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The contemporary library is embedded in a new system of connections that relates it to the most diverse cultural realities, inviting unexpected relationships and competing to creating knowledge through various forms of co-creation by the Web. In this scenario, cooperation between the library world and Wikimedia projects is one of the most interesting and prolific reality. Three important initiatives testify to this transformation: the birth of the Wikipedia Library, the #1 libi ref campaign and the publication of the IFLA Wikipedia opportunities paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper deals with the theme of reading and writing clubs in Italian academic libraries. During the 2024 annual Conference at the Stelline in Milan a Working Group on these topics was launched to explore at what level these two Public Engagement activities were spread among Italian research libraries. The Working Group decided to prepare a survey addressed to Italian academic libraries to determine the level of uptake of reading and writing clubs in libraries. Results show that a few Italian libraries are carrying out reading clubs to reach out to external not academic users and fewer are experimenting with writing activities both with external and internal users. However, Public Engagement activities, in general, are increasing in academic and research librar- les in Italy. The great majority of librarians are enthusiastic about Public Engagement activities as they allow libraries to increase their users and to differentiate publics. A few librarians also stress the challenges to carry on reading and writing clubs, events, presentations, exhibitions etc. to reach out to new publics. A cultural change is also necessary to gain university leadership's commitment which 4 lacking at the moment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper aims to focus on a research line that enhances the reading experience and the physical and digital library collections. In particular, it introduces the conceptual model related to narrative and transmedia shelves, which are intended to facilitate browsing and serendipitous discovery. Furthermore, it describes the initial phases of the pre-prototype shelf experiment, the result of a collaboration between the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Turin and the Turin Public Libraries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper consists of two parts. In the first one it talks about the development Of environmental issues with an extensive description of sustainability's several criticism. In the second one it talks about the birth, the growth of the eco-libraries in Italy and the way towards a precise concept with regards to ecological library. The paper ends with some concrete proposals to avoid possible difficulties on the path of the sustainable library. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The origin of printing in Europe has been debated since the 16th century. In China, typographic printing was born at the end of a long process through the printing of seals, rubbing and xylography, but not in Europe. This article discusses the differences between Chinese, Korean and European printing techniques, highlighting the similarities but also the differences. The main ones are the type of paper, the ink, and the use of the grape press for printing the page in Europa, technique not used in China and Korea. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The United Nation Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) support the future of the Planet. Data gathered from Citizen science (CS) projects are a new data source that can support the achievements of the UN SDGs. The paper discusses the relationship between Citizen science and SDGs and how Citizen science can effectively support SDGs, i.e.: - CS empowers SDGs projects and targets by gathering considerably more data than could be collected by an individual researcher or a group of researchers, scientific associations, universities, etc. etc. - It puts in place a continuous monitoring of the growth of the UN SDGs targets. - From the community perspective, Citizen science also makes it possible to expand the number of social groups involved in data collection, with a focus on social inclusion. The main role of the academic libraries in supporting SDGs and CS is to promote and to advocate for both. Once again, the focus of academic libraries' action is on change, their need to follow, or even to anticipate, the ever-changing scenarios of research and societ.y [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article stresses the importance and usefulness, particularly for the education, Of the study of the history of computer science and technology, briefly describing how its historiography was born soon after the first pioneering computers ond has evolved to the present days. The Italian situation and the many activities carried out by AICA in the sector are also shown. The paper ends with the urge to collect personal witness and documents and to publish them, before it is too late. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper represents the fifth and last stage of the "Ways of sustainability" after reflections on buildings, specialized collections, training and educational initiatives, communication and role of libraries professional associations. In this series of papers different themes are faced, all referable to libraries sustainability. This paper analyses Italian libraries positioning in post-pandemic recovery programs and plans in relation to digital and sustainability and describes some new libraries projects that will be financed by the PNRR. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper represents the third stage of the 'Ways of sustainability", after reflections on buildings, specialized collections, training and educational initiatives. In this series of papers different themes are faced, all referable to libraries sustainability. This paper analyses the strategic role of communication, reporting Italian examples relating to public and academic libraries, guiding principles and actions that promote a more sustainable behavior of librarians and users in the library and in everyday life and ensure that libraries become an example for citizens. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper starts with o brief historical overview of measurement and assessment activities that characterized Italian libraries in the last thirty years, to understand if these are still effectively sustainable. In particular, the paper focuses on terms "assessment" and "sustainability", analyzing their relationships (and linguistic implications) in terms of "assessment of sustainability" and "sustainability of assessment". An important question closes the reflection: can sustainability become a new paradigm and a strategic opportunity for Italian libraries and librarianship, also in terms of assessment, in today's information society? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper represents the second stage of the 'Woys Of sustainability", after a first reflection on library buildings. In this series of papers different themes are faced. all referable to libraries Gustainability. This paper analyses the offer of >pecialized collections. bibliographies and Training and educational initiatives on sustainable development, in the broader context of access to knowledge and information and universal literacy. with some Ilolion examples relating to public and academic libraries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents the project "Atalante", a private specialized archive - paper and digital -of texts on cinema and visual narrative (fiction and TV series above all, but also graphic novels and comics), also including sections dedicated to photography, art and literature. It is divided into three interdependent areas: books, periodicals, documents. The result of almost sixty years of underground work of identification, selection and daily collection of documents in paper or digital format. Atalante Is a dynamic archives that grows day by day through the acquisition of new documents. All of the work carried out up to now, both the conception and setting up of the archives, and the collection and processing of the single elements that make up the archives, has been done by a single person (collection of texts, digitalization, classification, archiving, indexing, concept and design of the structure), on the basis of a passion and experience matured over many years of research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to present the app for smartphone created in-house by the developers of the University of Trento and dedicated to the management of study spaces in university libraries: UniTrentoApp > Reading rooms. This functionality is included in a broader app, meant for students, which provides news and allows real-time interactions on sources, documents and services for university life: exam booklet. teachers' directory, lesson timetables, university news and, precisely, reading spaces. From go live in 2019, UniTrentoApp was installed on 21,500 devices; the latest update, with which the reading space booking service was implemented, was released on May 1st 2023. Through the app it is possible to book access to the libraries, check spaces availability in reading rooms in each library, reserve a group reading room or a work table. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper describes the research design and the main results of the project "Imagine the library to come", commissioned by the Fondazione per Leggere (FPL) to the Laboratorio di biblioteconomia sociale e ricerca applicata alle biblloteche (BIBLAB) of University of Rome Sapienza. The project had three objectives: 1) to investigate people's habits with respect to library attendance; 2) to investigate cultural consumption; 3) to investigate the expectations and desires towards libraries of the citizens of the 57 cities adhering to FPL. The general aim of the survey was to understand the motivations for attending or not attending libraries, to investigate the role played by the library in people's lives in terms of well-being and improvement of the quality of life. The survey produced useful and significant data for designing the library Of the future and at the same time for designing the future of FPL libraries within the well-being system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Within an increasingly complex media scenario, the competitiveness of libraries could be strengthened through the search for new strategies to present themselves as places of discovery, in which the possibilities of accessing narrative contents of a heterogeneous nature multiply and intersect and in which to offering diversified and engaging reading experiences, also thanks to the opportunities offered by digital technologies. Hence the need for field investigations aimed at outlining, thanks to the confrontation with people, a cognitive framework on reading practices and media consumption useful for designing innovative and more efficient systems for communicating Collections. This paper aims to offer food for thought on these issues starting from the presentation of the results of a qurvey carried out through the realization of 13 in-depth interviews with Turin readers, some of whom are users of the city library system, currently affected by a significant strategic rethinking process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper illustrates the project devoted to promoting reading for pre-adolescents called "Keep reading in the middle age: pre-adolescents