Perkhidmatan Perpustakaan 24 Jam

Pihak Perpustakaan Tun Abdul Razak (PTAR)  akan memulakan  perkhidmatan 24 jam bermula 5 Mac 2012 ini di Perpustakan terpilih iaitu  PTAR 1 dan PTAR 3 ( Perpustakaan Kejuruteraan)

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IBM Virtualization Workshop

 

	How to develop strategies to optimize your server virtualization efforts to better deliver support and services to the business;
	How IBM can help you simplify your existing infrastructure and reduce your business’ total cost of ownership of up to 38%;
	How IBM’s virtualization solutions can deliver value to your business – reduce operational cost of up to 50% and reduce energy costs of up to 40% a year!

 

You need to ensure that your IT infrastructure is flexible so that you can respond to the challenges of changing demand levels and new business requirements. All of which are vital to helping your company stay agile and more competitive!

Agenda Time Topic 9:00am Registration 9:30am Welcome Address 9:45am VMware’s vCenter Operations Vision And Strategy For Managing IT Operations In The Cloud Era Raymond Lau, Solution Consultant, VMware Inc 10:15am Smarter IT Infrastructure To Optimize Your Virtualized And Cloud Environment Pua Cheng Yee, Field Technical Sales Specialist - System x, IBM Malaysia 10:45am Coffee Break 11:00am Storage Optimization: The Next Steps For More Efficiency Harbinder Singh, Product Line Manager,Systems and Technology Group, IBM Growth Markets 11:30am Smarter Storage Services : Storage Actions To Survive Unconstrained Storage Growth Md Iskandar Abu Bakar, Solution Architect, Server and Storage, Global Technology Services, IBM Malaysia 12:00pm Q & A 12:15pm Lunch 1:30pm End

*Agenda is subject to change. Supported by: Sponsored by: Click  here for more information on IBM’s Virtualization Solutions.

 

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SELAMAT MENYAMBUT MAULIDUR RASUL 1433H

Dikesempatan ini saya ingin  mengucapkan ''SELAMAT MENYAMBUT MAULIDUR RASUL 1433H'' kepada seluruh umat Muhammad S.A.W

Maklumat Ringkas Nabi  Muhammad Rasulullah dari Wikiepedia

Muhammad bin Abdullāh (Arab: محمد بن عبد الله; Transliterasi: Muḥammad;^[1] dieja [mʊħɑmmæd] ( dengarkan); ^[2][3][4] (ca. 570/571 Mekkah[مَكَةَ ]/[ مَكَهْ ] – 8 Juni, 632 Medina),^[5] adalah pembawa ajaran Islam, dan diyakini oleh umat Muslim sebagai nabi dan (Rasul) yang terakhir. Menurut sirah(biografi) yang tercatat tentang Muhammad, ia disebutkan lahir sekitar 20 April 570/ 571, di Mekkah(Makkah) dan wafat pada 8 Juni 632 di Madinah pada usia 63 tahun. Kedua kota tersebut terletak di daerah Hejaz (Arab Saudi saat ini). Beliau haram digambarkan dalam bentuk patung ataupun gambar ilustrasi.

Michael H. Hart dalam bukunya The 100 menilai Muhammad sebagai tokoh paling berpengaruh sepanjang sejarah manusia. Menurut Hart, Muhammad adalah satu-satunya orang yang berhasil meraih keberhasilan luar biasa baik dalam hal spiritual maupun kemasyarakatan. Hart mencatat bahwa Muhammad mampu mengelola bangsa yang awalnya egoistis, barbar, terbelakang dan terpecah belah oleh sentimen kesukuan, menjadi bangsa yang maju dalam bidang ekonomi, kebudayaan dan kemiliteran dan bahkan sanggup mengalahkan pasukan Romawi yang saat itu merupakan kekuatan militer terdepan di dunia di dalam pertempuran.^[6]

via : http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad

 

Video Ringkas Kisah Rasululah

Kelahiran Rasululah

Sabda Rasulullah yang bermaksud: "Sesungguhnya dari kalangan umatKu yang berselawat ke atasKu 1 selawat yang ikhlas daripada hatinya, Allah akan membalasnya dengan 10 selawat, mengangkatkan kedudukannya 10 darjat, mencatatkan baginya 10 kebajikan & menggugurkan daripadanya 10 kejahatan."
(HR Ibnu Hibban)

Video-video Selawat

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FACEBOOK WILL END ON MARCH 15th, 2012?

PALO ALTO, CA –Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook will be shut down in March of 2012. Managing the site has become too stressful. 

“Facebook has gotten out of control,” said Zuckerberg in a press conference outside his Palo Alto office, “and the stress of managing this company has ruined my life. I need to put an end to all the madness.”
Zuckerberg went on to explain that starting March 15th of next year, users will no longer be able to access their Facebook accounts.  That gives users (and Facebook addicts) a year to adjust to life without Facebook.
Read full article here
Many such messages were spreading on Facebook and other online platforms that Facebook is going to shut down in March 2012. 

Hoax or Fact:

It is not a fact, it is just a hoax, a rumor that went viral.

Analysis:
Facebook, the most popular social networks for professionals is claimed to be closing down in March this year. The reason stated was that the CEO, Mark Zuckerberg finds it hard to manage this popular social networking platform and he wanted to shut down and have life.

