tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-299015852024-03-20T04:41:10.317-04:00Reviews From My DesktopThis is designed to be a Reviews and Reviewers Portal. The aim is to gather information from around the world relating to books, journals, software, etc.-- irrespective of genre, type, format and forum.M Taherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05230356608624560148noreply@blogger.comBlogger171125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29901585.post-74692883352506394512014-05-30T00:14:00.000-04:002014-06-08T17:58:59.715-04:00Online Reviewers Beware: Do you see what I see?Writing a comment, review, about a product, service or any thing is today common. But the outcome of such a common practice is scarey. The online sites with anonymous reviewers (esp., writing negative reviews) is the most challenging one.<br />
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<li>Online Reviewers Beware: You Can Get Sued -- <a href="http://ideas.time.com/2013/01/07/yelp-reviewers-beware-you-can-get-sued/">Time</a>
Everyone's a critic these days, but defamation laws still exist in the Internet age -- <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.000019073486328px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">"The
Virginia Supreme Court’s ruling is an important defense of people’s
right to go online and express their views. But it is also a reminder
that anyone who crosses the line may have to pay up — big time." </span> ++ <a href="http://business.time.com/2012/02/03/9-reasons-why-you-shouldnt-trust-online-reviews/">9 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Trust Online Reviews</a></li>
<li> Be careful what you write: that online review could get you sued,
By James Armstrong and Mark McAllister <a href="http://globalnews.ca/news/1362949/be-careful-what-you-write-that-online-review-could-get-you-sued/">Global News</a></li>
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TORONTO – You might want to re-evaluate your plan to write a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><nobr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a class="FAtxtL" href="http://globalnews.ca/news/1362949/be-careful-what-you-write-that-online-review-could-get-you-sued/#" id="FALINK_2_0_1" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease-in; background-color: transparent !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(28, 125, 255) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-width: 0px 0px 1px !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(35, 119, 188) !important; display: inline !important; font-weight: normal !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; text-decoration: underline !important; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">negative review</a></nobr><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>about a local business – if they don’t like it, you could get sued.</div>
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There is a bevy of websites asking for you to review every company from the local convenience store to WalMart.</div>
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But be careful what you write in the supposed anonymity of the internet, as it could land you in legal trouble.</div>
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<li>A Point of View: How to get your own back on your critics, <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-18549694">BBC</a>
-- Most authors dread unfavourable reviews from the critics - but
there is an effective way to deal with detractors, explains Adam
Gopnik. </li>
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<li> Online ratings dangers: Critical review of doc results in lawsuit, <a href="http://www.trivalleycentral.com/casa_grande_dispatch/national_news/online-ratings-dangers-critical-review-of-doc-results-in-lawsuit/article_0017f1a2-1ebb-11e2-9ec2-001a4bcf887a.html">Associated Press</a> -- A Minnesota doctor took offense when a patient’s son posted critical remarks about him on some rate-your-doctor websites, including a comment by a nurse who purportedly called the physician “a real tool.” </li>
<li>Critical Review, Tips for WritingThis is a featured page -- <a href="http://resources.cleary.edu/page/Critical+Review,+Tips+for+Writing">cleary.edu </a>
Writing a Critical Review - Article or Movie</li>
<li> Critical Reviews - OWL - Online Writing Lab - LibGuides at <a href="http://lpts.libguides.com/content.php?pid=469569&sid=3996644">Louisville Seminary</a> </li>
<li> My New Amazon Petition, by JOE KONRATH </li>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.799999237060547px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">You may have read that bestselling author Anne Rice has<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://www.change.org/petitions/amazon-com-protect-amazon-com-users-and-indie-publishing-authors-from-bullying-and-harassment-by-removing-anonymity-and-requiring-identity-verification-for-reviewing-and-forum-participation" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #3e6d88; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.799999237060547px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">joined an online petition</a><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.799999237060547px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">, started by Todd Barselow, requesting that Amazon:</span><br />
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.799999237060547px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.799999237060547px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">"revise their policies regarding anonymity when it comes to writing product/book reviews and for participation in the forums. Reviewers and forum participants should not be anonymous. By removing their anonymity and forcing them to display their real, verified identities, I believe that much of the harassment and bullying will cease."</i><br />
<i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.799999237060547px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.799999237060547px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">As of today's date, this petition has been signed by more than 6000 people, seeking to put an end to Mean Anonymous People on the Internet (MAPI.)</span></blockquote>
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<u><b>On a different shelf </b> (what's not that big about reviews):</u> <br />
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<li><a href="http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/frustrated-scholar-creates-new-route-for-funding-and-publishing-academic-work/53073">Frustrated Scholar Creates New Way to Fund and Publish Academic Work</a></li>
<li><a href="http://avidly.lareviewofbooks.org/2014/06/05/high-stakes-criticism-the-case-for-academic-gossip/">High Stakes Criticism: The Case for Academic Gossip</a></li>
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The absent of comment is <em>shameful</em>. There’s a popular
misconception that gossip is harmful. It often is, but gossip is a
complex thing: whatever harm it inflicts is a direct function of its
main virtue. Gossip is a socializer, a community-builder, a way of
establishing ethical, social and intellectual
baselines. Its perniciousness-<br />
<wbr></wbr>–which is real, and which I don’t
mean to minimize—is a result of what gets excluded from that
community-building: a fence will always have an outside. There are
reasons to treat gossip with care: too often it reinforces extant power
dynamics (the good old boys’ network is the gossipiest institution in
history). And it often gets derailed by trivialities, mistaking the
personal for the professional. We aren’t and shouldn’t be in the
business of gossiping about how academics dress, or who’s sleeping with
whom. (At least, not anymore than we already are.)</blockquote>
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M Taherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05230356608624560148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29901585.post-87800484545877744252014-04-21T14:08:00.000-04:002014-04-21T14:14:05.628-04:00Librarians' Response to Web Scale Search (aka Resource Discovery): Assumptions and ChallengesThe term information industry includes publishers, distributors, librarians, search engine optimizers, etc. This industry, as a whole, is in a desperate race to find the best means of finding information.<br />
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Discovery Tools (Library catalogs, content publisher's databases, etc.) as a term refers to multifaceted databases that are evolving as a single point interface (to search less and find more using 'all' library resources, in one click). For a background and state-of-the-art reading, click here: <a href="http://crl.acrl.org/content/early/2012/05/07/crl-374.full.pdf">Paths of Discovery</a>.<br />
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In short, Google, Librarians and Discovery Tools are in the competition. In the following are the challenges faced by librarians' context in relation to planing and implementation of resource discovery--it is all about the evolving nature of effective ways of finding information, easily and user friendly.<br />
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Here are a few important contributions by librarians to understand the myths, presumptions, etc.:<br />
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<li>Top 10 Discovery Tool Myths [<a href="http://www.lib.jmu.edu/org/jwl/documents/Editorial_Myths_Discovery.docx">doc file</a>]</li>
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Myth #1: My discovery tool is the biggest and /or the best.<br />
Myth #2: Discovery tools will one day search all of a given library’s collections.<br />
Myth #3: Federated search software is still useful
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Myth #4: Discovery tools compete with Google.
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Myth #5: The single search box is the goal
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Myth #6: Discovery tools don’t require library instruction
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Myth #7: Discovery tools are for mostly just for freshmen
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Myth # 8: Subject-specific databases are dead
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Myth #9: Discovery software vendor X pushes their results to the top
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Myth #10: It only takes a few days to implement a discovery tool
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<li><a href="http://xenzen.wordpress.com/2013/02/04/8-hypotheses-why-librarians-dont-like-discovery/">8 hypotheses why librarians don't like discovery </a></li>
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Librarians don’t like discovery tools because…<br />
1.They are too much extra work.<br />
2.They weren’t our idea in the first place.<br />
3.Strange things happen to our metadata.<br />
4.Talking about the strange things happening to the data is hard.<br />
5.They mess with the concept of the catalog.<br />
6.They are hard to use in reference interviews.<br />
7.They make users lazy and dumb. Sometime ago, I asked people about what they thought where the perceptions of librarians of their users.<br />
8.They cost us our jobs. Continue reading: <a href="http://xenzen.wordpress.com/2013/02/04/8-hypotheses-why-librarians-dont-like-discovery/">A growing organism: 8 hypotheses why librarians don’t like discovery </a></blockquote>
<li>More articles on Discovery - <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/urd2comparison/articles-on-discovery">Google Sites</a></li>
<li><a href="http://musingsaboutlibrarianship.blogspot.ca/2013/06/8-things-we-know-about-web-scale.html">8 things we know about web scale discovery systems in 2013</a></li>
<li>Culture Shock: <a href="http://ro.ecu.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7208&context=ecuworks">Librarians' Response to Web Scale Search</a></li>
<li><a href="http://chronicle.com/article/As-Researchers-Turn-to-Google/146081/"> As Researchers Turn to Google, Libraries Navigate the Messy World of Discovery Tools</a> </li>
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Many professors and students gravitate to Google as a gateway to research. Libraries want to offer them a comparably simple and broad experience for searching academic content. As a result, a major change is under way in how libraries organize information. Instead of bewildering users with a bevy of specialized databases—books here, articles there—many libraries are bulldozing their digital silos. They now offer one-stop search boxes that comb entire collections, Google style.<br />
That’s the ideal, anyway. The reality is turning out to be messier. Continue reading: <a href="http://chronicle.com/article/As-Researchers-Turn-to-Google/146081/">The Chronicle of Higher Education</a></blockquote>
<li><span class="title" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; vertical-align: top;"><a href="https://mail.omc.ca/owa/redir.aspx?C=37fdb105d8dd487b9b0d70be53a00f2f&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.amazon.com%2fgp%2fproduct%2f0838959148%3fie%3dUTF8%26camp%3d1789%26creativeASIN%3d0838959148%26linkCode%3dxm2%26tag%3dhttpmultifait-20" style="color: #996633; vertical-align: top; word-wrap: break-word !important;" target="_blank" title="Ctrl+Click to follow link">Library Resource Discovery Products: Context, Library Perspectives, and Vendor Positions</a> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"></span><img class="offsite" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/associates/network/08-ui-elements/icon-offsite._V192207026_.gif" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; height: auto !important; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; outline: none; vertical-align: top;" /> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Marshall Breeding </span>--Single Issue Magazine – January 31, 2014</li>
<li><div style="background-color: #f2f2f2; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;">
<span class="title" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; vertical-align: top;"><a href="https://mail.omc.ca/owa/redir.aspx?C=37fdb105d8dd487b9b0d70be53a00f2f&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.amazon.com%2fgp%2fproduct%2f1466618213%3fie%3dUTF8%26camp%3d1789%26creativeASIN%3d1466618213%26linkCode%3dxm2%26tag%3dhttpmultifait-20" style="color: #996633; vertical-align: top; word-wrap: break-word !important;" target="_blank" title="Ctrl+Click to follow link">Planning and Implementing Resource Discovery Tools in Academic Libraries</a> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"></span><img class="offsite" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/associates/network/08-ui-elements/icon-offsite._V192207026_.gif" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; height: auto !important; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; outline: none; vertical-align: top;" /> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Mary Pagliero Popp</span></div>
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<li><div>
<span class="title" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; vertical-align: top;"><a href="https://mail.omc.ca/owa/redir.aspx?C=37fdb105d8dd487b9b0d70be53a00f2f&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.amazon.com%2fgp%2fproduct%2f1466629916%3fie%3dUTF8%26camp%3d1789%26creativeASIN%3d1466629916%26linkCode%3dxm2%26tag%3dhttpmultifait-20" style="color: #996633; vertical-align: top; word-wrap: break-word !important;" target="_blank" title="Ctrl+Click to follow link">Recent Developments in the Design, Construction, and Evaluation of Digital Libraries: Case Studies (Premier Reference Source)</a> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"></span><img class="offsite" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/associates/network/08-ui-elements/icon-offsite._V192207026_.gif" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; height: auto !important; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; outline: none; vertical-align: top;" title="Click to Resize" /> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Colleen Cool</span></div>
