o Protests erupt in Assam as first CAA beneficiary granted citizenship By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Fri, 16 Aug 2024 05:57:00 +0530 Students’ organisations and Opposition parties said citizenship to a Bangladesh-born man was a violation of the Assam Accord of 1971 Full Article Other States
o Opposition slams Nitish Government over murder, alleged gang rape of Dalit minor in Bihar By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Sat, 17 Aug 2024 01:33:00 +0530 While RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav said the morale of “state-protected criminals and rapists” has increased under the “patronage” of Nitish Kumar, the Congress demanded a speedy probe Full Article Bihar
o Fish powder in meals helps Assam district reduce child malnutrition By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Sat, 17 Aug 2024 02:00:00 +0530 The initiative in Kamrup district has also been beneficial for women fish farmers, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said Full Article Other States
o Autorickshaw driver fined for not wearing helmet in Assam By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Sat, 17 Aug 2024 03:02:00 +0530 A sub-inspector of the traffic police in Haflong said an assistant sub-inspector chose the wrong option in the electronic device while issuing the challan Full Article Other States
o Nana Patole hints on more BJP leaders to join Congress, small parties to go solo By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Sat, 17 Aug 2024 05:33:00 +0530 Shishupal Patle’s entry ahead of the Assembly election is being seen as a way to strengthen Congress’s influence in the constituency, which falls under the Vidharbha region of Maharashtra Full Article Maharashtra
o Teenage boy stabbed by classmate in Udaipur succumbs to injuries By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Tue, 20 Aug 2024 00:51:50 +0530 Tension prevails after crowd gathered outside hospital and other areas; police resort to lathi charge; more force sent to maintain law and order; prohibitory orders remain Full Article Other States
o Staines murder: Supreme Court seeks Odisha’s reply on remission plea by convict Dara Singh By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Tue, 20 Aug 2024 21:39:54 +0530 Dara Singh, the main accused in the triple murder, was convicted and sentenced to death by a CBI court in 2003 Full Article Odisha
o Shots fired at house of Manipur college principal By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Wed, 21 Aug 2024 19:27:43 +0530 Police said masked men on a scooter fired five rounds on Tuesday evening. In July 17, miscreants had lobbed a grenade, but it did not explode and was later disposed of by a special squad Full Article Manipur
o Search continues for second day for missing training aircraft in Jharkhand By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Wed, 21 Aug 2024 21:17:56 +0530 Aircraft with two persons onboard belongs to Alchemist Aviation flying school in Jamshedpur Full Article Other States
o BJP has no leaders in Jharkhand, they ‘hire’ from other States to handle political scenario here: CM Hemant Soren By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Thu, 22 Aug 2024 22:28:43 +0530 Without naming anyone, Mr. Soren said the Opposition is engaged in divisive politics and that there is no agenda or vision shown by them Full Article Other States
o Outrage after minor girl’s gang rape in Assam By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Fri, 23 Aug 2024 15:35:51 +0530 Some locals found her lying semi-conscious by the roadside on her way back home from tuition classes Full Article Assam
o J&K Police declares cash award for information on LeT commander By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Sun, 25 Aug 2024 08:11:07 +0530 A police spokesperson said that Babar is using Kashmiris as couriers for raising and passing on funds to different groups to carry out terrorist acts in the valley Full Article Other States
o AIUDF meets Assam Governor, seeks action against communal groups By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Mon, 26 Aug 2024 21:52:37 +0530 Several organisations representing indigenous communities have asked migrant Muslims, referred to as Miya, to leave eastern Assam following a gang-rape case Full Article Assam
o Rajasthan increases gratuity limit for government employees; no decision on UPS implementation By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Wed, 28 Aug 2024 21:39:53 +0530 The State Cabinet, which considered the issue of bringing UPS for the government employees at its meeting, did not arrive at a final decision Full Article Rajasthan
o Congress’s Rajasthan chief whip attacked outside residence in Jaipur By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Thu, 29 Aug 2024 22:31:16 +0530 People present at Rafeek Khan’s house overpowered the attacker, thrashed him and handed him over to police. The accused is a former CRPF assistant commandant and a Shaurya Chakra awardee Full Article Other States
o Cyclone Asna leaves no major impact on Gujarat, moves towards Oman By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Sat, 31 Aug 2024 10:55:17 +0530 As a precautionary measure, the local administration had shifted nearly 3,500 persons to safer locations and had asked people living in huts and mud houses to take shelter in other buildings Full Article Gujarat
o Farmers to hold maha panchayat on September 15 and 22, ask center to open borders to Delhi By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Sat, 31 Aug 2024 14:05:30 +0530 Full Article Haryana
o Delhi court to take cognisance of charge sheet against Lalu, Tejashwi Yadav in Land for jobs case By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Sat, 07 Sep 2024 17:05:00 +0530 Special Judge Vishal Gogne fixed the matter for the next week after noting that no further clarification was required from the ED on the matter Full Article Other States
