A library based search engine , RefEx, REX......

A library based search engine is planning to be developed by cooperation of OCLC and the information schools of Syracuse University, NY, and the University of Washington (UW) … and a $100,000 Grant from John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

According to referencextract.org , Reference Extracts will be built for maximum credibility by relying on the expertise and credibility judgments of librarians from around the globe. Users will enter a search term and get results weighted towards sites most often referred to by librarians at institutions such as the Library of Congress, the University of Washington, the State of Maryland, and over 1,400 libraries worldwide. This grant will support planning for Reference Extract and building the foundation necessary to implement it as a large-scale, general user service.
The project is searching for librarians' intellectual cooperation and their technical knowledge and experience .
Registration (free) is now open for “Multilingual, Multinational: Best Practices in Cooperative Reference” where Reference Extract will be presented. You can register for it on this page:
https://www3.oclc.org/app/ala_registration/
Sources :
1-http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6618859.html?nid=3310
2- http://referencextract.org/

ATM library

In California a New ATM for Books Debuts ,

Surviving in crossing over the time, …

To survive on the supper highways of the cyberspace libraries are shifting their services from the libraries' walls to virtual environment, on the other hand changes in technology and speedy lifestyle makes busy residents of the metropolitan areas feed their brain while crossing the road, moving to the work, traveling and maybe resting times.

The concepts of mobile libraries, ATM libraries, Hand Size libraries, Robotic Librarians and Every Where libraries tell us the story of "copping with environment" , "changing the shape for harmonizing with the changing needs and preferences of audiences."

For more information See the following URLs at Library Journal.com

ATM Library : http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6535617.html?rssid=220

Every Where Library: http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6611189.html?nid=3310

I will tell You about "Hand size library" in the next Post.

eXtensible Catalog Project

The eXtensible Catalog Project, created and managed by the University of Rochester and supported by funding from the Mellon Foundation as well as partner institutions, has released a new web site that serves as the project's home. Roy Tennant , 17 october says that The new site provides more information (and creates the skeleton for upcoming enhancements) than the previous blog-based site, and reveals a snazzy new logo.

Extensible Catalog

Josh Hadro reported in Library Journal, 10/21/2008 9:45:00 AM that

Extensible Catalog project website updated, converted from WordPress to Drupal
Revamp comes during phase two of the project, on track for July 2009 completion
More information posted on project background, development partners, and participation options
As reported by LJ Digital Libraries blogger Roy Tennant and others, the Mellon-funded Extensible Catalog (XC) project from the University of Rochester has received a major upgrade to its web presence. Transitioning from a WordPress blog to a Drupal site featuring significantly more background and framework information, the shift signals the ramping up of the project’s second phase of coding and software design in which the XC will make the transition from a planning architecture to a workable and distributable set of open source software components.

The Extensible Catalog, scheduled to be released summer 2009, will serve as both a new interface as well as a means for managing library metadata, including MARC, Dublin Core, and FRBRized metadata, according to the new site, which also adds that the project hopes to initiate "a next phase of development to integrate the benefits of the RDA metadata standard once it is released." In addition, XC “will enable library content to be revealed through other services that libraries may already be using, such as content management systems and learning management systems.”

Development partners are already onboard to design “connectors” to other ILS software like Innovative’s Millennium, Ex Libris’ Aleph and Voyager systems, and the open source Koha and Evergreen ILSs, as well as the Blackboard learning management systems (LMS). Partners are also being sought to help integrate XC with SirsiDynix’s Unicorn ILS and the open source Sakai LMS.

The XC project is of great interest to the open source and library software communities in terms of the major funding it has received and the breadth of support already committed at this stage in its design, and is being closely watched as more details are divulged. The project has funds totaling $2.8 million from grants and support from the University of Rochester and partner institutions, including a $749,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in October 2007 to support the current second phase of the project.

Government Information in the 21st Century

Government Information in the 21st Century (Gi21) is a continuing education project to train public services library staff in the use of electronic government information. Over the past year, 49 government information librarians have created 21 subject modules focusing on federal electronic information sources. Modules are designed to be used as training materials and for self-guided learning. Kids Stuff, the newest module, has a large number of resources ranging from interactive web sites, online games, curriculum guides and fact sheets - all arranged by subject and marked for age category. You can learn more about the program by checking out these resources on their section of WebJunction.

For MLIS Students

Series of Slides presented during the course concepts of Internet, librray automation and software in the Department of library and Information Science, Osmania University , Semester II, 2007-2008.see at slideshare

Multi-Lingual Cunsumer Health Information on MedlinPlus

MedlinePlus a srvice from National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the National Institue of Health (NIH)released a multilingual feature, providing access to high quality health information in languages other than English and Spanish to support Cunsumer Health Information,Patient education and Care. Health information is available in Farsi language as well as Armenian, Kurdish,Hindi, Urdo,etc.among other languages. The presentation format is multimedia, written, odio and video. Have a look at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/languages/languages.html

Rss engine or worm

RSS feeds , one of the Realy Suitable Services of web 2.0 in libray reference services/current awareness services has been accepted by librarians,ovationaly. Librarians use RSS to keep up-to-date or to make their library clintels keep themselves up-to-date in any interested topic.

I was thinking to an ideal association that follows standards as rules in any web 2.0 facets or social network sercices . I found that , Rss engine or worm (using worm as postfix)is something like association or collaboration to better utilization of RSS. Although, it is not the exact standardization that i was searcing for information about that. But it is an aggregation that bring together scattered pices of information. It searchs related RSSs and collects data from internet through RSS feeds.MedWorm is one of them.Medworm created by Franki.Presently there are seven associations in medical specialities including:

Pathology,Orthopaedics,Psychology,Pediatrics,Health, Medicine and and Bioethics Commentators,Medical Databases and Libraries,Genetics.

MedWorm is a medical RSS feed provider as well as a search engine built on data collected from RSS feeds. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and it is a technology used to simply publish and gather details of the very latest information on the internet. libworm was David Rothman's ,a medical library paraprofessional and blogger in Syracuse NY,suggesstion to Frankie Dolan, a UK-based IT engineer's and founder of MedWorm ,in medical library speciality.

LibWorm collects updates from about 1500 RSS feeds (and growing). You can visit links provided in webliography for more information in any of each.

webliography:
Tim O'Reilly
MedWorm
Libworm

Medical Library Blogs

You surely have heared about liswiki, a library and information science wiki, since 2005/, but i would like to tell you something about medical library/ librarians blogs or medlib blogs , the list available in liswiki. If you are interested to have search botton on your own blog,like the botton on the top-right side of this page, you can click here and thank Daivid Rothman.

Wikipedia's sister projects

Wikipedia is a portmanteau term combined of wiki and encyclopedia. The first part of fused term wikipedia referes to enjoyment of social networking software wiki and the second part shows the character of the information source as encyclopedia.
Wikipedia is most reliable internet-based resorces for academic as well as non-academic users that utilizes web 2.0 technology.
Wikipedia is developing its services to other sources of information in English language and non English languages. Its developing projects are as follow:
dictionary (Wiktionary),
Text books (Wikibooks), has been developed since 2003.
Free library (Wikisource),
Quotations (Wikiquote),
Images and media(Commons),
News source (Wikinews),