A presentation on historical development of digital libraries by Rupesh Kumar A, Assistant Professor, Department of Studies and Research in Library and Information Science, Tumkur University, Karnataka, India.
This was the proposal our group submitted at the beginning of the semester outlining our goals for the project. View the DL here - http://tinyurl.com/FLsubcultDL
A presentation on historical development of digital libraries by Rupesh Kumar A, Assistant Professor, Department of Studies and Research in Library and Information Science, Tumkur University, Karnataka, India.
This was the proposal our group submitted at the beginning of the semester outlining our goals for the project. View the DL here - http://tinyurl.com/FLsubcultDL
Planning and Implementing a Digital Library ProjectJenn Riley
Riley, Jenn. "Planning and Implementing a Digital Library Project," Indiana LSTA Digital Project Planning Workshop, December 15, 2006, Peabody Public Library, Columbia City, IN and December 16, 2006, Porter County Public Library, Valpairaiso, IN.
Introduction to digital libraries - definitions, examples, concepts and trend...Olaf Janssen
This presentation gives an introduction to digital libraries.
It first explores different defintions of the phrase "Digital Library".
It then looks at 11 real life examples of digital library websites (slides 44-112), including Europeana, Google Books, Flickr the Commons, Delpher, Wikisource, The Memory of the Netherlands and Project Gutenberg. Each of these DLs is assessed against five different criteria (concepts, properties)
- Content/User experience
- Cultural heritage domain (libraries, archives, museums, AV-institutions)
- Controlled / run by
- Content providing parties
- User involvement
Many references are made to Web2.0-concepts from Tim O'Reilly's article http://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/web2/archive/what-is-web-20.html
From these 11x5 = 55 datapoints 6 trend plots are drawn (slides 116-166) to show "what is hot" and "what is not" in the current DL-landscape. Key slide summarizing this = no 168
Finally, some strategies for content & brand distribution of DLs are being discussed (SEO, Wikipedia, social & ego networks) , as well as some financial trends in DLs
This presentation was given by Olaf Janssen (National Library of the Netherlands - KB) as a lecture for students of the master's course "The Library" at Leiden University, most recently on 3-11-2016.
Learn the basics of this open source content management system and how you can create a robust website quickly and full of tools that will engage your users. This presentation will also focus on configuration, popular modules for libraries, and tips for best practice and ongoing maintenance.
There’s been a lot of buzz about the emergence of the Web 2.0 and how it’s changing everything that we do on the Internet. Launching the Library 2.0 looks at how library systems and services fit into this new user-centric world where dynamic Web-based tools, online communities, and the ability to personalize everything drives one’s computing environment. Come see how the Library 2.0 is being envisioned, the tools that make it work, and how it will affect everything that you do.
SAFETY NETS: RESCUE AND REVIVAL FOR ENDANGERED BORN-DIGITAL RECORDS- Program ...Micah Altman
The web is now firmly established as the primary communication and publication platform for sharing and accessing social and cultural materials. This networked world has created both opportunities and pitfalls for libraries and archives in their mission to preserve and provide ongoing access to knowledge. How can the affordances of the web be leveraged to drastically extend the plurality of representation in the archive? What challenges are imposed by the intrinsic ephemerality and mutability of online information? What methodological reorientations are demanded by the scale and dynamism of machine-generated cultural artifacts? This talk will explore the interplay of the web, contemporary historical records, and the programs, technologies, and approaches by which libraries and archives are working to extend their mission to preserve and provide access to the evidence of human activity in a world distinguished by the ubiquity of born-digital materials.
Information Science Brown Bag talks, hosted by the Program on Information Science, consists of regular discussions and brainstorming sessions on all aspects of information science and uses of information science and technology to assess and solve institutional, social and research problems. These are informal talks. Discussions are often inspired by real-world problems being faced by the lead discussant.
Web and Twitter Archiving at the Library of Congressnullhandle
Presentation given at the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) Web Archive Globalization Workshop on web and social media archiving efforts at the Library of Congress.