o Depression likely to bring heavy rain in most parts of Odisha By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Sat, 07 Sep 2024 18:30:04 +0530 It is likely to move nearly northwards and intensify into a depression over the northwest Bay of Bengal off north Odisha-Gangetic West Bengal coasts on September 8 Full Article Other States
o M.P. forms panel to redraw district, division boundaries By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Tue, 10 Sep 2024 00:34:01 +0530 Chief Minister Mohan Yadav said that problems exist with respect to the number of districts and their boundaries Full Article Other States
o Tension in U.P.’s Muzaffarnagar after Muslim man buys house in Hindu-majority neighbourhood By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Wed, 11 Sep 2024 01:01:23 +0530 Right-wing outfits allegedly warning that under no circumstances will Muslim families be allowed to settle in the predominantly Hindu locality Full Article Other States
o 2 killed, 20 injured as police open fire during Assam eviction drive By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Fri, 13 Sep 2024 00:23:41 +0530 Tension began after the evicted people reoccupied the cleared spaces around Thursday noon and confronted the officials; security stepped up Full Article Other States
o Minor raped by teacher in Bhopal school; CM orders formation of special court By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Wed, 18 Sep 2024 21:38:18 +0530 The alleged incident took place inside the private school in Kamla Nagar police station area on September 13 and the girl’s mother reported it to the police the next day Full Article Madhya Pradesh
o 1998 murder case of ex-Bihar Minister: Supreme Court sentences two persons to life imprisonment By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Thu, 03 Oct 2024 11:43:54 +0530 A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna, Sanjay Kumar and R. Mahadevan partially set aside the Patna High Court verdict acquitting all the accused and asked convicts Mantu Tiwari and ex-MLA Shukla to surrender within 15 days Full Article Bihar
o RJD leader Pankaj Yadav shot in Bihar on morning walk By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Thu, 03 Oct 2024 13:43:02 +0530 The attack on Pankaj Yadav, a state general secretary of the RJD, took place in Safiabad locality Full Article Bihar
o Madhya Pradesh Cabinet meets in tribal queen’s capital on her 500th birth anniversary By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Sat, 05 Oct 2024 23:01:57 +0530 The Cabinet has approved additional assistance of up to ₹3,900 per hectare to farmers under the Rani Durgavati Shri Anna Protsahan Yojana, over the minimum purchase price Full Article Madhya Pradesh
o National film award dedicated to Assam women’s stork army By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Wed, 09 Oct 2024 20:15:27 +0530 IPS officer Partha Sarathi Mahanta has directed the 19-minute documentary film on the Hargila Army comprising women of Dadara Pasaria village Full Article Other States
o Naga tribes body issues deadline to Nagaland government for feedback on autonomous territory By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Sat, 12 Oct 2024 18:45:17 +0530 The Eastern Nagaland People’s Organisation wants the creation of Frontier Nagaland Territory comprising six districts of the northeastern State bordering Myanmar Full Article Nagaland
o Police constable suspended for stalking woman in Ratlam By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Tue, 15 Oct 2024 19:07:56 +0530 Full Article Madhya Pradesh
o Empowerment campaign enhances access of differently-abled persons in Barmer By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Wed, 23 Oct 2024 22:45:45 +0530 The initiative has ensured a hassle-free process of obtaining disability certificates and saved the time of differently abled persons to travel all the way to the district headquarters to appear before the Medical Board Full Article Other States
o Chhatisgarh rolls out red carpet for industries, will fund pilgrimage for the elderly By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Tue, 29 Oct 2024 11:13:49 +0530 Titled ‘New Industrial Policy 2024-30: Incentives for Industries’, the policy, announced after a cabinet meeting held in Nava Raipur, will come into force on November 1 Full Article Chhattisgarh
o NSCN (I-M) seeks third-party intervention to break talks deadlock By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Sat, 09 Nov 2024 00:17:00 +0530 Accusing the Centre of betraying the Framework Agreement of 2015, the Naga extremist group led by Thuingaleng Muivah threatened to return to violent ways Full Article Nagaland
o Big problems with ISI data reported by science editors By marstonscience.blogspot.com Published On :: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:21:00 +0000 Got this in an email from one of my lists:>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>This presumably will be drawing some attention shortly. It is a very disturbing report by editors from the Journal of Cell Biology and the Journal of Experimental Medicine who have joined with the Executive Director of the Rockefeller University Press in reporting their inability to verify published impact factors using data provided provided by ISI itself. Their fruitless efforts to replicate published impact factors for their own and other journals revealed numerous and serious errors in several data sets provided by ISI and call into question the validity of both ISI's dataset and their published impact factors. If the problems they encountered are widespread, then the host of evaluative decisions that rely at least in part on published impact factors are suspect. Published impact factors affect authors' decisions about manuscript submission, funding awards, and promotion and tenure. While critiques of the use of impact factors are quite common, this is the first serious question raised about the underlying validity of the data used to calculate impact factors and therefore the accurracy of the metrics that are published.The editorial by Mike Rossner, Heather Van Epps, and Emma Hill was published in the Journal of Cell Biology and is available athttp://www.jcb.org/cgi/content/full/179/6/1091 Full Article
