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		<title>QR Codes for libraries: Are we ready for a new code?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 09:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[QR (quick response) Codes, are two dimensional barcodes which when scanned using mobile phones having camera (some phones may require installation of a QR reader application software) enables one to access some pre-written content such as a website address, email address, details of items in the catalogue, phone numbers etc. They are capable of storing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spujar.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5122466&amp;post=323&amp;subd=spujar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Future Minds: How the Digital Age is Changing Our Minds&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 17:36:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Richard Watson the author of Future Minds: How the Digital Age is Changing Our Minds, Why this Matters and What We Can Do About It,  examines how digital culture is changing the way we think today, and how it will shape our future. His views on libraries are also worth going through. So all in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spujar.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5122466&amp;post=321&amp;subd=spujar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>alt-metrics, a new tool for research assessment</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 17:42:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I came across an interesting article &#8216;Current research assessment could miss the big picture&#8216; on Research Information.  It highlighted on how traditional methods of research assessment (peer review, citations etc) could be failing those researchers who are fully embracing the possibilities of Web 2.0.  This has called for new methods of metrics (altmetrics), which [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spujar.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5122466&amp;post=319&amp;subd=spujar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beware of online information filter bubbles</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 May 2011 17:31:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I came across an interesting video &#8216;Beware of online Filter Bubbles&#8216; on TED Talk. The speaker Eli Pariser talks about online filter bubbles and how they control flow of information to different group of users by giving an example of Google, Yahoo etc and how they retrieve different search results on the same topic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spujar.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5122466&amp;post=316&amp;subd=spujar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Embedded librarianship: Are we ready for it?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 06:03:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came across an article &#8216;Embedded librarianship in the research context: Navigating new waters&#8216; in the recent issue of &#8216;College and Research Libraries&#8216;.  As discussed in the paper &#8216;Embedded librarianship takes a librarian out of the context of the traditional library and places him or her in an “on-site” setting or situation that enables close [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spujar.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5122466&amp;post=314&amp;subd=spujar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Value of libraries for research and researchers</title>
		<link>http://spujar.wordpress.com/2011/03/30/the-value-of-libraries-for-research-and-researchers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 06:18:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[RLUK/RIN have recently brought out a report on &#8216;The Value of Libraries for Research and Researchers&#8216;. The report presents the findings of a study of the value of the services that libraries in the UK provide to researchers, and of the contributions that libraries from a wide range of institutions make to institutional research performance. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spujar.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5122466&amp;post=310&amp;subd=spujar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The time for libraries is now</title>
		<link>http://spujar.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/the-time-for-libraries-is-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 17:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I always believe, libraries have a greater role to play in the present Internet era in spite of drop in the number of users. They can provide excellent services and help library users to sustain the information overload. I came across an excellent presentation entitled &#8216;The time for libraries is now&#8217;  by Ned Potter on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spujar.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5122466&amp;post=277&amp;subd=spujar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Social media for researchers</title>
		<link>http://spujar.wordpress.com/2011/03/05/social-media-for-researchers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2011 10:20:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Social media as we all know are primarily Internet- and mobile-based tools such as blogs, micro-blogs, RSS, wikis etc for sharing and discussing information among the people. What many of us feel that these are useful only for general discussions. However, they can play an important role in setting communications and collaborations in the academia. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spujar.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5122466&amp;post=273&amp;subd=spujar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>E-Books will they replace P-Books?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Sep 2010 17:28:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[E-Books are in existence and available in the market since quite long time now, but could not gain momentum like E-Journals due to various reasons such as convenience of reading, privacy, size, sharing etc. In the initial years, there were no specialized gadgets available in the market to make reading of these books an eye soothing experience. However, due [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spujar.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5122466&amp;post=267&amp;subd=spujar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>RSS: Mix and match multiple feeds</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:03:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[RSS [Really Simple Syndication] or [Rich Site Summary] feeds have become a defacto standard for most of the modern websites available on the Internet. More and more internet users are now aware of usefulness of RSS feeds in keeping updated themselves about latest news, articles, latest additions to websites, blogs etc. Libraries are also finding [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spujar.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5122466&amp;post=257&amp;subd=spujar&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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