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00 Prelim (Jk-K) IFLA JOURNAL Official Journal of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions Volume 31 (2005) No. 1, pp. 1–122. ISSN 0340-0352 SAGE Publications CONTENTS Editorial: Fresh from Buenos Aires Stephen Parker . 3 ICT Skills for Information Professionals in Developing Countries: perspectives from a study of the electronic information environment in Nigeria Linda Ashcroft and Chris Watts . 6 The British Library and E-Learning Lynne Brindley . 13 Democracy Building Activities in the Swedish Riksdag; the role of a parliamentary library Margareta Brundin . 19 Unreliable Research: are librarians liable? Ann Curry . 28 Librarians and Basic Education Teachers in the Context of ‘Digital Literacy’ Emilia Ferreiro . 35 NGOs, ICTs and Information Dissemination in Asia and Oceania Elizabeth Reade-Fong and Gary E. Gorman . 45 Copyright Protection as Access Barrier for People who Read Differently: the case for an international approach J.W. Roos . 52 European Emigration Records, 1820–1925 George R. Ryskamp . 68 Citations and Links as a Measure of Effectiveness of Online LIS Journals Alastair G. Smith . 76 The Manuscript Collections of Europe: a mirror of migration, separation and reunification as seen in the Alexander von Humboldt Collection in Berlin Jutta Weber . 85 REPORT The Herzogin Anna Amalia Library after the Fire Michael Knoche . 90 NEWS (with separate Table of Contents) . 93 INTERNATIONAL CALENDAR . 107 ABSTRACTS 109 — SOMMAIRES 111 — ZUSAMMENFASSUNGEN 114 — RESÚMENES 117 — Ρефераты статей 119 . 109 Notes for Contributors . 122 Visit http://ifl.sagepub.com Free access to table of contents and abstracts. Site-wide access to the full text for members of subscribing institutions. IFLA Journal Official Journal of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions ISSN 0340-0352 [print] 1745-2651 [online] Published 4 times a year in March, June, October and December Editor: Stephen Parker, c/o IFPRI-ISNAR Program, ILRI, PO Box 5689, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Tel. +251 1 463 215; Fax: +251 1 461 252/464 645. E-mail: [email protected] Editorial Committee Ramón Abad Hiraldo (Chair), Biblioteca Universitaria de Zaragoza, Spain. E-mail: [email protected] Charles Batambuze, National Library of Uganda, Kampala, Uganda. E-mail: [email protected] Lis Byberg, Faculty of Journalism, Library and Information Science, Oslo University College, Norway. E-mail: [email protected] Heinz Fuchs, Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Göttingen, Germany. E-mail: [email protected] Yoshitaka Kawasaki, Professor, Library and Information Science, Graduate School of Education, Kyoto University, Japan. E-mail: [email protected] Ludmila F. Kozlova, Department of Foreign Library Science and International Library Relations, Russian State Library, Moscow, Russian Federation. E-mail: [email protected] David Miller, Levin Library Curry College, Milton, MA, USA. E-mail: [email protected] Víctor Federico Torres, Biblioteca Regional del Caribe y de Estudios, Universidad de Puerto Rico, USA. E-mail: [email protected] Maria Witt, 14, rue Thèophraste Renaudot, 75015 Paris, France, E-mail: [email protected] Nancy Gwinn (Chair, Publications Committee, ex officio), Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Chevy Chase, MD, USA. E-mail: [email protected] Stephen Parker (United Kingdom) (Editor, ex officio) Publisher SAGE Publications, London, Thousands Oaks and New Dehli. Copyright © 2005 International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. Apart from fair dealing for the purposes of research or private study, or criticism or review, and only as permitted under the Copyright Designs and Patents Act, 1998, this publication may only be reproduced, stored or transmitted in any form or by any means, with the prior permission in writing of the publishers, or in the case of reprographic reproduction, in accordance with the terms of licences issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency. Inquiries concerning reproduction outside those terms should be sent to the publishers at the address below. Annual subscription (4 issues, 2005) Free to IFLA members. Non-members: full rate (includes electronic version) £158/$269. Prices include postage. Full rate subscriptions include the right for members of the subscribing institution to access the electronic content of the journal at no extra charge from SAGE. The content can be accessed online through a number of electronic journal intermediaries, who may charge for access. Free email alerts of contents listings are also available. For full details visit the SAGE website: www.sagepublications.com Student discounts, single issue rates and advertising details are available from SAGE Publications, 1 Oliver’s Yard, 55 City Road, London EC1Y 1SP, UK. Tel: +44 (0) 20 7324 8500; fax +44 (0) 20 7324 8600; email: [email protected]; website: www.sagepublications.com. In North America from SAGE Publications, 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks, CA 91359, USA. The IFLA Journal is abstracted/indexed in Multicultural Education Abstracts and PAIS International. Typeset by Type Study, Scarborough, North Yorkshire Printed in Great Britain on acid-free paper by The Cromwell Press Ltd, Trowbridge, Wiltshire EDITORIAL Fresh from Buenos Aires Stephen Parker of the Library’s approach to e-learning and describes how its online learning resources are Almost 4,000 participants from 121 countries used by different groups of learners. The paper attended the World Library and Information touches on some of the challenges of delivering a Congress, the 70th IFLA General Conference in widely accessible learning programme and poses Buenos Aires, Argentina, in August 2004. From questions which the new possibilities offered by among the nearly 200 papers and presentations e-learning pose for national libraries. at the Congress, Division and Section Commit- tees recommended 50 for consideration by the The third paper, by Margareta Brundin, describes IFLA Journal Editorial Committee for possible the activities of a new office created by the Par- publication in the journal. After carefully review- liament of Sweden (the Riksdag) with the aim of ing all 50 papers, the Editorial Committee increasing knowledge of and interest in the selected 19 for publication during 2005. This Riksdag and its work among the general public — issue contains the first of these papers; others especially young people. The open-door policy will be published in forthcoming issues. and regional activities of the Riksdag Library, and its training programmes for librarians from all The ten Buenos Aires Conference papers in this over Sweden, help to satisfy the need of the issue reflect something of the wide range of topics public for accurate and easily accessible informa- and issues with which IFLA is concerned, and the tion on the work and decisions of the Riksdag wide geographical spread of its membership. The and so contribute to building democracy. papers deal with such diverse topics as education and training of information professionals, the A completely different topic is dealt with in the provision of e-learning services to the general next paper, by Ann Curry, in which she examines public, the work of parliamentary libraries, pro- cases of fraud and deception in research, the fessional liability for the quality of research, reasons why some researchers transgress the digital literacy, information dissemination by accepted rules in this way and the ineffectiveness non-governmental organizations, copyright of publishers and reviewers as gatekeepers. problems affecting the print-disabled, emigration While librarians and LIS researchers seem records, online professional journals and the unlikely to conduct or publish unreliable preservation of manuscript collections, and their research, problems can arise when librarians dis- authors come from the United Kingdom, Sweden, tribute unreliable research in their collections. Canada, Argentina, Fiji, New Zealand, South Nevertheless, withdrawing all unreliable Africa, the United States and Germany. research from library collections may not be desirable, as it may contain grains of truth that The first paper, by Linda Ashcroft and Chris could result in future, reliable research. Watts, deals with ‘ICT Skills for Information Professionals in Developing Countries: perspec- In the next paper, Emilia Ferreiro looks critically tives from a study of the electronic information at the notion of ‘digital literacy’. She contends environment in Nigeria’, and describes a that literacy is not a static notion because literacy research project carried out at Liverpool John requirements change across time and places. Moores University in the UK into the provision While the introduction of ICTs has led to radical of electronic information in Nigeria. The project changes in the ways of producing and dissemi- identified a significant skills gap amongst infor- nating texts, it has not change the conceptual mation professionals in terms of their ability to nature of the literacy process. The paper explores make effective use of information and communi- the relationship between the elementary school cation technologies, and concluded that the and the new technologies, and concludes that it problem might be alleviated through collabora- is too risky to depend only on computers to tion and the strategic management of resources. improve literacy. Librarians can help make more effective use of ICTs in educational contexts, as In the second paper, Lynne Brindley, Chief Exec- they have already adopted these technologies
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