Media Publications from Europe

Viktor Ergert, 50 Jahre Rundfunk in Osterreich [50 Years of Broadcasting in Austria], Volume III: 1955-1967 (Residenz Verlag-Publishing House, Imbergstrasse 9, A-5020 Salzburg, Austria—250 Austrian schillings)

Hans Heinz Fabris and Herta Kreuzhuber. Das Internationale Jahr Der Frau 1975 Und die Darstellung von Frauenthemen in den Osterreichischen Massenmedien International Women Year and Its Effects on Austrian Mas s Media (Prof. Dorothea Gaudart, Federal Ministry of Social Administration, Stubenring 1, A-1010 Vienna, Austria—apparently free on request)

Hans Fellinger, Medien Und Gewerkschaften [Media and the Trade Unions] (Verlag des OeGB, Raffaelgasse 12-14, A-1200 Vienna, Austria—75 Austrian schillings)

Juergen Prott, Bewusstsein von Journalisten [Consciousness of Journalists] (Europaische Verlagsanstalt, Deutz-Kalker-Strasse 46, Box 210 140, D-5000, Cologne 21, Federal Republic of Germany—about $10.00 (U.S. funds) but check with the publisher)

Winfried B. Lerg and Rolf Steininger, Rundfunk und Politik[Broadcastinq and Politics], 1923-1973 (Verlag Volker Spiess, Grossgorschenstrasse 6, D-1 Berlin 32, Federal Republic of Germany—about $14.00 in U.S. funds)

Verbizh Rainer and Peter Hueber, Lokales Fernsehen [Local Television]. (Videoinitiative Graz, Videostudio, Paulustorgasse 4, A-8010 Graz, Austria— 80 Austrian schillings)

Klaus-Detlef Funke and Ernst Theilen, Pressefreiheit und Mitbestimmung EPress Freedom and Participation] (Verlag Neue Gesellschaft, Koelner Str. 143, D-5300 Bonn-Bad Godesberg, Federal Republic of Germany—DM 16.00)

Marlene Stein-Hilbers, Kriminalitaet im Fernsehen [The Portrayal of Crime on TV] (Ferdinand Enke Verlag, Herdweg 63, D-7000, Stuttgart 1, Federal Republic of Germany— about $13.00 in U.S. funds)

Pierre Albert, Histoire de la Presse Politique Nationale au Début de la IIIène République (1871-1879) (to be published in fall of 1978: Librairie Champion, 7 rue Malaquais, 75007 Paris—apply for price)

Pierce Albert, La France, Les Etats-Unis et Leurs Presses (Centre National d'Art de la Culture Georges Pompidou, 1977—140 French francs)

Renge Bgdarida Les Armes de L'Esprit: Témoignage Chrétien (Paris: Editions Ouvrieres, 1977—60 FF)

Proscop Media: Le Marché des Media en France, 1977/1978 (Institut Proscop, 25 rue Marbeuf, 75008 Paris—300 FF)     

葡萄牙、欧洲与中国--在中国传媒大学的演讲

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Map Library Usage in Europe

Abstract

During the 2002 Helsinki meeting of the LIBER Groupe des Cartothecaires Working Group for Education, it was suggested that a survey of map usage in European libraries should be undertaken, using Jan Smits' 1987-88 survey as a basis. The goal of the survey was to re-examine map usage in the early twenty-first century in map libraries in Europe, and to identify changing requirements induced by the rapidly changing technological advances being made in cartography. Principal differences with the 1987-88 survey were identified, as were those areas where change has been limited. A main concern with the 2003 version was the poor response rate of questionnaires returned.     

New Education in Old Europe

The article gives a survey about the development of archival education in some central European countries within the past 15 years. Although there are similar problems and challenges in all these countries, the different Universities and Archives Schools have developed different strategies for dealing with them. The range of reactions reaches from small reforms of the curriculum to completely new orientations of the entire education.     

National repository initiatives in Europe

This paper aims at clarifying the role of repositories in some European countries in preserving research and other library materials in the country. The functional environment of repositories varies from country to country. Typically, the main actor in preserving national literature and national print heritage is the national library institution. The main means of this for national libraries has been legal deposit legislation, which in some countries is almost as old as printing.While the paper focuses on the development of the National Depository Library in Finland, examples in this paper are also drawn from the repositories in Norway, Estonia, and Ilê de France, Paris. The driving concept behind participating in these repository programs is cost reduction through the rationalization of storage and access on a regional—and even national—level. In this model, the repository creates one collection, which it owns and maintains. This allows the depository to employ deduplication and other strategies to rationalize storage. The role of the repository then is to keep the material available and serve as the library of last resort for many research materials.     

RSS Feeds for Eastern Europe

ABSTRACT

This piece is a continuation of a previous article about Russian RSS feeds, but with a new focus on feeds originating from or about other Eastern European countries. It also includes a brief discussion of the features of web-based readers and using the Firefox browser to locate feeds. It is intended for a non-technical audience.     

Freedom of information spreads to Europe

Europe is gradually embracing freedom of information principles while at the same time restricting dissemination of information generated by public agencies through electronic databases. Both Britain and Germany are moving to adopt freedom of information laws, and the European Commission has published a regulation allowing access to European institution materials. These developments are important for the rest of the world, including the United States, because the Internet is already becoming a vast virtual library facilitating global access to statutes, court decisions, and administrative agency decisions that make up the raw ingredients of a rule of law. Meanwhile, however, the European Commission issued a directive limiting certain uses of electronic databases, broadly enough drafted to include electronic repositories of primary legal information. This kind of state-sponsored monopoly over public information is inimical to a rule of law and democratic values. Europeans and Americans should work to realize the increased transparency promised by the freedom of information developments, and work to minimize the extent to which the database directive and similar proposals on this side of the Atlantic restrict redissemination of primary legal information.     

Research Trends in Western Europe:

No abstract available for this article.     

Cooperation Among Libraries in Europe:

No abstract available for this article.     

Sergius Yakobson in Europe and America

This article is devoted to the career of Sergius Yakobson, a librarian, historian, and educator. Its first part focuses on his role in the development of the Slavic collections of the Library of Congress in the 1940s to 1950s after his emigration to the United States. In the second part, the author compares ways in which Slavica, Rossica, and Sovetica developed in America and France during and after World War II, using materials from Yakobson's survey of Paris Slavic collections made in 1953. The final part briefly discusses his work as a Sovietologist.