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Public libraries help children learn coding
by Subbiah Arunachalam 20 Sep '15

20 Sep '15

Friends: We often hear that a library is much more than reading, lending and borrowing books, but are often at a loss to know what else to do. Here is a Pew report about an experience in a public library in the Los Angeles area. [Members of MALA may kindly circulate this mail among all members of MALA] New LA libraries program turns 'story time' into hands-on 'coder time’ Alex Schaffert-Callaghan <http://www.scpr.org/about/people/staff/alex-schaffert-callaghan> September 19, 05:30 PM On a recent afternoon at the central library in Los Angeles, nine-year-old Perla Hernandez typed on a provided laptop, working on a drawing game called “Phenomenal Turtle”. Getting the turtle to move across the screen required her to break down big complex problems into small sequential steps. In other words, the nine-year-old girl was learning to code. She was one of about a dozen elementary school children gathered at a class called “coder time” for elementary and middle school kids. “Historically we’re the place that offers opportunities,” said children’s librarian Joanna Fabicon, who started the project. “I named it coder time because I would love coding to be as ubiquitous in libraries as story time." Libraries – the lands of hushed voices and dusty stacks – are transforming into computer science hubs for children. A new report by the Pew Research Center, “Libraries at the Crossroads <http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/09/15/libraries-at-the-crossroads/>,” finds that libraries are responding to the public demand for skills like programming and technology literacy, which are becoming increasingly important in the workplace. Code.org, a non-profit dedicated to expanding access to computer science, saidmore than 80,000 computer jobs are open in California <http://www.scpr.org/first-person-series/> right now. In the next five years, there will be a million more jobs than students <https://code.org/stats> nationwide. Libraries across the country, from Fayetteville, NY <https://fflib.org/make> and Denver, CO <https://www.denverlibrary.org/idealab> to Sonoma, CA <http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/3551974-181/sonoma-county-library-program…>, are responding. Coder Time began at the L.A.'s central library with a grant from the Eureka leadership program <http://eurekaleadership.org/>. To reach more children, Fabicon formed a partnership with the afterschool program L.A.’s Best, which rolled out the curriculum to 160 children at eight LAUSD schools. Technology advocates said these kinds of programs allow kids to become creators, rather than just consumers of media. The idea that libraries are no longer just about housing books, but about creating access to technology is catching on <http://www.alsc.ala.org/blog/2015/07/from-dinosaur-robotics-to-digital-stor…>. Nate Stone is the program coordinator for the ideaLAB at Denver Public Library, recently recognized <http://blogs.denverpost.com/tech/2015/07/10/denver-library-wins-big-award-f…> with a national innovation award for its programming camps for teens. When he first offered coding classes to kids, more than 200 signed up. “I don’t know if you’ve ever been in a 600 square foot room with 15 sweaty 12-year-olds,” he laughed. “But it quickly got very unpleasant and crowded.” According to Stone that’s a good problem to have, because the library helps put coding skills into the hands of kids who might otherwise not get them. There is no shortage of coding and game development camps, he said, “but they often cost $700 to $2,000 for a week, which puts it out of reach for a lot of families.” Libraries may also lower the bar for entry when it comes to gender and ethnicity. Only a fraction of high school students who take computer science classes are women, Latino, or African American <https://code.org/stats>. Libraries, on the other hand, traditionally attract lots of girls. That's because girls are not intimidated to come to the library, said Brooke Sheets, a children's librarian at L.A. library's central branch. “Nobody makes them feel uncomfortable here,” Sheets added, “so it’s a great chance for them to collaborate and explore, without any of the traditional barriers that are keeping girls out.” More than half the kids in Hernandez's class were girls, a ratio most computer science programs can only dream of. At the end of the lesson she presented her game to the group. (Here's an example <http://www.touchdevelop.com/fhwk> of the finished product, developed on the kid-friendly programming platform Touch Develop <http://www.touchdevelop.com/>.) The kids watched as a small green turtle moved quickly across the screen, filling it with a rainbow of intricate pop-art patterns, earning a big round of applause. LIBRARY PROGRAMS FOR KIDS AND TEENS L.A. Public Library STEAM initiative website <http://www.lapl.org/steam/welcome>Scratch Coding at Robertson Branch Librarywebsite <http://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/scratch-coding>North Hollywood Teen and Children Robotics Clubwebsite <http://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/noho-teen-robotics-club>Pasadena Library Teen Coding Clubwebsite <http://www.cityofpasadena.net/library/teens/events_and_programs/#Made_at>Coding with Cups at Venice Branch Librarywebsite <http://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/steam-science-saturdays-coding-cups-0>Squishy Circuits Science Storytime and Workshop at West Los Angeles Regional Library website <http://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/nami-peer-peer-educational-course>BILINGUAL MATERIALS Educational materials on coding and computer science for librarians and teachers in English and SpanishPDFs <http://libcode.weebly.com/resources.html>ONLINE CODING RESOURCES Guide to coding resources from the American Library Association for Childrenwebsite <http://www.alsc.ala.org/blog/2012/03/beyond-legos-coding-for-kids/>Coding for children ages 7 and upscratch.mit.eduCoding for young children (ages 5-7)scratchjr.org <http://www.scratchjr.org/>Hands-on technology education for girlsdiygirls.org <http://www.diygirls.org/>Microsoft’s “TouchDevelop” education programtouchdevelop.com <https://www.touchdevelop.com/>Google’s “CS First” programcs-first.com <http://www.cs-first.com/>Pinterest board with 60+ coding resources for kidspinterest board <https://www.pinterest.com/KitHub/programming-for-kids/>Coding for all ages code.org -- Arun http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4658 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9925-2009 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Request for soft copies of journal articles
by ddp 20 Sep '15

