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Pengembangan Layanan Informasi Berbasis ILL (Inter Library Loan) di Lingkungan Perguruan Tinggi Negeri Kota Malang

This research is a research model that specifically examines the development of information and library services along with the development of technology and information that develops in the community using ILL (Inter Library Loan). The research method uses descriptive qualitative in analyzing and reviewing an ILL concept which is implemented in MILL (Malang Inter Library Loan). Libraries along with the development of information technology which is increasingly massive in its existence in the community are required to meet their various complex needs and want fast (instant) things. ILL (Inter Library Loan) offers a solution to overcome the library's efforts in meeting the needs of these users. MILL (Malang Inter Library Loan) is present as an innovation by adopting ILL, especially in the city of Malang in an effort to meet the various needs of increasingly complex library users. The technical efforts and MILL procedural policies are tried to be applied in the Malang city state university library under the legal umbrella of FKP2TN cooperation by holding the principle of information disclosure through sharing various resources owned by the users of each library

Taking the initiative

This study examines efforts of public libraries in Illinois to respond to patron food insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic and staff perception of their role. A mixed methods approach was used to gather data via interviews and a survey instrument. The data were subsequently analyzed through the lenses of social justice and the food justice movement.

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Increased utilization of electronic collections during the covid-19 pandemic

Background: The Covid-19 pandemic has forced most of the people to live their personal and professional lives from home. In this condition, the use of electronic collections as a source of easy, fast, and quality information to support the learning, research, and entertainment process becomes important. Objectives: This study aims to review how the library's efforts in dealing with the increasing use of electronic resources during the Covid-19 pandemic and explore various obstacles and challenges faced by libraries in the future. Methods: The method used in this study is a literature study, namely reviewing and interpreting the latest studies that review the impact of the pandemic on increasing the use of electronic collections. From the results of a literature search, 26 scientific articles were found that were published between 2016-2021 and. Of these, 17 journal articles and 1 proceeding article were selected that were relevant to the research focus. Results: The results show that the library has empowered various electronic resources that can be accessed openly (open access). However, this increase also demands an accelerated digitization and ease of access to library services. The increase in the use of electronic resources occurs because there is a need and a major change in the behavior and attitudes of users in finding and using information. Conclusion: Increased utilization of electronic collections provides important lessons for librarians and stakeholders to become better prepared to complement and enhance new digital services, be more creative and collaborative in providing services, employ more people who are able to use new technologies to meet the needs for services and electronic collection that will continue to increase. In other words, there will be more assignments that will be requested and assigned to the library in the future.

Abstract 283: Reconstructed plate-based 3D screening assays that predict in vivo responses

Abstract In preclinical drug development, there is an urgency to create models that are predictive and relevant at the same time. To support this effort, early drug development emphasizes establishing multiple strategies that address treatment response, resistance, and combination effects, all with rapid turnover. Given the ever-increasing relevance of 3D in vitro models, Labcorp employs 3D model systems co-developed with zPREDICTA. These organ-specific models can support tumor cell growth and mimic the composition and architecture of both solid tumors and hematological malignancies. While 2D in vitro assays are preferred for screening efforts of chemical libraries, mainly because of cost, they do not recapitulate the tumor architecture and the microenvironment that is more comparable to in vivo models. This can result in differences in pharmacological potencies of standard of care (SoC) agents when compared to the 3D and in vivo models. zPREDICTA 3D assays serve as a tool for in vitro screening of tumor cell lines, which in long term cultures develop similar characteristics to in vivo disease states. Specifically, this in vitro system correlates well with breast and lung carcinoma in vivo models when matching rank order of potencies of known SoC agents. zPREDICTA tumor-specific 3D systems as well as 2D cultures and in vivo models were used to compare and contrast the activity of a set of anticancer agents. Human MDA-MB-231 cells were sensitive to paclitaxel both in 2D and in the 3D r-Breast (IC50 of 7.9nM and 6.1nM, respectively) as well as in vivo, with complete growth inhibition at the dose of 15mg/kg. Paclitaxel was cytotoxic in 2D cultures of murine 4T1 breast tumor cells (IC50=59nM), but not in the 3D reconstructed mouse breast model (r-mBreast) or in vivo, where the syngeneic 4T1 model was refractory to paclitaxel up to 10mg/kg. Similarly, NCI-H460 cells were sensitive to paclitaxel in 2D (IC50=2.3nM), while minimal response was seen in the 3D r-Lung model, and in vivo there was minimal response seen at a 20mg/kg treatment. These same cells were refractory to erlotinib in 2D, 3D, and in vivo. Additional SoC agents were profiled in these models and will also be discussed. Taken together these data demonstrate that zPREDICTA’s organ-specific 3D models mimic in vivo response with a higher fidelity than the standard 2D cultures. Additional in vitro reconstructed 3D histotype models are being developed and validated with the goal of providing faster and more predictive in vivo results. Citation Format: Sumithra Urs, Michael Steffey, Ying Qu, Matthew Ryou, Julia Kirshner, Scott Wise. Reconstructed plate-based 3D screening assays that predict in vivo responses [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2022; 2022 Apr 8-13. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2022;82(12_Suppl):Abstract nr 283.

