From amitt at niper.ac.in  Mon Apr  2 10:45:50 2007
From: amitt at niper.ac.in (Thapar, Amit)
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 10:45:50 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] World Lecture Hall
Message-ID: <013501c774e5$fac696c0$cc0ea8c0@LIBDOMAIN>

World Lecture Hall 
http://web.austin.utexas.edu/wlh/index.cfm
This oldie but goodie is still one of the best places to discover online 
course material - syllabi, course notes, audio, or video -- on virtually 
every topic, from around the world. Equally useful for for students, 
independent learners, and faculty seeking models for new courses they've 
been assigned to teach. 


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From subbiah_a at yahoo.com  Sun Apr  1 01:13:31 2007
From: subbiah_a at yahoo.com (Subbiah Arunachalam)
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 20:43:31 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Fwd: Room to Read to be Featured on "Oprah" - next
	Tuesday, April 3rd!
Message-ID: <847937.98650.qm@web43136.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>

Thanks very much. I am forwarding the message to many
of my friends. 

Arun


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> Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:52:17 -0800 (PST)
> From: Room to Read <info at roomtoread.org>
> To: <arun at mssrf.res.in>
> Subject: Room to Read to be Featured on "Oprah" -
> next Tuesday, April 3rd!
> 
> 
> Dear Friends of Room to Read,
> 
> We are incredibly excited to announce that John
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> audience and share John's story and the mission of
> Room to Read.  But wait, the news gets even
> better...  She will be issuing a challenge to her
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> 
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From mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in  Mon Apr  2 13:04:35 2007
From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin)
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 13:04:35 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] colloquium on E-Learning and Open Source Software
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704021303400.24809@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>

Date: 30 Mar 2007 08:25:32 -0000
From: Sucheta  Lahiri <such_bhu at rediffmail.com>

  ?
                    INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE
              DOCUMENTATION RESEARCH AND TRAINING CENTRE
               8th Mile Mysore Road, Bangalore-560059

                         DRTC Colloquium - 5
                              (2006-08)

               E-Learning and Open Source Software

                                ABSTRACT

Internet and World Wide Web are dramatically changing education and 
training as they enable people to access information and communicate with 
others across boundaries and cultures on a global scale. They offer the 
potential for sharing high quality learning resources, exchanging 
information and working in learning groups. There are so many E-learning 
design modules ?commercial and open source. Though, this form of education 
and training is becoming easily accessible and increasingly important, 
there are many issues and challenges in the e-learning environment. How we 
can make E-learning more effective by using good software? What are the 
impacts of E-learning on LIS? In this colloquium, the purpose is to 
discuss some of these.

TOPICS                                       SPEAKERS

1. Introduction                             Ayesha Khatoon

2. Tools & technology for e-learning        Anila S.

3. System (e-learning) design module        Mita Sarkar

4. Moodle                                   Radha Rani Rit

5. Manhattan                                Sanjeev K Sunny

6. Role of libraries in e-learning          Mithun Raj M

environment

7. Conclusion                               S.R.Ghani


Venue       :  DRTC Classroom
Date        :  4th April,2007
Time        : 2:00 pm


                                ALL ARE  CORDIALLY INIVITED.

From shikha at isical.ac.in  Tue Apr  3 16:04:26 2007
From: shikha at isical.ac.in (Shikha Bhowmik)
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 17:04:26 +0630
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Seeking suggestions to Classification Problems
Message-ID: <20070403101334.M48955@isical.ac.in>



Dear LIS Professionals,

Can you please give any suggestion regarding my problems of classification?

I am now following 20th ED. of DDC, but I like to shift to the 22nd ED. The major areas 
in which I am facing problems are 570-590. In these areas, the class numbers existing 
in the 20th ED. are scattered and intermingled in the 21st and 22nd ED.in such a way 
that if I shift to the new numbers, the other areas are being largely affected, and 
hence, any 'see also' reference is likely to be impossible to be rendered in the 
catalogue. But if the newly emerging subject areas are to be taken into account, I must 
shift to the latest edition. Reclassification may only be the solution, but it is not 
feasible everytime there is a major change, and as there is a large no. of collections. 
I am seeking your views and help.  

Regards,

Shikha Bhowmik
Associate Scientist,
Indian Statistical Institute Library, Kolkata

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From vimal0212 at yahoo.com  Wed Apr  4 12:53:19 2007
From: vimal0212 at yahoo.com (vimal kumar)
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 00:23:19 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Open access case repository
Message-ID: <20070404072319.13409.qmail@web52301.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

Dear Friends,

I would like to know Any Open access repository available for case studies alone on Business and Management?




Vimal Kumar 
Asian School of Business 
Technopark  
Trivandrum-695 581 
vimal0212 at yahoo.com
www.asb.edu.in


 
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Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 01:47:26 -0700 (PDT)
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From jyots_2001 at yahoo.com  Wed Apr  4 15:19:44 2007
From: jyots_2001 at yahoo.com (Jyotsna Sawant)
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 02:49:44 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Searching books on "Depository receipts"
Message-ID: <965711.17855.qm@web56806.mail.re3.yahoo.com>

Dear LIS Forum team, request you to put my query to all forum members. Thanks from Jyotsna. 



Dear All

We are searching urgently for books on "depository receipts" or "American Depository Receipts" for our organization. We have received some links on internet, but still we need something in book form which will be easy to refer and to make copies of some pages if found useful. Please let us know the same. 


Thanks & regards
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Information Centre, 
VSNL, Mumbai


 
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From krishna at irma.ac.in  Thu Apr  5 09:50:58 2007
From: krishna at irma.ac.in (krishna raghavendra yeri)
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 09:50:58 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] IRMA: positions:Sr.Library Assistants
Message-ID: <1175746858.98f88b3ckrishna@irma.ac.in>

Dear Moderator

Kindly arrange to put the following announcement on mailing list:

Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA)
requires: 2 Sr.Library Assistants
For more details please visit: http://www.irma.ac.in/career/libassistant.html

Thank you.

Sincerely
Krishna Yeri

Mr KR Yeri
Librarian
Institute of Rural Management Anand
Post Box No.60
Anand 388 001
www.irma.ac.in
krishna at irma.ac.in

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From jotwanid at iitb.ac.in  Thu Apr  5 11:46:21 2007
From: jotwanid at iitb.ac.in (D Jotwani, Librarian IIT Bombay)
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 11:46:21 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] National Workshop on LIS Education in Digital Era
Message-ID: <60960.10.99.103.1.1175753781.squirrel@gpo.iitb.ac.in>

Dear All

Central Library, IIT Bombay in collaboration with IATLIS has planned to
organize a National Workshop on LIS Education in Digital Era from 13-15
June 2007. The workshop will be held on the beautiful campus of IIT
Bombay. The main objectives of the workshop are :

1. To provide a forum to the LIS Teachers, Research Scholars, Librarians
and Academic Administrators to discuss or present their views on the
developments in ICT and its  applications in LIS Teaching and Library
Services
2. To create awareness and understanding about the importance of
introducing and executing information technology in LIS teaching to
achieve academic excellence.
3. To provide an opportunity to the participants to see the world class
Information Technology Infrastructure and other facilities available at
IIT Bombay
4. To provide  an opportunity to the participants to observe state-
of-the-art ICT applications in the Central Library, IIT Bombay and have
first hand experience of the web-based library and information services,
smart card-based (bar-coded) circulation system, electronic resource
management, on-line submission of theses and dissertations, open archives
etc.

Only 50 participants mainly LIS Teachers, full time Research Scholars and
Library Administrators, will be selected on first-come-first-served basis.
More details can also be had at http://www.library.iitb.ac.in

Thank you.
-- 
D. Jotwani
Librarian
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Powai, Mumbai 400076
Phone 91-22-25768920, 91-22-25720227





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From khaisernikam at yahoo.com  Sat Apr  7 12:53:46 2007
From: khaisernikam at yahoo.com (khaiser nikam)
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 00:23:46 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Work shop on D space at MyDLIS- MULISSA-Friday talks
Message-ID: <564470.71519.qm@web32705.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Dear All ,
   
           I am pleased to inform that the students of MLISC-2007 department of Library and Information Science,(MyDLIS), University of Mysore ,Mysore, under the auspecies of MyDLIS- MULISSA -Friday Talk are organising a one day work shop on "Dspace for Global access to Science Information - all the FOSS about building Institution Repositories "" on the friday 13th of April  2007 under the executive guidance of the Faculty Advisor Dr Khaiser Nikam..
   
  Objective :
    
   The objective of the workshop is to expose the Gennext - Information professtionals ( Current students) to Dspace and its nitty gritties with handson experience 
  Occassion :
     The year long Friday Talks are coming to an annual halt as the  students are busy preparing for their exams .It is said thah all good things have to come to an end - so also our exciting friday talks for this year are closing its bells.
   
  Participamts-  All the informational professionais in and around Mysore a re well come .There is no registration fee for the workshop .However,  interested participants can send thier request to - mail - khaiser.nikam at gmail.com
   
  Resource person : DR .M Krisnamurthy ,Librarian ,ISI ,Bangalore 
  Additional fecilitator : Dr Khaiser Nikam
   
  Guest of Hounor: Sri Iqbal Jagirdar ,Manager ,British Library ,Bangalore 
              
  From :
  Dr Khaiser Nikam 
  reader
  University of Mysore 
  Mysore - 570 006
  9845328672

 
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From sanjeev at drtc.isibang.ac.in  Wed Apr 11 11:41:42 2007
From: sanjeev at drtc.isibang.ac.in (Sanjeev Kumar Sunny)
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:41:42 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] 6th Colloquium (DRTC) on Open Access Movement
Message-ID: <33793.210.212.206.68.1176271902.squirrel@drtc>

                            INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE
                    DOCUMENTATION RESEARCH AND TRAINING CENTRE
                      8th Mile Mysore Road, Bangalore-560059

                                6th Colloquium
                                   (2006-08)

                                      On
                              Open Access Movement

                                    ABSTRACT

Journal prices were affordable till 1970s, when they began to rise faster
than inflation. Prices have risen four times faster than inflation since
1986. Fortunately, just as journal prices were becoming unaffordable, the
Internet emerged to offer an alternative - in the form of Open Access
Movement. "Open Access" defines a movement that promotes free,
unrestricted Internet access to the primary research literature as a
public good. What make it possible are the Internet and the consent of the
author or copyright-holder. OA is entirely compatible with peer review,
and all the major OA initiatives for scientific and scholarly literature
insist on its importance. There are two primary vehicles for delivering OA
to research articles: ?OA archives or repositories? and ?OA journals?.
There are open-source software for building and maintaining OAI-compliant
archives. The development and usage of these archives are gaining
worldwide momentum.

             Topics					    Speakers
1.	Overview					Sanjeev K Sunny
2.	What's happening worldwide?			Mithun Raj M.
3.	Open Access Journals 				Ayesha Khatoon
4.	Disciplinary Archives 				Syed Raiyan Ghani
5.	Institutional Archives and Repositories 	Anila S.
6.	OAI Tools: Software				Mita Sarkar
7.	Conclusion					Radha Rani Rit

Venue: DRTC Classroom
Date:  18th of April 2007
Time:  2:00 pm

                        All are cordially invited
.



                                                       Prof. K.S. Raghavan
                                                    (Colloquium Coordinator)


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From subirmlis at yahoo.co.in  Wed Apr 11 11:51:23 2007
From: subirmlis at yahoo.co.in (Subir Das)
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 07:21:23 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] AICTE Norms (Library) for PGDBM / MBA Institutions (
	Existing), Vide AICTE : Handbook 2007, No 12.5
Message-ID: <20070411062123.5360.qmail@web94504.mail.in2.yahoo.com>

Subir Das <subirmlis at yahoo.co.in> wrote: 
   
  Dear All the Librarians of Management Institutions,
   
  As per AICTE's Library requirements for PGDBM / MBA Institutions (Existing): Vide AICTE Handbook 2007, No 12.5
   
  No.of Books : 150, No.of  Vols.:1000,  
  No of Journals: 30,
   
  But  we are all aware that most of the self financing Institutions ( Private Management Institute ) are facing financial problems for the purchase of Journals due to short of funds and also for business based mindset of the  institute owner.
  Moreover the prices of the Journals are rising up on a regular basis. The Top Management authorities are not showing their interest to procure the costly Journals.
  Here, I am submitting the lists of top ten (10) renowned & peer reviewed journals ( Not Magazines!!!) which will be very much fruitful for AICTE purpose as well as for the MBA/PGDBM faculties, students & staffs of thier recognized Institutions. 
  The later part of the 20 journals / Magazines will be given shortly for those who are interested and further reply me for that purpose.
  The Lists are as follows:
   
  1)  'Metamorphosis : A journal of Management Research'.( Twice a Year )
  Published by Indian Institute of Management Lucknow,
  Annual Subscription: Rs.500
  Bank Demand Draft in favour of 'Indian Institute of Management Lucknow' payable at Lucknow
  Order to be Placed : 
  Editor in Chief, 
  Metemorphosis
  Indian Institute of Management; Lucknow
  Prabandh Nagar, off Sitapur Road,
  Lucknow-226013, U P, India.
   
  2)  'Vikalpa: The journal of Decision Makers'.(Twice a yr)
  Published by: Indian Institute of Management; Ahmedabad. Annual  Subscription: Rs.800
  Bank Demand Draft in favour of 'Indian Institute of Management  Ahmedabad Payable at Ahmedabad                                     
  Order to be Placed:
  Editor, 
  Vikalpa,
  Indian Institute of Management,Ahmedabad,
  Vastrapur-380015.
   
  3) 'IIMB Management Review'. ( Quarterly )
  Published by: Indian Institute of Management; Bangalore,
  Annual Subscription: Rs.900
  Bank Demand Draft in favour of 'IIMB Management Review' payable at Bangalore
  Order to be Placed: 
  The Subscription Desk
  IIMB-Management Review,
  IIM Bangalore,
  Bannerghatta Road,
  Bangalore-560076
   
  4) 'Decision' (Twice a Year)
  Published by: Indian Institute of Management; Calcutta.
  Annual Subscription : Rs.400
  Bank Demand Draft in favour of 'Indian Institute of Management Kolkata' payable at Kolkata
  Order to be Placed: 
  Publication Division,
  IIM Calcutta, 
  D.H.Road,
  Joka, Kolkata-700104.
   
  5) 'Bank Quest' ( Quarterly )
  Published by: Indian Institute of Banking & Finance.
  Annual Subscription: Rs.140
  Bank Demand Draft in favour of ' Indian Institute of Banking & Finance ' payable at Mumbai
  Order to be Placed: 
  The Director of Administration
  Indian Institute of Banking & Finance
  The Arcade, World Trade Centre,
  2nd Floor, Tower-4, 
  Mumbai-400005.
   
  6)'Indian Journal of Training & Development'  (Quarterly )
  Published by: Indian Society for Training & Development
  Annual Subscription: Rs.500
  Bank Demand Draft in favour of ' Indian Society for Training & Development?
  payable at New Delhi
  Order to be Placed: 
  Executive Director, 
  Indian Society for Training & Development
  B-41,New Mehrauli Road.
  New Delhi-110016.
   
  7) 'Personnel Today' (Quarterly )
  Published by: National Institute of Personnel Management.
  Annual Subscription: Rs.300
  Bank Demand Draft in favour of ' National Institute of Personnel Management ' payable at Kolkata
  Order to be Placed: 
  Executive Director for NIPM
  45, Jhowtala Road, 1st.Floor,
  Kolkata-700019.
   
  8) 'Bhavishya' ( Bi-Annual ) 
  Published by: Future Business School
  Annual subscription: Rs.300
  Bank Demand Draft in favour of 'Director, Future Business School' payable at Kolkata
  Order to be Placed:
  Chief Editor;
  Future Business School.
  Sonarpur Station Road,
  Kolkata-700150, India.
   
  9) 'Foreign Trade Review' ( Quarterly )
  Published by: Indian Institute of Foreign Trade.
  Annual Subscription: Rs.275
  Bank Demand Draft in favour of ' Indian Institute of Foreign Trade ' payable at New Delhi
  Order to be placed: 
  The Editor,
  Foreign Trade Review
  B-21, Qutab Institutional Area
  New Delhi-110016.
   
  10) 'Finance India' ( Quarterly )
  Published by: Indian Institute of Finance, Delhi
  Annual Subscription: Rs.1200
  Bank Demand Draft in favour of ' Indian Institute of Finance ' payable at Delhi
  Order to be Placed: 
  The Editor,
  Finance India,
  Indian Institute of Finance,
  Ashok Vihar II, Delhi-110052, India 
   
  So you have just spend Rs 5000 and getting ten top level of Indian Management Journals for your valuable Library user as well as it is very impressive outcomes for query of AICTE team year by year. Before purchase please  must see the website of the perticular journals for last minute change, if any.
   
  Feel free to write me for any query for quick communication.
  with regards,
   
  SUBIR DAS
  FIEM, KOLKATA-150
  librarian at fiemonline.org
  subirmlis at yahoo.co.in
   


SUBIR DAS
       
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From mallikarjun23j at yahoo.com  Wed Apr 11 13:25:21 2007
From: mallikarjun23j at yahoo.com (Mallikarjun)
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 08:55:21 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] LibSite.org - A Recommendation Service for
	Library-related Websites
Message-ID: <961217.11998.qm@web36910.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

 
  Dear Professional

  http://libsite.org/
   
  LibSite.org is built around the premise that library-related projects 
need and deserve a higher profile, that the current technology allows 
us 
to engage this material in any number of creative ways.

FEATURES

For that reason, the site features a blog, a wiki, RSS feeds and email 
alerts -- the last two being configurable down to individual tags. 
Users 
can rate sites and add them to a "favorites" page. There's even a 
LibSite Widget that people can put on their own sites:

http://libsite.org/wiki/features

USER-GENERATED

Fundamental to the concept is user-involvement.  Users can post 
recommendations ("webCites").  Users can add their own tags.  Based on 
this input, others can then create RSS feeds and email alerts.  All can 
participate if only to leave constructive comments and rate the work of 
others.

http://libSite.org

  With regards
  Mallikarjun 

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From arunyadav28 at yahoo.co.in  Wed Apr 11 20:01:31 2007
From: arunyadav28 at yahoo.co.in (arun yadav)
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:31:31 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Vacancy
Message-ID: <820440.77249.qm@web8806.mail.in.yahoo.com>

 
  Dear Professionals
  Vacancy fo Library Asst on contract basis for three years.For details please visit at www.pnbiit.com/recruitment.htm
   
   
  ARUN YADAV
  Acharya Narendra Dev Public Library Lucknow
  (M) 9838150983

       
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From cwbailey at digital-scholarship.com  Thu Apr 12 02:34:06 2007
From: cwbailey at digital-scholarship.com (Charles W. Bailey, Jr.)
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:04:06 -0500
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Version 67, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
Message-ID: <461D4D46.3050302@digital-scholarship.com>

Version 67 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing
Bibliography is now available from Digital Scholarship.
This selective bibliography presents over 2,960 articles,
books, and other printed and electronic sources that are
useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing
efforts on the Internet.

http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html

New versions of SEPB are announced on DigitalKoans:

http://www.digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/
RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/DigitalKoans

The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2006
Annual Edition is also available from Digital Scholarship.
Annual editions of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing
Bibliography are PDF files designed for printing.

http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/annual/annual.htm

For a discussion of the numerous changes in my digital
publications since my resignation from the University
of Houston Libraries, see:

http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2007/02/18/summary-of-baileys-digital-publications-changes/

Changes in This Version

The bibliography has the following sections (revised
sections are marked with an asterisk):

Table of Contents

1 Economic Issues*
2 Electronic Books and Texts
     2.1 Case Studies and History*
     2.2 General Works*
     2.3 Library Issues*
3  Electronic Serials
     3.1 Case Studies and History*
     3.2 Critiques
     3.3 Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals*
     3.4 General Works*
     3.5 Library Issues*
     3.6 Research*
4 General Works*
5 Legal Issues
     5.1 Intellectual Property Rights*
     5.2 License Agreements*
6  Library Issues
     6.1 Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata*
     6.2 Digital Libraries*
     6.3 General Works*
     6.4 Information Integrity and Preservation*
7 New Publishing Models*
8 Publisher Issues*
     8.1 Digital Rights Management*
9 Repositories, E-Prints, and OAI*
Appendix A. Related Bibliographies
Appendix B. About the Author
Appendix C. SEPB Use Statistics

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources includes
the following sections:

Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata*
Digital Libraries*
Electronic Books and Texts*
Electronic Serials*
General Electronic Publishing*
Images
Legal*
Preservation
Publishers*
Repositories, E-Prints, and OAI*
SGML and Related Standards

Further Information about SEPB

The XHTML version of SEPB is designed for interactive use.
Each major section is a separate file.  There are links
to sources that are freely available on the Internet.
It can be searched using a Google Search Engine.  Whether
the search results are current depends on Google's
indexing frequency.

In addition to the bibliography, the XHTML document
includes:

(1) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (biweekly list of
new resources; also available by e-mail--see second
URL--and RSS Feed--see third URL)

http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepw/sepw.htm
http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=51756
http://feeds.feedburner.com/ScholarlyElectronicPublishingWeblogrss

(2) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources (directory
of over 270 related Web sites)

http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepr/sepr.htm

(3) Archive (prior versions of the bibliography)

http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/archive/sepa.htm

Related Article

An article about the bibliography has been published
in The Journal of Electronic Publishing:

http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-02/bailey.html

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Best Regards,
Charles

Charles W. Bailey, Jr.

Digital Scholarship
http://www.digital-scholarship.org/

DigitalKoans/Flashback
http://www.digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/
http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/category/flashback-weekly-news/

Open Access Bibliography/Webliography
http://www.digital-scholarship.org/oab/oab.htm
http://www.digital-scholarship.org/cwb/oaw.htm

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography/Weblog
http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html
http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepw/sepw.htm

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From veer9999 at rediffmail.com  Thu Apr 12 10:02:25 2007
From: veer9999 at rediffmail.com (veeresh hiremath)
Date: 12 Apr 2007 04:32:25 -0000
Subject: [LIS-Forum] AICTE Norms -Library Exhibition
Message-ID: <20070412043225.29090.qmail@webmail90.rediffmail.com>

Dear All,
I am given to understand that as per AICTE norms, it is compulsory for a library to hold one annual exhibition.  Can any of you throw more light on this issue?


