Friday, April 17, 2009
Academic library is using pda's, handhelds and other mobile technologies
Very useful slides (pdf) on mobile technologies in libraries is available in Simons college Library website http://web.simmons.edu/~fox/pda/. Simon College Library is using pda's, handhelds and other mobile technologies.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Evolution of Librarianship in ICE Age
the following presentation at http://sn.im/fxq5j
[www_slideshare_net] . Its title reads as "Who, Why & How We Serve:
The Evolution of Collaborative Librarianship Through Social Media" is
has been presented by PF Anderson [ Technology in Libraries, MLGSCA
Cerritos, CA / March 6, 2009 University of Michigan Ann Arbor, April
13, 2009].
It talks about how librarianship is changing in this era of WEB 2.0 /
Social Web. Hope all of us fellow the evolution path indicated in the
presentation.
[www_slideshare_net] . Its title reads as "Who, Why & How We Serve:
The Evolution of Collaborative Librarianship Through Social Media" is
has been presented by PF Anderson [ Technology in Libraries, MLGSCA
Cerritos, CA / March 6, 2009 University of Michigan Ann Arbor, April
13, 2009].
It talks about how librarianship is changing in this era of WEB 2.0 /
Social Web. Hope all of us fellow the evolution path indicated in the
presentation.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
World Digital Library will launch on April 21, 2009
At the UNESCO General Conference in Paris on October 17, 2007 the Library of Congress, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, the National Library of Brazil, the National Library and Archives of Egypt, the National Library of Russia, and the Russian State Library presented a prototype of the future World Digital Library. The prototype features books, manuscripts, maps, films, prints and photographs, and sound recordings contributed by the partner institutions. It functions in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish, and includes content in additional languages. Other features include search and browse by place, time, topic, type of item, and contributing institution; a "Memory of" section devoted to in-depth exploration of the culture and history of individual countries; and videos by curators that explain why particular primary source documents are important and what they tell us about a culture.
The World Digital Library will make available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from cultures around the world, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, architectural drawings, and other significant cultural materials. The objectives of the World Digital Library are to promote international and inter-cultural understanding and awareness, provide resources to educators, expand non-English and non-Western content on the Internet, and to contribute to scholarly research.
SEE the World Digital Library at:
http://www.worlddig itallibrary. org/project/ english/index. html
The World Digital Library will make available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from cultures around the world, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, architectural drawings, and other significant cultural materials. The objectives of the World Digital Library are to promote international and inter-cultural understanding and awareness, provide resources to educators, expand non-English and non-Western content on the Internet, and to contribute to scholarly research.
SEE the World Digital Library at:
http://www.worlddig itallibrary. org/project/ english/index. html
More Than 9,000 National Academies Reports Now Available in Open Access
http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=04102009
Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology Online - Free Access
The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology Online provides an innovative resource for the academic community in sociology. Updated three times a year with new material, this vast online library gives instant access to the most authoritative and up-to-date scholarship in your field. The encyclopedia includes 1800 definitions and explanations of the key concepts in sociology, with expanded essays on major topics within the field and a time line of over 600 key events in sociological history.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Sixth-Sense: A wonderful wearable computer
Have a look at the wonderful wearable computer named 'Sixth Sense' being developed by an Indian Mr Pranav Mistry working at MIT Media Labs, USA. It looks similar to Microsoft's new technology Surface, but size and cost match that of your mobile. The video of the device demonstrated by his supervisor can be viewed at the following URL address.
http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/481
http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/481
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Sony e-book reader gets 500,000 books from Google
Sony e-book reader gets 500,000 books from Google
Google is making half a million books, unprotected by copyright, available for free on Sony Corp's electronic book-reading device. It's the first time Google has made its vast trove of scanned public-domain books available to an e-book device, and vaults the Sony Reader past Amazon.com Inc's Kindle as the device with the largest available library, at about 600,000 books.
The books are already available as free downloads in the Portable Document Format (PDF), which works well on computer screens but not on e-book readers. Google will provide the books to the Sony Reader in the EPUB (electronic publication) format, which lets the lines flow differently to fit a smaller screen.
