Tuesday, March 18, 2014

ricklibrarian: Technology's Future at Public Libraries: Staying R...

ricklibrarian: Technology's Future at Public Libraries: Staying R...: Most of the news is good when it comes to technology and libraries, according to the latest report from the Pew Internet and American Life P...
3 levels of knowledge service maturity



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Friday, February 21, 2014

Best Bibliographic and Citation Tools


Bibliogo is unlike any other literature acquisition and management tool for Life Science and Engineering professionals and the companies they work for.
With Bibliogo, individuals and workgroups follow, obtain, organize and collaborate around scientific and technical papers in ways they never thought possible.
Their companies also benefit from lower content acquisition costs, improved intellectual property protection, and reduced regulatory and copyright compliance risk.





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Research Tools: Detailed information

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Qiqqa is award winning Research and PDF Management Software.

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Sunday, February 16, 2014

Rāmamālā Library Manuscript project, Bangladesh

The Rāmamālā Library Project is a small pilot project sponsored by the British Library's Endangered Archive Programme, with additional support from the University of Pennsylvania's Department of Religious Studies and the Schoenberg Center for Manuscript Studies.




Limitations and ethical implications of digitizing medieval manuscripts
Digital technologies have found a use in almost every aspect of scholarly research and communication. Though the Internet proves advantageous by increasing access, it can also be detrimental to researchers. By solely encountering medieval manuscripts through a computer screen, users sacrifice the visceral experience that accompanies viewing the actual manuscript. This article seeks to identify limitations and ethical implications encountered when digitizing medieval manuscripts.
Library Student Journal: April (2011)
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Wednesday, February 12, 2014

The Mission of Librarians is to Empower

Librarians empower:
  • Individuals – Librarians help individuals gain new knowledge, answer questions, access expensive resources, use computer networks, and so many other things that help them to realize more of their personal potential.
  • Organizations – Librarians make organizations more effective by providing the information services they need to use their human and physical resources to their fullest potential.
  • Communities – Librarians create and manage community resources that make communities more powerful and resilient.
  • Society – Librarians collect, manage, preserve, and provide access to the resources required for individuals to contribute to society as informed citizens regardless of their financial resources or social status within the community.
Librarians empower by :
  • Increasing knowledge – This is perhaps what we are best known for — providing the books and articles and other resources that our users need to increase their knowledge.
  • Providing access to tools – Libraries have frequently branched out to providing access to tools, whether it be a popular tool lending library or more recently in-house access to expensive 3D printers.
  • Providing access to networks – Since shortly after the Internet came into the collective consciousness, libraries have been front-and-center in providing access to this network to those who couldn’t afford access to it at home. And we still are.
  • Assisting in skill development – With the economic crash in recent years libraries have been the “go to” place to reskill and find a new job. This role will likely only increase in the future, and we’ve even seen a public library recently offer a way for high school dropouts to earn their diploma. Where there’s a gap in services to help people to get ahead, you often see librarians stepping in to fill the void.
  • Add your method here – Society evolves, and librarians evolve with it. Although those of us on the front lines of adoption didn’t feel this way at the time, librarians actually flocked to the Internet much faster and in greater numbers than many professions did. Just look at Realtors® if you don’t believe me. So I have great confidence in the ability of librarians to adapt and to continue to offer services that our users find compelling.


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Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Taylor & Francis Roadshow on 15 November 2013

Unravelling the New Age Library, Looking into the Future at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi was a very well organised event from T&F. Invited speakers were Dr Ramesh Gaud and Dr Yogendra Singh

Photo link.

Taylor & Francis also released IGNITE newsletter for librarians in South Asia. This quarterly bulletin aims to bring you news on Journals and Online Resources from Taylor & Francis and around the world.


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Friday, November 1, 2013

E-journals

Providing links to the world's electronic journals: 

  LIBLICENSE Web site provides resources (including model license language and detailed discussion of licensing terms) through an extensive series of links and menus

Electronic journal From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Academic journal From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Scientific journal From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Directory of Open Access Journalshttp://www.doaj.org/doajImages/doaj.jpg

  http://www.indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx

Anna University EJornals http://www.annauniv.edu/Library/digi_ejournal.html

Model standard licenses for use by publishers, librarians and subscription agents for electronic resources http://www.licensingmodels.com/

E-journal Consortium: Is it a Success Story Always? http://www.publications.drdo.gov.in/ojs/index.php/djlit/article/view/10/545


LIBRARY CAPACITY BUILDING THROUGH E - JOURNAL
CONSORTIA: THE INDIAN SCENARIO http://dspace.iimk.ac.in/bitstream/2259/249/1/

Library Consortia: benefits and models of E-journals Consortia

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Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Bookmarks


  1. Altmetrics are new metrics proposed as an alternative to the widely used Journal Impact Factor and personal citation indices like the H-index. The term altmetrics was proposed in 2010, as a generalization of article level metrics, and has its roots in the twitter #altmetrics hashtag. Although altmetrics are often thought of as metrics about articles, they can be applied to people, journals, books, data sets, presentations, videos, source code repositories, web pages, etc. Altmetrics cover not just citation counts, but also other aspects of the impact of a work, such as how many data and knowledge bases refer to it, article views, downloads, or mentions in social media and news media.
  2. Bibliographic Mangement Tools. :  thers JabRef, Refbase,RefBB, , RefWorks, reference manger, EndNote (paid)CitaviMendeleyZotero
  3. Keep, share, and discover the best of the Web using Delicious, the world's leading social bookmarking service.
  4. Feedly is a news aggregator application for various Web browsers and mobile devices running iOS andAndroid, also available as a cloud-based service. It compiles news feeds from a variety of online sources for the user to customize and share with others. Feedly was first released by DevHD in 2008. Others Yahoo..
  5. Google Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your queries.
  6. Google Docs: Online collaboration Tool
  7. LibraryThing A place to catalogue your books [desidoc]
  8. RSSOwl is a free and powerful news feed reader. RSSOwl lets you gather, organize and search news in a convenient, easy to use interface with endless flexibility.
  9. Surveys at Survey monkey
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By Boyana Konforti, PhD | Posted on 22 May 2013
Insider tips on ‘telling and selling’ your story by the editor of Cell Reports
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