[Sigiii-l] FW: Contents of LIBRI March 2007

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> Contents of LIBRI: international journal of libraries and information
> services, 
> vol. 57, number 1, March 2007
> 
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> 
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> 
> CONTENTS 
> 
> The Changing Definition of U.S. Libraries
> TRACY HARTMAN
> 
> Surfacing Filipino School Children's Images of Librarians through
> Doodling
> ALLAN DE GUZMAN, SHEENA MAI B. CUSTODIO and MELISSA ANGELA P. GARCIA
> 
> Content Analysis of an LIS Job Database: A Regional Prototype for a
> Collaborative Model
> YUNFEI DU, BARBARA STEIN and ROBERT S. MARTIN
> 
> Information Environment of Artisans in Botswana
> NEO MOOKO and L.O. AINA
> 
> Gender Terminology and Indexing Systems: The Case of Woman's Body,
> Image and Visualization
> MARIA J. LOPEZ-HUERTAS and ISABEL DE TORRES RAMIREZ
> 
> Digitising the Hand-Written Bible: The Codex Sinaiticus, its History
> and
> Modern Presentation
> EKKEHARD HENSCHKE
> 
> 
> ABSTRACTS
> 
> The Changing Definition of U.S. Libraries
> TRACY HARTMAN
> 
> Abstract. American libraries currently face a dramatic shift in how
> they are perceived, both by the public and by lawmakers. In order to
> preserve the traditional values observed by librarians, such as patron
> privacy and access to information, libraries must also preserve the
> traditional associations that have defined them. The value of
> libraries has been under mined by the threat of terrorism and the
> subsequent political pressure to find blame for the terrorist attacks.
> Librarians must choose whether or not to stick to the traditional
> library brand, or evolve and market libraries as something else.
> Without public support, definitions will not change easily. The
> American public still views the library as a place to read and find
> books, and this definition must prevail for libraries to retain their
> relevance in American life.  
> 
> 
> Surfacing Filipino School Children's Images of Librarians through
> Doodling
> ALLAN DE GUZMAN, SHEENA MAI B. CUSTODIO and MELISSA ANGELA P. GARCIA
> 
> Abstract. This qualitative study describes how Filipino grade school
> pupils in a private, sectarian school in Manila, Philippines identify
> their views and images of the librarian. Two hundred fifty-eight (258)
> pupils were asked to fill out a robotfoto box for illustration and to
> fill in a diagram. As a result of the data gathered and analyzed, two
> (2) faces of the librarian came into view, based on the children's
> doodling, the desirable and the undesirable librarian. On the one
> hand, the desirable librarian represents the enticing, enduring and
> engaging type. On the other hand, disappointing, depressing and
> depriving types characterize the librarian who is undesirable. The
> doodlings indicate that being desirable attracts library clients to
> visit the library and develops interest in using the library
> facilities more often. The undesirable qualities make students
> hesitate in entering the library. This study shows the need for
> librarians to be concerned with improving their images to develop
> desired qualities for the benefit of their student clientele.  
> 
> 
> Content Analysis of an LIS Job Database: A Regional Prototype for a
> Collaborative Model
> YUNFEI DU, BARBARA STEIN and ROBERT S. MARTIN
> 
> Abstract. Recently more and more LIS job postings have been
> distributed to e-mail lists or to recruiters' Web sites. The
> volatility of electronic media had been creating difficulties for
> students and LIS educators to estimate overall job trends. An online
> database at an ALA-accredited library school was designed to allow
> recruiters to make postings at no cost. In total, 974 library-related
> advertisements have been posted since 2000. Content analysis reveals
> most recruiters using this site were from academic libraries (48%) and
> from public libraries (35%). The most frequently cited qualifications
> requested were academic background along with communication,
> professional and technological skills. Results from the database
> analysis confirm previous findings based on print media. The study
> suggests that a job database implemented collaboratively among LIS
> institutions at a national and international level might serve to
> match recent graduates with employers while at the same time providing
> empirical data on the skills required in the marketplace.  
>  
> 
> Information Environment of Artisans in Botswana
> NEO MOOKO and L.O. AINA
> 
> Abstract. A survey of 439 artisans in Botswana was carried out with a
> view to determining their information needs, information seeking
> behaviour and sources of information used for meeting their daily
> needs. The study reveals that about 70% of the respondents were 21-40
> years old. The artisans were involved in a variety of vocations,
> dressmaking, welding and hairdressing being the most prominent. A
> significant number of the artisans (11.7%) had no formal education.
> The greatest job-related information needs were in finding sources for
> raw materials (55.6%), locating government tenders (46.2%) and
> improving their knowledge (44%). Health (59.9%) and sports (32.1%)
> were the major general areas of information needs. The artisans sought
> information mainly through informal conversations (65.8%) and
> listening to radio (62.6%). The most used information sources were
> radio (50.3%), colleagues (49%) and newspapers (47.4%). Only 28% of
> the respondents were computer literate. The paper recommends that the
> government of Botswana should provide continuing education programmes
> for the artisans, as this would improve their skills in their
> vocations, as well as their computer literacy competence. Also,
> information providers, such as libraries should be involved
> pro-actively in the provision of information to artisans. They should
> also equip the artisans with information literacy competence. 
> 
> 
> Gender Terminology and Indexing Systems: The Case of Woman's Body,
> Image and Visualization
> MARIA J. LOPEZ-HUERTAS and ISABEL DE TORRES RAMIREZ
> 
> Abstract. Representation and organization of knowledge in
> inter-disciplinary/transdisciplinary domains have attracted little
> attention among specialists in Information Science. The lack of
> attention has affected the management of this kind of information in a
> negative way because models used for handling interdisciplinary
> information are based on or inspired by disciplinarity, causing
> problems in information retrieval. This study is part of broader
> research aiming to analyze an interdisciplinary domain, in this case
> Gender Studies, in order to identify its terminological behaviour and
> its conceptual dynamics for information retrieval. On the basis of a
> selected lexicon of 333 terms taken from a total of 5,200 terms coming
> from different sources, this study aims to bring to light the model
> followed in the representation of concepts related to the health,
> image and body of women, and their visualization in texts specialized
> in gender and in information retrieval systems, particularly in Gender
> thesauri. Secondary objectives are to determine if these sources
> suffer from gender bias and other types of prejudices of social
> constructions, here in regards to the body and the health of women,
> and to identify the research interest that these topics awaken, as
> reflected in the selected collection of specialized documents. To this
> end, a quantitative analysis of the selected terminology was done,
> comparing the results obtained with the selected lexicon from the
> indexing systems with the lexicon obtained from the primary sources,
> to detect coinciding terms and possible differences between the two,
> and so to appraise the documental warrant of the systems. Finally, the
> terms were grouped into categories in order to reveal the most
> relevant aspects for representation in the overall context of women's
> health, the female body and the image of women. 
> 
> 
> Digitising the Hand-Written Bible: The Codex Sinaiticus, its History
> and
> Modern Presentation
> EKKEHARD HENSCHKE
> 
> Project Report
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