20 Sep '15

Dear Moderator, Pls. arrange to publish my request for an article on LIS forum. Dear Professionals, one of our faculty member needs following articles for reference. 1. Alemen, A., Lee, V. L. (2001). Visual imagery without visual experience: evidence from congenitally totally blind people. Neuroreport, 8, 12(11), pp.2601-2604. 2. Zimler,J. & Keenan J. M. (1983). Imagery in the congenitally blind: How visual are vidual images? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 9(2), pp.269-282. 3. Beni, D., Rossana & Cornoldi C. (1988). Mental imagery and sensory experience in congential blindness. Nenropsychologia. 26(1), pp.1-12. 4. Cornoldi, C. Bertuccelli, B. Rocchi, P., Sbrana, B. (1993). Processing capacity limitations in pictoral and spatial representationsin the totally congenitally blind. Cortex, 29(4), pp.675-689. If you have access to any of these articles, kindly send me the soft copy. Thanks & Regards. D. D. Pednekar Homi Bhabha Centre For Science Education Tata Institute Of Fundamental Research V. N .Purav Marg, Mankhurd Mumbai 400 088. Tel.No.: 022-25072337 / 25072303 E-mail : library(a)hbcse.tifr.res.in / ddp(a)hbcse.tifr.res.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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The Jungle library at Calais
by Subbiah Arunachalam 20 Sep '15

20 Sep '15

Friends: The mass migration from the Middle East and East Africa and the deaths of thousands of people are truly tragic. Luckily, several countries have come forward to take in many of those migrants. But for those still in refugee camps life continues to be uncertain. They need hope. They need to learn to adapt to their new surroundings. There are people ready to help them. One of them is a librarian called Mary Jones. I do not know if she was a librarian before. But now she is one of the finest. The Jungle library she set up is now talked about the world over. What did Mary Jones do? She set up a basic library in ramshackle shed put up at a refugee camp in Calais in northern France. What a great library it is! What kind of services she has thought of for the library all within a month! The Press in the West - The Guardian, The Spectator, The New York Times, The Huffington Post, and many more - has reported the work of Mary Jones. Please see a few of them in the attached file. Please read it in full. Best wishes. Arun http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4658 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9925-2009 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Request for fulltext article
by Mamtha's Gmail 19 Sep '15

