Today’s web-based search engines perform well when searchers know what they are looking for, but fall short for learning, decision making, and other complex mental activities that take place over time.
In its March issue, Computer, the IEEE Computer Society’s flagship magazine, explores efforts by the research community and search engine companies to go beyond search, designing and implementing systems that meet information seekers’ broader requirements.
According to the guest editors, today’s search engines are augmenting our memories, presumably freeing us to focus more mental effort on interpreting and using information to learn and make decisions. The easier access to information becomes, the greater our expectations for ubiquitous access in all kinds of situations.
Read the March issue of Computer: http://libcat.qut.edu.au/search~S7?/tComputer/tcomputer/1%2C418%2C478%2CB/frameset&FF=tcomputer&2%2C%2C2
Something for the library students & those interested in libraries & research:
http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub142/pub142.pdf
In the winter of 2008, the Council on Library and Information Services (CLIR) convened a group of 25 leading librarians, publishers, faculty members, and information technology specialists to look into the following question: “How should we be rethinking the research library in a swiftly changing information landscape?”
There are articles from “Future of the Library in the Research University” to “Role of the Library in 21st Century Scholarly Publishing” and “How to Change Faculty Perceptions
of Librarians and Ensure the Future of the Research Library”
I’m just about to head off to the LIANZA (Library & Information Association New Zealand Aotearoa) Conference in Auckland … yay!!!
This is all quite exciting as I’ve never been to NZ before & will get a day to play before it starts on Sunday (how very industrious!) and also because it has been awhile since I’ve been to a conference & even longer since I went to a library specific conference. These I alway find inspiring & interesting.
I hope also to visit a couple of uni libraries while there AUT & Uni Auckland so it’ll be interesting to compare & contrast.
I will attempt to get to a computer & blog the experience, but I’ll certainly report back on my return.
So I’ll be away until next Friday but will attempt to check email regularly & my diary is open & I do recommend you Ask a Librarian in the first instance: http://www.library.qut.edu.au/help/ask.jsp
Publish with IFLA Journal at http://ifl.sagepub.com and benefit from;
- High Visibility at the Heart of the Information Science Research Community: IFLA Journal is available online via SAGE Journals Online, hosted by the world’s leading electronic content provider, HighWire Press. So, your paper will be in good company – readers of related journals on HighWire can link to the full-text versions of all cited and citing references for FREE.
- The journal is fully peer reviewed, articles are refereed anonymously by the IFLA editorial board.
- IFLA journal = wide scope of content: Not only does the journal publish IFLA related news and articles, but the journal welcomes contributions covering (for example); original research, articles and features; news and information; reviews or announcements of new publications, products or services; education and training opportunities, fellowships, honours and awards; personal news; obituaries; and letters to the Editor.
- The journal is published on behalf of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions; this fact alone lends huge gravitas and respect to your article.
- High circulation journal: The journal is circulated to over 1,700 IFLA members in 150 countries worldwide – plus by being featured on SAGE Journals online it is open to all subscribing institutions, giving your article an increasingly high level of exposure in the field of librarianship and information services.
http://portal.acm.org/proceedings/aicps
The full text of over 350 non-ACM Proceedings are now available to ACM Digital Library subscribers. This includes 43 volumes received to date in 2008. Readers will find many noteworthy features such as:
As part of our print subscription Information Research Watch International (IRWI), QUT is entitled to access IRWI via CSA Illumina.
Information Research Watch International (IRWI)
http://www.library.qut.edu.au/db/5442f
Reports on research projects in information and library science and related fields. Gives access to information about current research prior to its appearance in the published literature, with details of researcher affiliation, research funding and funding bodies, duration, status of project and researcher contact information.
A factsheet is available @ http://www.csa.com/factsheets/irwi-set-c.php
The Library as Strategic Investment: Results of the Illinois ROI Study
So Tell Me What You Want: Applying Evidence-Based Librarianship to the User Experience in a Special Library
and as I was on late shift I couldn’t come along so I didn’t get any free food either!
Covers topics ranging from mesh networking research and deploying rural community wireless programs to reputation-oriented trustworthy computing in e-commerce environments and the semantic sensor Web.
It’s here: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/servlet/opac?punumber=4236
or do a journal title search in the QUT catalogue.
Professor Amanda Spink has been appointed to the EII Taskforce – EII Taskforce – Understanding and Extracting Value from Information Technology (IT) Investments
http://www.eii.edu.au/taskforce0809/value
Taskforce research question: Organisations invest millions of dollars each year on IT infrastructure, hardware, software, and services. One of the vexing research concerns in this context is the need to understand the complex relationships between IT investments, patterns of IT usage, and the realised value. This taskforce will address a range of related questions at different levels of granularity and disaggregation. It will also seek normative answers to the question of how value extraction from IT investments can be improved.
And the winner is … Sheng-tang Wu (Sam) has been awarded an Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award for 2007.
His thesis title is “Knowledge discovery using pattern taxonomy model in text mining”. Congratulations & Wow!
And in addition … the recipients of the Dean’s outstanding doctoral thesis award are:
- Wasana Bandara
- Helen Partridge
- Jason Smith
More Wow!!!
