GarageBOOKS #33 - Yπαίθρια, δωρεάν, δημόσια ανταλλακτική βιβλιοθήκη

Η Ειρήνη Ιωαννίδου κι ο Λευτέρης Αμπατζής είχαν μια πολύ ενδιαφέρουσα ιδέα: να κατασκευάσουν μια υπαίθρια, δωρεάν, δημόσια ανταλλακτική βιβλιοθήκη σε συνεργασία με το Δήμο Κηφισιάς.Ένα δημόσιο έπιπλο βιβλιοθήκης, πολύ διαφορετικό από οτιδήποτε έχουμε δει ως τώρα. Εδώ καθένας μπορεί να επισκεφθεί τη βιβλιοθήκη όποια ώρα θέλει, αφού είναι προσβάσιμη 24 ώρες το 24ωρο, και να πάρει ή να αφήσει όσα βιβλία θέλει. Δεν υπάρχει κανένας περιορισμός, καμία συλλογή στοιχείων, καμμία εποπτεία. Στη συνέντευξη που τους πήρα οι εμπνευστές της ανταλλακτικής βιβλιοθήκης Κηφισιάς μου είπαν ότι σκέφτονται να επεκτείνουν τη βιβλιοθήκη και σε άλλα μέρη ώστε να δημιουργηθεί ένα δίκτυο ανταλλακτικών βιβλιοθηκών. Εξαρτάται απ’ την επιτυχία του εγχειρήματος, το οποίο η Ιωαννίδου κι ο Αμπατζής θεωρούν ένα πείραμα. Η βιβλιοθήκη βρίσκεται στη συμβολή των οδών Λεβίδου και Κασσαβέτη στην Κηφισιά.

Ντοκιμαντέρ: Ο κόσμος των χειρογράφων και των ερευνητών τους

Επιστημονική επιμέλεια-σενάριο: Νίκη Τσιρώνη
Σκηνοθεσία: Βερονίκ Μάγκνες
Σύμβουλος παραγωγής: Μπάμπης Λέγγας

Παραγωγή: Αίνος Πολιτιστική Εταιρεία 2007

Διάρκεια ταινίας: 27,27 λεπτά

Without Libraries by Daniel Handler

We are born and weʼre not smart
and our parents kinda try and do their part
But our brains, they need some facts
so our education starts in the public stacks

Chorus:
Without Libraries Weʼd be Dumb
We wouldnʼt know our elbow, from our bum
Libraries are our Friends and we should take good care of them
Because without libraries weʼd be D-U-M

Now when weʼre teens, we start to sour
We have hormones but not a lot of power
And when thereʼs things, we want to know
We need a nice safe place where there isnʼt any blow

YES!

Chorus:
Without Libraries Weʼd be Dumb
We wouldnʼt know our elbow, from our bum
Libraries are our Friends and we should take good care of them
Because without libraries weʼd be D-U-M

Then weʼre adults and weʼre in charge
And our egos can get a little large
We open our mouths, and words come out
But how can we make it seem, like we know what weʼre talking about?

LIBRARIES!

Chorus:
Without Libraries Weʼd be Dumb
We wouldnʼt know our elbow, from our bum
Libraries are our Friends and we should take good care of them
Because without libraries weʼd be D-U-M

As we grow old, we might get dim
Even if we keep up at the gym
We lose our figures, we lose looks
But weʼll keep our smarts if we hang around with books

Chorus:
Without Libraries Weʼd be Dumb
We wouldnʼt know our elbow, from our bum
Libraries are our Friends and we should take good care of them
Because without libraries weʼd be D-U-M

And then we die, and thatʼs the end
At the funeral, thereʼll be one loyal Friend
And heʼll get up, remove his cap
But where will he find a poem, that isnʼt utter crap?

YES!

Chorus:
Without Libraries Weʼd be Dumb
We wouldnʼt know our elbow, from our bum
Libraries are our Friends and we should take good care of them
Because without libraries weʼd be D-U-M

Open access is the future of academic publishing

 άρθρο της Guardian (19-08-2012)

Transition to open access could cost £60m a year but bring benefits for UK economy and increase efficiency of research

Making all the UK's publicly funded scientific research free for anyone to read could cost up to £60m per year, according to an independent study commissioned by the government. Professor Dame Janet Finch, who led the work, said "open access" was the future for academic publishing and that the short-term transition costs she had identified should reduce over time as more articles became freely available and the journal subscription costs currently paid by university libraries fell.

Prof Finch, a sociologist at the University of Manchester, was asked by the government to consult academics and publishers on how the UK could make the scientific research funded by taxpayers available free of charge while maintaining high standards of peer review and without undermining the UK's successful publishing industry.

"In the longer term, the future lies with open access publishing," said Finch at the launch of her report on Monday. "The UK should recognise this change, should embrace it and should find ways of managing it in a measured way."

In her report, Finch said open access would lead to efficiency benefits for researchers and produce economic growth. She said that the web had changed expectations about how quickly and easily people could access information and knowledge, and proposed strengthening the role of digital repositories, where scientists make the results of their work available for free.

She also welcomed moves by publishing companies to extend licences so that members of the public could access scientific literature at their local libraries.

In recent months, publishers of scientific journals have been criticised by academics for locking the work produced by their peers, and funded largely by taxpayers, behind paywalls and charging UK universities around £200m a year for access.

Supporters of the "academic spring" have argued that the results of publicly funded research should be made available to anyone who wants to use it, for whatever purpose. This is a position supported by the UK government, which has drafted in Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales to help achieve its goals for open access.