19 Sep '15

Dear Friends, One of our faculty members is interested to get the fulltext of the following article. Kindly pl send the soft copy if available at your library. 1. Changing family structure and fertility patterns: an Indian Case. GN Ramu *Journal of Asian and African Studies. 1990/12; 26(3-4) p:189-206* -- -- *Thank you & Regards* *Mrs Mamatha P. Kumar* *Chief Librarian* *Central Library* *Yenepoya University* *Yenepoya University **|** University Road, Deralakatte **|** Mangalore 575018 **|** Karnataka **|* * India*T: +91 824 22046668/69/70 *|* Extn 310 *|*F: +91 824 2204667 *|* www.yenepoya.edu.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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International School Library Month Press Release 2015
by S.L. Faisal 19 Sep '15

19 Sep '15

Dear All, I would like to repost an IASL (International Association of School Librarianship) press release about International School Library Month 2015. ************************************************************ International School Library Month is fast approaching and may be celebrated for the whole month of October or for any time span within that month that suits a school or library. The theme this year is: The school library rocks. International projects that are underway for 2015 are the ISLM Bookmark Project (http://www.iasl-online.org/page-1863166) where schools exchange bookmarks and make contact with children in other countries and the ISLM Skype Project (http://www.iasl-online.org/page-1863166#skype) Many school libraries will choose to have local or national celebrations, promoting the value libraries bring to the lives of children through reading, information literacy, transmission of cultural heritage and engagement with the community. Ideas for how school libraries have celebrated internationally last year may be found on the IASL website on the ISLM 2014 Projects page. Reports came in from Croatia, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Seychelles, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain and Ukraine. It would be great to see even more countries reporting on their celebrations in 2015. Please send ISLM reports to the IASL Secretariat by 15 November, 2015. IASL is very grateful to our ISLM Coordinator, Marie O’Brien, for all her work in facilitating the projects and celebrations and we wish all school libraries a wonderful time of celebration in October. For more details visit http://www.iasl-online.org **************************************************************** Thanks and regards S.L.Faisal Librarian Kendriya Vidyalaya, Pattom https://librarykvpattom.wordpress.com Mobile: +91 9447699724 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Application are invited for the post of Project Assistant in Information and Library Network Centre (INFLIBNET Centre)
by Subhodip Bid 17 Sep '15

17 Sep '15

Dear Professional Application are invited for the post of Project Assistant in Information and Library Network Centre (INFLIBNET Centre) No. of Post : 2 post *Educational Qualification:* M.Lib.Sc. or M.L.I.Sc OR B.L.I.Sc. or B.Lib.Sc. or equivalent with 2 years working knowledge of computer system, Internet. *Pay Scale:* *INR* Rs.14000/- Per Month *Age Limit:* 25 years. For more details *http://inflibnet.ac.in/jobs/ADVT_15website.pdf <http://inflibnet.ac.in/jobs/ADVT_15website.pdf>* -- SUBHODIP BID M.Sc,M.L.I.S, AIS Library & Information Assistant National Library, Kolkata -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Application are invited for the post of Assistant Librarian in Indian Institute of Legal Studies, Dagapur, Siliguri
by Subhodip Bid 17 Sep '15

17 Sep '15

Dear Professional Application are invited for the post of Assistant Librarian in *Indian Institute of Legal Studies**, *Dagapur, Siliguri No. of Post : 1 post Age: 25-40 years Minimum Eligibility Criteria: MLIS with 55% having adequate knowledge of library software management. The preference will be given to law graduates. For more details *http://www.iilsindia.com/advertisement.php <http://www.iilsindia.com/advertisement.php>* -- SUBHODIP BID M.Sc,M.L.I.S, AIS Library & Information Assistant National Library, Kolkata -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Altmetrics
by Subbiah Arunachalam 16 Sep '15

