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The paper stresses the importance of acquisition librarian in collection development, points out the general lack of formal training in librarianship about mercantile and purchase activities, book trade practices and relevant laws of the land, enumerates the prevailing circumstances in which document acquisition decisions are made and finally attempts to highlight and discuss selected significant problems of selecting and purchasing of books, reports and journals in science and technology libraries.

The main object of this project was examination of the relation between social phobia and the job performance of Mazandaran Islamic Azad universities’ staffs. The method of this research was selected as descriptivecorrelational one, and its statistical universe was (N=1188).Our statistical sample was based on krejcie& Morgan table and n=291 staffs were selected by a classified random sampling. Data gathering tools were two standard questionnaires: Connor et.al social phobia (2000) and Paterson job performance (1970).We analyzed data by descriptive statistics (includes: frequency and percentage) and inferential statistics (includes: Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression), with using SPSS software. Results showed that there is a significant negative relation between social phobia and its components with job performance. Also, social phobia components (avoidance, fear and physiologic problem, respectively) were some significant predictors for job performance. This study is a comprehensive understanding about social phobia disorder and its importance on job performance, and also it can be a basis for future research.

The company is a historical subject where many relations are developed, what explain their impact in the environment from an economic and social point of view. The company file, being the faithful reflect of the memory of the organization, offers manifold possibilities for research, beyond the economic facet of the classic studies. The article analyzes several record series of the Vasco-Leonesa Coal Mine Archive, interesting for the studies developed from the optics of history or the anthropology and from the optics of political history, to conclude that the company Archive accumulates a patrimony on professional knowledge, cultures, values and moral values as well.

In the current exiting information era the Public Libraries can play a significant social, cultural and economic role. However, the improvement of the quality of the information services provided as well as their services augmentation is a necessary prerequisite. Over the last five years in Greece, a coherent set of quality indicators and standards have been recognized and followed annually for the Academic Libraries. At the same time, LISIM is a specially designed model for self–assessment in Public Libraries which has been distinguished in the literature as well as in the library practices. The employment of the experience gained by the MOPAB project and the LISIM may both provide a pathway for Public Library quality assessment in Greece.

Scientific communication should include nowadays the construction of a branding image that promotes scientific works further than in traditional methods (books, magazines, conferences…). Investigators must compete in an environment with different dimensions. They have to publish in indexed magazines, attempt a patent, educate in a postgraduate level, etc. But also, for example, participate in public forums like conferences, congress or digital networking. That means further than promoting our contents only for a branding image, that we also have to manage our online reputation, pick a type of profile, the broadcast media we are going to be in, which is going to be my identification tone in those profiles or the target of each one of them, guide strategically the promotion activities of our digital identity and in focus about how give away only the right and necessary information: quality against quantity and personalized services against to only replicate content.

The landscape of scholarly communications is transforming into an Open Access environment. Policies are being set by national funding agencies and universities, among others. This session will present an overview of major policy issues, the academic (teaching faculty) perspective on open access publishing and self-archiving and what it all means in the real-world university (library) environment. Delivered at Canadian Library Association Conference, June 16, 2006, Ottawa, Ontario (Canada)

This article classifies approaches to web search.

It is really hard to avoid the meaning of communication in every day's life. It is a matter of a wide sense, which includes media, scientific branches, university specialists, professions, human resource management, social relations. Human relations are based in communication field. Every person, every plant, every animal and every object transmits signs. When those signs are detectable, transmit a message to a receiver. Those messages can change the information of whom who understands them and consequently changes his/her behavior. This change on the receivers behavior, thereafter can affect the transmitter, the one who transmits the message, in an detectable way or maybe not. Sometimes, results of the message transmission are immediate, while in some cases are distant. An observer in this case, may not succeed in connecting the two facts. The most effective communication is the result of successful interpersonal relationships with the members of family environment, of our work environment and generally with members of our public life. In our workplaces, one of the most important matters of the administration which often stands aside, is communication. Especially, for the leading operation, interpersonal communication composes an important element of application, since interaction between humans in fact succeeds throughout her. Academic libraries today, worldwide, have been marked out as a complicated organizations which been called to work in a fast changing environment. Those changes are possible not affect and also not brought up changes in the administrative model which is being applied. In this point, we want to see the application and the role of the communication in our every day workplaces, the meaning of the communication and the kinds of communications we're applying and if we can improve it, intending with this, in improving our professional and interpersonal relationships.

This report presents Dspace that is a product realized in 2000 between Libraries of MIT (Massachussetts Institute Technology) and Hewlett-Packard Company relating to building a repository. It is able to support long-term memory, capturing and archiving of scholastic documents, realized from all MIT’s departments and free access by WWW, too. Furthermore, Dspace supports distribution and self-preservation of a different kinds of materials such as texts, videos, sounds, pictures, software and datasets. Some of them may be objected of electronic copyright and consequently don’t have a free access. However, it is possible decide which users (single people or accademic groups) can use all these different materials. There are two interfaces for Dspace, both of them have specific aims. The first considers authors, which using self-archiving, are able to produce metadata of their works so that database can grow up. The second considers the archive that allows managing of many different kinds of format and digital resources. In fact, on one hand Dspace is useful for all research workers at the MIT and on the other hand in teaching multimedia (such as an e-learning environment, in particular for distance education).

Free software is a type of software that gives freedom to its users. With the coming of Internet, free software has consolidated like alternative, technically viable and economically sustainable, to the property software. Languages like Galician, the gaellic or the Catalan have had a very little development in the world of the software of property by the limitations that imposes. In contrast, in the world of software it frees these languages have been developed with a remarkable success. As important projects of free software as Mozilla navigator, surroundings GNOME or the GNU/Linux system have complete or partial translations in all these languages. Free software represents an opportunity without precedents for the development of minority languages, like the Catalan, in the new technologies thanks to the liberties that guarantee to us.