We are entering our 'second life'. The situation
develops around the world is like that, Libraries
and its services can not survive with out
integrating Social Networking and
personalisation.
'Digital Immigrants' (people of our generation,
who got immigrated to IT) are going to serve
'Digital Natives' (upcoming or present young
generation, who started using IT tools in their
nursery schools).Yo can see them blogging, or
always logged on to community spaces like Orkut,
MySpace etc, and sharing files on You Tube
etc.....How to catch them and bring them to
libraries?
I suggest all of you to read this news
http://www.insidehighereducation.com/news/2007/06/25/games
and a blog at
http://blogs.princeton.edu/librarian/2007/07/digital_natives.html
Thanks Noufal for the link.
Vijayakumar
http://www.insidehighereducation.com/news/2007/06/25/games
--- noufal palliparamban
Hello...
Villanova Universitys Falvey Memorial Library has harnessed the power of contemporary Web search technology to develop an open-source resource discovery portal VUFIND that enables users to query and browse the librarys resources in a simple yet sophisticated manner. VUFIND is a next generation catalog that empowers users by supporting personalization and social networking services such as tagging and peer-to-peer comment sharing
Interesting features are the facets to refine search results, the tagging system, the possibility to add reviews and notes to the records and cite them, the availability infos inside the record itself, the similar items and many more. You can check them out at the live demo of VuFind.
Have a look and try the software at http://www.vufind.org/.
Regards
Noufal.P.P Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
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