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Library and
Information Science
Abstracts
Second Annual International
Conference on Library and
Information Science
27-30 July 2015, Athens, Greece

Edited by Gregory T. Papanikos

THE ATHENS INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH

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Library and Information

Science Abstracts
2nd Annual International
Conference on Library and
Information Science
27-30 July 2015, Athens,
Greece

Edited by Gregory T. Papanikos

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
(In Alphabetical Order by Author's Family name)
Preface 7
Conference Program 9
1. User Training from the Perspective of Information Literacy: 14
The Case of Capes Portal of E-Journals
Fernanda Almeida & Beartiz Cendon
2. Representation of Information Technology in Information 15
Science: An Analysis of Classification Schemes (1987-2007)
Ronaldo Araujo & Marlene Oliveira
3. Assessing Student Learning Outcomes in ALA-Accredited 17
MLIS Programs
Stephen Bajjaly
4. The Information Practices of Users of Veterinary Library of 18
Algiers: What Reflection for the Establishment of a Digital
Library?
Radia Bernaoui & Mohamed Hassoun
5. Library Automation in Major Centrally Funded Technical 19
Institutions of India: Problems & Prospects
Sangrang Brahma, Ibohal Singh Charoibam & Lamkhogen Vaiphei
6. TeachMeets: Toward Buy-In and Professional Development 21
for Information Literacy Instruction
Leslin Charles
7. Reality of Cooperative Network between Learning Resource 23
Centers in Colleges of Applied Sciences in the Sultanate of
Oman
Nabhan Harith & Khaloud Khalid Al-Salmi
8. The Effectiveness of I-LEARN Model for Information 24
Literacy Instruction
Ma Lei Hsieh, Susan McManimon & Sharon Q. Yang
9. Models and Strategies for Information Management: 25
Convergence of Impacts
Leonor Gaspar Pinto & Paula Ochoa
10. Collections as a Search Support Tool in Digital Libraries 27
Miroslaw Gorny, John Catlow & Refal Lewandowski
11. An Information Gateway to North East India’s Hidden 28
Travel Potential
Bikika Laloo
12. Visual Literacy for Library and Information Science 29
Education
Yan Ma
13. Information Seeking-Behavior of Mosque Speechmakers 30
(MSs) in the State of Kuwait
Essam Mansour

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14. Interface Communicability Evaluation and Interaction of 32

Users with the Search System of the CAPES Portal of E-
journal
Gracielle Mendonca Rodrigues Gomes, Beartiz Valadares Cendon &
Raquel Oliveira Prates
15. The Role of Information Technology in Knowledge 34
Management Practices in University Libraries in Ghana: A
Study of University of Professional Studies Library
Elijah Akuamaoh Mensah
16. Subjective Dimensions in the Treatment of Information: 35
Analysis of the Underlying Implications the Index and
Information Retrieval
Eliane Pawlowski Oliveira Araujo & Claudio Paixao Anastacio de
Paula
17. Specialized Information Sources in Health Sciences: 36
Analysis of Features and Proposed Criteria for Evaluation
Jacqueline Pawlowski Oliveira, Mauricio Barcellos Almeida &
Renato Rocha Souza
18. The Building Semiotics of Information in the Context of 38
Information Science
Marcos Aparecido Rodrigues do Prado
19. Information Users X Interactive Users: Different Subjects 39
Challenging Different Information Professionals
Eliane Rocha
20. Collecting and Processing Personal Data: Addressing Data 40
Protection and Privacy Issues by Design
Marcos Rodrigues & Mariza Kormann
21. An Investigation the Collections of Greek Literature in Sri 42
Lankan University Libraries (Special Reference to Kelaniya
University Library)
Sajeewanie Rubasinghe & Dilini Bodhinayaka
22. From Burning to Hiding – Censorship in Lithuanian 43
Libraries during Soviet Occupation
Edita Sedaityte
23. Understanding School Library Education and Library User 44
Education in Jordan
Raid Suleiman
24. From Accredited Qualification to Certified Skills: The 45
Summer Knowledge Academy – New Educational Approach
in the State University of Library Studies and Information
Technologies
Tereza Trencheva, Stoyan Denchev, Dobri Boyadzhiev,
Diana Stoyanova, Elena Ignatova, Kostadin Kazakov,
Mariela Nankova, Nikolay Mitev &Vasil Zagorov
25. The Case for Literature as Part of the Library Collection 48
Gerhard Van der Linde
26. Augmented Reality in Modern Information Services of 49
Libraries and Other Cultural Institutions in Poland
Magdalena Wojcik

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Preface
This abstract book includes all the abstracts of the papers presented
at the 2nd Annual International Conference on Library and Information
Science, 27-30 July 2015, Athens, Greece, organized by the Athens Institute
for Education and Research. In total there were 26 papers and 30
presenters, coming from 16 different countries (Algeria, Brazil,
Bulgaria, France, Ghana, India, Jordan, Kuwait, Lithuania, Oman,
Poland, Portugal, South Africa, Sri Lanka, UK and USA). The
conference was organized into seven sessions that included areas such
as Information Literacy and Instruction, Library Technology, LIS
Education, Information Mangement and Organization and other related
fields. As it is the publication policy of the Institute, the papers
presented in this conference will be considered for publication in one of
the books and/or journals of ATINER.
The Institute was established in 1995 as an independent academic
organization with the mission to become a forum where academics and
researchers from all over the world could meet in Athens and exchange
ideas on their research and consider the future developments of their
fields of study. Our mission is to make ATHENS a place where
academics and researchers from all over the world meet to discuss the
developments of their discipline and present their work. To serve this
purpose, conferences are organized along the lines of well established
and well defined scientific disciplines. In addition, interdisciplinary
conferences are also organized because they serve the mission
statement of the Institute. Since 1995, ATINER has organized more than
150 international conferences and has published over 100 books.
Academically, the Institute is organized into four research divisions and
nineteen research units. Each research unit organizes at least one
annual conference and undertakes various small and large research
projects.
I would like to thank all the participants, the members of the
organizing and academic committee and most importantly the
administration staff of ATINER for putting this conference together.

Gregory T. Papanikos
President

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FINAL CONFERENCE PROGRAM

2nd Annual International Conference on Library and Information
Science, 27-30 July 2015, Athens, Greece

Conference Venue: Titania Hotel, 52 Panepistimiou Avenue, Athens,

Greece

Organization and Scientific Committee

1. Dr. Gregory T. Papanikos, President, ATINER & Honorary Professor, University

of Stirling, UK.
2. Dr. George Poulos, Vice-President of Research, ATINER & Emeritus Professor,
University of South Africa, South Africa.
3. Dr. Dan Albertson, Academic Member, ATINER & Associate Professor,
University of Alabama, USA.
4. Dr. Panagiotis Petratos, Vice President of ICT, ATINER, Fellow, Institution of
Engineering and Technology & Professor, Department of Computer Information
Systems, California State University, Stanislaus, USA.
5. Dr. Nicholas Pappas, Vice-President of Academics, ATINER, Greece & Professor,
Sam Houston University, USA.
6. Dr. Chris Sakellariou, Vice President of Financial Affairs, ATINER, Greece &
Associate Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
7. Ms. Olga Gkounta, Researcher, ATINER.

Administration
Stavroula Kyritsi, Konstantinos Manolidis, Katerina Maraki & Kostas Spiropoulos

Monday 27 July 2015

(all sessions include 10 minutes break)

08:00-09:00 Registration and Refreshments

09:00-09:30 (ROOM A) Welcome & Opening Remarks

 Dr. Gregory T. Papanikos, President, ATINER & Honorary Professor,
University of Stirling, UK.
 Dr. George Poulos, Vice-President of Research, ATINER & Emeritus
Professor, University of South Africa, South Africa.