o Distance Learning Council Meeting By marstonscience.blogspot.com Published On :: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 15:45:00 +0000 At the last DLC meeting Becky Williams, an instructional designer with CITT, gave a presentation on CMS software issues and spoke about open source (such as SAKAI) vs. Vendor (WebCT/Blackboard) products and a new software system for teacher grading, called SWoRD. Here is a synopsis of what she presented, and feel free to take a look at her ppt for more information: (http://plaza.ufl.edu/rjwillia/swordtalk%20-%20learning%20consort-oct07.ppt).The first four slides are about CMS vendors vs. open source:A growing disillusionment with vendor products has many Universities moving or considering moving to Sakai (the most popular open source system available). WebCT and Bb have left many unaddressed issues, and they require universities to pay for upgrades or extensions if something does not work. Moving a CMS to open source has its own issues, but that the vendor situation is so aggravating more universities are considering it as an option. I thought these issues sounded familiar to our LMS experiences - I'll be interested in seeing where the CMS discussion goes.Slide 5 through 42 are about a new, free software called SWoRD. In large classes, professors assign fewer papers as writing assignments due to the difficulty of grading a large number of papers. Despite writing less, student grades are higher and students feel they are good writers; and, yet, teaching faculty don't agree. SWoRD is a system by which papers are automatically assigned to other student writers, for peer-review. Each student peer-reviews 5 papers. Ms. Williams had evidence supporting the value of multiple peer reviewing of a paper; it is much more useful for a student to have 3 peers review their paper than it is for one student or one professor to review the paper. Read the slides if you are interesting in learning more. Currently the software is free, although Ms. Williams thought that would most likely change.This meeting was held in the Digital Worlds Building at Norman and included a digital tour of the Gator Nation Island in Second Life. Someone at the meeting mentioned that the Libraries were holding reference hours within SL, which Laura Jordan was able to speak to. Full Article
o Carrot By marstonscience.blogspot.com Published On :: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:44:00 +0000 Has anyone seen the search engine, Carrot? I thought it was interesting because it uses what we call "facets" like in Endeca and WOS. Also has a special tab just for PubMed - hmmmm. Full Article
o New link to Library Reorganization Blog By marstonscience.blogspot.com Published On :: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:59:00 +0000 I've put a link to the new Library Reorganization Blog to our list of links (look on the right hand side). It appears that it is open for comments, whether named or anonymous. Full Article
o Brainstorming for new science portal By marstonscience.blogspot.com Published On :: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:08:00 +0000 We need to start brainstorming for ideas and features that we want on the new science portal so we'll be prepared for when we locate a web designer.Here are a list of some other science library websites. Not all are great but I'd like for us to discuss what elements we like and which features we don't like (just as important). Please feel free to post links to other libraries you think are worthy of critique. Also, if there are general guidelines and features that you'd like to include please post about those too.My first impression looking at these sites is how busy they all are. Lots of links and it seems overwhelming at first glance. Its a decision that we'll have to make about how much information should be quickly accessible on the main page but yet still easily usable. Caltech's library page is the most easily navigated, IMO. I like the quick drop down boxes and the selection of links. I especially like the menu for authors - as the issue of open access and author rights becomes more important on campus, we'll need to take an active role in helping the faculty understand their rights and options for publishing.Berkeley: Chemistry: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/CHEM/ Engineering: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENGI/ Physics/Ay: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/PHYS/Caltech: http://library.caltech.edu/Chicago : http://www1.lib.uchicago.edu/e/crerar/index.php3Irvine: http://www.lib.uci.edu/libraries/science.htmlMichigan: http://www.lib.umich.edu/science/MIT Science Library: http://libraries.mit.edu/science/Oregon Science Library: http://libweb.uoregon.edu/scilib/Santa Cruz: http://libweb.uoregon.edu/scilib/ Full Article portal
o Web address for Science Portal in progress By marstonscience.blogspot.com Published On :: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:58:00 +0000 The URL for the mock-up Leila showed last Tuesday is:lnadams.org/msl.htmPlease remember that this is just a design layout, the links do not work, and it is subject to extreme change.Comments are highly encouraged! Please post to this blog or email Sara or Joe. Full Article portal
