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CLASS OF TECHNOLOGIES FOR INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
In 1000 words, write the reason why you like or dislike using e-portfolio as one of your learning and assessment tools.
E-Portfolio is to be beginning a new wave of technology development in education. There is a push to free student work from paper and to make it
- organized,
- searchable, and
- transportable
The following outlines the benefits for e-portfolio user groups.
Student
Student
- increased learning effectiveness
- model professionalism
- enhance information technology skills
- gain academic credit for learning beyond the classroom
- reflections on artifacts as well as how they match goals and standards
- help students make connections among their formal and informal learning experiences
- prompt learners to articulate their learning goals from different perspectives
In e-portfolio of this class, is a weekly entry reflecting what have read or done and published in blog. For me using the blog for this e-portfolio is not too hard. It is because before this I have my own blog. But the content is very different because in my own blog it just about mine and to share with my friends but the content in this e-portfolio is a purposeful collection of my work that exhibits my efforts, progress, and achievements in one or more areas of the course curriculum. It should represent a collection of my best work and best efforts. This e-portfolio includes notes taken during the lectures/discussions/lab activities/observations made on the use of technologies for library and information management, as well as from relevant materials. So I have a problem with time management to do the content of this e-portfolio. It is because I must take time to do all the entry and must balance in my work and other class. But I try do my best and as well as I can to do this e-portfolio. For me e-portfolio using blog is very interactive and I very like it.
For educational purposes, there are many different types of electronic portfolios (e-portfolio). Most allow for flexibility so that the lecturer can focus and or measure a specific skill or concept.
Because teaching methods and strategies have changed and will continue to change as research and technologies make advances, the means to assess students must also keep pace. Portfolio assessment began as a way to more accurately evaluate a student. By organizing and collecting student work samples, lecturer, students and parents could chart student progress
There are benefits to using an electronic portfolio. With traditional portfolios, files, boxes and or binders holding papers, cassettes, pictures, and drawings would take up lots of space. With an electronic portfolio, information can be easily stored in a computer hard drive, floppy disc, CD or other. This would take up very little physical space and would be accessed with minimal effort.
E-portfolio not only takes up little physical space, but can hold a great deal of information. Pictures, art work and writing samples can be all be scanned in and saved. Once the student work is organized, electronic portfolios can be enhanced by the addition of sound, music, pictures, graphics and even video. Thus making it easier and more appealing to the student and lecturer
Electronic portfolios also serve to enhance computer and technology skills. The student would gain experience by creating, selecting, organizing, editing and evaluating the portfolios. Students would feel a sense of accomplishment and empowerment by displaying, sharing and presenting their electronic portfolios to lectures, fellow classmates and other.
In closing, electronic portfolios are a technology based form of authentic student based assessment. They are a collection of student work over a period of time. Portfolios are both practical and effective because of the rubrics used. The benefits include clear set standards or expectations, quick access, easy storage and increased technology skills. A multi-media computer, a scanner and a software package are the basic technologies needed to create an electronic portfolio. The templates are a way to organize the contents of the portfolio.
Discuss on the impact of Open Access Initiatives to libraries
“Open Source’ Integrated Library System Software
Open access to scholarly information has been a hot topic for debate among librarians, scholars, and publishers over the last few years. Open-access (OA) literature is free, digital, and available to anyone online. An open-access article has limited copyright and licensing restrictions which means anyone, anywhere, with access to the Internet may read, download, copy, and distribute that article.
The open access gives a best impact to libraries. Their benefits and importance to libraries are examined like:
Ø Benefits include lower costs, greater accessibility, and better prospects for long-term preservation of scholarly works. The growth of the open access movement is partially in response to the enormous costs of many scholarly journals. With traditional journal publication methods it is not uncommon for an institution to have to pay for an article twice. First they pay scholars to produce the work and then the institution's library pays to purchase the work back from the journal publisher
o Increased Visibility:
Open access literature is much more accessible than print-only publications. For
researchers, the barriers to access of literature, such as subscription costs and
inconveniences associated with the traditional model, are removed. As more
scholarly information is made freely available, scholars are relying much more on
materials that they can find and retrieve online. Authors must consider how their
research will potentially be found and used as they plan for future publications.
