From ns.harinarayana at gmail.com Sat Dec 1 11:15:30 2007 From: ns.harinarayana at gmail.com (N.S. Harinarayana) Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2007 11:15:30 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Friday Talk by Dr. M.S. Sridhar at MyDLIS Message-ID: <5d6bc5c70711302145s7b7c6fe5ja7bab832b636e213@mail.gmail.com> Mysore University Library and Information Science Student Association (MULISSA) of the Department of Library and Information Science, University of Mysore, Mysore organised a Friday lecture by Dr. M.S. Sridhar, Head, Library and Documentation, ISRO Satellite Centre, Bangalore on the topic 'Librarianship as a profession' on November 30, 2007. A summary of the lecture and the student interaction which followed is given below. Libraries are under utilized. Only 1.5% of the population have access to the libraries. The myth that evolution of Internet has made libraries redundant contributes further to the less use of libraries. Dr. Sridhar counter argued that in spite of invasion of technology number of printed books and journals has not reduced. On the other hand it has increased. He said one in five books published and one out of three books borrowed from libraries are related to IT. If IT eliminates the printed books, why this trend he questioned. Dr. Sridhar presented some of the quality issues that need to be taken note of by the Internet users. Authenticity and accuracy are the major ones. Libraries are more reliable source for a common man. Filtering mechanism adopted in libraries ensures the quality and accuracy. On the other hand, Internet is increasingly becoming more popular creating the impression that libraries are no more required. Dr. Sridhar trying to rationalise this trend said accessibility, ease of use and perceived utility are the major factors for popularity of Internet. He opined that Internet and IT are supplement to the libraries and in real perspectives they are not threats. Giving some tips for students Dr. Sridhar said that domain knowledge (library based skills), communication, research bent of mind, reading habit and ICT skills are the expected core competencies by the employers. He said that competition for job is increasing as number of qualified professionals coming out of library schools has increasing drastically. A huge chunk of graduates are coming out of library schools from open universities. This has created an imbalance between supply and demand as for as library professionals are concerned. In this context Dr. Sridhar gave advice to the students that they should go for specialization and be ready when the opportunity arises. Dr. Sridhar's lecture was followed by an interesting and elaborate interactive session. Students asked varieties of questions and sought clarifications on various intriguing issues. Some of the questions asked/issues discussed are as follows: - Can Internet substitute a library? - Whether the present university syllabus enough for developing a good librarian? - How can one encourage young people to read? - How to ascertain needs/wants of remote readers in the context of digital libraries? - How one should equip to get good job? - What are the core competencies of librarians? - Whether classification and cataloguing are redundant in Internet era? - How to improve social status of libraries? - Libraries have been changing their names over the years from 'Libraries' to 'Knowledge centres', 'Information Centres' to 'Information Kiosks' etc. Whether this change in name inevitable? -- N.S. Harinarayana, Ph.D Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore, Manasagangtori Mysore 570 006 Off. Ph: (0821) 2419399 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. 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PERI is a programme to support capacity building in the research sector in developing and emerging countries by strengthening the production, access and dissemination of information & knowledge. We can register with several publishers and access free full text of articles form a large number of journals published . Please visit the given URL , choose your country and registered with the resources available under a specific country. Resources available in Nepal ? *Institute of Physics Publishing* *, **Emerald Group Publishing Ltd* *, **Cochrane Library* *, **American Physical Society APS* * ?* * http://www.inasp.info/file/104/peri-programme-for-the-enhancement-of-research-information.html * Binod Kumar Yadav Librarian BPKIHS, Dharan, Nepal Currently ongoing training MLISc Dept. of Library and information Science University of Mysore Manasagangotri, Mysore-06 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/attachments/20071201/c3dfdfdf/attachment.html From mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Mon Dec 3 15:00:13 2007 From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin) Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 15:00:13 +0530 (IST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Adding specialization to LIS Message-ID: Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 05:30:01 -0800 From: Hemantha Rao K.R. hi This is Hemantha Rao K.R. student of MLISc of Mysore University, its my personnel opinion regarding Adding specilization to LIS. As discussed about adding additional theory paper at 3rd and 4th semester in degrees to make more specialist in this domain. As a student I am not statisfy with this idea, because most of the students will study in the point of examination only, so adding one more theory paper is not sufficient. In my opinion adding one more practical paper or training will more helpful than theory paper. Thanking you Hemantha Rao K.R. 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This is Hemantha Rao K.R. student of MLISc of Mysore University, its my personnel opinion regarding Adding specilization to LIS.  In there you mentioned about adding additional theory paper at 3rd and 4th semester in degrees to make more specialist in this domain.  As a student I am not statisfy with this idea, because most of the students will study in the point of examination only, so adding one more theory paper is not more sufficient.  In my opinion adding more one more practical paper or training is more helpful than theory paper.
 
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Hemantha Rao K.R.
MLISc(IIIrd Sem)
University of Mysore
Mysore

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For that we should learn the specific subjects, our library handles, with the eagerness of a Professor and keep in touch with the information technologies like an enthusiastic computer man. He should not ignore the core library subjects and his role in the knowledge generation-supply-use chain. It is the duty of the enterprising library school student or young professionals to learn themselves all these by continuous efforts. It is better if the library schools provide a basic frame and motivation rather than teaching all necessary subjects. It is impossible too as the library schools may have that much subject expertise. The situation of most of our library schools are far from satisfactory to groom capable library professionals. If some professionals coming out from the schools are performing good. it may be because they hav put in extra efforts and have used their common sense well. I think it is high time to look at the deficiencies in our profession and use the excellent opportunities offered by the emergent knowledge society, computers, information technologies, Internet, focus on knowledge management etc. Now ample opportunities are there for self learning anything from swiming to driving to creating bombs using self -instructonal manuals available in Internet. Library professionals should use such opportunities..Learning any computer application is not at all a difficult thing as in the past. There was a time when even installing our cds-isis was a herculean task. If any library school or teacher claims that all is well, it shows the lack of his exposure or his disinterest in making his students as good peformers.It is a difficult to remain as a good teacher in a library school, when everything is changing so fast. Any library professional should have a good knowledge on library science, the specific subject he deals with and information technologies. We can go ahead only when we learn that we know less and there exist a lot more to learn. Regards,. K Rajasekharan Librarian, Kerala Institute of Local Administration(KILA) Mulagunnathukavu, Thrissur - 680581 , India Ph 0487 - 2200244+208 (O) 2201428 (R) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From tshahab at jamiahamdard.ac.in Mon Dec 3 16:55:51 2007 From: tshahab at jamiahamdard.ac.in (T. Shahab) Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 16:55:51 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Friday Talk by Dr. M.S. Sridhar at MyDLIS Message-ID: <011AE0CA3A72814E815261C0218D4AA60E831D@mail.jamiahamdard.ac.in> The brief information about the lecture by Dr. Sridhar and the subsequent interaction with students reveal that the session would have been very fruitful and lively. To me the crux of the problem lies in the decreasing reading habit among youths and students. Why so? The problem lies in the methodology of education and teaching. Low interest on creativity, lack of originality in presentation, development of a mind set which seek ready made & quick results; we don't feel shy of rehashing things; etc & etc. Regards. -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of N.S. Harinarayana Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2007 11:16 AM To: Listforum Subject: [LIS-Forum] Friday Talk by Dr. M.S. Sridhar at MyDLIS Mysore University Library and Information Science Student Association (MULISSA) of the Department of Library and Information Science, University of Mysore, Mysore organised a Friday lecture by Dr. M.S. Sridhar, Head, Library and Documentation, ISRO Satellite Centre, Bangalore on the topic 'Librarianship as a profession' on November 30, 2007. A summary of the lecture and the student interaction which followed is given below. Libraries are under utilized. Only 1.5% of the population have access to the libraries. The myth that evolution of Internet has made libraries redundant contributes further to the less use of libraries. Dr. Sridhar counter argued that in spite of invasion of technology number of printed books and journals has not reduced. On the other hand it has increased. He said one in five books published and one out of three books borrowed from libraries are related to IT. If IT eliminates the printed books, why this trend he questioned. Dr. Sridhar presented some of the quality issues that need to be taken note of by the Internet users. Authenticity and accuracy are the major ones. Libraries are more reliable source for a common man. Filtering mechanism adopted in libraries ensures the quality and accuracy. On the other hand, Internet is increasingly becoming more popular creating the impression that libraries are no more required. Dr. Sridhar trying to rationalise this trend said accessibility, ease of use and perceived utility are the major factors for popularity of Internet. He opined that Internet and IT are supplement to the libraries and in real perspectives they are not threats. Giving some tips for students Dr. Sridhar said that domain knowledge (library based skills), communication, research bent of mind, reading habit and ICT skills are the expected core competencies by the employers. He said that competition for job is increasing as number of qualified professionals coming out of library schools has increasing drastically. A huge chunk of graduates are coming out of library schools from open universities. This has created an imbalance between supply and demand as for as library professionals are concerned. In this context Dr. Sridhar gave advice to the students that they should go for specialization and be ready when the opportunity arises. Dr. Sridhar's lecture was followed by an interesting and elaborate interactive session. Students asked varieties of questions and sought clarifications on various intriguing issues. Some of the questions asked/issues discussed are as follows: - Can Internet substitute a library? - Whether the present university syllabus enough for developing a good librarian? - How can one encourage young people to read? - How to ascertain needs/wants of remote readers in the context of digital libraries? - How one should equip to get good job? - What are the core competencies of librarians? - Whether classification and cataloguing are redundant in Internet era? - How to improve social status of libraries? - Libraries have been changing their names over the years from 'Libraries' to 'Knowledge centres', 'Information Centres' to 'Information Kiosks' etc. Whether this change in name inevitable? -- N.S. Harinarayana, Ph.D Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore, Manasagangtori Mysore 570 006 Off. Ph: (0821) 2419399 -- 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 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From aman.jha at ciionline.org Tue Dec 4 10:12:51 2007 From: aman.jha at ciionline.org (Aman Jha) Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 10:12:51 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Favorite leisure time activities - Reading tops Message-ID: Dear All There is an interesting report recently released by Harris Interactive Inc on favorite leisure time activities among Americans. And the most favorite among top five activities is still READING. May be an interesting read for all of you. Aspirant research scholars may find this as interesting research topic. Top five leisure-time activities---------------->>>>>>>>>>> 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2007 % % % % % % Reading 31 28 26 24 35 29 TV Watching 23 20 15 17 21 18 Spending time with family/kids 14 12 11 17 20 14 Computer activities 6 7 4 5 7 9 Going to movies 6 7 6 7 10 7 View report - http://www.harrisinteractive.com/harris_poll/index.asp?PID=835 Regards, Aman Jha Librarian Confederation of Indian Industry 249-F, Sector 18, Udyog Vihar, Phase IV Gurgaon - 122 015, Haryana Reach us via our Membership Helpline (Monday-Saturday: 0900-1715 hrs). Dial: +91-11-43546244 / 9910446244 DISCLAIMER:The information in this message may be privileged. If you have received it by mistake please notify the sender by return e-mail and delete the message from your system. Any unauthorised use or dissemination of this message in whole or in part is strictly prohibited. Any information in this message that does not relate to official business shall be understood to be neither given nor endorsed by the Confederation of Indian Industry. Reach us via our unique Membership Helpline: 00-91-11-435 46244 / 00-99104 46244 (Monday-Saturday: 0900-1700 hrs) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From sankaran_thehindu at yahoo.com Tue Dec 4 10:23:21 2007 From: sankaran_thehindu at yahoo.com (sankaran arumugam) Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 04:53:21 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Librarians from other countries visit THE HINDU library, Chennai - a report in THE HINDU Message-ID: <976787.1003.qm@web36203.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Dear All, An interesting report published in THE HINDU on page 2 of Chennai Edn. Highlights: SHARING INFORMATION: Chief Librarian of The Hindu K. Rajendrababu interacts with librarians taking the certificate course in modern library practices for overseas library professionals at The Hindu office in Chennai on Monday. CHENNAI: Librarians from several Asian, African and South American countries visited The Hindu library on Monday as part of a certificate course in modern library practices. India is far ahead of several other developing countries when it comes to using technology in libraries, several of them said. For detailed report, please click the following link http://www.hindu.com/2007/12/04/stories/2007120492170200.htm With regards Sankaran A --------------------------------- Get the freedom to save as many mails as you wish. Click here to know how. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/attachments/20071204/86b5a6d2/attachment.html From mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Tue Dec 4 13:25:40 2007 From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin) Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 13:25:40 +0530 (IST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Exposure to the world of information Message-ID: Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 19:45:20 +0530 (IST) From: Vijay Deshabag Hi this is Vijay Deshabag presently working as Libaray trainee in Advanced centre for Treatement Research and Education in Cancer, Mumbai. I wanted to comment on the issue of adding the syllabus what i think and what i suggest is that during the final year of mlisc the students must be given an exposure to work with various libraries free of cost a sort of internship progaramme of one month, so that they will get exposed to various tools and tecnologies of librarianship.This will make them more confident enough to face the interviews, perhaps some of the university have such programes but with collaboration with various research centres, information centres etc it can be done more systematically as the practical knowledge will be very usefull to the students rather than giving them theorotical exposure. Vijay J Deshabag Library Trainee Advance Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer(ACTREC) Tata Memorial Centre Kharghar, Navi Mumbai-410208 E-mail:deshabag at gmail.com From samiksha_yadav25 at yahoo.com Tue Dec 4 13:46:11 2007 From: samiksha_yadav25 at yahoo.com (samiksha yadav) Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 00:16:11 -0800 (PST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] DRTC Seminar Message-ID: <588257.96774.qm@web43141.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Topic: RFID and its Application with Emphasis on Libraries Date: 5th Dec 2007, 2:00 PM Venue: DRTC Classroom Speaker: Radha Rani --------------------------------- Get easy, one-click access to your favorites. Make Yahoo! your homepage. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/attachments/20071204/c13fd012/attachment-0001.html From yadavlibrarian at gmail.com Tue Dec 4 13:55:13 2007 From: yadavlibrarian at gmail.com (Binod Yadav) Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 00:25:13 -0800 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Know about HINARI project to access to 3500 journals of major publishers Message-ID: <1a74f6d80712040025h4f5895f8v6575489272cd837f@mail.gmail.com> Dear friends, The Health Internetwork Access to Research Initiative( HINARI) project set up by WHO with collaboration of major publishers. This project provides free or very low cost online access to about 3500 journals and databases in biomedical and related fields. For more details, open the given website. http://www.who.int/hinari/en/ URL http://www.healthinternetwork.net Binod Yadav MLISc Student Dept. of Library & Information Science University of Mysore Manasagangotri, Mysore-06 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From aman.jha at ciionline.org Tue Dec 4 14:01:16 2007 From: aman.jha at ciionline.org (Aman Jha) Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 14:01:16 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Library education Message-ID: Dear All This is a very good write up. Those who are new to the Lis-Forum would like to adhere to the standard of writing on the forum like this. I find here much more clarity on the topic, original & balanced thoughts, simple expression and moreover, there is no junk in the body. We must focus on these issues while sending a message on this Forum or any other discussion forum. I request moderator to encourage such write up and invite original intellectual contribution. Note: Please do not relate this message to the ongoing discussion on Library science education. Regards, Aman Jha -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of Rajan Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 4:03 PM To: Lis forum Subject: [LIS-Forum] Library education Dear All, This refers to the ongoing discussion on library training or subject specialisation of the grooming librarians. Librarians should emerge as knowledge managers in their institution, on their specific subject and in the community around them particularly because we live in a knowledge society. For that we should learn the specific subjects, our library handles, with the eagerness of a Professor and keep in touch with the information technologies like an enthusiastic computer man. He should not ignore the core library subjects and his role in the knowledge generation-supply-use chain. It is the duty of the enterprising library school student or young professionals to learn themselves all these by continuous efforts. It is better if the library schools provide a basic frame and motivation rather than teaching all necessary subjects. It is impossible too as the library schools may have that much subject expertise. The situation of most of our library schools are far from satisfactory to groom capable library professionals. If some professionals coming out from the schools are performing good. it may be because they hav put in extra efforts and have used their common sense well. I think it is high time to look at the deficiencies in our profession and use the excellent opportunities offered by the emergent knowledge society, computers, information technologies, Internet, focus on knowledge management etc. Now ample opportunities are there for self learning anything from swiming to driving to creating bombs using self -instructonal manuals available in Internet. Library professionals should use such opportunities..Learning any computer application is not at all a difficult thing as in the past. There was a time when even installing our cds-isis was a herculean task. If any library school or teacher claims that all is well, it shows the lack of his exposure or his disinterest in making his students as good peformers.It is a difficult to remain as a good teacher in a library school, when everything is changing so fast. Any library professional should have a good knowledge on library science, the specific subject he deals with and information technologies. We can go ahead only when we learn that we know less and there exist a lot more to learn. Regards,. K Rajasekharan Librarian, Kerala Institute of Local Administration(KILA) Mulagunnathukavu, Thrissur - 680581 , India Ph 0487 - 2200244+208 (O) 2201428 (R) -- 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 DISCLAIMER:The information in this message may be privileged. If you have received it by mistake please notify the sender by return e-mail and delete the message from your system. Any unauthorised use or dissemination of this message in whole or in part is strictly prohibited. Any information in this message that does not relate to official business shall be understood