International Journal of Library and Information Science
The International Journal of Library and Information Science (IJLIS)
is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal published that will be
monthly by Academic Journals (http://www.academicjournals.org/IJLIS).
IJLIS is dedicated to increasing the depth of the subject across
disciplines with the ultimate aim of expanding knowledge of the
subject.
Call for Papers
IJLIS will cover all areas of the subject. The journal welcomes the
submission of manuscripts that meet the general criteria of
significance and scientific excellence, and will publish:
· Original articles in basic and applied research
· Case studies
· Critical reviews, surveys, opinions, commentaries and essays
We invite you to submit your manuscript(s) to IJLIS@acadjourn.org for
publication in the Maiden Issue (April 2009). Our objective is to
inform authors of the decision on their manuscript(s) within four
weeks of submission. Following acceptance, a paper will normally be
published in the next issue. Instruction for authors and other details
are available on our website;
http://www.academicjournals.org/IJLIS/Instruction.htm
IJLIS is an Open Access Journal
One key request of researchers across the world is unrestricted access
to research publications. Open access gives a worldwide audience
larger than that of any subscription-based journal and thus increases
the visibility and impact of published works. It also enhances
indexing, retrieval power and eliminates the need for permissions to
reproduce and distribute content. IJLIS is fully committed to the Open
Access Initiative and will provide free access to all articles as soon
as they are published.
One can contact:
Emeje Cynthia
Editorial Assistant
International Journal of Library and Information Science (IJLIS)
E-mail: IJLIS@acadjourn.org
is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal published that will be
monthly by Academic Journals (http://www.academicjournals.org/IJLIS).
IJLIS is dedicated to increasing the depth of the subject across
disciplines with the ultimate aim of expanding knowledge of the
subject.
Call for Papers
IJLIS will cover all areas of the subject. The journal welcomes the
submission of manuscripts that meet the general criteria of
significance and scientific excellence, and will publish:
· Original articles in basic and applied research
· Case studies
· Critical reviews, surveys, opinions, commentaries and essays
We invite you to submit your manuscript(s) to IJLIS@acadjourn.org for
publication in the Maiden Issue (April 2009). Our objective is to
inform authors of the decision on their manuscript(s) within four
weeks of submission. Following acceptance, a paper will normally be
published in the next issue. Instruction for authors and other details
are available on our website;
http://www.academicjournals.org/IJLIS/Instruction.htm
IJLIS is an Open Access Journal
One key request of researchers across the world is unrestricted access
to research publications. Open access gives a worldwide audience
larger than that of any subscription-based journal and thus increases
the visibility and impact of published works. It also enhances
indexing, retrieval power and eliminates the need for permissions to
reproduce and distribute content. IJLIS is fully committed to the Open
Access Initiative and will provide free access to all articles as soon
as they are published.
One can contact:
Emeje Cynthia
Editorial Assistant
International Journal of Library and Information Science (IJLIS)
E-mail: IJLIS@acadjourn.org
questions for LIS professionals for interview purpose
Interview Questions for LIS Professtionals
1. Introduce Yourself
2. What are your strengths & weakness
3. Why did you decide to enter the field of library and information
science? OR What motivated you to seek a library degree?
4. Why did you decide to apply for this position?
5. Discuss some of your achievement regarding this field.
6. What kind of work environment do you prefer?
7. How are you qualified for this job? OR What qualifications do you
have that make you think you will be a success at this job?
8. Do you have some extraordinary qualities that distinguish you from
others?
9. The person in this position needs to be innovative and proactive.
Can you describe some things you have done to demonstrate these
qualities?
10. How would you rate your communication skills and what have you
done to improve them?
11. What experience do you have dealing with academic scholars?
12. What is your experience with automated systems and with computers
in general?
13. Tell us about yourself and your ambition.
14. Tell us about some of your contribution to improve our field.
15. What do you think a reference librarian's duties should be?
16. Tell us about your subject background and about your coursework
outside of library science.
17. Do you have the skills necessary to create and maintain our WWW
home pages?
18. Do you plan to continue your education?
19. Starting with your last job, would you tell me about some of your
achievements that were recognized by your superiors?
