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The "pop-up library" is a means of bringing the library closer to the people. The concept involves setting up a booth on a designated day and location, promoting engaging conversations with users. Embraced by public libraries and increasingly adopted by university libraries, the pop-up library is recognized as an effective communication channel and outreach method. Numerous libraries employing the pop-up concept attest to its efficacy in raising awareness of library services and initiating meaningful dialogues.
In the Netherlands, several university libraries have undergone centralization, leading to the disappearance of faculty libraries. This shift poses a significant challenge for libraries to remain in contact with their clients. In the meantime, the need for physical visits to the library diminishes, thanks to the ongoing digitization of services and collections. The University of Groningen Library recognized the potential of a pop-up library to (re)connect with academic staff and to increase the visibility of our services.
In this presentation, we will delve into how the University of Groningen Library implemented a pop-up library. The focus will be on sharing practical insights gained from our experiences in setting up and organizing a pop-up library. We will provide an overview of our setup, offer tips and tricks, and reflect on our journey after a year of touring with our pop-up library. Join us as we explore our pop-up library venture.
Robots among Bookshelves: The Education of Robotics at the National Library of Technology in Prague
(2024)
The main goal of this paper is to present the ongoing project of robotics at the National Library of Technology (#robotikaNTK) from the insider position of its main coordinator. The presentation is focused on the introduction of the Info Corner of Robotics and its associated activities mainly consisting of several workshops.
This project was established at the end of the year 2021 as a part of the “Technological Library for the Development of Digital Literacy” funding. Since that time (and because of its popularity), it has always been in the stage of further development. The Info Corner of Robotics consists of the selection of specialized books that are connected with robotics (e. g. programming, mechatronics, ethics of A.I., kit manuals) and its main goal is to concentrate the literature across multiple fields in one space. During the time of regular consultations at the Corner, it is also possible for the visitors to be introduced to the selected robot kits.
The inseparable part of this project is the education of robotics in the form of workshops that are being conducted at the Library by specialized lecturers. The target audience for the workshops are students from elementary schools, high schools and universities. The lecturers are using educational kits mainly from Robotis Systems and also from Universal Robots as a part of the workshop with collaborative robotic arm UR3e. Based on the regular feedback up to now, the workshops provide very important experience for both: the beginners, and the specialists. Overall, they help to increase the level of technological literacy among students and often inspire them to study robotics in the future.
The project of robotics reflects the initial idea that a library of technology shouldn't be just a building full of books, but also an attractive space where the visitors are allowed to learn about technologies in combination of both: theoretical studying of books, and practical use of gadgets (e.g. robots) as well.
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.
DINI-zertifizierte Repositorien sind mit ihren standardisierten Metadaten und Schnittstellen eine wertvolle Quelle für Datenanalysen im Bereich des wissenschaftlichen Publizierens. Im Hands-On-Lab erlernen die Teilnehmenden von Mitgliedern der DINI-AG Elektronisches Publizieren, wie sie mit offenen Werkzeugen Metadaten aus diesen standardisierten Repositorien gewinnen und beispielsweise für statistische Analysen nachnutzen können.Das Hands-On-Lab beginnt mit einer kurzen Einführung in das DINI-Zertifikat und den zugrundeliegenden Kriterienkatalog mit besonderem Fokus auf die Anforderungen zu Metadaten und Schnittstellen. Die Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmer erarbeiten anschließend gemeinsam mit Mitgliedern der Arbeitsgruppe Fragestellungen und erproben offene Werkzeuge (Open Refine, Catmandu, R), mit denen sich Metadaten aus DINI-zertifizierten Repositorien für datengestützte Analysen gewinnen und aufbereiten lassen. Zum Abschluss der Veranstaltung werden die Teilnehmenden um Rückmeldung gebeten, welche konkrete Unterstützung zukünftig erwünscht ist, um die Nachnutzbarkeit von Metadaten aus DINI-zertifizierten Repositorien zu verbessern. Die Ergebnisse sollen auch in das DINI-Zertifikat 2019 einfließen, für das im März die RFC-Version vorliegen wird. Die Arbeiten im Lab werden nachvollziehbar dokumentiert und im Anschluss der Veranstaltung offen geteilt, so dass die Teilnahme auch ohne eigenen Laptop möglich ist. Das Hands-On-Lab wird von der DINI AG Elektronisches Publizieren veranstaltet.
The presentation will argue that the cataloguing code RDA – Resource Description and Access is a tool for finally leaving cataloguing as we use to do in the card catalogue - even though we have had online catalogues for years - and that RDA is a step towards finally embracing the possibilities of online mediation of library resources. The presentation will include a short review of some the changes in the new version of RDA - both pros and cons. Also the presentation will argue that a successful adoption of RDA requires international perspective on the code as well as international cooperation in order to get a mutual understanding of the content, improve the content and make further development of the content in the direction of a truly international code – accepted, used and understood in many diverse libraries. The presentation will refer to EURIG – European RDA Interest Group – as an example of international cooperation.
Czech libraries have been digitizing historical and modern library collections since the mid-1990s. Approximately 4 million pages are digitized every single year. In 2017 the amendment to the Copyright Act of Czech republic was approved that allowed the National Library of the Czech Republic to conclude license agreements valid for all Czech libraries to publish so called works unavailable on the market on the internet. Subsequently in 2019, a five-year license agreement was concluded to guarantee free access to the books published in the Czech Republic by the end of 2007 and periodicals published by 2010. The payment of for this access licenses is paid from the state budget through the National Library of the Czech Republic, which allows to use these services to all libraries and their registered users to read the displayed documents. During the COVID pandemic situation, when libraries and bookstores were closed, even the full opening of the digital libraries was agreed including the latest publications. The service was freely available to the university students, teachers and researchers. Publishers received adequate financial compensation from the state budget to support such an important service. This paper is aimed to introduce the experience with all the process aspects, especially contractual security and the negotiations with collective copyright holders and publishers. The technical solutions is running on the basis of the Kramerius system, which is developed in the close cooperation of the Library of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, the National Library of the Czech Republic and the Moravian Regional Library.