The document discusses a workshop on creating simple resource discovery systems for libraries to compete with Google. It summarizes presentations that highlighted students' reliance on quick online searches and lack of information literacy skills, and the need for library systems to incorporate features like Google to make resources easier for students to find. Several university libraries demonstrated new systems using tags and relevance ranking to simplify searching across library resources.
Transformation of library and information science: Resources, services and pr...Nabi Hasan
Transformation of Libraries
Role of Librarian: Traditional Vs in eEnvironment
Emerging and Innovative Library Resources, Services and Products
Upgrading Professional competencies
Importance of Five Laws in eReading environment
Is there a need of Libraries and Librarians in the current digital era?
How to be a Smart Librarian by Smart Involvements
Summing up
Script at http://www.bohyunkim.net/blog/archives/3215
Recording at http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/60105499
The closing keynote for the 2015 Library Technology Conference at St. Paul, MN at March 19, 2015. http://libtechconf.org/ #LTC2015
Technology Trends in Libraries - Today & TomorrowRachel Vacek
This presentation discusses the basic concepts of Web 2.0 and how they are being used in libraries. It provides examples of these concepts, and emphasizes that over the next several years, the concepts of Web 2.0 (collaboration, participation, tagging, community, etc.) will only grow, but the actual technologies themselves will change.
Presented August 6, 2007 at the Florida Library Association and Panhandle Library Access Network Unconference, 'Web 2.0 and Library 2.0: Up Close and Personal.'
Transformation of library and information science: Resources, services and pr...Nabi Hasan
Transformation of Libraries
Role of Librarian: Traditional Vs in eEnvironment
Emerging and Innovative Library Resources, Services and Products
Upgrading Professional competencies
Importance of Five Laws in eReading environment
Is there a need of Libraries and Librarians in the current digital era?
How to be a Smart Librarian by Smart Involvements
Summing up
Script at http://www.bohyunkim.net/blog/archives/3215
Recording at http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/60105499
The closing keynote for the 2015 Library Technology Conference at St. Paul, MN at March 19, 2015. http://libtechconf.org/ #LTC2015
Technology Trends in Libraries - Today & TomorrowRachel Vacek
This presentation discusses the basic concepts of Web 2.0 and how they are being used in libraries. It provides examples of these concepts, and emphasizes that over the next several years, the concepts of Web 2.0 (collaboration, participation, tagging, community, etc.) will only grow, but the actual technologies themselves will change.
Presented August 6, 2007 at the Florida Library Association and Panhandle Library Access Network Unconference, 'Web 2.0 and Library 2.0: Up Close and Personal.'
Emerging Technologies in the Workplace For Quality ServiceFe Angela Verzosa
presented at the Seminar on the theme “Basics and Beyond Librarianship: Towards a Compleat Librarian,” held at Holy Angel University, Angeles, Pampanga on September 9, 2009
Emerging Technologies in the Workplace For Quality ServiceFe Angela Verzosa
presented at the Seminar on the theme “Basics and Beyond Librarianship: Towards a Compleat Librarian,” held at Holy Angel University, Angeles, Pampanga on September 9, 2009
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ACTIVATING LIBRARY 2.0
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MEDA 5950
Renee Lyons
Activating Library 2.0: A Research Proposal
INTRODUCTION
The continually evolving role of the library in communities and schools calls for regular reevaluation of the the library's approach to fulfilling that role. One of the most .
Managing user queries using cloud services: KAUST library experienceRindra Ramli
The provision of reference and information services are one of the major activities for academic libraries. Answering questions and providing relevant and timely answers for library users are just one of such services. Questions come in many format: in person, phone, email and even on social media platforms. The type of questions may also differ from simple, directional to complicated ones. One of the challenges for libraries is the capturing and managing of these inquiries. Libraries need to address some of these points: • How the questions will be captured • How the questions will be answered • Who will answer these questions • What is the turn-around time for answering these questions • What kind of statistics to monitor • How are these statistics communicated to internal library staff and other stakeholders This paper describe the initiatives undertaken by KAUST, a brand new Graduate Research Library located in Saudi Arabia. This initiatives include the implementation of LibAnswers to assist the library in capturing and managing all inquiries. We are tracking inquiries coming in via email or widgets (such as online form), converting received questions into FAQ entries, creating and maintaining a public knowledge base for our users. In addition, it will also describe future plans in store to expand reference services for our library users.