Open access literature is much more accessible than print-only publications. For
researchers, the barriers to access of literature, such as subscription costs and
inconveniences associated with the traditional model, are removed. As more
scholarly information is made freely available, scholars are relying much more on
materials that they can find and retrieve online. Authors must consider how their
research will potentially be found and used as they plan for future publications.
o Increased Impact:
The obvious result of higher visibility of open access literature is that open access leads to increased impact and a greater citation rate. Multiple studies conducted over the last several years show that open access materials are cited at a higher rate than articles that are published traditionally.
o Reduced cost:
For libraries, open access relieves the burden associated with the ever-increasing cost of serials subscriptions. Many academic libraries are experiencing subscription costs that are growing faster than their purchasing budgets. If a researcher publishes with a traditional print-only publication, their colleagues at these universities may have no access to their writing.
Ø Help library make intelligent decisions about subscriptions and cancellations by having a discussion about the real value of scholarly journals. Librarians often feel pressured to take actions that perpetuate the pricing crisis by subscribing to journals whose price may not be a true reflection of their size, quality, impact, or usage. Educate colleagues and the next generation of scientists and scholars. You can prevent damaging myths or alarmist claims about open access from circulating without challenge. Open access is compatible with peer review, copyright, and career advancement.
Ø Open Access benefits researchers, institutions, nations and society as a whole. For researchers, it brings increased visibility, usage and impact for their work. Institutions enjoy the same benefits in aggregated form. There is growing evidence to show that countries also benefit because Open Access increases the impact of the research in which they invest public money and therefore there is a better return on investment. Society as a whole benefits because research is more efficient and more effective, delivering better and faster outcomes for us all.
Ø Open access bring the libraries closer to the users: Information are brought to the users, either at home or work, making it more accessible, and increases its usage. This is very much different that traditional libraries where the users have to physically go to the library.
As a conclusion. When the library has open access Information can be shared where the pacing digital information on a network makes it available to everyone. The open access provides more choices, and is convenient to user access at any time and at any place and ensure they get the best possible education and are not artificially limited by the selection of information are able to provide.
Discuss how open source and social software applications can serve to fill digital library roles
“Open Source’ Integrated Library System Software
Digital libraries are a set of electronic resources and associated technical capabilities for creating, searching, and using information. In this sense they are an extension and enhancement of information storage and retrieval systems that manipulate digital data in any medium (text, images, sounds; static or dynamic images) and exist in distributed networks. The content of digital libraries includes data, metadata that describe various aspects of the data (such as representation, creator, owner, reproduction rights), and metadata that consist of links or relationships to other data or metadata, whether internal or external to the digital library”.
Open source software in the establishment of institutional repository (IR) systems in local libraries, using either Greenstone,
Fedora, DSpace or EPrints. These libraries are vouching on the successful implementation in the local library set up, so that it can then be up-scaled to institution-wide application through campus networks or intranet. A healthy uptake of the institution-wide set up may then open up to wider audiences with the availability of dedicated information infrastructure combined with broadband connectivity and national educational policies. Digital libraries provide access to different types of information resources, which may be organised in varying ways by their producers or access providers. It is a challenge for a given digital library to build and /or adopt a simple and yet effective method for organising information.Organized collections of information” which are collected and digitized making it possible for the creation of a digital library “Focused collection of digital objects, including text, video and audio with methods for access and retrieval, and for selection, organization and maintenance.
Open source software in the establishment of institutional repository (IR) systems in local libraries, using either Greenstone,
Fedora, DSpace or EPrints. These libraries are vouching on the successful implementation in the local library set up, so that it can then be up-scaled to institution-wide application through campus networks or intranet. A healthy uptake of the institution-wide set up may then open up to wider audiences with the availability of dedicated information infrastructure combined with broadband connectivity and national educational policies. Digital libraries provide access to different types of information resources, which may be organised in varying ways by their producers or access providers. It is a challenge for a given digital library to build and /or adopt a simple and yet effective method for organising information.Organized collections of information” which are collected and digitized making it possible for the creation of a digital library “Focused collection of digital objects, including text, video and audio with methods for access and retrieval, and for selection, organization and maintenance.
Ensure Open Access:
Ensure Connectivity to the computer network and available content. Ensure that the technology is usable and the user has the requisite skills and the knowledge. Avoid proprietary hardware and software solutions whenever possible.
Digital Library Services:
Reference service and information services are the integral to traditional services. Although digital library research and development so far has not concentrated on them, reference services should form an important part of digital libraries.
Library automation is the general term for information and communications technologies (ICT) that are used to replace manual systems in the library. The word “library” has been appropriated by many different groups to signify simply a collection of digital objects that people can access from their desktops digital objects like electronic documents, and digitized pictures, sound, and video. A global information network, of which the Internet is the seed, has the illusion of promising fingertip access to the world’s information. A fairly spectacular example of what many people consider to be a digital library today is the World Wide Web. The Web is a gathering of thousands and thousands of documents. Many would call this huge collection of documents a “digital library” because they can read and use whatever they wish by accessing the Web, just as one can use technology to do banking in a “digital bank” or buy compact discs in a “digital record store”.
