YOUTH FOR GLORY- MAKING THE MOST OF THE NEW WORLD- INTERNET

A talk during the Youth Programme of St Mathias Anglican Church, Aule, Akure on Friday 7^th September, 2018

Basis: Understanding who you are

• Citizenship: Phil 3:20, Heb 11: 9-10
• Birth: 1Pet 1:23
• Culture: Phil 4:8
• Placement: 2 Cor 5:20

The new world called the Internet

What is it? The Internet is a globally connected network system that uses TCP/IP to transmit data via various types of media.

Internet ➥ Web ➥ Social media et al

Top Ranking Internet Businesses

Rank by Revenue	Company		Industry	Revenue ($B)	FY	Employees	Market Cap ($B)	Headquarters	Founded
1		Amazon	E-Commerce, Cloud	$177.86	2017	566,000	$918.0	Seattle, WA, USA	1994
2		Alphabet Inc.	Search, Cloud, Advertising	$110.8	2017	80,110	$837.09	Mountain View, California, USA	2015
3		JD.com	E-commerce	$55.7	2017	137,975	$45.68	Beijing, China	1998
4		Facebook	Social	$40.65	2017	25,105	$528.22	Menlo Park, CA, USA	2004
5		Alibaba	E-commerce	$39.90	2018	66,421	$465.91	Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China	1999
6		Tencent	Social, Gaming, Investment	$36.39	2017	44,796	$434.66	Shenzhen, Guangdong, China	1998
7		Booking	Travel	$12.681	2017	22,900	$92.94	Norwalk, CT, USA	1996
8		Baidu	Search	$10.16[16]	2016	45,887	$88.11	Beijing, China	2000
9		eBay	E-commerce	$9.567	2017	12,600	$43.73	San Jose, CA, USA	1995
10		Netflix	Entertainment	$11.7	2017	5,400	$146.43	Los Gatos, CA, USA	1997

Source: Wikipedia

Positives and Perils of the Internet

Positives of the Internet/Social media	Perils of the Internet/Social media
Connectivity	Cyberbullying
Education	Hacking
Education	Fraud and scam
Information and update	Reputation
Promotion	Cheating and relationship concerns
Worthy causes	Health concerns
Awareness	Death
Fighting of crime	Glamorization of illicit acts
Improved business reputation	Security issues

What should you do?

• Develop skills
• Interpersonal skills
• Technical skills, e.g. coding, graphics and multimedia, 3-D design
• Imaginative skill
• Problem-solving skill
• Be a value creator
• Connect people
• Enhance ease

Online Businesses You can do

• Marketing
• Information products creation, ebooks, audio, video
• Weblogging
• Vlogging
• Social media Assistant
• Apps creation
• Innovative services that solves problems

The list is endless.

Thank you and see you at the Top!

Welcome to Elizade University Library

Implementing Social Media for Service Delivery in Nigerian Libraries

Idowu Adegbilero-Iwari
A presentation at the Symposium organised by the Nigerian Library Association, Ondo State Chapter
to celebrate the 2018 Libraries Week. The event held at the Federal University of Technology, Akure on Thursday, October 18, 2018.
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Maiden Visiting Library Scholar Lecture

Welcome Address delivered by Idowu Adegbilero-Iwari at the 1^st Visiting Library Scholar Lecture organized by the University Library, Elizade University, Ilara-mokin, Ondo State, on Friday, September 28, 2018.

Protocols

It is with huge delight and copious joy that I stand before you to welcome you to the very first edition in the series of the University Library Visiting Library Scholar Lecture.

The birth of the Lecture came from the womb of the circumstance that surrounded my participation in the FORCE11 Scholarly Communications Institute (FSCI) at the University of California San Diego in July/August, 2018. It was in connection with my desperate desire to save $102 for my University on my accommodation budget. Lusia, one of the FSCI’s administrative officers for FSCI2018 graciously found a way around it and assured me that I would pay one night less. The arrangement then was, I would be moved to the President‘s apartment till I depart at the wee hours of the following day to the airport. So, she introduced me to Dan at the beach party on the beach of North Pacific Ocean at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography on the last day of the program. Then, Idowu and Dan got talking, and Dan would be visiting Lagos and graciously accepted the request to stop at Elizade University.

