Accessible Library: What is it?

2021 ◽  
Vol 70 (5) ◽  
pp. 474-484
Author(s):  
Julia G. Grekhneva
Keyword(s):  
Universal Access ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
Regulatory Framework ◽  
Library Services ◽  
World Community ◽  
Information Barriers ◽  
Other Information ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Free Environment ◽  
Physical Accessibility

Ensuring accessibility of library services is one of the most urgent tasks of modern librarianship. The concept of “accessibility” which is actively used in the regulatory framework for librarianship and in the works of library scientists, at the same time remains insufficiently substantiated and developed. The article presents the options for the disclosure of the concept of “accessibility” and correlates the concepts of “access” and “accessibility”.In the regulatory framework in dictionaries and reference books on librarianship, the term “accessibility” started to be used relatively recently. The UNESCO Information for All program, as well as organization of the Open Access Movement to scientific information, played an important role in the awareness of the world community of the need for universal access to information. The beginning of the 2000s in Russia is a period of active study of electronic libraries, for which the concepts of “access”, “accessibility” and similar are an important component. During this period, there has been increasing the importance of the issue of barrier-free environment for people with disabilities, where the concept of physical accessibility is the key one. In librarianship documents, the term “accessibility” is also used as physical opportunity to obtain information.At the moment, this concept is introduced in the State Standard of Russia GOST R 7.0.103-2018 “Library and Information Services. Terms and Definitions”. The concept reflects the general trend of using the term “accessibility” mainly in the digital environment; however, the concept of “accessibility” is much broader and is not limited only to access to electronic resources and physical accessibility of the library. The concept of “accessibility” should be considered through information barriers (physical, assortment, navigation and search, deunification), since overcoming them will allow the library to become as accessible as possible. The problem of accessibility of library services has several aspects, and it is important that the scientific community and librarians realize the complexity of this problem and focus their attention not only on ensuring the physical accessibility of the library, but also on removing other information barriers.

Open access to scientific information: comparative study in DOAJ

2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (4/5) ◽  
pp. 364-374 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tereza Stoyanova Trencheva ◽  
Tania Yordanova Todorova
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
Global Movement ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Important Position ◽  
The Moment

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to provide a comparative retrospective analysis of Bulgarian, Turkish and Croatian Open Access (OA) journals added in Directory of Open Access journals (DOAJ) in the period 2002-2013. Design/methodology/approach – First of all, the study is focussed on brief review of definitions and descriptions of the OA as a global movement. In the study were analyzed the three main OA initiatives and was shown the difference between Golden Road and Green Road. Second of all, the authors used the comparative approach and made a comparative study of the OA journals in Bulgaria, Turkey and Croatia and present the evaluation results and findings. Findings – Qualitative and quantitative data for the study are collected by the DOAJ. The data are analyzed in terms of quantity and period, and the results are presented graphically and tabular and finally there are made major specific conclusions and recommendations. Originality/value – The paper shows that OA in the digital space has an important position in scientific research. There are many discussion issues related to the problems of OA, but overall study of OA to scientific information, and in particular comparative study of Bulgarian, Turkish and Croatian journals in the DOAJ does not exist at the moment.

scholarly journals Open proceedings of scientific events as an object of information and library services

2020 ◽  
pp. 87-104
Author(s):  
A. B. Antopolsky
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Materials Science ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
Bibliographic Databases ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Scientific Institutions ◽  
Information Awareness ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Selective Information

The task of creating an open access repository for social sciences in the framework of the development of the information system of the Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences (INION RAS) is formulated. The repository is to acquire and store he programs of workshops, webinars, conference and symposia as well as the presentations and paper abstracts. The findings of the study of open materials science events loaded to the websites of RAS scientific institutions of social and humanitarian profile as potential sources of information for the Repository are cited. For 2019–2020, over 1,2 thousand events held by more than 100 academic institutions were selected. Distribution by the number of events, their categories and status, topics, and type of available materials is given. The data supports the Pareto principle: 20% institutions hold up to 70% events. Thirteen scientific event types are specified, with 5 most popular of them accounting for 90% events with the leading disciplines of history, economics and literary studies. The available materials are unified and their 16 types are specified. Distribution by the number of events, their categories and status, topics, and type of available materials is given. The possibility for using these materials in various information and library services, building e-libraries and union bibliographic databases, and current and advanced selective information awareness services, is discussed.

scholarly journals Intranets: A New Dimension for Library Services

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bhojaraju Gunjal
Keyword(s):  
Discussion Groups ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Research Association ◽  
Management Information ◽  
Training Materials ◽  
Other Information ◽  
Collaborative Working ◽  
Practical Experiences ◽  
Internal Communications ◽  
E Mail

This article is based on some practical experiences of Indian Rubber Manufacturing Research Association (IRMRA). It gives a brief introduction about the intranet, controversies of an intranet, and its library applications. It also gives information about accessing management information, improving internal communications, e-mail, intra mail, collaborative working, communities of interests, discussion groups, electronic forms, internal newsletters, search facilities, training materials, and library applications/access. The use of intranet in providing library services like SDI, CAS and other information management is explained with a schematic diagram.