The fact however is that it is just a silly rumor that started as a result of mixture of two different news. The first one is Yahoo announcement that its service Yahoo Video will be closing down on March 15, 2011, and the second one is a CNN article in which the author states his personal view saying that the recent investment in Facebook could be the “beginning of the end” for this company. Facebook is not going to close any time soon. Even their homepage says that "It's free and always will be". Facebook denied these news as hoax rumors and responded to this on their Twitter account, saying that it is not a fact, and that they have just started. CNN confirms the same stating further reasons why Facebook cannot shut down in near future.

via : http://www.hoaxorfact.com/Web/facobook-will-end-in-march-2012.html

 

 

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• Silly rumor on internet says Mark Zuckerberg is shutting down Facebook
• Rumor not true, Facebook director of corporate communications says
• "We'll just keep cranking away like always," director says

 

Facebook NOT shutting down March 15

(Mashable)-- There's a silly rumor exploding on the Internet this weekend, alleging that Facebook is shutting down on March 15 because CEO Mark Zuckerberg "wants his old life back," and desires to "put an end to all the madness."

We have official confirmation from Facebook Director of Corporate Communications Larry Yu that the rumor is false.

We asked him via e-mail if Facebook was shutting down on March 15, to which he responded, "The answer is no, so please help us put an end to this silliness."

He added, "We didn't get the memo about shutting down and there's lots to do, so we'll just keep cranking away like always."

 

via : http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TECH/social.media/01/10/fb.shutdown.rumor.mashable/index.html

Facebook Says It’s NOT Shutting Down March 15 [UPDATED]

There’s a silly rumor exploding on the Internet this weekend, alleging that Facebook is shutting down on March 15 because CEO Mark Zuckerberg “wants his old life back,” and desires to “put an end to all the madness.”

[UPDATE] We have official confirmation from Facebook Director of Corporate Communications Larry Yu that the rumor is false. We asked him via e-mail if Facebook was shutting down on March 15, to which he responded, “The answer is no, so please help us put an end to this silliness.” He added, “We didn’t get the memo about shutting down and there’s lots to do, so we’ll just keep cranking away like always.”

Let’s think about this for a minute. Would Facebook decide to shut down the company just a few days afterannouncing a round of funding, consisting of $450 million from Goldman Sachs and $50 million from Russian investment firm Digital Sky Technologies, on a valuation of $50 billion?

The spurious report was started by a site to which we refuse to link, known for its reports of impending attacks of alien spaceships and false reports of a Michelle Obama pregnancy.

The fact that this absurd hoax spread so efficiently makes us wonder: Will people believe anything?

via: http://mashable.com/2011/01/09/facebook-shutdown/

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New code of practice for Academic and Research Libraries

http://www.arl.org/pp/ppcopyright/codefairuse/index.shtml
View/download the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use 

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) recently released its own Code of Best Practice in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries.  Supported by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the code:

enhances the ability of librarians to rely on fair use by documenting the considered views of the library community about best practices in fair use, drawn from the actual practices and experience of the library community itself.

The Code was developed after a series of in-depth interviews with 65 librarians at academic and research institutions. It identifies the relevance of fair use in eight recurrent situations:

• Supporting teaching and learning with access to library materials via digital technologies
• Using selections from collection materials to publicize a library’s activities, or to create physical and virtual exhibitions
• Digitizing to preserve at-risk items
• Creating digital collections of archival and special collections materials
• Reproducing material for use by disabled students, faculty, staff, and other appropriate users
• Maintaining the integrity of works deposited in institutional repositories
• Creating databases to facilitate non-consumptive research uses (including search)
• Collecting material posted on the web and making it available

Most of these issues have relevance for the school library community as well.

This new code joins several others as part of a project of the School of Communication at American University Center for Social Media in Washington, DC, successfully serving to clarify how professionals might apply fair use to improve their practice using the tools of our time.

Existing codes include:

• Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education
• Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video
• Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for OpenCourseWare
• Documentary Filmmakers’ Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use
• Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Scholarly Research in Communication
• Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Poetry
• Society for Cinema and Media Studies’ Statement of Fair Use Best Practices for Media Studies Publishing
• Society for Cinema and Media Studies’ Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use in Teaching for Film and Media Educators
• Best Practices in Fair Use of Dance-related Materials

Patricia Aufderheide, University Professor in the School of Communication at American University and Director of the Center for Social Media notes

Librarians can now join other communities of practice that have designed such codes. They have been able to reduce market friction and meet mission with the confidence that they are acting within the best practices of their peers.

Download the code and follow #librarianscode on Twitter for further information.

And see my older posts relating to the release of the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education:

• Code of Best Practices in Fair Use: The Webinar
• Fair Use Code of Practice coming very soon!
• New Fair Use Code of Practice: A Call to Action

 

via : http://www.arl.org/pp/ppcopyright/codefairuse/index.shtml

FAQ for Librarianshttp://www.arl.org/pp/ppcopyright/codefairuse/faq-libs.shtml

FAQ for Students
 http://www.arl.org/pp/ppcopyright/codefairuse/faq-students.shtml 

Frequently Asked Questions

Download a PDF of this FAQ

• What is copyright? How is it different from using proper attribution and avoiding plagiarism?
• What is fair use?
• What about creative commons materials? Licensed materials (as opposed to books the library owns)? Does fair use always apply the same way to everything?
• Why would a student need fair use? What kinds of things might I do that involve my fair use rights?
• There are lots of guidelines on how much we can use under fair use. The 1976 Classroom Guidelines, for example, look very official. I can't exceed those rules, can I? How do I navigate the sea of guidelines and "rules of thumb" for fair use that I find online?
• How do I know whether my use of copyrighted material in my own scholarship and class projects is fair?
• How can I use material that I get from e-reserves or CMS (Blackboard, Moodle, etc.) sites? Is it free or “public domain” now that my professor has posted it for me there?

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