to be neither given nor endorsed by the Confederation of Indian Industry. Reach us via our unique Membership Helpline: 00-91-11-435 46244 / 00-99104 46244 (Monday-Saturday: 0900-1700 hrs) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From esukhdev at gmail.com Tue Dec 4 14:36:05 2007 From: esukhdev at gmail.com (Sukhdev Singh) Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 14:36:05 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] IT now happens in India!!!!: Library NEXT Message-ID: Dear Friends, Fully functional Next Generation libraries now becoming reality in India. This I realized only last Saturday (1st December 2007). I happened to visit NATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE DOCUMENTATION CENTRE-NASSDOC (ICSSR) at 35, Ferozeshah Road, New Delhi 110 001. They hosted a meeting of "Ranganathan Research Circle". After the meeting, the hosts took us for a visit of their library. Well I was fascinated to see latest technology working for their library. An ordinary library user needs to have his / her RFID embedded library card to get hold and carry home a book of his/her choice. That too without having to come in personal contact with library staff. The reader would be able to enter the library by swiping one's card at a special entry / exit automated gate. Once in the library, the user can search library catalogue. It is computerised and available in the form of an online database commonly known as OPAC - Online Public Access Catalogue. I found three terminal aesthetically placed in front of large banner depicting the utility of catalogue. Searching OPAC could be useful. But as we know, most users would browse through the stacks. This comes naturally to human mind. One can easily browse the library stack area with help of guides. These guides are full of colours with well thought out background and labels. Book stakes are made of wood that matches with the lovely atmosphere of the library. The shelves are made of think glass slabs. Not wonder sliding books to withdraw give a silky touch and hence protect book edges. All books have a RFID tag pasted below the accession slip. The tag is in the shape of a white small square patch that is noticed only when observed. After getting a document of choice, one can choose to sit in a well lighted reading area. Few computer workstations are also available. So internet and electronic databases are are also available to readers. Taking a book home is easy. Keep it with library card on the Automated Issue / Return Kiosk. Issue it and take it away. The automated security exit would not make any fuss. I hope Indian Libraries would soon witness adoption of such innovative technologies. The library staff would be spared from routine issue / return activities. Now they can devote their time and energy in some better activities. The 'stereo typed public perception' about librarians would also change. So can we call such libraries as ATM Libraries? I have blogged the above message with few photographs. You may like to see the photographs. You may also leave you comments there. http://sukhdev.blogspot.com/2007/12/it-now-happens-in-india-library-next.html or http://snipurl.com/1ulrs Regards --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From rkk_eln at unishivaji.ac.in Tue Dec 4 19:26:25 2007 From: rkk_eln at unishivaji.ac.in (Dr. R.K. Kamat) Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 19:26:25 +0530 (IST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Infolibrarian is back!!! In-Reply-To: <20071203045104.30289.qmail@webmail31.rediffmail.com> References: <20071203045104.30289.qmail@webmail31.rediffmail.com> Message-ID: <57441.172.16.0.45.1196776585.squirrel@172.16.0.1> Dear All, I congratulate the concerned person behind Infolibrarian.com. Our country needs such persons with blended mixture of conventional Library Science and IT in this knowledge era. Dr. R.K. Kamat > ? > > Dear All, > > one of our favourite site Infolibrarian, now can be accessed at > http://www.infolibrarian.com/index.htm. We missed it for long days!! > Search through Google still results in portlandX, means some more problems > are still there. But the desired page is accessible directly using the > above mentioned link. > > rgrds, > Moumita Dey > > > -- > 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 > Dr. R.K. Kamat Reader in Electronics & Coordinator Internet Unit, Shivaji University, Kolhapur -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From angrosh at isim.ac.in Tue Dec 4 16:31:34 2007 From: angrosh at isim.ac.in (Angrosh) Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 16:31:34 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] =?iso-8859-1?q?InfoVision_2007-the_Knowledge_Summit_-?= =?iso-8859-1?q?_Round_the_Corner-Hurry_Up!?= Message-ID: InfoVision 2007 ? The Knowledge Summit, Dec 17-18, 2007, The ITC Maratha, Mumbai ----------- Come to InfoVision 2007. Listen to... Inaugural Speaker ? Dr. F C Kohli, Father of Indian Software Industry (Former Vice-Chairman, Tata Consultancy Services) Other Keynote Speakers: ? Mr. Ajit Balakrishnan, Founder Chairman and CEO, Rediff.com ? Mr. John Blossom, President & Senior Analyst, Shore Communications Inc., USA ? Mr. Sriram Bharatam, iridiumInteractive Ltd. ? Prof. Hsinchun Chen, University of Arizona, USA ? Dr. Jayanta Chatterjee, Professor, IME Dept., Kanpur ? Prof. Noshir Contractor, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, USA ? Mr. Ashok Krish, TCS ? Dr. Kris Kumar, Professor, PESIT, Bangalore ? 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From smp_lib at unishivaji.ac.in Wed Dec 5 09:29:16 2007 From: smp_lib at unishivaji.ac.in (Shamprasad Pujar) Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 03:59:16 -0000 (GMT) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Census of India Data online Message-ID: <53463.172.16.0.45.1196827156.squirrel@172.16.0.1> Dear Members, Census of India has released their new website starting from Sept, 2007. The new site provides comprehensive data up to State level free of cost for registered members. Registration is free for every one. The comprehensive district and village data is not available from the website, it needs to be purchased from Census offices. More than that the site is also available in few foreign languages viz French, German, Italian, Portugese and few more languages are in beta mode. More details can be had from the site at: http://www.censusindia.gov.in Regards, Dr. S.M. Pujar University Librarian Shivaji University Vidyanagar KOLHAPUR-416 004 Phone: 0231-2609204 E-mail: smp_lib at unishivaji.ac.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From vjkjk at yahoo.com Tue Dec 4 22:27:12 2007 From: vjkjk at yahoo.com (J. K. Vijayakumar) Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 08:57:12 -0800 (PST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Apply for Bibliomondialis: Grant from Canadian Lib Association to attend IFLA 2008 In-Reply-To: <379968.7254.qm@web54608.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <356869.24787.qm@web54602.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Dear Professionals, Apply for Bibliomondialis: Grant from Canadian Lib Association to attend IFLA 2008 in Canada. Eligibility requirements: -------------------------- In order to be eligible, each applicant must completely satisfy the following criteria and requirements: hold a diploma from a university or a recognized national library science or information sciences institution, or any other equivalent or relevant diploma, and provide a certified copy of the diploma; have at least two (2) years' and no more than four (4) years' professional experience in his or her country as a librarian, custodian, information scientist, library technician or documentation technician, or the equivalent, as evidenced by an official letter from his or her employer; demonstrate and describe in writing in no more than three hundred (300) words his or her professional experience and his or her reasons or interest in this professional area and participation in 2008 WLIC; include with the application a curriculum vitae of no more than three (3) pages in letter or A4 format, as well as two (2) letters of support or recommendation from persons in authority in a recognized institution that has no immediate hierarchical association with the candidate; read, understand and speak French or English; hold a passport that is valid for at least six (6) months after his or her entry into Canada, for the 2008 conference, and have received an entry visa if required; certify that he or she has received written assurance of a financial contribution, stating the value, from another person, business or institution for his or her participation in WLIC; undertake to provide no later than two (2) months after the conference a written report summarizing his or her participation. Schedule for 2008 registration ---------------------- Registration period: October 2007 to January 2008 Application submission deadline: January 31, 2008 Application assessment procedure: February and March 2008 Announcement of recipients: April 2008 Deadline for registration or application submission for 2008 is 31 January 2008. Submissions that are incomplete or submitted after the deadline shall not be considered under any circumstances. For application Form and more details, visit http://libinfospace.blogspot.com/ Best of luck guys. ------------------- Dr. J. K. Vijayakumar Member of Standing Committee IFLA Academic Research Libraries Section http://libinfospace.blogspot.com/ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From HENAG at infosys.com Wed Dec 5 13:12:13 2007 From: HENAG at infosys.com (HENAG) Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 13:12:13 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Exposure to the world of information In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hello, The internship programme is already existing in some of the institutions . The Internship for a month helps only to work in certain areas in the library but does not help to get the knowledge regarding other related subjects . Hence , changing of syllabus ( addition / deletion) will definitely help the library science students to compete in this digital era. Best regards Hena S Gupta Sr. Librarian Infosys technologies Ltd. -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of Mailing List Admin Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 1:26 PM To: lis-forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] Exposure to the world of information Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 19:45:20 +0530 (IST) From: Vijay Deshabag Hi this is Vijay Deshabag presently working as Libaray trainee in Advanced centre for Treatement Research and Education in Cancer, Mumbai. I wanted to comment on the issue of adding the syllabus what i think and what i suggest is that during the final year of mlisc the students must be given an exposure to work with various libraries free of cost a sort of internship progaramme of one month, so that they will get exposed to various tools and tecnologies of librarianship.This will make them more confident enough to face the interviews, perhaps some of the university have such programes but with collaboration with various research centres, information centres etc it can be done more systematically as the practical knowledge will be very usefull to the students rather than giving them theorotical exposure. Vijay J Deshabag Library Trainee Advance Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer(ACTREC) Tata Memorial Centre Kharghar, Navi Mumbai-410208 E-mail:deshabag at gmail.com _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. **************** CAUTION - Disclaimer ***************** This e-mail contains PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION intended solely for the use of the addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender by e-mail and delete the original message. Further, you are not to copy, disclose, or distribute this e-mail or its contents to any other person and any such actions are unlawful. This e-mail may contain viruses. 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I am not up to that level from where I can speak on this vast subject but I feel this is a serious matter so I want to say that if it possible then National knowledge Commission takes the initiative to structure the syllabus of BLIS and MLIS and the syllabus must be same all over India, right now we see different subjects are being taught in different Universities, so the student who studied from the Banglore or from Delhi University have the more knowledge than the student who studied from any other universities, the differences in the curriculum makes a big difference in the professional life. So it is my request to LIS Forum Pl pass my message to the right person or I request the senior professionals to put their views on this matter. regards Vinay S. Librarian SunBeam Infotech Pvt. Ltd. From mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Thu Dec 6 10:27:21 2007 From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin) Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 10:27:21 +0530 (IST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Required Librarian in Indian Council of World Affairs Message-ID: Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 09:33:59 +0530 From: Ajay Kum Sharma Dear Colleague, The Indian Council of World Affairs(ICWA), an institution of national importance, established under the ICWA Act, 2001, invites applications for the post of LIBRARIAN with a consolidated contract amount of Rs.40,000/- per month. *QUALIFICATION & EXPERIENCE:* *QUALIFICATION & EXPERIENCE:* Master's degree in Library Science/Information Science/Documentation or an equivalent professional degree with at least 55% marks. At least 10 years experience in a responsible capacity in a University level Library/Head of Library of a reputed research organisation. Candidates should be well-versed in the usage of Library Software. *OR* Master's degree in Arts/Science/Commerce or equivalent degree with at least fifty five percent marks or its equivalent grade with Bachelor's degree in Library Science/Information Science /Documentation or an equivalent professional degree with at least fifty five percent marks or its equivalent grade plus a consistently good academic record. At least 10 years experience in a responsible capacity in a University level Library. Should be well conversant with various activities of an academic and modern library, such as procurement and processing of books and periodicals, computerization of Library, supervision and maintenance of Library materials, reprography, binding unit etc. and general library administration. Experience and knowledge of modern information handling tools, knowledge of any foreign language such as German, French or Russian will be added qualifications. *Maximum Age:* 45 years as on 01-01-08. *GENERAL INFORMATION* 1. *The applications should be submitted by 24 December, 2007 addressed to Dy. Director, Indian Council of World Affairs, Sapru House, Barakhamba Road, New Delhi ? 110 001.* 2. Candidates should submit their CV and photocopies of their educational certificates/testimonials. 3. Candidates serving in Government/Semi-Government organization or Educational Institution must apply through proper channel. Alternatively, they should submit "No Objection Certificate" from their employer while appearing for interview. Candidates failing to produce 'NOC' will not be interviewed. 4. The contract will be for 2 years extendable to a maximum of 5 years. Probation period will be three months. 5. Selection will be through interview only. The ICWA will make preliminary screening of the applications. Thus, merely fulfilling the requirements laid-down in the advertisement will not automatically entitle a candidate to be called for interview. 6. Any direct or indirect canvassing, will be considered as a disqualification. 7. No TA/DA for appearing in the interview will be admissible. Acting Director General Indian Council of World Affairs Sapru House, Barakhambha Road, New Delhi-110001. Email: *dg at icwa.in* Thanks and regards. Ajay Kumar Sharma Project Associate, INDEST-AICTE Consortium Central Library, IIT Delhi Hauz Khas, New Delhi-110016 011-26596627 (O) 09868092479 (M) Web: http://www.geocities.com/ajaysharma_lib/ From mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Thu Dec 6 15:17:16 2007 From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin) Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 15:17:16 +0530 (IST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Online library Message-ID: Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 10:21:58 +0000 (GMT) From: ashokar kar An online library now that allows readers to borrow books online and have them delivered to your doorstep within a matter of 24 hours. With a one time registration fee of Rs 499 and a refundable deposit of Rs 499, you can choose a billing plan that allows you to choose books depending on your pace of reading. Charges range from Rs 139/month (for those who want to read three books a month) to Rs 3,000/month (which allows you to borrow 12 books). You can see that library through this URL http://www.librarywala.com/web/Index.aspx Hiten Turakhia, one of the founders of this library, says he and five other friends were inspired by their college days struggle to get books. Everybody would chip in Rs100 to get reading material for their courses. Sitting at a coffee shop lat year decided to make it easier for today?s generation. Thus librarywala.com was born. The library six founder members have expertise in related fields like IT, marketing and management. Their market-savvy has clearly paid off, in over two months since its launch. The website, which is currently operational only in Mumbai with 8,000 titles, hopes to extend its operations to Bangalore and Pune by next year. As professionals we should think that behind of their inspiration because they are not LIS professionals still they are providing a kind of information service without knowing of fundamental knowledge of regarding fields. As we know we can do such things to improve the library services in an innovative way. Regards Ashoka R. Librarian, Maharaja Institute of Technology, Mysore. From mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Thu Dec 6 15:20:03 2007 From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin) Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 15:20:03 +0530 (IST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Social Tagging and the Next Steps for Indexing Message-ID: Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 19:48:38 -0800 (PST) From: vimal kumar Dear Friends, Here is an interesting paper deposited in DLIST. Which discusss about Social tagging, as a particular type of indexing, has thrown into question the nature of indexing.This paper also addresses the question: what is next for indexing? comparing social tagging and subject cataloguing. http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/2091/ Vimal Kumar Asst. Librarian Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 www.asb.edu.in/vimal From sri_lib at yahoo.com Thu Dec 6 12:25:14 2007 From: sri_lib at yahoo.com (sri priya) Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 22:55:14 -0800 (PST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Assist. Librarian - vacancy in AICTE Message-ID: <629766.65134.qm@web57013.mail.re3.yahoo.com> SL. NO. 05: ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN, SCALE OF PAY : Rs. 6,500-200-10,500/-, Post:01, (01-UR), Age limit: Not exceeding 35 years. (on direct recruitment basis) http://www.aicte.ernet.in/download/ADVERTISEMENT_2_.doc URL : http://www.aicte.ernet.in/ Regards, S.Sripriya Librarian Bangalore ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From gooche_1981 at yahoo.co.in Thu Dec 6 10:01:22 2007 From: gooche_1981 at yahoo.co.in (vasanth raj) Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 04:31:22 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Protecting Olive Tree from the Lexus Message-ID: <174019.68705.qm@web8711.mail.in.yahoo.com> Dear Sir/Madam, This is in response to some of the issues that raised by the respected information Profs. The topics that we have been discussing for the past few days have been completely driven by the notion of globalization. Technology should be a part of the curriculum and every new entrant should be in a position to upgrade his knowledge to stay in the competition. The question is, should we completely embrace the technology or is there nothing to study in the library domain except few facets. As Dillon points out that ?technology has permeated all we do in this field; it is a foundational for the discipline in the twenty-first century, not a component that can be ignored or taught separately. But Dillon?s above verbatim emphasizes is that we do need technology to thrive in the 21st century but not to the extent that we should wear the mask of the technologists or software designers. Even the modern technologies that we have been using over the years in one or the other way have molded and designed based on the traditional concept of information organization. It is note worthy here to mention the classic work of Licklider?s ?Libraries of the future?, where Licklider talks so eloquently about the contribution that library science dsicpline brought into shape the procognitive systems of the 60?s. He went on to emphasize the inter-disciplinary collaboration by putting the library science as a core, which could contribute immensely for the enhancement of the human-computer interactions in the future. What all these shows is that library science domain is as relevant as forever. But we do change according to the needs of the present environment. It is not that we should completely forget the library domain and embrace technology. Education is a life long process and every day we have to learn new things and upgrade our knowledge. One of the participants have mentioned that he has lost is job simple because of that he is from different stream. MNCs run with the profit motives and they recruit who best suit to their work environment. That is altogether different context. Another aspects is that libraries in India especially Govt schools and colleges are in very bad condition, whenever we get a chance to work in that environment., librarians are not respected, so the need is the quality of the libraries and creating the awareness among others about the importance of the library. In England and America parents always take their children to book store and cultivate reading habits in a early age, but this is not the case in our country. Why this aspects I have mentioned here is that the discussion is completely driven by the motto of train young minds to be an employee of the MNCs not to make them to see the problems that we Indians are facing. Over the years 117000 farmers have committed suicide in India- one of the reason for this is the lack of information. So here comes the role of the librarians and information professionals. I conclude this by quoting the Dillion?s words ?the organization and management of information, the digital divide, the level of literacy in our society, and freedom of access to published information have become mainstream issues for our culture. This may be a once in a century opportunity to convince those in the power that the field has a real contribution to make. Ref: Dillon, A. and Norris, A. (2005) Crying Wolf: an examination and reconsideration of the perception of crisis in LIS education. Journal of Education in Library and Information Science, 46,4 280-298. 