From dimple148 at yahoo.co.in  Mon Jun  2 11:10:23 2008
From: dimple148 at yahoo.co.in (Dimple Patel)
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 06:40:23 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Fwd: [oss4lib-discuss] Open Source digital library Kete
	version 1.0 released.
Message-ID: <152981.36550.qm@web8904.mail.in.yahoo.com>

Horowhenua Library Trust and Katipo Communications in New Zealand are pleased to annouce the release of Kete Version 1.0.
  Kete provides a platform for developing community contributed content.          It allows uploading of different types of content: topics (html text based content), documents, audio files, images, movies and links. Kete is the m?ori word for basket, in the Kete system a basket is the overall organising structure for content. Beyond baskets content is organised by the community using tagging and relating pieces of content to each other. 
                     Kete is developed with Ruby on Rails, utilizes Zebra z39.50 full text indexing engine developed by IndexData, is fully compatible with Koha, and is released under a GNU General Public License (GPL).
  Kete recently won the 2007 3M Award for Innovation in New Zealand Libraries, and a Special Mention at the 2007 World Summit Awards for the North America - Oceania Region in the e-inclusion section. 
 
  Full documentation, contacts and links to the code repository can be found at the project site http://kete.net.nz
  
  Joann Ransom.
  Project Manager.



Dimple Patel, Ph.D.,
Asst. Professor,
Dept. of Library & Information Science,
Osmania University,
Hyderabad.
(0)9440947893
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From akc at bic.boseinst.ernet.in  Mon Jun  2 12:40:25 2008
From: akc at bic.boseinst.ernet.in (Dr. Arun K. Chakraborty)
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 12:40:25 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Upcoming Seminars, Conferences,
	Workshops & Refresher Courses in LIS in India: Alert
In-Reply-To: <38055c8a0805310516k57a52922rab00bd281062b796@mail.gmail.com>
References: <38055c8a0805310516k57a52922rab00bd281062b796@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <20080602071025.M70606@bic.boseinst.ernet.in>

One more upcoming conference

23rd National Semianr of IASLIC to be held at Bose Institute, Kolkata 10-13 
December, 2008 (www.iaslic1955.org, www.boseinst.ernet.in)

Regards.

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)

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From: "Badan Barman" <badanbarman at gmail.com>
To: "POSTING MESSAGES TO LIS-FORUM" <lis-forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>
Sent: Sat, 31 May 2008 05:16:37 -0700
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Upcoming Seminars, Conferences, Workshops & Refresher 
Courses in LIS in India: Alert

> *Upcoming Seminars, Conferences, Workshops & Refresher Courses in 
> LIS in India*
> 
> 1. National Workshop on Institutional Repositories", M.S.Ramaiah Medical
> College, Bangalore. Workshop Dates: 12 & 13th June, 2008.
> 
> 2. Four days Regional Training Workshop On Building Institutional Archives
> And Digital Libraries, Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology (SMIT) 
> Sikkim. *The Registration fee, boarding and lodging facility is 
> free. TA also will be provided to the participants.* Workshop Dates: 
> 24-27 June 2008.
> 
> 3. National Seminar on "Redefining the Role of Public Libraries in India:
> the Knowledge Society Imperatives", Thiruvavthapuram. Seminar Dates: 
> 6-8 August 2008.
> 
> 4. SANGOSHTHI 2008 - Role of IT-Enabled Knowledge Management in 
> Growth of India at IGCAR, Kalpakkam. Conference dates: 24- 26 July, 2008.
> 
> 5. Refresher Course at UGC-Academic Staff College, Jamia Millia 
> Islamia, New Delhi
> 
> August 6, 2008 to August 27, 2008.
> 
> 6. ILA Platinum Jubilee International Conference. Dates: November 13-
> 15, 2008.
> 
> 7. A three-day National Conference on Digitization and Digital 
> Preservation, Delhi. Dates: Second week of December 2008.
> 
> 8. Workshop on NewGenLib, JRD Tata Memorial Library Annexe, IISc, Bangalore
> 
>  Workshop Dates: 9-11 June 2008.
> 
> 9. ICoASL 2008, India Islamic Cultural Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi,
>  India. Dates: 26-28 November 2008.
> 
> 10. Elevanth National Convention on Knowledge, Library and 
> Information Networking (NACLIN 2008) at Karunya University,
>  Coimbatore, India. Seminar / Conference Dates: November 4-7, 2008.
> 
> 11. The 11th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries
> 
> (ICADL 2008), Bali, Indonesia. Seminar / Conference Dates: December 
> 2-5, 2008.
> 
> For details of the above please visit *Upcoming Seminars,
>  Conferences, Workshops & Refresher Courses in LIS in India: * 
http://lisseminar.blogspot.com/
> 
> To receive Email Alert from above site register your name at the following
> site.
> http://lislinks.ning.com/main/authorization/signUp?target=http%3A%2F%
2Flislinks.ning.com%2For
> you can also subscribe it on
> http://lisseminar.blogspot.com/
> 
> -- 
> Thanking you
> Yours faithfully
> Sri Badan Barman
> Research Scholar
> DLISc, Gauhati University
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> Important Resources for LIS Professionals
> Upcoming Seminars, Conferences, Workshops & Refresher Courses in LIS:
> http://lisseminar.blogspot.com/
> Jobs in LIS: http://lisjob.blogspot.com/
> Awards, Prizes, Scholarships or Fellowships in LIS:
> http://lisscholarship.blogspot.com/
> Admission Notice for Courses in LIS: http://liscourse.blogspot.com/
> Latest Happenings & Contemporary Issues in LIS:
> http://lislatest.blogspot.com/
> Search all OA LIS Journals: http://lis-journals-swicki.eurekster.com
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From puna_05 at yahoo.co.in  Mon Jun  2 12:21:41 2008
From: puna_05 at yahoo.co.in (Puna Das)
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 07:51:41 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Call for Papers: National Conference on Traditional
	Knowledge Systems,
	Intellectual Property Rights and their Relevance for Sustainable
	Development
Message-ID: <11989.29750.qm@web8604.mail.in.yahoo.com>

National Conference on Traditional Knowledge Systems, Intellectual Property Rights and their Relevance for Sustainable Development
Organized by: National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources (NISCAIR), CSIR, New Delhi
24-26 November 2008
   
  Call for Papers:
The Abstract, not exceeding 250 words, with title, author(s) and affiliation, typed in Times New Roman (font 12 size and 1.5 line space) on A4 size paper, should be submitted along with PowerPoint presentation (including soft copy) by 31 August 2008 along with Registration Fee. Abstracts will be reviewed by the Scientific Programme Committee for selection for oral/poster presentation. Manuscript of the Full Paper to be presented is to be submitted by 15 October 2008. 
   
  Scientific Sessions will cover the following areas
* Traditional Knowledge and Sustainable Development (Ethnobotany, Ethnomedicine, Ethnoveterinary Practices, Ethnofisheries, Traditional Foods & Beverages, Traditional Agriculture, etc.)
* Traditional Knowledge Documentation
* Traditional Cultural Expressions (Folklore)
* Traditional Knowledge Related Biodiversity and Genetic Resources in Developing Countries: Issues of Piracy&Protection
* Traditional Knowledge and Intellectual Property Rights: Impact and Implications
* Assessing Existing Legal Framework
* Bioprospecting based on Traditional Knowledge and Related IPR Issues
* Access and Benefit Sharing
   
  Details at: http://niscair.res.in/Movingmenu/conf-TK-IPR-nov08.pdf

       
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From ramya.ncsi at gmail.com  Mon Jun  2 15:42:50 2008
From: ramya.ncsi at gmail.com (Ramya Krishna)
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 15:42:50 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Invitation for III Dr. T.B. Rajashekar Memorial
	Lecture- Announcement
Message-ID: <d834e440806020312r4dc707a0u806aa9cc063842dc@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Friends,

NCSI-Net, an informal association comprising of NCSI staff, trainees,and its
alumni, cordially invites you to the III Dr. T.B. Rajashekar Memorial
Lecture. The details of the lecture are given below:

Title: "Scientometrics with social emphasis on measuring Scientific
productivity"


Speaker: Dr. IK Ravichandra Rao,
         Professor and Head
         Documentation Research and Training Centre
         Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore

Date: Saturday, 7th June, 2008

Time: 6.00 PM

Venue: Choksi Hall, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

(Choksi Hall is located on the right side just after the IISc main gate
opposite BHEL)


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NCSI-Net co-ordinators

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From shyamraoshake at rediffmail.com  Mon Jun  2 16:57:19 2008
From: shyamraoshake at rediffmail.com (shyam sunder rao)
Date: 2 Jun 2008 11:27:19 -0000
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Notification for the posts of Asstt. Lib. & Lib. Asstt.
Message-ID: <20080602112719.11128.qmail@f4mail-235-142.rediffmail.com>

  
Dear LIS forum members,

This is to inform you that, we require to fill the vacancies for the posts of Assistant Librarian and Library Assistant at Siva Sivani Institute of Management, Kompally, Secunderabad - 500 014. Andhra Pradesh, India.

Assistant Librarian    -  Any Degree with Bachelor of Library and Information Science (B.L.I.S) with Computer Knowledge is essential

Library Assistnat      -  Any Degree with Certifviate in Library and Information Science and Knowledge of comoputer.

Kindly send your resumes to the following e-mail id

              ssrhyd at gmail.com

S. Shyam Sunder Rao
Librarian
Siva Sivani Institute of Management
Kompally, via:Hakimpet
Secunderabad
Andhra Pradesh.
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From mukeshanand2006 at gmail.com  Mon Jun  2 18:35:25 2008
From: mukeshanand2006 at gmail.com (Mukesh Anand)
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 06:05:25 -0700
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Gujarat Vidyapeeth,
	Ahmedabad-Librarian post:Last date is extended upto 16thJune, ' 08
Message-ID: <b0de4a880806020605h39d2a55dy1a39b3024d7b5b90@mail.gmail.com>

Respected Members',

Gujarat Vidyapeeth, Ahmedabad - 380 014 - Corrigendum
Refer to the University Advt.No. 1/2008-2009 for the post of
Librarian, the following amendment may please be read as given below;

The last date of submission of filled in application form is extended
upto 16.06.2008.
Place :Ahmedabad                                             Rajendra Khimani
Date : 10-05-2008                                              Registrar

With Warm Regards,
Mukesh Anand
Asst. Libn.
Officers'Training College for Indian Railway
Sanskari Nagari Vadodara

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From t_muniraj at yahoo.co.in  Mon Jun  2 18:46:24 2008
From: t_muniraj at yahoo.co.in (Muniraju T)
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 14:16:24 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] KPSC called for First Grade degree college librarians, 
Message-ID: <625895.71796.qm@web7611.mail.in.yahoo.com>

Dear professionals,
   
  KPSC called for First Grade degree college librarians, for detailed information please visit this site
  http://www.kpsc.kar.nic.in/Notification%20dated%202-6-2008.pdf
   
  ALL THE BEST FOR ASPIRANTS
   
  Thanks and Regards.
   
  MUNIRAJU T

       
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From pathak at library.iitkgp.ernet.in  Tue Jun  3 09:11:53 2008
From: pathak at library.iitkgp.ernet.in (Dr S K Pathak)
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 09:11:53 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Dewey Classification official blog
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0806030903420.1800-100000@library.iitkgp.ernet.in>


Hi,

For any who use or have Dewey Classification in their library collections, 
visit following URL:

http://ddc.typepad.com/

The Dewey Blog is created by the Dewey editorial team and covers topics 
related to the DDC and knowledge organization. The Dewey Blog is a place 
to see announcements about upcoming events in the Dewey world, reports 
on events in the knowledge organization community, and a place to share 
comments and ask questions about the DDC.


