1. Drd. Tatiana Oprescu - The concept of information a key concept of the contemporary society We all know today that information is the most important element of a technological society and the progress of our society depends on the way we are able to work with it. Information is no longer treated as it was before; it begun to be treated as an economical product. The concept of information tends to become a key concept of the contemporary science and civilization. Keywords: information, information and communication technology, information society, the information age, information products and services. 2. Drd. Maria Carmen Nadia Petre The internet and the globalization process This paper, beside a brief history of the most important factor of the information revolution - the Internet is trying to highlight its good and lesser good aspects in the context of the contemporary society, deeply marked by the globalization process. Keywords: The Internet, advantages of the Internet, disadvantages of the Internet, globalization Process 3. Drd. Luminiţa Gruia The open library. definition. examples. Trends The author tries to define the concept of open library not as an end in itself but as a means for achieving the goal, namely to describe a possible model for the new library, more appropriate to our times, in terms of knowledge management theory. The rapid changes taking place in the society can lead to marginalization of the library and the risk of losing its role as the leading institution for information retrieval. It is therefore necessary for libraries to become open and flexible structures. Globalization, communication, cooperation, sharing knowledge and resources are key elements that libraries need to assimilate in order to provide new and diversified services to the increasingly demanding users. Keywords: open library; globalization; Identity crisis. 4. Drd. Nicoleta Roxana Dinu Library Consortia - effective means of cooperation The present paper is a theoretical approach of a subject which has a growth interest in the Library and Information Science literature and becomes more stringent in the current framework: library consortia. The article presents aspects concerning consortia evolution, the factors which had determined their emergence, advantages and disadvantages and different types of consortia. 165
Biblioteca Naţională a României Keywords: library consortia, resources sharing, scientifical databases, digital divide, ICOLC 5. Drd. Adriana Elena Borună - Accessibility and universal design in the library collections This article offers a broad, global and flexible perspective of how the access to information supports the integration of persons in the society. In the case of reading, adapted books should be considered important resources for introducing persons with special needs to the educational environment. So, here are highlighted some issues that the libraries must take into account When they decide to build up and develop collections accessible to all categories of persons. Keywords: libraries; disabled persons; accessible documents; documentary policy. 6. Drd. Florentina Dobrogeanu-Ipsilante Marketing vs. Public relations in the libraries The specialists consider that marketing orientation leads to change and improve services. In addition marketing is a factor to adjust the supply documentation to users needs. Library marketing means revealing rational ways of communication between those offering services (the libraries) and those who procure (users). Keywords: library; management; marketing; public relations; image. 7. Nicoleta Rahme The leader as a library viable resource This work stresses the importance of leadership culture in the context of libraries which has yet not got its due consideration. A brief overview of this topic is presented, also modern theories and practices. Further, this paper calls for library managers to develop and nurture a leadership culture as a means to achieve performance and quality in human ressources programmes. Keywords: leadership, human ressources management, public libraries 8. Drd. Doru Stan Collections management The developments in Information and Communication Technologies had an inevitable impact on collection management. This paper studies the contemporary progresses regarding the specific terminology of the scientific literature. The concepts are defined, noticing the similarities and the differences between the terms. Likewise, electronic collections management is approached, as well as electronic resources management systems. 166
Keywords: collection management; collection development; acquisition; selection; electronic collection management; electronic resources management systems. 9. Drd. Gabriela Costea General considerations regarding entities, relationships and attributes the basic concepts of the FRBR The paper presents examples built upon the basic concepts of the FRBR model regarding the bibliographic records.using entity-relationship analysis originally developed for relational databases, there were identified three groups of entities: 1.The primary relationship of work, expression, manifestation, and item; 2. Responsibility entities, such as person and corporate body; 3. Subject entities, such as concept, object, event, and place. The three groups are analyzed in relation to the generic tasks of finding, identifying, selecting and obtaining access to materials. The first group of entities seems innovative as describing the hierarchical relationships that cluster bibliographic items into manifestations, expressions and works. Keywords: Cataloguing; FRBR; intelectual products. 