Research Data Management: A review of UAE academic library experience

Abstract Purpose: This paper is a review of the status of Research Data Management (RDM) efforts in UAE public university libraries. Approach: The investigation is through examining available literature about the topic using region-specific articles when available, librarian comments, and the information provided by UAE university library websites. Existing lessons and policy documents are sought, and plans suggested for local solutions, suggesting avenues for progress. Findings: Though not a new concept, findings indicate that local RDM activities are emerging, but knowledge of their importance of exists. Research limitations: This review is limited to public university libraries though the results and experiences could be generally relevant to more research establishments. Practical implications: Taking advantage of the existing awareness to organize tangible RDM efforts can facilitate retrieval and availability of data relevant to the region. Value: An intricate range of activities involved in the organization of RDM services is revealed.

Online user education

Purpose: This study aims to describe online user education activities during the COVID-19 pandemic at the UIN Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta Library. Design/Methodology/Approach: The approach taken in this paper is an empirical approach related to activities at the UIN Sunan Kalijaga Library. Findings: This paper provides an overview of the impact of the pandemic on services at the UIN Sunan Kalijaga Library. It also highlights the implementation of online user education during the COVID-19 pandemic at the UIN Sunan Kalijaga Library which was previously carried out physically. It further observes user behavior after online user education is implemented.
 Originality/Values: The library's effort to organize online user education is one of the innovations made by the library of UIN Sunan Kalijaga in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Online user education must continue to be carried out to help users get to know the library orientation at the UIN Sunan Kalijaga Library. The implementation of online user education at the UIN Sunan Kalijaga Library can be imitated and can be used by other libraries as a model for implementing user education during the pandemic.

Analisis Memori Kolektif Sesepuh tentang Bung Karno di Blitar

This study preserves and analyzes the typology of the collective memory of the elders, regarding Bung Karno's events and thoughts. This study uses a qualitative approach of collective memory study from Maurice Halbwachs and memory typology from Abidin Kusno. The population of this study is elders who are in Blitar with the criteria of having met and seen Bung Karno directly. The selection of informants also used a snowball sampling technique, based on key informants who had been determined by the boundaries of the elders in Blitar. The results of this study found 4 (four) treatments for this typology of collective memory, such as (1) overcoming memory, (2) unexploring memory, (3) conquering memory and, (4) marketing memory. Based on the memory typology, the researcher obtained 4 (four) concepts that can be analyzed. The first is collective memory that forms the city identity. The second is Bung Karno's thoughts on unity, and Trisakti. The third is De-Sukarnoization which means the efforts to eliminate Bung Karno's influence and thoughts as well as to obscure Bung Karno's role and contribution in history. The last is the Bung Karno Library's efforts to become a center of excellence, which is creating a database on the collective memory of elders about Bung Karno. The conclusion is that the recording and study of the collective memory of the elders completes the information needs of the community regarding oral and written sources spread throughout the Blitar community about Bung Karno.