Digital information on the Internet is characterized by the fact that digital documents can
exist in several formats, possibly in several versions, in locations that are not yet fixed. A
document or resource may exist at one network location one day, and disappear the next.Services such as AltaVista, YAHOO, and other WWW services are increasingly popular. These indexing services provide an essential service in assisting users to find information. But users are already noting that these services are becoming overburdened and that obtaining meaningful results can be frustratingly elusive.
Discuss on how Open Source Integrated Library Systems affect library functions and librarian roles.
“Open Source’ Integrated Library System Software
“Open Source’ Integrated Library System Software
The term “open source” refers to software that is free and that includes the original source code used to create it so that users can modify it. It also includes the right of redistribution; therefore, there may be products that are based on other open source products.
Major Open Access Impacts on Libraries are:
Ø Access and usage would not be limited by password, IP address, usage hours, institutional affiliation, physical location, a cap on simultaneous users, or ability to library would have the right to lend and copy digital articles on any terms library liked to any users they liked. Library could offer the same services to users affiliated with their institution, walk-in patrons, users at home, visiting faculty, and Inter Library Loan users.
Ø Faculty and others could donate digital literature and software without violating their licenses, and library could accept them without limiting their usability.
Ø All use would be non-infringing use, and all use allowed by law would also be allowed by technology. There would be no need for fair-use judgment calls and their accompanying risk of liability. There would be no need to err on the side of non-use. Faculty could reproduce full-text for students without the delays, costs, or uncertainties of seeking permission.
Ø Library would not have to negotiate, either as individual institutions or consortia, for prices or licensing terms. Library would not have to remember, consult, or even retain, complex licensing agreements that differ from publisher to publisher and year to year.
Ø Library would never have to cancel a subscription due to a tight budget or unacceptable licensing terms. Researchers would not encounter gaps in the collection corresponding to journals with unacceptable prices or licensing terms.
Librarians have been amongst the most vocal advocates for open access. Librarians have shown their support for open access by signing on to open access initiatives and petitions. The role of the librarian, particularly during the past two decades, has further evolved to encompass the burgeoning technological developments. The roles of librarian in open sources like:
Ø They have also been actively involved through their institutions or associations in support of OA in other ways like:
ü To create awareness of the library services, facilities and collections
ü To understand the methodology and searching strategy for effective information retrieval skills
ü To provide access of information from various printed and electronic resources
ü To cultivate the life long learning culture.
ü to provide open access to institutional research
ü To enable the library collection to stored, managed and used more systematic
ü to store and preserve other institutional digital assets, including unpublished or otherwise easily lost
ü to create global visibility for an institution's scholarly research;
ü to collect content in a single location;
Ø Workings at integrating new technologies to open access are discovering an increasing demand for their professional skills.
Of course, there are also prominent open access advocates who are librarians, and they bring to the table strong concerns with fundamental scholarly publishing issues. While this has resulted in differences of perception, it has not caused any meaningful schisms in the movement.
Libraries adopt open access initiatives as a means of providing better access to research
materials to not only its own researchers but also to a world wide audience. These open access are also means to improve the library prestige among its peers and contribute to research globally.
The benefits of open access, open source, and open standards are numerous. The benefits include lower costs, great accessibility, and better prospects for long-term preservation of scholarly works. Libraries should embrace all three of these concepts now and in the future. By supporting open access, open source, and open standards libraries not only can help ensure that their current and future patrons will have easier and more comprehensive access to scholarly research, they will also be helping other libraries around the world, including those in disadvantaged areas, to have access to important scholarly research.
Discuss on the needs of evaluating a library software before you decide to purchase it for your library - what do you look for when you do the evaluation?
“Open Source’ Integrated Library System Software
Library automation, an up-to-date method to help libraries and library patrons to effectively use library resources, is now streamlined because of computers and software. Through computer technology and software, library patrons have rapid and more user-friendly access to the latest information. They are also able to remotely access a library's collection. Library management software used to manage everything from home libraries to small, large and huge public libraries.