So, this Lecture is established in honor of Professor Daniel Paul O’Donnell for his love for our University and the shared value we have regarding Open Access.

Our journey into Open Access began with a commemorative training programme to mark the 2014 Open Access Week. Since then, we have being making efforts to promote Open Access and engage with ideas and projects that have to do with Open Access. The ideals of Open Access endeared me to FORCE11 (The Future of Research Communications and e- Scholarship) and allowed me the chance of being part of FSCI. As an institution, we have passed the Open Access policy and developing a repository of Open digital scholarly information.  Notwithstanding, there are challenges to scale and gaps to fill.

As the title of the Lecture, Open Access/Open Science and the Humanities, on a Cross–regional Basis, appears, it is suggestive of the fact that some of the differences across the regions in respect of Open Access will be addressed. We therefore hope to benefit immensely from the knowledge of our distinguished lecturer who has worked and working extensively in these areas. I am therefore glad to welcome Prof. Daniel O’Donnell from Lethbridge to Ilara-mokin.

I appreciate the Senate and Management of Elizade University who allowed this kind of legacy event despite our cradle age.

On a personal note, I never knew God took note of my vision of work that I printed upon assumption of duty in 2014 as the practice then was. In it, I said, I would project Elizade U to the global scholarly community. God has being doing just that and today’s event with Dan is a new climax. To this end, I return all the glory to God and the Father of our LORD Jesus Christ.

Once again, you are all welcome to our young but rising University. I cannot be less assured; it is one of the most beautiful campuses you’ve visited.

Idowu Adegbilero-Iwari

Scholarly Communications Librarian/Library Coordinator.

Elizade University, Ilara-Mokin, Ondo State, Nigeria

Friday, September 28, 2018 

My FSCI 2018: A Scholarship that Makes the Difference

FSCI 2018 Participants

Exactly one month ago, I was part of the august gathering of distinguished scholars, librarians, publishers, research funders and everyone else in the scholarly communications sector that attended the FORCE11 Scholarly Communications Institute for year 2018 (FSCI2018). The event took place at the very reputable campus of the renowned University of California, San Diego, La Jolla. Participation was global with participants turning up from six (6) continents among which, I guess, two of us from the blessed continent of Africa. I made it, substantially, courtesy of the tuition and travel scholarship granted by the organisers. That said, what is FSCI or even FORCE11 to start with?

FORCE11 (The Future of Research Communications and e-Scholarship 2011) is a community of scholars, librarians, archivists, publishers and research funders that has arisen organically to help facilitate the change toward improved knowledge creation and sharing. Individually and collectively, it aims to bring about a change in modern scholarly communications through the effective use of information technology. This they do through annual conferences since 2011 and FORCE11 Scholarly Communications Institute (FSCI) since 2017.

The FSCI, pronounced physkey, situated at the University of California, San Diego, is a week long summer training course, incorporating intensive coursework, seminar participation, group activities, lectures and hands-on training. Participants attended courses taught by world-wide leading experts in scholarly communications. Participants also have the opportunity to discuss the latest trends and gain expertise in new technologies in research flow, new forms of publication, new standards and expectations, and new ways of measuring and demonstrating success that are transforming science and scholarship.

The 2018 programme was structured to allow for one AM (morning) course all week and two PM (afternoon) courses within the week. These are really tempting courses, very appealing. Just like many participants had headaches choosing which course, I eventually settled for the following courses:

Inside Scholarly Communications Today (AM, Monday to Friday) where we covered topics like: History of scholarly communications, Technology and information transfer, Financial flows in scholarly publishing and Peer review and its complications. The course was taken by Cameron Neylon, PhD, Professor of Research Communications, Centre for Culture and Technology, Curtin University, Australia 

Open Data Visualization - Tools and Techniques to Better Report Data (PM, Monday-Tuesday) where we learnt about Superset data visualization software and were exposed to other scholarly communication software like Story Map, Dataverse, etc. With Superset, we tried our hands on novel ways data can be visualized beyond charts and graphs. Gaurav Godhwani, Technical Lead and Advisor, Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability (CBGA India) and Chapter Leader, DataKind Bangalore instructed this course. He was the first participant I met upon arriving Revelle College, UCSD and now a friend.