20. What are some things you would like to avoid in a job? Why?
21. What does success mean to you? How do you judge it?
22. What types of things make you angry? How do you react?
23. In what ways do you think you can make a contribution to our
department?
24. Why do you think this library should hire you?
25. Describe your experience in creating documents, proposals,
research findings, or any other form of written copy.
26. Mention some popular reference materials.
27. What does librarianship means?
28. Mention some popular online databases with their subject
coverage.
29. Briefly discuss about Melvil Dewey.
30. Mention some popular journals in our field.
31. Abbreviate ISBN and ISSN. Describe their role in this information
era.
32. What do you mean by "Bibliography� How will you arrange a
bibliography?
33. Discuss the library movement in your country.
34. Which is more important ' Bibliography or Abstract ' for
controlling information explosion?
35. Briefly discuss about Library Association in your country?
36. Which is the world's oldest Library Association?
37. What is library science?
38. Which is the largest library in the world?
39. What are the major classifications of the DDC?
40. What are the twenty major classes of Library of Congress?
41. What are the major Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) classes?
42. What are the ten major classes of Universal Decimal
Classification?
43. Which is the largest library in your country (both in collection
and structure)?
44. Briefly discuss history of library education in your country.
45. Which resource do you prefer - electronic or print, and why?
46. Discuss some major problems of library automation in your country.
47. Which classification scheme would you prefer and why?
48. What do you mean by National Bibliography? Is there any national
bibliography published in your country?
49. What do you mean by classification?
50. Mention five popular National Library in the world.
51. Briefly Discuss about IFLA, it's role to promote librarianship
around the world.
52. What does information literacy means?
53. What does OPAC means?
54. Discuss briefly the role of OCLC, its functions.
55. How reference services differ from information service?
56. Discuss the benefits of library automation.
57. Why classification is necessary?
58. Which is the largest academic library in your country?
59. Why Public library is called the People's University?
60. Discuss the various types of library that exist in a civil
society.
61. Why networking and resource sharing of a library is necessary?
62. Mention two modern information services.
1. Introduce Yourself
2. What are your strengths & weakness
3. Why did you decide to enter the field of library and information
science? OR What motivated you to seek a library degree?
4. Why did you decide to apply for this position?
5. Discuss some of your achievement regarding this field.
6. What kind of work environment do you prefer?
7. How are you qualified for this job? OR What qualifications do you
have that make you think you will be a success at this job?
8. Do you have some extraordinary qualities that distinguish you from
others?
9. The person in this position needs to be innovative and proactive.
Can you describe some things you have done to demonstrate these
qualities?
10. How would you rate your communication skills and what have you
done to improve them?
11. What experience do you have dealing with academic scholars?
12. What is your experience with automated systems and with computers
in general?
13. Tell us about yourself and your ambition.
14. Tell us about some of your contribution to improve our field.
15. What do you think a reference librarian's duties should be?
16. Tell us about your subject background and about your coursework
outside of library science.
17. Do you have the skills necessary to create and maintain our WWW
home pages?
18. Do you plan to continue your education?
19. Starting with your last job, would you tell me about some of your
achievements that were recognized by your superiors?
20. What are some things you would like to avoid in a job? Why?
21. What does success mean to you? How do you judge it?
22. What types of things make you angry? How do you react?
23. In what ways do you think you can make a contribution to our
department?
24. Why do you think this library should hire you?
25. Describe your experience in creating documents, proposals,
research findings, or any other form of written copy.
26. Mention some popular reference materials.
27. What does librarianship means?
28. Mention some popular online databases with their subject
coverage.
29. Briefly discuss about Melvil Dewey.
30. Mention some popular journals in our field.
31. Abbreviate ISBN and ISSN. Describe their role in this information
era.
32. What do you mean by "Bibliography� How will you arrange a
bibliography?
33. Discuss the library movement in your country.
34. Which is more important ' Bibliography or Abstract ' for
controlling information explosion?
35. Briefly discuss about Library Association in your country?
36. Which is the world's oldest Library Association?
37. What is library science?
38. Which is the largest library in the world?
39. What are the major classifications of the DDC?
40. What are the twenty major classes of Library of Congress?
41. What are the major Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) classes?
42. What are the ten major classes of Universal Decimal
Classification?