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URL: http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/attachments/20071206/fe924a35/attachment-0001.html From suchitra_das at yahoo.com Thu Dec 6 11:24:01 2007 From: suchitra_das at yahoo.com (Suchitra Das) Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 05:54:01 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [LIS-Forum] A.D.I.Sc is equivalent to M.L.I.Sc Message-ID: <291956.53947.qm@web8904.mail.in.yahoo.com> dear friends, regards and good wishes to all.please any body can provide us that A.D.I.Sc is equivalent to M.L.I.Sc.i am working in IMMT library bhubaneswar, sister organisation of C.S.I.R.I have qualified A.D.I.Sc from DRTC, bangalore.our office needs it.we would be more help ful the recognisation of ADISc to MLISc by csir can be sent to me.it is urgent thaks, with regards. suchitra das Unlimited freedom, unlimited storage. Get it now, on http://help.yahoo.com/l/in/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/tools/tools-08.html/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From ajaysharma.lib at gmail.com Fri Dec 7 12:11:26 2007 From: ajaysharma.lib at gmail.com (Ajay Kum Sharma) Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 12:11:26 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Welcome to Join the INDEST-AICTE Consortium Message-ID: <50ee88430712062241x630a23bdx7b5514f7c1ba370c@mail.gmail.com> Dear Library Professionals, INDEST Consortium welcomes all universities and AICTE approved institutions to join the INDEST-AICTE Consortium under its "self-supported category". You may also like to visit the INDEST-AICTE Web site (http://indest.iitd.ac.in or http://paniit.iitd.ac.in/indest) for further details. Please note that the INDEST-AICTE Consortium charges an annual membership fee of Rs. 2,000.00 that is payable along with the subscription cost for e-resources selected by you. The membership to the Consortium is charged only if you wish to subscribe to one or more resources. There is no point in sending membership alone. I will be happy to send you the invoice for subscription to resources selected by you. Thanks and regards. Ajay Kumar Sharma Project Associate, INDEST-AICTE Consortium Central Library, IIT Delhi Hauz Khas, New Delhi-110016 011-26596627 (O) 09868092479 (M) Web: http://www.geocities.com/ajaysharma_lib/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From t_muniraj at yahoo.co.in Fri Dec 7 14:14:38 2007 From: t_muniraj at yahoo.co.in (Muniraju T) Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 08:44:38 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Collections of free online journals & Social and Health Electronic Portal : SHERPA Message-ID: <119860.6610.qm@web7610.mail.in.yahoo.com> The Global Development Network (GDN) is a worldwide network of research Collections of free online journals and documents: The list below provides links to databases that provide access to free online journals or documents.Some databases link to both journals that provide full text access and those that provide access to abstracts or table of contents. http://www.gdnet. org/middle. php?oid=247 Social and Health Electronic Portal : SHERPA Many of the electronic journals (ejournals) listed below will be full text versions of the hard copy.Some will be electronic versions of the hard copy that will differ slightly as only selected content will be available in full text. Some sites will simply allow you to search or browse tables of contents for individual titles and collections of journals providing you with citation details and usually an abstract or summary of an article. http://www.sherpa. nhs.uk/Resource/ html_files/ ejnls.htm MUNIRAJU.T Central Library PES Institute of Technology t_muniraj at yahoo.co.in http://muniraj.t.googlepages.com/ http://www.lisresearch.blogspot.com/ Chat on a cool, new interface. No download required. Go to http://in.messenger.yahoo.com/webmessengerpromo.php -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From skpathy at rediffmail.com Fri Dec 7 14:46:35 2007 From: skpathy at rediffmail.com (sushanta kumar pathy) Date: 7 Dec 2007 09:16:35 -0000 Subject: [LIS-Forum] International Conference-NIFT Message-ID: <20071207091635.4733.qmail@webmail18.rediffmail.com> Dear All,The National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) plans to offer a forum for encouraging greater collaborations by organizing an international conference on ?Building Knowledge Repositories: Cross-Sectoral Collaborations? in February 7-9, 2008 at New Delhi during the proposed World book Fair 2008. For details click on the below link:http://www.niftindia.com/conference2008/index.htmRegards,Sushant Sushanta Kumar Pathy Resource Centre National Institute of Fashion Technology, Ministry of Textiles, Govt. of India Gandhinagar, Gujarat(INDIA) Ph. 079-23241849(Off) 09898162677 (M) http://www.gandhinagar.niftindia.com/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/attachments/20071207/615756c3/attachment.html From ajaz at drtc.isibang.ac.in Sat Dec 8 03:50:38 2007 From: ajaz at drtc.isibang.ac.in (ajaz at drtc.isibang.ac.in) Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 17:20:38 -0500 (EST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] drtc colloquium on "Impact of e-resources on collection development" dated-13/12/07 Message-ID: <1127.210.212.206.68.1197066038.squirrel@drtc> INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE DOCUMENTATION RESEARCH AND TRAINING CENTRE 8th MILE MYSORE ROAD, BANGLORE-56005 DRTC COLLOQUIUM-4 (2007-2009) ON Impact of E-resources on Collection Development ABSTRACT There was a time when library resources consisted primarily of ?print-on-paper? resources. It was easy to rely on book reviews and standard reference works as selection tools. The emergence of non-print materials such as audiovisual materials and e-resources has made the selection process more complex. With the advent of the Internet and library networks and consortia, the ability to simultaneously share virtual resources, cooperative collection development, through consortial arrangements has become possible. The colloquium will focus on growth of e-resources, their evaluation, and how the collection development has been affected by e-resources. FACETS SPEAKERS 1. Introduction Ajazur Rahman 2. Growth of E-resources Nihal Alam 3. Evaluation of E-resources Nitu Kumari 4. Library Cooperation & Collection Development Jamil Ahmad 5. Conclusion Kaushal Giri Venue : DRTC classroom Date : 13th of December, 2007 Time : 2:pm All are cordially invited K.S.Raghavan (Colloquium Coordinator) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From tanikac at gmail.com Thu Dec 6 22:21:53 2007 From: tanikac at gmail.com (Tanika Chakraborty) Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 10:51:53 -0600 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Information Needed: Education Volumes from the past Message-ID: <2e3833960712060851o5b8df9efhb46e73e02503ca38@mail.gmail.com> Dear All, I have been looking for some documents that are published by NCERT and/or the respective State counterparts(SCERT) and need your help in locating them.. I need DISTRICT LEVEL DATA from the 5th (1986-87) ALL INDIA EDUCATIONAL SURVEY (AIES). NCERT usually comes out with a report after each of their surveys with lists the India wide and state level details from the survey. However, we need district level data which they do not publish formally. I have come to know from fellow researchers at MIT, who have used the data before, and also from faculty members affiliated with NCERT, that the NCERT has the separate state volumes for the different states/UTs of India and the district data for each state can be obtained from those volumes. Some of the states might not be present at the NCERT library. They might be in the Central Secretariat library, the library of the Planning commission or other government libraries in Delhi. Most probably they will be with the libraries of the directorate of education of the relevant state since they are the ones who are linked with collecting and collating the data. I need those data for all the districts of India, and most importantly for West Bengal and Karnataka. Do you have any information about the location of these volumes? Please let me know your suggestions. Regards, Tanika. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/attachments/20071206/7b99b9e8/attachment.html From rajankila at hotmail.com Mon Dec 10 12:53:40 2007 From: rajankila at hotmail.com (Rajan) Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 12:53:40 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Professional Capability Building Message-ID: Dear All, A vibrant librarian needs to be conversant with the subject he deals with, library science and information technologies in the right mix with focus on practical utility to his professional job. Any library professional can become well versed in those three areas, if he pays a little attention and spends some time on the Internet, newspapers like The Hindu, All India Radio/Door Darshan or some quality books. That is not enough if he wants to improve further. He needs to concentrate more on developing his writing and presentation skills. He should be able to write anything with clarity, brevity, simplicity, logical sequencing etc and present anything with proper salutation, intonation, pace, tone etc, if he needs to remain as an able professional. All known professionals in any field have or developed those qualities. Needless to say that those skill sets cannot be attained without good reading which is an essential quality required for any librarian. If the librarian is a reasonably good reader of books, he can easily grasp the requirement of readers or information seekers and can mould his library collection and services in tune with their requirements. In order to develop those capabilities, the library schools can devote 30 minutes just before the lunch break every day for an internal seminar. In the seminar, a student should present a paper of around 500-1000 words on a topic of his passion. The paper must be chosen and prepared well ahead. The class mates and teachers should make the deliberations in the session a lively one benefiting each other. The busy teachers may benefit more from such session than probably the students. The session can be included for internal assessment of the students. Seminar session should be set by drawing 15 minutes each from the curricular sessions and the lunch time (say 12.45 to 1.15 PM). If the session is healthy and lively the discussions should continue during the lunch time too. The library schools get the last choice of students as they do not care to provide ample ambience to develop the personality of the students joining there. Whereas the management schools, even though they deal with a subject that cannot be worth mentioned even as a discipline, get high caliber students because of the availability of most conducive environment for developing anyone's capability fully. Regards, K Rajasekharan Librarian, Kerala Institute of Local Administration(KILA) Mulagunnathukavu, Thrissur - 680581 , India Ph 0487 - 2200244+208 (O) 2201428 (R) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Tue Dec 11 10:39:53 2007 From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin) Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:39:53 +0530 (IST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Information about M.Phil Programme Message-ID: Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:11:21 +0530 From: majid khan Dear Members, I'm Majid Rao, recently completed my regular Master Degree in Library Science in the current academic year. I'm now searching for some institutes that offer M.Phil Degree in Distance education mode. Last year UGC had notified that the present academic year will be the last year during which universities will be allowed to offer M.Phil courses in the distance education mode. However, I'm told that some universities in the South have published their advertisement for M.Phil. degree for the year 2008. I would be thankful if somebidy can clarify on this. Majid Rao From mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Tue Dec 11 10:48:15 2007 From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin) Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:48:15 +0530 (IST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Needed Help Message-ID: Date: 10 Dec 2007 16:09:38 -0000 From: kirti vaishampayan ? Hello I am Kirti p. vaishampayan Student of S.N.D.T. M.L.I.Sc. course. my project topic is "RESOURCE SHARING - NEW TRENDS". So i am collecting information on Resource sharing,Library Networks and Consortia. Please can you suggest me helpful journals for this topics. - Kirti From mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Tue Dec 11 10:50:32 2007 From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin) Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:50:32 +0530 (IST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Seminar on Comparative Analysis of Citation Databases- Web of Science, Scopus and Google Scholar Message-ID: Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2007 17:54:31 +0530 From: ayesha khatoon Documentation Research and Training Centre 8th Mile Mysore Road, R.V. College Post Bangalore-560059 Seminar Comparative Analysis of Citation Databases: Web of Science, Scopus and Google Scholar The volume of scientific literature grew exponentially as a result of increased R& D activities after World War II. This posed different problems for users and indexers of information. The shortcomings of traditional subject indexes resulted in duplication of scientific activity. Sometimes, the terms used in subject index were ambiguous. These problems necessitated a unified index to scientific literature that was current, free from semantic difficulties and not dependent on the knowledge of subject indexers. Citation index emerged not only as retrieval tool but also used as an evaluation tool for evaluating scientists and to provide a way to search for and analyze the literature in a way not possible through simple keyword/topical searching. It also enables users to gather data on the "impact" of individual authors and journals, as well as assessing particular areas of research activity and publication. ISI (Thomson Scientific) citation databases have been used for decades as the only tools for locating citations. ISI databases (currently known as Web of Science), however, may no longer be sufficient because it covers only journal articles. There are other citation databases, which covers non-journal documents also. This seminar will present a pilot study of the new citation databases like, Google Scholar & Scopus. Its features, strength and limitations etc. Speaker: Ayesha Khatoon 2nd Year ADIS All are cordially invited Venue: DRTC Classroom Date: 12th December, 2007 Time: 2 p.m. From krmulla at gmail.com Tue Dec 11 11:28:38 2007 From: krmulla at gmail.com (K.R. Mulla) Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 11:28:38 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Information about M.Phil Programme In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear Majid Rao, I believe in that the UGC has not notified and banned M.Phil courses in the distance education mode. the some was notified by the Tamil Nadu Govt. and copy sent to the UGC the UGC yet to decide on the M.Phil distance education mode. The same M.Phil Degree in Distance education mode, some of the south Indian universities are notified for year 2008. except Tamil Nadu On Dec 11, 2007 10:39 AM, Mailing List Admin wrote: > Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:11:21 +0530 > From: majid khan > > Dear Members, > > I'm Majid Rao, recently completed my regular Master Degree in Library > Science in the current academic year. I'm now searching for some > institutes that offer M.Phil Degree in Distance education mode. > > Last year UGC had notified that the present academic year will be the last > year during which universities will be allowed to offer M.Phil courses in > the distance education mode. However, I'm told that some universities in > the South have published their advertisement for M.Phil. degree for the > year 2008. I would be thankful if somebidy can clarify on this. > > Majid Rao > _______________________________________________ > LIS-Forum mailing list > LIS-Forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > -- Thanks with regards K. R. Mulla, Librarian, HKBK College of Engineering, # 22/1, Nagawara, Bangalore - 560 045. Karnataka, India. Tel. +91-80-25441722, 25443744 Ext 152 ................................................................................................. 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Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From suchitra_das at yahoo.com Tue Dec 11 12:28:08 2007 From: suchitra_das at yahoo.com (Suchitra Das) Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 06:58:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [LIS-Forum] thanks Message-ID: <436564.72947.qm@web8905.mail.in.yahoo.com> my dear friends, many many thanks and good wishes to all, i am so happy that people have responded so nicely and provided me right information in right time.Really i am grateful to all especially who has sent me the scanned document within no time.May this New Year 2008 be a glorious year for you all.May the Supreme Being abide with all.May He shower the Divine Grace upon you all. i also admire our LIS forum a lot. wish you all with warm regards suchitra das library & documentation IMMT(RRL)bhubaneswar Get the freedom to save as many mails as you wish. To know how, go to http://help.yahoo.com/l/in/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/tools/tools-08.html -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From mukesh.monitor at gmail.com Tue Dec 11 13:36:26 2007 From: mukesh.monitor at gmail.com (Mukesh - Monitor) Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:36:26 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Read More Books Message-ID: <005801c83bcc$bff60e00$0201a8c0@mukesh> The 26 Major Advantages to Reading More Books and Why 3 in 4 People Are Being Shut Out of Success If you are one of the non-book readers who feels you "don't need no stinking books", here are 26 great reasons to start the habit.before you are left behind! 1. Reading is an active mental process - Unlike TV, books make you to use your brain. By reading, you think more and become smarter. 2. It is a fundamental skill builder - Every good course on the planet has a matching book to go with it. Why? Because books help clarify difficult subjects. Books provide information that goes deeper than just classroom discussion. 3. Improves your vocabulary - Remember in elementary school when you learned how to infer the meaning of one word by reading the context of the other words in the sentence? You get the same benefit from book reading. While reading books, especially challenging ones, you will find yourself exposed to many new words you wouldn't be otherwise..... read full article by clicking on the link below: http://mokshaa.stumbleupon.com/ Best Wishes - - Mukesh Anand http://monitorlinks.typepad.com/ * It's Not What We Know, but What We Do That Matters * -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/attachments/20071211/1e34a53c/attachment-0001.html From mohan.shivaramu at gmail.com Tue Dec 11 16:45:54 2007 From: mohan.shivaramu at gmail.com (Mohan Shivaramu) Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:45:54 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] National Workshop on Preserving Our Scientific Heritage Message-ID: Dear Friends With reference to our earlier communication dated 21st Nov 2007, regarding the National Workshop on Preserving Our Scientific Heritage. We would like to inform that the deadline for registration is extended up to 1st Jan 2008. Kindly check the website http://www.iiap.res.in/archives/ for updated information on scientific program. We encourage you to register online for participating in the workshop. Contact: Dr. Christina Birdie, Convener, National Workshop on Preserving Our Scientific Heritage, IIA, Bangalore 21-22, January, 2008 chris at iiap.res.in Mohan B S Indian Institute of Astrophysics Koramangala Bangalore - 560 034 India -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/attachments/20071211/d5db6fab/attachment-0001.html From smunnolli at actrec.gov.in Tue Dec 11 17:05:01 2007 From: smunnolli at actrec.gov.in (Satish Munnolli) Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 17:05:01 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] ... WHO has the password ? Message-ID: <019c01c83be9$de018740$1f08640a@SatishMunnolli> Recent issue of 'Journal of Cancer Research and Therapeutics' has an interesting editorial. Denying open access to published health-care research: WHO has the password? An 'extract' of the editorial is as below. The World Health Organization (WHO) has demonstrated exemplary foresight in highlighting that access to biomedical journals is a critical issue in developing countries and one of the many obstacles to improving health. In the year 2002, WHO initiated a unique program, HINARI, with the support of several major publishers. HINARI is presently providing open access to over 3,750 journal titles to institutions in 113 developing countries. Institutions in countries with GNI per capita (World Bank figures, 2006) below $1,000 are eligible for free access and those in countries with GNI per capita between $1,000 and $3,000 can gain access by paying a very reasonable fee of $1,000 per year / institution. However, clinicians and researchers in some very populous developing countries like India have been greatly disappointed that they are not considered eligible for HINARI. The GNI per capita as per the World Bank 2006 figures for some of the countries that have been excluded by HINARI, range from $770 for Pakistan, $820 for India, $1420 for Indonesia and $2010 for China. The HINARI website acknowledges that some developing countries with per capita GNP of less than US$3,000 have been denied open access through HINARI as 'the publishers participating in HINARI have not, for the time being, extended their offer to countries where they have significant levels of existing subscriptions and, in some cases, local sales staff.' It is unfortunate that business interests of western publishers has taken away the gloss from HINARI by denying open access to clinicians catering to the health needs of half of the world population. While the long list of 113 countries covered under HINARI looks very impressive, most of these are very small countries, with the combined population of countries in Band 1 being 1.2 billion; and in Band 2 as 0.3 billion. In contrast, the total population of China, India, Indonesia and Pakistan, the 4 most populous countries with a per capita GNI of less than $3000 but excluded from HINARI is 3 billion. Full text of the editorial is available at http://www.cancerjournal.net/article.asp?issn=0973-1482;year=2007;volume=3;issue=3;spage=133;epage=134;aulast=Sarin Interestingly, who support or oppose this call and has any suggestions are free to send their email response to the editorial of the journal site. Satish S Munnolli Librarian Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer (ACTREC) Tata Memorial Centre (TMC) Sector 22, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai 410 210 Ph: +91 22 2740 5026 Email: smunnolli at actrec.gov.