Open Password – Monday February 21, 2022
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Library Management Day 2021 – Academic Libraries and the Pandemic – Accelerators – Innovation Drivers – Decentralized Collaboration – Willi Bredemeier – OCLC – Metadata – Hubertus Neuhausen – UB and Cologne City Library – Henriette Mehn – SLUB Dresden – Christian Oesterheld – ZLB Zurich – Sebastian Müller – OCLC – Digitization – Cooperations – Collaborative work – Career and private life – Digital teaching – Cyber attack – Resilience – Platform change – Home office – Sascha Lobo – Customers – Video conference – Digital services – Online registration – Open educational resources – Online offer for first-year students – eMedia – National solution for Access, registration and authentication – Switzerland – North Rhine-Westphalia – Science transfer – Metadata – Linked Open Data – Linking collections – Linking media forms – Linking contexts – Cataloging – Evaluation – Cross-institutional collaboration – GESIS – Agile organization – Collaboration office
National Competence-Based Learning Objective Catalog Medicine – Ulrich Korwitz – Charité – Medical Faculty Day – Medical Libraries – Scientific Literature Research – Boston Consulting Group – Capital – Metaversum – Tibor Mérey – Microsoft – Meta – RTL/ntv trend barometer – governments – acceptance – RTL News – forsa – compulsory vaccination – easing – corona waves – AfD supporters – Freedom Day – hospitalization data – mask requirement
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Library Management Day 2021 – Academic libraries and the pandemic: Corona as the great accelerator, innovation driver and agent of decentralized collaboration – By Willi Bredemeier
- National competency-based learning objectives catalog for medicine: Learning objectives for all medical students explained in detail – By Ulrich Korwitz
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Boston Consulting Group: Metaverse business to exceed $100 billion in 2022
- RTL/ntv: Governments could have convinced German citizens to take a more cautious course in Corona policy
Behind the scenes, the “makers” of the library management day from left to right Dennis Wißmann, Martin Fischer (seen on the screen), Andreas Mittrowann (strategic consultancy Forward Thinking) Anna Specht, Steffen Drayß and Andreas Schmidt. Mittrowan (Apart from the moderator Mittrowan, all people pictured are from OCLC).
Library Management Day 2021Academic libraries and the pandemic
Corona as the great accelerator, innovation driver and agent
of decentralized collaboration
See also: Library Management Day 2021 / Keynote Sascha Lobo – Libraries today: democratizer of knowledge, discourse space for controversial opinions and digital third word – upcoming essence: library as digital participation, in: Open Password, # 1017, January 17th
2022/2021- The elections to the trend of the year – Corona as the great accelerator: How did we counter it, what do we redesign?, in: Open Password, # 1016, January 12th
By Willi Bredemeier
Online Library Management Conference 2021 “Attention, ready, restart! – New opportunities as a boost for your future!” 1,230 participants registered for the OCLC conference, which was 25% more than the previous year. This may be based on an increased interest in communication and professional exchange in times of pandemic as well as the desire for further solutions in pandemic and post-pandemic times. The OCLC program met these wishes and seemed more relevant than ever at the time of the meeting, as we were in the midst of the fourth wave of Corona.
What have academic libraries learned from the last year and a half? What vulnerabilities and opportunities were identified? Where is there the most urgent need for action and which concepts? What role could the use of metadata play in the future? In the final session entitled “Restart through the pandemic: concepts of academic libraries, the question of long-term implementation and future opportunities in the use of metadata” Dr. Hubertus Neuhausen, library director of the Cologne University and City Library – Henriette Mehn, strategic questions, SLUB Dresden – Christian Oesterheld from the ZLB Zurich and Dr. Sebastian Müller, Director Sales DACH from OCLC.
If one had not heard the introduction to this meeting, which explicitly asked what had become better as a result of Corona, the meeting could have been summarized with the message that the pandemic had been a blessing for academic libraries. Now it is part of the job description of library managers to present their institution well to the public. However, one got the impression that Corona was and remained a huge driver of innovation in libraries and that steps were being taken towards a “digital library” that will turn out to be irreversible in the post-pandemic period. The difficulties that had to be overcome became clear when all those discussing spoke of “big challenges” that will probably remain.
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What has become better as a result of Corona, what has made libraries more sustainable?
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So what has become better as a result of Corona, what has made libraries more sustainable during this time? Henriette Mehn replied that digitalization had made greater progress; worlds had been shifted to the digital world. The workflows have been improved and accelerated. In general, people have become more flexible. This also applies to collaborations and those with international partners. Take best practice examples for collaborative work with you for the post-pandemic period. It has become easier to combine family and work, even if you have to be careful not to mix work and private life too much.
Neuhausen agreed with the emphasis on positive aspects of dealing with Corona. A big leap forward has been made. What was previously unthinkable, for example in the areas of video conferencing, home office and teleworking, has become natural. The transition to digital teaching at the University of Cologne has stimulated cooperation between the University Library and the university. However, a cyber attack put them out of action for six weeks, which can be interpreted as a sign of increased vulnerability with increasing digitalization. This time of reconstructing the systems proved to be terribly strenuous and by the end of the first wave of the pandemic we were completely exhausted. On the other hand, we learned a lot and became more resilient.