Mentoring the Next Generation of Open Scholars: Approaches, Tools & Tactics (PM, Wednesday- Thursday): Scholarly publishing literacy, Copyright literacy, Open pedagogy, Open source and free software options were discussed. Robyn Hall, Scholarly Communications Librarian, MacEwan University, Edmonton, Canada chaired and instructed this beautiful course.
The benefits of the above courses are numerous. These, apart from plenary sessions, Do-A-Thon and short lightning talks exposed me to the trends, tools and techniques in scholarly communications and open education resources. The PowerPoint Karaoke was novel. Participating in FSCI has broadened my professional horizon. It has connected me to vast resources of people and materials needed to prosper in my new office of Scholarly Communications Librarian, the very first of such office to be so called in Nigeria, I guess.

Adegbilero-Iwari Idowu  and a Sea lion at the La Jolla Cove

As a trained Scholarly Communications Librarian, I can now go ahead to fulfill the demands of my office as a pioneer in my country and mentor others to greater success. But the scholarship makes the difference. I, thus, hope that the scholarship programme is continuous and enlarged so as to afford opportunities for more people, especially from Africa.

Worth mentioning as a special gain is the opportunity to meet Daniel Paul O'Donnell, Professor of English, University of Lethbridge, and among many things, the President of FORCE11. On the heels of this, Professor O'Donnell will be presenting the maiden edition of Visiting Library Scholar Lecture Series of Elizade University, Ilara-Mokin, Ondo State, Nigeria come September 28, 2018. I am very upbeat at the opportunities it portends for us as an institution, Nigeria as a country and FORCE11 as a community.

Idowu and Claudia of Mississippi State University

La Jolla, an upscale city called a village, provides visitors with great, serene and inspiring experiences. While at UCSD, the 64 degrees cafeteria will ensure your appetites are satisfied but a visit to the Geisel Library will awe your heart. Besides, watching the sun set or kind of deep into the Pacific Ocean on the Piers of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, especially with confident narrations from Steven, the memory of your visit will just be evergreen.

God bless Lusia, Stephanie and all the administrators of the institute and the entire FORCE11 community. God willing, see you at FSCI2019...

Idowu Adegbilero-Iwari,

Scholarly Communications Librarian

Elizade University, Ilara-Mokin, Nigeria

2019 IFLA/OCLC Fellowship Applications: Call and Deadline

Idowu (2016 Fellow)

2016 IFLA/OCLC Fellows

The call for applications for the 2019 Jay Jordan IFLA/OCLC Early Career Development Fellowship Program has been made.

Deadline is 28 September 2018

This program, jointly sponsored by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) and OCLC, provides early career development and continuing education for library and information science professionals from countries with developing economies.

Up to five individuals are selected for participation in this intensive four-week Fellowship program, based at OCLC headquarters in Dublin, Ohio, USA. The 2019 program will run from 16 March to 12 April 2019. The program gives Fellows opportunities to meet with leading information practitioners, visit libraries and other cultural heritage institutions, and explore topics including information technologies, library operations and management, and global cooperative librarianship.

Learn more about the IFLA/OCLC Fellowship Program:

https://www.oclc.org/en/about/awards/ifla-fellowship-program.html

Click to watch and hear from past Fellows 

Idowu receiving certificate of participation from Skip Prichard

Guidelines for the 2019 Fellowship Program:Guidelines in Word format

Guidelines in PDF format

Application for 2019 Fellowship Program:Applications in Word format

Applications in PDF format

Gmail Redesigned: You can now Snooze Your Emails and do more in the All New Gmail

Idowu

Google is at it again. And if you think, with the advent of Whatsapp and co, that the days of emails are gone you may need to review your thought with the interesting features of the all new Gmail. It is a makeover of sort for Gmail. Google announced a major face-lift to its Gmail line today, April 25, 2018, with the changes to be rolled out across the world with immediate effect. To switch to the new Gmail, just go to the gear icon on the top-right corner and click "Try the new Gmail". But before then, what makes the new Gmail so attractive? Some of the new added features are itemised below:

1. Snooze your email: with this feature you are able to push an important email you don't want to forget reading to a later time in the day that it will come around again for you to read it. To snooze, simply hover over a message and click on the clock icon. That's fun right?

