Methods used for user awareness and access to e-resources
To make users aware of the availability of e-resources and how to use it are other challenges faced by the librarians. E-resources are meant to be accessed to retrieve information for various purpose and needs. Users must be aware of its existence to be able to use it effectively. It is the librarian's responsibility to inform the users about availability of e-resources and to educate them how to use it properly. The need to provide users with appropriate skills is highly required and necessary since most of the e-resources are technologically advanced. Moreover, the searching methods vary from one resource to another. Thus the need for total reorientation of users to enable them achieves optimal utility of available e-resources.
To achieve the maximum utilization of e-resources, the library staff as well as the library users must have to acquire and practice the skill necessary to exploit these e-resources. The skill required to maximize the potential of e-resources are much greater than those required for searching print sources. These skills include knowledge of the structure of the databases and the necessary instructions required in searching, accessing and retrieving needed information as well as an understanding of the ways in which the instructions are linked with one another. The ability to find and retrieve information effectively is a skill needed by every library staff and library users. Therefore there is dire need for providing avenues for the training and retraining of the library users to acquire the necessary technical skill to access the e-resources. Whenever the library acquire new e-resources, it is a necessary to train the library staff and the users...
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...uld permit use for non-commercial educational and research purposes. Licenses should not restrict fair use rights granted by copyright law.
The license must be consistent with applicable privacy laws and provide confidentiality in gathering usage information.
A license agreement should provide termination rights that are appropriate to each party.
Copyright is a form of intellectual property that gives the author of an original work exclusive right for a certain time period in relation to that work, including its publication, distribution and adaptation, after which time the work is said to enter the public domain. Copyright applies to any expressible form of an idea or information that is substantive and discrete and fixed in a medium.
Some jurisdictions also recognize "moral rights" of the creator of a work, such as the right to be credited for the work.
Have valid reasons for infringe another’s copyright under certain situations that are legal without permission from the copyright owner. It must be determined that the use is only for non-commercial or nonprofit purposes by considering “the nature of the copyrighted work”, “the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole”, and “the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work” (Copyright Act). Examples include collections in libraries open to the public or related to academic research.
Murray, Andrew. "Copyright in the Digital Environment." Information technology law: the law and society. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. 268. Print.
“Copyright is a fundamental right of ownership and protection common to all of the arts” (O’Hara & Beard, 2006, p. 8). “It is a form of intellectual Property (IP)” and it gives the owner exclusive rights to the copyright (O’Hara & Beard, 2006, p. 11).
According to Ronald Hagler, the first of the six functions of bibliographic control, or information organization, is to identify the existence of all types of information resources as they are made available. The motive for identifying resources is obvious – one has to know a resource exists for it to be of any worth. This is true not only for libraries, but for all information providers. This paper will analyze how Hagler’s function is demonstrated by the St. Charles City-County Library District (http://youranswerplace.org/home), the Einstein Archives Online (http://www.alberteinstein.info/), and the domestic organization website, FlyLady.net (http://www.flylady.net/).
Intellectual property is property resulting from intellectual, creative processes. A product that was created because of someone’s individual thought process. Examples includes books, designs, music, art work, and computer files. (Miller R. J., 2011, p. 114) In the music industry a copyright is an important tool for artist to use to protect themselves from infringers. A copyright is the exclusive right of an author or originator of a literary or artistic production to publish, print, or sell that production for a statutory period of time. A copyright has the same monopolistic nature as a patent or trademark, but it differs in that it applies exclusively to works of art, literature, and other works of authorship (including computer programs). (Miller R. J., 2011, p. 125)
The history of copyright all started when the printing press came into play. People started to produce more and more writings, but there was a problem. There was no copyright law, which meant anyone could claim the writing. Since there
Information Retrieval (IR) is to represent, retrieve from storage and organise the information. The information should be easily access. User will be more interested with easy access information. Information retrieval process is the skills of searching for documents, for information within documents and for metadata about documents, as well as that of searching relational databases and the World Wide Web. According to (Shing Ping Tucker, 2008), E-commerce is rapidly a growing segment in the internet.