Oesterheld also spoke of difficult times, as Zurich not only had to deal with the pandemic, but also had to advance two complex large-scale projects (including a platform change) in which a three-digit number of employees were involved. We have learned to organize the resulting complexity in a simpler, leaner and more effective way. However, it remains a challenge not to fall into isolation with less interaction and live interactions, preferably via the screen.
Müller reported: After the outbreak of the pandemic, OCLC converted the internal organization to home office within a week and adjusted the global collaboration, which had already existed before, to the new conditions. Of course there were problems with the hardware and monitors, for example, but in the end the changeover was seamless. Yes, Sascha Lobo, I was right with his keynote speech the day before, with the switch to home office overnight we skipped ten years and we see that as a blessing at OCLC.
What will remain of the pandemic period? OCLC’s customers have become more Internet-savvy. For example, you no longer need to explain to them what e-government is. The “video conference” tool for customer discussions has proven itself and will be used further in the future. In the past, four or six consultants traveled to an important customer. Today you might talk to one or two local consultants. The additional expertise required can be obtained via video conference.
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Push and momentum for new digital services – Convenient access to resources from all Swiss universities – Science transfer for the educated public.
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It was generally confirmed that Corona had given rise to a push for new digital services. SLUB Dresden had already introduced the option of online registration before Corona, as well as the provision of open educational resources. Now a completely different dynamic unfolded, the focus was on digital and accesses were set up to give students comprehensive access to online resources (e.g. eTutorials). When it became apparent that the 2020/21 winter semester would also be digital, a special online offer was set up for first-year students. Ms. Mehn: “Our offering has become broader and larger.” We will try to maintain the current dynamic.
Neuhausen confirmed similar developments for Cologne, in particular that the pandemic had triggered a surge. It was invaluable that steps into the digital world to modernize the house had already been taken or prepared and that these solutions and considerations were able to fall back on and develop them further during the pandemic. The library director quoted: “It is only in a crisis that you see how well positioned you are. We know better where we stand today.” The people in Cologne are determined to rely more on e-media and have even considered switching everything to online, but did not pursue this option because they would then have lost user groups.
Like previous speakers, Oesterheld emphasized the continuity of digital efforts, even though some things had to happen more quickly during the pandemic. His comments about the aim of a national solution for access, registration and authentication deserve particular interest. This makes a lot of sense because in Switzerland, which is a small area, there is a high level of mobility among students and they are very interested in being able to conveniently access the online resources of all universities from their laptop. Such an option is also possible because you only have to combine the resources of ten Swiss universities plus technical colleges and universities of teacher education and you have one IT provider for all universities. The speaker pointed out that North Rhine-Westphalia has a similarly dense university network as Switzerland, so that – which Oesterheld did not say – a similar solution could be considered here. A major challenge, however, is to provide suitable resources for non-university but science-interested users, i.e. a service or science transfer for the educated public. Finding solutions here would be made more difficult by questions of licensing, contracts and financing.
Moderator Mittrowan with keynote speaker Sascha Lobo (on screen).
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How powerful should metadata be? How do we get to an agile library?
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When discussing metadata and linked data or linked open data, the focus was primarily on what was to be achieved in the future, for example the linking of collections that belonged together in terms of content but were scattered across many institutions, so that the user could walk from Pontius to Pilatus in order to get an almost complete picture for his task (Neuhausen) – the production of metadata that could be used equally by students from German-, French- and Italian-speaking Switzerland (Oesterheld) as well as the linking between different forms of media as well as contexts as soon as the student has entered a search term (Mehn). Neuhausen recalled that cataloging was once the supreme discipline of libraries and called for a discussion on the following questions: What do we want with metadata? What do links and their systems do and how powerful should they be?
How will academic libraries continue to develop? The SLUB was currently taking stock of the Corona period and developing recommendations on how to work in teams in the future, among other things. A central question here was: What do we need professionally, what do we need psycho-socially in hybrid teams? Then the fourth Corona wave broke in. The evaluation will now be carried out shortly.
Neuhausen had “Rhineland optimism” ready for the post-Corona period, with major challenges remaining. He predicted that a large proportion of employees would want to remain in the home office even after the pandemic. Employees are already moving to the greater Cologne area because they trust that they will be able to continue working from home. What is important here is to create and maintain sufficient bonds between employees who work across many locations. The intensification of cooperation across institutional boundaries will also remain, for example with teaching and research areas, with university administration departments and within the framework of a DFG project together with GESIS.
Oesterheld pointed out that they are already working on several projects across institutions and have formed mixed teams with members from various institutions. This will remain the case in the post-pandemic period. Currently, elements of an agile organization are being tried to be implemented in internal “experimental islands”, for example in product development. But this is done with an eye on the possibilities of transferring best practices for the entire organization. A staff office for collaboration has just been set up to promote this process, for example through advice and training.