Digital Libraries à la Carte 2009
Tilburg University, the Netherlands, 28 July - 5 August 2009.
"Virtual Research Environments and the Librarian" presented by Judith Wusteman,
UCD School of Information and Library Studies, Ireland
Evolving content for mobile delivery report march 2011m-libraries
Evolving content for mobile delivery summary workshop report March 2011 by Gill Needham Associate Director (Information Management & Innovation) the Open Univeristy
Presentation to Oregon State staff and librarians during a visit in July 2011. Topic focuses on changes in the library environment and what needs to shift in our conversations about those changes.
A presentation delivered at the ER&L (Electronic Resources and Libraries) conference in Atlanta, March 2008. It looks at the potential of collaborative technologies and practices that could transform the management of electronic resources, particularly e-journals, in libraries today.
http://www.inforum.cz/en/
This presentation provides an overview of causes why library and information services are fading out of sight for most user groups and how these users and their expectations have changed without us realizing. It contains a strong plea for a focus shift for librarians, but in fact also for companies and organisations. A focus into the environments where the users are, instead of expecting them to come to us, or our resources. Exploration of all relevant user environments for your organization, the use of new web-based technologies with Web 2.0 elements and certainly a more structural technical re-design of (library) information systems is required to deliver your services and resources at the place of need. A simple short-term solution like a QuickSearch Library Toolbar is explained, several other tools to “enrich” the user’s personal search environment, as well as the more long-term ongoing work at the Libraries of the University of Groningen and the Central Medical Library of the University Medical Center Groningen.
Day 3: Introduction to Information LiteracyBuffy Hamilton
Objectives: 1. To explore and evaluate traditional and uthoritative database information sources. 2. To explore and utilize strategies to effectively use traditional and emerging search engines for information. 3. To explore and evaluate how emerging Web 2.0 tools can be used as sources of information. 4. To explore the merits and drawbacks to collaboratively created open sources of information such as Wikipedia.
I recently had the pleasure of presenting at a Pearson conference on e-books about the opportunities and challenges this emergent technology represents.
This presentation covers seven key areas.
1. A little context
2. Caution - emergent technology
3. What are e-books anyway?
4. pro’s & con’s (according to the evidence)
5. e-book features
6. Teaching and learning (new pedagogies)
7. What can you do?
8. What does the future hold for e-books?
Please share your views using the comments function or by getting in touch.
This presentation provides a glimps of the special collections at the Newsam Library which is part of the UCL Institute of Education. It focuses on resources that reflect education during the two World Wars.
The presentation was given at the Bloomsbury Learning Environment's Symposium on 'Digital Literacy for Teaching, Learning and Research' on Feb. 14th 2014.
A presentation at the IOE's Teaching and Learning Conference by Nazlin Bhimani and Richard Freeman. Here we map the current provision for researcher development at the IOE using vitae's RDF.
Synthetic Fiber Construction in lab .pptxPavel ( NSTU)
Synthetic fiber production is a fascinating and complex field that blends chemistry, engineering, and environmental science. By understanding these aspects, students can gain a comprehensive view of synthetic fiber production, its impact on society and the environment, and the potential for future innovations. Synthetic fibers play a crucial role in modern society, impacting various aspects of daily life, industry, and the environment. ynthetic fibers are integral to modern life, offering a range of benefits from cost-effectiveness and versatility to innovative applications and performance characteristics. While they pose environmental challenges, ongoing research and development aim to create more sustainable and eco-friendly alternatives. Understanding the importance of synthetic fibers helps in appreciating their role in the economy, industry, and daily life, while also emphasizing the need for sustainable practices and innovation.