- S K Pathak

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Assist. Librarian
IIT Kharagpur
Kharagpur - 721 302
West Bengal
INDIA
Ph.: 03222-282448
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From atul_bhatt_lib at yahoo.co.in  Tue Jun  3 10:42:42 2008
From: atul_bhatt_lib at yahoo.co.in (atul bhatt)
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 06:12:42 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Online Free Health Science E-Journals and E-Resources
Message-ID: <718717.27527.qm@web8610.mail.in.yahoo.com>

Dear All,
  Here is some interesting news which I want to share with all my 
friends. Now we can access more than 7000 Online E-journals and E-books free and full text across the worldwide with a single mouse click. For further detail I would like to request you to please visit the following link http://atulbhatt.blogspot.com/
  With best regards,
     Atul Bhatt  Librarian, Swami Vivkanand Institute of Medical science and research,  At & Po. Valia (Gujarat) Dist. :- Bharuch  Pin 393 135  Tel : +91 94281 80791  Email :            atul_bhatt_lib at yahoo.co.in ; atulbhatt at live.com  URL:    http://atulbhatt.blogspot.com/
       
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From sfkattimani at gmail.com  Tue Jun  3 14:20:11 2008
From: sfkattimani at gmail.com (S.F KATTIMANI)
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 14:20:11 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Download Mandarin M3 Free
Message-ID: <a72c4fe00806030150q705e076dy5fec3254cf79487a@mail.gmail.com>

 Dear all

Download Mandarin M3 Free!
The award-winning, Windows-based library management system can now be
downloaded FREE from the Mandarin web site. The download includes
cataloging, circulation (including basic reports), OPAC, and inventory.
Add-on modules are available, including Web OPAC, Authority Control, and
more. Visit the Mandarin web site at <
www.informedlibrarian.com/mandarinfree.cfm> to learn more and download M3.
__________________________________________

 Thanks & Regards
-- 
S.F.KATTIMANI
DEPUTY LIBRARIAN
M.S.RAMAIAH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (AUTONOMOUS)
M.S.RAMAIAH NAGAR
BANGALORE 560054
PH: 080 23600822/23606934 EXT 223 & 107
MOB: 9886821032

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From ts_kumbar at daiict.ac.in  Tue Jun  3 16:01:37 2008
From: ts_kumbar at daiict.ac.in (ts kumbar)
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 16:01:37 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Openings for the position of Library Trainees in the
	Resource Centre (Library) at DA-IICT, Gandhinagar, Gujarat
Message-ID: <010101c8c565$02172860$2b52640a@tskumbar>

Dear Colleagues,

Kindly bring the following announcement to the notice of interested candidates and also request you to recommend potential candadates.

Subject: Openings for the position of Library Trainees in the Resource Centre (Library) http://resourcecentre.daiict.ac.in/
 at DA-IICT, Gandhinagar, Gujarat

Qualifications: M.L.I.Sc. First Class (The candidates who have appeared or appearing the M.L.I.Sc. final examination and are expecting the result in First Class may also apply)

Duration: One year from the date of joining.

Stipend:  Rs. 6500/. Per month ( consolidated)

Nature of Traineeship: Learning on the job

Last date for applying:  12th June, 2008

Address for sending the application:  hr at daiict.ac.in  or  ts_kumbar at daiict.ac.in

Short listed candidates will be called ( a seperate communication through email will be sent) to attend the written test and interview at their own cost some time during the last week of June, 2008.

For more details, see the following communication.

Regards

Kumbar
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Dr. T S Kumbar
Resource Centre
DA-IICT
Gandhinagar
Gujarat
http://resourcecentre.daiict.ac.in/
http://www.daiict.ac.in
Tel. 079-30510550

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Sub: Openings for the position of Library Trainees in the Resource Centre (Library) at DA-IICT.


Dear Sir/ Madam,


We take this opportunity to inform you that Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT), situated at Gandhinagar, Gujarat, is promoted by Reliance. It has been established on a 50-acre of land in Gandhinagar, Gujarat. The Government of Gujarat has granted it the University status under the State Act and is recognized by University Grants Commission. The Institute has started functioning since August 2001 with a batch size of 240 students at undergraduate level in Information and Communication Technology (ICT). It also offers a variety of Masters' and Doctoral programs in ICT and allied areas.

The Institute takes young and dynamic postgraduate freshers with minimum First Class Masters in Library and Information Science as Library Trainees. They should be well versed in computer application to Library and Information Services.  Duration of Training is for a period for one year. The trainees gets a fixed stipend of Rs. 6500/-per month with no other facilities/ benefits, excepting casual leave. The candidates who have appeared or appearing for M.L.I.Sc. final examination and are expecting the result in First Class may also apply.


The Institute has fully computerized in-house operations and services of the Resource Centre and provides access to wide variety of digital collection, catering to the needs of the Faculty, Staff and Students. Several new initiatives are being taken to make this library as one of the leading and resource libraries in the area of ICT in the country. It is a part of regional & national consortia and actively participates in the resource sharing activities. Resource Centre is kept open till mid night on all working days during the semester and is open on holidays, Saturdays and Sundays. Selected trainees will have to work during these extended hours on rotation basis.

We would be grateful if you could kindly identify a few suitable students form your University/Institute and send us your recommendation, along with their bio-data and information showing the year of passing and the percentage of marks obtained in M.L.I.Sc by 12th, June  2008  to our H.R Officer  or email a soft copy to  hr at daiict.ac.in .Alternatively, you may ask your students to send in their application directly along with bio-data, relevant marks cards and communication (email) address.

The final selection will be based on the performance of the candidates in the written test and personal interview. The short listed candidates will be called for the written test and personal interview some time during last week of June, 2008.  A communication via email intimating the date for the written test and interview  will be sent  seperately. 


Yours sincerely


(P K Chopra)
I/C Executive Registrar



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From esukhdev at gmail.com  Tue Jun  3 16:58:08 2008
From: esukhdev at gmail.com (Sukhdev Singh)
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 16:58:08 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Survey Report: Attitude towards profession of LIS-Forum
	participants
In-Reply-To: <c13c85220806030240u6386d680jb5a51d8ccac2b4ab@mail.gmail.com>
References: <c13c85220806030240u6386d680jb5a51d8ccac2b4ab@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <c13c85220806030428h9cf1d71u3723fb11048c3ce0@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Friends,

As you know, I had sent an online questionnaire on LIS-Forum. This was
to test a feature of Google Docs by which online surveys can be
conducted conveniently.

Most of you had written in the comments box that the results be made
public. I am doing the same through this email. Later on I will put
this report on some OA Repository.

Since file attachments are not allowed, you may view the report
interlaced with graphics from the following link -
http://snipr.com/lissurvey or ask me by direct mail for PDF File.

I am also trying to reproduce the text of the report here:

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Attitude towards profession of participants of an online discussion
forum of Library and Information Science Professionals

By Sukhdev Singh, Email: esukhdev at gmail dot com.

[This document and the associated data can be freely distributed and
used according to Creative Commons license - Attribution-No Derivative
Works 2.5 India - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.5/in/]

Introduction:

Online discussion forums are one of earliest form of online
communication among people with common interests. Many of these forums
are meant for people associated with a profession. LIS-Forum
(LIS-Forum, 2008) is such an email based discussion forum (list-serv)
for Library and Information Science (LIS) Professionals. It has been
there since 1995 (Rajashekar, 2002) and now has more than 4100
subscribers. This online forum is the most popular and oldest in
India. It has wide spread subscription base among Library and
Information Professionals from India. It also has decent subscribers
from outside India. It would be matter of interest to know what these
subscribers think of LIS profession. Why did they entered into this
profession? Was it a pure chance, lack of alternatives or deliverate
choice? What is their attitude towards the core philosphy of the
profession. A brief survey was done on the subscribers in the month of
April 2008 to get some insight on these issues. However, the basic
objective of this survey was to demonstrate a feature of  Google Docs'
online spreadsheet (Google Docs, 2008) that can to exploited to
conduct online surveys.

Methodology:

An online questionnaire was created using Google Docs' online
spreadsheet (Singh, Conduct Research and Surveys Online: Design, Send
and Get Results Directly in Spreadsheet Using Google Docs, 2008).
Google Docs has a feature to create an online form and link back it to
a spreadsheet on its server. The data entered through forms gets
entered directly into this linked spreadsheet. The questionnaire can
be sent directly through email to target survey participants. Most
email clients and web based emails services can directly display the
form in email of the recipients. The recipient can fill in the values
and click on submit button. In case the form is not displayed
properly, a link to the online form is always there for the recipient
to visit and respond.

A very simple survey questionnaire (Singh, LIS Motivation Survey,
2008) was created. The objective was to collect only minimal but
relevant information. No personal details were collected.  Only four
questions were asked. Three were close-ended questions where the
respondents had to just click on options. The last question was
open-ended asking comments from respondents. These questions were
asked:

?       Your Age Group?
?       Your Occupation?
?       Why you choose LIS Profession?
?       Any comments?

The questionnaire was mailed to LIS-Forum. The LIS-Forum moderator
approved the email containing the survey on 21st April 2008. The
responses started pouring in from 11:01 A.M. First day saw most of the
responses. On third day, the responses tampered to just three
responses. However, responses kept pouring in even later. The last
response that was included in the study is the 57th response received
on 3rd May 2008.

Analysis:

1.      Age Groups:

The responses were grouped age-wise. Most responses (42%) were from
respondents in the age group of 25 -30 years. This was followed (30%)
by those in the age group of 31-35. Thus this relatively young age
group of 25 to 35 years combined together formed 72% of responses.

Age Groups      Total
Above 60        1
Between 25 - 30 24
Between 31 - 35 17
Between 36 - 40 2
Between 41 - 45 4
Between 46 - 50 3
Between 51- 55  3
Between 56 - 60 1
Under 25        2
Grand Total     57

2.      Occupations:

Most respondents (65%) were employed in LIS domain. Apart from these
10% were employed in LIS domain as well research students. While 7%
more were doing correspondence courses to improve their qualifications
while in service. Thus 82% of the respondents were employed in LIS
domain. Only one (2%) respondent was working in non-LIS domain.

Respondents' Occupations        Total
Employed but LIS Student of Distant / Correspondence Course     4
Employed in LIS Domain  37
Employed in non-LIS Domain      1
Research Only   2
Research Only, Employed but LIS Student of Distant / Correspondence
Course      1
Research, but Employed  6
Research, but Employed, Employed in LIS Domain  2
Retired 1
Student ? MLIS  1
Student - MLIS, Employed in LIS Domain  1
Student - MLIS, Research, but Employed  1
Grand Total     57

3.      Reason for Joining Library and Information Science (LIS) Profession:

Interestingly, almost half (46%) of the persons said they loved the
philosophy of LIS profession. Twenty percent of the people said that
they joined the profession because jobs were / are easily available.
About same number (23%) of people said that they did not care to know
much it before joining.

