| Abstract [eng] |
The purpose of the thesis is to ascertain the position and role of scientific libraries in the information infrastructure of Lithuania. The following tasks were raised, seeking to achieve the fixed goal, i.e. to clarify the notions “the information society” and “the state information infrastructure”, to find their definitions; to review and analyze the factors of evolution of the state and society, which influence the current existence of scientific libraries in the context of the information society; to define what is meant under “the scientific library”; to clarify and define the system of libraries in Lithuania, to fix the position of scientific libraries in it; to carry out interrogation of the experts, substantiated by the Delphi method. Its purpose is to evaluate the role of scientific libraries in the information infrastructure of Lithuania, with taking into consideration expansion of the information society; to find out the most important spheres of activity of scientific libraries and their possibilities to join the contemporary challenges more actively. The object of the thesis is a scientific library of Lithuania, being more oriented towards the present and future situation. The thesis consists out of 3 chapters, i.e. 1.Efforts of expansion of the information society; 2. The system of libraries in the information infrastructure of Lithuania; 3. Position of libraries in the information infrastructure of Lithuania: the Delphi scientific investigation. The first chapter is devoted to settling of the items, pertaining to the concept “the information society”; the main features of this phenomenon are submitted; the investigations, which were carried out in Lithuania, and the important moments of expansion of the information society in Lithuania are described. The system of libraries of Lithuania and its management are considered in the second chapter. As the system of scientific libraries is not reflected in it, the next chapter is devoted to positioning of the scientific libraries in the schemes of typologies and classifications; the last part of this chapter provides definition “the scientific library” and is devoted to clarification which libraries of Lithuania can be considered as the scientific ones; the relation of the Lithuanian policy of information and science with scientific libraries is reminded in brief. The last, i.e. the third, chapter of the thesis provides the description of the scientific investigation “Position of scientific libraries in the information infrastructure of Lithuania”, grounded by the Delphi method, which was carried out in the course of issuing of the present thesis. Hereby the investigation itself, its significance and historical background are presented in brief; the methodology and the course of the investigation are described; the results of the investigation, which was carried out, and its summary are submitted in the last chapter of the thesis. The method of analysis of the literature, legal and strategic documents, the descriptive method and the Delphi method of interrogation of the experts and processing of the data were used in the course of issuing of the present thesis. This thesis may be useful and interesting for the professional community of librarians of Lithuania, both for practical and theoretical workers as well as for the authority representatives, who come across with the problems of libraries in their activity. The investigation, which was carried out in the course of issuing of the present Master’s thesis, may serve as an example and inducement for further investigations in this sphere. |
