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Vol. 21 No. 1 (2025): Digital Society
Vol. 21 No. 1 (2025)In the shifting terrain of scholarly communication, Romania’s academic publishing ecosystem stands at a critical juncture. This issue of the Romanian Journal of Library and Information Science offers a panoramic view of the challenges and aspirations shaping the digital society and scientific publishing in Eastern Europe. What emerges is a portrait of a system striving to modernize, yet constrained by structural inertia and uneven digital integration.
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Libraries: a matter of mission, users and business
Vol. 20 No. 2 (2024)This issue introduces the reader into some matters related to the context library services are creating for the patrons.
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Vol. 19 No. 2 (2023): Resources and means to access information
Vol. 19 No. 2 (2023)This issue gives insights into how information is accessed and used by two categories of patrons: students and people with disabilities. The first study gets the reader into the Romanian realities with regards to facilitating access to information for people with disabilities, and the second and the third are exploring the way students from The Department of Administrative Sciences and The Department of Communication Sciences of the Faculty of Letters are using information resources in their daily scholarly tasks.
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Information seeking behaviour, Artificial Intelligence and metadata access to digital objects representations
Vol. 19 No. 1 (2023)This issue is an information track with milestones at information-seeking behaviour and information literacy, the effects in research of the use of ChatGPT through a scientometric analysis ending with means to access research and cultural heritage metadata.
The first article sets the first milestone on the subject of the information seeking behaviour of students at Babeș-Bolyai University. Some important hypotheses are tested against the data collected through the means of a survey. An important conclusion in the context of the European Year of Skills, the article advises that "a much better collaboration between teachers and librarians is needed, to improve students' information literacy skills and increase their autonomy in the information search process". The second milestone is focused on bibliometric analysis concerning the use of the ChatGPT chatbot. The main takeaway from the study is that AI tools are used in the research field for documentation and a small teaser adds interest in improving accessibility. The last part of this issue is dedicated to the access to matadata through the means of Access Programming Interfaces - APIs. We draw the end of this summary pointing out some of the conclusions. The APIs role is in continuous growth as the need for metadata is also in high demand. APIs are one access point to the digital object representations opened to human and machine consumption and integration as long as some interoperability is maintained. -
Perspectives on professional library space
Vol. 18 No. 1 (2022)This issue comes with two perspectives: one concerning the libraries functioning in prisons, and the other shedding light on how new media influences the librarian competencies and involvement.
The purpose of „Enclosed Spaces, Boundless Possibilities” study is to draw attention to the current state of Romanian prison libraries by focusing on such aspects as the legal framework under which they operate, their organization and facilities, the management of their collections and the policies employed to this end, the staff in charge of these structures, as well as library usage and satisfaction. Moreover, the present study aims to highlight the main obstacles and difficulties that Romanian prison libraries are struggling with at the moment, and to provide a few minimal recommendations for the improvement of their services and overall quality.
Podcasts as modern strategies for promoting reading literacy and reading culture and their impact on professionals draws attention to the modern strategies in promoting reading literacy and reading culture in the professional environment, with emphasis podcasts in the Slovenian public libraries as strategy. General findings establish the connection between knowing or following podcasts and the impact on individual elements of professional competences.
Model of preparing podcasts as a contemporary strategy for encouraging reading literacy and reading culture presents and analyses the preparation and application of a modern strategy promoting reading literacy and reading culture, its scope, responsiveness and usefulness the professional environment and the wider social environment. Action research with the method of observation (system diaries) and analytical research (survey method) were used, which were conducted as part of a case study - this is the first such example of the use of modern strategies the Slovenian library space.
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Special Issue
This number contains papers presented at the VIIIth SWS International Scientifc Conference - Social Sciences
