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ş TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction I Angela Repanovici, Manolis Koukourakis, Tereza Khechoyan PART I Books on the Shelves of New Technology The Book in the Era of Facebook and Twitter 2 Ismail Serageldin Narrative Construction of Popularity Assessment Criteria on Weblogs: The Implications for Virtual Learning Environments 8 Cătălina-Ionela Rezeanu, Claudiu Coman, Angela Repanovici The Importance of Digitizing Old Medical Books and Modern Medical Ethics Books in the Field of Medicine 19 Nadinne Roman, Elena Amaricăi, Silviu Caloian The Usefulness of Social Networks for the Dissemination of Scientific Information 26 Ionel Şerban PART II Information Society and Sources The Interpretation of Knowledge Economy and the Problems of Its Rise and Development in Armenia 31 Tereza Khechoyan Aspects on the Harmonization of Copyright and Related Rights in the Information Society in the European Union Legislation 39 Cristina Mihaela Salcă Rotaru The Role and Importance of Information Sources. Case Study: The European Union’s Diplomacy and the Middle East Crisis at the Beginning of the 21st Century 48 Ana-Maria Bolborici PART III Books in Education The Level of Awareness on Scientometrics in Higher Education 55 Angela Repanovici, Manolis Koukourakis, Mihai Bogdan Alexandrescu, D. Cotoros, Liliana Rogozea, Daniela Popa Romanian Students’ Perceptions of Bibliotherapy in the Educational Process66 Daniela Popa, Ane Landoy, Angela Repanovici PART IV Reading for Life Reading for Life: Biblio/Poetry Therapy with Different Target Groups 74 Judit Béres The Role of Fairy Tales in the Self-Realization Process 85 Daniela Sorea The Book and the Separate Room 101 Carmen Adriana Gheorghe PART V Perspectives on Publications in Life Sciences Biomechanics in Publication: Present State and Perspectives 107 Ileana-Constanta Rosca Representative Publications for Medical Engineering 111 Corneliu Druga PART VI Collections: Histories and Landmarks The Second Life of Books from Private Collections 119 Elena Harconiţa The Progress and Development of the Digital Library of “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu since 2007 137 Rodica Volovici, Cristina Pârvu Revista BIBLIOTECA [“The Library” Review]: 1948-2018 – A Landmark in the Professional Community of Romanian Librarians 144 Elena Tîrziman, Maria Micle The Journeys of Books 152 Robert Coravu Author Index 158 INTRODUCTION The book may be seen as a symbol, a miracle or a product. It used to represent and still represents the most important element of the spiritual connection between generations, between different professions, between education and multicultural systems. The book is the oldest economic model developed by libraries, an investment in a product which gives benefit to as many people as possible. In 2012, The Library of Congress (Washington, D.C., U.S.A.) had the initiative of organizing an annual meeting which would disseminate the vision of library leaders on the importance of the book. The meeting would gather all the categories involved in the book industry: writers, publishers, editors, professors, librarians. The goal was to create a platform for discussions on how to promote the book as a crucial element for culture and education enhancement. The power of information and its dissemination was discussed within the first edition, while keeping the book as a central element in all debates. After this first edition, the Summit of the book was organized yearly in different locations throughout the world: Singapore (2013), France (2014), Egypt (2015) and Ireland (2016). The event had a powerful international impact and in 2017 the 6th summit was hosted in Brasov (Romanaia) at the “Transilvania” University. The event was organized in collaboration with the Public Library and it took place in the University Aula between 16 and 17 October 2017. The collaboration between professionals, the sharing of knowledge, the skills and experiences related to the book, all presented in a multinational and multicultural environment, created a great opportunity for future projects. Key experts presented their best practices and their expertise in the history, technology, knowledge support and book dissemination. The internationality of the two-day event offered the opportunity to share information on various aspects of the book, as experts from eight countries were present. The summit gathered 35 papers throughout its four sections. The international speakers of the event were: John van Oudenaren, director of the World Digital Library – Library of Congress (U.S.A.); Ismail Serageldin, director of the Library of Alexandria and of the World Digital Library Executive Council (Egypt); Joumana Boustany, associate professor at Paris Descartes University (France); Manolis Koukourakis, director of Crete University Library (Greece); Jerald Cavanagh, Senior librarian at Limerick Institute of Technology (Ireland); Padraig Kirby, Senior librarian at