The International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries 2005 (ICADL 2005), held in Bangkok, Thailand, 12–15 December 2005, was the 8th in a series of annual international conferences organized by digital library researchers in Asia. ICADL was set up to facilitate and stimulate the exchange of digital library research, information, and technology in the Asian region while also functioning as …
Purpose – Research, spanning half a century, points to the critical role of school administration and to the successful implementation of US government policies and programs. In part these findings reflect the times and a US educational governance system characterized by local control, a constitutionallyconstrained federal government, resource-poor state governments, and an overall system …
Librarianship is concerned with the activities to be performed in libraries in order to achieve the mission of providing right information to the right user at the right time. Only competent persons who had got some training related to the libraries can do the job efficiently and effectively. This need of training laid foundations of library science profession. Present paper highlights the n…
Abstract This paper attempts to examine the Concept of School Library its aims and functions, it also identified materials in a functional school library to include print and non-print materials such as, fictions, text books, reference books, periodicals and non print materials. It identified the problems of school library to include inadequate staffing, lack of information materials, infras…
This study aims at evaluating the services that libraries offer to the students of library and information management, measuring the extent to which these services are used from the students’ point of view as well as evaluating the adequacy of the practical training for them. In the course of this study, two hypotheses were tested. The first one focused on the compatibility between the se…
In terms of information access, the internet and the World Wide Web hold forth a historically unique chance for African universities to gain a more equal footing with their sister institutions in the West, yet most African universities are many years, possibly decades, away from reliable, robust ICT and adequate bandwidth. This paper will examine the ways in which the dearth and expense of band…
Abstract: This paper discusses steps taken by the author who served as a volunteer librarian in WOREM theological institute to train and equip clerics/participants who were students of the institute with library, literacy and research skills to enable them impact their community and harness religious historical data. It was discovered from an earlier research on clergy information needs tha…
Abstract: In many a developing world context like Uganda’s, evidence - literacy among legislators had been poor for many years. This had left both legislative debates and decision-making processes in Parliament to be driven more by personal opinion and political sentiments, rather than objective facts and empirical evidence. The introduction, however, of a pioneering and innovate Legislat…
Abstract: “Knowledge without boundaries” is an EIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries) motto that we are following. We have overcome these boundaries by “driving” information to the farmers’ yards in the villages in Macedonia. This paper presents the activities and outcomes of the project Library on wheels (Infobus) - library at will of the farmers. This mobile library provid…
Abstract: With 96,000 manuscripts, 20,000 incunabula, and more than 160,000 rare books of the 16th century, the Bavarian State Library is one of the major institutions for written cultural heritage worldwide. Huge parts of these unique collections are digitized and freely available for research and study. They contain vast amounts of images of immense value to researchers and students in ar…
Abstract: This paper aims to explore the attitudes of librarians towards the important of subject librarians in the Science and Technology libraries of Sri Lanka especially this study analyses the need for subject specialization to provide excellent services and to identify the challenges associated with the recruitment of subject librarians. A survey was carried out among 120 Sri Lanka Sc…
Abstract: This paper examines the library users, collections and the services of various agricultural university libraries and research institutes in India on various parameters and the role of apex bodies of Indian agricultural development such as Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) and Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) in shaping the…
Abstract: Resource sharing is a concept which includes many cooperative activities between libraries and other information centers. Advent of IT and ICT’s have opened up new opportunities for greater cooperation. So digital interactions, collaborative approaches to digital repositories, providing Content Consortiums and other practical experiences for sharing resources are promising deve…
Abstract: Health literacy and health information literacy have been identified as essential to achieving a healthy society and an informed and empowered citizenry.1,2,3 Librarians, particularly health sciences librarians, have long embraced health information literacy whole-heartedly,4 but health literacy has also been adopted as a concern of clinical medicine and public health. Librarians …
Abstract: The recent growth of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) has led to discussions of technology-based instruction revolutionizing traditional higher-education teaching. Here we analyze the origin of MOOCs, as well as trends in education initiated by these courses, and compare them with OpenCourseWare (OCW), YouTube EDU, iTunes U. Specifically, this paper will discuss the opportunit…
Abstract: Documentation of multimedia art requires extensive analysis. To ensure contextual understanding and recognition the need for systematization is high. This work examines the use of CIDOC CRM for semantic documentation of real-time audiovisual art. Documentation of audiovisual art is a challenge due to the variety of formats and content. Standardized metadata and frameworks to describe…
Abstract: This paper gives a brief history, status and analysis of users and contexts of use of the National Bibliography of Botswana. (here after referred to as NABOB) The paper also illustrates the position of NABOB in the digital age. National bibliographies are constantly changing: they include records for digital resources and printed versions are gradually replaced with electronic, an…
Abstract: The emergence of the Massively Open Online Course, or MOOC, has been a topic of considerable analysis and discussion in academic circles in recent years, and is not infrequently mentioned as a disruptive technology in higher education. As Stanford University has been prominent in the development of MOOC platforms, both the university as a whole and the Stanford University Librari…
Abstract: Web Archiving in the National Library of Singapore is one of the fundamental actions to ensure the preservation of national digital heritage. By the year 2006, the National Library of Singapore (NLS) has started a Web Archive initiative called Web Archive Singapore (WAS). This paper analyses the legal and technical issues that act as obstacles for the collection and management of …