PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the rationale, technical framework, content creation workflow and evaluation for a multilingual massive open online course (MOOC) to facilitate information literacy (IL) considering cultural aspects.Design/methodology/approachA good practice analysis built the basis for the technical and content framework. The evaluation approach consisted of three phases: first, the students were asked to fill out a short self-assessment questionnaire and a shortened adapted version of a standardized IL test. Second, they completed the full version of the IL MOOC. Third, they were asked to fill out the full version of a standardized IL test and a user experience questionnaire.FindingsThe results show that first the designed workflow was suitable in practice and led to the implementation of a full-grown MOOC. Second, the implementation itself provides implications for future projects developing multilingual educational resources. Third, the evaluation results show that participants achieved significantly higher results in a standardized IL test after attending the MOOC as mandatory coursework. Variations between the different student groups in the participating countries were observed. Fourth, self-motivation to complete the MOOC showed to be a challenge for students asked to attend the MOOC as nonmandatory out-of-classroom task. It seems that multilingual facilitation alone is not sufficient to increase active MOOC participation.Originality/valueThis paper presents an innovative approach of developing multilingual IL teaching resources and is one of the first works to evaluate the impact of an IL MOOC on learners' experience and learning outcomes in an international evaluation study.

In the last two decades, Croatian libraries have been influenced by four key factors: 1) becoming an independent state with new sociopolitical and economic systems in the 1990s, during which time the state transformed from socialism to a democracy with a market economy; 2) reconstructing after the devastation brought by war; 3) developing information and communication technologies; and 4) experiencing the effects of a global economic crisis, the impact of which is still strongly evident throughout Croatia. The present state of libraries in Croatia indicates that the profession of librarianship and libraries are facing many problems. Yet, there is also a sign of the significant potential resulting from the long tradition of librarianship in Croatian history, and the relatively high level of library development that had occurred centuries prior to the process of transition brought by upheaval in the late twentieth century. During the postsocialist period, libraries in Croatia saw the continued evolution of a historical, legal, and normative library framework invested in librarianship as a service to the public, coupled with an increase in international networking, cooperation, and education. The rapid global advancement of information and communications technologies in the last decade of the twentieth century expedited the construction of the technological infrastructure necessary to building Croatian libraries, enabling their innovation. At the present time, the country's libraries are characterized by a focus on the information needs of their patrons that is guided by the principle of freedom of access to information. 676 library trends/spring 2015

This paper gives an outline of e-book business in Croatia, another European small language market, based on surveys of seven mayor e-book distributors conducted in February 2013 and February 2014. The research included collecting web catalogues by various e-book distributors and an interview with their representatives, asking them to confirm the established number of e-books. After data collection, researchers analysed and presented the exact number of unique e-book titles, publisher's participation, types of e-book formats and their prices. The findings show that there are 1.654 unique e-book titles by 55 publishers currently available on seven main platforms, the most popular e-book format is EPUB (55%), while the average retail price is EUR 5,86.

Cilj. Glavni cilj ovog rada jest istražiti ključna bibliometrijska obilježja, trendove   i obrasce povezane s publikacijskom aktivnošću, produktivnošću i suradnjom autora radova objavljenih u Vjesniku bibliotekara Hrvatske od 1950. do 2020. godine. Pristup/metodologija/dizajn. U istraživanju je primjenom standardnih bibliometrijskih pokazatelja i alata provedena analiza 986 radova objavljenih u Vjesniku bibliotekara Hrvatske od 1950. do 2020. godine. Rezultati. Rezultati istraživanja pokazali su da je Vjesnik s 95 % radova objavljenih na hrvatskom jeziku tijekom svih analiziranih razdoblja bio i ostao časopis namijenjen hrvatskoj zajednici knjižničara i ostalih informacijskih stručnjaka. Vjesnik se tijekom proteklih 25 godina postupno transformirao iz primarno stručnog u znanstveno-stručni časopis koji objavljuje gotovo podjednak broj znanstveno-istraživačkih (44,2 %) i stručnih (47,2 %) članaka. Ujedno u časopisu svoje radove objavljuje sve veći broj autora iz akademskog okružja, nastavnika i studenata. Većina su radova objavljenih u Vjesniku jednoautorski (72,6 %), ali taj se trend od 2010. godine mijenja u korist višeautorskih radova (51,5 %), što ukazuje na jačanje specijalizacije, kulture suradnje i razvoj suradničkih mreža. Ograničenja. Nestandardiziran i neujednačen način navođenja institucionalne pripadnosti autora u časopisu i na povezanim mrežnim izvorima (Hrčak i web-sjedište VBH) zahtijevao je dosta ručnog uređivanja, što je moglo utjecati na određene pogreške. U analizi autorstva i mjerenju autorske produktivnosti moguće su pogreške u izračunu frekvencija uslijed neutvrđene promjene prezimena, najčešće kod autorica zbog udaje. Originalnost/vrijednost. Ovo je dubinsko bibliometrijsko istraživanje koje pokriva gotovo čitavo razdoblje (70 godina) izlaženja Vjesnika i analizira publikacijska obilježja časopisa, produktivnost i suradnju autora.