Exploiting Artificial Intelligence for Empowering Researchers and Faculty, In...Dr. Vinod Kumar Kanvaria
Exploiting Artificial Intelligence for Empowering Researchers and Faculty,
International FDP on Fundamentals of Research in Social Sciences
at Integral University, Lucknow, 06.06.2024
By Dr. Vinod Kumar Kanvaria
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.
How to Make a Field invisible in Odoo 17Celine George
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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.
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
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A review of the growth of the Israel Genealogy Research Association Database Collection for the last 12 months. Our collection is now passed the 3 million mark and still growing. See which archives have contributed the most. See the different types of records we have, and which years have had records added. You can also see what we have for the future.
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
Normal Labour/ Stages of Labour/ Mechanism of LabourWasim Ak
Normal labor is also termed spontaneous labor, defined as the natural physiological process through which the fetus, placenta, and membranes are expelled from the uterus through the birth canal at term (37 to 42 weeks
This slide is special for master students (MIBS & MIFB) in UUM. Also useful for readers who are interested in the topic of contemporary Islamic banking.
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Libraries competing with Google
1. “How to compete with Google: Simple Resource Discovery Systems for Libraries”
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Report on the JIBS User Group Workshop, 13 November 2008
The idea for this workshop was sparked by a recent discussion on the 'lis-infoliteracy' list: Is
information literacy training essential for students to get the best out of their library resources or
should we just be making our resource discovery systems easier to use?
“Compared with academic studies, opinion and anecdotal evidence would have you believe that
Internet is the answer to everything - the first port of call for information, communicating with
and making friends. Multi- tasking in an electronic environment disguises poor information-
seeking skills”. (Martin Wolf, University of Liverpool Lis-infoliteracy email discussion list 2/1/
2008)
The morning was given to papers and the afternoon to demonstrations of ‘one stop shop’
software that showed how HE libraries were competing with Google. The day began with
presentations by Maggie Fieldhouse, Lecturer at University College London and Mark
Hepworth, Senior Lecturer at the University of Loughborough. Maggie Fieldhouse summarised
the findings of the CIBER Report which was commissioned by the British Library and JISC
early this year (Information behaviour of the researcher of the future: a CIBER briefing paper
(http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slais/research/ciber/downloads/) and both the research presented in the
CIBER report and Hepworth’s paper concluded that despite all that the internet offered, there
was a dire need for information skills training in HE – for both students and academics. The
following is a summary of the papers presented by Fieldhouse and Hepworth.
The two quotes from the CIBER report indicate the findings of the report:
“ We know that younger scholars especially have only a very limited knowledge of the many
Library sponsored services that are on offer to them. The problem is one of both raising
awareness of this expensive and valuable content and making the interfaces much more standard
and easier to use”.
“This discussion points to an interesting dilemma, certainly for H.E. librarians, that strikes at
the heart of our dual roles as service providers and, increasingly, educators. As service
providers we want our electronic services to be as simple to use as possible, minimising the
barriers between users and information. As educators, we want students (and academics!) to be
able to distinguish critically between different types of information”. (CIBER Report Executive
Summary, p. 30)
The Cyber report suggests that the information seeking behaviour of library users, including that
of researchers and academics has been conditioned by emails and executive summaries, i.e.,
digested ‘bytes’ of information. Most users view content online for less than two minutes. They
2. all want quick wins or print out longer articles that are never get read. “Power browsing, i.e.
devouring titles, contents, pages, abstracts, horizontal scanning, flicking/channel hopping are the
norm” (CIBER, p. 31). Massive choice of content encourages this bouncing behaviour. Users
are generally spending longer finding content than reading it. This type of information seeking
behaviour has resulted in a trivialisation of information and a false sense of confidence and often
results in little deep understanding or learning taking place.
What are the implications of this trivialisation of information – especially in the self-directed
learning landscape? Could all this be true: Users have a false sense of confidence, a lack of
cognitive or metal understanding of the structure of the web, a lack of understanding of how
search engines work and an inability to select identify search terms or keywords? Users tend to
use of natural language or a random conversational style language which results in an inaccurate
list of hits that may not be relevant or useful. And yet there is a blinding trust in what is found
on Google. This is how most users come to us when they begin their higher education studies.
