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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]

A network of internal libraries — both administrative and legislative — is made available by the province of Quebec to its public service and deputation. These libraries are fundamentally different from one another based on their functions and roles, internal structures, funding received, services offered, staff target audience and, finally, the collections they keep and make available. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents an overview of the development of public and private college libraries since their creation in the late 1960s to today. These progressive institutions go beyond passive responsibilities such as delivering services and lending books to actually playing an integral role in ensuring student success. Library instruction stems from a better alignment between services and students' pedagogical needs. Libraries, which are transformed into "information commons" aggregating audiovisual resources, help centres and digital user support, are assuming greater responsibilities for students' acquisition of information competencies and skills. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

First created in 1946, the Repertoire de vedettes-matière (RVM) of the library of the Université Laval has been greatly influenced by the development of electronic resources. Following a brief presentation of the RVM, the author will discuss its role in copy cataloguing its links with source directories, the impacts of technology on its development and, in turn, of this development on document analysis. The efforts of the RVM staff to meet the needs of users and the projects underway in the United States to simplify the syntax will also be described. As it progresses into the early years of the 21st century, the RVM continues to support the sharing of resources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The authors present an innovative pedagogy: an integrated reference and document delivery system in a department of economic and administration sciences offering undergraduate and graduate programs. The system provides a public portal, a truly public service providing access to the bibliographic resources available as well as to multimedia aids that explain the techniques used to access documents. This service, initially offered within the department, has become widely accessible anywhere a professor, manager or student is working on a real situation in a global context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]