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M Taherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05230356608624560148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29901585.post-7619232955145338322014-03-22T15:46:00.000-04:002014-03-22T15:46:06.325-04:00India's Sociological Trends of the Week - Media Monitoring<br />
<ul>
<li><span class="title"><span class="title">
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0415711509?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0415711509&linkCode=xm2&tag=httpmultifait-20" target="_blank">Indian Arranged Marriages: A Social Psychological Perspective</a>
</span>
<img class="offsite" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/associates/network/08-ui-elements/icon-offsite._V192207026_.gif" /> Tulika Jaiswal Routledge (Publication date: April 28, 2014)</span></li>
<li><span class="title"><span class="title">
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00J0UCZ4U?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creativeASIN=B00J0UCZ4U&linkCode=xm2&tag=httpmultifait-20" target="_blank">The Right Spouse: Preferential Marriages in Tamil Nadu</a>
</span>
<img class="offsite" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/associates/network/08-ui-elements/icon-offsite._V192207026_.gif" /> Isabelle Clark-Decès </span><span class="title"><span class="title">(Publication date: April 30, 2014)</span></span></li>
<li><span class="title"><span class="title"><span class="title">
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0739187422?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0739187422&linkCode=xm2&tag=httpmultifait-20" target="_blank">Globalization and Transnational Surrogacy in India: Outsourcing Life</a>
</span>
<img class="offsite" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/associates/network/08-ui-elements/icon-offsite._V192207026_.gif" /> Sayantani DasGupta </span> </span></li>
<li><span class="title"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1107056098?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creativeASIN=1107056098&linkCode=xm2&tag=httpmultifait-20" target="_blank">Mapping Social Exclusion in India: Caste, Religion and Borderlands</a>
</span>
<img class="offsite" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/associates/network/08-ui-elements/icon-offsite._V192207026_.gif" /> Paramjit S. Judge -- This book assesses the problem of defining exclusion, highlights the
need for its contextualisation and establishes a relationship between
social exclusion, deprivation and discrimination. It studies the complex
mosaic of Indian systems and society, marked with exclusionary
practices and structures on the basis of caste. (Cambridge U Press, March 2014)</li>
<li><span class="title">
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/8131606171?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creativeASIN=8131606171&linkCode=xm2&tag=httpmultifait-20" target="_blank">Indian Sociological Thought: Second Edition</a>
</span>
<img class="offsite" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/associates/network/08-ui-elements/icon-offsite._V192207026_.gif" /> B.K. Nagla </li>
<li>Sex ratio, low registration reflect in voting figures <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/Sex-ratio-low-registration-reflect-in-voting-figures/articleshow/32441054.cms"><span class="news-source">Times of India</span></a><span class="hpn" style="padding: 0 4px;"></span> --<span id="advenueINTEXT" name="advenueINTEXT" style="float: left;">"The
skewed sex ratio in Gujarat not only has an impact on the state's social
fabric but also affects the overall voting percentage in elections."</span><span id="advenueINTEXT" name="advenueINTEXT" style="float: left;"><span id="advenueINTEXT" name="advenueINTEXT" style="float: left;">"A
recent survey of the voting pattern in Gujarat conducted by the Election
Commission (EC) has noted that there is considerable gap between men
and women not only in voter registration but also in turnout. The State
Gender Ratio according to the Census of 2011 is 918 while the State
Gender Ratio in Draft Rolls, 2014, is 909."</span></span></li>
<li><span class="title">Political Accountability for Outbreaks of Communicable Diseases by </span>Debabar Banerji <div class="slp">
<a href="http://www.epw.in/commentary/political-accountability-outbreaks-communicable-diseases.html"><span class="news-source">Economic and Political Weekly</span></a><span class="hpn" style="padding: 0 4px;">-</span><span class="f nsa">Mar 21, 2014</span></div>
<span class="title"> </span></li>
<li><span class="title">Impact of social media making politicians go online </span><a href="http://www.abplive.in/gadget/2014/03/21/article281002.ece/Impact-of-social-media-making-politicians-go-online"><span class="news-source">ABP News</span></a><span class="hpn" style="padding: 0 4px;">-</span><span class="f nsa">Mar 20, 2014</span><br />
</li>
<li><span class="title">India election: four more intriguing uses of social media</span><span class="title"><span class="news-source"> <a href="http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2014/03/18/india-election-four-more-intriguing-uses-of-social-media/">Financial Times</a> by Robert Minto-Mar 18, 2014 -- 1. Mobile crowdsourcing, to harvest voter information; 2. WhatsApp, for campaign organisation; 3. Missed calls, for political organising; 4. Plain old SMS, for voter mobilisation.</span> </span></li>
<li><span class="title">Seminar: Poverty Reduction and Social Inclusion in India: Lessons from Social Policy Seminar by Dr. Stefan Kuehner, senior lecturer in University of York, UK --Seminar due on 26 March 2014</span><div class="slp">
<a href="http://www.indiaprwire.com/pressrelease/education/20140317299663.htm"><span class="news-source">India PRwire (press release)</span></a><span class="hpn" style="padding: 0 4px;">-</span><span class="f nsa">Mar 17, 2014</span></div>
<span class="title"> </span></li>
<li><span class="title"><a href="http://www.isca.in/IJSS/Archive/v3/i3/7.ISCA-IRJSS-2014-07.pdf">Human Rights and Dalits in India: A Sociological Analysis</a>, Senapati Tushar Kanti; Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India ( International Research Journal of Social Sciences 3(3), 36-40, March, 2014) </span></li>
<li><span class="title">India lagging in social development: report </span><span class="title"><a href="http://www.deccanchronicle.com/140322/nation-current-affairs/article/india-lagging-social-development"><span class="news-source">Deccan Chronicle</span></a><span class="hpn" style="padding: 0 4px;"></span> </span></li>
<li><span class="title">Stop Comparing Yourself to Social Media and Be Happier </span><br /><div class="slp">
<a href="http://www.lifehacker.co.in/Life/Stop-Comparing-Yourself-to-Social-Media-and-Be-Happier/articleshow/32165239.cms"><span class="news-source">LifeHacker India</span></a><span class="hpn" style="padding: 0 4px;">-</span><span class="f nsa">Mar 16, 2014</span></div>
</li>
<li><span class="title">High income inequality, low social spending in India: OECD report <a href="http://www.livemint.com/Politics/vi60KKebt5Q47RX6eXlaqK/High-income-inequality-low-social-spending-in-India-says-OE.html">Livemint</a>-Mar 19, 2014 -- Society at a Glance 2014: OECD Social Indicators. Excerpts from the biennial OECD overview of social indicators.</span></li>
<li><span class="title">'Sex selfie' enters bedroom, explodes on social media </span><div class="slp">
<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/mad-mad-world/Sex-selfie-enters-bedroom-explodes-on-social-media/articleshow/32313507.cms"><span class="news-source">Times of India</span></a><span class="hpn" style="padding: 0 4px;">-</span><span class="f nsa">Mar 19, 2014</span></div>
<span class="title"> </span></li>
<blockquote>
At a time when "selfie" has become a new buzzword on various social
media platforms, a surprising number of men and women are increasingly
posting "sex selfies" while engaging in the real act. <br /> "Sex
selfies" — filming or photographing yourself having sex — are now a
widespread practice with Britain leading the chart, said a survey done
by AshleyMadison.com, the world's largest extra-marital dating site. </blockquote>
<li><span class="title">A Grim Statistical Picture of Married Indian Women. By Preetika Rana <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2014/03/20/a-grim-statistical-picture-of-married-indian-women/">Wall St Journal </a></span><a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2014/03/20/a-grim-statistical-picture-of-married-indian-women/"><br /></a><small class="post-time">Mar 20, 2014 -- "</small><small class="post-time">The <a href="http://www.ncaer.org/">National Council for Applied Economic Research</a>, a New Delhi-based
think tank, based their findings on interviews with more than 30,000
married Indian women in 2011 and 2012. Women surveyed were between ages
16 and 49, living in over 1,500 Indian villages and 971 urban
neighborhoods."</small></li>
<li><span class="title">“Many women have no say in marriage” by Rukmini S </span><a href="http://www.thehindu.com/" target="_blank" title="The Hindu">The Hindu</a> March 19, 2014 -- "<div class="body">
Four out of ten women in India still have no say in their marriage,
eight out of ten need permission to visit a doctor, six out of ten
practise some form of head covering, and the average Indian household
gives over Rs. 30,000 in dowry. These are among the findings of a major
new large-scale sample survey shared exclusively with The Hindu.
</div>
<div class="body">
The National Council for Applied Economic Research (NCAER) conducts the
India Human Development Survey (IHDS), the largest household survey in
India after the government's Nation Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO)
surveys, and the NCAER is the only independent body that conducts such
large-sample panel surveys. The survey covers economic data on income
and expenditure, development data on education and health, and
sociological data on caste, gender and religion. For the next two weeks,
The Hindu will report exclusively on the key findings of NCAER's latest
round that covers 2011-12 data. This survey covered 42,000 households
across the country, weighted nationally, and 83% of them were also
interviewed for the 2004-5 round of the IHDS.
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"<br /><a href="http://www.thehindu.com/" target="_blank" title="The Hindu">image courtesy: The Hindu</a> </li>
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M Taherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05230356608624560148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29901585.post-2086789513084794302014-01-26T18:02:00.000-05:002014-01-26T18:02:11.000-05:00The Infomedia Revolution: We are yet to see this dream fulfilled...In 1995 Frank Koelsch, a Canadian author, wrote a book and its description says: "This text provides a guide for companies and individuals to Infomedia.
It explains what it is, why companies should not ignore it, how (and
when) it will affect various industries and what changes it will bring.
The book is global in scope and provides numerous case studies." Read more here : <span class="title"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0075518473?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0075518473&linkCode=xm2&tag=httpmultifait-20" target="_blank">The Infomedia Revolution: How It Is Changing Our World and Your Life</a>
</span>
<img class="offsite" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/associates/network/08-ui-elements/icon-offsite._V192207026_.gif" /> by Frank Koelsch<br />
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In 2014, after nearly 20 years, we are yet to see the revolution. Info-mdedia is by far very slow in its growth of the expected <b>synchronization</b> (of all types of media, read ALL). Eexcuse my inability to see any source, if you know of any recent Canadian developments, please send me a link.<br />
<br />
We are however happy reading headlines about new interfaces that facilitate whenever meetings (that tend to be, overall, not really real developments), as in news: <br />
<ul>
<li><a href="http://bluejeans.com/modern-meeting">State of the Modern Meeting</a>: Infographic: <i>Commutes and Conference Rooms</i> No Longer Required <br /> Inaugural Report Shows Today’s Meetings are Mobile, Flexible and International </li>
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M Taherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05230356608624560148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29901585.post-60128599003836573992014-01-02T23:50:00.002-05:002014-01-02T23:50:19.475-05:00Casting Light on Neglected Books -- Upper Valley Authors Recommend Works That Deserve Attention<span style="background-color: white; font-family: OpenSansRegular; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">By Nicola Smith</span><br />
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Every year, we in <span class="VN_Regular">the media, with laxative regularity, trot out our Best Of lists</span>. Best movies, books, music, restaurants, television, <nobr><a class="FAtxtL" href="http://www.vnews.com/home/10039548-95/casting-light-on-neglected-books#" id="FALINK_1_0_0" style="background-color: transparent !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(243, 91, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(243, 91, 0) !important; display: inline !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important;">hotels</a></nobr>, art shows, apps, spas, farmers markets: there is almost no artistic or commercial enterprise for which a Best Of list doesn’t exist.<span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span></div>
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A Best Of list is one way to take the temperature of a culture, and readers like lists that sum up what critics think we should pay attention to. But there can be something reductive about the exercise. The national arbiters of taste work within a fairly narrow frame of reference, one dominated by the urban marketplaces of the coasts, and fed by the churning publicity machines of the corporations releasing the music, movies and books we consume. <a href="http://www.vnews.com/home/10039548-95/casting-light-on-neglected-books">continue reading</a></div>
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M Taherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05230356608624560148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29901585.post-83303247491662680262013-12-24T23:03:00.000-05:002013-12-26T17:21:06.320-05:00Information literacy books -- Is there a saturation in this genre?Reading now: <span class="title">
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1555708609?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creativeASIN=1555708609&linkCode=xm2&tag=httpmultifait-20" target="_blank">Information Literacy Instruction that Works: A Guide to Teaching by Discipline and Student Population, Second Edition</a>
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9781555708603. 2013, 342 pages. $85.00 paperback.</span><br />
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Any reader of this Information literacy (IL) book may ask “Do we need yet another book on the best
practices in IL?” The answer is not given in the book. Compared to two pages about its content organization, there
is no clearly stated objective of this anthology, or a justification for the
need of this book, given the fact that there are many competitors today that
‘help the students.’Many librarians struggle to deliver benefits with a focus on: a) users/readers and b) cost effective. On both these fronts, the book in hand is not a good fit.
