Technical Committee 46 “Information and Documentation” of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO/ TC 46) Celebrates its 60th Anniversary

2009 ◽  
pp. 80-89
Author(s):  
Olga A. Diakonova ◽  
Nina F. Kornoushenko
Keyword(s):  
International Organizations ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Technical Committee ◽  
International Standards ◽  
International Standard Organization ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
60Th Anniversary ◽  
Working Groups ◽  
Standard Organization ◽  
Information Work

Technical Committee 46 «Information and Documentation» of the International Standard Organization (ISO/TC 46) is published. Even a short description of ISO/TC 46 activities visually demonstrates what incredible and truly revolutionary changes happened during the last 60 years in the library, documentation and information work. The modern ISO/TC 46 structure is given, the work trends of its four subcommittees and numerous working groups, the interaction with other ISO technical committees and international organizations is characterized. Importance of standardization problems in the field of library and information science and of librarianship, in particularly, is confirmed by the authors’ practical work lasting for many year. The proposed information permits to better imagine the preparation process of the international standards and necessity of Russian specialists’ participation.

scholarly journals Time and temporality in library and information science

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jutta Haider ◽  
Veronica Johansson ◽  
Björn Hammarfelt
Keyword(s):  
Information Science ◽  
Temporal Dynamics ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Science Field ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Time Regime ◽  
Information Work ◽  
Late Modern

PurposeThe article introduces selected theoretical approaches to time and temporality relevant to the field of library and information science, and it briefly introduces the papers gathered in this special issue. A number of issues that could potentially be followed in future research are presented.Design/methodology/approachThe authors review a selection of theoretical and empirical approaches to the study of time that originate in or are of particular relevance to library and information science. Four main themes are identified: (1) information as object in temporal perspectives; (2) time and information as tools of power and control; (3) time in society; and (4) experiencing and practicing time.FindingsThe paper advocates a thorough engagement with how time and temporality shape notions of information more broadly. This includes, for example, paying attention to how various dimensions of the late-modern time regime of acceleration feed into the ways in which information is operationalised, how information work is commodified, and how hierarchies of information are established; paying attention to the changing temporal dynamics that networked information systems imply for our understanding of documents or of memory institutions; or how external events such as social and natural crises quickly alter modes, speed, and forms of data production and use, in areas as diverse as information practices, policy, management, representation, and organisation, amongst others.Originality/valueBy foregrounding temporal perspectives in library and information science, the authors advocate dialogue with important perspectives on time that come from other fields. Rather than just including such perspectives in library and information science, however, the authors find that the focus on information and documents that the library and information science field contributes has great potential to advance the understanding of how notions and experiences of time shape late-modern societies and individuals.

scholarly journals “Technical interoperability”: ISO/TC46/SC4 annual meeting

2020 ◽  
pp. 183-192
Author(s):  
I. V. Timoshenko
Keyword(s):  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Information Science ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Document Management ◽  
Science Standards ◽  
Plenary Meeting ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Working Groups ◽  
Key Events ◽  
First Time

The author reviews the key events and projects held and discussed within the framework of the ISO/TC46/SC4 plenary meeting. The meeting was held as part of the 47th annual ISO/TC46 meeting week held in London 2020. The subject scope of ISO/TC46 covers a wide range of issues related to document management, indexing and abstracting services, and information science. Due to COVID19 pandemic, all the meetings were moved to online. The committee’s annual meeting was held in this format for the first time. The subcommittees and working groups discussed issues related to international standardization and ongoing projects in this area. The author discusses in detail the presentations by the participants in the plenary meeting ISO/TC46/SC4, held on May 12, 2020. The ISO/TC46/SC4 subcommittee conducts a number of projects to ensure the technical compatibility of library information systems with information science standards in related fields, which are developed by other ISO Technical Committees, as well as other authoritative organizations, i.e. DCMI and W3C. At ISO/TC46/SC4 plenary meeting, the working groups’ chairs reported on the state of the art in corresponding projects of international standards, plans for future were discussed. Subcommittee’s internal activities as well as issues of cooperation with other organizations were also covered.

