From mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Mon Dec 1 10:55:49 2008 From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin) Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 10:55:49 +0530 (IST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Self learning of Drupal, Wiki Moodle etc Message-ID: Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 17:37:24 +0530 From: "Byrappa, Ananda (GE, Research)" Dear Rajasekharan, NCSI-Net (Association of NCSI Staff and Students) is glad to hear that the recently held TBR memorial seminar on Web Content Management (Drupal focused) was useful to you. Many LIS professionals may be interested in knowing how NCSI net is doing these hands-on and effective one day programmes since last 4 years. Objective of these seminars are to enable budding LIS professionals to use the tools and resources (mainly open source) and motivate them to make a better impact at the organization where they work. We choose workshop/seminar resource persons from preferably from NCSI Net, working across the industry. This helps us to make these programmes truly practical and one or two case studies will add to the impact. The programme will also have a session dealing with career building strategies and job opportunities for LIS professionals - which has been greatly appreciated by the participants. Seminar presentations and summary can be accessed from the NCSI-Net portal: http://ncsi-net.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/workshop/ Regards, Anand Ananda T.Byrappa Manager, Whitney Knowledge Centre GE India Technology Centre 122, EPIP, Phase 2, Whitefield Road, Bangalore - 560066, INDIA Phone: 91-80-25032618 Fax: 91-80-28412114 email: ananda.byrappa at ge.com From: lis-forum-bounces at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of Rajan Sent: 27 November 2008 18:05 To: Lis Forum Subject: [LIS-Forum] Self learning of Drupal, Wiki Moodle etc Dear All, The recent Drupal workshop at NCSI was a meaningful attempt to capacitate librarians in opening new ways of information dissemination with a good content management tool. Libraries or institutions having local area network (LAN) can think of using Drupal (or Joomla or similar one) for creating an intranet website that provides information content to the institutional users through a website- like a gateway. Drupal requires apache, mysql & php software - all installed and configured in the computer. The configuration of those software may fail at times. So the easier option for a beginner is to use Xampp software that includes all the three software. So any beginner who is interested to learn Drupal can do so by installing it even in a client computer by using Xampp. The advantage of the content Management System is that we can have local language content and can make search /retrieval, if the information is in Unicode font. By using the same Xampp installation, one can install Wiki software also in the same computer and can develop an internal Wikipedia for creation of frequently used local content for internal users. Even reading materials on key topics can be made available in LAN by using internal Wiki. Media Wiki is a reasonable choice among a wide range of Wiki software available for download. Having an internal Wiki may help the users in learning the process of editing the content in Wikipedia. So the creative users may eventually turn themselves as contributors of Wikipedia, the fastest growing segment in the digital world. Librarians, thus, can have partnership in building the knowledge repository by showing the users a method to build digital knowledge resource. Moodle is an E-Course Management software one can install in the same computer by using the same Xampp installation. Libraries can use it for offering compensatory or additional courses on topics of special interest among the users, with the help of library friendly academics or library professionals themselves. The screenshots of Moodle installation on Windows is available at http://docs.moodle.org/en/Windows_installation_using_XAMPP Installation on Linux is also similar. The installation of Drupal or Wiki can be done in the similar manner. Open Journal System is yet another similar tool, the librarians should look into. Exploring all these tools will be a way ahead in empowerment in this bewildering digital world. Regards, K Rajasekharan Kerala Institute of Local Administration Thrissur -- 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. Think before you print. If you print, recycle. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------ LEARN MORE - Capco is a consultancy, managed services provider and thought leader. We are experts in the financial services industry. 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From bhupinder82 at gmail.com Mon Dec 1 10:37:58 2008 From: bhupinder82 at gmail.com (Bhupinder Singh) Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 10:37:58 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] congratulate Dr. Jagtar Singh ji Message-ID: Respected Teachers and Professional Colleagues, I on behalf of Library Professionals, wish to congratulate *Dr. Jagtar Singh,* Professor and Head, Department of Library Information Science and Dean, Faculty of Education and Information Science, Punjabi University, Patiala, for his appointment as President of the Indian Association of Teachers of Library and Information Science (IATLIS) India for a period of three years from November 2008 to November 2011. Wish him all the best. 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From rajankila at hotmail.com Mon Dec 1 12:43:20 2008 From: rajankila at hotmail.com (Rajan) Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 12:43:20 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Excellence in Library Profession In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear All, Shri K P Sadasivan has put forth a fantabulous framework for bringing excellence gradually into fore in the library field. It is a very good piece to start a proactive discussion on the status or magnitude of the ills mentioned by him, the possible options for revival and the strategic steps the fellow professionals or a cohesive group can take to cure the ills. It seems that one cannot find anything in the piece to disagree with. I propose that he should work out the practical ways, to bell the cat, with an action plan. Regards, K Rajasekharan Kerala Institute of Local Administration Thrissur -------------------------------------------------- > Original Message: > Subject: [LIS-Forum] LIS EDUCATION VIS-A-VIS CORPORATE LIBRARIANS > Dear All,> ? > This is in response to the recent postings on the above subject matter.> > The Problems ? > 1. There is a widening gap between the demand and supply > 3. There are several factors contributing to this lamentable situation. > They include :? > (a) Poor standard of the students joining for the LIS Course> > (b) Out of date Syllabus followed in the LIS Schools> > (c) Inadequate infrastructure facilities in the Schools> > (d) Incompetent Teachers or Teachers who do not bother to update their > knowledge base> > (e) Reluctance of LIS Schools for proper interactive programmes with > performing libraries &?> ???? librarians > (f)? Poor communication skills and leadership qualities among the > students> > (g) Lack of commitment of students in accepting LIS as a good profession. > They, instead, consider it as a short cut to get a job. ???? Etc., etc.> ? > Well, the above listing is only selective. It is high time to evolve > strategies for revamping the LIS Education / > Profession in India so as to > > SADASIVAN? KP > Former Head, Library & Informatics and Former Consultant (ICT) > NIIST (CSIR), Trivadrum -- 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 1 13:24:31 2008 From: aman.jha at ciionline.org (Aman Jha) Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 13:24:31 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] FW: Corporate Librarians and special training? Message-ID: <116BA3A0AD564D4ABE4426953F74EB109303FE@MSEXCHANGE.ciionline.org> Dear All Last week, I was in an SLA-Asian Chapter conference in Delhi. And one of the sessions was focused on the role of LIS Career and Opportunities. S M Dhawan, former Scientist F, National Physical laboratory, stressed on the three things that would help quality output from the LIS schools in India and one of the key points that he mentioned was lack of 'Best Intake' in this field. He stressed that the profession is still the last career option for many. What is required is that our LIS Schools have to 1) attract best minds in the field and 2) give them best possible training (matching IIT and IIM level). I am sure if these two things are strictly and honestly implemented, the output will be of world class. I have never come across information like LIS departments are training students as corporate librarians. But then yes there is no harm preparing LIS students the way corporations do function. We all know that libraies are always a non-profit institution be it in the corporations. But then nothing is free even in academic libraries. Even if you provide free service to your customer, there is a cost attached to it; for ex: your salary, real estate value, etc. I appreciate what Anita Pujari of DNA has done to the library services by attaching notional value to the information products / service that she provides to her customer. This is the value that she has added for what she does. So, it is the attitude/value/culture that makes corporations better. And I think we must inculcate such values/culture in LIS students. I do agree with what Anand says in terms of skilling the freshers. I WOULD say that there is a big gap in skills we need in the industry [for academic & special libraries and LIS teachers] and the output we get from the LIS schools. Regards, Aman Jha Deputy Director - Library Confederation of Indian Industry 249-F, Sector 18, Udyog Vihar, Phase IV Gurgaon - 122 015, Haryana, INDIA Tel: 91-124-4014060-67 Fax: 91-124-4014080 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------- From: [mailto:lis-forum-bounces at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of Byrappa, Ananda (GE, Research) Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 2:30 PM To: lis-forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Corporate Librarians and special training? (vasanthraj) LIS Schools are thinking about training students for the corporate needs...Is there a big difference between a special library and a corporate library? As many LIS schools offer a specialization in Special Libraries, there may not be a big need for focussing on Corporate Libraries at university level unless ther is a plan for corporate spnoncered/collaboarative effort. Many LIS schools are putting their best efforts in training the students. However, the fact is, there is a big gap in skills we need in the industry and the output we get from the LIS schools. Syllabus is always attractive but often we fail to see the learnings out of it when we interview the students. Many practising LIS professionals know that, we need to teach and train on almost everything to people we recruit. Sometimes, we end up recruiting non LIS people for jobs other than core LIS jobs like classification etc. Majority of the students fail to understand how corporate libraries function. The reasons may be many: - Lack of trained and experienced teachers - Limited/No infrastructure - Lack of cooperation from practicing librarians - Kind of students opting for LIS and - LIS Schools not having enough collaboration with Libraries Its unfortunate that we have this big gap in our profession unlike in other professions - medicine, nursing etc. More open, genuine and collaborative efforts in bridging the gap between theory and practice is required. Teachers and LIS practioners should have more (healthy) debates, discussions and must develop willingness to collaborate for the proposperity of this profession. Regards, Anand Ananda T.Byrappa Manager, Whitney Knowledge Centre GE India Technology Centre 122, EPIP, Phase 2, Whitefield Road, Bangalore - 560066, INDIA Phone: 91-80-25032618 Fax: 91-80-28412114 email: ananda.byrappa at ge.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:12:07 +0530 (IST) From: vasanth raj Subject: [LIS-Forum] Corporate Librarians and special training? To: lis-forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Dear sir/madam, This is in response to the LIS-Forum member request to suggest on how LIS departments can train Corporate Librarians? Though my response would not offer any suggestion, but contradicts with the postings itself. - How can LIS departments prepare corporate librarians? ?I am deliberating on the issue why there is much fuss about corporate world. ?Library Science and Information Science (Information Studies-Including wide spectrum of behavioral theories, science and technology) Schools have been training LIS professionals to perform their duties irrespective of the organization they aspire to work.? It was not previously discussed so much about academic library or public library. But we have been making our graduates to be a perfect fit to a corporate world. Again these all have been become forefront in the light of globalization. ?Corporate venture have very strong financial back up to train their workers and they have been successful doing that over the years (Infosys global training centre). Today?s need is to prepare our graduates to work for the people from whom they have got benefitted (local tax payers). ? Andhara Pradesh itself is a naxal prone area with so much of economic inequalities, let our graduate take step in reducing the economic barrier and fill the gap of information rich and poor. There we need training and enrich our people. ? Globalization itself has become a halt, because of recent economics meltdown in US. Economists? likes of Joseph Stiglitz and Paul Krugman have propagating the humanistic economic policy with equal opportunity for every one.? Coming back to the topic ? LIS schools have leveraging the technology and new crop of Information schools are in a way modeled to survive in the information rich world. Syllabuses of some of the information schools can throw some lights on how LIS schools can tune their curriculum to prepare their graduates in the 21st century.? Good thing is that library school basics have not changed lot-then why LIS departments prepare corporate librarians. Holistic approach is the need of the hour. ------------------------- With best wishes Vasantha Raju N Govt First Grade College Periyapatna Mysore Dist. 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 tariq22 at gmail.com Mon Dec 1 13:46:19 2008 From: tariq22 at gmail.com (Dr.Tariq Ashraf) Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 13:46:19 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] International Conference on Academic Libraries In-Reply-To: <765f91050811280224od6438cdo6132302d8c230914@mail.gmail.com> References: <765f91050811280224od6438cdo6132302d8c230914@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <4354703e0812010016l797b2dc2jf4f361455087421e@mail.gmail.com> > > Dear All > The annoncement submitted by Ms.Shweta Pandey on various listserves regarding the International Conference proposed to be organised by University of Delhi is unauthorised and may kindly be ignored. The official announcement shall be released by the University Librarian himself in due course of time. Dr.Tariq Ashraf University of Delhi On 11/28/08, shweta wrote: > > Sorry for cross posting..... > > > > Dear Friends! > > > This is to inform you that *International Conference on Academic Libraries > * is going to held at Conference Centre, *University **of Delhi, October > 5, 2009- October8, 2009.* > ** > For further information please go to this below link. > > > http://library.du.ac.in/ocs/index.php/ical/ICAL > > ** > ** > ** ok > > ----------------------- > Best Regards > > > Shweta Pande > > Assistant Librarian > Indus World School of Business ( A Career Launcher Education Foundation > Initiative) > Greater Noida (U.P) > Phone: +0120-3120657 > www.iwsb.in > > > > "Attitude is a small thing that makes big difference...!" > > > > -- > 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.Tariq Ashraf South Campus, University of Delhi Benito Juarez Marg New Delhi (India )110021 Email: tariq22 at gmail.com ; tariq at duls.du.ac.in Ph: 011-24110221 (Direct) Fax: 011-24110221 Cell:9868335593 Website: http://www.du.ac.in The information contained in this e-mail message is privileged, confidential, and protected from disclosure. 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Selection Grade Librarian, Nagarjuna College of Engineering & Technology, Devanahalli, Bengaluru - 562 110. -- 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/20081201/fb4f48d6/attachment-0001.html From rupak at pu.ac.in Mon Dec 1 14:19:36 2008 From: rupak at pu.ac.in (Rupak Chakravarty) Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 20:49:36 -1200 Subject: [LIS-Forum] XXV IATLIS National Conference Concluded Message-ID: <20081201083423.M54207@pu.ac.in> November 27, 2008: Make the EducationSystem More Interactive and Dynamic: Prof. R.C. Sobti, Vice-Chancellor, Panjab University said in his PresidentialAddress at the Inaugural Session of the XXV IATLIS NationalConference that it is high time that we make our educationalprogrammes interactive and dynamic. There should be a fair blendingof teaching and learning style and a teacher is required to play therole of a parent in the formal and informal settings. Earlier, Prof.Jagtar Singh, the Keynote Speaker and the Dean Faculty of Educationand Information Science, Punjabi University, Patiala said that thereis an immediate need for a shift from rote learning to resource-based student-centred-learning. The LIS courses must be affordableand consistent with the emerging job market. He further said that thefaculty must be deeply committed to internalize employable skillsamong the students. Prof. S.L. Sharma, the Chief Guest said that theLIS curricula should be based on the top-down and bottom-up approach.He further emphasized that there is a need to encourag! e students toask questions and actively participate in discussions. Prof. AshuShokeen, Director of the Conference said that efforts must be made tomake the LIS programmes relevant, effective, innovative and dynamic.Prof. C. R. Karisiddappa, President of Indian Association of Teachersof Library and Information Science (IATLIS) explained the mandate andthe activities of IATLIS and said that we must repay the LISprofession by developing employable manpower. Prof. Ranjana Vohrawelcomed the dignitaries and the participants of the conference aswell as introduced the key speakers. Prof. B.D. Kumbar, GeneralSecretary, IATLIS proposed the vote of thanks and Mr. RupakChakravarty conducted the stage. About 75 delegates from all overIndia and resource persons are participating in this nationalconference on ?Changing face of LIS Education: Learning Stylesand Teaching Methodologies?. November 28, 2008 On the Second day of theXXV IATLIS National Conference being organized by the Department ofLibrary & Information Science, Panjab University, Chandigarh anumber of papers were being presented on the topic ?EmergingLearning Styles and New Methods of Teaching?, ?Symbiosis ofClassroom and virtual Learning? and ?Open Distance Learning andContinuing Education Programmes?. The presenters discussed the newlearning management systems required in today?s IT scenario,weblogs as learning tools, e-learning initiatives with specialreference to India, Continuing Professional Development for LISProfessionals etc. Various learning management tools both commercialas well as open source were highlighted and the need for adoptingthem by the institutions of higher learning were stressed. Thesessions were followed by General Body Meeting of IATLIS. Chandigarh29 November 2008 TheXXV IATLIS National Conference which began here at Panjab University,Chandigarh with the inaugural session with Prof. S.L. Sharma as ChiefGuest on 27 November 2008 and concluded today with the ValedictorySession. Prof. B.S. Ghuman, Dean Faculty of Arts said in hisPresidential Address said that India is emerging as a knowledgeeconomy and has the demographic advantage of 550 million youth belowthe age of 25 years. Commercialization and privatization of educationis taking place in favour of the elite professions like medicine,engineering and business management, whereas, the social sciencesubjects including library and information science are being pushedto the periphery. There is an immediate need to make our coursesrelevant to the job market to stay in the main stream. More and moreempirical research should be done to generate valuable information toinform social science programmes. He further said that resourcecrunch will be increasing day by day but this does not mean th! at wecompromise on quality of education and training. Our teaching methodsshould be based on the blending of traditional teaching methods andICT-based teaching methods because ICT can help us in the functionalareas but not in the basic understanding of the subject. He alsoemphasized that the relationship between the tradition and modernityshould be complementary and not competitive. Speaking at thisoccasion Prof. C. R. Karisiddappa, President of IATLIS said that theLIS faculty is required to develop the employable skills among thefuture professionals. He further emphasised that there is animmediate need to change the faculty mindset to strengthen the IndianAssociation of Teachers of Library and Information Science (IATLIS)he lementered that only 30 % of the faculty is member of the IATLIS.It is high time that we ask ourselves that what we have given to theIATLIS. The faculty must encourage the students to become independentlearners and critical thinker. Earlier Dr. Trishanj! it Kaur,Rapportaur-General, presented a comprehensive report of thepro ceedings this three conference. Dr. Ashu Shokeen, Director of theconference presented 8 resolutions based on the discussions duringthe three days. At the outset Dr. Ranjana Vohra, Organising Secretaryexpressed her satisfaction upon the deliberations of the conference.Dr. Preeti Mahajan, Co-Orgnanising Secretary presented the vote ofthanks and Mr. Rupak Chakravarty, Lecturer in the Departmentconducted the stage. About 75 delegates from all over Indiaparticipated in this National Conference. At the Inaugural SessionProf. R.C. Sobti, Vice-Chancellor, Panjab University, Chandigarh inhis presidential address emphasised the need to make the LISeducation programmes / courses more interactive, dynamic and full ofpersonal touch. Prof. Jagtar Singh, the Keynote Speaker and Dean,Faculty of Education and Information Science, Punjabi University,Patiala made a case for a shift from rote learning to resource basedstudent centred learning to develop independent learners and criticalthinkers! . Prof. S.L. Sharma, the Chief Guest at the Inaugural Sessionsaid that to make the courses acceptable to the employers, all thestakeholders must be involved in the process of curriculumdevelopment. Few of the snaps can be viewed here: click here Thanks and Regards Rupak Chakravarty Lecturer-cum-Assistant Librarian Department of Library & Information Science Panjab University, Chandigarh - 160014 INDIA Website: http://libsc.puchd.ac.in Phone # ?(0172) 2700459(R) ? ? ? ? (0172) 2534775(O) ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 9217133380(M) ? ? ? ? ? Email: rupak2811 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/20081130/83e9017c/attachment-0001.html From anis.lisbd at gmail.com Mon Dec 1 15:59:52 2008 From: anis.lisbd at gmail.com (M. Anisur Rahman) Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 02:29:52 -0800 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Need help Message-ID: Dear Professionals: I am doing my PhD in the dept of LIS under Burdwan University. My Research topic is" Usages of IT in University librries in Bangladesh". I need to know the software uses in Indian libraries. If anybody have any article on this topic pls help me. Thanks in advance. Md. Anisur Rahman dept of LIS University of Burdwan & Deputy Director/Head of Library Northern Unviersity Bangladesh -- 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/20081201/72779e5f/attachment-0001.html From tshahab at jamiahamdard.ac.in Tue Dec 2 10:25:47 2008 From: tshahab at jamiahamdard.ac.in (T. Shahab) Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 10:25:47 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] LIS EDUCATION VIS-A-VIS CORPORATE LIBRARIANS Message-ID: <85440C2C606CA34080106629C537260830C73C@mail3.jamiahamdard.ac.in> Dear Moderator, As Mr. Sadasivan has very correctly highlighted, the expectations from a prospective librarian are many fold and if we are able to acknowledge and fulfill these we will able to add to the glory of the profession. But this will require a re-engineering of our academic curriculum as well as great emphasis on the apprenticeship programme. Regards TANWIR ________________________________ From: lis-forum-bounces at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of Sadasivan KP Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2008 3:44 PM To: lis-forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] LIS EDUCATION VIS-A-VIS CORPORATE LIBRARIANS Dear All, This is in response to the recent postings on the above subject matter. The Problems 1. There is a widening gap between the demand and supply of really competent LIS professionals in our country, irrespective of the nature of institutions where they are expected to perform. Corporate sector is undoubtedly one such area with tremendous job potential. 2. But sadly, majority of the products of LIS Schools are mediocre in nature ! Few exceptions are always there from any School or most of the products are OK from a very very few Schools. 3. There are several factors contributing to this lamentable situation. They include : (a) Poor standard of the students joining for the LIS Course (b) Out of date Syllabus followed in the LIS Schools (c) Inadequate infrastructure facilities in the Schools (d) Incompetent Teachers or Teachers who do not bother to update their knowledge base (e) Reluctance of LIS Schools for proper interactive programmes with performing libraries & librarians (f) Poor communication skills and leadership qualities among the students (g) Lack of commitment of students in accepting LIS as a good profession. They, instead, consider it as a short cut to get a job. Etc., etc. Well, the above listing is only selective. The Solutions 3. The solutions are partly embedded in the problems listed above. But still, let me repeat a few : (a) There is an immediate need for restructuring the LIS Syllabus uniformly across the country. The exercise should not just be confined to NCSI or NISCAIR or DRTC or a handful of Universities, like, University of Mysore, Madras University, etc. Rather, these front-runners (and other stake holders too) should think of initiating a dialogue for a commonly acceptable quality/standard syllabus for all Schools in the country, in the larger interest of the profession. (b) Poor communication skills & leadership qualities of students constitute a major issue. Unless this is effectively resolved, we are not going to succeed in generating competent professionals. The course-ware , the methods of teaching and grading of results/scores should not, at all ignore these factors. Not much seriousness is attributed to the so called 'Soft Skill Development' among our young professionals at present. (c) Making them IT-savvy is another essential ingredient. (d) How to attract really brilliant students to this course is another big question. Career prospects is perhaps one aspect. We must evolve a proper assessment of the market-needs of our professionals. Then mould them appropriately, by complying with other curriculum-related issues (discussed earlier). An explicit outcome should be a mechanism for Assured Placement after their course of study. 4. We, the professionals by and large are lured to concentrate in segmented areas as part of our modernization. It could be anything like CDS/ISIS, WINISIS, Digital Libraries with its fragmented approaches, IR, Webopac, OAI, E-Print, DSpace, etc., if we examine the chronological events. But what is lacking is a Total Framework encompassing all these segments and much more, so as to make it as a body of knowledge for LIS Education & Practice. This has to be planned and designed at a fairly 'higher level' so as to implement the same uniformly and mandatorily as learning modules in the academic programmes. 5. Now, the question of Corporate Librarians.The existing teaching-learning practices and the curriculum contents should invariably be changed to suit the special needs of the sector, which is diffrent from the conventional systems. Rigorous training in soft-skill development and management practices, etc., are needed for moulding them to perform proactively in the newgen LIS domain. Be it 'old bottle or new bottle', it has to be filled with 'new wine' . 6. But who will bell the cat? Possibly a selfless 'Think Tank Group' should evolve for initiating the task. Even a 'Social Network' for the purpose can trigger the operation. Then it will assume the inertial strength required for the 'take off'. 7. A mandatory mechanism for LIS domain, like Medical Council of India in the Health Education Sector, Bar Council of India in the Legal Sector, AICTE for Engineering / Technical Education, etc., has to be evolved for a proper co-ordination to ensure quality education. 8. Responsible Professional Societies in LIS in India including IATLIS cannot shy away from this crisis situation. 9.Certain recommendations of NKC may also be examined in this context. The Time Targets Well, an overnight solution is not possible. What is proposed is a long term strategy. But the time factor should not be stretched to infinity, if we really want to salvage our profession and give it an impressive and acceptable shape. It is high time to evolve strategies for revamping the LIS Education / Profession in India so as to Seek the comments of our esteemed LIS Forum Members. 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The US$ 1800 Award will cover economy class air fare, lodging while in Washington, D.C., conference registration, a one year membership in the SLA, and incidental expenses. More details about the award including application requirements are attached. The deadline for applying is 31 December 2008. The Special Libraries Association (SLA) is a nonprofit global organization for innovative information professionals and their strategic partners. SLA serves more than 11,000 members in 75 countries in the information profession, including corporate, academic, and government information specialists. SLA promotes and strengthens its members through learning, advocacy, and networking initiatives. For more information, visit us on the Web at www.sla.org. The Asian chapter of SLA is one of the largest chapters, covering a geographical area consisting of over 20 Asian countries. The Asian Chapter organizes workshops, seminars, meetings and training as well as networking opportunities for Asian information professionals by linking them to their counterparts throughout Asia and the rest of the world and also offers an awards program. For more information on the Asian Chapter, please visit http://units.sla.org/chapter/cas/index.html We believe that this SLA Asian Chapter Award provides an exceptional opportunity for a talented student to travel to the US and to enhance their skills and understanding of librarianship through meeting a large number of top level information professionals from around the world as well as attending Conference sessions and a very large Information Exhibition. We would very much appreciate your help in publicizing this Award among the students in your program. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Scott Davidson, Chairman, Awards Committee, SLA Asian Chapter at scottjdavidson at gmail.com or to Debal C Kar, SLA Asian Chapter President at dckar at teri.re.sin Regards, Debal C Kar President, SLA Asian Chapter Fellow, Library and Information Centre Darbari Seth Block IHC Complex, Lodhi Road New Delhi - 110 003, India Tel. (+91 11) 2468 2100 / 2468 2111 Extn 2724, 9811392242 (Mobile) Fax (+91 11) 2468 2144 / 2468 2145 E-mail dckar at teri.res.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/20081202/a25fe448/attachment-0001.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The Candidates will have opportunities to work in various areas of the information archival, mapping, etc apart from the circulation of information to the scholars and to the Industry at large. The state of the art infrastructure give the opportunity to the Trainee to gain confidence and emerge a brightest and confident professional to take on the challenges of Knowledge Management. ? The selected Trainee Candidates will be paid a stipend of Rs 6000=00 PM. Interested candidates may forward their respective CV to the undersigned latest by 15th December,2008. Dr.A.N.Bandi, Head, Resource Centre, National Institute of Fashion Technology, NIFT Campus, Plot No.15, Sector 4, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai - 410 210. Ph.91-22-27747080/81 Mobile : 09892192799? e-mail: anb321in at yahoo.co.in? anbandi at rediffmail.com website:www.niftindia.com Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! 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All participants with accepted papers will be provided local hospitality for three days (October 6-8, 2009). Participants from developing countries with accepted papers will also be provided some travel support. The Globelics Board will be mobilizing resources for providing such travel support. Participants should be prepared though to pay for all other expenses in the hotel like mini bar, telephone, laundry, etc and outside like the city tour, other social events etc. More Details: http://globelics2009dakar.merit.unu.edu/index.php OR http://cssp-jnu.blogspot.com/2008/12/call-for-papers-globelics-2009-7th.html See Also: Call for Papers: 6th Asialics International Conference http://cssp-jnu.blogspot.com/2008/12/call-for-papers-6th-asialics.html & Call for Papers: 12th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI 2009) http://cssp-jnu.blogspot.com/2008/12/call-for-papers-12th-international.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Anup Kumar Das New Delhi, India http://www.anup-jnu.blogspot.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! 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Internet connection is a prerequisite for installation process. Click on following link to enter your details, I will contact you soon. http://snipurl.com/70xvz -- Vimal Kumar V. Asst. Librarian Asian School of Business Technopark, Trivandrum-695 581 Web: www.asb.edu.in/vimal/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt" -Patrick White -- 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/20081202/50dbd1e8/attachment.html From vidyai_k at hotmail.com Tue Dec 2 10:38:08 2008 From: vidyai_k at hotmail.com (Vidya I K) Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 05:08:08 +0000 Subject: [LIS-Forum] ILA-TISS International Conference 2008. Message-ID: Dear Professionals, I take this opportunity to Congratulate to Dr. Mutthayya. Koganurmath and his team for successfully organizing the International Conference on ?Knowledge for All: Role of Library & Information Centers?, to commemorate ILA Platinum Jubilee Year 2008. I could be, able to witness the deliberations and able to interact with my other colleagues who had come from various places of India and from abroad. All the delegates were really impressed by the event and were praising Dr. Koganuramath and his team for extending good hospitality. Indeed it is true that the event was breathtaking one. Success can be achieved through the efforts of the good team and the good leader leading the same. Dr. Koganuramath takes such a keen interest in every event to make it a grand success, howsoever small or big it may be. The meticulously and judiciously prepared schedule of the Conference itself is an evidence. The LIS luminaries across India gathered and deliberated on various range of LIS issues. This conference gave me an opportunity to interact, share and exchange my views with the great personlities of LIS profession. I am sure all the participants also must have borrowed a lot from the conference as they got an opportunity to witness the meaningful and thought provoking deliberations of all FOUR (hectic) days as there were about more than 100 papers presented in the conference. This mega Conference was unique in many ways in real sense. All the presentations were made by using PPT which was possible only because of the state-of-the- art technology made available in the conference hall. And Mumbai, being the commercial hub of India , gave that cosmopolitan touch and flavor which an International event requires. I once again congratulate Dr. Koganuramth and I also congratulate all the awardees of the Conference. With Best Wishes, Dr. Vidya Veeresh. 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Her topic is "Critical Study of University Grants Commissions' assistance to College Libraries: a Case study of colleges under SRTM University, Nanded. She completed her research under the guidance of Dr. S. P. Satarkar R.G.Dharmapurikar From mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Tue Dec 2 16:04:24 2008 From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin) Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 16:04:24 +0530 (IST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Training for corporate librarianship Message-ID: Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 12:03:00 +0530 From: pramod mangla Dear Professional Colleagues, It is really interesting to read whether LIS professionals should also undergo some training so as to equip themselves for Corporate Libs./Inf. Centres.I support the views expressed by Prof. Laxman Rao.Even MBAs have to have some orientation about the corporate world where they are selected. It is high time certain DLIS or even Libraries take the initiative to develop certain trainig modules for this purpose and run short-term orientation programmes for those already holding LIS degrees. Prof.P.B.Mangla From dinesh.ncet at gmail.com Tue Dec 2 15:38:52 2008 From: dinesh.ncet at gmail.com (DINESH SIDDAIAH) Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 10:08:52 +0000 Subject: [LIS-Forum] lib-web-cats Message-ID: <62c911520812020208h25309e50k402d9f27ee3fde2f@mail.gmail.com> *lib-web-cats: A directory of libraries throughout the world:* ** It is a library web sites and catalogs. lib-web-cats is a directory of libraries worldwide. While the majority of the current listings are in North America, the numbers of libraries represented in other parts of the globe is growing. Each listing includes links to the library's website and online catalog. Other information available includes the geographic location, address, library type, current and previous library automation systems used, and the size of the library's collection. If you need more sophisticated ways to find and compare libraries, try the advanced search Page in http://www.librarytechnology.org/libwebcats/index.pl?SID=20081202819793701&code=lwc. Additional search features available on the advanced page include options to search or qualify by the current or previous automation system and by collection size . Thanking You, Dinesh K. S. -- Dr. Dinesh K. S. Selection Grade Librarian, Nagarjuna College of Engineering & Technology, Devanahalli, Bengaluru - 562 110. -- 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/20081202/16c96e31/attachment-0001.html From abdul.tharayil at gmail.com Tue Dec 2 17:15:47 2008 From: abdul.tharayil at gmail.com (Abdul Tharayil) Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 14:45:47 +0300 Subject: [LIS-Forum] LIS EDUCATION VIS-A-VIS CORPORATE LIBRARIANS In-Reply-To: <85440C2C606CA34080106629C537260830C73C@mail3.jamiahamdard.ac.in> References: <85440C2C606CA34080106629C537260830C73C@mail3.jamiahamdard.ac.in> Message-ID: <343a54a50812020345x42c18d7ew47aad58ac829b42c@mail.gmail.com> Dear Sir, Please forward this to the forum as appropriate - Thanks! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ In the year 1997, when I was about to attend a corporate interview with one of the biggest corporate houses, I clearly didn't know what the job was all about. Being fresh out of an LIS school, I never knew what was expected out of me and what competencies are required. Even today, I don't have good list of competencies expected out of a corporate Library professional to have at the entry level to Manager Level. Whenever someone calls me up, I tell them whatever comes to my mind becomes the competency and that's it. Therefore, I personally believe that it's the lack of a (well developed and perhaps continuously evolving) competency framework in the development of professional competencies in the LIS schools and therefore at the national level. So, what we need is a LIS competency development frame works that provide a list of competencies to be acquired by a LIS student and are aligned to the type of professional career chosen by the candidate. This frame work needs to be made available by role/by type of Library, etc. Having a competency map with an entry criteria, attainment and exit criteria would help the LIS students self-realize the requirements to be met. Even if that's not taught in the LIS School, he/she may try to acquire that competency, if he/she is genuinely interested in pursuing a career in that specific career focus. For now, if the corporate library professionals are finding it difficult to get good (competent) candidates, which I don't think is the case(except when payments are not on par) need to raise from their shelters and stop blaming the system and develop the kind of competencies they are looking for in an LIS professional. And tell the world that this is what I'm looking for, if you have it in you come and join us. If you are in a position to tell this and frame it in the form of competency development framework, you will get plenty of folks willing to learn and acquire those competencies and deliver on merit. Your comments, both brick bats and complements are most welcome, especially from the corporate librarians. Abdul J Tharayil On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 7:55 AM, T. Shahab wrote: > Dear Moderator, > > As Mr. Sadasivan has very correctly highlighted, the expectations from a > prospective librarian are many fold and if we are able to acknowledge and > fulfill these we will able to add to the glory of the profession. But this > will require a re-engineering of our academic curriculum as well as great > emphasis on the apprenticeship programme. > > Regards > > TANWIR > ------------------------------ > > *From:* lis-forum-bounces at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto: > lis-forum-bounces at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] *On Behalf Of *Sadasivan KP > *Sent:* Sunday, November 30, 2008 3:44 PM > *To:* lis-forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > *Subject:* [LIS-Forum] LIS EDUCATION VIS-A-VIS CORPORATE LIBRARIANS > > > > Dear All, > > > > This is in response to the recent postings on the above subject matter. > > *The Problems* > > > > 1. There is a widening gap between the demand and supply of really > competent LIS professionals in our country, irrespective of the nature of > institutions where they are expected to perform. Corporate sector is > undoubtedly one such area with tremendous job potential. > > > > 2. But sadly, majority of the products of LIS Schools are mediocre in > nature ! Few exceptions are always there from any School or most of the > products are OK from a very very few Schools. > > > > 3. There are several factors contributing to this lamentable situation. > They include : > > > > (a) Poor standard of the students joining for the LIS Course > > (b) Out of date Syllabus followed in the LIS Schools > > (c) Inadequate infrastructure facilities in the Schools > > (d) Incompetent Teachers or Teachers who do not bother to update their > knowledge base > > (e) Reluctance of LIS Schools for proper interactive programmes with > performing libraries & > librarians > > (f) Poor communication skills and leadership qualities among the students > > (g) Lack of commitment of students in accepting LIS as a good profession. > They, instead, > consider it as a short cut to get a job. > > Etc., etc. > > > > Well, the above listing is only selective. > > *The Solutions* > > > > 3. The solutions are partly embedded in the problems listed above. But > still, let me repeat a few : > > > > (a) There is an immediate need for restructuring the LIS Syllabus uniformly > across the country. The exercise should not just be confined to NCSI or > NISCAIR or DRTC or a handful of Universities, like, University of Mysore, > Madras University, etc. Rather, these front-runners (and other stake holders > too) should think of initiating a dialogue for a commonly acceptable > quality/standard syllabus for all Schools in the country, in the larger > interest of the profession. > > > > (b) Poor communication skills & leadership qualities of students constitute > a major issue. Unless this is effectively resolved, we are not going to > succeed in generating competent professionals. The course-ware , the methods > of teaching and grading of results/scores should not, at all ignore these > factors. Not much seriousness is attributed to the so called 'Soft Skill > Development' among our young professionals at present. > > > > (c) Making them IT-savvy is another essential ingredient. > > > > (d) How to attract really brilliant students to this course is another big > question. Career prospects is perhaps one aspect. We must evolve a proper > assessment of the market-needs of our professionals. Then mould them > appropriately, by complying with other curriculum-related issues (discussed > earlier). An explicit outcome should be a mechanism for Assured Placement > after their course of study. > > > > 4. We, the professionals by and large are lured to concentrate in segmented > areas as part of our modernization. It could be anything like CDS/ISIS, > WINISIS, Digital Libraries with its fragmented approaches, IR, Webopac, OAI, > E-Print, DSpace, etc., if we examine the chronological events. But what is > lacking is a *Total Framework *encompassing all these segments and much > more, so as to make it as a body of knowledge for LIS Education & Practice. > This has to be planned and designed at a fairly 'higher level' so as to > implement the same uniformly and mandatorily as learning modules in the > academic programmes. > > > 5. Now, the question of Corporate Librarians.The existing teaching-learning > practices and the curriculum contents should invariably be changed to suit > the *special needs* of the sector, which is diffrent from the conventional > systems. Rigorous training in soft-skill development and management > practices, etc., are needed for moulding them to perform proactively in the > newgen LIS domain. Be it 'old bottle or new bottle', it has to be filled > with 'new wine' . > > 6. But who will bell the cat? Possibly a selfless 'Think Tank Group' > should evolve for initiating the task. Even a 'Social Network' for the > purpose can trigger the operation. Then it will assume the inertial strength > required for the 'take off'. > > 7. A mandatory mechanism for LIS domain, like Medical Council of India in > the Health Education Sector, Bar Council of India in the Legal Sector, AICTE > for Engineering / Technical Education, etc., has to be evolved for a proper > co-ordination to ensure quality education. > > 8. Responsible Professional Societies in LIS in India including IATLIS > cannot shy away from this crisis situation. > > > > 9.Certain recommendations of NKC may also be examined in this context. > > *The Time Targets* > > Well, an overnight solution is not possible. What is proposed is a long > term strategy. But the time factor should not be stretched to infinity, if > we really want to salvage our profession and give it an impressive and > acceptable shape. > > It is high time to evolve strategies for revamping the LIS Education / > Profession in India so as to > > Seek the comments of our esteemed LIS Forum Members. > > SADASIVAN KP > Former Head, Library & Informatics and Former Consultant (ICT) > NIIST (CSIR), Trivadrum > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Poor management and communication skills among the students/products. > > > > -- > 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. > _______________________________________________ > 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. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/attachments/20081202/9763431b/attachment-0001.html From sureshbabal at gmail.com Tue Dec 2 16:18:18 2008 From: sureshbabal at gmail.com (Chauhan) Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 16:18:18 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] One Day Registration in ETTLIS - 2008 Message-ID: <45de2d750812020248r3278d71fpa36cf990d1634156@mail.gmail.com> *INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM* *ON* *EMERGING TRENDS AND TECHNOLOGIES IN LIBRARIES AND INFORMATION SERVCIES* *ETTLIS- 2008* *December 18-20, 2008* ___________________________________________________ Dear All, On several requests from professionals, the 'One Day Registration' is open in ETTLIS ? 2008. This 'One Day registration' offers the opportunity to delegates who have tight schedules or interested in events of a particular day and can have the benefit of all the hospitality offered on the day preferred. Instead of full symposium they can get registered for any of the day's events during the symposium schedule i.e. 18th, 19th and 20th days of December, 2008. Interested delegates should send a Demand Draft of Rs.1000/- (Rupees One Thousand only) in favour of 'JIIT Noida', payable at Noida on the following address: *Dr. Sanjay Kataria Organizing Secretary, ETTLIS 2008 &* *Head, Learning Resource Centre* *Jaypee Institute of Information Technology University A-10, Sector -62, Noida (UP) India Ph. +91 120-2590851, (M) +91 9810503341 Email: skataria.jiitu@ gmail.com , sanjay.kataria@ jiit.ac.in * Last date for "One Day Registration" is December 12, 2008. Please refer symposium website for detailed information at http://www.ettlis2008.com/ With best wishes Sincerely yours, Suresh K Chauhan -- 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/20081202/10e70c0b/attachment.html From skdesale at gmail.com Wed Dec 3 10:25:53 2008 From: skdesale at gmail.com (S K DEsale) Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 20:55:53 -0800 Subject: [LIS-Forum] How we can improve status of Librarian professionals? Message-ID: <21bdf6910812022055x538e90c3ice31c060c3641d3b@mail.gmail.com> Dear all, Many of you will agree on the fact that Librarians are not getting the same status as lecturers and other professionals in society. Since we all pusses same qualifications, same working conditions, pay scales etc. we deserve the same status which these other professionals enjoying. If we just take the example of our LIS teaching faculty, they are also treated differently than librarians. I think this is not fair. Librarians should be considered as a faculty and should be given the same rights given to the teachers. Librarian should have right to represent in board of studied of LIS, he should be given a right to vote and choose his representatives in the board. Since librarian is a person who is actually working in the library he knows what knowledge one should pusses to be successful in LIS profession & what should be taught to new entrants. Library professionals also should demand separate faculty like other professions e.g. Law, architect, Management, Medical etc. LIS should have its own dean who will represent us at higher level so that we can able to take our profession forward. These are few things if we able achieve then I am sure it will make lot of difference in our status in the society. We are planing to start one movement to achive this, I want to know your opinion and views on that. With regard Mr. S. K. Desale Asst. Librarian Jayakar Library University of Pune -- 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/20081202/1813d0a4/attachment.html From mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Wed Dec 3 10:53:01 2008 From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin) Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 10:53:01 +0530 (IST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Training for corporate librarianship Message-ID: Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 20:17:49 +0530 From: atanu garai Dear Professors, I am very glad to interact with you all again, as I always look for opportunities to ask questions to teachers. Let me be very honest here. I will of course agree to what is said regarding the imminent need for improving the quality of intake and output of LIS incumbents. There is no doubt about it. But, this is just one side of the coin. The other side is equally dark and grim and I have serious doubts that even if we are successful in bringing out quality graduates, Indian companies are very unlikely to take them (practice in North America and Europe is very different). Let me explain. First and foremost, the heads of these institutes (say, HR heads - who corporate librarians most often report to, e.g. http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/2006-July/004325.html) have little to no idea of library and librarian. Lets do little bit of survey of Terms of Reference of job advertisements of posts relevant to corporate world (knowledge manager, librarians etc.). Case Study 1: Knowledge Management Officer. This advt is posted in naukri.com on 20 Nov. It says: Client of XYZ HR agency "Job Description: 1.Conceptualizing and implementing the knowledge management processes - both for physical library and virtual knowledge base. 2. Designing & Implementing project based knowledge sharing system ensuring optimum utilization. Desired Candidate Profile: 1. Engineer / Commerce graduate 2.Should be fluent in English and well versed with usage of computers 3. Experience in working with libraries will be added advantage Company Profile: It's India's top maritime and port consultant. It provides Business Research, Consulting, Information and Data services to Ports, Shipping, Logistics and other maritime industry." So, presumably this posting is released by a HR company, which has sufficient knowledge and expertise in this domain, with MBAs in HR and aware of the requirements of "Conceptualizing and implementing the knowledge management processes - both for physical library and virtual knowledge base". For the development of library, they need either an engineer or a commerce graduate, a person who known English and usage of computer (Librarians dont know either for sure) and experience in working with libraries will be advantage (as if, engineers generally work in libraries). Case study 2: Librarian (Client of XYZ HR agencies) "Job Description: should be a Bachelor in Library science/MBA. Preferably from a law institue,law firm or worked earlier in some legal deparment. Preferably a male candidate Desired Candidate Profile: should be a Bachelor in Library science/MBA Preferably from a law institue,law firm or worked earlier in some legal deparment. Preferably a male candidate Company Profile: Leading Law Firm based in Delhi" This is not very clear if the recruitment agency wants to say a Bachelor in Library Science equals to an MBA or, an MBA or BLIB will be required. Also, the gender bias in the advertisement is does not go well. Additionally, one can read the article written by T D Wilson, The nonsense of 'knowledge management' - http://informationr.net/ir/8-1/paper144.html, which is a gem in this regard. Secondly, I do not believe the concept of traditional sense of library as a physical building go well with corporate (or for that matter any other fast paced working environment) working culture. Information has to reside within the grasp of people, not in a distant location where you need to go and come back with your piece of information. Some authors have already written on this issue. Thirdly, since the HR managers do now know what to do with the librarians, they have already started recruiting MBAs (not the librarians with MBAs, but plain MBAs), so abundantly available in Indian market. Drive past the Delhi and Jaipur highway, and you can actually get an MBA degree from the roadside MBA dhabas in lieu of few thousand rupees and don't forget to get it signed from the head of the institute. The current issue of CACM actually gave a dim picture of India's tryst with ICT education as well ( http://mags.acm.org/communications/current): "In addition, while the Indian IT exports industry has a severe need for students to have "soft qualifications" (such as proficiency in spoken and written English and the ability to manage projects efficiently), this education system does not provide any such courses. Hence, it is not surprising that a recent study by the strategy consulting firm McKinsey and Company (www.mckinsey.com/mgi) indicated only 25% of engineering graduates would have the requisite qualifications to be employed in the Indian IT exports industry." (http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1409360.1409369). The immediate strategy will be therefore to educate these HR people about LIS and perhaps few well-drafted TOR for various positions and roles related to corporate world could be sent to all these firms, so that they know they dont have to curse their brains next time. Best regards Atanu Garai From cramesh8 at gmail.com Wed Dec 3 18:02:54 2008 From: cramesh8 at gmail.com (ramesh chander) Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 18:02:54 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Article request Message-ID: <57860c0a0812030432id8f701jc74d0c5d806cc7c1@mail.gmail.com> Dear Colleagues, I need an article which one of our IISc research scholar needs for his research work. If any one has access to it, please send me the same. The details of the article are High-Temperature Heat Content and Entropies of Cerium Dioxide and Columbium Dioxide,Authors: E.G. King, A.U. Christensen, , Rep. Invest., vol. 5789, U.S. Bureau of Mines, 1961, p. 1. -- With Regards, Romesh Chander Sharma National Center for Science Information(NCSI), Indian Institue of Science, Bangalore-560012, -- 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/20081203/84ee83de/attachment.html From smitac_in at yahoo.com Wed Dec 3 16:46:02 2008 From: smitac_in at yahoo.com (Smita Chandra) Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 03:16:02 -0800 (PST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] How we can improve status of Librarian professionals? In-Reply-To: <21bdf6910812022055x538e90c3ice31c060c3641d3b@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <98092.75973.qm@web36107.mail.mud.yahoo.com> By working better, improving our communication skills, our marketing abilities, adopting change as IT progresses, by reaching out?to the students and installing 'reading habits', by making our libraries?neater and?the books?more ordered. These are some thing just to begin with... there is no other way ! ? Smita C. Librarian IIG --- On Wed, 12/3/08, S K DEsale wrote: From: S K DEsale Subject: [LIS-Forum] How we can improve status of Librarian professionals? To: "lis-forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in" Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 10:25 AM Dear all, ? Many of you will agree on the fact that Librarians are not getting the same status as lecturers and other professionals in society. Since we all pusses same qualifications, same working conditions, pay scales etc. we deserve the same status which these other professionals enjoying. If we just take the example of our LIS teaching faculty, they are also treated differently than librarians. I think this is not fair. ?Librarians should be considered as a faculty and should be given the same rights given to the teachers. Librarian should have right to represent in board of studied of LIS, he should be given a right to vote and choose his representatives in the board. Since librarian is a person who is actually working in the library he knows what knowledge one should pusses to be successful in LIS profession & what should be taught to new entrants. Library professionals also should demand separate faculty like other professions e.g. Law, architect, Management, Medical etc. LIS should have its own dean who will represent us at higher level so that we can able to take our profession forward. These are few things if we able achieve then I am sure it will make lot of difference in our status in the society. We are planing to start one movement to achive this, I want to know your opinion and views on that. ? With regard ? Mr. S. K. Desale Asst. 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URL: http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/attachments/20081203/af103b89/attachment-0001.html From puna_05 at yahoo.co.in Thu Dec 4 09:26:46 2008 From: puna_05 at yahoo.co.in (Puna Das) Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 09:26:46 +0530 (IST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Just Published: EFA Global Monitoring Report 2009 - Overcoming inequality:why governance matters Message-ID: <273861.27081.qm@web95404.mail.in2.yahoo.com> Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2009 - Overcoming inequality:why governance matters Despite much progress since 2000, millions of children, youth and adults still lack access to good quality education and the benefits it brings. This inequality of opportunity is undermining progress towards achieving Education for All by 2015. Who are these individuals and groups? What are the obstacles they face? How can governance policies help break the cycle of disadvantage and poverty? What policies work?? Is education reform integrated into the bigger picture? Is the international community making good on its commitments? Download Press release: http://www.unesco.org/education/gmr2009/press/GMR2009_pressrelease_EN.pdf Download Summary Report: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0017/001776/177609e.pdf Download the Full Report: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0017/001776/177683E.pdf ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Anup Kumar Das New Delhi, India http://www.anup-jnu.blogspot.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/ -- 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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URL: http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/attachments/20081203/dfa7d674/attachment.html From mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Thu Dec 4 10:49:16 2008 From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin) Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 10:49:16 +0530 (IST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] biased towards their candidate in filling vacancies:Hinders to the growth of corporate librarian Message-ID: Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 23:06:50 -0800 (PST) From: jaya khare ? i am going through all the forums seriously? specially atanu garai? and appreciate his observation towards this situation ,what i found as a research scholar (Mphil) and professional ,?is LIS education on one side and successful corporate librarian another side. All the advertisements gets published to fill up the vacancies but gets fill up without any announcement that is one point. ? ? Another ?People are so biased in india that they prefer their candidates and all other qualified professionals records go to the dustbin? everyday? and biased towards their candidate on job too , i am really unable to understand .? ? ? Unless and until we deal with this situation , we will never be?successful in bringing quality in Librarianship profession. ? Nidhi.k Mlisc,Mphil(pursuing) s p university, Anand Gujarat 09974168052 --- On Wed, 12/3/08, Mailing List Admin wrote: From: Mailing List Admin Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Training for corporate librarianship To: lis-forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 12:23 AM Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 20:17:49 +0530 From: atanu garai Dear Professors, I am very glad to interact with you all again, as I always look for opportunities to ask questions to teachers. Let me be very honest here. I will of course agree to what is said regarding the imminent need for improving the quality of intake and output of LIS incumbents. There is no doubt about it. But, this is just one side of the coin. [truncated] From murari at nio.org Thu Dec 4 11:31:18 2008 From: murari at nio.org (MP Tapaswi) Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 11:31:18 +0530 (IST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] How we can improve status of Librarian professionals? In-Reply-To: <98092.75973.qm@web36107.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <14198538.1228370478639.JavaMail.root@127.0.0.1> I fully support views of Ms Smita. Regards, - Tapaswi -- Original Message -- From: Smita Chandra To: "lis-forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in" ,
S K DEsale Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 03:16:02 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] How we can improve status of Librarian
professionals? By working better, improving our communication skills, our marketing abilities, adopting change as IT progresses, by reaching outto the students and installing 'reading habits', by making our librariesneater andthe booksmore ordered. These are some thing just to begin with... there is no other way ! > >Smita C. >Librarian >IIG > >--- On Wed, 12/3/08, S K DEsale wrote: > >From: S K DEsale >Subject: [LIS-Forum] How we can improve status of Librarian professionals? >To: "lis-forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in" >Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 10:25 AM > > > >Dear all, > >Many of you will agree on the fact that Librarians are not getting the same status as lecturers and other professionals in society. Since we all pusses same qualifications, same working conditions, pay scales etc. we deserve the same status which these other professionals enjoying. If we just take the example of our LIS teaching faculty, they are also treated differently than librarians. I think this is not fair. >Librarians should be considered as a faculty and should be given the same rights given to the teachers. Librarian should have right to represent in board of studied of LIS, he should be given a right to vote and choose his representatives in the board. Since librarian is a person who is actually working in the library he knows what knowledge one should pusses to be successful in LIS profession & what should be taught to new entrants. >Library professionals also should demand separate faculty like other professions e.g. Law, architect, Management, Medical etc. LIS should have its own dean who will represent us at higher level so that we can able to take our profession forward. >These are few things if we able achieve then I am sure it will make lot of difference in our status in the society. We are planing to start one movement to achive this, I want to know your opinion and views on that. > >With regard > >Mr. S. K. Desale >Asst. Librarian >Jayakar Library >University of Pune >-- >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. > >_______________________________________________ >LIS-Forum mailing list >LIS-Forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > -------------------------------------------- www.nio.org www.indian-ocean.org www.reefindia.org www.coastalhazards.info www.coastalhazards.in www.mangroveindia.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/20081204/635810ca/attachment-0001.html From rajankila at hotmail.com Thu Dec 4 12:05:18 2008 From: rajankila at hotmail.com (Rajan) Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 12:05:18 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Koha for Malyalam Catalogues Message-ID: Dear All, Koha is a good choice for libraries in Kerala. But the possibility of using Koha for creating catalogue of Malayalam books (due to its Unicode compliance) has not been explored much because of poor knowledge of most of the librarians about Unicode, it seems. Dr P Mukhopadhyay ( University of Burdwan), a prominent practitioner of Koha, clarifies that Koha can be used for creating searchable catalogue of books in Malayalam, if we use utf-8 encoding for character set and the mysql supports utf-8 as native character set. Kindly inform me, if anyone is using Koha 2.2.9 on Windows for Malayalam catalogue preparation. Regards, K Rajasekharan Kerala Institute of Local Administration Thrissur -- 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/20081204/f86c550f/attachment-0001.html From rcbhavsar at gmail.com Thu Dec 4 12:20:59 2008 From: rcbhavsar at gmail.com (Ratneshwar Bhavsar) Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 22:50:59 -0800 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Post Graduate Diploma in Location Guidance Message-ID: <5d2b27a90812032250t1b9c344euc3c0a4fa58bd872a@mail.gmail.com> Dear Professionals, I am a librarian in Sinhgad Institute in Management College in Pune. I want to do the "Post Graduate Diploma in Location Guidance". Do you have any idea, information or knowledge about this course then please tell me. I want direct students that how to choose career, educational field by which they can get success in their life. For doing this I think Post Graduate Diploma in Location Guidance this course help me. Thanking you in advance. Ratneshwar C Bhavsar Librarian SIBACA, Lonavala Dist Pune Mobile No. 9372579948 -- -- 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/20081203/d3df0c0f/attachment.html From vimal0212 at gmail.com Thu Dec 4 14:08:04 2008 From: vimal0212 at gmail.com (Vimal Kumar) Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 14:08:04 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] International conference on Freedom in Computing, Development and Culture Message-ID: <5b978ad90812040038h58f3602by187db0603bdba84d@mail.gmail.com> 2nd International conference on Freedom in Computing, Development and Culture" start on 9 December 2008 at Mascot Convention Center, Thiruvananthapuram. Three day conference is end on December 12. Seat availability is 400, online registration facility is available. Seats will be based on First-Come First-Served mode. Organizers of this event are Kerala State IT Mission and SPACE, the Society for Promotion of Alternative Computing and Employment. Celebrities in free software movement attend this conference and lots of related programs are the highlights of this conference. Main attraction among speakers are Eben Moglen, Jimmy Wales, Richard Matthew Stallman, Subbiah Arunachalam, and Adam Arvidsson. Other sweet session of this conference are Linux install fest, Open Movie Fest and display of Malayalam Computing, General Word Processing Applications, Scientific Computing, Games and Educational Software, Open Hardware and Computing for Disabled. Various interesting topics are take place for speech and discussion; ethical economy, Free Software in E-Governance, open access, software patents, FOSS in Agriculture and Fisheries, Free Software Education and Research. More details available at http://fsfs.in/ -- Vimal Kumar V. Asst. Librarian Asian School of Business Technopark, Trivandrum-695 581 Web: www.asb.edu.in/vimal/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt" -Patrick White -- 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/20081204/9ff3ee0e/attachment.html From vyasamoorthy at gmail.com Thu Dec 4 14:13:44 2008 From: vyasamoorthy at gmail.com (Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy) Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 14:13:44 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Book Tome Message-ID: <9765c2050812040043m7af4b199ha48cd849b2bce005@mail.gmail.com> Here is a good personal library management software. bookTome bookTome, a book management system, can help catalog and manage your library or personal book collection. Its features include: Add and edit books manually or using web services; sort and organise your books by author, series or reading status; display books - view books by author or series, as well as by the reading status; search your books with free-form text searching and links; and print out book lists, book information; and keep track of books that you want to read with the wish list. The 2.95 MB bookTome, version 1.20 (29th Nov, 2008), for Windows XP / Vista, can be downloaded at http://booktome.shanemca.com/downloads/bookTome.exe Dr P Vyasamoorthy Link to me through: http://vyasa-kaaranam-ketkadey.blogspot.com/ http://societyforservingseniors.satyamcsr.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/20081204/33a708f4/attachment.html From mgulibrary at gmail.com Thu Dec 4 22:28:32 2008 From: mgulibrary at gmail.com (University LIbrary Mahatma Gandhi University) Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 22:28:32 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] STALLMAN TO SPEAK IN MGU ON 7th DECEMBER 2008 Message-ID: STALLMAN TO SPEAK IN MGU ON 7th DECEMBER 2008 Dr. Richard Matthew Stallman, who heralded software freedom movement and the brain behind the GNU Project which resulted in he creation of free Unix-like operating system (LINUX), will address the academia and the public in Mahatma Gandhi University Campus on 7th December 2008 at 11.00 am. Vice-_Chancellor Prof. (Dr.) Rajan Gurukkal will preside over the function. Recipient of several honorary doctorates from leading Universities including Sweden's Royal Institute of Technology, Stallman set up the Free Software Foundation in 1985. He pioneered the concept of copyleft and is the main author of several copyleft licenses including the GNU General Public License, the most widely used free software license. Since the mid-1990s, Stallman has spent most of his time advocating free software, as well as campaigning against both software patents and what he sees as excessive extension of copyright laws. He co-founded the League for Programming Freedom in 1989. Teachers, students and the public interested to attend the programme as well as interact with Dr. Stallman are requested to register their names/send their queries through email promgu at gmail.com. For further details contact: G.Sreekumar, Public Relations Officer, Mahatma Gandhi University Contributions of Dr. Richard Stallman Personal Page of Dr. Richard Stallman Open Access Digital Archives of Doctoral Dissertations of Mahatma Gandhi University -- 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/20081204/07d69f61/attachment.html From mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Fri Dec 5 12:01:12 2008 From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin) Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 12:01:12 +0530 (IST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Training for corporate librarianship Message-ID: Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 05:28:27 -0800 (PST) From: Anila Fadnavis Dear All, yes what you say is right. Mostly in companies the library expenditure was/is shown for tax benefits, like social welfare of employees. Hence basics of libraries are not thought over and just some budget to purchase books & Magazines(not Journals) and some place with tables and chairs is provided. In the course of time the librarian and library is absorbed in some form in company except library. may be publication department or so.and librarian is posted somewhere in the company or fired. It is all oweners' wish and any CEO who has interest in Library & books. Librarians are not even middle managers who are in the companies main stream of flow of information. anila fadnavis --- On Wed, 12/3/08, Mailing List Admin wrote: From: Mailing List Admin Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Training for corporate librarianship To: lis-forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 10:53 AM Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 20:17:49 +0530 From: atanu garai Dear Professors, I am very glad to interact with you all again, as I always look for opportunities to ask questions to teachers. Let me be very honest here. I will of course agree to what is said regarding the imminent need for improving the quality of intake and output of LIS incumbents. There is no doubt about it. But, this is just one side of the coin. [truncated] From mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Fri Dec 5 12:03:02 2008 From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin) Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 12:03:02 +0530 (IST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Polytechnic Library requirements Message-ID: Date: 4 Dec 2008 07:01:07 -0000 From: baban more Can you please help me? I'm a librarian at a polytechnic college. Please let me know the no. of book titles & no.of Volumes that the library should posses during the first year of establishment of the library? Thanking you B K More Librarian, Saraswati Education Society's Saraswati Institute of Technology Plot No.-46/46A, Sect- 05 Kharghar Navi- Mumbai- 410210 E-mail- bkmore at rediffmail.com babankmore at gmail.com Ph.No. 09869780650 From parinitas at hexaware.com Fri Dec 5 11:45:15 2008 From: parinitas at hexaware.com (parinitas at hexaware.com) Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 11:45:15 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] How we can improve status of Librarian professionals? In-Reply-To: <14198538.1228370478639.JavaMail.root@127.0.0.1> References: <98092.75973.qm@web36107.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <14198538.1228370478639.JavaMail.root@127.0.0.1> Message-ID: <5AB2BCE55DDC214E9CAB63862FF1B7B82058D95AA7@MUM1MAIL.corp.hexaware.com> I too agree with what's being said - however, I believe that's a basic requirement which we all MUST have - the beginning as Smita says. Added to these requirements - is the need to keep on formally learning. After our Masters degree - do we in our profession, have any further structured learning - say like along the lines of MBA? We are all under the microscope! Everyone agrees libraries are necessary, but librarians? How necessary will librarians be if they do not have any more learning opportunities! Learning that is formal and structured and along the lines of our market requirements? How many of us even know how to align our libraries along our organizational goals and requirements? What is our plan of action - (for this week, this month, this year, and 10 yrs from now), what is our career goal? Where do we see ourselves, and with what knowledge and skills, say 5yrs from today? Not everyone can opt for an MPhil or a PhD - sure that's one more learning stage - but how much of the research done in library science has actually been used? Can we not actually apply the research conducted and do something? Just some food for thought.... Regards, Parinita Exec Librarian HTL Mumbai ________________________________ From: lis-forum-bounces at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of MP Tapaswi Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 11:31 AM To: smitac_in at yahoo.com; lis-forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in; S K DEsale Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] How we can improve status of Librarian professionals? I fully support views of Ms Smita. Regards, - Tapaswi -- Original Message -- From: Smita Chandra To: "lis-forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in" ,
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professionals? By working better, improving our communication skills, our marketing abilities, adopting change as IT progresses, by reaching outto the students and installing 'reading habits', by making our librariesneater andthe booksmore ordered. These are some thing just to begin with... there is no other way ! > >Smita C. >Librarian >IIG > >--- On Wed, 12/3/08, S K DEsale wrote: > >From: S K DEsale >Subject: [LIS-Forum] How we can improve status of Librarian professionals? >To: "lis-forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in" >Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 10:25 AM > > > >Dear all, > >Many of you will agree on the fact that Librarians are not getting the same status as lecturers and other professionals in society. Since we all pusses same qualifications, same working conditions, pay scales etc. we deserve the same status which these other professionals enjoying. If we just take the example of our LIS teaching faculty, they are also treated differently than librarians. I think this is not fair. >Librarians should be considered as a faculty and should be given the same rights given to the teachers. Librarian should have right to represent in board of studied of LIS, he should be given a right to vote and choose his representatives in the board. Since librarian is a person who is actually working in the library he knows what knowledge one should pusses to be successful in LIS profession & what should be taught to new entrants. >Library professionals also should demand separate faculty like other professions e.g. Law, architect, Management, Medical etc. LIS should have its own dean who will represent us at higher level so that we can able to take our profession forward. >These are few things if we able achieve then I am sure it will make lot of difference in our status in the society. We are planing to start one movement to achive this, I want to know your opinion and views on that. > >With regard > >Mr. S. K. Desale >Asst. 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URL: http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/attachments/20081205/a2ab2fed/attachment-0001.html From goudar at nal.res.in Fri Dec 5 16:39:32 2008 From: goudar at nal.res.in (I.R.N.Goudar) Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 16:39:32 +0530 (IST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Nat. Symp. on OA & Building IRs Message-ID: Dear Professional Colleagues, We at National Aerospace Laboratories have organised a three day "National Symposium on Open Access and Building Institutional Repositories (NSOABIR)" as a part of Golden Jubilee Celebrations of NAL. Date: 21-23 Dec 2008 at NAL, Bangalore. Venue: Dr. S R Valluri Auditorium/KTMD Seminar Hall National Aerospace Laboratories Bangalore Topics: Scholarly Communication, Open Access Movement/Initiative, OA Channels, OA Policies, Digitisation & Digital Preservation, Open Access Journals, Institutional Repositories, Setting up of IRs, Impact of OA on Citations/IF Value, IPR and Copyright issues, Librarian's Role in OA/IR, Case Studies. Resource Persons: Experts from DRTC/ISI, NCSI/IISc, NIMHANS, GEIT, Informatics India and NAL Panel Discussion: "Impact of Open Access on Science Communication" No of Participants: Restricted to 75 Registration Fees: Rs. 2000/- Accommodation: For few participants on first come first served basis I invite you to make use of this opportunity for yourself or your colleagues. For more details Please See: www.icast.org.in/nsoabir.html Contact: Mrs. Poornima Narayana, Convener, NSOABIR Information Centre for Aerospace Science and Technology (ICAST) National Aerospace Laboratories Post Bag No. 1779, Bangalore-560 017 Tel: 080-25086080; 25086083 Fax: 080-25260862; 25270670 E-mail: poornima at nal.res.in Regards Goudar -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. I.R.N. Goudar Tel: 91-80-25086081 Sci G & Head, Information Centre for 91-80-25235315 Aerospace Science and Technology Fax: 91-80-25268072 National Aerospace Laboratories E-mail:goudar at css.nal.res.in Airport Road, BANGALORE-560 017 India http://www.icast.org.in/staff/goudar.html -- 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 5 18:57:46 2008 From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin) Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 18:57:46 +0530 (IST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Training for corporate librarianship Message-ID: Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 17:41:46 +0530 From: Anita Pujari Dear professional colleagues, I have been following with interest the exchange of opinions on Corporate Librarianship - the status, the training needs etc. In my opinion the problems that LIS professionals face in the Corporate Sector is that of being little understood. Atanu Garai has elucidated with examples the poor understanding of HR/Corporate recruiters of the professional/academic requirements to handle the role of Information Management or Knowledge Management. At best they would think of a LIS professional for a "Library" with a view of a physical collection - typically Books, Magazines, Newspapers or Multimedia such as CDs, DVDs, Tapes and so on as per the business the company engages in. Basically Storehouse/Collection management. However it is not always so - there are many exceptions. I have been lucky to have worked in both kinds of Corporate Libraries. My experience of the past 14 years with Media Libraries has been particularly challenging. Fighting mindsets & managing perceptions plays a big part. We as LIS professionals have to work on marketing ourselves and creating our role and place in the company. As you all know Knowledge Management is the big buzz word in the Corporate sector now. At the recently held CII KM India 2008 Knowledge Summit in Mumbai there were about 150 delegates from a spectrum of companies. Amongst all those knowledge practitioners barely 6-7 of us were from the LIS profession. Every other profession, with IT & MBAs in the lead have staked claim to playing the Knowledge Manager role in almost all companies be it Infosys, WIPRO, Satyam, Reliance, MindTree, Eureka Forbes, Airtel? long list. ILFS, Mumbai is an exception I know of and there maybe(hopefully) a couple more. But we are hopelessly outnumbered in this upcoming profession and Job role that we as LIS professionals can so easily play. Anita Pujari ------------------------------------------ General Manager DNA - Research, Archives & Syndication Diligent Media Corporation Ltd. Oasis Complex, Kamala Mills Compound, Lower Parel, Mumbai 400 013 Phone: +91 22 39888888 Extn 451 Fax: +91 22 39801000 www.dnaindia.com http://epaper.dnaindia.com www.3dsyndication.com ----Original Message---------- From: Mailing List Admin Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Training for corporate librarianship To: lis-forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 10:53 AM Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 20:17:49 +0530 From: atanu garai Dear Professors, I am very glad to interact with you all again, as I always look for opportunities to ask questions to teachers. Let me be very honest here. I will of course agree to what is said regarding the imminent need for improving the quality of intake and output of LIS incumbents. There is no doubt about it. But, this is just one side of the From nitu at drtc.isibang.ac.in Fri Dec 5 15:57:18 2008 From: nitu at drtc.isibang.ac.in (nitu at drtc.isibang.ac.in) Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 15:57:18 +0530 (IST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Request for Article Message-ID: <1375.210.212.206.68.1228472838.squirrel@drtc.isibang.ac.in> Dear friends, Can someone kindly send me a copy of the below reference? I shall be grateful. Article title: Commercial Portals Evaluation Author: Azar, S.N.; jalali, A.H.; Falsafi, S. Advanced Communication Technology, 2008. ICACT 2008. 10th International Conference on Volume 3, Issue , 17-20 Feb. 2008 Page(s):2035 - 2039 Publisher: IEEE Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/ICACT.2008.4494187 Seeking your co-operation Thanking You Nitu Kumari ADIS 2nd Year Student Documentation Research and Training Centre Indian Statistical Institute Bangalore-059 Karnataka (India) email: nitu at drtc.isibang.ac.in nitu.drtc at gmail.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From khushpreet.singh at gmail.com Sat Dec 6 08:04:27 2008 From: khushpreet.singh at gmail.com (khushpreet singh) Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 08:04:27 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Polytechnic Library requirements In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: you must read the AICTE norms and state council norms -- Khushpreet Singh Ph.D, Researcher, Department of Library & Information Science, Punjabi University, Patiala-147002 (INDIA) E-mail: khushpreet.singh at gmail.com Mobile: +919815303000 On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Mailing List Admin < mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: > > Date: 4 Dec 2008 07:01:07 -0000 > From: baban more > > Can you please help me? I'm a librarian at a polytechnic college. Please > let me > know the no. of book titles & no.of Volumes that the library should posses > during the first year of establishment of the library? > > Thanking you > > > B K More > Librarian, > Saraswati Education Society's > Saraswati Institute of Technology > Plot No.