Katerina Yefimova's Blog (9)

My article about Russian library blogs was published on Infobib.

It presents a review of three Russian library blogs and an attempt to explain the reasons of poor librarians' activity in this sphere. Think it will be interesting.

In Part 1, devoted to essential principles of information services (IS), I made an attempt to consider the IS organization taking into account different users’ needs and library resources. Today’s meditation will be devoted to principles, a library should follow. Here are they are:

An article about unauthorised wi-fi use and John Blyberg's opinion suggested me a thought to write about how wifi works at our library, that no above mentioned situation might occur. I will not say much about what wi-fi is and how it works, as there is much information on the web (e.g.

I think it is high time to discuss the following:

how libraries with different levels of technical equipment can organise information services

So, basically information services consist of 3 main points, and libraries should

1. Provide information services to the patrons
2. Provide access to information
3. Satisfy pat

When i started to write an article on such an outdated topic for US or European libraries, but still very actual and hot - for Russia, I would never supposed that lots of ordinary and unnecessary for the first sight issues would occur, for example:

• are chat and IM equal services regarding virtual reference (VR), or 2 separate things one must clearly distinguish:
• can an Internet-conferences be used as VR tool and in what way;
• can self-help reference be regar