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09:30-11:30 Session I (ROOM A): Information Management and

Organization
Chair: George Poulos, Vice-President of Research, ATINER & Emeritus
Professor, University of South Africa, South Africa.
1. Marcos Rodrigues, Professor, Sheffield Hallam University, U.K. & Mariza
Kormann, Research Associate, Sheffield Hallam University, U.K. Collecting
and Processing Personal Data: Addressing Data Protection and Privacy
Issues by Design.
2. Leonor Gaspar Pinto, Head of Information and Documentation Division,
Commission for Citizenship and Gender Equality, Portugal & Paula Ochoa,
Professor, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. Models and Strategies
for Information Management: Convergence of Impacts.
3. *Bikika Laloo, Associate Professor, North Eastern Hill University, India. An
Information Gateway to North East India’s Hidden Travel Potential.
4. Eliane Pawlowski Oliveira Araujo, Ph.D. Student, Federal University of
Minas Gerais, Brazil & Claudio Paixao Anastacio de Paula, Professor,
Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Subjective Dimensions in the
Treatment of Information: Analysis of the Underlying Implications the
Index and Information Retrieval.

11:30-13:00 Session II (ROOM A): Information Literacy and Instruction

Chair: *Bikika Laloo, Associate Professor, North Eastern Hill University,
India.
1. Nabhan Harith, Assistant Professor, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman &
Khaloud Khalid Al-Salmi, The National Records and Archives Authority,
Oman. Reality of Cooperative Network between Learning Resource
Centers in Colleges of Applied Sciences in the Sultanate of Oman.
2. Ma Lei Hsieh, Assistant Professor – Librarian, Rider University, USA,
Susan McManimon, Adjunct Professor & Sharon Q. Yang, Associate
Professor – Librarian, Rider University, USA. The Effectiveness of I-LEARN
Model for Information Literacy Instruction.
3. Leslin Charles, Instructional Design Librarian, The State University of New
Jersey, USA. TeachMeets: Toward Buy-In and Professional Development
for Information Literacy Instruction.
4. Fernanda Almeida, Ph.D. Student, Federal University of Minas Gerais,
Brazil & Beartiz Cendon, Professor, Federal University of Minas Gerais,
Brazil. User Training from the Perspective of Information Literacy: The
Case of Capes Portal of E-Journals.

13:00-14:00 Lunch

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14:00-15:30 Session III (ROOM A): Special Collections

Chair: Yan Ma, Professor, University of Rhode Island, USA.
1. Sajeewanie Rubasinghe, Senior Assistant Librarian, University of Kelaniya,
Sri Lanka & Dilini Bodhinayaka, Assistant Librarian, University of
Kelaniya, Sri Lanka. An Investigation the Collections of Greek Literature in
Sri Lankan University Libraries (Special Reference to Kelaniya University
Library).
2. Gerhard Van der Linde, Subject Collection Developer, University of South
Africa, South Africa. The Case for Literature as Part of the Library
Collection.
3. Jacqueline Pawlowski Oliveira, Ph.D, Student, Federal University of Minas
Gerais, Brazil, Mauricio Barcellos Almeida, Teacher, Federal University of
Minas Gerais, Brazil & Renato Rocha Souza, Federal University of Minas
Gerais, Brazil. Specialized Information Sources in Health Sciences: Analysis
of Features and Proposed Criteria for Evaluation.

15:30-17:00 Session IV (ROOM A): LIS Education

Chair: Gerhard Van der Linde, Subject Collection Developer, University of
South Africa, South Africa.
1. Yan Ma, Professor, University of Rhode Island, USA. Visual Literacy for
Library and Information Science Education.
2. Raid Suleiman, Associate Professor, Al-Hussein Bin Talal University,
Jordan. Understanding School Library Education and Library User
Education in Jordan.
3. Marcos Aparecido Rodrigues do Prado, Ph.D. Student, Universidade
Estadual Paulista – UNESP, Brazil. The Building Semiotics of Information
in the Context of Information Science.

21:00-23:00 Greek Night and Dinner (Details during registration)

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Tuesday 28 July 2015

08:30-10:30 Session V (ROOM A): Information Behavior and Users

Chair: George Poulos, Vice-President of Research, ATINER & Emeritus
Professor, University of South Africa, South Africa.
1. Radia Bernaoui, Professor, Information and Communication Science-ENSV,
Algeria & Mohamed Hassoun, Professor, ENSSIB – Lyon University; ICAR,
France. The Information Practices of Users of Veterinary Library of Algiers:
What Reflection for the Establishment of a Digital Library?
2. Gracielle Mendonca Rodrigues Gomes, Ph.D. Student, Federal University
of Minas Gerais, Brazil, Beartiz Valadares Cendon, Professor, Federal
University of Minas Gerais, Brazil & Raquel Oliveira Prates, Associate
Professor, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Interface
Communicability Evaluation and Interaction of Users with the Search
System of the CAPES Portal of E-journal.
3. Eliane Rocha, Professor, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Information Users X Interactive Users: Different Subjects Challenging
Different Information Professionals.
4. Essam Mansour, Associate Professor, DLIS, The Public Authority for
Applied Education and Training (PAAET), Kuwait. Information Seeking-
Behavior of Mosque Speechmakers (MSs) in the State of Kuwait.
5. Ronaldo Araujo, Professor, Federal University of Alagoas, Brazil & Marlene
Oliveira, Professor, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Representation of Information Technology in Information Science: An
Analysis of Classification Schemes (1987-2007).

10:30-12:00 Session VI (ROOM A): Library Technology

Chair: Radia Bernaoui, Professor, Information and Communication Science-
ENSV, Algeria.
1. Magdalena Wojcik, Lecturer, Jagiellonian University, Poland. Augmented
Reality in Modern Information Services of Libraries and Other Cultural
Institutions in Poland.
2. Miroslaw Gorny, Professor, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan,
Poland, John Catlow, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland &
Refal Lewandowski, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland.
Collections as a Search Support Tool in Digital Libraries.
3. *Sangrang Brahma, Librarian, Central Institute of Technology Kokrajhar,
India, Ibohal Singh Charoibam, Assistant Professor, Manipur University,
India & Lamkhogen Vaiphei, Librarian, Damdei Christian College, India.
Library Automation in Major Centrally Funded Technical Institutions of
India: Problems & Prospects.

12:00-13:00 Lunch

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13:00-14:30 Session VII (ROOM A): Academic Libraries

Chair: *Sangrang Brahma, Librarian, Central Institute of Technology
Kokrajhar, India.
1. Edita Sedaityte, Ph.D. Student, Vilnius University, Lithuania. From
Burning to Hiding – Censorship in Lithuanian Libraries during Soviet
Occupation.
2. Elijah Akuamaoh Mensah, Librarian, University of Professional Studies,
Ghana. The Role of Information Technology in Knowledge Management
Practices in University Libraries in Ghana: A Study of University of
Professional Studies Library.
3. Stephen Bajjaly, Associate Dean & Professor, Wayne State University, USA.
Assessing Student Learning Outcomes in ALA-Accredited MLIS Programs.
4. Tereza Trencheva, Associate Professor, State University of Library Studies
and Information Technologies, Bulgaria, Stoyan Denchev, Rector, Dobri
Boyadzhiev, Assistant Professor, Diana Stoyanova, Assistant Professor,
Elena Ignatova, Assistant Professor, Kostadin Kazakov, Assistant Professor,
Mariela Nankova, Associate Professor, Nikolay Mitev, Assistant Professor
& Vasil Zagorov, Associate Professor, State University of Library Studies
and Information Technologies, Bulgaria. From Accredited Qualification to
Certified Skills: The Summer Knowledge Academy – New Educational
Approach in the State University of Library Studies and Information
Technologies.