-46/46A, Sect- 05 > Kharghar Navi- Mumbai- 410210 > E-mail- bkmore at rediffmail.com > babankmore at gmail.com > Ph.No. 09869780650 > _______________________________________________ > 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. > > -- 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/20081206/48e82541/attachment-0001.html From puna_05 at yahoo.co.in Sat Dec 6 08:57:27 2008 From: puna_05 at yahoo.co.in (Puna Das) Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 08:57:27 +0530 (IST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] IGF 2008: Content in local languages is as essential as connectivity Message-ID: <102837.12347.qm@web95403.mail.in2.yahoo.com> IGF 2008: Content in local languages is as essential as connectivity 05-12-2008 (Hyderabad) ? The power of the Internet is multiplied when people are able to access and use content in their local languages, agreed a group of experts who opened the 2008 Internet Governance Forum in a session on Reaching the Next Billion: Multilingualism. ? The complex topic of achieving multilingualism on the Internet has political and social dimensions beyond the technological challenges of ensuring tools for access and translation. ? Key points of the discussion were: * Content in local languages is as essential as connectivity. People must be able to create and receive information in their local language and to be able to express themselves in ways their peers can understand. * Internet tools and applications ? software, hardware, search engines, browsers and translation tools ? must be localized and also support the accessibility needs of people with special needs. * A fundamental access point is how one accesses Internet sites. Internationalised Domain Names (IDNs) and internationalised email addresses, to accommodate non-Latin scripts, are being developed through technology, standards and policies. * Increasingly, online communication is occurring in mediums other than in written form: multilingualism for multiple media, of which mobile devices are a significant point of access. * A common framework and language will help the Internet Governance Forum to address these issues. * There remains a great need for capacity building in digital literacy as well as basic, traditional literacy. ? The panelists were: Alex Corenthin, President of the Internet Society; Manal Ismail, Director of International Technical Coordination, Government of Egypt; Hiroshi Kawamura, President of DAISY consortium (Digital Accessible Information System); Viola Krebs, Executive Director, ICVolunteers; Tulika Pandey, Department of Information Technology, Government of India; S. (Ramki) Ramakrishnan - CEO of C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing), India. The moderator and rapporteur for the session was Miriam Nisbet, Director of UNESCO?s Information Society Division. ? An Open Dialogue plenary session on Reaching the Next Billion: Access and Multilingualism gave panelists and participants from both opening day main sessions an opportunity to discuss in more depth the relationship between access and multilingualism. Proceedings of all IGF sessions and workshops are available on the IGF website [http://www.intgovforum.org/]. ? Source: http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=27869&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Anup Kumar Das New Delhi, India http://www.anup-jnu.blogspot.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! 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Speaking at the opening ceremony of the Forum, Abdul Waheed Khan said that the Internet, as it is inherently democratic and empowering, provides unparalleled opportunities to realize the dream of a global free flow of ideas and universal access to information and knowledge. ? ?We need clear and globally applicable principles based on human rights, and legal, ethical and technical standards to organize the Internet,? stressed Khan. At the same time, ?it is important to ensure that the technical structure of the Internet allows provision of access to content in all languages,? he added. ? During the three days of the IGF (3-6 December 2008), UNESCO provides a variety of platforms for discussions on freedom of expression and universal access. As part of UNESCO's advocacy for free flow of information and freedom of expression in cyberspace, a workshop on Freedom of Expression in Cyberspace: Internet Filtering and Censorship explores the latest challenges to openness and freedom of expression on the Internet and identifies the implications of governmental and other Internet content regulation, particularly by direct implementation of filtering and content censorship. A workshop on Access to Public Held Information with a Development Perspective addresses the issue of access to public held information, a core element of the right to freedom of information as a fundamental human right, particularly in the context of development. ? The Internet Governance Forum that meets for the third time is a forum for multi-stakeholder policy dialogue to discuss public policy issues related to key elements of Internet governance in order to foster the sustainability, robustness, security, stability and development of the Internet. One of its main features is to facilitate discourse between bodies dealing with different cross-cutting international public policies regarding the Internet. ? In the debates on Internet Governance over the last years, UNESCO has consistently advocated the key values of freedom of expression, cultural diversity and openness that must be safeguarded on the Internet. ? Source: http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=27868&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Anup Kumar Das New Delhi, India http://www.openaccess-unesco.blogspot.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/ -- 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/20081206/eaf7bd21/attachment-0001.html From joejoseph at cusat.ac.in Sat Dec 6 09:33:17 2008 From: joejoseph at cusat.ac.in (Joe Joseph) Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 09:33:17 +0530 (IST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Talk on “ Intellectual Property Rights from Librarian’ s Point of View” . Message-ID: <088a533547858d3b5daca54214194f2d.squirrel@mail.cusat.ac.in> 01/12/2008 Dear Professionals, In connection with National Library Week Celebrations, Cochin University Library along with Kerala Library Association Ernakulam Region is organising a talk on “Intellectual Property Rights from Librarian’s Point of View”. Intellectual Property Law (IPR) has assumed much significance in this information age especially with the impact of information communication technology, and library professionals should be aware of its latest developments and its implications in managing a library with out getting into troubles. Intellectual property rights are a bundle of economic rights conferred by statute upon the creators of products of Intellectual Labour or activity such as patents, trademarks, industrial designs and geographical indications of source and copyright which includes literary and artistic work etc. In this context a talk on this topic will be very much useful for the library professionals. The talk is meant for the library professionals. Mr.Benoy Kadavan, (Advocate the High Court of Kerala and IPR consultant) is the resource person for the talk. All are requested to participate. Date : 11th December 2008 (Thursday) Time : 10.00AM to 12.00 Noon Venue : Department of Computer Science Auditorium. Thanking You JOE JOSEPH, KLA Ernakulam Regional Secretary JUNIOR LIBRARIAN, DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE CUSAT,KOCHI 682022 MOBILE 09447260241 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From francisaloor at yahoo.com Sat Dec 6 10:01:32 2008 From: francisaloor at yahoo.com (Aloor Thomas Francis) Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 10:01:32 +0530 (IST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Use of Malayalam in KOHA In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <46797.69708.qm@web94806.mail.in2.yahoo.com> Dear Professionals, We are also interested to use Malayalam with KOHA. If any body already using or have adequate knowledge to advise, please let us know. Yoursfiathfully, A.T. FRANCIS HEAD, LIBRARY COLLEGE OF HORTICULTURE KERALA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY THRISSUR - 680 656, INDIA francisaloor at yahoo.com francisaloor at gmailcom ? ? Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From haneefcalicut at yahoo.com Sat Dec 6 11:38:06 2008 From: haneefcalicut at yahoo.com (Dr. K M Haneefa) Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 22:08:06 -0800 (PST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] How We can improve the status of Librarian References: <162176e50812050229g5c8f5264ufcf4b7a2fe56d238@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <764799.97468.qm@web33503.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Sir, ? Our society does not have an attractive image of librarianship and perceived the status of librarians to be low as compared to other professions.? Society believes that librarians are not highly educated individuals, library work does not require higher education, librarians basically undertake routine and boring clerical works, librarians earn less, librarians? contribution to society is very limited, and librarians possess only limited computing knowledge. It is apparent that with such a negative image of librarianship we cannot expect many outstanding individuals to join the library profession. ? ? Dr. K M Haneefa Librarian T.K.M. College of Engineering Kollam-691 005 Kerala, INDIA Phone No:+91-474-2713933 Mobile No:09895622811 Fax : +91-474-2712023 E-mail: hanee4u at gmail.com ________________________________ From: pramod mangla To: lis-forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Sent: Friday, December 5, 2008 3:59:15 PM Subject: [LIS-Forum] How We can improve the status of Librarian I have read the write-up very carefully. It is indeed important. Yes, you should start the movement and you would have my full support. Best wishes, Prof.P.B.Mangla -- 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. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/attachments/20081205/ed98fb3b/attachment-0001.html From psm_bu at india.com Sat Dec 6 12:59:33 2008 From: psm_bu at india.com (Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay) Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 15:29:33 +0800 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Koha for Malyalam Catalogues Message-ID: <20081206072933.B6A927BD54@ws5-10.us4.outblaze.com> Dear Mr. K Rajasekharan It's good to see that you are trying hard to promote Indic script based automated and digital library system. Thanks a lot, I'm not alone in this endeavour. Let me tell you and other interested professioanls that a step-by-step guide has been developed by me for Bengali script based Koha in 2006. This peocess can be extended to any Indic script now (as TDIL developed required virtual keyboard, open type fonts etc; see http://ildc.gov.in/). Koha developer team included this methodology in their official manual and can be acccessed through link http://www.kohadocs.org/usersguide/apbs01.html. The final result of this methodoloy already published as a paper in IASLIC 2006 conference at Roorkee and available from LDL https://drtc.isibang.ac.in/bitstream/1849/409/1/open%20road_main_theme_psm_LDL.pdf. This paper shows Bengali script based interface of Koha (both user/opac and librarian/intranet), Search interface (simple/advance), ISBD display format of Bengali script based documents, ISO-2709 based export/import of Bengali script based documents. IFLA also reported this development in IFLA SET Bulletin July 2008 issue (see page 21). It can be accessed through http://www.ifla.org/VII/s23/bulletin/SET_Bulletin-Jul2008.pdf. Thanks and regards partha Dr. Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay Department of Library and Information Science University of Burdwan, Burdwan, Rajbati - 713104, WB ----- Original Message ----- From: Rajan To: "Lis Forum" Subject: [LIS-Forum] Koha for Malyalam Catalogues Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 12:05:18 +0530 Dear All, Koha is a good choice for libraries in Kerala.But the possibility of using Koha for creating catalogue of Malayalam books (due to its Unicode compliance) has not been explored much because of poor knowledge of most of the librarians about Unicode, it seems.Dr P Mukhopadhyay ( University of Burdwan), a prominent practitioner of Koha, clarifies that Koha can be used for creating searchable catalogue of books in Malayalam, if we use utf-8 encoding for character set and the mysql supports utf-8 as native character set. Kindly inform me, if anyone is using Koha 2.2.9 on Windows for Malayalam catalogue preparation. Regards, K Rajasekharan Kerala Institute of Local Administration Thrissur -- 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 -- _______________________________________________ Search for products and services at: http://search.mail.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/20081206/5966d3b2/attachment-0001.html From libsedek at gmail.com Sat Dec 6 12:58:28 2008 From: libsedek at gmail.com (library cdac) Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 12:58:28 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] How we can improve status of Librarian professionals? In-Reply-To: <21bdf6910812022055x538e90c3ice31c060c3641d3b@mail.gmail.com> References: <21bdf6910812022055x538e90c3ice31c060c3641d3b@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <31d7440812052328h253a0328u531a89278be6f2ad@mail.gmail.com> Dear friends, I too agree with S K DEsale and P B mangla. We cannot keep on giving endless services and in return expect nothing. The working conditions of the librarians and their status is very poor in our country. Even after earning a post graduation in LIS, many of the librarians are taken on a beginner's scale. As we say for better services a user has to pay. The same thing applies when it comes to salary and working conditions. If you are paid well, you serve better. What Ms. Smita Chandra says is correct and I think these are the very basic things which most of the librarians do. We should also understand that librarians have to depend on the parent organization and libraries come last when budget is to be allocated and comes first when services are to be given. So I would say that IT progresses, ordered and neater libraries can be expected when there are no budget problems and min. man power is a must. And the important facor is the LIS education There are exceptions where librarians don't work inspite of having good budgets etc. I would like to throw some light on out LIS Education too and that is where what Smita and Parinita says holds true. In earlier times there were very few universities/colleges offering Lib. degrees. Now so many universities and colleges are offering these degrees. But how many have a standard? I have come across several applications for a higher post where so many candidtes have M.LIb degree with distinction but their basic graduation scores are just 35-40%. They cannot communicate, organize collection, knowledge of subject is zero and the very basic lib. functions are so badly handled that I doubt their Lib. degrees and Phds. On top of all this they have papers( highly sub-standard) published and presented at various conferences and seminars. These are the people who are spoiling our profession and thereby our professional status. The Universities/colleges imparting LIS degrees should set a proper standard and modify eligibility criteria for admissions to Blib/Mlib/PhD. All this together can form the basis of Lib. movement. --Truptee Shah Librarian CDAC Mumbai Added to these requirements ? is the need to keep on formally learning. After our Masters degree ? do we in our profession, have any further structured learning ? say like along the lines of MBA? We are all under the microscope! Everyone agrees libraries are necessary, but librarians? How necessary will librarians be if they do not have any more learning opportunities! Learning that is formal and structured and along the lines of our market requirements? How many of us even know how to align our libraries along our organizational goals and requirements? What is our plan of action ? (for this week, this month, this year, and 10 yrs from now), what is our career goal? Where do we see ourselves, and with what knowledge and skills, say 5yrs from today? Not everyone can opt for an MPhil or a PhD ? sure that's one more learning stage ? but how much of the research done in library science has actually been used? Can we not actually apply the research conducted and do something? On 12/3/08, S K DEsale wrote: > > Dear all, > > Many of you will agree on the fact that Librarians are not getting the same > status as lecturers and other professionals in society. Since we all pusses > same qualifications, same working conditions, pay scales etc. we deserve the > same status which these other professionals enjoying. If we just take the > example of our LIS teaching faculty, they are also treated differently than > librarians. I think this is not fair. > > Librarians should be considered as a faculty and should be given the same > rights given to the teachers. Librarian should have right to represent in > board of studied of LIS, he should be given a right to vote and choose his > representatives in the board. Since librarian is a person who is actually > working in the library he knows what knowledge one should pusses to be > successful in LIS profession & what should be taught to new entrants. > > Library professionals also should demand separate faculty like other > professions e.g. Law, architect, Management, Medical etc. LIS should have > its own dean who will represent us at higher level so that we can able to > take our profession forward. > > These are few things if we able achieve then I am sure it will make lot of > difference in our status in the society. We are planing to start one > movement to achive this, I want to know your opinion and views on that. > > > > With regard > > > > Mr. S. K. Desale > > Asst. Librarian > > Jayakar Library > > University of Pune > > -- > 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. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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From ram.mlib at gmail.com Sun Dec 7 15:58:46 2008 From: ram.mlib at gmail.com (Shriram Pandey) Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 15:58:46 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] OpenMED@NIC Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, OpenMED at NIC is an open access archive for Medical and Allied Sciences. Here authors / owners can self-archive their scientific and technical documents. For this they need to register once in order to obtain a user id in OpenMED at NIC system. However no registration is required for searching the archive or viewing the documents. OpenMED at NIC is a discipline based International Archive. It accepts [Revised policy - dated 28th March 2006] peer-reviewed documents having relevance to research in Medical and Allied Sciences including Bio-Medical, Medical Informatics, Dental, Nursing and Pharmaceutical Sciences. These could be peer-reviewed preprints, postprints (refereed journal paper) and accepted theses. In case of non-English documents, descriptive data [Author, Title, Source etc.], abstract and keywords must be in English. Submitted documents will be placed into the submission buffer and would become part of OpenMED at NIC archive on their acceptance. More information available at : http://openmed.nic.in/ Regards, Shri Ram Pandey - MLIS(BHU), IKM(IISc), UGC-NET (JRF) LNM Institute of Information Technology(LNM IIT) Jaipur(Rajasthan) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From icbandi at yahoo.co.in Mon Dec 8 10:27:27 2008 From: icbandi at yahoo.co.in (ISHAPPA BANDI) Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 10:27:27 +0530 (IST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] How We can improve the status of Librarian in Corporate Sector In-Reply-To: <162176e50812050229g5c8f5264ufcf4b7a2fe56d238@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <19492.51690.qm@web8804.mail.in.yahoo.com> Professional Friends, ? Some more things can be added to the list of the best practices to improve the present Librarian?s status. One should be ready to take more than a Librarian role in the corporate sector. Why I am?raising this issue is, many corporate Libraries may be having less collection, users, activities as compare to Public or Academic Libraries. If some one expected to be paid high monitory benefits or a respect?one has to play an additional role may be as a Knowledge Manager, Document Controller, Information Officer, Coordination Officer, Information Security Officer, Instructor, these are additional to a Librarian role in corporate sector. Hence many different skills and techniques may be required to added to play these additional roles.? All we can say is that ?Accept, Act & Contribute More? is the ?funda? to be followed to improve our status in this modern world. Thanks & Regards ********************************** Bandi I C TATA POWER COMPANY LTD Email: bandiic at tatapower.com/ icbandi at yahoo.co.in URL: www.tatapower.com ? Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/ -- 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/20081208/be72c9c4/attachment.html From goudar at nal.res.in Mon Dec 8 10:51:52 2008 From: goudar at nal.res.in (I.R.N.Goudar) Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 10:51:52 +0530 (IST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Nat. Symp. on OA & Building IRs: Corrected Date Message-ID: Dear Professional Colleagues, PLEASE READ THE DATE AS 21-23 JANUARY AS THE DATE OF THIS SYMPOSIUM. However the brochure uploaded on Internet has correct date mentioned. Inconivinience caused is regretted. We at National Aerospace Laboratories have organised a three day "National Symposium on Open Access and Building Institutional Repositories (NSOABIR)" as a part of Golden Jubilee Celebrations of NAL. Date: 21-23 Jan 2009 at NAL, Bangalore. Venue: Dr. S R Valluri Auditorium/KTMD Seminar Hall National Aerospace Laboratories Bangalore Topics: Scholarly Communication, Open Access Movement/Initiative, OA Channels, OA Policies, Digitisation & Digital Preservation, Open Access Journals, Institutional Repositories, Setting up of IRs, Impact of OA on Citations/IF Value, IPR and Copyright issues, Librarian's Role in OA/IR, Case Studies. Resource Persons: Experts from DRTC/ISI, NCSI/IISc, NIMHANS, GEIT, Informatics India and NAL Panel Discussion: "Impact of Open Access on Science Communication" No of Participants: Restricted to 75 Registration Fees: Rs. 2000/- Accommodation: For few participants on first come first serve basis I invite you to make use of this opportunity for yourself or your colleagues. For more details Please See: www.icast.org.in/nsoabir.html Contact: Mrs. Poornima Narayana, Convener, NSOABIR Information Centre for Aerospace Science and Technology (ICAST) National Aerospace Laboratories Post Bag No. 1779, Bangalore-560 017 Tel: 080-25086080; 25086083 Fax: 080-25260862; 25270670 E-mail: poornima at nal.res.in Regards Goudar -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. I.R.N. Goudar Tel: 91-80-25086081 Sci G & Head, Information Centre for 91-80-25235315 Aerospace Science and Technology Fax: 91-80-25268072 National Aerospace Laboratories E-mail:goudar at css.nal.res.in Airport Road, BANGALORE-560 017 India http://www.icast.org.in/staff/goudar.html -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From naglaxman at yahoo.com Wed Dec 10 22:21:00 2008 From: naglaxman at yahoo.com (Prof. N. Laxman Rao.) Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:51:00 -0800 (PST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Prof V G Talwar, is the Vice chancellor of Mysore University Message-ID: <948034.83374.qm@web65709.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> dear friends iam happy to inform you that Prof VG Talwar, professor, dept of library and information science, University of Mysore has been appointed as VC of University of Mysore. the orders have been issued by the Hon'ble Governor of Karnataka. He is the first VC from the library and information field.Earlier, he was the Registrar of the same university and Director, UGC-CADEMIC STAFF COLLEGE. HE WAS HEAD, CHAIRMAN OF THE DEPT. HE WAS EXPERT TO MANY UNIVERSITIES. WE ARE PROUD OF HIM AND THE LIBRARY SCIENCE COMMUNITY CELEBRATES HIS APPOINTMENT. HE WILL BE TAKING CHARGE ON 11 DEC 2008. ON BEHALF OF ME AND THE PROFESSIONALS BOTH TEACHERS AND LIBRARIANS, I CONGRATULATE HIM FOR GETTIG APPOINTED AS vc OF PRESTIGIOUS UNIVERSITY- UNIVERSITY OF MYSORE. WE ALL THANK THE GOVERNMENT ESPCIALLY THE HON'BLE CHIEF MINISTERR AND EDUCAION MINISTER OF THE KARNATAK STATE FOR APPOINTIG HIM AS VC. WE ALSO THANK THE HON'BL GOVERNOR OF KARNATKA. WE ALL WISH PROF TALWAR, A SEASONED ADMINISTRATOR, A SUCCESFUL TERM AS VC. THE WHOLE LIBRARY PROFESSION IS WITH AND BEHIND HIM SUPPORTING ALL HIS ENDEAVOURS. PROF LAXMAN RAO Prof. N.LAXMAN RAO,? Professor of? Library & Information Science, & ?Director, UGC-Academic Staff College (Retd), Osmania University, HYDERABAD- 500 007 (INDIA) President, Association of British Scholars (Hyderabad Chapter) 91-40-27171565, 27177763?(res): 09246547599 (Mobile) e:mail-- naglaxman at yahoo.com OR naglaxman 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/20081210/78392d98/attachment-0001.html From hchandra at iitm.ac.in Wed Dec 10 22:30:22 2008 From: hchandra at iitm.ac.in (Harish Chandra) Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:30:22 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Prof V G Talwar, is the Vice chancellor of Mysore University References: <948034.83374.qm@web65709.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Great news Dr. Laxman. Really LIS professionals are proud of Prof. VGT Regards and thanks Dr. Harish Chandra Librarian Indian Institute of Technology Madras Chennai - 600036 INDIA http://www.harishchandra.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/harishsushila http://www.iitm.ac.in http://www.cenlib.iitm.ac.in Phone: 91 044 22574951-O FAX :91 044 22570509 ________________________________ From: Prof. N. Laxman Rao. [mailto:naglaxman at yahoo.com] Sent: Wed 12/10/2008 22:21 To: list forum; nmlis at yahoogroups.com; iatlis at yahoogroups.com; ifla lis education list; amudhavalli alagusundaram; anjali gulati; BASAVARAJ KADEMANI; bs_biradar at rediffmail.com KUVEMPU Cc: A S chandel; AbbasKhan A.A. Khan; Abdus Sattar Chaudhry NTU SINGAPORE; Aditya Tripathi; al moorty; Altaf Mazid; anand varala; anand bandi; anil binwal; Anjana Bhatt; aparajita suman; ardprasad drtc; aruna sivakami; Arundhati A; Ashu Shokeen; Bar NK; Baradol ashok; beena c; beena chitrampatt; bramesha at hotmail.com; bravi33 at yahoo.co.in; c karisiddappa; Chadha Ravinder Kumar; chandra psrkrishnan; CHANDRAN D; chandrasekhar rao braou; chandrasekhararao v; CK RAMAIAH; Dinesh K. Gupta; enukondar at yahoo.co.in; eshwer reddy db; Gayasjamai makhdumi; Gobinda Chowdhury; goudar bangalore; Hari Krishna Reddy; Hari Nath Prasad; harvinder kaur; hrmohan; hrmohan at vsnl.com; infolibrarian; Ismail H Abdullahi; Jagtar Singh; Jagtar Singh; Jahagirdar India Iqbal Subject: Prof V G Talwar, is the Vice chancellor of Mysore University dear friends iam happy to inform you that Prof VG Talwar, professor, dept of library and information science, University of Mysore has been appointed as VC of University of Mysore. the orders have been issued by the Hon'ble Governor of Karnataka. He is the first VC from the library and information field.Earlier, he was the Registrar of the same university and Director, UGC-CADEMIC STAFF COLLEGE. HE WAS HEAD, CHAIRMAN OF THE DEPT. HE WAS EXPERT TO MANY UNIVERSITIES. WE ARE PROUD OF HIM AND THE LIBRARY SCIENCE COMMUNITY CELEBRATES HIS APPOINTMENT. HE WILL BE TAKING CHARGE ON 11 DEC 2008. ON BEHALF OF ME AND THE PROFESSIONALS BOTH TEACHERS AND LIBRARIANS, I CONGRATULATE HIM FOR GETTIG APPOINTED AS vc OF PRESTIGIOUS UNIVERSITY- UNIVERSITY OF MYSORE. WE ALL THANK THE GOVERNMENT ESPCIALLY THE HON'BLE CHIEF MINISTERR AND EDUCAION MINISTER OF THE KARNATAK STATE FOR APPOINTIG HIM AS VC. WE ALSO THANK THE HON'BL GOVERNOR OF KARNATKA. WE ALL WISH PROF TALWAR, A SEASONED ADMINISTRATOR, A SUCCESFUL TERM AS VC. THE WHOLE LIBRARY PROFESSION IS WITH AND BEHIND HIM SUPPORTING ALL HIS ENDEAVOURS. PROF LAXMAN RAO Prof. N.LAXMAN RAO, Professor of Library & Information Science, & Director, UGC-Academic Staff College (Retd), Osmania University, HYDERABAD- 500 007 (INDIA) President, Association of British Scholars (Hyderabad Chapter) 91-40-27171565, 27177763 (res): 09246547599 (Mobile) e:mail-- naglaxman at yahoo.com OR naglaxman 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/20081210/b670d7a1/attachment-0001.html From vijayqtm at yahoo.com Wed Dec 10 22:46:25 2008 From: vijayqtm at yahoo.com (vijay gautam) Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 09:16:25 -0800 (PST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Library Movement Message-ID: <407111.97920.qm@web46205.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Dear friends, I too agree with S K DEsale and P B mangla. We cannot keep on giving endless services and in return expect nothing. The working conditions of the librarians and their status is very poor in our country. Even after earning a post graduation in LIS, many of the librarians are taken on a beginner's scale. As we say for better services a user has to pay. The same thing applies when it comes to salary and working conditions. If you are paid well, you serve better. What Ms. Smita Chandra says is correct and I think these are the very basic things which most of the librarians do. We should also understand that librarians have to depend on the parent organization and libraries come last when budget is to be allocated and comes first when services are to be given. So I would say that IT progresses, ordered and neater libraries can be expected when there are no budget problems and min. man power is a must. And the important facor is the LIS education There are exceptions where librarians don't work inspite of having good budgets etc. ???I would like to throw some light on out LIS Education too and that is where what Smita and Parinita says holds true. In earlier times there were very few universities/colleges offering Lib. degrees. Now so many universities and colleges are offering these degrees. But how many have a standard? I have come across several applications for a higher post where so many candidtes have M.LIb degree with distinction but their basic graduation scores are just 35-40%. They cannot communicate, organize collection, knowledge of subject is zero and the very basic lib. functions are so badly handled that I doubt their Lib. degrees and Phds. On top of all this they have papers( highly sub-standard) published and presented at various conferences and seminars. These are the people who are spoiling our profession and thereby our professional status. The Universities/colleges imparting LIS degrees should set a proper standard and modify eligibility criteria for admissions to Blib/Mlib/PhD. All this together can form the basis of Lib. movement. VIJAY GAUTAM MLIS LUCKNOW Mob:9450093626 Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/ -- 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/20081210/2715feb7/attachment-0001.html From jagtar.kindu at gmail.com Thu Dec 11 07:22:51 2008 From: jagtar.kindu at gmail.com (Jagtar Singh) Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 07:22:51 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Prof V G Talwar, is the Vice chancellor of Mysore University In-Reply-To: <948034.83374.qm@web65709.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> References: <948034.83374.qm@web65709.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <41e21fb90812101752x6c360a5ex29b71f967453fee2@mail.gmail.com> Dear friends and professional colleagues, It is really a matter of pride for all the LI professionals. We wish Prof. Talwar all success. We sincerely hope that the University of Mysore will achieve new heights under his dynamic leadership. We thank the the Hon'ble Chief Minister and the Hon'ble Governor of Mysore for this goodwill gesture. Jagtar Singh -- Dr. Jagtar Singh, Professor and Head, Department of Library and Information Science, Dean, Faculty of Education and Information Science Punjabi University, Patiala Pin - 147 002 (India) Email: jagtar.kindu at gmail.com Tel: +91 (0)175 304 6462 & 304 6179 (Work) +91 (0)175 228 2727 (Home) Fax: +91 (0)175 228 3073 On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 10:21 PM, Prof. N. Laxman Rao. wrote: > dear friends > > iam happy to inform you that Prof VG Talwar, professor, dept of library and > information science, University of Mysore has been appointed as VC of > University of Mysore. the orders have been issued by the Hon'ble Governor of > Karnataka. He is the first VC from the library and information > field.Earlier, he was the Registrar of the same university and Director, > UGC-CADEMIC STAFF COLLEGE. HE WAS HEAD, CHAIRMAN OF THE DEPT. HE WAS EXPERT > TO MANY UNIVERSITIES. > WE ARE PROUD OF HIM AND THE LIBRARY SCIENCE COMMUNITY CELEBRATES HIS > APPOINTMENT. > > HE WILL BE TAKING CHARGE ON 11 DEC 2008. ON BEHALF OF ME AND THE > PROFESSIONALS BOTH TEACHERS AND LIBRARIANS, I CONGRATULATE HIM FOR GETTIG > APPOINTED AS vc OF PRESTIGIOUS UNIVERSITY- UNIVERSITY OF MYSORE. > > WE ALL THANK THE GOVERNMENT ESPCIALLY THE HON'BLE CHIEF MINISTERR AND > EDUCAION MINISTER OF THE KARNATAK STATE FOR APPOINTIG HIM AS VC. WE ALSO > THANK THE HON'BL GOVERNOR OF KARNATKA. > > WE ALL WISH PROF TALWAR, A SEASONED ADMINISTRATOR, A SUCCESFUL TERM AS VC. > THE WHOLE LIBRARY PROFESSION IS WITH AND BEHIND HIM SUPPORTING ALL HIS > ENDEAVOURS. > > PROF LAXMAN RAO > > Prof. N.LAXMAN RAO, > Professor of Library & Information Science, > *&* Director, UGC-Academic Staff College (Retd), > Osmania University, HYDERABAD- 500 007 (INDIA) > President, Association of British Scholars (Hyderabad Chapter) > 91-40-27171565, 27177763 (res): 09246547599 (Mobile) > e:mail-- naglaxman at yahoo.com *OR* naglaxman 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... 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It is a unique opportunity to see the rarest and finest books published in the last 200 years containing lithographs, paintings and old maps from the century old collection of the BNHS Library. The Highlights of the exhibition are Jonh Gould?s The Birds of Asia, Oriental Memoirs by James Forbes (1913), Memories of a Map of Hindoostan, published in 1798 and Indian Serpents by Patrick Russell, published in 1801. Most of the books were donated by Mr. Evans Fraser in 1925. Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/ -- 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/20081211/88c74887/attachment-0001.html From ram.mlib at gmail.com Thu Dec 11 11:31:55 2008 From: ram.mlib at gmail.com (Shriram Pandey) Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:31:55 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Vacancy for the post of Asst. Librarian at LNM IIT, Jaipur Message-ID: Dear Professionals, We are looking for a dynamic information professional for our central library.The candidate should have vision towards library development. The detail of the vacancy is as fallows.. Assistant Librarian (No. of vacancy-1) The candidate should be well conversant with various activities of an Academic Library, such as procurement and processing of books and periodicals and providing assistance to general library administration Essential Qualification/Experience: 1. Master's degree in Library Science/Information science/Documentation or an equivalent professional degree with at least 60% marks or its equivalent grade of B in the UGC seven point scales. 2. At least 2 years experience in a responsible capacity in a University level Library. Candidates should be familiar with usage of Knowledge of classification scheme- DDC, library software and have experience in library computerization. 3. The candidate having NET/SLET will be preferred. Salary to Pay: Rs. 12000-15000(fixed) Last Date to apply: December 30, 2008 Please send an application, along with your bio-data to Registrar, LNM Institute of Information Technology (LNM IIT) Rupa Ki Nagal, Post-Sumel, Via- Jamdoli Jaipur (Rajasthan)-302031 You can apply through email. Send your application to library at lnmiit.ac.in or library.lnmiit at gmail.com Regards, Shri Ram Pandey - MLIS(BHU), IKM(IISc), UGC-NET (JRF) LNM Institute of Information Technology(LNM IIT) Jaipur(Rajasthan) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From jagtar.kindu at gmail.com Thu Dec 11 13:47:02 2008 From: jagtar.kindu at gmail.com (Jagtar Singh) Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:47:02 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] LISERT-India: An IATLIS Discussion Group Message-ID: <41e21fb90812110017t51d4fc49oab72a7d3c1d0428@mail.gmail.com> Dear All, We have started a moderated discussion group named *LISERT-India* to promote discussion on lingering and leading-edge issues relating to library and information science education, research and training. To join this group, please click the *'Join this Group'* link by accessing the following URL: http://groups.google.com/group/lisert-india/ In case you face any difficulty, please mail us at the following email address: iatlis.patiala at gmail.com We shall take care of your difficulties. All the best, Jagtar Singh -- Dr. Jagtar Singh, Professor and Head, Department of Library and Information Science, Dean, Faculty of Education and Information Science Punjabi University, Patiala Pin - 147 002 (India) Email: jagtar.kindu at gmail.com Tel: +91 (0)175 304 6462 & 304 6179 (Work) +91 (0)175 228 2727 (Home) Fax: +91 (0)175 228 3073 -- 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/20081211/324369cb/attachment-0001.html From abhignaa at yahoo.co.in Thu Dec 11 16:17:48 2008 From: abhignaa at yahoo.co.in (hima bindu) Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:17:48 +0530 (IST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Software for a media library Message-ID: <810897.17984.qm@web8316.mail.in.yahoo.com> Dear all, ? Kindly can anybody suggest software for a Media library. The requirement? is the content(video clippings,audio), loaded on server, should be retrieved through the keywords,and other attributes?provided in catalogue. ? Thank you Hima Bindu Freelance Librarian Secunderabad 040-27222607 ? Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/ -- 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/20081211/084e6ade/attachment.html From ajaysharma.lib at gmail.com Mon Dec 8 15:55:13 2008 From: ajaysharma.lib at gmail.com (Ajay Kum Sharma) Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 15:55:13 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Kind attention to INDEST members Message-ID: <50ee88430812080225x313bf10bk1d0190d253b9c1ba@mail.gmail.com> Dear INDEST Members, I would like to convey my message to all INDEST members through the LIS-Forum that I have left the INDEST Consortium and joined the Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan as Assistant Librarian since 30th June 2008. Still, I am getting the INDEST mails regularly and I am unable to give you the proper response in due time. You can expect the quick response if you send your mail directly to the INDEST people at the given addess: *Prof. G P Agarwal *Acting Coordinator, INDEST-AICTE Consortium Central Library, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Hauz Khas, New Delhi - 110 016 Phone: 011-2659 1451 (O) *OR* *Bibhuti Bhusan Sahoo* Assistant Librarian, Central Library INDEST-AICTE Consortium Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Hauz Khas, New Delhi - 110 016 E-mail: bibhuti at library.iitd.ac.in, indest at library.iitd.ac.in Phone: : 011-2659 1444 -- Thanks and regards. Ajay Kumar Sharma Assistant Librarian, Central Library, Visva Bharati, Santiniketan, Birbhum - 731235, W.B. Email: ajaysharma.lib at visva-bharati.ac.in Web: http://www.geocities.com/ajaysharma_lib/ *********************************************************** 1. Join today Digital Library Discussion Forum http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/dlrg 2. Join today LIS-Forum mailing list 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. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/attachments/20081208/bfec47e6/attachment-0001.html From seminars09 at gmail.com Mon Dec 8 16:01:46 2008 From: seminars09 at gmail.com (Sree Kumar Nair) Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 16:01:46 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] How can we improve the status of the Librarians??? Message-ID: Dear Venkata, Many thanks for forwarding this. It is true, indeed, that Librarians are not getting the same status as lecturers and other professionals in the society. The problem is not with Institution but with the individual in itself. I have personally come across many professionals having MLIS or M.Phil but not up-to-mark. Why???? Is it the structure of the course or what they learn? It is very easy to get first class in LIS if you know the basic, but this basic does not help in LIS profession. What they have learnt during their course period - they are unable to utilize the same in their institution. For example how many candidates know to use DDC/Colon effectively and have a proper classification system in the Library. How many of us are good at giving proper user education??? There are many more such issues which cannot be discussed. If you notice many of them (I should not be calling them professionals) use either the Library of Congress Catalogue or British Library Integrated Catalogue to classify the books, which in my opinion - using these for classification of Indian books is misleading and inappropriate for arrangement of books in a library. My dear friend, Classification and Cataloguing is the essence of LIS and if you take them out anybody can be a Librarian. Communication is one aspect which needs to be thoroughly improved. Communication can be improved through regular reading and interacting with the users and not through starting a movement. Here, again, the individual has to take the initiative. I have also come across good Librarians and they are well placed in Asst. Professors grade. To be frank with you, they are really good in their work, in their ideology and have contributed towards the growth of the institution. Some of the Library Assistants are also well placed. There is a saying "*First Deserve and then Desire*". 'Deserve' is not only qualification but other aspects in an individual. I am of the opinion that with 5 - 7 years of work experience in a library will easily get him a lecturer's scale. My dear Venkata, if you notice, the Library Assistant's are paid in the grade of Rs.5500/-. The fact is that some Institutes take Library Assistant and call them Librarians and thus the Library Assistant feels that they are in Lecturer's grade. The Librarians are not teaching and *the ones who teach* obviously get a lecturer's/asst professors grade. Imagine the rigorous process which a *Library lecturer* has to undergo for a job in an institute. As a part of the interview process they have to teach a class in front of the higher authorities and then judged by students and faculty. Does this happen with non-teaching Librarian??? If you notice *all Post Graduates are not Lecturers*, they opt for different options and those who opt for lecturers/Asst Professor know the art of teaching. An institution cannot survive by taking lectures who do not know how to teach and those who know how to teach are paid the Lecturers/Asst Professors grade. But ironically, all PG in LIS wants Lecturers grade, the moment they join. I hope am able to give you a clear picture on this. With warm regards, Sree Kumar Nair. -- 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/20081208/775c79c9/attachment-0001.html From lib.wrd.2008 at gmail.com Mon Dec 8 17:49:29 2008 From: lib.wrd.2008 at gmail.com (Charu) Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 17:49:29 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Who Speaks for Librarians Message-ID: Respected Friends, In the line of discussion raised by worthy friends regarding some of issues are as follows-------- 1. Professional accreditation of librarians in society, 2. Quality of LIS Education at all level. 3. Time bound Professional as well as technical enhancement , 4. At par status in parent organisations, 5. Removal of Financial and Administrative disparities , 6. Change of image from CIRUCLATION CLERK to KNOWLEDGE GENRATOR, KNOWLEDGE MANAGER, INFORMATION OFFICER and so on , 7. Library Services are as precious , priceless and very much mandatory than any other service in the parent organisation/body, And this is not the end of issues at all. All of us as LIS Professionals are well aware of all these issues and the irony of fate is that we do have the answers also. But the million dollar question is that who speaks first? Mere discussion on different forums and in conferences does not give any concrete result. I think now the time has come that we all should stand up to change the nomenclature of LIS world. We should come forward and can ask the administrative machinery to change the various recommendations into authenticity. We have number of LIS Associations not only in India but across the globe. Numbers of scholars are there who can sail the ship in right direction for next generation. We have library legislation in 10 states , lucrative recomendations of Knowledge Commisons are also there to guard the LIS issues. So what we all are waiting for................ Regards, Miss Charu Mathur. Delhi. -- 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/20081208/cace83ae/attachment-0001.html From anu at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Mon Dec 8 18:29:56 2008 From: anu at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (K.T Anuradha) Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 18:29:56 +0530 (IST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Workshop on Library Automation Packages @ NCSI Message-ID: Dear Professional, Kindly ignore this mail if you have already responded. A five day workshop on Library Automation Packages is arranged at NCSI. More detail about the workshop can be accessed at: http://dharmaganja.