Saturday, March 24, 2012

TeamViewer

TeamViewer
Access any remote computer via Internet just like sitting in front of it - even through firewalls.


Check this out - a very useful tool to help one another when it comes to computer assistance. 

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Versita - Open Access Platform


Versita Open is one of the world’s leading Open Access platforms, hosting full texts of nearly 200 scholarly journals that concurrently belong to many societies, universities and research institutes.

HEALTH SCIENCES - OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS

Directory of Open Access Books


A new service for Open Access Monographs: the Directory of Open Access Books coming this spring !!!

PAPER RATER !!!

PaperRater.com analyzes documents immediately, 24/7, in real-time, provide in depth analysis to help improve grammar and writing ... 


here is another tool that helps while one is writing research papers etc.

KOHA - Ubuntu Linux

Monday, March 19, 2012

Do we full fill librarian requirement in the current era ?


select lines from comments in Linked in 

  • There are so many challenges facing libraries and librarians that complacency is an unaffordable luxury.
  • Librarians have to adapt to the new network environment and find ways to improve the library services.
  • … librarians need to always be on the look out for new trends in information delivery … 
  • … librarian should be knowledgeable and equipped with latest IT Skills and very importantly should have the interest of serving to their own clientele … 
  • reaching out is one important characteristic that a librarian has to have and be as proactive as possible with the users
  • Librarians are to make relevant themselves by reaching out to users.