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4) Encouraging dialogue between research funders and promoting LIS practitioner research and translation of research outcomes into practice.
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Από τη δεκαετία του 1970 μέχρι σήμερα το Διεθνές Συμβούλιο Αρχείων δημιουργεί και παρέχει στην κοινότητα των Αρχείων και των Αρχειονόμων μια σειρά από πρότυπα για την ανάπτυξη αρχειακών βοηθημάτων έρευνας και συναφών καταλόγων και ευρετηρίων. Στόχος των προτύπων είναι η κοινή αντίληψη, προσέγγιση και ομοιομορφία στη δημιουργία καταλόγων, καθιερωμένων εγγραφών και στη θεματική περιγραφή των αρχείων, της δομής και του περιεχομένου τους.
Ο Παγκόσμιος ιστός έχει γίνει ένα από τα σημαντικότερα μέσα διακίνησης πληροφορίας και η εκρηκτική ανάπτυξη των αντίστοιχων τεχνολογιών ανάπτυξης εφαρμογών στο περιβάλλον του έχει οδηγήσει στην αξιοποίησή του από διάφορες κοινότητες. Σε αυτό το πλαίσιο οι Αρχειονόμοι καλούνται να κωδικοποιήσουν τα μεταδεδομένα τους και να τα καταστήσουν ικανά να διαλειτουργήσουν σε ένα παγκόσμιο περιβάλλον διαχείρισης πληροφορίας και γνώσης, όπου όλες οι επιστημονικές κοινότητες συνυπάρχουν.
Στόχος του σεμιναρίου είναι να παρουσιάσει (α) βασικά πρότυπα διαχείρισης αρχειακής πληροφορίας και (β) το τεχνολογικό υπόβαθρο το οποίο καθορίζει τους τρόπους με τους οποίους είναι δυνατή η ανταλλαγή και η διαλειτουργικότητα - διασύνδεση της αρχειακής πληροφορίας με την πληροφορία που παράγουν άλλοι οργανισμοί και κοινότητες με τις οποίες οι αρχειακές υπηρεσίες έχουν άμεση σχέση.
Το σεμινάριο απευθύνεται σε εργαζόμενους σε δημόσιους και ιδιωτικούς αρχειακούς φορείς, φοιτητές και πτυχιούχους αρχειονόμους, βιβλιοθηκονόμους και πτυχιούχους Πανεπιστημίων και ΤΕΙ με παρεμφερή επαγγελματικά και επιστημονικά ενδιαφέροντα.
Το σεμινάριο εντάσσεται στις δραστηριότητες της Ομάδας Βάσεων Δεδομένων και Πληροφοριακών Συστημάτων του Εργαστηρίου Ψηφιακών Βιβλιοθηκών και Ηλεκτρονικής Δημοσίευσης του Τμήματος Αρχειονομίας, Βιβλιοθηκονομίας και Μουσειολογίας του Ιονίου Πανεπιστημίου, διοργανώνεται στο πλαίσιο του 21st International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries και θα διεξαχθεί στο ξενοδοχείο Grand Hotel Palace, Μοναστηρίου 305, Θεσσαλονίκη, την Τρίτη 19 Σεπτεμβρίου 2017 και ώρες 14.00 – 17.00.
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Digital libraries evaluation is characterised as an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary domain posing a set of challenges to the research communities that intend to utilise and assess criteria, methods and tools. The amount of scientific production, which is published on the field, hinders and disorientates the researchers who are interested in the domain. The researchers need guidance in order to exploit the considerable amount of data and the diversity of methods effectively as well as to identify new research goals and develop their plans for future works. This paper proposes a methodological pathway to investigate the core topics of the digital library evaluation domain, author communities, their relationships, as well as the researchers who significantly contribute to major topics. The proposed methodology exploits topic modelling algorithms and network analysis on a corpus consisting of the digital library evaluation papers presented in JCDL,ECDL/TDPL and ICADL conferences in the period 2001–2013.
