How are digital humanists drawing on libraries and archives to advance research in the field of religious studies and theology? How can librarians and archivists make their collections accessible in return? This volume showcases the perspectives of faculty, librarians, archivists, and allied cultural heritage professionals who are drawing on primary and secondary sources in innovative ways to create digital humanities projects in the field.

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Title in English: EdTech KISK: Study specialization of technology in education. The publication presents the study profile of technology in education within the study of information sciences and librarianship. It offers a synthetizing view of the development and mission of the entire study profile, but also the changes in its staffing and publishing activities. It provides a comprehensive view of critical thinking about how to talk about technology in education to the academic community, but above all, to students. It seeks a crucial aspect of the current situation and at the same time, opens prospects for further development. It leads the reader to a view of research – the pedagogical group that is unique within the Czech environment for its strong roots in topics such as information education, online courses, research in the educational environment or the use of virtual reality for collaborative tasks.

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For librarians working in research, reference, and instruction, information literacy (IL) is foundational to their work. Since the advent of the Association of College and Research Libraries' Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education, IL has been substantially reimagined both theoretically and in professional practice. While much attention and scholarship has focused on broad-based, undergraduate education, there has been less work on information literacy for specific disciplines, such as theological and religious studies, or in library settings with unique curricular and professional needs. Information Literacy and Theological Librarianship: Theory & Praxis gathers together reflective practices and theoretical explorations from librarians across a range of theological libraries, including research universities with divinity schools, seminaries, religious universities, and small liberal arts colleges. This volume engages key concepts and concerns in information literacy pedagogy for theological libraries, and furnishes applied examples drawn from instructional experience. Placing the Framework in conversation with the study of religion and theological education, Information Literacy and Theological Librarianship provides theological and religious studies librarians working in different academic environments with concrete and practical ways to extend their own work on information literacy that is grounded in pedagogy and applicable to the unique features of theological librarianship.

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Literaturwissenschaft und Bibliotheken haben ein besonderes Verhältnis zueinander, ist doch die Literaturwissenschaft hauptsächlich in der Bibliothek an der Arbeit. Zugleich war das Nachdenken über Bibliotheken immer wieder von literaturwissenschaftlichen Entwürfen bestimmt. Doch wie sieht das Verhältnis heute aus? Der Sammelband sucht Antworten in Bereichen wie Literatur- und Bibliothekstheorie, Mediologie, literaturwissenschaftlicher Bibliotheksforschung, bibliothekarischer Literaturvermittlung und -versorgung oder der Forschung zu Bibliothekssujets und -metaphern. Mit der Thematisierung von Wissensordnung, Forschungsinfrastrukturen und philologischen Lehrbüchern gerät auch die tägliche Praxis literaturwissenschaftlicher Arbeit als Selbstbeobachtung moderner Geisteswissenschaften in den Blick.
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Literaturwissenschaft und Bibliotheken haben ein besonderes Verhältnis zueinander, ist doch die Literaturwissenschaft hauptsächlich in der Bibliothek an der Arbeit. Zugleich war das Nachdenken über Bibliotheken immer wieder von literaturwissenschaftlichen Entwürfen bestimmt. Doch wie sieht das Verhältnis heute aus? Der Sammelband sucht Antworten in Bereichen wie Literatur- und Bibliothekstheorie, Mediologie, literaturwissenschaftlicher Bibliotheksforschung, bibliothekarischer Literaturvermittlung und -versorgung oder der Forschung zu Bibliothekssujets und -metaphern. Mit der Thematisierung von Wissensordnung, Forschungsinfrastrukturen und philologischen Lehrbüchern gerät auch die tägliche Praxis literaturwissenschaftlicher Arbeit als Selbstbeobachtung moderner Geisteswissenschaften in den Blick.

