This article provides an overview of the recorded history of information associations, focusing especially on the Association for Information Science and Technology. Discussions with the archivists ...of three other professional associations about their beginnings, services, and funding provide the framework. While there are firm legal guidelines for keeping association records, there are no firm guidelines that specifically describe how to archive association records for historical purposes. Association records—including correspondence, votes, and addresses that are not held in formal publications—can reveal how and when decisions were made. Making these records available in archives is invaluable to historians. The authors’ views and opinions are based on what they have learned during the last several years of the active engagement of the Association for Information Science and Technology’s History Committee (HC) and curator, and the hope is that this article will be useful for other associations as they curate their own archives.
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This poster presents findings from a small‐scale study which investigated student internship (hybrid and virtual) during the COVID‐19 lockdown. The study was conducted in 18 Croatian IT ...companies using semi‐structured interviews. The study tried to answer the following research questions: RQ1: How did local IT companies organise student internships during COVID‐19 lockdown; RQ2: What are advantages and disadvantages of online student internship. The study was conducted within the framework of Erasmus + project DECriS (Digital Education for Crisis Situations: Times When There is No Alternative, 2021–2023). Results of this study showed that the advantages of virtual internships are flexibility, saving time, the possibility for the interns to dedicate themselves to their private and academic obligations, comfort, easier work organization, the possibility of self‐organization and reduced risk of COVID‐19 infection. However, other respondents indicated the following negative sides of virtual internship: the lack of communication among students and mentors, students' lack of opportunity to learn about organizational, business and ultimately the human side of the company.
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This poster problematizes selected presentations and outcomes of an IFLA satellite conference on the history of professional organizations of librarians and information scientists. ...Representatives from organizations, including ASIST and library associations around the world from four continents (Europe, North America, Asia, Africa) will meet at the Mundaneum in Mons, Belgium. The theme of the conference is “Preserving our origins: Approaches to the organization, curation, and historiography of the record of national and international organizations in libraries, information, and documentation.”
An irony within information science is that its many professional associations often fail to identify and preserve their own history. Their work is documented, but often not well preserved, and hidden from a wider audience. Born digital materials are especially vulnerable to loss (Neal, 2015). This poster identifies problems and best practices in managing the documents of historical value of volunteer‐led associations and invites ASIST members to contribute to the historical work of the association.
The goal is to identify common problems in preserving association histories. The poster will present several projects discussed at the IFLA satellite conference, as well as proposed ways forward that will advance historical work for the information professions.
Cilj. Cilj je rada predstaviti rezultate provedenog istraživanja o organizaciji i upravljanju zbirkama građe na manjinskim pismima i jezicima u hrvatskim školskim knjižnicama koje izvode nastavu na ...temelju stručnih preporuka i standarda te usvojenih obrazovnih modela i programa za nacionalne manjine. Istraživanjem se nastojalo saznati zadovoljavaju li postojeće zbirke u školskim knjižnicama potrebe svojih korisnika pripadnika nacionalnih manjina te na koji se način i uz koje poteškoće upravlja manjinskim zbirkama u školskim knjižnicama, kao i otkriti poteškoće u nabavi predmetne građe Pristup. Polazeći od saznanja da su organizacija i upravljanje knjižničnim zbirkama za nacionalne manjine otežani, osobito u odnosu na pribavljanje građe i upoznatost školskih knjižničara s jezikom i pismom pripadnika nacionalne manjine kojoj pružaju usluge, provedeno je online istraživanje među školskim knjižničarima koji svakodnevno rade s knjižničnom građom, pružaju informacije i organiziraju različite programe. Rezultati. Rezultati istraživanja predstavljeni u ovom radu jasno upućuju na činjenicu da je knjižnična građa na jeziku i pismu nacionalnih manjina u obrazovnom sustavu u Republici Hrvatskoj uglavnom nedostatna, a uslijed nedostatka iste na tržištu, kao i izostanka kontinuiranih i kvalitetnih izvora financiranja njezine nabave, ujedno i teško dostupna krajnjim korisnicima. Praktična primjena. Teza o unapređenju dostupnosti predmetne građe u digitalnom obliku koju predlažu autori ovoga rada nameće se kao najlogičnije i dugoročno najekonomičnije rješenje koje je u ovom trenutku moguće ponuditi, iako ni to nije dovoljno za pokrivanje svih potreba nastavnog procesa u školama u kojima se nastava izvodi na jeziku i pismu nacionalnih manjina zbog nedovoljne opremljenosti informacijsko-telekomunikacijskom tehnologijom te obučenosti za rad s novim medijima, e-učenje i slično. Društveni značaj. Na osnovi proučene zakonodavne osnove, međunarodnih i domaćih stručnih preporuka i standarda, stručne literature te analize odgovora koje su ispitanici dali tijekom istraživanja, predlažu se koraci za poboljšanje kvalitete rada u školskim knjižnicama u školama s nastavom na manjinskom jeziku u Republici Hrvatskoj. Originalnost. Provedeno istraživanje donosi dosad neobjavljene i korisne podatke na osnovi kojih se zaključuje o potrebnim iskoracima te ukazuje na probleme vrijedne daljnjih istraživačkih napora.