Veeresh c Hiremath
Librarian, 
K J Somaiya College of Engineering
Phone (D):(91-22)66449020, fax:(91-22)25152272
mobile:9867260884
Email:veer9999 at rediffmail.com,hiremathvc at gmail.com,vchiremath at indiatimes.com,veereshmlisc at yahoo.com

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From mallikarjun23j at yahoo.com  Tue Apr 10 11:30:08 2007
From: mallikarjun23j at yahoo.com (Mallikarjun)
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 07:00:08 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Repository 66
Message-ID: <992580.78736.qm@web36903.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Dear Professional  Repository 66 : OA Digital Reposiotry Map  Stuart Lewis of the University of Wales Aberystwyth has created a Google Map mashup called Repository 66  (http://maps.repository66.org/ )   that shows worldwide open access digital repositories using data from ROAR and OpenDOAR.    With regards
  Mallikarjun Dora


Mallikarjun Dora
  Dept. of Information Science
  University of Madras, Chennai-600005
  ...The Future is here, Its just unevenly distributed........
  http://curiouslib.blogspot.com/
   
   
   

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From amitt at niper.ac.in  Tue Apr 10 15:32:53 2007
From: amitt at niper.ac.in (Thapar, Amit)
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:32:53 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Library position in IISER, Kolkata
Message-ID: <00f201c77b57$67e9df60$cc0ea8c0@LIBDOMAIN>

See the below link :

http://www.iiserkol.ac.in/index.htm



Advertisement No. IISER-K/8/2007, Dated 3rd April 2007. 

  Documentation Officer - 1 post 
  Scale of pay: 8,000-275-13,500/-
  Qualification and experience: A Post graduate degree in Library Science/ Information Science/ Documentation with at least 55% marks or its equivalent grade and a consistently good academic record OR Master's degree in Art/Science/Commerce with at least 55% marks or its equivalent grade with Bachelor's degree in Library Science/ Information Science/ Documentation or an equivalent professional degree with at least 55% or its equivalent grade plus a consistently good academic record. Experience in computerization of Library Services will be preferred.
    

The above posts carrys as admissible to Central Government Employees posted at Kolkata. Reservation for SC/ST/OBC/PH etc. will be made as per Government of India rules.

Interested candidates are requested to send their detailed bio-data along with copies of certificates and testimonials to: 

    The Registrar, 
    IISER - Kolkata,
    IIT Kharagpur Kolkata Campus,
    Block - HC VIII,
    Sector - III, Salt Lake City,
    Kolkata 700 106.

Applications should reach the above address on or before 2nd May, 2007.

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From ns.harinarayana at gmail.com  Tue Apr 10 16:21:15 2007
From: ns.harinarayana at gmail.com (N.S. Harinarayana)
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:21:15 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Banning of books in libraries
Message-ID: <5d6bc5c70704100351s32cffc5xee35ca4572f4e7b2@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,
After reading the articles, I am again prompted to bring the below mentioned
two articles appeared in Library Review to the attention of the fellow
professionals.

Article Title: Library Review: The banning of books in libraries
Authors: W.C. Berwick Sayers
Article Type: Viewpoint
Keywords: Censorship, Librarianship history, Libraries
Pages: 194-196
Link to Page:
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/viewContentItem.do?contentType=Article&contentId=1602372



Article Title: On reading "The banning of books in libraries"
Authors: Paul F. Burton
Article Type: Viewpoint
Keywords: Censorship, Ethics, Libraries
Pages: 197-199
Link to Page:
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/viewContentItem.do?contentType=Article&contentId=1602373

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N.S. Harinarayana,  Ph.D
Department of Library and Information Science
University of Mysore, Manasagangtori
Mysore 570 006
Off. Ph: (0821) 2419393

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From puna_05 at yahoo.co.in  Mon Apr  9 10:55:56 2007
From: puna_05 at yahoo.co.in (Puna Das)
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 06:25:56 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Free online and distance education courses provided by
	Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), Tokyo
Message-ID: <750935.40735.qm@web8605.mail.in.yahoo.com>

Dear All 

I hope that the online and distance education courses
provided by Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI),
Tokyo are helpful, beneficial and interesting to you.
So I recommend you to encourage your colleagues,
subordinates and friends to register for these courses
so that they can also study and benefit from these
courses. These courses are offered free of charge. 

Current courses: 
1) E-Business Strategies 
2) Online E-Learning Policies 

Forthcoming Courses: 
1) E-Governance
2) Computer Courseware Development
3) Workforce Development

For Registration visit: www.adbi-dlc.org

I wish you all the best with your studies. 
                       
Thank you. 
Best regards

Anup Kumar Das
Anasua Mukherjee Das
New Delhi

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Personal webpage: www.anupkumardas.blogspot.com 
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From t_muniraj at yahoo.co.in  Mon Apr  9 12:14:20 2007
From: t_muniraj at yahoo.co.in (Muniraj. T)
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 07:44:20 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Vacancies
Message-ID: <338716.11175.qm@web7609.mail.in.yahoo.com>

 
  Dear all, 
   
  Anjuman College of Education --- Librarian
   
  Qualification as prescribed by State govt.
  Apply immediately with certificated of qualification and experience 
   
  To
  General Secretary, Anjuman Hami-e-Muslimeen,
  Main Road, BHATKAL ? 581320 (Karnataka)
   
  Posts for an Engineering College --- Librarian
   
  Qualification, Salary and Experience as per AICTE norms.
  Apply with in 10th April 2007
   
  To 
  Box No: 81447
  C/O Deccan Herald,
  MG Road, Bangalore-1
  Eligible candidates will be called for the interview on 13th April 2007 at Bangalore.
   
  Camlin School ? MG?s Infant school --- Librarian
   
  Salary according to merit. Apply in own hand ? writing with full bio- data with in 5 days. Salary includes management PF.
  To
  MG?s Infant school,
  Bilekahalli, Baneerghatta Road, Bangalore?76
   
  PH: No --- 65628565/26581151/9886663833
   
   


Regards,



 MUNIRAJU.T 
   IV Sem. MLISc
   Department of Library
   and Information Science. 
   E-mail: t_muniraj at yahoo.co.in
Blog: 
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From jraoan at gmail.com  Mon Apr  9 14:44:21 2007
From: jraoan at gmail.com (JANARDHANA RAO A. N)
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 14:44:21 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Seminar announcement
Message-ID: <7bf8c540704090214o97774d5j55ff3cebd58a8495@mail.gmail.com>

Kindly announce to the LIS-Forum members.
Dear colleagues


*First Consortium of Students in Library and Information Science (COSLISR)
 on M*ay 26,  2007



*Organizers:* M.S Ramaiah Institute of Management, Bangalore and Digital
Information Research Foundation, Chennai.

We are organizing a one-day Seminar on First Consortium of Students in
Library and Information Science (COSLISR). This Seminar  is specially
designed for the Research  Students and Practitioners in library &
Information Science.
COSLISR aims to

   - To provide a quality interaction forum for researchers in Library &
   Information Science.
   - To provide an opportunity for professional networking among LIS
   research students, academicians and practitioners.
   - To orient LIS professionals in a right track of research.
   - To train LIS professionals for writing quality research papers and
   thesis.

*Activities in COSLISR 2007 include*

?         Presentations of research topics/plans/papers by students

?         Suggestions by experts from the LIS field

?         Panel discussions on recent topics
  CALL FOR PAPERS

We invite research students (MPhil/ Ph.D) from Autonomous Institutes,
Universities and organizations to send complete research papers in their
research areas.



Papers will be published after editing by experts.


*Guidelines for sending papers*

Papers would be reviewed and selected for presentation by a panel of eminent
academicians. The paper must be essentially based on the author's thesis
work. The manuscript should not exceed 15 pages (A4-size) in length
including figures, tables, references, acknowledgments, Bibliography &
Appendices. Full paper may be    E-mailed in MS Word format  to
info at dirf.org and copy to msrimlrao at yahoo.com

*IMPORTANT DATES:***

15 May 2007 - Receipt of Full paper along with registration fee.

* *

*Registration Fee*:

Rs 500/- Per Participant.

Interested members conform your participation by e-mail,  phone or enclosed
form latest by 19th May 2007, along with a cheque/cash for Rs 500/- favoring
*M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Management, Bangalore.*

* *



*For Registration Contact:*

* *

* Janardhana Rao A N*

*Librarian *
*M. S. Ramaiah Inst. of Management*

MSRIT Post Bangalore-560054

Ph:080-23606909, 23608230, Extn-111

Fax.080-23601947
*Mob: 09880021875 *

*E-mail:* jraoan at gmail.com

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From subbiah_a at yahoo.com  Sat Apr  7 18:32:23 2007
From: subbiah_a at yahoo.com (Subbiah Arunachalam)
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 14:02:23 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Training in LIS
Message-ID: <37633.41021.qm@web43144.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>

Friends:

I am concerned about the quality of training we
provide in our country to would be librarians and
information scientists. 

The other day I had received my copy of the Bulletin
of ASIST, which I always find very readable. Prof.
Blaise Cronin, who won the ASIS&T Award of Merit for
2006, had written a two-page acceptance speech. He is
an extraordinarily good writer and I enjoy reading
him. In his acceptance speech, Prof. Cronin, whom I
first came to know more than two decades ago when I
reviewed his cute little book "The Citation Process",
had mentioned the names of many outstanding
information scientists, spanning more than two
generations, whose writings had shaped his career or
influenced him in some way. Among them are 

Hans Peter Luhn
Robert Fairthorne
Cyril Cleerdon
Eugene Garfield
Wilfrid Lancaster
Gerard Salton
Tefko Saracevic
Henry Small
Don Swanson
Howard White
Bertram Brookes
Michael Buckland
Pauline Autherton Cochrane
Wiliam Goffman
Belver Griffith
Robert Hayes
John Martyn
Stephen Robertson
Karen Sparck Jones
Irene Farkas-Conn
Peter Taylor
Alan Gilchrist
Elizabeth Lowry-Corry
Brian Vickery
Robert Williams
Ben Ami-Lipetz
Derek de Solla Price
Nick Belkin
Boyd Rayward
Jack Meadows.

I met a young librarian with a Masters degree from a
leading Indian university and a couple of years of
work experience and showed him the article and asked
him if he had read any of these authors. He was honest
enough to admit that he had heard of the name of
Garfield in connection with indexing, and his teachers
never even mentioned the names of the others.  

On another day I was asked to meet the final year
Masters students of LIS in a famous Indian university.
Some students would not speak a word, despite repeated
cajoling. Their knowledge was far below what one would
expect of a Masters student. Without preparation, they
may not be able to appreciate Tefko Saracevic's edited
volume "Introduction to Information Science" or Irene
Farkas-Conn's history of the field "From Documentation
to Information Science." To be fair, they may
understand some portions of Garfield's Essays of an
Information Scientist, as Garfield often wrote not for
the specialists but for the lay readers. 

Many years ago I was in a selection committee in a
chemistry laboratory and I asked a candidate for the
post of an assistant librarian if he knew any
chemistry as his job would be to serve chemists;
scientists may want to make a substructure search and
unless one knows chemical structures it will be almost
impossible to make such searches. The candidate
replied that in the LIS school they taught
'organization of knowledge' and therefore there was no
need to know chemistry! When asked to explain 'open
access to journal literature' another candidate said
that some libraries allowed users to move freely in
the library and pick up the books and journals they
wanted to read, and he was totally ignorant of making
journal literature freely available on the Internet.  

I have attended a few national conferences. There is
hardly any originality in the papers presented and the
level of discussion is appallingly low. 

We need to do something and do it quickly. We need to
inculcate the habit of reading in our students. Blaise
cronin says that when he was a graduate student at
Belfast he "poured over copies of American
Documentation, Aslib Proceedings, IP&M, ARIST and the
Journal of Documentation with enthusiasm of a kid in a
candy store, stumbling upon seminal papers". We need
to guide our students to the masters and their great
writings. As the field is expanding, the need to keep
abreast of developments is becoming more and more
important. We need to improve the communication skills
of our students. We should award degrees only to the
deserving. 

Years ago I had taught at the INSDOC Training School
and I had the great pleasure of working with people
like Prof. Thyaga Natarajan and Prof. Guha, and was
amazed at their simplicity and passion for reading and
teaching. Even the next level faculty had the
qualities of good teachers. I have heard about the
high quality of training imparted at DRTC, but have no
first hand knowledge, except attending a few
conferences and giving a few lectures to students. The
training imparted at NCSI, largely thanks to the late
Dr T B Rajashekar, is indeed very good. We need to
make sure that training imparted in every LIS school
in the country is of the highest quality. 

As Greg Chappell said there should be a system where
those who do not perform are automatically sent out.
According to him that is why Australia performs very
well in cricket. 

Best wishes.

Arun










		
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From sandeep31581 at yahoo.co.uk  Sat Apr  7 21:59:56 2007
From: sandeep31581 at yahoo.co.uk (sandeep bhavsar)
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 17:29:56 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Five Weeks to a Social Library
Message-ID: <508096.73816.qm@web26008.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>

  Respected All
http://www.sociallibraries.com/course/

Five Weeks to a Social Library is the first free, grassroots, completely online course devoted to teaching librarians about social software and how to use it in their libraries. It was developed to provide a free, comprehensive, and social online learning opportunity for librarians who do not otherwise have access to conferences or continuing education and who would benefit greatly from learning about social software. The course will be taught using a variety of social software tools so that the participants acquire experience using the tools while they are taking part in the class. It will make use of synchronous online communication, with one or two weekly Webcasts and many small group IM chat sessions made available to participants each week. By the end of the course, each student will develop a proposal for implementing a specific social software tool in their library. The course content will be freely viewable by interested parties and all live Webcasts will be
 archived for later viewing. The course will cover the following topics: 
  
   Blogs
   RSS
   Wikis
   Social Networking Software      and SecondLife
   Flickr
   Social Bookmarking Software
   Selling Social Software @      Your Library
Best Regards

Sandeep Bhavsar
Librarian
Dr.V.N.Bedekar Institute of Management Studies
Thane(W). 400601
MUMBAI
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From sri_lib at yahoo.com  Sun Apr  8 19:01:10 2007
From: sri_lib at yahoo.com (sri priya)
Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 06:31:10 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Library Jargon and Lingo service:
Message-ID: <415955.35872.qm@web57015.mail.re3.yahoo.com>

Library Jargon and Lingo service :  provides some useful " specialized technical terminology characteristic of a particular subject" and Some Common Library Terms Defined "  
   
   Library Jargon and Lingo service:
   Visit :---
   
  http://library.morrisville.edu/lingo.html 
   
  http://lib.utsa.edu/Research/Subject/lingo.html
   
  http://library.uwb.edu/tour/LibraryLingo.html
   
  http://lib.colostate.edu/lingo/a.html
   
  http://www.lib.umd.edu/guides/lingo.html
   
  http://lu.com/odlis/
   
   
   
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From guhamba at informindia.co.in  Thu Apr  5 17:14:51 2007
From: guhamba at informindia.co.in (guhamba)
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 17:14:51 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Openings for First class MLIS (or equivalent) Applicants
Message-ID: <004801c77777$d28f78e0$a401a8c0@informindia.co.in>


Informatics India Ltd located in Jayanagar, requires first class MLIS (or
equivalent) applicants (15 Nos.) having 1-3 years experience to be trained
in standards such as Anglo American Cataloging Rules (AACR), Dewey Decimal
Classification (DDC), Library of Congress (LC) Classification and Library of
Congress Subject Headings (LCSH). Salary will be around Rs.1.2-1.5 lacs p.a.
Those interested may respond with CV to guhamba at informindia.co.in

Regards,
Guhamba


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From srels at vsnl.com  Fri Apr  6 12:22:03 2007
From: srels at vsnl.com (srels)
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 12:22:03 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Lecture invitation
Message-ID: <LDEPJAIAOLEDHJHMCKOAMEALCHAA.srels@vsnl.com>

Dear Moderator,

Kindly arrange to announce the following invitation to the lis-forum
members.

Yours truly,

K.N. Prasad

Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science
702, 'Upstairs', 42nd Cross (near Syndicate Bank)
III Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalore 560 010

****** ******






Prof. M.R. Kumbhar Memorial Lectures Committee, Bangalore
cordially invites you to the
Prof. M.R. Kumbhar Memorial Lectures(13)(2007)
on
Library Technology and its Implications for the Library and Information
Science Professional
by
Dr. Devika Madalli
Faculty, Documentation Research and Training Centre, Indian Statistical
Institute, Bangalore
Dr. I.K. Ravichandra Rao
Head, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore
presides
on Monday, 16th April 2007 at 6.00 p,
at Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science
702, 'Upstairs', 42nd Cross (near Syndicate Bank)
III Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalore 560 010



RSVP: K.N. Prasad - Ph: 080-23305109 ;                              E-mail:
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From subbiah_a at yahoo.com  Fri Apr  6 15:50:32 2007
From: subbiah_a at yahoo.com (Subbiah Arunachalam)
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 11:20:32 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Catalysis EPrints database growing fast
Message-ID: <45973.79791.qm@web43143.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>

Friends:

The Catalysis EPrints Database put together by India's
National Centre for Catalysis Research is growing
fast. When I checked this afternoon, it had 508
papers. Congrats to NCCR and the individuals behind
this excellent repository!

Other professional societies (and Academies) in India
will do well to follow this example and make all the
papers of their members (Fellows) freely available.


Arun
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From appun5 at yahoo.com  Sat Apr  7 11:45:08 2007
From: appun5 at yahoo.com (A. B. NAIKAL)
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 23:15:08 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] UGC okays uniform academic calendar
Message-ID: <664158.23048.qm@web33005.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

UGC okays uniform academic calendar 

   LIFE will soon become easier for students migrating
from one college to another or from another
university. The University Grants Commission (UGC) has
approved a uniform academic calendar for all
universities across the country. This would mean that
results of all courses will be declared before June
and classes for first year students shall commence by
the first week of August. 
   The uniform calendar requires every university to
ensure that the first year classes for courses begin
no later than the first week of August and for
students of second year onwards, by no later than the
third week of July. This academic calendar will not be
applicable for professional courses. 
   The calendar, based on the report of an expert
committee comprising M Anandakrishnan, former vice
chancellor, Anna University, Chennai; SN Hegde, former
vice chancellor, Mysore University and Dayanand
Dongaonkar, secretary general, Association of Indian
Universities. 
   A flexibility of two weeks may be followed for
professional courses in commencement of classes for
students of second year and later keeping in view the
requirement of project work, summer schools and
internships in these programmes. 
   UGC approved the calendar on February 26 and the
new regulations have been sent for publication in the
Gazette of India to come into force from their date of
publication in the official gazette. 

Source: Economic Times Dated 06/04/2007
http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=RVRNLzIwMDcvMDQvMDYjQXIwMDcwMw==&Mode=HTML&Locale=english-skin-custom

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From kiran at cseindia.org  Sat Apr  7 16:34:40 2007
From: kiran at cseindia.org (kiran at cseindia.org)
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 16:34:40 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] volunteer required in Delhi_dspace
Message-ID: <4617C820.7486.12401D5@localhost>

Volunteer required

We seek help of a young volunteer based in Delhi to install and 
experiment the relevance and benefits of DSpace. This is a 15-day 
project aimed at understanding use of open access digital asset 
management systems for developing institutional repositories in the 
Special libraries/resource centres.  

Interested volunteers with very good knowledge about Dspace and with 
interest to experiment with similar systems are requested to contact 
Kiran Dwivedi  at kir_nov at yahoo.co.in


Ms. Kiran Pandey
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From mail2randhir84 at yahoo.co.in  Thu Apr 12 12:24:03 2007
From: mail2randhir84 at yahoo.co.in (Rohit Kumar)
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 07:54:03 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] librarian post for INDIA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
Message-ID: <762138.86754.qm@web7715.mail.in.yahoo.com>

Dear friends,
   Application are invited for the Walk in Interview  for librarian post for IIS.
    
                         India International School (IIS) is looking for a dynamic librarian for its institute 
   Required qualification & experience:
   
   Master      degree in library and information science (MliSc) from a recognize      university or equivalent.
   Bachelor      degree in library and Information scienc (BliSc) from a recognize      university or equivalent.
   Working      professional experience in any library/ or in any project work with      library/ library automation work experience
    
   Or 1 year certificate degree in computer applicationh from a recognize Institute or equivalent. (recognize by any state of Govt of Indial)
   
   Having      a good communication skill in English.
      Age:  no limit
   Pay scale:  8,000- 10,000 Rs
   Eligible candidate may send their soft copy of resume to contacts at iis.edu.in  or hard copy to the school address. (given below)
    
   Shortlisted candidates will be called for the interview on 16th April at school.
                                                                           With best wishes
                                                                                                                                                                                                       (Principal)
   India Internation  School
   Chikka BeLlaNdur  Village
   Carmelram post, Sarjapura Road
   Bangalore- 560035
   Tel no: 91-80-28439001/02/03
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From vasu at qmedin.com  Thu Apr 12 12:42:39 2007
From: vasu at qmedin.com (Vasumathi Sriganesh)
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:42:39 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Training in LIS
References: <37633.41021.qm@web43144.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <021b01c77cd2$01c4a770$3500a8c0@laptop>

Dear Dr. Arunachalam

You have really touched a very deep chord. We can no longer reject the truth
that we are faced with - however bitter it is. I know I have talked about
all these things to many people on one or more of these lists and definitely
with the individuals cc-ed on this list. I am also aware that there are a
handful of excellent dedicated librarians in India - but the number is
dwindling alarmingly.Also - they are buried deep in their institutions and
do not spread their wings across - mostly because they not permitted to. I
am praying hard that the National Knowledge Commission's  findings and
reports may do some resurrection for the profession.

There are two things about this entire issue:

1) There is a "Vicious Circle" that we are talking about. - Poor quality
librarians (being produced in masses) ----> projecting the profession in a
poor light ---> not attracting the kinds of salaries that MBAs / IT
professionals or even next lower levels do ----> and thus no really good
students enter the profession. I mentioned "Circle" and because I am writing
in an email - I had to put down the entire thing in a linear fashion. The
circle obviously has no beginning. One grim reality is - except in rare
situations, the number of librarians who would send their children into this
profession is miniscule. If we ourselves will not - how do we expect good
candidates to come in? Today's scenario is that the average starting salary
for a Fresh MBA from a reputed instn is Rs. 50,000/- and I wonder how many
seniors in the LIS profession, take that much home at the fag end of their
careers (if we leave aside some Corporate librarians)

2) Where do we begin? I believe there must be lots of parallel processing.

a) Strong Foundations - School and college libraries need to be given very
high importance. The focus must be -
i) To inculcate the love of reading and information seeking in children /
teenagers
ii) To sow the seeds of the importance of libraries in their lives
The former will make them good library users AND good educated individuals ;
the latter will make them give the due importance to libraries - whatever
position they may be in.........and importantly if they are in decision
making positions

b) At a very Massive Level - promote awareness of the importance of the
profession - and make good students take it up. In a country of Dr. SRR, I
think that easily 8-9/10 people to whom I say "I have done Lib & Info Sc"
ask me if it is a Diploma after the 10th or 12th. This is something we need
to be ashamed of. People know about BBA / BMS / BMM etc - courses that are
all just a few years old, but how come they know practically nothing about
Lib & Info Sciences?

c) While we are getting good students in, we have to parallely ensure that
they have good jobs with good starting salaries, when they graduate. There
has to be some "handshake" between the process of these students getting
trained and organizations taking them in and starting them on doing
something by which they really produce measurable results in at least one
year. Also importantly, Communication and Soft skills simply MUST be
included in the curriculum.

