Die Öffentlichen und Wissenschaftlichen Bibliotheken Sachsens leisten einen unverzichtbaren Beitrag bei der Vermittlung von Wissen und Kultur. Um ihre Arbeit zu würdigen, lobt das Sächsische Staatsministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst in Kooperation mit dem Landesverband Sachsen im Deutschen Bibliotheksverband e.V. den „Sächsischen Bibliothekspreis 2013“ aus.

Das Dokument beschreibt Erfahrungen, die im Rahmen von Beratungsgesprächen mit Forschergruppen an der TU Dresden zum Thema Forschungsdatenmanagement (FDM) gemacht worden sind. Im Zentrum der Beratungsleistung steht dabei zunächst die Erfassung des FDM-Ist-Zustands einer Forschergruppe. Dazu wird gemeinsam ein Datenflussdiagramm erstellt, das die folgende Frage beantwortet: Welche Daten werden wie, von wem und zu welchem Zweck erhoben? Auf Basis dieses Datenflussdiagramms werden anschließend in einem mehrstufigen Beratungs- und Implementierungsprozess Lösungen für den FDM-Soll-Zustand angeboten.

Die IFLA, der Internationale Verband der bibliothekarischen Vereine und Institutionen, richtet seit 1928 den „Weltkongress Bibliothek und Information“ aus. Dieses Jahr fand er unter dem Motto „Future Libraries: Infinite Possibilities“ im August in Singapur statt.

Although digital humanities (DH) has received a lot of attention in recent years, its status as “a discipline in its own right” (Schreibman et al., A companion to digital humanities (pp. xxiii–xxvii). Blackwell; 2004) and its position in the overall academic landscape are still being negotiated. While there are countless essays and opinion pieces that debate the status of DH, little research has been dedicated to exploring the field in a systematic and empirical way (Poole, Journal of Documentation; 2017:73). This study aims to contribute to the existing research gap by comparing articles published over the past three decades in three established English-language DH journals (Computers and the Humanities, Literary and Linguistic Computing, Digital Humanities Quarterly) with research articles from journals in 15 other academic disciplines (corpus size: 34,041 articles; 299 million tokens). As a method of analysis, we use latent Dirichlet allocation topic modeling, combined with recent approaches that aggregate topic models by means of hierarchical agglomerative clustering. Our findings indicate that DH is simultaneously a discipline in its own right and a highly interdisciplinary field, with many connecting factors to neighboring disciplines—first and foremost, computational linguistics, and information science. Detailed descriptive analyses shed some light on the diachronic development of DH and also highlight topics that are characteristic for DH.

This thesis examines factors affecting the dissemination of findings arising from DHSS-funded health and personal social services (HPSS) research. The Department's programme covers a broad area of HPSS research, and is highly diverse in respect of topics, methods, research personnel and institutions, etc. The findings of projects within this programme are normally expected to have relevance to 'customer divisions' within the Department, whilst also having interest and implications for a variety of extra-Departmental groups. For the purpose of this investigation, DHSS, the research community and research audiences were each viewed as 'open systems' exchanging information (along with other commodities) with one another. Researchers and 'key actors' within DHSS (i.e. personnel concerned with research management and the Department's information resources and publications) were interviewed to determine the nature and extent of their communication practices, and to examine how each came to adopt his or her particular methods for processing and transmitting research information. The handling of completed research within the Department was further studied by means of an analysis of the minutes and papers of the DESS Research Liaison Groups. Amongst other findings it is shown that the fixed-term nature of research funding limits researchers' opportunities for a full dissemination of their findings. meanwhile, the research community's reward system leads researchers to publish their findings preferentially in specialist research journals. Dissemination to the field, to practitioners in particular, is further frustrated by the Department's uncertainty with regard to the role which it should play in assisting or effecting such action, and by its preferential concern for the consideration of the implications of research findings for primary Departmental 'customers'.

