This document discusses how libraries are adapting their services to the digital age through e-resources, outreach, and networking. It provides examples of the Thomas Jefferson Information Center's (TJIC) efforts in these areas, including providing online databases and article alerts, developing partnerships with other institutions, and conducting outreach activities like the American Corner Mindanao Caravan. The document emphasizes how libraries can maximize usage of e-resources, utilize free resources, and facilitate information sharing through networking and outreach both within their communities and across institutions.
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E-Products, Networking and Outreach: Changing Context of Library Services
1. E-Products, Networking and Outreach: Changing Context of Library Services in the Digital Age Reysa C. Alenzuela Thomas Jefferson Information Center U.S. Embassy Manila
5. Since April 1, for every 100 print books, Amazon.com has sold 105 Kindle books
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7. How can we maximize usage of our e-products? How can we utilize of free available resources? ? Do we have permanent access to e-resources paid for? Will e-resources be accepted by our users?
16. TJIC Products Subject Webliography A systematic list of print and electronic materials prepared by TJIC on a given subject, customized to respond to specific information and research needs.
42. Outreach According to Westbrook and Waldman "services designed to reach patrons outside of the library--wherever they are accessing, evaluating, or manipulating information."
43. Outreach "Outreach" is an encompassing term referring to any of a great variety of library initiatives, be they virtual or physical, occasional or ongoing. extending services beyond the community targeted efforts to encourage greater library use taking librarians out of the library
44. The Philippine information needs Current Status 4 congressional 52 provincial 97 city 535 municipal Republic Act 7743 mandates the creation and operation of a public library in every congressional district, city and municipality throughout the country. There should be a total of 1,851 libraries in all, one for each of the country’s 220 congressional districts, 136 cities, and 1,495 municipalities.
To be relevant libraries must do more than just employ the latest technology and provide a wide range of resources. We need to ensure that we offer equitable service we transform information to knowledge.
Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project argues that the internet has changed the information ecosystem, resulting in a new "social operating system called Networked Individualism, where people maneuver through looser social networks to solve problems, make decisions and gain social support."
Through networks we have established enduring relationships… we duplicate ourselves
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Inter agency meetings such as multicultural groups/ youth workers network offer almost unlimited opportunities to meet other people in the community with intersecting interests. Diversity brings creativity.
partnerships we bridge – google and ACs
= benchmarking + expanding external contacts + getting a clearer perspective thru first hand-observation
With networks to multiply our reach.
Reitz.Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science. Retrieved August 2011. http://www.abc-clio.com/ODLIS/searchODLIS.aspxMolly Strothmann and Karen Antell. “The live-in librarian: developing library outreach to university residence halls.” Reference & User Services QuarterlyVolume 50; Issue 1 September 2010. Gale Group Inc
Opportunityfor outreach of medical libraries/ legislative libraries/
Impact of exchanges/ the beauty of networking: they tell America’s story in their “local” voices.