Has your library discussed creating a Flickr account? A MySpace teen site? Creating a blog? David discusses the current social networking transformation taking place, and applies those changes to a library setting. Then David discusses the changes a library needs to make to meet and participate in our new online, participatory world.
Microformats or: How I Learned to Write POSH and Love the Semantic WebEmily Lewis
Session for In Control Orlando, covering the basics and benefits of microformats, as well as examples and exercises to help publish microformats (XFN, hCard and hCalendar). Also includes a discussion about POSH, HTML5 and ARIA roles.
Planning and Implementing a Digital Library ProjectJenn Riley
Riley, Jenn. "Planning and Implementing a Digital Library Project," Indiana LSTA Digital Project Planning Workshop, December 15, 2006, Peabody Public Library, Columbia City, IN and December 16, 2006, Porter County Public Library, Valpairaiso, IN.
Introduction to digital libraries - definitions, examples, concepts and trend...Olaf Janssen
This presentation gives an introduction to digital libraries.
It first explores different defintions of the phrase "Digital Library".
It then looks at 11 real life examples of digital library websites (slides 44-112), including Europeana, Google Books, Flickr the Commons, Delpher, Wikisource, The Memory of the Netherlands and Project Gutenberg. Each of these DLs is assessed against five different criteria (concepts, properties)
- Content/User experience
- Cultural heritage domain (libraries, archives, museums, AV-institutions)
- Controlled / run by
- Content providing parties
- User involvement
Many references are made to Web2.0-concepts from Tim O'Reilly's article http://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/web2/archive/what-is-web-20.html
From these 11x5 = 55 datapoints 6 trend plots are drawn (slides 116-166) to show "what is hot" and "what is not" in the current DL-landscape. Key slide summarizing this = no 168
Finally, some strategies for content & brand distribution of DLs are being discussed (SEO, Wikipedia, social & ego networks) , as well as some financial trends in DLs
This presentation was given by Olaf Janssen (National Library of the Netherlands - KB) as a lecture for students of the master's course "The Library" at Leiden University, most recently on 3-11-2016.
Learn the basics of this open source content management system and how you can create a robust website quickly and full of tools that will engage your users. This presentation will also focus on configuration, popular modules for libraries, and tips for best practice and ongoing maintenance.
There’s been a lot of buzz about the emergence of the Web 2.0 and how it’s changing everything that we do on the Internet. Launching the Library 2.0 looks at how library systems and services fit into this new user-centric world where dynamic Web-based tools, online communities, and the ability to personalize everything drives one’s computing environment. Come see how the Library 2.0 is being envisioned, the tools that make it work, and how it will affect everything that you do.
SAFETY NETS: RESCUE AND REVIVAL FOR ENDANGERED BORN-DIGITAL RECORDS- Program ...Micah Altman
The web is now firmly established as the primary communication and publication platform for sharing and accessing social and cultural materials. This networked world has created both opportunities and pitfalls for libraries and archives in their mission to preserve and provide ongoing access to knowledge. How can the affordances of the web be leveraged to drastically extend the plurality of representation in the archive? What challenges are imposed by the intrinsic ephemerality and mutability of online information? What methodological reorientations are demanded by the scale and dynamism of machine-generated cultural artifacts? This talk will explore the interplay of the web, contemporary historical records, and the programs, technologies, and approaches by which libraries and archives are working to extend their mission to preserve and provide access to the evidence of human activity in a world distinguished by the ubiquity of born-digital materials.
Information Science Brown Bag talks, hosted by the Program on Information Science, consists of regular discussions and brainstorming sessions on all aspects of information science and uses of information science and technology to assess and solve institutional, social and research problems. These are informal talks. Discussions are often inspired by real-world problems being faced by the lead discussant.
Web and Twitter Archiving at the Library of Congressnullhandle
Presentation given at the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) Web Archive Globalization Workshop on web and social media archiving efforts at the Library of Congress.