Reason for choosing LIS Profession      Total
I had to do something, What is your problem?    2
I loved the philosophy of the profession        26
I was employed in another field, studied LIS during job and now I am
well off.  1
Jobs are / were easily available in LIS 11
Just joined it without caring what it is all about      13
Nothing better was available to me      1
Wanted to spend some more time at university    2
(blank)
Grand Total     56

Breaking down responses by two major age groups (25-30 and 31-35)
revealed an interesting fact. In 25-30 age group, 9 out of 24 (37.5%)
respondents said that they did not care what the profession was all
about while joining it. However, in the age group of 31-35, only 1 out
of 16 (6.25%) said so. This gives an indication that people tend to
love core philosophy of the profession with passage of time.

4.      Respondents' General Comments:

There was an open ended question asking comments of the respondents.
Most of the people wanted to know the results of this survey. Some
were with very positive comments towards the profession. At the same
time, few were very critical about joining the profession. One person
even thought to the extent that juniors are being exploited by their
senior professionals.

Limitation of study:

The questionnaire had a very poor response. It would be risky to draw
major conclusions from this study. This study can only reflect the
views of active LIS-Forum subscribers who opted to respond.

Conclusion:

Though the response rate was poor, but still the study does tell about
the attitude of active participants of the LIS-Forum who decided to
respond promptly. Majority of the responses came within 48 hours. The
methodology of the survey, that is using Google Docs, hence has been
tested. This methodology works and thus can be used for online
surveys. This study also showed that relatively young people from the
age group of 25 to 35 years are active on online forum for LIS
professionals. This active population either has positive attitude
towards the philosophy of profession or consider LIS as a career.
Moreover, their commitment and love towards the professional
philosophy increases with time. Further studies on this issue are
required. The spreadsheet containing the survey responses is being
shared as open data to help future similar studies (LIS motivation
survey: spreadsheet with survey responses, 2008). To maintain privacy,
the comments field has been deleted from this spreadsheet.


References

Google Docs. (2008). Retrieved June 3, 2008, from http://docs.google.com/

LIS motivation survey: spreadsheet with survey responses. (2008, June
3). Retrieved June 3, 2008, from http://snipr.com/2bvu5

LIS-Forum. (2008). Retrieved June 3, 2008, from LIS-Forum: Discussion
Forum for Library and Information Professionals in India:
http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

Rajashekar, T. (2002, Oct 1). LIS-Forum: A brief history. Retrieved
June 1, 2008, from http://snipr.com/lishistory

Singh, S. (2008, April 25). Conduct Research and Surveys Online:
Design, Send and Get Results Directly in Spreadsheet Using Google
Docs. Retrieved June 1, 2008, from http://snipr.com/gdsurvey

Singh, S. (2008, April 19). LIS Motivation Survey. Retrieved June 1,
2008, from http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=p4GBbR26ZPytvtls2v-qhBw

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From vimal0212 at gmail.com  Wed Jun  4 09:48:52 2008
From: vimal0212 at gmail.com (Vimal Kumar)
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 09:48:52 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Dewey Training Courses
Message-ID: <5b978ad90806032118u48a32efcocce33b2c415352f7@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Friends,
DDC training materials now available at OCLC website on the needs of
experienced librarians who need Dewey application training. They will also
be useful as supplementary materials in other Dewey training contexts, e.g.,
teaching Dewey to LIS students. The materials will include a basic
course<http://www.oclc.org/dewey/resources/teachingsite/200801/default.htm#basic>on
the structure and use of the DDC, plus a series of short
modules<http://www.oclc.org/dewey/resources/teachingsite/200801/default.htm#short>based
on special topics.

http://www.oclc.org/dewey/resources/teachingsite/200801/default.htm

All the best

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From sainul at iiitmk.ac.in  Wed Jun  4 11:30:37 2008
From: sainul at iiitmk.ac.in (Sainul Abideen P)
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 11:30:37 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] ISIS3 - What is ABCD?  - first nugget (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0806041128470.20526@login.iiitmk.ac.in>

Forwarded message regarding the forthcoming Integrated Library 
Automation Software from ISIS family
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Dear colleagues,

As previously anounced, here comes a first note or information nugget about ABCD = Automation of Libraries and Documentation Centers.

ABCD is a long held aspiration for the ISIS community, since the first MS-DOS version came out more than 20 years ago. Finally, this
aspiration is about to come true.

We'll first present a list of its basic functionalities and attributes. In further nuggets we'll give details about each of them.

  *  ABCD is an integrated library management software comprising the main basic library functions:

?????? Definition of any number of new databases (similar to Winisis), which includes: FDT, PFT, FST, and worksheets directly on the
Web, or copying from existing ones either from the Web or from Winisis on a local hard disk,

?????? cataloguing of books and serials, independently of the format: MARC, LILACS, AGRIS, etc.

?????? end-user searching (OPAC),

?????? loans circulation,

?????? acquisitions,

?????? statistics,

?????? library services like SDI, barcode printing, quality control, etc.

  *  The software will be compatible with CDS/ISIS database technology for the bibliographic databases, i.e. reading ISIS-databases and
     making use of ISIS Formatting Language (or something functionally similar) for producing output (PFT) and indexing (FST) of
     records;
  *  The software will run on both Windows and Linux platforms;
  *  The software will allow the use of MARC-21 cataloging formats and other current standards or protocols (Dublin Core, METS,
     Z39.50...);
  *  The software will be published as Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) with the accompanying tools for the developer community;
  *  The software will be intrinsically multi-lingual, with English, Spanish, Portuguese and French interfaces being available by the
     end of 2008;
  *  The software will be fully documented for system-managers in at least one language, preferably English, by the end of 2008;
  *  UNICODE-compatibility will at least be envisaged and prepared, if not in the actual version then for an upcoming future version,
     which is part of the ISIS-NBP paralell project;
  *  A testing version will be ready by September 2008 to be presented in the 3rd World Isis Meeting;
  *  This version and manuals will be used as training materials for an international Training Workshop on the software in March 2009.


More information about the ISIS3 Congress can be found? at the official congress website:

Spanish???????? http://www.eventos.bvsalud.org/agendas/isis3/?lang=es
English http://www.eventos.bvsalud.org/agendas/isis3/?lang=en
Portuguese?? http://www.eventos.bvsalud.org/agendas/isis3/?lang=pt


Regards

Ernesto Spinak
thanks to Wenke Adams for the translation

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From franc at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in  Wed Jun  4 13:36:27 2008
From: franc at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Francis Jayakanth)
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 13:36:27 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Project Assistant Position at NCSI
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0806041335430.15427@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>


NCSI needs a Project Assistant for its ongoing Science Observatory Project. 
The candidate needs to possess a minimum qualification of a First Class 
Master's degree in Library and Information Science preferably with 
NCSI/DRTC experience. The candidate should be familiar with searching 
databases such as Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar and Bibliometric/ 
Scientometric Analysis. The position is for a period of 4 months after 
which it may be extended based on a review. Please apply with your CV to 
venky at library.iisc.ernet.in on or before 15th June 2008.

-- 
Dr. S. Venkadesan
Librarian
JRD Tata Memorial Library
Indian Institute of Science
Bangalore-560012
INDIA
Ph: +91 80 23601653
+ 91 80 22932408
Fax: +91 80 23601653
E-Mail- venky at library.iisc.ernet.in
venkys at gmail.com

Dr. S. Venkadesan (Venky)
DQ-8, Indian Institute of Science Campus,
BANGALORE-560012
INDIA
Gmail- venkys at gmail.com

From ramya.ncsi at gmail.com  Wed Jun  4 14:36:29 2008
From: ramya.ncsi at gmail.com (Ramya Krishna)
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 14:36:29 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Invitation for III Dr. T.B. Rajashekar Memorial
	Lecture- Reminder
Message-ID: <d834e440806040206n5f0fc8eau37f5d7d713925693@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Members/Friends,

On Behalf of NCSI-Net, an informal association comprising of NCSI staff,
trainees,and its alumni, we cordially invite you to the III Dr. T.B.
Rajashekar Memorial Lecture. The details of the lecture are given below:

Title: "Scientometrics with special emphasis on measuring Scientific
productivity"

(Kindly note that in the previous announcement there was a typographical
error in the title of the talk. We are sorry about it)

Speaker: Dr. I.K. Ravichandra Rao,
              Professor and Head
              Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC)
              Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Bangalore

Date:      Saturday, 7th June, 2008
Time:      6.00 PM

Venue:    Choksi Hall, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

(Choksi Hall is located at the entrance of IISc main gate, opposite BHEL)

Prof. Giridhar Madras, Chairman, NCSI will preside over the lecture.

RSVP: ramya at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in / hipandian at gmail.com / 22933273

About the Speaker:

Prof. Ravichandra Rao is on the Faculty of DRTC, ISI, Bangalore. Currently
he is the Head and Professor of DRTC. Earlier, he was Head of the Indian
Statistical Institute, Bangalore Centre from Oct. 2002 to Sept. 07

Prof. Rao joined DRTC in 1970. Since then he is been involved in teaching
and research in applied
statistics, (-- bibliometrics / informetrics and scientometrics),
programming, library automation,
information retrieval, information management and DBMS with special emphasis
on bibliographical databases. He has been on several UNESCO/UNDP missions.

Prof. Rao has also worked as a Visiting Professor at Limburgs University
(now known as University of Hasselt), Diepenbeek, Belgium in 1990, 2001,2007
and at Addis Ababa University in 1990. He has visited a number of library
schools in India as a resource person to deliver a series of special
lectures.  In the early 1970's he was involved in developing software to
provide SDI service based on locally developed databases. This software was
implemented for the first time in India on an experimental basis at BHEL,
Hyderabad in 1975.

Prof. Rao was a founder Executive Committee Member of the International
Society for Scientometrics / Informetrics, The Netherlands. till 2005.

Prof. Rao's research interests include growth and obsolescence of
literature, library statistics,
theories of bibliometrics, scientometrics and informetrics; Library
automation, information retrieval, information management, in addition to
the development of software for library applications.  Based on his research
and teaching experience, he has authored two books
(-- Quantitative Methods in Library and Information Science and Library
Automation (it has been translated into Portuguese language.))  Both the
books have been recognized as textbooks for students at the post-graduate
level in some of the Indian and foreign Universities. He has edited a number
of seminar volumes both at the national and international levels and also
was a Guest Editor for a few journals in Information field in India.  He has
more than sixty research papers to his credit and has reviewed a number of
books and articles.

Regards,
NCSI-Net Co-ordinators.

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From patranihar at gmail.com  Wed Jun  4 15:29:13 2008
From: patranihar at gmail.com (Nihar Patra)
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 15:29:13 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Dublin Core metadata editor
Message-ID: <d139271d0806040259s7a39e94uf0fabb140892c573@mail.gmail.com>

Dear LIS Professional !!!
Greetings !!!!
Please visit the sites http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcdot/ for creating
Dublin Core metadat...

This service will retrieve a Web page and automatically generate Dublin Core
metadata <http://uk.dublincore.org/>, either as HTML <meta> tags or as
RDF/XML, suitable for embedding in the <head>...</head> section of the page.
The generated metadata can be edited using the form provided and converted
to various other formats (USMARC, SOIF, IAFA/ROADS, TEI headers, GILS, IMS
or RDF) if required. Optional, context sensitive, help is available while
editing.

With regards,
Nihar K patra
Librarian (
(Assistant General Manager)

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From sebjose2004 at yahoo.co.in  Thu Jun  5 01:55:32 2008
From: sebjose2004 at yahoo.co.in (Sanjo Jose)
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 01:55:32 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Scheme of Financial Assistance for Preservation of
	Manuscripts/Rare Books
Message-ID: <19150.51449.qm@web8403.mail.in.yahoo.com>

Dear Subscriber,

National Archives of India has a scheme to help individuals and organizations in cataloguing, translation, and digitization of manuscripts and rare books.