o USAIN 2008 Conference By marstonscience.blogspot.com Published On :: Fri, 02 May 2008 17:08:00 +0000 2008 USAIN (United States Agricultural Information Network) Conference Tradition in Transition: Information Fueling the Future of Agbiosciences April 27 – 30, 2008 Wooster, OH University of Florida is an institutional member of USAIN, an organization whose primary purposes are to promote discussion of agricultural issues and trends, to develop and influence national agricultural information policy, to make recommendations to the National Agricultural Library (NAL) and to increase collaborations between member partners (http://www.usain.org/). USAIN does an excellent job communicating legislative changes to its members, and then working with members to get involved with state and national government. The conference was hosted by Ohio State University and held at the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, closely situated next to a beautiful arboretum and rose garden.Here are a few of the most important highlights from the conference:1. The AgNIC Born Digital Steering Committee, of which UF is a participant, met for the first time to begin phase I of the born digital initiative. Here at UF it used to be we would receive a copy of IFAS Extension resources, which we would catalog and make available in our print collection. Many Extension resources (documents, websites, etc) are now published only in digital format and while this format increases access to the current resources, many of these older resources are at risk of being permanently lost due to a lack of consistent preservation processes. This is a problem not just at UF, but at almost every land-grant throughout the nation. The goal of this steering committee is to identify digitization standards (selection, metadata, format, etc.) and to develop an infrastructure to assist the land-grants in developing their own processes at the local level. The other institutions participating are Univ. of Arizona, Ohio State, Colorado State, Texas A&M, Cornell, Univ. of Minnesota, Purdue, and potentially Michigan State and Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 2. Mary Ochs (Cornell) Peter Ballantyne and Barbara Hutchinson (IAALD) spoke about Agbioscience information for the worldwide community. There is a strong need to "make research information easy to access for current and future generations" through common international standards, open applications, user friendly information & data, andlocal and global action . A large amount of agricultural information is created within the U.S., and we should do more to share that information with the international community. The result of this discussion was the creation of an International Agricultural Information Interest Group which will focus on the first steps of bringing in librarians from other countries to future USAIN conferences, as well as providing more Ag information on the USAIN website. Here is Peter Young - the Director of the National Ag Library - speaking about global collaborations: http://iaald.blip.tv/file/864317/ 3. Peter gave the NAL update, mentioning the new Blueprint for Success: The National Agricultural Library 2008-2012. Many of you may have seen in the Washington Post the article, A Precious Resource at Risk, about the drastic budget cuts facing NAL in the upcoming year. I believe it was at the last USAIN that I learned that the NAL has had a flat budget for the last twenty years. Somehow I didn't write down the percentage they will have to cut, but I believe it was either 40% or 60% - both staggering cuts. This will prevent the NAL from preserving their special collections, from buying print materials, from participating in Interlibrary Loan, and more. For more information, see the USAIN website for Lobbying Congress for Support. Additional information related to the theme of the conference: Many of the invited speakers spoke on biofuels, bioenergy/bioproducts, and sustainable farming, including David Kline, an Amish farmer and author/editor of Farming Magazine. Without going into too much detail, here are a few of the interesting things I learned from all the speakers: In the 1850’s ethanols were used for lighting, but in the 1860s-1906 an ethanol tax was enacted (making kerosene more competitive). The first ethanol fueled auto was the Ford Quadricycle (1896). The first flex-fuel car: Model-T (1908)!In 2008 there were 11 billion gallons of ethanol produced from corn. Unfortunately there are a number of issues related to: water quality, soil erosion, water supply, biodiversity, loss of grasslands, increase in feed costs. Also, corn is displacing other crops -- leading to food riots.The cellulosic biofuels (corn, switchgrass, MSW, forest residues, etc.) industry will grow rapidly in coming years. And will bring some very specific questions, such as how will supply chains develop (big issue), what are the implications for the food/feed/fiber markets, how will environmental issues be addressed, can we coproduce fuels and foods, and how can farmers and local communities benefit?Lastly, has been shown to increase smog and cancerous benzene emissions. Also, all current biofuels increase carbon dioxide emission relative to gasoline. There was quite a bit more information available from all the speakers. If you are interested in reading the speaker presentations, they are available for download: http://www.oardc.ohio-state.edu/usain/downloads.html Full Article agricultural information conference USAIN
o Calculators By marstonscience.blogspot.com Published On :: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:04:00 +0000 Hi, in case students come to the desk desperate for a calculator I have left a few freebies at the reference desk. Feel free to give them out! Full Article
