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Utilizing Article Usage Patterns To Build The Scholarly Article Recommender Service Bx, Philipp Hess

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The Innovation Challenge: Transformational Leadership In Technological University Libraries, Charles Townley

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Incites, A New Tool From Web Of Science, John Langton

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Digital Readers: Fact And Fiction, Carole Thompson

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Benefiting From The Hive: Folksonomy In Technical Libraries, Mahshid Eltemasi, Nader Naghshineh

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How Do You Follow Google? Providing A High-Quality Academic Library Search Experience, Helle Lauridsen, John Law

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Bibliometric Analysis Of The Output Of German Technological Universities By Means Of The J Factor, Bernhard Mittermaier

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Rfid And Return On Investment, Ludo Holans

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The Green And Gold Roads To Open Access, Stevan Harnad, Ainslie Dewe

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Discovering The Library: Finding The Hidden Barriers To Success Using The Catalog, Ellen Safley

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Over the past two years, the Catalog Committee at the University of Texas at Dallas used a verbal protocol analysis to research how students use the catalog system to find known items, to locate materials on a subject, and to evaluate the design and appearance of the interface. The research is attempting to evaluate the thought process and effectiveness of how students use the catalog system. The Library is conducting its third session to evaluate the changes made in the discovery process. During these sessions, the Library will incorporate a means to collect both the audio portion of the person’s …

Self-Discovery Through Digital Portfolios: A Holistic Approach To Developing New Library And Information Professionals, Gillian Hallam

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Library educators face ever-increasing challenges in terms of delivering a curriculum that will adequately prepare students for the dynamic digital environment they will be working in. Graduates require a balance of discipline specific knowledge and personal attributes that will enable them to transition smoothly into employment and plan their future careers. At Queensland University of Technology (QUT) the postgraduate library and information management program has introduced a whole-of-course approach to professional practice studies, using an ePortfolio to support the students on their learning journey.

The subject ITN280 Professional Practice has been developed as an overarching unit in the Master of …

It's Been Ill For A Long Time, Is It Close To Death? What Is The Future Of Inter Library Loans?, Helen Livingston

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Leveraging Leverage - How Strategies Can Really Work For You, Anne Horn, Sue Owen

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The theme of the new Strategic Plan 2008-12 for Deakin University is the delivery of effective partnerships with a key focus on enhancing student experience. The Library has a key role in seeking new and improved ways to support the university’s teaching, learning, scholarship and research activities. Investigations of Web 2.0 technologies have pinpointed suitable applications to enhance student engagement with the Library and with information resources. Along with digital initiatives, the Library is creating intelligent collaborative and contemporary spaces to support and enhance students’ informal learning. Spaces will accommodate student-centred problem-based pedagogy and offer options for interactive group learning, …

Web 2.0 For Learning Discovery, Joan Lippincott

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Tulib: Interactive Learning And Discovery Of Information Literacy Skills Using Web 2.0 Features, Karin Clavel, Thecla Ettema

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TUlib is TU Delft’s new online information literacy website. Its main features are a tag cloud search to allow easy navigation through the website, a modular design, interactive tutorials and the use of social bookmarking. The tag cloud is based on a custom thesaurus and is powered by the Collexis search engine. Tag cloud searches are being used in many of the popular web 2.0 web services, such as Flickr and YouTube. They seem to work well for this website, giving a good overview of what the information literacy website has to offer. During the development process, a lot of …

Enticing The Google Generation: Web 2.0, Social Networking And University Students, Philip G. Kent

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Much has been written about Gen X, Y and Google Generation students in the higher education sector. Student-centred approaches, new pedagogies, a focus on quality management, information and learning commons initiatives all evidence greater attention to the generational needs of the Google Generation. New technologies and applications have also been harnessed to meet students in their ‘own space’.

Traditional library systems are being enhanced to include Web 2.0 functionality. Universities and their Libraries are establishing a presence in social network sites (eg Facebook, YouTube).

The paper analyses these trends, takes stock of these initiatives in the university library environment and …

Digital Library Initiatives In India: A Proposal For Open Distance Learning, Sujatha Gurram

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Information and communication technologies have brought significant changes in all-round development of the society through transmission of information. Information is the fulcrum for power and wealth and very crucial for economic and social development of the society. In India, a number of digital library initiatives and digitization programmes have been initiated across the country. Most of the digital library initiatives are government funded. The Ministry of Communications and Information technology has also established the Digital Library of India. This paper discusses various problems, challenges and issues involved in design and development of digital libraries in India.

