This document summarizes a presentation about electronic resources, interlibrary loan, and efforts in Denmark to provide access. It discusses how electronic resources are typically not shared between libraries due to licensing restrictions, unlike printed materials. While Denmark has many e-resources, ILL is still limited to printed copies sent by mail. Several Danish projects aim to create more access, such as a pilot sending printed articles electronically and an archive of 150,000 scanned articles available online. The presentation argues that ILL from e-resources seems contradictory but could be one way to explore more partial access options for library users.
IFLA ARL Webinar Series: Academic Library Services during Covid 19IFLAAcademicandResea
Slides used by speakers at the IFLA ARL Webinar, Academic Library Services during COVID-19, held on 22 July 2020. The Webinar features 10 speakers from around the world, who share their institutional and national experiences during this COVID 19 period.
IFLA ARL Webinar Series: Digital Preservation - Managing Publications and Dat...IFLAAcademicandResea
This webinar gives a comprehensive overview of the basics of digital preservation, and a more in depth account of challenges regarding research data in this field.
IFLA ARL Webinar Series: Academic Library Services during Covid 19IFLAAcademicandResea
Slides used by speakers at the IFLA ARL Webinar, Academic Library Services during COVID-19, held on 22 July 2020. The Webinar features 10 speakers from around the world, who share their institutional and national experiences during this COVID 19 period.
IFLA ARL Webinar Series: Digital Preservation - Managing Publications and Dat...IFLAAcademicandResea
This webinar gives a comprehensive overview of the basics of digital preservation, and a more in depth account of challenges regarding research data in this field.
Building a National Ontology Infrastructure - a presentation at SWIB2013Matias Frosterus
Describes Finland's national effort at building an ontology service, describes the linked ontology approach as well as musings on the difficulties of developing multilingual ontologies.
Chcete vědět víc? Mnoho dalších prezentací, videí z konferencí, fotografií i jiných dokumentů je k dispozici v institucionálním repozitáři NTK: http://repozitar.techlib.cz
Would you like to know more? Find presentations, reports, conference videos, photos and much more in our institutional repository at: http://repozitar.techlib.cz/?ln=en
I was asked to kick off a set of 7x7 talks for the National Library of New Zealand as they tried to figure out what the "National Digital Library" should be and do. I threw a few grenades in a provocative talk.
Copyright literacy and the role of librarians as educators and advocates: an ...Jane Secker
International symposium presented as part of the European Conference on Information Literacy in St Malo, France September 2017. Included contributions from UK, Sweden, Norway, Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Spain
A presentation on select digital library initiatives in India by Rupesh Kumar A, Assistant Professor, Department of Studies and Research in Library and Information Science, Tumkur University, Karnataka, India.
National Digital Library. Minna Karvonen.Twin Cities Conference: Innovation into Practise- New Service Concepts, Helsinki and Turku, Finland, 13-16 May 2009
Presentation given at D-e2009, JISC RSC West Midlands event, May 19, 2009. About Digital Repositories, their landscape in Higher and Further Education and more specifically about learning and teaching repositories. Download is PDF.
Presentation by Ingrid Parent: Digital Academic Content and the Future of Lib...Ingrid Parent
International Library Cooperation Symposium presentation May 14, 2010 in Tokyo, Japan. Presentation by Ingrid Parent, President elect of IFLA, and University Librarian at the University of British Columbia
Danish library association and the danish digital libraryMichel Steen-Hansen
In The Danish Library Association we are always happy to have guests from around the world. This week we had a visit from Estonian Librarians Association and the National Library in Ljubljana.
On this occasion I made a short presentation on Danish Library Association and The Danish Digital Library.
Presentation given by Hildelies Balk during the 2nd LIBER-EBLIDA Workshop on Digitisation of Library Material in Europe (19-21 October 2009, The Hague, the Netherlands)
Presented at the AAO 2013 Conference - a discussion on building a Digital Scholarship Unit at the University of Toronto Scarborough Library. Covers the conference questions of "should you; could you; and why would you digitize"
Presentació de Lluís M. Anglada, director de l'Àrea de Biblioteques, Informació i Documentació del CSUC, a l'International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC), que va tenir lloc del 20 al 22 d'octubre de 2014 a la Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal.
En aquesta presentació, que formava part del bloc dedicat a noves eines, Anglada presenta el nou sistema integrat de biblioteques i eines de descobriment com a oportunitats per als consorcis.
Jabes 2011 - Session plénière 18 mai "Le partage des ressources au Danemark, ...ABES
Jabes 2011 - Session plénière 18 mai "Le partage des ressources au Danemark, ou pourquoi les danois sont les plus heureux au monde ?", Paul Erlandsen, Bibliothèque Royale - Bibliothèque et service d'information de l'université de Copenhague, dans le cadre des Journées Abes 2011
Building a National Ontology Infrastructure - a presentation at SWIB2013Matias Frosterus
Describes Finland's national effort at building an ontology service, describes the linked ontology approach as well as musings on the difficulties of developing multilingual ontologies.