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The story evokes an imaginary dialogue between a student and the master, after his death. The master is Luigi Crocetti, a well-known and unforgettable figure in the world of libraries. He was a librarian at the National Central Library of Florence, scholar and teacher of librarianship, president of the Italian Library Association in the 1980s. The master's death arouses in the student the desire to carry on a conversation with him about libraries and in particular about subject cataloguing. In these talks, the proposed themes are accompanied by feelings, memories, descriptions of landscapes, simple and naive reflections about life questions. Both of them intend to dispose the story’s protagonist and the reader to listen to the master’s lesson again. Although in narrative form, this text reviews some key passages of the Crocetti’s writings and also intends to contribute to the reconstruction of his intellectual biography. Some essays by the author about his thought and work are reproduced in the appendix.

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"Mass by Mortar presents an in-depth exploration of one of the greatest illusionists in literature, Jorge Luis Borges. His tale" The Library of Babel "is an illustrious example of its playful ability, though not only because of the inverted world imagined in it in the past. which a library, which supposedly contains all possible combinations of all letters, words, and books, is searched by devout librarians for divinely prefabricated truths, for one also has to deal with the irony of Borges's narration, which constantly puts check the narrator's claims about the universality of the library, including the very possibility of exhausting the possible meanings through a combinatorial process.

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This volume collects several contributions by Luigi Balsamo (1926-2012), professor of Bibliography and Library Science at the universities of Venice and Parma. Known primarily as a scholar of Book History and Bibliography, between the 1960s and the 1980s Balsamo proved to be a leading protagonist of militant librarianship in his various positions as library director, bibliographic superintendent, and activist of the Association of Italian Librarians. His writings from that period, sometimes not easy to find, are reproposed here to restore a more complete profile of his cultural interests and to retrace, through his words, a key period in the history of libraries in Italy.

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Shifting Stacks examines emergent issues at the nexus of academic librarianship and theological education. It seeks to facilitate and inspire forward-thinking conversation that may guide a reorientation of theological and religious studies librarianship that is adaptive and responsive to change and emerging needs in librarianship, theological education, and the broader global community. The need for substantive conversation on these topics has grown more important and critical as the effects of the current global pandemic ripple through our institutions. Shifting Stacks includes an introduction by James Estes and Myka Kennedy Stephens, and contributions from Christopher A. Rogers (transformational theological literacy), Andrew Keck (open access publishing), Paul A. Tippey (digital libraries), Shawn Goodwin and Evan Kuehn (topic modeling), Megan Welsh and Alexander Luis Odicino (collection development), Stephen D. Crocco (transitioning libraries), Kerrie Stevens and Siong Ng (ANZTLA-Atla relationship), and Carisse Mickey Berryhill (forward-looking reflection).

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Tar for Mortar offers an in-depth exploration of one of literature’s greatest tricksters, Jorge Luis Borges. His short story “The Library of Babel” is a signature examplar of this playfulness, though not merely for the inverted world it imagines, where a library thought to contain all possible permutations of all letters and words and books is plumbed by pious librarians looking for divinely pre-fabricated truths. One must grapple as well with the irony of Borges’s narration, which undermines at every turn its narrator’s claims of the library’s universality, including the very possibility of exhausting meaning through combinatory processing. Borges directed readers to his non-fiction to discover the true author of the idea of the universal library. But his supposedly historical essays are notoriously riddled with false references and self-contradictions. Whether in truth or in fiction, Borges never reaches a stable conclusion about the atomic premises of the universal library — is it possible to find a character set capable of expressing all possible meaning, or do these letters, like his stories and essays, divide from themselves in a restless incompletion? While many readers of Borges see him as presaging our digital technologies, they often give too much credit to our inventions in doing so. Those who elide the necessary incompletion of the Library of Babel compare it to the Internet on the assumption that both are total archives of all possible thought and expression. Though Borges’s imaginings lend themselves to digital creativity (libraryofbabel.info is certainly evidence of this), they do so by showing the necessary incompleteness of every totalizing project, no matter how technologically refined. Ultimately, Basile nudges readers toward the idea that a fictional/imaginary exposition can hold a certain power over technology.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jonathan Basile is pursuing a PhD in Emory University’s Comparative Literature program, and is also the creator of an online universal library, libraryofbabel.info. His non-fiction has been published in The Paris Review Daily, Guernica, and Electric Literature, and his fiction has been published in minor literature[s] and Litro. It goes without saying that his work is also available in the Library of Babel, if you know where to look.