Under this scheme, a maximum of Rs. 2 lakhs is available per year for each approved project. 

Voluntary Organizations, Educational Institutions including Private Colleges, Private Libraries, Museums and Universities including deemed Universities, Religious Institutions, Freedom Fighters and Individuals having hereditary collections of manuscripts/records of historical importance are eligible for financial assistance under this scheme.

A brochure in PDF is available at http://nationalarchives.nic.in/Brochure.pdf

For more details: 
http://www.nationalarchives.nic.in/financial.html

Email :	archives at nic.in

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From hariharan_ah at yahoo.com  Thu Jun  5 13:17:38 2008
From: hariharan_ah at yahoo.com (Arunachalam Hariharan)
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 00:47:38 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Nomination invited for SALIS Awards (4 awards) for the
	year 2008
Message-ID: <990959.65910.qm@web39604.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Nominations are invited for SALIS Awards for the year
2008

SALIS AWARDS

I. National Awards

1. Dr. Harish Chandra-Sushila Chandra Best Librarian
Award (National Level Award)
SALIS has instituted a national level Dr. Harish
Chandra-Sushila Chandra Best Librarian Award,
sponsored by Dr. Harish Chandra, Librarian, Indian
Institute of Technology,  to encourage the library
professionals. (pl visit http://harichandra.net for
more details)

2. A.N.Marappan Memorial National Best Young Librarian
Award  (Below 40 years) (National Level award)
SALIS hasinstituted a national award sponsored by the
trust 'Amarar A.N.Marappan Ninaivu Elakiaya Mandaram',
Athani, Erode Dist, Tamil Nadu.  A.M.Venkatachalam,
Librarian, Jansons School of Business, Coimbatore,
Tamil Nadu established the trust in the memory of his
father in the year 1998.  The aim of the award is to
encourage young library professionals who contribute
more to the profession.


II. State Level Awards

1. AutoLib-Tamilnadu-Best Librarian Award
2. AutoLib-Tamilnadu-Best Young Librarian Award

SALIS has instituted Autolib-Tamilnadu-Best Librarian
Award and Autolib-Tamilnadu-Best Young Librarian Award
(below 40 years) sponsored by M/s.AutoLib Software
Systems for the Library Professionals working in
Tamilnadu. The main aim of the award is to identify
the professional who contributes more to our
profession and recognize him/her every year.


Eligibility Criteria for all the Awards

1.    Applicant/Nominee should be a citizen of India
and his/her conduct must be good. 
2.    The applicant should be a working library
professional who holds at least Bachelors degree in
library science or its equivalent. 
3.    Interested professionals should apply in the
prescribed application form only 
4.    Nomination can be self or  by a  responsible
library professional           
5.    Give full details for each category and attach
support documents for verification 
6.    Enclose separate sheets wherever necessary to
give details 
7.    Applications without full details and support
documents will be rejected 
8.    The application form can be downloaded from
SALIS website http://autolib-india.net or can be
obtained by  e-mail to salis_info at yahoo.co.in 
9.    Filled application should reach the office on or
before 15.07.2008
10.  The decision of the committee constituted by
SALIS to select the candidate for the award is final. 
11.   Award Committee has the right to post-pone or
cancel the award for any unavoidable reason. 
12.   All correspondence should be addressed to the
Convener, SALIS Award Committee, SALIS, B2-Solai
Apartment, Opp. to MGR Garden, Mount-Poonamallee Road,
Chennai 600 089. Any enquires about the award may be
sent to the Convener at salis_info at yahoo.co.in

Note: 

1. Library Professionals working any where in India
can apply for the award Dr. Harish Chandra-Sushila
Chandra Best Librarian Award (National Level)  and
A.N.Marappan Memorial National Best Young Librarian
Award.
2. Library professionals working in Tamilnadu only can
apply for the awards  AutoLib-Tamilnadu-Best 
Librarian Award and AutoLib-Tamilnadu-Best Young
Librarian Award (Below 40 years) 

Please vist SALIS website
http://autolib-india.net/salis for more details of the
award and download application forms

Convener
SALIS Award Committee
salis_info at yahoo.co.in

 




      

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From venkat_60a at yahoo.co.in  Thu Jun  5 15:07:28 2008
From: venkat_60a at yahoo.co.in (krottapalli ratnakar)
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 15:07:28 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] library trainee
Message-ID: <810425.79583.qm@web8412.mail.in.yahoo.com>

Dear Members,
Can you send me the list?of Govt.? organiztions ?which are?paying more than Rs 5000/- for library apprentices/Trainees
(K. V.. Ratnakar)
ICMR Hqrs
Ansari? Nagar,
New Delhi-29


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From akc at bic.boseinst.ernet.in  Thu Jun  5 17:45:30 2008
From: akc at bic.boseinst.ernet.in (Dr. Arun K. Chakraborty)
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 17:45:30 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] library trainee
In-Reply-To: <810425.79583.qm@web8412.mail.in.yahoo.com>
References: <810425.79583.qm@web8412.mail.in.yahoo.com>
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Dear Mr. Ratnalkar

I can give you list only three ;

Bose Institute, Kolkata

S.N. Bose national Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata

Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore

May be many more.

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
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Subject: [LIS-Forum] library trainee

> Dear Members,
> Can you send me the list?of Govt.? organiztions ?which are?paying 
> more than Rs 5000/- for library apprentices/Trainees
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From vimal0212 at gmail.com  Fri Jun  6 10:04:13 2008
From: vimal0212 at gmail.com (Vimal Kumar)
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 10:04:13 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Big Buck Bunny: open content movie
Message-ID: <5b978ad90806052134g56b5e79fxb1abf8e3d5ee6277@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Friends,

The Amsterdam based 'Blender Institute' announced release of the short 3D
animation movie 'Big Buck Bunny'. "The primary intent of the movie was to
stimulate the development of open source 3D software" said producer and
Institute director Ton Roosendaal, "But the result equals on artistic level
as well as on technical ingenuity the quality of what you would expect from
large animation studios".

 The movie differentiates itself mostly by its totally open character. Not
only open source tools such as the 3D suite Blender were used to create the
movie, but also the movie itself - including all assets as used in the
animation studio - will be freely accessible for everybody to reuse, to
learn from it or just to enjoy it.

The promotion of Open Content creation and distribution is one of the main
goals of the Creative Commons, the organization that created the 'Creative
Commons' licenses, which have been widely adopted by artists, musicians, and
other creative individuals who wish to freely share their creative
endeavors. Blender Institute in Amsterdam is one of the first companies
worldwide exploiting Open Content professionally and commercially.

 Big Buck Bunny is a comedy about a well-tempered rabbit "Big Buck", who
finds his day spoiled by the rude actions of the forest bullies, three
rodents. In the typical 1950ies cartoon tradition Big Buck then prepares for
the rodents a comical revenge.

 You can download the movie here,

 http://www.bigbuckbunny.org/


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Asian School of Business
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From Manish.Mankad at unilever.com  Fri Jun  6 11:13:18 2008
From: Manish.Mankad at unilever.com (Mankad, Manish)
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 11:13:18 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Chemical abstracts
In-Reply-To: <20080605121530.M56995@bic.boseinst.ernet.in>
References: <810425.79583.qm@web8412.mail.in.yahoo.com>
	<20080605121530.M56995@bic.boseinst.ernet.in>
Message-ID: <B7A79051F272744FA4EEC53079AAB0D5026CBBFF@MUMSEMB10001.s1.ms.unilever.com>

Dear Members,

We have bound volumes of Chemical abstracts with all its indices from
1908 to 1996 that we wish to donate to worthy organisation. The volumes
are in good condition and the sole reason for this move is an online
access that we have opted for.

Your Suggestions are welcome.

Regards.
 
Manish Mankad
Manager-Knowledge Management
 
080 39830958
M: 9741350810

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From saroj4kumar at gmail.com  Fri Jun  6 13:36:29 2008
From: saroj4kumar at gmail.com (saroj panda)
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 13:36:29 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] vacancy for librarian
Message-ID: <be5a58b00806060106w6b4c1bect9b3a68cbd67ed268@mail.gmail.com>

Govt. of NCT Delhi
Maharaja Agrasen College
Mayar Vihar -1, Delhi -110091


Post for Librarian (1 post, Pay Scale: Rs. 8000-13000)
Application form for the post can be obtained from office of Maharaja
Agrasen College on payment of  RS. 100/- personally or by sending IPO in
favour of Principal, Maharaja Agrasen College, Mayar Vihar -1, Delhi -110091
with a stamped self-addressed envelop.

The last date of submission of completed application form is 30/06/2008


Saroj kumar
Project Assistant(LS)
INFLIBNET Centre
Near Gujrat University campus
Navarangpur, Ahmedabad-380009
Gujarat

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From vikusi at gmail.com  Fri Jun  6 16:54:05 2008
From: vikusi at gmail.com (Vinod Singh)
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 16:54:05 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Reader (2),
	Lecturer (2) and Dy Librarian (1) posts in Bundelkhand University,
	Jhansi
Message-ID: <7da160a40806060424p758329f7va5ab1dd7f8371095@mail.gmail.com>

Hi
 Few posts (related to our Profession) are advertised in Bundelkhand
University, Jhansi. They are:
1. Reader (Ur 2)
2. Lecturer ( Sc 1 and Ur 1).
3. Deputy Librarian (Ur 1).
 View detail of the advertisement at
http://www.bujhansi.org/_recru/_pdf/Adv_01June08.pdf, qualifications and
other detail are provided at
http://www.bujhansi.org/_recru/_pdf/Adv_Quali.pdf or you just click the link
http://sarkari-naukri.blogspot.com/search/label/Librarian. Last date of
submission of form is june 25, 2008.

Yours
Vinod Kumar Singh (Vikusi)
Research Scholar (M.Phil)
Department of Library and Information Science
University of Delhi
Delhi 110007

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From kanade at ces.iisc.ernet.in  Fri Jun  6 17:57:28 2008
From: kanade at ces.iisc.ernet.in (Yashwant G Kanade)
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 17:57:28 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Need papers
Message-ID: <1908.10.132.20.11.1212755248.squirrel@ces.iisc.ernet.in>

Dear Moderator,

Could you please arrange to send this message to LIS-FORUM members?
As on of our student need these papers.

With Regards
Yashwant Kanade.
CES, IISc, Bangalore

Could you please send me following papers if you have the time? I tried to
get soft copies of those but didn?t get. Could you please find them and
tell me the source.

Roonwal, M. L. and Nath, B., Discontinuous distribution of certain
Indo-Malayan mammals, and its zoogeographical significance. Proc. Natl.
Inst. Sci. India, 1949, 15, 375?377.

Abdulali, H., Some peculiarities of avifaunal distribution in peninsular
India. Proc. Natl. Inst. Sci. India, 1949, 15, 387?393.

Hora, S. L., Satpura hypothesis of the distribution of the Malayan fauna
and flora to peninsular India. Proc. Natl. Inst. Sci. India, 1949, 15,
309?314.

HORA, S. L. 1949b. Dating the period of migration of the so-called Malayan
element in the fauna of peninsular India. Proc. Nat. Inst. Sci. India, 15:
345.

