both new and longtime members of the Wikimedia community, representing a range of experiences.
Libraries have existed for millennia, but today the library field is searching for solid footing in an increasingly fragmented (and increasingly digital) information environment. What is librarianship when it is unmoored from cataloging, books, buildings, and committees? In The Atlas of New Librarianship, R. David Lankes offers a guide to this new landscape for practitioners. He describes a new librarianship based not on books and artifacts but on knowledge and learning; and he suggests a new mission for librarians: to improve society through facilitating knowledge creation in their communities.
The vision for a new librarianship must go beyond finding library-related uses for information technology and the Internet; it must provide a durable foundation for the field. Lankes recasts librarianship and library practice using the fundamental concept that knowledge is created though conversation. New librarians approach their work as facilitators of conversation; they seek to enrich, capture, store, and disseminate the conversations of their communities.
To help librarians navigate this new terrain, Lankes offers a map, a visual representation of the field that can guide explorations of it; more than 140 Agreements, statements about librarianship that range from relevant theories to examples of practice; and Threads, arrangements of Agreements to explain key ideas, covering such topics as conceptual foundations and skills and . Agreement Supplements at the end of the book offer expanded discussions. Although it touches on theory as well as practice, theAtlas is meant to be a tool: textbook, conversation guide, platform for social networking, and call to action.