National competency-based learning objectives catalog for medicine
explained in detail for all medical students
By Ulrich Korwitz, LBD aD ZB MED Cologne/Bonn
The importance of medical libraries and scientific literature research is questioned from time to time. However, a new development is emerging that could change this. Version 2.0 appeared relatively unnoticed. of the “National Competence-Based Learning Goals Catalog for Medicine (NKLM)”, created at the Charité under the aegis of the Medical Faculty Day: https://nklm.de/zend/menu
It says: “The National Competence-Based Learning Objectives Catalog for Medicine (NKLM) will, in accordance with current plans, become a binding part of the medical licensing regulations in the future. In the coming years, this catalog will be evaluated and further developed together with the faculties. This process offers the faculties the opportunity to… Designing the framework for teaching also provides the opportunity to assess possible consequences that arise from the approval regulations for the curriculum at an early stage and – where necessary – to make adjustments.”
In the NKLM, all learning objectives for medical students of all semesters are listed and explained in detail.
Part VIII “Overarching Competencies” contains learning objectives that fall within the scope of information specialists in medicine. There is therefore an opportunity to position yourself as a competent partner for the training goals and to make concrete offers. All this in order to make yourself remembered for your services and to secure your status in the faculty.
The following learning objectives are listed – Students can:
VIII.1-01.2.1 : distinguish scientific knowledge from other forms of knowledge
VIII.1-01.2.3: Discuss criteria of scientific rationality
VIII.1-01.2.6: critically question the possibilities and limits of gaining medical knowledge
VIII.1-01.2.11: questioning the opportunities and limits of scientific publishing
VIII.1-01.3.2: critically assess what level of collaboration justifies (co-)authorship in scientific publications
VIII.1-03.1.2: translate patient-related problems into precise scientific questions that can be searched in specialist or literature databases
VIII.1-03.1.3: show and use several ways to obtain and manage literature
VIII.1-04.2.1: research, critically evaluate and summarize the current state of knowledge on a scientific question
VIII.1-04.2.6: prepare scientific results for a specialist audience according to the rules of scientific publications
Boston Consulting Group
Metaverse business exceeds
$100 billion in 2022
(Capital) The management consultancy Boston Consulting Group (BCG) expects a strong growth spurt for products and services for the so-called metaverse. “The augmented reality market will exceed $100 billion this year,” says BCG partner Tibor Mérey. The trillion mark will be reached before 2030. Metaverse revenue includes revenue from hardware, software and services, including augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) applications.
The Metaverse is considered the next stage of the Internet. This is primarily about simulating physical presence in virtual worlds. In the future, users will not only be able to look at the Internet via a screen, but also immerse themselves in it, especially with the help of virtual reality glasses. The devices should also transmit the users’ facial expressions and gestures. Microsoft and the Facebook group Meta are working on simulating human proximity. But fundamentally the metaverse is economically relevant for all industries.
RTL/ntv
Governments could
have convinced German citizens to take a more cautious course in Corona policy
(RTL News) According to a current forsa survey commissioned by RTL and ntv, a good quarter of the German citizens surveyed (26%) believe that the general compulsory vaccination for adults, which has been discussed for a long time, will actually still be introduced. 71 percent assume that there will be no general compulsory vaccination for adults . 44% consider the current time for the first easing of restrictions to be premature. 84% fear another corona wave
On February 16th, the federal and state governments agreed on far-reaching easing of the Corona measures, some of which should already apply now. 36 percent of German citizens surveyed believe that now would be a good time to lift certain Corona measures. 44 percent believe that the easing measures that have been decided come too early. Only a few (11%) believe that the easing of restrictions should have been decided earlier. Only AfD supporters (59%) believe that the easing is coming too late.
Only a few German citizens (8%) believe that the end of the corona pandemic will be reached at the end of March. The vast majority (84%), however, assume that there will be another Corona wave – for example next autumn or winter. AfD supporters (31%) are most likely to believe that the corona pandemic will end at the end of March.
80% consider the name “Freedom Day” to be inappropriate. From March 20th, all more in-depth protective measures against the corona virus should be abolished if the situation in the hospitals allows this. The vast majority of German citizens (80%) consider the designation of March 20th as “Freedom Day” to be inappropriate. Only 13 percent said “adequate.”
66% support maintaining the mask requirement. A large majority of German citizens (66%) think it is good that the obligation to wear a medical mask should largely remain in place for the time being. 21 percent are in favor of abolishing the mask requirement in some areas. Only 12 percent believe that the mask requirement should be abolished completely.
Those who are in favor of abolishing the mask requirement in certain areas primarily name the catering industry (74%). 64 percent of those in favor of easing the mask requirement mention schools, 44 percent mention retail, but only 8 percent mention public transport.
A large majority of German citizens want to continue to wear a mask in several situations and areas of daily life even after the general abolition of the mask requirement. This is particularly true in the doctor’s waiting room (76%), on buses and trains (74%), but also at major events (60%) or when shopping in the supermarket (59%). A majority of 64 percent would no longer wear a mask in a restaurant after the mask requirement was abolished.
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