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LibrariesLibraries urged to embrace ICT to stay relevant
There is another news article relating to information literacy coming out of Brunei. The Borneo Bulletin has an article titled Libraries urged to embrace ICT to stay relevant by P. Marilyn. In it Marilyn writes about The Permanent Secretary (Higher Education) at the Ministry of Education, Awang Haji Daud bin Haji Mahmud, yesterday called for a change in the traditional role of librarians or information officers.Here is some of what he said during the speech:"He said the role of libraries in an academic enterprise is dedicated to maintaining the importance and relevance of the academic library as a place of intellectual stimulation and a centre of activity on campus.""Though access to information is increasingly decentralised, and computer labs now compete with libraries as campus gathering points, librarians must demonstrate to the campus community that the library remains central to the academic process.""Information literacy skills and user education should be integrated across the curriculum and into appropriate courses with special attention given to information evaluation, critical thinking, intellectual property, copyright and plagiarism.""As the profession becomes progressively challenging, we have to ensure professional education of new librarians and re-educating existing librarians with skills and knowledge to support new roles in a Digital Information Age, especially roles involving teaching and library promotion."
Published: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:14:45 GMT - Source: Information-literacy.Net - Read the articleNorth America/mo. A no-frills sleepover (palo alto) $375
A no-frills place to stay. Good for a grad student on low budget. Or professional wanting to avoid a long commute. You could be
1. Someone who likes associating with an international group (more info below).
WE HAVE REALLY ENJOYED HAVING PEOPLE FROM OUTSIDE THE US
And/or
2. Someone who wants a place to sleep to avoid long commutes.
And/or
3. Someone who likes use of facilities available in our house (below)
This is only a small living space
BUT: This has satisfied needs of several Ph. D's and MD's (generally from other countries) And, it has been a good place for commuters to sleep over and avoid long commutes.
If over 4 months, rent is $375/mo. Includes utilities. If under 4 months, rent negotiable. Available Sept 10 2008 possibly as soon as Sept 1. To March 2009 and perhaps even longer.
Though the room is no-frills, pluses are the house and people.
ABOUT HAVING PEOPLE FROM OUTSIDE U.S.-- we have had people from all continents (except Antarctica).
WHO ARE WE?
We are 6+ people w. various occupations: Scientists, Visiting Scholars, Grad students. Some of us toil -- or seek toil -- in the local Technological (and/or nontechnical) Salt Mines of the modern Silicon Valley Czars of Technology and Commerce.
We tend to be very much interested in other parts and countries of the world -- that large area outside boundaries of the US, known and understood by a modest fraction of Americans.
SOME CLOSE COMMUTES:
3-5 miles, depending (Bus, bike path or Foothill Expressway) to Stanford University, 4.5 miles to Foothill college, 1 mile (walk) to all of Palo Alto Veterans' Administration Hospital, Bosch, Xerox PARC, Roche, etc. Easy 1-2 miles (walks) to Stanford Research park, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), SAP Software Co, Varian Research and etc. See reference below to the google map that shows where we are.
NEIGHBORHOOD AND HOUSE FACILITIES
We are in a quiet neighborhood, with trees. Terman Park next door. All in house have use of Washer/Dryer, Cable TV. Wireless DSL internet. DVD player. Also use of large kitchen, with most cookware available that you would need. Much other useful stuff such as clothes iron, and ironing board, possibly bicycles available. The house has for everyone's use(free)an e-systems computer with up to date software (MS office, Complete Adobe Acrobat 7 etc etc).
Note this is a "lived in" house. There's a lot of stuff around and about in boxes, etc.
This is also a solar electric house -- "blackout proof", electrically self sufficient by means of a 6 kilowatt peak power photovoltaic (sun powered) electric system and backup. We can go entirely off the local electric supply if we wish. Or if local power fails (as California power often did under delusional free market guidance exacerbated by corporate piracy in 2000-2001).
Your housemates, who are students, scientists, professionals and thoughtful people from several continents, can be very interesting to talk with about many things.
THINGS WE ASPIRE TO:
Occasional multi-national pot-lucks (meals, social events with people bringing foods typical of different countries) and barbecues. These have been fun.
And we have parties: See pics on the link at http://www.flickr.com/photos/bonzi-us/sets/72157605233507551/. The captions are in Italian but I think you can mostly figure them out.
Enjoy talking. Although not about football (at least not much). Discuss our countries. Some of us are very interested in US foreign policy (perhaps a better term is lack of understandable coherent and rational policy). Some here also discuss "lofty and high-falutin" topics. These include science, energy and environment, biology, medicine, cosmology, artificial intelligence and the long term implications, etc. and blah blah.
Watching good films (DVD player). Watching TV series and documentaries. Good movies on TV movie channels. We already have "infinite channel" cable TV that comes to us courtesy of the US Media Oligarchy represented by the "COMCAST" God Of Advertising And Electronic Transmission. Some good stuff gets through to us, although it's a pretty low fraction of the total.
And we discuss black holes. And Borat, and some of us actually know a little about Kazakhstan and Nursultan Nazarbayev and the Baikonur Cosmodrome (World's Largest Space Port).
OTHER -- MONEY / LEASE
$ 250 deposit. No lease, but 30 day notice required. And if over 4 months, $375 includes most things (but you must do your own laundry, homework, mundane personal chores. After all - - - - ) .
No pets. No smoking in house.
WE SEEK
Postgrad/ postdoc, maybe visiting scholar, or professional. But if it sounds interesting, and you do not fit these categories get in touch anyhow; let's talk. Man or woman OK. A woman could be nice. She should preferably tolerate intellectual, somewhat unconventional guys -- friendly nerds? -- already here. She can be a friendly nerd herself.
Overall, we have had a wide variety of people. People have been grad student interns and visiting scholars (Professors/Ph. D's) in areas such as high energy particle physics, Latin American MD's, Ph. D.s from Beijing studying earthquake forecasting, to a Sri Lankan Law/MBA candidate at Stanford. And intellectual and thoughtful Latin American child care professionals (in the vernacular, "Nannies").
People now here are Nazza (Italy) Lucia (Costa Rica) Ms. Mun (Malaysia) Haji (from Sri Lanka) Anton (Ukraine), sometimes assorted relatives, and Don
Leave message, DON, LUCIA, LESCEK OR HAJI. Reply to email agromare@aol.com. Please leave a message with a phone number or an email with phone# where we can phone you. Someone will call and we can discuss more.
Our address is near Los Palos and Pomona Avenue,in Palo Alto. To see rental location within Palo Alto and distance to local citadels of employment and toil (Like for examples: Google, Xerox PARC) click the eighth bar down on Google map (the best one for this purpose).
To find distance and route to your commute you can also plug in Pomona and Los Palos as a starting place and your communte destination as an end Aug 21
AND -- we can discuss more if you choose to contact us. Please reply to agromare@aol.com.
Published: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:56:58 GMT - Source: Sfbay.Craigslist.Org - Read the articleAsiaPakistan militant leader killed
A leading militant leader in Pakistan's Khyber region, Haji Namdar, is shot dead by unidentified gunmen.
Published: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:25:58 GMT - Source: News.Bbc.Co.Uk - Read the article
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