2. Nudging: unlike snoozing that you setup manually and personally, Google automatically nudges email by reminding you through bright-colored text if you will like to reply a message. Nudging also allows emails identified as important, 3 per day, to be pushed up in your inbox.

3. Confidential mode: improved security and safety have been enhanced in the new gmail with the confidential mode setting. In this mode, you can set your messages to disappear at a preset time within hours to up to 5years. And you can also set your emails to be read through passworded authentications. This is an email-specific feature which you can setup per message by clicking the lock icon at the bottom of an email to turn on its Confidential Mode. Emails sent in this mode can not be forwarded, copied, or printed by the recipient; and they are usually opened in new Window.

4. Download attachments without reading the message: your Inbox is enhanced to do this.

Others are anti-phishing enhancements and One-tap unsubscribe prompt from ads and other bulk email lists or newsletters. And that's not to mention the smart replies in the mobile version and the new side panel that guarantees access to tasks and calendar.

Google has leveraged AI to give the Gmail its more productivity features and security.

A Poetry Book for You

I recently used the platform of PoemHunter to e-publish some of my poems, it was just a trial. Find the eBook of poems here in Idowu Adegbilero-Iwari Poems.

Library Services Platform Path to Cloud Computing Adoption in Nigerian Academic Libraries: A Review

Idowu Adegbilero-Iwari and Saheed Abiola Hamzat

Abstract 

The library and Information science (LIS) profession have evolved over time taking advantage of prevailing technology. The arrival of computers and other communication technologies led to major changes in the ways library services are rendered and the profession practiced. Library Management Systems (LMS) is one of such earlier areas where ICT have been applied to the operations of the library during the library computerization era. The arrival of the renascent Cloud Computing is generating new areas of research in relation to librarians’ uptake of this new technology. Cloud computing is being leveraged by developers of library systems to facilitate the envisaged move away from ILS/LMS to a more robust system that can handle some of the shortcomings of the ILS/LMS. These new systems are called Library services platforms (LSP). While both established and new library systems vendors are turning out different products, libraries have begun to shift away to these new platforms. This paper reviews cloud computing in libraries and projects LSPs as the reliable path to its adoption in Nigerian academic libraries. Recommendations were made based on the outcomes of this study.

Keywords: Library services platform, Cloud computing, Library management systems, Integrated library systems, Academic libraries, Nigeria

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Helmsmen

Dear helmsmen
Your attitude to the assault on our kinsmen
By the heartless herdsmen
Portend for our country a foul omen

As you endlessly make a claim
And baselessly proffer a blame
By calling the departed a name
And leave our villages in flame

While the farmlands burnt to ruins
Perhaps, with the plot of the Midland to clean
Busy, you danced in the Eastland like a newlywed queen
In a rally for their votes, the duty to which you are keen

Ah! Blood here, blood there; there is blood on your hands
E'en as you stroll the blood-stained land
Leaving us to wonder whose concern you bear
The herdsmen's or kinsmen's, O helmsmen!

Adegbilero-Iwari, Idowu 
In concern for the deaths by the Fulani herders and failure of governments to care.