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/workshop Please note that 15th December is the last date for registration. Regards, Anuradha NCSI, IISc Bangalore From rajesh at inflibnet.ac.in Mon Dec 8 18:24:27 2008 From: rajesh at inflibnet.ac.in (Rajesh Chandrakar) Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 18:24:27 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Fw: Request to Publish on Various Forums Message-ID: <9414D0D73A074DB5B165F81E871B6DE3@RAJESH> Dear Moderator I request you to put following text as "Call for Papers" for seminar on "Open Access to Textual and Multimedia Content: Bridging the Digital Divide"29th - 30th January, 2009 New Delhi Rajesh Call for Papers (As Posters) Authors are invited to submit their papers for poster presentation. You may submit the full-length paper along with an abstract. While abstract will be published in the proceedings, you will have an opportunity to present your paper as a poster in an hour-long poster session. Your poster may include graphs, photographs, and bulleted text. Authors would be required to stand next to their posters to give a short presentation and answer questions from the participants. Authors will, therefore, have opportunity to discuss their papers with interested participants on one-to-one basis. Suggestions for Poster Design: a.. It is said that "one picture is equivalent to one thousand words". The poster session offers you an opportunity to present your idea as a poster which may include photographs, graphs and bulleted text. a.. Your poster may highlight only important portion of your paper. It should encourage discussions and dialogue with participants. The better the quality of the poster, the higher the quality of the interactions. a.. The poster may be approximately 1 m x 0.5 m which is roughly equivalent to six A4 sheets. a.. The poster can be in a single large sheet or many sheets of A4 or other sizes, as long as the total size fits the poster board. a.. Poster should be a visual representation of your paper's textual information. Displaying only a copy of your paper on the poster will not be desirable. a.. Your poster should be aesthetically pleasing, attractive, colourful and legible. It should not be cluttered. The objective is to capture the attention of participants. As such include graphics, pictures and illustrations, avoid text, as far as possible. a.. Use glossy and heavy grade paper for poster. Note: Authors are NOT expected to bring the poster board and pushpins. Poster boards will be provided by the organizers at the conference venue. IMPORTANT: The posters will be arranged and secured to a poster board by the authors themselves at the meeting. Posters should be pinned-up before commencement of the poster session. Timings of the session will be announced well in time and authors will be given time to pin-up their posters Your Paper along with Posters should be submitted to Dr.Jagdish Arora(Director,INFLIBNET CENTRE),director at inflibnet.ac.in with copy to: yatrik at inflibnet.ac.in on or before 25/12/2008 -- 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/20081208/a4c41322/attachment.html From gooche_1981 at yahoo.co.in Mon Dec 8 23:12:56 2008 From: gooche_1981 at yahoo.co.in (vasanth raj) Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 23:12:56 +0530 (IST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Library culture and LIS education Message-ID: <723542.84723.qm@web95303.mail.in2.yahoo.com> Dear Sir/Madam, Why librarians are not treated on par with teaching faculty and not respected? The reason that I figured out myself are, we are witnessing a complete lack of library culture among faculty and students. ?It seems either faculty or students have never ever understand (in PU and Degree colleges ?particularly) the role and the importance of library and the librarian.? They have developed a misconception that librarians are just a store keeper and they are there to see that no one sneak into the library. Education institutions also have their pie in that without proper infrastructure and facilities they should not start a college but it is other way around. To ask them to provide a well constructed building for the library is impossible. ?College authorities only make sure themselves that there is some one in the library to give book for students to pass their exams, that?s it. ?Librarian role is over (for long time without a librarian, libraries have successfully managed by the clerk!). ?This is one of the strong reasons why librarians have not treated on par with lecturers. Faculty often ask students to consult books which are truly syllabus oriented and student also blindly follow their suggestion and borrow books which caters their examination need thereafter they never turn to library again. ?Often we operate in a closed access system. We never allow student to see books and enjoy it.? System also has been accustomed to it.?With such environment it would always difficult to make them understand our presence and our role immediately. ?If we build a strong library culture amongst students in an early age and improve the basic facilities slowly we can change the mind set of the people. Let us optimistic and try. Western way of seeing the library is the need of the hour. We have followed free market and experiencing the recent financial crunch. Why not follow the western way of developing library culture in our country. If we imbibe the library culture among children in an early age, it may some how definitely in a long run help LIS profession. It is a high time to move from behavioristic model of education to constructivist model of education. Kerala public library system is notable here. In Kerala one can see increasing number of children visiting nearest public library for reading books of different genre. Recent educational reforms (headed by K M Panniker) in Kerala also emphsize to give enough importance to school library. ? [Views are personal] ------------------------- With best wishes Vasantha Raju N Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/ -- 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/20081208/ad229962/attachment-0001.html From rajankila at hotmail.com Tue Dec 9 19:34:05 2008 From: rajankila at hotmail.com (Rajan) Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 19:34:05 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Enabling Koha for Malayalam In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear Shri Francis / Others, Enabling Koha for Malayalam data entry is simple. It is possible in Windows XP with SP II or later versions and can be done by installing the Indic Input Method Editor (IME) and adding the language Keyboard. IME can be added from the Microsoft Windows/Office CD or from the Downloads link under the For End Users section of the www.bhashaindia.com The screenshots are available at http://www.bhashaindia.com/Patrons/Tutorials/MalayalamIME.aspx and at http://malayalam.kerala.gov.in/index.php/EnableMalayalam Exact steps are as follows:- 1.. Malayalam IMEs can be enabled by going to Control Panel and then click on the button titled "Regional and Language Options". Three options will emerge as tabs: Regional Options, Languages and Advanced. Select the Languages tab. Check the box titled "Install files for complex scripts and left-to-right languages (including Thai)" and click Apply. Then insert the Windows XP CD to finish the configuration. 2.. Run the Malayalam IME setup file and restart the computer. 3.. To enable the keyboard layout, please go to the Control Panel and then on to Regional and Language Options button. Of the three tabs available, select the Languages tab. Then click on the Details. . . button in the Text services and input languages section. Upon clicking the button, select Malayalam as the input language and Add Malayalam as the keyboard. In the option box that ensues, select Malayalam Indic IME 1 as the option. 4.. After the installation is complete, click the Language Indicator located in the System Tray on the right side of the Windows taskbar, and select "Malayalam Indic IME 1 from the shortcut menu that appears. Now the computer is ready for input of any data in Malayalam. If Koha is installed in the computer and data has been entered in Malayalam using Unicode, you can make Malayalam search and retrieval. For installation of Koha 2.2.9 on Windows, the installation guide at http://www.koha.rwjr.com/Koha_on_Windows.html provides the steps. Apache 2.2.9, Active Perl 5.8.8, Mysql 4.1 and Koha 2.2.9 worked well on my computer. The OPAC will be accessible to the intranet users, if you are connected to a network. Regards, K Rajasekharan Kerala Institute of Local Administration Thrissur ------------------------------ Original Message: Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 10:01:32 +0530 (IST) From: Aloor Thomas Francis Subject: [LIS-Forum] Use of Malayalam in KOHA To: lis-forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Dear Professionals, We are also interested to use Malayalam with KOHA. If any body already using or have adequate knowledge to advise, please let us know. Yoursfiathfully, A.T. FRANCIS HEAD, LIBRARY COLLEGE OF HORTICULTURE KERALA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY THRISSUR - 680 656, INDIA francisaloor at yahoo.com francisaloor at gmailcom ? ? -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From cwbailey at digital-scholarship.com Wed Dec 10 00:15:44 2008 From: cwbailey at digital-scholarship.com (Charles W. Bailey, Jr.) Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 12:45:44 -0600 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Google Book Search Bibliography, Version 3 Message-ID: <493EBCD8.9050607@digital-scholarship.com> The Google Book Search Bibliography, Version 3 is now available from Digital Scholarship. http://www.digital-scholarship.org/gbsb/gbsb.htm This bibliography presents selected English-language articles and other works that are useful in understanding Google Book Search. It primarily focuses on the evolution of Google Book Search and the legal, library, and social issues associated with it. Where possible, links are provided to works that are freely available on the Internet, including e-prints in disciplinary archives and institutional repositories. Note that e-prints and published articles may not be identical. For a discussion of the numerous changes in my digital publications since my resignation from the University of Houston Libraries, see the Digital Scholarship Publications Overview. http://www.digital-scholarship.org/cwb/dsoverview.htm -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Publisher, Digital Scholarship http://www.digital-scholarship.org/ DigitalKoans, Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography, Google Book Search Bibliography, Open Access Bibliography, Open Access Webliography, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog, and Tout de Suite series. A Look Back at Nineteen Years as an Internet Digital Publisher http://www.digital-scholarship.org/cwb/nineteenyears.htm -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From kunwr.air at gmail.com Wed Dec 10 13:42:40 2008 From: kunwr.air at gmail.com (kunwar.air air) Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:42:40 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] SIS " Fellowship 2008" Award Message-ID: <78ced92c0812100012x247a1b8h5986312c3a04f269@mail.gmail.com> Dear LIS Professionals It is a pleasure to inform you that Dr. Harish Chandra, Librarian, Central Library, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai has been awarded prestigious "Fellowship 2008" by Society for Information Science, New Delhi for valuable contributions to Information Science in India. The award was received by Dr. Harish Chandra in person at the Valedictory Function of SIS 25th Annual Conference at Indian Institute of Management, Indore on 6th December, 2008. -- Regard:- Kunwar Singh Rawat Senior Library Information Assistant Central Library Indian Institute of Technology Madras Chennai-600036 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From shankardhande07 at gmail.com Sun Dec 7 15:35:36 2008 From: shankardhande07 at gmail.com (shankar Dhande) Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 15:35:36 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Young Librarian suffering from blood cancer Message-ID: <693deb040812070205l726d2e72u8bb5d9abcb007544@mail.gmail.com> Young Librarian from Osmanabad district K. L Chappu suffering from blood cancer and admitted in J J hospital, Mumbai. The expenditure of hospital is beyond his financial capicity. All professionals are kindly requested to help him. He is admitteed in ward 12 , second floor, J.J. hospital. Report number cd-25007. Contact - Chappu 9420770878 his friend Pawan Sharma - 9421039142 Professionals from Mumbai may help him by visiting hospital. Even if u r knowning doctors from that hospital or if u are knowing the agencies for financial assistance, that will help him lot. Shankar Dhande Librarian IBMR Pune -- 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/20081207/2a24cd5f/attachment-0001.html From skdesale at gmail.com Wed Dec 10 12:37:23 2008 From: skdesale at gmail.com (S K DEsale) Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 23:07:23 -0800 Subject: [LIS-Forum] =?windows-1252?q?Please_support_college_librarian=92s?= =?windows-1252?q?_movement?= Message-ID: <21bdf6910812092307r2aebdd2u124fa0efc19e4fc8@mail.gmail.com> Dear friends, We are raising some problems of college Librarians/ Dy. Librarian/ Asst. Librarian/ Lecturers at university level. If you are one of them then I request you to join us. If not then also we need your support in reaching out all such library professionals working in Pune University or affiliated colleges and institutes. I request you to forward this mail to those people or inform them by some other means so that we can come together and discus following issues. 1) *College Librarians should be considered as a faculty and should be given the same rights given to the teachers*. College Librarian should have right to represent on board of studied of LIS, he should be given a right to vote and choose his representatives on board. Since librarian is a person who is actually working in the library he knows what knowledge one should pusses to be successful in this profession and what should be taught to new entrants. Librarian can design new courses, syllabus and examination pattern so that the new entrants will have the right skills to cope with the changing needs of the library users. *2) **Academic library professionals should have the nomenclatures same as approved by Andhra Gvt.* Andhra Pradesh Government has re-designated Librarians/Deputy Librarians/Assistant Librarians as Professors/Associate Professors/Assistant Professors in Library and Information Science. 3) *College Librarian should be considered as head of department of library and information science like other teachers for their respective departments in colleges.* Librarian is continuously involved in teaching students in how to Locate, retrieve and use correct, pinpointed information quickly and accurately. He/she is also engage in developing reading habits and achieve information literacy among the students by doing this they actually stimulate the learning process. ** * * *4) **Library profession should have the separate faculty like other professions e.g. Law, Management, Medicine etc.* * * Library and information science is a profession and it should be treated as a separate profession. It should be given an equal chance for its development like other professions. The separate faculty of LIS will help in the development of this profession. Presently LIS is been clubbed in M.M.S. (Mental and Moral and social sciences) with other subjects, which are non-professional courses therefore LIS should have separate faculty like management, law, architect etc. 5) *One seat should be reserved for college librarian on senate*. There is no representation of college librarians in the senate. University librarian is ex-officio member of the senate. Friends we are planning to assemble at University of Pune on Sunday 14th or 21st, please inform which date is convenient to you so that we can choose a date which will convenient to more and more people. With Best Regards Mr. S. K. Desale Asst. Librarian Jayakar Library University of Pune. -- 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/20081209/12ac4dfb/attachment-0001.html From skadadevaramath at yahoo.com Wed Dec 10 16:14:37 2008 From: skadadevaramath at yahoo.com (shivashankar kadadevaramath) Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 02:44:37 -0800 (PST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Reg-Librarian's Adalat Message-ID: <457012.45547.qm@web63806.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Dear Librarian's it is hereby brought into the notice of Librarians of all 348 government first grade colleges and 299 private aided colleges that grievances if any concerned to their placements/pension should be brought into notice on or before 15th dce 2008 for more informantion http;//www.dce.kar.nic.in/shikshana%20adalat.html? the adalat will be held on 20th dec 2008 at sikshakar sadan K G Road Bangalore at 10am S L Kadadevaramath President Karanataka state college Librarians aosscation ? Bangalore mob 9449070311 -- 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/20081210/d7ae2a56/attachment.html From premchand at inflibnet.ac.in Wed Dec 10 18:49:26 2008 From: premchand at inflibnet.ac.in (Prem Chand) Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:49:26 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] CALIBER09 : Call for paper Message-ID: Call for paper for International Conferences on E-Content Management: Challenges and Strategies during 25-27 Feb. 2009 in Pondichery, India. The CALIBER 2009 is 16th CALIBER in the series and 7th International CALIBER, which is being organised Information and Library Network Centre (INFLIBNET) in collaboration with Pondichery University during 25-27 Feb 2009 in Pondichery, India. Receipt of full papers: January 20, 2009 Last date for Registration: February 15, 2009 Theme of the Conference: E-Content Management: Challenges and Strategies Sub-Theme of the Conference: 1. Digital preservation and digital persistence Digital Preservation: Strategies Issues and Challenges PREMIS/ OAIS Reference Model 2. Web Content Management (WCM) Content Management Software Case Studies Enterprise Search and Vertical search Semantic Web Enterprise 2.0 Technologies & Social Computing Best Practices in Content Management Deployment 3. Web 2.0/ Library 2.0 Building Communities using Web 2.0 Case Studies Beyond Web 2.0 RSS Feeds and its Application in Library Services Social Networks, Twitter, Blogs, RSS, Wikis, Mashups Moving from Web 2.0 to Enterprise 2.0 4. E-Publising E-Resources: New Models for Content Delivery and Deployment Trends in Scholarly Communication: Challenges and Opportunities to Libraries Electronic Resource Management Systems (ERMS) Anti-plagiarism Software Digital Rights Management (DRM) Ebooks: Latest Trends Software for Open Source Journal Publishing Standards and Protocols: COUNTER, SUSHI and OAI-PMH For further details, please visit our site at http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/caliber2009/ Prem Chand Convener- CALIBER 2009 Caliber2009 at inflibnet.ac.in or premchand at inflibnet.ac.in Prem Chand Scientist- D Convener UGC-INFONET Digital library Consortium Information & Library Network Centre (INFLIBNET) An Inter University Centre of UGC, Near Gujarat University Guest House Navrangpura, Ahmedabad Gujarat. 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Talwar - wishes from SALIS Message-ID: <475979.81390.qm@web39606.mail.mud.yahoo.com> On behalf of the Society for the Advancement of Library and Information Science, I congratulate and wish Prof. V.G. Talwar for his new appointment as V.C of Mysore University. ? This is happy news to all the LIS professionals in our country. ? SOurce: http://www.starofmysore.com/main.asp?type=news&item=18951 ? DR. TALWAR TAKES OVER AS VC OF MYSORE VARSITY Mysore, Dec. 11 (ACP & DM)- The newly-appointed Vice-Chancellor of Mysore University Prof. V.G. Talwar took charge today. Acting Vice-Chancellor Dr. C.P. Siddhashrama handed over charge to Prof. Talwar at the Crawford Hall. Admirers of Prof. Talwar burst crackers outside the Craw-ford Hall as he took charge. The Governor-Chancellor Rameshwar Thakur yesterday issued an order appointing Prof. V.G. Talwar, Professor of Library and Information Science, Mysore University, as new Vice-Chancellor. The post was vacant following the retirement of Prof. J. Shashidhara Prasad on Oct. 22 last year and many hurdles came in the way of appointing a new Vice-Chancellor. V.G. Talwar: A man of wide experience At last, it has happened after a prolonged wait for more than a year! The news is that Dr. V.G.Talwar, Professor of Library and Information Science, University of Mysore, has been appointed Vice-Chancellor of the University of Mysore. The academic and administrative profile of the man who is going to head, lead and manage the affairs of the University of Mysore for the next four years is proof enough to indicate what the new Vice-Chancellor is capable of. Humility and down to earth temperament endowed with practical wisdom are the hallmarks of the personality of the new Vice-Chancellor. All those who know him personally would agree with one voice that it is indeed a great gesture that a man of simplicity and self-effacement committed to quality-oriented higher education has been elevated to the post of a Vice-Chancellor of a prestigious University struggling at the moment to keep up its reputation. He has an uphill task in setting right certain irregularities committed in the recent past. Harnessing pulls and pressures of different sorts would be one of the real challenges awaiting him as he takes up his new assignment. Looking for and having right people as part of his team management could go a long and effective way in meeting the challenges ahead of him. Having been an insider for many years could be a great aid. A man with a heart of wisdom derived from vast and wide experience as teacher and administrator, Prof.Talwar, known as VGT in the shortened version of his name, is a well-known name in the academic and administrative circle within and outside the University of Mysore. There is no department that he is not familiar with. He is aware of the ins and outs of almost all the Sections at Crawford Hall by virtue of having served as Registrar of the University for four years and four months and being a Chairman or a member of one committee or the other till date. Prof.Talwar is also known for his outreaching sensitivity. His friendly and helpful nature could be a great source of strength and problems as well. A fine sense of a compassionate worldview, thanks to his humble origin and family background, pervades his reasoning and discernments. Free from coterie culture, kitchen cabinet, and mean and mud-slinging politicking, he has the art of cultivating the spirit of accommodativeness lest ego clashes and ghetto interests and conflicts should overpower the management of academic and administrative matters of the University. As an aspirant for the post, he has shared his vision for the development of the University of Mysore with some of his friends besides formulating the same in a more organised manner in his profile documentation made available to the search committee that selected him as one of the three persons recommended for the post. If only politics and interventions of people with vested interests do not bother him too much, we could count on his intellectual acumen, dialogic imagination, team-building spirit, practical wisdom for smooth management of the University that has been blessed with a special grant of one hundred crore by the Government of India besides the other usual budget already made available by the State Government and the budget to be generated from local resources. ? A.S. Dasan, University of Mysore Bio-data ? Born on 1st June, 1950; Son of a farmer, hailing from Jikanur village in Belgaum District. ? Pursued higher education in Bangalore University and passed out with a Gold Medal in 1978; started his career in Bharat Electronics Ltd. Bangalore ( 10 + years), served Mangalore University for 6 + years before joining the University of Mysore where he has been for the last 17 years; ? Important positions held in the University of Mysore: Director of UGC ? Academic Staff College ( 4 + years); Registrar of the University ( 4 + years); ? Experience in Research Guidance: has successfully guided 13 students till date for PhD; ? Publications: 10 books one of which is Legacy of learning (2002), a comprehensive and significant reference book on the history of development of the University of Mysore with a vision for its future, 46 monographs, and 50 articles; ? Has been recognised and honoured by the Govt. of Karnataka for his meritorious services in the field of higher education, especially in the field of library science and digital libraries. ? A.Hariharan Society for the Advancement of Library and Information Science SALIS ? -- 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/20081211/11c0b569/attachment-0001.html From puna_05 at yahoo.co.in Thu Dec 11 21:12:55 2008 From: puna_05 at yahoo.co.in (Puna Das) Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:12:55 +0530 (IST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Software for a media library Message-ID: <316091.38127.qm@web95410.mail.in2.yahoo.com> Dear Hima Please refer to following forthcoming publication from UNESCO New Delhi for your query: Digital Archiving of Audio Content Using WINISIS and Greenstone Software: A Manual for Community Radio Managers. by K. Rajasekharan and K. M. Nafala With Best Wishes ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Anup Kumar Das New Delhi, India ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [LIS-Forum] Software for a media library hima bindu abhignaa at yahoo.co.in Thu Dec 11 16:17:48 IST 2008 Dear all, Kindly can anybody suggest software for a Media library. The requirement is the content(video clippings,audio), loaded on server, should be retrieved through the keywords,and other attributes provided in catalogue. Thank you Hima Bindu Freelance Librarian Secunderabad 040-27222607 Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From jksarkhel at hotmail.com Thu Dec 11 22:10:51 2008 From: jksarkhel at hotmail.com (Juran Sarkhel) Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:10:51 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Accreditation of LIS Education Message-ID: Dear Friends, I do agree with Smita, Parinita,Vijay Gautam, K Desale, Prof. Mangla and others who have expressed concern over the present state of LIS education in our country. In this connection, I Iike to say that India today has more than 100 LIS schools at the university level alone churning out at least 5000 LIS degree holders ? 4500 bachelor degree holders and 500 master degree holders ? even at a modest estimate, which is several times more than the available job opportunities in Indian market and possibly highest production in the world. All these have brought into focus the question of continued relevance and adequacy of the present programme of LIS education. The present scene in LIS education in India gives dismal condition and reflects a very disappointing scene. To achieve academic excellence, it is of utmost importance that standards and norms for LIS education should be set by an external agency and thereafter adherence to them be made mandatory. The immediate task is to establish a mechanism for accreditation of LIS courses offered by different library schools in India. It is a high time that the Government of India should pass an Act for LIS education on the analogy of Indian Medical Council Act, BAR Council of India Act and All India Council of Technical Education Act which would help in standardization of LIS education in India. The proposed Act should make provision for establishing a Library and Information Science (LIS) Council of India (or in any other name) and it should function as a central agency to provide guidelines and standards in LIS education and practices. I think all library professionals should come forward to raise their voice in favour of accreditation of LIS education to overcome its present crisis. Dr. J. K. SarkhelProfessor & HeadDept of Library & Information ScienceUniversity of KalyaniKalyani-741235West Bengal; India _________________________________________________________________ Searching for the best deals on travel? Visit MSN Travel. http://in.msn.com/coxandkings -- 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/20081211/f6b9bda7/attachment.html From knsbhumlis at gmail.com Fri Dec 12 08:14:46 2008 From: knsbhumlis at gmail.com (krishna nand singh) Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:14:46 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] National Seminar On Open Source Library Solutions (OSLS) on 16th - 17th January, 2009. Message-ID: Dear All, Department of Library & Information Science, BHU & Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), New Delhi are jointly going to organise *National Seminar On Open Source Library Solutions (OSLS)* on 16th - 17th January, 2009. *About Seminar:* The rising cost of technology has compelled the libraries to use Open Source Software (OSS) for library automation, digital library and so on. OSSs are developed in public domain by the technology experts for the libraries. The professional community implements the software solutions and renders feedback to developers, which is a real time testing of software. The OSS products are provided with source code for implementation level customization and future development of software. These solutions are often free for use and could be redistributed. Today, there are OSSs available for different library activities which are better than the commercial solutions using cutting age technology. These solutions range from Operating System to specialized institutional repositories. This has made the library services more cost effective and least dependent on commercial software and vendors. However, there is a concern of the professionals over stability of software implementation and continuing support to these OSSs. There is an equal and opposite concern from the end of developers also towards having a sustainable funding for running the software development projects. Whatever the concerns may be, the increased use of open source software among the library community is very encouraging for open source solution developers. The Department of Library and Information Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi proposes to conduct two days National Convention on Open Source Library Solutions (OSLS), 16th ? 17th January, 2009. The proposed seminar would provide a common platform for library professionals to share their experience. Research papers, demonstration and case-studies are invited for presentation and discussion during the convention in following areas: Implementation of OSS in:- Library automation, Digital repositories, Digital preservation, Consortium planning, Community education, Office management, Content development, Event management, E-publishing, Knowledge management, E-governance, Community networks. *Target Participants:* Practicing Librarians and Information Scientists, Faculty Members, Researchers, Students, Information System Personnel, Managers, etc. *Call for Papers:* Full texts paper(s) in English (in A4 size, double space, not more than 10 pages) should be sent to the *Organising Secretary, Deptt. of Library and Information Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi - 221005*. adityatripathi at hotmail.com aditya at bhu.ac.in Last date for submission of full texts of paper(s) is 20.12.2009. *Registration:* Rs. 500/- per participant. The DD / Cash payable in favour of *"National Seminar on Open Source Library Solutions"*, payable at Varanasi. The Registration Fee includes -Conference Kit & Working Lunch / Tea. *Accommodation:* Limited accommodation is available on payment basis on first come first basis. For further enquiry please contact: Coordinator Prof. H. N. PRASAD Head, Deptt. of Library and Information Science Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi- 221 005 Tel: +91 542 6701028 (Off.) +91 9415336709 (Mob.) E-mail: hnprasad.bhu at gmail.com Organising Secretary Dr. ADITYA TRIPATHI Lecturer, Deptt. of Library and Information Science Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi- 221 005 Tel: +91 542 6701027 (Off.) +91 9450710628 (Mob.) E-mail: adityatripathi at hotmail.com; aditya at bhu.ac.in *Registration Form:* Registration form can be downloaded from the Department's website http://www.bhu.ac.in/lis.html or directly from the URL http://www.bhu.ac.in/dlis/osls.pdf KRISHNA NAND SINGH MLIS(BHU) -- 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/20081212/49d965be/attachment.html From dinesh.ncet at gmail.com Fri Dec 12 10:22:45 2008 From: dinesh.ncet at gmail.com (DINESH SIDDAIAH) Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 04:52:45 +0000 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Great news and a matter of pride for all LIS community that Prof. V. G. Talwar became Vice-Chancellor of Prestigious UOM Message-ID: <62c911520812112052l7b4580d6j1fcbff86d9281c17@mail.gmail.com> Dear Friends, It is the great news and a matter of pride for all Library and Information community that Prof. V. G. Talwar became Vice-Chancellor of Prestigious University of Mysore. This honor comes to the legend of Library and Information Science after long time even though he deserves it. On behalf of our professional fraternity, I congratulate Dr. VGT. for his success. I think first person in India belongs to LIS profession occupying this seat. We sincerely hope that the University of Mysore will achieve new heights under his dynamic leadership. Dinesh K. S. -- Dr. Dinesh K. S. Selection Grade Librarian, Nagarjuna College of Engineering & Technology, Devanahalli, Bengaluru - 562 110. -- 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/20081212/e4420752/attachment.html From mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Fri Dec 12 11:18:34 2008 From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin) Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:18:34 +0530 (IST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Prof V G Talwar, is the Vice chancellor of Mysore University Message-ID: Date: 11 Dec 2008 13:35:19 -0000 From: Dr. S M.SHAFI It is a rarest tribute to capabilities of pof V G Talwar, Ex- chairman of one of the best Departments of LIS at Mysore and gives more creditibility to the subject and profession which is facing meeting new challanges and getting best opportunities in Knowlege Society. We congratulate profesor Talawr and wish him a succesful tenure in the Mysore Unversity. S M SHAFI Professor and head Department oF L&IS , KU (J&K) On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 Harish Chandra wrote : >Great news Dr. Laxman. Really LIS professionals are proud of Prof. VGT >Regards and thanks > >Dr. Harish Chandra >Librarian >Indian Institute of Technology Madras >Chennai - 600036 INDIA >http://www.harishchandra.com >http://www.linkedin.com/in/harishsushila >http://www.iitm.ac.in >http://www.cenlib.iitm.ac.in >Phone: 91 044 22574951-O >FAX :91 044 22570509 > > > From: Prof. N. Laxman Rao. [mailto:naglaxman at yahoo.com] >Sent: Wed 12/10/2008 22:21 >To: list forum; nmlis at yahoogroups.com; iatlis at yahoogroups.com; ifla lis education list; amudhavalli alagusundaram; anjali gulati; BASAVARAJ KADEMANI; bs_biradar at rediffmail.com KUVEMPU >Cc: A S chandel; AbbasKhan A.A. Khan; Abdus Sattar Chaudhry NTU SINGAPORE; Aditya Tripathi; al moorty; Altaf Mazid; anand varala; anand bandi; anil binwal; Anjana Bhatt; aparajita suman; ardprasad drtc; aruna sivakami; Arundhati A; Ashu Shokeen; Bar NK; Baradol ashok; beena c; beena chitrampatt; bramesha at hotmail.com; bravi33 at yahoo.co.in; c karisiddappa; Chadha Ravinder Kumar; chandra psrkrishnan; CHANDRAN D; chandrasekhar rao braou; chandrasekhararao v; CK RAMAIAH; Dinesh K. Gupta; enukondar at yahoo.co.in; eshwer reddy db; Gayasjamai makhdumi; Gobinda Chowdhury; goudar bangalore; Hari Krishna Reddy; Hari Nath Prasad; harvinder kaur; hrmohan; hrmohan at vsnl.com; infolibrarian; Ismail H Abdullahi; Jagtar Singh; Jagtar Singh; Jahagirdar India Iqbal >Subject: Prof V G Talwar, is the Vice chancellor of Mysore University > From sklohiya76 at gmail.com Fri Dec 12 11:02:55 2008 From: sklohiya76 at gmail.com (Shailesh Lohiya) Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:02:55 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Congratulation to Prof. V.C. Talwar Message-ID: <537634340812112132x7e4698dm9dc876de66fea3db@mail.gmail.com> On behalf of Library & Information Science professional, NIRMA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, I congratulate and wish Prof. V.G. Talwar for his new appointment as V.C of Mysore University. This is happy news to all the LIS professionals in our country. -- Shailesh K. Lohiya Librarian (NUIL) NIRMA University Ahmedabad -- 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/20081212/f0ed9f49/attachment-0001.html From esukhdev at gmail.com Fri Dec 12 11:44:44 2008 From: esukhdev at gmail.com (Sukhdev Singh) Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:44:44 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Accreditation of LIS Education In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: The modern times has blurred the boundaries if any between Library Science, Information Science and ICE (Information, Communication and Entertainment). The scene on ICE Technologies is changing very fast. Only yesterday, PM has officially inaugurated 3G Services in Delhi. While developments in ICE Technologies are a boon for end users; these rapid changes make the information professionals outdated even more rapidly. The training courses and curricula at LIS Schools will never be able to meets the information and educational requirements of the future generations. Thus we need to prepare professional who can quickly respond to changing technologies with application of their sound theoretical background in Library/Information Science and Philosophy of the profession. Please refer to my earlier email on LIS-FORUM - http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/2008-February/006909.html I had suggested a model for LIS Education. The relevant extract is reproduced below: The educational scheme for Library and Information Science Professionals should have three concentric cores (facets): 1 - CORE - having the essential LIS philosophy, theory, Tools and Best Practices. 2 - MIDDLE CORE - comprising of Information Technologies (All ICE Technologies) that boosts the effectiveness of the CORE (1). 3 - INTERFACE CORE - This is the face that is perceived by Prospective Employers. It takes the feedback from the job market, adjusts the MIDDLE Core to satisfy the Employers' requirements. (http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/2007-November/006454.html) I would put the Library Users under the INTERFACE CORE. Applying Library 2.0 Concepts to this would mean mechanisms be taught were Professionals develop processes in their library systems to capture the user behaviour and further refine and enrich library services and Content by encouraging collaborative feed back from users. For example - OPAC may be developed to allow tagging and adding to their 'favourites'. ------- --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Juran Sarkhel wrote: > Dear Friends, > > I do agree with Smita, Parinita,Vijay Gautam, K Desale, Prof. Mangla and > others who have expressed concern over the present state of LIS education in > our country. In this connection, I Iike to say that India today has more > than 100 LIS schools at the university level alone churning out at least > 5000 LIS degree holders ? 4500 bachelor degree holders and 500 master degree > holders ? even at a modest estimate, which is several times more than the > available job opportunities in Indian market and possibly highest production > in the world. All these have brought into focus the question of continued > relevance and adequacy of the present programme of LIS education. The > present scene in LIS education in India gives dismal condition and reflects > a very disappointing scene. To achieve academic excellence, it is of utmost > importance that standards and norms for LIS education should be set by an > external agency and thereafter adherence to them be made mandatory. The > immediate task is to establish a mechanism for accreditation of LIS courses > offered by different library schools in India. It is a high time that the > Government of India should pass an Act for LIS education on the analogy of > Indian Medical Council Act, BAR Council of India Act and All India Council > of Technical Education Act which would help in standardization of LIS > education in India. The proposed Act should make provision for establishing > a Library and Information Science (LIS) Council of India (or in any other > name) and it should function as a central agency to provide guidelines and > standards in LIS education and practices. I think all library professionals > should come forward to raise their voice in favour of accreditation of LIS > education to overcome its present crisis. > > > > Dr. J. K. Sarkhel > Professor & Head > Dept of Library & Information Science > University of Kalyani > Kalyani-741235 > West Bengal; India > > ________________________________ > MSN Tech and Gadgets: You are just one click away from a total update on the > latest gadgets and games Try it! > -- > 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 ram.mlib at gmail.com Fri Dec 12 11:48:50 2008 From: ram.mlib at gmail.com (Shriram Pandey) Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:48:50 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Change of Mail address for the Vacancy at LNM IIT, Jaipur Message-ID: Dear Professional I would like to bring your kind attention on LNM Vacancy for Asst. Librarian, that i have posted yesterday. Please send your application on library.lnmiit at gmail.com not library at lnmiit.ac.in(The inbox is almost full and may be your mail will not reach to us) Regards, Shri Ram Pandey - MLIS(BHU), IKM(IISc), UGC-NET (JRF) LNM Institute of Information Technology(LNM IIT) Jaipur(Rajasthan) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From angrosh at isim.ac.in Fri Dec 12 12:36:33 2008 From: angrosh at isim.ac.in (Angrosh) Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:36:33 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] InfoVision 2009, Jan 22-23, Bangalore - Early Bird Registration closes on December 20, 2008! Message-ID: <003c01c95c28$36cd9620$a468c260$@ac.in> InfoVision 2009: The Knowledge Summit, January 22-23, 2009, Bangalore Theme: "Content to Intent: Understanding user intent in multimodal, multilingual, mobile, and enterprise Information Access" Please note that the Early Bird Registration closes on December 20, 2008. InfoVision 2009 - the 4th Edition of InfoVision Series focuses on the following: * Mobile Information Access * Multimedia Information Access * Multilingual Information Access * Consumer Created Content * eScience, eResearch and Cyber infrastructure * Enterprise Content and Communication Inaugural Keynote Dr. Mark Maybury, Executive Director, Information Technology Division, MITRE Corporation, USA - an expert in Intelligent Multimedia Information Retrieval will give the Inaugural Keynote at InfoVision 2009 on January 22, 2009. Keynote Title: Intelligent Multimedia: Promises and Challenges InfoVision 2009 offers an intellectual feast of talks by: 1. Dr. P. 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Thanks and regards, Angrosh ************************************* Angrosh Project Manager International School of Information Management University of Mysore, Manasagangotri Mysore 570 006 Tel: +91-821-2514699; +91-821-2411417 Fax: +91-821-2519209 Email: angrosh at isim.ac.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/20081212/9ee29557/attachment-0001.html From seminars09 at gmail.com Fri Dec 12 13:09:24 2008 From: seminars09 at gmail.com (Sree Kumar Nair) Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:09:24 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Accreditation of LIS Education Message-ID: Dear Sir, Many thanks for your mail. I appreciate your thoughts and am of the opinion that the syllabus will make a huge difference in solving the recent problems. A strict course curriculum and evaluation will make a candidate to think which profession he/she wants to join. I have the following suggestions to make: The 12 month BLIS/MLIS course should be spread over for a period 16 months with 4 months of compulsory internship in a reputed Library. Theme-oriented assignments/project should be introduced as soon as possible. More emphasis should be given on Computer courses - Online Resources, how to create and maintain a website but not on what is 'CPU' and what is 'mouse'? The LIS correspondence courses should have a minimum 5 ? 