Many supporters of open access advocate the "gold" model, where researchers pay an upfront fee to a journal for their paper to be made available online, free of charge, as soon as it is published. Finch said that large-scale uptake of such a system would take time and subscription-based journals would remain important during the transition. "We don't believe it can be cost-free, certainly in the period where we have two systems running in parallel," she said.

A combined economic model outlined in the report estimates that it would cost around £38m per year in publishing fees. The figure is dependent on the amount journals charge to publish and takes into account a reduction in journal subscription fees for libraries. In this combined scenario, half of the UK's publicly funded research would be published as gold open access.

Other scenarios in the report that assume a lower average charge by publishers suggest that the higher education sector could actually save up to £5m per year by moving to gold open access.

The additional costs for other access initiatives are also outlined. Extending licences to public libraries would cost approximately £10m and it would cost around £5m to improve the infrastructure around central repositories and another £5m for one-off costs. This compares to an annual government budget allocation of around £5.5bn for research in universities.

"There will be a balance, over time, where the costs fall," said Finch. "As the shift from subscription-based publishing to open-access publishing takes place, then the costs shift from one side of the equation to the other. The costs of purchasing journals on a subscription basis should reduce and our modelling assumes they will reduce as the costs of paying author charges rise. The speed of that balance and extent it happens over time is something that's really difficult to predict."

Another reason for the transition period, said Finch, was that UK-based authors publish only 6% of papers produced every year and, until other governments also move to make their countries' research open access, British universities will still need to subscribe to journals to access international content.

David Willetts, minister for universities and science, said that the extra costs for open access outlined in the Finch report would be considered by the government when it responded formally to the recommendations in the coming months. Meanwhile, he reiterated his support for open access, saying that the UK could take a leadership role around the world.

"There is a very lively debate about this in the US and I'll be briefing members of the American research community and administration this week on what we're doing on open access. If we can make it a shared European-American initiative, that would bring down the cost and it would be far better if we could all agree a way forward."

Professor Adam Tickell of the University of Birmingham, who served on the working group behind Finch's report, said UK universities "recognise and embrace the strong moral case that the public who fund our research should have unimpeded access to the results of that research".

He added: "The sector enthusiastically welcomes the strong commitment to open access from all the stakeholders. Open access is in our marrow – universities produce knowledge not for ourselves but because it has a greater good."

Richard Mollet, chief executive of The Publisher's Association, said the Finch report had been a constructive exercise and he supported its balanced recommendations.

"For the gold open access [model] to be viable it will be important that sufficient funds be available via the research councils, the funding councils and the universities for UK researchers, and that workable systems are implemented to ensure these are delivered to publishers. Where funding for gold open access is not provided, publishers need a commitment from the research funders not to demand embargo periods of less than 12 months for the manuscript to be openly available."

Sir Mark Walport, director of the Wellcome Trust, said: "There is a real groundswell of opinion in support of open access in the UK, the US, Europe and beyond, and this is a real opportunity for the UK to lead the way. Open access is the only way to ensure that important research is made freely accessible to all. It will help drive forward innovation and breakthroughs in medical research."

Εικονική Πινακοθήκη της Τράπεζας της Ελλάδας

Η Τράπεζα της Ελλάδας αποτελεί συλλέκτη έργων τέχνης, από την ίδρυση της το 1928. 

Στις συλλογές της φιλοξενούνται 

πίνακες ζωγραφικής, γλυπτά, χαρακτικά, 

έργα ψηφιδογραφίας, υαλογραφήματα κ.α. 

Ένα αντιπροσωπευτικό δείγμα 169 έργων ζωγραφικής και χαρακτικής 

του 19ου και του 20ου αιώνα,

 με ειδικά σχόλια και βιογραφικά 

στοιχεία των δημιουργών τους, 

παρουσιάζεται ελεύθερα, σε ένα 

εικονικό περιβάλλον. 

Η Εικονική Πινακοθήκη της ΤτΕ 

αποτελεί μια προσπάθεια 

να καταστούν κάποια από τα έργα αυτά προσιτά 

σε ένα ευρύτερο κοινο.   

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Screening the Future 2011

On the 14th & 15th of March 2011, more than two hundred audiovisual archivists, librarians, museum professionals, film makers, advocates and policy managers working in cultural heritage gathered at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision for the Screening the Future 2011 conference. In focusing on the questions, what are we preserving, how can we fund our future, where do AV archives meet IT, how can we valorise our archives, and how will we keep our archives in good shape, Screening the Future presented a number of benchmarks, issues and challenges, and delivered a range of guidelines, workflows and standards for the preservation of our audiovisual heritage.

presentations:

Creating Preservation Scenarios, Understanding Risks and Estimating Costs

How few copies?

Building Workflows for Digitsation and Digital Preservation: The Library of Congress Experience

Building Workflows for Digitsation and Digital Preservation : A Case Study Images for the Future

Building Workflows for Digitsation and Digital Preservation

Introduction to Transcoding: Tools and Processes

Towards a New Enlightenment – Moving Images, Recorded Sound, and the Promise of New Technology

Big Data, Linked Data

The Reliability, Authenticity and Trust (RAT) Pipeline from Producer to Consumer in Audiovisual Archiving 

Scaling Up, Scaling Down: Making the Most of What We Have

Introduction Screening the Future Conference

Innovation and Culture

Read More:

• Blog: The Bioscope 
• Blog: Javier Hernandez Ros 

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