Perpustakaan Kanada Kini Meminjamkan MiFi Kepada Pengguna Secara Percuma

Fungsi tradisional sebuah perpustakaan ialah meminjamkan buku kepada pengguna. Buku di Malaysia umum diketahui adalah terlalu mahal untuk dimiliki dan perpustakaan membenarkan golongan berpendapatan rendah untuk menimba ilmu tanpa mengeluarkan wang yang banyak. Di kolej ia menjadi tempat popular untuk mengulangkaji pelajaran kerana ianya senyap dan sejuk berbanding bilik asrama. Fungsi tradisional ini semakin kurang mendapat sambutan dan perpustakaan terpaksa berevolusi untuk kekal relevan. Di negara maju  perpustakaan awam menjadi tempat ahli komuniti untuk mendapatkan akses kepada komputer dan Internet. Ini digunakan oleh mereka untuk mendapatkan pengajian atas talian dan mencari kerja. Tanpa perpustakaan sebegini golongan kurang kemampuan akan tercicir dari mendapatkan perkhidmatan IT.

Perpustakaan di  Kansas State Library  telah menawarkan perkhidmatan meminjamkan MiFi percuma kepada pengguna.  Beberapa unit MiFi dengan kelajuan LTE boleh dipinjam dengan tempoh tertentu. Sepanjang tempoh pinjaman pengguna boleh melayari Internet secara percuma di mana sahaja mereka berada. Perkhidmatan ini diperkenalkan bagi memudahkan pengguna yang tidak mempunyai perkhidmatan Internet di rumah melayari web dengan mudah. Kesemua koleksi buku, majalah dan muzik digital yang dimiliki perpustakaan ini juga boleh diakses percuma melalui MiFi yang dipinjamkan. Ini bukanlah projek pendemokrasian Internet pertama mereka. Dua puluh tahun dahulu mereka mula memberikan akses kepada Internet secara percuma menggunakan komputer perpustakaan. Lapan tahun yang lalu pula mereka mula menawarkan WiFi percuma.

Ia mensasarkan penggunaan dari golongan pelajar dan mereka yang ingin mencari kerja. Waktu operasi perpustakaan yang terhad menghadkan akses Internet percuma untuk dua golongan ini. Inisiatif ini diharap dapat mengubah hidup pengguna dan menunjukkan perpustakaan masih kekal relevan di dalam dunia pasca buku. MiFi yang dipulangkan lambat akan dikenakan denda  sehari dan sekiranya hilang mereka perlu membayar kos alat tersebut.
Sebuah idea di luar kotak yang menarik. Di Malaysia ini mungkin tidak akan menjadi kenyataan kerana terdapat banyak restoran dengan WiFi percuma serta majoriti rakyat Malaysia mampu melanggan perkhidmatan  Internet perlahan yang murah.




sumber
http://kslib.info/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=49
http://kslib.info/1157/MiFi-Pilot-Best-Practices
http://kslib.info/1107/MiFi-Pilot-2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiFi

http://www.rfwireless-world.com/Terminology/mifi-vs-wifi.html

 

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BENGKEL PENULISAN ILMIAH 2015

 

BENGKEL PENULISAN ILMIAH

TEMPAT: BILIK TERMASA, PERPUSTAKAAN SULTAN ABD SAMAD, UPM

TARIKH: 12-13 OKTOBER 2015

ANJURAN: UNIVERSITI PUTRA MALAYSIA

 

PENCERAMAH: DR DILJIT SINGH

- Mantan pensyarah Universiti Malaya (UM) 

- Pernah menjadi guru sekolah

- Profesor pelawat di 2 buah universiti

- Banyak menganjurkan seminar, conference dan bengkel

- Editorial Board 3 International Journal

 

Scholarly Publishing

- Perpustakaan memainkan peranan penting dalam bidang penulisan

- Penyediaan bahan/sumber di perpustakaan 

- Suasana menulis

 

Mengapa?

- Penerbitan/pembentangan dari Malaysia sangat kurang

- Bidang kepustakawanan – pembentangan amat sedikit

- Thailand/Vietnam/Philipina/Singapore – tinggi penyertaan

- Pembentangan di luar Negara seperti Netherland/Russia

- Munkin  Faktor perbelanjaan/budget

- Tiada kenyakinan/tiada bahan/tiada pengetahuan menulis

 

Output bengkel:

- Memahami format bengkel/persidangan/article journal

- Sedar mengenai garis panduan/etika penulisan. DO’S and DON’T

- Tidak digalakkan hantar/bentang penulisan/article yang sama di persidangan/conference –

menjatuhkan imej institusi dari segi etika plagiarism.

