Libraries As Instruments of Information Policy: The Role of Canadian Public Libraries in 'Connecting Canadians'

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heidi Julien ◽  
Michelle Helliwell
Keyword(s):  
Web Sites ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
Information Policy ◽  
The Web ◽  
The Way

With sweeping changes in the way Canadians seek and use information in recent years, public libraries have been on a quest to stake a claim in the information society. In addition, Industry Canada has named public libraries as vehicles for its 'Connecting Canadians' initiative. This paper reports the results of an analysis of public libraries' responses to these imposed roles. The web sites of Canada's 22 largest cities were analyzed...

scholarly journals I, Librarian

2005 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hilda Kruger
Keyword(s):  
Technological Change ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Technological Changes ◽  
Font Size ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Society ◽  
Information Professionals ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Way

<span>The fast and continuous technological change that is characteristic of the information society we find ourselves in has demonstrable impact on the way librarians go about their business. This paper offers a scenario of technological changes already in the pipeline and yet to come, and how those changes will impact the role of librarians in the future. One of the main concerns of this paper is the continued relevance of information professionals as infomediaries in our future society.</span><div><span style="color: #303030; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div>

Semantic Web Adaptation

2011 ◽  
pp. 78-88
Author(s):  
Alexander Mikroyannidis ◽  
Babis Theodoulidis
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Web ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
Web Usage Mining ◽  
New Era ◽  
Automatic Reasoning ◽  
Web Usage ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
Unstructured Information ◽  
The Web ◽  
The Way

The rate of growth in the amount of information available in the World Wide Web has not been followed by similar advances in the way this information is organized and exploited. Web adaptation seeks to address this issue by transforming the topology of a Web site to help users in their browsing tasks. In this sense, Web usage mining techniques have been employed for years to study how the Web is used in order to make Web sites more user-friendly. The Semantic Web is an ambitious initiative aiming to transform the Web to a well-organized source of information. In particular, apart from the unstructured information of today’s Web, the Semantic Web will contain machine-processable metadata organized in ontologies. This will enhance the way we search the Web and can even allow for automatic reasoning on Web data with the use of software agents. Semantic Web adaptation brings traditional Web adaptation techniques into the new era of the Semantic Web. The idea is to enable the Semantic Web to be constantly aligned to the users’ preferences. In order to achieve this, Web usage mining and text mining methodologies are employed for the semi-automatic construction and evolution of Web ontologies. This usage-driven evolution of Web ontologies, in parallel with Web topologies evolution, can bring the Semantic Web closer to the users’ expectations.

scholarly journals Information literacy on the political agenda: An analysis of Estonian national strategic documents

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-201
Author(s):  
Kertti Merimaa ◽  
Krista Lepik
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Information Policy ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Technological Determinism ◽  
Explicit Representations

There is a controversy: while information literacy (IL) has been recognized to have a central role in operating efficiently in the information society, previous studies have noted that in the European political agenda, the actual wording of IL is rarely used. This study pays a close visit to 15 Estonian information policy–related national strategic documents from 1998 to 2014 to understand the emerging role of IL in these documents. Qualitative text analysis and critical discourse analysis are employed to analyse both explicit representations and implicit conceptualizations of IL, linked to social determinants, ideologies, and effects from the dominating discourse. Considering the differ-ent “faces” of IL (Bruce, 1997), one can see that while the dominant approach to IL is technologically oriented, few other concepts of IL can be detected. Discursively, the information society is defined through economic and technological fields, on the wave of technological determinism and neoliberal-ism, with some social equality.

Using a Course Web Site to Enhance Traditional Lecture Style Courses

2000 ◽  
pp. 293-306
Author(s):  
Ross A. Malaga
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Student Performance ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
Web Site ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Traditional Lecture ◽  
The World ◽  
Oriented Approach ◽  
The Web

This chapter examines the role of the World Wide Web in traditional lecture based courses. It details a student oriented approach to the development and maintenance of course Web sites. An experiment was conducted in order to determine if use of a course Web site improves student performance. The surprising results, that students in certain sections did not use the site at all, are analyzed. It was concluded that using the Web in class and making Web assignments part of student’s graded work may impact use of a course Web site.

