On the 8th Berlin Conference on Arts and Media Administration Frances Q. Tschinkel, Director of Membership and Public Affairs of The New York Public Library lectured about a case study in developing a diversified funding base.
The dominance of search engines for discovering resources is unlikely to diminish substantially in the future, but libraries can increase their participation in the online world and the search engine revolution.
The knowledge economy is a new concept that has appeared worldwide in recent years. As a sub-discipline of the knowledge economy, knowledge management is a completely new concept and method of management. It works for converting intellectual assets of workers and staff members in the organization into higher productive forces - competition power and new value. Knowledge management requires linkage of information with information, information with activities and information with man - so as to realize the sharing of knowledge (including tacit and explicit knowledge).
Author : Robert D. Stueart, Barbara B. Moran
The latest edition of this management classic sports a fresh new look to complement its updated content. It continues to cover all of the important functions involved in library management and development. New chapters on marketing, team building and ethics have been added; thought provoking mini-cases and other activities introduced or expanded; and more international materials referenced than ever before. A perennial favorite in the classroom, an invaluable reference source for information managers everywhere.
The latest edition of this management classic sports a fresh new look to complement its updated content. It continues to cover all of the important functions involved in library management and development. New chapters on marketing, team building and ethics have been added; thought provoking mini-cases and other activities introduced or expanded; and more international materials referenced than ever before. A perennial favorite in the classroom, an invaluable reference source for information managers everywhere.
Author and radio personality Garrison Keillor, who stated that "libraries are the best counter terrorism tool we have," brought to a close the largest conference in the history of the American Library Association (ALA). More than 28,635 librarians, exhibitors and library supporters attended the 128th ALA Annual Conference at the Washington Convention Center from June 21 to 27. According to the Washington, D.C. Tourism Bureau, the conference generated more than $15.6 million in revenue for the local economy.
Preview on the World Library and Information Congress / 73rd IFLA General Conference and Council in Durban (South Africa), August 19-23, 2007
BLIDA (European Bureau of Library, Information and Documentation Associations), EUCLID (the European Association for Library and Information Education and Research) and the BAD (the Portuguese Association of Librarians, Archivists and Documentalists) are proud to announce their first ever joint conference to be held in Lisbon (Auditorium of the Direcção-Geral de Arquivos Alameda da Universidade 1649-010 Lisboa, Portugal) from the 19th to the 21st of September 2007.
Libraries are strongly related with contemporary questions like life-long-learning or the
usage of digital technologies. No other arts discipline is used by such a broad range of
people. This month we‘d like to bring aspects of library management on the table.
With a new record number of exhibitors and new ideas, SHOWTECH 2007 is set to go in Berlin . From 19 to 21 June, the trade show combined with a congress will show its unique range of technical equipment from the areas of stage, lighting, sound and event technology.
This session in Liverpool (UK) on June 19th, 2007, will show you how you can integrate some of the latest digital developments into your communications and marketing strategy - from MySpace to YouTube, pocast to vodcast, sms to mms and more. This is a new training session and attendance at the previous Mighty Mouse course is not required.
LabforCulture is an online information and knowledge platform dedicated to European cultural cooperation, complemented by a range of offline services and programmed activities. The website provides an unprecedented range of information on cultural cooperation across the broader Europe, as well as offering a platform for transnational cultural exchange, cultural debate, news and research.
In Part II I have traced the coevolution and coconstruction of Art, Science & Technology from the beginning of Western Civilization using changing mathematical epistemes. Beginning with Harmony in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds the episteme shifted to Perspective in the Renaissance then to Motion with the Scientific Revolution and finally to Probability with the second Scientific Revolution. From this review I draw two conclusions.
In this first panel of a triptych of articles, I have defined Art, Science & Technology.
These words are pointers to a gestalt world of knowing. Art is codified knowledge conveying meaning from one human mind to another.
Some Codes are alphabetic, some aural, some visual, some kinetic but always sender and receiver must share and understand the Code if a work is to work. 15 Technology is tooled knowledge, i.e., knowledge fixed in Matter/Energy as function. The subject of both Art & Technology is the Natural Person. Their work is the result of Design, of human purpose, of formal and final causes. Codified and tooled knowledge, however, have no meaning or function without the intermediation of a Natural Person.
These words are pointers to a gestalt world of knowing. Art is codified knowledge conveying meaning from one human mind to another.
Some Codes are alphabetic, some aural, some visual, some kinetic but always sender and receiver must share and understand the Code if a work is to work. 15 Technology is tooled knowledge, i.e., knowledge fixed in Matter/Energy as function. The subject of both Art & Technology is the Natural Person. Their work is the result of Design, of human purpose, of formal and final causes. Codified and tooled knowledge, however, have no meaning or function without the intermediation of a Natural Person.
The special focus in this newsletter issue tries to give you some ideas, how technologies can help your organisation. We portrait solutions and tools, give previews to upcoming conferences, and provide background facts.
International Seminar on the occasion of the German Presidency of the EU Council 2007, Berlin, 15 and 16 June 2007
Participants of the international seminar on New Museums: Performing Tools for Cohesion and Local Development which was held last March have set up a Community of Cultural Competences called 3C . The network, coordinated by the International Urban Development Association (INTA), aims to re-examine and consider new experiences in the field of cultural and local development.
The fifth edition of the Euro-American Campus on Cultural Cooperation was held in Almada, Portugal, on 8-12 May. The event gathered over 400 participants from 30 different countries, including 80 speakers, who shared and presented their ideas and projects...
The performing arts in all countries in Europe are supported by their governments. But than all resemblance ends. Scope, depth, nature and mass of state support differ widely from one country to another. States, provinces, regions and municipalities all have different expectations, roles and schemes in their financial support of the performing arts. The Dutch Association of Theatres and Concert Halls (VSCD) in cooperation with the Boekman Foundation and Pearle* organizes an international conference at June 7th 2007 in Utrecht (Netherlands) on best practices in government support of the performing arts.
New web-based technologies have increased the amount of information on international cultural exchange in the public domain. Many of the long established cross-European networks have moved quickly to extend their online presence in the interest of spreading contacts and opportunities as widely as possible. But this has had the side-effect of throwing a considerable amount of information into the public domain in an unregulated fashion under the name of 'knowledge' when it is really only 'data'.
This piece offers practical advice by fundraisers for fundraisers. It gives an overview of the considerations that should be explored before getting started. It also outlines the tools needed to do the job and provides insight into the different sources of funding available.