Chcete vědět víc? Mnoho dalších prezentací, videí z konferencí, fotografií i jiných dokumentů je k dispozici v institucionálním repozitáři NTK: http://repozitar.techlib.cz
Would you like to know more? Find presentations, reports, conference videos, photos and much more in our institutional repository at: http://repozitar.techlib.cz/?ln=en
I was asked to kick off a set of 7x7 talks for the National Library of New Zealand as they tried to figure out what the "National Digital Library" should be and do. I threw a few grenades in a provocative talk.
Copyright literacy and the role of librarians as educators and advocates: an ...Jane Secker
International symposium presented as part of the European Conference on Information Literacy in St Malo, France September 2017. Included contributions from UK, Sweden, Norway, Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Spain
A presentation on select digital library initiatives in India by Rupesh Kumar A, Assistant Professor, Department of Studies and Research in Library and Information Science, Tumkur University, Karnataka, India.
National Digital Library. Minna Karvonen.Twin Cities Conference: Innovation into Practise- New Service Concepts, Helsinki and Turku, Finland, 13-16 May 2009
Presentation given at D-e2009, JISC RSC West Midlands event, May 19, 2009. About Digital Repositories, their landscape in Higher and Further Education and more specifically about learning and teaching repositories. Download is PDF.
Presentation by Ingrid Parent: Digital Academic Content and the Future of Lib...Ingrid Parent
International Library Cooperation Symposium presentation May 14, 2010 in Tokyo, Japan. Presentation by Ingrid Parent, President elect of IFLA, and University Librarian at the University of British Columbia
Danish library association and the danish digital libraryMichel Steen-Hansen
In The Danish Library Association we are always happy to have guests from around the world. This week we had a visit from Estonian Librarians Association and the National Library in Ljubljana.
On this occasion I made a short presentation on Danish Library Association and The Danish Digital Library.
Presentation given by Hildelies Balk during the 2nd LIBER-EBLIDA Workshop on Digitisation of Library Material in Europe (19-21 October 2009, The Hague, the Netherlands)
Presented at the AAO 2013 Conference - a discussion on building a Digital Scholarship Unit at the University of Toronto Scarborough Library. Covers the conference questions of "should you; could you; and why would you digitize"
Presentació de Lluís M. Anglada, director de l'Àrea de Biblioteques, Informació i Documentació del CSUC, a l'International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC), que va tenir lloc del 20 al 22 d'octubre de 2014 a la Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal.
En aquesta presentació, que formava part del bloc dedicat a noves eines, Anglada presenta el nou sistema integrat de biblioteques i eines de descobriment com a oportunitats per als consorcis.
Jabes 2011 - Session plénière 18 mai "Le partage des ressources au Danemark, ...ABES
Jabes 2011 - Session plénière 18 mai "Le partage des ressources au Danemark, ou pourquoi les danois sont les plus heureux au monde ?", Paul Erlandsen, Bibliothèque Royale - Bibliothèque et service d'information de l'université de Copenhague, dans le cadre des Journées Abes 2011
Digitised Content: How we Make It Relevant to Researchers, Teachers and StudentsLIBER Europe
Digitised Content: How we Make It Relevant to Researchers, Teachers and Students
by Dr Paul Ayris, Director of UCL Library Services and UCL Copyright Officer, President of LIBER (Association of European Research Libraries)
Public libraries in The Netherlands: a powerful networkFers
In this presentation I will briefly present the structure of the public library network in the Netherlands, with particular emphasis on the way public library innovation is “organised”. There is currently a community of practice (CoP) organised for every specific area of library innovation which at the same time also addresses officially established national priorities, i.e. lifelong learning, development of traditional library services, education of the young population, etc. Librarians in each of the CoPs share experiences specific to their field based on which they identify future activities aimed at the development of the particular field. Librarians included in this CoP system come from libraries of all types and sizes regardless of the province or region.
Keywords: innovation, collaboration, Communities of Practice, network
Presented at 11th Croatian Conference on Public Libraries: “Public Library Network – Cooperation in the Development of Digital Services and Public Presentation” http://www.nsk.hr/en/11th-croatian-conference-on-public-libraries/
Developing a national digital library stapel - meijers 20160302Enno Meijers
In 2015, the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB) became legally responsible for the digital infrastructure of the Dutch public libraries.
The KB wants to offer a platform where people and information come together. Their most important task for the years to come is the development of a national digital library - together with their partners in the network.
In this session, representatives from the KB will present their approach towards the Dutch digital library infrastructure. They will address some issues and welcome input from colleague librarians that are facing the same challenges.
