38529 - Digital Library

Course contents

In the conceptual clarification relative to Digital Library resides the teaching which examines both of the implicated realities: the services and computerised librarian practices on one hand and the collection of digitalised documents and digitalisation projects on the other. The course will be divided into three parts: the first will deal with a general introduction of library studies from a historical and theoretical point of view; the second will examine the activities of indexing (the theory of cataloguing, subject cataloguing and classification) of documents through guidelines and followed international standards, formats, rules and applied codes particularly in Italy; the last part will analyse in depth new aspects of library studies from the semantic web to linked data, to RDA. A complete vision of the reality of Digital Library as an educational space wherein the digital collections, the access services and the people interact in support of a cycle of creation, preservation and use of the digital document.

Readings/Bibliography

Preparatory Material:

-        M.Guerrini with G. Crupi and S. Gambari and the collaboration of V. Fugaldi, Guida alla biblioteconomia, Milan, Editrice Bibliografica, 2008.

Specific Materials:

-        Anna Maria Tammaro - Alfredo Salarelli, La biblioteca digitale, Milan, Editrice Bibliografica, 2006.

-        Carlo Bianchini - Mauro Guerrini, Introduzione a RDA. Linee guida per rappresentare e scoprire le risorse, Milan, Editrice Bibliografica, 2014, p.1-102.

-        Fiammetta Sabba, Il Digitale deve confrontarsi con la Bibliografia, «Bibliothecae.it»2(2013)1, pages 281-289.

 

For those not attending the course, the following is to be added:

-        Noetica versus informatica": le nuove strutture della conoscenza scientifica ( Atti del Convegno, Rome, Tempio di Adriano 19th and 20th November 2013 ) by Fiammetta Sabba, Florence, Olschki, being printed (in particular the essays of: A. Serrai, A. Petrucciani, P. Gargiulo, L. Floridi, M. Guerrini, G. Granata, M.T. Biagetti, F. Sabba, A.M. Tammaro).

Teaching methods

Frontal Lecture, exercises on librarian bibliography, cataloguing and on research and consultation in the information technology labs, visits to libraries and documentation centres

Assessment methods

Oral exam.

Teaching tools

Illustrative and in-depth Power Point presentations, educational visits to libraries and documentation centres.

Office hours

See the website of Fiammetta Sabba