ARTICLE 19

ARTICLE 19, the Global Campaign for Free Expression, champions freedom of expression and the free flow of information as fundamental human rights that underpin all others. We take our name from Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It states:

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; the right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media regardless of frontiers

http://www.article19.org/

ARTICLE 19

ARTICLE 19, the Global Campaign for Free Expression, champions freedom of expression and the free flow of information as fundamental human rights that underpin all others. We take our name from Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It states:

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; the right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media regardless of frontiers

http://www.article19.org/

The voice of America's Libraries

The American Library Association is the oldest and largest library association in the world, with more than 64,000 members. Its mission is to promote the highest quality library and information services and public access to information. ALA offers professional services and publications to members and nonmembers, including online news stories from American Libraries and analysis of crucial issues from the Washington Office. Be a part of it—library worker or advocate—join today!

ASIST 2005

Sparking Synergies: Bringing Research and Practice Together”ASIST 2005 will focus on the diversity of perspectives and insights from all those participating in the information science and technology community, as they generate innovative ideas, define theoretical concepts or work out the nuts and bolts of implementing well-tested ideas in new ways and in new settings. A wide variety of plenary and invited speakers, moderated panels, poster sessions and refereed papers will explore this theme
for more info go to this link

http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM05/index.html

National RAC Meeting

National RAC Meeting2005MEETINGS IN 2005
Event: National RAC Meeting
Begins: August 2, 2005
Ends: August 4, 2005
Where: Wilmington, NC

for more info go to this link

http://cms.transportation.org/?siteid=55&pageid=884

ALA2005 Annual

The ALA2005 Annual Conference will be held in Chicago, IL from June 23-29, 2005. The exhibits will be held June 25-28, 2005 in the McCormick Place Convention Center.
for more info

http://www.ala.org/ala/eventsandconferencesb/annual/2005a/home.htm

Ali Reza Noruzi

Ali Reza Noruzi he is student of library and inforemation science (PhD)in france .and hisInterests Fields:
Indexing: (Web Indexing, Link Indexing & Analysis, Book Indexing, Citation Indexing, Pre-Coordinate & Post-Coordinate Indexing,) & Indexing languages
Webometrics & Bibliometrics
Webology
Search Engines
Web Information Retrieval
Link Analysis & Link Mining
Intellectual Property Rights: Copyright & Industrial Property .

you can access to him through

http://www.nouruzi.itgo.com/index.html

Kayvan kousha

Kayvan kousha

He is student of Library and information science, PhD, in Tehran University you can access precious Information about Library and Information science via his home page
For more info you can open this link.

http://www.koosha.tripod.com/

Writing and Presenting YourThesis or Dissertation

Writing and Presenting YourThesis or Dissertation
This guide has been created to assist graduate students in thinking through the many aspects of crafting, implementing and defending a thesis or dissertation. Click this link for electronic download or printed copy of this

http://www.lulu.com/learnerassociate

What is vortal?

What is vortal?

Vortal is a vertical industry or market or specific group portal on the Internet. A contraction of "vertical portal," vortal refers to a Web site that aggregates disparate content and services of interest to a particular industry and makes it available to industry members.
While a portal attracts a large number of "netizens" (Internet citizens) offering a wide range of contents and links to other sites such as Yahoo! or AOL, Vortals are narrower in focus and address a specific industry, theme, or specific interest. The audience or participants may be smaller, but they are of possess higher interest and are highly targeted.
The concept of a Vertical Portal is based upon the premise of linking customers and vendors together within a focused environment. This environment provides information and features, which encourage members to remain within the boundaries of the Vertical Portal. Vortals are also seen as likely business-to-business communities or business-to-consumer communities.

What is portal?

What is portal?

“Portals offer a wide range of customization options and functionality including: Internet search and navigation; email; customized news, weather, sports, and horoscopes; planners, calendars, and contact managers; bookmark managers to save favorite web sites; real-time chat; message boards; original content on every imaginable topic; shopping; free home pages; "clubs" which function as makeshift intranets; small business services; and much more. Increasingly, major portals are seeing to it that vital content such as news, stock prices, and messages can be accessed
With wireless devices and phones.”


A portal is a site on the Internet that provides a one-stop experience for
Internet users, allowing them to check e-mail, search the Web, and get
Personalized news and stock quotes. Since 1998, the “portal” has been
Considered the most successful Internet business model. Portal sites have
Characteristics such as community facilitated by services, revenue that
Relies on advertising, a highly competitive market, heavy traffic, and an
Uncertain business.

my intersts in LIS

My my interest area in library information science

Information seeking on internet
Digital librarianship
Virtual reference services in library
Invisible web
Designing Portal/vortal
Information observatory
Invisible Web
Studying Search Engines Operation
Digital Libraries
Evaluation of web resources
Information architecture in websites
Designing appropriate portal for children and adults

Virtual Reference Desk Conference

Virtual Reference Desk Conference 2005: Save the Date!
The Virtual Reference Desk is pleased to announce that its 7th annual reference conference will be held on November 14-15, 2005 in San Francisco. We hope to see you there!
Information At A Glance:VRD 2005 Conference Recognizing the Success of ReferenceNovember 14-15, 2005 Hyatt Regency San Francisco AirportSan Francisco, California.

http://www.vrd.org/

The CAIS/ACSI 2006

The CAIS/ACSI 2006 conference will be held from June 1 to June 3, 2006 as part of the annual Congress of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, at York University in Toronto, Ontario.

http://www.cais-acsi.ca/home.htm

webology journal

Webology is a scholarly journal in English devoted to the various fields of Library and Information Science and serves as a forum for discussion and experimentation. It serves as a forum for new research in information dissemination and communication processes in general, and in the context of the World Wide Web in particular. Concerns include the production, gathering, recording, processing, storing, representing, sharing, transmitting, retrieving, distribution, and dissemination of information, as well as its social and cultural impacts. There is a strong emphasis on the Web and new information technologies.

www.webology.ir

LIS & Ehsan

Library information science and Ehsan.

I am Ehsan Mohammadi who graduated in Library & Information science from Isfahan University in Iran.
When I accepted(2000) in LIS (B.A) in isfahan ,with out any known form LIS start my studing,at that time I accepted in French, German literature and translating & I was eager to be student of foreign language ,any way ,I passed my credit in semester one but nothing appealed me in library science and I decided to change my course to English or German, but after a lot of questions ,all people told me: Library and information science is new course and you can be success in this field, additionally if you are interested in learning an other language you can be student of any field and learn new language out of your formal university programs. But I could not convince my self
Because I was living in dormitory and undergraduate student had not any recognition about LIS they make fun me with some expression like” shelf engineering and ketabkozar (a person who put books) and …I hated more to library and information science
What I had to done?
Nothing did not attract me to LIS till semester five when I had been familiar with Kayvan Kousha (PhD student in LIS) during information science and culture fair in Tehran. After that I accessed to internet and really matched with cyber space on net and understood value, power of information and information science and right now I am crazy about Library and information science and take part in every session about LIS
One of my best wishes is continue my studying in LIS in a university of developed countries.