Formazione continua AIB: il sistema delle competenze
Closing the gap
1. Closing the gap: interdisciplinary perspectives on
research and education for digital libraries
Anna Maria Tammaro (University of Parma)
Vittore Casarosa (ISTI-CNR, Pisa)
Donatella Castelli (ISTI-CNR, Pisa)
IRCDL, Roma
February 1st, 2013
3. GAP
LAM common educational curricula needs
System librarian, digital librarian, end user librarian
– Shortage of IT skills
CS and LIS differences in scale, services, coverage
CS to provide access to the world information
LIS to organize the information needed by selected community
4. LIS change
LIS schools have responded to the impact of IT in the
workplace by simply adding technical subject
LIS core is service ethic, descriptive and procedural
knowledge of information resources and their use
Current efforts in research have been focused on
improving our capacity for better managing
repositories, for preservation and for building
infrastructures for searching, accessing and re-using
networked digital resources
Not interdisciplinary research and education (Coleman
2002)
5. Action points
1. From a “Library model” to a “Digital Library model”
2. To take into account the interdisciplinary and
multidisciplinary aspect of Digital Library
6. Workshops model
Using a “workshop model” which has been run and iteratively
refined at five major international conferences
Need for interdisciplinary curricula development
A coordinated approach to digital library research combining
expertise of LIS and Computer Science
7. 5 Workshops
2005 Parma “Information Technologies profiles and
curricula for libraries”, Delos, ELAG, University of
Parma
2008 Aarhus ECDL ““The Web versus Digital Libraries:
time to revisit this once hot topic”
2010 Parma “Education and Research in Digital
Libraries” DL.org and International Master DILL
2011 Berlin TPDL “Linking Research and Education in
DL”
2012 Zadar LIDA “Can Research help Education in
Digital Libraries?”
8. Ideas
1) Possible synergies of research and education in the field of
digital libraries
CS needs to know about policy, quality, user profiles,
legal aspects
LIS needs to know about interdisciplinarity
2) Focus on the educational needs of the new librarians
Critical review of the roles of the information
professionals
9. To be continued....
Partecipation to the iSchools Conference in Texas next
February 12th, 2013
Publication of paper and textbooks with the integration of the
two approaches
10. Thanks of your attention!
Contact
annamaria.tammaro@unipr.it