As I said - fundamentally - all three processes have to go on and then each
feeds into the other.

Finally - I guess - the real question is "WHO WILL BELL THE CAT"? Take all
this to the major change that we seek? We need a bunch of people who will
work tirelessly towards this - and not give up - and hand over the baton to
the right people as and when required.

Vasumathi Sriganesh
Director, QMed Services
A-3, Shubham Centre, Cardinal Gracious Road
Chakala, Andheri East,  Mumbai 400099, India
Tel: 91-22-40054474 / 75    Fax: 91-22-40054358
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Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2007 6:32 PM
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> Friends:
>
> I am concerned about the quality of training we
> provide in our country to would be librarians and
> information scientists.


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From rajankila at hotmail.com  Thu Apr 12 13:09:53 2007
From: rajankila at hotmail.com (Rajan)
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 13:09:53 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Subject:  Training in LIS
Message-ID: <BAY128-DAV64F0F491DFF3A0DEE77C1B65E0@phx.gbl>

Dear All, 

It seems that we need to discuss the issues raised by Shri Arun, in order to make the library field a little better. The scenario is far from satisfactory. There is no need to blame anyone for the sorry state of affairs. But we need to think of ways for improving the situation. So it seems that the teacher- friends in the forum should start the discussion airing their views. Probably they are are the people who can do something substantial to improve the situation.


Regards,


K Rajasekharan
Librarian , Kerala Institute of Local Administration
Mulagunnathukavu, Thrissur -680591

Ph 0487- 2204097 (O), 2201428 ( R)

Message: 1
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 14:02:23 +0100 (BST)
From: Subbiah Arunachalam <subbiah_a at yahoo.com>
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Training in LIS
To: lis-forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in, naglaxman at yahoo.com,
iatlis-owner at yahoogroups.com
Cc: haravu at newgenlib.com
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Friends:

I am concerned about the quality of training we
provide in our country to would be librarians and
information scientists. 

The other day I had received my copy of the Bulletin
of ASIST, which I always find very readable. Prof.
Blaise Cronin, who won the ASIS&T Award of Merit for
2006, had written a two-page acceptance speech. He is
an extraordinarily good writer and I enjoy reading
him. In his acceptance speech, Prof. Cronin, whom I
first came to know more than two decades ago when I
reviewed his cute little book "The Citation Process",
had mentioned the names of many outstanding
information scientists, spanning more than two
generations, whose writings had shaped his career or
influenced him in some way. Among them are 

Hans Peter Luhn
Robert Fairthorne
Cyril Cleerdon
Eugene Garfield
Wilfrid Lancaster
Gerard Salton
Tefko Saracevic
Henry Small
Don Swanson
Howard White
Bertram Brookes
Michael Buckland
Pauline Autherton Cochrane
Wiliam Goffman
Belver Griffith
Robert Hayes
John Martyn
Stephen Robertson
Karen Sparck Jones
Irene Farkas-Conn
Peter Taylor
Alan Gilchrist
Elizabeth Lowry-Corry
Brian Vickery
Robert Williams
Ben Ami-Lipetz
Derek de Solla Price
Nick Belkin
Boyd Rayward
Jack Meadows.

I met a young librarian with a Masters degree from a
leading Indian university and a couple of years of
work experience and showed him the article and asked
him if he had read any of these authors. He was honest
enough to admit that he had heard of the name of
Garfield in connection with indexing, and his teachers
never even mentioned the names of the others.  

On another day I was asked to meet the final year
Masters students of LIS in a famous Indian university.
Some students would not speak a word, despite repeated
cajoling. Their knowledge was far below what one would
expect of a Masters student. Without preparation, they
may not be able to appreciate Tefko Saracevic's edited
volume "Introduction to Information Science" or Irene
Farkas-Conn's history of the field "From Documentation
to Information Science." To be fair, they may
understand some portions of Garfield's Essays of an
Information Scientist, as Garfield often wrote not for
the specialists but for the lay readers. 

Many years ago I was in a selection committee in a
chemistry laboratory and I asked a candidate for the
post of an assistant librarian if he knew any
chemistry as his job would be to serve chemists;
scientists may want to make a substructure search and
unless one knows chemical structures it will be almost
impossible to make such searches. The candidate
replied that in the LIS school they taught
'organization of knowledge' and therefore there was no
need to know chemistry! When asked to explain 'open
access to journal literature' another candidate said
that some libraries allowed users to move freely in
the library and pick up the books and journals they
wanted to read, and he was totally ignorant of making
journal literature freely available on the Internet.  

I have attended a few national conferences. There is
hardly any originality in the papers presented and the
level of discussion is appallingly low. 

We need to do something and do it quickly. We need to
inculcate the habit of reading in our students. Blaise
cronin says that when he was a graduate student at
Belfast he "poured over copies of American
Documentation, Aslib Proceedings, IP&M, ARIST and the
Journal of Documentation with enthusiasm of a kid in a
candy store, stumbling upon seminal papers". We need
to guide our students to the masters and their great
writings. As the field is expanding, the need to keep
abreast of developments is becoming more and more
important. We need to improve the communication skills
of our students. We should award degrees only to the
deserving. 

Years ago I had taught at the INSDOC Training School
and I had the great pleasure of working with people
like Prof. Thyaga Natarajan and Prof. Guha, and was
amazed at their simplicity and passion for reading and
teaching. Even the next level faculty had the
qualities of good teachers. I have heard about the
high quality of training imparted at DRTC, but have no
first hand knowledge, except attending a few
conferences and giving a few lectures to students. The
training imparted at NCSI, largely thanks to the late
Dr T B Rajashekar, is indeed very good. We need to
make sure that training imparted in every LIS school
in the country is of the highest quality. 

As Greg Chappell said there should be a system where
those who do not perform are automatically sent out.
According to him that is why Australia performs very
well in cricket. 

Best wishes.

Arun


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From mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in  Thu Apr 12 15:26:21 2007
From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin)
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:26:21 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Subject: Training in LIS
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704121525190.12121@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>

Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:35:50 +0530
From: Sukhdev Singh <esukhdev at gmail.com>

Before anything else I believe that any professional course has to be
market oriented.

I wish a list of marketable skills be compiled first before discussing
suitable training package first.

--Sukhdev Singh, NIC.

On 4/12/07, Rajan <rajankila at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> It seems that we need to discuss the issues raised by Shri Arun, in order 
> to
> make the library field a little better. The scenario is far from
> satisfactory. There is no need to blame anyone for the sorry state of
> affairs. But we need to think of ways for improving the situation. So it
> seems that the teacher- friends in the forum should start the discussion
> airing their views. Probably they are are the people who can do something
> substantial to improve the situation.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> K Rajasekharan
> Librarian , Kerala Institute of Local Administration
> Mulagunnathukavu, Thrissur -680591

From ingrid2 at kultuur.edu.ee  Thu Apr 12 15:30:07 2007
From: ingrid2 at kultuur.edu.ee (ingrid2 at kultuur.edu.ee)
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 13:00:07 +0300
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Request for web articles on Open Access journals
Message-ID: <1176372007.461e032704dfe@kultuur.edu.ee>

Hello!
I study librarianship and information sciences. As I subscribed to
this forum (although I am not from India), I started to realise that Open Access
is very important topic around the world.
Now we had to choose our paper themes and mine is, "Open Access Journals".

I would be very thankful, if someone could suggest free and relevant
articles in Web (those I MUST read, if I wanted to write my paper on
Open Access journals).

Ingrid Yle (from Viljandi, Estonia) <p2rlmutter at gmail.com>

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From amitt at niper.ac.in  Thu Apr 12 17:03:03 2007
From: amitt at niper.ac.in (Thapar, Amit)
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:03:03 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Information Today
Message-ID: <00d201c77cf6$55ac4220$cc0ea8c0@LIBDOMAIN>


.  Information Today 
http://infotoday.com/
I have a personal interest in this website for my publisher, which 
currently features my new book, The Thriving Library, on its front page. 
Yes, I hope you'll buy it. But there's also plenty of searchable high 
quality information available here, including content from the 
conferences it sponsors (Computers in Libraries, Internet Librarian, 
WebSearch University, etc.) and the periodicals it publishes (Searcher, 
Information Today, Computers in Libraries, Online,, etc. You'll also find 
news, blogs, buyers guides, and more. 

.  LibriVox: Free audiobooks from the public domain
http://librivox.org/
This "totally volunteer, open source, free content, public domain 
project" aims to "make all public domain books available as free audio 
books." Search or browse the existing catalog, and/or volunteer to record 
additional books for the project. It also offers podcasts. 

.  Yahoo! Widgets 
http://widgets.yahoo.com/
Thousands of free utilities you can download - newsfeeds, cam viewers, 
application enhancers, geek stuff, and more. See also the Widgetbox 
Directory of web widgets for blogs <http://www.widgetbox.com/> and 
Apple's Dashboard Widgets <http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/> 
(note that there are over 180 reference widgets, and more than 100 search 
widgets) 


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From mukeshanand2006 at gmail.com  Thu Apr 12 18:39:57 2007
From: mukeshanand2006 at gmail.com (Mukesh Anand)
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:39:57 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] DSSSB Librarians Vacancy Updates
Message-ID: <b0de4a880704120609hb415109oe7f8663ae7978a94@mail.gmail.com>

Dear LIS Students & Professionals,

Here is the Update about the Bulk Vacancy of Librarians of DSSSB.It is
now published in the Employment News as well as appeared also on DSSSB
website.

Delhi Subordinate Services Selection Board (DSSSB)
Section A : Information about Vacancy
Section B : Scheme of Exam. for the post of Librarians
Section C : General Instructions & procedure for submission of Applicaion Form
Section D : Application Form

Print Source : Employment News dated 14-20 April, ' 07, Page # 4-7
Electronic Source :
1. www.dsssb.delhigovt.nic.in
2. Advertisement :
http://www.dsssb.delhigovt.nic.in/section-a,b,c%20(14-04-2007).doc
3. Application Form :
http://www.dsssb.delhigovt.nic.in/section%20D%20(14-04-2007).doc

All The Best &  With Warm Regards,
Mukesh Anand
M Lib I Sc Final Year
Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi

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From gayatsen at yahoo.com  Fri Apr 13 12:24:42 2007
From: gayatsen at yahoo.com (gayathri sen)
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 23:54:42 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Training in LIS
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Dear professional collegues,
   
  I congradulate Vasumati on her thought provoking note sent to Dr.Arunachalam.
   
  Life long training is required to ensure that we keep ourselves up to date.
   
  Each Head of any type of library should take steps to improve their own library team in terms of soft skills, communication skills, interest in profession, improving their work environment,
  motivating them to change for the better and also strive to improve their salaries and scales, there by improving their self esteem.
   
  "Little drops of rain makes a mighty ocean"
   
  Regards,
  Gayathri Sen
  PESIT
   

       
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From anandathakur at yahoo.co.in  Sat Apr 14 12:55:10 2007
From: anandathakur at yahoo.co.in (ananda thakur)
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 08:25:10 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Training in LIS
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Hi  all,
   
  I agree with the views of Mr. Arunachalam and Ms Vasumathi.
  As a school librarian , I face some unique problems regarding quality of librarians.
  For the past year or so , our school has been struggling to find well qualified interns. Most LIS graduates we interview are generally okay in terms of library science and technical skills, but their English language and communication skills are zero.We have noticed that it is easier to teach them  our library software and other routines but when it comes to providing reference service they draw a blank since they cannot communicate well.
   
  Many people still come to us thinking that is a cushy desk job without user interface, not realizing that  in a school you have to interact with students of all ages as well as  well-read international faculty. A school librarian has to keep track of current affairs and resources which facilitate  students and faculty in their research and projects, along with being alert about potential misuse of websites like orkut etc. If the librarian is not net-savvy he/she can be easily fooled by the students.
  Our education system , at the basic level(both English and vernacular) does not encourage good reading habits. In school libraries, if the librarian has not read and relished classic and contemporary authors like Dickens or Murakami , how can we expect that person to suggest good reading material for different levels of students? Children are then exposed only to racy ( not necessarily good) bestsellers. They in turn miss out on good literature and good reading habits, and may grow up to be ill-informed librarians continuing the 'vicious circle'.
   
  Such Librarians give a very bad impression about the profession to our students. In fact they come up to us and say " Ma'am if I don't get a job elsewhere I will become a librarian ". Till date, quite a number of students who join this course do so after failing to secure admission in other professional courses.The problem is further aggravated by the fact that most Universities offering this course do not have stringent admission criteria as compared to other postgraduate courses.
   
  It is urgently required that universities and colleges offering LIS courses make  English Language and Communication Skills a compulsory part of their curriculum. While Library software unique to each organization can be taught on the job, internet surfing and information retrieval skills should be part of LIS training. LIS students should be given compulsory reading lists which could include magazines, journals , literary works , scholarly LIS articles. All Institutes conducting LIS courses should have entrance examinations to select the best candidates.
   
  There must be so many more ways in which we can improve the quality of training in LIS. 
  Saying no to mediocrity is the first step in that direction.(We still don't have an intern inspite of staff shortage , but our fingers are crossed)
   
   
  Warm Regards
   
  Mrs. Ananda Vartak
  Assistant Librarian 
  Dhirubhai Ambani International School
   
   
   

       
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From angrosh at isim.ac.in  Sat Apr 14 14:53:52 2007
From: angrosh at isim.ac.in (Angrosh)
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 14:53:52 +0530
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From mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in  Mon Apr 16 11:17:09 2007
From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin)
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 11:17:09 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Training in LIS
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704161116040.11793@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>

Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 21:21:30 -0700 (PDT)
From: Praveen Vaidya <praveenvaidya at yahoo.com>

Dear All,

After many days there is a good point of discussion in the forum that Mr. 
Arun has pointed out. It is indeed a very serious issue that he has 
brought out. There is a general consensus that we lack reading habits. We 
don't even read newspapers and Magazines to update ourselves. I ask to 
many of my professional colleagues about reading newspapers and most of 
them answered me, there is no much to read in newspapers except politics. 
Then, i said them to develop interest in politics, because in India as a 
democratic state, every policy is centered to political decisions whether 
it is education, foreign affairs, economics, Taxation, stock market, art, 
culture, science or any other subject. in such case if we even don't read 
newspapers what would be the result!!!

It is good that Mr.Arun has suggested a list of authors who are really 
contributed lot and we have to refer these authors.

Our universities are also trying to revamp the Syllabus but, still bigger 
role is expected from them to change entire system. Even knowledge 
commission is trying to improve the existing library system, hopefully we 
may see the change.

Subbiah Arunachalam <subbiah_a at yahoo.com> wrote: Friends:

I am concerned about the quality of training we
provide in our country to would be librarians and
information scientists.

[truncated]

From rohitsahu1973 at gmail.com  Mon Apr 16 11:28:26 2007
From: rohitsahu1973 at gmail.com (Rohit Sahu)
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 11:28:26 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Comparision of Business Online Databases.
Message-ID: <a1cb5f460704152258w1ed958f0ld61cdd43642f21a1@mail.gmail.com>

Dear All,


Can any One help me, to provide the comparision data of Business online
Database, i.e. EBSCO(BSP), PROQUEST (ABI/INFORM Complete), Emrald, JSTOR,

On that basis i can select to subscribe the databases. I would be very
grateful to all of you, If you could help me.


Thanks and Regards,

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Rohit Kumar Sahu
Associate Librarian
Resource and Learning Centre
*Pearl School of Business,*
46, Institutional Area,
Sector -32,
Gurgaon -122001
Mobile : 9811545534

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From sanjeevmlis at gmail.com  Mon Apr 16 11:42:14 2007
From: sanjeevmlis at gmail.com (Sanjeev Kumar Jain)
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 11:42:14 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Free E-Book on Digital Library by William Arms
Message-ID: <fbdfa3c60704152312h299cd246h1e3f5f32eef98c76@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Library and Information Professionals

Free E-Book on Digital Library

Title: Digital Libraries
Author:  William Arms

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the interplay between people, organizations, and technology. How are
libraries and publishers using this new technology? How are
individuals bypassing traditional organizations and building their own
libraries? Where is this all leading? The answer to the last question
is simple. Nobody knows. I have tried to avoid speculation and to
concentrate on describing current activities, trends, and research.
Thus the heart of this book is a large number of examples
described in panels. Each panel describes some significant aspect of
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1 Background
2 The Internet and the World Wide Web
3 Libraries and publishers
4 Innovation and research
5 People, organizations, and change
6 Economic and legal issues
7 Access management and security
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10 Information retrieval and descriptive metadata
11 Distributed information discovery
12 Object models, identifiers, and structural metadata
13 Repositories and archives
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Central Library
Indian Institute of Technology
Kharagpur - 721 302
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From mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in  Mon Apr 16 15:29:50 2007
From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin)
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:29:50 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Training in LIS
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704161526400.11793@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>

Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 02:13:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: amudhavalli alagusundaram <amudha75 at yahoo.com>

I do agree with the views of Ms. Vasumathi. she has always been concerned 
over this. No good candidate is ever entering any school, barring a very 
very few. It is very sad. I raise this issue in every platform. LIS 
Schools alone are not to be blamed. As she says it is a circle. LIS is the 
last resort or a refugee camp for many entrants. Added to this alarming 
situation, are those Distance Education programmes going haywire.

We have from this acadmiec year made soft skills as compulsory module for 
all . And our DEPT has signed MOU with a commercial firm to include soft 
skills course (4 credits)  for our students and all others in the campus.

let us see if there can be any progress.
amudha


Vasumathi Sriganesh wrote,


You have really touched a very deep chord. We can no longer reject the truth
that we are faced with - however bitter it is. I know I have talked about
all these things to many people on one or more of these lists and definitely
with the individuals cc-ed on this list. I am also aware that there are a
handful of excellent dedicated librarians in India - but the number is
dwindling alarmingly.Also - they are buried deep in their institutions and
do not spread their wings across - mostly because they not permitted to. I
am praying hard that the National Knowledge Commission's findings and
reports may do some resurrection for the profession.

[truncated]

From librarymahad at pidilite.co.in  Mon Apr 16 17:26:27 2007
From: librarymahad at pidilite.co.in (librarymahad)
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 17:26:27 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Training in LIS
References: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704161526400.11793@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>
Message-ID: <002801c7801e$49daaab0$2932a8c0@pidilite.com>

I have some different opinion regarding this.  I am not fully convinced with 
the following "No good candidate is ever entering any school".  By the by 
"What is the definition of Good Candidate?"   If we think that those who are 
getting chance in Medical and Engineering are only good student, I think 
then we are somewhere wrong.  I have done my B. Lib. Sc. from Jadavpur 
University.  I know most of the University in Bengal is taking candidate who 
are first class in BA or B. Sc. level.  I my batch there were at least 10 
first class first.  Yes it may be right that some of the Universities are 
not looking Library and Information Science as a professional course. The 
professionalism in syllabus is more and more important. Yes we are not able 
to put our subject as a techincal one.  Still lots of people having the idea 
that Library Science is a subject of Art field.  This is not their problem. 
I think this is our problems.  We library professional are not able to 
establish our own root.  A total infrastructural problem is also there.  I 
know there are so many public libraries running in a club.  So the people 
over that public library is thinking that the librarian (A B. Lib Sc. Degree 
holder which in Bengal you get after passing first class in BA/BSc/Bcom) 
village is a worker of that club.  Here, is the problems.  I think we are 
lacking our Library professional movements.  Some where, may be in the 
outlook of Govt we do have a problems.

Let us bond ourselves to have a systematic and it may a political movement.
Regards,
Pradip Das


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Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 3:29 PM
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> Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 02:13:00 -0700 (PDT)
> From: amudhavalli alagusundaram <amudha75 at yahoo.com>
>
> I do agree with the views of Ms. Vasumathi. she has always been concerned
> over this. No good candidate is ever entering any school, barring a very
> very few. It is very sad. I raise this issue in every platform. LIS
> Schools alone are not to be blamed. As she says it is a circle. LIS is the
> last resort or a refugee camp for many entrants. Added to this alarming
> situation, are those Distance Education programmes going haywire.
>
> We have from this acadmiec year made soft skills as compulsory module for
> all . And our DEPT has signed MOU with a commercial firm to include soft
> skills course (4 credits)  for our students and all others in the campus.
>
> let us see if there can be any progress.
> amudha
>
>
> Vasumathi Sriganesh wrote,
>
>
> You have really touched a very deep chord. We can no longer reject the 
> truth
> that we are faced with - however bitter it is. I know I have talked about
> all these things to many people on one or more of these lists and 
> definitely
> with the individuals cc-ed on this list. I am also aware that there are a
> handful of excellent dedicated librarians in India - but the number is
> dwindling alarmingly.Also - they are buried deep in their institutions and
> do not spread their wings across - mostly because they not permitted to. I
> am praying hard that the National Knowledge Commission's findings and
> reports may do some resurrection for the profession.
>
> [truncated]
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From tallurivpc at yahoo.com  Tue Apr 17 07:02:59 2007
From: tallurivpc at yahoo.com (prafulla tv)
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:32:59 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] School library opened
Message-ID: <531557.61800.qm@web50901.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

Dear All,

We are pleased to inform you that a school library has
been opened on April 15, 2007 by Shri Gade Vinod Reddy
garu, Chairman of Nalgonga Zilla Granthalaya Samstha
in Sri Vidyanikethan High School, Mothkur
village/mandal, Nalgonda district, Andhra Pradesh.
Established in 1996 and located in a backward region
of Telangana, SVHS is a Telugu medium school under
private management offering facilities for education
for Sishu, Class 1 to 10. Presently, it has a strength
of 10 staff members and around 275 students.

SVHS Library became a reality through voluntary
donations from many sources:

1) Mr. Mahender, Correspondent of SVHS donated his
personal collection of around 500 books to SVHS
Library.

2) Mr. Anumula Srinivas, Founder President of
Gundrampally Library and Information Centre (GLIC),
Gundrampally, Nalgonda district, presented around 350
books to SVHS Library. Mr. Srinivas has been
instrumental in developing GLIC  as a model village
library. He also announced life subscription to
Chandamama magazine, the most popular children?s
monthly in Telugu for SVHS Library.