6 months compulsory class on weekends failing which student will not be able to write the examination. The correspondence course should also have theme oriented project/assignments as part of their course structure. The 2 year and 5 year MLIS programes will help in developing standard of LIS education in India. Why not have 5 year BA. LIS or BSc. LIS etc etc... equivalent to Bachelors Degree (*in 5 year law prog. it is BA LLB or BSc LLB and after that LLM*). This will help to standardize the education in LIS and have specific course structure. This will also help an individual to specialize in one subject area. Sir, *department-wise*, the Library is the only department where you have more no. of people. If you look at other departments, be it teaching or non-teaching, the no. of staff is less. Yet LIS professionals are facing difficulties in getting jobs. A slight improvement in the pattern of LIS syllabus will help a lot. With warm regards, Sree Kumar Nair, SLCU, Bangalore - 29 -- 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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Roddy MacLeod MA, DipLib, MCILIP Senior Subject Librarian Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS Tel (0131) 451 3576 Fax: (0131) 451 3164 R.A.MacLeod at hw.ac.uk Home: http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/libram/roddy.html Blogging at: http://hwlibrary.wordpress.com/ Heriot-Watt University is a Charity registered in Scotland, SC000278 -- Heriot-Watt University is a Scottish charity registered under charity number SC000278. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From tapaskumar.mu at gmail.com Fri Dec 12 15:35:29 2008 From: tapaskumar.mu at gmail.com (Tapas Kumar Das) Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:35:29 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] How can we improve the status of the Librarians? Message-ID: Dear Friends I too agree with S K DEsale and P B mangla. We cannot keep on giving endless services and in return expect nothing. The working conditions of the librarians and their status is very poor in our country. Even after earning a post graduation in LIS, many of the librarians are taken on a beginner's scale. As we say for better services a user has to pay. The same thing applies when it comes to salary and working conditions. If you are paid well, you serve better. What Ms. Smita Chandra says is correct and I think these are the very basic things which most of the librarians do. We should also understand that librarians have to depend on the parent organization and libraries come last when budget is to be allocated and comes first when services are to be given. So I would say that IT progresses, ordered and neater libraries can be expected when there are no budget problems and min. man power is a must. And the important facor is the LIS education There are exceptions where librarians don't work inspite of having good budgets etc.are true, indeed, that Librarians are not getting the same status as lecturers and other professionals in the society. The problem is not with Institution but with the individual in itself. I have personally come across many professionals having MLIS or M.Phil but not up-to-mark. Why???? Is it the structure of the course or what they learn? It is very easy to get first class in LIS if you know the basic, but this basic does not help in LIS profession. What they have learnt during their course period - they are unable to utilize the same in their institution. For example how many candidates know to use DDC/Colon effectively and have a proper classification system in the Library. How many of us are good at giving proper user education??? There are many more such issues which cannot be discussed. If you notice many of them (I should not be calling them professionals) use either the Library of Congress Catalogue or British Library Integrated Catalogue to classify the books, which in my opinion - using these for classification of Indian books is misleading and inappropriate for arrangement of books in a library. My dear friend, Classification and Cataloguing is the essence of LIS and if you take them out anybody can be a Librarian. Communication is one aspect which needs to be thoroughly improved. Communication can be improved through regular reading and interacting with the users and not through starting a movement. Here, again, the individual has to take the initiative. I have also come across good Librarians and they are well placed in Asst. Professors grade. To be frank with you, they are really good in their work, in their ideology and have contributed towards the growth of the institution. Some of the Library Assistants are also well placed. There is a saying "First Deserve and then Desire". 'Deserve' is not only qualification but other aspects in an individual. I am of the opinion that with 2-3 years of work experience in a library will easily get him a lecturer's scale. My dear Vivek if you notice, the Library Assistant's are paid in the grade of Rs.5500/-. The fact is that some Institutes take Library Assistant and call them Librarians and thus the Library Assistant feels that they are in Lecturer's grade. The Librarians are not teaching and the ones who teach obviously get a lecturer's/asst professors grade. Imagine the rigorous process which a Library lecturer has to undergo for a job in an institute. As a part of the interview process they have to teach a class in front of the higher authorities and then judged by students and faculty. Does this happen with non-teaching Librarian??? If you notice all Post Graduates are not Lecturers, they opt for different options and those who opt for lecturers/Asst Professor know the art of teaching. An institution cannot survive by taking lectures who do not know how to teach and those who know how to teach are paid the Lecturers/Asst Professors grade. But ironically, all PG in LIS wants Lecturers grade, the moment they join. -- Tapas Kumar Das Technical Assistant Central Library Mangalayatan University Aligarh, U.P. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From monalipanchbhai at hotmail.com Fri Dec 12 15:43:55 2008 From: monalipanchbhai at hotmail.com (Monali Panchbhai) Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 10:13:55 +0000 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Accreditation of LIS Education In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear Members, I would really want to say thanks to Dr. Sarkhel for giving the exact or approx. statistics over here. This mail really gives a idea of demand - supply of this profession in job market. If we look at LIS jobs as a type of business then we have to really think from this angle. Some time back while taking interviews for junior position I seen the quality of most of the new comers and felt very bad. The standard has come down a lot (I am NOT saying that there is no standard remained at all). It seems that reputed institutes as well giving admission to whoever is coming to enroll. That brings our market further down. Selection of candidate and revision in course material has become basic needs in our profession. The course should include more and more practical based / situation based curriculum where guest lecturers would come from various types of libraries and brief students about profiles in market or problems and solutions in actual work scenario. Their can be a special paper of case studies like most of MBA colleges have. We can also have the exams at state or national level than of board level so that only those students will pass who actually put efforts (but the paper checking should be without any bias and corruption less). Associations should make it compulsory to close down the course for those colleges who can not achieve the results as per pre-decided conditions. This would give a standard in market and also the supply in field will have some quality and restricted quantity. The tricks and methods suggested by all my friend are really worth and good to apply but the person who has to apply that should be capable enough to do that and the production of such capable persons will be from our educational factories. So I guess it has become the responsibility of our associations to check the standard of institutes and students graduating from them, before they start fighting for rights of current and future professionals who would be coming in field. If people are capable enough then it make sense to fight for their existence or else the image of these associations would get spoil to for defending those who are good for nothing or not upto the standards. And when we have standard in ourself then at later stages we can fight for standard response to our expectations like types of jobs, salaries offered for various positions etc. Regards, Monali Panchbhai - Maduskar Mumbai. From: jksarkhel at hotmail.com To: lis-forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:10:51 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Accreditation of LIS Education Dear Friends, I do agree with Smita, Parinita,Vijay Gautam, K Desale, Prof. Mangla and others who have expressed concern over the present state of LIS education in our country. In this connection, I Iike to say that India today has more than 100 LIS schools at the university level alone churning out at least 5000 LIS degree holders ? 4500 bachelor degree holders and 500 master degree holders ? even at a modest estimate, which is several times more than the available job opportunities in Indian market and possibly highest production in the world. All these have brought into focus the question of continued relevance and adequacy of the present programme of LIS education. The present scene in LIS education in India gives dismal condition and reflects a very disappointing scene. To achieve academic excellence, it is of utmost importance that standards and norms for LIS education should be set by an external agency and thereafter adherence to them be made mandatory. The immediate task is to establish a mechanism for accreditation of LIS courses offered by different library schools in India. It is a high time that the Government of India should pass an Act for LIS education on the analogy of Indian Medical Council Act, BAR Council of India Act and All India Council of Technical Education Act which would help in standardization of LIS education in India. The proposed Act should make provision for establishing a Library and Information Science (LIS) Council of India (or in any other name) and it should function as a central agency to provide guidelines and standards in LIS education and practices. I think all library professionals should come forward to raise their voice in favour of accreditation of LIS education to overcome its present crisis. Dr. J. K. 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URL: http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/attachments/20081212/5c47a246/attachment-0001.html From premrajmishra at gmail.com Fri Dec 12 16:29:17 2008 From: premrajmishra at gmail.com (Premaraj Mishra) Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:29:17 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Quotation process Message-ID: <3fedbc820812120259m76a8e615hc6536af02ddc550c@mail.gmail.com> Dear LIS Mambers, Kindly post your view on "Quotation process in Book Acquisition ". It will be highly appreciable to justify your views. 1. Good OR 2. Bad Best Regards Premaraj Mishra Asst. Librarian NSHM Knowledge Campus Kolkata Quotes of the Day : One never knows when things start happening in India. They go on talking and holding meetings but they rarely act here. That is why it is important we keep pushing. -- 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/20081212/92ce4cbd/attachment.html From amolchawande at rediffmail.com Fri Dec 12 13:26:40 2008 From: amolchawande at rediffmail.com (amol suresh chawande) Date: 12 Dec 2008 07:56:40 -0000 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Alumni Association for Deptt. of LIS Amravati University, M.S. Message-ID: <20081212075640.17860.qmail@f5mail-236-240.rediffmail.com> Dear all, If you have completed B.L.I.Sc. or M.L.I.Sc. from Amravati University, Maharashtra, please contact Dr. V. Choukhande, Department of Library and Information Science, Amravati University, Amravati. Department of LIS is now collection all related information of previous students and form alumni association. Please cooperate regarding this matter. Regards Amol Chawande -- 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/20081212/5debb326/attachment-0001.html From premrajmishra at gmail.com Fri Dec 12 16:24:09 2008 From: premrajmishra at gmail.com (Premaraj Mishra) Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:24:09 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Good Medical and Pharmacy Book and Journal Suppliers with in the city of Kolkata Message-ID: <3fedbc820812120254h4c9ef516ua6553055811db4e2@mail.gmail.com> ESTEEMED LIS MEMBERS ! This is my sincere request that, please let me know the Name, Address and Ph. No. of *Good* Pharmacy and Medical Books and Journal *Suppliers* with in the city of Kolkata. Best Regards Premaraj Mishra Asst. Librarian NSHM Knowledge Campus Kolkata -- 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/20081212/79427d9f/attachment-0001.html From haneefcalicut at yahoo.com Fri Dec 12 18:38:27 2008 From: haneefcalicut at yahoo.com (Dr. K M Haneefa) Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 05:08:27 -0800 (PST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] New Nomenclature for Librarians Message-ID: <701688.296.qm@web33501.mail.mud.yahoo.com> New Nomenclature for Librarians Most of the Librarians do not want to identify themselves as Librarians.? The UGC Pay Review Committee has given new nomenclature for various teaching posts (Assistant Professor for Lecturer).? Similarly Librarian posts should also be redesignated as Manager/Director/Professor in Colleges and Universities recognized by University Grants Commission. The core responsibilities for librarians are administrative in nature.? Their jobs often involve overall management, administration and coordination of all phases of day-to-day operations, collection development, policy formulation and programs development, etc.? Most of the librarians are providing training and orientation for library users and new staff members. In general, the Librarianship sees itself is lacking in reward and respect but the nature of duties are compared with a high status profession.? One of the important measures that can be taken to improve the status of Librarians is to redesignate them as Manager/Director/Professor.? The scale of pay and career advancement scheme of Librarians should be equivalent to that of teachers in Colleges and Universities.??? ? Dr. K M Haneefa Librarian T.K.M. College of Engineering Kollam-691 005 Kerala, INDIA Phone No:+91-474-2713933 Mobile No:09895622811 Fax : +91-474-2712023 E-mail: hanee4u 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/20081212/e2406853/attachment-0001.html From amit at infobanc.com Fri Dec 12 20:25:00 2008 From: amit at infobanc.com (Amit K Chatterjee) Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 20:25:00 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Accreditation of LIS Education References: Message-ID: <49427B44.9EA03E13@infobanc.com> Dear Juran, Thanks for an objective analysis on demand supply situation of library professionals in India. As systematic and methodical as you are (going by our brief interactions some 30 years back) - there is hardly any area of disagreement towards your thesis. However, here's my two cent contribution on same subject from another perspective I believe, there is huge opportunity for information science professionals in Indian corporate - far more than all library schools in India can supply. With increased competition in market place - companies today are compelled to invest on reliable information collection and analysis infrastructure. To remain in market place - CEOs need information on variety of areas ranging from market data, competition profile, consumer demography, technological information, economic information such as production, consumption, export, import etc. Library professionals are in a better position to make this information available. However, traditionally library schools have taught how to manage academic and technical information. If horizon of library education is broadened with emphasis on corporate and market related information - there will be no unemployment problem for good information science professionals At present, MBAs from all shades of management institutions are grabbing these positions. Suitably trained library professionals can capture a good part of these job openings My advice to budding professionals - do not wait for changes in course curriculum or Govt policy - start learning Internet and other information resources, sharpen your analytical and presentation skill, improve communication style and start looking for jobs in corporate world. Already a good many library and information science professionals are employed in corporate information centres. My advice to them: 1. Understand value of data validation. Its not enough to supply requested data or information. Ask yourself 'How reliable is my data ?' How reliable is the source ? Is there scope for cross-checking with another source ? 2. Look for details, facts, statistics, data - all the time. Be agile with numbers, statistics, data related to your company's products and services. 3. While on the job of information retrieval - always aim for higher precision - not larger recall. Time is precious in Corporate world. 4. Sharpen your human networking skill - never confine yourself to library, roam around, collect information on how other departments are working, find out what kind of information they need, innovate on channels and delivery of information Remember - you are an information professional ! 5. Your position, influence, financial emolument etc. are all proportional to your contribution to organization's goal. If possible, get involved in important projects, not necessarily related to library, and do your best to contribute as much as you can. Sooner or later, your efforts will be noticed and you will be rewarded with greater role. 6. Unlike Govt - hierarchy in Corporate is more subtle. Some General Managers are more powerful than even VP. Ascertain the power centres and try to get nearer to it. Warm Regards Dr. Amit K Chatterjee Ace InfoBanc Pvt Ltd New Delhi - 110016 www.infobanc.com > Dear Friends, > > I do agree with Smita, Parinita,Vijay Gautam, K Desale, Prof. Mangla and others who > have expressed concern over the present state of LIS education in our country. In this > connection, I Iike to say that India today has more than 100 LIS schools at the > university level alone churning out at least 5000 LIS degree holders ? 4500 bachelor > degree holders and 500 master degree holders ? even at a modest estimate, which > is several times more than the available job opportunities in Indian market and > possibly highest production in the world. All these have brought into focus the question > of continued relevance and adequacy of the present programme of LIS education. > The present scene in LIS education in "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /> />India gives dismal condition and reflects a very disappointing scene. To achieve > academic excellence, it is of utmost importance that standards and norms for LIS > education should be set by an external agency and thereafter adherence to them be > made mandatory. The immediate task is to establish a mechanism for accreditation > of LIS courses offered by different library schools in India. It is a high time that the > Government of India should pass an Act for LIS education on the analogy of Indian > Medical Council Act, BAR Council of India Act and All India Council of Technical > Education Act which would help in standardization of LIS education in India. The > proposed Act should make provision for establishing a Library and Information > Science (LIS) Council of India (or in any other name) and it should function as a > central agency to provide guidelines and standards in LIS education and practices. I > think all library professionals should come forward to raise their voice in favour of > accreditation of LIS education to overcome its present crisis. > > > > Dr. J. K. Sarkhel > Professor & Head > Dept of Library & Information Science > University of Kalyani > Kalyani-741235 > West Bengal; India -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From seminars09 at gmail.com Sat Dec 13 08:50:13 2008 From: seminars09 at gmail.com (Sree Kumar Nair) Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 08:50:13 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] How can we improve the status of the Librarians??? - eg Message-ID: Dear Friends, When we speak of improving the status of the Librarians, here we have a friend who has plagiarised my text which was published in LIS, Vol 69 Issue 16 - "How can we improve the status of the Librarians - Sree Kumar Nair" (this was sent to LIS forum and to one of my friend Mr Venkata who had forwarded me Mr. S.K Desale email). Our dear friend "Tapas" has given me an opportunity to corroborate with my statement " ...problem not with the Institution but with the individual in itself." Mr. Tapas, you have really given us an example why the status of Librarians is not improving. However we work, such people will exist everywhere. With warm regards, Sree Kumar Nair. Message: 3 Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:35:29 +0530 From: "Tapas Kumar Das" Subject: [LIS-Forum] How can we improve the status of the Librarians? To: LIS-Forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Dear Friends I too agree with S K DEsale and P B mangla. We cannot keep on giving endless services and in return expect nothing. The working conditions of the librarians and their status is very poor in our country. Even after earning a post graduation in LIS, many of the librarians are taken on a beginner's scale. As we say for better services a user has to pay. The same thing applies when it comes to salary and working conditions. If you are paid well, you serve better. What Ms. Smita Chandra says is correct and I think these are the very basic things which most of the librarians do. We should also understand that librarians have to depend on the parent organization and libraries come last when budget is to be allocated and comes first when services are to be given. So I would say that IT progresses, ordered and neater libraries can be expected when there are no budget problems and min. man power is a must. And the important facor is the LIS education There are exceptions where librarians don't work inspite of having good budgets etc.are true, indeed, *****that Librarians are not getting the same status as lecturers and other professionals in the society. The problem is not with Institution but with the individual in itself. I have personally come across many professionals having MLIS or M.Phil but not up-to-mark. Why???? Is it the structure of the course or what they learn? It is very easy to get first class in LIS if you know the basic, but this basic does not help in LIS profession. What they have learnt during their course period - they are unable to utilize the same in their institution. For example how many candidates know to use DDC/Colon effectively and have a proper classification system in the Library. How many of us are good at giving proper user education??? There are many more such issues which cannot be discussed. If you notice many of them (I should not be calling them professionals) use either the Library of Congress Catalogue or British Library Integrated Catalogue to classify the books, which in my opinion - using these for classification of Indian books is misleading and inappropriate for arrangement of books in a library. My dear friend, Classification and Cataloguing is the essence of LIS and if you take them out anybody can be a Librarian. Communication is one aspect which needs to be thoroughly improved. Communication can be improved through regular reading and interacting with the users and not through starting a movement. Here, again, the individual has to take the initiative. I have also come across good Librarians and they are well placed in Asst. Professors grade. To be frank with you, they are really good in their work, in their ideology and have contributed towards the growth of the institution. Some of the Library Assistants are also well placed. There is a saying "First Deserve and then Desire". 'Deserve' is not only qualification but other aspects in an individual. I am of the opinion that with 2-3 years of work experience in a library will easily get him a lecturer's scale. My dear Vivek if you notice, the Library Assistant's are paid in the grade of Rs.5500/-. The fact is that some Institutes take Library Assistant and call them Librarians and thus the Library Assistant feels that they are in Lecturer's grade. The Librarians are not teaching and the ones who teach obviously get a lecturer's/asst professors grade. Imagine the rigorous process which a Library lecturer has to undergo for a job in an institute. As a part of the interview process they have to teach a class in front of the higher authorities and then judged by students and faculty. Does this happen with non-teaching Librarian??? If you notice all Post Graduates are not Lecturers, they opt for different options and those who opt for lecturers/Asst Professor know the art of teaching. An institution cannot survive by taking lectures who do not know how to teach and those who know how to teach are paid the Lecturers/Asst Professors grade. But ironically, all PG in LIS wants Lecturers grade, the moment they join.***** -- Tapas Kumar Das Technical Assistant Central Library Mangalayatan University Aligarh, U.P. -- 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/20081213/84d19fef/attachment-0001.html From prabhash at gipe.ernet.in Sat Dec 13 13:05:44 2008 From: prabhash at gipe.ernet.in (Prabhash N. Rath) Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 13:05:44 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Citation laureates receive Nobel prizes Message-ID: <000a01c95cf5$6863be80$8264a8c0@GIPE> The usefulness of citation analysis is proved by its correct prediction of nobel prize winners over the years. Please see the following link for detailed story: http://scientific.thomsonreuters.com/news/2008-12/8492540/ Regards Prabhash Narayana Rath, Ph. D. Documentation Officer Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (University estd. under section 3 of UGC Act 1956) 846 Shivajinagar Agarkar Road Pune 411004 Ph: +91-20-25650287 (O.), 25678311 (R.) -- 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/20081213/c5fabb1c/attachment-0001.html From skdesale at gmail.com Sat Dec 13 14:55:47 2008 From: skdesale at gmail.com (S K DEsale) Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 14:55:47 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Invitation for college librarians meet at University of Pune. Message-ID: <21bdf6910812130125q1ee9c4efm42dfd3ab06d5539a@mail.gmail.com> Dear all, Please attend the meeting of college librarians under University of Pune on 21st December 2008 at 11 am. The vanue for the meeting is conferece hall of Jayakar library, Universiy of Pune. Discussion will be on how we can improve our status. After discussions, line of action will be decided to achive that. Following points along with other issues raise by librarians in the meeting will be discussed. I appeal you to attend the meeting & share your views. 1) *College Librarians should be considered as a faculty and should be given the same rights given to the teachers*. College Librarian should have right to represent on board of studied of LIS, he should be given a right to vote and choose his representatives on board. Since librarian is a person who is actually working in the library he knows what knowledge one should pusses to be successful in this profession and what should be taught to new entrants. Librarian can design new courses, syllabus and examination pattern so that the new entrants will have the right skills to cope with the changing needs of the library users. *2) **Academic library professionals should have the nomenclatures same as approved by Andhra Gvt.* Andhra Pradesh Government has re-designated Librarians/Deputy Librarians/Assistant Librarians as Professors/Associate Professors/Assistant Professors in Library and Information Science. 3) *College Librarian should be considered as head of department of library and information science like other teachers for their respective departments in colleges.* Librarian is continuously involved in teaching students in how to Locate, retrieve and use correct, pinpointed information quickly and accurately. He/she is also engage in developing reading habits and achieve information literacy among the students by doing this they actually stimulate the learning process. ** * * *4) **Library profession should have the separate faculty like other professions e.g. Law, Management, Medicine etc.* * * Library and information science is a profession and it should be treated as a separate profession. It should be given an equal chance for its development like other professions. The separate faculty of LIS will help in the development of this profession. Presently LIS is been clubbed in M.M.S. (Mental and Moral and social sciences) with other subjects, which are non-professional courses therefore LIS should have separate faculty like management, law, architect etc. 5) *One seat should be reserved for college librarian on senate*. There is no representation of college librarians in the senate. University librarian is ex-officio member of the senate. Regards Mr. S. K. Desale Asst librarian Jayakar Library -- 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/20081213/03c51753/attachment-0001.html From puna_05 at yahoo.co.in Sun Dec 14 11:27:22 2008 From: puna_05 at yahoo.co.in (Puna Das) Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 11:27:22 +0530 (IST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Call for Nominations: Public Librarians are Invited to Participate in Workshop on "Future Libraries: Advanced GSDL" with UNESCO Scholarship Message-ID: <441073.10815.qm@web95408.mail.in2.yahoo.com> Call for Nominations:? Public Librarians are Invited to Participate in Workshop on "Future Libraries: Advanced GSDL" with UNESCO Scholarship ? Workshop on "Future Libraries: Advanced GSDL and RFID" 14-16 January 2009, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi Organized by: The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi ? Nominations are invited from the library professionals working in the State Central Libraries, District Libraries, Public Libraries and Rural Libraries for Scholarships in attending the Workshop on "Future Libraries: Advanced GSDL and RFID",? during 14-16 January 2009, at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.? The Scholarship includes complimentary registration and travel support (by Sleeper Class train). The complimentary registration includes workshop kit (reading material and GSDL software on CD-ROM) and working lunch/tea. This scholarship does not include cost of accommodation, however assistance can be provided to avail accommodation in youth hostels/ guest houses. ? Interested professionals strictly belonging to above-mentioned categories can download the Registration Form [http://teriin.org/events/docs/reg_form_dl_workshop.doc] and apply for the Scholarship latest by 24th December 2008. Selection of the candidates will be done by merit-cum-means basis. ? Send Filled-up Registration Form? (forwarded by the head of library/institution) along with CV of the candidate to: The DL Workshop Secretariat (UNESCO Scholarship) Library and Information Centre TERI Darbari Seth Block, Lodhi Road New Delhi ? 110 003 Download Registration Form: Website: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Anup Kumar Das New Delhi, India http://www.openaccess-unesco.blogspot.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From m.bavakutty at yahoo.com Sun Dec 14 11:45:22 2008 From: m.bavakutty at yahoo.com (Bavakutty M) Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 11:45:22 +0530 (IST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Hearty Congradulations to Prof. Talwar Message-ID: <830738.54122.qm@web94809.mail.in2.yahoo.com> On behalf of the faculty and students of The Dept. of Library & Information Science Pondicherry University I congratulate Prof. V.G. Talwar for his new assaigntment as V.C of Mysore University and wish him every success. Dr.?M. Bavakutty Professor DLIS, Pondicherry University Connect with friends all over the world. Get Yahoo! India Messenger at http://in.messenger.yahoo.com/?wm=n/ -- 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/20081214/61583785/attachment-0001.html From tshahab at jamiahamdard.ac.in Mon Dec 15 11:18:56 2008 From: tshahab at jamiahamdard.ac.in (T. Shahab) Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:18:56 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Prof V G Talwar, is the Vice chancellor of Mysore University Message-ID: <85440C2C606CA34080106629C537260830C776@mail3.jamiahamdard.ac.in> Dear all, The crowning of Prof Talwar, Ex-HOD Dept. of LIS, Univ. of Mysore as the Vice-Chancellor of the Mysore University should be undoubtedly celebrated by the fellow librarians all over the country as a great occasion. This selection whereas on one hand is a great tribute to Prof. Talwar's personal academic excellence as well as his administrative acumen, it is on the other hand also a tribute to the unbiased and wise decision of the governor of the state who has deemed it fit to stamp his acknowledgement to the all round contributions that a good librarian can make to the University system. Regards, TANWIR HMS Central Library New Delhi -----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: Friday, December 12, 2008 11:19 AM To: lis-forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Prof V G Talwar, is the Vice chancellor of Mysore University Date: 11 Dec 2008 13:35:19 -0000 From: Dr. S M.SHAFI It is a rarest tribute to capabilities of pof V G Talwar, Ex- chairman of one of the best Departments of LIS at Mysore and gives more creditibility to the subject and profession which is facing meeting new challanges and getting best opportunities in Knowlege Society. We congratulate profesor Talawr and wish him a succesful tenure in the Mysore Unversity. S M SHAFI Professor and head Department oF L&IS , KU (J&K) On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 Harish Chandra wrote : >Great news Dr. Laxman. Really LIS professionals are proud of Prof. VGT >Regards and thanks > >Dr. Harish Chandra >Librarian >Indian Institute of Technology Madras >Chennai - 600036 INDIA >http://www.harishchandra.com >http://www.linkedin.com/in/harishsushila >http://www.iitm.ac.in >http://www.cenlib.iitm.ac.in >Phone: 91 044 22574951-O >FAX :91 044 22570509 > > > From: Prof. N. Laxman Rao. [mailto:naglaxman at yahoo.com] >Sent: Wed 12/10/2008 22:21 >To: list forum; nmlis at yahoogroups.com; iatlis at yahoogroups.com; ifla lis education list; amudhavalli alagusundaram; anjali gulati; BASAVARAJ KADEMANI; bs_biradar at rediffmail.com KUVEMPU >Cc: A S chandel; AbbasKhan A.A. Khan; Abdus Sattar Chaudhry NTU SINGAPORE; Aditya Tripathi; al moorty; Altaf Mazid; anand varala; anand bandi; anil binwal; Anjana Bhatt; aparajita suman; ardprasad drtc; aruna sivakami; Arundhati A; Ashu Shokeen; Bar NK; Baradol ashok; beena c; beena chitrampatt; bramesha at hotmail.com; bravi33 at yahoo.co.in; c karisiddappa; Chadha Ravinder Kumar; chandra psrkrishnan; CHANDRAN D; chandrasekhar rao braou; chandrasekhararao v; CK RAMAIAH; Dinesh K. Gupta; enukondar at yahoo.co.in; eshwer reddy db; Gayasjamai makhdumi; Gobinda Chowdhury; goudar bangalore; Hari Krishna Reddy; Hari Nath Prasad; harvinder kaur; hrmohan; hrmohan at vsnl.com; infolibrarian; Ismail H Abdullahi; Jagtar Singh; Jagtar Singh; Jahagirdar India Iqbal >Subject: Prof V G Talwar, is the Vice chancellor of Mysore University > _______________________________________________ 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. -- 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/20081215/38bbd644/attachment-0001.html From bond5099 at yahoo.co.in Sat Dec 13 16:05:32 2008 From: bond5099 at yahoo.co.in (nageswar rao Kondamudi) Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 16:05:32 +0530 (IST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Subject: Congratulation to I-Quiz Winners 2008 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <765003.55802.qm@web94904.mail.in2.yahoo.com> ..Dear Professional, I have great pleasure in extending my hearty congratulations to Mr.Vijaya Anand(Winner Team)IIT Kanpur, Mr.Ramesh Yernagula(Runner Team)IIT Kanpur, their Panel and all those associated with this effort for being recognized for their efforts through the prestigious I-Quiz By Informatic Ltd at? 23 IASLIC Conference , Kolkota. I am sure that it will encourage them to work with renewed vigour towards a more sustainable future. with warm regards K.Nageswararao Sr.Lib.Information Asst. IIT Delhi. Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/ -- 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/20081213/0346b61a/attachment.html From mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Mon Dec 15 15:28:20 2008 From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin) Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:28:20 +0530 (IST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Possible Spam : Accreditation of LIS Education Message-ID: Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:20:04 +0530 From: Prabhash N. Rath I fully agree with Prof. Sarkhel's proposal for an external accreditation body. I think the time has come to assess the LIS schools periodically evaluate the standard of teaching and research in concerned LIS departments. Prabhash N. Rath ----- Original Message ----- From: Juran Sarkhel To: LIS-Forum LIS-Forum Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 10:10 PM Subject: Possible Spam : [LIS-Forum] Accreditation of LIS Education Dear Friends, I do agree with Smita, Parinita,Vijay Gautam, K Desale, Prof. Mangla and others who have expressed concern over the present state of LIS education in our country. In this connection, I Iike to say that India today has more than 100 LIS schools at the university level alone churning out at least 5000 LIS degree holders ? 4500 bachelor degree holders and 500 master degree holders ? even at a modest estimate, which is several times more than the available job opportunities in Indian market and possibly highest production in the world. All these have brought into focus the question of continued relevance and adequacy of the present programme of LIS education. [truncated] From mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Mon Dec 15 15:37:22 2008 From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin) Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:37:22 +0530 (IST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] LIS-Forum] How we can improve status of library professionals. Message-ID: From: Baban Chavan Date: Dec 6, 2008 7:09 AM Dear all It is the true fact that librarians are not given the statuas of faculty especialy in academic field having a same educational qualification. Even if the workof librarian different than teahers ; he gides the user community to get the required information from huge stock of knowledge, he guides the student to complete the projects, Some librarians guides the M.Phil & P.Hd. students. So he is the Teacher of Teacher. But unfotunately he is not given the importance as the faculties are given.so for the status of librarians are concerned he or she needs to improve overall performance by working hard to optimum level . so that he wil be given status. However, to get the status there is a need to have some sort of representation in BoS,Senate in university. so that librarians will be able to place their problem on such a platform. this wiil help in improving libraries,services then automaticaly the status of librarians. This type of discussion is going on in maharashtra is a welcome step. I am in favour of this step & I request all college librarians to be a part of this movement for betterment of Liraries,This is the response to Mr.Desale, Ass.Librarian, University of Pune. Thanks a lot Chavan B.V. Librarian Sangamner College Sangamner Dist -Maharashtra Maharashtra From ajaysharma.lib at gmail.com Mon Dec 15 13:42:09 2008 From: ajaysharma.lib at gmail.com (Ajay Kum Sharma) Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:42:09 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] West Bengal College Service Commission invites applications for Lecturers (LIS) Message-ID: <50ee88430812150012r38609078u5a585eff589ec1e2@mail.gmail.com> Dear Library Professionals, West Bengal College Service Commission invites applications from Indian Citizens (and other national who are declared eligible by the Govt. of India) for preparation of Panel for the post of lecturers/librarians of Non-Govt. Colleges and Teachers' Training Colleges affiliated to the state universities of West Bengal. Tentative vacancies as on 15/09/08 (University Zone wise Separate) for degree colleges are given below: Name of the University General OBC SC ST Total PH 1. Calcutta University 19 0 0 0 19 0 2. Burdwan University 36 0 0 0 36 0 3. West Bengal State University (Barasat) 7 0 0 0 7 0 4. Vidyasagar University 14 0 0 0 14 0 5. Kalyani University 11 0 0 0 11 0 6. Gour Banga University 3 0 0 0 3 0 7. North Bengal University 15 0 0 0 15 0 Last date of submission of application form: On or before 31.12.2008 by hand or by post during11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on all working days. Details of vacancies, eligibility, fees and format of application is available on the wbcsc website (http://www.wbcsc.ac.in/). Thanks and regards. Ajay Kumar Sharma Assistant Librarian, Central Library, Visva Bharati, Santiniketan, Birbhum - 731235, W.B. Email: ajaysharma.lib at visva-bharati.ac.in Web: http://www.geocities.com/ajaysharma_lib/ *********************************************************** 1. Join today Digital Library Discussion Forum http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/dlrg 2. Join today LIS-Forum mailing list 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. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/attachments/20081215/cf7e0551/attachment.html From meruvu2006 at gmail.com Mon Dec 15 15:39:45 2008 From: meruvu2006 at gmail.com (meruvu Satyanarayana) Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:39:45 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Congratulations to Prof. Talwar Message-ID: <9de3d20f0812150209s6cd63fdn8abddfca48fe9c5e@mail.gmail.com> On behalf of the Library Professionals of Andhra University,Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh),I congratulate Prof. V.G. Talwar for his new assaigntment as V.C of Mysore University and wish him every success -- Dr. M. Satyanarayana Associate Professor of Library and Information Science, 3/10, AU Quarters, Siripuram , Visakhapatnam-530 003 Phone: 2560669 (M) 9440632703 -- 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/20081215/c2d7a7e6/attachment.html From dinesh.ncet at gmail.com Mon Dec 15 15:47:20 2008 From: dinesh.ncet at gmail.com (DINESH SIDDAIAH) Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:17:20 +0000 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Books Store at your Window Message-ID: <62c911520812150217o377eb12fo4e8578b165de3f6d@mail.gmail.com> Dear Friends, Those who are struggling to get the price proof of newly publised book irrespective of pulisher can log on to http://www.flipkart.com/. flipkart site provides upto date details of new editions of books. You just need to type the ISBN No. or Author or Key word. You also get good discount on the books if you buy online through flipkart. Thanking You, Dinesh K. S. -- Dr. Dinesh K. S. Selection Grade Librarian, Nagarjuna College of Engineering & Technology, Devanahalli, Bengaluru - 562 110. -- 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/20081215/4ed247d4/attachment-0001.html From manglapb at gmail.com Mon Dec 15 15:44:11 2008 From: manglapb at gmail.com (pramod mangla) Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:44:11 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Prof. V.G.Talwar as Vice -Chancellor, Mysore Message-ID: <162176e50812150214x25821660n3274dd9730ea6131@mail.gmail.com> I hereby convey my sincere congratulations and best wishes to Prof.V.G.Talwar for his taking over as VC, Mysore University. His appointment is certainly an epoch making event in this LIS Profession. Prof.P.B.Mangla -- 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/20081215/b29184e5/attachment-0001.html From librarian at gitam.edu Mon Dec 15 20:51:09 2008 From: librarian at gitam.edu (librarian at gitam.edu) Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:51:09 +0530 (IST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Convey of Congratulations to V.G.Talwar on the new assignment as a vice chancellor of Mysore University-reg:- Message-ID: <1148.59.93.127.225.1229354469.squirrel@mail.gitam.edu> Dear sir, I on behalf of the staff of Knowledge Resource Centre(Central Library) GITAM University wish to convey my whole hearted congratulations to Prof. V.G.Talwar for assuming charge as Vice chancellor of Mysore University. With best wishes Dr.K. Satyanarayana University Librarian Knowledge Resource Centre GITAM University Visakhapatnam Andhra Pradesh -- 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 vimal0212 at gmail.com Tue Dec 16 10:00:34 2008 From: vimal0212 at gmail.com (Vimal Kumar) Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:00:34 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Free Koha 3 installation, thank you note Message-ID: <5b978ad90812152030j69e742c5ge54c05eb1f6e701@mail.gmail.com> Dear Friends, I submitted an offer in Lis-Forum about free installation of Koha 3 for libraries in Trivandrum city. I got lot of responses from out of Kerala for Koha 3 installation. Unfortunately I am not in a position to reach libraries out of Kerala. I request you to approach Linux experts in your area for Koha installation. Another solution is hire service of companies providing Koha support. I would like to introduce OSSlabs (http://www.osslabs.biz/products/koha/) from Bangalore. Their pricing is very attractive and affordable to libraries. See their pricing here http://www.osslabs.biz/products/koha/pricing.html Thank you again for your interest in Koha open source ILS. -- Vimal Kumar V. Asst. Librarian Asian School of Business Technopark, Trivandrum-695 581 Web: www.asb.edu.in/vimal/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt" -Patrick White -- 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/20081216/26a1e171/attachment-0001.html From libsen at rediffmail.com Tue Dec 16 10:09:42 2008 From: libsen at rediffmail.com (Senthil Kumar T) Date: 16 Dec 2008 04:39:42 -0000 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Congratulations to Prof. V.G .Talwar Message-ID: <20081216043942.20138.qmail@f4mail-234-119.rediffmail.com> Dear Members? Hope all of you aware that Prof. V.G .Talwar has been appointed as the Vice-chancellor of the Mysore University; Sir is the first from an LIS community to achieve such a great honor. On behalf of AALIS (Alumni Association of Library and information Science)Bishop Heber College, Trichy, Tamil Nadu. I congratulate Prof. V.G .Talwar for his great Achievement WITH REGARDS SENTHIL KUMAR.T President - AALIS Librarian Christ University Bangalore- 560 029 -- 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/20081216/0ef48cf6/attachment-0001.html From amit at informindia.co.in Tue Dec 16 10:33:01 2008 From: amit at informindia.co.in (AmitVerma) Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:33:01 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] i-QUIZ 2008 - The Grand Finale Message-ID: Congratulations to the winners and the runners up! The Garfield Team of Vijaianand and Manas Samanta walked away with the beautiful iQuiz trophy and the big bonanza of cash prizes. The runners up were the Dewey team of Ramesh Yernagula and Chandana Patra. The days of anticipation and waiting were over on December 11, 2008 as the curtains came down on the iQuiz 2008 - keenly awaited event - organized by Informatics and IASLIC on the occasion of the 23rd National Seminar of IASLIC 2008 at Bose Institute. ISiM (International School of Information Management), University of Mysore was our quiz partner and OCLC was the sponsor. The grand finale was a cliff hanger - with the Garfield Team and the Dewey Team racing neck to neck till the end. The top six scorers of the Online Round held on November 28th were teamed up into Ranganathan Team, Dewey Team and Garfield team and invited to the final round of the stage quiz. However due to unavoidable circumstances, Shion Guha of Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore did not show up and hence based on an impromptu quiz one of audience Ms. Chadana Patra was selected to replace Guha for the final round. There was palpable tension and anticipation in the air, with both the contestants and the audience sitting literarily at the seat edges. The iQuiz trophy along with the cash prize of Rs. 10,000 for the winning team and Rs. 5000 for the runners up and other prizes and goodies added to the excitement and the passions of everyone. IASLIC also announced a cash prize of rs.1000 for the winning team. We thank everyone for their participation and support The iQuiz Team and Informatics www.i-quiz.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/20081216/b1e4391e/attachment-0001.html From dkuberkar at rediffmail.com Tue Dec 16 10:57:25 2008 From: dkuberkar at rediffmail.com (d kuberkar) Date: 16 Dec 2008 05:27:25 -0000 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Quotation process (Mrs. Kuberkar) Message-ID: <20081216052725.45990.qmail@f4mail-235-244.rediffmail.com> ?Dear Friends, Quotation for Books is not so good idea. GOC mentions as follows : Amendment to rules 99 and 116 of the General Financial rules, 1963 (Third edition) exclusion of books, publications and periodicals, etc. from the definition of ?Stores?. THE MINISTRY OF FINANCE VIDE THEIR O.M. NO. F.23(7). EII (A)/83 DATED 7.2.1984 MADE CHANGES IN THE GENERAL FINANCIAL RULES WHICH DISPENSE WITH THE NECESSITY OF CALLING FOR TENDERS OR QUOTATIONS IN RESPECT OF PURCHASE OF BOOKS, PERIODICALS, ETC. All though quotations are not necessary, some follow the practice. My personal view is : it consumes more time in procuring procedure and also it is unfair with suppliers. The first supplier who brings a particular book on approval, should be given the order. If you get quotations for the same , some other supplier who quotes better is given the order. This definitely affects the business relation. Regards, Mrs. Kuberkar Librarian K J Somaiya College of Engineering, Mumbai -- 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/20081216/7f6c44e2/attachment-0001.html From kgsudhier at gmail.com Tue Dec 16 12:48:29 2008 From: kgsudhier at gmail.com (sudhier k g pillai) Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:48:29 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Hearty Congrats to Prof.(Dr.) V. G. TALVAR Message-ID: <209392c50812152318x18467df6x8d6829a78babb955@mail.gmail.com> Dear Professionals, On behalf of the Dept. of Library & Information Science, University of Kerala and Kerala Library Association, Thiruvananthapuram I Congatulate Prof. (Dr.) V. G. Talvar, the new Vice Chancellor of University of Mysore. Wishing him all success for his new assignment. regards Dr. K. G. SUDHIER Lecturer Dept. of Library & Information Science University of Kerala & Exe. Committee Member Kerala Library Association Thiruvananthapuram- 695 034 INDIA Ph. 09446484561, +91 471 2414461(R) 2478034(O) -- 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/20081216/13661a13/attachment.html From jotwanid at iitb.ac.in Tue Dec 16 17:35:54 2008 From: jotwanid at iitb.ac.in (D Jotwani, Librarian IIT Bombay) Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:35:54 +0530 (IST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] INDEST-AICTE WORKSHOP & 6TH ANNUAL MEET Message-ID: <276ca6bcbbfefa186160e0e7d4dec4cb.squirrel@gpo.iitb.ac.in> The next INDEST-AICTE WORKSHOP & 6TH ANNUAL MEET is planned to be held at IIT Bombay during 7-9 Jan 2009. This is an important national event for all library and information professionals from the Consortium Member institutes. We have received enormous response from interested professionals requesting for extending the last date for submission of registration since many of them have received our circulars very late. In view of the above the LAST DATE FOR REGISTRATION FOR THE ABOVE WORKSHOP HAS BEEN EXTENDED TILL 22 DECEMBER 2008. No request for registration will be entertained after this date. So hurry, rush you registration form to the undersigned. The registration is free for those from INDEST-AICTE Consortium members institutes. However, they have to pay Rs 1000/- towards accommodation charges. Accommodation is very limited and preference will be given to those who have already sent their payment. -- D. Jotwani Librarian Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Powai, Mumbai 400076 Phone 91-22-25768920, 91-22-25720227 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From lisbala at gmail.com Tue Dec 16 12:51:10 2008 From: lisbala at gmail.com (Dr. R. Balasubramani) Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:51:10 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Library Science - National Conference at Annamalai University in Tamilnadu In-Reply-To: <236b36fb0812152319u552c3417t79db1f000ffb81b9@mail.gmail.com> References: <236b36fb0812152319u552c3417t79db1f000ffb81b9@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <236b36fb0812152321j41f782b4j62774ac734841c00@mail.gmail.com> Dear Friends UGC-National Seminar on "Strategic Information Management in the Digital Era" 26th -27th, arch 2009l Thursday & Friday at Annamalai University Themes & Sub-themes - Information ? Transformation from print to digital form. - Transition from traditional library to hybrid library - Collection development ? Practices - Collection processing in the Digital Era ? Digital preservation - Development of IRs ? Intellectual Property Rights - Consortia Approach ? Models ? Case Studies - Role of Library Professionals in the Digital Era Call for papers: Participants are invited to contribute papers for presentation on the above themes and related aspects. The Abstract and manuscript of the paper (preferably as MS-word attachments) should be submitted to the Seminar Director by e-mail au_nagarajan at yahoo.co.in / sanpno at gmail.com) and by post mail before the deadline. Who should attend? : This seminar expects wide participation by faculty, scientists, professionals of library research, IT, research scholars, students and other related persons to library & information subject. Registration Fee (includes seminar kit, resource material, participation certificate, working lunch and refreshment). For Faculty / Librarian & others ? Rs.500/- *For Research Scholars ? Rs.300/- *For Students ? Rs.200/- * Should produce evidence from their Institution Dates to Remember: For Submission of Abstract ? 30th January 2009 For submission of full paper along with Registration fee - 28th Feb. 2009 Accommodation: The participants make their own arrangements. However, limited accommodation is available in our university Guest House on extra payment. We would help the participants in arranging accommodation at nonominal charges on first-come first-serve by twin-sharing basis. No TA / DA will be paid to the participants. *Registration Form* Name: Designation: Institution Address for Communication Phone: Mobile: e-mail: Are you presenting a paper : Yes / No If yes, give title of the Paper Accommodation is required : Yes / No Payment details Bank: D.D. No. Date Rs. (Demand Draft may be drawn in favour of the Registrar, Annamalai University payable at Annamalainagar / Chidambaram in State Bank of India / Indian Bank / ICICI Bank Ltd. Cheque will not be accepted). Signature Contact for Registration / Enquires Dr. M. Nagarajan Professor & Head Department of Library & Information Science Annamalai University Annamalainagar ? 608 002 Mobile: 9443497604 e-mail: au_nagarajan at yahoo.co.in or sanpno 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/20081216/90741cad/attachment-0001.html From puna_05 at yahoo.co.in Wed Dec 17 11:33:57 2008 From: puna_05 at yahoo.co.in (Puna Das) Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:33:57 +0530 (IST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Fw: Invitation to participate in DL curriculum module field test Message-ID: <944424.37002.qm@web95410.mail.in2.yahoo.com> Over the past few years, our NSF-funded project has developed a number of specific lesson plans/modules that can be incorporated into courses that address digital libraries. Faculty at UNC and Virginia Tech, as well as members of the project's advisory board and others, have participated in the development of these modules. If you are teaching a course on digital libraries or could use this content in a related course, we hope that you will assist in the field testing of one or more of these modules. The modules are part of a curriculum framework, available at: http://curric.dlib.vt.edu/DLcurric_images/ModuleFramework2008-08-23.pdf Modules currently available for use include: Module 1-b: History of digital libraries and library automation Module 3-b: Digitization Module 4-b: Metadata Module 5-a: Architecture overviews Module 5-b: Application software Module 6-a: Information needs/relevance Module 6-b: Online information seeking behaviors and search strategies Module 6-d: Interaction design and usability assessment Module 7-b: Reference Services Module 9-c: Digital library evaluation, user studies Draft versions of these modules, along with evaluator comments, can be viewed on the project wiki at: http://curric.dlib.vt.edu/wiki/index.php/ In addition, several other modules are in preparation and may be ready for your use this spring. They include: Module 3-e: Web publishing Module 7-a: Search engines Module 8-a: Preservation Module 9-e: Intellectual property If you are willing, we will send you full documentation of one or more of the modules that have been created. You may select any of those modules that you think will be most useful to you in your teaching (either in a DL course or in a related course). You will then implement it (as developed or as you adapt it) in your course(s). For the evaluation, we will be collecting three types of data: 1) Your opinions about the quality of the lesson/module, as expressed in an interview. The interview will take 30-45 minutes. 2)?Your students' opinions about the quality of the lesson/module, as expressed in a very brief Web-based questionnaire. The questionnaire will take no longer than 2 minutes to fill out, and respondents will be offered a small incentive. We will ask that you provide us with a list of the students and their email addresses, so that we can invite them to participate in the evaluation. 3) Your students' performance with the module. We will ask that you provide copies of all your students' work completed as part of the module. We will use it to assess how well the module supported their learning. If a student does not grant us explicit permission to use this data for our evaluation, we will destroy it upon receipt. Your participation in this evaluation is, of course, entirely voluntary, as is the participation of your students. Please contact us if you are willing to participate in this evaluation process, or if you have any questions about this request for your assistance. We hope that you will become a participant in this important effort to improve DL education throughout the U.S. and the world. Sincerely, Edward Fox (Virginia Tech), Barbara Wildemuth (UNC), and Jeffrey Pomerantz (UNC) (send all correspondence to Barbara Wildemuth, wildem at ils.unc.edu) ? ________________________________ Forwarded by Anup Kumar Das New Delhi, India http://anupkumardas.blogspot.com ________________________________ Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/ -- 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/20081217/80239324/attachment-0001.html From sreenivaskura at gmail.com Wed Dec 17 11:51:22 2008 From: sreenivaskura at gmail.com (sreenivas kura) Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:51:22 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] congratulations Message-ID: <94c48ef80812162221w32133665ra7a5fea318fefecc@mail.gmail.com> Dear sir, I on behalf of the staff of Library and Information Centre SRI VENKATESWARA ENGINEERING COLLEGE wish to convey my whole hearted congratulations to Prof. V.G.Talwar for assuming charge as Vice chancellor of Mysore University. With best wishes K. Srinivas Librarian SRI VENKATESWARA ENGINEERNG COLLEGE SURYAPET DIST.NALGONDA ANDHRA PRADESH -- 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/20081217/92abf626/attachment.html From mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Wed Dec 17 12:23:52 2008 From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin) Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:23:52 +0530 (IST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Congratulations! Message-ID: Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:29:23 +0530 From: madaiah krishnamurthy Dear Professionals, I wish to Cogratulate Prof.V.G.Talawar, Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, University of Mysore, for his appointment as Vice Chancellor of university of Mysore. We thank the Search Committee headed by Prof. Balaveera Reddy, Former Vice Chancellor of VTU, and Govt of Karnataka for his selection. I wish him all the best, With Warm regards,M.Krishnamurthy Dr.M.Krishnamurthy,M.A.,M.L.I.Sc., PhD. Fulbright Scholar(University of Illinois,USA) Library-In-Charge Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore Centre Library 8th Mile Mysore Road Bangalore 560059 Ph: 91-080-28483002/3/5 Fax: 91-080-28484265 From gsparameshwar at gmail.com Wed Dec 17 13:22:49 2008 From: gsparameshwar at gmail.com (Parameshwar Goutam) Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:22:49 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Heartly congratulates prof. V.G.Talwar Message-ID: Dear Professionals, *On behalf of the Research Scholars of Dept. of P.G.Studies and Research in Library & Information Science, Gulbarga University, Gulbarga I Congatulate Prof. (Dr.) V. G. Talvar, the new Vice Chancellor of University of Mysore. Wishing him all success for his new assignment.* regards -- S.Parameshwar Senior Research Fellow, Dept.of Lib & Inf. Science Gulbarga University, Gulbarga -- 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/20081217/398f49ca/attachment-0001.html From akc at bic.boseinst.ernet.in Wed Dec 17 14:22:02 2008 From: akc at bic.boseinst.ernet.in (Dr. Arun K. Chakraborty) Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:22:02 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Prof. V.G.Talwar as Vice -Chancellor, Mysore In-Reply-To: <162176e50812150214x25821660n3274dd9730ea6131@mail.gmail.com> References: <162176e50812150214x25821660n3274dd9730ea6131@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20081217085202.M36264@bic.boseinst.ernet.in> I on behalf of IASLIC and on my personal behalf CONGRATULATE and BEST WISHES to Prof. V.G. TALWAR for his taking over as Vice Chancellor, Mysore University. His appointment certainly an epoch making event in this LIS Profession. We are proud of you Sir. With Deep Regards. Hiny. General Secretary, IASLIC DR. ARUN KUMAR CHAKRABORTY LIBRARIAN BOSE INSTITUTE, KOLKATA, INDIA CENTENARY CAMPUS : P1/12 CIT SCHEME - VII-M, KOLKATA 700 054 INDIA PH: 91-33-2569 3268, 3270 FAX: 91-33-2355 3886 MAIN CAMPUS: 93/1 A.P.C. ROAD, KOLKATA 700 009 INDIA PH: 91-33-2350 2402/03, FAX: 91-33-2350-6790 Ph(Res): 91-33-23242100, E-MAIL: akc at bic.boseinst.ernet.in (Fulbright Scholar 2005-2006) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From kaimalpriya29 at rediffmail.com Wed Dec 17 15:42:09 2008 From: kaimalpriya29 at rediffmail.com (priya gopalkrishna kaimal) Date: 17 Dec 2008 10:12:09 -0000 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Article request Message-ID: <20081217101209.30427.qmail@f5mail-236-230.rediffmail.com> ? Sir, Pls send this article by mail if anyone has access to elsevier opublications. This will only for my research. Access to museums for visually challenged people in Japan International Congress Series, Volume 1282, September 2005, Pages 877-880 Kozue Kusayama Pillai Indipol Mobile:0091-9892218803 Office:0091-22-28562999 Fax :0091-22-28562999 MSN :pillai_rajesh at hotmail.com Mail :rajeshpillai30 at yahoo.com/petrochem07 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/20081217/cdd8a23a/attachment-0001.html From library at rri.res.in Wed Dec 17 15:40:34 2008 From: library at rri.res.in (Library) Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:40:34 +0530 (IST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Contributions to Information Age Message-ID: Dear MOderator:Kindly post the following in the lis-forum. Thanks Patil -------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Colleagues: As you are aware that we are brimging out Information Age on quarterly basis and we are in the second year of publication. The December 2008 special issue will have the following themes. -Information Literacy -Total Quality Management -LIS EDucation in India -E-Governance The soft copies of the papers may be sent to the following before 31st December 2008: hirwade2004 at indiatimes.com ympatil at rri.res.in Two hard copies may be sent to: The Editor, Information Age, Dr.P.S.G.Kumar Library Foundation, 371, Guru Prasad Nagar, Wadi, Nagpur 440 023. You may subscribe the Information Age.Annual rates are: Individual - Rs. 150.00; Institutional - Rs.500.00 The DD drawn in favour of "Dr.P.S.G.Kumar Library Foundation", Nagpur and to be sent to the address given above. You may refer for format "Instructions to authors" from current issue of Information Age. Regards, Y.M.Patil, Anil W. Hirwade Editors, Information Age -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From indk68 at hotmail.com Wed Dec 17 16:14:32 2008 From: indk68 at hotmail.com (Indira) Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:14:32 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] A Guide to RFID in Libraries Message-ID: Dear Professionals, Searching for "A Guide to RFID in Libraries"? Here is the report, which has been launched at the CILIP RFID in Libraries conference in London on 13 November 2008. This guide provides libraries with a reliable, neutral and supportive document to help them invest in RFID and importantly gain all the available benefits. You can download the guide from e4libraries, Book Industry Communication site. http://www.bic.org.uk/e4libraries/11/RFID-/ Path to download Case studies http://www.bic.org.uk/e4libraries/12/CASE-STUDIES/ Regards, Indira ------------------------------------------------------------ Ms. Indira Koneru, M.A., M.L.I.Sc., M.Phil., (Ph.D.) Faculty Member Dept. of Library Science Icfai Academic Wing 23, Nagarjuna Hills Hyderabad-500 082 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/20081217/e5d9af61/attachment-0001.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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SarkhelProfessor & HeadDept of Library & Information ScienceUniversity of KalyaniKalyani-741235West Bengal; India _________________________________________________________________ Chose your Life Partner? Join MSN Matrimony FREE http://in.msn.com/matrimony -- 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/20081218/d322a7bb/attachment.html From krmulla at gmail.com Thu Dec 18 08:52:54 2008 From: krmulla at gmail.com (K.R. Mulla) Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:52:54 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] IndCat: Online Union Catalogue of Indian Unversities Message-ID: *Dear All* ** *IndCat: Online Union Catalogue of Indian Unversities *is unified Online Library Catalogues of books, theses and journals available in major university libraries in India. The union database contains bibliographic description, location and holdings information for books, journals and theses in all subject areas available in more than 112 university libraries across the country. A Web-based interface is designed to provide easy access to the merged catalogues. The IndCat is a major source of bibliographic information that can be used for inter-library loan, collections development as well as for copy cataloguing and retro-conversion of bibliographic records. The IndCat consists three components available in open access to users and librarians. - *Books: *Over ten millions bibliographical records of books from more than 112 university libraries. more details - *Theses: *Doctoral theses submitted to various Indian universities till date. more details - *Serials: *Currently subscribed journals by the universities and holdings information on serials available in various university libraries. more details http://indcat.inflibnet.ac.in/ -- 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 ................................................................................................. Engg-Lib-Forum: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Engg-Lib-Forum/ Home Page: http://krmulla.googlepages.com/ Library: http://203.90.120.126:8081/ **************************************************************************** -- 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/20081218/455d5122/attachment.html From cramesh8 at gmail.com Thu Dec 18 10:47:44 2008 From: cramesh8 at gmail.com (ramesh chander) Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:47:44 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Article Request Message-ID: <57860c0a0812172117x52cfc4a9ke70fff392ca3395d@mail.gmail.com> Dear colleagues, Can you help me in getting this article, if anybody has access to it. The details of the article is: - The rutile type and its derivatives *Author:* Werner H. Baur a *DOI:* 10.1080/08893110701433435 *Published in:* Crystallography Reviews, Volume 13, Issue 1 January 2007 , pages 65 - 113 With Regards, Romesh Chander Sharma National Center for Science Information(NCSI), Indian Institue of Science, Bangalore-560012, -- 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/20081218/7f2e70bb/attachment.html From ayesha.drtc at gmail.com Thu Dec 18 13:05:47 2008 From: ayesha.drtc at gmail.com (Ayesha Khatoon) Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:05:47 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Congrats Dr..Ramesh C Gaur - the "IASLlC-S M Ganguly award for Best Librarian of the Year 2007" Message-ID: <510b3c9d0812172335t56f2ab71m66404a02513e5939@mail.gmail.com> Dear Professionals Please join me in congratulating Dr. Ramesh C. Gaur, Librarian and Head Kala Nidhi Division, Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts, New Delhi, for being the awardee of the prestigious *"IASLIC-S M Ganguly award for Best Librarian of the Year 2007" * in recognition of his outstanding contribution to Library and Information Science field. Dr. Gaur is young, energetic, dedicated LIS professional and has worked in various esteemed academic & special libraries of the country. He is well-known professional in the library field and his area of interest is Digital repository building and preservation. I along with, the entire team of IGNCA congratulate Dr. Gaur and wish him many more such awards in years to come which he truly deserves. With kind and best regards -- Ayesha Khatoon Project Trainee Digital Library Kala Nidhi Division Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts(IGNCA) (An Autonomous body under Ministry of Culture. Govt. of India) 5 Dr. Rajendra Prasad Road, New Delhi-1 http://www.drtc.isibang.ac.in/~ayesha -- 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/20081218/e99616f7/attachment.html From anu at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Wed Dec 17 15:15:07 2008 From: anu at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (K.T Anuradha) Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:15:07 +0530 (IST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Free Koha 3 installation In-Reply-To: <5b978ad90812152030j69e742c5ge54c05eb1f6e701@mail.gmail.com> References: <5b978ad90812152030j69e742c5ge54c05eb1f6e701@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Dear Vimal Kumar, As you are already aware, we at NCSI are conducting a workshop on integrated library automation packages including KOHA 3.x and NewGenLib. I am happy to inform you that we have developed detailed manuals and also scripts for easy installation of both the software on Linux (Ubuntu) and Windows platform. We have successfully tested installation of these software on other Linux platforms (Debian and Fedora) also. We will be covering this in the forthcoming workshop from January 5th to 9th. Infact, OSS Labs are also participating in the workshop. Details of the workshop can be accessed at: http://dharmaganja.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/workshop Regards, Anuradha On Tue, 16 Dec 2008, Vimal Kumar wrote: > Dear Friends, > > > > I submitted an offer in Lis-Forum about free installation of Koha 3 for > libraries in Trivandrum city. > > I got lot of responses from out of Kerala for Koha 3 installation. > > Unfortunately I am not in a position to reach libraries out of Kerala. > > I request you to approach Linux experts in your area for Koha installation. > > Another solution is hire service of companies providing Koha support. > > I would like to introduce OSSlabs (http://www.osslabs.biz/products/koha/) > from Bangalore. > > Their pricing is very attractive and affordable to libraries. See their > pricing here > > http://www.osslabs.biz/products/koha/pricing.html > > > > Thank you again for your interest in Koha open source ILS. > > > -- > Vimal Kumar V. > Asst. Librarian > Asian School of Business > Technopark, Trivandrum-695 581 > Web: www.asb.edu.in/vimal/ > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > "I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt" > -Patrick White > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > From skadadevaramath at yahoo.com Thu Dec 18 10:50:11 2008 From: skadadevaramath at yahoo.com (shivashankar kadadevaramath) Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:20:11 -0800 (PST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] reg -adalat Message-ID: <670339.88133.qm@web63802.mail.re1.yahoo.com> In presence of Honourable Higher Education Minister Sri. Aravind Limbavali, Commissioner for Collegiate Education Smt.N Nagambika Devi, Director for Collegiate Education Sri. K V Kodandaramaiah and Additional Director for Collegiate Education Smt. V Kamalamma" ADALAT FOR PCI & LIBRARIANS?"? is held during morning session (10.30 AM - 1.30 PM) and the same for NON-TEACHING STAFF is held during noon session (2.30 PM - 5.30 PM)?on?02nd January 2009 at Shikshakara Sadana, K.G Road, Bangalore. ?It is hereby brought into the notice of?Non-teaching staff AND?Librarians / PCI's of all 348 government first grade colleges and 299 private aided colleges that grievances if any concerned to their "PROMOTIONS, T.B.A, T.B.P, PENSION SETTLEMENTS AND PLACEMENTS / PENSION /OTHER ISSUES OF LIBRARIAN'S / PCI'S" should be brought into notice at the meeting. Applicable formats displayed below should be filled in by the concerned and brought to the meeting and copy of the same should be sent to department E-mail id:bngcce at kar.nic.in on or before 15.12.2008. ?? ???? PLACEMENT GRIEVANCES FORMATS - LIBRARIAN'S / PCI'S ?? ???? PROMOTION/TBA/TBP/OTHER GRIEVANCES? FORMATS?-? NON-TEACHING STAFF ?? ??? PENSION?GRIEVANCES FORMAT ?? ??? ? ??????? ?? Contact Us Statistics ???????? - Students ????????????????? - Staff ???????? - Colleges Support ???????? - Scholarships ?????????????????? Training/Support and Counseling Awards/ Recognitions NAAC - Assessment and grades TQM Programs Edusat - web based education -- 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/20081217/37c6ff89/attachment-0001.html From HENAG at infosys.com Thu Dec 18 12:18:24 2008 From: HENAG at infosys.com (HENAG) Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:18:24 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Quotation process (Mrs. Kuberkar) In-Reply-To: <20081216052725.45990.qmail@f4mail-235-244.rediffmail.com> References: <20081216052725.45990.qmail@f4mail-235-244.rediffmail.com> Message-ID: Dear All, I fully agree with Mrs. Kuberkar. Asking quotation for books ,raising Purchase Order and then procuring the books means waste of time and doing un justice to the Supplier too. It would be a good option while calling for a particular book with all the suppliers asking the books with quote . The early supplier with a lowest quote should be appreciated and order should be given to him. This process works fine , and it is justifiable too. No suppliers will be deprived of while he could supply the same . All suppliers would be equally treated. [cid:image001.gif at 01C9610A.B97612A0] Best Regards Hena S Gupta Sr.Librarian, Manager(Group leader-E&R), Information Specialist Infosys Central Library, Infosys Technologies Limited, Electronics City, Hosur Road, Bangalore-560100 Board : (91)-(080)-28520261 Ext 52196 ; Direct: 91-080-41165196 Fax: (91)-(080)-28520742 ; Cell:9972584657 We enable you to leverage knowledge anytime, anywhere! From: lis-forum-bounces at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of d kuberkar Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 10:57 AM To: lis-forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Quotation process (Mrs. Kuberkar) Dear Friends, Quotation for Books is not so good idea. GOC mentions as follows : Amendment to rules 99 and 116 of the General Financial rules, 1963 (Third edition) exclusion of books, publications and periodicals, etc. from the definition of "Stores". THE MINISTRY OF FINANCE VIDE THEIR O.M. NO. F.23(7). EII (A)/83 DATED 7.2.1984 MADE CHANGES IN THE GENERAL FINANCIAL RULES WHICH DISPENSE WITH THE NECESSITY OF CALLING FOR TENDERS OR QUOTATIONS IN RESPECT OF PURCHASE OF BOOKS, PERIODICALS, ETC. All though quotations are not necessary, some follow the practice. My personal view is : it consumes more time in procuring procedure and also it is unfair with suppliers. The first supplier who brings a particular book on approval, should be given the order. If you get quotations for the same , some other supplier who quotes better is given the order. This definitely affects the business relation. Regards, Mrs. Kuberkar Librarian K J Somaiya College of Engineering, Mumbai [cid:~WRD000.jpg] -- 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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[To view the Journal online, you may kindly click on the link below: http://www.indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=ijor:dbit &type=home ] The above link is given by you.But it is not opening. Kindly clarify and suggest to open online full text. Regards G. Chandra shekar APL Research Centre Hyderabad -- 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/20081218/9bf3a611/attachment-0001.html From lisbala at gmail.com Thu Dec 18 16:04:49 2008 From: lisbala at gmail.com (Dr. R. Balasubramani) Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:04:49 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Annamalai University - UGC - National Conference - reg Message-ID: <236b36fb0812180234t5975faem2c5c2d1d88aa00bf@mail.gmail.com> *ANNAMALAI** UNIVERSITY* UGC-National Seminar on *"Strategic Information Management in the Digital Era"* 26th -27th, March 2009 Thursday & Friday *Website: *www.annamalaiuniversity.ac.in *Contact for Registration / Enquires* *Seminar Director* *Dr. M. Nagarajan* Professor & Head Department of Library & Information Science Annamalai University Annamalainagar ? 608 002 Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu *Mobile*: 9443497604 *e-mail*: au_nagarajan at yahoo.co.in / sanpno at gmail.com *Themes & Sub-themes* ? Information ? Transformation from print to digital form. ? Transition from traditional library to hybrid library ? Collection development ? Practices ? Collection processing in the Digital Era ? Digital preservation ? Development of IRs ? Intellectual Property Rights ? Consortia Approach ? Models ? Case Studies ? Role of Library Professionals in the Digital Era. *Call for papers* Participants are invited to contribute papers for presentation on the above themes and related aspects. The Abstract and manuscript of the paper (preferably as MS-word attachments) should be submitted to the Seminar Director by e-mail (au_nagarajan at yahoo.co.in / sanpno at gmail.com) and by post mail before the deadline. *Who should attend?* This seminar expects wide participation by faculty, scientists, professionals of library research, IT, research scholars, students and other related persons to library & information subject. *Registration Fee *(includes seminar kit, resource material, participation certificate, working lunch and refreshment). For Faculty / Librarian & others ? Rs.500/- *For Research Scholars ? Rs.300/- ***For Students ? Rs.200/- ***Should produce evidence from their Institution *Dates to Remember* For Submission of Abstract ? *30th January 2009* For submission of full paper *along with Registration fee *- *28th February 2009* *Accommodation* The participants make their own arrangements. However, limited accommodation is available in our university Guest House on extra payment. We would help the participants in arranging accommodation at nominal charges on first-come first-serve by twin-sharing basis. *No TA / DA will be paid to the participants.* *UGC-National Seminar on* *Strategic Information Management in the Digital Era* 26th & 27th March 2009 *Registration Form* Name: Designation: Institution Address for Communication Phone: Mobile: e-mail: Are you presenting a paper : Yes / No If yes, give title of the Paper Accommodation is required : Yes / No *Payment details* Bank: D.D. No. Date Rs. (Demand Draft may be drawn in favour of the *Registrar, Annamalai University *payable at *Annamalainagar / Chidambaram *in State Bank of India / Indian Bank / ICICI Bank Ltd. *Cheque will not be accepted*). *Signature* -- Dr. R. Balasubramani Assistant Librarian, Bharathidasan University, Trichy. Cell:9787617452 9994889426 -- 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/20081218/3936c6cb/attachment-0001.html From badanbarman at gmail.com Thu Dec 18 15:25:26 2008 From: badanbarman at gmail.com (Badan Barman) Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:25:26 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Searching Facility for more than 2900 Open Access (OA) English Language Journals in more than 112 subjects areas from a Single Plarform Message-ID: <38055c8a0812180155s6ffd5c41rc957aee5ee194d39@mail.gmail.com> Respected All, Myself with two other colleague for last three months are compiling the list of open access English language journals in all branch of knowledge (more than 112 subjects). Till now, we able to compile a list of more than 2900 journals. The list will be made available for cross searching and browsing from 1st January, 2009 onwards over LIS Links: Link Library of Open Access English Language Journals http://lislinks.blogspot.com/. Currently the journals in the field of engineering are made available over the site as part of a testing phase. I will be glad, if you make a search in the search box and comments upon them for further improvement. -- Thanking you Yours faithfully (Sri Badan Barman) Academic Consultant, Library & Information Science, Krishna Kanta Handique State Open University, Housefed Complex, Last Gate, Dispur, Guwahati-781006, Assam, Phone: 0361-2234964 / 2235971, Fax: 0361- 2235398. Website: www.kkhsou.org, Email: kkhsou at gmail.com, kkhsoul at gmail.com Research Scholar: Department of Library & Information Science, Gauhati University, Guwahati-781014, Assam. Email: dlisgu at gmail.com. ---------------------------------------------------------- LIS in India: What's are going on? 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From balu.mlic at gmail.com Thu Dec 18 17:23:12 2008 From: balu.mlic at gmail.com (Balu Deshpande) Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:23:12 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 69, Issue 14 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear Professionals, On behalf of the Library and Information Sciences, Mlisc and Mphil, University of Mysore. Students, Hope all of you aware that Prof. V.G .Talwar has been appointed as the Vice-chancellor of the Mysore University; Sir is the first from an LIS community to achieve such a great honor. We all Congatulate Prof. (Dr.) V. G. Talvar, the new Vice Chancellor of University of Mysore. Wishing him all success for his new assignment.* This is happy news to all the LIS professionals in our country B, S, Deshpande Librarian A. J. institute of Medical Sciences Mangalore -- 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/20081218/ed76e49b/attachment-0001.html From niharpatra.lisforum at yahoo.com Thu Dec 18 17:36:39 2008 From: niharpatra.lisforum at yahoo.com (Nihar Patra) Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 04:06:39 -0800 (PST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] great In-Reply-To: <1fcda16e0812162249t546f84d7v7eed86b1d7c0885d@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <28785.28317.qm@web46214.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Congratulation Dr. Ramesh. Nice to see this great news... regards, ? Nihar ************************************************************************ Nihar K Patra M. Phil, MLIS, PGDLAN, Pursuing PhD Head - Library Science (Assistant General Manager) NSHM Knowledge Campus 60 (124), B L Saha Road Kolkata - 700053, India Phone and Facsimile: +91 33 2403 2300/01 Mobile: +919748741550 --- On Wed, 12/17/08, Shantanu Ganguly wrote: From: Shantanu Ganguly Subject: Re: [corporatelibrns] (unknown) To: gaur at ignca.org Cc: dharmendra at eximbankindia.com, dineshkg at sancharnet.in, kishor_satpathy at yahoo.com, lis-forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in, nmlis at yahoogroups.com, pkjain1310 at yahoo.co.in, sbghosh at hotmail.com, p_panneer at yahoo.com, salis_info at yahoogroups.com, agarwal_uk2001 at yahoo.co.in, iatlis at yahoogroups.com, corporatelibrns at yahoogroups.com Date: Wednesday, December 17, 2008, 6:49 AM Dear Ramesh: Congratulations for your grand success!!! You really deserve it..... Regards Shantanu Ganguly Associate Professor and Head Knowledge Resource Center Indus World School of Business (IWSB) Greater Noida Website: www.iwsb.in ************ ********* ********* ********* ********* ** (Direct): 95120-3120657 (Mob): 9811330235 ************ ********* ********* ********* ********* ** sganguly67 at gmail. com ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- -- A-67, Chittaranjan Park, First Floor New Delhi-110019 Tel: 011-26272596 ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- -- On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Pushkar Sharma wrote: Respected Professional Colleagues, ? It is a matter of great pleasure to inform you that Dr. Ramesh C. Gaur, Librarian & Head Kala Nidhi Division of Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi has been awarded IASLIC- S. M. Ganguly Award for the BEST LIBRARIAN OF THE YEAR 2007. ? Dr. Gaur is young, energetic, dedicated LIS professional and have worked in various esteemed academic & special libraries of the country such as IMT, MDI, TIFR, etc. His expertise and knowledge have also been recognized at the international level. He has contributed many research articles, authored and edited 3 books and delivered many lectures on various aspects of Library & information science particularly on Automation, Digitization and Digital Archiving. ? Formation of Ranganathan Research Circle (RRC) as its Founder Covenor and Life Trustee-Ranganathan Research Trust are some of his major contributions to LIS Profession. Recently he has also been nominated to Delhi Library Board (Delhi Public Library Governing body) as its member. ? Considering the above, the award given to him as the token of recognition of his dedicated work & contribution to the Library & information science profession.? May I take this liberty of? requesting you to please join me in congratulating? Dr. Ramesh C. Gaur for this honour, which he truly deserved. ? Thanking you. ? ? ? ? (Dr. P.L.Sharma) Asstt. Manager (Library) NHPC Limited ( A Govt. of India Enterprise) NHPC Office Complex, Sector-33, Faridabad (Haryana)- 121010 ? ? ? ? -- Shantanu Ganguly Associate Professor and Head Knowledge Resource Center Indus World School of Business (IWSB) Greater Noida Website: www.iwsb.in ************ ********* ********* ********* ********* ** (Direct): 95120-3120657 (Mob): 9811330235 ************ ********* ********* ********* ********* ** sganguly67 at gmail. com ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- -- A-67, Chittaranjan Park, First Floor New Delhi-110019 Tel: 011-26272596 ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- -- __._,_.___ Messages in this topic (2) Reply (via web post) | Start a new topic Messages | Files | Photos | Links | Database | Polls | Members | Calendar MARKETPLACE From kitchen basics to easy recipes - join the Group from Kraft Foods Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! 