IFLA JOURNAL Official Journal of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions Volume 31 (2005) No. 3, pp. 225–293. ISSN 0340-0352 SAGE Publications CONTENTS Editorial: More from Buenos Aires – and elsewhere Stephen Parker . 227 Cooperative Virtual Libraries: training librarians and editors via the Internet Dominique Babini . 229 Audiovisual and Multimedia Content in the Curriculum for Librarianship Studies at the University of León in Spain Blanca Rodríguez Bravo . 234 Managing the Electronic Collection with Cost per Use Data Brinley Franklin . 241 Images and Sounds in Uruguay Samira Sambaíno . 249 A Revolution in Preservation: digitizing political posters at the National Library of Cuba Laura Susan Ward . 260 REPORT Los buenos Libros: un puente hacia la elaboración personal Paula Cadenas . 268 NEWS (with separate Table of Contents) . 271 INTERNATIONAL CALENDAR . 285 ABSTRACTS 286 — SOMMAIRES 287 — ZUSAMMENFASSUNGEN 288 — RESÚMENES 289 — Ρефераты статей 290 . 286 Index, Vol. 30, 2004 . 292 Notes for Contributors . 293 Visit http://ifl.sagepub.com Free access to tables of contents and abstracts. 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Typeset by Type Study, Scarborough, North Yorkshire Printed in Great Britain on acid-free paper by The Cromwell Press Ltd, Trowbridge, Wiltshire EDITORIAL More from Buenos Aires – and elsewhere Stephen Parker The next paper, ‘Managing the Electronic Collection with Cost per Use Data’, by Brinley Although this issue of IFLA Journal will be pub- Franklin, Vice Provost for Libraries at the Uni- lished in October, after the World Library and versity of Connecticut, USA, was presented in Information Congress in Oslo, it has to be Buenos Aires in a joint session of the Statistics compiled and sent for typesetting before the and Evaluation Section and the University Oslo conference, at the beginning of August. Libraries Section. The paper reviews some of the Readers will therefore have to wait until the next early efforts to develop cost per use data for elec- issue, Volume 31, Number 4, is published in tronic collections and notes that emerging trends December, for the first reports and news from in the standardization of electronic usage statis- Oslo. The first conference papers, selected by the tics and the utilization of cost per use data have Editorial Committee from those recommended great potential for libraries and library consortia by Division and Section Committees, will appear to make effective decisions in the development in the first issue of next year, Volume 32, and management of electronic collections. Some Number 1, due to be published in March 2006. of the ways in which libraries, consortia and publishers are using unit cost information in this This issue continues with the publication of way are also discussed. some papers from the Buenos Aires conference, held in August last year. The first of these, ‘Co- The fourth paper, ‘Images and Sounds in operative Virtual Libraries: training librarians Uruguay’, by Samira Sambaíno, was presented in and editors via the Internet’ by Dominique Buenos Aires in a joint session of the Section on Babini, Coordinator of the Network of Social Preservation and Conservation and the Audio- Science Virtual Libraries of Latin America and visual and Multimedia Section. The author, the Caribbean, was originally presented in a joint currently working as a consultant in Uruguay, session of the Management and Marketing and offers a vision of the institutions of Uruguay Public Libraries Sections of IFLA. Noting that responsible for compiling and preserving the the development of virtual libraries offering audiovisual records that constitute the heritage access to full-text documents via the Internet of the country. Her paper focuses on the audio- requires teamwork among librarians, editors and visual collections of national institutions such as webmasters, the paper describes how the Latin the National Image Archive, the Museum of the American Social Science Council (CLACSO) Word, the National Library and the Montevideo organized an Internet-based distance training Photographic Archive and the problems of pre- course for librarians and editors from Latin serving and conserving these collections. America and the Caribbean, and identifies factors that need to be considered in organizing In the final paper in this issue (not presented in such courses. Buenos Aires), Laura Susan Ward, who recently graduated from the departments of Library and The second paper, ‘Audiovisual and Multimedia Information Studies (MLIS) and Latin American Content in the Curriculum for Librarianship Studies (MA) at the University of California Los Studies at the University of León in Spain’, is by Angeles, is also concerned with the preservation Blanca Rodríguez Bravo, a Professor in that Uni- of visual materials. In ‘A Revolution in Preser- versity’s Department of Library and Information vation: digitizing political posters at the National Science. The paper (which was not among those Library of Cuba’, the author describes the unique presented in Buenos Aires) describes the third collection of Revolutionary graphic political module of the Department’s course on Analysis posters at Cuba’s Biblioteca Nacional José Martí, of Document Content, dealing with the repre- and the efforts being made by librarians and sentation and retrieval of sound, visual, audiovi- archivists to maintain the collection under diffi- sual and multimedia materials. The module cult conditions. The digitization of the poster covers the peculiarities of sound and iconic collection is helping to overcome problems of codes, the analysis of audiovisual materials and deterioration caused by unsatisfactory storage the characteristics of digital materials, which conditions and mishandling of the materials by need to be handled using new approaches. both library staff and users. Copyright © 2005 International Federation of Library Associations & Institutions (www.ifla.org). IFLA Journal 31(3): 227–228. ISSN: 0340-0352. DOI: 10.1177/0340035205058823 227 Editorial The largely Ibero-American theme of this issue Lis Byberg is also reflected in the contribution