Considering a ROI is necessary for
every one, a fact that must be remembered by every author and publisher is that
there are already so many titles in this genre, and an increasing number of competitors
today that ‘help the students.’ According to a list by <a href="http://www.informationliteracy.org.uk/information-literacy-publications/information-literacy-books/">informationliteracy.org.uk</a>
there are over thirty books (2008 to 2012), and tends to show the near
saturation of the genre.More such lists are: <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/informationliteracytools/home/information-literacy-books"><i>INFORMATION LITERACY BOOKS</i></a> / ALA's<a href="http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&ved=0CDQQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ala.org%2Facrl%2Faboutacrl%2Fdirectoryofleadership%2Fsections%2Fis%2Fiswebsite%2Fabout%2Fresources%2Ftipsteachinglearningbib&ei=6Um6UvzaBuaS2QWvhYDIDw&usg=AFQjCNHrP-48oRxWAmFKbDzq-00iRv2OBw&bvm=bv.58187178,d.b2I">Teaching & Learning Information Literacy Skills: Textbooks</a> / <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/information-literacy">Popular <i>Information Literacy Books</i> - Goodreads </a><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Assessment of the actual task, the most wanted item by IL librarians, will find it only in the case relating to the disciplines of Psychology (Chapter 12), Engineering (Chapter 16). Whereas, other selected disciplines will have inferences and indirect reference to what works. <br />
<br />
Futher, comparative librarianship would expect all the selected studies/caes to be from similar settings (or from one level of institutions within an academic sample). Where as the 17 contributors of this anthology tell a different story--<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">4 are in Colleges and 13
in Universities). More details about the contributors herein indicates another story about the levels of specialization. The job title, Instruction (per se), is only in the case of one college and two university level librarians. Others are either aadministrators or faculty status holders. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">The strength of the book is in its twenty
chapters, with selections-specific discussions <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>from humanities and social sciences. It is
divided into four sections, viz., Planning to Teach; Teaching Specific Student
Groups; Literacy in Specific Disciplines; and Teaching Special Topics. A weakness of the book is in its random selection
of subjects that are tempered by the availability of contributors. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"></span><br />
One single instance, may make this book different from the others. The following quote illustrates this highly desired momentum in all our IL theory, practices and the genre. "There is also an increasing recognition that students must move beyond scientific and technical expertise in these fields and develop an understanding of the cultural, social, aesthetic, and political aspects of scientific issues... This shift reflects the necessity of interdisciplinarity that integrates the social sciences and humanities with the sciences, creataing a holistic approach to scientific research" (Elizabeth Berman, Scientific Literacy, p. 217). Does the entire book reflect this intent or motif, anyways??? Nope. All other discussions sail in the same old boat of disciplinary approaches. <br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"></span><br />
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explanation of why included are, stray areas, such as, Patent Research (and why not include standards' search, or how to search
primary sources, as well) or subject domains, such as, Engineering (presented as a single monolithic
domain, a fashion in 19<sup>th</sup> century), and why there is a
namesake ‘discussion’ of science literacy (again as if science is still a
single subject of study). Subjects then missing (even from humanities and
social sciences) are sociology, social work, political science, public admin, religion,
and philosophy. Hence,
it is not a book that can be recommended for every type of library. Nevertheless, this book may be of value in the library of major library schools in the US, that have a course on information literacy.</span>M Taherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05230356608624560148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29901585.post-89343103778553393242013-12-12T22:32:00.002-05:002013-12-12T22:32:53.660-05:00Who's Bigger?: Where Historical Figures Really Rank -- Do they? Is this ranking global or local?<iframe align="right" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/cm?t=httpmultifait-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=1107041376&ref=tf_til&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&npa=1&f=ifr" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe>
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<span class="title">
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1107041376?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creativeASIN=1107041376&linkCode=xm2&tag=httpmultifait-20" target="_blank">Who's Bigger?: Where Historical Figures Really Rank</a>
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<img class="offsite" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/associates/network/08-ui-elements/icon-offsite._V192207026_.gif" /> by Professors Steven Skiena and Charles Ward.<br />
<br />
In identifying the most significant figures in human history the authors measure the impact of opinions. Thus the book, is a quantitative (aka metric) 'study' of opinions. Period. The ranking is based on a sample of the World's selected online resources, based on their format (i.e., web-based). It is not a rank by size of literature produced by a scholarly body or by historical period of occurrence or any other benchmarks of quantitative studies.<br />
<br />
Summarily, this book is ranking of figures in human history by way of measuring the impact on opinions. WHEREAS, anyone who values facts, will not go near heresy/opinions/impressions/likes/dislikes, etc. Moreover a select sample of the Web, that includes the Wiki and similar community sources (attributed by academics as by and large anonymous, unreliable, and volatile nature), cannot be a means of a <b>study</b> to rank the sages of the ages. People who are looking at this pseudo-ranking approach, are getting excited that someone gets Top Rank. Is s/he really at the same NUMBER (based on the rule: What You See Is What You Get/vice versa, aka WYSIWYG/WYGIWYS) among the great historical figures??? Think twice, go check FACTS, and don't make historical judgments, based on opinions of Facebookers, Tweeters, clickers, likers, so on and so forth. <br />
<br />
Hence, in deciding the place of histor<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">ical figures, one must be careful. An Amazon's reviewer says: "<span style="background-color: white;">Please don't buy this book. ...." [source: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #004b91; font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A3S034CP7ZQGSJ/ref=cm_cr_pr_pdp" style="background-color: white; color: #004b91;">elmo</a></span><span style="background-color: white;">]</span>. In short, opinions don't count, it is <u>facts</u> that are supposed to be used for ranking, and I would still recommend, <span class="title">
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0806513500?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0806513500&linkCode=xm2&tag=httpmultifait-20" target="_blank">The 100: A Ranking Of The Most Influential Persons In History</a>
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<img class="offsite" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/associates/network/08-ui-elements/icon-offsite._V192207026_.gif" /> by </span></span>Michael H. Hart.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.390625px;">Is Hitler bigger than Napoleon? Washington bigger than Lincoln? Picasso bigger than Einstein? Quantitative analysts are rapidly finding homes in social and cultural domains, from finance to politics. What about history? In this fascinating book, Steve Skiena and Charles Ward bring quantitative analysis to bear on ranking and comparing historical reputations. They evaluate each person by aggregating the traces of millions of opinions, just as Google ranks webpages. The book includes a technical discussion for readers interested in the details of the methods, but no mathematical or computational background is necessary to understand the rankings or conclusions...</span></blockquote>
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<br />
<li> Who’s Biggest? The 100 Most Significant Figures in History ...
<a href="http://ideas.time.com/2013/12/10/whos-biggest-the-100-most-significant-figures-in-history/">ideas.time.com</a> "A data-driven ranking. Plus, have former TIME People of the Year been predictive?" </li>
<li> <span class="title">
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/9771421212?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creativeASIN=9771421212&linkCode=xm2&tag=httpmultifait-20" target="_blank">The 100: A Ranking Of The Most Influential Persons In History (Arabic Edition)</a>
</span>
<img class="offsite" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/associates/network/08-ui-elements/icon-offsite._V192207026_.gif" /> Anis Mansour</li>
<li><span class="title">
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0806519401?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0806519401&linkCode=xm2&tag=httpmultifait-20" target="_blank">The Film 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential People in the History of the Movies</a>
</span>
<img class="offsite" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/associates/network/08-ui-elements/icon-offsite._V192207026_.gif" /> Scott Smith </li>
<li><span class="title">
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/160320122X?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creativeASIN=160320122X&linkCode=xm2&tag=httpmultifait-20" target="_blank">LIFE 100 People Who Changed the World (Life (Life Books))</a>
</span>
<img class="offsite" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/associates/network/08-ui-elements/icon-offsite._V192207026_.gif" /> Editors of Life</li>
<li><span class="title">
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061132217?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0061132217&linkCode=xm2&tag=httpmultifait-20" target="_blank">The
101 Most Influential People Who Never Lived: How Characters of Fiction,
Myth, Legends, Television, and Movies Have Shaped Our Society, Changed
Our Behavior, and Set the Course of History</a>
</span>
<img class="offsite" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/associates/network/08-ui-elements/icon-offsite._V192207026_.gif" /> Dan Karlan </li>
M Taherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05230356608624560148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29901585.post-22554243172778966972013-11-29T21:35:00.001-05:002013-11-29T21:36:25.764-05:00 The Librarian's Skillbook: 51 Essential Career Skills for Information Professionals<span class="title">
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0989513319?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0989513319&linkCode=xm2&tag=httpmultifait-20" target="_blank">The Librarian's Skillbook: 51 Essential Career Skills for Information Professionals</a>
</span>
<img class="offsite" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/associates/network/08-ui-elements/icon-offsite._V192207026_.gif" /> Authored by Deborah Hunt (MLS, ECMp), and David Grossman (MLS, MBA). Information Edge (2013) ISBN<b>:</b> 0989513319<br />
<br />
“Having the right skills is a critical component for landing a new job or any type of career advancement. Librarians and information professionals possess many marketable and transferable skills that can easily equip them to pursue a wide range of information-based jobs or start a new career in one of many related fields within or beyond the library world, such as Archives Management, Digital Asset Management, Knowledge Management, Records Management or Web Site Design." [source: <a href="http://www.against-the-grain.com/2013/11/atg-book-of-the-week-4/">ATG Book of the Week</a>]<br />
<br />
The skills presented in The Librarian’s Skillbook are divided into six broad categories:
<br />
<ol>
<li>Computer/Technical Skills</li>
<li>Beyond Reference Skills</li>
<li>Business and Management Skills</li>
<li>Interpersonal Skills</li>
<li>Attitude Skills</li>
<li>Intangible Skills [source: createspace.com]</li>
</ol>
<br />
What others say:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<i>“This book is a roadmap to your future as an information
professional. The unspoken theme of this work is that transformational
librarianship is the goal. What do we need to do so that we make
ourselves essential, valuable, and hirable so that we can make the
difference we want to see in the world? If you find yourself frustrated,
confused or adrift at this point in your career, try the ideas outlined
here. As part of a community of information professionals who are
committed to making a difference with their lives, the wisdom and plan
outlined in this book provide an excellent start. Go. Engage. Develop.”
— Stephen Abram</i> </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<i>“A must read for those who want to be more employable whether as librarians or in outside jobs.”</i> – Naomi House, Editor, Publisher and Founder, INALJ.com (I Need a Library Job blog)<br />
<i>“This should be a required text in any Library Science program and
for seasoned professionals interested in greater job security or a
change in pace.” </i>– Chris Vestal, Government Consultant, LexisNexis</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
“Deb Hunt and David Grossman have contributed a very important work
to the whole field of career management for all professional knowledge
workers," says Guy St. Clair, President, SMR International and Knowledge
Strategy Specialist, Columbia University. <br />
AIIP President Jocelyn Sheppard concurs, adding, "More than half of
the members of our association hold library and information science
degrees. We applaud Deb Hunt and David Grossman for highlighting the
potential benefits of an independent info pro career." ...<u>Continue reading</u>: <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/11/prweb11355908.htm">prweb.com</a></blockquote>
M Taherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05230356608624560148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29901585.post-2643113930293327872013-11-26T12:00:00.000-05:002013-11-26T12:40:31.541-05:00Library Web Sites : Practical Considerations and Research CompletedLibrary's have their own websites. Most libraries started a Web presence with a library catalog/catalogue.<br />
<br />
How good is their look and feel, how value-added is their content and how nicely designed [re: World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)'s standards on usability] are these? Are they as cool as Google and as tempting? One may find the answer in the following:<br />
<ul>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 14.545454025268555px;">Building an </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; font-weight: bold; line-height: 14.545454025268555px;">Academic Library</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 14.545454025268555px;"> Website: Experiences and challenges at IISER Mohali. By </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 14.53125px;">RAJESHWAR MISHRA </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 14.53125px;">and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 14.53125px;">MALLIKARJUN ANGADI, </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 14.545454025268555px;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 14.53125px;"><a href="http://ilaindia.net/Publication/Journal/47-1.pdf" target="_blank">Journal of Indian Library Association</a> 2011, 47(1) 5-10</span></span></li>
</ul>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 14.53125px;"><b><u>Cited sources:</u></b></span></span></blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
[1] R. W. Ongus, T. D. Kemparaju, and C.M. Nyamboga, “Evaluation of University Websites Targeting English Speaking Users: A Comparative Analysis Of Selected Sites In Developed And Developing Countries”, Malaysian Journal of Library and Information Science, vol 11, 2, pp. 61-74, 2006.</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
[2] Mignon Adams, and Richard M. Dougherty, “How useful is your Homepage? A quick and practical approach to evaluating a library’s website”, College and Research Libraries News, vol 63, 8, pp. .590-92, 2002</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
[3] Charles Belangar, Joan Mount and Mathew Wilson, “Institutional image and retention”, Tertiary education and management, vol 8, 3, p. 217, 2002.</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
[4] L.A. Clyde, “The Library as Information Provider: The Home Page”, The Electronic Library, vol 14, 6, pp.549-558, 1996</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
[5] Sherry Piontek and Kristen Garlock, “Creating a World Wide Web Resource Collection”, Internet Research, vol 6, 4, pp. 20-26, 1996</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
[6] Pamela Harpel-Burke, “Library homepage design at medium-sized universities: A comparison to commercial homepages via Nielsen and Tahir”, OCLC Systems & Services, vol 21, 3, pp.193 – 208, 2005</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
[7] Rozic-Hristovski, Anamarija and Dimitar Hristovski Ljupco Todorovski, “Developing a medical library website at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia”, Program: electronic library and information systems, vol 33, 4, pp. 313-325, 1999</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
[8] R. Raward, “Academic library Website design principles: development of a checklist”, Australian Academic & Research Libraries, vol 32, 2, 2001 Available at http://www.alia.org.au/publishing/aarl/raward.html [inactive link]; see, the <a href="http://wikisites.mcgill.ca/lts/images/0/0c/Checklist.pdf" target="_blank">Checklist</a></blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
[9] M. Stover, “Library Web sites: mission and function in the networked Organisation”, <a href="http://dspace.calstate.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10211.2/1704/StoverMark199712.pdf" target="_blank">Computer in Libraries</a>, vol 17, pp. 55-7, 1997 </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
[10]Mark Stove and Steven D. Zink, “World Wide Web Home Page Design: Patterns and Anomalies of Higher Education Library Home Pages”, Reference Services Review, vol 24, pp. 7-20, 1996</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<b><u>On the same shelf:</u></b></blockquote>
<ul>
<li> <a href="http://misc.library.ucsb.edu/universe/stover.html" target="_blank">The Mission and Role of the Library Web Site</a>, Mark Stover</li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Linda Main. <u>Building Websites for a Multinational Audience</u>. Scarecrow Press, 2002. <a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?" rel="nofollow" style="color: #551a8b; text-decoration: none;"><i>Information Processing and Management</i>,</a> 40, 2004, 583-585. [reviewed by Dr. Mohamed Taher]</span></li>
<li>Content and Workflow Management for Library Websites: Case Studies, Holly Yu (Ed.), Idea Group Inc, Hershey, PA, 2005 (259pp.) <a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=MImg&_imagekey=B6VB4-4MFTVTM-1-" rel="nofollow" style="color: #551a8b;">International Journal of Information Management,</a> Volume 27, Issue 1, February 2007, Pages 59-60 <span style="font-size: 16px;">[reviewed by Dr. Mohamed Taher]</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Melody Y. Ivory. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><u>Automated Web Site Evaluation: Researchers' and Practitioners' Perspectives.</u><b> </b></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003.<a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?" rel="nofollow" style="color: #551a8b; text-decoration: none;">Information Processing and Management,</a> Jan2007, Vol. 43 Issue 1, p. 288-290 </span><span style="font-size: 16px;">[reviewed by Dr. Mohamed Taher]</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 16px;"><u style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.671875px;">UContent: The Information Professional's Guide to User-Generated Content,</u><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.671875px;"> By Nicholas G. Tomaiuolo, Information Today, Inc. (2012), ISBN-13: 978-1573874250.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.5in;">Hock, R. (2002,
September/October). A new era of search engines: Not just web pages anymore. </span><i style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.5in;">Online, 26</i><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.5in;">(5), 31.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.5in;">Janowski, A. (2005). Instant web sites! (Just add content). </span><i style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.5in;">School Library Journal, 51</i><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.5in;">(1), 50-52.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.5in;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: -.5in;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sauers, M. P. (2006).