10. Drd. Simona Gheorghe - Breaking the pattern: the implementation of RFID technology in the libraries The radio frequency identification, known as electronic labeling, is a remotely automatic identification technology. With the signals via radio frequency, RFID identifies automatically objects and obtain data without having to manually interventions. RFID identification process may take place in various difficult environments. With features such as quick and effective operations, this technology can identify moving very fast objects and multiple tags simultaneously. Keywords: document security; RFID; RFID components. 11. Drd. Ştefania Roxana Plăiaşu - The importance of multimedia documents in the contemporary libraries a user perspective Nowadays, most libraries would have to put the issue of creating the multimedia reading rooms. Multimedia documents can have a decisive impact in a modern and well organized library because the abundance of information arising every minute in every corner of the world, can be stored and preserved in good condition on such documents. Any action for the establishment and communication of a multimedia collection is done on the basis of users wishes analysis. Keywords: multimedia documents; libraries; information access; users. 167
Biblioteca Naţională a României 12. Nicoleta Corpaci French digital collections accessible through gallica.bnf.fr The French Library Gallica, the first European digital library, was inaugurated in October 1997 and is considered France s equivalent of American Memory across the Atlantic. Currently, the Gallica collection comprises over 1.2 million documents; the site was visited by approximately four million users in 2009. Gallica goal was not to transpose the entire digital collections of the National Library of France and not a exhaustive coverage of the knowledge domain, but to create a tool for dissemination of written and iconographic heritage, contributing to the knowledge of French culture. Keywords: Digital libraries; digital collections; Gallica. 13. Dr. Angela Repanovici Marketing strategies for university scientific production promotion through institutional repositories In this article we present one synthesis of phd thesis: Marketing strategies for university scientific production promotion through institutional repositories sustained by author at Transilvania University of Brasov, Faculty of Economical Science in partenership with Literature Faculty of Bucharest University, scientific supervisors prof. Liliana Duguleană and prof. Mircea Regneală, in November 22, 2009. The author is professor at Transilvania University and she obtained the PhD title in marketing with recognising in information science. Keywords: educational marketing; marketing strategies; marketing researches; open access; institutional repositories; academic assessment; citations analysis; scientometry; scientific research; scientific production. 14. Dina Paladi Legal deposit: vademecum The legal deposit is governed by the Law no. 111/1995, as amended and supplemented. For the correct application of this law, aimed at both libraries and publishers, the article presents the history, mission, goals, organization, beneficiaries and the documents subject to legal deposit. Are considered issues regarding both the central and local legal deposit. Keywords: legal deposit; publishers; libraries; Law no. 111/1995. 15. Drd. Nicoleta Orlandea - The strategic management in Romanian archives Archivistic institutional management, as a subclass of the public organization management, which is subordinated to the general management, works according to the principle of efficiency. 168
Following this relation between the general principles and the public management principles, available for the archives, may be useful, as it leads to the idea that the archivistic institution can register progress, together with other public organizations, making available the theoretical background of the management. The archives, in general, and the Romanian ones, especially. Applying the principles to the archives, followed by the way in which the Romanian National Archives applies them, in the two subdomains of management, strategy and the human resources, provides a real image of these, as a Romanian institution, representative info-documentary structures. This article is the sketch of a diagnosis, a beginning for a more detailed management study of a public organization, a Romanian archivistic institution. Keywords: archivistic management; archivistic institution; public organization; info-documentary structures. 16. Drd. Ioana Mitea Women and the Romanian society in the early nineteenth century: literature, book clubs, reading The rapid modernization experienced by the Romanian society in the early nineteenth century produced a great and irreversible change in the status of women. The higher level of education, the book clubs patronized by the women of the elite, the literature and the reading had a key role in the changing of women s status and in the process of transferring women s interest from the domestic to the social universe. Keywords: Women and the Romanian society in the early nineteenth century; Women s Emancipation Women s Education; Salons patronized by women; Women as literary authors; Women s reading. 169