The research explores the theoretical possibility of a semiotic approach to the Museum phenomenon, seen as a process of communication and signification, and the consequences on the determination of the social function of museums, in its semantic and pragmatic levels. It proposes a new discipline for the field - that of 'Museum Semiotics', as a theoretical background and a tool for the understanding of museums as 'semiosic spaces', acting in the cultural process through their 'communicative actions'. PARTS I and II propose the basic assumptions and premises for the study of the specific Museum Language, defining its terms and concepts, and considering museum objects as bearing a 'sign-function', as 'signifying units' used in the construction of messages and 'discourses', manifested or hidden in museum exhibitions. The mechanisms of the process of sign production and of sign interpretation in the Museum context, the concept of 'museality', the Museum 'mythological speech', the interplay of codes and the interaction between emitters and receivers in the museum communication process, are explored here. PARTS III and IV propose and develop a preliminary model of analysis of exhibition 'texts' and of their specific 'rhetorics', applied in a particular case study, the exhibition on 'Buddhism, Art and Faith', held at the British Museum (1985), in order to detect the multiple ways in which the public 'reads' a Museum message, and all the elements working in this process. PART V presents the conclusions and insights on Museum Communication, on exhibition production and evaluation, on Museum Education, and on new fields of research opened up through the approach of Museum Semiotics, proposing a strategy for changing the conditions of communication, through open and aesthetic texts, which may encourage the visitors to recover their freedom of decoding'.

The thesis aims to investigate the implications of incidental recall for the design of personal information systems. Incidental recall is defined here as memory, without prior intent to recall, for information that is not meaningfully related to the information handling situation. When an information worker fails to recall how information is filed, is uncertain of its whereabouts, retrieval of that information becomes problematic and can result in the system not being used. One possible approach to solving this problem is to increase technological power, but even though electronic filing systems may offer varied and complex functions to assist information management, these functions lose their value if the systems are not actually used. An alternative approach to solving this problem is tailoring the system to make use of information that human memory can remember with little or no effort, in particular using attributes that human memory can recall incidentally, as labels for files. An experimental paradigm was developed to explore the nature of incidental recall for aspects of office information. The scarcity of investigative work using realistic, information handling, tasks to investigate incidental recall prompted the experimental design using a realistic task for an office worker. A business simulation game was employed involving the subjects sorting information, in the form of documents, based on decisions about their information content. Situated on the documents' were "Icons", logo-like designs, each with unique attributes of colour, location, and shape. Following the sorting task, the subjects participated in an unexpected test for each attribute of the icon. Four experiments were run within this paradigm which involved subjects experiencing varying levels of exposure to different combinations of attributes. The analysis provided substantial evidence for incidental recall of the attributes. Incidental recall of the attributes varied as a function of the task orientation. Evidence suggested a predisposition to integrate colour and shape in memory, while in contrast, location had a tendency to be recalled independently of the other attributes. The findings suggest that incidental recall as a filing aid will be most useful when attributes incidental to the information content are actively used in the course of handling the information.

The developed countries are_moving swiftly and steadily towards electronic information handling and exchange. The speed of this progress needs to be matched in Higher Education libraries in the Arab countries to cope with the advancement of research and scientific activity. There are hundreds of academic libraries in Arab countries with an enormous wealth of library collections and a rapid growth of potential library users. This study aims to investigate the main factors involved in the development of IT, Arabisation, cooperation and telematics, in the AC Higher Education libraries with special reference to Kuwait. Kuwait has suffered severely owing to the Iraqi invasion in August 1990. Most of its Higher Education libraries are in the process of being rebuilt. Therefore, this study comes at a suitable time to analyse the requirements for the implementation of IT at this stage. critical literature review has been carried out to examine the three main aspects namely,, IT, Arabisation, cooperation and telematics. A questionnaire survey was conducted inselected university libraries in AC. A field work study and a comprehensive survey including questionnaires, interviews and observations, were conducted in the Higher Education libraries in Kuwait specif icallY. This included a detailed study of user opinions, regarding IT, Arabised library system and cooperation and telematics The study shows that university libraries in AC are still at an early stage in the development of IT, Arabisation and cooperation and telematics and most of the progress in this field is to be found in certain GCC countries. Although KU and PAAET are the only two Higher Educational institutes in Kuwait their libraries lack IT, Arabisation and cooperation and telematics. Library users are dissatisfied with the current traditional library system and services being used and offered in these libraries. Both librarians and library users, although they have limited IT backgrounds, have high expectations and positive attitudes to the importance of -the above IT facilities for improving their library services. The study identifies the main critical issues affecting IT, Arabisation and cooperation and telematics in Kuwait Higher Education libraries and explores possible solutions and practical recommendations. This study also considers whether the results of the Kuwait study could be generalised to apply to other similar Arab countries

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