o Computing services notes By marstonscience.blogspot.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:34:00 +0000 Computing services notes - from Middle Managers 8/7/08 * All circ problems: aleph, print demons, notices, etc -- anybody/everybody just send a Grover http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/grover ticket. As Systems learns the quantity, frequency, and variety of problems reported, they'll learn how to how to base assignments. __________________ * New linking service - Serials Solutions 360 Linker - is being tested The "Find it@UF" icon will change slightly (substituting the SFX trademark swirly with an @) and we’ll need to know when to make the switch on all our handouts, web pages, etc. _________________ * phishing -- everyone remember to never give out any of your passwords to anybody. Not to Systems, not to CIRCA, not to UF. Requests for passwords (especially from email messages) are masquerades for phishing schemes. OK to give your logon, but never your password. ____________________ * Active Directory -- public computers will begin conversion this week. Patrons will use Gatorlink to logon. We may create guest accounts (following procedures) valid for 14 days. Guest accounts cannot be renewed; patrons will have to select a new name (smith1, smith2, etc) every 2 weeks. The Peoplesoft folks have not yet committed to making longer-term, renewable guest accounts. These guest accounts are for computer use only; they do not govern borrowing privileges or remote access. (Patrons can log into to the Library Proxy with their Gatorlink, but it only connects if their Gatorlink account indicates an eligible status.) *** We currently have 300 courtesy borrowers, and some of them may be eligible for real Gatorlinks (which they can create themselves). They should check with Jim Stevens. In the meantime, it may be easiest to create them a temp guest account on the spot and then (we or patron) contact Jim to see what else can be done. Stay tuned. *** There are 1800 guest computer use accounts active today. 1800 accounts x every 2 weeks means a lot of work for staff and a lot of grief for patrons. We'll hope to succeed with requesting speedy establishment of longer-term, renewable guest Gatorlink accounts. *** Small branches with only student assistants on the weekends might send guests to MSL for account creation. ______________ * Active Directory for staff computers -- might happen in mid-Fall. Huge implications for how we all manage our email; some aspects will be time-consuming and deadline-based. *** Campus email only saves Inbox and Sent email for 30 days. Then it goes into Deleted folder. After 30 days, stuff in Deleted is irretrievable. We all must learn to put any items we want to save into our Retain Permanently folder. *** Our new email address will be our Gatorlink. If you might be professionally embarrassed by your Gatorlink name, change it soon. *** We'll all have to notify our discussion lists of our new (gatorlink) address. We should still receive mail directed to uflib, but we won't be able to post to lists that expect us to send from uflib. Feel free to start converting your discussion lists to gatorlink soon. *** Will said he'll check the group email addresses (sciref, illoan, etc) to see how they can be addressed, managed, and accessed in the campus AD. Stay tuned. *** We should receive recommendations and procedures on storing and backing up email on library vs. campus servers before we switch. Some gory details available at http://www.mail.ufl.edu/questionsandanswers.shtml and http://www.mail.ufl.edu/managemail.shtml. _________________* Office 2007 - if you really want Office 2007 on your staff computer now, please send a request via Grover. If you can wait til about mid-Sept, Systems will be able to push the software over the network rather then sending a staff member to enslave your computer for awhile. Full Article
o Libary IT Blog By marstonscience.blogspot.com Published On :: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:16:00 +0000 It's a good idea to check the Library IT blog periodically for helpful computing hints, updates on changes to library computers and other Library IT info. Full Article
o ARL Fall Forum on Reinventing Science Librarianship: Models for the Future By marstonscience.blogspot.com Published On :: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:00:00 +0000 Full ScheduleProceedingsBest quote: Librarians are like Mr. Paperclip from MS Office - we pop up when you least expect it and try to offer to you help...This conference focused on the science library's role in supporting e-science and integrating into research collaborations and science departments. There was a mixture of speakers: government, library and institute directors, and a few librarians. The presentations were a mixture of big picture descriptions and some concrete examples. I felt like there wasn't as much hard solutions that we could take back to the library and implement, but perhaps just educating the library community on how radically different e-science is changing the research landscape is the necessary first step.I've included the highlights from my session notes below (let me know if you'd like the see my full notes in gory detail). Check out the proceedings link above for powerpoint and document files for most of the speakers.As a side note, our poster about GatorScholar was well-received with many people already aware of the project from either Val's USAIN presentations, the SLA poster, or from hearing about Cornell's project. Medha Devare was one of the panel reactors and she mentioned our collaboration in her presentation. Most of the poster visitors seemed very interested in starting their own version and perhaps at some point we'll have a network of databases.ThursdayE-Science: Trends, Transformations & ResponsesConvener and Moderator: Wendy Lougee, University of MinnesotaSpeaker: Chris Greer, Director, National Coordination