 

 

 

 

 



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SOCIAL MEDIA WORKSHOP

LEVERAGING ON SOCIAL MEDIA TO ENHANCE LIBRARY SERVICES

Our workshops in the Social Media Strategies Workshop Series will be Intro Level workshops on popular social media platforms.

We’ll spend a portion of each workshop on the basics, including set-up, and profile optimization, then move to strategy and first steps towards goal-focused use of that platform.

We’d love to give you a peek at what this course covers:

•Social media policies and management

•How to choose a social network

•How to customize your social media profile

SOCIAL MEDIA WORKSHOP
Leveraging On Social Media To Enhance Library Services

Date : 13 September 2015
Time: 2.00 pm -5.30 pm
Venue : Pullman Hotel, Bangsar,
Kuala Lumpur.

Register today by visiting our

website at: http://www.ppm55.org  

Email: pustakawan55@gmail.com

Facebook: Persatuan Pustakawan Malaysia 

Tel/Fax: 03-2694 7390

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SALAM RAMADHAN 1435H / 2014M

Semoga Ramadan kali ini adalah Ramadan terbaik buat kita, keluarga dan dunia sejagat dengan memperolehi ketaqwaan kepadaNya.

Disertakankan link ke ebook percuma dari JAKIM untuk perlongsian sempena Ramadhan seperti dibawah ini

eBOOK PANDUAN RAMADAN
Terbitan Bhg Penerbitan JAKIM
FORMAT PDF ( Boleh download )
http://www.islam.gov.my/en/e-penerbitan/panduan-puasa-ramadhan
http://www.islam.gov.my/sites/default/files/e-penerbitan/ppr.pdf

 eBOOK PANDUAN TARAWIKH
Terbitan Bhg Penerbitan JAKIM
FORMAT PDF ( Boleh download)
http://www.islam.gov.my/e-penerbitan/panduan-sembahyang-sunat-tarawih 

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SESI PERBINCANGAN PENGINDEKSAN TESIS UiTM KE DALAM SISTEM MAKLUMAT NUKLEAR ANTARABANGSA (INIS)

Pada 05 Jun 2015(Jumaat) satu  sesi perbincangan pihak Perpustakaan Tun Abdul Razak (PTAR)  bersama wakil Agensi Nuklear Malaysia (nuklear Malaysia) telah diadakan di Bilik Mesyuarat PTAR UTAMA  berkaitan kebenaran akses kepada maklumat yang terdapat diperpustakaan  bagi  tujuan pengindeksan ke dalam Sistem Maklumat Nuklear Antarabangsa (INIS)

Oleh itu para pengguna  Perpustakaan Tun Abdul Razak (PTAR) juga boleh menggunakan  Sistem Maklumat Nuklear Antarabangsa (INIS) https://www.iaea.org/inis/search/index.html bagi pecarian maklumat

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Konvensyen KIK 2015 Universiti Awam (IPTA) Kali ke-11

Konvensyen Kumpulan Inovatif Kreatif  (KIK) menyediakan pentas untuk ahli-ahli KIK mengemukakan idea dan melaksanakan reka cipta di jabatan masing-masing. Penemuan ini akan dipertandingkan pula di peringkat pusat. Tujuan pertandingan itu bagi membolehkan setiap penemuan dapat dikongsi dengan agensi kerajaan yang lain. Langkah ini dapat meningkatkan sistem penyampaian perkhidmatan kepada pelanggan.  

Tahun 2015 ini giliran Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia sebagai tuan rumah Konvensyen Kumpulan Inovatif Kreatif  (KIK) IPTA atau sekarang dikenali KIK UA (Universiti Awam).

KONVENSYEN KIK UA KE-11 

TARIKH: 14-16 APRIL 2015 

TEMPAT: Dewan Besar, USIM

Web : http://kik11.usim.edu.my/
Live Streaming :http://www.usimtv.my/kik-univ-awam-ke11/

UiTM diwakili oleh kumpulan P-TECH dan PROSERVE bagi kategori Pengurusan
lihat video
http://www.usimtv.my/video/kik-ua11-kategori-pengurusan-15april2015/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f83vSRGzX3M

manakala bagi katergori Teknikal kumpulan AKAR dan TECHNOVATORS mewakili UiTM

lihat video

http://www.usimtv.my/video/kik-ua11-kategori-teknikal-15april2015/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AMivtavBVA

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Academic social media : Which is better Academia.edu, Linkedln, Mendeley.com, Papers or ResearchGate?