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URL: http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/attachments/20081218/810ec148/attachment-0001.html From puna_05 at yahoo.co.in Thu Dec 18 19:11:08 2008 From: puna_05 at yahoo.co.in (Puna Das) Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:11:08 +0530 (IST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] The Knowledge Society Debates: A series of events exploring science, technology and innovation in India Message-ID: <399962.42416.qm@web95408.mail.in2.yahoo.com> Call for Participation The Knowledge Society Debates: A series of events exploring science, technology and innovation in India 5th-13th January, 2009 Hyderabad (5-6th), Bangalore (8-9th), Delhi (12-13th) ? In India, as in Europe, visions of a ?knowledge society? have brought science, technology and innovation to the forefront of politics, democracy and public life. As India positions itself in global high-technology markets and European governments attempt to tame their sceptical public, ?knowledge society? and ?knowledge economy? have become buzzwords in public policy. ? But... What is a ?knowledge society?? Whose knowledge counts? What are the drivers of change? What are the contending perspectives? ? India and Europe present many parallels in how they engage with the ?knowledge society?. Following the work of the ?National Knowledge Commission? in India and the ?Taking the Knowledge Society Seriously? report in Europe, there is much that each can learn from the other. What is common between European and Indian visions of a ?knowledge society?? Can these form a basis for an alternative vision of the global future to that of a borderless market? ...Or is the underlying picture one of greater conflict and uncertainty? These are just some of the questions to be discussed in a series of debates across India ? in Hyderabad, Bangalore, and Delhi. Three lead authors of the European report will discuss their findings with Indian academics, policymakers and activists. ? Lead discussants Brian Wynne, Professor of Science Studies and Associate Director of the UK ESRC, Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics, Lancaster University; Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; Andy Stirling, Professor and Director of Science at the Science and Technology Policy Research Unit and Co-Director of the STEPS Centre, University of Sussex; Shiv Visvanathan Professor of Sociology of Science and Technology at DA-IICT, Gandhinagar; ? A number of academics, civil society members, policy commentators, and activists will join the debate to bring in India specific perspectives. ? Events at the Knowledge Society Debates a) Roundtable Discussions b) Public Discussions ? (A) Roundtable Discussions In each city the first day of the debate will be an invitation-only workshop which will critically engage with the politics of ?knowledge society?. The workshop at each location will include three sessions: (i) Rethinking innovations: Who innovates for whom? (ii) Democracy or technocracy? Civic engagement in knowledge society (iii) Knowledge society or risk society? Uncertainty, regulation and precaution ? Venues Hyderabad, 5th Jan 2009, Centre for Economic and Social Studies Bangalore, 8th Jan 2009, National Institute of Advanced Studies New Delhi, 12th Jan 2009, India Habitat Centre ? Contact To participate in the Roundtable Discussion please contact: Shanti Mahendra Email: knowledgedebates[at]ids.ac.uk http://www.steps-centre.org/ourresearch/knowledgesociety.html http://www.steps-centre.org/PDFs/Knowledge%20Society%20flyer_Novt08_small%20file.pdf ? (B) Public Discussions The roundtables will be followed by a public discussion on the next day, in each city and are open for all. Issues raised at the roundtables will be carried forward to these debates which will focus on the following: Knowledge society and uncertain futures, Hyderabad, 6th Jan 2009, Centre for Economic and Social Studies Knowledge futures in the innovation city, Bangalore, 9th Jan 2009, National Institute of Advanced Studies Democratising Knowledge futures, New Delhi, 13th Jan 2009, British Council Auditorium ? More Details: http://www.steps-centre.org/PDFs/Knowledge%20Society%20flyer_Novt08_small%20file.pdf ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Anup Kumar Das New Delhi, India http://openaccess-unesco.blogspot.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/ -- 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/20081218/8beb7692/attachment-0001.html From puna_05 at yahoo.co.in Thu Dec 18 19:48:28 2008 From: puna_05 at yahoo.co.in (Puna Das) Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:48:28 +0530 (IST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Ten Point Agenda of National Knowledge Commission to improve the quality and quantity of Ph.D. students in the country Message-ID: <612550.1702.qm@web95405.mail.in2.yahoo.com> Ten Point Agenda of Indian National Knowledge Commission to improve the quality and quantity of Ph.D. students in the country. 1. Launch a national publicity campaign to attract the best young minds for careers in teaching at all levels, and also academic research 2. Initiate major academic reforms in universities 3. Implement administrative reforms in universities 4. Enable research environments in universities 5. Set up more quality undergraduate teaching institutions across disciplines 6. Increase funding for education at all levels and for R&D 7. Rejuvenate doctoral programmes across disciplines 8. Ensure quality of doctoral work and academic research in institutions 9. Enable vigorous Industry-Academia interaction 10. Foster a global outlook in research We hope, LIS researchers will be more vocal for early implementation of this recommendation. Source: http://knowledgecommission.gov.in/downloads/recommendations/MoreQualityPhDLetterPM.pdf ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Anup Kumar Das New Delhi, India http://anupkumardas.blogspot.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From balu.mlic at gmail.com Fri Dec 19 11:48:44 2008 From: balu.mlic at gmail.com (Balu Deshpande) Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:48:44 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] We all Congatulate Prof. (Dr.) V. G. Talvar, the new Vice Chancellor Message-ID: On 12/18/08, Balu Deshpande wrote: > > > > > Dear Professionals, > > On behalf of the Library and Information Sciences, Mlisc and Mphil, > University of Mysore. Students, Hope all of you aware that Prof. V.G .Talwar > has been appointed as the Vice-chancellor of the Mysore University; Sir is > the first from an LIS community to achieve such a great honor. > > We all Congatulate Prof. (Dr.) V. G. Talvar, the new Vice Chancellor of > University of Mysore. Wishing him all success for his new assignment.* > > > > This is happy news to all the LIS professionals in our country > > > > B, S, Deshpande > > Librarian > > A. J. institute of Medical Sciences > > Mangalore > > > -- 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/20081219/900583df/attachment-0001.html From angrosh at isim.ac.in Fri Dec 19 14:14:33 2008 From: angrosh at isim.ac.in (Angrosh) Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:14:33 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] InfoVision 2009, Jan 22-23, Bangalore, India - Special Student Offer! Message-ID: <004701c961b6$0743b630$15cb2290$@ac.in> InfoVision 2009: The Knowledge Summit, January 22-23, 2009, Bangalore announces Special Student Offer of Rs. 2000/- per participant (available only till December 30, 2008) Hurry Up! Don't let go of this rare opportunity InfoVision 2009 - One of its kind organized for the Information and Knowledge Industry Summit Theme: "Content to Intent: Understanding user intent in multimodal, multilingual, mobile, and enterprise Information Access" Summit Sessions: * Mobile Information Access * Multimedia Information Access * Multilingual Information Access * Consumer Created Content * eScience, eResearch and Cyber infrastructure * Enterprise Content and Communication InfoVision 2009 offers an intellectual feast of talks: Inaugural Keynote Dr. Mark Maybury, Executive Director, Information Technology Division, MITRE Corporation, USA - an expert in Intelligent Multimedia Information Retrieval will give the Inaugural Keynote at InfoVision 2009 on January 22, 2009. Keynote Title: Intelligent Multimedia: Promises and Challenges Other Prominent Speakers 1. Dr. P. Anandan, Managing Director, Microsoft Research India, Bangalore 2. Mr. John Blossom, President and Senior Analyst, Shore Communications, USA 3. Dr. Edward Cutrell, Research Scientist, Adaptive Systems Interaction Group, Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA 4. Prof. Dieter Fellner, Director IGD, Fraunhofer Institute of Computer Graphics Research, Darmstadt, Germany 5. Prof. John Girard, Associate Professor of Management, Minot State University, USA 6. Mr. Bruno Goveas, Head, Marketing & Product Management, Akamai Technologies India 7. Mr. Ajay Gupta, Director HP Labs India and Director, Mobility Solutions Group 8. Prof. Sridhar Iyer, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay 9. Mr. Srikanth B. Iyer, Co-Founder and COO, Edurite Technologies 10. Dr. Hari M. Koduvely, Senior Risk Analyst, Amazon.com 11. Mr. Balaji Krishnan, General Manager, MindTree 12. Prof. Ee-Peng Lim, School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University, Singapore 13. Ms. Usha Mohan, Managing Director, Triumph India Software Services, Bangalore 14. Mr. Gopinath Padmanabhan, President, Applications Business Unit, Mphasis 15. Mr. P. Ravindranath, Director - Strategic Development and Govt. & Public Affairs, Hewlett Packard India 16. Prof. Rohini Srihari, Founder CEO, Janya Inc., USA & Associate Professor, Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, USA 17. Mr. Bob Stembridge, Thomson Reuters, UK 18. Prof. Zakir Thomas, Project Director, OSDD Project & Head, DGTC, CSIR 19. Prof. Shalini R. Urs, Executive Director, ISiM, Mysore 20. 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URL: http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/attachments/20081219/603eeb03/attachment-0001.html From vimal0212 at gmail.com Fri Dec 19 17:06:12 2008 From: vimal0212 at gmail.com (Vimal Kumar) Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:06:12 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Koha at Cochin University Message-ID: <5b978ad90812190336n7bb81be4h88015e22e4e2fceb@mail.gmail.com> Dear Friends, Cochin University of Science and Technology decides to use Koha for university library and department libraries. Appointed a committee of Librarians and Computer Professionals for feasibility study. -- Vimal Kumar V. Asst. Librarian Asian School of Business Technopark, Trivandrum-695 581 Web: www.asb.edu.in/vimal/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt" -Patrick White -- 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/20081219/38447ab1/attachment.html From kaimalpriya29 at rediffmail.com Sat Dec 20 13:58:25 2008 From: kaimalpriya29 at rediffmail.com (priya gopalkrishna kaimal) Date: 20 Dec 2008 08:28:25 -0000 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Article Request Message-ID: <20081220082825.27691.qmail@f5mail-236-225.rediffmail.com> ? Pls Send any one this article for my study 1. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, Vol. 33, No. 1, 5-14 (2001) DOI: 10.1177/096100060103300102 A new outlook :services to visually impaired people in UK public libraries Margaret Kinnell De Montfort University 2. Volume 55, Number 4, Spring 2007 E-ISSN: 1559-0682 Print ISSN: 0024-2594 DOI: 10.1353/lib.2007.0033 Owen, David. 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Today's Topics: 1. Re: Quotation process (Mrs. Kuberkar) (HENAG) 2. desidoc J of Lib & Infor Tech- online - reg (chandra shekar) 3. Annamalai University - UGC - National Conference - reg (Dr. R. Balasubramani) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:18:24 +0530 From: HENAG Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Quotation process (Mrs. Kuberkar) To: d kuberkar , "lis-forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in" Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Dear All, I fully agree with Mrs. Kuberkar. Asking quotation for books ,raising Purchase Order and then procuring the books means waste of time and doing un justice to the Supplier too. It would be a good option while calling for a particular book with all the suppliers asking the books with quote . The early supplier with a lowest quote should be appreciated and order should be given to him. This process works fine , and it is justifiable too. No suppliers will be deprived of while he could supply the same . All suppliers would be equally treated. [cid:image001.gif at 01C9610A.B97612A0] Best Regards Hena S Gupta Sr.Librarian, Manager(Group leader-E&R), Information Specialist Infosys Central Library, Infosys Technologies Limited, Electronics City, Hosur Road, Bangalore-560100 Board : (91)-(080)-28520261 Ext 52196 ; Direct: 91-080-41165196 Fax: (91)-(080)-28520742 ; Cell:9972584657 We enable you to leverage knowledge anytime, anywhere! From: lis-forum-bounces at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of d kuberkar Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 10:57 AM To: lis-forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Quotation process (Mrs. Kuberkar) Dear Friends, Quotation for Books is not so good idea. GOC mentions as follows : Amendment to rules 99 and 116 of the General Financial rules, 1963 (Third edition) exclusion of books, publications and periodicals, etc. from the definition of "Stores". THE MINISTRY OF FINANCE VIDE THEIR O.M. NO. F.23(7). EII (A)/83 DATED 7.2.1984 MADE CHANGES IN THE GENERAL FINANCIAL RULES WHICH DISPENSE WITH THE NECESSITY OF CALLING FOR TENDERS OR QUOTATIONS IN RESPECT OF PURCHASE OF BOOKS, PERIODICALS, ETC. All though quotations are not necessary, some follow the practice. My personal view is : it consumes more time in procuring procedure and also it is unfair with suppliers. The first supplier who brings a particular book on approval, should be given the order. If you get quotations for the same , some other supplier who quotes better is given the order. This definitely affects the business relation. 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[To view the Journal online, you may kindly click on the link below: http://www.indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=ijor:dbit &type=home ] The above link is given by you.But it is not opening. Kindly clarify and suggest to open online full text. Regards G. Chandra shekar APL Research Centre Hyderabad -- 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/20081218/9bf3a611/ attachment.html ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:04:49 +0530 From: "Dr. R. Balasubramani" Subject: [LIS-Forum] Annamalai University - UGC - National Conference - reg To: nmlis at yahoogroups.com, plnf at yahoogroups.com, lis-consultant at googlegroups.com, "LIS Forum" , "Young Librarians" , emala at yahoogroups.com, research_jobsinlisfield at yahoogroups.com, librarianwelfare at yahoogroups.com, corporatelibrns at yahoogroups.com, "libtech@" Message-ID: <236b36fb0812180234t5975faem2c5c2d1d88aa00bf at mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" *ANNAMALAI** UNIVERSITY* UGC-National Seminar on *"Strategic Information Management in the Digital Era"* 26th -27th, March 2009 Thursday & Friday *Website: *www.annamalaiuniversity.ac.in *Contact for Registration / Enquires* *Seminar Director* *Dr. M. Nagarajan* Professor & Head Department of Library & Information Science Annamalai University Annamalainagar ? 608 002 Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu *Mobile*: 9443497604 *e-mail*: au_nagarajan at yahoo.co.in / sanpno at gmail.com *Themes & Sub-themes* ? Information ? Transformation from print to digital form. ? Transition from traditional library to hybrid library ? Collection development ? Practices ? Collection processing in the Digital Era ? Digital preservation ? Development of IRs ? Intellectual Property Rights ? Consortia Approach ? Models ? Case Studies ? Role of Library Professionals in the Digital Era. *Call for papers* Participants are invited to contribute papers for presentation on the above themes and related aspects. The Abstract and manuscript of the paper (preferably as MS-word attachments) should be submitted to the Seminar Director by e-mail (au_nagarajan at yahoo.co.in / sanpno at gmail.com) and by post mail before the deadline. *Who should attend?* This seminar expects wide participation by faculty, scientists, professionals of library research, IT, research scholars, students and other related persons to library & information subject. *Registration Fee *(includes seminar kit, resource material, participation certificate, working lunch and refreshment). For Faculty / Librarian & others ? Rs.500/- *For Research Scholars ? Rs.300/- ***For Students ? Rs.200/- ***Should produce evidence from their Institution *Dates to Remember* For Submission of Abstract ? *30th January 2009* For submission of full paper *along with Registration fee *- *28th February 2009* *Accommodation* The participants make their own arrangements. However, limited accommodation is available in our university Guest House on extra payment. We would help the participants in arranging accommodation at nominal charges on first-come first-serve by twin-sharing basis. *No TA / DA will be paid to the participants.* *UGC-National Seminar on* *Strategic Information Management in the Digital Era* 26th & 27th March 2009 *Registration Form* Name: Designation: Institution Address for Communication Phone: Mobile: e-mail: Are you presenting a paper : Yes / No If yes, give title of the Paper Accommodation is required : Yes / No *Payment details* Bank: D.D. No. Date Rs. (Demand Draft may be drawn in favour of the *Registrar, Annamalai University *payable at *Annamalainagar / Chidambaram *in State Bank of India / Indian Bank / ICICI Bank Ltd. *Cheque will not be accepted*). *Signature* -- Dr. R. Balasubramani Assistant Librarian, Bharathidasan University, Trichy. 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From ehte786 at rediffmail.com Mon Dec 22 11:36:45 2008 From: ehte786 at rediffmail.com (Ehtesham) Date: 22 Dec 2008 06:06:45 -0000 Subject: [LIS-Forum] ICT - Open Source tools for Library Message-ID: <20081222060645.12235.qmail@f5mail-236-233.rediffmail.com> ? Dear Friends, I am Mohammad Ehtesham staying at Hyderabad, student of LIS and working in a software company as consultant. I have done installation implementation of many open source tools for different organization. I came across the mail posted by Mr Vimal in this forum in which he offered his help to get the Koha installed for the libraries. It was really a wonderful approach towards the Open Source initiative I am sure many would have appreaciated this. Moving ahead I have a thought which I want to share with you all. The present day society is characterized by: 1. Increasing Information of society. 2. Information Overload. 3. Technology has become an integral part of offices / homes. And library serves as knowledge resource center, information provider and knowledge repository etc. ICT is now become inevitable for any library irrespective of its size and kind of users it serves. Now days more or less every body is relying on Google and referring it as a great library on this planet. Yes I agree but does it mean we should close our library! No we can't dare to do that. Therefore it's now time to advance our library services and fulfill the needs of the patrons in a better way what Google and other search engines are doing. Yes whenever the question of precision comes to meet the user needs our library always wins the race. So we only need to change the way of service not the kind of service because our user behavior has changed they became more tech savvy. What to do ? Technology is fear for beginners it is not tough. There are number of open source tools for ICT - (well tested and widely applied) available which can be freely downloaded and implemented with minimal desired customization. This won't impact in libraries shrinking budget. Only we need to acquire hardware and download freely available tools. No doubt there is huge list of open source tools available on the web but to start with here I am mentioning a few well known widely used tools which I came across on which any one can work out for there respective libraries: 1. NewGenLib or Koha (Library automation tool) 2. DSpace, GSDL or ePrints (Digital Library). 3. Moodle (Elearning tool) 4. Joomla or Drupal (CMS) 5. WordPress (Blog tool) 6. MediaWiki (Wiki tool) 7. OpenURL suite (CUFTS - knowledge base consortia tool, Godot - Link resolver & DbWiz - Federated search engine) I hope this will be useful for you. I am open to help and available (No Charge) if any one who needs help in installing and implementing these softwares for their respective libraries on weekends (Sat & Sun). Please let me know. Thanks & Regards Ehtesham (+91)9985100322 ehte786 at gmail.com MD EHTESHAM H-11,ISI HOSTELS ADIS 1st year (DRTC) INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE 8TH MILE, MYSORE ROAD, BANGALORE - 560059 MOB - 09886687105 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Filled in applications along with appropriate course fee has to be sent in advance by DD in favour of "Director, NISCAIR" and payable at New Delhi and addressed to, In-charge, Training Division, NISCAIR, 14-Satsang Vihar Marg, New Delhi - 110067 For more information contact: training at niscair.res.in; Ph: 011-26863617 & 011-26965094. G. Mahesh ----------------------------------------- This email was sent using NISCAIR's web mail service. "" http://niscair.res.in/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. From mallikarjun23j at yahoo.com Mon Dec 22 17:19:04 2008 From: mallikarjun23j at yahoo.com (Mallikarjun) Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:19:04 +0530 (IST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Magazine going in to google book search Message-ID: <329887.44504.qm@web94809.mail.in2.yahoo.com> Dear All, Magazines will come into Google Book Search (http://books..google.com) from the Publisher partner side of the service with Google offering free digitization. Some of the magazine content in Google Book Search will come from other Google interfaces (e.g., Google News Archive) and some from the main Google service. Have a look on http://books.google.com/ ________________________________________________________________:-) Mallikarjun Dora Professional Assistant Vikram Sarabhai Library IIM, Ahemadabad ...The Future is here, Its just unevenly distributed..... http://curiouslib.blogspot.com/ Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! 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Gaur, Librarian and Head Kala Nidhi Division, Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts, New Delhi, for being the awarded the prestigious *"IASLIC-S M Ganguly award for Best Librarian of the Year 2007" * With best wishes ------------------------------------ Manoj Kumar Pant Lecturar, Amrapali Institute of Management and Computer Application, Haldwani,Nainital, Uttaranchal-263139. Ph. No.-09012226260(Mob.) 919219918942(Home), 268201(Office) e-mail - " manojpant2 at rediffmail.com ". " manojpant2 at yahoo.co.in ". ------------------------------------------ "Don't walk ahead of me - I can't follow you, don't walk behind me I can't lead you, Walk along with me and be my friend." ------------------------------------------ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/attachments/20081223/d6beb2f9/attachment.html From mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Tue Dec 23 10:59:23 2008 From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin) Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:59:23 +0530 (IST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Request for message posting Message-ID: Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:19:07 +0800 From: "Muralidharan, Padma (ELS-DEL)" Dear Manager, Could you please post the following message on LIS-Forum on our behalf? Elsevier is pleased to announce the winners of the 3rd Scopus Young Scientist Awards 2008. Agriculture Dr. R Raman International Centre for Genetics & Biotechnology Biological Sciences Prof. S Ganesh Indian Institute Of Technology, Kanpur Chemistry Dr. B V Subba Reddy Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad Earth Sciences Dr. Govindasamy Bala Indian Institute Of Science, Bangalore Engineering Dr. Suman Chakraborty Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur Mathematics Dr. Siva Athreya Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore Medicine Dr. G. Bhanuprakash Reddy National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad Physics Dr. Satyabrata Patnaik Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Physics Dr. Moulik Parikh Inter Univ Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Pune Congratulations to all the winners!! Kind regards, Padma Muralidharan Senior Manager - Account Development Elsevier India (Science & Technology) LOGIX PARK, I Floor, A4 & A5, Sector 16 NOIDA - 201 301 (Uttar Pradesh) Ph : 91-120-4679202 l +91-9810739993 Thanks very much for your cooperation. 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Similar support is expected from National Disaster Management Authority, Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Ministry of Urban Development and several public sector as well as private sector organizations and multilateral agencies. India: Challenges and Policy Response As India recovers from the horror and tragedy of the Mumbai incident, the criticality of dovetailing security and emergency responses into the economic and development growth scenarios has never been greater. The two-day conference will focus on the challenges faced by India and the desired policy responses. The key content includes: * Security and Disaster Management o A Technology Response to Terror o Planning for Disaster Reduction o Services for the next decade o Learnings from Global Best Practices o State of States o Cyber-Security * Gearing up Power Sector * Information Enabled Economic Inclusion: Telecentre 2.0 * Education & Employability - Capacity is King * Next 5 Years of e-Governance * Thinkers and Writers Forum Distinguished speakers and domain experts would lead the discussions that can be greatly enriched through erudite participants and practitioners such as you. The summit will see unprecedented participation from top-level representatives from national and international organizations, institutions and companies. Your office may wish to pre-register you on our website or through e-mail to help us send you a formal invitation and confirm your participation. This will also help our staff to determine availability and possibility of a complimentary registration for you. The Summit is being held on 22nd -23rd January 2009 at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. You may visit www.challengers.in for further details and program schedule. There are limited seats and there will be no spot registration. Thanks & Regards Sahil Talwar -- 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/20081223/964c4ecf/attachment-0001.html From cramesh8 at gmail.com Tue Dec 23 13:26:14 2008 From: cramesh8 at gmail.com (ramesh chander) Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 13:26:14 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] 3rd Scopus Young Scientist Awards 2008 Message-ID: <57860c0a0812222356n2115ffdcxcc8f13f1dce8eb91@mail.gmail.com> Dear Colleagues Elsevier is pleased to announce the winners of the 3rd Scopus Young Scientist Awards 2008. Agriculture Dr. R Raman International Centre for Genetics & Biotechnology Biological Sciences Prof. S Ganesh Indian Institute Of Technology, Kanpur Chemistry Dr. B V Subba Reddy Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad Earth Sciences Dr. Govindasamy Bala Indian Institute Of Science, Bangalore Engineering Dr. Suman Chakraborty Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur Mathematics Dr. Siva Athreya Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore Medicine Dr. G. Bhanuprakash Reddy National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad Physics Dr. Satyabrata Patnaik Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Physics Dr. Moulik Parikh Inter Univ Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Pune Congratulations to all the winners!! Thanks very much for your cooperation. Kind regards, WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A VERY HAPPY 2009 With Regards, Romesh Chander Sharma National Center for Science Information(NCSI), Indian Institue of Science, Bangalore-560012, -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/attachments/20081223/4c5e2c50/attachment-0001.html From konnur at bub.ernet.in Tue Dec 23 13:30:14 2008 From: konnur at bub.ernet.in (Pandurang Konnur) Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:00:14 -0800 Subject: [LIS-Forum] =?windows-1252?q?Anomalies_in_the_UGC_Sixth_Pay_Revie?= =?windows-1252?q?w_Committee_Report_and_Removal_of_disparities_in_?= =?windows-1252?q?promotion_and_benefits_to_Librarians_in_Colleges_?= =?windows-1252?q?and_Universities_=96_Representation_submitted?= Message-ID: <80b6c0c10812230000i108fd28dw5edc0c9253487553@mail.gmail.com> Dear Professional Friends, I take this opportunity to congratulate all the academic Librarians for having got the VIth PRC Recommendations approved by Government of India. During the last V Pay Commission Recommendations and their implementations there was a great amount of disparity between Teachers and Librarians. Hence Librarians were to suffer for one full decade to get their grievances redressed. This time thanks to the PRC members and Prof. Chaddha the Chairman of PRC who gave ear to our voice and recommended parity for Librarians with that of teachers. Friends, still there are few anomalies exist and IALA has already submitted its memorandum to the Ministry of HRD, Secretary HRD and Chairman UGC. The full text of the memorandum may be accessed in the following URL: http://iala.org.in/subfiles/prc.pdf I request all the members of this form to go through the memorandum and give their feed back to IALA with additional input to prepare and submit further memorandums to the competitive authorities. Thanks, -- Dr.P.V.Konnur Fulbright Fellow (University of Illinois) University Librarian, Bangalore University Library, Jananabharati, Bangalore-560056 Phone: 080-22961131, 23215510 Website: http://library.bub.ernet.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From abdulnazar75 at yahoo.com Tue Dec 23 14:05:35 2008 From: abdulnazar75 at yahoo.com (Abdunnasar. A) Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:35:35 -0800 (PST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Vacancy of Professional Assistant at University of Calicut In-Reply-To: <585990.49444.qm@web35404.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <876738.24907.qm@web35401.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Dear All Applications are invited for the post of Professional Assistant Grade II at University of Calicut, Kerala. Essential Qualification: 1. A University Degree and 2. Degree or Diploma in Library Science Age Limit: Not more than 35 years as on 01/01/2008 (usual age relaxation will be given to eligible candidates as per rules) Last date for receipt of filled in application: 27.12.2008 Application fee: Rs.350/- (Rupees Three hundred and fifty only) (SC/ST candidate Rs.100/-) Pay Scale: Rs. 8390-13270 For further details pls log on : http://www.universityofcalicut.info/services/downloads.htm Abdunnasar CESS, 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/20081223/234c465e/attachment-0001.html From gkm at igidr.ac.in Tue Dec 23 14:56:09 2008 From: gkm at igidr.ac.in (G.K.MANJUNATH) Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 14:56:09 +0530 (India Standard Time) Subject: [LIS-Forum] [IALA], Anomalies in the UGC Sixth Pay Review Commit In-Reply-To: <80b6c0c10812230000i108fd28dw5edc0c9253487553@mail.gmail.com> References: <80b6c0c10812230000i108fd28dw5edc0c9253487553@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Wonderful work by IALA president Dr.Konnur. Thanks and congrats! g.k.manjunath igidr, mumbai On Tue, 23 Dec 2008, Pandurang Konnur wrote: > > Dear Professional Friends, > > I take this opportunity to congratulate all the academic Librarians > for having got the VIth PRC Recommendations approved by Government of > India. > > During the last V Pay Commission Recommendations and their > implementations there was a great amount of disparity between Teachers > and Librarians. Hence Librarians were to suffer for one full decade to > get their grievances redressed. > > This time thanks to the PRC members and Prof. Chaddha the Chairman of > PRC who gave ear to our voice and recommended parity for Librarians > with that of teachers. > > Friends, still there are few anomalies exist and IALA has already > submitted its memorandum to the Ministry of HRD, Secretary HRD and > Chairman UGC. The full text of the memorandum may be accessed in the > following URL: > > http://iala.org.in/subfiles/prc.pdf > > I request all the members of this form to go through the memorandum > and give their feed back to IALA with additional input to prepare and > submit further memorandums to the competitive authorities. > > Thanks, > > > -- > Dr.P.V.Konnur > Fulbright Fellow (University of Illinois) > University Librarian, > Bangalore University Library, > Jananabharati, Bangalore-560056 > Phone: 080-22961131, 23215510 > Website: http://library.bub.ernet.in > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "IALA" group. > To post to this group, send email to IALA at googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to IALA+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/IALA?hl=en > -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- > > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From rajankila at hotmail.com Tue Dec 23 16:30:24 2008 From: rajankila at hotmail.com (Rajan) Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:30:24 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Open Source Tools for Librarians In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear All, Mr Ehtesham has done a very good job of pointing out the most essential tools, modern librarians should know in the digital age. It is good that a few librarians, who are familiar with FOSS technologies and tools, are taking individual imitative of different sorts in helping the fellow librarians to learn and use those tools for furthering information activities for which the profession stands. This kind of peer training- learning process may help the profession in its strides in gaining better status, pay and role in this digital environment. Sometime ago, Mr G K Manjumdar & Mr Singh had made some efforts in developing a public database of such IT friendly librarians. That attempt did not go much ahead. This is the right time to give a push to the voluntary peer training, given up once. Simultaneously, some of the new learners can self-learn some of those tools with the help of simple tutorials available in the net. They can seek the support of the peer tutors for comparatively complex tools or on the part where support is needed. In self-learning, one should start with the simple and the most useful. So it seems that the best bet, as the first priority item, is the Greenstone Digital Library Software. Greenstone installation has become much easier by now. Installation of Greenstone 2.81 is a matter of a few mouse clicks on the pre-requisite Java2 Runtime Environment and Greenstone software. Building a digital library with it is a simple exercise of giving a name, gathering some documents and clicking on the Create button. Creating Browsing Classifiers and Search Indexes are the items that require some knowledge. The voluntary peer-training will also work well with those who tried the tools themselves and learned the whereabouts. Regards, K Rajasekharan Kerala Institute of Local Administration Thrissur ------------------------------ Original Message: Date: 22 Dec 2008 06:06:45 -0000 From: "Ehtesham" Subject: [LIS-Forum] ICT - Open Source tools for Library I am Mohammad Ehtesham staying at Hyderabad, student of LIS and working in a software company as consultant. I have done installation implementation of many open source tools for different organization. I came across the mail posted by Mr Vimal in this forum in which he offered his help to get the Koha installed for the libraries. It was really a wonderful approach towards the Open Source initiative I am sure many would have appreaciated this. Moving ahead I have a thought which I want to share with you all.Therefore it's now time to advance our library services and fulfill the needs of the patrons in a better way what Google and other search engines are doing. Yes whenever the question of precision comes to meet the user needs our library always wins the race. So we only need to change the way of service not the kind of service because our user behavior has changed they became more tech savvy. What to do ? Technology is fear for beginners it is not tough. There are number of open source tools for ICT - (well tested and widely applied) available which can be freely downloaded and implemented with minimal desired customization. This won't impact in libraries shrinking budget. Only we need to acquire hardware and download freely available tools. No doubt there is huge list of open source tools available on the web but to start with here I am mentioning a few well known widely used tools which I came across on which any one can work out for there respective libraries: 1. NewGenLib or Koha (Library automation tool) 2. DSpace, GSDL or ePrints (Digital Library). 3. Moodle (Elearning tool) 4. Joomla or Drupal (CMS) 5. WordPress (Blog tool) 6. MediaWiki (Wiki tool) 7. OpenURL suite (CUFTS - knowledge base consortia tool, Godot - Link resolver & DbWiz - Federated search engine) I hope this will be useful for you. I am open to help and available (No Charge) if any one who needs help in installing and implementing these softwares for their respective libraries on weekends (Sat & Sun). Ehtesham (+91)9985100322 ehte786 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/20081223/debb0ad6/attachment-0001.html From Library at Arboretum.org.in Tue Dec 23 18:25:15 2008 From: Library at Arboretum.org.in (Library at Arboretum.org.in) Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:25:15 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Duplicate messages Message-ID: <49512D0B.1520.10E16E2@localhost> Dear All, We often subscribe to a number of email forums with a view not to miss out on any significant news/development. Multiple posting of the same news item on different fora is adding to the email clutter. Generally, we can categorise any LIS communication into one of the following groups: 1) Relevant to all LIS professionals 2) Relevant to LIS professionals belonging to a specific group, e.g., corporate librarians, LIS teachers, public librarians, etc. Shall we contribute to reduction in email traffic by: a) posting all emails falling in category 1) and 2) to lis-forum without fail. b) posting all email falling in category 2) to the relevant forum only. For instance a corporate librarian posting an item of interest to corporate librarians would post it to corporatelibrarians at yahoo.com and lis-forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in only. Thank you Sincerely T.V. 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From cramesh8 at gmail.com Wed Dec 24 10:57:00 2008 From: cramesh8 at gmail.com (ramesh chander) Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 10:57:00 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Archives Management Course Message-ID: <57860c0a0812232127s46286c79u3d828e1e2ff5097e@mail.gmail.com> *Dear Colleagues, * * * SCHOOL OF ARCHIVAL STUDIES NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF INDIA ADMISSION NOTICE 28th Short Term Certificate Course in "Archives Management" Duration: 16th February 2009 to 31st March 2009. Objective: To make the trainees aware of acquisition, arrangement, up-keep and retrieval of records. Eligibility: Graduate in any discipline preferably in humanities from a recognized university. Reservation: Seats are reserved for SC/ST/PH & OBC private candidates as per Government norms. Age: Below 30 years for private candidates. Below 50 years for sponsored candidates. (Relaxation in age for the reserved categories is applicable as per Government norms). Registration Fee: Application alongwith attested copies of educational qualification and Rs.100/- (Rupees hundred) only through crossed Indian Postal Orders/Bank Draft in favour of Administrative Officer, National Archives of India, Janpath, New Delhi-110001, be sent to The Director General of Archives, National Archives of India, Janpath, New Delhi-110001. Sponsored candidates should apply through proper channel. Course Fee: Rs. 300/- (Rupees three hundred only) non- refundable, to be paid at the time of admission. Last date of receipt of application: 23rd January 2009. Boarding & Lodging: The School has no boarding & lodging facilities. For more information please go through following link: - http://www.employmentnews.gov.in/jobdesc-1749-435.html With Regards, Romesh Chander Sharma National Center for Science Information(NCSI), Indian Institue of Science, Bangalore-560012, -- 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/20081224/18d92b9d/attachment.html From zhshoeb at gmail.com Wed Dec 24 14:21:01 2008 From: zhshoeb at gmail.com (Md. Zahid Hossain Shoeb) Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:51:01 -0800 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Regarding Open Source Tools Message-ID: <6089bf1a0812240051o4e74103ag80a23b6b4e21d199@mail.gmail.com> Dear Professionals, There are many posts we use to get now regarding Open Source Tools with cooperative approach from different IT skilled LIS professionals. Anyway, I consider that the ultimate challenge is the customization according to the organization as per their requirements and changed requirement which is time related task and a matter of system analysis. For a sustainable and consistent system it is required different phases like planning, setting, access management, implementation etc. The total thing is a matter of project management with professional approach from requirement analysis to testing after designing even documentation. So, the whole thing is not a task of one day or one week or even one month. When technology appears at market, whimsically it is not wiseful to use in case of specially repositories, e-Learning, CMS and automation tool; though the popular technology which are cited by different members of the forum are widely used. I think, before setting-up or using any technology always initiate to a team consisting of administration and staff of the library of the organization and information technology professionals with mature as well as professional outlook. Moreover, each member can contribute expertise on how the system should operate and the features required, i.e. for repositories ? feature of the services (metadata, submission workflow, content types, etc.) or underlying technical issues (operating system, databases, search mechanisms, etc.) or even the policies and legal issues for the collections. So, no shortcut technique will be effective in this case for long run, not only installation or a little customization will perform all the tasks, it can be a pilot task of starting the main tasks or project. A 'Gantt chart' should be followed for designing a system lifecycle. For better information literate community it is needed long term sustainable, consistent and coherent system with matured working process. Regards, Md. Zahid Hossain Shoeb Independent University, Bangladesh -- 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/20081224/52d2256b/attachment-0001.html From pujar at igidr.ac.in Wed Dec 24 14:17:11 2008 From: pujar at igidr.ac.in (Shamprasad Pujar) Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 14:17:11 +0530 (IST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Anomalies_in_the_UGC_Sixth_Pay_Review and promotion_and_benefits_to_Librarians_in_Colleges and_Universities In-Reply-To: <80b6c0c10812230000i108fd28dw5edc0c9253487553@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <15380392.1230108431260.JavaMail.root@127.0.0.1> Dear Sir, I appreciate your and the IALA office bearers efforts in bringing anomalies of VI UGC pay commission recommendations to the kind notice of UGC/MHRD and the respective committees. With kind Regards, Shamprasad Pujar IGIDR, Mumbai ======================== -- Original Message -- From: "Pandurang Konnur" To: IALA , lis-forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in, iatlis at yahoogroups.com, nmlis at yahoogroups.com Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:00:14 -0800 Subject: [LIS-Forum] =?windows-1252?q?Anomalies_in_the_UGC_Sixth_Pay_Revie?= =?windows-1252?q?w_Committee_Report_and_Removal_of_disparities_in_?= =?windows-1252?q?promotion_and_benefits_to_Librarians_in_Colleges_?= =?windows-1252?q?and_Universities_=96_Representation_submitted?