Has your library discussed creating a Flickr account? A MySpace teen site? Creating a blog? David discusses the current social networking transformation taking place, and applies those changes to a library setting. Then David discusses the changes a library needs to make to meet and participate in our new online, participatory world.
Microformats or: How I Learned to Write POSH and Love the Semantic WebEmily Lewis
Session for In Control Orlando, covering the basics and benefits of microformats, as well as examples and exercises to help publish microformats (XFN, hCard and hCalendar). Also includes a discussion about POSH, HTML5 and ARIA roles.
Use of "NewGenLib" Open Source Software for Library Automation, Digital Libra...Emmanuel E C
Use of "NewGenLib" Open Source Software for Library Automation, Digital Library and Knowledge Management : An exploratory study. Demonstrates/Explores how NewGenLib an Open Source library automation tool can be exploited, used for Library automation, Information Services, Digital Libraries/Institutional Libraries and Knowledge Management
The Wellcome Trust is examining the possibility of a cloud platform for the storage and delivery of digitised artefacts. This platform is intended for the Trust's own use as well as others. A version of this presentation with embedded notes and video can be viewed on Google docs: http://bit.ly/1GRKqN4 or PowerPoint online: http://bit.ly/1CwGsrE
INNOVATION AND RESEARCH (Digital Library Information Access)Libcorpio
Innovation and research, Digital Library Information Access, LIS Education, Library and Information Science, LIS Studies, Information Management, Education and Learning, Library science, Information science, Digital Libraries, Research on Digital Libraries, DL, Innovation in libraries and publishing, Areas of Research for DL, Information Discovery, Collection Management and Preservation, Interoperability, Economic, Social and Legal Issues, Core Topics In Digital Libraries, DL Research Around The World
Integration and Filtering: Creating visibility across library resources using...Emmanuel E C
This presentation discusses on how the various resources and services of a library can be integrated on a single platform using an open sources library automation software called NewGenLib or NGL. How NGL also support, information services, knowledge Management, newsletter desinging and integration with social media platform. Discusses Discovery tool features available in NGL
Web-scale Discovery Services are becoming an integral part of libraries' information gathering arsenal. These services are able to use a single interface to seamlessly integrate results from a wide range of online sources, emulating the experience patrons have come to expect from Internet search engines. But despite their ability to streamline searching, discovery services provide a wide set of challenges for libraries who implement them. This virtual conference will touch on both the potential of discovery services as well as some of the issues involved.
The rise of Web 2.0 technologies for business, Web 2.0 applications has benefited small scale industries. We have also come across a lots of changes in few past years such as increased knowledge sharing and more effective marketing. These benefits often have a measurable effect on the business leading to high source of income and revenue exposure.
This Topic is very useful for all types of Cometetive Examiations of Library Science Students communiy.
use nd benefit ffor your bright future..Dr.Anjaiah M
Introduction
Digital Library: Concept and Definition
Characteristics of Digital Library
Advantages and Disadvantages of Digital Library
Digital / Electronic Resources
Digitization and Preservation
IPR and DRM Issues of Digital Resources
Digital Library initiatives in India
Rapid progress in information technology and electronic communications in the last few decades have profound impact on the way we gather, store, disseminate and consume information. Methodologies and tools for converting information to knowledge have also been very successful. All these have put a lot of pressure on traditional content storehouses like libraries to harness the new technologies for the benefits of their users.
Since Universities around the world own most of these libraries, they have been trying to embrace these newer technologies and have devised suitable methods that are beneficial to their users. They have created a new category of content called e-resources out of all forms of electronic documents and media. In the last few years, investments in these e-resources have increased many folds. Groups of universities have come together to collaboratively address the situation. In many cases, including India, Governments have also funded much of these efforts.
There are parallel efforts of creating additional knowledge resources by individuals for the consumption of individuals. In fact, the volume of effort in this area has been so large that lot of younger people are beginning to break away from traditional library and university system and greatly depend on these open sources. Proliferation of sources like Google, YouTube, Edx, Moocs and ResearchGate have been nothing short of explosive and has perhaps created the largest knowledge democracy.