Digital resources of the American Library Association for green and sustainable libraries

The experience of Russian libraries in educating ecological (ecological information) culture is widely discussed in domestic professional media. However, in Russia we feel the lack of information on relevant activities of foreign libraries and/or library associations. The authors offer their analysis of digital resources in sustainable development, green movement and ecological education of the population as provided by the American Library Association (ALA) and presented on ALA website. The resources comprise information on the efforts of ALA structural units related to organization of sustainable development activities at libraries; ALA politics and guiding materials; the interactive blog on libraries’ supporting sustainable communities; the catalog of new books in the “American Libraries” series within the subject scope “Sustainable development at the libraries”, and key international documents on sustainable development. The concept of three components of sustainable development of the society – Economy, Ecology and Equity – aka Three E, which ALA considers to be fundamental for sustainable libraries, is analyzed. Based on their analysis, the authors suggest that libraries will design and realize their own projects unifying all Three E. They conclude that further studies of the efforts of foreign libraries and/or library associations in ecological education and development of ecological (ecological information) culture, and, in particular, the study of relevant digital (electronic) resources are vitally important for Russian libraries and library science, including commencing digital (electronic) library science.Ecology and studying the related experience of libraries are among the major lines of activities of the Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology (RNPLS&T). The paper is prepared within the framework of the State Order № 075-01300-20-00.

Vigilance for Medical Products of Human Origin-Progress on the Notify Library's Global Effort to Share Information and Learning.

World Health Assembly Resolution 63.22 mandated World Health Organization to facilitate Member State access to appropriate information on medical products of human origin (MPHO), including collecting data on serious adverse events and reactions. To meet this challenge, the Italian National Transplant Center, with a mandate from World Health Organization, has built and maintained an open-access searchable database of instructive records on disease transmission and other MPHO adverse occurrences. One record in the Notify Library describes a specific type of adverse occurrence in 1 type of MPHO and might be linked with 1 or multiple different references. The record inclusion criteria are that it has been reliably documented in a published article or official vigilance reporting system and that it has instructive value for the fields of transfusion, transplantation, or assisted reproduction. The selection and review of references for publication is performed by international experts who collaborate in 5 topic-specific editorial groups: infection transmission, malignancy transmission, living-donor reactions, process-related incidents, and clinical complications. New relevant references are identified through systematic searches and proactive communication by the experts. The Library contains 1733 records, quoting 2632 references. Of the records, 41.8% are related to organs, 20.8% to blood and blood components, 16.5% to hematopoietic progenitor cells, 15.2% to tissues, 4.2% to reproductive tissues and cells, and 1.5% to other MPHO. Notify Library is the first open-access, searchable database of systematically identified reports of disease transmission and other adverse occurrences arising from the donation and clinical application of MPHO.

Strategi kemas ulang informasi untuk peningkatan pelayanan perpustakaan di era new normal

Information repackaging is one of the library's efforts to meet users' information needs in the new normal era. Libraries need to prepare various strategies in providing repackaging products as a library service innovation. This research aimed to describe various aspects and stages of library strategy design in information repackaging in the New normal era. The research used a qualitative approach through literature studies research methods. The results showed that libraries and librarians in the new normal era needed to pay attention to various aspects and stages in designing a digital information repackaging strategy. Aspects of the information repackaging strategy include determining the source of packaging information, types of information repackaging products, and information repackaging methods. Libraries carry out information repackaging strategies by making information repackaging the library’s flagship program and the librarian's main job, understanding the information behavior of the library's native digital users, disseminating digital information packages through social media and collaborative networks, changing the librarian’s role into social librarians and public knowledge and implementing a Marketing and Public Relations (MPR) strategy to disseminate information repackaged products to users. The head of the library plays an important role in supporting librarians in carrying out information repackaging activities. This research concludes that the librarian strategy of repacking information in the new normal era is needed to improve library services that are more creative, interactive, and innovative, in accordance with the user's information needs.