Full text at: dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43997-6_19
Session: Digital Library Evaluation
Time: Thursday, 08/Sep/2016, 9:00am - 10:30am
Chair: Claus-Peter Klas
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Αρχειακά Μεταδεδομένα: Πρότυπα και Διαχείριση στον Παγκόσμιο ΙστόGiannis Tsakonas
Από τη δεκαετία του 1970 μέχρι σήμερα το Διεθνές Συμβούλιο Αρχείων δημιουργεί και παρέχει στην κοινότητα των Αρχείων και των Αρχειονόμων μια σειρά από πρότυπα για την ανάπτυξη αρχειακών βοηθημάτων έρευνας και συναφών καταλόγων και ευρετηρίων. Στόχος των προτύπων είναι η κοινή αντίληψη, προσέγγιση και ομοιομορφία στη δημιουργία καταλόγων, καθιερωμένων εγγραφών και στη θεματική περιγραφή των αρχείων, της δομής και του περιεχομένου τους.
Ο Παγκόσμιος ιστός έχει γίνει ένα από τα σημαντικότερα μέσα διακίνησης πληροφορίας και η εκρηκτική ανάπτυξη των αντίστοιχων τεχνολογιών ανάπτυξης εφαρμογών στο περιβάλλον του έχει οδηγήσει στην αξιοποίησή του από διάφορες κοινότητες. Σε αυτό το πλαίσιο οι Αρχειονόμοι καλούνται να κωδικοποιήσουν τα μεταδεδομένα τους και να τα καταστήσουν ικανά να διαλειτουργήσουν σε ένα παγκόσμιο περιβάλλον διαχείρισης πληροφορίας και γνώσης, όπου όλες οι επιστημονικές κοινότητες συνυπάρχουν.
Στόχος του σεμιναρίου είναι να παρουσιάσει (α) βασικά πρότυπα διαχείρισης αρχειακής πληροφορίας και (β) το τεχνολογικό υπόβαθρο το οποίο καθορίζει τους τρόπους με τους οποίους είναι δυνατή η ανταλλαγή και η διαλειτουργικότητα - διασύνδεση της αρχειακής πληροφορίας με την πληροφορία που παράγουν άλλοι οργανισμοί και κοινότητες με τις οποίες οι αρχειακές υπηρεσίες έχουν άμεση σχέση.
Το σεμινάριο απευθύνεται σε εργαζόμενους σε δημόσιους και ιδιωτικούς αρχειακούς φορείς, φοιτητές και πτυχιούχους αρχειονόμους, βιβλιοθηκονόμους και πτυχιούχους Πανεπιστημίων και ΤΕΙ με παρεμφερή επαγγελματικά και επιστημονικά ενδιαφέροντα.
Το σεμινάριο εντάσσεται στις δραστηριότητες της Ομάδας Βάσεων Δεδομένων και Πληροφοριακών Συστημάτων του Εργαστηρίου Ψηφιακών Βιβλιοθηκών και Ηλεκτρονικής Δημοσίευσης του Τμήματος Αρχειονομίας, Βιβλιοθηκονομίας και Μουσειολογίας του Ιονίου Πανεπιστημίου, διοργανώνεται στο πλαίσιο του 21st International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries και θα διεξαχθεί στο ξενοδοχείο Grand Hotel Palace, Μοναστηρίου 305, Θεσσαλονίκη, την Τρίτη 19 Σεπτεμβρίου 2017 και ώρες 14.00 – 17.00.
The “Nomenclature of Multidimensionality” in the Digital Libraries Evaluation...Giannis Tsakonas
Digital libraries evaluation is characterised as an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary domain posing a set of challenges to the research communities that intend to utilise and assess criteria, methods and tools. The amount of scientific production, which is published on the field, hinders and disorientates the researchers who are interested in the domain. The researchers need guidance in order to exploit the considerable amount of data and the diversity of methods effectively as well as to identify new research goals and develop their plans for future works. This paper proposes a methodological pathway to investigate the core topics of the digital library evaluation domain, author communities, their relationships, as well as the researchers who significantly contribute to major topics. The proposed methodology exploits topic modelling algorithms and network analysis on a corpus consisting of the digital library evaluation papers presented in JCDL,ECDL/TDPL and ICADL conferences in the period 2001–2013.
