[KMDG-L] Current Science's Special Focus on Science Writing in India

Current Science's Special Focus on Science Writing in India

Current Science, 2014, 106 (1), 20-21.

• Science journalism in South Asia – untapped potential, by T.V. Padma Download
• Science for all, by Nidhi Jamwal Download 
• Writing science for school children, by Shubashree Desikan and A. S. Ganesh Download 
• The (science) writing life, by Seema Singh Download
• Is blogging journalism and other questions, by Subhra Priyadarshini Download
  
• Science reporting in Hindi, by Sopan Joshi Download 
• Lessons for a climate change scribe!, by Archita Bhatta Download

[KMDG-L] Slides and recordings available: International UDC Seminar: Classification & Visualization - UDC Seminar (23-24 October The Hague)

Hi,

Colleagues may find the following information of interest.

Slides (pdf) and talks (mp3) from the International UDC Seminar 2013 -
"Classification and Visualization" are available from
http://seminar.udcc.org/2013/programme.php.

The conference proceedings are published by Ergon Verlag (see: http://www.udcc.org/index.php/site/page?view=visualization).

The International UDC Seminar entitled "Classification and Visualization:
Interfaces to Knowledge" took place in Koninklijke Bibliotheek in The Hague, on
24-25 October 2013.
This was another successful and well attended UDC Seminar with 115 delegates
from 24 countries. The 2013 conference was devoted to exploring advances and
techniques in the visualization of knowledge
across various fields of application and their potential impact on developments
in the more main stream bibliographic and documentary classifications.

The keynoted address by Prof. W. Boyd Rayward was followed by 18 talks. The
poster exhibition consisted of four conference posters
(http://seminar.udcc.org/2013/posters.php) and a selection of posters from
"Places&Spaces: Mapping Science" (http://scimaps.org/).

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Dr Aida Slavic
Editor-in-Chief, UDC
UDC Consortium
The Hague, The Netherlands

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[KMDG-L] Knowledge Management SC Satellite

The IFLA Knowledge Management Standing Committee Satellite meeting will be held in Lyon, France on 15 August 2014:

 

Knowledge Management as a Vital Tool for Change Management

 

This one-day satellite meeting will focus on the processes which promote to change management in the changing environment faced by libraries. It includes the tools manager librarians can use and the methods they can adopt through Knowledge Management to make a success of this transition period. 

 

Please visit http://parisdescartes.libguides.com/IFLA2014/ENG for more information and watch for a call for papers.

 

 

 

 

àFor more information contact: julien.sempere@parisdescartes.fr

 

 

-- Karen Muller, MLS

   Librarian and Knowledge Management Specialist

   American Library Association

 

http://www.ala.org/tools/

 

 

[KMDG-L] Collaboration platform

Hello List,

Our library is involved in a pilot project for what may become a campus-wide knowledge management initiative. We're trying to get something up and running quickly. We're contracting for a question-and-answer base service, but we still have to gather the material to go into it. For our knowledge gathering phase, we're looking for an online platform where we can collaboratively create documents (like Google Drive) but with light project management capabilities as well so we can better track approval of content and perhaps other administrative issues. Free would be best. A tall order I know, but any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Best regards,
Elizabeth Jardine
Metadata Librarian
LaGuardia Community College
New York, NY

[KMDG-L] Participate in global survey to determine the perception and readiness of Web 2.0 and Knowledge Management in university libraries

Hello everyone,

 

I'm a Ph.D. student at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Ishikawa, Japan. In collaboration with Professors Ikeda and Agarwal, I am conducting a survey study to determine the perceptions of librarians regarding Knowledge Management (KM) and the degree to which the library is ready to adopt KM using Web 2.0. The survey targets mainly people who are working in academic libraries.

 

Please pass on the survey to other academic libraries whom you believe might benefit from the survey.

We'd be obliged if you could kindly participate in the survey by clicking on any one link below. It should take you about 15 minutes:

http://tinyurl.com/nfc754m

or

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ct00VITV9-AR-OlRfAhOeyFud6aIfT36Xp0QAXzrwn4/viewform

Thanks and best wishes
______________________________________
Md. Anwarul Islam
PhD Student, School of Knowledge Science
Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), Ishikawa, Japan

anwar81du@gmail.com

Professor Mitsuru Ikeda, PhD

School of Knowledge Science, JAIST, Ishikawa, Japan 

ikeda@jaist.ac.jp

Dr. Naresh Agarwal, Assistant Professor

Graduate School of Library and Information Science

Simmons College, Boston, USA

agarwal@simmons.edu

 