scholarly journals Monetary Theory of the Genesis of the State, Prospects for Electronic Money and Transnational Law

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 636-647
Author(s):  
Daniyar Sarsembayev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Public Procurement ◽  
The State ◽  
Economic Crime ◽  
Electronic Money ◽  
World Community ◽  
Monetary System ◽  
The World ◽  
Digital Money ◽  
The Moment

This article is an attempt to explain a new way of the cause of the emergence of the state with simultaneous consideration of previously known theories in legal science. Several arguments are presented in favor of the new theory, which, in the author's opinion, are sufficiently valid. The author analyzes the dynamics of the development of the causes of the emergence of state and law and its influence on the transformation of the latest civilizations, which took place in history. Based on the historical chronology of the emergence and functioning of money, the author conventionally differs three stages in its development: 1) the period of the gold standard or a chronic shortage of monetary liquidity; 2) the period of paper money and inflationary pressure; 3) the digital money period. The author upholds a new position regarding the essence of international law, believing that international law is not a separate system of law, but only the result of the evolution of law from national to international, which became possible thanks to the development of the institution of money. The author shares his thoughts on the true reason for justifying the state's right to war in international law a while back, expressed in a persistent shortage of monetary liquidity, which took place from the moment the first civilizations appeared until the 20th century. This article establishes a projection for the further development of state and law, including international law, alongside the inevitable transition of the world community to the digital money supply. The article reveals not only the vision of the new monetary system, its absolute transparency, and clarity but also the various opportunities we face in such a transition. In this regard, the states and the world community will come to clear and effective outcomes in management, to the practical abolition of corruption and economic crime, to legal methods of conducting all competitions and public procurement, to fair and effective justice, and the establishment of highly moral relations in society.

scholarly journals On Prospects of Exercising of the Constitutional Power of the Government of the Russian Federation to Create the Conditions for the Development of a System of Environmental Education and Environmental Culture Fostering

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 23-27
Author(s):  
Valeriy N. Vlasenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
World Community ◽  
Education Community ◽  
Environmentally Safe ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Government ◽  
Ecological Culture ◽  
The Moment

The article states that at the moment in Russia the legal regulation of relations on the formation of environmental education and the upbringing of environmental culture is declarative, fragmented, not ensuring the creation of a system of continuous, systematic and purposeful formation of a respectful attitude to natural resources. The author discusses the prospects for the implementation of the constitutional authority of the Government of the Russian Federation to create conditions for the development of the system of environmental education and the upbringing of environmental culture. This power, along with others, was introduced into the Constitution of the Russian Federation by the Law of the Russian Federation on an amendment to the Constitution of the Russian Federation of March 14, 2020 N 1-FKZ. In the conclusion of the article, it is argued that in order for this power to be implemented, “to move away from declarativeness” and to lead to a qualitative increase in the level of ecological culture of the population, the Government of the Russian Federation needs to develop with the obligatory involvement of the scientific and environmental education community and adopt the concept of environmental education, which assumes continuous, systematic and purposeful formation of a respectful attitude towards nature, and, on its basis, to propose a system of legal, financial and organizational and technical forms that provide executive and administrative activities not only to create conditions for the development of environmental education and the upbringing of environmental culture, but also their real implementation for the purpose of environmentally safe sustainable development of Russia and the entire world community.

scholarly journals Innovation Strategy on Online-Based Library Services to Achieve Freedom Learning Program during Covid 19

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 703-710
Author(s):  
M. Afif Hasbullah ◽  
Nisaul Barokati Seliro Wangi
Keyword(s):  
Digital Library ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Critical Factor ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Learning Program ◽  
Reading Materials ◽  
Other Information ◽  
Delivery Services ◽  
Digital Library Services

The Covid-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on the implementation of teaching and learning activities, especially libraries as critical factor in maintaining good education. The Covid-19 outbreak has impacted the availability of instructional resources, reading materials, literacy, and other information. To ensure successful implementation, libraries must constantly innovate services through the use of information technology advances, including developing e-digital library services, online libraries, and book delivery services, as well as developing big data and digital library applications that involve libraries throughout Indonesia. Even the world through the use of a system that is frequently found in digital e-commerce platforms.

scholarly journals Evolution of political and legal values traditional society in the conditions of nomadic statehood (by the Epic of Manas materials)

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-262
Author(s):  
G. Aydarbekova ◽  
B. Abdyraliev
Keyword(s):  
Legal Culture ◽  
Traditional Society ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
World Community ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Other Information ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Cultural Monuments

The article discusses the features of the evolution of political and legal values of a traditional society in the conditions of nomadic statehood on the example of a cultural and legal monument — the Epic of Manas. The topic of Eurasian nomadic civilization, the legal life of Kirghiz, signs of statehood, culture and customs of the people are actively considered by scientists in connection with the growth of the nation’s identity and identity since along with Kirghiz and Kazakhs other modern massifs historically coexisted in the Eurasian nomadic civilization. The subject of the research is political and legal values in a nomadic society on the example of a cultural and legal monument — the Epic of Manas. The object of the research is the formation of individual political and legal values of a traditional society in the context of nomadic statehood and the characteristics of the evolution of the national legal culture. In the study of the problems were used: universal and private scientific methods of cognition: analysis and synthesis, deduction and induction, historical and legal and comparative. The results of the study allow to conclude about the need for further study, preservation and popularization of historical and cultural monuments, allowing people to identify themselves in the world community, in this case, the Epic of Manas, which concentrates a complex of social, cultural, political, legal and other information about life and Kirghiz life.

