surviving in digital age: challenges for lis professionals by ata ur rehman
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Surviving In Digital Age
Challenges-------- Opportunities-----
By: Ata ur Rehman
Coordinator, LISolutions
Contents
Introduction Opportunities Challenges Starting Point Conclusions Q & A
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Introduction
Digital Age? Paperless Digital Environment Soft Material Information Explosion E-Culture
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Search Starting Point
Oblinger (2007): 2% of college students used the library
web site as the starting point for research 67% learn about electronic resources from
their friends.
Perceptions of libraries and information resources (2005): Search Engine – 84% E-mail – 6%
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Information Explosion
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According to a study conducted in 2000:
Surface Web: 19 TerabytesDeep Web: 7500 Terabytes
Opportunities
Web 2.0 Philosophy Wikis, Blogs, Forums, Social Networking,
Tags, Aggregators, IM, Twitter
Library 2.0 Philosophy Tags Users input Use of Web 2.0 tools for library services
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Opportunities VS Challenges
Opportunity Skill Set/ Prerequisites
CMS (Joomla, Drupal) DomainStorageLAMP, Web-publishing
ILS (Koha) LinuxApacheMySQLPerlHTML/XML
DLS (Greenstone) ApachePerlHTML/XMLOCR/Metadata
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Opportunity Skill Set/ Prerequisites
RSS A little WWW knowledge
Twitter -do-
Forums/ Bulletin Board A little knowledge of HTML, Web-Publishing, www, etc
BLOGS A little WWW knowledge
Instant Messaging (IM)
Social Networking HTMLWeb-PublishingGraphics
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Content Management Systems (CMS)
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Integrated Library System
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RSS - Real Simple Syndication
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• Brings contents to you• Content available as new feeds
RSS Readers
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Small text tweets Quickest way to
communicate messages Libraries on twitter:
LOC British Library etc
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Forums / Bulletin Boards
Group Discussions Post Reply Best way to interact with users Topics
Sub-topics
Requests Book Request Article Request
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Blogs
Dated entries in chronological order Ideas Sharing Discussions / Comments Informal Articles Instant Web Publishing Blogging Sites
WordPress Blogger / Blogspot
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IM - Instant Messaging
Live Messenger Yahoo Messenger ICQ Google Talk AOL Messenger Ask a Librarian
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Social Networking
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Students in academic environments use social networks to connect with their friends and colleagues.
A Librarian’s presence on a students’ social tool will increase the visibility of library resources
Social Networks: Facebook MySpace
Social Networking (cont)
FB Pages Groups Links Surveys/Polls
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Bookmarking / Tags
Social Bookmarking services allow users to tag, save, manage and share web pages Del.icio.us (delicious.com) Diigo
Information rich resources can be shared among faculty and students.
Users can categorize resources using their own tagging system.
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Wikis
Philosophy Evil Vs Good Collaboration
Examples Wikipedia - 2979000+ articles Wiktionary
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References taspd.edublogs.org geocities.com/elaw007/ip_intro_01.html guardian.co.uk usatoday.com trainfortopdollar.com businessblackbeltnetwork.ning.com astech.library.cornell.edu dlib.org/dlib/october00/lombardi/10lombardi.html
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Q/A
Q/A Thanks
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