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I’ve started to prepare for my trip to Bishkek by posting reading materials on a Web resource page for the librarians I will meet on my visit to the\u00a0 American University of Central Asia Library<\/a>. I did something similar when I went on a Fulbright<\/a> to Rabat, Morocco in 2003. What a difference in the state of technology then and now. In 2003 we had our own catalog; today we\u00a0tag\u00a0records with our holding symbol in the \u00a0universal database, Worldcat. In 2003 all my readings were printed out as handouts; today because Web 2.0\u00a0 is dynamic and interactive my handouts are downloadable.\u00a0 Most importantly, the standardization of protocols for posting and retrieving information has changed how information moves and can be reconfigured. Snap your fingers. It’s that fast.<\/p>\n Materials at the site include resources on information literacy, services for faculty, collection development and strategic planning reports and a section on academic library policies. I am curious to see the response of the librarians to some of the free tools I’ve listed. Can they recreate with open source tools vendor products that are too expensive for them to purchase?\u00a0 It would take a lot of ingenuity and skill.\u00a0 Any thoughts or additions? Here are some of the tools:<\/p>\n Join Me <\/a>Free online meeting software<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n In April, the weather should be in the 40s and 50s–the beginning of Spring. I will be staying in university housing and should be able to walk to the library. I am hoping my Russian is still strong enough to\u00a0be able to communicate–if not professionally, at least when I\u00a0go to the market. \u00a0By coincidence, the architect who designed this library, Henry Myerberg, wrote the introduction to the book I just finished editing, Creating the High-Functioning Library Space<\/a>\u00a0 His visit should overlap with mine, so we can talk about what he intended for the space.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve started to prepare for my trip to Bishkek by posting reading materials on a Web resource page for the librarians I will meet on my visit to the\u00a0 American University of Central Asia Library. I did something similar when I went on a Fulbright to Rabat, Morocco in 2003. What a difference in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":531,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/bishkek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/bishkek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/bishkek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/bishkek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/531"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/bishkek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/bishkek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/bishkek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/bishkek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/bishkek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/bishkek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
DMPtool: Guidance and Resources for Your Data Management Plan<\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\nGoogle Apps for Higher Education<\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\nJing<\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\nLibraryThing<\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\nOpen Researcher and Contributor ID: ORCID<\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\nUsus: a community website on usage<\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n\n![\"bishkek2\"](\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/bishkek\/files\/2016\/03\/bishkek2-887x500.jpg\")
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