WNR.sg - The Memory of the Netherlands: Towards a National Infrastructurewnradmin
The Memory of the Netherlands: Towards a National Infrastructure
by Dr J.S.M (Bas) Savenije, Director General from Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of Netherlands)
During the workshop 'Demands and requirements of scientific Text and Data Mining', organized by the Priority Initiative ' Digital Information' of the Deutsche Forschungs Gemeinschaft, I presented some of the findings and results of our Leiden University Libraries project on Text- & Data Mining (TDM) and I gave an overview of the barriers for TDM at a national level in relation to license and Intellectual Property Rights.
Moving from Niche to Mainstream: the Evolution of the UCD Digital LibraryUCD Library
Presentation by Eugene Roche, UCD Library Assistant, UCD Special Collections, and Julia Barrett, Head of Research Services, UCD Library, at the Library Association of Ireland Rare Books Group seminar on 'Digitisation of Special Collections', Friday, 27 November 2015, Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, Ireland.
This session will demystify (generative) AI by exploring its workings as an advanced statistical modelling tool (suitable for any level of technical knowledge). Not only will this session explain the technological underpinnings of AI, it will also address concerns and (long-term) requirements around ethical and practical usage of AI. This includes data preparation and cleaning, data ownership, and the value of data-generated - but not owned - by libraries. It will also discuss the potentials for (hypothetical) use cases of AI in collections environments and making collections data AI-ready; providing examples of AI capabilities and applications beyond chatbots.
CATH DISHMAN, CENYU SHEN,
KATHERINE STEPHAN
Although scholarly communications has become more open, problems with predatory and problematic publishers remain. There are commercial providers of lists, start-up/renegade Internet lists of good/bad and the researchers, publishers and assessors that try to understand and process what being on/off a list means to themselves, their careers and their institutions. Still, these problems persist and leaves many asking: where is the list?
Christina Dinh Nguyen, University of Toronto Mississauga Library
In the world of digital literacies, liaison and instructional librarians are increasingly coming to terms with a new term: algorithmic literacy. No matter the liaison or instruction subjects – computer science, sociology, language and literature, chemistry, physics, economics, or other – students are grappling with assignments that demand a critical understanding, or even use, of algorithms. Over the course of this session, we’ll discuss the term ‘algorithmic literacies,’ explore how it fits into other digital literacies, and see why it as a curriculum might belong at your library. We’ll also look at some examples of practical pedagogical methods you can implement right away, depending on what types of AL lessons you want to teach, and who your patrons are. Lastly, we’ll discuss how librarians should view themselves as co-learners when working with AL skills. This session seeks to bring together participants from across the different libraries, with diverse missions/vision/mandates, to explore ways we can all benefit from teaching AL. If time permits, we may discuss how text and data librarians (functional specialists) can support the development of this curriculum.
David Pride, The Open University
In this paper, we present CORE-GPT, a novel question- answering platform that combines GPT-based language models and more than 32 million full-text open access scientific articles from CORE. We first demonstrate that GPT3.5 and GPT4 cannot be relied upon to provide references or citations for generated text. We then introduce CORE-GPT which delivers evidence-based answers to questions, along with citations and links to the cited papers, greatly increasing the trustworthiness of the answers and reducing the risk of hallucinations.
Cath Dishman, Cenyu Shen, Katherine Stephan
Although scholarly communications has become more open, problems with predatory and problematic publishers remain. There are commercial providers of lists, start-up/renegade Internet lists of good/bad and the researchers, publishers and assessors that try to understand and process what being on/off a list means to themselves, their careers and their institutions. Still, these problems persist and leaves many asking: where is the list?
This plenary panel will discuss the problems of “predatory” publishing and what, if anything, publishers, our community and researchers can do to try and help minimise their abundancy/impact.
eth Montague-Hellen, Francis Crick Institute, Katie Fraser, University of Nottingham
Open Access is a foundational topic in Scholarly Communications. However, when information professionals and publishers talk about its future, it is nearly always Gold open access we discuss. Green was seen as the big solution for providing access to those who couldn’t afford it. However, publishers have protested that Green destroys their business models. How true is this, and are we even all talking the same language when we talk about Green?
Chris Banks, Imperial College London, Caren Milloy, Jisc,
Transitional agreements were developed in response to funder policy and institutional demand to constrain costs and facilitate funder compliance. They have since become the dominant model by which UK research outputs are made open access. In January 2023, Jisc instigated a critical review of TAs and the OA landscape to provide an evidence base to inform a conversation on the desired future state of research dissemination. This session will discuss the key findings of the review and its impact on a sector-wide consultation and concrete actions in the UK and beyond.
Michael Levine-Clark, University of Denver, Jason Price, SCELC Library Consortium
As transformative agreements emerge as a new standard, it is critical for libraries, consortia, publishers, and vendors to have consistent and comprehensive data – yet data around publication profiles, authorship, and readership has been shown to be highly variable in availability and accuracy. Building on prior research around frameworks for assessing the combined value of open publishing and comprehensive read access that these deals provide, we will address multi-dimensional perspectives to the challenges that the industry faces with the dissemination, collection, and analysis of data about authorship, readership, and value.
