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  ISSUE 2003, vol. 14, no. 3
Content

Library services in the electronic environment and copyright (M. Svoboda) ... p. 157–162

The article describes different modes of making documents accessible in the electronic environment. Substantiates the need of balanced legal protection of interests of entertainment industry on one side and scholarly communication on the other. Four types of document access are specified and their legal aspects discussed. On demand electronic delivery of printed documents is discussed in detail.

Keywords:
library services, electronic document delivery, born-digital documents, copyright



Foundations of information science. Review and perspectives (R. Capurro) ... p. 163–168

Three main epistemological paradigms of information science, namely the representation paradigm, the source-channel-receiver paradigm, and the Platonistic paradigm, are criticized. Taking into consideration some basic insights from hermeneutics (Heidegger, Gadamer) and analytic philosophy (Wittgenstein) a pragmatic foundation of information science is suggested. Information means the possibility of sharing thematically a common world within specific forms of life. It thus becomes a rhetorical category. Information science is conceived as a hermeneutic-rhetorical discipline that includes a formal-methodological as well as a cultural-historical perspective.

Keywords:
information, misinformation, information science, cognitive science, hermeneutics, rhetoric



Role of libraries in electronic Europe: eEurope+2003 initiative (J. Hradilová)

The electronic Europe project known as eEurope initiative for EU member states was launched in November 1999 in Helsinki and officially adopted by Lisbon European Council in March 2000. Candidate countries joined this challenge in May 2000 (eEurope+ initiative). The overall objective of the Project is to bring European citizens online as fast as possible, to increase their digital literacy and their confidence in electronic communication and at the same time to avoid social exclusion. The role of libraries in this process can be found in three areas: in building up the communication infrastructure, as a part of electronic public administration and in a creation of electronic research networks. In the Czech Republic the objectives of eEurope+ initiative have been covered by the Action Plan of the state information policy till 2003. Each of the eight priority areas mentioned there contains the respective eEurope+ objective. Libraries can play an important role in the following priority areas: „digital literacy“, „digital democracy“ „development of information systems in public administra-tion“ and „communication infrastructure“. These priorities are reflected mainly in the project of the „State information policy in education“ (Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports) and „Public library information services“ (Ministry of Culture).

Keywords:
eEurope+ initiative, information society, the role of libraries, Czech Republic




Old printed books - their storing, preserving, processing, and making available (J. Kašparová) ... p. 173-183

National-wide registration of historical library stocks and making them available is an urgant task not only from view of history of book culture but also from view of offering relevant/high-quality services to public. Present state of processing old printed books in the National Library of the Czech Republic is presented mainly as for the pilot stage of works on retroconversion of the Generral Catalogue I. These works were stopped because of their demanding nature. Another method of brief cataloguing and re-cataloguing was chosen using some partial procedures of retroconversion. Due to the necessity of cooperation and common methodology for institutions processing historical stocks was organized a seminar in this April. This meeting resulted in establishing an electronic conference and a working group for old printed books of the 16th-18th centuries and the first half of the 19th century.

Keywords:
historical library stocks, old printed books, libraries of the Czech Republic, National Library of the Czech Republic, cataloguing, re-cataloguing, retroconversion, cooperation

 

ON ACTIVITIES OF MUSIC LIBRARIES - IAML

Annual IAML 2003 meeting (Z. Petrášková)  ... p. 184–185

Accessions and acquisition of music series in the National Library of the Czech Republic (V. Kapsa)  ... p. 185–187

Seminar on present music for the fourth time (J. Navrátilová)  ... p. 187

 

INFORMATION, REVIEWS

American academic libraries and revision of academic projects (V. Borovanský) ... p. 189–194

Czech internet information sources for human medicine: the National Medical Library database (R. Římanová - K. Štěchovská) 195–198

Contributions of parlamentary libraries information services (V. Streit)  ... p. 198

Meeting of the Commission for library services (H. Hemola) ... p.  200–199

Obituary: PhDr. Zdeňka Rachůnková (J. Vacek)  ... p. 201–202

Remembrance of Věra Jiráková (J. Růžová) ... p. 202

Reviews 203