Leadership Qualities: Librarianship in Digital Era
This paper finds out the ways of traditional leadership in the LIS field. It also attempts to cover the new challenges that are cropping up in the recent years. In due course it tried to find out the qualities of leadership that helps to suit the need of digital librarianship. It attempts to present a framework to achieve goal and mission i.e. the ultimate user centered LIS universe under the dynamic leadership of the digital librarian.
Digital Librarians and the Challenges of Open Access to Knowledge: The Michael Okpara University of Agriculture (MOUAU) Library Experience
Introduction The development of Internet technology has provided academic and research institutions with a very high level of visibility on the web. As a result, teaching, learning and research is widely improved in the global society today. The intellectual call for knowledge and information dissemination by countless organizations and educational meetings has given birth to a terminology called open access. This initiative is aimed at bringing the knowledge society to a state of free access to all kinds of information and learning material using the Internet and ICT tools. The library plays an important role in sustaining the open access initiative (Das, 2008). Librarians who ensure the organization and dissemination of full-text content of knowledge materials to online communities are the digital librarians. This paper therefore examines the state of open access in MOUAU, discussing the challenges confronting the managers (digital librarians). Literature Review Digital Library and Open Access to Knowledge According to Shiri (2003), the Digital Library Federation defines digital library as: "Organizations that provide the resources, including the specialized staff, to select, structure, offer intellectual access to, interpret, distribute, preserve the integrity of, and ensure the persistence over time of collections of digital works so that they are readily available for use by a defined community or set of communities". Digital libraries are an emerging concept in Nigeria, even though today's libraries in the developed countries are routinely providing information and services in digital form. Borgman (1999) agrees with the view of Digital Library Federation (1998) which states that digital libraries have unique characteristics that differ from traditional libraries and their approaches to information provision. From a traditional librarian's point of view, digital libraries present a transformative model of a large-scale, user-centric organization that is moving towards an integrated form with various components. However, the main purpose of digital libraries remains consistent with that of traditional libraries in that the purpose of digital libraries is to organize, distribute, and preserve information resources just as it is for traditional libraries. Lynch (1994) says that, "digital Libraries provide users with coherent success to a very large, organized repository of information and knowledge." According to Trivedi (2010), the purpose of a digital library includes: * To expedite the systematic development of procedures to collect, store, and organize information in digital form. * To promote efficient delivery of information economically to all users. * To encourage co-operative efforts in research resource, computing, and communication networks. * To strengthen communication and collaboration between and among educational institutions. * To take leadership role in the generation and dissemination of knowledge Digital libraries promise new societal benefits. One is elimination of the time and space constraints of traditional "bricks-and-mortar libraries". Unlike libraries that occupy buildings accessible only to those who walk through their doors, digital libraries reside on inter-networked data storage and computing systems that can be accessed by people located anywhere in the world. When the full potential of a digital library is realized for a particular community, people shall be able to access all human knowledge hosted in that digital database from any location. Digital libraries that are accessible over the Internet provide opportunities to advance knowledge and to dramatically improve the quality of life. On the other hand, open access to knowledge is a key contributor in providing universal access to information and knowledge. The issue of open access is recently gathering global encouragement and support. …
Man-Machine Interactions 3, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Man-Machine Interactions, ICMMI 2013, Brenna, Poland, October 22-25, 2013