Law Library Careers: Improving the Transition to Legal Information Work

2004 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Brown ◽  
Dr Derek Stephens
Keyword(s):  
Information Science ◽  
Career Path ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Legal Information ◽  
Career Information ◽  
Information Availability ◽  
Information Sector ◽  
Information Work ◽  
Law Library

This article describes research which suggests that much more could be done to prepare Library and Information Science (LIS) graduates for a career in legal information, both in terms of greater career information availability and in greater preparation before working with legal information, such as knowledge of legal materials and ways of working. Greater promotion of this interesting and challenging information sector would ensure that LIS graduates are fully aware of law library work as a viable career path and are clear about what the work entails. Implications for CILIP, BIALL, Library Schools and university careers services are discussed.

scholarly journals International Librarianship

2014 ◽  
pp. 51-62
Author(s):  
Alan Hopkinson
Keyword(s):  
Information Management ◽  
Information Science ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Master's Program ◽  
Work Experiences ◽  
Western Balkans ◽  
Historical Manuscripts ◽  
British Commonwealth ◽  
Former Soviet Republics

This chapter expresses the author’s lifetime work experiences in international librarianship. It includes trainings in bibliographic exchange formats and database management under UNISIST Program in India and Nepal; his 25 years of teaching of CDS/ISIS in the developing countries as UN consultant; his work of introducing IFLA standards and introduction of a new master’s program in Library and Information Science in three of the former Soviet republics; his assistance to get them funds to link to the internet and digitising their historical manuscripts and learned journals; his work as an instrument in Commonwealth Professional Fellowships to help British Commonwealth countries to embrace the latest techniques in information management. To make UK’s voice heard in the field of international standards led to author’s participation in the UNIMARC and UDC projects. The author is now working on information literacy education project in the universities of the Western Balkans.

scholarly journals El impacto del cambio organizacional en las empresas metalmecánicas de San Juan de Río, las cuales cuentan con Sistema de Gestión de Calidad preferentemente certificado

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Marco Antonio TORRES-TELLO ◽  
Jorge Gabriel VILLARREAL-ALCALDE ◽  
Jair De Jesús CHACÓN-PENA ◽  
Rafael URQUIZA-RESÉNDIZ
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Change ◽  
Quality Management ◽  
International Standards ◽  
International Standard Organization ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
San Juan ◽  
Quality Management Systems ◽  
Service Companies ◽  
Standard Organization ◽  
Del Rio

Today, the implementation and maintenance of systems, including those of quality management, help companies to develop at appropriate levels, so that they can integrate into global markets and be able to compete effectively. In relation to this, quality systems based on international standards, such as those of ISO "International Standard Organization" have been the most widespread, adopted and accepted in service companies, manufacturing and other sectors. However, this does not guarantee success, quality management systems strategies have generated some doubts such as their effectiveness (Gryna, F. et al., 2007), where processes play an important role. With this intention made operational, the aspects of processes, systems and organizational change, both technical and administrative, allow to measure the degree of adequacy between the processes and their impact on the positive change that contributes to competitiveness. This quantitative investigation of a sample of micromechanical micro enterprises of the municipality of San Juan del Río, which have certified quality management systems, have proven the proposals that investigate the correlation between quality management and organizational change as support elements in competitiveness.

Conceptualizing information work for health contexts in Library and Information Science

2019 ◽  
Vol 76 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole K. Dalmer ◽  
Isto Huvila
Keyword(s):  
Information Science ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Multiple Processes ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Multiple Levels ◽  
Information Work ◽  
The Many ◽  
Concept Of Information

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to suggest that a closer consideration of the notion of work and, more specifically, information work as a sensitizing concept in Library and Information Science (LIS) can offer a helpful way to differently consider how people interact and engage with information and can complement a parallel focus on practices, behaviours and activities. Design/methodology/approach Starting with the advent of the concept of information work in Corbin and Strauss’ work, the paper then summarizes how information work has evolved and taken shape in LIS research and discourse, both within and outside of health-related information contexts. Findings The paper argues that information work affords a lens that can acknowledge the multiple levels of effort and multiple processes (cognitive, physical or social-behavioural) related to information activities. This paper outlines six affordances that the use of information work within LIS scholarship imparts: acknowledges the conceptual, mental and affective; brings attention to the invisibility of particular information activities and their constituents; opens up and distinguishes the many different lines of work; destabilizes hierarchies between professionals and non-professionals; emphasizes goals relating to information activities and their underlying pursuits; and questions work/non-work dichotomies established in existing LIS models. Originality/value This paper is a first in bringing together the many iterations of information work research in LIS. In doing so, this paper serves as a prompt for other LIS scholars to take up, challenge the existing borders of, and thus advance the concept of information work.

