The December 2006 survey received responses from 105,244,649 sites, an increase of 3.8 million hostnames from last month, when the survey topped 100 million sites for the first time. The increase brings the Web's total growth for 2006 to 30.9 million sites, shattering the previous one-year record gain of 17.5 million sites from 2005.
For more information: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/web_server_survey.html
Dear Colleagues,
LISWiki was established to give the library community a chance to explore the usefulness of Wikis. It exists as a niche encyclopedia covering library-related issues.
The field of librarianship has already benefited from adopting innovative publishing and communication models, such as weblogs and open access archives. Wikis are quickly becoming the next big thing in the field of information. So please, have fun exploring the site. And consider contributing to the new project.
Tharanga.
Dear Colleagues,
I have edited 2 articles on "Reference Interview" in "Wikipedia" & "LISWiki".
In addition, I have updated the article on "Search engine" in LISWiki too.
Now, it's your time!
Tharanga.
Dear Colleages,
You can read & download my above article deposited on E-LIS.
URL: http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00007606/
Tharanga.
According to the November 2006 Web survey of Netcraft, there are now more than 100 million web sites on the Internet, which gained 3.5 million sites last month to continue the dynamic growth seen throughout 2006. In the November 2006 survey we received responses from 101,435,253 sites, up from 97.9 million sites last month.
For more information: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/web_server_survey.html
Tharanga.
Dear Colleagues,
E-LIS is an open access archive for scientific or technical documents, published or unpublished, on Librarianship, Information Science and Technology, and related areas. It serves LIS researchers by facilitating their self-archiving, ensuring the long-term preservation of their documents and by providing word-wide easy access to their papers.
Visit: http://eprints.rclis.org/
Tharanga.
The new issue of Information Research, which is edited by Professor Tom Wilson, is now available.
http://InformationR.net/ir/12-1/infres121.html
Tharanga.
www.freeloadpress.com, http://www.freetechbooks.com & www.textbookrevolution.org along with many other publishers offer free text books online. Many of these books can be downloaded.
Tharanga.
Recently, I did a study in order to understand how University libraries in Sri Lanka are adapting to the rapid expansion of electronic journals. Standard survey methods were used to identify the progress and the problems of electronic journals usage. The population of the study covered all University main libraries and their faculty libraries in Sri Lanka. Questionnaires and follow-up interviews were used as the primary data collection instruments. Out of thirty one (31) libraries, twenty (20) libraries responded and sixty per cent (60%) of them had started in making use of electronic journals. Although, forty per cent (40%) of libraries do not use electronic journals, they have planned to use them in near future. Survey revealed that free electronic journals are the most popular source among the libraries. Some of them have provided access to online electronic journals via their library websites. Most libraries have faced financial and technological constraints. Lack of human resources was also identified as a palisade the libraries encounter. To encounter with new inventions of the ICT in libraries, attitudes of the librarians are most important. Sixty percent (60%) of librarians strongly agreed that the electronic journals are of much importance in libraries.
Tharanga.
According to the October 2006 survey by Netcraft, now there are more than 97 million sites, an increase of 1.08 million from last month.
For more information: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/web_server_survey.html
Tharanga.
This is a virtual meeting place (an e-mail discussion group) for library professionals and LIS students from Sri Lanka. Let's get connected!
We can discuss common issues and publish notices (workshops/vacancies/disposals of books and more).
Subscribe now and receive/post email messages that could be viewed by all members.
Membership is open to all.
Pls. find more details at http://asia.groups.yahoo.com/group/library_friends/ or,
request information from ruwan@lib.mrt.ac.lk (Ruwan Gamage, Group Moderator/Asst. Librarian, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.)
Tharanga.
Dear Colleagues,
Google Literacy Project is available now. It is a combination of Google Book Search, Google Scholar, Google Video, Google Maps, Google Groups and Blogger.
The Literacy Project's aim is to give literacy organizations worldwide more channels and resources. In Google Books, there is a facility to retrieve only the freely accessible full text books.
URL: http://www.google.com/literacy/
Tharanga.