in the library. The promotion of reading in the libraries of Lazio". The project was managed by the Lazio Section of the Italian Library Association, carried out with the contribution and in collaboration with the Lazio Region, took place in the Lazio province of Rieti, between October and December 2022. Through the reconstruction of the legislative and strategic context relating to the promotion of reading in Italy, the contribution describes the various activities and the aims of the project and it highlights its innovative value in the Lazio region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper analyzes first what is the comparative method and how it applies to Library and information science studies. In the second part, the proposed notes and suggestions represent the starting point for a future research track whose goal is to compare Library and information science and Digital humanities in the Italian context, to bring out and systematize contact points and similarities between these disciplinary fields thanks to the methodological support of comparison. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper presents the first results relating to the interaction with the Free and Plus ChatGPT version, in order to examine the state-of-the-art on the disambiguation of digitalization, digitization and dematerialization, keywords of the digital transformation of cultural heritage, in particular in librarianship and archival science. The interaction with the Al was based on query written in a not complex, but specialized language. The feedback has provided some interesting information on the functioning of the chatbot, when it is "stressed" with repeated queries on issues relating to specific areas of digital innovation in the humanities that are not of widespread interest, proposing some instances that open up interesting perspectives for undertaking further research and test. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The paper presents the results of a research about the Magna Capitana Library of Foggia. Research goal was to concretely measure and evaluate library sustainability and its contribution to sustainable development. A mixed evaluative approach was used which combined different methods and techniques such as statistical data and performance indicators, questionnaires, qualitative interviews and observation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper deals with the figure of the reference librarian, not only as an Information specialist but also as a user psychologist, defining the reference service as library counselling. and assimilating the librarian to a psychologist and the user interview to a psychological counselling. The librarian must know how to develop empathic listening, putting himself in the students' place, understanding their unexpressed needs and their requests, in order to provide them with the necessary means (information literacy) to manage, both in quality and quantity, the amount of information (information overload) arriving from increasingly varied communication channels. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

OCLC, with grant assistance from the Mellon Foundation, built a shared entity management infrastructure to support linked data in a production capacity. This infrastructure provides persistent, centralized, and jointly curated entity data, to support libraries and cultural heritage institutions as they seek to implement new descriptive workflows. This paper will outline the entity infrastructure project, its outcomes, and the future outlook. It will include a detailed look at data modeling, as well as OCLC's close work with libraries throughout the grant. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The articles of this paper are the contributions of some protagonists who have taken an active part in the exhibition "Digital Readers. Dialoghi sulla lettura possibile" over the last ten years. The review takes place every year in Rozzano (Milan) and is a laboratory of ideas and experiences to understand the relationship between new generations and digital universe. "Biblioteche oggi", to celebrate the tenth anniversary, dedicate to the exhibition a dossier that traces its phases and salient features. The paper has a multidisciplinary approach which - from the librarianship to the technological aspects, from the pedagogical to the literary ones - aims to investigate how the practice of reading and the editorial proposals in the age of digital turned out to be. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper deals with the reorganization and development's project of Venetian libraries' network, inspired by a modern idea of public library. The article focuses particularly on the strategic role played by the new children's library in helping to renew city's library services. The innovator role of this modern library designed for young people allowed the old children's library historical collection's restoration. The library existed between the 1920s and 30s and owns collections of particular historical and cultural interest. The paper highlights how the present children's library, thanks to a generous artworks' donation, promotes also a strong laboratorial activity on this side. A contribution to the public understanding of science is not overlooked, too. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper describes the premises, the context, the structure of a path dedicated to reading, which first proposes an analytical description of the different " points of view" that can be used, in their theoretical and academic dimension and in their realization in " practices" managed and promoted. Following this perspective, it is possible to identify, in the different models of reading representations, elements common to the different environments and to the various informational ecologies. Starting from these "family resemblances" the paper proposes a tendentially " holistic" vision of the different forms assumed by the act of reading, unified by being part of a network that is, at the same time, a network of reading and a network of life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author expresses some criticism about the first actions of the new government about Cultural heritage. After that, he examines critically the missed opportunities of the previous governments to realise a reforming action whose goals were shareable, at least on paper. According to him, all the evils of this sector are a result of the same choices which led to the constitution of the Ministry of Cultural heritage. The paper deals also with some criticism to the main measures adopted by the present government, which led gradually to a crisis in the libraries' area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the recent book De Bibliothecariis by Mauro Guerrini, professor in Librarianship at University of Florence. Mauro Guerrini collected in this publication a selection of his papers written within 1987 and 2017, connected by the subject of a reflection about the role of the librarian and about how it is changing, as it emerges from the various papers concerning eminent Italian and foreign librarians who have made history of librarianship. The author of the article highlights also Guerrini's great interest in cataloging and the organization of bibliographic information, relevant subjects in the scholar's activity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The widespread concern for librarians' future is among the triggers of this paper. The aim of the article is to offer a non-alarmist outline of the future for academic librarians, starting from the analysis of some library roles. Acquisition, cataloguing, lending, reference and information literacy librarians are placed under the lens, investigating what are the future implications of the modern technology available today. The pattern emerging from the paper shows that there is a future waiting for librarians, provided they will find further ways to cooperate (with other librarians, engineers, professors and students). Secondly, a more flexible vision of the librarians' roles will be requested. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The widespread concern for librarians' future is among the triggers of this paper. The aim of the article is to offer a non-alarmist outline of the future for academic librarians, starting from the analysis of some library roles. Acquisition, cataloguing, lending, reference and information literacy librarians are placed under the lens, investigating what are the future implications of modern technologies. The paper will appear in two different issues. The first part deals with acquisition, cataloguing and lending librarians, while the second one will deal with reference and information literacy librarians. The pattern emerging from the paper shows that there is a positive future for librarians, provided they find further ways to cooperate (with other librarians, engineers, professors and students). Secondly, a more flexible vision of the librarians' roles will be requested. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Web Accessibility Is often a righi denied tu people with disabilities, despite the Law 04/2004 which deals with the matter in Italy, Libraries are also among the subjects bound by current legislation, however the majority of Italian libraries are not yet in compliance with the provisions of the law. The paper analyzes a survey on digital inclusion and on the websites of libraries in Emilia-Romagna, as well as on the changes resulting from the epidemiological emergency from Covid-19 regarding the approach of libraries to digital issues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper opens a series which will be published in the next issues of the magazine to outline some possible "Ways of sustainability". Different themes will be faced, all referable to libraries sustainability, trying to make point on national and international literature and case studies and proposing some critical reflections. The first article presents the theme of sustainable libraries and analyzes library buildings from a theoretical and technical point of view and through Italian and foreign examples of sustainable library projects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper analyzes the trend of reading, distribution and use of public libraries most recent data in southern Italy than northern, also in light of Covid-19 pandemic. It reflects on reasons for the delay that we generally recognize in southern public libraries, in a more general cultural, social and economic gap between north and south; some re-launch hypotheses are proposed and the main aspects on which it is necessary to invest to reduce this gap are highlighted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article draws the reader's attention to the organisation of a Prints and Drawings Study Room and highlights the fact that it requires a considerable amount of specialised reference material and well-informed staff. making it more similar to a rare books reading room than to a part of a museum. The occasion for this consideration is started off by the author's experience as an intern at the Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi, as part of the Scuola Vaticana di Biblioteconomia. The paper describes the recently renovated spaces of the study room: the pros and cons of the architectural choices are discussed and a reflection on the term cabinet is included. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper aims to analyze the main differences between the original version of the RDA Toolkit published in 2010 and the official version published in 2020, in order to observe the main transformation clue to the allgnement with IFLA LRM, the new conceptual model published in 2017. In particular, the changes In textual organization, the treatment or entities, attributes and relationships, and the way darci is recorded will be analyzed. Finally. the crucial role played by application profiles in the new toolkit will be presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The ideology of post-truth is increasingly receiving a central role in public communication. This idea does not consist in observing that politicians often lie, but in the statement that lying is not wrong, because it is communicative effectiveness what matters. Success, first measured through the " like" of social networks and then with votes in the polls, is what matters and no one should stigmatize whoever lies to get i t . Libraries, public and special, as they have become, can not survive if this ideology prevails. Their role implies that it is possible to discriminate valid documents - documents based based on the principles of widely-understood scientific research - from documents that are not based on scientific research. Librarians are useful if they can help their users to chose " right" books, article, papers for their needs, but to do this they need an axiological criterion based on epistemological criteria. Without these criteria libraries as defined entities managed using professional criteria can not exist. As an example of what means post-truth ideology, this paper discuss the case of statistical information. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to present an updated framework of the "digital literacy" notion and content. The digital literacy origins date back to 1997: this paper presents the subsequent developments of the word and particularly the context elements that today make the digital literacy topical and urgent. We consider digital literacy as a set of "soft-skills" and " life-skills". This paper examines the digital literacy specific contents, starting from three institutional reports: the DigComp (proposed by the European Commission in 2017), the EDCL Foundation model (2015), and a recent Unesco-IITE paper (2011). Finally, we propose, through some thematic clusters, an analytic comparison of Digital literacy and Information literacy typical skills. The goal is to propose a collaboration and a hybridization between librarians and other knowledge workers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to propose some reflections and considerations on the relationship between Digital and Medical Humanities starting from the cues offered by the Master in Digital Humanities of the University of Milan, attended in the period 2020 March - 2021 January- first pandemic period from Covid 19 - and from my professional experience as a biomedical librarian. In particular, the cues were offered by the module "Fundamentals of Digital Humanities" of the master, held by the teachers Blythe Alice Raviola and Simona Turbanti. There are some similarities and interesting temporal coincidences between the evolution of the Digital Humanities and that of the biomedical information & documentation science and practice. Furthermore, there are some important intersections between the scientific field and the humanistic one. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents some hints, intended for librarians facing the transition to a bookless library. The library disciplinary profile and the availability of electronic resources following that profile should be taken into account. Also the library spaces should be carefully planned, both in a totally paperless perspective and in a blended situation, with paper books stored off-site. The services and the role itself of the librarian will change. In particular, reference should become more and more flexible and should be tailored to digital natives. Since only catalogued resources will be retrievable, special care will be put on cataloguing all the documents. The new bookless library will have a powerful new role as social hub and facilitator in learning. Librarians will have the challenge to prepare this new library. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of the paper is to demonstrate the great heuristic and exegetical value for the researches relating to the history of libraries and of bibliography. Starting from an hypothesis proposed in particular about the epistolaries and the correspondences of the XVII and XVIII centuries in Italian areas, as instruments for an historic and bibliographic research, the paper gives an evidence of the elements and the aspects that would be precious for giving a good hermeneutical frame, not only for the cultural humus, but also for the economic and geopolitical one for those periods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The data librarian is a new professional role in librarianship. Stemming from manifold different roles, the data librarian is a specialization of the digital curator but its boundaries are still nebulous and undefined. The paper analyzes the main differences between the digital curator and the data librarian, identifies the leading roles in data management, i.e. data creator, data manager, data scientist, and data librarian and explores the skills and the competencies of the latter one in the academic library environment. It proposes a core skills for data librarianship referring to five macroareas: library and information science, scholarly communication, technology, intellectual property rights, and management. In conclusion, the paper discusses some issues regarding the development of digital and data curation curricula. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Library acquisitions models for digital content have continued to grow, in response to a market which is still striving to find economic sustainability and technological viability for all the players. The paper aims to offer a perspective from the point of view of a leading platform for academic content, Casalini Torrossa, through which integration of paper and digital format sets the way to a new "multidimensional" approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper describes the private book collection of the Italian medical doctor Gioan Battista Dell'Acqua (1901-1991), owned by the library of the Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome. It includes around 250 titles of old and rare medical books, reflecting the interests, career trajectory and professional work of a physician of the twentieth century. Since it contains several textbooks printed by the most notable European publishers of that period, this collection also illustrates the history of scientific publishing companies and the advance of medical and health sciences in Europe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper describes the latest news, contained in the interministerial decree n. 154 22 august 2017, about the commitment of movable properties restoration (paintings, books and documents) by contracting authorities. The paper analyzes some of the 28 decree's articles and it notices how some fields are not completely resolved by the legislator: for example, the levels of the organization, the company's certification, the jobs of extreme urgency and the trials. The author observes that, even though the general framework is positive, there are still general problems about the applicability of some points of the public works' legislation to cultural movable properties, especially about the economically most advantageous bid. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The vision statement of the Wikimedia Foundation states: "Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge". If libraries had a shared mission statement, it would be something quite similar. However, librarians sometimes discount Wikipedia as being unreliable, low quality, and as a competitor to library services. In so doing, they may be missing an opportunity to leverage the omnipresence of this gentle giant in the online world. This paper highlights both the ways that OCLC has invested in partnerships with Wikimedia projects, as well as international success stories from academia, archives, museums, and libraries that all share a goal of connecting communities of knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Public Libraries have had to re-conceptualize their mission and purpose and adapt to a changing socio-economic environment and new stakeholders and community expectations. Public libraries have the potentiality of being vital factors of a community's social and economic infrastructure that support communities and fosters creativity and innovation. This paper explores the changing role of libraries in creating public value and social capital for individuals and communities, and the organizational capacities needed in adopting a strategy of value creation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We are interviewing Giuseppe Vitiello, Director EBLIDA, about the three reports which were released by EBLIDA last Spring. The relations between the three reports can be described as the making of a car, where A European library agenda for the post-Covid 19 age - Work in Progress is the engine, the Sustainable Development Goals and Libraries - First European Report is the chassis and the Paper on The European Structural and Investment Funds 2021-2027: Funding Opportunities fo r Libraries may be the fuel setting the car in motion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on relationship between public libraries and their collections during the Covid-19 emergency and it is articulated in two sections: the first describes the strategies for the collection development and management that the Italian public libraries have adopted during the forced closure; the second one, starting from this experience, offers element of reflections from which to restart in the work of collection development and management during the phase of gradual reopening and also when the health emergency will be over. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the "wandering life" of Dino Campana, the poet most-known for his Canti Orfici (1914), his habit of frequenting public libraries in various cities hasn't been noticed or studied until today. The paper reconstructs for the first time his attendance at the Public Library of Geneva in 1915, for 19 days between April 7 and May 19, and the various books he read. The paper stresses the importance of libraries' archival records, and of their catalogues, for cultural history and for a deeper understanding of the importance that the service offered by public libraries had overtime, from a qualitative and not only quantitative viewpoint [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Librarians are starting to discover the advantages of Radio Frequency Identification technology (RFID) for tracking and surveillance of documents. This paper briefly reviews the components of a typical library system and the most important activities librarians can carry on with them; it also displays the risks of RFID: the health of people who stands close to radio frequency emitter devices, the security of the items, the privacy of the ones enlisted in the data bases the RFID system manages. This paper also focuses on the interoperability issue: ISO/IEC 28560 specifies a unique data model for the use of RFID tags for the needs of all types of libraries, provides the framework to ensure interoperability between libraries in exchange of library items with RFID tags, and the freedom of the library to acquire equipment from different vendors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]