The paper highlights the …

Humint Or Webint? Concept Study On Possible Routes For Improving Knowledge Discovery Within Organizations, Nader Naghshineh

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The history of science is replete with instances of constant sociological and economic challenges posed by technical breakthroughs. On the other hand one could equally argue that it had been the sociological factors fomenting such breakthroughs. Both interpretations lead to the same effect, the increased complexity of the information sphere confronting us everyday. A number of researchers such as Shannon have argued an entropic effect for information. Some psychologist have suggested that our history from the standpoint of information dexterity could be interpreted by the degree of interaction of individual intelligence with collective intelligence as represented by institutions –such as …

Getting In Their Space: Information Literacy Training Fpr Off-Campus Students, Brenda Johnson, Heather Lamond

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Uqual: Addressing The Need For A Universal Quality Model For Technical Academic Libraries Having A Digital/Physical Manifestation, Maryam Nakhoda, Fatima Fahimnia

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Opening The Pandora's Box Of Digitized Collections, Silas Marques De Oliveira

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Giving Research Global Reach: Researchspace@ Auckland, Vanessa Newton-Wade, Leonie Hayes

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A Captologic Approach To The Challenges Of Digital Discover, Shahed Rashidi, Nader Naghshineh

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Image Driven Search Engines, Jamshid Sadeghiani, Nader Naghshineh

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The Digital Strategy And Matauranga Maori (Maori Knowledge), Evelyn Tobin

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Pixels & Partnerships: Digital Publishing And Co-Operative Scholarship In Australian And Britsih Imperial History, Robin Walsh

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The efforts of libraries and archival institutions in collecting and curating dispersed collections of original letters, journals, pictorial sources, and realia/artefacts are essential contributions towards research and scholarship. Recent technological advances in digitization offer important new possibilities in the reproduction of documents and images as well as enhanced access to dispersed institutional holdings.

The Lachlan & Elizabeth Macquarie Archive (LEMA) is a co-operative inter-institutional website project based at Macquarie University Library, in partnership with key Australian and UK institutions. The aim of the LEMA Project is to create a digital research gateway to the writings of the Lachlan Macquarie (1761-1824), …

Institutional Repositories In New Zealand: Comparing Institutional Strategies For Digital Preservation And Discovery, Rowena Cullen, Brenda Chawner

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This paper outlines an ongoing project to create of a knowledge base to support the development of institutional repositories in New Zealand. The knowledge base wiki includes a summary of key literature to date, highlighting best practice, and standards relevant to the New Zealand sector, and a set of case studies of how New Zealand institutions have developed their repositories to date. These case studies are analysed, and different strategic approaches taken by institutions across the sector identified. These will then be discussed in relation to the issues identified in the literature. The paper also outlines new research areas being …

Ambient Findability And Structured Serendipity: Enjhanced Resource Discovery For Full Text Collections, Alison Stevenson, Conal Tuohy, Jamie Norrish

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University Libraries manage increasingly large collections of full text digital resources. These might be repositories of born digital research outputs, e-reserves collections or online libraries of material digitised to provide open access to significant texts. Whatever the content of the material, the structured data of full text resources can be exploited to enhance research discovery. The implicit connections and cross-references between books and papers, which occur in all print collections, can be made explicit in a collection of electronic texts. Correctly encoded and exposed they create a framework to support resource discovery and navigation both within and between texts by …

Kiwi Advanced Research And Education Network (Karen): Opportunities And Challenges, Sam Searle

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Creating A Culture Of Data Integration And Interoperability: Librarians And Earth Science Faculty Collaborate On A Geoinformatics Course, Michael Fosmire, Chris Miller

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One aspect of the development of an e-infrastructure for research discovery that is often overlooked is the human element. Data is only as interoperable as the scientists who are willing to meet data standards and share their work with others. Information literacy in the data world has at least as many challenges as it does in the world of documents. For example, the provenance of data, who collected it, how they collected it, and whether and how it has been verified, are all very important factors for researchers to consider before incorporating external data into their analyses. With this in …