Tingkat Keberhasilan Program Pendidikan Pengguna (User Education) di Perpustakaan Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember Bagi Mahasiswa Tingkat Akhir

The user education program is one of the university library's efforts in improving the information literacy skills of users, especially students. The user education program aims to guide students so that they can take advantage of the library and carry out information searches effectively and efficiently. In general, user education programs in university libraries are intended for all users, but some programs are intended for students, including final-year students. This research uses a descriptive quantitative research method, with purposive random sampling method as the sampling method, and final-year students of the Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember as the research population. The research was conducted using Kirkpatrick's program effectiveness model, in which the effectiveness of a program can be determined through four levels, namely reaction, learning, behavior, and results. The results showed that three of the four levels were in the high category, while there was one level that was in the medium category, to be specific the behavior level. On the whole, the user education program at the Library of Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember has been effective, but there is attention needed to service accessibility so that what users have learned in the program can become a habit and have a high level of behavior as an

Privacy concerns and the prevalence of third-party tracking cookies on ARL library homepages

PurposeThe integration of third-party resources on library websites may be inadvertently contributing to surveillance technologies without user knowledge. This study set out to determine the prevalence of third-party tracking cookies on Association of Research Libraries (ARL) member homepages, the entities that are tracking users and for what purpose and what control users have over their cookie preferences.Design/methodology/approachHomepages from the 124 ARL member libraries were visited. Evidence of a privacy or cookie statement was collected and cookie logs were captured. This data were compared against the Disconnect list of known trackers and analyzed to determine the extent to which third-party tracking cookies were used across ARL sites, who was setting the cookies and for what purpose, and whether this use differed with regards to a library's identifying features.FindingsIt was determined that many ARL libraries do contribute to the ability to track a user's activity across the web, with one-third containing third-party tracking cookies. A user's contact with tracking cookies is influenced by various traits defining the institution. Users are given very little control over the cookies logged on their machines.Originality/valueThis study explores library efforts to protect user privacy, adopting an introspective approach that focuses on library websites. It will provide discussion points for librarians to question not only what third-party tracking cookies are present on their sites and why, but also how to educate their users about privacy issues.

Aligning Sustainable Development Goal 4 with Provision of Distance Learning through Library Perspective: The Case of the Open University of Tanzania

Sustainable development goal number four (SDG 4) is the education goal whose main focus is to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities. In that perspective, its focus on the promotion of lifelong learning augurs well with the mainstay of distance education in any country. This linkage is anchored on the quality, timely provision of knowledge through libraries that are entrusted with the role of searching, acquiring, processing and make access to various distance learners knowledge in various forms for their continuous learning and attaining various qualifications. Sustainable development goal number four (SDG 4) lies at the centre of all other goals as it entails transforming societies globally into learned, aware, and one that can cope with changes at economic, political economic and social levels. Impliedly, education for all that is the main proponent of this goal must be achieved using all avenues possible including open distance learning for those that cannot afford it through other conventional education systems. Libraries are the lifeline of open and distance learning. Over years, especially with the fast-changing technologies and more emphasis on e-learning of which open distance learning has also adopted quickly, the role of library has had challenges in terms of the visibility on services it provides, availability of adequate resources to cope with such changes and, skilled staff to offer library services with e-learning base. This paper explores issues related to the role of library services in supporting promotion of lifelong education through distance education systems and as articulated in the sustainable development goal four (4). The paper examines ongoing global as well as national efforts of libraries in supporting distance education in the modern era and through the existing technologies. The linkage of the three variables, i.e. SDG4, distance education and library services is, without any doubt, of critical importance for the continuous growth and improvement of learning through distance education.

Understanding Social Justice Through Practitioners’ Language

Researchers have recognized that aspects of social justice are present in library efforts by acknowledging the importance of using library programs and services to promote social justice and the significance of social justice for the LIS field. However, while public libraries have indicated a strong interest in reaching underserved communities, they may not yet possess a thorough understanding of various aspects of social justice, especially the concepts of equity, engagement, and empowerment, despite the increasing focus on social justice’s centrality in the library science field. This work-in-progress study presents a grounded theory analysis of twenty semi-structured interviews that were conducted as part of an existing study with library staff and their community partners (staff who work at organizations with which the libraries partner to offer outreach programs in the community). The analysis explores and unpacks practitioners’ language to demonstrate a complex, multifaceted portrait of how these practitioners describe equity, engagement, and empowerment. These practitioners express both broad and individual approaches to this social justice work in an effort to offer equal treatment to the whole community while also recognizing individual barriers. Moreover, they underscore the importance of a role for the community to play in achieving their own goals and strengthening connections between community members and institutions. This analysis yields a critical semantic foundation of social justice concepts, situated in practitioner understanding and prior research in social justice.

