Internet Library for Librarians

Dear Library Professionals,
Internet Library for Librarians is an information portal designed for librarians to locate Internet resources related to their profession. It provides links to more than 3,000 resources. All the resources are recommended, selected, and reviewed by librarians. Each entry has a full description of the goals and /or scope of the resource, as well as the contact information if provided. This is a handy and useful tool for both novices and experienced library staff.

Details at http://www.itcompany2.com/inforetriever/index.htm

System for Library Information Management

Dear Library professionals,
System for Library Information Management is an effective tool for automating libraries. SLIM++ is the latest and most powerful library software. SLIM++ is user friendly, menu driven, and highly interactive software. To operate SLIM++ no prior knowledge of computers is required. Its powerfull user interface feature like drag-drop makes its user feel very comfortable. The accompanying on-site training and high quality reference manuals ensure smooth transition from the current computerized or manual system to SLIM++. The committed after sales support assures the success of the library computerization.

For more details about the SLIM++ Please visit
http://www.slimpp.com/SlimPPSITE/index.asp

E-LIS for Librarians

Dear Library professionals,
E-Prints in Library and Information Science (E-LIS) is an open archive for Library and Information Science professionals for getting the documents. It includes scientific or technical documents, published or unpublished, on Librarianship, Information Science and Technology, and related areas arranged as recent submission and also as the archives.

E-LIS relies on the voluntary work of individuals from a wide range of backgrounds and is non-commercial. It is not a funded project of an organization. It is community-owned and community-driven. We serve LIS researchers by facilitating their self-archiving, ensuring the long-term preservation of their documents and by providing word-wide easy access to their papers.


For more details make use of this link: http://eprints.rclis.org/

Student Portal for 3D Design

Dear Friends,
Autodesk Inc., the world's leading design software and digital solutions company, has announced the launch of its Global Student Engineering and Design Community Portal in India. The launch of this portal is part of Autodesk's global initiative to educate the student community with latest 3D design technologies and prepare them for careers in engineering and design. This portal will provide students in the field of architecture, civil engineering, mechanical engineering, gaming and animation and industrial design free access to Autodesk software and at the same time offer them an opportunity to communicate and collaborate with students across the globe. For More details visit: http://students.autodesk.com

Librarians to Cybrarians

Dear Library Professionals,

We know Librarians are the only one community to organize and manage ever growing information resources under different areas of subjects.In this information technology era librarians are known as cybrarians, content managers, information specialists, and knowledge engineers. The value of the librarians increase every day due to the information explosion.

The talents of the librarian extend far beyond the ability to just organize. It is required that librarians be equally competent with the technology as well. Given the line of work, it is imperative that the librarians know a plethora of software applications, operating platforms, and programming languages such as, Java, XML and Perl. Because of their attention to detail, librarians have also become programmers and web analysts.

more about changing librarianship see http://www.webgrrls.com/wfs.jhtml?/career/advice/cybrarians.phtml

Moodle: An Electronic Course Management System Tool

Dear Professionals,

Have you heard about Moodle?Moodle is an Open Source Course Management System(CMS) tool for more effective learning mechanism. All you need is a PC for each student and teacher and a good Internet connection and you can work wonders using this Course Management System. In some cases the teachers may be physically present in the class room and still use an e-learning platform for effective learning mechanism. In other cases, the teacher and student may be miles apart and yet connected to a virtual class room.

Online interactive learning Platform (OIL Platform) offer an interactive stage for people to communicate in a variety of ways-through real time chats, messaging systems, audio- video conferencing, bulletin boards etc.

OIL Platforms allow teachers to put up a variety of curriculum content in different formats, such as powerpoint slides, links to various web resources, audio/video presentations, quizzes, polls etc. in the e-learning system.

Some popular e-learning platforms include ‘Blackboard’ from Microsoft and ‘Moodle’.

For more details about moodle click on www.moodle.org.

For Blackboard http://www.blackboard.com/services/training/academic_suite/index.Bb

Did You Know About Librarian's Alphabet

Dear Library Professionals,

It is very interesting that awareness about the funny alphabetical poem existing with the concepts of libraries. This charming poem uses amusing couplets to describe librarianship.

See the excellent poem at: http://dplourde.home.netcom.com/sampler/alphabet.html