17:30-20:00 Urban Walk (Details during registration)

20:30- 22:00 Dinner (Details during registration)

Wednesday 29 July 2015

Cruise: (Details during registration)

Thursday 30 July 2015

Delphi Visit: (Details during registration)

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Fernanda Almeida
Ph.D. Student, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
&
Beartiz Cendon
Professor, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil

User Training from the Perspective of Information Literacy:

The Case of Capes Portal of E-Journals

This paper presents the conclusion of qualitative research that aimed

to determine the impact of user training in the information literacy level
of users of the Capes Portal of E-Journals. The research started with a
review on the Portal Capes of E-Journals and the actions promoted by
the UFMG University Library to promote access to and use of the Portal
information resources. Next, the research presented a theoretical
framework about information literacy, information searching and
construction of search strategies. Data collection for the survey was
conducted in two stages: pre-instruction tests and post-instruction tests.
The survey sample was formed, in the first stage - pre-instruction test,
by 14 students who enroll voluntarily in a training program offered by
the university library to the UFMG community. After the pre-
instruction test, the students went through an instructional session. In
the second stage of the research, post-instruction test and interviews,
participated seven of the 14 students present at the initial stage. Data
collection was conducted through observation with screen recording of
the computer in the pre-instruction test and, two weeks after (post-
instruction test), observation with their screen recording and
interviews. Data were obtained and analyzed based on the second
standard of the ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for
Higher Education. Results led to the conclusion that participation in
training sessions positively influences the development and
achievement of information literacy.

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Ronaldo Araujo
Professor, Federal University of Alagoas, Brazil
&
Marlene Oliveira
Professor, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Representation of Information Technology in Information

Science: An Analysis of Classification Schemes (1987-2007)

The scientific and technological revolution has promoted the rise of

emerging sciences like Information Science and technological
advancement plays a role in the development of this area. Over the
decades, several stages can be noted that mark this advance and
demonstrate their contribution to the issues concerning the information
problematic. First of all, the dynamics and mainstreaming of the
technological component has resulted in a terminological evolution of
the term “technology”, making it difficult to understand this object and
categorize it appropriately for research contexts in which it is applied.
On the other hand, the stratified and poliepistemological character of
information further complicates the task of categorizing something so
inextricably linked to it, which is the case of technology. In the history
of information technology, as in other areas defined through reference
to “information,” definitions are problematic and categories unstable.
Information, like other concepts such as progress, freedom, or
democracy, has become ubiquitous because of, not in spite of, its
impressive degree of interpretative flexibility. Information has been
seized upon by many different social groups, each of which has
produced hybridized notions such as “information science”,
“information worker”, and “information system”. This paper aims to
reflect on these issues and contribute to the advancement of technology
representation and appropriation in the field of Information Science.
Therefore demand from theories and methodologies developed within
the subject scope of Information Science and designed for knowledge
representation, present, discussions on principles such as knowledge
contexts, nature of concepts, relationships between concepts and
systems of concepts. Thus, within a practical framework, classification
schemes used in the area and their representational models are
investigated. In total, 35 classification schemes were examined in an
attempt to understand how technology was represented. We consider
the tables, diagrams and taxonomies of the following research: Macedo
(1987; 1988), Järvelin & Vakkari (1990; 1993), Bufrem (1996; 1997),
Teixeira (1997), Cruz et al (2003), Hawkins, Larson & Caton (2003),
Oddone & Gomes (2004) and Zins (2007). The representation of
information technology is described in the clustering of schemes with
similar approaches. In this way, such a representation comprises a

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configuration that gives rise to tightly overlapping intersections among

the research topics in Information Science. There is a presumption that
the notion of the term "information technology" used in each scheme
will somehow indicate an approach to the concept that the author takes
as information and due to this character, poliepistemological
representations may indicate more social use, or its hybrid use as in the
socio-technical framework, or purely a technical use, which only
identifies technology in its rational aspect and tends to favor the
technologization of epistemology.

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Stephen Bajjaly
Associate Dean & Professor, Wayne State University, USA

Assessing Student Learning Outcomes in ALA-Accredited

MLIS Programs

Student learning outcomes are specific, measurable statements of

what educational program graduates should know, be able to do,
believe, or value. Student learning outcomes should clearly state the
expected knowledge, skills, competencies, attitudes, and habits that
students are expected to acquire at a higher education institution.
Derived from the degree program’s mission statement, these student
learning outcomes statements are focused on the results of student
learning, not on the learning process or on teaching.
Clearly defined student learning outcomes enable a program’s
faculty to reach consensus about their expectations for student learning
and to develop a curriculum that responds to these expectations. For
professional schools and programs, student learning outcomes further
indicate what kinds of job skills the graduates are expected to take into
the workforce and the community.
Student learning outcomes assessment has become a critically
important activity for library and information science programs
accredited by the American Library Association (ALA). Starting with
the 2008 Standards for Accreditation and expanded with the 2015
Standards, which take effect in 2017, student learning outcomes
assessment is an explicit expectation of systematic program planning.
This paper describes the current status of student learning outcomes
assessment within the 58 ALA-accredited master’s degree programs.
Components of the paper include a literature review, an explanation of
the student learning outcomes assessment framework and its associated
planning process, a content analysis of student learning outcomes in
ALA-accredited programs, and the results of a survey of program
administrators about their student learning outcomes achievements and
challenges.

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Radia Bernaoui
Professor, Information and Communication Science-ENSV, Algeria
&
Mohamed Hassoun
Professor, ENSSIB – Lyon University; ICAR, France

The Information Practices of Users of Veterinary Library of

Algiers: What Reflection for the Establishment of a Digital
Library?

At the all-digital era our society favors the screen. It became a sort of
obligation to promote new technologies of books and paper, especially
for education and scientific research. Most libraries of universities
evolve of computerized management to digitization documents
content. A change of paradigm is required and is around a transition
from analogue to digital space.
In this context, Algeria scientific literature in veterinary medicine on
this subject requires a better organization and a good appreciation of
scientific production. This leads to consider the establishment of a
digital library which aims is to reflect the combination of traditional
services and new digital services provided by the technologies of
communication and information. Before the library of the Higher
National Veterinary School of Algiers (ENSV) followed no librarianship
standard. It is thanks to a policy of restructuring that we managed in
order to introduce the documentary tools for intellectual processing of
documents and computerization. To realize this project, a
methodological approach was followed, by respecting the universal
standards of document processing.
We conducted the computerization project of the different modules
(acquisition, loan management, inventory, online catalog, information
retrieval ...) whith developing a specification.
The computerization of the library was a starting point to think
about the establishment of the digital library. The needs analysis of
users in order to establish a digital library of the Higher National
Veterinary School of Algiers revealed users' expectations for a better
visibility of the acquired holdings and a better using of scientific
heritage.