Full text at: dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43997-6_19
Session: Digital Library Evaluation
Time: Thursday, 08/Sep/2016, 9:00am - 10:30am
Chair: Claus-Peter Klas
Location: Blauer Saal, Hannover Congress Centrum
Increasing traceability of physical library items through Koha: the case of S...Giannis Tsakonas
Presentation in KohaCon2016, the major event of Koha community, on May 31, 2016. The Library & Information Center, University of Patras, Greece has developed the SELIDA framework, which integrates a set of standardized and widespread library technologies in order to increase the identification and traceability of physical items, such as books. The framework makes use of RFID tags in order to assign unique identification marks, in the form of URIs that can be globally exchanged. The framework has been implemented in the fully translated and customized Koha installation of our Library and its core services support checking in/out of books and browsing of history transactions with geospatial visualization. Its use can support transactions between various libraries or branches of the same library. The proposed presentation will describe the architecture of the framework and how it connects to Koha, as well as the challenges we faced during its development.
We were group no 2: notes for the MLAS2015 workshopGiannis Tsakonas
Summary note of the discussion of group no 2 in the IFLA MLAS 2015 workshop in Athens, March 12, 2015, involving librarians (from all around the world), book palaces and … Canadian rock groups.
Βιβλιοθήκες & Πολιτισμός: τα προφανή και τα ευνόηταGiannis Tsakonas
Παρουσίαση στο πάνελ "Πολιτισµός και νέες τεχνολογίες: από τον αισθητό στον ψηφιακό κόσµο" που διοργανώθηκε στο πλαίσιο της ενότητας "Ελευθέρο Βήμα" του Forum Ανάπτυξης 2014 (Κυριακή 23 Νοεµβρίου 2014 στις 20:30-22:00, Ξενοδοχείο Αστήρ, Αίθουσα ΙΙ).
{Tech}changes: the technological state of Greek Libraries.Giannis Tsakonas
The document summarizes technological changes in Greek libraries over recent years. While Greek libraries were early adopters of technological changes, penetration of eBooks and sophisticated business models remains limited. However, libraries have increasingly embraced open access, open source, and open data initiatives. Projects like Kallipos provide enhanced academic textbooks online. Funding from the EU and Greece has supported centralized technological solutions and opportunities for public/private cooperation to make technology more affordable and transform literacy programs.
Affective relationships between users & libraries in times of economic stressGiannis Tsakonas
This study used the Stimulus-Organism-Response framework to identify the critical parameters that govern the affective relationships between Greek academic libraries and their users during times of economic stress. A survey of 950 library users found that social cues like willingness, kindness, and knowledge had the strongest impact on users' emotions. Emotions like satisfaction, confidence and safety positively correlated with library usage. The findings suggest that creating a welcoming environment and providing friendly service are important for positively influencing users' feelings about the library. Further research is needed to explore how these relationship factors interact and influence social and systemic interactions.
Charting the Digital Library Evaluation Domain with a Semantically Enhanced M...Giannis Tsakonas
This document proposes a methodology for discovering patterns in scientific literature using a case study of digital library evaluation. It involves:
1. Classifying documents to identify relevant papers using naive Bayes classification.
2. Semantically annotating papers with concepts from a Digital Library Evaluation Ontology using the GoNTogle annotation tool. Over 2,600 annotations were generated.
3. Clustering the annotated papers into coherent groups using k-means clustering.
4. Interpreting the clusters with the assistance of the ontology to discover patterns and trends in the literature. Benchmarking tests were performed to evaluate effectiveness of the methodology.
Παρουσίαση για το σεμινάριο “Δεδομένα Βιβλιοθηκών στο μελλοντικό ψηφιακό περιβάλλον - FRBR και Linked Data”
Το σεμινάριο διοργανώθηκε από τις Βιβλιοθήκες του Τμήματος Νομικής του ΕΚΠΑ και του Πανεπιστημίου Πειραιώς στις 18 και 19 Ιουνίου 2012, υπό την επιμέλεια της Ομάδας Βάσεων Δεδομένων και Πληροφοριακών Συστημάτων του Εργαστηρίου Ψηφιακών Βιβλιοθηκών και Ηλεκτρονικής Δημοσίευσης του Τμήματος Αρχειονομίας - Βιβλιοθηκονομίας του Ιονίου Πανεπιστημίου
Διδάσκοντες:
- Μανόλης Πεπονάκης (MLIS)
- Δρ. Μιχάλης Σφακάκης
- Δρ. Χρήστος Παπαθεοδώρου
Developing a Metadata Model for Historic Buildings: Describing and Linking Ar...Giannis Tsakonas
This document discusses developing a metadata model called ARMOS (Architecture Metadata Object Schema) for describing historic buildings. It covers traditional flat metadata descriptions of architecture, examining relationships between works and images/other works. ARMOS aims to group related buildings logically and connect them to facilitate discovery. It draws from architecture theories on morphology, typology and patterns. The conceptual model identifies entities, relationships and attributes. ARMOS is a harmonization profile combining descriptive, structural, administrative and technical metadata from various sources. Issues around terminology, extensions and interoperability are discussed.