AUDEX, J. B. 1949. A geological discussion on the Satpura Hypothesis and
Garo-Rajmahal Gap. Proc. Nat. Inst. Sci. India, 15: 315.

ALI, SALIM. 1949. The Satpura Trend as an ornithogeographical highway.
Proc. Nat. Inst. Sci. India, 15 : 379.


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From gooche_1981 at yahoo.co.in  Fri Jun  6 19:21:48 2008
From: gooche_1981 at yahoo.co.in (vasanth raj)
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 14:51:48 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Environmental day- Al Gore and information superhighway
Message-ID: <172507.8082.qm@web8710.mail.in.yahoo.com>

Dear Sir/Madam, 

Al Gore- Former US vice-president, who won the 2007
Nobel Peace Prize for his untiring effort in creating
the awareness of climate change around the world along
with the IPCC ? An Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change headed by R.K.Pachauri, Director of The Energy
and Resource Institute (TERI), New Delhi, India. Al
Gore is the first to use the word ?Information
Superhighway? as a US congress senator and during his
presidential campaign in 2000, which later became the
nomenclature of information world. Al Gore was a firm
supporter for widespread use of computers,
particularly in schools and libraries during his
tenure as a senator of white House, Washington, D.C.
US.  It is also time to remember his role in getting
financial assistance for the initiation of Digital
Library Project Phase-1 from The National Science
Foundation (NSF). The bibliometric analysis of
scholarly publications on climate change depicting in
his Academy Award winning Documentary ?An Inconvenient
Truth? is also notable here. Robert Kahn and Vinton
Cerf- inventor of Internet Protocol noted in a
scholarly article that Al Gore was the first political
leader to recognize the importance of the Internet and
to promote and support its development. One of the
readers of Seattle Times News Papers once wrote  that
?We need a leader with vision. We need Al Gore?.

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From mail2saiful at gmail.com  Mon Jun  9 10:05:13 2008
From: mail2saiful at gmail.com (Saiful Amin)
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 10:05:13 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Are Academic Journals Obsolete?
Message-ID: <45c67e8e0806082135o1c47ea55t70ed6929c54d9a3f@mail.gmail.com>

Greetings,

There is good debate going on in Slashdot on the above topic. Interested
members can go into the following link to check it out:

http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/08/2132254

Regards,
Saiful

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From ts_kumbar at daiict.ac.in  Mon Jun  9 12:42:12 2008
From: ts_kumbar at daiict.ac.in (ts kumbar)
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 12:42:12 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Openings for the position of Library Trainees in the
	Resource Centre (Library) at DA-IICT, Gandhinagar, Gujarat
Message-ID: <03b001c8ca00$23cfa280$2b52640a@tskumbar>

Dear Colleagues,

Kindly bring the following announcement to the notice of interested candidates and also request you to recommend potential candadates.

Subject: Openings for the position of Library Trainees in the Resource Centre (Library) http://resourcecentre.daiict.ac.in/
 at DA-IICT, Gandhinagar, Gujarat

Qualifications: M.L.I.Sc. First Class (The candidates who have appeared or appearing the M.L.I.Sc. final examination and are expecting the result in First Class may also apply)

Duration: One year from the date of joining.

Stipend:  Rs. 6500/. Per month ( consolidated)

Nature of Traineeship: Learning on the job

Last date for applying:  12th June, 2008

Address for sending the application:  hr at daiict.ac.in  or  ts_kumbar at daiict.ac.in

Short listed candidates will be called ( a seperate communication through email will be sent) to attend the written test and interview at their own cost some time during the last week of June, 2008.

For more details, see the following communication.

Regards

Kumbar
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Dr. T S Kumbar
Resource Centre
DA-IICT
Gandhinagar
Gujarat
http://resourcecentre.daiict.ac.in/
http://www.daiict.ac.in
Tel. 079-30510550

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Sub: Openings for the position of Library Trainees in the Resource Centre (Library) at DA-IICT.


Dear Sir/ Madam,


We take this opportunity to inform you that Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT), situated at Gandhinagar, Gujarat, is promoted by Reliance. It has been established on a 50-acre of land in Gandhinagar, Gujarat. The Government of Gujarat has granted it the University status under the State Act and is recognized by University Grants Commission. The Institute has started functioning since August 2001 with a batch size of 240 students at undergraduate level in Information and Communication Technology (ICT). It also offers a variety of Masters' and Doctoral programs in ICT and allied areas.

The Institute takes young and dynamic postgraduate freshers with minimum First Class Masters in Library and Information Science as Library Trainees. They should be well versed in computer application to Library and Information Services.  Duration of Training is for a period for one year. The trainees gets a fixed stipend of Rs. 6500/-per month with no other facilities/ benefits, excepting casual leave. The candidates who have appeared or appearing for M.L.I.Sc. final examination and are expecting the result in First Class may also apply.


The Institute has fully computerized in-house operations and services of the Resource Centre and provides access to wide variety of digital collection, catering to the needs of the Faculty, Staff and Students. Several new initiatives are being taken to make this library as one of the leading and resource libraries in the area of ICT in the country. It is a part of regional & national consortia and actively participates in the resource sharing activities. Resource Centre is kept open till mid night on all working days during the semester and is open on holidays, Saturdays and Sundays. Selected trainees will have to work during these extended hours on rotation basis.

We would be grateful if you could kindly identify a few suitable students form your University/Institute and send us your recommendation, along with their bio-data and information showing the year of passing and the percentage of marks obtained in M.L.I.Sc by 12th, June  2008  to our H.R Officer  or email a soft copy to  hr at daiict.ac.in .Alternatively, you may ask your students to send in their application directly along with bio-data, relevant marks cards and communication (email) address.

The final selection will be based on the performance of the candidates in the written test and personal interview. The short listed candidates will be called for the written test and personal interview some time during last week of June, 2008.  A communication via email intimating the date for the written test and interview  will be sent  seperately. 


Yours sincerely


(P K Chopra)
I/C Executive Registrar
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From sri_lib at yahoo.com  Mon Jun  9 10:49:11 2008
From: sri_lib at yahoo.com (sri priya)
Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 22:19:11 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Message-ID: <341740.72537.qm@web57011.mail.re3.yahoo.com>

Doctoral Dissertation 
Fellowship
This award fosters research in academic 
librarianship by encouraging and assisting doctoral students in the field with 
their dissertation research.
Award
$1,500 cash and a plaque donated by 
Thomson Scientific.
Eligibility
The recipient of the fellowship must meet 
the following qualifications:
	* Be an active doctoral student enrolled in 
an accredited degree-granting institution 
	* Be engaged in researching a topic related 
to academic librarianship 
	* Have completed all coursework 
	* Have had a dissertation proposal accepted 
by the institution 
	* A recipient of the fellowship may not 
receive it a second time. 
	* Applicant need not be an ACRL member 
Criteria
Proposals will be judged primarily on 
merit with emphasis on the following:
	* Potential significance of the research to 
the field of academic librarianship. (No attempt will be made to define academic 
librarianship, but the subject should be consistent with topics usually 
published in College & Research Libraries or key refereed library 
and information science research journals or presented at ACRL meetings.) 
	* Validity of the methodology and proposed 
methods of analysis 
	* Originality and creativity 
	* Clarity and completeness of the proposal 
	* Presentation of a convincing plan for 
completion in a reasonable amount of time 
	* Evidence of a continuing interest in 
scholarship such as a previous publication record 
Awardee Obligation
Recipients of the fellowship are required 
to submit a 6-10 page report of the results of their research to the Association 
of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) within two months of the project's 
completion. A 500-word summary for possible publication in C&RL 
News is also due at that time.
Submissions
Qualified students who wish to be 
considered for the fellowship may apply by e-mailing a brief (ten pages or less 
double-spaced) proposal that includes the following:
	* Description of the research, including 
significance and methodology 
	* Schedule for completion 
	* Budget and budget justification for items 
for which support is sought. (Must be items for which no other support is 
available. Examples of acceptable items are printing, computer time, fees to 
subjects, statistical consulting, photography, artwork, typing, and professional 
travel.) 
	* Name of dissertation advisor and 
committee members 
	* Letter from dissertation advisor 
endorsing the proposal 
	* Completed 
checklist confirming applicant eligibility  
An up-to-date curriculum vitae should 
accompany the proposal. Because of limits imposed by timing considerations, 
applications may be made for research under way, e.g., a student who begins 
research in the fall may apply for support for expenses incurred from the fall 
until the time the award is made.
Electronic submissions are 
required.  E-mail the application to Megan Griffin at mgriffin at ala.org.  If sending multiple files, each file name must 
contain the applicant's name.  Submissions will be acknowledged via 
e-mail.
If you have questions or need help 
compiling a nomination, contact the Doctoral Disseration Fellowship Committee 
Chair, TBA or Megan Griffin, (312) 280-2514, mgriffin at ala.org.
Submission Deadline: Friday, 
December 5, 2008Source:
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlawards/doctoraldissertation.cfm


Regards,
S.Sripriya


      

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From cwbailey at digital-scholarship.com  Mon Jun  9 16:32:17 2008
From: cwbailey at digital-scholarship.com (Charles W. Bailey, Jr.)
Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 06:02:17 -0500
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Version 72, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
Message-ID: <484D0DB9.4050306@digital-scholarship.com>

Version 72 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing
Bibliography is now available from Digital Scholarship.
This selective bibliography presents over 3,250 articles,
books, and other printed and electronic sources that are
useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing
efforts on the Internet.

This version adds hundreds of links to freely available
journal articles from publishers as well as to e-prints of
published articles housed in disciplinary archives and
institutional repositories. All article references were
checked for the availability of such free content.

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

These links have also been added to a revised version of the
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2007 Annual
Edition. Annual editions of the Scholarly Electronic
Publishing Bibliography are PDF files designed for printing.

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

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

http://www.digital-scholarship.org/cwb/dsoverview.htm

Changes in This Version

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

Table of Contents

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

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources includes
the following sections:

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

Further Information about SEPB

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

In addition to the bibliography, the XHTML document
includes:

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

http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepw/sepw.htm
http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=5175
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http://feeds.feedburner.com/ScholarlyElectronicPublishingWeb
logrss

(2) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources (directory
of over 330 related Web sites)

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

(3) Archive (prior versions of the bibliography)

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

New versions of SEPB are also announced on DigitalKoans:

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

Related Article

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

http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0007.201

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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 Resources
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog


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From ssdhaka at gmail.com  Mon Jun  9 15:21:04 2008
From: ssdhaka at gmail.com (Satendra Dhaka)
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 15:21:04 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] information regarding jstore
Message-ID: <2768ce440806090251k681e60d8p75b7b621f4d05ca2@mail.gmail.com>

Dear sir
kindly send this to the members. we are need of the following information




We would like to subscribe JSTOR archival database for our library.
Kindly give information i.e.- List of Vendors Name (Delhi area),
subscription rates and name of the libraries (Delhi Area) which subscribes
JSTOR.

