Sustainability of digital libraries in Poland

W artykule omówiono aspekty zrównoważonego/stabilnego rozwoju bibliotek cyfrowych w Polsce oraz komponenty, które należy brać pod uwagę w trakcie budowy takiego modelu. Odniesiono się do trzech płaszczyzn: gospodarczej, społecznej i środowiskowej. Przedstawiono stan prac oraz analiz dostępnych w piśmiennictwie naukowym, które pozwalają na tworzenie zrównoważonych modeli konkretnych typów bibliotek cyfrowych. Odwołano się do ramowego schematu stabilnej biblioteki cyfrowej, który przedstawił Gobinda Chowdhury w pracy Sustainability of digital libraries: a conceptual model and a research framework w 2014 r. Zaprezentowano również tematykę koniecznych przyszłych badań, które należy wykonać, aby przygotować uniwersalny polski model.The aim of this paper is to depict: (1) the features of a sustainable (stable) development of digital libraries in Poland and (2) the components which should be taken into account in the process of building a model of the sustainable digital library. References to three different aspects - economic, social and environmental - have been made. What also has been presented is the status of the work and analyses available in the scholarly literature, which allow to create sustainable models of the specific types of digital libraries. The framework schema of a sustainable digital library, presented in the article Sustainability of digital libraries: a conceptual model and a research framework by Gobinda Chowdhury (2014) was also included. What is more, the direction of the future research - necessary to create a universal Polish model - has been indicated

Bibliotecas digitales

Literature on digital libraries is increasing dramatically. The objective of the present work is to provide a global vision of the current status of digital libraries by analysing the main definitions currently used to describe them as well as by exploring the principal problems encountered.La producción bibliográfica sobre las bibliotecas digitales se está incrementando de forma espectacular. El objetivo del presente trabajo es analizar las principales definiciones existentes sobre este tipo de bibliotecas y presentar los problemas a los que se enfrentan, todo ello con el fin de proporcionar una visión general de su situación actual

SUSTAINABILITY THROUGH COMMUNITY PLANNING: A SUBSTANTIVE LEVEL APPROACH

This study identified ways of translating sustainability and sustainable development aims and objectives into practical means in a local government setting, through action research, thereby contributing to the global sustainability debate. This is in an attempt to fill the gap identified in literature, which relates to the paucity of research on translating sustainability into practical means. In achieving one of its aims, the study proposed three levels of abstraction in the form of globalisation theory, sustainability theory and applied sustainable development, conceptualised as grand theory, meso theory and substantive theory. The linkage between these theories was established, thereby contributing and providing an insight into the sustainability debate and processes at the global, regional (EU), national (UK) and local (Havering) levels of government. The study used the London Borough of Havering as a case study in order to achieve the stated aim. This involved examining the case study's community strategy, called 'Havering Community Strategy' to demonstrate how sustainability is applied in a real life situation, in a local government context. The study's findings revealed that at the substantive level - Havering, sustainability is addressed from the perspective of the 1987 Brundtland Report on sustainable development. It also emerged from the study's findings that a number of factors are crucial in achieving global sustainability at the substantive level. These issues relate to the importance of creating strong partnerships between key stakeholders at the local level, capacity building, policy integration, multi-agency working and co-operation, and application of resources in achieving sustainability at the substantive level. The study contributes to three levels of knowledge, namely, methodological, theoretical and practical knowledge. The study also demonstrates how action research methodology is applied in a real life situation, using a participatory inquiry world-view. The theoretical contribution relates to the three levels of abstraction (grand theory, meso theory and substantive theory) proposed in the study which add to the debates in globalisation and sustainability. The practical contribution relates to the development of a model for sustainable development policy and community strategy formation