Keynote Talks.- Speech Man-Machine Communication.- Stochastic Effects in Signaling Pathways in Cells: Interaction between Visualization and Modeling.- Rough-Granular Computing in Human-Centric Information Processing.- Discovering Affinities between Perceptual Granules.- Human-Computer Interactions.- A Psycholinguistic Model of Man-Machine Interactions Based on Needs of Human Personality.- Adaptable Graphical User Interfaces for Player-Based Applications.- Case-Based Reasoning Model in Process of Emergency Management.- Enterprise Ontology According to Roman Ingarden Formal Ontology.- Hand Shape Recognition for Human-Computer Interaction.- System for Knowledge Mining in Data from Interactions between User and Application.- Computational Techniques in Biosciences.- Analyze of Maldi-TOF Proteomic Spectra with Usage of Mixture of Gaussian Distributions.- Energy Properties of Protein Structures in the Analysis of the Human RAB5A Cellular Activity.- Fuzzy Weighted Averaging of Biomedical Signal Using Bayesian Inference.- Fuzzy Clustering and Gene Ontology Based Decision Rules for Identification and Description of Gene Groups.- Estimation of the Number of Primordial Genes in a Compartment Model of RNA World.- Quasi Dominance Rough Set Approach in Testing for Traces of Natural Selection at Molecular Level.- Decision Support, Rule Inferrence and Representation.- The Way of Rules Representation in Composited Knowledge Bases.- Clustering of Partial Decision Rules.- Decision Trees Constructing over Multiple Data Streams.- Decision Tree Induction Methods for Distributed Environment.- Extensions of Multistage Decision Transition Systems: The Rough Set Perspective.- Emotion Recognition Based on Dynamic Ensemble Feature Selection.- Rough Fuzzy Investigations.- On Construction of Partial Association Rules with Weights.- Fuzzy Rough Entropy Clustering Algorithm Parametrization.- Data Grouping Process in Extended SQL Language Containing Fuzzy Elements.- Rough Sets in Flux: Crispings and Change.- Simplification of Neuro-Fuzzy Models.- Fuzzy Weighted Averaging Using Criterion Function Minimization.- Approximate String Matching by Fuzzy Automata.- Remark on Membership Functions in Neuro-Fuzzy Systems.- Capacity-Based Definite Rough Integral and Its Application.- Advances in Classification Methods.- Classifier Models in Intelligent CAPP Systems.- Classification Algorithms Based on Template's Decision Rules.- Fast Orthogonal Neural Network for Adaptive Fourier Amplitude Spectrum Computation in Classification Problems.- Relative Reduct-Based Selection of Features for ANN Classifier.- Enhanced Ontology Based Profile Comparison Mechanism for Better Recommendation.- Privacy Preserving Classification for Ordered Attributes.- Incorporating Detractors into SVM Classification.- Bayes Multistage Classifier and Boosted C4.5 Algorithm in Acute Abdominal Pain Diagnosis.- Pattern Recognition and Signal Processing.- Skrybot - A System for Automatic Speech Recognition of Polish Language.- Speaker Verification Based on Fuzzy Classifier.- Support Vector Classifier with Linguistic Interpretation of the Kernel Matrix in Speaker Verification.- Application of Discriminant Analysis to Distinction of Musical Instruments on the Basis of Selected Sound Parameters.- Computer Vision, Image Analysis and Virtual Reality.- Spatial Color Distribution Based Indexing and Retrieval Scheme.- Synthesis of Static Medical Images with an Active Shape Model.- New Method for Personalization of Avatar Animation.- Multidimensional Labyrinth - Multidimensional Virtual Reality.- Shape Recognition Using Partitioned Iterated Function Systems.- Computer Vision Support for the Orthodontic Diagnosis.- From Museum Exhibits to 3D Models.- Advances in Algorithmics.- A Method for Automatic Standardization of Text Attributes without Reference Data Sets.- Internal Conflict-Free Projection Sets.- The Comparison of an Adapted Evolutionary Algorithm with the Invasive Weed Optimization Algorithm Based on the Problem of Predetermining the Progress of Distributed Data Merging Process.- Cumulation of Pheromone Values in Web Searching Algorithm.- Mining for Unconnected Frequent Graphs with Direct Subgraph Isomorphism Tests.- Numerical Evaluation of the Random Walk Search Algorithm.- On Two Variants of the Longest Increasing Subsequence Problem.- Computing the Longest Common Transposition-Invariant Subsequence with GPU.- Databases and Data Warehousing.- Usage of the Universal Object Model in Database Schemas Comparison and Integration.- Computational Model for Efficient Processing of Geofield Queries.- Applying Advanced Methods of Query Selectivity Estimation in Oracle DBMS.- How to Efficiently Generate PNR Representation of a Qualitative Geofield.- RBTAT: Red-Black Table Aggregate Tree.- Performing Range Aggregate Queries in Stream Data Warehouse.- LVA-Index: An Efficient Way to Determine Nearest Neighbors.- Embedded Systems Applications.- Basic Component of Computational Intelligence for IRB-1400 Robots.- Factors Having Influence upon Efficiency of an Integrated Wired-Wireless Network.- FFT Based EMG Signals Analysis on FPGAs for Dexterous Hand Prosthesis Control.- The VHDL Implementation of Reconfigurable MIPS Processor.- Time Optimal Target Following by a Mobile Vehicle.- Improving Quality of Satellite Navigation Devices.