= Dear Professional Friends, I take this opportunity to congratulate all the academic Librarians for having got the VIth PRC Recommendations approved by Government of India. During the last V Pay Commission Recommendations and their implementations there was a great amount of disparity between Teachers and Librarians. Hence Librarians were to suffer for one full decade to get their grievances redressed. This time thanks to the PRC members and Prof. Chaddha the Chairman of PRC who gave ear to our voice and recommended parity for Librarians with that of teachers. Friends, still there are few anomalies exist and IALA has already submitted its memorandum to the Ministry of HRD, Secretary HRD and Chairman UGC. The full text of the memorandum may be accessed in the following URL: http://iala.org.in/subfiles/prc.pdf I request all the members of this form to go through the memorandum and give their feed back to IALA with additional input to prepare and submit further memorandums to the competitive authorities. Thanks, -- Dr.P.V.Konnur Fulbright Fellow (University of Illinois) University Librarian, Bangalore University Library, Jananabharati, Bangalore-560056 Phone: 080-22961131, 23215510 Website: http://library.bub.ernet.in -- 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. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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You can download the Beginners guide at: http://greenstonesupport.iimk.ac.in/Documents/GSDL%20Begineers%20Guide.pdf *********************************************** C T Kantharaj Librarian Cambridge Instittute of Technology K R Puram, Bangalore - 560036 ctkantharaj 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/20081224/c9072def/attachment-0001.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: GSDLBegineersGuide.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 1553355 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/attachments/20081224/c9072def/attachment-0001.pdf From rautaray_b at yahoo.co.in Wed Dec 24 15:58:05 2008 From: rautaray_b at yahoo.co.in (bijaya ray) Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:58:05 +0530 (IST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Manlibnet 2009 - Paper submission date Extended Message-ID: <242168.8446.qm@web8402.mail.in.yahoo.com> Dear Professional Friends The organising Committee of Manlibnet 2009 is very much happy with the overwhelming responses from the LIS professionals to attend the convention and to present the papers. On request of many LIS Professional colleagues, the organising committee Manlibnet 2009 at KIIT University, Bhubaneswar decided to extend tha last date of paper submission? for the convention. Now the professional friends are requested to send their paper on or before 07.01.2009 with the required registration fees. No further extension will be provided for submission of paper. Those who have not received the convention brochure please log on to www.kiit.ac.in and www.manlibnet.in for complete brochure. Please make your self convinient to attend the seminar and review different online products available in the field of Business, Management and Engineering subjects which will be helpful to your organisations. Besides on line products, the organising committee also arranged wide range of book display(Both foreign and Indian) for the participants to update their knowledge on latest published books. The organising Committee also taking step to make a trip for participants?to visit in and around bhubaneswar, those who are coming first time to Orissa may take benefit of this. This is my sincere request to all professional friends to make huge publicity and success?of the convention. Thanks and regards Dr.Bijayalaxmi Rautaray Sr. Librarian, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar and Organising Secretary, 10th Manlibnet Convention Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/ -- 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/20081224/4f4f6b6f/attachment.html From niharpatra.lisforum at yahoo.com Wed Dec 24 16:41:08 2008 From: niharpatra.lisforum at yahoo.com (Nihar Patra) Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 03:11:08 -0800 (PST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Advertisement for Library Assistants and Library Trainees Message-ID: <468231.69809.qm@web46202.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Advertisement for Library Assistants and Library Trainees ? "Over the last decade, NSHM Knowledge Campus has been on the fast track to become one of the most sought after education destinations the country has to offer. NSHM knowledge Campus also boasts of world-class infrastructure. The Durgapur campus is spread across 25 acres and is well equipped with both academic and non-academic facilities for the holistic development of student. The Kolkata campus, which is spread over 2.5 acres, is also similarly equipped. The institute has expanded its domain across India with new campuses in Bangalore and Gurgaon. Soon NSHM Knowledge Campus will spread its presence in Pune and Bhubaneswar too. The NSHM Knowledge Campus, Kolkata is stepping towards automation and digitization of its Knowledge Center, catering to the information needs of academic and research community in the areas of Management, Media and Communication and Pharmacy. Applications are invited for the post of Library Assistants (Permanent position) and Library Trainees (One year Contract) for Kolkata Campus. For Library Assistants, applicants should be 1/2 years of experience from a reputed organization with 1st class MLIS and well versed in computer application in Library Science. Pay scale as per AICTE norms. For Library Trainee, The applicants should be fresh MLIS and well versed in computer application in Library Science. Duration of Training is for a period of one year with no guarantee of continued employment (purely temporary/contractual basis), carrying a stipend of Rs.5000/- per month with no other facilities / benefits, as applicable to regular employees, excepting contractual leave. Please send the Bio-Data with latest passport size photograph to nihar.kanta.patra at nshm.com on or before 8th?January 2009. ? Regards, ? Nihar ? ************************************************************************ Nihar K Patra M. Phil, MLIS, PGDLAN, Pursuing PhD Head - Library Science (Assistant?Professor) NSHM Knowledge Campus 60 (124), B L Saha Road Kolkata - 700053, India Phone and Facsimile: +91 33 2403 2300/01 Mobile: +919748741550 -- 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/20081224/7a9c818c/attachment-0001.html From dhwaneet.mehta at cr2.co.in Thu Dec 25 10:22:36 2008 From: dhwaneet.mehta at cr2.co.in (Dhwaneet Mehta) Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2008 10:22:36 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Online Library Management Software - CR2 Technologies In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear Sir / Madam, We are pleased to inform you that we have launched Asia's first SaaS based Library Management Software. CYBRARIAN ? is a next generation web based, seamless & fully integrated Library Management software System hosted on a Remote Server. This is based on SaaS (Software as a Service) concept where users have to pay ?as-you-use basis. CYBRARIAN allows the librarians to access & run the software with the help of an ordinary low cost PC having a web browser and they can carry out on line all the transactions like Acquisition, Cataloguing, Circulation, Periodicals Management (PMS), Article Indexing, Reports Management etc. as if the entire application is running on their desk. One can access the application anytime (24x7x365) from anywhere, & from any machine with built in webOPAC facility in the software. At a very low hosting fee, CYBRARIAN provides users facilities like Software Usage, Secured Data Storage & Management, Virus Protection, Backups, Patch Management, Product Updates, Technical Support, Maintenance etc. CYBRARIAN follows all the international standards like MARC21, Z39.50, AACR2, MARCXML, ISO 2079 etc. and is having UNICODE (Multilingual) facility. The most attractive feature of CYBRARIAN is that librarians or Resource Centre Manager can customize the application as per their requirements without the help or need from the software vendor. Moreover, the reports can also be self-customized. CYBRARIAN also allows the member libraries to form or create their own network of libraries from similar related subjects/background/industries for resource sharing by collecting, storing & disseminating information and would offer networked services like information about resources scattered in the libraries throughout the world, referencing materials to meet the requirements of students, researchers, scholars & the general public, Inter Library Loan etc. without incurring any extra cost. For further details, you requested to please visit our website www.cybrarian.in. In case of any query, please do contact us. Awaiting your earliest reply. Thanking you, Regards Dhwaneet Mehta Regional Manager CR2 Technologies Ltd. Ahmedabad Gujarat (M)09909033615 -- 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/20081225/6472035d/attachment-0001.html From puna_05 at yahoo.co.in Fri Dec 26 11:39:21 2008 From: puna_05 at yahoo.co.in (Puna Das) Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2008 11:39:21 +0530 (IST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] LOK SABHA INTERNSHIP PROGRAMME 2009 Message-ID: <344913.946.qm@web95406.mail.in2.yahoo.com> LOK SABHA INTERNSHIP PROGRAMME 2009 ? Applications are invited in the prescribed format for five Internship Positions for a one-year Internship Programme in the Lok Sabha. The Internship Programme is aimed to provide an opportunity to young men and women with outstanding academic and extracurricular achievements to acquaint themselves with the working of parliamentary democracy and democratic institutions in general and specifically about our parliamentary system. The Programme also aims at imparting requisite skills and knowledge to enable the Interns to develop a proper perspective about the role of Legislature in our parliamentary system which, in turn, would help them while working in their own chosen? fields in the future. ? Duration: The duration of the Internship Programme will be one year, starting January 2009 and ending December 2009. ? Eligibility: Age: The Internship shall be open to Indian citizens between 21 and 28 years of age as on 31st December 2008. Qualifications: The applicant should have completed a two-year Post-Graduate Degree from a recognised Indian or Foreign University with 55% marks in any of the areas/disciplines such as Social Sciences, Law, Journalism, Finance, Management, Library Science, etc. ? The applicant should submit a recommendation letter from the Principal of College/Head of the Institution he/she last attended or is enrolled in to pursue higher studies along with the completed application form. The applicant must also submit a brief statement in 250 words which should inter alia state why he/she intends to join the Internship Programme; his/her career goals; and how the Internship will help him/her in achieving those goals. The short listed applicants will be called to appear for an Interview. ? Stipend and Other Facilities: The Interns will be paid a consolidated stipend of Rs. 18,000/- per month during the Internship period. In addition, a sum of Rs. 10,000/- shall be given as a one-time expenditure towards stationery and typing expenses. Expenses on accommodation, travelling, etc. shall be borne by the Interns themselves. ? The completed application in the given format should reach the Joint Director, Bureau of Parliamentary Studies and Training (BPST), Lok Sabha Secretariat, Room No. F-077, ?J? Block, Parliament Library Building, New Delhi-110001, latest by 30 December 2008. ? 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URL: http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/attachments/20081226/3b6c2c73/attachment.html From skdesale at gmail.com Fri Dec 26 10:54:23 2008 From: skdesale at gmail.com (S K DEsale) Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2008 21:24:23 -0800 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Status of Librarian Message-ID: <21bdf6910812252124j7e09c1ebx7bcbfcedb60a09d1@mail.gmail.com> Dear professional friends, I am very thankful to you for extending overwhelming response for our call for meeting to discuss the status of library professionals and how we can improve it. I am also thankful to professionals who could not make it but convey their support to the movement. Friends I am glad to inform you that as many as 62 librarians attended the meeting chaired by Dr. S. K. Patil (Librarian, University of Pune) and almost everybody express their views on the matter concern. All participants express the need of the strong organization & a forum where everybody can have a say & it will work for the development of LIS professionals. Accordingly "Pune University librarians forum" was launched. After the discussions in the meeting and on the different forums I suggest that the forum should have following objectives 1) To train library professionals for using new technology, effective communication & designing need base services. 2) Design Information literacy modules (for students from 11th std to PG) and ask librarians to train students in information literacy (Most of librarians are interested in delivering lectures in colleges) 3) Develop e-learning modules for continuous learning of LIS professionals 4) Organize periodic workshops for training in handling latest technology. open source software's, to develop communication skill etc. 5) Provide consultancy services for automation, digitization & setting up of new libraries etc. 6) Convey our grievances to Govt. on the matters of staffing pattern, Reserved seats in senate, Separate faculty of LIS, appointment of qualified librarians at all colleges as per UGC scale, inclusion of LIS subject in the list of electives for MPSC & UPSC exam etc. Please send your suggestions. 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Gonjare Library Assistant Dr.V.N.Bedekar Institute of Management Studies Thane(W) 400601. email : vinayak.gonjare at gmail.com Mob : 9702373557 elibrary :http//www.vpmthane.org/im/elib/main.htm From mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Fri Dec 26 14:27:44 2008 From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin) Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2008 14:27:44 +0530 (IST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] hearty congrats to Mr DV Singh, Incharge President of ILA Message-ID: Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 21:48:53 -0800 (PST) From: Prof. N. Laxman Rao. dear Professional friends it is pride for all of us that Mr DV Singh, Librarian, Sree Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University and Incharge President of Indian Library Association has been elected as member of Delhi University Academic Council. He is elected in the first count it self. He is the first LIS professional elected as member of Delhi University Academic Council. for his credit he has many things, such as he was first LIS professional elected as Joint secretary of Delhi University teachers Association (DUTA) and was also incharge Secretary for wome time. He is the first LIS professional to work as warden in Delhi University. He is also first LIS professional to get elected as Secretary fo Staff Council for a period of 4 years. He is the first LIS professional to be the Secrtary and also president of College staff association. Mr DV Singh has many credits with first LIS professional to take over number of positions in the Delhi University. generally these positions are taken by the teachers. Mr singh election to these positions indicates acceptance by the teaching community that the library professionals are also on par with the teachers. his election is pride for all of us. we have seen him speaking powerfully for the cause of the profession. let us join together to wish him all thebest and get elected to many more such positions. Let us strengthen his hands to fight for library profession. i join the professionals in congratulating him for his grand success in the election. laxman rao Prof. N.LAXMAN RAO,?? Professor of? Library & Information Science, & ?Director, UGC-Academic Staff College (Retd), Osmania University, HYDERABAD- 500 007 (INDIA) President, Association of British Scholars (Hyderabad Chapter) 91-40-27171565, 27177763??(res): 09246547599 (Mobile) e:mail-- naglaxman at yahoo.com OR naglaxman at gmail.com From ehte786 at rediffmail.com Fri Dec 26 17:53:32 2008 From: ehte786 at rediffmail.com (Ehtesham) Date: 26 Dec 2008 12:23:32 -0000 Subject: [LIS-Forum] ICT - Open Source tools for Library Message-ID: <20081226122332.62988.qmail@f5mail-237-202.rediffmail.com> ? Dear All, I appreciate and thankful for overwhelming response from LIS community which I got through mails and phone calls. Many members shown there interest in implementing Open Source tools and serve there user best. Yes why not! "when there is a will there is a way". I received number of mails asking for the details - (features and functionality) of the software which can be implemented for their respective libraries. The tools which I suggested in my mail are well known and are being used world wide. I will provide you the Gist and website from where you can get more details and for DSpace and OpenURL suite you can look at my project report (links are provided below). 1. DSpace: It is a well known Digital repository software developed by MIT. It has all the inbuilt features which is required for any ideal institutional repository. Details you can get from the official website of DSpace : http://www.dspace.org/ You can also look at my project report on DSpace testing of its features and functionality. Here is the link : https://drtc.isibang.ac.in/handle/1849/415 2. ePrints: It is a digital library software being used by IISC, IIT for there digital repository. Feature wise it is as good as DSpace. You can look for more details at http://www.eprints.org/ 3. Moodle: It is one of the best free elearning tool used across the world. At DRTC we implemented it for many organisation and conduted workshop and training session. We are using it in our company. Details you can get from : http://moodle.org 4. Joomla & Drupal: - These are free content management system tool. It can be used to manage the different forms of online collection for the organization. Go to there website where you can get more information: http://joomla.org http://drupal.org 5. WordPress : With advent of w3 and the era of web 2.0 it became very easy to become a writer and invite others to read our articles and thought. This tool is meant for such kind of idea. Get more details from http://wordpress.org 6. MediaWiki : Yes Wikipedia are there from centuries to make our self informative on some given subject. Now we are into digital age and our need and volume of information also increased. We need to have information at a single mouse click. So to fulfill all this mediawiki a free tool has been designed. To get more information look at : http://mediawiki.org. 7. OpenURL reSearcher suite (CUFTS, GODOT, DBWIZ): Developed by SFU. This is entirely a new initiative and efforts are being done. You can look at SFU websit and my project report : http://software.lib.sfu.ca/ https://drtc.isibang.ac.in/handle/1849/414 Hope these all will be useful to you. Please let me know if you have any query. I am always open for it and invite other peer members also to join this initiative. As Mr. K Rajasekharan mentioned this will directly or indirectly help us to improve ourselves. Thanks & Regards Ehtesham (+91)9985100322 P. J. O'Rourke - "Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely." -- 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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Please find a blog presenting the pictures of the glorious occasion in the following URL.http://muvctalwar.blogspot.com/ Professionals from Karnataka and Kerala were present at the occasion.Let his appointment be an inspiration for all professionals. Let us work hard to uphold the glorious tradition of our profession. Dr GOPAKUMAR V. Chief Librarian, University College,Palayam, Thiruvananthapuram, PIN 695 034. http://www.gopakumar.synthasite.com/ gopakumar.v at rediffmail.com Mobile No: 09447056713 -- 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/20081226/d029ee4d/attachment-0001.html From sabuj_c at yahoo.co.uk Sat Dec 27 13:39:16 2008 From: sabuj_c at yahoo.co.uk (sabuj kumar chaudhuri) Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 08:09:16 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Rethink and Reevaluate to make LIS Profession -a Respected and prestogious profession Message-ID: <837374.41777.qm@web25404.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Dear friends and respected Sirs ? Earlier I mentioned some points on this topic on LIS-Forum.But Why don't we think from our side also? What have we done to add quality content to the?subject and why don't we think to introduce 3 years BLIS/Bachelor of Science in Information studies in degree level.So that students don't take it as last resort to get a job instead they will choose it one of the attracting careers after passing 10 + 2 std. Universities will conduct MLIS/MPhil/PhD like other disciplines.I?think the seed of undervaluing our services lies in the poor perception of common people about our subject.I strongly believe we the new age librarians have a distinct role to make our subject attractive, service as well as research oriented career option to the future generation. AIFUCTO has demanded rightly that the Librarians should be redignated as Lecturer in Library Science[Assistant Professor(Library)].But Recently UGC PRC Report , Librarian was denied any redesignation,no academic freedom, no study leave,no similar CAS, no advance increment for NET/Mphil/PhD for Librarians.languages are very dubious and some interpreted the facilities for the teachers give will be applicable for the librarians. But there is no mention in this respect.Until it is distinctly mentioned it will be interpreted differently by authoroties like as before.?In this Report UGC not only undervalued our service but also has shown step-motherly attitude for the Librarians.This is logically incorrect , when a person have the same qualification (55% MLIS + NET/SET/Mphil/PhD),how it it is explicable that Lecturerrs and Librarians will be treated differently.We must reconsider the definition of Teacher and it must be included Librarians . Earlier the entry of librarians was different from the teachers but presently it is absolutely same. If this shocking disparity continues no future generation will take it as future option because it is a highly discriminated punishment post.No new age librarians can not compromise with their academic freedom/study leave/financial reward for their research.From our governmental policy?it appears that policy makers want only second category (excuse me,this is not to hurt any body) students should opt for this profession.This is evidenced from their policies made for the librarians throughout its history-the most neglected cadres.Some of us may be knowingly/unknowingly are very much satisfied with equal salary. May be it was their beyond expectation to get equal salary of teachers . To them equal salary means equal status. Absolutely wrong.We need absolute parity in every respect with Lecturers/Assistant Professor ( designation as proposed by the UGC PRC). We must fight together to make our profession a respected one like other disciplines.Without parity how one can expect growth and development in real sense.An attractive library profession will certainly bring quality students who can bring a complete metamorphosis of the discipline and it must be supported by governemental judicious and nurturing policies.What IALA is respresenting to the UGC is absolutely right path and I have heart felt support for it. ? with warm wishes to all ? sabuj ---------------------------------------------- Dr. Sabuj Kumar Chaudhuri Librarian Basanti Devi College [http://www.basantidevicollege.org] (An affiliated college under University of Calcutta) 147B, Rash Behari Avenue Kolkata-700 029, West Bengal India Phone:(033)24641012 email:sabooj_c at yahoo.co.in ;sabuj_c at yahoo.co.uk ;sabujkumarchaudhuri at gmail.com website:http://www.geocities.com/sabuj_c/sabuj.html ---------------------------------------------- -- 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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URL: http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/attachments/20081227/97058fbd/attachment-0001.html From m.bavakutty at yahoo.com Sat Dec 27 16:15:24 2008 From: m.bavakutty at yahoo.com (Bavakutty M) Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 16:15:24 +0530 (IST) Subject: [LIS-Forum] Refresher Course in Library and Information Science Message-ID: <583036.49021.qm@web94808.mail.in2.yahoo.com> Dear All, The UGC, ASC of the Pondicherry University propose to conduct Refresher Course in Library and Information Science during March 2009. Application form can be down loaded from the university site www.pondiuni.edu.in? The filled in application may be?sent to ?the Director, UGC, Academic Staff College, Pondicherry University. Pondicherry 605? 014 at the earliest. Dr.M.Bavakutty, Professor, Dept. Of Lib & Inf. Science Pondicherry University, Pondicherry Cricket on your mind? Visit the ultimate cricket website. Enter http://beta.cricket.yahoo.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/20081227/8a34bdb7/attachment-0001.html From knsbhumlis at gmail.com Fri Dec 26 14:28:14 2008 From: knsbhumlis at gmail.com (krishna nand singh) Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2008 14:28:14 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] LOK SABHA INTERNSHIP PROGRAMME 2009 Message-ID: LOK SABHA INTERNSHIP PROGRAMME 2009 ? Applications are invited in the prescribed format for five Internship Positions for a one-year Internship Programme in the Lok Sabha. The Internship Programme is aimed to provide an opportunity to young men and women with outstanding academic and extracurricular achievements to acquaint themselves with the working of parliamentary democracy and democratic institutions in general and specifically about our parliamentary system. The Programme also aims at imparting requisite skills and knowledge to enable the Interns to develop a proper perspective about the role of Legislature in our parliamentary system which, in turn, would help them while working in their own chosen? fields in the future. ? Duration: The duration of the Internship Programme will be one year, starting January 2009 and ending December 2009. ? Eligibility: Age: The Internship shall be open to Indian citizens between 21 and 28 years of age as on 31st December 2008. Qualifications: The applicant should have completed a two-year Post-Graduate Degree from a recognised Indian or Foreign University with 55% marks in any of the areas/disciplines such as Social Sciences, Law, Journalism, Finance, Management, Library Science, etc. ? The applicant should submit a recommendation letter from the Principal of College/Head of the Institution he/she last attended or is enrolled in to pursue higher studies along with the completed application form. The applicant must also submit a brief statement in 250 words which should inter alia state why he/she intends to join the Internship Programme; his/her career goals; and how the Internship will help him/her in achieving those goals. The short listed applicants will be called to appear for an Interview. ? Stipend and Other Facilities: The Interns will be paid a consolidated stipend of Rs. 18,000/- per month during the Internship period. In addition, a sum of Rs. 10,000/- shall be given as a one-time expenditure towards stationery and typing expenses. Expenses on accommodation, travelling, etc. shall be borne by the Interns themselves. ? The completed application in the given format should reach the Joint Director, Bureau of Parliamentary Studies and Training (BPST), Lok Sabha Secretariat, Room No. F-077, ?J? Block, Parliament Library Building, New Delhi-110001, latest by 30 December 2008. ? Download Application Form: http://164.100.24.209/newls/bureau/advt121208.pdf ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ KRISHNA NAND SINGH MLIS(BHU) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Add more fr= iends to your messenger and enjoy! Invite them now. --0-1644246777-1230115077=:15573-- From konnur at bub.ernet.in Sun Dec 28 16:07:55 2008 From: konnur at bub.ernet.in (Pandurang Konnur) Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 16:07:55 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Librarian of IGIDR, Mumbai Dr. Manjunath PhD awarded from Karnatak University Message-ID: <80b6c0c10812280237tfa35f72if54c845ad0100e22@mail.gmail.com> Dear Professional Friends, I am happy to inform you all that Dr.Manjunath, Librarian of IGIDR, Mumbai got his PhD degree awarded from Karnatak University Dharwad recently. Let us all congratulate him for his achivements. Thanks, -- Dr.P.V.Konnur Fulbright Fellow (University of Illinois) University Librarian, Bangalore University Library, Jananabharati, Bangalore-560056 Phone: 080-22961131, 23215510 Website: http://library.bub.ernet.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From ajaysharma.lib at gmail.com Sun Dec 28 16:58:59 2008 From: ajaysharma.lib at gmail.com (Ajay Kum Sharma) Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 16:58:59 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Criteria for Qualifying the UGC-NET Message-ID: <50ee88430812280328q10ac2f1bi570168decb6b0999@mail.gmail.com> Dear Library Professionals, UGC has declared the criteria for qualifying the UGC-NET Examination. Criteria for Qualifying the UGC-NET *Category* *Minimun Qualifying marks* *Paper-I* *Paper-II* *Paper-I + Paper-II* *Paper-III* GEN/OBC 40 (40%) 40 (40%) 100 (50%) 90 (45%) SC/ST 35 (35%) 35 (35%) 80 (40%) 70 (35%) PH/VH 35 (35%) 35 (35%) 90 (45%) 80 (40%) Hope it will helpfull in prepartion and self evaluation of NET Examination. Best of luck to all NET aspirants. Sources: http://www.ugc.ac.in/ -- Thanks and regards. Ajay Kumar Sharma Assistant Librarian, Central Library, Visva Bharati, Santiniketan, Birbhum - 731235, W.B. 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URL: http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/attachments/20081228/0da83746/attachment-0001.html From manjunath at mail.tapmi.org Mon Dec 29 10:55:41 2008 From: manjunath at mail.tapmi.org (Manjunath K) Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:55:41 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Please send me the list of Business Databases subscribed by your library Message-ID: <9FFC8F8F579CC143B2C9BBC3AFA191590C78CC@mail.tapmi.org> Dear Professional colleagues, This request is to library colleagues of B-schools in India. I am consolidating the databases subscribed by leading Indian b-schools. I have already received SIXTY responses from bschool libraries for my earlier request. I would like to cover more bschool libraries so that I can present a comprehensive list in Xth manlibnet convention to be held in KIIT University, Bhubaneswar on Jan22-24, 2009 at Bhubaneswar. This list might serve as reference tool for bschools for future subscriptions. If you have not responded to my previous request, Please email me the list of Intranet and Internet based Databases subscribed by your library. I look forward for your cooperation and immediate response in this regard. Regards, Manjunath ------------- Dr. Manjunatha K Chief Librarian T.A. Pai Management Institute Manipal - 576 104 Udupi Dist. Karnataka, India Ph: +91-0820-2573551(0ff); 2575161(Res) email: manjunath at mail.tapmi.org; manjunath_tapmi at yahoo.com web: http://www.tapmi.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/20081229/7f3eea57/attachment-0001.html From vivekyadav.mu at gmail.com Mon Dec 29 15:14:38 2008 From: vivekyadav.mu at gmail.com (vivek yadav) Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:14:38 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] UGC-NET, Dec. 2008 (Paper III) Message-ID: <2ddc989f0812290144g787921a4wdae0477cbff0b57a@mail.gmail.com> *UGC-NET, Dec. 2008 (Paper III)* *Based on Memory * *15*5= 75 Marks* 1. Teleconferencing 2. What is Web browsing? 3. Define TQM 4. Decision making process 5. Role of Multimedia In Library 6. Define Digital Repository 7. Difference between Dictionary & Glossary 8. Define ISDN 9. Importance of Style Manual 10. Importance of Library Cess 11. What is Information Repacking? 12. Barriers of Communication 13. Significance of between Use Studies and User Studies 14. --- 15. --- *5*12= 60 Marks* 1. Characteristics of CCF 2. Modes of Subject Formation 3. Describe, Spiral of Scientific method 4. Evaluation and major steps of IR system 5. --- *1*40= 40 Marks * * * 1. Write main networks in India 2. UGC gives a Sufficient fund to University libraries & Colleges, why not developed far away from library automation and networking? 3. --- Thanks and Regards Vivek Kumar Yadav Technical Assistant, Mangalayatan University, Aligarh & Tapas Kumar Das Technical Assistant , Mangalayatan University, Aligarh E-Mail: vivekyadav.mu at gmail.com tapaskumar.mu 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/20081229/8926b3c3/attachment-0001.html From dinesh.ncet at gmail.com Mon Dec 29 17:09:02 2008 From: dinesh.ncet at gmail.com (DINESH SIDDAIAH) Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 11:39:02 +0000 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Libraries in Europe and Africa Acquire the VTLS Archival Management System Message-ID: <62c911520812290339y51c71412n13036311ec1a14d6@mail.gmail.com> Dear Friends, VTLS announced the development and deployment of the Archives Management System (AMS). This system was developed in partnership with the National Library of Wales. The system follows the ISAD (International Standard Archive Description) standard and has advanced hierarchical linking capabilities, which are essential to the success of archive collections. VTLS also announced that the Slovak National Library (in Bratislava) and Makerere University (in Uganda) have acquired the AMS. Source:http://www.librarytechnology.org/ Thanking You, Dinesh K. S. -- Dr. Dinesh K. 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Satyanarayana Message-ID: <62c911520812292022k541c50dbl387254172df5c4de@mail.gmail.com> Dear Friends, On behalf of Nagarjuna College of Engineering & Technology and my personal behalf, I congradulate Mr. N. V. Satyanarayana, Chiarman & Managing Director, Informatics (India) Limited, for his new role of Chief of Library & Knowledge Networks of Karnataka Knowledge Commision. The Karnataka Knowledge Commision has constituted six working groups to interact with the various government departments and obtain feedback and recommendations. Thanking You, Dinesh K. S. Dinesh K. S. Selection Grade Librarian, Nagarjuna College of Engineering & Technology, Devanahalli, Bengaluru - 562 110. -- 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/20081230/467ed3cc/attachment.html From kshipra.sardesai at gmail.com Tue Dec 30 12:10:02 2008 From: kshipra.sardesai at gmail.com (Kshipra Sardesai) Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 12:10:02 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] Status of Librarian In-Reply-To: <21bdf6910812252124j7e09c1ebx7bcbfcedb60a09d1@mail.gmail.com> References: <21bdf6910812252124j7e09c1ebx7bcbfcedb60a09d1@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <8751201f0812292240p49a1bdb1jdebc3b7d13f4f31@mail.gmail.com> Mr Desale, Congratulations for the grand success in conveying the write thoughts and opening a forum.As the forum is limited to University and academic Libraries I am apologing for responding as a librarian from a banking industry. 1. I shall like to suggest as Library Science is a technical education , there should be a process of campus selection. 2. short courses to update with the new technologies as sometimes workshops are not possible for the others like me working for special subjects. 3. The Government Circulars for posting a Librarian in the Library of the organisation instead of general or an IT person. 4. Ethics and psychology of Librarian to initiate the job responsibilities in the organisation as well as society. 5. Library Certificate courses may be a priority for in-house duties as library assistant and to get the qualified staff a list of employers may be provided to all NGOs,Corporates,organisations, industries etc. All The best and Regards Kshipra Sardesai Asstt Chief Librarian Dept of Statistics & Information Management On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 10:54 AM, S K DEsale wrote: > Dear professional friends, > > > I am very thankful to you for extending overwhelming response for our call > for meeting to discuss the status of library professionals and how we can > improve it. I am also thankful to professionals who could not make it but > convey their support to the movement. Friends I am glad to inform you that > as many as 62 librarians attended the meeting chaired by Dr. S. K. Patil > (Librarian, University of Pune) and almost everybody express their views on > the matter concern. All participants express the need of the strong > organization & a forum where everybody can have a say & it will work for the > development of LIS professionals. Accordingly "Pune University librarians > forum" was launched. > > > > After the discussions in the meeting and on the different forums I suggest > that the forum should have following objectives > > > > 1) To train library professionals for using new technology, > effective communication & designing need base services. > > 2) Design Information literacy modules (for students from 11th std > to PG) and ask librarians to train students in information literacy (Most of > librarians are interested in delivering lectures in colleges) > > 3) Develop e-learning modules for continuous learning of LIS > professionals > > 4) Organize periodic workshops for training in handling latest > technology. open source software's, to develop communication skill etc. > > 5) Provide consultancy services for automation, digitization & > setting up of new libraries etc. > > 6) Convey our grievances to Govt. on the matters of staffing > pattern, Reserved seats in senate, Separate faculty of LIS, appointment of > qualified librarians at all colleges as per UGC scale, inclusion of LIS > subject in the list of electives for MPSC & UPSC exam etc. > > > > Please send your suggestions. > > > > With best Regards > > > > Mr. S. K. Desale > > Asst. Librarian > > Jayakar library > > University of Pune. > > -- > 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. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/attachments/20081230/4139d4da/attachment.html From badanbarman at gmail.com Tue Dec 30 13:15:30 2008 From: badanbarman at gmail.com (Badan Barman) Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:15:30 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] New Searching and Browsing Tools for Open Access (OA) English Language Journals Launched Today Message-ID: <38055c8a0812292345h30d68a49h85121caea232eee@mail.gmail.com> The platform *LIS Links: Link Library of Open Access English Language Journals **http://lislinks.blogspot.com/* is launched today for searching and browsing free of cost for more than 3200 Open Access English Language Journals in more than 100 subject / branch of knowledge from all over the world. I personally feel great, if you post this massage over other blog/forum/group, make a search and use the platform and further promote the platform in front of your professional colleague and comments on the platform. -- Thanking you Yours faithfully (Sri Badan Barman) Academic Consultant, Library & Information Science, Krishna Kanta Handique State Open University, Housefed Complex, Last Gate, Dispur, Guwahati-781006, Assam, Phone: 0361-2234964 / 2235971, Fax: 0361- 2235398. Website: www.kkhsou.org, Email: kkhsou at gmail.com, kkhsoul at gmail.com Research Scholar: Department of Library & Information Science, Gauhati University, Guwahati-781014, Assam. Email: dlisgu at gmail.com. ---------------------------------------------------------- LIS in India: What's are going on? 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URL: http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/attachments/20081231/0059ff53/attachment-0001.html From mvkatiyar at gmail.com Wed Dec 31 13:37:49 2008 From: mvkatiyar at gmail.com (Manoj Verma) Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:37:49 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] vacancy Message-ID: <64be90e70812310007s7a12dba0s159136444be5d9a5@mail.gmail.com> Library Assistants (Permanent position) and Library Trainees (One year Contract), The NSHM Knowledge Campus, Kolkata Posted: 29 Dec 2008 01:36 AM PST Last Date of Application: 8th January 2009. For Library Assistants, applicants should be 1/2 years of experience from a reputed organization with 1st class MLIS and well versed in computer application in Library Science. Pay scale as per AICTE norms. For Library Trainee, The applicants should be fresh MLIS and well versed in computer application in Library Science. Duration of Training is for a period of one year with no guarantee of continued employment (purely temporary/contractual basis), carrying a stipend of Rs.5000/- per month with no other facilities / benefits, as applicable to regular employees, excepting contractual leave. Please send the Bio-Data with latest passport size photograph to nihar.kanta.patra at nshm.com -- MANOJ KUMAR M.Sc.(Phys), MLISc,M.PHIL.(LIS), ADCA,UGC-NET(June & Dec.2006) -- 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/20081231/25525076/attachment-0001.html From knsbhumlis at gmail.com Wed Dec 31 16:25:23 2008 From: knsbhumlis at gmail.com (krishna nand singh) Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:25:23 +0530 Subject: [LIS-Forum] National Conference & Workshop on High Performance Computing & Applications Message-ID: *Conference Themes* Advances in computing and networking, high-end computers, large data stores, and middleware capabilities are ushering in a new era of high-performance parallel and distributed computing. Along with these new capabilities come new challenges. The goal of the 2009 High Performance Computing & Applications (HPCA 2009) is to encourage innovation in high performance computing and communication technologies and to stimulate the use of these technologies in key areas of computer application. It will promote the exchange of ideas and information among universities, industries, and national laboratories about new developments in high performance computing and communication, that address current scientific and technical challenges within the application community. Broad areas of interest include, but not limited to: 1. High Performance Applications 2. Discrete Mathematics and its Applications 3. High Performance Software Tools 4. Distributed and Grid Computing 5. Visualization and Data Management 6. Problem Solving Environments 7. Sequential and Parallel Algorithms and Architectures 8. High Performance Discrete Event Simulation 9. Artificial Intelligence 10. Software Engineering 11. Neuro Computing 12. Bio Informatics/Bio Computing 13. Theory of Computation & Soft Computing 14. Computing Applications etc. Dates TO remember *Full Paper submission : * *Dec 09, 2008 .* *Notification of acceptance: Jan 15, 2009.* *Registration due: Jan 30, 2009.* Call For Papers Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers (up to 10 pages, Single column) on topics related to the areas listed above. Submissions will be evaluated on relevance, technical quality, and exposition. Papers must not have appeared before (or be pending) in a journal or conference with published proceedings, nor may they be under review or submitted to another forum during the HPCA-2009 review process. All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings. Papers should be submitted electronically (in PDF or DOC format). At least one author of an accepted paper must register for the conference and must present the paper at the conference. The conference proceeding will be published. Please send the Abstracts along with the Registration form, giving your (1) Name, (2) Designation, (3) Institution, (4) Address with email ID (5) Title of the paper (6) Telephone /Fax/ Email (7) Accommodation needed/ not needed, to: *Dr P. K. Mishra* * Convener, HPCA-2009* * Dept. of Computer Science* * BHU Varanasi-221005 * * (email: hd_cs at bhu.ac.in or hpcabhu at gmail.com).* Accommodation is limited and will be arranged with in the University Campus on the basis of first come first serve. However, on advance intimation, hotel accommodation can also be arranged on additional payment. Registration *Registration Fee* is as follows: *Participants Amount* *Student * Rs. 600/- *Academic * Rs. 1200/- *Industry * Rs. 2000/- *Others * Rs. 1500/- Please download the registration form. Registration Fee should be payable by bank draft in favour of *"Convener, HPCA-2009, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi-221005" *(due from 30 Jan 2009). The draft along with registration form should be sent to *Dr. P.K. Mishra* *Convener,* *HPCA-2009,* *Department of Computer Science,* * Banaras Hindu University,* * Varanasi- 221005 (India).* KRISHNA NAND SINGH MLIS(BHU) -- 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/20081231/85374401/attachment.html