International Implementation of Digital Library Software/Platforms

Presented at the ASIS&T Annual Meeting, Vancouver BC, Canada, November 11, 2009.This panel will present an overview of adoption and implementation of digital library software/platforms and standards with an international perspective. Decision factors in adoption of particular software/platform and standards are reviewed. Impact of organizational, social, legal, and cultural factors are highlighted

LCSH and PRECIS in library and information science : a comparative study

Includes bibliographical references (p. 66-68)Compares the performance of LCSH and PRECIS for the books published in 1987 in the field of library and information science in order to investigate the strengths and weaknesses of each system

A Brief Look at Automation Activities in Turkish University Libraries

Turkey, one of the cradles of civilisation, is a republic founded by Kemal Ataturk in 1923 after the collapse of the 600-year-old Ottoman Empire. Its location in two continents (Europe and Asia) has been a central factor in its history, culture and politics; Turkey has often been called a bridge between East and West. Turkey, Islamic in tradition, is a newly industrialised democratic nation of 55 million people. In Turkey, there are 29 universities (28 state and one private). They are governed by a common law, namely the Higher Education Act. The majority of universities have decentralised libraries, which is largely due to the fact that there has been no legislation or by-laws that specifically govern the establishment and organisation of libraries within a university. The importance of computers for library and information centres has long been recognised in Turkey. The history of computer use goes back to the early 1970s when university libraries started to use computers mainly for 'batch' jobs, such as the production of a union catalogue of serials, acquisition lists and the like. In a recent survey it was shown that almost all university libraries have a strong interest in automation1. Some have been planning to computerise their operations, whilst others are considering this option seriously. The existing computer use in university libraries is heavily centred in the following operations: union lists of serials and books, circulation control, acquisition, cataloguing and current awareness

Personalization of Digital Information Services

This presentation explores personalized information services such as portals, personal banking services, on-demand publishing, on-demand video, automatic current awareness, ToC services, electronic document delivery, “desktop librarian” (www.liveperson.com), recommender systems (e.g., amazon.com), information agents

OPEN ACCESS AND INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES IN TURKEY

The development of the "Open Access- (OA) movement since early 1990s has been radically changing the scientific communication landscape. Within the last decade more universities and research institutions are recommending their scholars to make their works freely accessible through their web sites and/or institutional repositories (IRs). The research impact of OA articles as measured by the number of citations is much higher than that of printed ones. Several universities have developed policies to mandate OA and set up IRs to guarcntee public access to the output of publicly funded research projects. Refereed journal articles, conference papers, theses and dissertations, and courseware (i.e., lecture notes, audio and video records of lectures' can be given as examples of such research output. This paper defines the concepts of OA and IR and briefly reviews the current situation of IRs in Europe. It then chronicles the development of IRs in Turkey. The paper concludes with some recommendations

tonta-publications

<p>my publications on LIS</p

Providing Document Delivery Services Using Electronic Journals

Electronic document delivery (EDD), review of TANIC EDD transactions, distribution of most heavily requested journal titles, literature obsolescence, implications for collection management are explored in this presentation