AND NETWORKING DIGITAL LIBRARIES. Aziz Abid. by Abdel

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1 DIGITAL LIBRARIES AND NETWORKING by Abdel Aziz Abid (UNESCO, Paris) Lecture in the conference School Libraries as Learning and Information Centers, May 18/ Organised by Goethe-Institut Libanon, UNESCO Office Beirut, LBBY, Lebanese Library Association

2 School Libraries as Learning and Information Centres Beirut, May 2007 DIGITAL LIBRARIES AND NETWORKING Abdelaziz Abid Information Society Division UNESCO 1

3 Basic premise of UNESCO s strategy: Knowledge is the driving force of social and economic transformation Why UNESCO advocates building Knowledge Societies 2

4 Building Knowledge Societies Knowledge Societies Universal Freedom of Cultural Quality Access Expression Diversity Education Pluralism Human Needs and Rights 3

5 Building Building Knowledge g Societies Knowledge Societies Knowledge Creation Knowledge Knowledge Knowledge Preservation Dissemination Utilization Pluralism Human Needs and Rights 4

6 Human input to turn information into knowledge Human input to turn information into knowledge Understand information Apply information Adapt to social and local context Develop skills, know-how, experience and insight Be empowered 5

7 Library networking Library networking At national as well as local levels, it is advisable to: develop and publish national (and local) standards and guidelines for school libraries provide model library services to demonstrate best practice establish school library committees at national and local level design a formal framework for cooperation between school libraries and public libraries initiate and offer professional school librarian training programmes provide funding for school library projects such as reading campaigns initiate and fund research projects related to school library activities and development 6

8 Building digital libraries Building digital libraries Challenges Sustainable development of local digital library infrastructure, t capacity building and availability of local content Multilingualism Governance, funding Regulatory challenges (intellectual property regimes, censorship) Architectural options: usability, metadata, interoperability Long-term preservation 7

9 Digital libraries UNESCO is working with the New Zealand Digital Library Project (NZDL) of the University of Waikato (New Zealand) and the Human Info NGO (Antwerp) on developing and distributing a tri-lingual (English-French-Spanish) version of the open source Greenstone Digital Library software. Greenstone will support the production and sharing of wide range of compatible digital library applications all over the world. 8

10 CDS/ISIS CDS/ISIS is a suite of software developed and distributed by UNESCO free of charge to libraries and information centers worldwide for almost 20 years now. 9

11 CDS/ISIS Around 20, registered users worldwide. Expand CDS/ISIS coverage of world languages using UNICODE and other technologies for representing complex scripts 10

12 UNESCO Libraries Portal The UNESCO Libraries Portal was launched in January 2001 as a service facilitating access to Web resources on libraries and librarianship. 15,000 links: websites of libraries, conferences, training and job opportunities, information management and international co-operation. org/webworld/portal bib 11

13 Memory of the World Preservation and access Prague National Library: Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts Faridat al aja ib by Ibn al-wardi. The world geography 12

14 Memory of the World Awareness-raising Products: CD-ROMs, books, web sites Germany 42-line Gutenberg Bible 13

15 Memory of the World Memory of the World Register: 120 collections from 57 countries are inscribed Australia The Endeavour Journal of James Cook 14

16 The Library of Alexandria UNESCO has been associated with the Bibliotheca Alexandrina project since its inception in the mid-1980 s. Officiali Inauguration took place on 16 October

17 National Library of Latvia UNESCO has set up an International Commission of Experts for the National Library of Latvia (NLL). The role of this Commission is of a consultative and advisory nature. 16

18 National Library of Latvia Its members contribute to the development of the National Library of Latvia project, in particular by: 17

19 National Library of Latvia providing technical support developing a communication strategy. fund-raising 18

20 Multipurpose community telecentres The community owned multipurpose community telecentre (MCT) provides a range of ICT facilities and associated training support for both development activities and individual users. At the core of these centres is the community library function exploiting local document holdings and electronic information in support of literacy campaigns, basic education, government programmes, and other public service activity. MCTs and CMCs 19

21 Libraries & WSIS the Heart of the Information Society, Geneva, 3-4 Nov 2003 Libraries The Information Society in Action, Alexandria, Nov

22 Thank you 21