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Unlimited Opportunities for Enhanced Access to Resources: The Library of Congress’ Faceted Vocabularies

Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) is the most widely used subject vocabulary in the world. It includes heading...

Welcome to the Wrocław University Library: Multicultural Collections and Digital Technologies

This paper provides an overview of the rich, multicultural special collections of the Wrocław University Library that, ...

Keynote address to the IFLA Government Libraries Section at the World Library and Information Congress, Wroclaw, Poland

“At Risk”: An Analysis of newspaper source materials digitized by U.S. and European repositories

In 2015, in cooperation with IFLA News Media Section, The Center for Research Libraries conducted an in-depth assessment...

2030 – The year that has already begun

Tô na Rede project was created from the desire to help public libraries face these challenges; it was the result of a p...

Microfilm to Born-Digital for Current Newspapers: A Case Study from the University of Oregon Libraries

The University of Oregon (UO) Libraries have been microfilming and preserving Oregon’s newspapers as a public service ...

All together now: How the South Australian Public Library Service assures access and equity for diverse language and cultural groups

Australia is a country of migrants and for 46.2% of the Australian population, at least one parent was born overseas. So...

Análisis de la adaptación de la metodología LEGO Serious Play para la planeación estratégica por escenarios en la biblioteca académica

The document presents the adaptation of LEGO Serious Play methodology, as part of the exploration of new techniques and ...

Wisconsin Model: Capturing Weekly Newspaper Websites

In 1845, members of the Wisconsin press led the charge to create a historical society and urged its fellow members to ga...

Participation of the population with migratory background through publicity service and space design

What is an intercultural library? How does it work, why is it created, and by who? This paper seeks to give an overview ...

Exploratory Analysis of Born-Digital Newspaper Content

The Texas Digital Newspaper Program, operated by the University of North Texas Libraries, actively works to digitally pr...

Arms Open Wide: Library Outreach to Customers with Print Impairments

This paper will address how librarians and library staff can reach out in their communities to find patrons with print i...

RDA, Cooperation in the Cultural and Heritage Sector - First Approaches in the German-Speaking Countries

Austria, Germany and German-speaking Switzerland have implemented RDA for cataloguing. The transition has been prepared ...

The RDA Registry: supporting RDA in a multilingual world

Resource Description and Access (RDA) has taken the lead among international bibliographic standards in focusing on mee...

Impacto de las RDA en Chile: escenario complejo y adaptación al cambio

Durante el año 2009, cuando aparecieron las nuevas reglas de catalogación “Recursos, Descripción y Acceso”, en la...

Aligning Author-Supplied Keywords for ETDs with Domain-Specific Controlled Vocabularies

Subject access can provide essential points of access for users to find, identify, select, and obtain various resources ...

Welcome to Skåne: a holistic and health promoting integration platform including libraries

Since August 2016 Partnership Skåne, a regional platform for integration, is extended with an ongoing pilot study where...

BARD Downloading for All!

The National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) at the U.S. Library of Congress offers an ex...

RDA adoption in a multilingual cataloguing environment: The case of Israel

The Israeli library reality presents unique challenges to the adoption of a new cataloguing standard. Foremost amongst t...

Defining Usefulness and Facilitating Access Based on Research Applications

This paper defines and conceptualizes the usefulness subject type, and describes means for libraries to enable discovery...