[KMDG-L] ISKO UK afternoon event "Information, a risky business" October 24th

Please don't forget to reserve you place for ISKO UK's next afternoon event, to think about the risks of poor information management - and how to combat them (or even, how to exploit them to get your boss on side!). The meeting starts at 14.00 on Thursday 24 October at the British Dental Association, 64 Wimpole Street, London, W1G 8YS, and concludes at 18.00, when you can stay on for networking, wine and nibbles. Reserve your place by October 20th; you will find the programme and other details at <www.iskouk.org/events/risk_October2013.htm>. The event is *free*  to ISKO members and to full-time students. The fee for non-members is just *£40*. Now, here's an outline of the talks:

Information is critical to all public sector bodies today, placing them at significant risk if it is not managed and organized in such a way that it can easily and quickly be found. Using case studies from the private and public sectors and some highly experienced practitioners in the field, this latest ISKO UK event examines the causes, threats and outcomes of poor information management which put organizations at risk, why this is relevant to knowledge organization and what mitigation measures can be put in place.

Yasmin Merali, Associate Professor at Warwick Business School, will open the first session by examining the complex nature of today's information network, the shift in user b_ehaviour and the impact on organizational resilience and robustness. Mark Merifield, Head of Information Management Services at The National Archives looks at the disconnect between our IT environment and business requirements and David Haynes, a highly experienced information manager and PhD student at City University, will draw on recent work within the charity sector to demonstrate some of the knowledge organization approaches used to address information risk in the context of overall organizational change.

In the second session, Roger Poole, currently Manager -- Risk Consulting at KPMG LLP and with considerable experience of Global Records Management projects and programmes within the banking sector, describes some of the recent significant changes in approach to information risk within the Financial Services industry, a sector with a very high profile in the news in recent years. He is followed by Christina Somovilla and Aynsley Taylor, who will draw from their own experience at the Financial Ombudsman Service to examine some of the difficulties faced when trying to set policies appropriate to real business need, and to consider how organizing information properly is the best way to mitigate risk. Finally, Noeleen Schenk from Metataxis, a consultant with many years' experience working with clients to ensure effective information management structures are in place, will explain how businesses can use the risk agenda to drive improvements to their information management -- from the identification of their information assets, to their management and organization. The afternoon will end with wine and nibbles and an opportunity to discuss the afternoon event with speakers and colleagues.

All fees must be paid in advance - there is no provision for payment on arrival. Registration opens at *1.30* and we shall start promptly at 2 p.m. Please pass this invitation on to any colleagues who may be interested.


ISKO is a not-for-profit scientific/professional association with the objective of promoting research and communication in the domain of knowledge organization, within the broad field of information science and related disciplines. Founded in 2007, our UK Chapter has been attracting lively and steadily growing audiences to its afternoon meeting series as well as its very successful biennial conferences (see slides and recordings at <www.iskouk.org/events.htm>. Its third conference was held in July 2013 on the theme of "Knowledge organization - pushing the boundaries" (http://www.iskouk.org/conf2013/.)

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[KMDG-L] Primary Research Group has published Library Use of LibGuides, ISBN 978-157440-257-5

Primary Research Group has published Library Use of LibGuides, ISBN 978-157440-257-5.

The study explores how many LibGuides libraries are making, the rate of growth in Lib Guide creation, and how extensively LibGuides are used. The report also covers the estimated time it takes to create a LibGuide and its impact on library productivity. The study furnishes insights on the number of librarians in an organization who use LibGuides, the support that they receive, and the marketing of LibGuides to faculty and students, among many other issues. The study also points out the most admired LibGuides, the most used, and gives hard data on the number of LibGuides from institutions other than their own that libraries are using. The study helps its readers to answer questions such as: how many libraries are using LibGuides as their library website? What are library plans for LibGuides in the future? Have libraries considered alternatives to LibGuides? How satisfied are libraries with LibGuides? What kinds of LibGuides are libraries developing and how are they encour!
aging students and faculty to use them?

Just a few of the study���s main findings are that:
��� The growth rate over the past year in the stock of LibGuides for the private colleges in the sample was an astounding 63%.
��� College libraries with a budget in excess of $3 million maintained a mean of 109 LibGuides.
��� 42.11% of the libraries sampled have one or more individuals whose primary job it is to create LibGuides or other kinds of research guides.
��� Only 3.51% of the libraries sampled have measured or studied how much staff time it takes to develop a typical LibGuide.
��� 31.58% of the libraries offer courses, seminars, or otherwise provide formal training in use of LibGuides to library staff.

For further information view our website at www.PrimaryResearch.com.