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Sangrang Brahma
Librarian, Central Institute of Technology Kokrajhar, India
Ch. Ibohal Singh
Assistant Professor, Manipur University, India
&
Lamkhogen Vaiphei
Librarian, Damdei Christian College, India

Library Automation in Major Centrally Funded Technical

Institutions of India: Problems & Prospects

Library automation may be defined as the application of computers

to perform traditional library housekeeping activities such as
acquisition, circulation, cataloguing, reference services, serial control,
administration etc. Thus, library automation is the process of
performing all information operations/ activities of library with the
help of computers and related information technologies. Computer is
one of the most sophisticated electronic device invented by human
being for processing enormous amount of raw data into meaningful
and useful form of information with speed, accuracy and reliability and
holds the most important role in automating libraries. Rapid
development of information technology has been one of the main
factors causing change in the way people communicate, locate, retrieve,
and use of information. Libraries and information centers have adopted
these new technologies profoundly to meet the diverse need and
expectations of the users leading towards automation.
Library automation in India gathered momentum in 1990s driven by
the sharply decreasing prices of hardware and increasing availability of
software packages and also the enthusiasm of library professionals for
automation. Library automation in 1990s was dominated by library
modernization and networking. This scenario indicates that the
revolution of library automation started late in India in comparison to
developed nations.
The technical education system in the country can be broadly
classified into three categories – Central Government funded
institutions, State Government/State-funded institutions & Self-
financed institutions. The major centrally funded technical institutes in
India includes Indian Institute of Technologies (IITs), National Institute
of Technology (NITs) and other major centrally funded technical
institutions. Libraries of these institutions serves the resources required
for the academic and research purposes. Majority of the libraries of
these institutions have undertaken steps for automating their libraries
and some of the libraries have completed.
The main purpose of the paper is to study the present status of
library automation in these institutions. The paper is also dedicated to

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explore the problems and prospects for automating these libraries along
with suggestive measures.
The study includes 16 IITs, 30 NITs, 4 IIITMs, 4 NITTRs and 9 other
centrally funded technical institutions and limited to the defined
geographical location of India. Review of various articles related with
the topic of study, websites supplemented by structured questionnaire
form the basis of study. Telephonic interview, e-mail interview are also
taken into consideration to get accurate information during the study.

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Leslin Charles
Instructional Design Librarian, The State University of New Jersey,
USA

TeachMeets: Toward Buy-In and Professional Development

for Information Literacy Instruction

At Rutgers University’s New Brunswick campus, a strong

partnership between the libraries and the Writing Program of the
English Department means information literacy (IL) instruction for
approximately 300 course sections in an academic year. The number of
courses keeps growing annually. Besides the obvious need for
manpower, which includes library faculty and LIS students, several
other needs have become apparent. In order to maintain and strenghen
this partnership a model of sustainability was needed. Enhanced
communication among librarians regarding teaching, learning, and
assessment strategies was necessary. Current approaches to active
learning and assessment needed to be shared and new ones developed
collectively. A forum to facilitate conversation on the future of the IL
instruction program was vital.
A TeachMeet series was developed in July 2014 as a means to
address all these needs. It serves chiefly as a tool of professional
development. It is also a tool of communication, allows sharing of
expertise, is a vehicle to provide input in steering the instruction and
assessment techniques for undergraduate students, and fosters
teamwork among library faculty. It forms the basis for the development
of a Train-the-Trainer series. Finally, it serves to prepare LIS students as
they develop instruction skills and are given opportunities to practice
before they enter the profession, thus giving them an advantage as they
transition into new instruction positions.
With regard to the manpower; the need for more library faculty who
traditionally focused on other student populations needed to be bought
over to teach in this program. While many were abreast of the changes
that had occured in our approaches to teaching IL in the Writing
Program, not all were able to articulate these. Nor were they able to
identify a formal assessment strategy to measure the impact of library
intervention on student learning. As a result of attending TeachMeets
more librarians are conversant with the needs of and our support for
the Writing Program.
We needed to seek out more LIS students, but there was the issue of
a limited budget. Therefore, segments of the TeachMeet on instructional
techniques were integrated into the LIS graduate course, Information
Literacy: Learning and Teaching. The graduate students in this course
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we pay them with credits rather than currency. This directly supports
the sustainability of our instruction program.
Over this academic year, two TeachMeet series have been run: one
focusing on pedagogy, a paradigm shift in our instruction program,
and assessment strategies. The other has focus on training to be a reader
using inter-rater reliability as we assess information literacy
competencies using random, anonymized essays from students in the
Writing Program.
The methods of executing TeachMeet sessions involve active
learning and modeling, thereby allowing attendees a form of
experiential learning, which they can recreate for their students. The
term TeachMeet has now become common at the libraries, conveying
the notion of professional development and an opportunity for collegial
conversation about teaching, learning, information literacy, and
assessment of student learning. The themes that emerge from these
conversations become the driving forces for change and
implementation of new ideas.
This session will address the execution of a TeachMeet series, the
themes that have emerged around information literacy instruction
programs, pedagogical approaches, training, and assessment, as well as
how to gain buy-in from library faculty toward a more cohesive
approach to an IL instruction program.

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Nabhan Harith
Assistant Professor, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman
&
Khaloud Khalid Al-Salmi
The National Records and Archives Authority, Oman

Reality of Cooperative Network between Learning

Resource Centers in Colleges of Applied Sciences in the
Sultanate of Oman

The study aimed at identifying the reality of collaboration between

Learning Resource Centers in Colleges of Applied Sciences in the
Sultanate of Oman through the following: (1) Identify collaborative
activities between learning resource centers in the colleges, (2) Identify
the benefits that have been achieved by networking between resources
centers in the colleges. The study follows a qualitative approach to
achieve a deep understanding and a clear way of expression of the
relevant work done by those in charge of collaborative programs. 19
interviews were conducted with participants from 6 learning resource
centers and the Ministry of Higher Education in Oman.
The range of results produced by the study included the following:
(1) The collaborative network and the union catalogue are the most
important elements of collaboration between the learning resource
centers in the colleges of Applied Science. (2) The benefits of
collaboration to these centers include savings in time and effort in the
completion of daily business, exchange of experiences, solving workers’
problems, and facilitating the process of electronic subscriptions.
The study concluded with the following recommendations that will
hopefully contribute to creating a rich environment for collaboration
between the learning resource centers: (1) The Directorate General of
the Applied Science Colleges need to develop the relevant
infrastructure and networking in the colleges. (2) Learning resource
centers in the colleges need to develop their online websites and
provide indexes to facilitate collaborative information services in the
centers. (3) The Omani Library Association has to play a proactive role
in the field of training and qualifying employees in academic libraries
in Oman, to familiarize them with new developments and the use of
collaborative office software.

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Ma Lei Hsieh
Assistant Professor – Librarian, Rider University, USA
Susan McManimon
Adjunct Professor
&
Sharon Q. Yang
Associate Professor – Librarian, Rider University, USA

The Effectiveness of I-LEARN Model for Information

Literacy Instruction

I-LEARN is a new information teaching and learning model by Prof.

Neuman, a faculty at College of Information Science and Technology,
Drexel University. The model includes six steps in teaching and
applying information literacy (IL): Identify, Locate, Evaluate, Apply,
Reflect, and kNow. According to Prof. Newman, the past information
literacy education focuses more on information seeking (‘access-
evaluate-use’ sequence). The actual "use" component is frequently
considered outside the realm of library instruction and is left to the
student, the teacher, or the professor” The I-LEARN model incorporates
the missing steps in the teaching/learning cycle by adding “apply,
reflect, and kNow” to complete the information teaching and learning
process. Dr. Stacy Greenwell at the University of Kentucky did an
experimental study for her doctoral dissertation on using I-Learn
model. The findings did not reveal significant differences between the
experimental and control groups. Pioneer work is needed on how to
put this model to work.
The presenters of this study intend to find out how effective I-
LEARN model is by applying the model in a speech communication
classes at Rider University, New Jersey in summer 2014. Two librarians
and a class faculty integrated IL concepts in three instruction sessions.
They adopted some of Greenwell’s research techniques such as
experimental and control groups and pre- and posttests. Additional
assessment measures include analysis of class discussion in course
management system, one minute paper and a second posttest. The
authors will present both qualitative and quantitative analysis of
student learning outcomes. They will also explore various ways to
implement the missing links in hope of improving students’ IL skills.
This study provides a starting point to adapting the I-LEARN model as
a teaching model in Library Instruction. Understanding how to
effectively implement this informational literacy model will benefit
both library instruction and student informational literacy learning.