Limerick Institute of Technology (Ireland); Tereza Kechoyan, Professor, Public Administration Academy of the Republic of Armenia, Yerevan (Armenia). A. Repanovici, M. Koukourakis, T. Khechoyan II Introduction All submissions for the Subsequent publication were subjected to a double-blind peer review process. Of all 35 papers presented, only 18 were approved for publication. Our editorial team would like to acknowledge the special support of Cultural Service of the American Embassy from Bucharest. Last but not least, we would like to thank the local Organizing Committee. Angela Repanovici, Transilvania University of Brasov (Romania) Manolis Koukourakis, Crete University Library (Greece) Tereza Khechoyan, Public Administration Academy of the Republic of Armenia (Armenia) PART I Books on the Shelves of New Technology The Book in the Era of Facebook and Twitter Ismail Serageldin Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt A hyper-connected culture of superficiality We live in an era where the standard of communications is the 140-character Tweet! This is creating a culture of superficiality where celebrity replaces well-earned fame, and where opinion is everything. Truth is treated as a subjective statement, and the new media dominate public discourse. The illusion of knowledge is reinforced by the tremendous advances in the access to knowledge. We can instantly check any fact, find any bit of information we want - thanks to the age of the internet and the smart phone - and thus armed, we go forth into the world of the rapidly changing society in which we live. We advance, thinking that we know a subject because we retrieved a fact, not counting that that fact may be wrong for we live in the age of fake news, “alternative facts”, smear campaigns and distortions of all kinds; any person can easily set up a website, and post information to the net. Mobile telephony not only enabled us to reach anyone we want at any time and in any place, but also, its links with the internet made possible the liberation of many of the services of ICT from the anchor of the desk top and laptop computers. Hand-held devices are becoming the norm, and the penetration of mobile telephony is awesome. There are more mobile phone lines than there are human beings on the planet, and about three billion of these are smart phones. And the smart phone is barely 10 years old. In the meantime, social connectivity has also had an equally rapid growth, with Facebook alone accounting for over a billion connected persons in less than ten years. Content has grown apace, as people post on the net everything from videos and pictures to music and text. Today, the Internet is adding to the amount of data, and we possess about two Exabytes of data every day. Just how much is an Exabyte? Well if you converted all the text in the Library of Congress into digital format, an Exabyte would be 100,000 times more! The age of big data1 and social connectivity is here. Not that all of that content is particularly useful. Most of the self-centred tweets, the inane emails, and the gossipy WhatsApp chats are not particularly interesting or useful. Yet many of us spend a large part of the day reading bits of text and looking at images on a 1 “Big Data” has been a major issue in many research institutions and generally in circles concerned with ICT. See inter alia Kenneth Cukier and Viktor Mayer-Schonberger, Big Data: A Revolution that will Transform How We Live, Work and Think (Boston: Hodder & Stoughton, 2013); also Eric Siegel, Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die (New Jersey: Wiley; 2nd edition, 2016); and also for the perspective of business, see inter alia Foster Provost & Tom Fawcett; Data Science for Business: What You Need to Know about Data Mining and Data-Analytic Thinking (CA: O’Reilly Media; 1st edition, 2013); and Mike Grigsby, Advanced Customer Analytics: Targeting, Valuing, Segmenting, and Loyalty Techniques (G.B & USA: Kogan Page; 1st edition, 2016). 3 Ismail Serageldin The Book in the Era of Facebook and Twitter screen that we would never spend time reading off a printed page. Yet we feel compelled to do so. Our modern hyper-connected culture has inculcated into us a fear of missing something. We feel guilty if we leave emails unanswered, we worry about being left out of the circles of the chatrooms, then we complain that we are so busy that we cannot find the time to do what we really want to do. A real life echo of the questions that T.S. Eliot posed in the last century: Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? —T.S. Eliot, The Rock, 1934. We are entering the era of new realities with the emergence of Big Data and a powerful combination of machine learning, deep learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI). But the scale of the coming AI revolution promises change of such a magnitude, and at such a speed, that the international firm McKinsey has estimated will have 3000 times the disruptive effect of the industrial revolution2.