The following criteria have been used to select the software:
1. Predictable cost and timeframes:
Purchasing packaged application software allows a library to more accurately predicts costs. Properly identified features, functions and capabilities needed by a jurisdiction will lead to a highly predictable total cost of ownership for the life of the software. When developing application software using in-house staff, costs tend to vary widely and rarely are accurate or predicable. Technology staffs often are responsible for both supporting current operations and developing new systems. This leads to conflicting priorities, delayed implementations and escalating costs. Another reason for cost escalation and project delays is the lack of fully defined or accurate functional requirements. For the most part, software packages have been used in many other municipal environments, and a forgotten or missed functional need is likely to have already been programmed into the software. Unlike in-house development efforts, the cost and time needed to install and implement packaged software can be closely estimated and, in fact, can be fortified through contractual penalties for delays.
2. Improved Maintenance and Support Cost:
Maintaining an internally developed application requires a dedicated, knowledgeable maintenance team. Issues arise relating to internal staffing levels, how to maintain the skills of the support staff, and retention of trained technology personnel. Typically, it is easier for a municipality to justify financial needs than to obtain additional personnel. Packaged software is backed by a commercial business dedicated to maintenance and viability of the system. In order to remain a commercially viable product, the software must be updated at regular intervals to keep pace with new technology and the functional needs of its clients. Because of this, internally built software tends to become obsolete in a much shorter time frame and, over time, may experience poorer ongoing maintenance and support.
3. Functionality of the application:
Building a system in-house requires local government users to develop detail specifications and functional requirements of the application before it can be built. This step often is shortcutted, with disastrous results. Mature packaged software vendors have functional experts to design, develop, test and enhance the application over a period of many years with many clients. Also, these vendors support a wide variety of environments and attempt to put the best practices of the industry into their application to make their software more commercially attractive. Software built in-house requires detailed knowledge of the functions to come from within the local-government user community, which may have a more myopic view of the business function.
4. Improved use of limited resources:
With the ever-increasing demands being placed on local governments, an emphasis on reducing cost of government while improving services to citizens is paramount. Purchasing packaged software applications allows limited technology resources to focus on those unique applications and services not readily available through packaged software.
5. Rapid deployment:
With the rapidly changing technology environment and the limited application development resources of most local governments, many systems built in-house are obsolete before they are implemented. The ability to use packaged software applications reduces the time to bring a system operational, thus allowing a local government to gain productivity improvements sooner
All the above criteria are essential to ensure that library software to function properly
Discuss on how useful an Integrated Library System (ILS) as a Management Information System (MIS)
“Open Source’ Integrated Library System Software
Integrated library system (ILS), also known as a library management system (LMS), is an enterprise resource planning system for a library, used to track items owned, orders made, bills paid, and patrons who have borrowed.
An ILS usually comprises a relational database, software to interact with that database, and two graphical user interfaces (one for patrons, one for staff). Most ILSes separate software functions into discrete programs called modules, each of them integrated with a unified interface. Examples of modules might include:
- acquisitions (ordering, receiving, and invoicing materials)
- cataloging (classifying and indexing materials)
- circulation (lending materials to patrons and receiving them back)
- serials (tracking magazine and newspaper holdings)
- the OPAC (public interface for users)
Each patron and item has a unique ID in the database that allows the ILS to track its activity.
Larger libraries use an ILS to order and acquire, receive and invoice, catalog, circulate, track and shelve materials. Smaller libraries, such as those in private homes or non-profit organizations (like churches or synagogues, for instance), often forgo the expense and maintenance required to run an ILS, and instead use a library computer system. Each patron and item has a unique ID in the database that allows the ILS to track its activity.
Larger libraries use an ILS to order and acquire, receive and invoice, catalog, circulate, track and shelve materials. Smaller libraries, such as those in private homes or non-profit organizations (like churches or synagogues, for instance), often forgo the expense and maintenance required to run an ILS, and instead use a library computer system.
“Open Source’ Integrated Library System Software
Librarians often referred to ILSs as library automation systems or automated systems in the 1970s and early 1980s. Before the advent of computers, libraries usually used a card catalog to index their holdings. Computers came into use to automate the card catalog, thus the term automation system. Automation of the catalog saves the labor involved in resorting the card catalog, keeping it up-to-date with respect to the collection, etc. Other tasks automated include checking-out and checking-in books, generating statistics and reports, acquisitions and subscriptions, indexing journal articles and linking to them, as well as tracking interlibrary loans.
Since the late 1980s, windowing systems and multi-tasking have allowed the integration of business functions. Instead of having to open up separate applications, library staff could now use a single application with multiple functional modules.
As the Internet grew, ILS vendors offered more functionality related to computer networks. As of 2009 major ILS systems offer web-based portals where library users can log in to view their account, renew their books, and authenticate themselves for access to online databases.