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Leonor Gaspar Pinto

Head of Information and Documentation Division, Commission for
Citizenship and Gender Equality, Portugal
&
Paula Ochoa
Professor, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Models and Strategies for Information Management:

Convergence of Impacts

The current discussion around models and strategies for information

management in the era of digital transition point to two dynamics,
which follow the lifestyles, consumer habits and information behaviour
of citizens: diversity of services and content, on one side; and
convergence not only in media, but also in management modes, on the
other. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the use of convergent
information management models and strategies in Library, Archives
and other Information Services (LAIS), in academic and
practical/professional environments in Portugal.
Three management areas - e-skills, e-consumption and sustainability
– are discussed, providing details and basis for the development of
three information management models and strategies:
Information and Curation Management Post-graduation and Master
courses: Creation of graduate (and Masters) in Information and
Curation Management (Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of
Universidade Nova de Lisboa - FCSH / UNL), proposing a model for
studies in which information management assumes a prominent
transverse position and developing an integrated model of skills
enabling simultaneously managing diversity and the hybrid culture of
services convergence needs of the information market (Juin 2014).
Co-creation workshops on Building a sustainability assessment
framework: this interdisciplinary experience with students of LIS
courses at FCSH/UNL (December 2013-February 2014) and students of
the Archives Post-graduation course at Universidade Lusofona de
Humanidades e Tecnologias (July 2014), led to the (co-)definition of a
conceptual framework for assessing the sustainability of LAIS
CIG’s Information and Documentation Centre (IDC) integrated
information management model (October 2013): the development of a
new management model for the Commission for Citizenship and
Gender Equality (CIG)’s LAIS was anchored on the implementation of a
modern Library Management System, which boosted the
creation/improvement and integration under the conceptual umbrella
of an holistic new brand – IDC - of other information areas, like
publishing inventory management, archives and records management ,

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digitalization of CIG’s historical archive and digitalization of special

collections.
Within the joining of these models, attention should be paid to the
sustainability of new operating models and management skills needed,
focusing on thinking strategies in the cultural and creative industries
and considering culture, the fourth pillar of sustainable development.
This focus opens new horizons for action by allowing the creation of
new performance indicators unifying the area of culture, aggregating
data from libraries, archives, museums and other information services
and, thereby, allowing an integrated strategic vision of the results and
impacts. In the near future management of integrated impacts seems to
be the next step of reflexion.

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Miroslaw Gorny
Professor, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland
John Catlow
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland
&
Refal Lewandowski
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland

Collections as a Search Support Tool in Digital Libraries

This paper describes some experiences relating to the use of

collections in Polish digital libraries. Collections are understood here as
ordered sets of documents having similar characteristics.
Collections are as a rule created by humans, and hence their
construction is fairly expensive and time-consuming. Nonetheless, they
prove to be an extremely effective search support tool. They are an
excellent complement to full-text search (based on indexes obtained
using OCR) and to searching using indexes created on the basis of
elements from bibliographic descriptions (including key words). The
paper describes case studies in which the existence of collections makes
it easier, or simply makes it possible, to find required information. It is
also indicated what conditions must be satisfied if the creation of
collections is to be economically justified.

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Bikika Laloo
Associate Professor, North Eastern Hill University, India

An Information Gateway to North East India’s Hidden

Travel Potential

India is among foreign travelers’ favourite destinations and all

aspects of Indian tourism have been documented, disseminated and
enjoyed by travelers. India’s North East though, was a late bloomer as
far as tourism went, despite its beauty and mystery. It was usually in
the news for all the wrong reasons. Mrinmoy K Sarma (2007) found that
“considering the present (2005) available information, North East India
is getting a very negligible portion of the total pie of the Indian
Industry. It is not even 1% of the total tourist arrivals in the country. Till
2002 the average percentage was 0.75%, by this time it might have
improved upto an optimistic maximum of 1%.” Not anymore. Word of
mouth, and the print and audio-visual media have to some extent
ensured the visibility of the vast and deep tourism potential of this
hitherto unknown portion of the world That the North East of India is
becoming a tourist magnet is becoming more apparent by the day.
Print (Lonely Planet, other travel magazines) and web-based travel
guides (Tripadvisor, Expedia, etc.) have been broadcasting interesting
travel information on this part of India with updates on transport,
accommodation etc. While the work of these travel guides is
commendable, yet there’s no denying that some of the information they
provide is sketchy(excluding many of the North East’s hidden
treasures) if not downright wrong. Besides, the hidden tourism
potential of many practices of the North East Indians such as their
music, their natural health cures and their religions has either not been
exploited at all or has been done so only perfunctorily. Hence the need
for an authentic travel information source on North East India to fill the
gap. A travel information gateway on North East India created and
maintained by those in the know (North Easterners themselves) seems
apt at this point. The scant literature somehow manages to expose the
inadequacies of the available tourist information sources on North East
India. It is evident that a more reliable and comprehensive source is the
need of the hour. The following is a proposal for just such a source. The
North East Travel Information Gateway would serve as an authentic
information source particularly for the discerning and adventurous
traveler. It would present the North East of India in the right
perspective, from the viewpoint of and inputs from its own citizens. It
will expose the hidden treasures of the region including domestic,
religious and healing practices that the world hasn’t known about.

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Yan Ma
Professor, University of Rhode Island, USA

Visual Literacy for Library and Information Science

Education

With the proliferation of visual information, research has indicated

that the need to incorporate visual literacy into the curriculum of higher
education especially library and information science (LIS) education is
one of the most pressing tasks. ACRL Visual Literacy Competency
Standards for Higher Education recognizes this need and invites
educators, scholars, researchers, information professionals, and
students to engage visual literacy in higher education. Implementation
of visual literacy standards in LIS curriculum and design of research
methodologies will prepare information professionals to enhance
services for the print and digital information world and provide an
opportunity for a lifelong learning journey. The researcher has been
doing research in visual literacy since 1992 and teaching visual literacy
for LIS studies since 1999. As past President of the International Visual
Literacy Association and current guest editor of the Journal of Visual
Literacy, the researcher will present and share her insights and
experience in teaching and research results on visual literacy for LIS
education with colleagues.

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Essam Mansour
Associate Professor, DLIS, The Public Authority for Applied Education
and Training (PAAET), Kuwait

Information Seeking-Behavior of Mosque Speechmakers

(MSs) in the State of Kuwait

Purpose: The main purpose of this paper is to reveal the cover of

research regarding Mosque Speechmakers (MSs) in the Arabic
environment. The researcher tries to investigate the information seeking
behavior of MSs in the state of Kuwait in terms of their thoughts,
perceptions, attitudes, motivations, techniques, preferences, ways, tools
and problems encountered by them towards using of and accessing
information.
Design/methodology/approach: The author employed a
questionnaire, with a response rate 70.6 percent (561/795).
Findings: This study showed that MSs in Kuwait tend to be older
who are mostly aged between 46 and 60 years, married, educated
(mainly with BA), holding degrees from Islamic institutions, with a
monthly income ranging from 401 to 500 KD ($1000 = 282 KD) with
work experience in the rhetorical and preaching filed ranging from 11
to 25 years. The study showed that MSs were significantly seeking
information to make a specific and general research, to collect necessary
statistics, to make a speech/sermon, to present religious
sermons/lectures and to be in line with current events. It also showed
that MSs preferred to use the home/personal library as well as the
special library, specifically the Mosque library. The information seeking
behavior of a large number of MSs indicated a preference for printed
sources over electronic sources, and a good number preferred to access
information through the audio-visual materials as well as the Web. A
very small number of MSs were looking for information for the purpose
of making a speech (Friday speech/sermon). The study also showed
that the most important sources of information MSs were seeking for
were biographies, specialized books, particularly Islamic books, mass
media (press, TV, videos, .. etc). A large number of MSs were poor in
the use of foreign languages, and this in turn has negatively affected to
take advantage of the vast information available in these languages. The
shortage of the library’s role, the use of foreign languages, the high cost
of information, the place of information and the use of technology tools
were the most significant problems encountered by MSs in Kuwait
when they were seeking information.
Research limitations/implications: The paper investigates the topic
of MSs’ use of and access to information, and as such highlights a topic
that has limited previous research.