What exactly are academic social media? Academic social media are social media networks aimed primarily at academics and researchers. In addition to the usual functions of social media – connecting and communicating with peers and sharing and discovering information – they also offer the ability to document and share your publications. As such they function as informal repositories for their members.

• Academia.edu – Academia is the internationally recognized establishment of professional scholars and students, usually centered around colleges and universities, who are engaged in higher education and research.

• LinkedIn – looks similar to other social networking sites, but is more carrier-oriented, you can put any publications there, and link them to either your homepage or arXiv or whatever, or don't link them at all, that's up to you.
• Google Scholar Citations- Google Scholar Citations provide a simple way for authors to keep track of citations to their articles. You can check who is citing your publications, graph citations over time, and compute several citation metrics. You can also make your profile public, so that it may appear in Google Scholar results when people search for your name.
• Mendeley is a desktop and web program for managing and sharing research papers,^[1] discovering research data and collaborating online. It combines Mendeley Desktop, a PDF and reference management application (available for Windows, OS X and Linux) with Mendeley Web, an online social network for researchers

• ResearchGate – I have no true experience with RG since it's not so popular amongst my colleagues. But it seems to me that you can both put the whole article there, or just put the reference there with the option that people can ask you to send them the paper. This is very nice since you need not to break any journal's policies to make it work.

It depends what you are looking for. 

If you are looking for a place to get distribution and recognition for your research, Academia.edu is the place for you. If you are looking for a place to organize papers that you have stored on your hard drive, Mendeley is the place for you.

ResearchGate and Academia.edu

The two best known academic social media are ResearchGate and Academia.edu. These two are also The Connected Leiden Researcher's focus for August. While both networks offer roughly the same features, the difference between them is one of emphasis. ResearchGate is more closely focused on collaboration and interaction, while Academia.edu often functions more as an academic version of LinkedIn, with an online CV a.k.a. a bibliography in the case of academics and as a place to share your publications. You can find a closer examination of both of these networks in the In Depth section.

In many ways Academia.edu and ResearchGate also function as a digital CV, listing research experience and different forms of publications, whether it pertains to academic papers or other forms of publications, such as conference papers or blogs. But if that's true, why would an academic bother setting up a LinkedIn profile?

Other networks

Of course there are more networks than just ResearchGate and Academia.edu. Most of these however are more narrowly focused, for example MyScienceWork seems to be more oriented towards the Sciences, Labroots for the Life Sciences, orBiomedExperts for the biomedical sciences. Connected Researchers offers an overview of different social networks for academics. 

What is their benefit?

Academic social media allow you to connect to other researchers in your field, share your publications and datasets, get feedback on your non-peer-reviewed work, and to stay current with news and events in your field of interest. It gives you another place to establish your name and research and perhaps even collaborate with others.

Academic social media and impact?

Academic social media tie into altmetrics mostly indirectly, through making your work more widely discoverable and, if you've uploaded a copy, more easily available. They also provide an additional source for impact data by tracking the number of views and downloads your uploaded papers get. ResearchGate has developed its own additional metric called the RG Score, which isn't just based on your contributions (papers, Q&A's, data sets, negative results), but also on your interaction with others on the site; this means that who looks at your research is as important as how many people look at your research. The RG Score and the other data aren't automatically incorporated in the altmetric aggregators such as altmetric.com and Plum Analytics.

Difference in audience

The answer would largely lie in the fact that academic social media networks have a different audience than LinkedIn. ResearchGate or Academia.edu are interesting to build a (collaborative) network of academic peers, while LinkedIn allows networking on a broader scale, also reaching out to the private sector and civil services. And of course it doesn't have to be either/or. In fact, these can most definitely be used as complementary profiles.

Profile, network, promote

If it were truly a contest between ResearchGate and Academia.edu versus LinkedIn, then it would end in a draw. All of them have their own focus and audience and if you want to reach a broad spectrum of people and have all your pertinent information easily available to peers, funders, and the public then having multiple profiles to network on would seem the surest course. And remember to let people know you are there, so they can find you!

Compare interest over timeFinally, looking at mentions of the word  across the web

https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=academia.edu%2C%20Linkedln%2C%20ResearchGate&cmpt=q&tz=

source http://connectedleidenresearcher.nl/articles/academic-social-media-versus-linkedin

http://techcrunch.com/2009/05/14/professional-network-researchgate-is-the-linkedin-for-scientists/

http://connectedleidenresearcher.nl/articles/academic-social-media

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