Ane Landøy

• University of Bergen

3D printing is a process whereby users can create a three-dimensional solid object of any shape by operating a 3D printer using a digital design, thereby creating their own designs or replicate and electronically customize scanned objects. The technology has existed for several decades; however, it was not until around 1990 it really gained momentu...

Strategic planning in academic and public libraries is vital and gaining importance in libraries all over the world. In this research project – using the qualitative method of documentary research based on “convenience sampling” – 33 strategies from libraries from eleven countries are analysed regarding their time period, vision and mission, as wel...

Existe una creciente necesidad de que las bibliotecas utilicen datos confiables y accesibles para mostrar qué tan bien funcionan y en comparación con otras bibliotecas, ya que hay una reducción constante y cierre de instalaciones en todo el mundo. Un recurso para la evaluación son las estadísticas nacionales. Al investigar en cinco países, comparan...

National library statistics are helpful for comparing the own library with other libraries in your own or in other countries, to give an overview about the libraries of the country and to show their development. But in comparing 22 public and academic libraries of five countries difficulties arose in finding key performance indicators in national l...

Identify the meaning of the term information literacy;

Identify the characteristics of each method;

After completing this learning unit, you will be able to:

Define the need for information;

After completing this chapter, you will be able to:

Identify the requirements for the use and organisation of information;

Identify types of catalogues;

Identify situations of plagiarism;

Identify the comparison criteria of information sources;

Identify real examples of documents;

This Open Access book combines expertise in information literacy with expertise in education and teaching to share tips and tricks for the development of good information literacy teaching and training in universities and libraries. It draws on research, knowledge and pedagogical practice from academia, to teach students how to sift through informa...

Nacionalna knjižnična statistika pomaže pri usporedbi pojedine knjižnice s drugim knjižnicama u jednoj zemlji ili u drugim zemljama kako bi dala pregled o knjižnicama pojedine zemlje i pokazala njihov razvoj. Ali pri usporedbi 22 javne (narodne) i akademske (visokoškolske) knjižnice u pet zemalja, pokazuju se poteškoće u odabiru ključnih pokazatelj...

Mihai Constantinescu - Ane Landøy, Daniela Popa, Angela Repanovici, “Collaboration in Designing a Pedagogical Approach in Information Literacy” (pp. 101-102) Ane Landøy, Angela Repanovici - A Book about International Trends for Academic Libraries (pp. 102-103) Robert Coravu - Romanian Scientific Contributions in the Field of Conservation and Restor...

The changing information landscape calls for a new leadership, new competences, and new approaches to library services. In today’s information age, information literate citizens must be able to assess the reliability of information, making information literacy instruction an important task for libraries. In this paper, five researchers present data...

Libraries need to use several different methods when determining the needs and wishes of students and academic patrons for future academic libraries and documentation centers. In this paper, the authors report findings from a survey in Romania and interviews in Norway, on what innovative issues students are imagining in future libraries. Among the...

This paper presents findings from a study on copyright literacy skills of Library and Information Studies (LIS) students in Norway. It surveyed bachelor, master and PhD students at the Oslo Metropolitan University which is the only Norwegian institution offering LIS education at all levels. This web-based study was conducted in April 2018. It was b...

For several years, there has been a debate about digital vs. print format for study materials. The Academic Reading Format International Study (ARFIS) has shown that students clearly are in favour of paper, both in Norway and many other countries. These preferences have various implications not only for collection development decisions, but also fo...

https://www.slideshare.net/seckerj/copyright-literacy-and-the-role-of-librarians-as-educators-and-advocates-an-international-symposium-80400524 Panel internacional congreso de ECIL 2017

Purpose From the 1980s – in some parts of Europe from the 1990s – onward, the new public management (NPM) has been emerging in public organizations including libraries. Since then, there has been a need to develop strategies, to plan budgets and to implement cost and activity accounting as well as benchmarking to compare the library’s processes, co...

Purpose The purpose is to present findings from a multinational survey on copyright literacy of specialists from libraries and other cultural institutions. Design/methodology/approach This article is based on a multinational survey of copyright literacy competencies of LIS (Library and Information Science) professionals and those who work in the...

In this paper, the authors report on collaboration between two universities from 2003 and beyond. The collaborations have been carried out in four main spheres: in the area of Staff training programmes, in the area of Development and research in information literacy, in the area of Developing Models of Digital Repositories and also in the domain of...

In this paper we will present and compare survey findings from Romania and Norway taken from the “Multinational study on students’ preferences regarding print versus electronic resources for course readings”. This study was conducted in April 2015 and surveyed undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate students of various subjects at different univer...

Information literacy is the discipline that shapes the informational behavior of young students, Master and PhD students. The skills acquired by attending this course can decisively influence thinking and may generate critical thinking for analyzing information. Extending the module designed for achieving Information Literacy standards, we present...

“The conduct” of an academic institution has suffered a permanent change under external pressure and criticism for its failure to adapt to current social and economic requirements. The degradation of quality in the Romanian education system is a current affairs subject. Successive and rather incoherent reforms suggest the lack of a long-term vision...

In order to achieve comparability of standards and quality in European higher education there is a need for evaluation and comparisons. This holds true also for the PhD, the third cycle in the educational system. In this paper the authors compare information needs as articulated by a group of Norwegian and Moldovan PhD-students. The objective of th...

This paper presents a model for the evaluation of users' needs adapted to the conditions of a developing country that has access to traditional literature and great potential for exploiting available sources on Internet, but does not yet have documentary or bibliographic database access.

ROMANIAN JOURNAL OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE - QUARTERLY REVIEW EDITED BY ROMANIAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION TENDENCIES IN THE CONTEMPORARY LIBRARY SCIENCE

Reference librarians have the opportunity to interact with patrons and colleagues of many different backgrounds, languages, and cultures as a result of our increasingly interconnected and peripatetic world. In order to provide the best possible service to these varied communities, reference librarians should understand some of the culture differenc...

In this paper, the authors report on collaboration between two universities from 2003 and beyond. The collaborations have been carried out in four main spheres: in the area of Staff training programmes, in the area of Development and research in information literacy, in the area of Developing Models of Digital Repositories and also in the domain of...

This chapter details the collaboration scenario of the University libraries of Makerere University in Uganda and the University of Bergen in Norway for over a decade. This chapter highlights the multiplier effect of the collaboration leading to new partners at the University of Juba in South Sudan, the East African School of Library and Information...

This paper looks at attitudes about leadership and decision making among leaders in academic libraries in Norway and Romania. Two different surveys were conducted, containing similar questions, and the results were compared. The surveys uncovered demographics – “who are the leaders?” as well. One of the findings that concerns the status of the libr...

In the light of the digital library development and of the online communication development, the university education develops in its turn new educational instruments and at the students' disposal to improve their professional skills and their individual studies. The university libraries, which have traditionally been focused on supporting the scho...

In this article, quality criteria for electronic survey design and use based on an investigation of recent electronic survey literature are presented. The results show that a hard-to-reach audience can be reached using the quality criteria that are most important for reaching these types of audiences. It is presented one online questionnaire for th...

Communication faite lors du 73e congrès annuel de l'IFLA, 19 au 23 août 2007, Durban, Afrique du Sud