Purpose. The main purpose of this article is to present the results of the investigation into organization and management of library collections which contain reading material for minority groups enrolled in educational programs in Croatian elementary and sec-ondary schools. These programs are offered on the grounds of the professional standards and guidelines as well as the approved educational models for minority pupils in the Republic of Croatia. The survey intended to reveal whether the existing collections in school libraries fulfill the needs of their users who belong to a particular minority group, how they work and overcome difficulties in collection management, as well as to discover obstacles in acquisition of library material. Approach . Assuming that the organization and management of collections for mi-nority pupils have been aggravated, especially regarding the library material acquisition and librarians’ knowledge of minority languages and scripts, we have conducted an online survey among school librarians who work with such collections on a daily basis, offer various information to users and organize a number of different programs. Findings. The results of the survey presented in this article clearly point out to the fact that library collections on minority languages and scripts in the Croatian education system are insufficient. Due to the lack of such materials on the book market and ab-sence of continuous and qualitative financial resources for the planned acquisition, the users are confronted with the problem of having limited access to these collections. Practical implications. The authors support the thesis that advocates the improve-ment of the availability of the library collections for minority users through digital collections as the most logical and economically most cost-effective long-term approach in order to solve the observed problems. However, this approach is limited by the lack of appropriate information and telecommunication technology, insufficiently trained per-sonnel for work with new media and e-learning programs, etc. Social implications . Based on the conclusions drawn on the grounds of the analyz-ed domestic and international legal documents, professional standards and guidelines, professional literature, and the answers which were collected through the online survey from school librarians responsible for special collections of minority literature, the au-thors propose several steps towards improvements in Croatian school libraries which have collections for minority groups. Originality . The conducted survey presents useful research data not published previously. The results made it possible to recommend the changes in the approach to mi-nority collections and suggest the themes and problems worth of further research.
PurposeThe main purpose of the paper is to offer a personal view on the development of documentation/information and documentation (IuD) in Germany, while pointing out the need to further investigate ...the specific features of its development paths. The methodology is based on critical review of the available literature sources in the German language.Design/methodology/approachThe paper uses the method of critical review of published documents in journals (especially in Nachrichten für Dokumentation), books and reports of state and provincial administrations that are directly related to monitoring and/or encouraging the development of the young field of documentation.FindingsThe paper offers a review and interpretation of the most significant development phases, the contributions of individuals and the influence of the official state and information policy based on the consulted sources.Research limitations/implicationsThis research is limited to the literature written in German language.Practical implicationsThe paper could be of interest to researchers and professionals who are interested in the development of documentation.Social implicationsThe paper covers the period after the World War II until the end of 1980s that is especially interesting from the social point of view in divided Germany.Originality/valueTo the author’s knowledge, there is no comprehensive history of documentation in German-speaking countries written in English. This paper is the result of a research project started three years ago with colleagues from Germany, Austria and Switzerland, that aims to cover all phases of the appearance and development of information science in German-speaking countries and could be understood as a kind of introduction to papers planned to follow.
Cilj. U ovom se članku nastoji pregledno i kritički prikazati razvoj dokumentalistike i informacijske znanosti u zemljama njemačkog govornog područja. Budući da do sada, osim na njemačkom jeziku, ...nije napisan cjelovit pregled o tome kako se razvijala dokumentalistika i kakav je bio njezin odnos prema knjižničarstvu te kako je i kada došlo do promjene paradigme prema informacijskoj znanosti, hrvatskim su stručnjacima takva saznanja uskraćena. Pristup/metodologija. Rad se temelji na kritičkom iščitavanju i interpretaciji objavljene literature, poglavito članaka, izvještaja i prikaza iz časopisa Nachrichten für Dokumentation (od 1990: Nachrichten für Informationswissenschaft), nekoliko drugih njemačkih časopisa i knjiga te proučenih svih sedam izdanja poznatog priručnika Grundlagen für Dokumentation (kasnije: Grundlagen für Informationswissenschaft). Rezultati. Pregledno je izložen razvojni put njemačke, austrijske i švicarske dokumentalistike i informacijske znanosti, ukazano je na probleme i dvojbe s kojima su se stručnjaci iz tih sredina susretali, kao i na nesigurnost oko definiranja novog polja. Rad obilježava i osvrt autorice na nedostatnu argumentaciju razloga koji su doveli do napuštanja izvorno njemačke dokumentalističke paradigme u prilog preuzimanja paradigmi koje su zagovarali stručnjaci iz angloameričke sredine. Ograničenja. Kako je ovaj rad zamišljen kao dio niza o razvoju dokumentalistike i informacijske znanosti u nekoliko utjecajnih sredina (američko-britanskoj, frankofonskoj, germanskoj, ruskoj, odnosno u zemljama bivšeg Sovjetskog Saveza) te utjecaja modela i trendova iz tih sredina na razvoj dokumentalistike i informacijske/ih znanosti na području bivše Jugoslavije, s naglaskom na Hrvatsku, za očekivati je da će do objave ostalih pregleda možda ostati nedovoljno jasne pojedinosti problematizirane u ovom članku. Društveni značaj. U Republici Hrvatskoj prihvaćene su informacijske znanosti kao akademska i znanstvena disciplina 1983. godine, pa je to potaknulo istraživačku znatiželju oko utvrđivanja najranijih izvora spoznaja o razvojnim trendovima u drugoj polovici 20. stoljeća. Ovim istraživanjem pridonosi se razumijevanju okolnosti izrastanja informacijske/ih znanosti kao mladog znanstvenog polja. Originalnost/vrijednost. Istraživanje je provedeno na izvornim materijalima na njemačkom jeziku, a obogaćeno je komentarima i saznanjima autorice koja prati ovo područje od njegova službenog prihvaćanja u hrvatsku akademsku i znanstvenu obitelj do današnjih dana.
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