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Archives connecting with the community

Archives should be about community. The value of archives lies not just in the ordered management of its resources, but ...

Promoting Genealogy and Local History Collections using Social media in Uganda

Academic libraries collect process and preserve and provide access to unique collections in support of teaching, learnin...

News media digitisation at the National Library of South Africa

An overview will be given of the development of digitisation services at the NLSA.The purpose of digitisation is to pres...

The Long and Winding Road (to Recovery): status of Glasgow School of Art's archives, museum and library special collections since the 2014 fire

In May 2014 a fire severely damaged areas of Glasgow School of Art’s Mackintosh Building. The School’s archive, muse...

Data Management: Knowledge and skills required in research, scientific and technical organisations

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the knowledge and skill requirements for people working in the data manageme...

The Geospatial Data Curation, Management, and Discovery in Academic Libraries

As many funding agencies began to require their funded projects to share the data publicly, researchers start to sort fo...

Linking a Community of Practice by an Evidence Shelf OPAC: collaboration across UK Government and beyond

This paper provides a case study of the collaboration between the Research Library of the UK Department for Work and Pen...

RDM: Exploration and Practices of Academic Libraries - Partnerships, Collaboration, Expertise

In recent years, RDM has become increasingly important under the context of Open Science and Open Data. The re3data.org ...

Questionable Practices in Scholarly Publishing: the Stance of the ISSN Network

The ISSN network actively supports Open Access scholarly journals and repositories by disseminating free information abo...

Digitally reassembling scattered collections: IFLA, the Memory of the World, and the implementation of the new UNESCO’s Recommendation for Documentary Heritage

The goal of this paper: (1) to give examples of activities in UNESCO’s Memory of the World Programme that can count as...

Provision of sustainable development goals (SDG) information to Nigeria citizens through a collaborative approach: a proposal

With the adoption of the new 17 SMART Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), access to government information becomes ess...

Applying IFLA Standards to Compile National Standards: Standardization Activities in Iran

The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is a leading international body representin...

Stepping into e-Learning: An Area and International Studies Librarianship Course Goes Online at Indiana University

In the spring of 2016, the Area Studies Department of the Indiana University Libraries taught a semester long, online gr...

Online Training Platform for Library Professionals : ANKOS Academy

In Turkey, librarianship education is given at academic institutions offering 4 year undergraduate programs. There are n...

MOOCs as a means of continuing professional development for LIS educators in India

The research study explored how massive open online courses (MOOCs), can be used as continuing professional development ...

Knowledge for Disaster planning: lowering the risk, lowering the stress

Changing Information needs of Online Collaborative Researchers: A Challenge for Reference Librarians

Rapid changes, over the past decade, in the field of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), data generation and...

A paradigm competences and library services for e-learning: a proposal for librarians in developing countries

Education has metamorphosed from the traditional physical environment to virtual platforms. The later is designed to pro...

Unity and diversity : collections and connections in an interdisciplinary and multilingual community

The library for Theology and History (BHT) at the University of Fribourg is a central provider of library services for r...

IFLA Efforts to provide Standards for International Library and Information Studies Education: The Role of the IFLA Section of Education and Training – A Case Study

As education for library and information science (LIS) professionals has become more international in scope and as gradu...