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Practical implications: The paper provides valuable insight into the

information behavior of a very important client group.
Originality/value: Being one of only two studies conducted in the
Arab world concerned with the topic of information seeking behavior
and needs of MSs, this study is considered a pioneering and unique one
among many studies conducted in the field of both information access
and information seeking, especially with this important category of
information users.

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Gracielle Mendonca Rodrigues Gomes

Ph.D. Student, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Beartiz Cendon
Professor, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
&
Raquel Oliveira Prates
Associate Professor, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Interface Communicability Evaluation and Interaction of

Users with the Search System of the CAPES Portal of E-
journal

The CAPES Portal of E-Journals is highly relevant for higher

education and for Brazilian science as it provides access to important
sources of scientific information. Since it was launched, it has under
gones everal changes in its interface, layout and search resources and
system in a constant effort to facilitate navigation and improve the
services offered to users. Under this context, the following research
question was raised: How to interface and search system of the CAPES
Portal of E-Journals has supported the activities of interaction, search
and retrieval of information? To investigate this issue, this study
integrates perspectives of the field of Information Science and of
Computer Science to achieve a more complete analysis of the
information search process in CAPES Portal of E-Journals, to identify
what problems in the interface and search system preventor hinder user
interaction and information retrieval, and to propose possible solutions
to improve this system. The literature review presents the evolution of
search engines and the challenges of Information Retrieval on the Web,
models of Information Seeking Behavior in Information Retrieval
Systems (IRS) and the area of Human-Computer Interaction based on
Semiotics Engineering. In addition, there view a analyses the
integration of the areas of Information Retrieval, Information Search
Behaviour and Human-Computer Interaction for IRS interface design
and information in scientific communities. This research is
characterized as study of exploratory and descriptive nature, using
qualitative approach. The sample will be composed of doctoral students
in the areas of Humanities, Linguistics - Language and Arts, Biological
Sciences, Physical Sciences and librarians of the Federal University of
Minas Gerais (UFMG). For data collection and analysis the study
applies methods of evaluation. The first, performed by specialists, is
denominated Semiotic Inspection Method (SIM). The second, carried
out with users, is called Method Explanation of Underlying Discourse
(MEDS) and was adapted to be based in models for representing the
search for information in IRS. The results allowed the identification of

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the difficulties and problems in the interface and search system; the
observation of tactics, judgments and changes in strategies used during
na episode search; the knowledge of what the users think about the
interface and the search engine, and of what characteristics are to their
liking or dislike and the proposition of recommendations for improving
the CAPES Portal of E-Journals interface. The study suggests that the
findings aim at advancing the understanding of the processes of user
interaction with the Information Retrieval Systems, and at contributing
to the development of the area of Interactive Information Retrieval.

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Elijah Akuamaoh Mensah

Librarian, University of Professional Studies, Ghana

The Role of Information Technology in Knowledge

Management Practices in University Libraries in Ghana: A
Study of University of Professional Studies Library

Knowledge is increasingly being recognized as a vital organizational

resource that provides competitive advantage. Managing these
resources can be a challenge in view of the fact that knowledge is
evolving and these have had immense impact on most organizations.
The conventional role of university libraries in collecting, processing,
storing, disseminating, among others have become very critical with the
introduction of Information Technology (IT) in these activities. The role
of IT in knowledge management (KM), is an essential consideration for
any organization including wishing to explore emerging technologies to
manage their knowledge asset. This is because knowledge management
creates enabling environment to mine and extract the wealth in staff to
improve effectiveness for themselves and their parent organization.
This paper present research which has been conducted to identity the
technologies that are currently being used to manage knowledge at the
university libraries.
The effectiveness of these technologies has been assessed in
managing knowledge in universities libraries. In addition, it attempts to
highlights some of the challenges and complexities associated with
managing knowledge in university libraries. A questionnaire was
distributed among library staff to obtain data on knowledge practices.
This approach was supplemented by interviews to reveal wealthier
data about the nature of IT tools in knowledge management practices in
university library settings.
The research revealed that IT in knowledge management is a viable
means in which university libraries could improve their services and
become more responsive to the needs of their users.

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Eliane Pawlowski Oliveira Araujo

Ph.D. Student, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
&
Claudio Paixao Anastacio de Paula
Professor, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Subjective Dimensions in the Treatment of Information:

Analysis of the Underlying Implications the Index and
Information Retrieval

The informational boom has contributed to change the scenario and

the behavior in relation to how the information is treated, especially
from the beginning of the 21st century. Gradually the concern
regarding the offer of means for the user to retrieve information that
meets demands efficiently and specifically imposes itself to the purpose
of prioritizing only the dissemination of information. One of the key
aspects for the information retrieval process to occur adequately is the
treatment of the information. This process comprehends, among
various tasks, the activity of indexing. This activity presents the
challenge of attributing terms which represent the analyzed object
faithfully. The quality of the process of indexing is conditioned by how
qualified the indexer is, and his or her impartiality in the process.
However, it is known that it is inevitable that some elements of
subjective judgment affect this activity. This article aims to present the
partial results of a study carried out in university libraries, with the
objective of identifying how the individual perspectives permeate the
treatment of information. To meet the proposed objective – to check the
influence of the subjectivity in the indexing process – this research had
as a guiding principle, the Clinical Approach to Information, a
perspective that presents the possibility of investigating the information
behavior considering the influence of cultural elements, symbolic,
cognitive and affective as well as psychodynamic factors – conscious
and unconscious. As methods constituents of this approach, it is
included the interview, the task analyses, the clinical incident technique
and verbal protocol. The results obtained enabled the understanding of
how subjective aspects integrate themselves to individual competences
to influence the process of treatment of information, having an impact
on information retrieval by users in a digital environment.

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Jacqueline Pawlowski Oliveira

Ph.D, Student, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Mauricio Barcellos Almeida
Teacher, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
&
Renato Rocha Souza
Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Specialized Information Sources in Health Sciences:

Analysis of Features and Proposed Criteria for Evaluation

Since many years ago, the manipulation of information has

challenged professionals working as users within the healthcare field.
Even though the information technology has been collaborating with
the new possibilities to store and to access information, their resources
are not yet employed in a systematic wider way, insofar as much of that
content do not reach its potential of using because of the lack of training
to retrieve it, the lack of mechanisms to process and to assure its
availability in a proper format and in a proper moment with quality.
Thus, we consider that is essential and relevant to carry out studies
with the aim to improve the understanding of the structure and the
possibility of using information sources in healthcare. This situation, we
believe, is a real challenge for the professionals, researchers and
students working on the healthcare field, mainly for the users, which
are going to use those sources for the first time. Within such context, we
believe that is crucial to analyze and to describe resources offered by
the information sources in the healthcare field in order to make possible
the clarification of the functional characteristics of those sources, to
approach issues related to search theses sources, as well as the several
biases referring to the process of evaluation of information quality
within the healthcare field. The proposal of the present research was
developed within this context, identifying functional characteristics,
structure and interrelations of information sources in the healthcare
field, as well as the aspects related to information quality of such
sources. We choose to analyze these sorts of specialized information
sources because of their relevance to the practice of information users
within the healthcare field. This research opened the possibility of
verifying the characteristics of the sources, its purposes, structures and
covering, allowing the users to reach a comprehensive view of the real
aim of each source approached. The analysis contributed to reduce the
complexity involved in the informational process, collaborating to the
effective use of information sources. In addition, the analysis allows us
to emphasize aspects related to quality inhering in such sources. Based
on this study, we hope that information users of the healthcare field are
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of information sources, then collaborating to the relevant use and

proper application of the available information and fostering the
practice in that field, either in a professional level and in a research
level, eventually promoting the quality of life in our society.

