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Die Biblioblogosphäre hat wieder einmal Zuwachs bekommen. Diesmal ist es Adrian Pohl (HBZ), der in seinem neuen Blog Übertext folgende Selbstauskunft gibt:

Ich interessiere mich für das Internet, Bibliotheken, Open Access, Open Data sowie wissenschaftliche Kommunikations- und Erkenntnisprozesse im Allgemeinen. Ich studiere den MALIS an der FH Köln und arbeite im hbz.

Klingt vielversprechend, die ersten beiden Postings sind es auch. Dementsprechend ist Übertext nun auch in den Suchraum der Biblioblogsuche aufgenommen.

[via Jakoblog]

We continue our LibWorld series with a a Central European country at the crossroads of Pannonian Plain, Southeast Europe, and the Mediterranean Sea: Croatia. As guest authors we welcome Sofija Konjević and Bojan Macan.

Sofija Konjević, MSc Information Science, senior librarian, is employed at the Ruđer Bošković Institute in Zagreb since 1997. She currently works on interlibrary loan and maintains some library web pages. She is interested in electronic journals, worked on electronic journals project and conducted user survey on subject.

Bojan Macan works as a librarian at the Ruđer Boškovic’ Institute Library since 2005. In general he is interested in new technologies in libraries and bibliometrics analysis. At the moment he is working on implementation of open source library management system Koha in the RBI Library and is also involved in Institutional repository project. Bojan is PhD student of Information sciences at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Zagreb.
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Die Spezialsammlungen der ETH Bibliothek Zürich verfügen über wertvolle alte Drucke, Bilder und Karten, Archive und Nachlässe. Das Weblog “Spezialsammlungen digital” beschreibt Highlights aus diesen Beständen, ist aber noch in der Testphase.

[Vielen Dank an Roland Lüthi für den Hinweis]

This week our LibWorld journey stops once again in Switzerland. After Heidi Stieger introduced the German-speaking biblioblogosphere of Switzerland to us, Jean-Phillippe Accart continues with the frenchspeaking blogosphere. He is Head of Information and Public Services at the Swiss National Library, has always been very concerned by exchanging and sharing information with other library professional since 20 years. His own website has been created in 2003, and a new version relaunched in 2007. The same year, Archimag, a French professional magazine, has designated JP Accart as one of the five people that have mostly influenced the French-speaking library world. Among other books, the last one, “Le Métier de documentaliste”, is considered as a reference book in librarianship.
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Belgium is a founding member of the European Union whose most important institutions are based in Belgium’s capital Brussels.¹ The administrative structure of Belgium features a federal state with several regions: “the Dutch-speaking region of Flanders in the north, with 58% of the population, and the French-speaking southern region of Wallonia, inhabited by 32%. The Brussels-Capital Region, although officially bilingual, is a mostly French-speaking enclave within the Flemish and near the Walloon Region, and has 10% of the population. A small German-speaking community exists in eastern Wallonia.”²

As our guest author today we welcome Laurent Meese from the Scientific Library of the Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences in Brussels. His blog “Bibliothecaris in Blog” is accessible via http://bibman.blogspot.com/.
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With about 28 million inhabitants Peru is the fourth most populous country in South America as of 2007¹. It has to deal with difficulties of a developing country: “43% of the population live under the poverty line”². “Literacy was estimated at 88.9% in 2005; this rate is lower in rural areas (76.1%) than in urban areas (94.8%).” Although Primary and secondary education are compulsory and free in public schools³ our guest author Eduardo Meza Valencia points out Peru’s problems concerning illiteracy.
You can reach Eduardo Meza Valencia’s own blog ‘Ciencias de la Información’ at http://cinfopucp1.blogspot.com/.
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Lambert hat es schon gefunden, und dann soll das Kleine auch ans Tageslicht: Hannovers BibliothekarInnen, bzw. deren web-interessierte Teilmenge, probiert es mit einem Blog als Kommunikationsmedium: Bibliotheken in Hannover.

Ein Workshop zum Thema “Social Software” ist schon in Planung. Mal sehen, was sich noch so alles ergibt.

The next article in our LibWorld series deals with the Greek biblioblogosphere. Greece looks back on an old library tradition, with some of the oldest libraries as e.g. the library of Alexandria.

Concerning to the nearly 400 year taking foreign rule by the Turks the old library tradition was lost and could be tied in with the beginning of the 19th century. Until 1830 books in Greek could only be printed outside the country, because of a restriction on printed spreading of the Greece language.
The first library foundation of the modern Greece was in 1829 on the Island Ägina. In 1834 this library became the National Library of Greece and moved to Athens.
The low stage of development of the librarianship in Greece is depending on the undervalued part, which libraries had played in the educational system for many years. In the last few years a reorientation took place to support independent working.

Nowadays the Greek academic librarianship has more or less catched up with European standard, but in the public libraries there are only a few advances noticeable. The still existing structural defects are a problematic starting position and they impede the work of libraries and the library association.
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Wie Bibliothek 2.0 und mehr gestern berichtete, gibt es bei Meredith Farkas wieder eine Biblioblogumfrage.

Hier geht es zur Umfrage…

Neues aus Bibliobloghausen:

1. Aus http://bibliothek2.wordpress.com/ wird http://www.bibliothek2null.de, aber auch unter eigener Flagge wird sich Patrick Danowski weiter über alles rund ums Thema ‘Bibliothek 2.0″ berichten.
2. Fabienne Kneifel (ihr neues Blog “Fabilous Librarian” wurde hier erst kürzlich vorgestellt) hat einen Pagecast zu eben diesem Thema eingerichtet und vorgestellt. Es handelt sich dabei um eine Feedsammlung in Pageflakes: http://www.pageflakes.com/bibliothek20
3. Ich lehne mich hier ein wenig aus dem Fenster, aber in näherer Zeit wird es eine sehr viel verbesserte Version der Biblioblogsuche geben, die – wenn alles so klappt, wie ich mir das vorstelle – einen sehr erhöhten Pflegekomfort haben wird. Details gibt es natürlich hier bei Infobib, sobald es etwas zu sehen gibt. Hintergrund: Ich habe gefühlte 150.000 Mails geschrieben, um eine Möglichkeit zu finden, die Domains einer solchen Suchmaschine per URL einer OPML-Datei aktuell zu halten, und habe doch nichts finden können. Aber es zeichnet sich eine Lösung ab, die genau das kann, was die Google Custom Search eben nicht bietet.