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Global Libraries Standards: Library Resource Management

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  Standards are used as broad lines and guidelines for the processes related to planning and implementing Library services. Standards are not a substitute for planning, but rather they are levels that represent the minimum requirements and resistances necessary for Library service. If they exceed this limit, they are acceptable, effective and recognized .. and If it fails to reach this minimum, it will be ineffective and unacceptable. From this standpoint, setting and developing unified standards that guide libraries and information centers becomes an urgent necessity, especially when planning library or documentary services followed by evaluation of their performance. As a continuation of The Global Libraries Standards Articles , we present a new standard “ Library Resource Management ”. You can refer to previous related articles : Global Libraries Standards: Cooperation Agreements Global Libraries Standards: Biblio Commons   Library Resource Managem...

Big Mistake : Facebook and Instagram are down for some users around the world

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While you can open the apps, they’re missing major functions Facebook and Instagram appear to be partially down for some users around the world today. While you can open both platforms, it looks like you can’t send or receive messages on either platform, and you can’t post new content either. WhatsApp appeared to be fine for many people, but users in Paraguay, India, Bangladesh, Argentina, and more note that they are experiencing issues with sending messages. DownDetector indicates that those in Brazil were experiencing the most severe outages. We tested multiple accounts at The Verge, and found that Messenger couldn’t load at all on desktop, although the mobile app was working. Instagram was worse: posts weren’t loading, Instagram Stories were down, and direct messages and the button to post new content were also not working. Facebook’s ad section was not functioning either, and it led to an internal error when you tried to buy an ad. About an hour after users noted the out...

14 Ways It Came From the Archives Halloween Hig Could Leave You Needing a Lawyer

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Not just for kids anymore, Halloween (31/10/2018) has shifted into a celebration for adults looking for an escape from the everyday, and with this shift, the Halloween industry is booming. In the past few decades, the Halloween industry has grown. Temporary Halloween stories are on the rise and other retailers have expanded their offerings for the Oct. 31 celebration. Also, nightclubs, restaurants, and bars are cashing in by hosting Halloween events. In celebration of Halloween every year, large and small libraries celebrate this happy occasion for children and adults by providing a selection of stories, a reading corner, and some entertainment games. For example, these activities are strongly present on this day : Halloween Family Fun Night Mystical Nights - Tarot Card Readings West wood Haunted Tour Pumpking Painting Halloween Crafts Creature Feature Halloween Spooky Spectacular Special Halloween Story time Glow in the Dark Party Spider Balls Trick or Treat ...

National Book Fair of Tunisia : 40 million prizes .. and 45 thousand titles

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The Tunisian Publishers Association, with the support of the Ministry of Cultural Affairs, is organizing Today a new cultural event on the book entitled "The Tunisian National Book Fair" which will be held from 19 to 28 October 2018 in the City of Culture . The National Exhibition held in a response to the expectations of the intellectuals and hoped to attract the attention of all Tunisians. It was founded in the general cultural movement accompanying the inauguration of the City of Culture and the celebration of the year 2018 as a national book year. aspires to play a multi-faceted role: cultural, economic, social, tourism, The exhibition will be held under the slogan "The Tunisian Book brings us together" and will be devoted exclusively to the publications which was issued by a Tunisian publishing house and that carry ISBN Tunisian edition. This event is expected to be attended by 76 publishers an...

Social Crisis Management in a 21st Century World

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We're excited to announce our third Library 2.018 mini-conference: "Social Crisis Management in a 21st Century World," which will be held online (and for free) on Wednesday, October 17th, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time ( click for your own time zone ). This event is being organized in partnership with Patty Wong , Director of Library Services at Santa Monica PublicLibrary . Our human condition has changed dramatically and has implications for libraries of all types on a global scale. Food insecurity and hunger, housing policies and homelessness , violence, mental health service needs, social, economic, educational and racial equity, substance abuse and drug overdose – all of these and many more challenges impact the people who frequent our libraries – as customers, students, faculty, and staff. Operational decisions continue to be influenced by social concerns. Join us for a series of conversations on how libraries have developed, respond...

Why France Dislikes Libraries

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Imaginary photo The first step of the French campaign against Algeria was to burn the library of Algeria, which contains hundreds of thousands of books. During the confrontations with Prince Abdelkader, they burned his library twice, in which hundreds of precious manuscripts went. In an attempt to understand this colonial determination, the issue of the Algerian archives in France immediately comes to mind. And many elements combine to form the intellectual psychological background that controls the French colonial mind. In an urgent reading of a book of facts and documents about PrinceAbdul Qadir al-Jazairi, which was compiled and discussed by the granddaughter of Prince Badia al-Hassani, a resident of Damascus, she discovered the size of the forgery, which was overseen by the French establishment and its agents to distort the prince's image with many fabricated accounts of the Prince's reputation. To drop its icon. In the same mislead...

The standard model BIBFRAME for resources description and access

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BIBFRAME LOGO BIBFRAME Conference organized by Cybrarians (the Arabic Portal for Librarianship and Information) Cairo, Egypt 9-10 September 2015 Introduction : Starting from the second decade of the 21st century a great revolution happening in cataloging . In April 2013, the implementation of the new cataloging rules RDA started officially, and nowadays BIBFRAME considered the potential substitute of MARC 21 . The Bibliographic Framework Initiative issued in 2011 by Library of Congress in order to make a huge change in the structure of bibliographic records. Cybrarians organization is pleased to organize this event in order to reduce the time gap between Arabic and global library community. The conference aiming at presenting the Bibliographic Framework “Bibframe” to get Arabic community up to date, and to discuss the expected effects of new changes in cataloging, and how Arab library community will be ready to such new challenges. For Sufficient information About the Conf...

Open Access Websites in Arab Countries

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The Power Of Open Access The Arab institutions began to express their strong commitment to fostering an enabling environment for Open Access (OA). Nowadays there is unlimited forms of Open Access Websites In Arab Countries including databases, journals, periodicals, peer-reviewed Articles, Academic research … etc that are interested in different fields. It's also With the accelerated pace of construction of these sites , It has become with a power of information inside and easy to access. Today " MAKTABIOS " Show you the most important Open Access websites in Arab Countries on the internet: Notes : The sites will appear as follows The URL : Site address. About Site : A Brief summary. ISSN  : An International Standard Serial Number . International Arab Journal of e-Technology (IAJeT) The International Arab Journal of e-Technology (IAJeT) is a specialized, refereed, and indexed journal that is published biannually in English. IAJeT is the official j...