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/attachments/20071211/b0d699a8/attachment-0001.html From hariharan_ah at yahoo.com Wed Dec 12 10:39:51 2007 From: hariharan_ah at yahoo.com (Arunachalam Hariharan) Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:09:51 -0800 (PST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] State Level seminar on IL and IT for School Librarians - Change of date - correction - reg Message-ID: <362927.57860.qm@web39611.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Dear Friends, The date of the State Level Seminar on Information Literacy and Information Technology for School Librarians was wrongly mentioned in our earlier announcement. The correct date is: 5th JANUARY 2008 Registration: Free Last date for registraion: 31.12.2007 State Level Seminar on Information Literacy and Information Technology for School Librarians Jointly Organised by Society for the Advancement of Library and Information Science (SALIS Chennai Chapter) & Connemara Public Library, Chennai Date 5th JANUARY 2008 Venue Connemara Public Library, Chennai Registration: Free Last date for registraion: 31.12.2007 _____________________________________________________ SALIS & Connemara Public Library, Chennai ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From library at rri.res.in Wed Dec 12 10:52:38 2007 From: library at rri.res.in (Library) Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:52:38 +0530 (IST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Needed Help In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear Kirti, You could try these online resources (where you can get many full-text articles free): Eprints in Library and Information Science http://eprints.rclis.org/ Scholarly Publishing Bibliography http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/ Best wishes Girija -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Raman Research Institute Library, Tel: +91 80 2361 0122 Extn 250 C V Raman Avenue, Sadashivanagar, Fax: +91 80 2361 0492 Bangalore 560 080, India. Email: library at rri.res.in -------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Mailing List Admin wrote: > Date: 10 Dec 2007 16:09:38 -0000 > From: kirti vaishampayan > > ? > Hello > > I am Kirti p. vaishampayan Student of S.N.D.T. M.L.I.Sc. course. > my project topic is "RESOURCE SHARING - NEW TRENDS". So i am collecting > information on Resource sharing,Library Networks and Consortia. Please can > you suggest me helpful journals for this topics. > > - Kirti > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From esukhdev at gmail.com Wed Dec 12 11:22:38 2007 From: esukhdev at gmail.com (Sukhdev Singh) Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:22:38 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] PPT Slides Available for REUSE on "Bio-Medical Information Retrieval from Net" Message-ID: I have delivered a lecture at Lady Irwin College (New Delhi) yesterday on "Bio-Medical Information Retrieval from Net". I wish to share my lecture slides with you. The Presentation consists of over 90 Power Point PPT slides. It has been prepared keeping in mind the information needs of Bio-Medical Researchers. However it does not include Paid / Fee based services like "Web of Science". The presentation can be viewed or Downloaded (for reuse) from http://snipurl.com/1v51n Presentation starts with an emphasis need for having a planned search strategy and evaluation of the retrieved results. The best tool and Internet resource to explore would depend upon the type of information being sought from the net. For general non-scholarly information Internet Search Engines, Meta Search Engines, Web Directories and Subject Guides would be the best way to start with. However there is need to evaluate all such information. Simple criteria - like the authority behind the information; the date of creation and modification and commercial interests if any - can be used to evaluate the authenticity of the information retrieved. Medical websites with "HONcode" logo could be easily evaluated and trusted. For scholarly literature, researchers are advised to start with Bibliographic Databases. These databases provide references to high quality peer reviewed journals. PubMed and IndMED (For Indian Journals) are best known under this category. The presentation has some interesting pictures to explain the need for "Controlled Vocabulary" like MeSH. Other tools like Scirus can also be used for retrieving scholarly information. Google Scholar can be used to for limited "Cited By" information along with references. Coming to Full Text of articles, looking for libraries' holdings would be a better strategy. "Union Catalogue" is useful tool to explore collection of neighborhood libraries. Many good journals are now coming out from Open Access Publishers like BioMed Central and PLoS. Some of the good Indian medical journals are also available for free through Internet. NIC's medIND project and MedKnow (an Indian Open Access Publisher) have been instrumental in putting most of them online. Directory of Open Access Journals is a useful tool to find out Open Access Journals in a subject domain. Other resources for finding full text articles are Institutional (like EPrints at IISc ) and Subject Repositories (like OpenMED at NIC). There are now about 1000 such registered and OAI-PMH compliant repositories all over the world. Tools like ROAR can used to find a relevant repository. These repositories can also be searched through search engine like Google and some special OAI-PMH search engines. The presentation ends with some special type of resources like Cochrane Library (made freely accessible to Resident Indians through sponsorship by ICMR). --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From tomasallen_who at hotmail.com Tue Dec 11 16:05:00 2007 From: tomasallen_who at hotmail.com (Tomas Allen) Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:35:00 -1000 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Holiday Season Gift - EMBASE Classic - Free to end of the year 2007 Message-ID: Holiday Season Gift - EMBASE Classic - Free to end of the year 2007 Resource of the Month Each month, Ovid provides you with the opportunity to "test drive" a sampling of our content, tools and services - FREE of charge - through our Resource of the Month program. A different combination of resources is offered around the first business day of each month, so be sure to check back regularly to see what new resources are available. December Resource of the Month: EMBASE Classic Coverage: 1947-1973 Number of Records: 1,800,000 Indexes 43 biomedical and pharmacology Excerpta Medica print journals published 1947-1973. EMBASE Classic on Ovid Access to seminal scientific literature from the past is an important asset for today's researchers. Foundational literature is still relevant today and provides valuable insight into the origins of many scientific discoveries and how they've shaped modern practices. http://www.ovid.com/site/products/resource_of_the_month.jsp Resource of the Month Each month, Ovid provides you with the opportunity to "test drive" a sampling of our content, tools and services - FREE of charge - through our Resource of the Month program. A different combination of resources is offered around the first business day of each month, so be sure to check back regularly to see what new resources are available. December Resource of the Month: EMBASE Classic Coverage: 1947-1973 Number of Records: 1,800,000 Indexes 43 biomedical and pharmacology Excerpta Medica print journals published 1947-1973. EMBASE Classic on Ovid Access to seminal scientific literature from the past is an important asset for today's researchers. Foundational literature is still relevant today and provides valuable insight into the origins of many scientific discoveries and how they've shaped modern practices. http://www.ovid.com/site/products/resource_of_the_month.jsp Happy Holidays Tomas Allen WHO Library Geneva tomasallen_who at hotmail.com _________________________________________________________________ i?m is proud to present Cause Effect, a series about real people making a difference. http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/MTV/?source=text_Cause_Effect -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/attachments/20071211/702502af/attachment-0001.html From vinitbhu06 at gmail.com Tue Dec 11 17:11:09 2007 From: vinitbhu06 at gmail.com (Vinit kumar) Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 17:11:09 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] DRTC---Seminar on Next Generation Catalogues : User expectations Message-ID: <9eac9ba00712110341v1f25e6a0te085c6d4eed17dbe@mail.gmail.com> Indian Statistical Institute Documentation Research and Training Centre 8th Mile Mysore Road, R.V. College Post Bangalore-560059 Seminar On *Next Generation Catalogues: User expectations* * * Since the days of Cutter, tools to access the resources of libraries are changing their structure and interface rapidly and dramatically to fulfill the dynamic user needs. Today almost every library user comes with expectations set and defined by their experience of using the Web. So the catalogues, which are offered by the libraries, need to operate at the same level of sophistication as other popular Web destinations. In the past decade people's expectations regarding search and *e*-access to information have dramatically changed. The proliferation of desktop computers, the increasing amounts of *"born digital" *content, and the advent of the Internet have all contributed to this. People expect to enter one or two words (or maybe a phrase) into a search box, click a button, get a ranked-list of relevant items returned, select an item from the results, and view/download the information. The process has to be quick, easy, and immediate. Even though people know that the information available from libraries is free and authoritative they often use libraries as a last resort because they see library systems are overwhelmingly associated with books, confusing, difficult to use, time consuming, complex and inconvenient. The seminar will examine the present developments and explore the likely future developments in re-designing the OPAC to support resource discovery. *Speaker:** *Vinit Kumar JRF** ***All are cordially invited*** Venue: DRTC Classroom Professor and Head Date: 14th December, 2007 DRTC Time: 2 p.m. -- Regards Vinit Kumar vinit at drtc.isibang.ac.in Junior Research Fellow Documentation Research and Training Cent re Bangalore M.L.I.Sc. (BHU) Varanasi -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/attachments/20071211/502f4951/attachment-0001.html From kshemaprakash at gmail.com Wed Dec 12 12:38:20 2007 From: kshemaprakash at gmail.com (Kshema Prakash) Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:38:20 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Request for an article Message-ID: <3a4c03220712112308u4e51c20bg3cd7629ec5c6f8fd@mail.gmail.com> Dear colleagues, Can someone kindly help me by sending a copy of the following article? *Title:* Individual value structure and diversity attitudes: The moderating effects of age, gender, race, and religiosity *Author(s):* Olukemi O. Sawyerr, Judy Strauss, Jun Yan *Journal:* Journal of Managerial Psychology *ISSN:* 0268-3946 *Year:* 2005 * Volume:* 20 * Issue:* 6 * Page:* 498 - 521 *DOI:* 10.1108/02683940510615442 *Publisher:* Emerald Group Publishing Limited Thanks and regards, Kshema Ms. Kshema Prakash Faculty LIbrarian - Gr I Central Library Dayalbagh Educational Institute (Deemed University) Dayalbagh, Agra 282005 U.P. -- Mrs. Kshema Prakash Faculty Librarian - Gr I Dayalbagh Educational Institute (Deemed University) Dayalbagh, Agra 282005 Uttar Pradesh, India -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Which will be heplful in searching better infromation specially on Science and technology & Current happenings in specific field etc. link is "http://www.cio.com/article/print/156900" Thanks and Regards -- RAJESH ALDARTHI LIBRARIAN (Jain Institute of vocational and Advanced Studies) #127/3, Bull Tempel Road, Chamarajpet, Bangalore-560096 Email: deepakdeepa89 at gmail.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/attachments/20071212/1a11b524/attachment.html From rajankila at hotmail.com Wed Dec 12 15:37:28 2007 From: rajankila at hotmail.com (Rajan) Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:37:28 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Appreciate Uploaded Presentation References: Message-ID: Dear Mr Sukhdev Singh, Your presentation is an excellent invitation to the digital world of medical information. Opening it to others for re-use is an act that deserves appreciation.As well, your focus on free information is really appreciative. It is heard that there are some others who conduct seminars in the name of free software like greenstone, dspace etc and propagate private interests. It is a glad news that you speak about open knowledge and practice it as well. Please upload such presentations in future too. Regards, K Rajasekharan Librarian, Kerala Institute of Local Administration(KILA) ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:22:38 +0530 From: "Sukhdev Singh" Subject: [LIS-Forum] PPT Slides Available for REUSE on "Bio-Medical Information Retrieval from Net" To: iami_gen at googlegroups.com, indmed-forum at yahoogroups.com, medlib at yahoogroups.com, lis-forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: I have delivered a lecture at Lady Irwin College (New Delhi) yesterday on "Bio-Medical Information Retrieval from Net". I wish to share my lecture slides with you. The Presentation consists of over 90 Power Point PPT slides .... can be viewed or Downloaded (for reuse) from http://snipurl.com/1v51n --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Wed Dec 12 16:47:14 2007 From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin) Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:47:14 +0530 (IST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Journal of Genetics! Message-ID: Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:47:50 +0530 (IST) From: Riki Krishnan Dear Member, We would like to know which library has the following volumes of the Journal of Genetics. We are archiving them on our website. Journal of Genetics: Vol.3, 4,...15. With regards Riki Krishnan Indian Academy of Sciences Sadashivnagar Bangalore From bhowmickabhijit2003 at yahoo.co.in Wed Dec 12 23:25:15 2007 From: bhowmickabhijit2003 at yahoo.co.in (abhijit bhowmick) Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:55:15 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [LIS-Forum] 49th Bengal Library Conference Message-ID: <866913.94417.qm@web7912.mail.in.yahoo.com> Dear Profesionals, The 49th Bengal LibraryConference will be held at Hemchandra ibrary , 11/1 Mohanchand Road , Khidirpore , Kolkata - 700023 during 14th to 16th December 2007. Theme : Application of computer in different libraries : Problems & Prospects. Program will be inaugurated by Hon'ble I T Minister Prof. Debesh Das in presense of the Hon'ble Library Minister Shri Tapan Roy & Guest of Honour Hon'ble Dr Barun Kr Mukhopadhya , Member of Perliament. and Hon'ble Shri Kishor Krishna Bandopadhya , Director RRRLF. Thematic sessions will be held on 15th & 16th December 2007. 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From anandology at gmail.com Fri Dec 14 08:38:30 2007 From: anandology at gmail.com (Anand Chitipothu) Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 08:38:30 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] ask LC to support open bibliographic data In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <41139fcb0712131908q39c88552u9141a3a588162eb@mail.gmail.com> Hi all, The Library of Congress is asking for comments on their proposal for the future of bibliographic records and we'd like to ask them to include a section supporting open data -- providing bibliographic records in such a way that they can be reused by projects like Open Library and others. Our comment is here: http://www.okfn.org/wiki/FutureOfBibliographicControl And we'd love it if you would add your name to it and spread the word to others in this field. Comments are due Friday so time is limited. Thanks so much for your help, Anand Open Library http://demo.openlibrary.org -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Fri Dec 14 10:59:35 2007 From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin) Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:59:35 +0530 (IST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Recruitments in LibSys - reg. Message-ID: Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:15:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Edwin 12-12-2007 Dear Sir, We are in the process of recruiting Library personnels to work with LibSys for various locations in India. In this pretext, we would be happy if you could help us in posting the advertisment in the very prestigious library portal, LIS Forum. Please find the advertisement as pasted below: REQUIRED (Technical Services Executives) Libsys Corporation, a Software Development company specialized in Library domain and developer of ?LibSys? software, is looking for dynamic people with a B.Lib/M.Lib degree with minimum two years experience. The work involves Library automation standards (MARC21, AACRII, Z39.50, OAI, Unicode etc.), Database migration, System implementation, User support / training and pre-sales activities. Positions are at Delhi/NCR, Bhopal, Chandigarh, Dehradun, Lucknow, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Kochi, Chennai, Mumbai, Pune, Ahmedabad, and Kolkata, Guwhati and Bhuvneshwar. Email Resume on hrd at libsys.co.in or Contact: Sandeep (9958296055) or mailto: LibSys Corporation, 633-A, Phase V, Udyog Vihar, Gurgaon, 120016. Phone : (0124) 2451119/ 2451120 Thanks and regards D. T. Edwin Manager (South Zone) LibSys Corporation Bangalore From P.Muralidharan at elsevier.com Fri Dec 14 11:19:11 2007 From: P.Muralidharan at elsevier.com (Muralidharan, Padma (ELS-DEL)) Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:49:11 +0800 Subject: [LIS-Forum] International Honour for Young Indian Scientists Message-ID: <6F4756ABEB13EB4B883EA455B9A93A1F0102DEF7@ELSSNGEXCP02VA.science.regn.net> Dear Sir/Madam, May I request you to kindly include this news item in your newsletter? International Honour for Young Indian Scientists New Delhi, December 10, 2007- Scopus(r), the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed research literature and quality Web sources with smart tools to track, analyze and visualize, today announced the Second Young Indian Scientist Awards which were awarded at an event held at "Le Meridian" in New Delhi on December 7. The award instituted by Elsevier has selected nine recipients from areas such as Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Environment and Engineering in order to cover both basic and applied disciplines. The event was attended by many scientists, Vice Chancellors of several universities, bureaucrats from the Ministry of Science & Technology, Higher Education, and Defense. The event highlighted aspects of Indian science and culture. The researchers were carefully considered on both qualitative and quantitative parameters. The jury included eminent subject experts from all over the country, who also attended the ceremony. Opinions of prominent Bibliometricians for nine subject areas were also taken into consideration for selection. Phil Govaert, the Managing Director for Elsevier's International markets, highlighted the importance and the need for scholarly information in the research process. The function was also attended by Niels Weertman, Director Product Management Scopus, who explained how Scopus was a smart application for tracking, analyzing and visualizing trends in research helping the award selection process. The winners are: Dr. Bakhtisaran Raman - Biological Sciences Dr. Anil Kumar - Chemistry Dr. S K Satheesh - Earth Sciences Dr. Sanjay Mittal - Engineering Sciences Dr. Dinesh Mohan - Environmental Sciences Dr. Upadrastha Ramamurthy - Material Sciences Dr. Nimish A Shah - Mathematics Dr. Sushil Kumar Jha- Medicine Dr. Vinod Kumar Aswal - Physics Scientists, please note this is an annual feature. Await our 2008 announcement in June 2008. further information can be had from Padma Muralidharan (p.muralidharan at elsevier.com) Thanks for your cooperation. 