A Bishop, A Patron, and some Preachers: A Problem of Presentation

1999 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 421-434
Author(s):  
Rosemary O’Day
Keyword(s):  
Church Of England ◽  
General Distribution ◽  
Concerted Action ◽  
Dependent Relationship ◽  
The Church ◽  
Close Interrelationship ◽  
The Web ◽  
The Way

The relations between bishops of the Church of England and lay patrons could be fraught and were certainly variable. Local circumstances and the general distribution of patronage within a given diocese combined with the personalities and concerns of the bishop and patrons involved to provide a distinctive environment for negotiation. It would be rash, therefore, to suggest that any case study of co-operation or conflict between a patron and a bishop could be typical. This said, such a case-study cannot but inform and stimulate because negotiation, amicable or otherwise, was essential for all parties wishing to exercise patronage. The co-operation between John Coke and Bishop Thomas Morton demonstrates not only the possibilities for concerted action in a given religious cause, but also the way in which the rules and regulations of the Church of England might be stretched and bent in that process. It indicates the importance for the Church of the web of connections which the bishops built up during their careers. It underlines the close interrelationship of the parochial ministry and the role of household chaplain in so many upper-gentry homes. It highlights the dependent relationship between the clerical client and his patron and the differing reactions of ministers to this situation.

French Scandals on the Web, and on the Streets: A Small Experiment in Stretching the Limits of Reported Reality

2002 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 339-353 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Rogers ◽  
Noortje Marres
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
Reality Check ◽  
Special Software ◽  
Institutional Dimension ◽  
The Mass Media ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Web

The main argument of this paper is that the Web is well suited for the role of a streetwise informant for protest events. Using special software, we plot the network of Web sites of organisations related to the meat and anti-globalization protests in Milau, France, in June of 2000, and compare our findings about the nature of the actors with the reports in the mass media. Not only do the findings deepen mass media accounts but they also point to a new web-sociological means to re-open the question of the real. Putting on display the institutional dimension of the protest, the Web network simultaneously undermines and enriches the mass media accounts of the protests. The Web may provide a reality check on existing accounts of the protest and document encounters between opposing definitions of reality. Our analysis also suggests the Web can be harnessed to complicate the definition of real social action.

scholarly journals Free & Open Source Software (FOSS) in Website Designing

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-53
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
Basic Element ◽  
Secure Environment ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
Social Networking Website ◽  
Free Open Source ◽  
The Way

People want website to be fast, user-friendly, secure & free to use. Web sites have become a critical part of business, and the tools to create and deploy Web sites are becoming more flexible and easier to use. This paper talks about the role of FOSS in Website Designing. FOSS proves to be a boon for website developers in the way that they are secure, robust and free to use & modify. The open source tools available in the market facilitate the tool -box of a website developer. The use of FOSS increases the productivity, provide a secure Environment & also save a website developer of getting screwed under the copyright act. This paper talks about the technologies which FOSS world currently offers to the website developers and also the revolution which is awaiting to flourish the market. It also incorporates a study of the recent developments & the way market is becoming more dependent on FOSS. For example, PHP is the basic element of the most famous social networking website today, the Facebook. Also, GMAIL is entirely based on the open source language, Python.

scholarly journals LIBRARY AS SOCIOCULTURAL PUBLIC SPACE IN CONDITIONS OF TRANSFORMATION

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olena Kuzmenko ◽  
Vira Zagumenna
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Active Dissemination ◽  
Modern Information ◽  
Historical Methods

The purpose of the article is to show the role and capabilities of libraries in meeting the constantly growing information needs of users, as well as the compliance of library activities with the new challenges of the modern information society. The methodology consists of the use of general scientific and special methods, namely: analytical and synthetic processing of information, logical and systematic approaches, terminological and historical methods, as well as comparison and interrelation of theory and practice. The scientific novelty of this work lies in the expansion of ideas about the role of libraries and their influence on the development of modern information society. Conclusions. Modern libraries are transforming and developing together with society, taking on the role of information, cultural, educational, social, and community centers. The active dissemination of the experience of transformation of libraries with a specific readership, differentiation of areas is facilitated by the search for new methods and forms of socio-cultural activities of libraries in Ukraine. Among them, there is a realization of the four-dimensional model of public library activity; conceptual model of a flexible library; digital education project «Public libraries as hubs for active citizens» and many others. Libraries create conditions for self-realization of users, their communication, full-fledged leisure, etc. It is in the library that citizens can learn throughout their lives, gaining the knowledge and skills needed, using both the resources of a particular library and open online resources and services. Key words: library; socio-cultural activity; transformation,;informational needs of users; public; civil society.

scholarly journals Too much power to the networks

2009 ◽  
Vol 08 (04) ◽  
pp. R01
Author(s):  
Alessandro Delfanti
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Environmental Movements ◽  
Brain Science ◽  
Power Theory ◽  
Manuel Castells ◽  
Interpretative Framework ◽  
The Way

In his latest book titled “Communication power”, the famous sociologist of information society Manuel Castells focuses on the way in which power takes shape and acts in information societies, and the role of communication in defining, structuring, and changing it. From the rise of “mass self-communication” to the role of environmental movements and neuropolitics, the network is the key structure at play and the main lens used to analyse the transformations we are witnessing. To support his thesis Castells links media studies, power theory and brain science, but his insistence on networks puts in danger his ability to give to his readers a comprehensive and coherent interpretative framework.

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