Hylke Koers, STM Solutions
Get Full Text Research (GetFTR) launched in 2020 with the objective of streamlining discovery and access of scholarly content in the many tools that researchers use today, such as Dimensions, Semantic Scholar, Mendeley, and many others. It works equally well for open access content as it does for subscription-based content, providing researchers with recognizable buttons and indicators to get them to the most up-to-date version of content with minimal effort. Currently, around 30,000 OA articles are accessed every day via GetFTR links.
Gareth Cole, Loughborough University, Adrian Clark, Figshare
Researchers face more pressure to share their research data than ever before. Owing to a rise in funder policies and momentum towards more openness across the research landscape. Although policies for data sharing are in place, engagement work is undertaken by librarians in order to ensure repository uptake and compliance.
We will discuss a particular strategy implemented at Loughborough University that involved the application of conceptual messaging frameworks to engagement activities in order to promote and encourage use of our Figshare-powered repository. We will showcase the rationale behind the adoption of messaging frameworks for library outreach and some practical examples.
Mark Lester, Cardiff Metropolitan University
This talk will outline how a completely accidental occurrence led to brand new avenues for open research advocacy and reasons for being. This advocacy has occurred within student communities such as trainee teachers, student psychologists and (especially) those soon losing access to subscription-based library content. Alongside these new forms of advocacy, these ethical example of AI use cases has begun to form a cornerstone of directly connecting the work of the library to new technology.
Simon Bell, Bristol University Press
The UN SDG Publishers Compact, launched in 2020, was set up to inspire action among publishers to accelerate progress to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, asking signatories to develop sustainable practices, act as champions and publish books and journals that will “inform, develop and inspire action in that direction”.
This Lightning Talk will discuss how our new Bristol University Press Digital has been developed as part of our mission to contribute a meaningful and impactful response to this call to action as well as the global social challenges we face.
Using thematic tagging to create uniquely curated themed eBook collections around the Global Social Challenges, Bristol University Press Digital responds directly to the need to provide the scholarly community access to a comprehensive range SDG focussed content while minimising time and resource at the institution end in collating content and maintaining collection relevance to rapidly evolving themes
Jenni Adams, University of Sheffield, Ric Campbell, University of Sheffield
Academic researchers are becoming increasingly aware of the need to make data and software FAIR in order to support the sharing and reuse of non-publication outputs. Currently there is still a lack of concise and practical guidance on how to achieve this in the context of specific data types and disciplines.
This presentation details recent and ongoing work at the University of Sheffield to bridge this gap. It will explore the development of a FAIR resource with specialist guidance for a range of data types and will examine the planned development of this project during the period 2023-25
TASHA MELLINS-COHEN
COUNTER & Mellins-Cohen Consulting, JOANNA BALL
DOAJ, YVONNE CAMPFENS
OA Switchboard,
ADAM DER, Max Planck Digital Library
Community-led organizations like DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), COUNTER (the standard for usage metrics) and OA Switchboard (information exchange for OA publications) are committed to providing reliable, not-for-profit services and standards essential for a well-functioning global research ecosystem. These organizations operate behind the scenes, with low budgets and limited staffing – no salespeople, marketing teams, travel budgets, or in-house technology support. They collaborate with one another and with bigger infrastructure bodies like Crossref and ORCID, creating the foundations on which much scholarly infrastructure relies.
These organizations deliver value through open infrastructure, data and standards, and naturally services and tools have been built by commercial and not-for-profit groups that capitalize on their open, interoperable data and services – many of which you are likely to recognize and may use on a regular basis.
Hear from the Directors of COUNTER, DOAJ and OA Switchboard, as well as a library leader, on the role of these organizations, the challenges they face and why support from the community is essential to their sustainability.
CAMILLE LEMIEUX
Springer Nature
What is the current state of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the scholarly publishing community? It's time to take a thorough look at the 2023 global Workplace Equity (WE) Survey results. The C4DISC coalition conducted the WE Survey to capture perceptions, experiences, and demographics of colleagues working at publishers, associations, libraries, and many more types of organizations in the global community. Four key themes emerged from the 2023 results, which will be compared to the findings from the first WE Survey conducted in 2018. Recommendations for actions organisations can consider within their contexts will be proposed and discussed.
Rob Johnson, Research Consulting
Angela Cochran, American Society of Clinical Oncology
Gaynor Redvers-Mutton, Biochemical Society
Since 2015, the number of self-published learned societies in the UK has decreased by over a third, with the remaining societies experiencing real-term revenue declines. All around the world, society publishers are struggling with increased competition from commercial publishers and the rise of open access business models that reward quantity over quality. We will delve into the distinctive position of societies in research, examine the challenges confronting UK and US learned society publishers, and explore actionable steps for libraries and policymakers to support the continued relevance of learned society publishers in the evolving scholarly landscape.
