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The library as a gateway to knowledge is threatened by an inability to excite users about new information sources and services. To continue as relevant information institutions, libraries must enthusiastically embrace technologies like Twitter that have shown success in improving influence and user engagement (Cha, Haddadi, Benevenuto & Gummadi, 2010). Users of tools like Twitter self- identify as stakeholders in the organizations they “follow” by providing informal publicity (Jansen, Zhang, Sobel & Chowdury, 2009), by more actively participating as a member of the organization, (Junco, Heiberger & Loken, 2011) and by enhancing the social presence of an organization outside of its four walls (Dunlap & Lowenthal, 2009). Some academic and public library systems have invested in social media librarians to make effective use of tools like Twitter, but the addition of a staff member in this role is not an economic reality for many libraries. This talk discusses new research examining the Twitter feeds of university libraries in Ontario. The success of each Twitter feed is determined by comparing the number of Twitter followers with the size of community the library serves. 365 days worth of tweets for each library are analyzed to highlight the differences between successful and unsuccessful Tweeters. The talk discusses how successful feeds form their content; the subjects of their tweets, the frequency, and the way they utilize the functions of Twitter; such as hashtags and tiny urls. The strategies identified in the successful feeds have application in libraries of all sizes and allow librarians to participate in social media without expertise in social media conventions. This talk encourages librarians to capture each other’s knowledge and celebrate each other’s successes so that they may better connect users with library resources and services.
In 2010, the 'Association of Public Libraries in the Netherlands' was split into three institutions: into SIOB, VOB (Netherlands Public Library Association) and BNL (Bibliotheek.nl. SIOB, funded by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Research, was asked to create a national strategy for public libraries in the Netherlands in order to improve library services and adjust them a changed user need and to strengthen the network of public libraries. The strategy is based on a 'cross-channel' model to combine physical and virtual services and media.
Discover the transformative potential of new university presses in reshaping scholarly communication through the example of the University of Groningen Press (UGP) in the Netherlands. UGP is a new university press - an open access, digital-first, and library-based publishing service that grew out of dissatisfaction with traditional publishing models. Our session focuses on UGP's open textbook publishing pilot, an initiative informed by lessons from open access journal and monograph publishing services. This dynamic approach positions UGP as a comprehensive diamond open access publisher, embracing various university domains (education, research, public engagement), fostering cross-disciplinary collaborations, and facilitating knowledge exchange within open science.
The UGP’s open textbook pilot showcases the university press as a hub for connecting open science's diverse elements, facilitating seamless knowledge transfer, and strengthening engagement with the broader "open" agenda. Our goal is to demonstrate that new university presses play a visible role in enhancing synergy across various open science domains.
As a diamond open access publisher, UGP provides a platform for faculty and researchers to publish journals, books and series, inaugural lectures, and open textbooks, breaking down barriers to accessibility. Prioritizing scientific relevance over commercial considerations, UGP empowers scholars to contribute high-quality open publications, both faculty- and student-led, fostering wider research dissemination and equitable access to education.
This session invites participants to explore the role of new university presses in the broader open science framework, serving as catalysts for connecting its multifaceted components. Through the open textbook publishing case study, we aim to initiate further conversation, generating ideas and collaborative solutions to address challenges in reshaping the future of academic publishing and open knowledge dissemination.
In 2023 in Latvia there are 1,8 million inhabitants and around 3000 library workers. For this relatively small amount of people the education system in library science is quite advanced and multi-layered, including higher education level as well as opportunity to gain two professions – one in 5. qualification level, but the other one in the 4. qualification level.
The later pertains to National Library of Latvia (NLL), which is not only methodological center for libraries in Latvia, but also an accredited educational institution. Thus, NLL provides vast range of professional development opportunities, including formal education. NLL carries out continuing vocational education program (VCEP) for the profession “librarian” (see https://macies.lnb.lv/mod/page/view.php?id=22005&forceview=1). This education program consequentially is based on professional standard (approved in 2021).
