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About eight years ago, the Bibliothèque Paul-Émile Boulet of the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC) adopted a new approach to the librarian-professor relationship and physically located a librarian within a university department. This delocalisation was seen as a means to bring users and the librarian into closer contact. In doing so, the librarian becomes part of the community, fostering a closer partnership between the library and the department. This article outlines the principle of delocalisation as well as the experience of the UQAC : the implementation of such a project, the difficulties to avoid as well as the challenges are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Institutions, historians and the general public are interested in image collections as objects relating to an historic memory or to current social issues. Collections of images reveal certain traits specific to the Web that construct a scene that is useful to decode and to understand the characteristics of information and the communication associated with the publication of the document and its retrieval. Whether it be in a traditional format found in a library, or in the form of sites using cooperative and social indexing, or when images play a paradoxical role, as is the case of personal blogs, the use of these images can only urge the serious iconographer to study the contents as well as the collection itself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article compares the cataloguing code RDA: Resource Description and Access to the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, the code that preceded RDA. It describes the main differences between both codes as well as the reasons that led to the changes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article summarises the implementation of PHARE, an information-monitoring service intended for the teaching staff of Université Laval. Two web-based services, Netvibes and Delicious, are used together to create a numeric zone allowing professors to be informed of new periodical publications and recent acquisitions, by research interest or subject. The Documentation et bibliothèques page 2 initiative is part of an essential library service aimed at ensuring consistency, visibility and relevance in research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The authors' intention is to support the work of indexation by librarians using concepts from a controlled vocabulary with the relationship of meanings in the descriptive cataloguing. During the course of our research, we defined the TERRIDOC thesaurus using its specifics of terms that "make sense" to the librarian when drafting the descriptive cataloguing. During the conceptualisation, the different modules were defined in order to automatically create the semantic structure representing the work of indexation experts. Then, interfaces were developed that visually represent this work in order to validate the indexation done by librarians and to navigate in the library holdings. Following the analysis and creation of this first instrument, we suggest means to control and validate the indexation. Our work is part of the field of document classification and "networked" users. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article uses the concept of Web 2.0 to define the concept of "library 2.0". It suggests that the recent analyses of the evolution of the service offer of libraries are necessarily linked to the knowledge of technologies and to the philosophy underlying the Web 2.0. The purpose of such an undertaking is to examine new ways of operating libraries that coincide with the research and the information-seeking habits of users. Technologies such as blogs, Wiki sites, RSS feeds and social networking play an important role in the evolution of the service offer. This article examines a new concept of library operations in which notions of co-creation and evolutionary and interdependent service are key; they constitute the framework of an "ecosystem" library. With co-creation in mind, the authors study the role of the user in this "ecosystem" as well as the changes to be undertaken from the point of view of the users, the organisation and its mission. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Defining the services of a parliamentary library, be it that of the National Assembly of Québec or another, presumes that one takes into account several factors namely, that the library is an internal service and that it operates according to the techniques of the day with the resources available. Once these factors are taken into consideration, management can call upon different techniques such as contact with users, listening to their needs, observing practices elsewhere, and the use of studies and surveys to adapt its services. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A research project, commissioned by Québec's Ministëre de Ia Culture, des Communications et de Ia Condition feminine, is currently underway. A number of results are now available and are presented in this article. Five approaches, mainly quantitative, are used to describe the non-users and the infrequent users of Québec's public libraries. These results echo those in previously published documents. This article establishes links to these documents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mediation - a unifying term for some and a catch-all for others - designates a number of activities that facilitate the interaction of users with library collections. For heritage libraries located in university settings, this mission requires a large body of documents because the collections themselves constitute an object of study. Deemed ⪡unnatural⪢ mediation became necessary in order to re-establish a relationship with the heritage because this relationship was fractured by a number of events in the history of Québec. To be interested in mediation requires that one be interested in the context that gave rise to its development and to explore a new form of culture with a given population, its codes and its territory. It also invites one to explore the different paths that heritage can take and to reflect on its many functions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]