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Video Streaming in Academic Libraries: Enabling Participation in a Democratic Society th 24 BOBCATSSS Conference Proceedings & Abstracts January 27-29 2016 Lyon, France www.bobcatsss2016.com Edited by Fanny Blanchard, Valentin Famelar t, Katarina Leyrer, Guilhem Martin Saint-Léon, Paulin Ribbe, and Laure Fabre. Published by Enssib, Villeurbanne, France, 2016. ISBN 978-2-37546-014-6 2 Introduction Dear colleagues, Ensuring the free flow of information is a major political and social issue in modern society. Democracy relies on an informed citizenry to make good decisions, and this relies on information access. In the digital era, new technologies give us greater access to knowledge and allow us to be more informed participants in society. Information professionals possess an unparalleled ability to understand, teach, and navigate through the constant flow of data and information. Libraries have always been considered places of universal knowledge. Nowadays, they play a major role in information access by offering citizens tools and resources. BOBCATSSS 2016, thanks to the 100 proposals received, from which with the great help of our reviewers we selected 40 papers, 16 posters, 16 workshops to be presented at the conference, was trying to question the role of the library as a social and political place: How open is it? How welcoming? What is its part in spreading democracy and squaring inequalities? By what means? How do libraries conceive their political model? Those 72 contributions, which full texts and abstracts you can find in this e-book, explores the main theme through several key topics: The Role of Libraries in Democratic Cultures, Intellectual Freedom and Censorship, Libraries, Open Access and Open Data and Protecting Privacy. The role of libraries in democratic cultures: As institutions of public service, libraries provide citizens access to culture and information, but how can libraries play a role in providing tools and opportunities for citizens to realize their citizenship fully and to take active parts in society and in democracy? Intellectual freedom and censorship: Democracy is closely tied to intellectual freedom. However, this concept is still the subject of debate. What responsibility do information professionals have in defending intellectual freedom? What can they do to support and promote individuals’ rights to access, explore, consider, share and express ideas? Libraries, open access and open data: In a knowledge-based society, open access conveys the idea of sharing and promoting knowledge without boundaries. This begs the questions: What are the ways to implement freedom of access? How to sustain new economic models? How can libraries make the most of open access resources and promote free access? 3 Protecting Privacy: The privacy has become one of the main issues in the digital society as a human right. How to strike a balance between open access and privacy? How should privacy concerns be handled by information professionals? How can they educate citizens about issues related to privacy? What’s their role in protecting users’ information? Every year, BOBCATSSS Conference is organized by students of library and information science from at least two universities. Thanks to the 2016’s teams, from Enssib (Lyon-France), Université Paris Descartes (Paris-France) and the University of Tennessee-Knoxville (Knoxville,Tennessee -USA), for organizing this event where such important topics were studied and analyzed by students, teachers and professionals from all over the world. You can either navigate through this collection by type of document, by theme or following the symposium order. We hope you will enjoy the reading of those contributions, as much as we enjoy their presentations during the conference. Raphaëlle Bats Team Bobcatsss 2016 Enssib – Lyon, France 4 Table of contents Introduction .......................................................................................................................................................... 3 Table of contents .................................................................................................................................................. 5 Papers ..................................................................................................................................................................... 9 Public libraries as tools for democracy ................................................................................................... 10 Towards Better Social Learning: Contributions from Sentiment Analysis ....................................... 21 Citizen Scholarship using Web2.0: Tools in Library and Information Science Journals ............... 28 Diversity of film collections in European public libraries.................................................................... 37 Security level of DRM technologies ........................................................................................................ 50 Youth as Citizen?: Libraries and Youth Civic Engagement ................................................................. 58 Hacker culture, libraries and intellectual freedom: Analysis of hacker and hacktivist scene in Croatia and its collaboration with Croatian libraries ........................................................................... 68 French Libraries Post-Charlie Hebdo: Between Freedom of Expression and the Neutrality of Cultural Institutions .................................................................................................................................. 79 E-book reading data protection in libraries ........................................................................................... 94 Modern Times, Modern Librarians: A Comparison of Historical and Modern Library Services of Hungary and the United States .............................................................................................................. 104 User Experience in the Italian Academic Libraries context: may we start? .................................... 111 Mobile library service in Baranya County: How to provide library services to the people of a rural region in Hungary? .................................................................................................................................. 119 An Analysis of International Library Aid to Africa: Cultural, Economic, and Political Impacts . 128 French think tanks analysts and librarians: the cart of communication comes before the horse of knowledge ................................................................................................................................................. 136 Target Groups and Activities: Six Swedish Public Libraries’ use of Facebook ................................ 146 Film education and film preferences of the LIS students as important factors for the development of diverse film collections ....................................................................................................................... 154 Green Libraries – partners for realizing fully citizenship .................................................................. 165 5 Social media and privacy defense strategies ......................................................................................... 177 Do Erasmus students have the same rights using library resources studying abroad? .................. 186 Student’s information needs in democratic society and the role of public libraries ...................... 197 Redesigning the physical space for access and exchange of knowledge: Tracking the Traffic at the University of Oslo Library ...................................................................................................................... 206 Librarian as publisher ............................................................................................................................. 216 Librarian's Code of Ethics - Does It Help? ........................................................................................... 222 The library as a stronghold of privacy in the digital age : a three-tier framework .......................... 224 Analysis of cultural events in the library with the aim of promoting literature .............................. 234 A Comparative Analysis of the State of Intellectual Freedom in the United States and Israel as Judged Against IFLA’s FAIFE Committee Standards ........................................................................ 247 Democracy in the works council libraries. A case study: The Social Welfare Institutions for staff in the electrical and gas industries (CCAS - France) ............................................................................... 255 Legal deposit at the Sultanate of Oman: the Law of Press and Publications and its role in building Omani culture democracy ...................................................................................................................... 265 Libraries on the Semantic Web: Finding new professional ways and implement them to the benefits of citizens ................................................................................................................................... 278 Is the library a true reflection of information's democracy? .............................................................. 286 Social Networking: Information Sharing, Archiving and Privacy .................................................... 295 Censorship in the School Library: four reasons to consider and some ideas to promote Intellectual Freedom ...................................................................................................................................................
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