16 Sep '15

What can librarians contribute to scholarly communication? Read what two American librarians have to say: Altmetrics, Bibliometrics :Librarians and the measurement of scholarship By Rachel Borchardt <http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/authors/rachel-borchardt/> and Robin Chin Roemer <http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/authors/robin-chin-roemer/> | September 15, 2015 <http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/> <http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/> <http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/> <http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/> [image: Robin Chin Roemer and Rachel Borchardt]Robin Chin Roemer and Rachel Borchardt In September 2010, Jason Priem, a doctoral student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Information and Library Science, was interested in promoting the value of a set of metrics that could describe relationships between the social aspects of the web and the spread of scholarship online. He saw few terms available to describe this diverse group of analytics, so he coined the word “altmetrics.” For practical purposes, the best-known definition of altmetrics, “the creation and study of new metrics based on the Social Web for analyzing and informing scholarship,” comes from altmetrics.org, <http://altmetrics.org/plosone> a website set up by Priem and three of his colleagues. Since then, others have questioned the definition and the methods of calculating altmetrics in various scholarly contexts. More than a decade earlier, changes in information technology and scholarly communication had made the idea of a set of web-based metrics for measuring impact a tempting proposition—not only for scholars but also for publishers, toolmakers, and librarians. However, Priem’s positioning of altmetrics as an alternative to citation-based bibliometrics created an immediate set of obstacles for the movement. Bibliometrics, originally defined as a set of quantitative methods used to analyze scholarly literature, have been around since the early 1960s. These measures are largely concerned with counting and tracking journal article citations. Because journal articles tend to cite other journal articles, the major providers of bibliometrics are closely connected to established indexers of scholarly journals, such as Thomson Reuters, Scopus, and the increasingly popular Google Scholar Metrics. *As librarians, we are natural leaders in the field of altmetrics…* In the STEM fields particularly, article-based productivity metrics are commonly accepted for purposes of evaluation and benchmarking. However, for scholars in areas that emphasize scholarly monographs over journal articles, such as the humanities, bibliometrics wield significantly less clout. The same goes for scholars whose research portfolios go beyond the bounds of traditional citation, such as the fine arts. Although the field of altmetrics may have been positioned originally as an alternative to the filtering systems offered up by print- and citation-based bibliometrics, both approaches seek insight from the quantitative analysis of information related to scholarly output and publication. This similarity has not, however, prevented occasional periods of tension between the two fields’ respective followers. As altmetrics have emerged and continue to grow and evolve, so too has the role that academic librarians play in supporting altmetrics, bibliometrics, and citation impact, from support to professional use to advocacy. It’s a familiar role. Impact factor, a measure of the average number of citations to recent articles in a given journal, was created as early as 1955 for use by librarians in making collection development and retention decisions. Libraries continue to bear primary responsibility for acquiring bibliometric tools, notably Web of Science, *Journal Citation Reports,* and Scopus, and training researchers in their use. Support for these tools extends to academic social networking, institutional repositories, and the web services CiteULike <http://www.citeulike.org/> and Mendeley <https://www.mendeley.com/>. Librarians are supporting and interacting with altmetrics in such areas as acquisition, evaluation, outreach, training, and collection development. As librarians, we are natural leaders in the field of altmetrics because of our skills with these tools and our relationships with various groups in the academic community. Our historic connections across departments make us a neutral voice, able and willing to advocate for the needs of others. ROBIN CHIN ROEMER *is instructional design and outreach services librarian at University of Washington.* RACHEL BORCHARDT *is science librarian at American University. This article is adapted from their Library Technology Report on “Altmetrics,” vol. 52, no. 5.* -- Arun http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4658 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9925-2009 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Request for fulltext article
by Mamtha's Gmail 16 Sep '15

16 Sep '15

Dear Friends, One of our faculty members is interested to get the fulltext of the following articles. Kindly pl send the soft copy if available at your library. Terrel AM, Anand D, Smith SF, Danq CA. et al Molecular characterization of mouse lens epithelial cell lines and their suitability to study RNA granules and cataract associated genes. *Experimental Eye Research 2015, Feb; 131: 42-55 doi: 10.1016/j.exer.2014.12.011. Epub 2014 Dec 19.* -- *Thank you & Regards* *Mrs Mamatha P. Kumar* *Chief Librarian* *Central Library* *Yenepoya University* *Yenepoya University **|** University Road, Deralakatte **|** Mangalore 575018 **|** Karnataka **|* * India*T: +91 824 22046668/69/70 *|* Extn 310 *|*F: +91 824 2204667 *|* www.yenepoya.edu.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Vendors of Emerald management first database
by Manju Channappa 16 Sep '15

16 Sep '15

Dear All Greetings, We are looking for vendor of EMERALD MANAGEMENT FIRST database at our institute in Bangalore, please mail the details of the vendors for the same at the earliest. Anticipating kind early replies. Thanks, Manju C Librarian ISBR Busienss School -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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