Purpose/Thesis: The article considers the management strategies employed at Polish academic libraries during a crisis situation, using the lockdown imposed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic as a ...case study. The lockdown is defined here as the period between March 12th and June 2020. The study identifies the most significant obstacles to operating efficiently in the unstable VUCA environment.
Approach/Methods: The author uses research methods of sociology, collecting data from the directors of Polish academic libraries by the means of an online survey, with the response rate approximating 30%. The survey included questions about the organization of information and library services during the lockdown, and about the management obstacles the libraries faced.
Results and conclusions: The results suggest that both directors and staff of academic libraries did their best in the crisis situation. They adjusted the information and library service procedures, seeking to efficiently organize remote work, and manage the dispersed work environment. The most often mentioned management obstacles included the necessity for rapid adjustment, the impossibility of long-term planning, and the changing duties. However, the libraries implemented a number of solutions, which may serve them in the future if need be, such as rotational shifts, higher flexibility of organization, and task-oriented approach to professional duties.
Practical implications: The study presents procedures to be applied in the case of another lockdown, identifies good practices, and relays the experiences of other academic libraries in order to improve information services at the reader’s place of employment; it may inspire them to optimize information and library processes.
Originality/Value: It is the first such study of the activity of Polish academic libraries during the lockdown. The results may contribute to discussions about the organizational flexibility of academic libraries and their capacity for adjustment, and well as about the future development or phaseout of certain areas of their activity.
Purpose/Thesis: The outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic made the digital space take a larger part in our everyday life. This article determines whether COVID-19 has in any way affected information ...literacy of users of a specific type, i.e. members of business sharing Facebook groups.
Approach/Methods: The research involved a literature review and an analysis of data collected by the means of a survey.
Results and conclusions: 104 people from eight groups from Lesser Poland, as well as Tri-City,Silesia, and Mazovia, took part in the pilot study. The survey covered the following themes: recognizing information needs and obtaining information, evaluating and using information, defining and self-assessing information literacy. The results showed that the participants did not think that COVID-19 had a significant impact on their information literacy, and they assessed their level of their own competences as adequate, or high.
Originality/Value: The article contributes a new study which may inspire further discussions on the subject of social media users.
This study is devoted to historian J.V. Šimák as one of the principal initiator of the establishment of the manuscript commission of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Arts (1907). The impulse for ...this came from the professional Historical Association and followed the trend of institualisation of specialised branches of historical research. Šimák is presented here as a methodologist and cataloguer of manuscripts. Although his scientific work took another direction, his contribution to the cataloguing of manuscripts is worth recalling
Resource Description and Access (RDA) is the first new international cataloguing standard for nearly thirty years. This essential new textbook builds on John Bowman's highly regarded "Essential ...Cataloguing" to provide cataloguers with the skills needed for transition to RDA. It gives an introduction to Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR), which provides the conceptual basis for RDA; discusses the differences between AACR2 and RDA; and shows the current state of play in MARC 21. The final chapter includes ten records displayed in AACR2 level 1, AACR2 level 2, RDA and MARC 21, making it easy to see the differences at a glance. There is also a fully-explained worked example based on RDA Appendix M. Written at a time of transition in international cataloguing, this book provides cataloguers and students with a background in general cataloguing principles, the current code (AACR2) and format (MARC 21) and the new standard (RDA). The contextual chapters provide library managers with an up-to-date overview of the development of RDA in order to equip them to make the transition.
Cataloguing and Classification introduces concepts and practices in cataloguing and classification, and common library standards. The book introduces and analyzes the principles and structures of ...library catalogues, including the application of AACR2, RDA, DDC, LCC, LCSH and MARC 21 standards, and conceptual models such as ISBD, FRBR and FRAD. The text also introduces DC, MODS, METS, EAD and VRA Core metadata schemes for annotating digital resources. * Explains the theory and practice of bibliographic control * Offers a practical approach to the core topics of cataloguing and classification * Includes step-by-step examples to illustrate application of the central cataloguing and classification standards * Describes the new descriptive cataloguing standard RDA, and its conceptual ground, FRBR and FRAD * Guides the reader towards cataloguing and classifying materials in a digital environment
This article presents shortly the origin of the list of the manuscripts of the National Museum in Prague, which was achieved in the year 1917 by František Michálek Bartoš and published as a book in ...the years 1926-1927. It deals with its supplements by Václav Flajšhans and F. M. Bartoš. Bartoš´s list of the supplements having been prepared during the 1950th for stamp by its author is published here.
The article presents Johann Nepomuk Kelle´s career as a German scholar who was one of the first professors of German language and literature at the University of Prague. The article especially pays ...attention to his registers of Old German manuscripts of the libraries and archives of Prague, which were 1859–1868 published in the journal Serapeum, and also to his register of Latin manuscripts deposited in Prague (1872).
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