Sarah Lockwood, Bodleian Libraries' Head of Support Services, tells CILIP reporter Rob Mackinlay how environmental concerns are driving forward a sustainability journey with ambitious targets, and gives some tips for other library and heritage organisations looking at ways to make their own changes.
Introducao: Nesta pesquisa indaga-se sobre competencias administrativas que permitam aos bibliotecarios gerenciarem suas bibliotecas nas atuais sociedades complexas, considerando-se que a propria Ciencia Administrativa tem renovado seus aportes teoricos a fim de contemplar estruturas organizacionais mais flexiveis e participativas em seus arranjos e decisoes. Objetivo: Propor a competencia comunicativa como elemento fundamental da competencia administrativa de bibliotecarios na contemporaneidade. Metodologia: Revisao de literatura sobre os modos de gestao e as competencias em administracao de bibliotecarios brasileiros e suas origens. Exame da literatura das alternativas administrativas, baseadas nas teorias de Habermas e Luhmann, que pretendem contemplar modos de gestao em sociedades complexas. Resultados: Identificam-se limitacoes nas competencias administrativas dos bibliotecarios, ainda muito alicercadas na emergencia das bibliotecas publicas do seculo XIX, quando a formacao de bibliotecarios tomou o caminho de um saber tecnico para o tratamento documental, que hoje precariza suas habilidades administrativas. Dentre as habilidades administrativas para reconfigurar bibliotecas contemporâneas se destaca, como um primeiro resultado desta pesquisa, a competencia comunicacional, propria de uma Administracao Discursiva, capaz de abrir espacos argumentativos para uma reconstrucao racional e consensual de modelo de biblioteca proprio as sociedades complexas. Conclusoes: Os esforcos para garantir competencia administrativa do bibliotecario devem incluir sua competencia comunicativa como habilidade indispensavel para formulacao de novos modelos de bibliotecas em sociedades complexas.
Introducao: Neste artigo e apresentam-se visoes distintas da informacao: o operador funcional de sistemas sociais ou uma dinâmica complexa.Objetivo: Discutir questoes da administracao da informacao para inovacao em uma organizacao. Esta discussao e realizada a partir do estudo especifico na Fundacao CERTI – Centros de Referenciaem Tecnologias Inovadoras, vinculada a Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina.Metodologia: Esta investigacao combina observacao participante, busca de documentos e entrevistas estruturadas.Resultados: Sao apresentados resultados parciais da investigacao sobre informacao, comunicacao e inovacao tecnologica na Fundacao CERTI, instituicao de pesquisa e desenvolvimento tecnologico, vinculada a Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina com foco na inovacao em negocios, produtos e servicos.Conclusoes: Sugere e que a Ciencia da Informacao pode contribuir com o desenvolvimento teorico e metodologico da administracao da informacao para inovacao das organizacoes.
Introduction: The present study weaves some considerations about the library and the professional practice of the school librarian. On this basis, presents reflections about his acting in the teaching-learning process in a perspective communicative-discursive. Objective: Reflect the practice of the school librarian in the light of the Theories of Communicative action and Discourse of Jurgen Habermas. Methodology: Bibliographical study of the works of Jurgen Habermas and literature review that focuses on the practice of school librarian. Results: Due to emergence of a pedagogical and communicative rationality in the practice of school librarian, theories of Jurgen Habermas constitute an important theoretical framework, since they can promote the development of cognitive structures and individual socio-affective, ethics and politics, as well as the creation of solidarity and the formation of social identities allowing the school community ascend to new heights of social integration. Conclusions: Points to the need for the librarian reflect your practice in the educational environment, considering that this professional is usually seen as the guardian of books, originator and technical detail. Indicates the importance of developing new studies on this theme which involves other elements of analysis thus allowing more detailed assessments.
IT loves its laws, and any technologist worth the title needs to be able to cite the right one when the situation demands. This article presents one-stop guide for law-abiding information professionals. Almost every aspect of software development has been captured in a pithy one-liner or, occasionally, a well thought-out argument. Most of what we call IT laws are really no more than adages - although they might be adages with a lot of evidence to back them up. The article focuses on the three main laws (Amdahl's, Brooks and Moore's) and goes on to look at other less prominent laws.
It seems that the mention of SOA (service-oriented architecture) alone is enough to release the funds needed for IT departments to modernise mainframes. But should departments use SOA to drive traditional legacy mainframe upgrades under the guise of making systems SOA compliant? The IT industry has been at a loss when it comes to legacy mainframe systems. 'To modernise, or not to modernise?' has been the unanswered question of recent years. Legacy mainframe managed systems and associated maintenance costs are a considerable drain on IT department budgets. The costs are high because of interactions between the obsolete platforms and non-mainstream languages on which these legacy systems are built. Adoption of SOA has allowed IT departments to sneak in funding for modernisation programs. The underlying question to this trend is whether SOA should be used as a tool for driving forwards traditional legacy mainframe modernisation programmes under the guise of making systems SOA compliant? It appears the SOA name alone can release the funds required for IT departments to modernise their mainframes. What problem is a little white lie if it gets the job done?
The roadmap for Cisco AON has taken twists and turns - but is it now back on the straight and narrow at last?
As software licensing models get more complicated they are soaking up more of IT specifiers' time - and patience. Why has it become such a pain to sort out? (3 pages)
Enterprising cyber-criminals are employing 'passive and active' techniques in their attempts to avoid detection by anti-virus companies, says the author.
To address accidental data loss, enterprises must take an inclusive and disciplined approach to enforcing standard security practices. When it comes to protecting data, everyone has a responsibility - from chairman to doorman.
IBM??s announcement of plans to open service oriented architecture (SOA) `Leadership Centres?? in Dubai and La Gaude, France, is a further sign that the globalisation of SOA is gathering pace. The centres are aimed to provide informed assistance to Big Blue??s customers, business partners and university students.
Juniper Networks has been flourishing in Cisco's shadow, and has built a reputation for redoubtable technology; but can it maintain the demanding pace set by its bigger rival?
Your parents may have told you not to playwith your food, butwhat's appropriate at the dinner table isn??t necessarily applicable elsewhere. Modern culture thrives on mixing things
QUICK QUESTION: do you know where your data is? You probably do, but that??s because it??s sitting on three storage systems, each attached to a different server, and each only using a low percentage of its capacity.
'Information Pollution' is a termascribed by Web guru Dr Jakob Nielsen to the extremes of data overload generated by a proliferation of electronic forms of communication. "It's where [information overload] stops being a burden and becomes an impediment to your ability to get yourwork done," Nielsen says.
The UK must take steps to remedy declining levels of interest in ICT careers among budding young techies, an EPSRC report has concluded. There is no shortage of ideas, reports Dominic Lenton. (2 pages)
After a few scares, open source is gaining the credibility it needs to win over big enterprise sites, says the author.
According to a 2006 study by Lancaster University, computer science and IT degree applications had halved in five years; E-Skills UK, the sector skills council responsible for promoting education and skills in the high-tech industry, found that total applications for all higher education courses rose 12 per cent between 2002 and 2005, but applications for computer sciences and IT-related related courses fell by a third.