Simon Bell, Clare Hooper, Katharine Horton, Ian Morgan
Over the last few years we have witnessed a seismic shift in the scholarly ecosystem. Three years since outset of the COVID pandemic and the establishment UN Publishers Compact, this is discussion-led presentation will look at how four UK Universities Presses have adopted a consultative and collaborative approach on projects to support their institutional missions, engage with the wider scholarly community while building on a commitment to make a meaningful difference to society.
This panel discussion will combine the perspectives of four UK based university presses, all with distinct identities and varied publishing programs drawn from humanities, arts and social sciences, yet with a shared recognition and value of the importance to collaborate and co-operate on a shared vision to support accessibility and inclusivity within the wider scholarly community and maintain a rich bibliodiversity.
While research support teams are generally small and specialist in nature, an increased demand of its service has been observed across the sector. This is particularly true for teaching-intensive institutions. As a pilot to expand research support across ARU library, the library graduate trainee was seconded to the research services team for a month. This dialogue between the former trainee and manager will discuss what the experience and outcomes of the secondment were from different perspectives. The conversation will also explore the exposure Library and Information Studies students have to research services throughout their degree.
TIM FELLOWS & EMILY WILD, Jisc
Octopus.ac is a UKRI funded research publishing model, designed to promote best practice. Intended to sit alongside journals, Octopus provides a space for researcher collaboration, recording work in detail, and receiving feedback from others, allowing journals to focus on narrative.
The platform removes existing barriers to publishing. It’s an entirely free, open space for researchers, without editorial and pre-publication peer review processes. The only requirement for authors is a valid ORCiD ID. Without barriers, Octopus must provide feedback mechanisms to ensure the community can self-moderate. During this session, we’ll explore Octopus’ aims to foster a collaborative environment and incentivise quality.
David Parker, Publisher and Founder, Lived Places Publishing
Dr. Kadian Pow, Lecturer in Sociology and Black Studies & LPP Author, Birmingham City University
Natasha Edmonds, Director, Publisher and Industry Strategy, Clarivate
Library patrons want to search for and locate authors by particular identity markers, such as gender identification, country of origin, sexual orientation, nature of disability, and the many intersectional points that allow an author to express a point-of-view. Artificial Intelligence, skilled web researchers, and data scientists in general struggle to achieve accuracy on single identity markers, such as gender. And what right does anybody have to affix identity metadata to an author other than the author theirselves? And what of the risks in disseminating author identity metadata in electronic distribution platforms and in library catalog systems? Can a "fully informed" author even imagine all the possible misuses of their identity metadata?
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Embracing GenAI - A Strategic ImperativePeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
Welcome to TechSoup New Member Orientation and Q&A (May 2024).pdfTechSoup
In this webinar you will learn how your organization can access TechSoup's wide variety of product discount and donation programs. From hardware to software, we'll give you a tour of the tools available to help your nonprofit with productivity, collaboration, financial management, donor tracking, security, and more.
How to Make a Field invisible in Odoo 17Celine George
It is possible to hide or invisible some fields in odoo. Commonly using “invisible” attribute in the field definition to invisible the fields. This slide will show how to make a field invisible in odoo 17.
Acetabularia Information For Class 9 .docxvaibhavrinwa19
Acetabularia acetabulum is a single-celled green alga that in its vegetative state is morphologically differentiated into a basal rhizoid and an axially elongated stalk, which bears whorls of branching hairs. The single diploid nucleus resides in the rhizoid.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
The Roman Empire A Historical Colossus.pdfkaushalkr1407
The Roman Empire, a vast and enduring power, stands as one of history's most remarkable civilizations, leaving an indelible imprint on the world. It emerged from the Roman Republic, transitioning into an imperial powerhouse under the leadership of Augustus Caesar in 27 BCE. This transformation marked the beginning of an era defined by unprecedented territorial expansion, architectural marvels, and profound cultural influence.
The empire's roots lie in the city of Rome, founded, according to legend, by Romulus in 753 BCE. Over centuries, Rome evolved from a small settlement to a formidable republic, characterized by a complex political system with elected officials and checks on power. However, internal strife, class conflicts, and military ambitions paved the way for the end of the Republic. Julius Caesar’s dictatorship and subsequent assassination in 44 BCE created a power vacuum, leading to a civil war. Octavian, later Augustus, emerged victorious, heralding the Roman Empire’s birth.
Under Augustus, the empire experienced the Pax Romana, a 200-year period of relative peace and stability. Augustus reformed the military, established efficient administrative systems, and initiated grand construction projects. The empire's borders expanded, encompassing territories from Britain to Egypt and from Spain to the Euphrates. Roman legions, renowned for their discipline and engineering prowess, secured and maintained these vast territories, building roads, fortifications, and cities that facilitated control and integration.