Blogging and RSS: A librarian’s
guide. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Medford</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">NJ</st1:state></st1:place>: Information Today<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: -.5in;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Vesey, K. (
2004). Building a better clicks-and-mortar library. <i>Library Media Connection, 22</i>(7). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: -.5in;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Young, T. (2002). The weakest link: Library catalogs. <i>Book Report</i>, 20(4), 6-14.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</li>
</ul>
M Taherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05230356608624560148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29901585.post-56599144163627946772013-11-23T21:22:00.000-05:002013-11-23T21:22:13.022-05:00 One for the Books, by Joe Queenan<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="title">This is not a book to rhyme with 'one for my master...' It is also not just a book about the author's taste-buds. It is much more and quite different from the other existing histories of reading, histories of books, and histories of bibliophiles. However, this is also not a book that will be on the desk of every researcher of the history of books, historians of bookstores and book-shelf. Why will it not be? Because among other reasons it is from the pen of a journalis, and this is true with many who report in the media (with malice towards none), probably they don't feel the importance of citing or referencing. In short, the entire book simply lacks citations and bibliographic sources relating to facts, figures, etc. Read more here: </span><a href="http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/184996/fareed-zakaria-says-many-journalists-dont-attribute-quotations-to-other-jeffrey-goldberg/">Fareed Zakaria says many <em>journalists don't</em> attribute quotations <b>...</b></a></span></span><br />
<br />
<span class="title">Just one example from the first opening sentence of CHAPTER ONE (to feel the pulse): </span>"The average American reads four books a year, and the average American finds this more than sufficient." [page 1]. And a reviewer says both about the facts and figures, in a best manner:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<br />
"Cultural critic and writer Joe Queenan’s book, <em>One for the Books</em>, begins with a dispiriting fact: “The average American reads four books a year, and the average American finds this more than sufficient.”<br />
Of course the actual number of books that Americans read is much lower than that. The law of averages (proper statisticians call this concept the mean) pushes up the figure.<br />
Queenan, who reads up to 200 books a year, has the nastiest things to say about book clubs. And to make sure no one is in two minds about what he really thinks, he points his machine gun directly at those who belong to them." [<a href="http://mg.co.za/print/2013-01-25-00-joe-queenan-most-people-read-drivel" target="_blank">source</a>]</blockquote>
<span class="title"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/014312420X?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creativeASIN=014312420X&linkCode=xm2&tag=httpmultifait-20" target="_blank">One for the Books</a>
</span>
<img class="offsite" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/associates/network/08-ui-elements/icon-offsite._V192207026_.gif" /> Joe Queenan<br />
<br />
What others say:<br />
"Joe Queenan's One for the Books is an attempt to impose order
of his otherwise disorderly reading life. Unlike Murray's
book-collecting mania, Queenan has a lunacy for remembering and listing
almost every book he's read." [<span class="small" id="SourceCitation"><span class="citation IAC Gale"><span class="citation Generated">Lowery, Robert G. "Joe Queenan: One for the Books." <i>Irish Literary Supplement</i> 32.2 (2013): 27</span></span></span>]<br />
<br />
And another reviewer's last sentence: "Most will agree that "reading
is intensely personal," and the author splatters his personality over
every page. An amusing homage to reading that contains something to offend
even (especially?) the most ardent book lover." [<span class="small" id="SourceCitation"><span class="citation IAC Gale"><span class="citation Generated">"Queenan, Joe: ONE FOR THE BOOKS." <i>Kirkus Reviews</i> 1 Sept. 2012.</span></span></span>]<br />
<br />M Taherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05230356608624560148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29901585.post-87230639787071826882013-11-22T15:07:00.000-05:002013-11-22T15:09:32.383-05:00Ideal role of public libraries... 1851<blockquote class="tr_bq">
"Public Libraries will supply the whole people with ample sources for im-
portant practical information. . . . Where they are provided every farmer will
have access to the best books on agriculture, every mechanic to the best books
on the arts, every merchant ... to the best exposition of the laws of trade and
the sources of wealth. Would not this be a great advantage? Is it not important
to practical men? Would it not much promote their success, to become ac-
quainted with what is already known on the subjects which occupy their atten-
tion? And is it not undeserving of remark, that, even in the most simple and uni-
form operations of labor, it has been found that . . . more is accomplished, and
the work better done, by intelligent and weH-informed individuals? " John B. Wight, "Public Libraries," Common School Journal, XIII (1851), 260.[<a href="http://archive.org/stream/foundationsofthe012037mbp/foundationsofthe012037mbp_djvu.txt" target="_blank">source</a>]<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="yui_3_13_0_1_1384487174117_70352" id="yiv8412304923yui_3_13_0_1_1384727502384_3292"><span class="yiv8412304923st">, </span></span></span></span>John B. Wight, "A Lecture on Public Libraries Delivered in Boston in the
Hall of the House of Representatives, 1854, and in Several Other Places" (unpub-
lished MS in the possession of Mrs. John B. Wight of Wayland, Mass.).<br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="yui_3_13_0_1_1384487174117_70352" id="yiv8412304923yui_3_13_0_1_1384727502384_3292"><span class="yiv8412304923st"> Also quoted </span></span><span class="yui_3_13_0_1_1384487174117_70352" id="yiv8412304923yui_3_13_0_1_1384727502384_3292"><span class="yiv8412304923st">in <b style="line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/8185689423?ie=UTF8&tag=httpmultifait-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=8185689423" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; color: #4d469c; cursor: text ! important; margin: 0px; outline: medium none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations</a> </b><span style="line-height: 18px;"> </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="yui_3_13_0_1_1384487174117_70352" id="yiv8412304923yui_3_13_0_1_1384727502384_3292"><span class="yiv8412304923st"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Edited</span><b style="line-height: 18px;"> </b><span style="line-height: 18px;">by </span></span></span><span style="line-height: 18px;">Mohamed Taher and </span><span style="line-height: 18px;">L S S R Valluri Ramaiah. ISBN: 8185689423 </span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">(New Delhi , Aditya, </span></span><span class="yiv8412304923st" id="yiv8412304923yui_3_13_0_1_1384727502384_3294" style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">1994)</span> (p. 385)</span>.</span></span><span style="line-height: 18px;"> </span></span></span></blockquote>
M Taherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05230356608624560148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29901585.post-26790677226857686242013-11-14T14:29:00.002-05:002013-11-14T14:54:59.673-05:00B&N Says Book Sample Downloads Don't Infringe Copyright, Law360<b>Extract</b>:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Law360, Los Angeles (November 01, 2013, 8:32 PM ET) -- Barnesandnoble.com LLC asked a New York federal court Thursday to toss out an e-book author’s copyright infringement suit, arguing it cannot be held responsible for readers downloading digital samples of a book to their e-reader or computer after it was removed from the bookseller’s website. continue reading <a href="http://www.law360.com/articles/485550" target="_blank">Law360</a></blockquote>
<br />
On the same shelf:<br />
<ul>
<li><a href="http://askville.amazon.com/book-purchase-sample-downloads/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=88116724">My book was purchase(d) but all i see is the sample downloads - Askville</a></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a class="l" href="http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/10/28/entertainment-news/copyright-extension-opponents-ready-for-new-fight/">Copyright extension opponents ready for new fight</a></span></li>
<li><a h="ID=news,5038.1" href="http://www.vancouversun.com/business/technology/Google+triumphs+over+Authors+Guild+book+scanning/9166273/story.html" style="color: #663399; margin: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Google triumphs over Authors Guild in book scanning lawsuit</span></a></li>
<li><a h="ID=news,5037.1" href="http://www.itnews.com.au/News/364286,google-wins-against-authors-in-book-scanning-case.aspx" style="color: #663399; margin: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Google wins against authors in book scanning case</span></a></li>
<li><span style="color: #663399; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;"><a h="ID=news,5054.1" href="http://www.wired.com/business/2013/11/google-2/" style="color: #663399; margin: 0px;" target="_blank">8 Years Later, Google’s Book Scanning Crusade Ruled ‘Fair Use’</a></span></li>
<li><a h="ID=news,5037.1" href="http://www.booktrade.info/index.php/showarticle/50730" style="color: #663399; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;" target="_blank">The PA Joins European Commitment To Enable Text And Data Mining</a></li>
<li><a h="ID=news,5069.1" href="http://www.sfwa.org/2013/11/going-business-nigerian-spam-scam-style/" style="color: #663399; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;" target="_blank">Going Out of Business, Nigerian Spam-Scam Style</a></li>
</ul>
M Taherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05230356608624560148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29901585.post-15199606103533725052013-11-10T20:27:00.000-05:002013-11-10T20:27:11.713-05:00Five sighted sites teens flock to instead of Facebook<h2 style="background-color: #053c3c; background-image: none; border: 0px; color: white; font-family: 'PT Sans Bold'; font-size: 18px; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">
Where America’s youth go online to avoid Mom and Dad</h2>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1e7d83; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 17px;"><a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/story/5-social-sites-cooler-than-facebook-2013-11-01">marketwatch.com</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/story/one-more-thing-teens-hate-facebook-2013-11-01" style="background-color: #053c3c; border: 0px; color: #ffcc00; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">If your kids aren’t on Facebook</a><span style="background-color: #053c3c; color: #cccccc; line-height: 17px;">, where are they? Try </span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #053c3c; color: #cccccc; line-height: 17px;">Snapchat. (<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 21px; orphans: 4;">This app’s files self-destruct. The service is designed for </span>savvy <span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 21px; orphans: 4;">teenagers who don’t want to leave an Internet footprint</span>) </span><a href="http://www.snapchat.com/"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e7d83; font-weight: bold; line-height: 17px;">www.</span><b style="background-color: white; color: #1e7d83; line-height: 17px;">snapchat</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e7d83; font-weight: bold; line-height: 17px;">.com</span></a></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Twenty-six
percent of 18- to 29-year-olds with cellphones use Snapchat, according to Pew
Research Center, compared with 5% of 30- to 49-year-olds and 3% of 50- to
64-year-olds. Parents might want to monitor and check in on their kids’ social
media activity from time to time, says Kelli Krafsky, coauthor of the book
“Facebook and Your Marriage,” but “Snapchat is impossible to check.” —By
Quentin Fottrell </span><span style="background-color: red; color: red; line-height: 16.988636016845703px;">((<a href="http://gregorydevans.wordpress.com/2013/11/04/5-sites-teens-flock-to-instead-of-facebook/">source</a></span><span style="background-color: #053c3c; color: red; line-height: 16.988636016845703px;">)</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #053c3c; color: #cccccc; line-height: 17px;"><strong style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; orphans: 4; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Pheed (<span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;">mobile app allows users to create and share videos)</span> </strong></span><a href="http://www.pheed.com/"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e7d83; font-weight: bold; line-height: 17px;">www.</span><b style="background-color: white; color: #1e7d83; line-height: 17px;">pheed</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e7d83; font-weight: bold; line-height: 17px;">.com</span></a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #053c3c; color: #cccccc; line-height: 17px;"><strong style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; orphans: 4; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">PicsArt </strong></strong></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e7d83; font-weight: bold; line-height: 17px;"><a href="http://www.picsart.com/" target="_blank">www.picsart.com</a></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #053c3c; color: #cccccc; line-height: 17px;"><strong style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; orphans: 4; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tumblr </strong></strong></strong></span><a href="http://www.tumblr.com/"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e7d83; font-weight: bold; line-height: 17px;">www.</span><b style="background-color: white; color: #1e7d83; line-height: 17px;">tumblr</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e7d83; font-weight: bold; line-height: 17px;">.com</span></a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #053c3c; color: #cccccc; line-height: 17px;"><strong style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; orphans: 4; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Vine (<span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;">Twitter launched Vine — a video-sharing app</span>) <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1252724087">www.</a></strong></strong></strong></strong></span><a href="http://vine.co/"><b style="background-color: white; color: #1e7d83; line-height: 17px;">vine</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e7d83; font-weight: bold; line-height: 17px;">.co</span></a></span></li>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 20.99431800842285px;"><b>On the same shelf: </b></span></span></div>
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<li><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 20.99431800842285px;">On Facebook, a growing teenage wasteland <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/01/tech/social-media/facebook-teens/index.html" target="_blank">CNN</a> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 20.99431800842285px;"><a class="yschttl spt" data-bk="5072.1" dirtyhref="/r/_ylt=A0SO80DVKYBSRXoAaVVXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTByc25qcnVyBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDNARjb2xvA2dxMQR2dGlkAw--/SIG=142na01bt/EXP=1384159829/**http%3a//live.wsj.com/video/5-sites-teens-flock-to-instead-of-facebook/41892F32-64D9-472A-BF35-6CC398858871.html" href="http://live.wsj.com/video/5-sites-teens-flock-to-instead-of-facebook/41892F32-64D9-472A-BF35-6CC398858871.html" id="link-4" style="background-color: white; color: #6e329d; line-height: 17px; orphans: auto;" target="_blank">Video - 3 Sites Teens Flock <span id="yui_3_10_0_1_1384131031321_545">to Instead</span> <wbr></wbr>of Facebook - WSJ.com</a> </span></span></li>
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M Taherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05230356608624560148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29901585.post-76844588345801721292013-11-09T20:13:00.000-05:002013-11-12T09:20:44.704-05:00Posting Frequency of Different Types of Bloggers -- Are there any patterns? <blockquote class="tr_bq">
This post is inspired by: <span style="border: none; color: #0080ff; font-size: small; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.mybloggeradvice.com/2013/10/blog-posting-frequency.html" style="border: none; color: #0080ff; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Ideal Posting Frequency For Different Types Of Bloggers</a>, </span><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-size: small;">Posted by Sarbajit Saha</span></span></blockquote>
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Here is a quick sample from different bloggers (bearing in mind many corporate blogs don't show the Archive/past post/history button).<br />
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<span style="text-indent: 0px;">Samples here are from Real Estate, Knowledge Management and two from religious and spiritual care.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> In this age of self-publishing, m<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; line-height: 17.25pt; text-indent: -18pt;">any have blogs. But, "Blogging frequency is fairly infrequent, on average." (<a href="http://blog.liberwriter.com/2013/10/22/ebook-survey-results-amazon-largest-market/">source</a>). While there is some truth in the statement: "</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 22.99715805053711px;">I believe people are looking for higher value, more useful information... (<a href="http://michaelhyatt.com/blogging-frequency.html">source</a>)." Nevertheless, the fact remains to be seen: How often and what is the pattern in the blogging map???</span></span></div>