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URL: http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/attachments/20071215/1bd6965a/attachment.html From seth at delhi.goethe.org Mon Dec 17 15:26:05 2007 From: seth at delhi.goethe.org (Seth, Renu) Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:26:05 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Libraries on the Agenda: an international seminar on library advocacy Message-ID: <72503E4695D70343BD3D51AF50F0E186779D79@nde-s2.newdelhi.goethe.org> "Libraries on the Agenda": an international seminar on library advocacy 13th March 2008 at Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi Max Mueller Bhavan (MMB) and the National Knowledge Commission (NKC) in collaboration with the French Embassy, British Council and Instituto Cervantes are pleased to announce a one day international seminar on Library Advocacy under the aegis of the President of The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA ), Dr. Claudia Lux. The Government of India is committed to the creation of a knowledge society by providing equitable, high quality cost effective access to information and knowledge resources and services to meet the informational, educational, recreational and cultural needs of the community through various national, institutional and public libraries. Hon'ble Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh in his inaugural address for the National Knowledge Commission on 2nd August 2005, recognized public libraries as an extremely important element in the foundation of a knowledge economy. In order to reach the goal of creating a knowledge society, the establishment of the National Knowledge Commission has been a major step in this direction. The stage is set for radical transformation in the country's library sector and commendable work is already underway to ensure sustained development of libraries in the form of 10 recommendations given by the working group on libraries such as setting up of a National Commission on Libraries, creating a Central Library Fund, greater community participation in library management etc. To support the endeavours of the Government of India and to synergise the efforts made all over Europe towards library advocacy, MMB and NKC in collaboration with the French Embassy, British Council and Instituto Cervantes, call upon information professionals from all types of libraries to attend this one day international seminar on "Libraries on the Agenda", which is also the motto of the IFLA Presidency of Dr. Claudia Lux. Seminar Objectives: - To facilitate the understanding of how to mount an effective advocacy campaign/plan with clear goals and objectives; to use media effectively and to lobby with legislators and decision makers at the political/administrative level as well as stakeholders who shape the public opinion and control support for library services - To explore the ways and means for librarians to be more visible not only in their own organizations, but also in their community and state - To facilitate discussions on how to make libraries a partner in life long learning and relevant for every citizen of the country - Deliberations on implementation of the recommendations of the working group on libraries and to share the formula for success of the prospering library landscape in European countries The Seminar programme will include presentations by experts and policy makers from Europe and India, interactive sessions amongst the participants and a panel discussion in the evening. Participants: The seminar is intended for library and information professionals, knowledge managers, information entrepreneurs, library users, institutional and community leaders. To allow rich and useful interactions, the number of participants will be very limited. Registration: Download registration form in PDF format The registration fee is Re. 500/ per participant . Please note: - The seats are limited and registration is on first come first served basis. Registration closes on 15 February 2008. - The Demand Draft (DD) Should be made in favour of Max Mueller Bhavan, payable at Delhi Kindly post the filled-in registration forms to the address below:: Renu Seth Chief Librarian Regional Information Centre Max Mueller Bhavan New Delhi 3, Kasturba Gandhi Marg New Delhi-110001 India Tel: 91-11-23 32 95 06 Fax: 91-11-23 32 55 34 seth at delhi.goethe.org www.goethe.de/newdelhi <> -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/attachments/20071217/f5ce511a/attachment.html From P.Kumar at elsevier.com Sun Dec 16 23:17:39 2007 From: P.Kumar at elsevier.com (Kumar, Perdeep (ELS-DEL)) Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 01:47:39 +0800 Subject: [LIS-Forum] The world's first online tool to identify and aggregate an organization's research output portfolio - The Scopus Affiliation Identifier Phase 1 facilitates faster decision-making Message-ID: Introducing the world's first online tool to identify and aggregate an organization's research output portfolio. The Scopus Affiliation Identifier Phase 1 facilitates faster decision-making Amsterdam, The Netherlands December 13, 2007 - Scopus(r), the world's largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, today announced that a sought after literature research tool, the Scopus Affiliation Identifier Phase 1 will be launched in January. This new feature will speed up the search process by enabling users to find all the documents belonging to a specific organization. Doing so will save users valuable time which can be better invested in performing the actual research analysis. The Scopus Affiliation Identifier Phase 1 is a unique tool which automatically identifies and matches an organization with all its research output. Scopus is the first to offer its customers this organizational matching functionality across its entire database of over 15,000 peer reviewed journals. This will be welcome news for deans, faculty heads, researchers and funding bodies who understand just how difficult and time-consuming this task has been up to now. Using a combination of sophisticated algorithms and a comprehensive knowledge base, the Scopus Affiliation Identifier Phase 1 will quicken the rate at which data can be collated for research performance measurement at the institutional level. The feature automatically matches the multiple name variants attributed to an organization. This is extremely useful where several name variants of an organization may exist or may be recorded differently by publishing authors. One such an example is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where articles found in Scopus and published by authors belonging to this institute carry more than 1,700 name variants. Other reasons for these numbers of variations can be attributed to organizations changing their name, having similar names, or they may merge or separate. This can make it challenging to clearly identify a single organization's complete body of work. "Up until now we have had to employ personnel to carry out this mammoth task. It is both a slow and expensive process. The Scopus Affiliation Identifier Phase 1 produces the same results in significantly less time. This not only helps us to reduce the number of staff needed but also allows us to focus on research analysis rather than data collection and filtering activities." says David Clay is Deputy Head of Academic Liaison and Finance at the University of Liverpool. The Scopus Affiliation Identifier Phase 1 makes it easier for him to evaluate his own institution and others. Users will benefit immediately from the initial version of the Scopus Affiliation Identifier Phase 1, available in January. The next phase, scheduled for release in the first half of 2008, will offer users enhanced functionalities. Scopus is actively soliciting feedback from individual organizations in order to enhance the data clarity. "We are delighted to be able to introduce the Scopus Affiliation Identifier Phase 1 to the market," says Niels Weertman, Director Product Management Scopus. "We've invested heavily in developing a feature that will deliver significant time and cost benefits to our users. Ultimately it will help deans, chancellors and faculty heads make resource allocation and strategic planning decisions more efficiently." For further information on Scopus or the Scopus Affiliation Identifier Phase 1, please visit: www.info.scopus.com/affiliationidentifier. For feedback on the Scopus Affiliation Identifier, please contact: affiliationfeedback at scopus.com. About Scopus Covering the world's research literature, Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality Web sources with smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research. Scopus is designed and developed with over 500 users and librarians internationally. Its unique database contains abstracts and references from over 15,000 peer-reviewed journals from 4,000 publishers worldwide, ensuring broad interdisciplinary coverage. In addition, Scopus not only offers users citation information about the articles covered, but also integrates Web and patent searches directly from its clean and simple interface. Direct links to full-text articles, library resources and other applications like reference management software, make Scopus quicker, easier and more comprehensive to use than any other literature research tool. For more information about Scopus please visit www.info.scopus.com. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/attachments/20071217/086e89ce/attachment.html From mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Mon Dec 17 17:15:50 2007 From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin) Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:15:50 +0530 (IST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Online Education Database:80 Open Education Resource (OER) Tools for Publishing and Development Initiatives Message-ID: Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 03:07:31 -0800 (PST) From: sri priya Online Education Database: 80 Open Education Resource (OER) Tools for Publishing and Development Initiatives OERs provide teaching and learning materials that are freely available and offered online for anyone to use. Whether you're an instructor, student, or self-learner, you have access to full courses, modules, syllabi, lectures, assignments, quizzes, activities, games, simulations, and tools to create these components. http://oedb.org/library/features/80-oer-tools Regards, S.Sripriya ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From esukhdev at gmail.com Mon Dec 17 17:03:01 2007 From: esukhdev at gmail.com (Sukhdev Singh) Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:03:01 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Bio-Medical Information Retrieval from Net Message-ID: My presentation - Bio-Medical Information Retrieval from Net [ http://snipurl.com/1v51n ] now finds mention in Peter Suber's Blog. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2007/12/using-oa-resources-for-biomedical.html How fast the news travels !!! --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From daskshirod at gmail.com Mon Dec 17 19:37:39 2007 From: daskshirod at gmail.com (Kshirod) Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:37:39 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Information about OCR systems availability in Oriya Language Message-ID: <55dcc8590712170607u573c573drb1af81751e97fdfa@mail.gmail.com> Dear Professionals, I would be greatful, if any body provide me information about any OCR systems available for Oriya language. Thanks, -- Kshirod Das Information Service Division National Institute of Technology Roukela Rourkela-769 008, Orissa -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/attachments/20071217/f85bf19c/attachment.html From gk.bmsit at gmail.com Tue Dec 18 10:17:03 2007 From: gk.bmsit at gmail.com (Gopalakrishna Venkatappa) Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:17:03 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Vacancy @ BMSIT, Yelahanka, Bangalore-64 Message-ID: <64e595da0712172047n63fb9bbbue8bd98c580b2bd9f@mail.gmail.com> Applications are invited for the post of Library Assistant, in B M S Institute of Technology, P.B.No.6443, Avalahalli, Dodballapur Main Road, Yelahanka, Bangalore-560064, Ph. 65369469, from PUC+ Diploma holders in LIS with One year experience. Please rush your resumes to the Librarian in the above address. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From mukeshanand2006 at gmail.com Tue Dec 18 13:27:30 2007 From: mukeshanand2006 at gmail.com (Mukesh Anand) Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:27:30 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Librarian post in South-Eastern Railway Zone, Kolkata Message-ID: Dear LIS Students'. Libarian post in English & Hindi mixed medium school Scale of Pay - Rs. 5,500-9,000 Unresevered - 1 Post in South Eastern Railway (Year of Formation in 1955, headquarter at Kolkata) with Divisions at Adra(West Bengal), Kharagpur (West Bengal),Chakradharpur (Jharkhand) & Ranchi (Jharkhand). N.B. :- This vacancy of Librarian might be in Railway School of Ranchi or Chakradharpur Division. Age on 1.1.' 08 - 20-45 Years Education Qualification :- Bachelor Degree in Lib. Sc. OR Bachelor Degree & Diploma in Librarianship Exam. Fee - Rs. 60/- Stage of Selection :- a- Single Stage Written Exam. b- Verification of Documents c- Interview Closing Date :- 14th January, 2008 (upto 17.30 hours) For complete advertisement & other details See Employment News issue dated 15-21 December, 2007 Page # 22-26 For Application Form & Personal Data Sheet visit www.rrbkolkata.org All the Best Mukesh Anand Assistant Librarian Indian Railways Officers' Training College Sanskari Nagari Vadodara -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From mallikarjun23j at yahoo.com Tue Dec 18 14:06:55 2007 From: mallikarjun23j at yahoo.com (Mallikarjun) Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:36:55 -0800 (PST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Dramatic growth of Open Access series : DOAJ with highest journal Message-ID: <640121.65732.qm@web36907.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Dear Professionals Dramatic growth of Open Access Series The Dramatic Growth of Open Access Series is a quarterly series (end of March, June, September, and December) of key data illustrating the growth of open access, with additional comments and analysis. The series is available in open data(http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pqCs8wrw32HHTWuRwgm6bQA&gid=0) its shows DOAJ has already close to 3000 journals as compared to science direct the largest publisher with 2000 journals. so its showing how Gold road is gaining momentum. with regards Mallikarjun Mallikarjun Dora Sambalpur University 09777034183 ...The Future is here, Its just unevenly distributed........ http://curiouslib.blogspot.com/ Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From mukeshanand2006 at gmail.com Tue Dec 18 17:20:45 2007 From: mukeshanand2006 at gmail.com (Mukesh Anand) Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:20:45 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Asso. Professor post(12, 000-18, 300) in Lib. Sc. at Univ. of Rajasthan, Jaipur Message-ID: Respected Members'; Univ. of Rajasthan, Jaipur Advt. No. 03/2007/T Applications in the prescribed from r invited for appointment on the post of Asso. Professor (12,000-18,300) in Lib. Science subject (Gen. Cat.) The application form along with qualification as per UGC norms & eligibility conditions can be downloaded from University website http://uniraj.ernet.in The Prescribed from duly filled up must reach the office of the Registrar, Univ. of Rajasthan,Jaipur on or before 02.01.2008. Thank & Regerads, Mukesh Anand Asst. Libn. Indian Railways Officers' Training College Sanskari Nagari Vadodara -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From cwbailey at digital-scholarship.com Tue Dec 18 19:24:17 2007 From: cwbailey at digital-scholarship.com (Charles W. Bailey, Jr.) Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 07:54:17 -0600 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Version 70, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Message-ID: <4767D109.2080901@digital-scholarship.com> Version 70 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available from Digital Scholarship. This selective bibliography presents over 3,195 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 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 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 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 (monthly 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 New versions of SEPB are announced on DigitalKoans: http://www.digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/ RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/DigitalKoans 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 -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Digital Scholarship http://www.digital-scholarship.org/ DigitalKoans Open Access Bibliography Open Access Webliography Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From prakash at inflibnet.ac.in Wed Dec 19 11:08:56 2007 From: prakash at inflibnet.ac.in (K Prakash) Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:08:56 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Extension of e-Resources to private universities... Message-ID: <001401c84201$909e40b0$a001a8c0@KPrakash> Dear Professionals, There is an article published in the "The Economics Times" regarding extension of e-Resources to other than UGC funded universities. You can follow the below mentioned link go through the article; UGC for downloading 5000 journals at low rates Economic Times - Gurgaon,Haryana,India AHMEDABAD: For over 200 private universities http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/News_By_Industry/Services/Education/UGC_for_downloading_5000_journals_at_low_rates/articleshow/2633105.cms With best regards. Bye. _____________________________ Dr. K Prakash, PhD Scientific/Technical Officer-I Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) Centre An Inter-University Centre of University Grants Commission Near Gujarat University Guest House Post Box No.4116, Navrangpura Ahmedabad - 380 009 India URL: http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/ Email: prakash at inflibnet.ac.in; prakash_k at yahoo.com Tel: 079-2630 5971/2630 4695(Off); 2676 3724(Res) Cell: 94270 00758 Fax: 91-079-2630 0990/ 2630 7816 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Wed Dec 19 11:22:47 2007 From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin) Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:22:47 +0530 (IST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Shaping the future information science professionals - report in THE HINDU Message-ID: Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:42:53 +0000 (GMT) From: sankaran arumugam Dear All, Revamping Library Science course, Madras University in lead Report published in THE HINDU Education Plus Highlights: Shaping the future information science professionals The course is aimed at equipping the digital age librarian with skills in handling online database, Internet, software, and multimedia tools. HI-TECH LIBRARIANS: Students of the Department of Information Science working in their laboratory at the University of Madras. For detailed report, click the link http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/edu/2007/12/17/stories/2007121750050300.htm Regards sankaran From mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Wed Dec 19 11:24:09 2007 From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin) Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:24:09 +0530 (IST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Reports on libraries in THE HINDU Message-ID: Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:42:20 +0000 (GMT) From: sankaran arumugam Dear All, Reports on libraries published in THE HINDU Chennai Edn. recently. Libraries have modern day promises to keep http://www.hindu.com/2007/12/04/stories/2007120494470300.htm DVD library, an in-thing now http://www.hindu.com/2007/12/04/stories/2007120494490300.htm We can't turn a blind eye to their special need http://www.hindu.com/2007/12/04/stories/2007120494500300.htm What they say http://www.hindu.com/2007/12/04/stories/2007120494480300.htm Regards sankaran From librarymahad at pidilite.co.in Wed Dec 19 11:34:44 2007 From: librarymahad at pidilite.co.in (librarymahad) Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:34:44 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Salary of Librarian in Academic Library Message-ID: <005501c84205$15155b50$0f32a8c0@pidilite.com> Dear all, I would like to draw your attention about the salary of Librarian in Academic Library. I have seen in most of the cases the librarian is being neglected in respect of salary. For example you can see the advertisement In Times of India, Mumbai dated 5th December, 2007. On page XIV, an advertisement is there from ICRI (Institute of Clinical Research India) where they will be paying a lecturer with a minimum Rs 40000 - 60000, whereas the Librarian will be paid Rs 8000 to 12000. All these as gross in month. Even though the year of experience is same for both the case. Why this type of negligence towards the library professionals. What we as a library professional, should do? What way are doing for that? I would like to have some discussion on this matter. Regards, Pradip Das ================================================= Pradip Das, B. Sc. (Chem.), ADIS/DRTC., M. Phil. Sr. Librarian / TPM & Training Co-ordinator, Pidilite Industries Limited, A/21, MIDC, Mahad, Maharashtra - 402309. India. Ph. : 02145- 31444(R), 02145 - 232043 to 46 (Off.) Extn. : 226 Fax. : 01245 - 232048 Mobile : 09420836138 E-mail : librarymahad at pidilite.co.in or, pradipbhadreswardas at gmail.com Web : www.pidilite.com ================================================ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From rkpanda1568 at gmail.com Wed Dec 19 11:45:00 2007 From: rkpanda1568 at gmail.com (rajendra kumar panda) Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:45:00 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Capacity Building of School Librarian Message-ID: <3bf94bd80712182215r5bf685een202f901742e53bba@mail.gmail.com> Regional Institute of Education, Bhubaneswar is going to organize a five days training programme on "Capacity Building of Vidyalaya Librarians to modernise Vidyalaya Library" Date: 7th to 11th January, 2008 twenty two Kendriya Vidyalaya Librarians of KVS Bhubaneswar Region are invited to particiapte. R.K.Panda Librarian KV,GOPALPUR MS -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/attachments/20071219/d9f6ff41/attachment.html From sri_lib at yahoo.com Wed Dec 19 14:43:06 2007 From: sri_lib at yahoo.com (sri priya) Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 01:13:06 -0800 (PST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] E-JASL: The Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship Message-ID: <487118.74979.qm@web57015.mail.re3.yahoo.com> E-JASL is an independent, professional, refereed electronic journal dedicated first and foremost to advancing knowledge and research in the areas of academic and special librarianship. Published and distributed by the International Consortium for the Advancement of Academic Publication (ICAAP), Athabasca, Canada. http://southernlibrarianship.icaap.org/ Regards, S.Sripriya ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From esukhdev at gmail.com Wed Dec 19 17:37:07 2007 From: esukhdev at gmail.com (Sukhdev Singh) Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:37:07 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] =?windows-1252?q?Impact_Factors_/_=93Lies=2C_Damn_Lie?= =?windows-1252?q?s_and_Statistics=94?