The Roman Empire’s society was hierarchical, with a rigid class system. At the top were the patricians, wealthy elites who held significant political power. Below them were the plebeians, free citizens with limited political influence, and the vast numbers of slaves who formed the backbone of the economy. The family unit was central, governed by the paterfamilias, the male head who held absolute authority.
Culturally, the Romans were eclectic, absorbing and adapting elements from the civilizations they encountered, particularly the Greeks. Roman art, literature, and philosophy reflected this synthesis, creating a rich cultural tapestry. Latin, the Roman language, became the lingua franca of the Western world, influencing numerous modern languages.
Roman architecture and engineering achievements were monumental. They perfected the arch, vault, and dome, constructing enduring structures like the Colosseum, Pantheon, and aqueducts. These engineering marvels not only showcased Roman ingenuity but also served practical purposes, from public entertainment to water supply.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...
Brink uksg 2013 3
1. Electronic resources and ILL -
a self-contradiction?
Helle Brink
Aalborg University Library
UKSG, Bournemouth 2013
2. Agenda: E-resources and ILL
• Presentation and definitions
• Denmark
• Document delivery and ILL in Dk
• Statistics
• E-materials - visibility and access
• Different models creating access
• E-resources and ILL a selfcontradiction?
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3. What is?
Printed resources
materials available in printed form
instant access in the library (if not on loan)
share (ILL)
Electronic resources
materials available in electronic form
instant access (library or remote)
technically we can share (mail, cloud )
90 % of (journal) stocks in research libraries
almost no sharing
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4. What is?
ILL - interlibrary loan
service to find and borrow/buy materials
* you do not own
* OR materials you do own but cannot use
IFLA guidelines
National law and regulations
We have the ”E-res”, we use the ”E-way ” but .....
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5. Denmark – library structure
» Library structure in
» Ministry of Culture/Research
» Danish Agency for Culture / Libraries
»
» The Royal Library
» The State and University Library
»
» 98 public libraries
» 6 regional public libraries
»
» 6 (big) research/university libraries
» 11 University Colleges
» 30 institutional lib (Universities)
» 250 smaller research/educational lib
»
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6. Denmark – library cooperation
for all types of Danish libraries
• Danbib National Union Catalogue
IT-infrastructure/ automated ILL
• Delivery service between libraries
now including the Nordic countries
• App. 3.9 mill requests and app
3 mill. materials delivered.
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7. DANBIB – the Danish Union Catalogue
• All Danish materials (print, e-res, music, ao)
• Partly e-resources held in the Danish libraries
• Produced by ”Danish Bibliographic Centre”
Netpunkt.dk = professional access (search and request)
Library.dk = enduser access (search and request)
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8. Statistics e-resources
Insert text here
Some Danish figures
2011 Public Research ALL
Journals 1,5 mill 2.7 mill 4,2 mill titles
Downloads 12,3 mill 21.6 mill 33,9 mill down
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9. E-resources – visibility and access
1. Own library’s catalogue – full text for students and staff
2. Union catalogue no access
3. Google Scholar maybe access
4. WorldCat no access (maybe through your library)
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10. E-resources – visibility and access
• All Danish materials (print, e-materials, music, movies ….)
• Individual decision for libraries to make foreign e-resources
visible in DANBIB (at least on article-level)
• Several solutions i Danbib – reflecting the market and trying
to help end-users
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15. Creating access E-copy 3
The reverse evolution – electronic materials sent in print
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16. Creating access
Electronic materials sent in print
• Pilot project since 2012 based on app. 65 mill electronic articles
• Delivered from The State and University Library to libraries
• Agreements who allow ILL to other libraries
• Available through library.dk (choose database ”Research articles”)
• In 10 months 16.000 articles has been delivered
• Via 155 libraries all over Denmark
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17. E-resources and ILL in Denmark
• NO sending anything electronically from e-resources
• If stated in the license/agreement we follow rules
• You may send a printed version of articles by mail/delivery service
• Where nothing else is stated the ILL-department may offer:
1. Copy of an abstract
2. Copy of Table of Contents
3. Copy of one article up to 35 pages
PRINTED AND SENT BY MAIL/DELIVERY SERVICE
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21. Projects on creating access -
Printed material sent electronically (E-copy 1 +2)
• Project since 2007
• Delivery by mail from app 30.000 Danish and foreign journals
• Available through library.dk for all endusers in Dk
• Agreement and copyright fee paid by The State and University Library
• Requests scanned to an archive (reuse) and mailed directly to users
• App 150.000 copies sent in 2012
• App 298.000 articles in the archive for reuse
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22. We have the ”E”– we use the ”E” –
and we need exploring new models for partial access
• Walk-in-use
• Pay-per-view
• Voucher solutions (eg.10 articles pr year)
• ILL – Inter Library Loan
• Read – no download/print
• ILL access after eg. 3 months
• Public access after ?
• New ideas?
