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Trends in information policy of the European Union (I. Thompson) ... p. 3-5
The author deals with the information policy and strategy of the European union (EU) and
of their institutions. He explains the need of information about EU and from EU in uniting Europe and
stresses the significance of the Internet which becomes in this turning period the most important source of
information on E. Particular sources of information are presented including databases which are established
by EU institutions and which are maintained on Internet. The important role of librarians and information
workers in the Czech Republic which they may may in preparing the country to enter EU is also mentioned.
Retrieval in full-text
databases (V. Červený) p. ... 6-12
The general stage and possibility of exploration of the full-text databases are briefly
described at the beginning of the article. At the following part the full-text systems are divided into three
generations according to the methods of construction of the query and are presented their basic
characteristics. The article shows deficiencies in the first and second generations of the full-text systems
and describes principles and methods of their elimination. At the following part is briefly described the
full-text system of the third generation (TOPIC( and are described some specific characteristics completed
with paragraphs measured in factual database of full-text documents. At the last part of the article are
suggested possible ways of the further development.
Authority files for the national religious bodies in the Czech Republic (H. Vodičková)
... p. 13-17
The decision of the Joint Cataloguing Committee of the SKIP and ČIS Prague to elaborate
the Czech National authority filers for the religious bodies was the result of numerous publication
activities in the field of religious literature and all kinds of information media in the Czech Republic. The
work was divided into two methodically different parts: Religious orders and societies (about 100 authority
headings) and Churches and confessions in the Czech Republic (21 authority headings). The article gives
detail information on the sources of authority files, on the work in progress, on the problems with the
authority heading determining in the connection with AACR2R and on the content, structure and final form of
the authority entry. A short information about following activities in this field, which special library
religious workplaces should carry out is given, too. Both national authority files are available for
cataloguers and bibliographers on the Internet address.
SEMINARS, MEETINGS, INTERNATIONAL
RELATIONS | Multimedia libraries in
information society (J. Hartman) ... s. 18 International library conference : Public
Libraries in New Europe II (V. Streit) ... s. 19 Culture contexts of librarianship in
the information society (V. Streit) ... s 20 Seminar on Processing of
Periodicalls in the Union Catalogue of Libraries of the Slovak Republic (G. Krčmařová - H. Nová) ... p.
21-22 Electronic Publishing Conference (D. Mladičová - H. Nová) ... p. 22
Historical Library Santa Cruz in Valladolid (J. Kašparová) ... p. 23-25
ON ACTIVITIES OF MUSIC LIBRARIES - IAML |
Important development in the process of building a "national records
archives" (J. Hůlek) ... p. 26-27 Musicological conference on music documentation in
Bratislava (Z. Petrášková - J. Hůlek) ... p. 27
INFORMATION, CHRONICLE, REVIEWS |
Medium-term IFLA programme for 1998-2001 (-s-) ... p. 30-33
CASLIN - the Union Catalogue of the Czech Republic and foreign periodicals (D. Vyorálková ... p. 34-36 New edition of the world publishers directory (aj) ... p. 37 CR-ROM
of the State Technical Library (A. Brožek) ... p. 37 French-Czech and Czech-French
special dictionary of librarianship and information services (A. Brožek) ... p. 38
Brief communications ... p. 39 Searches compiled in the Librarianship Division of the
National Library of the Czech Republic in the second half of 1998 ... p. 40-41
FOREIGN LIBRARY LITERATURE NEWS ... p. 42-48 | |