Genom att luta sig mot kravet på saklighet och opartiskhet kan biblioteken vara en del av totalförsvaret utan att det krockar med demokratiuppdraget. Det säger Erik Fichtelius som står bakom förslaget till nationell biblioteksstrategi.
"Copyright for Librarians" (CFL) is an online open curriculum on copyright law that was developed jointly with Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
Lisa Gemmel, utredare: "Gör folkbiblioteken till samhällsviktig verksamhet. Skapa nationell samsyn kring när biblioteken kan behöva stänga. Ta vara på deras självklara plats i samhället. Det är några av våra rekommendationer i den rapport vi idag publicerar om biblioteken och pandemin.
"Svensk biblioteksförening vill att folkbiblioteken blir samhällsviktig verksamhet i samtliga kommuner och inlemmas i kommunernas krisorganisation, inte i rollen som värmestugor utan som informationsförmedlare och uppbärare av demokratiska principer. Föreningen ser också att det behövs en nationell samsyn kring under vilka omständigheter folkbiblioteken ska stänga sina lokaler och eventuell verksamhet. Den ojämlika tillgången till folkbiblioteken i Sverige under pandemin är oacceptabel."
A quel moment l’identifiant devient-il indiscret en révélant les goûts, les lectures, les recherches, les projets ou les déplacements de celui qu’il désigne ? Quels processus conduisent à l’élaboration d’une identité numérique plus ou moins maîtrisée, plus ou moins voulue, quand le web2.0 nous pousse à nous révéler toujours plus ? Quel rôle ont à jouer les médiateurs de l’information et de la connaissance pour prévenir les risques d’abus, construire une juste identification et former les usagers à contrôler leur identité sur les réseaux ? Comme chaque année, la Fulbi invite des professionnels des bibliothèques ou de la documentation, des chercheurs, des consultants et des éditeurs à échanger sur ce thème qui, au delà de la question technique, nous interroge sur la place de l’individu dans le monde numérique.
av Kristian Meisingseth i Minerva hösten 2015
"Før var bibliotekets kjerneoppgave bokutlån. Det er det ikke lenger. I stedet får man inntrykk av at biblioteket skal være alt, både konsertsal, teater, litteraturhus, debattarena, dataspillrom, kinosal med mer.
Men bibliotekene er ikke superinstitusjoner besatt av superbibliotekarer. I møte med slike forventninger er bibliotekene nødt til å feile, spesielt i byer hvor det allerede finnes et tilbud av ulike kulturtyper. Et bibliotek som skal være alt for alle, står i fare for å bli lite for de fleste.
Hvis opplysningsarbeid mot de unge og de som står utenfor skal være viktigst, må det prioriteres ressursmessig. Nasjonal bibliotekstrategi uttrykker ikke noe ønske om en slik prioritering. Det gjør heller ikke for eksempel Oslos ferske bibliotekmelding Borgernes bibliotek."
First to the rather disturbing 85% figure. This originates from a 2009 Lancet article that suggests much research is wasted due to asking the wrong questions, being badly designed, being not published, being poorly reported and more. The paper has been cited some 400 times in Google Scholar which indicates that it is an area of interest and concern.
So where where do librarians fit in? A recent paper (“Impactful librarians : identifying opportunities to increase your impact”) suggests that they can play a very important role in improving research quality in their organisations. At the same time, this will help raise the profile and value of clinical librarians, which is increasingly important in the current economic climate.
BPS Blog post. “Learning styles” – there can be few ideas that have created such a stark disconnect between the experts on the ground and the evidence published in scholarly journals. Endorsed by the overwhelming majority of teachers, yet dismissed by most psychologists and educational neuroscientists as a “neuromyth”, the basis of learning styles is that people learn better when taught via their preferred learning modality, usually (but not always) described as either visual, auditory or kinaesthetic.
Many studies have already uncovered serious problems with the learning styles concept, such as that measures of learning styles are invalid and that students do not in fact learn better via their preferred modality. Now further evidence against learning styles comes from Greece, in one of the first investigations on the topic to involve primary school pupils.
Writing in Frontiers in Education, Marietta Papadatou-Pastou and her colleagues report that teachers and pupils did not agree on the pupils’ preferred learning modality – a significant blow for the learning styles concept since “teachers typically adopt learning styles within a classroom context by relying on their own assessment of students’ learning styles.”
Conclusions
Although ChatGPT is reliable and useful for patients to obtain information about rheumatic diseases, it should be kept in mind that it may give false and misleading answers.
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av Torbjörn Nilsson, bibliotekschef i Malmö
Debatten om stök och oro på biblioteken har i stora drag varit helt orimlig. Krav som förts fram om att gå tillbaka till helt tysta hysch-hysch-bibliotek skulle slå sönder den framgångsrika verksamhet som finns idag. Kvar skulle finnas bokhyllor, tysta läsrum och väktare – nästan ingen av de cirka två miljoner Malmöbor som årligen besöker biblioteken i Malmö skulle i så fall vilja bemöda sig att besöka oss.
J. Matthee, R. Naidu, G. Pezzulli, M. Gronke, D. Sobral, P. Oesch, M. Hayes, D. Erb, D. Schaerer, R. Amorín and 5 other author(s). (2021)cite arxiv:2110.11967Comment: Submitted to MNRAS. Figure 2 shows the main result -- the comoving emissivity due to bright LAEs. Our fiducial model is based on results presented in our companion paper -- Naidu & Matthee et al. 2021. Comments welcome.
E. Feigelson, R. de Souza, E. Ishida, and G. Babu. (2020)cite arxiv:2005.13025Comment: Accepted for publication in volume 8 of Annual Reviews of Statistics and Its Application. 26 pages, 7 figures.