       Thanking you

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From pramodhbabu at gmail.com  Tue Jun 10 11:30:17 2008
From: pramodhbabu at gmail.com (pramod babu)
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:30:17 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Open registration for National Workshop on
	Institutional Repositories
Message-ID: <6eb89c480806092300n3b767674m1be1c6a2a820bc56@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Professionals

This is to bring your kind attention regarding "*National Workshop on
Institutional Repositories"*

Workshop Date: 12th & 13th June 2008
Workshop Venue:M.S. Ramaiah Memorial Hospital Auditorium
                          New BEL Road, M.S.R. Nagar, Bangalore-54
Registration Fee: Rs.1000/-
Registraion: Open/Spot Registration on 12th June 2008 @ venue
Time: 9.30 a.m.
For More Information Please Contact
*Organizing Secretary*
N. SUBRAMANYAM
Sr. Librarian
Dept. of Library & Information Centre
M.S. Ramaiah Medical College
Bangalore-560054
Ph: 080-23605190 (Ext.) 418
              (M) 9449252683
e-mail : msrmclib at yahoo.co.in

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Pramod B
Dept. of Library and Information Centre
M.S. Ramaiah Medical College
M.S.R. Post
Bangalore-54

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From prabhat_ipsacademy at yahoo.co.in  Tue Jun 10 12:47:45 2008
From: prabhat_ipsacademy at yahoo.co.in (prabhat singh rajput)
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:47:45 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Library & Information Sc. Cource under Engineering
	Department
Message-ID: <683480.58304.qm@web8510.mail.in.yahoo.com>

Dear,
Library and Information Science Professionals I am glade to inform all of you that, The Devi Ahilya University, Indore MP has decided that, The School of Library and Information Science, will come under the Department of Engineering Science from academic session 2008-2009. Presently School of Library and Information running MLISc. Two year Integrated Course and Going to start M.Phil progammme from academic session 2008-2009 under the Part time scheme.









P. S. Rajput
Lecturer
DAVV, Indore
Mob. 099815-61851
http://psr2008.blogspot.com




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From byanktesh at gmail.com  Tue Jun 10 14:19:03 2008
From: byanktesh at gmail.com (Byanktesh Narain Singh)
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:19:03 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] information regarding jstore
In-Reply-To: <2768ce440806090251k681e60d8p75b7b621f4d05ca2@mail.gmail.com>
References: <2768ce440806090251k681e60d8p75b7b621f4d05ca2@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <cd0aacde0806100149g2acd6147h31f35a5e095011ea@mail.gmail.com>

Dear all,

I am planning to subscribe JSTOR archival database for our library. Please
provide me the list of vendors in Delhi region, the subscription rates and
also the names of the libraries already subscribing this database.

Thanking you,

Dr. B.N. Singh
Librarian
National Museum Institute of History of art, Conservation & Museology
(Deemed University)
Janpath, New Delhi
Tel. 011-23012988
Fax 011-23012988
Email: byanktesh at gmail.com

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From esukhdev at gmail.com  Tue Jun 10 15:20:06 2008
From: esukhdev at gmail.com (Sukhdev Singh)
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:20:06 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Library & Information Sc. Cource under Engineering
	Departmen
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References: <683480.58304.qm@web8510.mail.in.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <c13c85220806100250m27768a78t86363c3d1007d44d@mail.gmail.com>

Good, I always said that - Library Science is actually an Engineering
Discipline.

At least one University agrees to me.

--Sukhdev Singh, NIC.


On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 12:47 PM, prabhat singh rajput
<prabhat_ipsacademy at yahoo.co.in> wrote:
> Dear,
> Library and Information Science Professionals I am glade to inform all of
> you that, The Devi Ahilya University, Indore MP has decided that, The School
> of Library and Information Science, will come under the Department of
> Engineering Science from academic session 2008-2009. Presently School of
> Library and Information running MLISc. Two year Integrated Course and Going
> to start M.Phil progammme from academic session 2008-2009 under the Part
> time scheme.
>
> P. S. Rajput
> Lecturer
> DAVV, Indore
> Mob. 099815-61851
> http://psr2008.blogspot.com
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From krishna at irma.ac.in  Tue Jun 10 15:37:42 2008
From: krishna at irma.ac.in (Krishna Raghavendra Yeri)
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:37:42 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] information regarding jstore
In-Reply-To: <cd0aacde0806100149g2acd6147h31f35a5e095011ea@mail.gmail.com>
References: <2768ce440806090251k681e60d8p75b7b621f4d05ca2@mail.gmail.com>
	<cd0aacde0806100149g2acd6147h31f35a5e095011ea@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <484E9F95.8110.0073.0@irma.ac.in>

Dear Dr Singh
Please visit www.jstor.org  You will find the list of Indian Institutions participating with JSTOR.  The subscription rates are different for each of the multidisciplinary subject resources.  One has to select the resources as per their needs.  Hope you will find this information useful.
Regards
Krishna Yeri

Krishna Yeri
Librarian
Institute of Rural Management Anand
Post Box No.60
Anand 388 001
Gujarat   India

Tel: 91 02692 260391 263260
Fax: 91 02692 260188

url: http://www.irma.ac.in

>>> "Byanktesh Narain Singh" <byanktesh at gmail.com> 6/10/2008 >>>
Dear all,

I am planning to subscribe JSTOR archival database for our library. Please
provide me the list of vendors in Delhi region, the subscription rates and
also the names of the libraries already subscribing this database.

Thanking you,

Dr. B.N. Singh
Librarian
National Museum Institute of History of art, Conservation & Museology
(Deemed University)
Janpath, New Delhi
Tel. 011-23012988
Fax 011-23012988
Email: byanktesh at gmail.com 

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From pujar at igidr.ac.in  Tue Jun 10 17:13:06 2008
From: pujar at igidr.ac.in (Shamprasad Pujar)
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:13:06 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Acrobat services similar to Google Docs and
	Spreadsheets-Beta
Message-ID: <13009625.1213098186680.JavaMail.root@127.0.0.1>

Dear Members,
Here is the good news. Adobe has rolled out Acrobat.com, which is a set of online services ? file sharing and storage, PDF converter, online word processor, and web conferencing ? you can use to create and share documents, communicate in real time, and simplify working with others. Its services include share, adobe buzzword, myfiles, create pdf (limited) and Adobe connect now. 
For access, you need to create Adobe ID and all these services are available FREE OF COST. You may find more information at: <https://www.acrobat.com>https://www.acrobat.com
Regards,
Dr Shamprasad M. Pujar
Deputy Librarian
Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research
Gen Vaidya Marg, Film City Road, Goregaon (East)
MUMBAI-400 065, India
Phone: 91-22-2841 6565 ; 2840 0919 Ext: 565
E-mail: pujar at igidr.ac.in
URL: http://www.igidr.ac.in

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From mukeshanand2006 at gmail.com  Tue Jun 10 18:08:55 2008
From: mukeshanand2006 at gmail.com (Mukesh Anand)
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:08:55 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Yojana(Devlopment Monthly) Now Available On Net in 13
	Languages
Message-ID: <b0de4a880806100538t4af878a0k769637b67a71202d@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Members',

Yojana, A flagship magazine of economic and planned development being
published by Publications Division, Ministry of Information &
Broadcasting will now be available on net. All the 13 Indian languages
editions of the magazine can be accessed through a click on the
website www.yojana.gov.in. Launching the website here today,
Secretary, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Smt. Asha Swarup
said that catering the needs of society, especially youths and
students through its rich contents, Yojana has made its mark. Young
readers are very friendly with the internet hence availability on the
net would make it more popular, she added.

Now onwards, synopsis of all the current issues of Yojana group of
journals will be available on the aforesaid website with an archive of
six months, benefiting lakhs of readers including students appearing
both for central and state level civil services, banking and insurance
services, other competitive exams, research scholars as well as
teachers and researchers of economics, commerce and management etc.

Yojana is also working on digitization of its entire archives spanning
to 51 years of glorious publication. After completion of the
digitization process, almost entire story of independent India's
economic resurgence, beginning from foundation stone-laying to its
growing into a sound economy, capable to withstand any global economic
upheaval, will be at the fingertips of users/readers. With links not
only to all language editions of Yojana but also to its sister
publication Employment News/Rozgar Samachar and parent organization ?
Publications Division as also the Ministry of Information &
Broadcasting, Government of India, the website is highly user
friendly.

This News is available on
 http://www.pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=39497

Yojna is available  in 13 Languages on below mentioned web links


1.  Hindi - http://yojana.gov.in/hindi

2. English - http://www.yojana.gov.in/

3. Assamese - http://www.yojana.gov.in/regional/assamese.htm

 4. Bengali -http://www.yojana.gov.in/regional/bengali.htm

 5. Gujarati - http://www.yojana.gov.in/regional/gujarati.htm

 6. Kannada - http://www.yojana.gov.in/regional/kannada.htm

 7. Malayalam - http://www.yojana.gov.in/regional/malayalam.htm

 8. Marathi - http://www.yojana.gov.in/regional/marathi.htm

 9. Oriya - http://www.yojana.gov.in/regional/oriya.htm

 10. Punjabi - http://www.yojana.gov.in/regional/punjabi.htm

 11. Tamil - http://www.yojana.gov.in/regional/tamil.htm

 12. Telugu - http://www.yojana.gov.in/regional/telugu.htm

 13. Urdu - http://www.yojana.gov.in/regional/urdu.htm


Thanx,
Mukesh Anand
Asst. Libn.
Officers' Training College for Indian Railways
Sanskari Nagari Vadodara

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From vyasamoorthy at gmail.com  Tue Jun 10 21:08:29 2008
From: vyasamoorthy at gmail.com (Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy)
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:08:29 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Info on Library Associations in MUmbai
Message-ID: <9765c2050806100838t13189c18p97b02900c495953c@mail.gmail.com>

 <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/karmayog/message/38692;_ylc=X3oDMTJzMjRmNXI0BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE1BGdycElkAzEyOTc1NzYwBGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA2NDA4NQRtc2dJZAMzODY5MgRzZWMDZG1zZwRzbGsDdm1zZwRzdGltZQMxMjEzMTA0NDMx>As
Mr Kush Singh was asking the question in the wrong forum I am forwarding it
here.Hope someone will reply to him directly as inquirer is not a member of
Lis-forum

Vyasamoorthy


Is there any librarians asscn here in Mumbai?
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/karmayog/message/38692;_ylc=X3oDMTJzMjRmNXI0BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE1BGdycElkAzEyOTc1NzYwBGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA2NDA4NQRtc2dJZAMzODY5MgRzZWMDZG1zZwRzbGsDdm1zZwRzdGltZQMxMjEzMTA0NDMx>
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Tue Jun 10, 2008 12:39 am (PDT)
From: Kush Singh

Hi

Is there any asscn or network of libraries in Mumbai that you know of?
Is there any asscn of librarians in Mumbai?

Where does one get a librarians degree in Mumbai?

I would like to know if you know of libraries, their contact details,
working hours and basic rules and regulations if possible. We desperately
need to build a good network of libraries in the suburbs though the island
city has a good advantage in those terms.

We also need to show them open source solutions for the management of
libraries

If you can assist in any way, pls let me know.

