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Editorial
Topic: Information gates
Hana Nemeškalová: Unform Information Gate from the view of software and
similar world projects
Complex problem of information gates in abroad is dealt with,
considering the Uniform Information Gate (UIG) project. It is focused on
projects in abroad based on MetaLib and SFX – as well as the UIG –
further on the Finnish NELLI Portal, KB-portal of the National Library
of the Netherlands, Australian AARLIN and on the portal MetaQuest of the
American Boston College. Analyses of particular portals are done from
the view of their origin, development, background and are supplemented
with practical examples of their functions. The analysis of the UIG was
also done considering other softwares used for building information
gates, ZPORTAL/OL 2 and ENCompass for Ressource Access/LinkFinderPlus.
Both analyses are followed by a concluding part presented as a
comparision of technologies used in mentioned portále together with
proposals and suggestions for improving functiones and services in UIG
as whole.
Key words:
Uniform Information Gate, UIG, information gateways, portals, metalib,
sfx, library gateways, software, system, interface, library portals,
linkservers, national libraries, metasearch.
Interview
Richard Papík – Zdeněk A. Tichý: Computer culture does not liquidate
books
Richard Papík, the Director of the Institute of Information Studies
and Librarianship (IISL) of the Faculty of Philosophy of the Charles
University, comments in his interview revolutionary changes through
which came information processing and librarianship after the November
1989. In the interview he answers, among other things, also such
questions like: how would look like a librarian at the beginning of the
twenty-first century, which greatest problems of Czech libraries he
thinks there are, and what is a present status of the IISL within the
Faculty of Philosophy. He also mentions his vision of a library of
future or the problem of computers versus classic books. Richard Papík
also reveals when he prefers a book and when a computer keyboard.
Key words:
Institute of Information Studies and Librarianship, libraries,
librarians, Faculty of Philosophy, information.
Reports and Information
New versions of tools for Unform Information Gate
Petr Boldiš: Search engines: Present problems and future trends
Hana Novotná: Library consortia in the world
The contribution is meant as an introduction to library cooperation
through library consortia in the world. The attention is paid mainly to
specification of basic terms, to relation between the term „library
consortium“ and „library network“ and to differences in notion of
library consortia in the USA and Europe and to their development.
Library consortia in the world, mainly in the USA, have broader goals
then we are used to in our country. In addition to enabling an access to
electronic information sources they offer to member libraries building
of union catalogues and their operation, coordinated library collection
development, life-long education of librarians, support of digitization
and building digital libraries and a wide offer of further services
hidden under the term „sharing sources“. There are different types of
library consortia in the world which can have various structures,
managment and financing, as well as goals and programmes. Consortia in
the world are dividend into several principal groups. Primary
contributions of consortia for library practice are emphasised.
Key words:
Library consortia, library network, sharing sources, digitization,
digital libraries, automation, computerized library systems.
i2000: Digital libraries
Brigita Excelová: Information support of science and technology:
Information infrastructure
Linda Skolková – Jindřiška Kotrlová: Report on the INSPO 2005 Conference
Jaroslav Winter: Libraries and public internet
Comments
Adolf Knoll: European digitalization/digitization as a game of children/children´s
game History and Present
Ladislav Michael Wallis: Development of the legal deposit right as an
institute (1)
This series of articles by L.M. Wallis deals with the development of the
legal deposit right as an institute in the Czech state. Preservation,
study and other purposes of the legal deposit are emphasized, not only
those of censorship, from their very beginning until the present legal
arrangement in force. The relation of a legal deposit right to taxes is
also dealt with, and it is asessed from the view of some recipients of
legal deposits (with a special regard to the National Library of the
Czech Republic and to the Study and Research Library of the Pilsen
Region), as well as from the view of a subject with the duty to provide
legal deposits. The series will be closed by a discourse on the legal
deposit right in Slovakia, Italy and in the European Union.
Key words:
Legal deposit right, Emperor´s Patent, preservation collection,
preservation purposes, recipients, forms, Press Act.
Ludmila Kubátová: Origin and development of annual reports
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