Spoken words blow with the wind - but what is written will remain.
Below I give links to texts in English that touch upon the topics we discussed during the visit to Romania:
April 22, 2005
The future of digital reference services
Lecture at the Biblioteca Centrala Universitara, Bucharest, Friday April 22, 1000.
Digital reference services are services that use digital tools (e-mail, web forms, chat, SMS) to communicate with users that search for information. In a wider sense the concept also includes digital systems - such as user-oriented web pages, interactive data bases, sites with advanced language technology - that allow users to carry out more advanced information searches on their own.
The future of librarianship - and academic libraries
Before the seminar on digital reference services we had a small discussion about the future of librarianship.
We all agreed that librarianship needs a stronger theoretical foundation. The central issue we discussed was: must this basis be scientific in the traditional academic sense (library science) - or can we develop alternative ways of integrating theory and practice?