= Message-ID: Dear Friends, There is a very popular saying - "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." So, "Statistics" has been labeled as one type of lies. This is due to the fact meant that even the most accurate statistics could be used to support inaccurate arguments. "Impact Factors" are also statistics derived out of academic citations. If not understood properly could be misused to support wrong arguments. Need not say again that these too are statistics after all. These numbers originated from the "Information Storage and Retrieval" domain as the by-product of "citation indexing". However are being increasingly (mis)used in measuring the academic excellence of individual scientists. If we go about 60 years back, we know that in 1950s, lot many things were happening in the Information Storage and Retrieval domains. Machines (Every Computers) had shown the promise of information revolution. However, natural languages were found to be inadequate to map concepts with words or phrases. Major problems were mainly due the use of synonyms, homonyms, gender, numbers, order of words in phrases and punctuation marks in natural languages. These grammatical goodies enrich natural languages and make sense to human brains. However in the domain of information retrieval these inhibited one-to-one mapping between concepts and words. So controlled vocabularies like MeSH were being developed. Mr. Eugene Garfield however thought of innovative way of mapping between concepts by relying on the citations among articles. It goes like this; if "A" cites "C" and "B" also cites "C" then "A" and "B" are referencing to same concept. He did not use "words" to map "concepts" and hence avoided the problems associated with languages. (In 1958, Eugene Garfield starts ISI with a loan of US$500. - Science for Sale - Features - The Lab - Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Gateway to Science - http://www.abc.net.au/science/features/sciforsale/default.htm ) Garfield developed the concept of citation indexing in 1950s. A product based on his citation indexing - "Science Citation Index (SCI)" was released officially in 1964. It was meant to be a tool of scientific information retrieval. SCI become more popular for its utility to measure scientific productivity rather than being a search engine. It was due to its by-product "SCI Journal Citation Reports (JCR)" launched officially in 1975. A parameter was evolved to compare various large journals and this parameter become to know as Journal Impact Fact. In the absence of any other objective criteria ? Journal Impact Factor has been widely accepted parameter for comparing the "quality" of journals. E. Garfield himself describes the rise of SCI and Impact Factors in the following article. - E. Garfield. The evolution of the Science Citation Index (2007) - http://www.iec.cat/1jcrc/GarfieldEEvolution.pdf However, one should always remember that "Impact Factors" that are calculated are only applicable to journals included in ISI database (SCI). I am very frequently encountered by this question ? what is the impact factor of some Indian journal? Well very few Indian journals are covered in SCI database, so except for few, most do not have impact factors. I feel like replying ?There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies and impact factors! Because I know that these "impact factors" being applied to areas for which they were never meant. It sometimes becomes very difficult to explain that it undercounts the number of citations from journals in less-developed countries. The research priorities for less-developed countries could be entirely different that of developed countries. If the research is not of contemporary interest of journals indexed in ISI databases it is unlikely to be cited. Linking research to citations and impact factors could lead to a situation where the less-developed countries fund for the research problems of the developed countries. Academic administrators - without knowing complexities of the Impact Factors ? are now increasingly temped to apply these to measure the individual productivity of scientists. The following article explains the problem with such "numbers". - Richard Monastersky. "The Number That's Devouring Science", The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 14 2005. Here is one more reference: - P.O. Seglen. Why the impact factor of journals should not be used for evaluating research. (1997) BMJ 314(7079): 498-502. PubMed: 9056804. [Try - http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/314/7079/497 for full text] However, there is one good thing about these "Impact Factors". They at least are best at indicating the "popularity" of journals. Well - does "popularity" and "quality" means the same? One more thing - they arose from "citation indexing" which the founders of Google used to develop a killer search engine. --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From alagusenthil at gmail.com Wed Dec 19 20:03:45 2007 From: alagusenthil at gmail.com (KR. Senthil Kumar) Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 20:03:45 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] National Seminar on Emerging Trends and Challanges Library and Information Service - SPALIS- 2008 Message-ID: <6a2b06a00712190633y1bcbbef7y985728ebe526264e@mail.gmail.com> Dear Professionals National Seminar on Emerging Trends and Challanges Library and Information Science - SPALIS- 2008 http://alagusenthil.googlepages.com/spalis-2008 SPALIS- 2008 National Seminar on "Emerging Trends and Challenges in Library and Information Services" 6-8 February, 2008 Organized by A.V.V.M SRI PUSHPAM COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS) POONDI- 613503 THANJAVUR(dt) TAMILNADU AND BHARATHIDASAN UNIVERSITY TRICHY IN ASSOCUATION WITH INDIAN ACADEMIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION (IALA) VENUE AUDITORIUM A.V.V.M SRI PUSHPAM COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS) POONDI- 613503 THANJAVUR(dt) TAMILNADU REGISTRATION FEE OF Rs.600/ FOR EACH PARTICIPANT INCLUDES CONFERENCE KIT. PROCEEDINGS , REFRESHMENT AND LUNCH DURING THE CONFRENCE DAYS. THE REGISTRATION FEE FOR AN INDIVIDUAL STUDENT IS Rs.300/ ONLY Dr.A.Ganesan Organizing Secretary P.G.Dept of Library and Information Science A.V.V.M Sri Pushpam College (Autonomous) Poondi- 613503 Thanjavur ayyapillaiganesan at yahoo.com Mobile: 9443008292, 9443648113, 9486310120 -- KR.SENTHIL KUMAR Asst. LIBRARIAN KARPAGAM COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING COIMBATORE http://alagusenthil.googlepages.com http://alagusenthil.tripod.com Mobile:09382804980 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/attachments/20071219/6f02b603/attachment.html From tshahab at jamiahamdard.ac.in Thu Dec 20 10:44:21 2007 From: tshahab at jamiahamdard.ac.in (T. Shahab) Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:44:21 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Reports on libraries in THE HINDU Message-ID: <85440C2C606CA34080106629C53726087798@mail3.jamiahamdard.ac.in> Good to read about progress being made at the Madras University Library towards modernisation of the professional practices and making the competencies relevant to the emerging demands under the inspiring leadership of Prof.Ms.Amudhavalli. I wish to learn in some detail regarding the online theses database at the Madras University library. How the concept of the institutional repositories has been implemented?? Regards. T. SHAHAB Central Library Hamdard University, New Delhi:110062. -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of Mailing List Admin Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 11:24 AM To: lis-forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] Reports on libraries in THE HINDU Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:42:20 +0000 (GMT) From: sankaran arumugam Dear All, Reports on libraries published in THE HINDU Chennai Edn. recently. Libraries have modern day promises to keep http://www.hindu.com/2007/12/04/stories/2007120494470300.htm DVD library, an in-thing now http://www.hindu.com/2007/12/04/stories/2007120494490300.htm We can't turn a blind eye to their special need http://www.hindu.com/2007/12/04/stories/2007120494500300.htm What they say http://www.hindu.com/2007/12/04/stories/2007120494480300.htm Regards sankaran _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From srels at dataone.in Thu Dec 20 11:53:22 2007 From: srels at dataone.in (srels) Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:53:22 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] lecture invitation Message-ID: <001601c842d0$d231f7e0$7801a8c0@SRELSHP1> Dear Moderator, Please arrange to announce the following lecture invitation for the benefit of the professional colleagues. Dr. K.N. Prasad Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science ------------- Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science (SRELS) 702, 'Upstairs', 42nd Cross, III Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalore 560 010 and Ranganathan Centre for Information Stuides, Bangalore cordially invites you to a Lecture on WEB 2.0: CHALLENGES FOR LIBRARIES by Dr. Mohamed Taher Information Specialist, Ontario Multifaith Council on Spiritual and Religious Care Toronto, Ontario, Canada on Monday, 7th January 2008 at 6.00 p.m. at SRELS premises RSVP: Ph:23305109 E-mail: srels at dataone.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/attachments/20071220/6bc10a10/attachment.html From jiteshkjain at indiatimes.com Fri Dec 21 10:33:47 2007 From: jiteshkjain at indiatimes.com (jiteshkjain at indiatimes.com) Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:33:47 +0530 (IST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Request for article Message-ID: <225535790.61641198213427229.JavaMail.root@mbv1.indiatimes.com> Dear All I am in need of the following article for our research work. If anybody can provide me the soft/hard copy of it, that will be a great help to us. Indian Medical Gazzette, Vol 136 No 8, page 309, 2002. Looking forward for your kind help. best regards Jitesh Jain Librarian Zydus Research Center Ahmedabad +919426424047 -- My life has changed. What about yours? Log on to the new Indiatimes Mail and Live out of the Inbox! -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Fri Dec 21 13:20:10 2007 From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin) Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 13:20:10 +0530 (IST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Need article Message-ID: Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:29:18 +0530 From: venu.kumaris at wipro.com Dear All, Request you to please send below articles, 1. The Adjective check list as a predictor of lifelong learning in the human services professions, "C. Livneh", Psychological Reports, vol. 65, pp. 603-610, 1989. 2. The evolution of the engineering community: Pressures, opportunities, and challenges," "J. A. Haddad" , Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 85, pp. 5-9, 1996. Thanks and Regards Venukumari Email: venu.kumaris at wipro.com From mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Mon Dec 24 12:27:39 2007 From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin) Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 12:27:39 +0530 (IST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] forthcoming conferences Message-ID: Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2007 07:00:53 +0000 (GMT) From: mahesh sati Dear Professional, Dr. Zakir Husain Library, Jamia Millia Islamia,New Delhi Organise XXVI All India IASLIC Conference -2007,December 26-29, 2007,The theme of the conference is "Digital Media and Library Information Services". For more detail please visit http://jmi.nic.in/ZHL/iaslic_conference.htm TERI,New Delhi organise Workshop on Building Digital Archive using Advanced Features of GSDL,8 ? 10 January 2008 India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. For more detail please visit http://www.teriin.org/events_inside.php?id=18417 Asia-Pacific Institute of Management, New Delhi,ORGANIZES NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON Recent Technological Trends in Management and Library system :Issues and Challenges. January 4 & 5, 2008. Interested Professionals confirm their seat immediately.It is a golden opportunity for all Library Science professionals,Because it fulfill all requirement regarding modern Digital/Computerised library/management systems.And give maximum output in minimum charges.Please do confirm your seats. Thanks & Regards, Mahesh Chandra Sati BA,BLIS,MLIS,DCF,MA-Eco.(Pur.) Library Professional EMPI Business School New Delhi-110074 Mob.-9968349200 E-Mail-mahesh.sati at gmail.com From puna_05 at yahoo.co.in Mon Dec 24 14:43:12 2007 From: puna_05 at yahoo.co.in (Puna Das) Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 09:13:12 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [LIS-Forum] UNESCO-SALIS e-Learning Portal on information literacy for South Asia launched Message-ID: <493600.69114.qm@web8608.mail.in.yahoo.com> UNESCO-SALIS e-Learning Portal on information literacy for South Asia launched The Indian Society for the Advancement of Library and Information Science (SALIS), in collaboration with UNESCO, launched the e-Learning Portal for Awareness Raising on Information Literacy. This project has its genesis in recommendations of a UNESCO supported Workshop on Information Literacy Competency Development for Information Professionals and Special Educators organized in November 2006 by SALIS in Chennai, India, and subsequent Information Literacy sensitization workshops held in Delhi and Nagpur in December 2006. The Portal aims to raise awareness, sensitize and enhance information literacy competency skills of common information users as well as information professionals and educators in the South Asian sub-region. Its objectives are fully in line with UNESCO?s mandate to bridge the digital divide and UNESCO?s vision of knowledge societies. The Portal covers a number of self-learning modules, such as: Information Communication Technology (ICT), Information Literacy, Lifelong Learning, Information Services for Disabled People, Freedom of Information, etc. The information literacy competency skills promoted by the Portal derive from the existing international standards, adopted by UNESCO, the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), the American Library Association (ALA) and other professional societies. Indian library experts, in collaboration with lifelong learning experts, have developed the contents of the Portal modules using Moodle open source learning content management software. e-Learning Portal: http://salisonline.org/ Anup Kumar Das B5/29, Safdarjung Enclave New Delhi-110029 Ph. 26713000 extn. 208 Email: puna_05 at yahoo.co.in --------------------------------- Get the freedom to save as many mails as you wish. Click here to know how. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/attachments/20071224/4c076a70/attachment.html From puna_05 at yahoo.co.in Mon Dec 24 14:40:20 2007 From: puna_05 at yahoo.co.in (Puna Das) Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 09:10:20 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [LIS-Forum] WINISIS Training Manual in Hindi language published Message-ID: <267265.19703.qm@web8612.mail.in.yahoo.com> WINISIS Training Manual in Hindi language published The Thapar University in Patiala, India, in collaboration with the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), Government of India and the UNESCO Office in New Delhi, published a WINISIS Training Manual in Hindi language. This Manual contains three self-learning modules: WINISIS ? A Practical Guide; Creating Web Interface for CDS/ISIS Databases using GenisisWeb; and Publishing CDS/ISIS Databases on CD-ROM using GenisisCD. These self-learning modules are the outcome of the Advanced Workshop on CDS-ISIS for Windows, held at the Thapar University on 14-18 May 2007. The Training Manual covers all aspects of WINISIS: installation of software, creation of the database, database operations, customization of search interfaces and display formatting language. Advanced features, such as hyper-linking, web interfacing, full-text document processing and automation of libraries, are also present in this document. Target audience of this Manual is library professionals working in academic, special and public libraries as well as students of library science courses. The Manual will also be helpful to small organizations, which are building digital archives in local library setup or on CD-ROMs. After practicing the laboratory exercises given in the Manual, the learners will be able to install WINISIS software and its web application tools GENISIS; create and manage bibliographic or full-text databases. This Manual is particularly useful in the South Asian region, where availability of training material in local languages is crucial for providing public information services with the help of free and open source software (FOSS). Full-text Available at: http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/files/25725/11982281209winisis_training_manual_hindi.pdf/winisis_training_manual_hindi.pdf Anup Kumar Das B5/29, Safdarjung Enclave New Delhi-110029 Ph. 26713000 extn. 208 Email: puna_05 at yahoo.co.in --------------------------------- Now you can chat without downloading messenger. Click here to know how. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/attachments/20071224/f6baa3fa/attachment.html From basudev_mohanty at infosys.com Mon Dec 24 17:08:49 2007 From: basudev_mohanty at infosys.com (Basudev Mohanty) Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 17:08:49 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Supplying Journal Articles - Does it ViolateCopyrightsLaws In-Reply-To: <9765c2050710230558x608abfc9j27f1e2ebc7782d46@mail.gmail.com> References: <9765c2050710230558x608abfc9j27f1e2ebc7782d46@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <9929853B18A238489E04287EC6EAA8D602DE301978@BLRKECMBX04.ad.infosys.com> Hi, It would be great if someone could clarify my doubt on "commercial" or "non-commercial" aspects posted by Vasumathi, Sukhdev Singh & by other professional friends too on "Supplying Journal Articles". Is the "commercial" or "non-commercial" to do with immediate use or to do with the goals of the organization one belongs to? Thanks & Regards! Basudev Mohanty Education and Research Library Infosys Technologies Limited, Bhubaneswar On 10/23/07, Vasumathi Sriganesh wrote: > Document delivery by anyone is not a violation if proper systems are > followed. > > 1. If the requestor is asking for personal research and study - then > there is no need to pay a copyright fee to a publisher > > 2. The supplier - whether it is the librarian of the reqeustor's > institution or another librarian - has two responsibilities: > a) Not to retain a copy of the article given to the requestor (print > or > electronic) > b) Getting a declaration from the requestor - saying that he/she will > use it only for non-commercial purposes, and that he/she has not got > the same article from anyone else. > -- 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 **************** CAUTION - Disclaimer ***************** This e-mail contains PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION intended solely for the use of the addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender by e-mail and delete the original message. 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From esukhdev at gmail.com Mon Dec 24 17:41:45 2007 From: esukhdev at gmail.com (Sukhdev Singh) Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 17:41:45 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Fwd: Supplying Journal Articles - Does it Violate CopyrightsLaws In-Reply-To: References: <9765c2050710230558x608abfc9j27f1e2ebc7782d46@mail.gmail.com> <2B3DBC9D316D460C838B95BF45B75748@qmedPC> <5d6bc5c70710242317v345c273eq31aed7e2e2a965c1@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Dear Basudev, Perhaps you have not gone through the complete tread of the discussion. Therefore I am forwarding a key portion of my reply sent earlier on 26th Oct 2007 along with relevant portions of Indian Copy Right Act. Please go through CHAPTER XI Infringement of Copyright -- clause 51 b (ii) there is infringement of copyright if a person "distributes either for the purpose of trade or to such an extent as to affect prejudicially the owner of the copyright,.." It simply means - if your actions affect the interests of the copyright holder then you are violating the law of the land. To me, important keyword in the clause 51 b (ii) is "DISTRIBUTES". If you do not distribute and just read and use yourself - then perhaps you are safe. --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sukhdev Singh Date: Oct 26, 2007 1:13 PM Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Supplying Journal Articles - Does it Violate CopyrightsLaws To: lis-forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in According to CHAPTER XI Infringement of Copyright clause 51 b (ii) there is infringement of copyright if a person "distributes either for the purpose of trade or to such an extent as to affect prejudicially the owner of the copyright,.." It means that even if purpose is not trade but "affect prejudicially the owner" the person distributing the copyright work is in trouble. Further, the Act provides for "fair use" under clause 52 from sub-clause 'a' to 'za' under the same chapter XI. However, Libraries are covered only under (o) as under "(o) the making of not more than three copies of a book (including a pamphlet, sheet of music, map, chart or plan) by or under the direction of the person in charge of a public library for the use of the library if such book is not available for sale in India;" There is no other mention of Libraries or Librarians under the clause 52. On Dec 24, 2007 5:08 PM, Basudev Mohanty wrote: > > Hi, > > It would be great if someone could clarify my doubt on "commercial" or "non-commercial" aspects posted by Vasumathi, Sukhdev Singh & by other professional friends too on "Supplying Journal Articles". > > Is the "commercial" or "non-commercial" to do with immediate use or to do with the goals of the organization one belongs to? > > Thanks & Regards! > Basudev Mohanty > Education and Research Library > Infosys Technologies Limited, Bhubaneswar > > On 10/23/07, Vasumathi Sriganesh wrote: > > Document delivery by anyone is not a violation if proper systems are > > followed. > > > > 1. If the requestor is asking for personal research and study - then > > there is no need to pay a copyright fee to a publisher > > > > 2. The supplier - whether it is the librarian of the reqeustor's > > institution or another librarian - has two responsibilities: > > a) Not to retain a copy of the article given to the requestor (print > > or > > electronic) > > b) Getting a declaration from the requestor - saying that he/she will > > use it only for non-commercial purposes, and that he/she has not got > > the same article from anyone else. > > > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: CprAct_infringment.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 43996 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/attachments/20071224/53ac23bb/attachment-0001.pdf From vasu at qmedin.com Mon Dec 24 18:58:10 2007 From: vasu at qmedin.com (Vasumathi Sriganesh) Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 18:58:10 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Supplying Journal Articles - Does it Violate CopyrightsLaws In-Reply-To: References: <9765c2050710230558x608abfc9j27f1e2ebc7782d46@mail.gmail.com> <2B3DBC9D316D460C838B95BF45B75748@qmedPC> <5d6bc5c70710242317v345c273eq31aed7e2e2a965c1@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: I would add a small clarification. 