Best regards,
Kush
kussh.singh at gmail.com <kussh.singh%40gmail.com>

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From puna_05 at yahoo.co.in  Wed Jun 11 11:54:29 2008
From: puna_05 at yahoo.co.in (Puna Das)
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:24:29 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] South Asian archives can be saved by the Endangered
	Archives Programme
Message-ID: <608533.68040.qm@web8604.mail.in.yahoo.com>

South Asian archives can be saved by the Endangered Archives Programme
  
The Endangered Archives Programme (http://www.bl.uk/endangeredarchives), administered by the British Library in London, UK, distributes grants to individual researchers within the fields of humanities and social science, in order for them to identify collections that can be preserved for fruitful use. It is funded by Arcadia, http://www.arcadiatrust.org/ (formerly known as the Lisbet Rausing Charitable Fund, a grant-making fund established in 2001) in pursuit of its general aim to support fundamental research into important issues in the humanities and social science. The focus of the Programme is on the preservation and copying of important but vulnerable archives throughout the world. The next call for applications will take place in August 2008, with a deadline of the beginning of November. More information. http://www.bl.uk/about/policies/endangeredarch/rgapply.html 
  
During the first three years of its existence from 2003, the Programme funded nearly 70 projects in 37 countries, totalling ?1.7 million. In South Asia, 11 projects in Bhutan, India and Nepal are currently supported by the Endangered Archives Programme. They include projects on digital documentation of manuscripts at Drametse and Ogyen Choling monasteries in Bhutan (photo from Drametse); a digital archive of north Indian classical music at Jadavpur University in Kolkata; and a project to preserve historic and rare monographs and periodicals in Nepal. More information about the South Asian projects. http://www.bl.uk/about/policies/endangeredarch/asia.html#sa 

   
  With Best Wishes
   
  Anup Kumar Das
  New Delhi
  http://anup-jnu.blogspot.com 

       
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From mahesh at nls.ac.in  Wed Jun 11 13:42:33 2008
From: mahesh at nls.ac.in (mahesh at nls.ac.in)
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:42:33 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Book Inquiry
Message-ID: <55812.218.248.32.114.1213171953.squirrel@mail.nls.ac.in>

Dear Sir,

I am looking for the following book for one of our faculty member.

Title - The Gleanings in to sayings of Basaveshwara
Author - T H M Sadasivaiah
published in - 1935

Please let me know, if you have it.

Thank You

Mahesh

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Mahesh Yaranal
National Law School of India University
Nagarbhavi, Post Bag No.7201
BANGALORE - 560072




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From sainul at iiitmk.ac.in  Wed Jun 11 12:38:40 2008
From: sainul at iiitmk.ac.in (Sainul Abideen P)
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:38:40 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] ISIS3 - ABCD 2nd nugget (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0806111236010.2735@login.iiitmk.ac.in>


Dear Friends, Please find enclosed some more details about the forthcoming 
Library Automation Software ABCD.
-- 

With Best Regards,
--Sainul Abideen P
Librarian
IIITM-Kerala


Dear colleagues:

As previously announced, we present the second nugget about ABCD = Automation of Libraries and Information Centers.

If you missed the first nugget, you can find it at:

https://listserv.surfnet.nl/scripts/wa.cgi?A2=ind0806&L=cds-isis&T=0&F=&S=&P=628? (Spanish)
https://listserv.surfnet.nl/scripts/wa.cgi?A2=ind0806&L=cds-isis&T=0&F=&S=&P=513 (English)
https://listserv.surfnet.nl/scripts/wa.cgi?A2=ind0806&L=cds-isis&T=0&F=&S=&P=760 (Portuguese)

?Today we will talk about the main principles of its architecture.

?General considerations

  *  ABCD is alligned with the CISIS/1660 version 5.2 platform, and will eventually be made compatible with later versions. This means
     that the inverted file entries are 60 characters long, and will increase in length in the ISIS-NBP based version.
  *  ABCD is compatible with programming languages accepted by the GNU licences, i.e. PHP, Java, Javascript, Python, etc. The current
     version of ABCD is written in PHP v.5.
  *  The system is totally language independent. The product will be made available in Spanish, English, French and Portuguese by end of
     2008, and can be translated into other languages in the same way the CDS/ISIS applications always were.

Cataloguing module

The main feature of the cataloguing module is that it accepts different database structures in a transparent way. Each database has its
own configuration files which ABCD interprets in order to apply the necessary procedures to manage each information structure. This
follows the same philosophy as CDS/ISIS. Each database has its own FDT (Field Definition Table), etc.

The first version of ABCD has the following functions available:

  *  User control through a database defining username, login, password, user level (Administrator, Operator, Librarian, End user,
     etc.), where specific information sources and access rights are established.
  *  Database creation in three modalities:
        1. Creating new databases in the traditional, four-step CDS/ISIS way: defining the FDT, a worksheet, a display format
           (PFT) and an indexing format (FST). ABCD generates the necessary environment files and creates the database in the Web
           server.
        2. Copying an existing database from the Web server, and making changes afterwards.
        3. Creating a database in the Web server based on a Winisis database available on the local machine. The ABCD system
           performs all the necessary conversions for the change of operative environment.

  *  Management of multiple structures, providing templates for the separate entry of subfields. The structures can be based on MARC21,
     UNIMARC, LILACS, CEPAL, AGRIS, or any other ad-hoc structure that the user prefers. ABCD gives the user an extraordinarily wide
     capacity to define the FDT. It is possible to use repeatable subfields, to give names to subfields and to associate special help
     messages, pick-lists, etc. to each of them.
  *  Dynamic building of data entry worksheets based on specifications given in the FDT. This table contains not only the specification
     of the ISIS fields proper, but also the characteristics which the fields will deploy in the worksheets (textbox, select, checkbox
     options, html area, text area), as well as the facilities to present controlled vocabularies related to the fields.
  *  Capture of controlled vocabulary through authority files, obtained from the same or external databases. This feature is managed
     through inverted files.
  *  Capture of controlled vocabulary through tables defined in TXT files.
  *  Identification of fields requiring association to external resources (images, pdf, xls, etc) in order to upload these to the
     server.
  *  Management of different kinds of records in each database, presenting the adequate worksheet for each type.
  *  Management of multiple worksheets, dynamically defined by the user.
  *  Access to records through the MFN, advanced search or alphabetical listing of a field defined as the main entry.
  *  Creation, editing and deletion of records.
  *  Presentation of search results using various display formats.
  *  Printing module allowing different print formats and sorting criteria (depending on the number of records). Facilities for sending
     the results to wordprocessors or spreadsheets.
  *  A module for the generation of lists and indexes.
  *  Generation of scripts for real-time quality control during data entry.

We'll tell you more about ABCD functionalities in later notes.

The ABCD system is one of the main? topics to be presented during the 3rd ISIS World Congress, taking place in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil,
september 14th-16th, 2008.

More information about the ISIS3 congress can be found at the Congress Website

Spanish???????? http://www.eventos.bvsalud.org/agendas/isis3/?lang=es
English http://www.eventos.bvsalud.org/agendas/isis3/?lang=en
Portuguese??? http://www.eventos.bvsalud.org/agendas/isis3/?lang=pt
?

Regards,
Ernesto Spinak
thanks to Wenke Adam for the translation

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From mukesh.monitor at gmail.com  Wed Jun 11 17:46:39 2008
From: mukesh.monitor at gmail.com (Monitor - Mukesh)
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:46:39 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] The Digital South Asia Library
Message-ID: <00ac01c8cbbd$070d9fd0$0201a8c0@mukesh>

Dear All
 
The Digital South Asia Library provides digital materials for reference and research on 
South Asia to scholars, public officials, business leaders, and other users. You may
visit the Library by clicking the link below:

http://dsal.uchicago.edu/

Sincerely

Mukesh Anand

- -
Mukesh Anand
Director - Marketing
http://monitorlinks.typepad.com
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From binudavid at indiainfo.com  Thu Jun 12 10:30:08 2008
From: binudavid at indiainfo.com (binu david)
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:30:08 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Sarvavijnanakosam (Malayalam Encyclopaedia)
Message-ID: <20080612050008.11EC6233D3@ws5-3.us4.outblaze.com>

Dear Friends

Please see the Web Edition of  Sarvavijnanakosam (Malayalam Encyclopaedia). Its quite interesting please do visit

http://sarvavijnanakosam.gov.in/


> Thanking you
>
> Sincerely
>
> Binu David
Librarian
N J College of engineering
Pothandi
Palghat


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From smunnolli at actrec.gov.in  Thu Jun 12 12:27:04 2008
From: smunnolli at actrec.gov.in (Satish Munnolli)
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:27:04 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Walk in interview for Library Trainee position at ACTREC
Message-ID: <00da01c8cc59$859ddc10$1f08640a@SatishMunnolli>


Dear members, 

The below mentioned message may be of interest to freshers from LIS background.  You may pass on this information to interested candidates. 
Teaching and practicing professionals are requested to display this ad in their respective display areas for wider publicity.

Walk-in-interview is scheduled on 18th June 2008 (Wednesday) at ACTREC, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai at 10.00 am. 
The absorbed candidate will have an exposure to all modern techniques of maintaining a good scientific and medical library with hands on experience. 

Other facilities that are not mentioned in the advertisement - 

Accommodation at reasonable charges (maximum Rs. 300/- per month) & subsidised food in institute canteen.
Common facilities (most of them are free) - Institute's bus shuttle services; Hi-tech gym; Music room; Laundry and others. 

For any detailed information you may contact at (022) 2740 5026 or send an email to smunnolli at actrec.gov.in

Satish S Munnolli
Librarian
Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research & Education in Cancer (ACTREC)
Tata Memorial Centre
Sector 22, Kharghar, 
Navi Mumbai 410 210
India

Ph : +91 22 2740 5026
Fax :  +91 22 2740 5085
Email : smunnolli at actrec.gov.in 



 
 
 
 
TATA MEMORIAL CENTRE
ADVANCED CENTRE FOR TREATMENT, RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN CANCER
Kharghar, Navi Mumbai- 410 210
Tel.91-22-27405000 . Fax: 91-22-27405085 .  e-mail:
<mailto:office at actrec.gov.in> office at actrec.gov.in
. website : www.actrec.gov.in
WALK IN INTERVIEW


ACTREC is looking for young and dynamic freshers for induction as LIBRARY
TRAINEES for a period of six months which may be extendable up to one year  
 
Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer (ACTREC),
situated in 60 acre land at Kharghar, Navi Mumbai is a new state of the art
R & D satellite of the Tata Memorial Centre (TMC).  The Institute comprises
of basic research wing and clinical research centre.  It also has a
50- bed hospital fully equipped with state-of-the-art diagnostic and
therapeutic facilities.  ACTREC has the mandate to function as a national
centre for treatment, research and education in cancer.
 
The Institute library is fully automated and all its functions & services
are operated on LibSuite (ASP version) software.  It houses
over 15000 books and back volumes of journals and has access to over 2000
journals through various online databases round the clock.  Thesis,
Institutional Reports, Staff Publications, CD ROMs, Video Cassettes are the
other resources available to all Scientific Community.  The library has
installed DSpace software on one of the machines and initiated the
digitization activities. It has plans to digitize its Thesis collection and
introduce enhanced electronic information services in the coming years.
 
Interested candidate should have Masters Degree in Library and Information
Science (MLISc) with first class from a recognized University.  Candidate in
the age group of 25 years with Science background, knowledge of library
software and computer skills will have an added advantage.
 
The selected candidate will be paid a stipend of Rs.6000/- per month with
accommodation facilities in the Institute hostel which is located in the
campus.  Trainee may have to work during flexible hours on all working days
including week ends.
 
Trainee appointed will have an opportunity to work in a computerized library
environment with hands-on-experience in all sections of library and will get
an exposure to modern techniques of maintaining scientific and medical
library.
 
Candidates fulfilling above requirements may walk in for an interview on 18
June, 2008 at 10.a.m. at the Meeting Room, 3rd Floor, Khanolkar Shodhika,
ACTREC, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai alongwith detailed CV, attested copies of all
certificates and testimonials in original.
 