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23. YES
ILL from e-resources is a kind of contradiction
BUT
One usefull tool to explore in creating (partial)
access to e-resources for all library users
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24. Thank you for your attention
Helle Brink
Aalborg University Library
hbr@aub.aau.dk
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Editor's Notes
Good aftenoon – Im Helle Brink of AalborgUniversity in Denmark – and I will show wherethat is in a moment.I verypleased to have the opportunity to talk to youabout a subjectwhich I have beenworking with since the veryexplosion of the electronicmaterials in the libraries.
I have a background in the public libraries in Denmark throug 16 years and afterwards 16 years at the State and University Library in Aarhus in the departmentConcerning ILL and last resort for all ILL-business in Denmark. SinceJanuaryI’mworking at the Aalborg UniversityLibary – that is to saythatmy point of viewsare not specifically from any type of libary but more likely a kind of national point of view on thesesubjects.considerationswe have had i Denmark to makeaccess to all librarymaterials – weknowthanatinallicensesare not realistic – far to expensive, and it is not whatweneed.Weneedacess to materialsbought for statefundings – to createaccesswhenweneed it for thosewhoneed it.Of coursewearewilling to pay – but a reasonablecompared to whatusewemake of the materialsbourgt.I want to share with you the But to clarify on mybackgroundI’ll give you a minorcourse in the structure of the Danish Libraries – which have a closerrelationship and closercooperationthat most of youwillknow from yourlibraries and countries.We have 2 national bodiesworking with and negotiatingaccess to electronicmatrials -. One for the research libraries and one for the public libraries.Then I shalltry and clarifyhowwearedealing with the electronicresources in Denmark – in a specificlibrary and in the Union Catalogue.I’ll show you a projectwhichworks the otherwayaround in Document delivery – namely an electronic submission from printed journals, called E-kopi
I have tried to make definitions of the mainsubjects - electronicmaterials and ILL – and what is contradictory is of course the fact, that thelibrariesbuy and use a lot of the budgets on electronicresources but in facttheyareonlyaccessible for yourownspecificusers.(for free or with a fee) physical formWith printedmaterialwe have laws in Denmark and IFLA guidelines thatencourage all of us to shareourholdings and materials. For electronicmaterialswearemet with manydifferent and difficultways of trying to prohibitsharing – and weneed to adressthischallenge in differentways with different models.I need to emphasizethat of courseweshallfollowlaws, library- as well as copyright laws - I’m not trying to avoid paying for materials or effective management systems, but merelytrying to point out differentmethods and models for sharing – effectively and pragmatically
Inter Library loan / a service for fidning and borrowing Regulated by IFLA guidelines and national laws or regulations the big goal is SHARING. – but this was written for the printed materials and need an updateBecaus we have the E, we use the E and could do much more efficiently and elegantly.
This is Denmark and this is where I’, workingsinceJanuaryWe have 3 Ministreies to take of different types of libraries but for public libraries and research-libraries it is The ministry of Culture and The Ministry of Resarch.We have an agency to translate the laws, run the Union Catalogue and initiate new projects. The Royal Library i Cph and The State and University Library in Aarhus has special obligations beingligalrepositories - ww have 98 public libraries6 biguniveristylibrarires and a lot of smalereducational and research libraries.
All types of libraries in Denmark have theirholdings in DANBIB – the Union Cataloguewhichdefines the IT-infrastructure of library business in Denamrk.Since 2007 a national delivery service has broughtmaterials all over Demnmark and from 2011 it includesNorway and Sweden as well.In 2012 therewerealmost 3.9 millrequest sent in the system, and approximately 3 millmaterialsweretransported in the national delivery service. –AND YES, youheardme – in a country with app 5 millinhabitantswe do support sharinglibrarymaterials.
DANBIB is the Danish Union Catalogue and together with holdings for foreignmaterials it containsholdings from all libraries in Denmark.It canbeaccessed from Netpunkt.dk – the professional access – which is used for librarystaff to search and request and gives access to otherlibrarycatalogues, libraryregistry and a lot of other services to help provide access.Library.dk is the end useraccess – that is all inhabitants in Denamark has access form theirPC’es and areable to serach and requestthroughthis service.This enduser service is app 5 years by now, and the figures shows the success of the service. It gave room for developing the automatedrequestwhichmeenthatanyrequestwillbedirected to the lilbrary in Denmark where it is available. The full story – and part of the background for thispaper – is the visibility of all materials held in all libraries in Denmark – and the question is howwemeet the challenge of creatingaccess to what the public can find.