It is difficult to overstate the important role that the Internet plays in public libraries. Patrons can use the Internet to find information, access services, and maintain connections with social media, while library staff can use the Internet to access informational resources, compile and maintain library statistics, stay networked with other libraries, and store files on "the cloud" . The Alberta government is working to make high-speed Internet available in all public libraries across the province; as of 2009, they had nearly reached their goal (just 15 of Alberta's 310 municipal public libraries that were not able to get high-speed Internet access due to problems with their infrastructure) (Alberta Municipal Affairs, 2009). This demonstrates that the Internet and public libraries are becoming intrinsically linked, and shows the need for library staff to be aware of how they and their patrons can and cannot use the Internet.
Once change was incremental and meant more of the same, only better. Today, however, we are experiencing discontinuous change in many areas of life. Discontinuous change makes it impossible to predict with any confidence what will happen, so it does not guarantee more of the same (Handy 1991, cited in Edwards and Walton 1998). The movement of information resources from internal library holdings to external, electronically accessible materials represents both an incremental and discontinuous change (Edwards and Walton 1998). The information is still available (i.e., more of the same, only better), but the new information environment places new demands on the information user. These demands make it impossible to predict whether the information sought will be acquired, how useful the information will be, and so forth. Although these same issues may have existed before, a familiar information provider could then be consulted for assistance. Many websites offer contact information for assistance or further information but the quality of this assistance, its timeliness, and so forth are unknown.
In its simplest terms, copyright is the U.S. government’s way of protecting the rights of anyone creating an original work, such as a play, song, poem, book, or artwork. Only the work’s original author or creator can make copies, distribute, sell, perform or adapt that work. Originally passed into law 35 years ago, the Copyright Act of 1976 has undergone many changes in the wake of advancing technology, including such changes as categorizing any work on the Internet as “published” (Copyright Act of 1976). Of
The Statute of Anne, created 1694 in England, was the world’s first copyright act. It was titled “An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by vesting the Copies of Printed Books in the Authors or Purchasers of such Copies, during the Times therein mentioned” (Goldstein, 5). The act gave anyone the ability to gain copyright through the simple registration of their work and gave legal protection for a term of fourteen years from the date of original publication. This term could be renewed for an additional fourteen years if the author was still alive after the initial term of protection was over (Goldstein, 6). This became the foundation on which later copyright legislation would be built on.
A copyright is a legal means that gives the creator of mythical, imaginative, musical, or other creative work the solitary right to publish and sell that work. Copyright owners have the right to manage the reproduction of their work, including the right to receive imbursement for that reproduction. An author may contribute or sell those rights to others, including publishers or recording corporations. Breach of a copyright is called copyright
The research work in [10], “Information Retrieval” refers to the technology of “finding information of an unstructured nature (text) that satisfies an information need from within large collections of information available in different sources. The general workflow of information retrieval is illustrated as Figure 2.1, which can be separated as three sections: the first focuses on techniques to prepare information for retrieval; the second presents algorithms used to parse users’ queries and then improve these queries; and the third describes the retrieval engine itself.
With advances in digital technology, there is increasing popularity of reading electronic books over traditional paper books. For example, ebooks now outsell traditional ones on Amazon. Although paper books still have tremendous values and have own market niche, as evident from the number of books placed on shelves at various retailers, e-books will be the trend of text publishing going forward. There are many glaring advantages that e-books have over traditional paper books, as e-books are more convenient to carry, have greater update capacity, have greater storage capacity, more accessible and environmental friendly. This paper will therefore elaborate on the advantages of e-books and provide a comparative analysis of e-books versus traditional books.
... Nationality: Depending on where you live in the world has a huge result in your ability to obtain into. Countries such as Canada, USA and alos western Europe are more socially involved which results in the availability of more information. This could be put down to language and education system similarities in these countries. It is vital that these factors are understood by information professionals so they can transform their services and resources to correspond to these patterns, to better serve users information needs. Information professionals can benefit from these information seeking models as it can help them in knowledge representation, designing websites and help improve electronic service quality. When information professionals understand human information seeking behaviour they can better develop and implement their information resources and services.