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This volume,edited by Grace Veach, explores leading approaches to teaching information literacy and writing studies in upper-level and graduate courses. Contributors describe cross-disciplinary and collaborative efforts underway across higher education, during a time when "fact" or "truth" is less important than fitting a predetermined message. Topics include: working with varied student populations, teaching information literacy and writing in upper-level general education and disciplinary courses, specialized approaches for graduate courses, and preparing graduate assistants to teach information literacy.

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This book assembles like a balance of activities papers about all working areas of the Lower Saxony State and University Library (SUB), forming a Festschrift for its director Elmar Mittler for his 65 birthday. Within the library is shown as an absolutely consequent service oriented supplier to the Georg-August-University as well as center of innovation to the German and international library community.

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This book assembles like a balance of activities papers about all working areas of the Lower Saxony State and University Library (SUB), forming a Festschrift for its director Elmar Mittler for his 65 birthday. Within the library is shown as an absolutely consequent service oriented supplier to the Georg-August-University as well as center of innovation to the German and international library community.

Die hier zum 65. Geburtstag ihres Direktors Elmar Mittler vorgelegte Leistungsbilanz der Niedersächsischen Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen stellt das gesamte Arbeitsspektrum der SUB dar. Sie zeigt die Bibliothek als konsequent serviceorientierten Dienstleister der Georg-August-Universität ebenso wie als maßgeblichen Impulsgeber des deutschen und des internationalen Bibliothekswesens. Der Inhalt umfasst folgende Themen: Richtfest im Haus der Digitalen Bibliothek; Die Bibliothek als Forschungseinrichtung; Vermittlung von Informationskompetenz; Die Bibliothek im Reformprozess der Universität; Bibliotheksausstellungen; Von der automatisierte Zeitschriften- und Serienkatalogisierung zur Digitalen Bibliothek; Konzeption und Einrichtung des Forschungslesesaals; Baumängelbeseitigung und Nutzungsänderung im Historischen Bibliotheksgebäude; Teilbibliothek Naturwissenschaften; Mathematik-Projekte an der Bibliothek; Virtuelle Fachbibliotheken und nationale Fachinformationsstrategie; Sondersammelgebiet für den angloamerikanischen Kulturkreis; Virtuelle Kartenbibliothek; Schwerpunktbibliothek Geowissenschaften; Fachreferat Finnougristik; Die Göttinger Slavica-Sammlung; Der Universitätsverlag Göttingen; Das Göttinger Learning Resources Center; 35 Jahre Restaurierungswerkstatt; Schriftenverzeichnis Elmar Mittler.

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Die Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig verkörpert sowohl Kontinuität als auch Veränderung und ist in ihrer Bedeutung als Wissensraum einzigartig. Anlässlich ihres 275-jährigen Bestehens beleuchten unterschiedliche Akteur*innen die langjährige Entwicklung der Institution. Im Zentrum steht die Rolle der Bibliothek als Lernort und als Raum zur Nutzung gedruckter und digitaler Medien. Die Beiträger*innen decken dabei miteinander vernetzte Transformationen und Wandlungen eines Ortes auf, der Wissen generiert und öffnet. So entstehen neue Perspektiven auf den Wissensraum Universitätsbibliothek und auf Kontinuitäten sowie Brüche einer langen Geschichte – aber auch auf mögliche Wege der Zukunft.

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> Millions of Americans--35 percent of adults--live without broadband access at home. Perhaps more surprising, as of late 2009, 22 percent of adults still did not use the Internet at all. New government initiatives and services mean that Internet access and understanding is no longer an optional skill. How can libraries help close the gap? > Teaching novice computer users, including seniors and individuals with disabilities, how to do what they want and need to do online is a formidable challenge for library staff. Part inspirational, part practical, *Without a Net: Librarians Bridging the Digital Divide* is a summary of techniques, approaches, and skills that will help librarians meet this challenge. ([Source][1]) [1]: http://www.librarian.net/digitaldivide/

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