Additionally, NLL has done a library worker survey in 2021, asking librarians to rate their competences and skillfulness regarding tasks mentioned in the professional standard (see https://macies.lnb.lv/pluginfile.php/27185/mod_page/content/18/Kompeten%C4%8Du_aptauja_ZINOJUMS.pdf). To continue the longitudinal research, the same (but updated) survey will be done in the spring of 2024 thus allowing us to gain comparable data about the current situation regarding librarian competences and their topicality. This presentation will look at these data and compare them with the content of the VCEP and achievements of its students.
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.
An Update on Kuali OLE
(2014)
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)
Bibliotheken sind in der Verantwortung und verpflichtet, Teilhabe zu verwirklichen. Es gibt das Recht auf Teilhabe an Bildung und das Recht auf kulturelle Teilhabe.
Trotzdem sind noch immer vor allem Menschen mit Behinderungen von Bibliotheksservices ausgeschlossen. Doch wie kann Teilhabe und Inklusion in Bibliotheken gelingen? In dieser Präsentation werden der rechtliche Rahmen sowie markante Bereiche inklusiver Bibliotheksservices vorgestellt. Es werden Fakten vermittelt und es wird zum Weiterdenken und -machen in der eigenen Institution angeregt.
Darauf aufbauend zeigt die Präsentation "Bibliotheken und Inklusion: „Chance Inklusion“" wie im Detail die Vermittlung barrierefreier Formate gelingen kann.
Dieser Vortrag gehört zur geplanten Session „Inklusion und Barrierefreiheit in Bibliotheken“.
Referentin: Christiane Felsmann
For far too many years libraries have collected the outputs (thesis / dissertation) of successful Doctorate (PhD) awards at our institutions. We record very basic bibliographic information and then lock the door. But the work in these resources are unique and give us a window into scientific, social, political, economic over the centuries. Yet we have done nothing but treat them as just another part of the university record. We are all sitting on the last unexplored world of how thought has developed, a chance to see how some of the great thinkers developed over their studies. This paper challenges our community to do so much better than we have to date. Over the last few years many universities have been accepting born digital works and putting them into institutional repositories. In the UK the British Library started the EThOS service and asked institutions for permission (or to pay) to digitise the works and make them available open access. At the University of Surrey both approaches saw us provide under 1,000 theses online. We have also been working with ProQuest on digitising additional works and suddenly, the hits on our repository, and the downloads of material from it, increased exponentially. And we were not the only ones, in the UK those of us who were investing in making theses available were seeing an increase in engagement with our open access repositories. At Surrey we are great advocates of open research, and our institution has always focused on applied science. We were aware that we had thousands of assets that could benefit society worldwide; as well as continue to build our academic reputation. We have made significant benefits to society, but at times the link to the technologies and theories developed by our academy have been lost in history. By ensuring our thesis are immediately available we immediately help current scholars as well as members of the public; but we still had more to do to exploit those hidden gems still not available.
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.
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.
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
The purpose of this study was to understand, compare, and contrast professional experiences, attitudes, and beliefs among personnel in academic libraries in the USA and in Germany. Notable findings include differences in: respondents’ professional backgrounds; services offered by, and perceived adequacy and support of, respondents’ libraries; and views of the library profession and its future. The poster presents selected findings as data visualizations. The study results were published in the article: Kramer, S. and Horstmann, W., 2020. Perceptions and beliefs of academic librarians in Germany and the USA: a comparative study. LIBER Quarterly, 29(1), pp.1–18. DOI: http://doi.org/10.18352/lq.10314
The collaborative decolonial project between the Catholic University Eichstatt and the University of Chile, carried out from 2020 to 2022, consisted of a trilingual digital re-edition of the manuscript “Ñizolke zugu Dios ñi nütxam pu Chilemapuche ñi zugun mew”. This book, published in 1903, represents a collaborative colonial translation of the German Compendium der Kurzen biblischen Geschichte für die unteren Schuljahre der katholischen Volksschule” that the Bavarian Capuchin father Félix José de Augusta worked out together with two evangelized Mapuche, José Francisco Kolün and Pascual Segundo Painemilla Ñamcucheu in the Araucanía (South Chile) in 1902. Father Augusta already arrived at the mission station Bajo Imperial in 1896, at a time when the internal colonization of the Mapuche had already taken place. The land reform of 1866 introduced so-called Títulos de Merced, land titles, that only recognized as 'effectively occupied' the ruca, the family orchards and the enclosure, whereas the ancient territories, that allowed the material and cultural survival of Mapuche families were given to colonists, basically from Chile and Germany. On one hand, the presentation aims to show to that digitization in Libraries can be helpful to make visible the traces of the colonial relations that influenced the translation of this missionary work. On the other hand, the presentation aims to explain the challenges of search indexing this newly assembled digital edition from several historical and contemporary archives.
