Library Automation in Transitional Societies

This is a collection of papers from a 1997 conference that attempted to assess the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's efforts to modernize Eastern European libraries after the fall of communism. Looking primarily at Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia, the international panel of contributors cover library automation, library policy, and management strategy.

Contributors

xi

Introduction

3

(20)

Andrew Lass

Richard E. Quandt

PART I. Library Policy and the State

Library Automation: Fortunes and Miseries in Poland

23

(5)

Adam Manikowski

Developing National Information Infrastructures in Central and Eastern Europe: The Content-versus-Conduit Debate

28

(17)

Christine L. Borgman

Nadia Caidi

A Coordinator's View of the Impact of Policy on the Financing and the Managing of Library Automation

45

(14)

Jurand B. Czerminski

Libraries of Central and Eastern Europe: Basic Dilemmas

59

(15)

Jela Steinerova

The Changes in the Functions of University Libraries and of Educational Policy in Poland After 1989

74

(9)

Krzysztof Zamorski

In Search of an Optimum Model of Development

83

(10)

Miroslaw Gorny

Bogdan Maruszewski

Jan

Andrzej Nikisch

PART II. Case Histories

Automation and Academic Libraries in Hungary: Theory and Practice in a Period of New Challenges

93

(11)

Bela Mader

Automation in the National Library in Warsaw: From an In-House System to INNOPAC

104

(9)

Jadwiga Sadowska

The Retrospective Conversion of the Catalog in the Library of the American Studies Center, Warsaw University

113

(7)

Ewa Paluszkiewicz

CASLIN, Priorities of the Czech National Library, and Government Policy on Information and Libraries

120

(14)

Vojtech Balik

Cooperation, Consortia, Compatibility, Connectivity: The Case of CASLIN

134

(7)

Martin Svoboda

Some Problems with Library Automation in the KOLIN Library Consortium

141

(12)

Darina Kozuchova

L'ubomira Soltesova

Realization of the CASLIN Project in the Slovak National Library and Its Impact on the Automation of Libraries in Slovakia

153

(15)

Igor Prokop

Milan Rakus

Daniela Slizova

The Aleph Implementation at the National Library of the Czech Republic

168

(15)

Iva Pribramska

PART III. Cataloging, Authority Control, Retroconversion, Subject Headings, Search, and Union Catalogues

A Retrospective Conversion: The Case of Debrecen

183

(13)

Olga Gomba

The Retrospective Conversion in Czech Libraries

196

(8)

Bohdana Stoklasova

The Implementation of an Automated System at the University Library in Bratislava, Slovakia

204

(15)

Zuzana Repisova

Cataloging Standards in Czech Libraries

219

(5)

Bohdana Stoklasova

Evolution of Authority File Work in Poland

224

(11)

Anna Paluszkiewicz

The Union Catalog: Different Library Systems, Different solutions

235

(16)

Blazej Feret

New Possibilities for Information Retrieval

251

(16)

Geza Bakonyi

Why, and How to, Translate a Subject Heading System: Authority Control Provides a Solution

267

(17)

Klara Koltay

Integrating Internet Resources into the Library Catalog

284

(9)

Peter Gyure

Knowledge and Information Processing

293

(20)

Tibor Csik

Katalin Varga

The Dissemination and Archival Storage of Old Materials as Electronic Documents

313

(14)

Adolf Knoll

The Automation of Special Collections: General Issues

327

(8)

Joanna Pasztaleniec-Jarzynska

PART IV. Management Issues

The Sequencing of Automation in Central and East European Research Libraries

335

(10)

Henryk Hollender

Managing Delays: The Micropolitics of Time in the Czech and Slovak Automation Projects

345

(15)

Andrew Lass

The Krakow Project: Problems of Management

360

(14)

Ewa Dobrzynska-Lankosz

Staffing Patterns for Academic Libraries of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and the CIS Countries

374

(25)

Robert M. Hayes

Staff Preparation for Automation

399

(8)

Maria Sliwinska

Interactions Between Library Automation and Staff and Patron Training

407

(13)

Ewa Krysiak

The Special Role of the Hungarian National Library in the Formation and Management of Consortia

420

(7)

Miklos Fogarassy

The Human Aspects of Library Automation

427

(16)

Marta Viragos

The Contribution of Integrated Library Services to the Ensuring of Quality Services

443

Judit Skaliczki

Eva Zalai-Kovacs

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Library Automation in Transitional Societies Lessons from Eastern Europe

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