new journal of information research

I am very pleased to inform all of you that with the work of national
and International editorial board member and review committee we have
launched an ‘International Journal of Information Research (ISSN
2249-8192)’ on the completion of 100 years of Library and Information
Science education in India. The first issue of September, 2011
appeared with the following articles.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editorial

What’s missing from Google Books?
Michele Seikel and Thomas Steele      pp. 1-6

Beyond Web 2.0: semantic web and it’s influence on library services
John Paul Anbu K. and Sridevi Jetty     pp. 7-14

The Virtual Library on Capacity Development

Welcome to ACBF's Knowledge Resource Corner (KRC), a virtual library on capacity development. The Knowledge Resource Corner is a one stop shop digital library that offers fast, well-structured and unified interface to access full-text copies on capacity development published by ACBF, its networks and partners. KRC's collections comprise books, occasional papers, working papers, reports, development memoirs, lesson notes, conference papers etc. Other online reference sources accessible via the Knowledge Resource Corner include several databases, gateways, portals, e-journals, e-books and e-news.

 

 

The KRC contains only the final, peer-reviewed versions of publications. The KRC is designed to meet the needs of ACBF's research community based in Africa and beyond. Its value lies in the quality and convenience of its publications database. Each article, book, paper or report is enriched with semantic and bibliographic metadata, including topics, abstracts and keywords using a controlled vocabulary. Users save time with use of the search facility that narrow searches across and within  publications and return highly relevant results across all content types. In addition, the KRC offers a number of other useful research tools and features including browse by subject, title author, resource type, publisher and other online resources.

یونسکو پورتال دسترسی آزاد جهانی را راه اندازی کرده است

The Global Open Access Portal (GOAP) [http://www.unesco.org/ci/goap], aiming at presenting a top level view of Open Access to scientific information, was launched at a special side event organized during the36th session of the UNESCO General Conference, on Tuesday 1 November 2011, at Paris Headquarters.

The Global Open Access Portal (GOAP) presents a snapshot of the status of Open Access (OA) to scientific information around the world.

For countries that have been more successful in implementing Open Access, the portal highlights critical success factors and aspects of the enabling environment. For countries and regions that are still in the early stages of Open Access development, the portal identifies key players, potential barriers and opportunities.

The portal has country reports from over 148 countries with weblinks to over 2000 initiatives/projects in Member States. The portal is supported by an existing Community of Practice (CoP) on Open Access on the WSIS Knowledge Communities Platform that has over 1400 members

Measuring the impact of information literacy training in Africa

Measuring the impact of information literacy training in Africa

Monitoring and evaluation tools, approaches and techniques

 

The British Library for Development Studies (BLDS) has been developing an information literacy programme over the past two years which includes course materials and an online network for trainers and practitioners to share best practice.

As part of this programme BLDS and the RIN are working together to develop a monitoring and evaluation toolkit, including practical examples, to inform the development and impact measurement of information literacy training. Much of BLDS’ work has been within an African context and so the intention is to develop a toolkit for African trainers of information literacy which will be widely disseminated through creative commons. This toolkit will include practical tools such as pre and post-course questionnaires, as well as case studies illustrating how these tools can be used.

 

BLDS and RIN will be consulting widely in order to set out a toolkit that genuinely reflects the circumstances and needs of trainers in Africa. In the first instance, we are disseminating a questionnaire to get a feel for current practice in the development of information literacy interventions.

We invite IL practitioners to contribute to the questionnaire, run through Survey Monkey. The questionnaire is open during the period 4th November 2011 to 25th November 2011 and should take between 15-30 minutes to complete.

 

Following analysis of the responses, there will be in-depth, qualitative consultations early in 2012 in Africa at a university yet to be confirmed. Please indicate whether you would like to join these workshops and/or focus groups in the questionnaire. The formulation of the toolkit itself will follow during the first quarter of next year.

 

For further information, please contact Stephane Goldstein at RIN or Siobhan Duvigneau at BLDS

کنفرانس اقماری ایفلا در حوزه سواد اطلاعاتی.........

Sponsors: IFLA’s Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning and Information Literacy Sections

 

The satellite conference will be held immediately prior to the World Library and Information Congress in Helsinki, Finland, August 2012.

The theme of the satellite conference is: The Road to Information Literacy: Librarians as Facilitators of Learning.

 

The IFLA Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning Section (CPDWL) and the IFLA Information Literacy Section (IL) invite proposals for presentations – research reports, smaller scale interactive roundtable discussions, train-the-trainer sessions, workshops, and poster sessions. Some proposals will be considered for publication in the proceedings, which will be distributed at the Satellite Meeting.

First-time presenters and new professionals are encouraged to apply. Students in the final year of studies are also invited to participate.

 

All proposals must be submitted by November 9, 2011 to [e-mail].

ثبت نام وبینار « آزادی معنوی در برابر دنیا»

A series of webinars cosponsored by ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom and IFLA FAIFE.

Registration is now open for “Intellectual Freedom across the Globe,” a series of three webinars on international issues related to free speech, censorship, and access to information in libraries and beyond.  The webinars will be held during November 2011, and feature speakers from several countries.  The series is co-sponsored by ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom and the Committee for Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression, and covers the following topics:

“Comics, Graphic Novels, Manga, and Libraries” — Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011, 9:00 a.m. Central Standard Time [1500 GMT]. Speakers: Charles Brownstein, Executive Director, Comic Book Legal Defense Fund; Yasuyo Inouye, Professor, Dokkyo University, Japan; and Angela Maycock, Assistant Director, ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom.

“Religion, Free Expression, and Libraries” — Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2011, 10:00 a.m. Central Standard Time [1600 GMT]. Speakers: Paul Sturges O.B.E., Professor Emeritus, Loughborough University and Professor Extraordinary, University of Pretoria, United Kingdom; Almuth Gastinger, Senior Research Librarian, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway; and Deborah Caldwell-Stone, Deputy Director, ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom.

“Access to Health Information and Education in the Developing World” — Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2011, 10:00 a.m. Central Standard Time [1600 GMT]. Speakers: Alejandra Martinez del Prado, Reference Librarian, School of Medicine Library of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico; and Barbara Jones, Director, ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom.

To register, or for more information, please visit http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/oif/oifprograms/webinars/index.cfm.