libraries - knowledge - social development in the information society

LIBRARIES -

KNOWLEDGE -

SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

in the information society

Exploding information need

Growing information

overload

Exponential growth in

technology

(M instructions per second/kUSD in logarithmic scale)

Falling prices

increasing prices in content

INTERNET

globalization, concentration

largest circle: 1 M, smallest circle: 1 user

Library functions

Acquisition, preservation, dissemination, abstracting

and indexing of relevant information.

Serve education at all

levels.

Acquisition

• Exponential growth of the number of documents. • Rocketing prices.

• Limitation of physical space.

Result:

increasing role of electronic storage,

restricted, specialized collections.

Preservation

• Paper retains its strong position.

• Need for continuous restoration.

• Limited retrieval in paper-based documents.

• Digital material needs special care.

Dissemination

• Decreasing number of visitors.

• Accessibility outside library walls.

• What is absent from INTERNET does not exist?!

• Decreasing role of libraries?!

• Changing role of the librarian.

Abstracting and indexing

• Often performed by the authors themselves.

• Appropriate definition and selection of metadata.

• Growing importance of repositories and other databases.

• Needs a specially skilled librarian.

Education in the library

• Kindergarten

• High school

• College and beyond

• Life-long learning

Life-long learning

Lifelong, life-wide, voluntary, and self-motivated pursuit of knowledge for either personal or professional reasons.

Response to the rapid change of our world.

• New job skills(learndirect packages, courses).

• Scientific research• Management• Technology• Marketing

Library: modern agora?

Oriental collection of the Library of HAS

Library: modern agora?

• Knowledge dissemination

• Enhancing literacy

• Meeting point for communities

• Discussion panel

Knowledge dissemination

• Courses

• Workshops

• Seminars

Enhancing literacy

Tibetan languagehttp://csoma.mtak.hu/en/index.htm

Enhancing literacy

Landscapes by Thomas Enderhttp://ender.mtak.hu/index-2.html

Community information

Information on – council departments– other organizations

– careers– voluntary groups

– housing– entertainment

Meeting point

Meeting in the Library of HAS with John Lukacs,

US/Hungarian historian and writer

NO SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

WITHOUT LIBRARIES