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Do the following numbers show any posting pattern (may be by most and / or least productive periods/years)? The answer is for you to compare similar blogs and judge. Is there a similar tool or measure (like Blood pressure monitor) to know the frequency? Please let me know if there is a tool. Your comments and suggestions to improve this blogging map is going to be very valuable to many in the cyberspace!!! </div>
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A. The following is one example of a real estate agent, Samina Vakil's blog: The summary is 13 (Jan-Oct 2013); 8 (2012); 18 (2011); 50 (2010).<br />
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<a href="http://www.centum.ca/samina_Vakil/Blog">Blog Archives</a></div>
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<li style="background-color: #eaeaea; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; float: left; margin: 2px 0px; padding: 4px; width: 230px;"><a href="http://www.centum.ca/samina_Vakil/Blog/Archive/201309" style="color: #4f4f4f; cursor: pointer; display: block; float: left; text-decoration: none; width: 195px;">September 2013</a><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 2px 6px;">1</span></li>
<li style="background-color: #eaeaea; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; float: left; margin: 2px 0px; padding: 4px; width: 230px;"><a href="http://www.centum.ca/samina_Vakil/Blog/Archive/201308" style="color: #4f4f4f; cursor: pointer; display: block; float: left; text-decoration: none; width: 195px;">August 2013</a><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 2px 6px;">1</span></li>
<li style="background-color: #eaeaea; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; float: left; margin: 2px 0px; padding: 4px; width: 230px;"><a href="http://www.centum.ca/samina_Vakil/Blog/Archive/201307" style="color: #4f4f4f; cursor: pointer; display: block; float: left; text-decoration: none; width: 195px;">July 2013</a><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 2px 6px;">1</span></li>
<li style="background-color: #eaeaea; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; float: left; margin: 2px 0px; padding: 4px; width: 230px;"><a href="http://www.centum.ca/samina_Vakil/Blog/Archive/201306" style="color: #4f4f4f; cursor: pointer; display: block; float: left; text-decoration: none; width: 195px;">June 2013</a><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 2px 6px;">4</span></li>
<li style="background-color: #eaeaea; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; float: left; margin: 2px 0px; padding: 4px; width: 230px;"><a href="http://www.centum.ca/samina_Vakil/Blog/Archive/201304" style="color: #4f4f4f; cursor: pointer; display: block; float: left; text-decoration: none; width: 195px;">April 2013</a><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 2px 6px;">4</span></li>
<li style="background-color: #eaeaea; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; float: left; margin: 2px 0px; padding: 4px; width: 230px;"><a href="http://www.centum.ca/samina_Vakil/Blog/Archive/201303" style="color: #4f4f4f; cursor: pointer; display: block; float: left; text-decoration: none; width: 195px;">March 2013</a><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 2px 6px;">1</span></li>
<li style="background-color: #eaeaea; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; float: left; margin: 2px 0px; padding: 4px; width: 230px;"><a href="http://www.centum.ca/samina_Vakil/Blog/Archive/201301" style="color: #4f4f4f; cursor: pointer; display: block; float: left; text-decoration: none; width: 195px;">January 2013</a><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 2px 6px;">1</span></li>
<li style="background-color: #eaeaea; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; float: left; margin: 2px 0px; padding: 4px; width: 230px;"><a href="http://www.centum.ca/samina_Vakil/Blog/Archive/201211" style="color: #4f4f4f; cursor: pointer; display: block; float: left; text-decoration: none; width: 195px;">November 2012</a><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 2px 6px;">1</span></li>
<li style="background-color: #eaeaea; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; float: left; margin: 2px 0px; padding: 4px; width: 230px;"><a href="http://www.centum.ca/samina_Vakil/Blog/Archive/201210" style="color: #4f4f4f; cursor: pointer; display: block; float: left; text-decoration: none; width: 195px;">October 2012</a><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 2px 6px;">1</span></li>
<li style="background-color: #eaeaea; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; float: left; margin: 2px 0px; padding: 4px; width: 230px;"><a href="http://www.centum.ca/samina_Vakil/Blog/Archive/201208" style="color: #4f4f4f; cursor: pointer; display: block; float: left; text-decoration: none; width: 195px;">August 2012</a><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 2px 6px;">1</span></li>
<li style="background-color: #eaeaea; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; float: left; margin: 2px 0px; padding: 4px; width: 230px;"><a href="http://www.centum.ca/samina_Vakil/Blog/Archive/201206" style="color: #4f4f4f; cursor: pointer; display: block; float: left; text-decoration: none; width: 195px;">June 2012</a><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 2px 6px;">1</span></li>
<li style="background-color: #eaeaea; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; float: left; margin: 2px 0px; padding: 4px; width: 230px;"><a href="http://www.centum.ca/samina_Vakil/Blog/Archive/201205" style="color: #4f4f4f; cursor: pointer; display: block; float: left; text-decoration: none; width: 195px;">May 2012</a><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 2px 6px;">1</span></li>
<li style="background-color: #eaeaea; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; float: left; margin: 2px 0px; padding: 4px; width: 230px;"><a href="http://www.centum.ca/samina_Vakil/Blog/Archive/201204" style="color: #4f4f4f; cursor: pointer; display: block; float: left; text-decoration: none; width: 195px;">April 2012</a><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 2px 6px;">1</span></li>
<li style="background-color: #eaeaea; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; float: left; margin: 2px 0px; padding: 4px; width: 230px;"><a href="http://www.centum.ca/samina_Vakil/Blog/Archive/201203" style="color: #4f4f4f; cursor: pointer; display: block; float: left; text-decoration: none; width: 195px;">March 2012</a><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 2px 6px;">1</span></li>
<li style="background-color: #eaeaea; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; float: left; margin: 2px 0px; padding: 4px; width: 230px;"><a href="http://www.centum.ca/samina_Vakil/Blog/Archive/201201" style="color: #4f4f4f; cursor: pointer; display: block; float: left; text-decoration: none; width: 195px;">January 2012</a><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 2px 6px;">1</span></li>
<li style="background-color: #eaeaea; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; float: left; margin: 2px 0px; padding: 4px; width: 230px;"><a href="http://www.centum.ca/samina_Vakil/Blog/Archive/201112" style="color: #4f4f4f; cursor: pointer; display: block; float: left; text-decoration: none; width: 195px;">December 2011</a><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 2px 6px;">2</span></li>
<li style="background-color: #eaeaea; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; float: left; margin: 2px 0px; padding: 4px; width: 230px;"><a href="http://www.centum.ca/samina_Vakil/Blog/Archive/201111" style="color: #4f4f4f; cursor: pointer; display: block; float: left; text-decoration: none; width: 195px;">November 2011</a><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 2px 6px;">1</span></li>
<li style="background-color: #eaeaea; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; float: left; margin: 2px 0px; padding: 4px; width: 230px;"><a href="http://www.centum.ca/samina_Vakil/Blog/Archive/201110" style="color: #4f4f4f; cursor: pointer; display: block; float: left; text-decoration: none; width: 195px;">October 2011</a><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 2px 6px;">1</span></li>
<li style="background-color: #eaeaea; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; float: left; margin: 2px 0px; padding: 4px; width: 230px;"><a href="http://www.centum.ca/samina_Vakil/Blog/Archive/201106" style="color: #4f4f4f; cursor: pointer; display: block; float: left; text-decoration: none; width: 195px;">June 2011</a><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 2px 6px;">1</span></li>
<li style="background-color: #eaeaea; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; float: left; margin: 2px 0px; padding: 4px; width: 230px;"><a href="http://www.centum.ca/samina_Vakil/Blog/Archive/201105" style="color: #4f4f4f; cursor: pointer; display: block; float: left; text-decoration: none; width: 195px;">May 2011</a><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 2px 6px;">2</span></li>
<li style="background-color: #eaeaea; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; float: left; margin: 2px 0px; padding: 4px; width: 230px;"><a href="http://www.centum.ca/samina_Vakil/Blog/Archive/201104" style="color: #4f4f4f; cursor: pointer; display: block; float: left; text-decoration: none; width: 195px;">April 2011</a><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 2px 6px;">3</span></li>
<li style="background-color: #eaeaea; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; float: left; margin: 2px 0px; padding: 4px; width: 230px;"><a href="http://www.centum.ca/samina_Vakil/Blog/Archive/201103" style="color: #4f4f4f; cursor: pointer; display: block; float: left; text-decoration: none; width: 195px;">March 2011</a><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 2px 6px;">2</span></li>
<li style="background-color: #eaeaea; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; float: left; margin: 2px 0px; padding: 4px; width: 230px;"><a href="http://www.centum.ca/samina_Vakil/Blog/Archive/201102" style="color: #4f4f4f; cursor: pointer; display: block; float: left; text-decoration: none; width: 195px;">February 2011</a><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 2px 6px;">3</span></li>
<li style="background-color: #eaeaea; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; float: left; margin: 2px 0px; padding: 4px; width: 230px;"><a href="http://www.centum.ca/samina_Vakil/Blog/Archive/201101" style="color: #4f4f4f; cursor: pointer; display: block; float: left; text-decoration: none; width: 195px;">January 2011</a><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 2px 6px;">3</span></li>
<li style="background-color: #eaeaea; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; float: left; margin: 2px 0px; padding: 4px; width: 230px;"><a href="http://www.centum.ca/samina_Vakil/Blog/Archive/201012" style="color: #4f4f4f; cursor: pointer; display: block; float: left; text-decoration: none; width: 195px;">December 2010</a><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 2px 6px;">2</span></li>
<li style="background-color: #eaeaea; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; float: left; margin: 2px 0px; padding: 4px; width: 230px;"><a href="http://www.centum.ca/samina_Vakil/Blog/Archive/201011" style="color: #4f4f4f; cursor: pointer; display: block; float: left; text-decoration: none; width: 195px;">November 2010</a><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 2px 6px;">4</span></li>
<li style="background-color: #eaeaea; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; float: left; margin: 2px 0px; padding: 4px; width: 230px;"><a href="http://www.centum.ca/samina_Vakil/Blog/Archive/201010" style="color: #4f4f4f; cursor: pointer; display: block; float: left; text-decoration: none; width: 195px;">October 2010</a><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 2px 6px;">4</span></li>
<li style="background-color: #eaeaea; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; float: left; margin: 2px 0px; padding: 4px; width: 230px;"><a href="http://www.centum.ca/samina_Vakil/Blog/Archive/201009" style="color: #4f4f4f; cursor: pointer; display: block; float: left; text-decoration: none; width: 195px;">September 2010</a><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 2px 6px;">5</span></li>
<li style="background-color: #eaeaea; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; float: left; margin: 2px 0px; padding: 4px; width: 230px;"><a href="http://www.centum.ca/samina_Vakil/Blog/Archive/201008" style="color: #4f4f4f; cursor: pointer; display: block; float: left; text-decoration: none; width: 195px;">August 2010</a><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 2px 6px;">4</span></li>
<li style="background-color: #eaeaea; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; float: left; margin: 2px 0px; padding: 4px; width: 230px;"><a href="http://www.centum.ca/samina_Vakil/Blog/Archive/201007" style="color: #4f4f4f; cursor: pointer; display: block; float: left; text-decoration: none; width: 195px;">July 2010</a><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 2px 6px;">5</span></li>
<li style="background-color: #eaeaea; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; float: left; margin: 2px 0px; padding: 4px; width: 230px;"><a href="http://www.centum.ca/samina_Vakil/Blog/Archive/201006" style="color: #4f4f4f; cursor: pointer; display: block; float: left; text-decoration: none; width: 195px;">June 2010</a><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 2px 6px;">8</span></li>
<li style="background-color: #eaeaea; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; float: left; margin: 2px 0px; padding: 4px; width: 230px;"><a href="http://www.centum.ca/samina_Vakil/Blog/Archive/201005" style="color: #4f4f4f; cursor: pointer; display: block; float: left; text-decoration: none; width: 195px;">May 2010</a><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 2px 6px;">6</span></li>
<li style="background-color: #eaeaea; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; float: left; margin: 2px 0px; padding: 4px; width: 230px;"><a href="http://www.centum.ca/samina_Vakil/Blog/Archive/201004" style="color: #4f4f4f; cursor: pointer; display: block; float: left; text-decoration: none; width: 195px;">April 2010</a><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 2px 6px;">6</span></li>
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B. <span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Nirmala Palaniappan's <a href="http://nirmala-km.blogspot.ca/">Knowledge Management Blog</a> (allows sorting, by date): </span> The summary is<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"> in total 22 (Jan-Oct 2013); 54 (2012); 24 (2011, July - Dec). </span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">December 2012</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px;"> --- (4)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">July 2012</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px;"> --- (4)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">June 2012</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px;"> --- (3)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">March 2012</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px;"> --- (4)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">February 2012</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px;"> --- (6)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">January 2012</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px;"> --- (3)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">December 2011</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px;"> --- (4)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">October 2011</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px;"> --- (5)</span></div>
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C. Blog-Archiv @ <a class="profile-name-link g-profile" data-gapiattached="true" data-gapiscan="true" data-onload="true" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/16028343507964452368" rel="author" style="background-color: white; background-image: url(http://www.blogger.com/img/logo-16.png); background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #4d469c; display: inline-block; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; min-height: 20px; padding-left: 20px;">Youssef Tabti</a>'s (most recent post is on Religion and Spirituality in Cyberspace): 3 (2013); 3 (2012); 9 (2011); 6 (2010); 4 (2009).<span style="font-size: large;">..</span><br />
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Q. Is Web intelligence demystified in this book, <i><b>Google Search Secrets</b></i>? <br />
Ans. Not really. This book has very less semantic and much of it is presentational, helping you as 'What you see is what you get' (WYSIWYG). In short, this is another Library Guide (not to be confused with LibGuides by Springshare), also telling you 'What You Get Is What You See.'</blockquote>
<span class="title" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; vertical-align: top;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1555709230?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creativeASIN=1555709230&linkCode=xm2&tag=httpmultifait-20" style="color: #996633; vertical-align: top;" target="_blank">Google Search Secrets</a> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.05em;"> </span><span class="med reg" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.15em;">by Michael P. Sauers and Christa Burns </span><br />
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Paperback: 224 pages; ALA Neal-Schuman (October 28, 2013); ISBN-13: 978-1555709235<br />
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Welcome to Google; Google Web Search; Google Images; Google News; Google Videos; Google Maps; Google Blog Search; Google Scholar; Google Patents; Google Books; Google Alerts; Google Search Tips and Tricks</div>