Thesearefigures from 2011 as the DanishStatistic Bank has nor yetupdated for 2012. But I chose to bring thembecause it is veryhighfigures for a small country andstill growing fast. Even if just part of thesematerialsareavailbalethorug DANBIB – weneed to beable to accessthem on somelevel for externalusers (former students and researchers in other parts of the country).
helpthroughyourlocallibrary.Ownlibrary’scatalogueaccess – maybe in a regional/cooperative – but Union cataloguesone the wholenoaccess to electronicresources.Google scholaryoumay have someaccess, ifyourlibrary har a connection.And for WorldCat – and I’m not on theirpayrole! – yousee a lot but noaccess – maybe
I will show you the Danish Union Catalogue and some of the efforts to – whereyoucannot give directaccess – youmayhelpyourusers.It is an individuel decision for eachlibrary to makeforeign e-resources visible in DANBIB – Royal and State Lib har made theirholdings visible but not requestable.Aalborg University har chosen not to – becausetheydonø‘t want to keep up false hopes. Thereare a lot of discussion on the subject.All Danish materials – electronic as well and the cahellengebeing to try and give service for what to do to obtainthismaterial.
This is library.dk – the end-user interface for everybody – evenyou!is and e-book in English – new fiction from Fay Weldon.DANBIB har the Danish e-version – some public library may give there users access through a local agreement – which is not automatically shown in DANBIB.But their is a kind of service – note:And for sometitlesyouget a link for buying – this is in a process
Here is added : Go to an online version – which may be a library far from you – but you may make a request to your ILL-department who will service you with some possibilities:::
An articlefound – seeavailablity – herenoloan, but service information to guide the userfurther on. – and REQUEST bottom to yourlocallibrary
The have since april 2012 a new projecttrying to help out thesedifficulties – ”Search scientificarticles” availablethroug DANBIB/library.dkresearch libraries in Denmark has chosen to make an amount of app 65 millarticles visible and available – through library.dk and as a kind of reverse service – from electronic to print – called E-copy 3 and I shallreturn to this service.This is where 65 millarticlesmaybesearched and ordered to bepicked up in print at yourlocallibrary – within a week and with a maksimum of 25 requests pr month.Theserequestsarelooked upon as anyother ILL-request. And of coursenocommercialuseareaccepted.But hereweactuallyuse the paragraph of ILL permitted from library ro library.And nowweget to where ILL do play a role for accessingelectronicresources…..
And thispicture to illustrate the nextproject - contradiction, thatweareable to replace 90% of our journals with electronic versions but weare not allowed toshare it electronically. The reverse evolution
and only by strecthing the agreements, the copyright laws and directions to the outmostwecan perform a projectwherewecantakeprints from ourelectronicstock and send by mail or delivery serviceAnd here the ILL-subject is againususefull to try and find ways to share the electronicmaterials – visible, effective, sufficient and practical – and look at the number sof requests in 10 month – nothingcompares til the sum of articles offered, but a greathelp for thoseoutside campusses with a greatwish to have access to minor parts of whatwebuy.
The overall guideline is NO sending……If permitted in the license/agreement wefollowrulesAnd then the ILL-service:The combination of Ill and e-ressources came up in the ILL-department, wherewereceivedrequestsfor booksor journals whichourusers did not knowwasonly in electronic form – weaskediftheycould do with a printed version – bought it og borrowed it from elsewhere (ifpossible).For non-fiction weasked the authorities, and wereallowed to offer ……….. That is, printed and sent by mail/delivery service.
Aalborg University Library har – as one of the bigUniversitylibraries put in what is agreed upon in the licensenegotiated –In the bibliographicreferncewhat is alloed:This is Danish but says : ILL allowed
And this is ILL allowed, not for commercialuse
And thisiss ILL allowed – prohibited to use in compendiums………AND all this is manuallybroughtinto the catalogue of thislibrary –But a piouswishthatthiscouldbeautomaticallyupdated in ourcatalogues – from the vendors and/or on a antionallevel.
This is an example of creatingaccess to printedmaterialsusind the technology ofelectronic transfer - As you have nowseenabovewe do make the electronicmaterials visible in severalcatalogues – and with kind of individual services and way to make the services available and therebycreatingaacess – or at leastmakeway for anything but a NO – tryrequesting a printed version og trymake a requestthrough the ILL – department and hopefullygetwhatyouwant – buying print, ILL a print or maybecopy of part of the book , copy of the abstract og the Table of Contents.
We Walk-in-use : meansthateverybodycanuseyourmaterials in the library – a commonpermissonPay-per-view : couldbe a nice solution but I havn’tseen it administeredveryelegantlyyet for public users – but obvious for more projectsVoucher solution – must beadministrede by the library but mightalsobesubject to furtherdevelopmentsILL : - in DenmarkMost of our e-ressources aremeant for fulltextaccess – but to accomodate the public weneed to try out new solutions – as for Denmark wecannotpay for a national licens – thereareno 5 mill. users for journal titles – but pragmatic, praticalsforpartialuse is whatweneed to think of and develope –As for the ILL point of viewwewerehappyabout the pragmatic solution of a service wherewecould offer abstract, TOC or part of a book – but the bestway to accomodateeverybodyinvolvedwouldbe in the discription of what is negotiated and agreed upon in any reference .
As mygoal is to level the e-resources and the printedresources in orden to createaccess for all public.