GATS and Public Library Services

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel E Trosow ◽  
Kirsti E Nilsen
Keyword(s):  
Service Delivery ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Universal Access ◽  
Public Funding ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Library Service ◽  
The Public ◽  
Publicly Supported

Public library service is based on the values of providing universal access to information by promoting literacy, supporting authors and scholars in their research, preserving cultural heritage, and providing other publicly supported services. The mandate of the public library is grounded in broad societal goals that justify a model of service delivery that relies on public funding and that operates. . .

The presentation of scientific information

1949 ◽  
Vol 136 (884) ◽  
pp. 317-333
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Discovery ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
Scientific Progress ◽  
Personal Communication ◽  
First Record ◽  
Spoken Word ◽  
Scientific Results ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Periodical Publishing ◽  
Scientific Advances

When the organizers of this conference did me the honour to suggest that I should have this lecture on some general aspect of the theme that is engaging our deliberaons, I was somewhat at a loss to know what plan to adopt. Like most of those present I have, in one way and another and at various times, been engaged in the communication of scientific information, but that does not necessarily make it an sy subject to discuss. Not to weary you with my doubts and inward debates, finally decided to attempt a brief historical survey of the subject, for to see how e’s difficulties arose is sometimes a step towards their solution. In any case hope that the considerations that I shall lay before you may prove a mild and ntle, if not soporific, interlude in the strenuous deliberations upon which you are gaged. I wish, then, to consider how the communication of scientific information—more particularly the communication of original scientific discovery, of even the smallest gree of importance and interest—has grown to be the very complex matter that is to-day. The methods of communication that we shall have to consider are, suppose, the spoken word, the book and the scientific periodical, which to-day cludes both the periodical publishing original papers and the periodical publishing stracts of papers. You may be surprised that I have included the spoken word, or, you prefer it, personal communication, but I think that, if you consider, you will me to the conclusion that this personal method still retains its importance. I do ot include radio under this head, because we are, I think, concerned rather with first record of novel scientific results than with the popular exposition of general scientific advances. I would remind you that even in our times when students from over the world flock to such a laboratory as Rutherford’s (I choose a man no nger with us to avoid a selection among the living that might be invidious) it is jot so much to avail themselves of material instruments—the instruments used by utherford could be bought by laboratories in any country—nor to hear a statement what the leader has already achieved, which can be read in the scientific journals, to hear from the leader’s mouth what is going on in his head at the moment, to arn of scientific progress in the making. The writing of a paper comes, in general, fter the results have already been communicated to a small circle in the laboratory ind their friends. The importance of the spoken word has not yet vanished, and it ould do no harm if some of our great men, whose audiences are attracted by their same and retained in their seats by considerations of courtesy, were to remember that he who uses the spoken word should pay some attention to acquiring proficiency the use of the instrument, just as he takes trouble in learning to handle any other instrument of his profession. Occasionally the performance brings to mind the ma who was asked if he could play the violin and replied that he did not know-he ha never tried. The ability to present scientific facts clearly in a lecture is not a gif from heaven; I doubt very much if anybody gives a really good first lecture. A any rate, taking one of the best British lecturers of modern times, one who was particularly good at communicating new scientific advances, Sir William Bragg, is recorded of him that in his early days as professor he was one of the leas impressive lecturers, but by careful application he attained that high eminence i the art for which he was later known.

scholarly journals Financial Regulation: Still Unsettled a Decade After the Crisis

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel K. Tarullo
Keyword(s):  
Financial Stability ◽  
Financial Regulation ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Regulatory Framework ◽  
The Political ◽  
Shadow Banking ◽  
Unfinished Business ◽  
Short Term ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Moment

A decade after the darkest moments of the financial crisis, both the US financial system and the legal framework for its regulation are still in flux. The post-crisis regulatory framework has made systemically important banks much more resilient. They are substantially better capitalized and less dependent on runnable short-term funding. But the current regulatory framework does not deal effectively with threats to financial stability outside the perimeter of regulated banking organizations, notably from forms of shadow banking. Moreover, with the political tide having for the moment turned decisively toward deregulation, there is some question whether the resiliency improvements of the largest banks will be preserved. This article assesses the accomplishments, unfinished business, and outstanding issues in the post-crisis approach to prudential regulation.

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