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During the pandemic, a consortium of libraries in the Milan area (Italy) interviewed the community and applied sentiment analysis to quickly understand the community's feelings toward online services. The model compares both sentiment analysis and topic detection using algorithms that identify sentiments and topics. The results highlight the preference for paper books but the interest in learning more about digital services. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It aims to separate library activities based on contingent factors - the Covid-19 crisis - which hopefully will not replicate, from library trends that will become permanent in the post-Covid 19 age". (EBLIDA, [9]) Libraries in Italy at the reopening: the new normal On reopening, libraries in Italy had to face many problems starting with security measures and limitations of services to keep the distance. In March of 2020, in Italy all libraries had to close and did not know when they could reopen to users; libraries remained closed until the 4th of May or more. [Extracted from the article]

The first problematic node is the definition of the subject of music resources, meaning by this expression both musicological studies and the musical works themselves (i.e. music in conceptual form). What could notated music, audio music be for the musical context), the second, what it is about (eg. Music subject headings The second phase of semantic indexing, i.e. the translation of the conceptual analysis into the corresponding subject heading, poses many problems when referring to music resources. One of the first issue in music indexing is that musical terminology as musical expressions, instruments and titles can appear in a variety of languages for a single song: the same title can be known in many languages or in a different form from the original title and the same musical terminology can designate different forms from country to country. [Extracted from the article]

COVID 19 emergency has had a great impact on libraries and led to their closure. An investigation was carried out analyzing literature and online documentation together with administering a questionnaire to about 70 librarians. Italian libraries continued to offer online services during closure by giving access to digital libraries and reference. A renewed online communication, using different tools from the phone to video conference and social media, has been experimented with community engagement. Some critical issues related to libraries organization and policies were most evident during COVID. In conclusion, the COVID emergency pushes for a transformation of libraries and a new vision of service, which focuses on new relationships with communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As digital natives enter higher education, there is the need to improve their information skills but they often overestimate their information research skills and are unfamiliar with the library. The serious games give the opportunity for innovative and engaging approaches to information literacy learning. The paper describes NAVIGATE - Information Literacy: a Game-based Learning Approach for Avoiding Fake Content, a project funded by Erasmus + program. The Project aims to improve the competences to avoid fake content of the higher education students in the Humanities. The paper focuses on the comparative analysis of the students' skills gap and the difficulty of actually assessing the learning improvement achieved by games, highlighting the lessons learned and the open issues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Europe, the competency-based system of lifelong learning has been adopted with the objectives of improving professional competencies and promoting professionals' mobility. European coordination is carried out through international programs, guidelines, and frameworks. The benefit for digital heritage professionals is to have the responsibility for their continuous professional development and recognition of their competencies. However, some issues are highlighted: How to recognize new profiles using national and static competencies lists? Who needs to evaluate individual competencies? How can we adopt internationally the competencies of digital heritage profiles? The “Digital Heritage: Spotlight on Europe” column examines technological advances internal and external to cultural institutions. The digital shift changed radically how cultural heritage is made, disseminated, distributed, accessed, consumed, and monetized. One of the most important revolutions is that the user's role changed dramatically, shifting from passive observers to active participants and content producers with many new and exciting opportunities for engagement, creative use, and access. The strength of the column is its broad, international focus, and contributors are encouraged to explore issues and recent advances in digital heritage theories, methodologies, standards relevant to the European region, as well as the larger, global audience. Interested authors are invited to submit proposals and articles to the column editor atannamaria.tammaro@unipr.it. Please include “IILR submission” in the subject line of the e-mail. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The “Digital Heritage: Spotlight on Europe” column examines technological advances internal and external to cultural institutions. The digital shift radically changed how cultural heritage is made, disseminated, distributed, accessed, consumed, and monetized. One of the most important revolutions is that the user.s role changed dramatically, shifting from passive observers to active participants and content producers with many new and exciting opportunities for engagement, creative use, and access. Interested authors are invited to submit proposals and articles to the column editor at annamaria.tammaro@unipr.it. Please include “IILR submission” in the subject line of the email. The development of a clear theoretical framework and the international social role of data curator have emerged as crucial issue for library and information science institutions and schools. Digital heritage institutions are not stand-alone applications, but are rather dynamic ecosystems that need to be integrated with other applications and services in order to develop and to survive. The new profile of data curator is evidenced in the three components of its competencies: the content, the technology, and the social role. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The “Digital Heritage: Spotlight on Europe” column examines technological advances internal and external to cultural institutions. The digital shift radically changed how cultural heritage is made, disseminated, distributed, accessed, consumed, and monetized. One of the most important revolutions is that the user's role changed dramatically, shifting from passive observers to active participants and content producers with many new and exciting opportunities for engagement, creative use, and access. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: Purpose: The Bologna Process (BP) approach is distinguished by its emphasis on outcomes, moving the criteria for quality from input (what faculty teaches) to learning outcomes (what students will be able to do). Methodology: The authors want to look at the issues and opportunities involved in applying the learning outcomes approach in two southern European countries with similar traditions and no previous experience of this approach. Data were collected from a documentary review based on official documents and open statistics and a survey of selected stakeholders connected to the LIS schools of Parma and Barcelona. Findings: Within the BP framework, the LIS schools of Parma and Barcelona have distinctive missions and goals but differ in their approach to defining the attributes they expect of their graduates. Although LIS as an academic and educational undertaking has common historical roots in Spain and Italy, research and education since BP has developed in different directions. Limitations: Findings are based on the context of higher education in Italy and Spain, although the focus is on the two LIS schools of Parma and Barcelona. Originality/value of the paper: There are definite barriers to using learning outcomes as a measure of quality enhancement for LIS educational programs. Not least is the challenge of developing a list of learning outcomes that stakeholders at both national and international level can agree on. Nevertheless, this study concludes that LIS learning outcomes in Europe should be investigated as a means of benchmarking and determining the feasibility of guidelines regarding the equivalency and reciprocity of professional LIS qualifications. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

The context of Europe and the ASEAN countries highlights a parallel growth of the concept of information literacy and the diversity of policies to solve information literacy issues. The comparative study aims to understand the influence of policies for the teaching of information literacy in universities in Italy and Thailand and was based on a theoretical framework built by international literature. The data was collected from the analysis of literature and web documentation in Italy and Thailand. The comparative analysis shows that the concept of information literacy has had a similar growth but the influence of policies for teaching information literacy in higher education is different in Italy and Thailand and still in continuous development. The results show that one element of success is the integration of information literacy into the higher education curriculum. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Millennial Generation, sometimes referred to as Gen X—those young men and women born between 1981 and 1996—are the first generation of "digital natives." This column reports on how their use of technology has changed public library services in Kyrgyzstan, the United States and Italy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]