Schlagwort: LibWorld

Libworld – Slovakia

The Central European country Slovakia emanated from the division of the Czechoslovakia in 1992/93.
After the end of Communist rule in the nineties of the 20th century the library system in Slovakia transformed „from a severely hierarchic and idealogically unilateral constructed system to an open and integrated system of public services for the information society“ [1] Kimlicka, Stefan: Das Bibliothekswesen in der Slowakei nach 1990. In: Bibliothek. Forschung und Praxis 28 (2004) H. 2, S. 204 – 209
. In the year 2000 a new Library Act was adopted. It provided legal framework and principles for the functioning of the Library Network in Slovakia.
Slovakia became a member of the European Union in May 2004.

More Information about the Slovak librarianship you can glean in the speech from Dusan Katuscak, the general director of the Slovak National Library.
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LibWorld – Greece

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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LibWorld – summer break

After the recent article from Russia our Libworld series takes a summer break. In a few weeks you can expect more interesting reports from different countries.

If you don’t see your home country in this list and you feel that writing an article about your country’s biblioblogosphere would be a good idea, please contact us.

LibWorld – Russia

Our guest author from Russia is Katerina Martjyanova from Yekaterinburg. She works as a reference librarian at the Ural State University Library. She is one of the few librarian bloggers in Russia, you can find more information about her on her blog: Library Bat

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I was very surprised and flattered, when in the end of may I was asked to write a sort of article about Russian biblioblogoshere for the international project Infobib. I must confess that I first agreed and then started thinking what I will be writing about, as at that moment I was sure I was the only librarian-blogger in Russia. The situation has changed recently. I have learned that my friend and coworker Marianna Ponikarovskaya has a kind of blog on library related topics. And in the end of june the Russian State Library has also started blogging. So, one can say that nowadays there are at least three library blogs in Russia.

But still I want to focus your attention on the fact, that it is too early to speak about Russian biblioblogoshere. To my mind, any subject-oriented blogosphere consists of two core components – authors, that keep a blog, and readers, that read posts and comment them. But in Russia both of these components are poorly developed.

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LibWorld – Belarus

Alexey Skalaban is working as e-resources librarian in the National Library of Belarus, Minsk. He writes a blog for Belarusian Library Association, called “Librarians of Belarus: library weblog”. His blog is the only library related one in Belarus, so in this rather short episode of our LibWorld series he will introduce his own blog.
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LibWorld – Puerto Rico

Logo of ‘preguntale a tu bibliotecario’ Next stop in our tour around the Libworld: Puerto Rico. It’s library and library related blogs are introduced by Rossana I. Barrios-Llorens (Master of Information Sciences from the Graduate School of Information Sciences and Technologies of the University of Puerto Rico and Bachelor in Biology from the same university). She works as virtual reference services librarian at the University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus Library. She is the person behind this logo at their web page, which leads for example to the virtual reference (via QuestionPoint).

Rossanna I. Barrios-Llorens is blogging herself at Alusión…Llamada Virtual.
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