In this talk, we look at the much of these developments, their implications and discuss a few use cases.
We have also suggested an architecture based on contemporary IT scenarios that will help to plan and setup an e-Resources infrastructure in a University that may be making efforts to either start it or upgrade their existing setup.
The talk concludes by suggesting a few areas of cooperation between the Universities and creating a scale that can dominate in the area of spreading validated information and create a widely spread knowledge-based society.
E learning platforms and mobile technologyH Anil Kumar
Opening remarks by Chairperson of the session on E-learning platforms and mobile technology. The remarks are in the context of relevance of e-learning and mobile technology for a country like India.
Read| The latest issue of The Challenger is here! We are thrilled to announce that our school paper has qualified for the NATIONAL SCHOOLS PRESS CONFERENCE (NSPC) 2024. Thank you for your unwavering support and trust. Dive into the stories that made us stand out!
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
Embracing GenAI - A Strategic ImperativePeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
Instructions for Submissions thorugh G- Classroom.pptxJheel Barad
This presentation provides a briefing on how to upload submissions and documents in Google Classroom. It was prepared as part of an orientation for new Sainik School in-service teacher trainees. As a training officer, my goal is to ensure that you are comfortable and proficient with this essential tool for managing assignments and fostering student engagement.
Unit 8 - Information and Communication Technology (Paper I).pdfThiyagu K
This slides describes the basic concepts of ICT, basics of Email, Emerging Technology and Digital Initiatives in Education. This presentations aligns with the UGC Paper I syllabus.
The French Revolution, which began in 1789, was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France. It marked the decline of absolute monarchies, the rise of secular and democratic republics, and the eventual rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. This revolutionary period is crucial in understanding the transition from feudalism to modernity in Europe.
For more information, visit-www.vavaclasses.com
Biological screening of herbal drugs: Introduction and Need for
Phyto-Pharmacological Screening, New Strategies for evaluating
Natural Products, In vitro evaluation techniques for Antioxidants, Antimicrobial and Anticancer drugs. In vivo evaluation techniques
for Anti-inflammatory, Antiulcer, Anticancer, Wound healing, Antidiabetic, Hepatoprotective, Cardio protective, Diuretics and
Antifertility, Toxicity studies as per OECD guidelines
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
5. Is this the library of the future?
By Megan Lane
BBC News Online
• The word library is set to fade from our
vocabulary - but not because we've fallen out
of love with books. Today's libraries are
being made over as "idea stores", complete
with cafés, crèches and multi-media
offerings.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/2859845.stm
14. Librarianship
• Users (Needs)
– Identifying and seeking continuously
– Designing, delivering and managing services
– Matching or facilitating access
– Interaction
VALUE TO THE USER
17. Technologies in Libraries
• Library automation packages
– CDS/ ISIS, Libsys, Liberty, VTLS, etc
– Open Source like KOHA, New
Genlib,LearningAccess ILS, etc
• Storage
– PCs, Floppy disks, CDs / DVDs / etc
– Pen drives, Portable HDs, Blu Ray Disk
• Identification
– Barcode, Tattle-tape, RFID, Biometric, etc
18.
19. Technologies in Libraries
• Information capture
– Key board, Scanner, Digital Cameras,
Mobiles, etc
• Network
– Client-server, P2P, Internet
• Databases
– Books, articles, reports, aggregators,
publishers, IRs
20. Technologies in Libraries
• Information retrieval
– Simple OPAC to Federated searches like a package tour – articles, books,
videos, teachers lectures, diagrams, etc
– Seamless integration of various sources
– Remote login / VPN
• User need not worry where the information is located
• Online Usage statistics
• User customized displays
• User Identification is simpler and secure
21. Technologies in Libraries
• Features
– Storage
– Speed
– Ease of use
– Handling large volumes of information
– Interoperability
– Integration
22. Technologies in Libraries
• Networking or connecting technologies is easier
– Open Standards - well defined interface
– Componentization developments
– Service oriented convergence
• Wireless
• Mobile
• Integration of Capture – Store – Authenticate –
Retrieve
• Location and distances don’t matter for access
23. Emerging Trends - Technologies
• Technologies that will enable the development of
Collaboration, Next Generation Architecture and Real World
Web are highlighted as being particularly significant.