3) An anonymous donation of Rs.5000 helped in the
purchase of two glass-covered library racks.

4) Shri S.N. Chary, Local reporter of Eenadu announced
a donation of Rs.1000 for the purchase of books.

We are happy to inform all LIS professionals that Mr.
Mahender had agreed 

-- to provide free library service to students as
recommended in the UNESCO School Library Manifesto.
--to keep the books freely available to students
through open access.
--to issue one book per student.
--not to lock books in racks.
--to allot at least one period per week for library.

We appeal to all library lovers to extend their
support in strengthening SVHS Library. Our plans are:

--to develop a good collection of reference books and
children?s books in Telugu.
--to provide a computer system
--to introduce Internet service
--to develop a collection of  educational non-book
materials (CD-ROM, VCD, DVD, etc.)

Please send your donations to:

Shri Mahender
Correspondent
Sri Vidyanikethan High School
Mothkur Village/Mandal
Nalgonda District
508 277
Andhra Pradesh

Mobile: 99850 83859

Thank you in advance for your cooperation and support
to library development.
Sincerely

T.V. Prafulla Chandra




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From vasu at qmedin.com  Tue Apr 17 08:05:31 2007
From: vasu at qmedin.com (Vasumathi Sriganesh)
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 08:05:31 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Training in LIS
References: <325378.36041.qm@web8402.mail.in.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <00c901c78099$196576a0$025bfea9@laptop>

>>>> Saying no to mediocrity is the first step in that direction

Dear friends

Ananda worked with me at QMed for about a month or so immediately after her MLIS, just to gain some experience. She happened to be one of the rare "fresh flowers" that still spring up in the profession every now and then. It was not just her academic record (which was superb). She proactively did things that she felt needed to be done at QMed. 

Once she got the school job and moved there (as a trainee), a little while later I had a vacancy, and asked her if she would come back. She told me that she would soon become permanent at the school, and she liked her job there too - and wanted to stay on. I was obviously disappointed, but I was also thrilled about a "Bigger Picture". I always believe that the foundation of our profession began at School Librarianship level - and I was happy that the area got someone like Ananda - "out of her choice - not simply because she landed there". I am really happy to see a very will written and passionate posting from her. Well done - Ananda! 

Her comment (that I have chosen at the beginning of the mail) - is definitely one step that has to be taken. We cannot make great professionals by just adding soft skills in the curriculum for ordinary of below par people. (Please note - I do not mean to negate any effort made in that direction. That is very important).  In the long run, we need to take in students of high calibre AND train them not only in the technical + domain areas of LIS, but ALSO in soft skills 

Apart from that - I think Ananda's observation about how difficult it is to get a good intern, is very often shared with me even by librarians at leading public libraries. I really believe this is a wake up call. 

Many other respondents to this topic have made a point about - "let us not blame the LIS schools". I will add to that - Let us not blame anyone. That does not help. 
"Let us fix the problem - not fix a blame (on anyone or any organization)" - should be our motto

Vasumathi Sriganesh
Director, QMed Services
A-3, Shubham Centre, Cardinal Gracious Road
Chakala, Andheri East,  Mumbai 400099, India
Tel: 91-22-40054474 / 75    Fax: 91-22-40054358 
Please visit our Directory of Indian Medical Sites- www.qmedin.com/medsites

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  Hi  all,
   
  I agree with the views of Mr. Arunachalam and Ms Vasumathi.
  As a school librarian , I face some unique problems regarding quality of librarians............
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From sanjeevmlis at gmail.com  Tue Apr 17 10:32:49 2007
From: sanjeevmlis at gmail.com (Sanjeev Kumar Jain)
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:32:49 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology
Message-ID: <fbdfa3c60704162202j2e1d0663y60c9b6ace0dff918@mail.gmail.com>

Dear LIS Professionals

The glossary contains more than 2,000 defined entries and more than
600 lead-in terms, and nearly 700 citations from some 280 sources.
Some 2,500 cross-references (not counting lead-in terms) in the
syndetic structure illustrate relationships between terms.
http://www.archivists.org/glossary/list.asp?letter=a



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From Farooque.Shaheen at caritor.com  Tue Apr 17 12:38:01 2007
From: Farooque.Shaheen at caritor.com (Farooque Shaheen)
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:38:01 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Researchers Explore Scrapping Internet
Message-ID: <OFD1475EC5.783FEBC0-ON652572C0.002692AD-652572C0.00271C59@caritor.com>

The National Science Foundation wants to build an experimental research 
network known as the Global Environment for Network Innovations, or GENI, 
and is funding several projects at universities and elsewhere through 
Future Internet Network Design, or FIND.

Rutgers, Stanford, Princeton, Carnegie Mellon and the Massachusetts 
Institute of Technology are among the universities pursuing individual 
projects. Other government agencies, including the Defense Department, 
have also been exploring the concept.

The European Union has also backed research on such initiatives, through a 
program known as Future Internet Research and Experimentation, or FIRE. 
Government officials and researchers met last month in Zurich to discuss 
early findings and goals.

A new network could run parallel with the current Internet and eventually 
replace it, or perhaps aspects of the research could go into a major 
overhaul of the existing architecture.


Why???

Cozy world of researchers in the 1970s and 1980s doesn't necessarily mesh 
with the realities and needs of the commercial Internet.

"The network is now mission critical for too many people, when in the 
(early days) it was just experimental,".

The Internet's early architects built the system on the principle of 
trust. Researchers largely knew one another, so they kept the shared 
network open and flexible ? qualities that proved key to its rapid growth.

But spammers and hackers arrived as the network expanded and could roam 
freely because the Internet doesn't have built-in mechanisms for knowing 
with certainty who sent what.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18095186/

Thanks & Regards,
Farooque Shaheen,
Tel. 080-26678388 Ext. 4105
VOIP- 40366
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From raghu_ashok2002 at yahoo.com  Tue Apr 17 13:03:29 2007
From: raghu_ashok2002 at yahoo.com (raghu ashok)
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 00:33:29 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] LIS job postings
Message-ID: <968056.23767.qm@web50703.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

Hi 
   
   The following site will provides the information on  Job postings(Vacancies) in the field of Library and information Science
   
  http://lis-job-oppertunities.blogspot.com/
   
   It might be very usefull to the professionals
   
    Thanking you
   
   
   
   
  Regards
  Raghu.B
  Library Trainee
  IIMB

       
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From suvarsha_w at yahoo.com  Tue Apr 17 13:59:18 2007
From: suvarsha_w at yahoo.com (Suvarsha Walters)
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 01:29:18 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] PKP Conference
Message-ID: <507269.81662.qm@web56013.mail.re3.yahoo.com>

Hello,

The first PKP Conference on Scholarly Publsihing is being held between July 11 - 13, 2007 at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada.

Here is the website: http://ocs.sfu.ca/pkp2007/

with regards,

Suvarsha

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From esukhdev at gmail.com  Tue Apr 17 15:44:41 2007
From: esukhdev at gmail.com (Sukhdev Singh)
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 15:44:41 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Training in LIS
In-Reply-To: <00c901c78099$196576a0$025bfea9@laptop>
References: <325378.36041.qm@web8402.mail.in.yahoo.com>
	<00c901c78099$196576a0$025bfea9@laptop>
Message-ID: <c13c85220704170314p2aa068ffge0be3f481994961@mail.gmail.com>

I some how have different opinion for the Profession and Professional Training.

However Let me first start with perception of "Good Candidates" for
school job interviews. In beginning  of my carrier ( around 1987 ) I
had faced few frustrated days of unemployment. I had been filling
forms for vacancies here and there - but I had a minimum standard
fixed for myself. Never apply for a School Library. Because I
considered myself over qualified for that post. Same might be true
today as well. One should not expect highly qualified people having
Masters in either Library Science or Other Subject to Join a School
Library. I would rather advice people to go for teaching in Schools
rather join as School Librarian.

No worth while professional course has "Soft Skills" component in
their scope. This is what people are expected to have a part of their
personality trait. For example - Lawyers do not have a such a
component in their syllabus - yet they earn with these skills.
Experimenting with communicative skills at university level of
education would only reinforce the myth that librarians are mere
secretarial staff. The emphasis should be on latest technological
skills to handle information and knowledge especially in this fast
changing and Internet "infected" information era. This  however does
not mean that Library and Information Departments should start
competing with Computer Science departments.

If we really want to reform LIS Education - We need to make it market
oriented ( Excuse me! not for School Market). Let us find out what
sells in this Internet Era. (Google sells, we know!!). Then check out
what all is required to produce that sells. Then find out how we can
produced people that are required for make such products and services
( of course Information oriented.. )

These are my views.

--Sukhdev Singh
NIC.

On 4/17/07, Vasumathi Sriganesh <vasu at qmedin.com> wrote:
>
>
> >>>> Saying no to mediocrity is the first step in that direction
>
> Dear friends
>
> Ananda worked with me at QMed for about a month or so immediately after her
> MLIS, just to gain some experience. She happened to be one of the rare
> "fresh flowers" that still spring up in the profession every now and then.
> It was not just her academic record (which was superb). She proactively did
> things that she felt needed to be done at QMed.
>
> Once she got the school job and moved there (as a trainee), a little while
> later I had a vacancy, and asked her if she would come back. She told me
> that she would soon become permanent at the school, and she liked her job
> there too - and wanted to stay on. I was obviously disappointed, but I was
> also thrilled about a "Bigger Picture". I always believe that the foundation
> of our profession began at School Librarianship level - and I was happy that
> the area got someone like Ananda - "out of her choice - not simply because
> she landed there". I am really happy to see a very will written and
> passionate posting from her. Well done - Ananda!
>
> Her comment (that I have chosen at the beginning of the mail) - is
> definitely one step that has to be taken. We cannot make great professionals
> by just adding soft skills in the curriculum for ordinary of below par
> people. (Please note - I do not mean to negate any effort made in that
> direction. That is very important).  In the long run, we need to take in
> students of high calibre AND train them not only in the technical + domain
> areas of LIS, but ALSO in soft skills
>
> Apart from that - I think Ananda's observation about how difficult it is to
> get a good intern, is very often shared with me even by librarians at
> leading public libraries. I really believe this is a wake up call.
>
> Many other respondents to this topic have made a point about - "let us not
> blame the LIS schools". I will add to that - Let us not blame anyone. That
> does not help.
> "Let us fix the problem - not fix a blame (on anyone or any organization)" -
> should be our motto
>
> Vasumathi Sriganesh
> Director, QMed Services
> A-3, Shubham Centre, Cardinal Gracious Road
> Chakala, Andheri East,  Mumbai 400099, India
> Tel: 91-22-40054474 / 75    Fax: 91-22-40054358
> Please visit our Directory of Indian Medical Sites- www.qmedin.com/medsites
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
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> Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2007 12:55 PM
> Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Training in LIS
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> Hi  all,
>
> I agree with the views of Mr. Arunachalam and Ms Vasumathi.
> As a school librarian , I face some unique problems regarding quality of
> librarians............
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From esukhdev at gmail.com  Tue Apr 17 16:01:46 2007
From: esukhdev at gmail.com (Sukhdev Singh)
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 16:01:46 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Researchers' use of academic libraries and their
	services
Message-ID: <c13c85220704170331n40bbe054y9d3fdafe9f43262@mail.gmail.com>

A study was conducted on how researchers interact with academic
libraries in the UK. Its report is available at the following link:

http://www.rin.ac.uk/researchers-use-libraries

Hope it would serve an insight into the present requirements of the
present library users.

--Sukhdev Singh, NIC.

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From mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in  Tue Apr 17 16:13:55 2007
From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin)
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 16:13:55 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] CSITEd Conference - 2007
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704171613330.32114@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>

Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 15:14:38 +0530
From: Manoj Kumar K <perambra at gmail.com>

Dear All,

I would like to invite you to the following conference details. If anyone is
interested to contribute, please let me know. I also request you to pass
this message to your IT colleagues.

The CSITEd (Computer Science & Information Technology
Education<http://inform.nu/>)
conference solicits your finest submissions in any area that explores issues
in effectively and efficiently teaching Computer Science, Information
Technology, or related field..
*All submissions undergo blind review by six or more external
referees. Accepted
papers of delegates are published in the conference proceedings or one of
the Institute's journals.  For details, please contact
http://csited.org/index.htm.*
**
  *Computer Science & IT Education Conference
(C S I T Ed  2 0 0 7)
**November 16-18,  2 0 0 7           The Republic of Mauritius (Indian
Ocean)
Hosted by the University of Technology Mauritius*
**
* Submission Deadline: April 30.*
**
**
     *CS&IT Education* Papers that cover research in Information Technology
Education, such as Curriculum and Techniques for teaching IT are invited.
Distance
Learning Papers that deal with any aspect of distance education. (theory,
practice, innovation, and research ) are invited Doctoral Studies Papers
dealing with all issues in the teaching and mentoring of doctoral students
are invited.  Topics
in CS
and IT The conference is also interested in papers on the topics in computer
science and information technology.


with regards,

  *Manoj Kumar K*
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& Member, International Program COMMITTEE, CSITEd 2007
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From raja13_kumar at yahoo.co.in  Tue Apr 17 19:23:00 2007
From: raja13_kumar at yahoo.co.in (raja kumar)
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 14:53:00 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] DSpace workshop at Mysore University- A Report
Message-ID: <433351.19595.qm@web94210.mail.in2.yahoo.com>


   Dspace workshop at Mysore university ?  A Report

 

?All is well that ends well? was the dictum of the Friday Talk ? 

MULISSA workshop on Dspace, on 13th April, 2007   at the Department

 of Library and Information Science, University of Mysore, Mysore, INDIA.

The WORKSHOP?s title was ? Dspace for Global Access to Science Information 

?all the FOSS about Building Institutional Repositories?

The workshop contents were conceptualized and facilitated 

by Dr Khaiser Nikam,Reader Department of Library and Information Science, 

who is into building Institutional Repository of the science communications of 

University of Mysore using Dspace.At sharp 10.00AM Dr Khaiser along with Dr M.Krishnamurthy,

 Librarian?s, Bangalore placed the workshop in context. Totally there were 80 participants, 

including a few library trainees and current students of Library and Information Science pursuing 

MLISc program. All the faculty members of the department joined hands in making this unique event 

a grand success. Research scholarly from Yaman and Iran also took part in the workshop.

 Dr.M. Krishnamurthy,Librarian,resource Person  spoke on the OAI movement in the contemporary 

Information based society emphasizing the need for free access for science information through 

tools like FOSS ? more so with Dspace. After a couple of theory classes, Dr. Krishnamurthy, Librarian,

 Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore Centre took practical sessions, giving a live demo of how to 

down load Dspace and work on it to the young and bubbling audience whose average age is some thing like 

23- 24 years .All the participants interacted very well to clarify some of the doubts they had in their minds.

 

End of the day Dr Khaiser thanked the participants and the resource person. Prof VG Talawar gave away the 

participants the certificates of appreciation Ms sajana reviewed the days proceedings of the workshop.

 

Excerpts of the students?(prepared by Ms .C Sajana) review are as follows:

 The workshop held on 13/04/07 on Dspace was very informative .

It was an awesome experience to listen to such knowledge driven 

sessions on Dspace. Both theoretical and practical sessions gave a clear 

picture outlining different layers of OAI and Dspace, of course which was

 the main course of the sumptuous talk .We were able to gain practical 

knowledge of the all the aspects of Dspace .Dr.Krishnamurthy explain 

all the processes of installing Dspace in a simple and understandable manner .

  

 Photo Gallery of Dspace workshop

 http://new.photos.yahoo.com/album?c=dvklibrary&aid=576460762397874567&pid=&wtok=QKgsjREVNw7RMisItMXpHQ--&ts=1176535605&.src=ph

 

Rajakumar,

Library

Oxford College 

Bangalore 
   

       
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From sanjeevmlis at gmail.com  Wed Apr 18 11:11:26 2007
From: sanjeevmlis at gmail.com (Sanjeev Kumar Jain)
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 11:11:26 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Open source systems for Libraries
Message-ID: <fbdfa3c60704172241y27b8f384n9f07e0ae0457feea@mail.gmail.com>

Dear LIS Professionals and Managers

Open source systems for Libraries are available on this link
http://oss4lib.org/


-- 
With Regards

Sanjeev Kumar Jain
Central Library
Indian Institute of Technology
Kharagpur - 721 302
Email: sanjeevmlis at yahoo.co.in

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From eyeroor at gmail.com  Wed Apr 18 11:59:06 2007
From: eyeroor at gmail.com (NIKHIL EYEROOR)
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 11:59:06 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] LIBRARY RULES
Message-ID: <412ff7420704172329q47cde40v7e1d2a6a3d819dd9@mail.gmail.com>

Dear friends

Let me draw your attention to this "simple issue" for your valuable
suggestion. As everybody knows"SUDOKU" the popular puzzle appear in
daily newspapers is the "culprit" here! As per library rules writing,
underlining, marking library documents are not allowed. I am in a
dilemma, whether this " SUDOKU" should be entertained (SUDOKU fans
says that it accelerates brain activities), ignored or banned. Doing
SUDOKU, CROSSWORDS in library newspapers may motivate users to write,
underline books and as it is a time consuming practice this will also
create inconvenience for users who are waiting to read the same
newspaper.
How do you deal with this situation in the library?
Friends please open up.

Warm regards

Nikhil Eyeroor

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LIBRARIAN, P.A.AZIZ COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY
KARAKULAM , TRIVANDRUM, PIN: 695 564
MOB: 09447515691

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From mukeshanand2006 at gmail.com  Wed Apr 18 12:08:53 2007
From: mukeshanand2006 at gmail.com (Mukesh Anand)
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 12:08:53 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] 5 Research Intern Awards in Library Science
Message-ID: <b0de4a880704172338h839596o21877a120308f3e2@mail.gmail.com>

Dear LIS Students & Professionals,

5 Research Intern Awards in Library Science under " CSIR Diamond Jubilee
Research Intern Awards" Scheme by National Institute of Science
Communication & Information Resources (NISCAIR).It's a National Information
Organisation under Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR)

1.Eligibility :-First Class or equivalent GPA in M Lib Sci /M L I Sc.
2.Age Limit :-25 Years as on 7.5.' 07, relaxable up to 5 Years in the case
of OBC/SC/ST/PH & Female candidates.
3.Areas :-The selected Interns will work for National Scinece Library,
Abstracting / Database services & other related activities.
4.Tentative No. of Research Intern Awards :- 5
5.Stipend :- Rs. 7,500/- per month consolidated.
6.Tenure :-Maximum period of 2 Years, subject to satisfactory performance to
be evaluated every 6 months.
7.Mode of Selection :- A Written Aptitude Test & then Interview.
8.How to Apply :- (i) Prescribed Application Form can be downloaded from
NISCAIR Website http://www.niscair.res.in
                          (ii) Aplications may also be submitted online
through NISCAIR website.
                         (iii) Application should be submitted to The
Director, National Institue of Science Communication & Information Resources
(NISCAIR), Dr K S Krishnan Marg, Pusa Campus, New Delhi -12
                         (iv) Last Date :- On or before 7th May, 2007.

N.B. :- For Advertisement & Application Form see Employment News 14-20
April.2007 Page # 33
           For Online Application, Advertisement & Applcation Form visit
http://www.niscair.res.in

All the best & With Regards,
Mukesh Anand
M Lib I Sc Final Year
Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi

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From anyushka at rediffmail.com  Wed Apr 18 12:40:43 2007
From: anyushka at rediffmail.com (Lata  Nair)
Date: 18 Apr 2007 07:10:43 -0000
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Training in LIS
Message-ID: <20070418071043.5245.qmail@webmail106.rediffmail.com>

Dear Colleagues,
Continuing with the ongoing discussion about measures to be taken to improvise the quality of librarianship...
LIS schools are equally, if not more concerned about improvising the quality of Librarianship. This was evident at a past students' meet organized by SHPT School of Library Science [SNDT Women's University, Mumbai] recently where one of the faculty members of Mumbai University was also present. It would benefit if we could go back and discuss it with our Alma Mater and extend help wherever required. 
Seniors like Mr. Manjunath from IGIDR & Ms. Vasumathi,QMed Services not only recruit trainees & provide extensive training, they also ensure that they are well placed. 
As for school libraries, we return to the root cause of the issue. Unless we have the best of librarians serving in school libraries where reading habits are inculcated and students are trained to use library resources and services, where adequate resources are made available, where the school librarians are encouraged to keep updated with the latest developments in the field, where a student learns to respect the library and the librarian, it would be difficult to expect the same students to behave differently & start favoring libraries during later years.
I sincerely hope and wish that the comment on the school libraries is an exception. Imagine to be in a situation where you are not only being paid less with limited growth opportunities, are expected to work with limited resource with very few professional enhacement opportunities but are also looked down upon by your fellow colleagues in the profession!!!
Three cheers to Ananda and all the librarians whether they are in academic or corporates who strive to make a difference!!!
Regards,
Lata Nair
Librarian
Mumbai


Message: 5
>Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 15:44:41 +0530
> From: "Sukhdev Singh" <esukhdev at gmail.com>
>Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Training in LIS
>To: "Vasumathi Sriganesh" <vasu at qmedin.com>
>Cc: ananda thakur <anandathakur at yahoo.co.in>,
> 	lis-forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in
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From skpatra at gmail.com  Wed Apr 18 16:21:14 2007
From: skpatra at gmail.com (Swapan kumar Patra)
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:21:14 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Increased citation impact for BioMed Central journals
Message-ID: <da7582b0704180351t4e457d72u300f097becbf52f@mail.gmail.com>

*"BioMed Central calculates unofficial impact factors for journals that have
published a significant number of research articles but do not yet have an
official impact factor. These unofficial impact factors use the same
citation data and methodology used by Thomson Scientific's official impact
factor calculations.*

* *

*Newly calculated unofficial 2006 impact factors show a significantly
increased citation rate for BioMed Central journals. For example, BMC
Biology <http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcbiol/>* and *BMC
Medicine<http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcmed/>
*, the flagship journals of the BMC series, both increased their unofficial
impact factors significantly. The 2006 unofficial impact factor for *BMC
Biology <http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcbiol/>* is 4.43 (up from 3.81 in
2005) while for *BMC Medicine <http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcmed/>* the
2006 figure is 4.17 (up from 2.52 in 2005).


(Source:  "BioMed Central, The Open Access Publisher"
Website  http://blogs.openaccesscentral.com/blogs/bmcblog/entry/20070417" )
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From mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in  Wed Apr 18 17:15:04 2007
From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin)
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 17:15:04 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Training in LIS
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Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 04:12:19 -0700 (PDT)
From: Rajesh P <rajeshbcd at yahoo.com>

Dear All,

There is absolutely no need to know all about those American authors.

