The Agricultural
Librarians Association
of the
Philippines, Inc. (ALAP)
cordially invites you to a
Forum on
Harvesting Online Resources and
Cloud Computing
and
41st General Assembly
To be held at
UPLB Main Library, Los Baños, Laguna
on June 7, 2013
(Friday)
at 8:00 AM to
5:00 PM
RATIONALE
To increase the library’s collections despite
the limited library funding, library managers, librarians and concerned
individuals thought of maximizing the use of free resources available online.
But questions arise, how do we gather free
digital resources to augment our print collections? How do we systematically
search, download, and share these reliable materials to our library users are
common question to information professionals and researchers. Web harvesting, as we define it, is
systematically searching, collecting and downloading free resources like
e-books, e-journals, and other useful resources for access and use of our
library clients. We have invited an expert to tell us more about web
harvesting.
More specific topics that our first speaker
will expound are (1) strategies or techniques in selecting and gathering free
(open access) online resources; (2) issues and concern (if there's any) in
downloading and storing these files; and (3) how do share these resources with
our library clients.
Cloud computing is a very popular topic in
information technology nowadays. "The basic idea of cloud computing is
that your information is stored out there on the internet “somewhere”,
available for you to access it whenever you want, from any computer." - http://idtheft.about.com.
A Cloud Computing expert will familiarize us with what it is; (1) what are the examples of cloud computing; (2) what are the available free online data storage; and (3) how do we choose among the internet service providers if our library consider paid data storage and more.
A Cloud Computing expert will familiarize us with what it is; (1) what are the examples of cloud computing; (2) what are the available free online data storage; and (3) how do we choose among the internet service providers if our library consider paid data storage and more.
TARGET
AUDIENCE
This forum is designed for Library Administrators, Information Managers, Librarians, IT Professionals and other interested individuals.
This forum is designed for Library Administrators, Information Managers, Librarians, IT Professionals and other interested individuals.