Office NCO part of Office of Science and Tech Policy, coordinates all major science orgsE-Science defined as digital data driven, distributed and collaborative - allows global interaction. Science pushed to be trans-disciplinary - scientists pushed to areas where they have no formal training - continual learning important;It fuses the pillars of science: experiment, theory, model/simulation, observation & correlationCome a long way: ARPANET -> internet, redefinition of the computer (ENIAC to cloud computing)Question: how many libraries do we need? Greer thinks this will change over time.Future library: Imagine all text in your pocket, question answered at speed of light (semantic web concept), wearing contact lens merge physical and digital worlds -> in the long run we'll have the seamless merging of worldsScience is global and thrives in a world that is not limited to 4-D. Cyberinfrastructure reduces time and distance. Need computational capacity and connectivity with information.The challenge for society: responsibility to preserve data. Reinventing the library: Challenges: institutional commitment, sustainable funding model, defining the library user community (collection access is global so who is the user?), legal and policy frameworks, library workforce, library as computational center, sustainable technology framework.We've come a long way but we're at the beginning of a dramatic change. 2. A Case Study in E-Science: Building Ecological Informatics Solutions for Multi-Decadal ResearchWilliam Michener, Research Professor (Biology) and Associate Director, Long-Term Ecological Research Network Office, University of New MexicoData and information challenges: data are massively dispersed and lost sometimes data integration - scientists use different formats and models. Lots of work to integrate even simple datasets problem of information and storageLTER has a lot of data archives that are very narrow in scope of data stored. Also has a lot of tools. Working on adoption of tools - predict an exponential increase with time.Future: science will drive what they do. Look at critical areas in the earth system. Understanding changes in world involve a pyramid in data collection scale (remote sensing to sampling)Technology directions; Cyberinfrastrcture is enabling the science, consider whole-data-life-cycle, domain agnostic solutions (since budgets are bad, solutions have to be universal across all the sciences)We need Cyberinfrastructure that enables: data needs to be able to pull in from different sources, easy integration, tools that allow visualization Support for the data lifecycle - need to work on metadata interoperability across data holdings. Sociocultural Directions: education and training: science now is lifelong learning engaging citizens in science: have websites to education public, building global communities of practice: develop CI as a collaborative team expand globally in future, expand with academic, govt, NGO's and companiesChallenges: Broad active community engagement: need educators to teach students in best practices transparent governance adoption of sustainable business models3. Rick Luce, Vice Provost and Director of University Libraries, Emory University Libraries"Making a Quantum Leap to eResearch Support: a new world of opportunities and challenges for research libraries"Where do we need to go: intelligent grid presence, collaboration support, social software, evaluation and research integrity (plus lots of other areas mentioned)Dataset & repositories: need to have context of data, curation centers, users want mouse-click solutions and will come up with their own solutions if we don't. PI's taking more responsibility on projects becoming publishers and curators. Librarians need to take on role of middlewareResearchers want: information collaboration tools: shared reading, virtual worksapces and whiteboards, webspaces support wikis, data sets, preprints, videos of conference presentations, news Need information visualization: browse information using maps of concepts, collaboration and citation networks, coauthorship networks, taxonomies, scatter plots of data, knowledge domain visualizationWhere do we need to be: systems to facilitate shared ideas, presence, and creationIndividual libraries can't do this - we need collaborationsChallenges: connect newly forming disciplines and newly emerging fieldsLibraries work a lot on support layer but we need to get in the workflow layer where we're connected with scientists and coordinate on a multi-institutional structureNeed new organizational structures: hybrid organizations: subject specialists - : intra-disciplinary teams. The future library office -> lives in project space/virtual labNeed informaticians and informationists (embedded librarians)What percent of our research library content and services are unique? What % of our budget resource ssupport uniqueness? We need to do something others cannot do or do something well that others do poorly.Library cooperatives are useful for reducing redundancy. Next phase shift requires an expanded mission of shared purpose.We fall short on scale, speed, agiliity, and resource, focus. Collective problems require collection action, which requires a shared vision - think cloud computing for librariesWe must do more than aggregate and provide access to shared information: Our job now is to wire people's brains together so that sharing, reasoning, and collaboration become part of everyday work.Wendy LougeePitfalls: not to fall back on traditional roles, currently we don't respond to multi-institutional collaborations, our boundaries stop with the institutionWe need to understand scientists' workflows, need to identify strategies for embedding librarians into project teams. We need to think about core expertise of librarians, reimaging roles of librariansWhat do we do to build this collaborative action? We need to think outside the box.Data Curation: Issues and Challenges Convener and Moderator: James Mullins, Dean of Libraries, Purdue University Liz Lyon, Director, UKOLNTransition or Transform? Repositiioning the Library for the Petabyte EraHow can libraries work with science (in a very general sense)? 