Very Hu!: A Report on theVietnamese Librarian Project

Terry PlumAssistant Dean

Simmons Graduate School of Library and InformationScience

Boston, MAOctober 2, 2007

•Atlantic Philanthropies

•Chuck Feeney

•Giving while living

•Andrew Carnegie

•!The man who dies rich dies disgraced"

• #3.8 billion $ spent by 2006

• #4 billion $ spend by 2020.

•Pat Oyler $ #1.8 million

The Project

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•New Databases

•AGORA

•HINARI

•OARE

•Blackwell Synergy

•Oxford University Press

•Highwire

•eIFL

•INASP - PERI

Teaching Digital InformationServices

•New Databases

•eIFL

•INASP - PERI

Teaching Digital InformationServices

•Old Questions

• In file 6 (NTIS), how would you create a comprehensive search

for hybrid cars?

• You’re working with medical students who need information on the

effectiveness of physical therapy on TMJ (TemporoMandibular

Joint) problems. Can you point them to some useful articles

published in the last three years? Provide three citations to articles

in English that meet the students’ criteria, and prepare the results in a

useful format.

• You are working at a small college library, and your patron needs to

verify a citation to an article from 1985 in the Journal of Law and

Education on student rights and freedom of speech. He has the full

text of the article but it’s missing the page numbers; he needs the

complete citation for his paper.

Teaching Digital Information Services

•New Questions

• You are looking for technical articles on non-point agricultural

pollution in the Mekong Delta region. Use AGORA. First try the

CAB search engine. What did you find? Then try AGRICOLA

through AGORA and after you find a good article, see if it is

available through AGORA. You are looking for the fulltext of the

article.

• Ca Tru is a traditional style of music performance originated in

the north of Vietnam, typically around Ha Noi in the 15th

century. It used to be a favorite musical entertainment of all the

kings and royal officials. Can you help me find an article about

Ca Tru for my music history class?

• I would like to get as much financial (not news) information about

ORNAPAPER BHD as possible. It is a company in Malaysia, which

operates in Vietnam. I think they make cardboard boxes.

Teaching Digital Information Services

•Real Life Search

• Enterprise resource planning in Vietnamese higher

education institutions.

• Designing and organizing language activities for effective

accuracy and fluency practice in an English class at Hue

upper secondary schools

• Inheritance patterns of Cucumber Mosaic Virus (CMV) -

resistance to CMV strains in pepper (capsicum)

• Differences between the effects of pre-task planning and

other planning approaches on fluency, complexity and

accuracy in second language acquisition.

• Women ages 15-49 with HIV/AIDS in Vietnam and health

management information systems

Teaching Digital Information Services

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