scholarly journals Developing scales for identifying and classifying library and information science skills and competencies: An Israeli perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-168
Author(s):  
Jenny Bronstein ◽  
Ora Nebenzahl
Keyword(s):  
Information Science ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Professional Programs ◽  
Empirical Survey ◽  
Final Sample ◽  
Information Skills ◽  
Information Work ◽  
Personal Competencies ◽  
Development And Management

The purpose of this study is to present the development of a skills and competencies scale for LIS professionals. Scales for the identification and classification of the skills and competencies needed to work in the library and information science profession can contribute to the development of academic and professional programs. This empirical survey was conducted in Israel among members of two library and information science listservs. The final sample included 183 valid questionnaires. The study tested the viability of a typology comprised of 46 skills and competencies as items in multi-items scales. Factor analysis and Cronbach’s Alpha were utilized in performing the analysis that resulted in four clusters: technology skills, information skills, personal competencies and traditional librarianship skills and show that 25 out of 46 original skills contribute to the explanation of 44% of the total variance. The study contributes to the literature on the subject by proposing updated scales that examine practitioners’ views and opinions of which skills and competencies they needed in information work. The typology that resulted from the study ascertains that, regardless of the rapid changes that the profession has confronted in the last decades, the skills that have been at the core of the profession are still relevant alongside technological skills related to online environments such as website development and management.

scholarly journals Troubled Worlds

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan Finn ◽  
Daniela K. Rosner ◽  
Suzanne Black ◽  
Nathan Cunningham ◽  
Kristin N Dew ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information Technologies ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Information Research ◽  
Information Professionals ◽  
Information Work ◽  
The Many

The goal of this syllabus is to interrogate the material, and socioeconomic processes which underpin our everyday information work. In particular, we examine the relationships developing between contemporary information practices and what problematically gets configured as “nature”—that messy world of non-human entanglements that often exists beyond the purview of innovation work, whether digital software development or industrial engineering. Much recent work on the environmental conditions of computing has sought to break down technology-nature dualisms in order to expose the implication of information technology in broader social and material ecologies. Library and information professionals and researchers are well poised to deepen this inquiry by presenting alternative nature-technology epistemologies grounded in longstanding analyses of information resources and their consumption. The “Troubled Worlds” syllabus starts with a discussion of concerns most obviously germane to the work of most library and information science professionals: practices at the intersection of structuring information and computing. Building on this attention, we turn to humanistic approaches to thinking through the era of dominant human activities widely known as the “Anthropocene” by introducing poetic, artistic, and activist lenses. We explore how artistic objects representing an increasingly troubled natural world raise awareness of the challenges facing it, as well as how they may incorporate and reshape information for aesthetic ends. We then look to questions of disability justice and how it works in blended built and natural spaces as well as the many different ways in which bodies respond to the toxic environments produced by information technologies. We next consider the newer design approaches to library and information research, specifically asking how design perspectives on digital information objects get inscribed in the Anthropocene. Lastly, we consider paradigms of repair and making and analyze the different valences through which information researchers and professionals categorize and contextualize what is possible with them. This compilation does not provide a comprehensive review of the literature on the environment within the information fields. Instead, it extends this literature to promote experimental research and practice. The modules construct an interdisciplinary and provisional path through the related literature in a form that we hope may be continually adjusted, rearranged, and augmented.

scholarly journals An Analysis of the Throughput Rate of Doctoral Students in LIS Schools in South Africa, 2005–2015

Mousaion ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Maluleka ◽  
Mpho Ngoepe
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Information Science ◽  
National Development ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Doctoral Graduates ◽  
Throughput Rate ◽  
Institutional Repositories

South African universities produce fewer graduates than the number specified in the National Development Plan (NDP). According to the NDP, South Africa needs more than 5 000 doctoral graduates annually, against the 1 420 produced in 2010 and 2 258 in 2014. The 2030 target is to produce more than 100 doctorates per million people per year, as the current figures are below international standards. This study employed informetric research techniques as the main method, triangulated through questionnaires administered to doctoral supervisors to examine the throughput rates of doctoral students in the field of library and information science (LIS) at public universities in South Africa between 2005 and 2015. Data were extracted from institutional repositories of universities offering LIS in South Africa, and after the relevant information (i.e. gender, race, institution, and nationality of both students and supervisors) had been obtained, the data were saved and analysed in Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. Key results suggest a low throughput rate of doctoral students in LIS schools. The findings further suggest that social factors such as the gender, race and nationality of doctoral students in relation to those of their supervisors have a direct impact on the completion of doctoral projects in LIS schools.

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