Query Expansion and Context: Thoughts on Language, Meaning and Knowledge Orga...Giannis Tsakonas
This document summarizes a workshop on digital information management that took place in April 2012 in Corfu, Greece. It discusses some of the challenges of information retrieval when using natural language queries, including problems of ambiguity, context, and the use of knowledge organization systems and query expansion to help address these challenges. The role of user models and evaluation in understanding real language use is also mentioned.
The document summarizes a path-based approach for storing and querying multidimensional XML (MXML) data in a relational database. MXML extends XML to represent data with different facets under different contexts. The approach stores MXML nodes in separate tables based on their type and uses a path table and Dewey labeling for indexing. It represents contexts using ordered worlds and binary vectors. It also defines Multidimensional XPath (MXPath) to query MXML data using both explicit and inherited contexts.
Δεδομένα Βιβλιοθηκών στο μελλοντικό ψηφιακό περιβάλλον - FRBR και Linked DataGiannis Tsakonas
Παρουσίαση για το σεμινάριο “Δεδομένα Βιβλιοθηκών στο μελλοντικό ψηφιακό περιβάλλον - FRBR και Linked Data”
Το σεμινάριο διοργανώθηκε από τη Βιβλιοθήκη και Κέντρο Πληροφόρησης του Πανεπιστημίου Πατρών, στους χώρους της οποίας διεξήχθη την Παρασκευή 3 Φεβρουαρίου 2012, υπό την επιμέλεια της Ομάδας Βάσεων Δεδομένων και Πληροφοριακών Συστημάτων του Εργαστηρίου Ψηφιακών Βιβλιοθηκών και Ηλεκτρονικής Δημοσίευσης του Τμήματος Αρχειονομίας - Βιβλιοθηκονομίας του Ιονίου Πανεπιστημίου
Διδάσκοντες:
- Μανόλης Πεπονάκης (MLIS)
- Δρ. Μιχάλης Σφακάκης
- Δρ. Χρήστος Παπαθεοδώρου
This document discusses open bibliographic data and the Open Bibliographic Principles initiative. It provides background on exchanging bibliographic data and reasons for making it open, such as freeing access, facilitating collaboration, and advancing research. Complications discussed include proprietary attitudes and loss of provenance over time. The document also covers topics such as using bibliographic data as linked open data, navigating it, examples like Libris, applicable licenses, and the E-LIS experience in adopting an open license.
Evaluation is a very vital research interest in the digital library domain. This has been exhibited by the growth of the literature in the main conferences and journal papers. However it is very difficult for one to navigate in this extended corpus. For these reasons the DiLEO ontology has been developed in order to assist the exploration of important concepts and the discovery of trends in the evaluation of digital libraries. DiLEO is a domain ontology, which aims to conceptualize the DL evaluation domain by correlating its key entities and provide reasoning paths that support the design of evaluation experiments.
E-LIS, το ηλεκτρονικό αρχείο για τη Βιβλιοθηκονομία και την Επιστήμη της Πληρ...Giannis Tsakonas
Presentation in the 16th Panhellenic Conference of Academic Libraries.