1. Transition or Transform? Need to become embedded and integrated into team science. Many different models of engagementGeosciences pilot where the library worked with the Geological department to curate their datasets (Edinborough): Found: Time needed is longer than anticipated, inventory doesn't have to be comprehensive, little documentation exists Outcomes: positive, requirement for researcher and auditor training, need to develop a data policy 2. Lots of opportunities of action: leadership by senior managers, faculty coordination, advocacy & tranining, data documentation best practices People and Skills: there are not enough specialised data librarians. In UK 5 data librarians. Need to bring diverse communities together - facilitate cooperation between organizations and individuals.Open science: new range of areas where results are being put onto the web (GalaxyZoo eg.) Librarians need to be aware of implications. 3. Need multidisciplinary teams and people in library, huge skill shortage, need to find core data skills and integrate it into the LIS curriculum. Recruit different people to the LIS team, rebrand the LIS career. Go from librarianship to Informatics.Fran Berman, Director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC San Diego, and Co-chair Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access "Research and Data"Researchers are detectives, shows different major questions (SAF, Brown Dwarfs, bridge stress, Income dynamics over 40 years, Disease spread-Protein Data Bank) - key collections all over.CI Support: all these issues are crucial. researchers want a easy to use set of tools to make the most of their data. She finds different preservation profiles: timescale, datascale, well-tended to poor, level of policy restrictions, planned vs. ad hoc approachResearchers focused on new projects, customization of solutions to problems, collaborationResearchers need help: developing management, preservation and use environments, proper curation and annotation, navigating policy, regulation, IP, sustainabilityQuestions about preservation: what should we save and who should pay for it? Just saving everything isn't an option. 2007 was the crossover year - digital data exceeded the amount of available storage. What do we want to save? Who is we? Society: official and historically valuable data, Fed agency or inst normally takes part. Research community: PDB, NVO. Me: medical record, financial data, digital photos - real commercial market for preservation solutions.What do we have to save? private sector: HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, OMB regulations for fed funded research data (3 years, not always easy to do).Economics: many costs associated with preservation. Maintenance upkeep, software, utilities, space, networking, security, etc.UCSD forged partnership with library. Trying to create a preservation grid with formal policies, nationwide grid with other institutions.Panel Responders:Sayeed Choudhury, Associate Dean of University Libraries and Hodson Director of the Digital Research and Curation Center, Johns Hopkins UniversityData Curation Issues and Challenges:It makes sense to help scientists deal with public and higher levels of data, not the raw data. Considerations: need to work within their systems, consider gateways for systems as part of infrastructure development (think about railroad gauge), focus on both human and tech components of infrastructure, human interoperability is more difficult than tech interoperability, trust is key!Questions: What about the cloud or the crowd? Can Flickr help us with data curation? What are the fundamental differences between data and collections? Human readable vs. machine readable? How do we transfer principles into new practices? What are we trying to sustain? Data? Scholarship? Our organizations?Supporting Virtual OrgsThomas A. Finholt, Director, Collaboratory for Research on Electronic Work (CREW) and Research Professor & Associate Dean for Research and Innovation, School of Information, University of MichiganChanging nature of geographically-distributed collaboration: history: transition in terms of distributed work. Much of what came before (collaboratory, video conf) had a precedent but new emerging has no precedent (crowdsourcing, VO's), no traditional context leaves us a bit adrift.Lesson 1: anticipate cultural differences. Domain scientists: characteristics: power distance (bias toward seniority, hierarchical), individualist(solo PI, individual genius), masculine(adversial and competitive), uncertainty avoidance CI developers: power distance (bias toward talent, egalitarian), collectivist(project model), masculine, embrace riskLesson 2: plan for first contact. It can be tough to recognize successful innovations: first efforts are often awkward hybrids Crowdsourcing: idea that we send out challenges and solutions come to us (ex. Innocentive website, Games with a Purpose). We don't know who is going to do the work, effort is contributed voluntarily -> incentives are important to motivate workDelegation of organizational work: people can count on organizations to do some of the basic policy work. Much attention has focused on technology and processes to support social ties, alternative course is the use of technology to supplant social ties - > think of this as organizing without the work of organizing, questions of who to trust, who pays, permitted to use the resources are managed by middleware.Group work is an inevitable fact of org life. Medha Devare, Life