Cataloghi: la sfida della concretezza

The Communication presents the activities of the Catalogs Group "Nilde Libraries Committee, the activities are focused on the national catalogs of libraries participating at the NILDE network. The survey launched in 2006 led to the identification of a significant number of libraries that were not included in any national catalog. Subsequently, a procedure was initiated in which these situations have been regularized and a specific policy has been issued. The members of the "Catalogs Group" contacted the individual responsible for the document delivery service providing assistance to overcome encountered problems. The direct involvement of libraries led to good results so that only 32 libraries (in June 2009) were not yet visible on national catalogs. Of crucial importance was the cooperation with ACNP, which become an active partner of NILDE, encouraging the spread of the Network. The monitoring allowed us to understand the variety of Nilde libraries, covering a wide range of disciplines, located throughout the country. The group is also activated as a result of reports received by the CBN or by the List Nilde-forni, also for what concern the visibility of the catalogs. The adoption of advanced tools for linking, such as SFX, provides a solution to connect their electronic resources and to allow better access to users. For the better management of document delivery would be useful to have a single connection point of an entire virtual library of institution or university. Finally, the importance of cataloging of Open Access journals to promote their visibility through inclusion in the ACNP catalogue and the still open issue of cataloging the electronic resources as with paper publications, are mentioned.La comunicazione presenta l\u27attivit? del "Gruppo cataloghi" del Comitato Biblioteche Nilde (CBN), incentrata sul monitoraggio dell\u27adesione ai cataloghi nazionali da parte delle biblioteche partecipanti al network NILDE. Il rilevamento ? stato avviato nel 2006 ed ha portato all\u27individuazione di un significativo numero di biblioteche che non risultavano in alcun catalogo nazionale. Successivamente sono state avviate le procedure per la regolarizzazione della loro situazione, pubblicando anche un apposito regolamento. I componenti del "Gruppo cataloghi" hanno contattato i singoli responsabili dei servizi di document delivery offrendo assistenza per superare i problemi riscontrati. Il coinvolgimento diretto delle biblioteche ha portato a buoni risultati tanto che al giugno 2009 solo 32 biblioteche non erano ancora visibili sui cataloghi nazionali. Fondamentale la collaborazione con ACNP, che ? diventato un partner attivo di NILDE, favorendone la diffusione. L\u27attivit? di monitoraggio ha permesso di comprendere la variet? di biblioteche Nilde che riunisce biblioteche distribuite su tutto il territorio nazionale, che coprono una ampia gamma di discipline. Il gruppo si ? anche attivato a seguito di segnalazioni di malfunzionamento che pervengono al CBN o alla lista Nilde-forni, anche per quanto riguarda la visibilit? dei cataloghi. L\u27adozione di strumenti avanzati di linking come SFX offre alle istituzioni una soluzione per collegare le loro risorse elettroniche e per consentire un migliore accesso agli utenti. Per la migliore gestione del document delivery sarebbe utile poter disporre di un unico indirizzo e-mail come punto di raccordo di una intera biblioteca virtuale elettronica di ente o di ateneo. Infine vengono citate: l\u27importanza di catalogazione dei periodici Open Access per favorirne la visibilit? grazie all\u27inserimento in ACNP e la problematica ancora aperta della catalogazione completa delle risorse elettroniche al pari di quanto ? avvenuto per i documenti su carta

Ripensare la condivisione delle risorse: riflessioni sulla realtà italiana - Rethinking Resource Sharing: Reflections on the Italian situation.

La comunicazione descrive l'attività del Comitato Biblioteche Nilde per la gestione della crescita del Network e l'integrazione con altri sistemi e servizi nazionali ed internazionali. Il CBN si è sforzato di far propri i suggerimenti e le indicazioni del Manifesto Rethinking Resource Sharing, elaborato da un gruppo di bibliotecari statunitensi, partner commerciali e specialisti in automazione per le biblioteche. L'attività si è sostanziata con la partecipazione all'11° Convegno Interlending and Document Supply Conference di Hannover nell'autunno 2009, al quale è stata presentata l'esperienza di NILDE che applica i punti del Manifesto. Nel confronto con queste diverse realtà emerge la necessità di esprimere ancora un rilevante lavoro di indirizzo per colmare le lacune del sistema bibliotecario italiano. Viene espressa infine l’intenzione di giungere alla creazione di un Manifesto Italiano per la condivisione delle risorse che recepisca i valori e le proposte provenienti dal mondo delle biblioteche italiane

NILDE World: un nuovo spazio per la comunità

This paper describes the birth, the development, the structure, and the governance of NILDE World. Designed and managed by the Libraries Committee NILDE, CBN, it is thought as an open space and a virtual place available to the NILDE communit

Strategies and Alliances into Action to Improve National Collaboration

The Italian NILDE network of libraries continues to grow through the use of the NILDE system and currently comprises more than 600 Italian librarians and about 10.000 registered end-users.The system allows to daily manage and to record all the Inter-Library-Loan (ILL) operations, with a high national coverage. This paper presents the NILDE network governance and evolution and the strategies that have been put into action to improve collaboration in resource sharing among the participants. These strategies include: − release of best practices and worst practices; − activities to promote the knowledge about the network; − cooperation with the Italian national catalogs and consortia; − data analysis about ILL and its performance, related to: turn around time, reciprocity factor, requested/supplied documents imbalance analysis, analysis of ILL requested serial titles and their relationship with consortial e-only acquisitions. The availability of such a high volume of ILL data has allowed for the first time to analyze the trends and gaps of ILL and to help future cooperative acquisitions planning