Φραντζή, Μ., Ανδρέου, Α.Κ., Τσάκωνας, Γ., et al. E-LIS, το ηλεκτρονικό αρχείο για τη Βιβλιοθηκονομία και την Επιστήμη της Πληροφόρησης: τρόποι αξιοποίησης του από την Ελληνική βιβλιοθηκονομική κοινότητα, 2007. In 16ο Πανελλήνιο Συνέδριο Ακαδημαϊκών Βιβλιοθηκών,Πειραιάς (GR),1-3 Οκτωβρίου 2007
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it describes the bony anatomy including the femoral head , acetabulum, labrum . also discusses the capsule , ligaments . muscle that act on the hip joint and the range of motion are outlined. factors affecting hip joint stability and weight transmission through the joint are summarized.
This presentation was provided by Steph Pollock of The American Psychological Association’s Journals Program, and Damita Snow, of The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), for the initial session of NISO's 2024 Training Series "DEIA in the Scholarly Landscape." Session One: 'Setting Expectations: a DEIA Primer,' was held June 6, 2024.
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This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
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Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
A review of the growth of the Israel Genealogy Research Association Database Collection for the last 12 months. Our collection is now passed the 3 million mark and still growing. See which archives have contributed the most. See the different types of records we have, and which years have had records added. You can also see what we have for the future.
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
This slide is special for master students (MIBS & MIFB) in UUM. Also useful for readers who are interested in the topic of contemporary Islamic banking.
বাংলাদেশের অর্থনৈতিক সমীক্ষা ২০২৪ [Bangladesh Economic Review 2024 Bangla.pdf] কম্পিউটার , ট্যাব ও স্মার্ট ফোন ভার্সন সহ সম্পূর্ণ বাংলা ই-বুক বা pdf বই " সুচিপত্র ...বুকমার্ক মেনু 🔖 ও হাইপার লিংক মেনু 📝👆 যুক্ত ..
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How to Build a Module in Odoo 17 Using the Scaffold MethodCeline George
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Geographic collections development policies and GIS services: a research in US academic libraries' websites
1. Ionian University
Department of Archives and Library Science
Laboratory of Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing
Geographic collections development policies and GIS services:
a research in US academic libraries’ websites
Ifigenia Vardakosta
Sarantos Kapidakis
Laboratory of Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing
Department of Archives and Library Science
{ifigenia, sarantos@ionio.gr}
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3. Literature Review
Collection Development Policy
“Current and planned GIS activities in an institution will strongly influence
collection development” (Longstreth, 1995)
“Policy questions need to be placed within the context of the move towards
large‐and small‐scale spatial data infrastructures that do, in the end, affect the
developments of geolibraries” (Boxall, 2004)
“Regularly assessing and revising policies helps academic libraries adapt GIS
services to strike a balance between ever‐changing needs of users and finite
library staff, equipment and budgetary resources” (Sorice, 2006)
«In creating a collection development policy for GIS services, librarians can
incorporate elements of a need assessment into their workflow to help
organize the various types of information elements they collect” (Abresch e.a,
2008, p.213)
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4. Literature Review (2/2)
GIS Services in Academic Libraries
“GIS are needed to manage the extremely large quantities of digital
data that are increasingly available for use by research, business and
industry” (Lutz, 1995)
“The emergence and widespread application of GIS challenged
librarians to analyze a nontraditional set of user needs and assemble
services that incorporated computer hardware, software, data and
training opportunities in new ways” (Argentati, 1997)
“Since TIGER files were given to depository libraries, GIS has moved
from being a tool used mostly by map or document libraries, to being
a tool that can be used by reference librarians to meet the needs of
any number of disciplines” (Todd, 2008)
“Libraries at the doctoral/research universities offer GIS services
almost 90% already, but they need to have a good data collection
plan in order to increase users” (Good, 2009)
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8. Methodology
133 US Academic Libraries’ websites examined
WHY?
academic libraries support a wide range of
community
more reliance on new technologies
quantity of US academic libraries
history in the implementation of GIS services
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9. Findings (1/5)
1)How many libraries provide GIS services?
95/133 (71%) provides GIS services to their patrons
17/133 (13%) « « co-operatively or as independent Center
or Lab
21/133 (16%) do not provide any GIS service
Implementation of GIS services
21; 16%
17; 13% Libr_GIS
in co-operation/Center/Lab
none GIS service
95; 71%
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10. Findings (2/5)
2)How many libraries provide collection development policy for
their geospatial collections?