Similarly different: Finding the nuances in first year students' library perceptions

Information literacy efforts in academic libraries commonly target first-year students as a way to ensure that students learn foundational research skills at the beginning of their college experience. However, little has been written about different populations within the category of first-year students. First-year students may come to college with a variety of different experiences, concerns, and backgrounds. In this study, the researchers explored how students from several different first-year learning communities described their previous experience with libraries, research, and their perceived preparation for college-level research. The researchers found that different groups of first-year students did express varying perceptions about their level of preparedness for college research, research anxiety, and perception of librarians at the beginning of their college experience. An end of year survey after a library intervention showed a reduction in research anxiety and increased confidence for some groups of students. These findings support library efforts to tailor instruction to the needs of a particular student group.

Czech bibliology in the twenty-first century — its historical development and current state

The assessment of the current state of bibliology in Czechia, i.e. directions of its development and research accomplishments as well as staff training, is impossible without a historical overview of the evolution of bibliology as a more or less independent scholarly discipline. A study has recently been devoted to the subject, but only for the period until the beginning of the Second World War. That is why the author of the article, drawing on the literature on the subject, internet sources and information obtained from the staff of relevant research institutions, focuses first of all on the second half of the twentieth century, i.e. the role and accomplishments of the most important figures involved in the development of the discipline, the position of bibliology in the higher education system at the time as well as the changes which occurred in it in connection with the political breakthrough of 1989 and the emergence of computerised systems towards the end of the twentieth century. A substantial part of the article is devoted to the events from the last two decades. The author notes the rather difficult situation of the discipline at the turn of the millennium as well as attempts to rebuild it, manifested primarily in its restoration to the curriculum in the 2007/2008 academic year, increasingly successful eff orts of libraries and museums (“institutions of memory”) to obtain funds for scholarly activities, and attempts to formulate a concept of further development of the discipline. In the conclusion the author refl ects on the prospects for the development of bibliology in the nearest future, as well as measures that may lead to is further evolution and revival in broad research into the history of book culture in Czechia.

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Ethics, Encryption, and Evolving Concepts of Personal Privacy in the ‘Black Box Library’

ABSTRACT “The American Library Association affirms that rights of privacy are necessary for intellectual freedom and are fundamental to the ethical practice of librarianship,” reads a position paper by the ALA. Protecting user privacy is a cherished ethical position held within this field. Therefore, it is worth asking whether libraries have been aggressive enough to protect this standard, given the rapid advancement of information technology, digital surveillance, cybercrime, commercial exploitation of user data, and emerging privacy threats for the individual and culture. This paper seeks to reconcile the ethical vision with the hard reality that emerging cyber threats can easily circumvent basic library efforts to protect user data. The author imagines the “black box” library, which would be the end result of radical adherence to the ethical standard. In short, the “black box” library would protect freedom of conscience for the user by adhering to extremely rigorous standards, including: Mass encryption, proxy services, legal enforcement of privacy provisions in vendor contracts, recordless inventory systems, and other strict measures. The vision is for a space where critical information flows in, but very little if any “digital exhaust” escapes it.

Perpustakaan dalam Pengembangan Makerspace sebagai Pendukung Metode Pembelajaran Blended Learning di Era Revolusi Industri 4.0

The library has a facility called makerspace which is considered to have a big influence on the blended learning method, especially in the era of the industrial revolution 4.0, developments have been very advanced and flexible thus libraries can easily follow changes in providing services for the user. The research method used in this research is qualitative research with a descriptive analysis method. The results obtained from this study are the perceived influence of makerspace services on blended learning and also the efforts of libraries in makerspace services to the blended learning method.