– Collaboration
• Peer to Peer (P2P)
• Desktop Search
• Podcasting
• Really Simple Syndication (RSS)
• Corporate Blogging
• Wikis
Gartner Highlights
24. Emerging Trends - Technologies
• Next Generation Architecture
– Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
– Web Services-Enabled Business Models
– Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL)
– Business Process Platforms (BPP)
• Real World Web
– Location-aware applications
– Radio Frequency Identification
– Mesh Networks — Sensor
Gartner Highlights
25. P2P
• A sharing and delivery of user specified files among groups of
people who are logged on to a file sharing network. Napster
was the first mainstream P2P software that enabled large scale
file sharing.
www.mp3-cdburner.com/MP3-glossary.shtml
• Peer-to-peer networking (P2P) is an application that runs on a
personal computer and shares files with other users across the
Internet. P2P networks work by connecting individual
computers together to share files instead of having to go
through a central server.
www.netalert.net.au/01990-Glossary.asp
Emerging Trends - Technologies
26. Desktop Search
• Desktop search is the name for the emerging field of search
tools which search the contents of a user's own computer files,
rather than searching the Internet. The emphasis is on data
mining all the information that is available on the user's PC,
including web browser histories, e-mail archives, word-
processor documents, and so on.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_search
Emerging Trends - Technologies
27. Podcasting
• Podcasting, a portmanteau of Apple's "iPod" and
"broadcasting", is a method of publishing files to the Internet,
allowing users to subscribe to a feed and receive new files
automatically by subscription, usually at no cost. It first
became popular in late 2004, used largely for audio files.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasting
• Podcasting entails audio content that is delivered via an RSS
feed presenting a downloadable or streaming file (often mp3).
Emerging Trends - Technologies
28. Blogs
• A weblog (usually shortened to blog, but occasionally spelled
web log) is a web-based publication consisting primarily of
periodic articles (normally in reverse chronological order).
• Although most early weblogs were manually updated, tools to
automate the maintenance of such sites made them accessible
to a much larger population, and the use of some sort of
browser-based software is now a typical aspect of "blogging".
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogs
Emerging Trends - Technologies
29. Wikis
• A wiki (pronounced , or ; see Pronunciation below) is a web
application that allows users to add content, as on an Internet
forum, but also allows anyone to edit the content. Wiki also
refers to the collaborative software used to create such a
website (see Wiki software).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikis
Emerging Trends - Technologies
30. RSS
• RSS is a family of XML file formats for web syndication used by
news websites and weblogs. They are used to provide items
containing short descriptions of web content together with a link to
the full version of the content. This information is delivered as an
XML file called RSS feed, webfeed, RSS stream, or RSS channel.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(protocol)
• (Rich Site Summary or RDF [Resource Description Framework] Site
Summary). An XML format for sharing content among different
Web sites such as news items. How does it work? A Web site can
allow other sites to publish some of its content by creating an RSS
document and registers the document with an RSS publisher. A
web publisher can post a link to the rss feed so users can read the
distributed content on his/her site. ...