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<span class="med reg" style="font-size: 1.15em;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Google can be an incredibly powerful tool for research, but the top-of-the-page results are seldom the most beneficial to library users and students, and many of the search engine's most useful features are hidden behind its famously simple interface. Burns and Sauers reveal the secrets of effective Google searches in this invaluable resource showing how to get the most out of the service, with</span></span><br />
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<li style="margin: 0.5em 0em;">An overview of all the tool's search services, including Image, Maps, News, Blogs, Discussions, Scholar, Patents, and Books</li>
<li style="margin: 0.5em 0em;">Ready-to-use instructions on how to go beyond the simple search box and top results to get library users the answers they need, fast</li>
<li style="margin: 0.5em 0em;">Straightforward guidance on using filters to refine search results, with examples of common searches like images with Creative Commons licenses, news searches set for a date range or into an archive, and videos with closed captioning</li>
<li style="margin: 0.5em 0em;">An explanation of the bibliography manager feature of Google Scholar, which allows students and researchers to build bibliographies with ease</li>
<li style="margin: 0.5em 0em;">Tips for configuring Safe Search on workstations in children's departments and schools<a name='more'></a></li>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Copious screenshots walk readers through each topic step by step, making this a true how-to guide for everyone who uses Google.</span></span></blockquote>
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<u><b>See also</b></u>:<br />
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<ul>
<li><span class="title" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; vertical-align: top;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005QBO68K?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creativeASIN=B005QBO68K&linkCode=xm2&tag=httpmultifait-20" style="color: #996633; vertical-align: top;" target="_blank">Google Secrets</a> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><img class="offsite" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/associates/network/08-ui-elements/icon-offsite._V192207026_.gif" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; vertical-align: top;" /> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Yvette Davis</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="title" style="vertical-align: top;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0789751348?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0789751348&linkCode=xm2&tag=httpmultifait-20" style="color: #e47911; vertical-align: top;" target="_blank">Google Semantic Search: Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Techniques That Get Your Company More Traffic, Increase Brand Impact, and Amplify Your Online Presence (Que Biz-Tech)</a> </span><img class="offsite" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/associates/network/08-ui-elements/icon-offsite._V192207026_.gif" style="vertical-align: top;" /> David Amerland</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="title" style="vertical-align: top;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3642250076?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creativeASIN=3642250076&linkCode=xm2&tag=httpmultifait-20" style="color: #996633; vertical-align: top;" target="_blank">Semantic Search over the Web (Data-Centric Systems and Applications)</a> </span><img class="offsite" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/associates/network/08-ui-elements/icon-offsite._V192207026_.gif" style="vertical-align: top;" /> Roberto De Virgilio</span></li>
</ul>
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<li><a href="http://www.google.ca/insidesearch/howsearchworks/index.html" style="color: #660099; cursor: pointer; font-family: arial, sans-serif; white-space: nowrap;">How Search Works – Inside Search – Google</a> </li>
<li><a href="https://www.openforum.com/articles/my-favorite-google-search-secrets/" style="color: #660099; cursor: pointer; font-family: arial, sans-serif; white-space: nowrap;">My Favorite Google Search Secrets | OPEN Forum</a> </li>
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M Taherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05230356608624560148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29901585.post-22072815344855740012013-10-26T18:15:00.001-04:002013-10-26T18:15:19.140-04:00Memo to Reviewers: Let your voices remain outside the wall<blockquote class="tr_bq">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a class="gaTrackLinkEvent" data-ga-track-json="["navigation", "click", "How Amazon and Goodreads could lose their best readers"]" href="http://www.salon.com/2013/10/23/how_amazon_and_goodreads_could_lose_their_best_readers/">How Amazon and Goodreads could lose their best readers </a></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">When Amazon bought Goodreads it got a
community of passionate readers, not all of whom want to follow the new
rules,</span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-weight: normal;">By </span></span><a class="gaTrackLinkEvent" data-ga-track-json="["author", "click", "Laura Miller"]" href="http://www.salon.com/writer/laura_miller/" rel="author"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Laura Miller </span></span></a></span></h2>
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<span class="byline"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="byline"><span style="font-size: small;">Continue reading @ <a href="http://www.salon.com/2013/10/23/how_amazon_and_goodreads_could_lose_their_best_readers/">salon.com</a> </span><a class="gaTrackLinkEvent" data-ga-track-json="["author", "click", "Laura Miller"]" href="http://www.salon.com/writer/laura_miller/" rel="author"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></a></span></h2>
</blockquote>
On the same shelf:<br />
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<li><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/akbanis/home/drmt_geo/amazon-s-citation" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">My book Reviews at Amazon.com</span></a></span></li>
<li><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: #660000;"></span></span></span></li>
<li style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: #660000;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/akbanis/home/drmt_geo/amazons-reviews" target="_blank"><span dir="ltr">All-a-do-about <span>Amazon</span>'s Marketing A Webliography</span></a></span></span></span></li>
<span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: #660000;">
<li style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/akbanis/home/drmt_geo/amazon-s-citation" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Citation links @
Amazon's and my other Listmania</span></a></span></li>
</span> </span></span></ul>
<br />M Taherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05230356608624560148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29901585.post-84806278966713579152013-10-13T00:24:00.001-04:002013-11-07T21:12:21.162-05:00Iṣṭalāḥāt-i Sūfiyah by Khwaja ʻAbduṣṣamad, A Glossary of Sufi Technical Terms in Urdu <blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">PREFACE: Librarians continue to play an important role in creating consistent bibliographic records and in dealing with cataloguing issues, on an on-going basis. To be consistent the cataloguers and indexers need re-education of the trends, problems and alternative ways to resolve the problems. One great help comes from the big libraries, such as, Library of Congress, British Library, etc. in setting up working standards and best practice guidelines. Ask me for more on this.</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><u>My review of this 2011 print</u></b>: This glossary is a useful reference book in Urdu on Sufism. It helps a beginner as well an advanced student to know the esoteric and exoteric meaning of Sufi terminology. The value of the book is it makes use of Hadith / Quran or other sources to explain some of the important terms. However, it lacks an index (that helps find synonyms, or contextually related words). In addition wherever it mentions Quran, Hadith, etc., a full citation is missing. A future revision may restore the attribution of ownership, as well as improve its user-friendliness. One may also see <span class="title">
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0863040322?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0863040322&linkCode=xm2&tag=httpmultifait-20" target="_blank">A Glossary of Sufi Technical Terms</a>
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<img class="offsite" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/associates/network/08-ui-elements/icon-offsite._V192207026_.gif" /> by
Abd al-Razzaq al-Qashani ("This is the first accessible English translation from the Arabic of a
book that has been required reading in Sufi circles for more than six
centuries").</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span><br />
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The consistency of transliteration as an example, here, is in ISTALAHAAT as found in the verso of the book. According to the <i>Practical Standard Twentieth Century Dictionary: Urdu into English</i>, istilah (N.F), istilahat (plural) p. 58, 1980; Library of Congress is same; but Toronto Public Library uses Iṣṭalāḥāt. So much about the inconsistency in data entry. The resulting data search success or failure is dependent on a semantic search enginge (such as Google) or a literal search box (as most libraries have).</div>
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This post is also about the importance of attributing the ownership, systematizing bibliographic work and tackling cataloguing Issues, based on the case of an Urdu book on Sufi Terminology: </blockquote>
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(a) issues in transliteration (or Romanization) of Urdu Books,<br />
(b) dealing with a Market that is more open / competitive / irresponsive and <br />
(c) how to troubleshoot/avoid all related problems (esp., in dealing with rare/reprinted books, conducting proper search in library catalogs, retaining consistency in title, author name, searchability, findability and access). </blockquote>
The Urdu title that brings forth the above concerns, here is, ISTALAHAAT-E-SUFIA (اصطلا حاتِ صو فیا). While the book did not track down the original source, the catalogers too did not indicate that this a <u>reprint</u> of either a 1983 work (printed in Lahore, Pakistan) or 1929 (printed in Delhi, India). Compare the three prints of the same title, here:<br />
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<u>2011 print</u> (note the changes in transliteration of the title, in each print):<br />
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<li><span class="title">
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/9693524195?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creativeASIN=9693524195&linkCode=xm2&tag=httpmultifait-20" target="_blank">ISTALAHAAT-E-SUFIA</a>
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<img class="offsite" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/associates/network/08-ui-elements/icon-offsite._V192207026_.gif" /> Lahore, Sang-e-Meel Publications, 2011. ISBN: 9693524195<br />
By <span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">Hazrat Khawaja Shah Muhammad Abdul Samad</span></span>
-- (also note the rendering of the title/author in the Toronto Public Library Catalog: <a href="http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/search.jsp?N=4289306391">Iṣṭalāḥāt-i Sūfiyah</a> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><a href="http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/search.jsp?N=4289306391"><span style="color: blue;">ʻAbduṣṣamad,
Shāh Muḥammad</span></a>) </span> </li>
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<u>1983 print</u>: </div>
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<li>ʻAbduṣṣamad, Shāh Muḥammad. Iṣt̤ilāḥāt-i Ṣūfiyah / Shāh Muḥammad ʻAbduṣṣamad. Lāhaur : Makkah Buks, [1983?] 172 p. ; 22 cm. <u>Note</u>: First published in Delhi, India. <a href="http://lccn.loc.gov/83931533">Library of Congress record</a></li>
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<u>1929 print</u> (probably* the original work):</div>
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<li>Iṣṭalāḥāt-i Sūfiyah, Shāh Muḥammad ʻAbduṣṣamad, Dihlī : Dillī Printṭing Varks, 1929, 176 p. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/title/istalahat-i-sufiyah/oclc/28777316">World Cat Record</a> -- (*<u>reviewer's note</u>: According to the <a href="http://books.google.ca/books?id=ABkYAAAAYAAJ">J Royal Asiatic Society</a> dated 1847 ... paid Hafiz Ahmad Kabir for printing 500 copies of Istalahat Sufia. Based on this information, a future researcher has to ascertain the name of the actual author who was definitely an adult in 1847, and thence track the date of its first publication???)</li>
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PS. The reading list, below, helps in understanding the crux of the problems as listed above (a, b <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">& c</span>).<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Transliteration issues:</b></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span dir="LTR"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"> </span></o:p></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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>> <span dir="LTR"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=18&cad=rja&ved=0CE4QFjAHOAo&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpu.edu.pk%2Fimages%2Fjournal%2Fuoc%2FPDF-FILES%2F%2813%29%2520Some%2520Issues%2520with%2520the%2520Orientalists%2592%2520Urdu-English%2520Dictionaries%252085%282%29.pdf&ei=RvtZUqjWJMHayAGnk4HIAw&usg=AFQjCNGABkx1NsYrttCh-2XRkdUZFngUYw&bvm=bv.53899372,d.aWc"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">Some Issues with the Orientalists' <i><span style="font-family: Arial;">Urdu</span></i>- English Dictionaries</span></span></a></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> by Dr. Zafar Iqbal and
Mahmood Ahmad </span></span></span></span></ul>
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<ul><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">>> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span dir="LTR"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.cle.org.pk/clt09/download/ahmed_translit.pdf"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;">Roman to Urdu Transliteration using word list</span></span></a></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">, by Tafseer Ahmed </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span dir="LTR"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-weight: normal;"></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span dir="LTR"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-weight: normal;">>> <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13295743/why-isnt-transliteration-from-urdu-to-latin-working-properly-in-icu4c" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','','26','AFQjCNHl1ZE_fKdgWBAxK4XXd7pYMnnzAw','','0CEYQFjAFOBQ','','',event)"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;">Why isn't transliteration from Urdu to Latin working
properly in icu4c?</span></span></a> </span></span></span><br />
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>> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span dir="LTR"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5625681&url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fxpls%2Fabs_all.jsp%3Farnumber%3D5625681"><span style="color: blue;">English
to Urdu transliteration: An application of Soundex algorithm</span></a> by MA Zahid </span></span></span><br />
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>> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span dir="LTR"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0903764288?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0903764288&linkCode=xm2&tag=httpmultifait-20" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;">CILLA
rules: Transliteration rules and cataloguing guide for material in public
libraries in Indic languages : Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Panjabi and Urdu</span></span></a></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><v:shapetype coordsize="21600,21600" filled="f" id="_x0000_t75" o:preferrelative="t" o:spt="75" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" stroked="f"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
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>> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span dir="LTR"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/8120728939?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creativeASIN=8120728939&linkCode=xm2&tag=httpmultifait-20" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;">Masterpieces
of Patriotic Urdu Poetry - Text, Translation & Transliteration in
English & Urdu</span></span></a></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><v:shape alt="" id="_x0000_i1026" style="height: 9.75pt; width: 11.25pt;" type="#_x0000_t75"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
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</v:imagedata></span></v:shape><span style="font-family: inherit;"> K C Kanda </span></span><br />
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>> <span dir="LTR"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0230113370?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0230113370&linkCode=xm2&tag=httpmultifait-20" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Knowledge
Production, Pedagogy</span>, and Institutions in Colonial India (Palgrave Studies in
