The next day, thanks to the powerpoint slides provided by Martha Kyrillidou, Director of ARL Statistics and Service Quality Programs, and Raynna Bowlby, my colleague at GSLIS West who gives workshops on library assessment, I am ready.
The first lecture was at the Belarusian Scientific and Technical University Scientific Library, and the audience was managers of IT.?? The topic is ?New trends and developments in information technology in U.S. libraries.?? I specifically asked for this session, and the IRC generously translated a survey on IT resources to this group.?? I was interested in the current situation in IT in university libraries in Belarus.?? Based on the results of the surveys I received, translated by Piotr Lapo, the technology is good.?? The servers seem Windows based, not running open source, and the workstations are contemporary.?? There are fewer workstations and servers than one would find in US university libraries, but the skills, infrastructure, and enthusiasm are there.
On Monday afternoon, I spoke to the library science faculty and students at the Belarusian University of Culture and Arts, on the topic ?Assessment of library information technology and library systems in U.S. libraries: Methods and Tools.?
This lecture discussed LibQUAL+, MINES for Libraries, COUNTER data, and other assessment issues involving electronic data and library systems (ILS).? The audience asked very good questions, and we had a productive discussion.?? After the lecture, we had a very useful conversation with Nikolai Yatsevich, the Dean of Information-Documental Communications Faculty.
Alexey Shalaban is blogging some of these lectures on his library?s blog.
See:? http://inf.by/library
Terry
Library Science group - framed by LibQUAL+
Welcome from Alexey Skalaban, Director, Scientific Library Belarusian National Technical University
A question from the IT group