About Collnet.

Hi
"The rise in collaboration in science and in technology experienced world-wide at national and international level, has assumed such an overriding importance that there is now an urgent need...", is the beginning phrase on Collnet Site, When you open the Collnet website .
Collnet, in fact, is the ´Collaboration in Science and in Technology´. You can find more informations about this international Network on http://www.collnet.de/
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Library Management Today

Information Literacy in societies!

Promoting of information literacy in society needs to librarians many activities. It seems that we can help people in society to reach and achieve good experience with Information literacy. In fact, I think, we should try to promote IL standards on the level of public libraries. It is very important that local governors try to attention to IL on their societies.
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Information literacy Conference on Semnan Uniersity

There was a conference on the area of Information Literacy, on Faculty of Psycology and Educational Sciences at Semnan University. This conference was the first conference on IL field which was held last week in Semnan University. I think this conference canbe held on futur. we, Students and Faculty Members, need to learn Infromation literacy.

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Information Security and Network Security.

Security of Information and network Security is the most important component in this era. Pay attention to these areas seem be necessary for Library and Information Studies Departments. Ali Reza Ganji has published an article in this area. His article is in Persian Language and is here.

A good weblog in persian language in this area is Semnan University Security Center. you can find here some good articles on Security.

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Study in golden times!

Last night I was studying a Book about studying. The author of book believes that suing golden times can help us to improve our study habits. I think it is a just right belief. I am trying to study in golden times. It is very important to study and golden times can help the peoples who are very busy.
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IT in library!

You can find some good arguments related to interactions between library and Information professionals and IT Workers in this article: Library Informational Technology Workers: Their Sense of Belonging, Role, Job Autonomy, and Job Satisfaction, by Sook Lim18 April 2007 .

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For Information literacy educators.

James Elmborg has an article which entitled "Critical Information Literacy: Implications for Instructional Practice". In his article James has noticed that librarians must focus on information transfer and more on developing critical consciousness in students. In this sense a librarian can be as an educator. He believes that "the lack of precision about what information literacy means has prevented critical judgment about its importance". This article has published in The Journal of Academic Librarianship, Volume 32, Number 2, pages 192-199. Having a glance at it maybe usefull for information literacy Educators.
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Cost-benefit analysis!

Cost-benefit analysis is a good way for determining the effect of library and information activities. Unfortunately the most libraries haven't any attention to this factor. By using cost-benefit analysis we can find our productivities in our libraries. We will know if our costs are balanced with our benefits or not. This will help to strategic planning of our libraries. Knowing the cost will help us to benefit planning of our libraries.

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New economy!

New Rules for the New Economy is a good book about new economy and its strategeis which is translated to persian. Kevin Kelly, the writer of the book, has represented his ideas about the characers of new economy. Editorial Reviews about this book can be found on www.amazon.com. Realizing the new economy characters is very important for librarians beacous they will be faced with this economy very soon.
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New Economics characters!

Happening new and fast changes in Human Societies have caused establishing new concepts and Challenges for Human being. Appearance and development of new technologies as Internet, Information and Communication Networks, Telecommunications, and appearance of new terms such as Information Society, Network Society, Network Economics, Intelligent Economics, Information Economics, and so on, in Human Society has changed kind and the ways of business and Economics and promote establishing new economic which undoubtedly its characters are different and will affect the whole filed of human life. New economy has great effects on Human life. I am trying to know about the characters of this economy and its effects on information and communication.

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Information Literacy!

Information Literacy (IL) is an important issue in Library and Information Science. Some good articles are published in Iran about it. Atane Qodse Razavi (an important organization in Iran) has held a conference on IL. Some presentations was good. I think we sould try to hold such conferences Internationaly. ILISA could have a great role in this area.

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Happy new year 2008

Hi
I congratualte happppy new year for all human kind.
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About me.

I am now the head of engineering faculty library in Semnan university.
I interest to work on some areas such as library and information science, rference, indexing and abstracting and so one.
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Introduction

Hi
My name is Rahman Marefat and I am a librarian in semnan university (Iran).
I want to publish my attitudes, oppinions about my job and proffetional work in this weblog.
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