43. Which is the largest library in your country (both in collection
and structure)?
44. Briefly discuss history of library education in your country.
45. Which resource do you prefer - electronic or print, and why?
46. Discuss some major problems of library automation in your country.
47. Which classification scheme would you prefer and why?
48. What do you mean by National Bibliography? Is there any national
bibliography published in your country?
49. What do you mean by classification?
50. Mention five popular National Library in the world.
51. Briefly Discuss about IFLA, it's role to promote librarianship
around the world.
52. What does information literacy means?
53. What does OPAC means?
54. Discuss briefly the role of OCLC, its functions.
55. How reference services differ from information service?
56. Discuss the benefits of library automation.
57. Why classification is necessary?
58. Which is the largest academic library in your country?
59. Why Public library is called the People's University?
60. Discuss the various types of library that exist in a civil
society.
61. Why networking and resource sharing of a library is necessary?
62. Mention two modern information services.
Online M.L.I.S. degree
Online M.L.I.S. degree
Rutgers - School of Communication, Information and Libray Studies offers M.L.I.S. degree through online learning. Those who are interested can enjoy the flexibility and convenience of managing coursework from home or from work. All course work for the online program is conducted entirely online.Online classes have the same content as on-campus courses and are taught by the same combination of faculty and adjunct instructors as on-campus program. http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/master-of-library-and-information-science/completing-a-degree-online.html
Job Titles for Library and Information Science Professionals
Job Titles for Library and Information Science Professionals
There are more than thousand job titles for LIS professionals throughout the world from Academic Information Coordinator to Zoo Librarian. If you want to know the complete designations in LIS log on to http://www.michellemach.com/jobtitles/realjobs.html
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Library Kiosk Software
A prototype of our Library Kiosk Software has been uploaded to
http://www.adrive. com/public/ 5860726e4bd05ecb 46ccc589ebaa0275 dc23885e3944b64c 7274700f18123018 .html
http://www.adrive. com/public/ 5860726e4bd05ecb 46ccc589ebaa0275 dc23885e3944b64c 7274700f18123018 .html
e-book Cataloguing Freewares
Having so many books (many of them being eBooks), it would be nice to have a software application to manage all of them. eLibPro is such a utility to manage your personal book collection (print books AND ebooks).
Features:
- Use tree structure to manage book categories. It has a familiar Windows Explorer-like user interface
- Unlimited "Related Links" can be added for each book. The "Links" can be URLs, eBook files on local hard disk, or even folders
- Use XML/XSL to display book details. Its content template and display style are completely configurable by the user
- Most of the book's information can be retrieved from the web. It can query online (Amazon.com) by ISBN, or by a combination of book title, author and/or publisher
- Multiple selection (using Ctrl, Shift or Mouse) is supported in the book list window, and the book detail window can update on the fly
- Sort on any column in the book list window
- WYSIWYG editor for books' "Description" and "Notes" fields
- Drag & Drop support
- Search in the book collection
- "Favorites" and "Reading List" support
- Multiple Language Interface (MUI) support
- Native Unicode support
- Barcode scanners are supported.
- For more details : http://songstech. com/elibpro. html
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Web founder looks to big changes
Web founder looks to big changes' is a interesting and informative
article which contains the futuristic ideas www by
Tim-Berners-lee.According to him 'The web is not all done, it's just
the tip of the iceberg... I'm convinced that the new changes are going
to rock the world even more,' Tim Berners Lee, the creator of the Web,
at the 20th anniversary celebrations at Cern. 'New changes are going
to rock the world even more'. 'The future of the web lies in mobile
phones'.
The detail article may be available at :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7943319.stm
article which contains the futuristic ideas www by
Tim-Berners-lee.According to him 'The web is not all done, it's just
the tip of the iceberg... I'm convinced that the new changes are going
to rock the world even more,' Tim Berners Lee, the creator of the Web,
at the 20th anniversary celebrations at Cern. 'New changes are going
to rock the world even more'. 'The future of the web lies in mobile
phones'.
The detail article may be available at :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7943319.stm
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