Biblioteci şi bibliotecari într-o lume a viitorului

Author(s): Mihaela Staver / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 3-4/2018

In the period of the 31st October extended till the 10th of November 2018, Mihaela Staver with five colleagues from the libraries of the Higher Education Institutions of the Republic of Moldova has lived an unprecedented professional experience in university libraries in North Carolina, USA, as well as in the Washington Congress Library, as a participant in the Open World program, a program supported by the US Embassy in the Republic of Moldova.

Cursuri on-line – oportunitate oferită de Research4Life

Author(s): Angela Hăbăşescu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 3-4/2018

In the article are described “AGORA on-line Course: Fundamentals of Information Literacy and Access to Global On-line Research in Agriculture”, organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO, in Cooperation with RUFORUM (Research4Life). More than 1,500 audiences from around 100 countries participated in the courses, including a librarian from Scientific Library USARB.

Заоставштина Александра Каракушевића Класа у Народној библиотеци Србије

Author(s): Gorana Stevanović / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 1/2020

Aleksandar Klas was a famous Serbian cartoonist, graphic designer, and illustrator, whose activity marked the second half of the 20th century. In 2019, the National Library of Serbia received a valuable gift − his personal library along with over 6,500 cartoons, posters, personal photographs, and a collection of art paintings and archival material. It was formed as the Legacy of Aleksandar Karakušević Klas according to the heir’s wish. This paper highlights the most important aspects and problems concerning the receipt of the material, its classification, bibliographic cataloging, physical treatment, as well as the way it is kept and stored in the Department for Special Collections. Future plans and activities aiming at promoting and drawing public attention to the value and importance of this legacy are also highlighted.

Cross-Cultural Emotion Recognition and Comparison Using Convolutional Neural Networks

Author(s): Alexander I. Iliev,Ameya Mote,Arjun Manoharan / Language(s): English Issue: X/2020

The paper sets to define a comparison of emotions across 3 different cultures namely Canadian French, Italian, and North American. This was achieved using speech samples for each of the three languages subject to our study. The features used were MFCCs and were passed through convolutional neural network in order to verify their significance for the task of emotion recognition through speech. Three different systems were trained and tested, one for each language. The accuracy came to 71.10%, 79.07%, and 73.89% for each of them respectively. The aim was to prove that the feature vectors we used were representing each emotion well. A comparison across each emotion, gender and language was drawn at the end and it was observed that apart from the emotion neutral, every other emotion was ex-pressed somewhat differently by each culture. Speech is one of the main vehicles to recognize emotions and is an attractive area to be studied with application to presenting and preserving different cultural and scientific heritage.

A Unified Data Model for ICH Online Inventories: A Proposal

Author(s): Maria Teresa Artese,Isabella Gagliardi / Language(s): English Issue: X/2020

This paper proposes an investigation about problems arising when searching and managing Intangible Cultural Heritage data: how to find out which websites are dealing with them in the world, how to collect and evaluate web services provided to make integrated queries, how to model a com-mon metadata structure able to collect ICH entities coming from different realities and provide them in Linked Open Data format. The study is based on the QueryLab prototype, an ongoing experimentation used to integrate different inventories to provide new and easy ways to query data.

The Eleventh National Information Day: Open Science, Open Data, Open Access, Bulgarian Open Science Cloud

Author(s): Peter L. Stanchev,Hristiyaniya Ancheva,Radoslav Pavlov,Georgi Simeonov / Language(s): English Issue: X/2020

The paper gives an overview the current landscape and the activities on national and institutional level regarding Open Science, Open Access to scientific information, Open Data and the overall development of the Bulgarian Open Science Cloud.

Impakti i përcjellë tek administrata shtetërore pas implementimit të rregullores për njësimin e punës me dokumentat

Author(s): Shpresa Dorda / Language(s): Albanian Issue: 1-2/2018

The Albanian language in our country has faced many challenges since the moment of compiling the alphabet of the Albanian language, continuing its teaching over the centuries, achieving unification by standard and its spread throughout the country. In parallel with the development and change of Albanian according to the pressures and political and social orientations of the time, the writing of official documents in the Albanian language has progressed, as one of the ways to prove the existence of the Albanian state in the world. In different historical periods it is precisely the documents drafted by the officials of the time which prove in one way or another what our ancestors lived. The way of drafting documents gives a lot of interesting data about the time, data not only for the political situation, but also for the social, intellectual level, worldview of Albanian speakers and through observation of documents in different time periods every researcher has the opportunity to make analyzes relevant according to the nature of the study he / she has selected. Nowadays, paper documents are not the only way of communication between employees or institutions that are considered as official communication, as the documentation of documents sent by e-mail or other digital means are taken for granted. But, although technology has advanced to speed up the way of communication and conveying information, again the value of the written document will never fall and any other way of conveying information, except the document written on paper, will remain only a additional element, auxiliary of the moment. Implementation of Decision No. 4 dated 19.06.2017 on the approval of the "Unified Regulation of work with documents in the public authorities of the Republic of Albania" has had a positive impact on the administration. Immediately, the deserved value of the work of the archive documents and their processing to be submitted to the relevant institutions began to be given, after the procedure that would be followed for them was determined once again. Over the years the work of documents in the archives left much to be desired because it was not given due importance. Thus, many problems were noticed in the archives of the institutions. However, with the approval of the "Unified Regulation of work with documents in the public authorities of the Republic of Albania", the institutions began to reflect and take appropriate measures to implement it for each article provided in it, in terms of processing documentation in archive and follow-up with other procedures, such as submission to the relevant institutions or disposal for the rest that had expired. At the same time, special attention was paid to the establishment of relevant internal orders for the approval of the unification of administrative documents, making it possible for all institutions for the same document to have the same format. In this way it became possible, at the same time, to unify and set a standard for the conception of documents in all institutions equally.