Unter dem Titel "Die FakeHunter" hat die Büchereizentrale Schleswig-Holstein ein Planspiel für SchülerInnen ab der 7./8. Klasse entwickelt. Im Blended Learning-Format verbindet das Planspiel Präsenzveranstaltungen in der Bibliothek mit einer Online-Phase, in der die Jugendlichen selbst aktiv werden. Das Thema FakeNews ist nach wie vor ein großer Faktor der Verunsicherung. Jugendliche haben oftmals kein Problembewusstsein für die Wirkungen von Falschmeldungen. Und sie wissen nicht, wie sie Nachrichten und Meldungen überprüfen und damit als Falschmeldungen entlarven können. In dem Planspiel Die FakeHunter sollen die Jugendlichen detektivisch tätig werden und lernen, mit Hilfe von Fake-Prüfwerkzeugen und verlässlichen Quellen Fakten zu überprüfen und zu verifizieren. Die Jugendlichen werden durch das Planspiel in eine Story eingebunden: Sie sind Mitarbeiter einer Detektei, die den Auftrag von einem Zeitungsverlag erhält, ein verdächtiges News-Portal zu untersuchen. Nach einer ersten Schulungsveranstaltung (Präsenzveranstaltung 1), in der die Jugendlichen zu Fakten-Checkern ausgebildet werden, geht es in die Online-Phase. Die Jugendlichen nehmen das News-Portal nun genauestens unter die Lupe. Es werden Teams gebildet, die mit den neu erlernten Fake-Prüfwerkzeugen die einzelnen Artikel untersuchen und gefundene FakeNews belegen (Online-Phase). Gegen Ende des Planspiels werden die Ergebnisse ausgewertet und die SchülerInnen bekommen Urkunden, die sie zu "Fakten-Checkern" ernennen (Präsenzveranstaltung 2). Die schleswig-holsteinischen Bibliotheken werden im Vorfeld von der Büchereizentrale zum Thema FakeNews und zur Durchführung des Planspiels geschult. In einer Praxisarbeitshilfe werden die Inhalte und die Anleitungen zur Durchführung veröffentlicht und allen öffentlichen Bibliotheken zur Verfügung gestellt.
Libraries increasingly confront their roles within the wider histories of colonialism and how these legacies continue to shape their collections today. As part of this process, the digitization of historical source material raises timely questions about forms and processes of presenting collections in the digital realm. Libraries and other cultural heritage organizations have begun to experiment with different forms of making available potentially sensitive collections in ways that seek to navigate the space between ethics and access as set out by community standards and funding agencies. This paper discusses existing and new approaches to presenting historical collections from colonial contexts in the digital realm. In a first step, the paper surveys existing approaches ranging from platform-wide disclaimer statements to collection-specific labels that seek to guide users in understanding potentially contested provenances, sensitive material and other problematic material that reflects the racial and ideological thinking of historical agents. In a second step, the paper discusses new approaches explored as part of the project IN_CONTEXT: Colonial Histories and Digital Collections with respect to presenting collections from colonial contexts by leveraging techniques from the field of web development. How manipulating the physicality of the presentation layer can help sensitize users and provide contextualization for problematic designators and colonial catalogues will be illustrated by way of a web-based prototype. Finally, the paper reflects on the importance of recognizing the authority and standards as articulated e.g. by Indigenous groups and other knowledge holders for presenting material from colonial contexts in the digital realm. The paper concludes by suggesting that if work towards creating responsible digital collections and ensuring wide access for diverse audiences is to succeed, support for sustained and iterative collaboration is indispensable.