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Marcos Aparecido Rodrigues do Prado

Ph.D. Student, Universidade Estadual Paulista – UNESP, Brazil

The Building Semiotics of Information in the Context of

Information Science

This paper verifies the semiotic aspects of the concept of information

used in several review articles published in a sample of journals in the
field of Information Science. The aim that motivates this analysis is to
explore the peculiarities that project the systematic features of
conceptual significance. In the study is used the analytical method
characterization presented in the categories developed by Charles
Sanders Peirce (1838–1914). This procedure is employed as the tool to
allow broader understanding of the prevailing conceptual aspect in
Information Science. Thus, we seek to identify in the concepts of
information the logical deduction and phenomenological arranged in
three fundamental modes of pragmatic standard of Peirce, which are:
quality, relation and representation. The development of assessment is
based on the identification of the components used in the description of
the studied object and sets the structure of a framework for analysis of
the process of conceptual training. Thus, the results provide blunt
reflections that are backed by philosophical considerations to identify
the predominant conceptual context of the term information in the area
of Information Science. The contribution of this study is aims to extend
the essential discussions that are tangent the fundamental interests of
the Information Science.

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Eliane Rocha
Professor, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Information Users X Interactive Users: Different Subjects

Challenging Different Information Professionals

In spite of the developments of HIB (Human Information Behaviour)

field, the effective approach of actual users by information professionals
are not well known. This paper intends to conceptualize who is the
information user in distinction to the digital interactive product user
(interactive user), from the point of view of librarians and system
analysts who took part in an empirical research of a doctoral
dissertation. In general, both professionals consider the user a
pragmatic person, who urges to do something directly related or not to
information (information use can have a knowledge, act or fun
orientation), tend to look at users through the system-oriented
approach (which is, to see users purely as numbers to check systems'
failure or success rates), and tend to have difficulties to really
understand who the user is and what their needs or behaviours are,
especially in digital environments. Librarians usually see users as
information users involved in active search behaviour, while system's
analysts tend to see users as users of digital interactive tools designed
to improve performance (efficiency and efficacy) of human tasks
(ranging from digital information systems to improve workforce
productivity to entertainment applications ubiquitously available). This
essencial difference on the perspective of both professionals – from
information user to the user of interactive products (interactive user) –
is also reflected in their work methodologies and mindsets: a) librarians
approach the user as a person who is interested in knowledge, culture
or data keeping, someone to take care of (even if the non-user or
potential user don't receive so much attention from them); b) system
analysts have an instrumental view of the user: they are seen as
informants to improve products' design that are going to captivate
them, and they do not exactly see users as produsers.

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Marcos Rodrigues
Professor, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
&
Mariza Kormann
Research Associate, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

Collecting and Processing Personal Data: Addressing Data

Protection and Privacy Issues by Design

The European Council has concluded in October 2013 that “It is

important to foster the trust of citizens and businesses in the digital
economy. The timely adoption of a strong EU General Data Protection
framework and the Cyber-security Directive is essential for the
completion of the Digital Single Market by 2015.” The ADMOS Project
is funded by the EC and aims to develop a real-time gender
classification and age estimation system to be used in private spaces for
public use such as shopping malls, fairs and outdoor events. The
purpose is to detect whether a person has noticed an advertising board
and, if so, their profile in terms of age and gender. The modus operandi
involves capturing live stream video and analysing each frame in real
time from which statistical information are extracted concerning head
count, gender and age profile. These statistics are then sent to a server
at regular intervals as customised by the media owner (e.g. every
minute, every hour, etc.). The main computing operations are thus the
processing of live imagery using appropriate computer vision detection
and pattern recognition algorithms. The issue here is one of processing
personal data as face images are classed as such. Specific regulations
exist at European level concerning the right to privacy of individuals
and these regulations are reviewed in the context of information
systems. When a video frame is captured it contains personal data but
as soon as it is processed the frame is discarded and the only
information kept are the number of people who were facing the board
in that frame, and the summary statistics concerning their age and
gender. With this information, it would be impossible to trace back to
any living person. However, such simple solution would yield highly
inaccurate and unreliable results, as the same person could be detected
multiple times within a time frame of a few seconds. The ADMOS
design must therefore, be able to track a face from frame to frame but
without performing face recognition, as face recognition would require
a database (albeit temporary). Such approach would render the solution
unworkable both on technical and privacy grounds. This paper presents
the proposed solution within the framework of European legislation
and has the potential to set standards for other projects along the same
lines. We review the issues and current legislation on the processing of
personal data in the context of information systems, and how the

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project has incorporated a solution based on defining and tracking

anonymous tags in a concurrent (parallel processing) regime that fully
satisfies current and proposed legislation on privacy. Experimental
results demonstrate that the solution is efficient to be applied in real
time.

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Sajeewanie Rubasinghe
Senior Assistant Librarian, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka
&
Dilini Bodhinayaka
Assistant Librarian, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka

An Investigation the Collections of Greek Literature in Sri

Lankan University Libraries (Special Reference to Kelaniya
University Library)

There are sixteen universities are in Sri Lanka and all those
Universities have well developed libraries also. Those libraries are
giving sound knowledge to all university students and the staff as the
library users for the growth their knowledge. All universities are
conducting Sri Lankan and foreign education programs and it has
launched the departments also to gain the knowledge for foreign
languages, cultures, and more on behalf of Sri Lankan university
students. Among them Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Greek, Hindi are the
most important. Therefore all the Sri Lankan Universities had to
develop their library collection regarding those subjects. According to
that point it can be mentioned that all Sri Lankan university libraries
have huge collections regarding the foreign literature also.
The main objective of this paper is to identify the collection of Greek
literature in Sri Lankan Universities and to identify the usage of Greek
literature of Sri Lankans. It used the Kelaniya university library in Sri
Lanka covering Western province. It used the observation methods to
collect the data. According to observation data it can be identified that
there is a huge collection of Greek literature in Kelaniya University
library.
There are 31 departments in the Kelaniya University and especially
students and lecturers of Archeology and Sinhala are referring the
Greek literature to full fill their academic purposes. Department of
Sinhala is teaching the Greek literature as a core subject. Students and
lecturers of faculty of Humanities are referring the collection of Greek
literature than other faculty members of University of Kelaniya.

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Edita Sedaityte
Ph.D. Student, Vilnius University, Lithuania

From Burning to Hiding – Censorship in Lithuanian

Libraries during Soviet Occupation

Soviet occupation changed entire political, economic and cultural

structure of occupied countries. After soviet occupation in Lithuania no
part of public or even private life was left untouched. Aspiration to
rewrite the existing reality by the Soviet model was inseparable from
ideologisation, propaganda and censorship. Only when existing ideas
was banned and erased there was possible to make new public
consciousness. Censorship inevitably affected the Lithuanian memory
institutions: archives, museums and especially libraries.
What was the purpose of libraries in Soviet Union? First of all it was
the institution of cultural and ideological education. Libraries had to
ensure the widest possible and effective use of its funds to expand
socialist spirit, principles and norms in soviet society. This aim was
included in main documents that had to regulate work of libraries. But
how censorship had worked in libraries practice?
In this research using data from archives, memories of librarians and
history researches is analyzed mechanism of soviet censorship in
libraries, its institutional structure, tools of performance and their
change – from burning of dangerous books to placing them in secret
exclusive funds. What impact censorship in libraries made for all
Lithuanian culture and how it still affects libraries after twenty five
years of regaining independence – these are the questions of this paper.