Marrëdhëniet arkivore me Turqinë dhe Kosovën pas viteve 2000

Author(s): Gea Sulo / Language(s): Albanian Issue: 1-2/2018

Arkivat mjedisi natyror dhe katastrofat mjedisore

Author(s): Hamit Shala / Language(s): Albanian Issue: 1-2/2019

This paper examines the possible occurrence of natural disasters that could affect the archives, as well as the emergency plan of measures to be undertaken in the event of a disaster. It also addresses the purpose of protection and emergency measures, recommendations and the preparation of precautionary measures for the safeguarding of archival records in the event of a natural disaster such as those outlined above, as well as man-made disasters, such as wars and terrorism, fires, volcanoes, installations, explosives, etc.

Libraries in the Context of a Pandemic: Crisis and Oportunity

Author(s): Elena Tîrziman / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020

Any crisis situation is a challenge for libraries. The pandemic caused by COVID - 19 cannot be compared with other crisis situations encountered by libraries. This crisis has profoundly affected the activities of libraries, their presence in the community, their relations with users, and even their mission and vision of institutional development policies and strategies. Forced to carry out most of their activities online, libraries have reorganized and resized their activities and have looked for new ways to best adapt to the digital environment. At the same time, the crisis situation is also an opportunity to analyse the risks and vulnerabilities that they are obliged to face and to develop institutional development strategies that protect and benefit libraries in a competitive environment such as the digital environment. Thus, libraries become concerned with strengthening their online presence, making and publishing their own digital content from their own collections, producing value-added products and services, reaffirming the heritage function by which they constitute and promote the cultural, social, and scientific memory of the community they serve, and partnering with similar institutions in order to ensure mutual support and resource sharing. This study presents a brief analysis of the online presence of Romanian libraries. The contemporary library thus institutionally redefines itself, in terms of its mission, specific activities, products and services, of its presence in the digital competitive environment so that it can effectively fulfil its role at the level of the community it serves and of society as a whole.

Јавне библиотеке и њихова делатност у време пандемијске кризе

Author(s): Ana Janković / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 2/2020

The paper explores activities of public libraries under changed conditions caused by the official announcement of the infectious disease COVID-19 pandemic, paying special attention to the work of the Public Library Bor during the lockdown and afterwards. Public libraries worldwide had to find a way to continue their work and to overcome fears, confronting contradictory information, as well as to make, often alone, hard decisions of what services to offer and how to deliver materials to users. Libraries were deciding on options ranging from minimal restrictions to the total lockdown. On the other hand, library users had to turn to online sources of information and services in order to satisfy their needs and interests, so that the paper also explores the effects of these new working conditions on the usage of digitized materials and virtual library services. The conclusion is that libraries should carefully evaluate their possibilities and resources, adjusting their services and programs to what people need the most. As the course of the pandemic is constantly changing, libraries need to focus on improving their virtual offers and finding the way to do so with minimum and tolerable expenses, having in mind that many public libraries in Serbia have already faced budget reductions and cuttings.

DIPLOMATIČKI SKLOP I GRAFIJA PREPISKE CRNOGORSKIH SERDARA I GUVERNADURA RADONJIĆA (1714-1828)

Author(s): Miloš Krivokapić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 33/2020

The letters of the serdars and guvernadurs Radonjic family, created in eighteenth and during the first three decades of the nineteenth century, were written in non-calligraphic, fast-written Cyrillic mode, including the national language in Njegushi, which corresponds to archaic Montenegrin dialects. The great part of the Radonjic family letters is characterized by corresponding style, the evidence of features in artistic style and by the fact that they are not numerous. The letters are recognizable through the variety of subject and motive matters, which provided the usage of different language methods. The letters of serdar Vuk, but also the letters of guvernadurs Stanisha and Jovan, apart the elements of diplomatic style, contain certain features characteristic for the national literature, which is not the case in other letters. The existing vowel system of the letters doesn’t differ from the vocal system of most our dialects, neither from the vocal system of literary language. Consonant system of the letters contains all consonants and obstruents which literary language possesses nowadays. However, there aren’t particular graphic signs which would be adequate to denote specific consonants, and that fact designates the imperfection of the graphic system

Durabilitatea Proiectului MISISQ în Republica Moldova

Author(s): Elena Harconiţa / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 3-4/2018

The MISISQ Project - Modern Information Services for Improvement Study Quality, held in the period 2013-2016, had as applicants European colleagues from the Library of Kaunas University of Medicine, Lithuania, director Meilė Kretavičienė, Scientific Library of Nicolae Testemitanu State University of Medicine- Liubovi Karnaeva, National Coordinator, Director of the Scientific Library, Riga Technical University, Latvia, Hungary - University of Debrecen and Romania - “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Cluj-Napoca, have ensured an efficient management, a high organizational culture, mobility platforms, training and integration into the international professional community for Moldovan librarians.

