Ausschreibung "Sächsischer Bibliothekspreis 2011" 2011 wurde zum Europäischen Jahr der Freiwilligentätigkeiten zur Förderung der aktiven Bürgerschaft ausgerufen. Auch in Bibliotheken leisten engagierte Freiwillige bereits seit Jahren wertvolle Arbeit; einige kommunale Bibliotheken wären ohne ehrenamtliche Hilfe gar in ihrer Existenz bedroht.

The main objective of the research is to try to achieve 'a value' for library and information services in national planning in Nigeria. Genesis and development of national planning and national planning procedures have been explored. The place of library and information service in national development planning in developing countries, with special reference to Nigeria, as against education, transport, industry, agriculture, health, etc., has been identified. The relations existing between library and information services and scientific development as well as the book trade have also been explored.

The purpose of this study is to examine the information needs and behaviour of students, lecturers and researchers, in the APTIK universities as they performed their learning, teaching and research tasks. Causal models have been developed to represent the factors which influence each aspect of information needs and behaviour. In these models, determining factors have been grouped into input and process factors. A path analysis was used to test the postulated information needs and behaviour models, and to estimate the magnitude of the direct and indirect effects of factors taken as causes on factors taken as effects, in the models.

This thesis identifies the major problems involved in the use of computers in library and bibliographic information systems in Brazil, examines motives for and results of automation, and offers an in-depth description of existing automated systems. The researcher personally visited the thirty-one most significant automated systems in five localities in Brazil, and systematically collected numeric and descriptive data that could help characterise automated processes and identify problem areas. Questionnaires were sent out by post to institutions which could not be visited. Attitude tests were also applied to fifty-five senior staff of these institutions, to determine their ranking of problems, motives and results, their views of other relevant factors and their educational background. This same attitude test was also applied postally to a group of senior librarians in institutions which did not use computers; eighty-six replied.

The main objective of this work is to try to identify the common grounds existing between archives, library and information studies from which a core curriculum could be derived for the professionals in the three fields. The underlying concept in building up such a core is that the above areas must be viewed as a whole within the information spectrum. The historical development of librarianship is taken into account as well as the early education provided for librarians in England, United States and Brazil up to modern times when technological and social innovations have brought about changes in the information services, practices and procedures which have obviously had a direct effect on the educational patterns of members of the profession.

The economic importance of the contribution of information services of the Nuclear Information Centre of the National Commission of Nuclear Energy (CIN/CNEN) in Brazil is carefully analysed from the point of view of economic analysis.

The main purpose of the study was to produce a model that will elucidate the relationships among a number of variables associated with employees' participation in activities of continuing professional development (CPD). The study specifically aimed to explore public librarians' motivation for participation in CPD and to investigate the interest generated by various topics and types of CPD. A subsidiary purpose was to examine work environment factors and management policies and practices impinging on public librarians' CPD. The model hypothesised that perceptions about the applicability of new skills and motivational orientations influenced employees' updating behaviour through the mediation of educational interest. The study used two research methodologies: a survey of public librarians, by means of questionnaires; and semi-structured interviews with 22 library officials and policy-makers. A response rate of 73 percent yielded 303 valid questionnaires. Data were analysed through various statistical and qualitative analyses. In addition, path analysis was used to examine two causal models of participation in CPD activities. The results suggested that the perception of the applicability of new skills was significantly correlated to all motivational factors and with most educational interest factors, particularly to IT skills. Most deterrent factors were negatively correlated with educational factors, indicating that the perception of deterrents stifled the interest in virtually every topic. The study revealed a serious mismatch between librarians' motivations and perceptions of deterrents to participation in CPD activities, on the one hand, and library directors' opinions regarding librarians' motivations and constraints, on the other. Several recommendations are made to advance employees' professional development. Ways were suggested to strengthen the collaboration between state and local initiatives that could encourage librarians to engage in lifelong, planned, professional development.

This study was designed to examine various aspects of information use a selected sample of Brazilian mechanical engineers (BMEs) working in academic institutions in Brazil and to relate these findings to the influence of their personal, work and environmental factors. A survey questionnaire was administered to groups of mechanical engineers working in four academic institutions (Federal and State) located in the central-south regions of Brazil. Data were gathered on the following aspects of information use: frequency of use of information sources and channels; number of hours spent reading and communicating; categories of locations consulted; categories of people consulted; problems encountered in information use; attitudes taken by engineers when information is needed but is not available; types of information used and the engineers perception of the availability and pertinence of various information services offered by the engineer's information system. Hypotheses on the interplay between information use and educational level, productivity, reading language ability, seniority, interinstitutional involvement, project type, accessibility of the source; problems on information use and institutional restrictions on the use of information were tested.

Archives began when man first started to write and archival repositories were often found in archaeological excavations. Modern archives started after the French Revolution and are a nineteenth century achievement. The twentieth century, however, has brought revolutionary changes to the archival world: new materials, new techniques, together with new problems. Archives have re-assumed their pre-nineteenth century administrative role and re-established the link with record-producing agencies: modern records management and records centres have appeared on the scene. A wider public have started to use archival records. Archives have become information agencies. In developing countries, however, the economical difficulties that affect all aspects of life also affect archives. Governments with more urgent matters to solve do not give enough attention to these institutions. Archives are usually under-staffed, under-funded, lack adequate buildings, equipment and trained professionals.

The digital computer has greatly increased our capacity for storing and accessing information. The internet, and particularly the World Wide Web, have vastly increased the amount of information available to us. Information retrieval and hypermedia research has greatly reduced the time and effort required to fulfill a searcher's information need; however, problems still remain. To access <EM>multimedia</EM> information, text metadata must usually be assigned to the multimedia objects, requiring an (often prohibitively) large amount of time and effort. Alternatively, some systems use low-level features of the media to allow a searcher to find objects similar to a query object. Such features cannot always identify two media objects depicting or representing the same real-world concept; in the case of images, different camera angles and lighting conditions mean that semantically similar images are visually very different. Additionally, semantic relationships between objects may not be expressed. This thesis presents a way of addressing these problems by drawing on the field of semiology, in which a symbolic object has two parts: That which is being represented (in the <EM>plane of content</EM>), and the symbolic object doing the representing (in the <EM>plane of expression</EM>). A semantic layer is introduced holding real-world concepts, and connections to the multimedia objects that represent them. Knowledge about these concepts can be introduced by connecting them with semantic relationships. A prototype multimedia information system incorporating a semantic layer feature, the <EM>multimedia thesaurus</EM>, is introduced. The construction and use of a museum application is described, and used to evaluate the semantic layer technique. Finally, some reflections on these findings and some suggested future directions for the work are presented.