The Rethinking Resource Sharing Initiative: the NILDE case study in the frame of Italian experiences

NILDE (Network for Inter-Library Document Exchange) is born at the CNR Bologna Research Area Library to provide an effective answer to the needs of libraries in order to guarantee information accessibility, sharing resources through Inter Library Loan (ILL) of returnable and non-returnable items (books and journal articles)

Notulae to the Italian alien vascular flora: 14

In this contribution, new data concerning the distribution of vascular flora alien to Italy are presented. It includes new records, confirmations, and status changes for Italy or for Italian administrative regions. Nomenclatural and distribution updates, published elsewhere, and corrections are provided as Suppl. materia

Notulae to the Italian alien vascular flora: 14

In this contribution, new data concerning the distribution of vascular flora alien to Italy are presented. It includes new records, confirmations, and status changes for Italy or for Italian administrative regions. Nomenclatural and distribution updates, published elsewhere, and corrections are provided as Suppl. material

Contributi per una flora vascolare di Toscana. VIII (440-506)

New localities and/or confirmations concerning 67 specific and subspecific plant taxa of Tuscan vascular flora, belonging to 59 genera and 37 families are presented: Alisma (Alismataceae), Amaranthus (Amaranthaceae), Leucojum, Sternbergia, Tristagma (Amaryllidaceae), Aloe (Asphodelaceae), Erigeron, Galinsoga, Hieracium, Rhagadiolus, Silybum, Soliva, Taraxacum (Asteraceae), Impatiens (Balsaminaceae), Berberis (Berberidaceae), Cardamine (Brassicaceae), Opuntia (Cactaceae), Cephalaria, Sixalix, Succisa (Caprifoliaceae), Silene (Caryophyllaceae), Convolvulus, Ipomoea (Convolvulaceae), Aeonium (Crassulaceae), Scirpus (Cyperaceae), Equisetum (Equisetaceae), Euphorbia (Euphorbiaceae), Astragalus, Trifolium (Fabaceae), Quercus (Fagaceae), Crocus (Iridaceae), Juncus (Juncaceae), Utricularia (Lentibulariaceae), Peplis (Lythraceae), Maclura (Moraceae), Nymphaea (Nymphaeaceae), Oenothera (Onagraceae), Anacamptis, Orchis (Orchidaceae), Orobanche (Orobanchaceae), Callitriche, Veronica (Plantaginaceae), Alopecurus, Eleusine, Glyceria, Phleum (Poaceae), Persicaria, Polygonum (Polygonaceae), Groenlandia (Potamogetonaceae), Clematis, Pulsatilla, Ranunculus (Ranunculaceae), Rhamnus (Rhamnaceae), Fragaria, Potentilla, Pyracantha (Rosaceae), Galium (Rubiaceae), Sparganium (Typhaceae), Vitis (Vitaceae). In the end, the conservation status of the units and eventual protection of the cited biotopes are discussed

Sustained seizure freedom with adjunctive brivaracetam in patients with focal onset seizures

The maintenance of seizure control over time is a clinical priority in patients with epilepsy. The aim of this study was to assess the sustained seizure frequency reduction with adjunctive brivaracetam (BRV) in real-world practice. Patients with focal epilepsy prescribed add-on BRV were identified. Study outcomes included sustained seizure freedom and sustained seizure response, defined as a 100% and a ≥50% reduction in baseline seizure frequency that continued without interruption and without BRV withdrawal through the 12-month follow-up. Nine hundred ninety-four patients with a median age of 45 (interquartile range = 32–56) years were included. During the 1-year study period, sustained seizure freedom was achieved by 142 (14.3%) patients, of whom 72 (50.7%) were seizure-free from Day 1 of BRV treatment. Sustained seizure freedom was maintained for ≥6, ≥9, and 12 months by 14.3%, 11.9%, and 7.2% of patients from the study cohort. Sustained seizure response was reached by 383 (38.5%) patients; 236 of 383 (61.6%) achieved sustained ≥50% reduction in seizure frequency by Day 1, 94 of 383 (24.5%) by Month 4, and 53 of 383 (13.8%) by Month 7 up to Month 12. Adjunctive BRV was associated with sustained seizure frequency reduction from the first day of treatment in a subset of patients with uncontrolled focal epilepsy

Notulae to the Italian alien vascular flora: 1

In this contribution, new data concerning the Italian distribution of alien vascular flora are presented. It includes new records, exclusions, and confirmations for Italy or for Italian administrative regions for taxa in the genera Agave, Arctotheca, Berberis, Bidens, Cardamine, Catalpa, Cordyline, Cotoneaster, Dichondra, Elaeagnus, Eragrostis, Impatiens, Iris, Koelreuteria, Lamiastrum, Lantana, Ligustrum, Limnophila, Lonicera, Lycianthes, Maclura, Mazus, Paspalum, Pelargonium, Phyllanthus, Pyracantha, Ruellia, Sorghum, Symphyotrichum, Triticum, Tulbaghia and Youngia