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Raid Suleiman
Associate Professor, Al-Hussein Bin Talal University, Jordan

Understanding School Library Education and Library User

Education in Jordan

This study aims to determine the concept of School Library

Education and the reality of employing it educationally in school
libraries in Jordan. Furthermore, it aims to define the concept of
education in Jordanian school libraries, sound planning methodology,
and the importance of coordination between the library and the
classroom teacher and the curriculum scheduled to achieve its goals.
The descriptive approach has been employed in this study, through
describing the determinants and the concepts of school libraries and
library education depending on references and previous studies. Data
from the Jordanian Ministry of Education, Information, its directorates,
its official reports and activities has been employed to determine the
reality of School Library Education in Jordan. The study revealed that
school libraries in Jordan are significantly incapable of providing
services and achieving educational goals set by the ministry of
Education. Some of the steps that could improve this result are: First,
there has to be, at least, one weekly class under the name ‘library
education’ or ‘library and scientific research’. Second, adopting a
curriculum that coordinates topics and subjects covered in mainstream
classes with topics covered in library time. Third, the pressing need to
provide an enabling environment for students to grow and expand
their research capabilities. Fourth, the allocation of E-learning resources
and the integration and alignment of coherent electronic library
resources with topics covered in main stream classes. This can provide
a safe learning environment and wealthy electronic oasis that enables
students to complete their duties and expand their minds from the
narrow curriculum to the vast and wide knowledge library resources
can provide. Fifth, the need to conduct workshops and training
sessions for school librarians and teachers that allows them to uncover
the great potential that lies in the effective incorporation of school
library resources in the educational process.

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Tereza Trencheva
Associate Professor, State University of Library Studies and
Information Technologies, Bulgaria
Stoyan Denchev
Rector, State University of Library Studies and Information
Technologies, Bulgaria
Dobri Boyadzhiev
Assistant Professor, State University of Library Studies and Information
Diana Stoyanova
Assistant Professor, State University of Library Studies and Information
Elena Ignatova
Assistant Professor, State University of Library Studies and Information
Kostadin Kazakov
Assistant Professor, State University of Library Studies and Information
Mariela Nankova
Associate Professor, State University of Library Studies and
Information
Nikolay Mitev
Assistant Professor, State University of Library Studies and Information
&
Vasil Zagorov
Associate Professor, State University of Library Studies and
Information Technologies, Bulgaria

From Accredited Qualification to Certified Skills: The

Summer Knowledge Academy – New Educational
Approach in the State University of Library Studies and
Information Technologies

The self-realization of each person depends on their ability to

promptly find, receive, adequately acquire and use productively both
the available and the newly arriving information. Knowledge and
information play an important role in today’s society. Among the
competitive edge of modern university structures stand out the
effective gathering and using information in order to create and receive
new knowledge, team work, sharing good practices, putting into
practice innovative scientific and applied approaches, acquiring and
sharing of new knowledge and creating a favorable to ideas
information environment.
The dynamic and fast-changing world we live in, whose basic
hallmark has been the process of information and respectively
globalization, have faced up different states with new and hard to
foresee challenges and issues, whose solution requires comprehensive,
interdisciplinary knowledge, professional skills, analytical abilities and

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quick and adequate responses. What we need to do is build and

constantly develop a culture of continuity of the accumulated
knowledge and experience as well as a high degree of information
culture including alongside knowledge and skills a critical
interpretation of the content and value of information sources. Thus,
for example, scientists, tutors and researchers with a lot of work
experience in a given university structure do have invaluable hands-on
experience of the processes and practices within this structure, but
unfortunately the administrative aspect of this knowledge is not always
well-managed. In the future, it is the social networks and professional
communities that will be the most natural and powerful resources for
knowledge acquisition and the creation of interactive models of
learning based on information resources knowledge management. That
is why the efforts to come should be directed and focused namely on
learning communities. In this aspect, the State University of Library
Studies and Information Technologies (SULSIT) initiative to begin long-
term scientific research on the issues of knowledge management is
prompt, currently relevant and useful. As a natural heir to the Center of
Science Studies (Science of Science) with the Bulgarian Academy of
Science, in 2013 SULSIT established the Summer Knowledge Academy
(SKA) – part of the State University of Library Studies and Information
Technologies. The Academy is in fact a university scientific and
methodology unit. The aim of SKA is to help the participating students,
PhD students and young scientists from SULSIT with declared interests
in the spheres of Book Studies, Intellectual Property, Library Sciences,
National Security, Information and Communication Technologies,
Cryptography, Science Studies (Science of Science) and Cultural
Heritage willing to develop in these spheres through doing research
and development in areas of social life, to present their point of view
and suggestions on possible solutions to existing problems. We are
convinced that among of the present participants in SKA, there are the
future politicians, statespeople and managers of Bulgaria. Our
aspiration is that their work in the Academy will contribute to the
development of their abilities as well as ensuring their efficient
preparation in the task of providing adequate answers and solutions to
national security problems and challenges that the modern world poses
to our country and society.
The aim of the current paper is to promote the new educational
approach towards a transition from accredited qualification to certified
skills in the Summer Knowledge Academy at the State University of
Library Studies and Information Technologies. The paper consists of
four main parts: the first one being the relevance and essence of the
problem of knowledge management; the second one looks at the
necessity of knowledge management at SULSIT; the third part is a
presentation of the Academy’s organization structure; and lastly, the

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fourth part outlines the streamlines of scientific and applied activities

with basic conclusions and recommendations.

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Gerhard Van der Linde

Subject Collection Developer, University of South Africa, South Africa

The Case for Literature as Part of the Library Collection

This paper analyzes the authorship trend in contributions of

“International Journal of Information Science and Management” during
2003 - 2014. A total of 218 contributions were examined by growth of
contributions by year, authorship patterns by year and issue, author
productivity, single and multi authored papers by year, most prolific
contributors and degree of author collaboration. Maximum number of
contributions i.e., 31 (14.220%) were published in the year 2010.
Average number of authors per paper is 2.133% and the average
productivity per author is 0468%. The highest number of contributors
i.e., 367 (78.924%) are from Iran.

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Magdalena Wojcik
Lecturer, Jagiellonian University, Poland

Augmented Reality in Modern Information Services of

Libraries and Other Cultural Institutions in Poland

The subject of this research is the use of augmented reality

technology (AR) in services of libraries in Poland. The aim is to
determine the scope and forms of using AR tools to enhance
information services provided by public and academic libraries, on the
background of actions taken by other cultural institutions such as
museums and cultural centers. Web pages analysis of selected libraries,
museums and cultural centers was conducted. The basis for the
selection of institutions was a random choice conducted upon the
"Registry of cultural institutions for which the organizer is the Ministry
of Culture and National Heritage" and database of libraries in Poland
made available on the official Polish Librarians Association’s website.
In the first stage of the study, information about use of augmented
reality tools in the service activities was sought on the web pages of
selected institutions. Then, the comparison of the frequency of AR
technology use was made between libraries and other institutions.
Finally, within the found examples of using AR technology in service
activities, good practices were selected taking into account the
originality of applied solutions. As a result, conclusions on the degree
of using AR tools in Polish cultural institutions were formulated. The
issue of augmented reality usage is a topic rarely undertaken in the
literature in the field of library and information science, both in Poland
and in the world. The research may help to fill this gap in the subject
literature. The results may also be widely used in practice - they can
help to identify best practices in using new technologies in cultural
institutions and allow to widely adapt them in libraries.

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