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the free encyclopedia Visiting the Most Modern Library in the World Earlier this month I had the incredible good fortune to visit DOK in Delft, Holland. Normally I would call it the Delft Public Library, but it just goes by the name “DOK” and the sign on the door says it’s a “library concept center.” The staff did this on purpose to get away from the traditional stereotypes of the public library, because the institution they’ve created is about as far away as you can get from the connotation of a 1950s building, filled with quiet people, all of them sitting alone, in a relatively dreary building, being shushed by an old lady with a bun. Instead, it is easily the most colorful and aesthetically-pleasing library I have ever seen. Granted, I’ve seen a very small percentage of the world’s libraries, but the use of a diverse palette of bright and unusual colors was a very stark contrast to every other library I have seen in person or in pictures. Be Sociable, Share!
ODLIS — Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science In classification, one of the distinguishing characteristics of a class, identified as a means of differentiating it from other classes. As defined in FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records), one of a set of characteristics enabling users of information to formulate queries and evaluate responses when searching for information about a specific entity. Attributes can be inherent in the entity (physical characteristics, labeling information, etc.) or supplied by an external agent (assigned identifiers, contextual information, etc.). For example, the logical attributes of a creative work include its title, form, date of creation, intended audience, etc. As a general rule, a given instance of an entity exhibits a single value for each attribute, but multiple values are possible (a work may be published under more than one title or in more than one form), or a value may change over time (date of publication for serials).
Toxicology Tutors The Toxicology Tutors and ToxLearn provide users of NLM’s toxicology databases with a working knowledge of basic toxicology principles. The tutorials are written at the introductory college student level. Toxicology Tutors (also called Tox Tutors) You can download the tutorials to run from your computer. Each tutorial is made up of about 800 files. You will need the WINZIP® utility to open the zipped files. Wikis for Everyone - Wikispaces School of Information Faculty Members to Serve as Lead Instructors for Third Institute of Research Design in Librarianship The third Institute of Research Design in Librarianship (link is external) (IRDL), a partnership between the San José State University (SJSU) School of Information (iSchool), Loyola Marymount University (LMU) William H. Hannon Library, and the Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC), has been announced, and applications (link is external) are now being accepted from academic and research librarians wishing to hone their skills as researchers. Funded in part by a three-year grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, IRDL includes an intensive workshop from June 5 to June 17, 2016, where participants learn about research design from expert faculty members and write and revise their own research proposals, as well as mentoring and peer support in the year following the workshop.
Queens Library - HealthLink Regents Advisory Council on Libraries; The Joseph F. Shubert Library Excellence Award 2008 1. a) Briefly describe your library or library consortium (system) and the community it serves. Can You Hear Me Now: How to Make a Podcast Abstract: Thinking about how to promote your services and reach out to more people? Want to learn how podcasts can help and how to make your own? This hands-on class is designed to provide a fun yet informative introduction to podcasting and how you can utilize this technology in your library services, to enable your users to access the information whenever they want, wherever they want and however they want it.
Share Add this to... Favorites Del.icio.us Digg OERC Blog: A Weblog from the NN/LM Outreach Evaluation Resource Center There are articles about strategies to improve survey response rate with health professionals in the open access December, 2011 issue of Evaluation and the Health Professions. Each explored variations on Dillman’s Tailored Design Method, also known as TDM (see this Issue Brief from the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Center for Mental Health Services Research for a summary of TDM). “Surveying Nurses: Identifying Strategies to Improve Participation” by J. VanGeest and T.P. Johnson (Evaluation and the Health Professions, 34(4):487-511) Library and Information Services - Kennedy Institute of Ethics