Portal design, the myth and the reality

Portal is a website that acts as a doorway or introduction to many other websites or information on particular subject areas that are sometimes grouped into categories. Some individuals and organizations develop portals without taking into consideration issues such as core business model, content, resource availability, audience, technical tools etc. These issues are important to [...]

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Back to school in the world of MARC21

MARC21 as a catalogue or metadata format is being much widely used by libraries all over the world. Most of the library management software too adhere to this standard in order to enable smooth transition of metadata among the group of libraries or library networks. It is being recognized as one of the quality metadata [...]

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Power of the future at Internet Librarian International-2008

What would be the future of libraries? This question was addressed in the Internet Librarian International 2008 (ILI-2008) conference held at London between 16 and 17 October, 2008. With the growing number of web applications, changing format of documents and changing users information seeking behaviour, is there is a way for libraries to survive?
The answer [...]

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Web 2.0 tools for Sourcing and Aggregation, new avenues for the intermediary

I believe Web 2.0 tools have gone one step ahead. In addition to helping the generation and sharing of content, some of them even help for sourcing and aggregation of content. This was showcased in the workshop I attended on Web 2.0 at IDS by Mr Chris and his colleague Mr Pier from Euforic.

With the [...]

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Web 2.0 tools, What are they? and What is lacking?

Web 2.0 as what I understand gives place for everyone to publish and share information on the Internet, which was not the case with Web 1.0, where in only organizations and specific individuals or experts used to provide information. It harps on how individuals can put content (blogs), write content (Wikis), add keywords (tagging), move [...]

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Database, database development and exchange of information

Database, database development and exchange of information or data are quite familiar terms for LIS professionals. However, the intricacies involved with the development and exchange are quite large.  I had an opportunity to discuss the issues related to exchange of data with Ms Julie, Head of British Library for Development Studies [BLDS], Mr Andrew Buxton, [...]

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Mapping of a product…

Concept of mapping is identifying pathways of action or change around a project or service,  we used sticky notes to identify different actors and actions relating to the Open Index Initiative [OII] , a service of IGIDR library, then drew the connections between them.
It is a very useful tool for planning or analysing of [...]

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