Alexandru Plămădeală – sculptorul esenţelor

Author(s): Angela Hăbăşescu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 3-4/2018

In the article is described the exhibition dedicated to Alexandru Plămădeală, the great Bassarabian sculptor. The exhibition was organized on the occasion of the 130th anniversary of the birth of Alexandru Plămădeală in the reading room no. 3 Psycho-pedagogical, natural, real science. Arts of the Scientific Library USARB.

Eugenia Maleşevschi, pictoriţa basarabeană – 150 ani de la naştere

Author(s): Valentina Vacarciuc / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 3-4/2018

The article deals with information on the life and activity of Basarabian painter Eugenia Maleşevschi (10.12.1868 - 26.10.1942) who represented the Moldavian art from the beginning of the 20th Century. On December 10, 150 years have passed since the birth of the painter.

Cele mai importante realizări ale anului 2018

Author(s): Elena Harconiţa / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2019

The article highlights the most important achievements of the USARB Scientific Library in 2018. The Library’s participation in the Projects has facilitated new knowledge and experiences, documentary visits in libraries in European countries, training workshops, webinars, promoted by international experts ,technical equipment worth more than 500 000 lei, international visibility in a virtual and physical way. The library was included in the Open World program, supported by the US Congress. The development of a modern system of information resources, services and educational products relevant to each specialty, specialization, doctorate and postdoctoral discipline continued. On January 1, 2019 the library collection has 1,008,018 m., 309,116 titles, worth over 14 million lei. The library provided modern services; the most requested were the electronic services: 26 707 Internet access, Wi Fi, access to 107 national and international databases containing over 1,800,000 thousand books and 80,000 periodicals; access to the PRIMO ExLibris electronic catalog (shared catalog of 7 university libraries in the Republic of Moldova) about 427 337 records, 23 087 visits, archiving and access to the USARB Institutional Repository (Open Research Archive), 2,948 titles (papers, articles) indexed, 126,942 visits; 5 own databases (4,713 visits): Digital Library, SumarScanat, Vinyl Disc Music (MP3 format), e-books. On the Library’s site was opened the MEDIA section where video about the Library and its products, videospots and videotutorial are placed.

Biblioteca Ştiinţifică USARB la Conferința de finalizare a proiectului „Modernizarea serviciilor Bibliotecilor Universitare din Moldova”

Author(s): Elena Harconiţa / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2019

The author reports about the Final Conference of the Project ,,Modernization of academic library services in Moldova, financed by Norwegian Cooperation Pro-gramme in Higher Education with Eurasia. Elena Harconiţa, director of the Scientific Library of ,,Alecu Russo” Balti State University presented the report: ,,Modernization of academic library services in Moldova: Impact. Dissemination”. At the Conference, 22 project partners signed a Partnership and Cooperation Memorandum for 2020-2023 that will ensure the sustainability of the Project.

Ziua Națională de Sensibilizare privind Bibliotecile (2019) Bălți, Republica Moldova

Author(s): Valentina Topalo / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2019

The first months of 2019 was focused on preparation for April 23rd - the Natio nal Awareness Day on Libraries and Librarians’ Day in the Republic of Moldova. The author shares the experience of the Balti LNSS Project team “Library Network Support Services: modernising libraries in Armenia, Moldova and Belarus through library staff development and reforming libraries” (LNSS). Awareness Day’s preliminary activities, content, way of organizing and dissemination the events, types of marketing forms are mentioned.

Dimensiunea ştiinţifică a revistei de Psihologie (1955-2018)

Author(s): Elena Cristian,Svetlana Cecan / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2019

The study aims to give an overview of the Review of Psychology, edited by the Romanian Academy since 1955 until now. The journal is available for consultation at the Library of the Department of Psychology, at the Library of the Romanian Academy, at other libraries, as well as in electronic libraries and international databases accessible online. Also, the Psychology magazine can be consulted at SL USARB since 1956.

Bibliotecarii în acţiune pentru educaţia mediatică

Author(s): Mihaela Staver / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2019

The paper deals with the training in media education, a project organized by Irex Europa, of librarians from all the localities of the Republic of Moldova. Trainees have been initiated with many notions of media literacy, being guided to think critically when analyzing information, whether the information comes from the online space or comes from other media sources.