If you know, practice and preach what Dr Ranganathan has written about
is more than sufficient.

Why do you expect a fresh MLISc graduate to know about what American 
authors are writing about. If he wants to expand his knowledge and 
scholarship over a period of time he will expand his horizons. Other wise 
he will continue doing his job and serving the readers !! Isn't that the 
main Mission of his profession.


Regards.

Raj

From mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in  Thu Apr 19 11:06:54 2007
From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin)
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 11:06:54 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Training in LIS
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704191106190.6082@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>

Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 09:57:47 +0530
From: Mr. B. G. Sunder Singh <bgs at nic.in>

Sir:
The best service one can do, with all that reverence to Dr SRR, is to do 
what ever one is doing to the best of his/her abilities keeping the entire 
universe of people first and providing access to human knowledge as best as 
possible.

However, one has the right to express and practice what one believes in. 
What is the best option for one individual need not be of relevance to 
another person ( think of saying with a banal finality that If you know, 
practice and preach what Dr Ranganathan has written about is more than 
sufficient).

sundersingh, bg.



From sibli at nic.in  Thu Apr 19 11:01:08 2007
From: sibli at nic.in (Md. Sibli Sirajee)
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 11:01:08 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] LIBRARY RULES
In-Reply-To: <412ff7420704172329q47cde40v7e1d2a6a3d819dd9@mail.gmail.com>
References: <412ff7420704172329q47cde40v7e1d2a6a3d819dd9@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <11477.164.100.28.3.1176960668.squirrel@mail.nic.in>

As a Librarian one cannot go by library rules for each and every action.
My suggestion is that ask the users who are interested in these kind of
puzzles to take photocopy (if photocopy service is available at your
library) of the page and do it in their houses. This way, no one will be
denied of the library service and 'library time' for other potential users
will be saved.
With regards

Sibli Sirajee
Principal Systems Analyst
NIC, New Delhi

> Dear friends
>
> Let me draw your attention to this "simple issue" for your valuable
> suggestion. As everybody knows"SUDOKU" the popular puzzle appear in
> daily newspapers is the "culprit" here! As per library rules writing,
> underlining, marking library documents are not allowed. I am in a
> dilemma, whether this " SUDOKU" should be entertained (SUDOKU fans
> says that it accelerates brain activities), ignored or banned. Doing
> SUDOKU, CROSSWORDS in library newspapers may motivate users to write,
> underline books and as it is a time consuming practice this will also
> create inconvenience for users who are waiting to read the same
> newspaper.
> How do you deal with this situation in the library?
> Friends please open up.
>
> Warm regards
>
> Nikhil Eyeroor


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From sckumaresan at rediffmail.com  Thu Apr 19 11:24:12 2007
From: sckumaresan at rediffmail.com (sckumaresan)
Date: 19 Apr 2007 05:54:12 -0000
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Re : LIBRARY RULES
Message-ID: <1176897001.S.3709.6339.webmail78.rediffmail.com.old.1176962052.15699@webmail.rediffmail.com>

Dear Mr. Nikhil,Sudou is certainly a good brain teaser and quite challenging, it can be offered as a service in the library. We have the same problem in our library. Instead of restraining the students,&nbsp;you can&nbsp;try alternatively. If you have photocopier in the library take 10 to 15 copies of the sudoku and give it to the interested students who want to solve it. Also inform the same to the students through notice and writing or marking in the library resources is an offence and they can avail the photocopy service. This could prevent students from writing on the papers.RegardsS.C.KumaresanOn Wed, 18 Apr 2007 11:59:06 +0530 \"NIKHIL EYEROOR\" wrote Dear friends Let me draw your attention to this \"simple issue\" for your valuable suggestion. As everybody knows\"SUDOKU\" the popular puzzle appear in daily newspapers is the \"culprit\" here! As per library rules writing, underlining, marking library documents are not allowed. I am in a dilemma, whether this \" SUDOKU\!
 " should be entertained (SUDOKU fans says that it accelerates brain activities), ignored or banned. Doing SUDOKU, CROSSWORDS in library newspapers may motivate users to write, underline books and as it is a time consuming practice this will also create inconvenience for users who are waiting to read the same newspaper. How do you deal with this situation in the library? Friends please open up. Warm regards Nikhil Eyeroor -- NIKHIL EYEROOR LIBRARIAN, P.A.AZIZ COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY KARAKULAM , TRIVANDRUM, PIN: 695 564 MOB: 09447515691 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum 

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From rkrakhade at yahoo.co.in  Thu Apr 19 14:05:52 2007
From: rkrakhade at yahoo.co.in (R K Rakhade Rakhade)
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 09:35:52 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] IIT Kharagpur requires Professional Trainees.
Message-ID: <393393.4764.qm@web94503.mail.in2.yahoo.com>

Dear LIS professional,
   
  IIT Kharagpur requires Professional Trainees (upto 5
  positions) for its Central Library. The training is for a
  period of One Year. A Stipend of Rs. 4,000/- per month
  will be given to each trainee.
  Postgraduates below 30 years and holding First Class
  in both B.Lib & I.Sc. and M.Lib & I.Sc. may apply
  on plain paper to the Chairman, Central Library.
  IIT, Kharagpur - 721 302 on or before May 2, 2007
  enclosing CV along with attested copies of certificates.
  Candidates with relevant computer knowledge will be
  preferred. Reservation for SC/ST/OBC/PH etc. will be
  made as per Govt. of India rules.
  Advt. No. R/3/2007
   Assistant Registrar (R)
   
  With Regards
  R K Rakhade
  Central Library,
  IIT, Kharagpur.
   
   


With regards 
  .........................................................
  Yours
  R. K. Rakhade 
Central Library, 
IIT, Kharagpur 
Pin: 721302

       
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From rajankila at hotmail.com  Thu Apr 19 17:58:30 2007
From: rajankila at hotmail.com (Rajan)
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 17:58:30 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Free Group Mailing Software - Required
Message-ID: <BAY128-DAV4446EDE6FB7564F6D1DAAB6570@phx.gbl>


Dear All,

Can anyone suggest me  any easily useable free group mailing software in
Windows that work with my hotmail web mail address and uses my windows
address book for managing  group mailing  to  around 100 email addresses.

Or is it possible to manage a group of 100 addresses with outlook express
alone?


Regards,


K Rajasekharan
Librarian , Kerala Institute of Local Administration
Mulagunnathukavu, Thrissur -680581

Ph 0487- 2204097 (O), 2201428 ( R)


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From hchandra at iitm.ac.in  Fri Apr 20 00:56:11 2007
From: hchandra at iitm.ac.in (Harish Chandra)
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 00:56:11 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] INDEST-AICTE National Workshop on E-Resources
	Management for Excellence at Central Library of IIT Madras
Message-ID: <D0865905A88A884795E4C1A7747BA2D21FD77A@EXCH01.IITM.AC.IN>

Dear Sir,
     I would be pleased if you please arrange to post information about the forthcoming INDEST-AICTE National Workshop on E-Resources Management for Excellence during 16th to 18th July 2007 to be held at Central LIbrary of IIT Madras in Chennai. The complete brochure can be downloaded from the link given on the Central Library main webpage under News and Events http://www.cenlib.iitm.ac.in The major objectives of the workshop are listed below:
 
?            To provide a forum to the Librarians and Academic Administrators to discuss and  share their problems and experiences of using  e-resources with INDEST-AICTE National Coordinator, other functionaries, Information Solution Providers, Experts and Users 

?            To create awareness and understanding about the importance of introducing and executing information technology in Libraries and Information Centers for effective and efficient management of e-resources to  achieve excellence.

?            To provide an opportunity to the participants to see the world class Information Technology Infrastructure and organization of e-resources in IIT Madras.

?            To provide an opportunity to the participants to see the implementation of RFID Technology, Smart Cards, ISO-9001:2000, Contact less Smart Card enabled Access Control, Digital Knowledge Center, Media Resource Center, Children's Library Corner, Web based Library and Information Support Services and e-Resources  and Services

Major Focus:

?          Future Libraries

?          User Needs & Expectations

?          Collection Development & Strategy for Digital Era

?          Information Literacy for Promoting E-Resources Usage

?          Search Engines & Web OPACs 

?          Patents & Standards E-Resources 

?          Web based Library & Information Services

?          Scholarly e-Resources and Virtual Exhibition

?          Networking Infrastructure for E-Resources Management 

?          Quality Assurance for S&T E-Resources 

?          Hands on: Open E-Resources

?          Hands on: Web Studio

?          Hands on: RFID & Smart Card Implementation

?          Hands on: INDEST E-Resources

?          Presentations from Selected Information Industries


 


Fee Details


 

INDEST Members 

 

1.        Registration: FREE

2.        Accommodation: Rs. 1500

 

Non-INDEST Members

 

1.        Registration: Rs. 2000

2.        Accommodation: Rs. 1500

Total Number of Participants: 50 ( Registration on First Come First Served basis)

Dr. Harish Chandra

Workshop Director and the Librarian

Central Library

Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Chennai 600036, Tamilnadu

Ph            : 91-044-22574951 - (O)

Ph            : 91-044-22576951 - (R)

Fax          : 91-044 -22570509

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From sanjeevmlis at gmail.com  Thu Apr 19 20:46:56 2007
From: sanjeevmlis at gmail.com (Sanjeev Kumar Jain)
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 20:46:56 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Vacancies (5) for Professional Trainees in IIT Kharagpur
Message-ID: <fbdfa3c60704190816k546ec32aqfc873073f781d57e@mail.gmail.com>

Vacancies (5) for Professional Trainees in IIT Kharagpur

* *

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur requires Professional Trainees (5
positions) for its Central Library. The training is for a period of One
Year.



Advt.No.R/3/2007 http://www.iitkgp.ac.in/downloads/prf_trainee.pdf
**
*Stipend* - 4,000/- per month



*Eligibility* - Postgraduates below 30 years and holding First Class in both
B.Lib & I.Sc. and M. Lib & I.Sc. may apply on plain paper enclosing CV along
with attested copies of certificates. Candidates with relevant computer
knowledge will be preferred.
**
*Address to *

To the Chairman,

Central Library

Indian Institute of Technology,

Kharagpur, - 721 302



*Closing Date* -* May 2, 2007 *


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From Farooque.Shaheen at caritor.com  Fri Apr 20 11:33:04 2007
From: Farooque.Shaheen at caritor.com (Farooque Shaheen)
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:33:04 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] MICROSOFT LOWERS PRICES AND PLANS JOBSITE IN INDIA
Message-ID: <OF3BE45FE1.16C0C247-ON652572C3.0020EE51-652572C3.002141C6@caritor.com>

Microsoft Corp., the world?s largest software maker, will sell a $3  (Rs 
130) package of Windows, Office and educational programmes to governments 
that want to load the software onto personal computers for students.

The package, called the Microsoft Student Innovation Suite, will include 
the Windows XP Starter Edition operating system, Microsoft Office and Live 
Mail e-mail software, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said in a speech at a 
conference for government leaders in Beijing on 19 April. The company is 
selling the programmes at cost to governments that buy a minimum of 10,000 
copies, Microsoft senior vice-president Will Poole said.

The programme is part of a strategy to boost ownership of computers among 
5 billion people who don?t have them. Microsoft is pledging to reach the 
first billion of those users by 2015. The company will try to ensure that 
countries that offer free or cheap PCs to students will choose Windows 
instead of the freely distributed Linux operating system.

The programmes would normally cost between $100-200. Microsoft has seen 
sales increase in China over the past few years after the country began 
curbing piracy. Still, large numbers of Chinese cannot afford retail 
prices for Windows and Office. Pirated copies are openly sold for about $1 
each.

Job Site in India

The company is working with the government and businesses in India to set 
up a Website that helps engineering job candidates assess what skills they 
will need to find employment. The idea came out of a conversation between 
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, who 
expressed concern that many Indian graduates are unable to find jobs.

Of the 400,000 engineering students who graduate annually, only a quarter 
find jobs, he said. The site will open by the year-end and Microsoft will 
expand the programme to other countries.

http://www.livemint.com/2007/04/19145836/Microsoft-lowers-prices-and-pl.html

Thanks & Regards,
Farooque Shaheen,
Tel. 080-26678388 Ext. 4105
VOIP- 40366
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From vyasamoorthy at gmail.com  Sun Apr 22 20:48:13 2007
From: vyasamoorthy at gmail.com (Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy)
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 20:48:13 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Voracious reader
Message-ID: <9765c2050704220818m64fe115p6c613be197719826@mail.gmail.com>

Patu Keswani, Chairman of Lemon Tree Hotels, reads about 30-40 books a
month.
He likes books on Wars so much that his personal library has about 300
titles on world wars alone.

Librarians should find out the secret behind such readers and have them as
their customers.
(Business Standard 21/22 April 2007 p 12)
-- 
Dr P Vyasamoorthy,
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30, Gruhalakshmi Colony, Secunderabad 500015
Phone 27846631
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From sangs at delnet.ren.nic.in  Sat Apr 21 15:49:03 2007
From: sangs at delnet.ren.nic.in (Sangeeta Kaul, Network Manager, DELNET)
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 11:19:03 +0100 (WETS)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Requirement of Trainees for DELNET Coordination Unit at
	Bangalore
Message-ID: <Pine.SV4.3.96.1070421111808.18546B-100000@delnet.ren.nic.in>


DELNET is looking for Network Trainees who are fresh MLISc's with a good
academic track record, having excellent computer knowledge, good
communication skills and interest in travelling in South India.

Trainees will be paid stipend during 1st year training period besides
out-station tour allowances and will be placed in the Coordination Unit
at Bangalore. Interested applicants should apply to DIRECTOR, DELNET
at hkkaul at delnet.ren.nic.in, hkkaul at gmail.com on or before April 30th,
2007.



_______________________________________________________________________________
Sangeeta Kaul
Network Manager
DELNET-Developing Library Network
JNU Campus 
Nelson Mandela Road
Vasant Kunj
New Delhi-110070
Tel: 91-11-32471010, 32471002, 32471011
Email: sangs at delnet.ren.nic.in
Web : www.delnet.nic.in
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From gkm at igidr.ac.in  Sat Apr 21 14:47:59 2007
From: gkm at igidr.ac.in (G.K.MANJUNATH)
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 14:47:59 +0530 (India Standard Time)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Training in LIS-  Temporary vacancy at IGIDR library,
	Mumbai (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.WNT.4.64.0704211444570.1196@gkm>


              Subject: Temporary vacancy at IGIDR library, Mumbai.
                       4 Posts

            Qualifications:  M.Li.Sc ( 55% and above )

                             Reservations as per the Central Govt Rules.

            Experince     : 0 - 6 months

            Required skills :   WINISIS, MS-WINDOWS; MS-OFFICE
                                Good communication.
                                AACR II and  DDC.

            Apptitude :       Enthusisam to learn latest ICT skills.

            Salary           :     Rs.7000/- PM ( Consolidated )

            Training Modules:   Excellent training will be provided in
 			       practical librarianship with emphasis on:

                                   i. Libsys

                                  ii. Web desiging (HTML, Java Scripts,
 		                                   Java applets )

                                 iii. MySQL and PHP
                                      ( with a project )

                                  iv.  Dspace ( Institutional Repository )

                                   v.  Harvester ( PKP )

                                   vi. Redhat Linux ( Fedora 3 )

The candidates will also get the opportunity to work in all the sections of the 
library in a very good academic and ICT environment.

Those who have appeared for M.Li.Sc examination can also apply, but have to 
produce the proof of completion at the time of interview/written test, which is 
likelly to be held during the 2nd week of May, 2007.  Candidates have to appear 
for interview at their own cost.

Last date for applying:   30/4/2007.

Resume ( preferably MS-Word File ) with two references indicating date of 
birth, year of passing and percentage of marks starting from SSC, with other 
personal and professional details may please be sent to the under signed over 
email:

thanks

       G.K.Manjunath
       Chief Librarian
       Indira Gandhi Inst of Development Research
       Film City Road
       Santosh Nagar
       Goregaon(East )
       MUMBAI - 400 065

              	  Phone:	022-28416544
                   email:        gkm at igidr.ac.in
                   URL  :        http://www.igidr.ac.in/lib/library.php



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From sanjeevmlis at gmail.com  Sat Apr 21 12:03:21 2007
From: sanjeevmlis at gmail.com (Sanjeev Kumar Jain)
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 12:03:21 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] ISI Delhi requires Library Trainee
Message-ID: <fbdfa3c60704202333h4b1bd9e5p3394ce948c0a823d@mail.gmail.com>

Indian Statistical Institute - Delhi Centre would like to engage Library
Science Graduates/Post Graduates Fresher (BLIS/ MLIS/AIS) as LIBRARY
TRAINEES,
purely on temporary basis for a period of Six months, on a monthly stipend
of Rs.4000/- for BLIS and Rs.5000/-for MLIS/AIS Degree holder.

Candidates with the knowledge of Computer & Library Software will be given
preference.

Those who are fulfilling above requirements may send an application
addressed to THE HEAD, INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE, DELHI CENTRE, 7,
S.J.S. SANSANWAL MARG, NEW DELHI-110016, stating (1) NAME OF THE
CANDIDATE, (2) FATHERS NAME, (3) ADDRESS with E-MAIL & PHONE NO., (4) DATE
OF BIRTH, (5) ACADEMIC AS WELL AS PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS, (6)
COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE AND (7) WORK EXPERIENCE (if any) by post or through
e-mail: library at isid.ac.in on or before May 07, 2007 to the address given
below:

In-Charge, Library
Indian Statistical Institute - Delhi Centre
7, S.J.S. Sansanwal Marg
Opp. Katwaria Sarai Bus Stop
New Delhi-110016

With Regards

Sanjeev Kumar Jain
Central Library
Indian Institute of Technology
Kharagpur - 721 302
Email: sanjeevmlis at yahoo.co.in

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From esukhdev at gmail.com  Fri Apr 20 12:54:29 2007
From: esukhdev at gmail.com (Sukhdev Singh)
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 12:54:29 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Text of Classic Books of Dr. S.R Ranganathan
Message-ID: <c13c85220704200024y1516c2d7h42989fdc9184165d@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Friends,

Just wanted to share with you following link of DLIST. It has
digitized version of classic books by Dr. S.R. Ranganathan.

http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/view/author/Ranganathan,_S._R..html

There you can find following titles:

Ranganathan, S. R. (1989) Philosophy of Library Classification. Sarada
Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science (Bangalore, India).

Ranganathan, S. R. (1973) New education and school library: Experience
of half a century. Vikas Publishing (Delhi, India).

Ranganathan, S. R. (1967) Prolegomena to Library Classification. Asia
Publishing House (New York).

Ranganathan, S. R. (1951) Classification and Communication. University
of Delhi (Delhi, India).

Ranganathan, S. R. (1951) Documentation Genesis and Development. Vikas
Publishing House (Delhi, India).

Ranganathan, S. R. (1931) The Five Laws of Library Science. Madras
Library Association (Madras, India) and Edward Goldston (London, UK).

--Sukhdev Singh, NIC.

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From tomasallen_who at hotmail.com  Fri Apr 20 19:35:01 2007
From: tomasallen_who at hotmail.com (Tomas Allen)
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 04:05:01 -1000
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Call for advisers for WHO's Foodborne Disease Burden
	Epidemiology Ref Grp - Ind
Message-ID: <BAY131-F2413DA0786E279D029554DEE560@phx.gbl>

My Dear Friends
If you would be so kind as to alert any of your colleagues, researchers or 
scientists who might be interested in this call for advisers in the area of 
Foodborne Diseases. Please contact the email FERGapplication at who.int
for further information.
Thank you for forwarding this message to those who might qualify as an 
adviser as WHO would like to obtain relevant global representation for the 
reference group.
Kindest of Regards,
Tomas ALLEN
WHO Library
Geneva
tomasallen_who at hotmail.com



Call for advisers to serve on WHO's
Foodborne Disease Burden Epidemiology Reference Group (FERG)

Although foodborne diseases are a growing public health problem worldwide, 
no precise and consistent global estimates exist to date. WHO developed a 
strategic framework for the estimation of Global Burden of Foodborne 
Diseases during an international expert consultation held in Geneva 
(www.who.int/foodsafety/publications/foodborne_disease/burden_sept06/en/). 
One of the main recommendations of the Consultation was to create an expert 
group to implement the framework.

Purpose of FERG
The FERG understands the term epidemiology in the widest sense as meaning 
the application of a variety of scientific methodologies (including risk 
assessment approaches) to arrive at disease burden estimates. The group will 
be composed of professionals from disciplines including:
?	Microbiology, parasitology and virology
?	Burden of disease methodologies
?	Microbiological and chemical risk assessment (including toxicological), 
and source attribution
?	Disease and exposure modeling, statistics and geographic information 
systems
?	Clinical medicine and nutrition
?	Food protection, policy and regulation

The group will operate at the level of various task forces and direct and 
monitor the strategy for global burden of foodborne disease estimation. It 
will estimate the burden of disease from all relevant etiologies and be 
specifically charged with:
(i)	reviewing data on foodborne disease burden;
(ii)	overseeing the technical work of assessing the models and data;
(iii)	advising and consulting WHO on the derivation of accurate estimates of 
foodborne disease burden.
Skills and experience required
WHO is seeking advisers with the following skills and experience:
?	Internationally recognized expertise in foodborne diseases of either 
microbiological, chemical, toxicological, parasitic or zoonotic origin;
?	Practical experience in reviewing, analyzing, and evaluating human 
epidemiological data on the effects of toxic chemicals, or reviewing, 
analyzing, evaluating, and extrapolating experimental animal biological data 
on toxic chemicals to humans;
?	Recognized expertise in epidemiological modelling and/or in burden of 
disease methodologies;
?	Extensive experience in international public health;
?	High standing as internationally recognized scientist, as evidenced by 
publication record;
?	Commitment to participate actively and regularly in FERG, amounting to 
approximately 2-3 weeks per year; a commitment to serve as resource adviser 
with less active engagement is also possible.

Further information for applicants
All applications are to be made by 18 May 2007 and submitted electronically 
under the following web-link: FERGapplication at who.int. In your application, 
please indicate whether you wish to serve as task force member (and in which 
area of expertise) or resource adviser.

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From rkclis at yahoo.co.in  Fri Apr 20 12:23:45 2007
From: rkclis at yahoo.co.in (Ranjeet Kumr Choudhary)
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 07:53:45 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] For information- regarding
Message-ID: <192015.97435.qm@web8808.mail.in.yahoo.com>

Sir/Madam,
   
      It is my pleasure to inform you that I have been appointed as Lecturer to the Deptt of Library & Information Science, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University.
   