13 /95 (14%) had a geospatial collection development policy
82 /95 (86%) did not have any geospatial collection development policy
in their webpage for their users
GEOSPATIAL COLL.DEV.POLICY
13; 14% Libr.with geospatial
coll.dev.pol
Libr.that do not mention any
82; 86% coll.dev.pol.
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11. Findings (3/5)
3)What kind of information do they offer? (1/2)
ESRI data National and international
Digital chart of the world datasets
Gazetteers Statistical and Geographic
Aerial photographs datasets
Orthophotos Data from federal
agencies
Satellite imagery
Local Base Data
Census‐related data
(population, age, income, Thematic Data
etc.), Shape files
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12. Findings (3/5)
3)What kind of information do they offer? (2/2)
Hydrologic, hypsographic, Education statistics,
transportation, power, city Nautical Charts,
and county outlines Business trends
Digital numeric and Universities web sites
spatial data sets, State & regional web sites
especially social science
data sets National & world GIS sites
Indexes Government GIS‐related
sites
Labor statistics,
General GIS websites
Political behaviour,
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13. Findings (4/5)
4)What kind of infrastructure provide to their patrons?
Hardware
46/95 (48%) Libraries provide information about the infrastructure
that can be used in the library:
Workstations
Printers
Scanners
Plotters
GPS
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14. Findings (4/5)
4)What kind of infrastructure provide to their patrons?
Software
55/95 (58%) use ArcGIS (ESRI)
39/95 (41%) don’t have any info about software
1/95 names different software
Other software packages
GoogleEarth, GoogleEarthPro, DIVA, GRASS, AutoCAD,
MapWindow, QuantumGIS, Idrisi/Erdas, SPSS
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15. Findings (5/5)
5)What kind of services offer to their patrons?
Training programmes: 48/95 (51%)
Information about software/hardware that can be used in the
library : 42/95 (44%)
Guidelines for data/software use : 16/95 (17%)
Assistance to users (Ask a Librarian): 73/95 (77%)
Data for Local access : 64/95 (67%)
Services
90% 77%
80% 67%
70% Training programmes
60% 51%
44%
50%
40% Assistance to users
30% 16%
20%
10% Information about
0%
hardware/software
hardware/software
Guidelines for
data/software
Assistance to
Data for local
programmes
Information about
Training
Guidelines for data/software
access
users
Data for local access
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18. Major Findings (2/2)
46 inform their patrons for the existence infrastructure (in‐
door or in the field e.g. GPS)
55 use ArcGIS as the main desktop GIS and mapping software
package (without excluding the use of open source software
for educational purposes or for specific applications)
48 incorporate training programmes
73 sustain an assistance through the website
64 provide local access to data
9 implement GIS services without serving familiar departments
in their university
11 mention “GIS Librarian”
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19. Researches comparison
Research Percentage of GIS implementation
in libraries
ARL (1999) 64/72 (89%)
Kinikin & Hench (2005) 22/138 (20%)
Kinikin & Hench (2005a) 9/11 (82%)
Gabaldon & Repplinger 31/103 (31%)
(2006)
Good (2009) ~90% in academic libraries
Our research (2011) 95/133 (72%)
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21. In spite the previous difficulties the research raises
certain questions:
What are the main characteristics of the existing
geospatial collection development policies?
Is there any homogeneity of collection development
policies for geospatial data around the world?
Is it finally true that a well established collection
development policy defines the provided services?
What about collection development policies for
geospatial repositories?
What is the existing situation in Greece?
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24. BIBLIOGRAPHY
Good, H. N. (2009) “Trend of GIS services in US academic libraries:
from comparison of past surveys and current situation of the
University of Pittsburgh”in Information Science & Technology
Association, 59(11) pp.539‐544
Kinikin, J.N. and Hench, K. (2005) “Survey of GIS implementation and
use within smaller academic libraries” in Issues in Science and
Technology Librarianship,
Kinikin, J.N. and Hench, K. (2005a) “Follow‐up survey of GIS at smaller
academic libraries”in Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship,
Summer
Longstreth, K. (1995) “GIS collection development, staffing and
training” in The Journal of Academic Librarianship, July, 267‐274
Sorice, M. (2006) “An analysis of GIS services websites in academic
libraries”,Master Thesis,
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