1) Whoever is asking for the article - should definitely NOT distribute - whether he or she asks / makes a copy for academic or commercial reason. 2) But, if he or she asks/makes a copy for a commercial purpose, whoever is giving the article needs to charge a copyright fee and pay the same either directly to the publisher, or to a copyright clearance centre 3) If a librarian in a commercial organization makes a copy of an article (etc) from a subscribed journal or library book, for someone in the same institution - that is fine. This, since the organization has paid for subscription or for the book. However the library / any one in the organization cannot make several copies of any article / chapter etc and DISTRIBUTE. Vasumathi Sriganesh CEO, QMed Knowledge Foundation A-3, Shubham Centre, Cardinal Gracious Road Chakala, Andheri East, Mumbai 400099, India Tel: 91-22-40054474 / 75 Fax: 91-22-40054358 Indian Medical Sites- www.indianmedicalsites.in PS - We have just got registered as a Not-for-profit Trust - and hence the change in my Designation! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sukhdev Singh" To: "Basudev Mohanty" Cc: ; "Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy" ; "Vasumathi Sriganesh" Sent: Monday, December 24, 2007 5:41 PM Subject: Fwd: [LIS-Forum] Supplying Journal Articles - Does it Violate CopyrightsLaws > Dear Basudev, > > Perhaps you have not gone through the complete tread of the > discussion. Therefore I am forwarding a key portion of my reply sent > earlier on 26th Oct 2007 along with relevant portions of Indian Copy > Right Act. > > Please go through CHAPTER XI Infringement of Copyright -- clause 51 b > (ii) there is infringement of copyright if a person "distributes > either for the purpose of trade or to such an extent as to affect > prejudicially the owner of the copyright,.." > > It simply means - if your actions affect the interests of the > copyright holder then you are violating the law of the land. > > To me, important keyword in the clause 51 b (ii) is "DISTRIBUTES". If > you do not distribute and just read and use yourself - then perhaps > you are safe. > > --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Sukhdev Singh > Date: Oct 26, 2007 1:13 PM > Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Supplying Journal Articles - Does it Violate > CopyrightsLaws > To: lis-forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > According to CHAPTER XI Infringement of Copyright clause 51 b (ii) > there is infringement of copyright if a person "distributes either for > the purpose of trade or to such an extent as to affect prejudicially > the owner of the copyright,.." It means that even if purpose is not > trade but "affect prejudicially the owner" the person distributing the > copyright work is in trouble. > > Further, the Act provides for "fair use" under clause 52 from > sub-clause 'a' to 'za' under the same chapter XI. However, Libraries > are covered only under (o) as under > > "(o) the making of not more than three copies of a book (including a > pamphlet, sheet of music, map, > chart or plan) by or under the direction of the person in charge of a > public library for the use of the > library if such book is not available for sale in India;" > > There is no other mention of Libraries or Librarians under the clause 52. > > > > On Dec 24, 2007 5:08 PM, Basudev Mohanty > wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> It would be great if someone could clarify my doubt on "commercial" or >> "non-commercial" aspects posted by Vasumathi, Sukhdev Singh & by other >> professional friends too on "Supplying Journal Articles". >> >> Is the "commercial" or "non-commercial" to do with immediate use or to do >> with the goals of the organization one belongs to? >> >> Thanks & Regards! >> Basudev Mohanty >> Education and Research Library >> Infosys Technologies Limited, Bhubaneswar >> >> On 10/23/07, Vasumathi Sriganesh wrote: >> > Document delivery by anyone is not a violation if proper systems are >> > followed. >> > >> > 1. If the requestor is asking for personal research and study - then >> > there is no need to pay a copyright fee to a publisher >> > >> > 2. The supplier - whether it is the librarian of the reqeustor's >> > institution or another librarian - has two responsibilities: >> > a) Not to retain a copy of the article given to the requestor (print >> > or >> > electronic) >> > b) Getting a declaration from the requestor - saying that he/she will >> > use it only for non-commercial purposes, and that he/she has not got >> > the same article from anyone else. >> > >> > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Wed Dec 26 14:58:34 2007 From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin) Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 14:58:34 +0530 (IST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Library trainee Message-ID: Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 15:00:42 +0530 From: Satish Munnolli Walk in Interview ACTREC is looking for young and dynamic freshers for induction as LIBRARY TRAINEES for a period of six months which may be extendable up to one year Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer (ACTREC), situated in 60 acre land at Kharghar, Navi Mumbai is a new state of the art R & D satellite of the Tata Memorial Centre (TMC). The Institute comprises of basic research wing and clinical research centre. It also has a 50- bed hospital fully equipped with state-of-the-art diagnostic and therapeutic facilities. ACTREC has the mandate to function as a national centre for treatment, research and education in cancer. The Institute library is fully automated and all its functions & services are operated on LibSuite (ASP version) software. It houses over 15000 books and back volumes of journals and has access to over 2000 journals through ScienceDirect and other online databases round the clock. Thesis, Institutional Reports, Staff Publications, CD ROMs, Video Cassettes are the other resources available to all Scientific Community. The library has installed DSpace software on one of the machines and initiated the digitization activities. It has plans to digitize its Thesis collection and introduce enhanced electronic information services in the coming years. Interested candidate should have Masters Degree in Library and Information Science (MLISc) with first class from a recognized University. Candidate in the age group of 25 years with Science background, knowledge of library software and computer skills will have an added advantage. The selected candidate will be paid a stipend of Rs.6000/- per month with accommodation facilities in the Institute hostel which is located in the campus. Trainee may have to work during flexible hours on all working days including week ends. Trainee appointed will have an opportunity to work in a computerized library with hands-on-experience on all library procedures and exposure to modern techniques of maintaining scientific and medical library. Candidates fulfilling above requirements may walk in for an interview on 04 January, 2008 at 10.a.m. at the Meeting Room, 3rd Floor, Khanolkar Shodhika, ACTREC, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai alongwith detailed CV, attested copies of all certificates and testimonials in original. (M. A. Sharma) Asstt. Adminstrative Officer TATA MEMORIAL CENTRE ADVANCED CENTRE FOR TREATMENT, RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN CANCER Kharghar, Navi Mumbai- 410 210 Tel.91-22-27405000 . Fax: 91-22-27405085 . e-mail: office at actrec.gov.in . website : www.actrec.gov.in From suresh_jange at rediffmail.com Wed Dec 26 16:57:59 2007 From: suresh_jange at rediffmail.com (suresh jange ) Date: 26 Dec 2007 11:27:59 -0000 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Congrats.. Dr Ramesh, Bangalore University Message-ID: <20071226112759.25845.qmail@webmail101.rediffmail.com> Dear Library Professionals, I on behalf of the Library professionals in the country wish to congratulate Dr. Ramesh, Reader, Department of Library and Information Science, Bangalore University for receiving the prestigious award "A.G. Motiwale Award for Young LIS Professionals" for the year 2007 from the Indian Library Association (ILA) for his best research paper and presentation during 53rd All India Library Conference and this award was presented during the Valedictory function of 53rd All India Library Conference held at Osmania University, Hyderabad. I am sure this is just a beginning for his commitment, dedication and sincerity with ever smiling, makes us proud of being part of this moment and wish him all the best in his future academic and research endeavor. With regards, Dr Suresh Jange Gulbarga University Dr.Suresh S Jange Assistant Librarian (Sr.) & Head, Digital Resource Centre Gulbarga University, Gulbarga - 585 106 Karnataka, India Mobile - 09880224971 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/attachments/20071226/8491d964/attachment-0001.html From puttuc at yahoo.com Wed Dec 26 18:00:56 2007 From: puttuc at yahoo.com (Puttaraj Choukimath) Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 04:30:56 -0800 (PST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Training Workshop on Computer Applications in Social Sciences, January 9-18, 2008. Message-ID: <519085.99722.qm@web32215.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Dear Friends, FYI: regards, Puttaraj. ______________ Training Workshop on Computer Applications in Social Sciences. As a part of its ongoing programmes, MPISSR is organising a ten-day training workshop on Computer Applications in Social Sciences during January 9-18, 2008. The objective of this training workshop is to impart training in the areas such as computer system, quantitative and qualitative research processes, data processing using computer and making sense of the results. After introducing the participants to computer system and its usages, the workshop shall introduce participants with the research processes and familiarise them with data, its measurement and its transfer to computer. The major quantitative research techniques ? descriptive and inferential statistics using cross-tabulation, Log-linear methods, ANOVA, correlation and regression analysis ? shall be taken up next with the help of a given data set. All the lectures will be followed by an interactive review session and group discussions. At the end, the participants shall be divided in groups and each group shall aim at analysing the given data based on a framework developed by them. The findings of the analysis shall be presented to the rest of the groups. Knowledge of quantitative research methods and statistical techniques is a prerequisite for participation in the Workshop. Sleeper class rail fare both ways will be provided to the selected participants. The participants will also be provided with free lodging and boarding. Duly filled applications should reach latest by November 15, 2007 to The Director, Madhya Pradesh Social Science Research, 6 Bharatpuri, Ujjain - 456 010; for inquiry, e-mail to dc_sah at yahoo.co.uk. Source: University News, Vol. 45 (43), Oct 22-28, 2007, pp.26-27. Mr.Puttaraj, A. C. Asst. Librarian (Periodicals) SDTM Library, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, P.B. 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Interested Professionals confirm their seat immediately.It is a golden opportunity for all Library Science professionals,Because it fulfill all requirement regarding modern Digital/Computerised library/management systems.And give maximum output in minimum charges.Please do confirm your seats. Thanks & Regards, Mahesh Chandra Sati BA,BLIS,MLIS,DCF,MA-Eco.(Pur.) Library Professional EMPI Business School New Delhi-110074 Mob.-9968349200 E-Mail-mahesh.sati at gmail.com jitendersharmaji at yahoo.com --------------------------------- Get the freedom to save as many mails as you wish. Click here to know how. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/attachments/20071226/49468199/attachment-0001.html From HENAG at infosys.com Thu Dec 27 08:43:33 2007 From: HENAG at infosys.com (HENAG) Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 08:43:33 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Supplying Journal Articles - Does it ViolateCopyrightsLaws In-Reply-To: References: <9765c2050710230558x608abfc9j27f1e2eb c7782d46@mail.gmail.com><2B3DBC9D316D460C838B95BF45B75748@qmedPC><5d6bc5c70 710242317v345c273eq31aed7e2e2a965c1@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Hello Ms Vasumathi, I need a clarification of your point number 3 below. You said librarian from a commercial organization can make copy of an article from a subscribed journal or library book for an employee of the same organization. However not allowed by the same or anyone else to get several copies of the said article or pages to distribute. Is it not little contradictory ? Please clarify ------ If the librarian has the authority for taking copy for an employee today , after a few days someone else from the same organization might require the same article for some other project for reference and requests librarian for a copy , s/he has the authority hence again can take copy and serve , and so on . Now how will we/ you should differentiate the distribution of the copy to the employees of the organization than that of serving his/ her user as a librarian. Is there any line that we can draw between the word DISTRIBUTE and SERVE to the user of library? I am bit confused for the word fair use / single use, and I think specially when we librarians in a profit making organizations are concerned the copyright laws are not very transparently/ clearly expressed . It is somewhat vague or not thought of us while written them . If you have better way or explicitly written authorised document please name it , I would like to go through that . Best Regards Hena S Gupta ( Sr. Librarian) Infosys Technologies Ltd, Electronics City, Hosur Road, Bangalore-560100 Board : (91)-(080)-28520261 Ext 52196 Fax: (91)-(080)-28520742 We enable you to leverage knowledge anytime, anywhere! -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of Vasumathi Sriganesh Sent: Monday, December 24, 2007 6:58 PM To: Sukhdev Singh; Basudev Mohanty Cc: lis-forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Supplying Journal Articles - Does it ViolateCopyrightsLaws I would add a small clarification. 1) Whoever is asking for the article - should definitely NOT distribute - whether he or she asks / makes a copy for academic or commercial reason. 2) But, if he or she asks/makes a copy for a commercial purpose, whoever is giving the article needs to charge a copyright fee and pay the same either directly to the publisher, or to a copyright clearance centre 3) If a librarian in a commercial organization makes a copy of an article (etc) from a subscribed journal or library book, for someone in the same institution - that is fine. This, since the organization has paid for subscription or for the book. However the library / any one in the organization cannot make several copies of any article / chapter etc and DISTRIBUTE. Vasumathi Sriganesh CEO, QMed Knowledge Foundation A-3, Shubham Centre, Cardinal Gracious Road Chakala, Andheri East, Mumbai 400099, India Tel: 91-22-40054474 / 75 Fax: 91-22-40054358 Indian Medical Sites- www.indianmedicalsites.in PS - We have just got registered as a Not-for-profit Trust - and hence the change in my Designation! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sukhdev Singh" To: "Basudev Mohanty" Cc: ; "Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy" ; "Vasumathi Sriganesh" Sent: Monday, December 24, 2007 5:41 PM Subject: Fwd: [LIS-Forum] Supplying Journal Articles - Does it Violate CopyrightsLaws > Dear Basudev, > > Perhaps you have not gone through the complete tread of the > discussion. Therefore I am forwarding a key portion of my reply sent > earlier on 26th Oct 2007 along with relevant portions of Indian Copy > Right Act. > > Please go through CHAPTER XI Infringement of Copyright -- clause 51 b > (ii) there is infringement of copyright if a person "distributes > either for the purpose of trade or to such an extent as to affect > prejudicially the owner of the copyright,.." > > It simply means - if your actions affect the interests of the > copyright holder then you are violating the law of the land. > > To me, important keyword in the clause 51 b (ii) is "DISTRIBUTES". If > you do not distribute and just read and use yourself - then perhaps > you are safe. > > --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Sukhdev Singh > Date: Oct 26, 2007 1:13 PM > Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Supplying Journal Articles - Does it Violate > CopyrightsLaws > To: lis-forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > According to CHAPTER XI Infringement of Copyright clause 51 b (ii) > there is infringement of copyright if a person "distributes either for > the purpose of trade or to such an extent as to affect prejudicially > the owner of the copyright,.." It means that even if purpose is not > trade but "affect prejudicially the owner" the person distributing the > copyright work is in trouble. > > Further, the Act provides for "fair use" under clause 52 from > sub-clause 'a' to 'za' under the same chapter XI. However, Libraries > are covered only under (o) as under > > "(o) the making of not more than three copies of a book (including a > pamphlet, sheet of music, map, chart or plan) by or under the > direction of the person in charge of a public library for the use of > the library if such book is not available for sale in India;" > > There is no other mention of Libraries or Librarians under the clause 52. > > > > On Dec 24, 2007 5:08 PM, Basudev Mohanty > wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> It would be great if someone could clarify my doubt on "commercial" >> or "non-commercial" aspects posted by Vasumathi, Sukhdev Singh & by >> other professional friends too on "Supplying Journal Articles". >> >> Is the "commercial" or "non-commercial" to do with immediate use or >> to do with the goals of the organization one belongs to? >> >> Thanks & Regards! >> Basudev Mohanty >> Education and Research Library >> Infosys Technologies Limited, Bhubaneswar >> >> On 10/23/07, Vasumathi Sriganesh wrote: >> > Document delivery by anyone is not a violation if proper systems >> > are followed. >> > >> > 1. If the requestor is asking for personal research and study - >> > then there is no need to pay a copyright fee to a publisher >> > >> > 2. The supplier - whether it is the librarian of the reqeustor's >> > institution or another librarian - has two responsibilities: >> > a) Not to retain a copy of the article given to the requestor >> > (print or >> > electronic) >> > b) Getting a declaration from the requestor - saying that he/she >> > will use it only for non-commercial purposes, and that he/she has >> > not got the same article from anyone else. >> > >> > -- 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 **************** CAUTION - Disclaimer ***************** This e-mail contains PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION intended solely for the use of the addressee(s). 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Regards. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 15:17:35 -0500 > From: Jennifer McLennan > Subject: [ATA-MEMBERS] Public Access Mandate Made > Law > > Alliance for Taxpayer Access > www.taxpayeraccess.org > > For immediate release > December 26, 2007 > > Contact: > Jennifer McLennan > jennifer [at] arl [dot] org > (202) 296-2296 ext. 121 > > PUBLIC ACCESS MANDATE MADE LAW > President Bush signs omnibus appropriations bill, > including National Institutes of Health research > access provision > > Washington, D.C. ? December 26, 2007 ? President > Bush has signed into law > the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2007 (H.R. > 2764), which includes a > provision directing the National Institutes of > Health (NIH) to provide the > public with open online access to findings from its > funded research. This is > the first time the U.S. government has mandated > public access to research > funded by a major agency. > > The provision directs the NIH to change its existing > Public Access Policy, > implemented as a voluntary measure in 2005, so that > participation is > required for agency-funded investigators. > Researchers will now be required > to deposit electronic copies of their peer-reviewed > manuscripts into the > National Library of Medicine?s online archive, > PubMed Central. Full texts of > the articles will be publicly available and > searchable online in PubMed > Central no later than 12 months after publication in > a journal. > > "Facilitated access to new knowledge is key to the > rapid advancement of > science," said Harold Varmus, president of the > Memorial Sloan-Kettering > Cancer Center and Nobel Prize Winner. "The > tremendous benefits of broad, > unfettered access to information are already clear > from the Human Genome > Project, which has made its DNA sequences > immediately and freely available > to all via the Internet. Providing widespread > access, even with a one-year > delay, to the full text of research articles > supported by funds from all > institutes at the NIH will increase those benefits > dramatically." > > "Public access to publicly funded research > contributes directly to the > mission of higher education,? said David > Shulenburger, Vice President for > Academic Affairs at NASULGC (the National > Association of State Universities > and Land-Grant Colleges). ?Improved access will > enable universities to > maximize their own investment in research, and widen > the potential for > discovery as the results are more readily available > for others to build > upon.? > > ?Years of unrelenting commitment and dedication by > patient groups and our > allies in the research community have at last borne > fruit,? said Sharon > Terry, President and CEO of Genetic Alliance. ?We?re > proud of Congress for > their unrelenting commitment to ensuring the success > of public access to > NIH-funded research. As patients, patient advocates, > and families, we look > forward to having expanded access to the research we > need.? > > ?Congress has just unlocked the taxpayers? $29 > billion investment in NIH,? > said Heather Joseph, Executive Director of SPARC > (the Scholarly Publishing > and Academic Resources Coalition, a founding member > of the ATA). ?This > policy will directly improve the sharing of > scientific findings, the pace of > medical advances, and the rate of return on benefits > to the taxpayer." > > Joseph added, ?On behalf of the Alliance for > Taxpayer Access, I?d like to > thank everyone who worked so hard over the past > several years to bring about > implementation of this much-needed policy.? > > For more information, and a timeline detailing the > evolution of the NIH > Public Access Policy beginning May 2004, visit the > ATA Web site at > http://www.taxpayeraccess.org. > > ### > > The Alliance for Taxpayer Access is a coalition of > patient, academic, > research, and publishing organizations that supports > open public access to > the results of federally funded research. 