Cultural and Intellectual History)</span></span></a></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><v:shape alt="" id="_x0000_i1027" style="height: 9.75pt; width: 11.25pt;" type="#_x0000_t75">
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>> <span dir="LTR"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://profsite.um.ac.ir/~fattahi/cha2.htm" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','','10','AFQjCNGsMA-Mr7q0l6ghuz4wEI9I53Uzjw','','0CF8QFjAJ','','',event)"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">2.10
Non Anglo-American <span style="font-family: Arial;">cataloguing</span>
codes</span></span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></span><br />
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>> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span dir="LTR"><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-weight: normal;">اردو اصطلاحات سازى</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-weight: normal;"><span dir="LTR"></span> / Urdū
iṣt̤ilāḥāt sāzī by <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/title/urdu-istilahat-sazi/oclc/605291159"><span style="color: blue;">ʻAt̤ish
Durrānī</span></a> -- see also <a href="http://classify.oclc.org/classify2/ClassifyDemo?swid=015315543"><span style="color: blue;">another</span></a>
link </span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">>></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span dir="LTR"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">Guide for the compilation of terminological
dictionaries (<a href="http://catalog2.loc.gov/vwebv/holdingsInfo?searchId=133013&recCount=25&recPointer=20&bibId=3939660%20"><span style="color: blue;">Malay
language--Terminology</span></a>)</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"> </span></o:p></span></span></span></ul>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Urdu Book Market, Media reports:</span></h3>
<ul>
<li><h3 class="r">
<a href="http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?260108" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','','1','AFQjCNGcFLhpojVpid67JueysNuiYBBiAQ','','0CCoQFjAA','','',event)"><span style="font-size: small;">Plagiarize And Prosper | C.M. Naim - Outlook</span></a> </h3>
</li>
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<a href="http://blogs.tribune.com.pk/story/8916/a-short-myopic-and-utterly-biased-guide-to-bookstores-in-lahore">A short, myopic and utterly biased guide to bookstores in Lahore</a> </div>
</li>
<li><a href="http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/the-five-forms-of-plagiarism-in-the-urdu-literature">The Five Forms of Plagiarism in the Urdu Literature</a></li>
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<a href="http://tribune.com.pk/story/459408/rare-books-a-forgotten-history-being-preserved-at-sangemeel">Rare books: A forgotten history being preserved at Sangemeel </a></div>
</li>
<li><a href="http://www.milligazette.com/Archives/01032002/0103200257.htm">Urdu book publishing - a field survey</a> </li>
<li><div class="r">
<a href="http://archives.dawn.com/archives/12843">The lost world of Urdu books</a></div>
</li>
<li><div class="r">
<a href="http://dawn.com/news/1030881/ibn-i-safi-makes-a-resounding-return">Ibn-i-Safi makes a resounding return</a> </div>
</li>
<li><a href="http://www.urdustudies.com/pdf/26/08NaimLibraries.pdf%E2%80%8E">Disappearing Treasures: Public Libraries and Urdu Printed Books</a></li>
<li><h1 class="title">
<a href="http://www.worldcat.org/title/jadid-sahafati-angrezi-urdu-lughat-jadeed-sahafati-angrezi-urdu-lughat/oclc/608021726"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jadīd ṣaḥāfatī Angrezī-Urdu lug̲h̲at = Jadeed sahafati Angrezi- Urdu lughat</span></span></a></h1>
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<tr id="bib-author-row"><th><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Author:</span></span></th>
<td id="bib-author-cell"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3AAshraf%2C+Sayyid+Ra%CC%84shid.&qt=hot_author" title="Search for more by this author">Sayyid Rāshid Ashraf</a>; <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3AMuqtadirah-yi+Qaumi%CC%84+Zaba%CC%84n+%28Pakistan%29&qt=hot_author" title="Search for more by this author">Muqtadirah-yi Qaumī Zabān (Pakistan), </a></span></span><a href="http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3AMuqtadirah-yi+Qaumi%CC%84+Zaba%CC%84n+%28Pakistan%29&qt=hot_author" title="Search for more by this author"><br /></a>Islāmābād : Muqtadirah-yi Qaumī Zabān, 2006.</td></tr>
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M Taherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05230356608624560148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29901585.post-16996333320430609682013-10-10T12:08:00.006-04:002013-10-10T14:19:13.992-04:00Reading now: Information Retrieval: Implementing and Evaluating Search Engines (incl. sample chapters) <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0262026511?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0262026511&linkCode=xm2&tag=httpmultifait-20" style="background-color: white; color: #996633; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; vertical-align: top;" target="_blank">Information Retrieval: Implementing and Evaluating Search Engines</a> by <span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Stefan Buettcher, Charles L. A. Clarke and Gordon V. Cormack. ISBN: </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">9780262026512; </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">0262026511. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2010.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.390625px;">Information retrieval is the foundation for modern search engines. This text offers an introduction to the core topics underlying modern search technologies, including algorithms, data structures, indexing, retrieval, and evaluation. The emphasis is on implementation and experimentation; each chapter includes exercises and suggestions for student projects. ... The modular structure of the book allows instructors to use it in a variety of graduate-level courses, including courses taught from a database systems perspective, traditional information retrieval courses with a focus on IR theory, and courses covering the basics of Web retrieval.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #272727;"><span style="line-height: 28px;">Foundations; </span></span><span style="color: #272727; line-height: 28px;">Basic Techniques; </span><span style="color: #272727; line-height: 28px;">Tokens and Terms; </span><span style="color: #272727; line-height: 28px;">Static Inverted Indices; </span><span style="color: #272727; line-height: 28px;">Query Processing; </span><span style="color: #272727; line-height: 28px;">Index Compression; </span><span style="color: #272727; line-height: 28px;">Retrieval And Ranking; </span><span style="color: #272727; line-height: 28px;">Experimental Comparison; </span><span style="color: #272727; line-height: 28px;">Evaluation; </span><span style="color: #272727; line-height: 28px;">Applications And Extensions; </span><span style="color: #272727; line-height: 28px;">Computer Performance.</span></span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #272727;"><span style="line-height: 28px;"><a href="http://probabilistic%20question%20answering%20on%20the%20web/">Probabilistic Question Answering on the Web</a> </span></span><a class="authors" href="http://www.researchgate.net/researcher/6744025_Dragomir_R_Radev/" style="color: #666666; cursor: pointer; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-decoration: none;" title="Dragomir R. Radev">Dragomir R. Radev</a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">,</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><a class="authors" href="http://www.researchgate.net/researcher/7575589_Weiguo_Fan/" style="color: #666666; cursor: pointer; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-decoration: none;" title="Weiguo Fan">Weiguo Fan</a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">,</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><a class="authors" href="http://www.researchgate.net/researcher/9237764_Hong_Qi/" style="color: #666666; cursor: pointer; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-decoration: none;" title="Hong Qi">Hong Qi</a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">,</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><a class="authors" href="http://www.researchgate.net/researcher/9774588_Harris_Wu/" style="color: #666666; cursor: pointer; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-decoration: none;" title="Harris Wu">Harris Wu</a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">,</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><a class="authors" href="http://www.researchgate.net/researcher/9774586_Amardeep_Grewal/" style="color: #666666; cursor: pointer; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-decoration: none;" title="Amardeep Grewal">Amardeep Grewal</a>, <a href="http://www.researchgate.net/journal/1532-2882_Journal_of_the_American_Society_for_Information_Science_and_Technology" style="color: #999999; cursor: pointer; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none;">Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology</a><span style="color: #999999; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span style="color: #999999; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">(impact factor: 2.01). 12/2012;</span></li>
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<strong style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">ABSTRACT</strong><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> Web-based search engines such as Google and NorthernLight return documents that are relevant to a user query, not answers to user questions. We have developed an architecture that augments existing search engines so that they support natural language question answering. The process entails five steps: query modulation, document retrieval, passage extraction, phrase extraction, and answer ranking. In this article, we describe some probabilistic approaches to the last three of these stages. We show how our techniques apply to a number of existing search engines, and we also present results contrasting three different methods for question answering. Our algorithm, probabilistic phrase reranking (PPR), uses proximity and question type features and achieves a total reciprocal document rank of .20 on the TREC8 corpus. Our techniques have been implemented as a Web-accessible system, called NSIR. Peer Reviewed </span></blockquote>
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M Taherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05230356608624560148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29901585.post-88566723335539172572013-10-01T00:00:00.000-04:002013-10-01T00:00:12.632-04:00ABC of Evaluating Library Resources: Authority, Body and Currency<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<b> <span style="font-size: large;">A - Authority:</span> </b>includes author, publisher, editor, compiler, etc. -- Can we trust the authority; What makes (qualifications, skills, expertise) this person (him/her) an authority;<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>B </b>- <b>Body</b>: </span>includes the content in the body of the source to be evaluated for its objectivity or bias, accuracy, completeness, relevancy, format;<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">C - Currency:</span> </b>current, up to date content. <span style="font-size: small;"><b>-- Info courtesy</b></span>: 'ABCs of Evaluation' (online sources: p. 69; Databases: p. 73; Print sources: p. 75) <span class="title">
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1554513944?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creativeASIN=1554513944&linkCode=xm2&tag=httpmultifait-20" target="_blank">The Research Virtuoso: How to Find Anything You Need to Know</a>
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<img class="offsite" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/associates/network/08-ui-elements/icon-offsite._V192207026_.gif" /> Victor Gad, Jessica Rovito and Peggy Thomas of Toronto Public library (see pages: 68-77) </blockquote>
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The following <u>Library guides</u> have examples to evaluate Library Resources, such as, Printed Books, Databases and E-Resources (Websites, online and digitized):<br />
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<li>
<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://simmons.libguides.com/content.php?pid=301317&sid=3548791">The ABCs of Evaluating Websites</a>: Evaluation Info - SSW 401 Social Policy - Research Guides at Simmons College </span>
</li>
<li><a href="http://utica.libguides.com/content.php?pid=405191">ABCs of Evaluating Websites</a>, LibGuides at Utica College</li>
<li><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://sdmesa.libguides.com/content.php?pid=165374&sid=1441981">The ABCs of Evaluating Web Sites</a>, Open Web/Internet - Speech/Communications Research Guide - LibGuides at San Diego Mesa College</span></span></li>
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John D. Shank </li>
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James Lerman</li>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://mtindias.blogspot.ca/2013/09/research-virtuoso-to-improve-teens.html">Research Virtuoso: To improve teen's research skills beyond googling for school and for life </a></span></span></h3>
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M Taherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05230356608624560148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29901585.post-74634796597666302542013-09-28T23:21:00.000-04:002013-09-29T00:21:32.890-04:00Research Virtuoso: To improve teen's research skills beyond googling for school and for life <br />
<ul>
<li><span class="title"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1554513944?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creativeASIN=1554513944&linkCode=xm2&tag=httpmultifait-20" target="_blank">The Research Virtuoso: How to Find Anything You Need to Know</a>
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Victor Gad</li>
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008XLU3A0?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creativeASIN=B008XLU3A0&linkCode=xm2&tag=httpmultifait-20" target="_blank">Research Virtuoso, The: How to Find Anything You Need to Know</a>
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Toronto Public Library<br />
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Kindle Store: <a href="https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/network/build-links/individual/main.html?ie=UTF8&fieldKeywords=%20Research%20Virtuoso%20&marketplace=amazon&selectedSearchIndex=kindle&submit=1">See all 1 items</a>
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008XLU3A0?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creativeASIN=B008XLU3A0&linkCode=xm2&tag=httpmultifait-20">Research Virtuoso</a> is researched and written by Jessica Rovito and Peggy Thomas of Toronto Public library. One may ask what is Virtuoso? And, what is the meaning of the word in the title of this book. About the word, Virtuoso, <a href="http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/virtuoso.">OED </a>says:<br />
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<span class="partOfSpeech">noun</span> <span class="inflectionGroup"> (plural <span class="inflection">virtuosi</span> /-si/ or <span class="inflection">virtuosos</span>)</span></h3>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="virtuoso__4"> </a><span class="iteration">1</span><span class="definition">a person highly skilled in music or another artistic pursuit:</span><span class="exampleGroup exGrBreak"><i class="example">a celebrated clarinet virtuoso</i></span> <span class="exampleGroup exGrBreak"><i> [as modifier]:</i><i class="example">virtuoso guitar playing;</i></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="virtuoso__11"> </a><span class="iteration">2</span><span class="definition">a person with a special knowledge of or interest in works of art or curios.</span> </div>
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PS. The book has an explanation (p.2), summarily stated to make the reader a Research Virtuoso, who is above the average researcher. One may ask: if reading makes it possible to do and be done with research it needs patience, aptitude, persistence and reading the full book of 122 pages--the book meant to help "a research paper that is due tomorrow". What are the facts about today's reading habits of the teens, esp., for whom the bell tolls???<br />
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We are left to imagine the factoid, and also as to why it has such an artistic title, instead of an expressive title (that precisely tells you that this book is based on the lessons learnt in real time), e.g, a) Toronto's Public Library's Best Practices in Teen Information Literacy; (b) A facilitators guide to research needs while using Toronto's Public Library' !!!<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<b>Summary: </b>Looking
for information and not sure where to find it? This lively guidebook
can help! Learn how to decide on a topic, focus your thoughts, make
notes, skim, evaluate sources, and present your findings. Plus, discover
how to access special collections and private libraries. As a master
researcher, you'll have the inside knowledge you need to be effective
and efficient at finding anything-not only on the Internet but also in
the real world. Researched and written by two professional librarians at
the <a href="http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM2854651&R=2854651">Toronto Public Library</a>, this book captures their extensive
experience in education, writing, research, and working with teens. The
Research Virtuoso is a must-have in today's information-rich world,
where being a critical consumer of information is a key to success. Book
jacket. </blockquote>
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The book has four sections: "Getting Ready: Preparing