Jerusalem: The Eternal Capital of Mankind

Why the noise about Jerusalem especially, about the recent declaration by President Donald J. Trump of the USA that Jerusalem is the official capital of Israel? The noise and concern as voiced by some global citizens are centered around the fact that Jerusalem is home to sacred monuments in the three Abrahamic or monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. These three religions have reference to the same Supreme God, the Creator of all things. They agree on this and share similarity in some other areas especially in the commonality of Abraham, the friend of God in all these religions which in itself should send wise signal to discerning minds of the purpose of God. But their major differences come in the manner they relate with God through the icons of their faiths: Moses- the man of God, Jesus Christ- the Son of God and God-incarnated, Mohammed- the messenger of God. This also has so much to do with their claims on Jerusalem. For instance, the Temple Mount in the Old City,  held sacred by the three religions, is site to the Al-Aqsa Mosque which is thought to mark the place from which Muhammad is believed to have ascended to heaven (the Isra and Mi'raj); the Foundation Stone or the Rock which is believed in Judaism to be the location of the Holiest of Holies, the spiritual junction between the Heaven and the Earth and thus the holiest site in Judaism towards which the Jews pray; and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre which contain "the two holiest sites in Christianity: the site where Jesus of Nazareth was crucified, at a place known as "Calvary" or "Golgotha", and Jesus's empty tomb, where he is said to have been buried and resurrected".
Whereas man's misguided understanding of God and His ways which are past finding out has made claims to physical and material holiness appealing. It has brought about wanton destruction of lives and properties. It has created terrorism and extremist behaviour. Notwithstanding, claims to the history of any people is both just and worthy, and standing by the truth and reality is the most honorable thing anyone can do.

However, Jerusalem, being one of the oldest surviving world cities holds significant place in the general history of mankind. It is therefore necessary to understand what the Maker, the Most High God has as His sacred and eternal plans for the city. And this plan, He alone will achieve without the instrumentality of man or his religions or history. In the Revelation of Jesus Christ which God gave Him to show His servants as witnessed and testified to by John the Elder who reported that: 

And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband... And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal; And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel: On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

Certainly, Jerusalem shall be the only surviving city of all time. While the beauty of Paris, the hectic wonders of New York and the vanity of Babylon shall all pass, the glorious holiness of Jerusalem shall descend from above and all the inhabitants of the earth shall dwell in it. It shall be built upon the foundation of the Apostles and the gates thereunto shall be the twelve tribes of Israel. When the dots of the history of Jerusalem are connected to this its glorious future, simple wisdom or common sense have it that, faith in Christ Jesus, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham shall be the claiming right to the Jerusalem. So, as it were, there is something more eternal about Jerusalem than whatever claims anyone can have.

Jerusalem is the capital of the redeemed, sane and holy world soon to be. It is the eternal home of all peoples of all creeds, colours, and tongues. It is our final resting place. It is our capital. As someone satirically enthused that Trump should move to Jerusalem, he will, and not only him, but us all. It is a matter of time and faith. 

So, is Jerusalem the capital of Israel (Jews)? Yes. Is it the capital of Christianity and Islam? Yes, it is the capital of all peoples who believed that Jesus Christ is the Son of God who died and resurrected from the dead, who is the LORD over all. Jerusalem is the eternal capital of mankind. Come on, sing with me Samuel Crossman's eternal song:

Jerusalem on high,
My song and city is,
My home whene’er I die,
The centre of my bliss;
Oh, happy place!
When shall I be,
My God, with Thee,
To see Thy face?

2 There dwells my Lord, my King,
Judged here unfit to live;
There angels to Him sing
And lowly homage give;
Oh, happy place!
When shall I be,
My God, with Thee,
To see Thy face?

3 The patriarchs of old
There from their travels cease;
The prophets there behold
Their longed-for Prince of Peace;
Oh, happy place!
When shall I be,
My God, with Thee,
To see Thy face?

4 The Lamb’s apostles there
I might with joy behold,
The harpers I might hear
Harping on harps of gold:
Oh, happy place!
When shall I be,
My God, with Thee,
To see Thy face?

5 The bleeding martyrs, they
Within these courts are found,
Clothèd in pure array,
Their scars with glory crowned;
Oh, happy place!
When shall I be,
My God, with Thee,
To see Thy face?

6 Ah me! ah me! that I
In Kedar’s tent here stay;
No place like that on high;
Lord thither guide my way;
Oh, happy place!
When shall I be,
My God, with Thee,
To see Thy face?
Amen.