     As such all further communication may please be sent on the following address:
   
  R.K.Choudhary
  Lecturer
  Department of Library & Information Science
  Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University
  (A Central University)
  Vidya Vihar, Rae-Bareli Road,
  Lucknow-226025
  Mobile-+91-9935787978
   
  Your kind co-operation is solicited.
  Thanking You.
   
  Your's Faithfully,
  (R.K.Choudhary) 

       
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From irnaganagoudar at yahoo.co.in  Mon Apr 23 11:27:48 2007
From: irnaganagoudar at yahoo.co.in (Nagana Goudar)
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 06:57:48 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Radio Talk Today: World Book Day
Message-ID: <672301.55617.qm@web7909.mail.in.yahoo.com>


Dear Professionals,    Today is being celebrated as "World Book Day" throughout the world.  Dr. H.S. Siddamallaiah, Principal Information Officer, NIMHANS will give a  Radio Talk in Kannada on World Book Day covering its significance and  imporatnce,etc.  All India Radio, Bangalore at 612 MHds, at 9.15 pm on 23 April 2007 (Today).  You are most welcome to tune to AIR.    Dr. I.R.N. Goudar  Head, ICAST, NAL, Bangalore    Dear Francis, will you please release this message immidiately.

I have sent this mail again as there was some problem while 

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From mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in  Mon Apr 23 15:42:40 2007
From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin)
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:42:40 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Trainees in British Council
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Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 09:02:49 +0530
From: shihabudeen kunju <shihabudeenkunju at gmail.com>

British Council Delhi needs library trainees for one year on contract 
basis. Stipend Rs. 7000/-. Send your CV to 
<sudha.munjal at in.britishcouncil.org> within one week. For more information 
log on to www.britishcouncil.org.in

regards

-- 
Shihabudeen Kunju. S
British Council Library
17 Kasturba Gandhi Marg,
New Delhi 110001

mob: 09911928321

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From mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in  Mon Apr 23 16:32:00 2007
From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin)
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 16:32:00 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Need help
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Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:04:49 +0530
From: Agarkar Anagha     /LIBRARIAN /ISEC <Anagha_Agarkar at isecltd.com>

Dear Friends,

I need the publisher and address of the following Indian
publications.  Most of these are published from Mumbai and
Delhi.  I will be really grateful if you could help me with
this.

 	Cargo Logistics
 	Logistics Today
 	Indian Shipping
 	Indian Shipping & Ship Building
 	Indian Shipping Review
 	Shipping & Water Transport
 	Shipping And Port Review
 	Shipping Today
 	Cargo Trends
 	Cargo Waves
 	The Courier And Cargo Times

With best regards,

Anagha Agharkar
Associate
ICICI Securities Ltd.
Mumbai
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From mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in  Mon Apr 23 17:24:15 2007
From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin)
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 17:24:15 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] spam and virus mails
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Dear Member:

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and virus infected mails received by LIS-Forum postings' id 
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that their desktops are not infected with virus.

This morning (23 April) two such postings were accidentally broadcasted by 
the moderator. These two messages DO NOT contain virus but they should not 
have been broadcasted. Very Sorry about it and the inconvenience caused is 
regretted.

Thanks for your cooperation.

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From mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in  Mon Apr 23 18:45:16 2007
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Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 18:45:16 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] flooding of lis-forum mailbox
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Dear Member:

Of late, there has been a considerable increase in the number of of spam 
and virus infected mails received by LIS-Forum postings' id 
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From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin)
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:47:28 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Sad demise of Dipak Kr Nag
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704241046100.20991@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>

Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:01:04 -0700 (PDT)
From: Pijushkanti Panigrahi <panigrahipk at yahoo.com>

Sri Dipak Kumar Nag, Honorary General Secretary, IASLIC has breathed his 
last at 2:30pm on Sunday, 22nd April 2007 after a prolonged sufferings. As 
a library professional he was associated with the Central Library of the 
Geological Survey of India, Kolkata till his death and as Hony General 
secretary, IASLIC he worked till the last moment of his life. He has land 
mark through his hardworking in academic endeavor of the field.  He was 
very much kind hearted towards his colleagues. He was the inspiration. His 
advice has helped me in organizing two national level workshops also will 
help me in future. His untimely sad demise is a great loss to the 
profession and to the IASLIC.  Let his bereaved family get enough courage 
and strength to bear this loss.

Dr Pijushkanti Panigrahi
Secretary,
Education Division
IASLIC

Dr Pijushkanti Panigrahi,
Reader, Dept of Lib and Inf Science,
University of Calcutta,
87/1 College Street,Kolkata - 700 073,
West Bengal, India, email : panigrahipk at yahoo.com,
(M) : +91 94342 43522.

From mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in  Tue Apr 24 10:48:36 2007
From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin)
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:48:36 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Vacancy of Librarian at Dr.Y.S.Parmar University of
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Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:31:59 +0530
From: chauhan <chauhan at inflibnet.ac.in>

Respected All Professional,

VACANCY for the post of LIBRARIAN appears in Indian Express-22.4. 2007
Pay Scale: 16400-22400 (UGC) Regular post.

Adv. No. 09/2007
Dr.Y.S.Parmar University of Horticulture & Forestry, Solan-173230 (HP)

Application Form available: The Registrar, Dr.Y.S.Parmar University of 
Horticulture & Forestry, Solan-173230 (HP) Application Form: Crossed D. D. 
of Rs.300/- Payable to Comptroller of the University along with self 
address envelop 23X10 cm bearing postal Stamps of Rs.25/-.

Forms can be downloaded at website: www.yspuniversity. ac.in (Valid if it 
is accompanied by a bank draft of value Rs.300/-) Last Date: 22.5.07


With kind regards

Suresh
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From rajankila at hotmail.com  Tue Apr 24 17:35:24 2007
From: rajankila at hotmail.com (Rajan)
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 17:35:24 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Moodle Software
Message-ID: <BAY128-DAV10761C880BD3E708C01B84B64A0@phx.gbl>

Dear Friends,

Moodle 1.5.2 for Windows - a free software for  design and administration of interactive courses over web - appears to be a good tool of immense potential for those who want to design distance mode of education on any subject. I have examined the peripheral areas of the software and would like to know a little deep about it for designing interactive self instructional Courses on Decentralisation.

So I would like to be in touch with those who are conversant with the software and can demonstrate the mechanism of designing courses.  The manuals in the internet appears to be cumbersome to use and learn. 

Please  send your response.

Regards,



K Rajasekharan
Librarian , Kerala Institute of Local Administration
Mulagunnathukavu, Thrissur -680581

Ph 0487- 2204097 (O), 2201428 ( R)

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From mukeshanand2006 at gmail.com  Tue Apr 24 20:55:47 2007
From: mukeshanand2006 at gmail.com (Mukesh Anand)
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 20:55:47 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Results for various positions of Parliament Library has
	been announced
Message-ID: <b0de4a880704240825i17fb1d00weacd08d516b3d7a7@mail.gmail.com>

Dear LIS Students' & Professionals',

The results of the Exam. for the various positions in the Parliament
Library, Sansadiya Gyanpeeth, New Delhi has been announced.

1. Junior Library Assistant (JLA) :-Written examination held on 14th January
2007 & Result declared on 23rd April,2007 available at
http://164.100.24.208/ls/Recruitment/230407JLA.htm

2. Senior Library Assistant (SLA) :- Written examination held on 6th
January, 2007 & Result declared on 16th April,2007 available at
http://164.100.24.208/ls/Recruitment/160407SLA.htm

3. Reference / Research Assistant (RA) :- Written examination held on 24th
December 2006 & Result declared on 20th April,2007available at
http://164.100.24.208/ls/Recruitment/230407RA.htm

N.B. :- All examinees can check their result marks of the exam. by Select
Post, Enter Roll No. & Date of Birth at
http://164.100.24.208/jrcresult/result.aspx

All the Best & With Regards,
Mukesh Anand
M Lib I Sc Final Year
Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi

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From sujitkujur at gmail.com  Wed Apr 25 10:10:01 2007
From: sujitkujur at gmail.com (sujit kujur)
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 10:10:01 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Information about post based salary structure.
Message-ID: <d3504ebb0704242140u4c6b401fs7b908aa365b616e@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Colleagues,
  Can you help me to know about the post-wise salary structure (Basic and
Scale) of library professionals in different kinds of libraries, like NIT,
IIT, University Library, Special library, etc.
    I required the salary structure which is aproved by authorities, like
UGC, AICTE, etc.

Thanks and Regards

-- 
SUJIT KUJUR
LIBRARY ASSISTANT
NIT DURGAPUR
MAHATMA GANDHI AVENUE
DURGAPUR-713209
(WEST BENGAL)

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From sujitkujur at gmail.com  Wed Apr 25 14:18:04 2007
From: sujitkujur at gmail.com (sujit kujur)
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 14:18:04 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Post of Librarian, Asst. Librarian
Message-ID: <d3504ebb0704250148u76f74634v977d96a2373724cc@mail.gmail.com>

BENGAL COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY
 SHAHID SUKUMAR BANERJEE SARANI, BIDHAN NAGAR
                        DURGAPUR-713212
TEL: +910343-252606, 2533189/190,
TELEFAX: 0343-2533186
E-mail: help at bcetdgp.ac.in/ skset_dgp at rediffmail.com,
Website: www.bcetdgp.ac.in


Plain paper applications wirth complete C.V. enclose two recent pasport size
photographs and attested copies of all testimonials are invited for the
following posts through courier/ by post to The principle to reach within
10th may 2007.

1. *PROFESSOR, ASST. PROFESSOR, LECTURE*:  For
Biotechnology, Bio infromatics, CSE, IT, ECE including VLSI,EEE,AEIE,
mechanical Engg., civil engg.,MBA, MCA, Mathematics, Physics, chemistry,
english.

2. *TRAINNING AND PLACEMENT OFFICER*: preferably a graduate engineer with
MBA or MBA(HR), having at least 10 year experience in major
software/electronics/core industry.

3. *ASST. TRAINNING AND PLACEMENT OFFICER*: Preferably a graduate engineer
with MBA or MBA(HR) having at least 5 yrs of experience in knowledge based
industry with good contacts.

4. *LAB INSTRUCTURE*: Biotechnology, CSE IT, ECE,EEE,AEIE, Mechanical Engg.,
civil Engg., Physics, chemistry.

5. *LIBRARIAN, ASST. LIBRARIAN: Qualification: MLIS/M. Phil Lib Sc./Ph.D
from recognized university with 2 to 5 Yrs of working experience in library
preferably in Engineering College.  Pay scale as per AICTE norms*.


Suitable pay scale plus other attractive allowances may be cinsidered for
deserving candidates. Retired persons having requisits qualification and
experience may also apply for senior positions. well furnished accomodation
available inside campus.


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LIBRARY ASSISTANT
NIT DURGAPUR
MAHATMA GANDHI AVENUE
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From gkm at igidr.ac.in  Wed Apr 25 15:19:42 2007
From: gkm at igidr.ac.in (G.K.MANJUNATH)
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:19:42 +0530 (India Standard Time)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Moodle Software
In-Reply-To: <BAY128-DAV10761C880BD3E708C01B84B64A0@phx.gbl>
References: <BAY128-DAV10761C880BD3E708C01B84B64A0@phx.gbl>
Message-ID: <Pine.WNT.4.64.0704251515300.868@gkm>


dear Rajan,


DRTC, Bangalore have successfuly experimented and using MOODLE for their 
E-learing project titled 'Indo-German E-gurukul on Digital Libraries'.

You may contact Dr.A.R.D.Prasad and Dr.Devika at DRTC

G.K.Manjunath
Chief Librarian
IGIDR, Mumbai



On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Rajan wrote:

> Dear Friends,
>
> Moodle 1.5.2 for Windows - a free software for design and administration 
> of interactive courses over web - appears to be a good tool of immense 
> potential for those who want to design distance mode of education on any 
> subject. I have examined the peripheral areas of the software and would 
> like to know a little deep about it for designing interactive self 
> instructional Courses on Decentralisation.
>
> So I would like to be in touch with those who are conversant with the 
> software and can demonstrate the mechanism of designing courses.  The 
> manuals in the internet appears to be cumbersome to use and learn.
>
> Please  send your response.
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> K Rajasekharan
> Librarian , Kerala Institute of Local Administration
> Mulagunnathukavu, Thrissur -680581
>
> Ph 0487- 2204097 (O), 2201428 ( R)
>
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> dangerous content by MailScanner, and is
> believed to be clean.
>
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From esukhdev at gmail.com  Wed Apr 25 17:23:12 2007
From: esukhdev at gmail.com (Sukhdev Singh)
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:23:12 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] MLAI Membership Denied - What to do?
Message-ID: <c13c85220704250453k4d49eaefy121be819bd3383d0@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Friends,

Most of my professional colleagues are member of Medical Library
Association of India (MLAI). I also take pride to have one of my
colleague as its Executive Member.

Few months back, I applied for MLAI Membership in their prescribed
form along with required fee.

Today, I am shocked to see my cheque returned back along with that of
my other colleague. He had also applied for the membership separately
long back. (This means, they know who we are?!!). What is killing me
is that no reason has been given in rejecting my application. Infact
there is not even single line of information attached with the
cheques. There appears a definite method in this madness. My
qualifications and nature of work is similar to those of my other
colleagues. If they can be members than why can't I?

What should I do in this situation?

Please,  Don't just press delete. REACT.

Sukhdev Singh,
Indian Medlars Centre,
http://indmed.nic.in

From jagadeesh1.b at tcs.com  Wed Apr 25 18:00:49 2007
From: jagadeesh1.b at tcs.com (Jagadeesh1 B)
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:00:49 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] MLAI Membership Denied - What to do?
In-Reply-To: <c13c85220704250453k4d49eaefy121be819bd3383d0@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <OF6C0CDEAB.59F50293-ON652572C8.00444A88-652572C8.0044B40D@tcs.com>

Dear Sukhdev,

I am working with software company, but i know very well about you and 
your nature of work., 

But they are not suppose to do like this, Its not fair.

Just make a call to MLAI President and ask him directly whats going on 
there?

Thanks & Regards,

Jagadeesh B
Tata Consultancy Services
Gateway Park, Road No.13,
MIDC, Andheri (E)
Mumbai - 400 093,Maharashtra
India
Mailto: jagadeesh1.b at tcs.com
Website: http://www.tcs.com



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[LIS-Forum] MLAI Membership Denied - What to do?






Dear Friends,

Most of my professional colleagues are member of Medical Library
Association of India (MLAI). I also take pride to have one of my
colleague as its Executive Member.

Few months back, I applied for MLAI Membership in their prescribed
form along with required fee.

Today, I am shocked to see my cheque returned back along with that of
my other colleague. He had also applied for the membership separately
long back. (This means, they know who we are?!!). What is killing me
is that no reason has been given in rejecting my application. Infact
there is not even single line of information attached with the
cheques. There appears a definite method in this madness. My
qualifications and nature of work is similar to those of my other
colleagues. If they can be members than why can't I?

What should I do in this situation?

Please,  Don't just press delete. REACT.

Sukhdev Singh,
Indian Medlars Centre,
http://indmed.nic.in
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From naglaxman at yahoo.com  Wed Apr 25 23:13:12 2007
From: naglaxman at yahoo.com (Prof. N. Laxman Rao.)
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:43:12 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] MLAI Membership Denied - What to do?
In-Reply-To: <c13c85220704250453k4d49eaefy121be819bd3383d0@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <417420.53111.qm@web60415.mail.yahoo.com>

Dear Sukhdev,

it is unfortunate tht ur application had been rejected for unknown reasons. the way our politics and politicians are behaving , similar way our professional organisations are behaving. wht is the contributions of our associations to common professional? if this question is posed, i think it becomes difficult to answer.

as it is nw the image of the lowest level due to several reasons, including the training, schools, type of education, our service and associations.wht are we going to share and give our legacy to next generations. we are able to see increased corruption and wht not.


it is so unfortunate. even some of the organsiations have become pocket organsiations. I congratulate tht u have raised ur voice against the rejection. there are many good professionals who are doing best service but it is their own work and own committment. we praise and shd learn from them.

i donot hav hopes for betterment of this professions, unless the younger generations takes the task into their hands and makes some attempt to clean the unwanted and politics oriented professionals.

i pray almighty god, tht future generations fight for their cause and make an efffort for improvement of the profession. i join Dr sukhdev, protesting for not admitting him as member of the association without mentioning the reasons.

let us join together to build the image of our profession with gud work..

laxman rao
Sukhdev Singh <esukhdev at gmail.com> wrote: Dear Friends,

Most of my professional colleagues are member of Medical Library
Association of India (MLAI). I also take pride to have one of my
colleague as its Executive Member.

Few months back, I applied for MLAI Membership in their prescribed
form along with required fee.

Today, I am shocked to see my cheque returned back along with that of
my other colleague. He had also applied for the membership separately
long back. (This means, they know who we are?!!). What is killing me
is that no reason has been given in rejecting my application. Infact
there is not even single line of information attached with the
cheques. There appears a definite method in this madness. My
qualifications and nature of work is similar to those of my other
colleagues. If they can be members than why can't I?

What should I do in this situation?

Please,  Don't just press delete. REACT.

Sukhdev Singh,
Indian Medlars Centre,
http://indmed.nic.in
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From jsharma at niilm.com  Thu Apr 26 09:07:37 2007
From: jsharma at niilm.com (jsharma)
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:07:37 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] MLAI Membership Denied - What to do?
In-Reply-To: <c13c85220704250453k4d49eaefy121be819bd3383d0@mail.gmail.com>
References: <c13c85220704250453k4d49eaefy121be819bd3383d0@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <WorldClient-F200704260907.AA07370164@niilm.com>

This is really very sad state of affairs that professional associations 
are run like this in our country. No matter, whatever personal 
differences or liking/disliking may be but to deny membership in a 
professional platform can't be said a healthy practice.

Professionals may give their reactions but actually the response must 
come from MLAI office bearers only how do they justify their act.

Fortunately/unfortunately I am not a medical library professsional but I 
keep a keen interest in all types of libraries and their developments.


Jitender Sharma
Librarian & 
Marketing Manager - JMC
NIILM Centre for Management Studies
B-II/66, MCIE, Mathura Road
Badarpur
New Delhi - 110044
Tel: 91-011-29891529/39 Ext. 221, 29893143 (Dir.), 9899695953 (Mob)
Fax: 91-011-29894212
E-mail: jitendersharmaji at yahoo.com, jsharma at niilm.com


-----Original Message-----
From: "Sukhdev Singh" <esukhdev at gmail.com>
To: lis-forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in, medlib at yahoogroups.com, 
avani_shah at hotmail.com, rajkumar196 at yahoo.co.in, shashikp at hotmail.com
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:23:12 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] MLAI Membership Denied - What to do?

> Dear Friends,
> 
> Most of my professional colleagues are member of Medical Library
> Association of India (MLAI). I also take pride to have one of my
> colleague as its Executive Member.
> 
> Few months back, I applied for MLAI Membership in their prescribed
> form along with required fee.
> 
> Today, I am shocked to see my cheque returned back along with that of
> my other colleague. He had also applied for the membership separately
> long back. (This means, they know who we are?!!). What is killing me
> is that no reason has been given in rejecting my application. Infact
> there is not even single line of information attached with the
> cheques. There appears a definite method in this madness. My
> qualifications and nature of work is similar to those of my other
> colleagues. If they can be members than why can't I?
> 
> What should I do in this situation?
> 
> Please,  Don't just press delete. REACT.
> 
> Sukhdev Singh,
> Indian Medlars Centre,
> http://indmed.nic.in
> _______________________________________________
> LIS-Forum mailing list
> LIS-Forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in
> http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum


From ajaysharma.lib at gmail.com  Thu Apr 26 10:06:02 2007
From: ajaysharma.lib at gmail.com (Ajay Kum Sharma)
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 10:06:02 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Vacancy for the post of Professor and Lecturer in LIS
Message-ID: <50ee88430704252136q15e51c33v7444cc6beedb38e0@mail.gmail.com>

Dear all LIS Professionals,

Vacancy for the post of Professor and Lecturer in the University of Kashmir

Professor  (16400 - 22400)

Lecturer  (8000 - 13500)

Details regarding the essential and other qualifications etc are contained
in the main advertisement Notice no - F10/Apptt.-Gen) RC/KU dated 03/04/2007
is available on university website
www.kashmiruniversity.net



-- 
Thanks and regards.


Ajay Kumar Sharma
Project Associate, INDEST-AICTE Consortium
Central Library, IIT Delhi
Hauz Khas,
New Delhi-110016
011-26591467 (O)
09899339808 (M)
Web: http://www.geocities.com/ajaysharma_lib/
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From milanramakant at hotmail.com  Thu Apr 26 10:35:55 2007
From: milanramakant at hotmail.com (R.K.SHUKLA)
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 10:35:55 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] MLAI Membership Denied - What to do?
References: <c13c85220704250453k4d49eaefy121be819bd3383d0@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <BAY134-DAV14F01B7FAF0B66797FCF95A7480@phx.gbl>

Rejecting the candidature of Mr. Sukhdev for membership of MLAI is realy 
shoking who one else india is serving better than Mr. Sukhdev to medical 
community by adopting and propagating the means of open access.
Although I am not aware of the constitutional requirement of membership of 
MLAI however i f there is any restriction the constitution of MLAI should be 
amended to accomodatate such persons . I hope executive of MLAI will take 
n.a in this direction
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sukhdev Singh" <esukhdev at gmail.com>
To: <lis-forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>; <medlib at yahoogroups.com>; 
<avani_shah at hotmail.com>; <rajkumar196 at yahoo.co.in>; <shashikp at hotmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 5:23 PM
Subject: [LIS-Forum] MLAI Membership Denied - What to do?


> Dear Friends,
>
> Most of my professional colleagues are member of Medical Library
> Association of India (MLAI). I also take pride to have one of my
> colleague as its Executive Member.
>
> Few months back, I applied for MLAI Membership in their prescribed
> form along with required fee.
>
> Today, I am shocked to see my cheque returned back along with that of
> my other colleague. He had also applied for the membership separately
> long back. (This means, they know who we are?!!). What is killing me
> is that no reason has been given in rejecting my application. Infact
> there is not even single line of information attached with the
> cheques. There appears a definite method in this madness. My
> qualifications and nature of work is similar to those of my other
> colleagues. If they can be members than why can't I?
>
> What should I do in this situation?
>
> Please,  Don't just press delete. REACT.
>
> Sukhdev Singh,
> Indian Medlars Centre,
> http://indmed.nic.in
> _______________________________________________
> LIS-Forum mailing list
> LIS-Forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in
> http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum
> 


From puna_05 at yahoo.co.in  Thu Apr 26 11:05:39 2007
From: puna_05 at yahoo.co.in (Puna Das)
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 06:35:39 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Training module on documentary scriptwriting now online
Message-ID: <76206.46382.qm@web8602.mail.in.yahoo.com>

Training module on documentary scriptwriting now
online

UNESCO, in partnership with the Public Service
Broadcasting Trust (PSBT) of India, has just released
a training module entitled "How to write a documentary
script", an easy-to-use self-training tool providing
basic knowledge for potential content creators.