Many have developed these coping skills – getting by as they have not been taught information
literacy skills on how to develop the search capabilities appropriate to the demands of HE and
research. They are further in the habit of cutting and pasting and have little notion of the
copyright implications of what they are doing.
Fieldhouse questioned whether we are heading for a world of ‘eminent’ researchers who rely on
information from ‘Wikipedia’ or contacts on ‘Facebook’ or ‘LinkedIn’ rather than ‘Science
Direct’ and who write blogs rather than essays. There is little planned research as ‘quick
answers to difficult questions’ is the underlying strategy used by most students. Many students
do not know or understand the importance of evaluating the information resources they come
across. They do not know if the information is from a serious refereed work or may be
composed of shallow ideas. The 2002 PEW report (http://www.pewinternet.org) found that
61% of internet users perceive the internet as a library. Huge quantities of information are
ignored by web crawlers. Google Scholar may list links to academic sources, but access is
denied and users are often asked to pay for material. There is a lack of understanding of how
search engines work and the commercial gains these search engines make. Common search
failures are a result of spelling mistakes, a poor understanding of their information needs which
lead to problems developing search strategies and generating alternative terms such as
synonyms, alternative spellings, inability to formulate queries, inability to identify multiple
concepts which all result in incorrect or skewed results. The common user experience is too
much, too little, not relevant, not knowing where to go and not knowing how systems work, not
being familiar with the domain.
What resources do academics use and how? Are they entrenched in using a narrow range of
tools or are they receptive to new ones? Are we guilty of the same behaviour? These are all
interesting questions and ones worth exploring if we want to find out who our users are and how
we can gear our service to fit these needs. Fieldhouse suggests that HE libraries should be
investing in finding out more about our users’ information seeking behaviours, how they access
or want to access library resources, how we can make content easier to use and have systems that
are as intuitive to use as Google. We need to address the complexity of search interfaces and the
inconsistency of terminology, search functions and refining mechanisms across different
3. platforms. This is how commercial organisations such as supermarkets operate. Why are
academic libraries not doing the same?
Both Fieldhouse and Hepworth questioned why Library Management Software (LMS) suppliers
have not used the advances in technology and created systems that incorporate Web 2.0 features.
This has resulted in libraries purchasing add-on software packages to compete with Google.
However, even federated searching is old hat now as it distinguishes between catalogues,
electronic journals and other resources. Both speakers (and later the presenters) suggested that
the time had come to make a return on investment for the decades spent creating good quality
catalogue records because many of the new technologies depend on the ‘richness’ of the record,
i.e. the metadata (the richer the descriptions of the information objects, the more that can be
extracted). Used in the appropriate way, Web 2.0 features such as tag clouds and faceted
classifications allow different views and enable refining, i.e. narrowing down or broadening a
search.
The afternoon was spent looking at how some university libraries are using Simple Resource
Discovery Systems (SRDS) to compete with Google and promote their libraries. The four
systems demonstrated were: Exlibris’ PRIMO (University of East Anglia), ENCORE (Glasgow
University), ELIN (University of Portsmouth and University of Bath – both require user signon
to access their SRDS) and AQUABROWSER (University of Edinburgh). These SRDS use Web
2.0 functionalities so results are listed by relevance, there is no differentiation of media, they
allow refinements, use tag clouds, suggest possibilities, spellings, etc. The appendix to this report
has a summary of the key points from three of the presentations these products and some screen
shots showing how the products are being used in HE libraries in the UK. ELIN has not been
included as there were some serious concerns about the lack of support and documentation.
Of the SRDS demonstrated in the afternoon, I believe Aquabrowser it is the least expensive and
would consider it as it has been proven to work with Webfeat (which Edinburgh have also
purchased). However, I expect that the SRDS demonstrated at JIBS will evolve and become
more sophisticated. Users should be able to see if an item is available in the library from the top
screen (i.e. without having to click on a link) and also to be able to export references into
RefWorks/End Note, Zotero, CiteULike, etc.
Nazlin Bhimani
School Liaison Manager
EIS & iWBL
November 2008
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