Apr 9, 2012 | Day 1 (4 Jun), Keynote, Library Services & Dev
Rakesh Kumar is now Director of Academic Projects for the Faculty of Medicine. Rakesh Kumar graduated in Medicine from the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, then emigrated to Australia to take up an appointment in Pathology at the University of New...
Apr 6, 2012 | 4/6/2012 (1045-1220), Learning & Users
The future-focussed academic library ―must be distinguished by the scope and quality of its service programs in the same way it has long been by the breadth and depth of its locally-held collections.‖ (Walker, 2011). To be successful the design and development of...
Apr 4, 2012 | 4/6/2012 (1330-1505), Learning & Users
If you had the opportunity to build a science library from scratch for a new generation of researchers and students, what would it look like and how would it operate? We will show you the vision and reality of the new King Abdullah University of Science and...
Apr 4, 2012 | 4/6/2012 (1330-1505), Learning & Users
New generation users are adept at locating scholarly articles, thanks to information literacy sessions and tools like Google Scholar, but are they able to interpret and use the information they find? This question has been percolating in the literature and in practice...
Apr 4, 2012 | 4/6/2012 (1330-1505), Learning & Users
Nowadays, traditional lecture type of library instruction may work only to few audiences. Students exhibit various learning styles and along with this, instruction librarians are also faced with users of new generations. Users who are capable of multitasking,...