The tool, prepared by Trisha Das, analyses the two
stages of documentary scriptwriting, the pre-shoot or
shooting script and the post-shoot script, providing
basic knowldege and useful advice for those being
initiated in documentary making.

A well-written film script is an instrument through
which one can create emotion and epiphany at will.
That is one reason why it is possible the most
critical aspect of the filmmaking procedure and,
often, the most underrated aspect of the documentary
process.

Through this series of training modules, UNESCO and
its partner, the Public Service Broadcasting Trust
(PSBT) of India, intend to support local communication
processes by facilitating the democratization of
content-making, providing easy-to-use self-training
materials that can be inexpensively distributed to
potential content creators.

The online version of the monograph can be consulted
at
http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=24367&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

Other materials available in this series: 
The Video Training Basics 1: Camera Module, Sound
module and Editing module; Formats available: DVD
(Pal, Multizones); Total duration (of three modules):
79'
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Format available: DVD (Pal, Multizones); Total
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From madhuresh.singhal at advinus.com  Thu Apr 26 12:12:17 2007
From: madhuresh.singhal at advinus.com (madhuresh.singhal)
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:12:17 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Online resources threaten livelihood of libraries
Message-ID: <ACA996E7DC216248921A4821827A04B84E8C70@advblrho-exch.advinus.com>


You may be interested to read this. This is taken from current issue of
Nature (2007; 446: 958-9) and available online at
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v446/n7139/full/446958b.html

Regards
Madhuresh Singhal
Assoc. Res. Scientist - Inf. Sc.
Advinus Therapeutics Pvt. Ltd.
21 & 22, Phase 2, Peenya Industrial Area, Bangalore - 560058
Phone: +91 80 28394959; Mobile 098861 82822
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Online resources threaten livelihood of libraries

Lucy Odling-Smee

Closures restrict public access to documents from US agencies.

The closure of five of the 26 regional libraries of the US Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) last year sparked international protest.
Congressional hearings were held, and a government investigation was
launched. In February this year, the president of the American Library
Association told Congress that the closures have restricted access to
information in at least 31 states.

The EPA is not alone - last year, the Department of Energy closed its
headquarters library in Washington DC. And now, NASA is considering
downsizing its network of libraries - including the one at its leading
science-research centre, the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt,
Maryland.

Tight budgets could bring even more whittling of libraries in the United
States. "When budgets are threatened, agencies tend to say let's put the
library on the chopping block," says Tara Olivero, assistant director at
the American Library Association in Washington DC.

Libraries are already working to reinvent themselves in a digital world
in which online access is fast reducing the need for rows of books and
stacks of journals. But a full transition to electronic resources might
not save money as agencies hope.

Officials at the EPA, whose libraries provide a wide range of
information about environmental protection and management, initially
cited a proposed budget cut of US$2 million - an 80% drop from the
previous year - as the main reason for downsizing its library network.
Yet critics point out that internal EPA studies have suggested that
having a librarian saves between $3 and $7 in professional staff time
for every dollar invested. Since the closures, EPA librarians have
struggled to maintain the same level of cost effectiveness. On
requesting a publication from another library, they are sometimes told
that the item is not available and that no one knows where it is, says
Bernadine Abbott Hoduski, a former EPA librarian.

The agency is working to convert all EPA documents into an electronic
format, and its spokeswoman Jessica Emond says that the project "has not
incurred additional cost". But critics argue that for agencies
considering downsizing their physical libraries, going electronic will
almost certainly require more, not less, money.

For a start, not everything can be digitized, and dedicated staff are
needed to assess what material should be put in digital form. Content
must also be produced using technologies that will be usable decades in
the future. "In many ways you need a higher level of expertise to
produce and maintain an electronic service than a physical one," says
Anne Kinney, a NASA scientist and chair of a group that recently
assessed how the print materials at the Goddard library could be
reduced.

The demand for library services other than shelf space has shown no sign
of tapering off and, if anything, has increased in recent years. To
ensure that electronic resources don't result in costs simply being
transferred to individual researchers, those services need sustained
funding, librarians say.

At the Naval Research Laboratory library in Washington DC, chief
librarian James King says that he has seen a dramatic falling-off in the
number of people walking through the door. But "space is not synonymous
with service", he says. Use of the naval library's online databases has
doubled in the past five years.

There is a risk of people seeing libraries only as warehouses," King
says. He and others argue that in a time of information overload,
librarians have an ever-more-valuable role in designing web interfaces
that facilitate browsing and focused searches. They also create and
operate databases specific to the needs of the research communities they
serve, and have intricate knowledge of electronic resources across
agency- and university-library networks. And in a world where new
journals are continually coming online, librarians say they are best
placed to negotiate with publishers to obtain the cheapest site-licence
contracts and to monitor the changing needs of a specific community of
users.
For her part, Kinney envisions a different future for the science
library. Instead of silent halls with towering racks of books, smaller
meeting places could double up as information centres, where researchers
can plug in their laptops, hold discussions, and talk to librarians
about how to navigate the myriad resources online.

NASA has not yet made any decisions about closing any libraries, but the
issue is likely to remain on the table: "The NASA budget isn't getting
any bigger," notes Robin Dixon, chief librarian of Goddard. The
challenge will be to cut back on physical resources without cutting back
on service.



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From jotwanid at iitb.ac.in  Thu Apr 26 12:23:57 2007
From: jotwanid at iitb.ac.in (D Jotwani, Librarian IIT Bombay)
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:23:57 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] National Workshop on LIS Education in Digital Era
Message-ID: <40264.10.99.103.1.1177570437.squirrel@gpo.iitb.ac.in>

Dear All

Central Library, IIT Bombay in collaboration with IATLIS has planned to
organize a National Workshop on LIS Education in Digital Era from 13-15
June 2007. The workshop will be held on the beautiful campus of IIT
Bombay. The main objectives of the workshop are :

1. To provide a forum to the LIS Teachers, Research Scholars, Librarians
and Academic Administrators to discuss or present their views on the
developments in ICT and its  applications in LIS Teaching and Library
Services
2. To create awareness and understanding about the importance of
introducing and executing information technology in LIS teaching to
achieve academic excellence.
3. To provide an opportunity to the participants to see the world class
Information Technology Infrastructure and other facilities available at
IIT Bombay
4. To provide  an opportunity to the participants to observe state-
of-the-art ICT applications in the Central Library, IIT Bombay and have
first hand experience of the web-based library and information services,
smart card-based (bar-coded) circulation system, electronic resource
management, on-line submission of theses and dissertations, open archives
etc.

Only 50 participants mainly LIS Teachers, full time Research Scholars and
Library Administrators, will be selected on first-come-first-served basis.
More details can also be had at http://www.library.iitb.ac.in

Thank you.
-- 
D. Jotwani
Librarian
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Powai, Mumbai 400076
Phone 91-22-25768920, 91-22-25720227




From sidda at nimhans.kar.nic.in  Thu Apr 26 14:14:10 2007
From: sidda at nimhans.kar.nic.in (sidda at nimhans.kar.nic.in)
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 14:14:10 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Unfortunate
Message-ID: <57111.192.168.1.30.1177577050.squirrel@192.168.1.50>


Dear Professional colleague

It is really unfortunate and the intention looks  very clear that
Dr.Kumar, Ms.Avani shah and Dr.Rajkumar are thinking that MLAI is their
private limited company of 25 to 30 people who area their close group.

 I Request all the profssionals to unite and fight for such undue
advantages derived by some of the professionals

Infact these few people have ruined our medical librarianship profession


I seriously think to raise these issues in general body meeting or if
required to call special general body meeting.

Also I suggest that "we can even go to legal action agaianst such
favaitism keeping themsleves in public institutions.

I assure and ready to take up this issue, which is a open fruad by these
group

All the professionals are requested to  join and fight against such fruads

with regards
Siddamallaiah


From kishor_satpathy at yahoo.com  Thu Apr 26 14:20:19 2007
From: kishor_satpathy at yahoo.com (Kishor Satpathy)
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 01:50:19 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] MLAI Membership Denied - What to do?
In-Reply-To: <WorldClient-F200704260907.AA07370164@niilm.com>
Message-ID: <690053.84081.qm@web57012.mail.re3.yahoo.com>

Dear Sukhdevji,
   
  I do agree with Prof Laxman Rao & Mr.Jitender Sharma.
   
  But every association got its rules, regulations & eligibility criteria to become members. I hope you do qualify for the same!! as per their rule?? (Although,  I know, you are qualified enough for the same .... & you have done note-able work in Indian Medlars Centre).
   
  Even if you are not eligible by association rule, I personally feel that  the like minded people & well wishers of the association should be allowed to become the member of the association...those who can really contribute professionally to the association in longer term.
   
  Have you personally checked with the President or Secretary what was the reason behind rejecting your application! Because there can be some other administrative reason also! May be the increase in membership fee etc.
   
  If the above are not the criteria for rejection....then the association doesn't have any moral right to reject your application....that's what make us sad about the functioning of the association. What I feel, that there is a lack of vision on the part of the association. Our association should be more transparent & accountable in their dealings. 
   
  In any case, the association should have given an explanation to you with the cheque.
   
  We should work together... to strengthen our ASSOCIATIONS!!!
   
  Regards,
   
  Kishor Satpathy
  IIM Indore


jsharma <jsharma at niilm.com> wrote:  This is really very sad state of affairs that professional associations 
are run like this in our country. No matter, whatever personal 
differences or liking/disliking may be but to deny membership in a 
professional platform can't be said a healthy practice.

Professionals may give their reactions but actually the response must 
come from MLAI office bearers only how do they justify their act.

Fortunately/unfortunately I am not a medical library professsional but I 
keep a keen interest in all types of libraries and their developments.


Jitender Sharma
Librarian & 
Marketing Manager - JMC
NIILM Centre for Management Studies
B-II/66, MCIE, Mathura Road
Badarpur
New Delhi - 110044
Tel: 91-011-29891529/39 Ext. 221, 29893143 (Dir.), 9899695953 (Mob)
Fax: 91-011-29894212
E-mail: jitendersharmaji at yahoo.com, jsharma at niilm.com


-----Original Message-----
From: "Sukhdev Singh" 
To: lis-forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in, medlib at yahoogroups.com, 
avani_shah at hotmail.com, rajkumar196 at yahoo.co.in, shashikp at hotmail.com
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:23:12 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] MLAI Membership Denied - What to do?

> Dear Friends,
> 
> Most of my professional colleagues are member of Medical Library
> Association of India (MLAI). I also take pride to have one of my
> colleague as its Executive Member.
> 
> Few months back, I applied for MLAI Membership in their prescribed
> form along with required fee.
> 
> Today, I am shocked to see my cheque returned back along with that of
> my other colleague. He had also applied for the membership separately
> long back. (This means, they know who we are?!!). What is killing me
> is that no reason has been given in rejecting my application. Infact
> there is not even single line of information attached with the
> cheques. There appears a definite method in this madness. My
> qualifications and nature of work is similar to those of my other
> colleagues. If they can be members than why can't I?
> 
> What should I do in this situation?
> 
> Please, Don't just press delete. REACT.
> 
> Sukhdev Singh,
> Indian Medlars Centre,
> http://indmed.nic.in
> _______________________________________________
> LIS-Forum mailing list
> LIS-Forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in
> http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

_______________________________________________
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Coordinator,Continuing Education Cell
& Project Coodinator, Virtual Class Room & Digital Library
National Institute of Technology (Deemed University)
Silchar 788010,Assam,India
Ph: 91 3842 240055(W) 240906 (R), 
Fax: 91 3842 233797
Mobile: 9435073452
E mail : kishor_satpathy at yahoo.com (personal) 
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From mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in  Thu Apr 26 16:38:17 2007
From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin)
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:38:17 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] membership of MLAI
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704261636540.27446@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>

Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 03:05:30 -0700 (PDT)
From: Suresh Horakeri <horakerisd at yahoo.com>

Dear professional friends,

It is unfortunate to know that, denied membership of MLAI to Mr Sukhdev, 
he is an expert in the area of information science, open archive 
initiatives etc. All librarians irrespective of their working dept should 
be allowed to become member of any library professional group.

Thanks,

Suresh Horakeri

From mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in  Thu Apr 26 16:43:01 2007
From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin)
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:43:01 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Professional Training Programme
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704261642190.27446@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>

Date: 19 Apr 2007 14:08:01 -0000
From: Smaranika Mishra <smishra_83 at rediffmail.com>

Dear members

Central Library, IIT, Kharagpur requires 5 professional trainee for 1 year 
period.for more detail

visit non-teaching position at iitkgp site i.e. www.iitkgp.ac.in or the 
link below

http://www.iitkgp.ac.in/downloads/prf_trainee.pdf

With regards

Smaranika Mishra
Central Library
IIT, Kharagpur
Pin-721 302
West Bengal

From angrosh at isim.ac.in  Fri Apr 27 10:25:30 2007
From: angrosh at isim.ac.in (Angrosh)
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:25:30 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] InfoQuiz 2007-Registration Closes Today-Hurry Up!
Message-ID: <KPEAJCLHCBHHOHIDIDMOAEGMCCAA.angrosh@isim.ac.in>

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From sujatalis20 at yahoo.co.in  Thu Apr 19 16:08:25 2007
From: sujatalis20 at yahoo.co.in (Sujata Mandal)
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 16:08:25 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] List of UGC refresher cource 07-08
Message-ID: <598087.17787.qm@web7909.mail.in.yahoo.com>

Dear Professional friends,

I am looking for the list of UGC Refreshers Courses - Science and Humanities Subjects (Specially Library and Information Science) 2007-08. I shall be thankful if anybody can help me to get the list of courses with organising institutions.

Regards,
Ms. Sujata Mandal
Information Officer
Virtual Information Centre
ICICI Knoweledge Park, Hyderabad


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From gkm at igidr.ac.in  Fri Apr 20 13:18:03 2007
From: gkm at igidr.ac.in (G.K.MANJUNATH)
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:18:03 +0530 (India Standard Time)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Training in LIS-  Temporary vacancy at IGIDR library,
	Mumbai
Message-ID: <Pine.WNT.4.64.0704201139490.536@gkm>


              Subject: Temporary vacancy at IGIDR library, Mumbai.
                       4 Posts

            Qualifications:  M.Li.Sc ( 55% and above )
                            Reserveration as per the Central Govt Rules.

            Experince     : 0 - 6 months

            Required skills :   WINISIS, MS-WINDOWS; MS-OFFICE
                                Good communication.
                                AACR II and  DDC.

            Apptitude :       Enthusisam to learn latest ICT skills.

            Salary           :     Rs.7000/- PM ( Consolidated )

            Training Modules:   Excellent training will be provided in
 			       practical librarianship with emphasis on:

                                   i. Libsys

                                  ii. Web desiging (HTML, Java Scripts,
 		                                   Java applets )

                                 iii. MySQL and PHP
                                      ( with a project )

                                  iv.  Dspace ( Institutional Repository )

                                   v.  Harvester ( PKP )

                                   vi. Redhat Linux ( Fedora 3 )

The candidates will also get the opportunity to work in all the sections 
of the library in a very good academic and ICT environment.

Those who have appeared for M.Li.Sc examination can also apply, but have 
to produce the proof of completion at the time of interview/written test, 
which is likelly to be held during the 2nd week of May, 2007.  Candidates 
have to appear for interview at their own cost.

Last date for applying:   30/4/2007.

Resume ( preferably MS-Word File ) with two references indicating date of 
birth, year of passing and percentage of marks starting from SSC, with 
other personal and professional details may please be sent to the under 
signed over email:

thanks

       G.K.Manjunath
       Chief Librarian
       Indira Gandhi Inst of Development Research
       Film City Road
       Santosh Nagar
       Goregaon(East )
       MUMBAI - 400 065

              	  Phone:	022-28416544
                   email:        gkm at igidr.ac.in
                   URL  :        http://www.igidr.ac.in/lib/library.php



From vimal0212 at yahoo.com  Mon Apr 23 11:49:46 2007
From: vimal0212 at yahoo.com (vimal kumar)
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 23:19:46 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] NISCAIR Research Intern Awards
Message-ID: <761242.36393.qm@web52302.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

  Dear Friends,

Applications are invited for 22 [twenty-two] Research Intern Awards, MLISc holders can also apply.


Stipend -7500

     Visit the NISCAIR site for details.
  http://www.niscair.res.in/Movingmenu/move.asp?a=topframe.htm&b=content.htm&c=Announcements.asp
  

Vimal Kumar 
Asst. Librarian
Asian School of Business 
Technopark  
Trivandrum-695 581 
www.asb.edu.in/vimal
       
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From baleshknl at yahoo.co.in  Wed Apr 25 09:59:15 2007
From: baleshknl at yahoo.co.in (Balesh Kumar)
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 05:29:15 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Delnet Orientation Program
Message-ID: <850026.1824.qm@web8913.mail.in.yahoo.com>

Dear Sir,
   
  Please announce the following
  Delnet is conducting a one day orientation program on April 30, 2007 at 
   
  Haryana College of Technology & Management
  Ambala Road, Kaithal - 136 027
   
  Interested may contact to Librarian HCTM 
  (M): 09416073008
  email: baleshknl at yahoo.co.in
  or to Network Manager, Delnet
  0910329992
  sangs at delnet.ren.nic.in


Balesh Kumar
  Librarian
  Haryana College of Technology & Management
  Ambala Road, Kaithal-136 027 (Haryana)
  Ph.: (O) 01746-280100, 280102, Fax: 280711
  (M) 09416073008

       
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From vanu_kh at yahoo.com  Fri Apr 27 11:14:48 2007
From: vanu_kh at yahoo.com (Vandana Khandelwal)
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:44:48 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Regarding Vacancy in Pune
Message-ID: <528513.94342.qm@web30304.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Dear sir,
Please pass this message to all forum members. 
Thanks
Maharashtra Academy of Engineering Alandi, requires
library Assistant and Library Attendant for its
central library.
Eligibility: 
Library Assistant - B.Lib. Sc. with a 
Good academic track record, having excellent computer
knowledge, good communication skills. Typing is must.
Library Attendant - Diploma in Library Science with
computer literacy. Typing is must. 
Only the candidates who are ready to work in shifts
need to apply.
Please send your resume on following email address:
vbkhandelwal at mitpune.com
Vandana Khandelwal
Librarian
Maharashtra Academy of Engineering
Alandi (D) Pune


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From sidda at nimhans.kar.nic.in  Fri Apr 27 11:15:22 2007
From: sidda at nimhans.kar.nic.in (sidda at nimhans.kar.nic.in)
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 11:15:22 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] MLAI membership
Message-ID: <31419.192.168.1.30.1177652722.squirrel@192.168.1.50>



Dear Professional

As per the RTI (right to Information) act, office bearers of the
assocation has to provide all the information including bye-law,
proceeding and the decision and the latest returns filed to the registrars
of the society.

We may need to ask for all the documents and the proceeding may be
undertaken.

With regards
Dr.H.S.Siddamallaiah



From hariharan_ah at yahoo.com  Fri Apr 27 12:44:36 2007
From: hariharan_ah at yahoo.com (Arunachalam Hariharan)
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 00:14:36 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] SALIS 2007 National Conference at Anna University,
	Chennai
Message-ID: <648585.75641.qm@web39612.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Conference Announcement

SALIS 2007 National Conference on 

Future Technologies for Empowering LIS Professionals:
Threats, Challenges and Opportunities


Jointly Organised by

University Library, Anna University
&
Society for the Advancement of Library and Information
Science
(SALIS)

Date: 9-11th August 2007

Venue: ANna University,  Chennai-600 025
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Objetives:

Many new ICT  and security technologies such as RFID,
Wi-Fi,  Smartcard, Bio-metric, CCT, Optical, 
Scanning, Digital, Internet, Web technologies are
being introduced in Libraries in recent years 
in spite of technology limitations, applications, uses
and threats. Web 2.0, Library 2.0 and RSS 
are the other important new concepts that have been
used in providing future web based library services. 
Wikipedia, Weblogs, Second generation search engines
are used in organizing, storing, searching 
and disseminating information.   Information sources
are being made available in a variety of 
formats and media.  Libraries are moving from print to
digital.  

Existing libraries and information centers and LIS
professionals have to gear up rapidly 
to exploit fully the potential and capabilities of the
new technologies. The conference aims 
at providing a forum for learning and exchange of
ideas among those who are actively involved 
in these areas to meet the future challenges.

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ABOUT THE THEME

Articles/papers are invited for presentation in the
following areas in conformance with the main theme. 
Original case studies and reports on best practices
will be appreciated.


RFID - RFID concepts, type of Antennas, Readers, EAS, 
labels , integration, implementation , 
case studies, problems and solutions
Smart Card -   Storage, identification, applications,
integrations, etc
Biometrics -  Application for user authentication
Wi-fi -  Connectivity, application, LAN, Intranet,
application in LIS centres
Storage Device -  types, data back-up, security ,etc

Digital Libraries of the future ? Design, methodology,
planning, digital initiatives, 
HW/SW, standards and formats, metadata, institutional
repositories, open source initiatives, 
networking of libraries, consortia, knowledge
management, digital futures  and roles of the
Libraries

E-Resources- E-books, e-journals, access mechanism,
pricing policy and e- publishing, standards, etc
Scanning Technology -  Types of scanners, resolution,
file size, format, OCR, application in LIS centres.

Digital Preservation - Preservation methods/types, 
planning, etc

Preservation of printed documents ? Application of
technology, methods, procedures and durability

Wikipedia, weblogs,  search engines, web OPAC,
semantic web ? Feature,  function, ontology, trend and
use

WEB 2.0 and Library 2.0 ? Key principles, model,
design and implementation of library  services.

Web based Library Services and Portal: Design, service
and implementation

Bibliomining ? Technology, trends and application

Content Management Systems ? Design, methodology,
strategies, implications and solutions

E-Learning- Design, methods, implementation

Information Literacy for effective utilization of
LIbrary resources

Case Studies and Best Practices:  on Conference main
theme or any sub theme given in the brochure

Copyrights in the Network World ? Standard practice,
rights, ownership issues, protection and  practical
implications

Management of technologies -  Threats and challenges
digital divide, technology threat, 
HW/SW technology absorption, cost, implementation etc

Re-defining the Library ? Challenges facing libraries,
design, methodology, 
change  and strategic  management, etc

User Needs & Expectations in the Future  and
Opportunities ? User requirements and expectations, 
factors influencing the opportunities - knowledge
societies, global competition, etc.