mason.gmu.edu/~montecin/netterms.htm
Emerging Trends - Technologies
31. Emerging Trends - User Environment
Instant messaging
SMS
MMS
Blogs
Social networking sites
a very different communication environment forcing librarians
to rethink their communication strategies
32. Emerging trends - Internet
• Beyond connectivity and bandwidth
• Social networking – Orkut, facebook, myspace, etc
• Blogs
• Sharing of files and information
– Open access
– IR
• No physical carrying of files
– Mail sites
– Box.net
– Mediamax.com
• Personal information management
– Del.icio.us – similicio.us
– Google – desktop search, earth, scholar, video, organiser, biorythm,
news, etc
• Simple / interesting tools
– Google pages
– Chacha.com
– Deep web – closerlook, northernlights
– stumbleupon
– cuil
33. Emerging trends - management
• Space – digital and physical
• SUSHI - standardised usage statistics
harvesting initiative
• Archiving Institutional Knowledge
• Outsourcing
• Lib 2.0
• Long Tail
34. Lib 2.0
• Any service, physical or virtual that
successfully reaches users, is evaluated
frequently and makes use of customer input
is a Library 2.0 service.
• Library 2.0 will be a meeting place, online or
in the physical world, where [library users’]
needs will be fulfilled through entertainment,
information and the ability to create (their)
own stuff to contribute to the ocean of
content out there.
Library 2.0 by Michael E. Casey and L.C. Savastinuk – www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6365200.html
36. Long Tail
• 80 – 20 principle (Pareto)
• Chris Anderson “The Long Tail” in Wired
magazine (10/05)
• Selling fewer of a larger variety of objects to
more people than a brick-and-mortar store
• Amazon will have more than just best sellers
(20%)
• Libraries follow this for time immemorial as
they would not have survived otherwise
Serving the Niche: Katherine Mossman – www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6349032.html
37. Long Tail
• Best sellers drive the demand for towards
special interests like ‘read-alike lists’ ‘books
bought by buyer who bought this book’
• Net facilitates this for libraries like
‘whatdoireadnext.com’
• Filters technology or slick technology
– People or software that help you find what you
want in the long tail, driving demand from hits to
niches
• Amazon makes more money in niche items
rather than best sellers
Serving the Niche: Katherine Mossman – www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6349032.html
38. Long Tail: Eight lessons
• Be responsive to your customers
• Locate, define and reach underserved
• Find ways to solve all problems related to access
• Librarians are not information brokers but
information filters
• You can compete with free
• Embrace the paradox that internet (google, wiki) is
our competitor and also not our competitor
• Capitalize on all types of service points, ‘real’ and
‘virtual’ to the patrons greatest end
• Using Google for research is like “working for less
than minimum wages”
Serving the Niche: Katherine Mossman – www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6349032.html
39. Challenges & Opportunities
• Open Access
• Legal Issues (DMCA,..)
• Reading Space
• Indian Reading habits NOP Index
• Institutional Repositories
40. Watching TV Listening to Radio Reading
Computer/Internet
(Not for Work)***
16.6 (Av.) 13.3 8.0 (Av.) 4.1 6.5 (Av.) 8.9
(Av.)
7.9
Mean
Hours
Mean
Hours
Mean
Hours
Mean
Hours
Thailand 22.4 Argentina 20.8 India 10.7 Taiwan 12.6
Philippines 21.0 Brazil 17.2 Thailand 9.4 Thailand 11.7
Egypt 20.9 South Africa 15.0 China 8.0 Spain 11.5
Turkey 20.2 Czech
Republic
13.5 Philippines 7.6 Hungary 10.9
Indonesia 19.7 Thailand 13.3 Egypt 7.5 China 10.8
USA 19.0 Turkey 13.3 Czech
Republic
7.4 Hong
Kong
10.7
Taiwan 18.9 Poland 12.5 Russia 7.1 Poland 10.6
Brazil 18.4 Hungary 12.1 Sweden 6.9 Turkey 10.6
U.K. 18.0 Germany 11.5 France 6.9 Brazil 10.5
Japan 17.9 Australia 11.3 Hungary 6.8 Egypt 10.3
http://www.nopworld.com/news.asp?go=news_item&key=179
41. • Resources’ Usage and Usage Evaluation
• Library Users – virtual users –interact with the
profiles
• Seamless integration
• Information Literacy and Personal Counseling
• Professional Management
Challenges & Opportunities