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From saravanan.g at ifpindia.org Thu Dec 27 09:07:57 2007 From: saravanan.g at ifpindia.org (saravanan) Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 09:07:57 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] online catalogue Message-ID: <0a7701c84839$dfee20c0$59c809c0@ifpindia.org> Dear Friends and colleagues, Launching of the online catalogue of the documentary resources of the IFP (French Institute of Pondicherry) The IFP officially launched, on December 18, 2007, the online catalogue of its documentary resources, in the presence of the Minister for Education of the Government of Puducherry, the Consul General of France in Pondicherry and Chennai, and numerous invitees (researchers, librarians, members of cultural institutions, etc.). This catalogue, accessible on the Internet, contains the entire collection of books of the Institute (59000 documents in the domains of Indology, Social Sciences and Ecology) and allows to search and display, for the first time in India, records in Indian scripts (Sanskrit, Tamil etc.) and in Roman transliteration (for the books in Indology). It also enables to display the list of recent acquisitions made by the library. Access to the catalogue (from the WEB page of the Institute's library): http://www.ifpindia.org/-Library-.html Thanking you, with regards, Mr. G. Saravanan Librarian French Institute of Pondicherry 11, Saint Louis Street, P.B. 33 PONDICHERRY - 605 001 South India, INDIA Ph: 0091 - 413 - 2334168 Extn. 126/139 Fax: 0091 - 413 2339534 Mail : saravanan.g at ifpindia.org Web : www.ifpindia.org -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/attachments/20071227/541a45ac/attachment.html From vasu at qmedin.com Thu Dec 27 09:25:28 2007 From: vasu at qmedin.com (Vasumathi Sriganesh) Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 09:25:28 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Supplying Journal Articles - Does it ViolateCopyrightsLaws In-Reply-To: References: <9765c2050710230558x608abfc9j27f1e2ebc7782d46@mail.gmail.com><2B3DBC9D316D460C838B95BF45B75748@qmedPC><5d6bc5c70710242317v345c273eq31aed7e2e2a965c1@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <415649DE885E446FBC201FA7BD5B5082@qmedPC> Hi Hena Before I offer what I hope will be helpful clarifications, I would like to say that I am not a legal expert, and only seek to offer the best of knowledge that I have. And I am trying to make it as practical as possible Your question about the contradictory bit: If two different users "ask" you for a copy of an article "from something that your organization has paid for" - then you are not "distributing copies". Your organization will be "distributing copies", only if some employee makes several copies and proactively distributes it in order to share some information for any work. Eg - if there is an employee training prog - and if the trainer wishes to make 50 copies of an article to distribute to all participants - strictly speaking that is a violation. The law (if this goes into a legal suit for any reason) may condone it, as it is part of an educational process. Ideally, it is BEST to get permission from the copyright holder before making copies. It is still easier to show one copy in the class, and tell every participant "it is in the library / through our e-journals - go and read it" It will be viewed even more strictly if such copying is done for actual distribution to clients or part of any directly commercial activity. When your organization pays subscription for a journal then everyone in your orgn has a right to read the journal. Different individuals may ask for a copy of an article, for the convenience of reading at his/her own desk. It is a good idea to have request forms that clearly state the reason for copying. When people ask for reading purpose and not distributing, it is fair use. If they wish to distribute, then you should have an SOP to pay copyright fee for that many copies, or to get permissions for training purposes. Do check out this page from the British Library website - it has a lot of "examples" http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/atyourdesk/docsupply/help/copyright/copyrightfaq/index.html Regards Vasumathi ----- Original Message ----- From: HENAG Hello Ms Vasumathi, I need a clarification of your point number 3 below. You said librarian from a commercial organization can make copy of an article from a subscribed journal or library book for an employee of the same organization. However not allowed by the same or anyone else to get several copies of the said article or pages to distribute. Is it not little contradictory ? Please clarify ------ If the librarian has the authority for taking copy for an employee today , after a few days someone else from the same organization might require the same article for some other project for reference and requests librarian for a copy , s/he has the authority hence again can take copy and serve , and so on . Now how will we/ you should differentiate the distribution of the copy to the employees of the organization than that of serving his/ her user as a librarian. Is there any line that we can draw between the word DISTRIBUTE and SERVE to the user of library? I am bit confused for the word fair use / single use, and I think specially when we librarians in a profit making organizations are concerned the copyright laws are not very transparently/ clearly expressed . It is somewhat vague or not thought of us while written them . If you have better way or explicitly written authorised document please name it , I would like to go through that . Best Regards Hena S Gupta ( Sr. Librarian) Infosys Technologies Ltd, Electronics City, Hosur Road, Bangalore-560100 Board : (91)-(080)-28520261 Ext 52196 Fax: (91)-(080)-28520742 We enable you to leverage knowledge anytime, anywhere! -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Fri Dec 28 11:20:41 2007 From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin) Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 11:20:41 +0530 (IST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Special Lecture Invitation Message-ID: Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 13:19:24 +0530 From: Dr. Ramesh B BANGALORE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE Special Lecture Programme 2007-2008 Topic Skills Development for Library & Information Science (LIS) Professionals for Information/Knowledge Management By DR. A.L. MURTHY Director Defence Scientific Information & Documentation Centre Defence R & D Organisation, Ministry of Defence Metcalf House, DELHI - 110 054 Date & Time Venue 28th September 2007, 12.30 PM Dr. S. Radhakrishna Lecture Hall Dept. of Library & Information Science Sneha Bhavan building Jnanabharathi Campus Bangalore ALL ARE WELCOME Dr. T. D. Kemparaju Chairman Dept. of Library & Information Science Bangalore University, Bangalore From mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Fri Dec 28 11:51:36 2007 From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin) Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 11:51:36 +0530 (IST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] OCLC Launches Pilot Metadata Project Message-ID: Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 10:16:13 +0000 (GMT) From: noufal palliparamban Dear friends, OCLC is going to launch Pilot Metadata Project. "It is crucial to the future of cataloging to find collaborative ways to take advantage of publisher ONIX metadata, and we must find efficient and centralized ways to store, enhance and normalize the metadata for the benefit of both library and publishing communities," said Renee Register, OCLC Global Product Manager for Cataloging and Metadata Services. "Librarians can and should participate in raising the quality of metadata in the marketplace, where we participate whenever we select and purchase materials." For full story: http://www.thebookstandard.com/bookstandard/news/author/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003686069 Noufal.P.P Assistant Librarian, XLRI Jamshedpur --------------------------------- 5, 50, 500, 5000 - Store N number of mails in your inbox. Click here. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Fri Dec 28 11:52:40 2007 From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin) Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 11:52:40 +0530 (IST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Request to send views to UGC Pay review committee Message-ID: Date: 27 Dec 2007 10:37:51 -0000 From: priya gopalkrishna kaimal ? I request all the Librarians to respond for a common cause. We should be recoganised as teachers in terms of all the rules related to age of super annuation , Pay , Leave and the FIP programme, Facility for research , attending conference etc. So dear friends please put your views to http://www.ugc.ac.in/contact/ugcprc.html In UGC web site you can see pay review committe there you can submit your view . I hope all of you will join with me. Priya Pillai Libraian Bombay teachers Training College Priya R Pillai From mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Fri Dec 28 11:54:49 2007 From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin) Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 11:54:49 +0530 (IST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Submission - Re:Vacancy at Media Libray Message-ID: Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 18:10:37 +0530 From: anita at dnaindia.net DNA - Daily News & Analysis which launched in Mumbai in July 2005, is the fastest growing English newspaper in India. After Mumbai, Ahmedabad & Surat editions, DNA will be launching it's Pune edition soon. We are looking for a young and dynamic information professional(MLIS/BLIS) to join the Research, Archives & Syndication division of the company. The recruit would be based in Pune. Designation - Officer. Salary in the range of 12-13K per month CTC Those interested may please mail their CV to anita at dnaindia.net Anita Pujari General Manager DNA - Research, Archives & Syndication 91 22 39888888 Extn 451 From sangs at delnet.ren.nic.in Fri Dec 28 18:23:59 2007 From: sangs at delnet.ren.nic.in (Sangeeta Kaul) Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 12:53:59 +0000 (WET) Subject: [LIS-Forum] DELNET announces Workshop on KOHA, March 10-13, 2008 Message-ID: DELNET announces An Interactive Workshop on Koha An Open-Source Integrated Library System (ILS) : An ideal opportunity for Indian Libraries March 10-13, 2008 Venue : DELNET, New Delhi To DOWNLOAD e-Brochure click on the link below : www.delnet.nic.in/kohaws.pdf OR www.delnet.nic.in/kohaws.doc You are most welcome to write to us for details. With kind regards Sangeeta ______________________________________________________________________________ Sangeeta Kaul Network Manager DELNET-Developing Library Network JNU Campus Nelson Mandela Road Vasant Kunj New Delhi-110070 Tel: 91-11-32471010, 32471002, 32471011, 9810329992 (M) Web : www.delnet.nic.in ________________________________________________________________________________ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From rajankila at hotmail.com Fri Dec 28 19:42:08 2007 From: rajankila at hotmail.com (Rajan) Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 19:42:08 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Copyright Law Violation References: Message-ID: Dear Ms Hena Gupta, The chapter XI of the Indian Copyright Act clearly indicates that a copyright is infringed when anyone distributes anything either for trade or in a way affecting prejudicially the owner of the copyright. Copyright protection has never been and cannot be applied rigidly to avoid hampering of progress in the society particularly in academic and research frontiers. A balance is always maintained between the interest of the creator and of the community while applying the law by the executive and judiciary. Most of the social purpose activities are exempted from the operation of the act. Research and private study are specifically among them. So there is no much to guard against any act which you are convinced as bonafide and can prove to be a non-commercial academic activity. The word distributes is not much important, but the resultant effect of the action of distribution is more important when somebody looks through the eyes of the law. The law is now being carefully looked upon as the copying is an easier task and digital world permits copying and distributing anything easier than ever before leading to so frequent violations. K Rajasekharan Librarian, Kerala Institute of Local Administration(KILA) Mulagunnathukavu, Thrissur - 680581 , India ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Original Message: Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 08:43:33 +0530 From: HENAG Subject: Re: [- Does it Violate Copyrights Laws Hello Ms Vasumathi, I need a clarification of your point number 3 below. You said librarian from a commercial organization can make copy of an article from a subscribed journal or library book for an employee of the same organization. However not allowed by the same or anyone else to get several copies of the said article or pages to distribute. Is there any line that we can draw between the word DISTRIBUTE and SERVE to the user of library? I am bit confused for the word fair use / single use, and I think specially when we librarians in a profit making organizations are concerned the copyright laws are not very transparently/ clearly expressed . 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URL: http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/attachments/20071228/432708ab/attachment.html From smita at qmedin.com Sat Dec 29 14:22:03 2007 From: smita at qmedin.com (Smita Srinivasan) Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 14:22:03 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] "Content Management System" Message-ID: Dear All, We are planning to implement a "Content Management System" to manage the content in our organisation. Please let me know of any good CMS application that we can use. Please also indicate its user-friendliness, cost, ease of implementation, if ready-to-use tutorials are available, size of content it can handle, number of users. etc. Kindly share your experiences with the same. Smita Srinivasan Information Executive QMed Knowledge Foundation Indian Medical Sites- www.indianmedicalsites.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From mukeshanand2006 at gmail.com Sat Dec 29 18:34:54 2007 From: mukeshanand2006 at gmail.com (Mukesh Anand) Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 18:34:54 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] World newspapers just at the touch of a button Message-ID: Dear Members', World newspapers just at the touch of a button / Kannal Achuthan (A satellite newspaper kiosk is a fully automated unit that receives the latest editions via satellite transmission) CHENNAI: International tourists and frequent business travellers who seek the familiarity of reading their hometown newspapers in print can now do so right in Chennai. Thanks to satellite technology, about 200 newspapers from 55 countries in 32 languages are available at the touch of a button on a vending kiosk. "At present, our main customers are star hotels who buy foreign newspapers for their guests," said K. Ramasundaram, a resident of Chetpet, who runs the enterprise. The technology is offered by a Dutch firm. How it works A satellite newspaper kiosk is a fully automated unit that receives the latest editions of a network of newspapers via satellite transmission. A copy is printed on demand. Some of the newspapers in the network include USA Today (USA), The Observer (UK), Die Welt (Germany), Le Monde (France), El Pais (Spain) and Komsomolskaya Pravda (Russia) and Sports Nippon (Japan). "The price is about $ 5 (Rs. 240) a copy. The vending machine prints the copy within three minutes of a customer's request," said Mr. Ramasundaram. The copies are tabloid-sized and available in black-and-white format. Colour printing is to be soon available. Mr. Ramasundaram said his regular customers including Swiss guests residing in the Taj liked to read the print versions of newspapers from their countries on the same day of publication. Once the idea becomes popular, the vending machines can be installed in malls, airports and other public places where customers can print their own copies and pay by credit card, Mr. Ramasundaram said. The satellite newspaper service in Chennai can be reached at 28363447. Online Access :- http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=2007122858120300.htm&date=2007/12/28/&prd=th& Print Access :-The Hindu dated 28th Dec., ' 07 (Friday) Page # 3 (Chennai City Edition) Thanx & Regards, Mukesh Anand Asst. Libn. Indian Railways Officers' Training College Sanskari Nagari Vadodara -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From mkrlib at uohyd.ernet.in Sat Dec 29 16:52:49 2007 From: mkrlib at uohyd.ernet.in (M KOTESWARA RAO) Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 16:52:49 +0530 (IST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Request for journal article Message-ID: <40894.172.16.32.10.1198927369.squirrel@172.16.1.11> Dear colleagues, One of our faculty member wanted an article from the following journal, which is not available in our library. We would appreciate it if anyone can kindly send a xerox copy of the same to us at the earliest. "The Great Sage in literary translation: Transformations for equivalent effect" By Di Jin (Source: BABEL Vol.35, No.3, 1989, pages 156-175) Dr. M Koteswara rao Librarian University of Hyderabad P.O. Central University Hyderabad-500 046 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From aman.jha at ciionline.org Mon Dec 31 12:04:14 2007 From: aman.jha at ciionline.org (Aman Jha) Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:04:14 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] What is the status of Children Libraries in India? Message-ID: Dear Forum Members I am writing a status paper on Children Libraries in India. Grateful if you could provide me useful information (statistics, legal status, NGOs/private initiatives, central/state govt. initiatives, public library status) on this. Regards, Aman Jha Librarian Confederation of Indian Industry 249-F, Sector 18, Udyog Vihar, Phase IV Gurgaon - 122 015, Haryana Tel: 91-124-4014060-67 Fax: 91-124-4014080 Reach us via our Membership Helpline (Monday-Saturday: 0900-1715 hrs). Dial: +91-11-43546244 / 9910446244 DISCLAIMER:The information in this message may be privileged. If you have received it by mistake please notify the sender by return e-mail and delete the message from your system. 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You may access the same through the following URL:http://mul.uni-mysore.ac.in Most of the links, like online journals, open access are connected. One can also access the UGC-Info net online access journals. Prof P.Ishwar Bhat, Acting Vice Chancellor Inaugurated the virtual Zone, and he said "It is a big leap by the University library for having launched its own website. Students, research scholars and lecturers will be benefited through this website", he was speaking after inaugurating the virtual zone of Mysore University Library. The launch of this website will help many students in their research, information gathered such websites will be of great use to the students and the teaching faculty. Students should use more the facility in their endeavor towards success?, he added. On this occasion the University library website was inaugurated by journalist, Rajashekar Koti. Inaugurating the website, he said, "The Library is like a brain to any university or institution. University grant commission has been granting crores for the development of libraries in various universities".Mysore University Registrar B.G .Hosmat, I.F.S, launched the Data Base and University Finance Officer M.K.Sannaswamy released the "Outline of Library Website and Database" on this occasion. Your suggestions are most valuable to us. Thanking You, Dr.M.Krishnamurthy,M.A.,M.L.I.Sc., PhD. University Librarian University of Mysore Manasagangothri, Mysore 570006 Ph: 91-0821-2514808/2419388 Fax: 91-0821-2419335 From veena.p at nic.in Mon Dec 31 13:16:27 2007 From: veena.p at nic.in (Veena) Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:46:27 +0500 Subject: [LIS-Forum] eGranthalaya Ver 3.0 Workshop , 9-11 January 2008 at NIC Bangalore Message-ID: <5f0ac32d7789cf0a.4778e4a3@nic.in> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/attachments/20071231/83f6f10f/attachment-0001.html From mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Mon Dec 31 13:55:44 2007 From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin) Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:55:44 +0530 (IST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] The Hindu News paper highlights Mysore University Library Message-ID: Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:52:43 +0530 From: madaiah krishnamurthy Dear Friends, The Hindu News paper highlights the Mysore University Library Website. You can access this information from the URL: http://www.hindu.com/2007/12/19/stories/2007121952619300.htm With Regards, M.Krishnamurthy Dr.M.Krishnamurthy,M.A.,M.L.I.Sc., PhD. University Librarian University of Mysore Manasagangothri, Mysore 570006 Ph: 91-0821-2514808/2419388 Fax: 91-0821-2419335 From thushanthtl at gmail.com Mon Dec 31 13:55:20 2007 From: thushanthtl at gmail.com (thushanth tl) Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:55:20 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] save british libraries Message-ID: <38ef86e00712310025y35798c89s11ffe32022978ff7@mail.gmail.com> *Save British council libraries* ** ** British council has decided to close British libraries at Bhopal and Trivandrum by the end of February, 2008. It is shocking news for the library patrons. They have asked employees to take VRS or transfer. If this trend continues it will affect British libraries all over India. As library professionals we must do something to stop it. I invite every one in the forum to have a discussion on it and suggest some ways to stop it. Please sign the petition at the below link http://www.petitiononline.com/bcl64lib/petition.html Below are the links to some news regarding the closure http://www.ibnlive.com/news/shutters-to-fall-for-british-councils-libraries/54871-3.html http://www.saharasamay.com/samayhtml/articles.aspx?newsid=91074 http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/holnus/004200712181710.htm http://www.hindu.com/2007/12/24/stories/2007122454720300.htm Please visit the following websites http://www.saveourbritishlibrary.org/ http://savebclbhopal.blogspot.com/ Thushanth T L Librarian ICFAI Trivandrum -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/attachments/20071231/3874f618/attachment.html