Future Research in LIS ?  Trends and developments

Professional Development, Skills and Training: Skills
building, technical communication, 
IT, managerial and soft skills; staff development;
leadership, training opportunities, 
role of professional associations & institutions.

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INVITED PAPERS

Experts from various parts of the country have been
invited to present their experience 
through invited keynote papers in each session, which
will also be included in the conference proceedings.

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PAPER SUBMISSION

Authors are requested to submit two copies of full
paper (with abstract not exceeding 250 words) 
in double space on A4 size paper in camera-ready form
and also a softcopy on CD in MS-Word along with the
Registration fee. Charts, graphs, photographs, if any,
should be inserted at the proper place in the paper.
The full paper should not exceed 10 pages of A4 size
paper.

Papers without Registration Fee will not be accepted

A declaration by the author(s) should be given
separately stating that the paper 
has not been presented/published elsewhere. Papers
accepted for publication will 
be intimated to the first author by e-mail. The
decision of the Editorial Committee 
regarding the acceptance of the papers for
presentation will be final.

Last date for submission of paper:  30.06.2007
Last date for Registration: 20.07.2007

Pre - Conference Tutorial
Topic: RFID: Technology, Implementation and
Integration
Date:  9th Aug 2007 (10.30 a.m. to 1.00 p.m)

Topic: Institutional Repositories
Date:  9th Aug 2007 (02.30 p.m. to 5.00 p.m)

Panel Discussion on Institutional Repositories on11th
Aug 2007 at 04.00 p.m
 
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REGISTRATION FEES

Category	                            Amount Rs.
        Conference & Tutorials
Individual Conference + 1 Tutorial 	    1400.00
Individual Conference + 2 Tutorials 	    1600.00      
                                                      
                                                      
                                                      
                                                      
                                         
Deputed Conference  + 1 Tutorial	    1900.00
Deputed Conference  + 2 Tutorials	    2200.00
	
        Conference	

Individual	                            1000.00
Deputed	                                  
       Tutorial	
  1 Tutorial  	                       500.00
  2 Tutorials	                       800.00

30 %  concession will be given to regular students and
trainees in the registration fee. 
Non-member has to pay Rs.100/extra.

The registration fees may be paid through D.D. in
favour of the ? Organizing Secretary, 
SALIS 2007: National Conference on Future Technologies
for Empowering LIS Professionals? 
payable at Chennai, addressed to the organizing
secretary.
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ACCOMMODATION
The delegates will be provided accommodation in the
nearby institutions (if available) 
and also in hotels on twin basis on advance payment on
first cum first basis. 
The tariff on daily basis ranging from Rs.300 to
Rs.2000 with both non-A/C and A/C accommodations. 
Accommodation can be provided for the family members
on  additional  payment in advance

TRANSPORT
The Anna University  is about 12 km away from Chennai
Central Railway Station and 10 km 
from Chennai airport. The call taxi, auto, bus are
available from all parts of the city.  
Delegates are requested to report their arrival to the
reception counter of 
Central Railway Station.  The volunteers will be there
to guide them and the transport 
to the venue will be available from 9th August 2007
morning onwards. 
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Anna University

Anna University was established on 4th September 1978
as a unitary type of University. 
Since December 2001, it has become a large, highly
renowned affiliated University. 
It offers higher education and research in
Engineering, Technology and allied Sciences 
relevant to the current and projected needs of the
society. Besides promoting 
and disseminating knowledge gained there from, it
fosters cooperation between 
the academic and industrial communities

Society for the Advancement of Library and Information
Science  (SALIS)

SALIS is a registered professional body, actively
involved in the development of all spheres of 
LIS by organizing various programs such as seminar,
lectures, training programs on emerging topics. 
 It has chapters in Chennai, Trichy, Coimbatore,
Thirunelveli, Vellore, Nagpur and New Delhi 
to provide service in the respective regions
regularly. SALIS has instituted many awards 
to honor LIS professionals in the country.

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About Chennai

Chennai , formerly known as Madras , is the capital of
the state of Tamil Nadu and is India's 
fourth largest metropolitan city. It is located on the
Coromandel Coast of the Bay of Bengal 
with an estimated population of 6.98 million (2006).
The 368-year-old city is the 34th largest 
metropolitan area in the world.

Chennai is the third largest commercial and industrial
centre in India, and is known for its 
cultural heritage and temple architecture. It is also
a hub for south Indian classical 
music and dance performances. Chennai is considered
the automobile capital of India, 
with a major percentage of the automobile industry
having a base here and a major 
portion of the nation's vehicles being produced here.
This has led to Chennai being 
referred to as the Detroit of South Asia.  Many
multinational software companies are 
located in Chennai. It has also become a major centre
for outsourced jobs from the West. 
The 12-kilometre long Marina Beach forms the city's
east coast. Chennai is also one of 
the rare cities to accommodate a national park, the
Guindy National Park, within its city limits.

Nearest tourist places: 
Puducherry (erstwhile Pondicherry), Arabindo Ashram,
Mahapalipuram, Kanchipuram, Marina Beach, Crocodile
park, Vandalur Zoo, Dakshin Chitra, Kovalam beach,
Muttukadu boat jetty and Theme parks are some of the
near by places to visit.
Temples:  Many temples are located in and around
Chennai

Site seeing: A site seeing will be arranged on payment
on 12.08.2007

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Address for communication regarding registration,
accommodation and 
sponsorship and submission of Papers


Dr. K. Nithyanandam
Organizing Secretary & Special Officer,
Anna University,
Guindy, 
Chennai- 600 025, Tamil Nadu

E-Mail	: k_nithyanandam at annauni.edu ,
salis_info at yahoo.co.in
Phone : 044-2021382, Cell: 9444337936
URL      : www.annauniv.edu


Full details of the conference will be posted now and
then at SALIS website also at
http://www.autolib-india.net/salis


REGISTRATION FORM

Name : Mrs./Ms./Mr./Prof./Dr.      :  
________________________________
Designation			   :  ________________________________
Organization/Institution	   : 
________________________________
Address				   :  ________________________________
  _________________________________
 _________________________________

Telephone		           :			
E-mail				   :
Are you attending		   :	Tutorial & Conference 
Tutorial only 
Conference only.

Are you a SALIS Member       	: YES/NO
Are you presenting a paper	: Yes/No
Whether Accommodation required:	yes / No
Hostel / Guest House / Hotel

Details of Payments:                For Conference   
Rs.=
                                    For Tutorial     
Rs.=
                                    For Accommodation
Rs.=
Bank Draft No./Cash	   		:  ___________________

Arrival details (Train No., Date, Time etc.,) 

_________________________________________________

Whether you have been deputed: Yes/No
Signature		     : _______________________________
Name			     : _______________________________

--------------------------------------------------------

A.Hariharan
  Structural Engineering Research Centre
  CSIR Campus
  Taramani
  Chennai - 600 113
  hariharan_ah at yahoo.com
  Cell: 9841601901
  Off:044-22549133
  --------------------------------------------------
  SALIS
  B2-Solai Apatments
  Mount-Poonamallee Road (opp.to.MGR Garden)
  Chennai - 600 116
  Tel: 044-22522448/42014772
  www.autolib-india.net/salis


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From kshipras at rbi.org.in  Fri Apr 27 14:35:25 2007
From: kshipras at rbi.org.in (K A. Sardesai)
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:35:25 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] views on Library Professionals:LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 49,
	Issue 16
Message-ID: <087CE79625DA8C4B9DF7A90825D0D838C41B3C@bkcmummail.rbi.org.in>

Respected Rao Sir,

I really accept your views and thoughts about our profession in the society.I always feel that the necessecity of Library professional is at every stage of life.When we step-in to the school since then till our death.The ways are different. But the true library professional are  always doing the best for every one to whom ,and where thay are attached.Apart from how they have treated.The  corporates ,financial organisations,banking industry,B schools ,International schools,Malls every where the services are creating the opportunities but the packages offered are depressive.The qualifications required are masters but the package offered is just Rs 5 to 7000 including universities.The library duties have not been called as core activities even though they are participating in research /asistance etc indirectly.

Sir, I accept your views since I was your student in PGDLAN at Hyderabad.Let me know how can we  join together to raise our profession? Andhra-Pradesh,Karnataka,Uttar pradesh are comparatively doing well for this profession but in Maharashatra mainly in Mumbai I found there are less jobs and no good network among the librarians.One BHOSLA is there but sorry to say that I am not amember.I feel there should a online network like lis-forum for every new and updates in the profession The Forum should take initiatives to get better packages for Library professionals from Library peon to Librarian, the time bound promotions/uplift of posts in the organisations, training for emerging technologies,,job opportunities , renumeration of packages etc.

Sir, there are many such librarians  dreamed to be a member or a librarian of any medical,corporate or research libraries and mainly when I read about a schlorship for  World Medical Libraries where there was only one Indian.To get these opportuities we all should come together I think online and the great personalities like Yourself,Dr A R D Prasad,Dr Devika ,Dr Manjunath should lead for us.Sam Pitroda has announced Knowledge Information Commission but is it upgrading LIS Professionals in practice or only IT professionals. Librarian should be IT+knowledge manager what I feel.

 Hoping for best image and assisting for the same in your mission.

With regards

Kshipra Sardesai
Asst Librarian,RBI, Bandra 


From Vandana.Karande at ril.com  Mon Apr 23 16:33:37 2007
From: Vandana.Karande at ril.com (Vandana.Karande at ril.com)
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 16:33:37 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Need an article
Message-ID: <OF7D90151E.91F6D61A-ON652572C6.003C1E28-652572C6.003CEB96@ril.com>



Dear Moderator
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From pkbhatta at teri.res.in  Fri Apr 27 16:07:38 2007
From: pkbhatta at teri.res.in (P K Bhattacharya)
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:07:38 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Library Assistant required
Message-ID: <OF7996EA8F.C1160B78-ON652572CA.0039012D-652572CA.003A80F3@teri.res.in>

TERI Library, New Delhi requires library Assistant. 

Eligibility:
B.Lib. Sc./Diploma or Certificate in Library Science with a
good academic track with computer literacy and good communication skills. 

Only male candidates who are ready to work in shifts need to apply.

Interested candidates may come for Walk-in Interview between 10 Am to 5 Pm 
on Monday (30 April 2007) or 10 AM to 12 PM on Tuesday (1 May 2007).

Contact:
Librarian
TERI Library
Library Block, 3rd Floor (Gate No.3)
IHC Complex
Lodhi Road
New Delhi - 110 003
Tel: 24682100/2111
 

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From arup at isical.ac.in  Fri Apr 27 15:16:53 2007
From: arup at isical.ac.in (Arup Raychaudhury)
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:16:53 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] List of UGC refresher cource 07-08
In-Reply-To: <598087.17787.qm@web7909.mail.in.yahoo.com>
References: <598087.17787.qm@web7909.mail.in.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0704271516100.18602@www.isical.ac.in>

Please visit:
http://www.ugc.ac.in/policy/refer_courses06-07.pdf

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_____________________________________________________________
Indian Statistical Institute |Phone: 91-33-2575 2106/2100/2118
203 B.T. Road                |
Kolkata 700 108              |Fax  : 91-33-2578 1412
INDIA                        |
_____________________________________________________________

From vyasamoorthy at gmail.com  Fri Apr 27 16:52:32 2007
From: vyasamoorthy at gmail.com (Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy)
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:52:32 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] MLAI membership
In-Reply-To: <31419.192.168.1.30.1177652722.squirrel@192.168.1.50>
References: <31419.192.168.1.30.1177652722.squirrel@192.168.1.50>
Message-ID: <9765c2050704270422k34231871xf7522867cd99c21f@mail.gmail.com>

RTI is not applicable to MLAI. It is Only a registered society. MLAI
is not set up by any government agency nor a substantially funded NGO.

But still you can file an application under RTI. MLAI fellows may not
know that they are not bound by RTI; But may comply with your request
if your request for info carries a threat that the official concerned
would suffer a fine of Rs 250/- per day of default from his personal
income, without knowing that it is an empty threat.

Vyasamoorthy


On 4/27/07, sidda at nimhans.kar.nic.in <sidda at nimhans.kar.nic.in> wrote:
>
>
> Dear Professional
>
> As per the RTI (right to Information) act, office bearers of the
> assocation has to provide all the information including bye-law,
> proceeding and the decision and the latest returns filed to the registrars
> of the society.
>
> We may need to ask for all the documents and the proceeding may be
> undertaken.
>
> With regards
> Dr.H.S.Siddamallaiah
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> LIS-Forum mailing list
> LIS-Forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in
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Phone 27846631
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From mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in  Fri Apr 27 17:17:59 2007
From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin)
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 17:17:59 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] details about dcu
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704271716120.5411@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>

Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 23:52:54 +0530
From: annie Joseph <susjose60 at gmail.com>

I am Mrs Sushela Annie Joeph, Technical Officer B, working in Naval Physical
and Oceanographic Laboratory, (DRDO), Cochin -, Kerala

can anyone give me details about data capturing units, their cost, and
dealers in India.

annie

From mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in  Fri Apr 27 17:23:13 2007
From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin)
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 17:23:13 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] GeoHive Global Statistics
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Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 11:03:47 +0530
From: "Thapar, Amit" <amitt at niper.ac.in>

GeoHive Global Statistics
http://www.geohive.com/
Provides a wealth of comparative information on countries and cities of
the world - charts on population, natural resources, wealth,
infrastructure, energy consumption and resources, and more.

Amit


From mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in  Fri Apr 27 17:26:13 2007
From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin)
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 17:26:13 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Sad demise of Dipak Kr Nag
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704271724380.5411@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>

Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 23:53:51 -0700 (PDT)
From: Kishor Satpathy <kishor_satpathy at yahoo.com>


I am deeply shocked to know the sad demise of Sri Dipak Kr Nag, Hon. 
General Secretary of IASLIC.

His untimely sad demise is a great loss to the profession and to the 
IASLIC. He will be remembered as a dedicated worker of IASLIC.

May God give peace to the departed soul and give strength and courage to 
the family members to bear the loss.

Regards,

Kishor C Satpathy
IIM Indore

From krmulla at gmail.com  Sat Apr 28 08:52:58 2007
From: krmulla at gmail.com (K.R. Mulla)
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 08:52:58 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Audiovisual heritage and digital universe
Message-ID: <a8d4e6a30704272022j4205f8f1j33e59a093b0adb5a@mail.gmail.com>

 Dear Professional Friends,

Sorry for cross posting

25-04-2007 (Paris) The seventh Joint Technical Symposium (JTS) to examine
issues affecting the audiovisual archival profession will be held in
Toronto, Ontario, Canada from 28 to 30 June 2007.Audiovisual heritage and
digital universe<http://www.unesco-ci.org/newsletter/lt/t_go.php?i=579&e=Mzc4Njc=&l=-http--portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID--E-24377--A-URL_DO--E-DO_TOPIC--A-URL_SECTION--E-201.html>


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K. R. Mulla,
Librarian,
HKBK College of Engineering,
# 22/1, Nagawara, Bangalore - 560 045. Karnataka, India.
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From snraj at rediffmail.com  Sat Apr 28 10:23:25 2007
From: snraj at rediffmail.com (msnraj)
Date: 28 Apr 2007 04:53:25 -0000
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Duration of UGC Refresher Course-reg
Message-ID: <20070428045325.16950.qmail@webmail35.rediffmail.com>

 ?
Dear Professionals,

This is regarding the UGCs recent order regarding the Career Advancement scheme (CAS) for Library Staff in the University and college libraries for the promotion to Senior Grade and Selection Grade. The participation of Two Refresher course, each of not less than four weeks durations is one of the conditions for eligibility for promotion under this scheme.  I need some information regarding the followings:
1. All the Refresher courses of UGCs Academic Staff college (ASC) is of only three weeks duration. Is there any ASCs conducts four week refresher course. If yes, Which Academic Staff College?. If not, why this order insists for four week course. Is it a typographic error? 
If any professional friends has any information regarding this kindly provide the same.


Mr.S.Nagaraja
Librarian,
Regional Institute of Education,
National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT),
Manasagangothri,
MYSORE- 570 006.
Ph. 0821-2413670 Mob: 0991733236
 




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From sangs at delnet.ren.nic.in  Sat Apr 28 12:40:51 2007
From: sangs at delnet.ren.nic.in (Sangeeta Kaul)
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 08:10:51 +0100 (WETS)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Positions at DELNET for FIELD ASSOCIATES
Message-ID: <Pine.SV4.3.96.1070428080304.18671A-100000@delnet.ren.nic.in>



DELNET is looking for FIELD ASSOCIATES.  The Candidates with  MLISc's with
a good academic qualifications, diploma in computer applications, good
communication skills and interest in traveling in different regions in
India may apply. The Candidates may indicate their preferences for travel
to Northern/Western/Central/Eastern parts of the country. Selected
candidates will be given training at DELNET, New Delhi.

Interested applicants should apply to Director, DELNET,  JNU Campus,
Nelson Mandela Road, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi-110070  at
hkkaul at delnet.ren.nic.in, hkkaul at gmail.com on or before May 10, 2007.


From pradip_parlib at yahoo.com  Sat Apr 28 15:58:32 2007
From: pradip_parlib at yahoo.com (pradeep kumar)
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 03:28:32 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] InfoQuiz 2007
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I would like to raise the serious issue of fair play in InfoQuiz 2007. The prvious format of one hour(11 am - 12 pm) provided level playing field to all participants. But the new format of 4 hrs (1-5 pm) do the opposite. For example: Person A takes the quiz from 1-2 pm & knows his scores and right answers after assessment; then his partner B takes the quiz (anytime between 2-5 pm) and scores the highest with getting all right answers from person A. This is what really happening at the moment.
so this fact put questionmark on the InfoQuiz itself as how can real knowledge be tested in this format.
This issue needs serious debate and rethinking of organising the quiz again to ensure fair practices and to provide equal oppurtunity to all participants.

 
PRADEEP KUMAR
JLA, G053, I-BLOCK
REFERENCE DIVISION
PARLIAMENT LIBRARY OF INDIA 
NEW DELHI-110001.
E-mail: pradip_parlib at yahoo.com

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From naglaxman at yahoo.com  Mon Apr 30 15:15:42 2007
From: naglaxman at yahoo.com (Prof. N. Laxman Rao.)
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:45:42 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Duration of UGC Refresher Course-reg
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helo
the refresher course is of three weeks and orientation course is of four weeks
u r right
laxman rao

msnraj <snraj at rediffmail.com> wrote:    
 Dear Professionals,
 
 This is regarding the UGCs recent order regarding the Career Advancement scheme (CAS) for Library Staff in the University and college libraries for the promotion to Senior Grade and Selection Grade. The participation of Two Refresher course, each of not less than four weeks durations is one of the conditions for eligibility for promotion under this scheme.  I need some information regarding the followings:
 1. All the Refresher courses of UGCs Academic Staff college (ASC) is of only three weeks duration. Is there any ASCs conducts four week refresher course. If yes, Which Academic Staff College?. If not, why this order insists for four week course. Is it a typographic error? 
 If any professional friends has any information regarding this kindly provide the same.
 
 
 Mr.S.Nagaraja
 Librarian,
 Regional Institute of Education,
 National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT),
 Manasagangothri,
 MYSORE- 570 006.
 Ph. 0821-2413670 Mob: 0991733236
  
 
  
   

 
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From esukhdev at gmail.com  Mon Apr 30 15:25:30 2007
From: esukhdev at gmail.com (Sukhdev Singh)
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:25:30 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] MLAI membership rejection - Further Clarification and
	Thanks for Moral Support.
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Dear Friends,

I thank all of you for showing solidarity with me in relation to my
"Medical Library Association of India" (MLAI)  membership rejection. I
am really indebted for the moral support that I got from you all.

However, I also got few emails suggesting that there could be some
administrative mistake at MLAI office. And thus I should check up with
MLAI office. I therefore would like to clarify my perception about
this whole issue. Otherwise few of you would take it just an instance
of minor lapse on part of MLAI. The following paragraph would clarify
that it could not be a random error or some administrative lapse. The
rejection was deliberate but done in a manner to leave enough doubts
in this episode and get away with it anytime.

Friends, I have already mentioned in my previous email that one of my
colleagues is an Executive Member of MLAI. He was supposedly asked to
increase association membership.  While he was leaving for the latest
MLAI conference at Chandigarh, he took an application of one my
colleague along with him. It appears, he did his best to hand over the
application ? but nobody took it. He came back and mailed it through
post. In the meanwhile, I also got interested in MLAI and posted my
application in March. There was enough time gap between these two
applications. However, the cheques of these two applications were
mailed back in a single envelope addressed to my colleague residence.
It means, they already knew who we are and how we are related.

Let me inform you all that one of our senior colleague (MLAI member)
has already written a letter to MLAI Office bearers for seeking
reasons for the refusal. A phone call was also made to an "important"
MLAI Office Bearer. We have however not received any clarification or
communication till date in this regard. I will be informing this forum
as and when I receive any explanation from MLAI.

I once again thank to all for the moral support I am getting from you
all. I would also like to thank my colleagues for offering withdrawing
their MLAI membership.



Thanks

Sukhdev Singh
NIC.

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From madhuresh.singhal at advinus.com  Mon Apr 30 17:23:46 2007
From: madhuresh.singhal at advinus.com (madhuresh.singhal)
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:23:46 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] NCERT Books Available Online Freely
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Dear All,

NCERT has made available all text books for class I to XII in digital
form. Now it is available for everyone to download/read online in PDF.
You may follow NCERT website http://www.ncert.nic.in or more
specifically http://www.ncert.nic.in/textbooks/testing/Index.htm 

"NCERT has initiated the step towards making school textbooks available
on the Internet for students and teachers. We hope through this
endeavour a variety of pedagogical possibilities would open up for
students and teachers throughout the country. We also hope that this
effort will lead to a situation where teachers begin to adopt a more
modular approach, rather than a sequential approach to teaching and
learning, through access to a variety of teaching and reference
material.
New Textbooks are based on National Curriculum Framework 2005."

NCERT books are of high standards and are considered useful for writing
various competitive exams.

Regards

Madhuresh Singhal
Assoc. Res. Scientist - Inf. Sc.
Advinus Therapeutics Pvt. Ltd.
21 & 22, Phase 2, Peenya Industrial Area, Bangalore - 560058
Phone: +91 80 28394959; Mobile 098861 82822
E-mail: madhureshsinghal at yahoo.com
http://nettalk2.tripod.com/





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