INFORUM 2006 - 12. ročník konference o informačních zdrojích

Vznikající společná virtuální knihovna běloruských univerzit [poster / příspěvek]

Autor: Piotr Lapo,  Belarusian State University, Bělorusko

Abstrakt

In accordance with a Decree of the Ministry of Education the BSU Fundamental Library (BSU FL) is the methodical and coordinating center of the network of 54 Belarusian university libraries. For many of them creation of digital libraries is in the focus of their today activities. They have used different approaches and technologies and been on different stages of accomplishment of their digital library projects. The most urgent need of university libraries in digital libraries is to provide information resources for educational process. For example, a digital library of the BSU FL is created as part of the E-learning environment called e-university, which is supported by software with the same name. One of the main goals of the BSU FL is to integrate digital libraries of Belarusian universities in the unified library and information space of the higher education in Belarus. Together with 2 other Belarusian universities and the Applied Sciences University (Osnabruck, Germany) the BSU participated in the international VIRLIB project, which was designed to create the virtual library with centralized metadata database and distributed fulltext databases. The software, developed in the framework of the project, can catalog information resources on the Web automatically in accordance with rules installed by a librarian. Belarusian libraries, participants of the project, are specialized in different subjects like natural sciences, radio-electronics and informatics, and economic sciences and use Dublin Core elements set for creation of metadata.

O autorovi

Piotr Lapo, Director of the Belarusian State University Fundamental Library (October 1999 - at present).

Graduated from the Applied Mathematics Department of the Belarusian State University in 1981. Lecturing at the Belarusian State University of Culture and Arts such courses as "Electronic libraries", "Library and information computer networks", "Automated library information systems" since 1997.

Has about 30 publications. Member of the Belarusian Library Association since 1997.