Sciences and Bioinformatics Librarian, Mann Library, Cornell UniversityIdea of Virtual Organization: boundary crossing, pooling of competencies, participants or activities geographically separated, fluid, flat structure, participant equalityLibrary contributions: technology choices, tools; tech support/guidance; subject expertise; understanding of research landscape; vision - user needs of the future?Examples of library support: VIVO, DataStar (supports data-sharing among researchers)DataStar: Data Staging Repository: supports data sharing, esp during research process, promotes publishing or archiving to discipline specific data centers and/or to Cornell's DR. Nascent stageReinventing the library? Librarians as middle-ware to facilitate process of connecting and creating coherence across disciplines - both VIVO and DataStar aid this.Hope that both tools seamlessly interact with each other.D. Scott Brandt, Associate Dean for Research, Purdue University LibraryTries to embed librarians in research teams. We have to redefine what we do, collect. Full Article ARL
o Staff computer changes By marstonscience.blogspot.com Published On :: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:30:00 +0000 Here are the tentative plans for big changes to all our staff computers as of the Middle Managers meeting on 11/6/08.Breathe deeply…Office 2007* Send a Grover if you would like to have Office2007 pushed to your computer. It will not be sent unless you ask.* Systems will soon push an Office2007 compatibility tool to all staff. This will enable folks to share documents successfully between Office2003 and Office2007 users.Active Directory (AD) for staffThe Systems staff will be experimenting on themselves in early Nov, switching to campus Active Directory. They will measure how smoothly the process works, how long it takes to switch a user, and any problems they may encounter. Assuming their experiments are successful, the following is expected to happen:* Dec. 1 (week) – Systems staff will switch each of our staff computers from the Smatherslib domain to the Campus AD domain.* After a computer has had its domain switched, we will have a temporary 2-step process for logging in and accessing our email. First, we will log onto the computer with Gatorlink. Then, to open Outlook email, we will log in with our Smatherslib account.* Dec. 5 (beginning) – Systems staff will visit our staff computers again to migrate our email to the Campus Exchange server. We will have to be present to log in during this activity. We hope to create a dept schedule: Systems will tell us when (days, hours) they plan to be in MSL, and we will coordinate times when each of is is at our computers and interruptible.Prior to Dec 1-5:* If you have messages in your Inbox or Sent box or Drafts box that are more than a year old, you will have to move those items into another folder prior to your planned visit from Systems to convert your email. * Systems hopes to hold one or more training sessions for the new email, probably in 1A, before Thanksgiving. They may also post some step-by-step instructions on the Systems blog at http://blogs.uflib.ufl.edu/systems/. Other details about Campus Exchange available at:http://www.mail.ufl.edu/emailquestions.shtmlhttp://www.mail.ufl.edu/questionsandanswers.shtml http://www.mail.ufl.edu/managemail.shtmlFallout* All permissions to access folders will be broken during the transition. We’re not sure of the impact on group emails such as Sciref and MSLcarrels, or on permission to upload web pages to the server. We may find ourselves sending a Grover each time we can’t open a folder and Systems will reassign permissions case-by-case, probably fairly quickly.If Systems discovers they can't switch us successfully by mid-Dec, the whole process will be rescheduled for January or so. Stay tuned. Full Article
o Outlook down until noon By marstonscience.blogspot.com Published On :: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:50:00 +0000 Outlook update: Systems thinks that Outlook will be down until noon today. Full Article
o E-mail and computer woes By marstonscience.blogspot.com Published On :: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:25:00 +0000 Need to send a Grover? Login as: ufadgatorlinknameLooking for group lists? They're being added to the new Global Address list. Type: lib-conf ... for meeting rooms lib-dl ... for some group lists (discussion lists?)Look all up and down LIB... and maybe you'll find what you need. Full Article
o I know I am one of the best, the other guys know it too: Tentoglou By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Fri, 10 May 2024 21:40:46 +0530 The Greek jumper, like Neeraj Chopra, kicks off his Olympic defence in Doha and is focussed more on easing into competition than jumping far. Full Article Athletics
o Diamond League | Neeraj uncorks a 88.36m throw in his last attempt to finish second By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Sat, 11 May 2024 11:08:22 +0530 Chopra fell just 2cm short of Jakub Vadlejch’s effort, whose 88.38m in the opening round proved enough for the Czech to take first place Full Article Athletics
o Neeraj Chopra vows to win next Diamond League event after finishing close second in Doha By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Sat, 11 May 2024 14:33:34 +0530 Chopra finished second at the Doha Diamond League as his big final effort of 88.36m fell short by just two centimeters of Jakub Vadlejch's winning effort on May 10 Full Article Athletics
o Federation Cup | Neeraj’s return will be the biggest highlight By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Sat, 11 May 2024 19:05:57 +0530 Besides the Asian Games gold medallist, local favourite Jena will be another big attraction; the National Anti-Doping Agency is expected to be active during the event Full Article Other Sports