Yourself for Research", "Digging In: Locating Information", "Taking
Stock: Evaluating and Processing Information" and "Getting It Out There:
Communicating Your Research". <br />
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While most library's research guides are expected to be used by the end users, the sad story is they are not. Research Virtuoso in this sense is good for the trainers in public library environs. For an experienced user it may be handy and its understanding can be supplemented with lectures, discussions, and hands-on training. Library jargon and techniques are no more simple, and hence the end-users cannot read the book A_Z and complete their assignment. (<u>See below</u>: Searching Is Polarized). Hence, supplementing is very pertinent here. Most public library users need guidance/customization and that too in person, and in this is the continued value of a library today. As well as a competitive edge in Google's Age. Another strength is its variety and diversity of resources: checklists, lists, diagrams, and Grab and Go templates in order to accomplish the desired ends.<br />
<br />
Information literacy tools are essential and this book adds to the existing treasures. Information literacy tools were non-existing in public library world. But,
with the trend to diversify library services and be inclusive, public
libraries are stepping into the shoes of academic/special libraries, albeit with
caution/partnership. That is the good news, and more such food for thought is at the bottom of this
page.<br />
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There are at least seven printed book reviews' praising Research Virtuoso (as indexed at the publisher's <a href="http://www.annickpress.com/Research-Virtuoso-Revised-Edition-The">site</a>); indicating its popularity in the information industry. All the reviews including the online reviews (<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/329112971">1</a>, <a href="http://rapaciousreading.blogspot.ca/2012/05/research-virtuoso-by-toronto-public.html">2</a> and <a href="http://www.umanitoba.ca/cm/vol18/no36/theresearchvirtuoso.html">3</a>), praise endlessly with no word about its weakness. Thus, it lies in the eyes of the.... to know the facts?<br />
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Apart from trying to be too broad in its approach, Research Virtuoso tries to include every thing from good-to-know to must-know information for anyone who is teen (in a school) or an adult (looking for an academic assignment help); in explaining all possible dimensions, i.e., from its own printed documents (inside the box) to online domains/search engines (subscribed or unsubscribed) and thence to human sources and how to handle such scenarios when you may meet in writing your assignment (totally outside the box).<br />
<br />
Hence, one weakness is its title. If the book is limited to teens (intended audience is lost in the information maze; but obvious with a little scratch and little more dig), then the title of the book must be clear to reach the right audience. Another weakness is it tends to be an academic research guide (meant for school/college/academic assignments) from a public library desk (as a tool for lifelong needs)--trying to fit two distinct information literacy strategies / practices--into one size fits all type of book. This academic bias is clear from the book: "In addition to consulting library users and staff, the library gathered valuable input from instructors and librarians in academic institutions" (Jane Pyper, Foreword, p. vi ).<br />
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Furthermore, a public library (e.g., here Toronto Public Library) does not subscribe to PsycInfo and LexisNexis Statistical; whereas these are the only two databases listed (p. 50). Course reserves or short term loans is described (p. 46); whereas this is a term used in academic libraries, not in public libraries (popular magazines in the public library may be an exception for use of short term loans, but such pop magazines are not a recommended source for school assignment!!!). No doubt a book by librarians is not 'read' nor in 'great demand' by end-users or Others; at this moment of writing this review, of the 69 copies only four copies are checked out from the Toronto Public Library. Adding further complexity to the book's extent and intent, is a comparison of Archive and Library, taken from yet another academic library's perspective (e.g., here York Univ., p. 56).<br />
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<b>Suggestion</b>: In another revision of this book, the editors could categorize and design it with a purpose to help one collection segment or one audience at a time. Further, they may also consider a document-type categorization and explain only that which is in public library, e.g, printed/online resources, archival resources that a public library might have (e.,g genealogy and digitized primary resources a public library has), etc. Since, most of the resources in Research Virtuoso are based on Toronto Public Library, it would be better to add a little more value by citation (indicating the shelf or branch or collection type).<br />
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<b>Recommend this book</b>: Yes for librarians, library users and the rest. But, other public libraries need to replicate this content and design it in their own environs. By the way, this book is not a substitute for <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0195189981?ie=UTF8&tag=httpmultifait-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0195189981">Thomas Mann: The Oxford Guide to Library Research.</a><br />
<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://lit2542006.blogspot.ca/2011/11/database-searching-information-literacy.html">Database Searching -- Information Literacy for Library Technicians</a></span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3110280841?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creativeASIN=3110280841&linkCode=xm2&tag=httpmultifait-20" target="_blank">The Road to Information Literacy: Librarians As Facilitators of Learning (Ifla Publications)</a>
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M Taherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05230356608624560148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29901585.post-45972946048930378942013-09-20T00:28:00.003-04:002013-09-20T00:28:40.148-04:00Oyster Book App For iPhone Released -- PROS and CONSExtract from: Oyster Book App For iPhone Released: What Do People Think? <a href="http://www.designntrend.com/articles/7811/20130910/oyster-book-app-iphone-released-what-people-think-review.htm">Design&Trend.com</a><br />
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In a review from <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/oyster-review-all-you-can-read-ebooks-for-9-95-per-month-verdict-gorgeous-7000020448/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px none; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">ZDNet</a>, some pros and cons are laid out:</div>
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PROS<ul style="border: 0px none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px;" type="disc">
<li style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px;">Deep catalog of 100,000 titles that's growing daily</li>
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<li style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px;">Offline browsing so that you can read books on the plane and train</li>
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<li style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px;">Smooth UI and beautiful design</li>
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<li style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px;">HarperCollins is the only big-five publisher on the list. Oyster says it's in active conversations with all the major publishers</li>
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<li style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px;">No iPad version currently, but one coming in fall</li>
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<li style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px;">No multi-device sync, but this is coming with the iPad version according to Oyster</li>
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At the end of the day, bookworms will appreciate the app, giving Kindle and iBooks a run for their money and according to <em style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px;">Wired</em>, an iPad app will come out this fall.<a href="http://www.designntrend.com/articles/7811/20130910/oyster-book-app-iphone-released-what-people-think-review.htm"> continue reading</a></blockquote>
On the same shelf:<br />
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<li><a class="l" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/oyster-book-app-launches-2013-9" style="color: #660099; cursor: pointer; font-size: medium;">At Last, The 'Netflix For Books' Is Here</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/oyster-netflix-for-books-iphone-app-2013-9?op=1">This Incredible App Could Change How You Read Books Forever</a> </li>
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M Taherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05230356608624560148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29901585.post-74183346876255255602013-09-19T00:00:00.000-04:002013-09-19T23:48:47.031-04:0023 Resources for Getting Published in the Library Field PS. These 23 identified resources are not from my desktop. This is a compilation by <span style="background-color: #fbfaf8; color: #5f5f5f; font-family: myriad-pro, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px;">Ellyssa Kroski @ <a href="http://oedb.org/ilibrarian/23-resources-for-getting-published-in-the-library-field/">OEDB.Org</a> and found @ </span><a aria-haspopup="true" aria-owns="js_165" class="passiveName" data-ft="{"tn":";"}" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=47377008761" href="https://www.facebook.com/ALA.JobLIST?ref=stream" id="js_166" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.38; text-decoration: none;">ALA JobLIST</a><br />
Although this is for librarians and by librarians, on one side it is not a one stop shopping window, because it simply needs further research to decide which one is best among the apples and oranges, and which are not so good apples and oranges; on the other side depending on your skills and experience (even if you are not a librarian), you can use these to find your own destination. This further research is the best practice and the tested approach, more so in a world of open source and self publishing. In short, these 23 are just pathfinders, not the ends.<br />
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M Taherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05230356608624560148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29901585.post-36464270690177835732013-09-18T00:00:00.000-04:002013-09-18T00:00:00.214-04:00BDM's social media series: Beginner's guide to Google magazine--over 720 expert tips & tutorials <span class="title">
Note: This is an unofficial, but useful guide to Google and its products. Very beneficial for the beginners, with its 101 approach. At ebay it is described as:</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00E1JO7RI?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creativeASIN=B00E1JO7RI&linkCode=xm2&tag=httpmultifait-20" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img align="right" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51cOxz5u7lL._SX260_.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">"Beginners guide to google everything you need to know about google's unmissable free apps over 720 expert tips & tutorials. More than just search, discover new ways to google!"</span><br />
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<span class="title"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00E1JO7RI?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creativeASIN=B00E1JO7RI&linkCode=xm2&tag=httpmultifait-20" target="_blank">Beginners' Guide to Google Magazine Volume 3 Summer 2013</a>
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<img class="offsite" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/associates/network/08-ui-elements/icon-offsite._V192207026_.gif" /><br />
146 pp. <br />
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BDM's social media series. — Torquay : Black Dog Media, — Oxford :
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 1 volume ; 2012- — v. : col. ill., col.
ports. ; 28 cm. <br />
ISSN: 2050-1102; ISBN 9780199673025 (pbk.) :
30.BNB Number GBB306993 BNB Number GBB Social media, Periodicals. Public
opinion. United States [source: <a href="http://www.bl.uk/bibliographic/bnbnewpdfs/bnblist3229.pdf" target="_blank">British Library Record</a>]; [<a href="http://www.orgsun.com/2/2/8300-5-new-records-january-2013-computer-science-information-genera.php" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">F</span>REE ELECTRONIC LIBRARY</a>] [<a href="http://www.blackdognewmedia.co.uk/">Black Dog New Media: Social Media Strategy, Management <b>...</b></a>] -- incidentally this serial/magazine (with its own ISSN) is not listed in Ulrichsweb.com; not even as a book (despite the ISBN) in Worldcat.org<br />
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On the same shelf:<br />
<ul>
<li><b><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.ca/2008/12/search-and-find-magazines-on-google.html" id="yiv2081034830yui_3_7_2_187_1379421603563_59" rel="nofollow" style="color: #9d9d9d; font-size: 21px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Search and find magazines on Google Book Search"><span style="color: lime;">Search</span> and <span style="color: orange;">find</span> <span style="color: magenta;">magazines</span> on <span style="color: red;">Google Book Search</span>.</a></b> "Users often turn to Google to answer a quick question, but <a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/news/507451/how-google-plans-to-find-the-ungoogleable/">research suggests</a> that up to 10% of users’ daily information needs involve learning about a broad topic. That’s why today we’re introducing new search results to help users find <a href="http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2013/08/discover-great-in-depth-articles-on.html">in-depth articles</a>."</li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Google Sites @ </b></span><a href="http://library.elmhurst.edu/technology-information/google-sites" target="_blank">Elmhurst College A.C. Buehler Library</a></li>
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M Taherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05230356608624560148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29901585.post-32199203101449953912013-09-04T18:09:00.000-04:002013-09-04T18:09:21.634-04:0010 banned books : The most infamously outlawed novels, ShortList.com Info courtesy: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/n/?groups%2Fgabooks%2Fpermalink%2F625267434171712%2F&aref=406481031&medium=email&mid=89075a8G2bd9be08G183a6887G96&bcode=1.1378252922.Abn0f_M-v-uH59O_&n_m=mt2222%40yahoo.com" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1378265907117_2269" rel="nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Mayank Bhatt posted in Generally About Books</a> <br />
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<blockquote class="tr_bq">
1. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0060850523/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_til?tag=httpmultifait-20&camp=0&creative=0&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=0060850523&adid=1JSRPHJ1ZPGXW9EXS8NB&" target="_blank">Brave New World by Aldous Huxley</a> (1932)<br />
2. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0143039431?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0143039431&linkCode=xm2&tag=httpmultifait-20" target="_blank">The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck</a> (1939)<br />
3. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0451526058?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0451526058&linkCode=xm2&tag=httpmultifait-20" target="_blank">Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller</a> (1934)<br />
4. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385333846?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0385333846&linkCode=xm2&tag=httpmultifait-20" target="_blank">Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut</a> (1969)<br />
5. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0812976711?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0812976711&linkCode=xm2&tag=httpmultifait-20" target="_blank">The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie</a> (1988)<br />
6. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1451696191?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creativeASIN=1451696191&linkCode=xm2&tag=httpmultifait-20" target="_blank">The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chobsky</a> (1999) <br />
7. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385474547?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0385474547&linkCode=xm2&tag=httpmultifait-20" target="_blank">Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe</a> (1958)<br />
8. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679735771?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0679735771&linkCode=xm2&tag=httpmultifait-20" target="_blank">American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis</a> (1991)<br />
9. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1936594005?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creativeASIN=1936594005&linkCode=xm2&tag=httpmultifait-20" target="_blank">The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka</a> (1915) <br />
10. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679723161?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0679723161&linkCode=xm2&tag=httpmultifait-20" target="_blank">Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov</a> (1955)</blockquote>
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