 
(M. A. Sharma)
Asstt. Adminstrative Officer


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From drtc at isibang.ac.in  Thu Jun 12 12:58:21 2008
From: drtc at isibang.ac.in (DRTC - General)
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:58:21 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Advt.  Project Personnel in DRTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0806121255590.17982@ns.isibang.ac.in>


                          INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE
                      8TH MILE, MYSORE ROAD, BANGALORE 560059


                                    ADVERTISEMENT

Applications are invited for one (1) purely "temporary Project-linked
Person" in DRTC at Bangalore Centre of the Institute to work on the 
project on "Digital Library".


Qualification   :

Essential :  ADIS from the Indian Statistical  Institute or an equivalent
qualification in Library & Information Science from a recognized 
University/ Institute OR Masters Degree in Computer Applications (MCA).


Pay:

Rs.10,000/- (Rupees ten thousand only) per month, all inclusive.


Tenure of appointment :

The temporary appointment is upto 31 March 2009.

Age:

Maximum of 30 years as on 01 January 2008.  Age may be relaxed for 
SC/ST/OBC candidates.


Typed applications stating

(1)     Name [In block letters]:
(2)     Father's /Husband's name:
(3)     Address:
(4)     E-mail:
(5)     Phone No.:
(6)     Date of Birth:
(7)     Educational Qualification:
(8)     Work experience, (if any):

accompanied by attested copies of relevant documents/ testimonials 
addressed to the Director, Indian Statistical Institute, should reach the 
Head, Documentation Research and Training Centre, Indian Statistical 
Institute, 8th Mile, Mysore Road, RV College Post, Bangalore 560059 on or 
before   30 June  2008.  The Institute reserves the right not to appoint 
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From thimmappa03 at yahoo.com  Fri Jun 13 09:46:46 2008
From: thimmappa03 at yahoo.com (thimma naik)
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:16:46 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Libraran post "C" categorized by KPSC
Message-ID: <526108.34647.qm@web33004.mail.mud.yahoo.com>


Respected All Library Professionals,

Karnataka Public Service Commission has invited applications for filing up 167 Librarians posts in First Grade colleges of Karnataka. The qualification is MLISc+UGC. My question is why librarians are categorized under 'C' grade?. If Librarians are 'C' grade, what are the qualifications for the posts in 'C' grade? For the Lecturer post in Group 'A'&nbsp; only the PG with First class is the qualification!!!!.&nbsp; Why this difference?? Experts can answer. 
Thimmappa N. MLISc, PGDHL 
Bengaluru 
+91 94488 69387
thimmappa03 at yahoo.com or softeyest at gmail.com
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From library at rri.res.in  Fri Jun 13 10:10:45 2008
From: library at rri.res.in (Library)
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:10:45 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] World Bank Online Resources
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0806131004420.21745@mail.rri.local.net>


You may pls bring to the notice of all concerned, the attached email, 
which could be of interest.

Y.M.PATIL
lIBRARIAN

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Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:50:19 -0400
From: Triinu Tombak <ttombak at worldbank.org>
To: ympatil at rri.res.in
Subject: World Bank Online Resources

If you are unable to see this message please click on the following link:
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I am including a very short description of each database and am happy to 
provide more information if you are interested. Please let me know if your 
members would like a free trial of the below mentioned databases and we will be 
happy to set them up. Please note that we offer discounts for consortia based 
on the number of subscribing members.

The World Bank e-Library (www.worldbank.org/elibrary 
(http://www.worldbank.org/elibrary)) is an electronic portal to the World 
Bank's full-text collection of books, reports, and other documents. It brings 
together in a fully indexed and cross-searchable database over 4,500 titles 
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print. In addition, subscribers have access to information not available in 
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(http://publications.worldbank.org/WDI)) is the premier data source on the 
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indicators, forecasts for commodity prices and main macroeconomic indicators 
for over 130 countries.

We also want to let you know that we will be exhibiting at several library 
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- American Libraries Association annual meeting (June 28-July 1 in Anaheim, 
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- IFLA World Library and Information Congress (August 10-14 in Quebec, Canada) 
- Booth # 103

If you are planning to attend and would like to meet with us to discuss any of 
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From esukhdev at gmail.com  Fri Jun 13 11:11:04 2008
From: esukhdev at gmail.com (Sukhdev Singh)
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:11:04 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Libraran post "C" categorized by KPSC
In-Reply-To: <526108.34647.qm@web33004.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
References: <526108.34647.qm@web33004.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <c13c85220806122241q1297e5dah3613497492da7378@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Thimmappa N

I don't think any expert would be able to answer that. Perhaps
Karnataka Public Service Commission itself would be right agency to
answer it. BTW, getting answer is made easy now. You may file RTI
query in this regard. Even Library Associations should seek an answer.

--Sukhdev Singh.





On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 9:46 AM, thimma naik <thimmappa03 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Respected All Library Professionals,
>
> Karnataka Public Service Commission has invited applications for filing up
> 167 Librarians posts in First Grade colleges of Karnataka. The qualification
> is MLISc+UGC. My question is why librarians are categorized under 'C'
> grade?. If Librarians are 'C' grade, what are the qualifications for the
> posts in 'C' grade? For the Lecturer post in Group 'A'  only the PG with
> First class is the qualification!!!!.  Why this difference?? Experts can
> answer.
> Thimmappa N. MLISc, PGDHL
> Bengaluru
> +91 94488 69387
> thimmappa03 at yahoo.com or softeyest at gmail.com
> Read an eBook, Save a Tree; Buy an eBook Reader, Save a Forest
> Wanted a job, where there is no print, only E
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From konnur at bub.ernet.in  Fri Jun 13 11:12:31 2008
From: konnur at bub.ernet.in (Pandurang Konnur)
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:12:31 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Libraran post "C" categorized by KPSC
In-Reply-To: <526108.34647.qm@web33004.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
References: <526108.34647.qm@web33004.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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Dear *Thimmappa*,
Please cntact me with the relevent documents. We on behalf of IALA will
prepare a memorandum and approach the Chairman KPSC.

Thanks,
Konnur
President, IALA

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 9:46 AM, thimma naik <thimmappa03 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> Respected All Library Professionals,
>
> Karnataka Public Service Commission has invited applications for filing up
> 167 Librarians posts in First Grade colleges of Karnataka. The qualification
> is MLISc+UGC. My question is why librarians are categorized under 'C'
> grade?. If Librarians are 'C' grade, what are the qualifications for the
> posts in 'C' grade? For the Lecturer post in Group 'A'  only the PG with
> First class is the qualification!!!!.  Why this difference?? Experts can
> answer.
> *Thimmappa N. MLISc, PGDHL
> Bengaluru
> +91 94488 69387
> ***thimmappa03 at yahoo.com or softeyest at gmail.com
> Read an eBook, Save a Tree; Buy an eBook Reader, Save a Forest
> Wanted a job, where there is no print, only E
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From sri_lib at yahoo.com  Fri Jun 13 13:07:42 2008
From: sri_lib at yahoo.com (sri priya)
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:37:42 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Quick Search
Message-ID: <544810.45294.qm@web57007.mail.re3.yahoo.com>

Quick Search

Use the link to search for documents in this 
web containing specific words or combination's of words. The text search engine will display a weighted list of matching documents, with better matches shown first. Each list item is a link to a matching document; if the document has a title it will be shown, otherwise only the document's file name is displayed. A brief explanation of the query language is available, 
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From sri_lib at yahoo.com  Fri Jun 13 13:17:17 2008
From: sri_lib at yahoo.com (sri priya)
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:47:17 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Guide to sources on the Web for LIS Study & Research
Message-ID: <225385.71945.qm@web57009.mail.re3.yahoo.com>

Information & Library Studies Resources on the Web:This site links to many useful LIS resources.

http://www.ucd.ie/library/electronic_resources/guides_to_web_resources/libstudies.html

Library Related Conferences 

http://homepage.usask.ca/~mad204/CONF.HTM
http://www.fiu.edu/~hastyd/lcp.html 
http://www.ala.org/ala/ourassociation/chapters/planningcalendar/planningcalendar.cfm
http://www.alia.org.au/events/
http://www.geocities.com/asia_pages/asiaconf/APConf2004.html

LIBRARIES IN INDIA 

http://www.manage.gov.in/Agrinet/libraries.htm

Doctoral Dissertations in Library and Information Science 

http://www.tulips.tsukuba.ac.jp/pub/tojo/archive/Jpnpg/siryo-ogata-95_n-s.html

Librarians date book 

http://www.hsl.unc.edu/libcal.htm

DIGITAL LIBRARY RESOURCES 

http://library.nyu.edu/diglib/links.html

http://www.nelinet.net/digital/resources/index.htm

A list of scholastic journals and electronic resources
 
a list of scholastic journals and electronic resources that are available online via the worldwide web.

http://www.widernet.org/digitalLibrary/DigitalLibraries.htm

Resources for Locating and Writing Theses and Dissertations 

http://www.cityu.edu.hk/lib/instruct/guides/libguide/theses.htm

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From manjunath at mail.tapmi.org  Sat Jun 14 11:26:55 2008
From: manjunath at mail.tapmi.org (Manjunath K)
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 11:26:55 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Let us have apex body of Library Association to fight
	for our profession.
In-Reply-To: <185621.31883.qm@web33006.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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Dear LIS members,

I feel the weakness of our associations lies in the absence of a strong LIS body at National, regional, state and local levels.

I had suggested earlier on this forum (when lot of comments on ILA elections/etc) to make ILA as an APEX body at national level and make it mandatory that all LIS professionals should become member of ILA.

The national ILA body should be based in New Delhi and should have influential office bearers who can have strong links with Govt and other bodies.

The national body needs to function through its regional associations (four or more), State Units (one for each state), District bodies and Local chapters. The local chapters should induct all LIS professions in that region as its members. Once they become members of local chapters, they become members of ILA by default. 

The local bodies nominate/elect members for District/state unit- who intern select/elect members for regional centres. The regional centres will elect the office bearers for national body.

All the other professional LIS Associations should have affiliations to ILA. This makes ILA powerful and this body can honestly strive for upliftment and justice to the profession.

I invite and request all LIS professionals to think constructively and offer their valuable thoughts in this direction. I used the term 'ILA' to represent the nation. Let us not attach any importance to the Terminology 'ILA' per se. Let us not again start 'criticizing/throwing mud' on the issues revolving around the current Indian library association.  

Let us have discussions at all levels and constitute a body with comprehensive coverage of our professions goals and objectives.

It is good to note that Mr. Thimmappa, Dr. PV Konnur and Mr. Sukhdev Singh have already initiated the discussions. Let us have a strong representative body to address our problems in the country and move boldly along legal/policy journey. If need be, I am ready to join the movement.    


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; manjunathak at gmail.com
web: http://www.tapmi.org
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From: digilib_india at yahoogroups.com [mailto:digilib_india at yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of thimma naik
Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2008 9:52 AM
To: NMLIS; DIGILIB INDIA; IATLIS; ncsi lis forum
Subject: [digilib_india] Role of Library Associations




Library Associations having major role in influencing the formation and implementation of government
policy concerning libraries and information. They can act as effective Pressure
Groups for political action. But in India,
Library associations are not in the right place. In my personal view Library
Associations are conducting some seminars, workshops in a year, and elections
for the committee. No professionals questioning the activity of the
associations. Why we can?t discuss the role of Library Associations in India
on this forum. So it will help to us to make unity between Library
professionals and to know the activities of these Associations. 


Thimmappa N. MLISc, PGDHL 
Bengaluru 
+91 94488 69387
thimmappa03 at yahoo.com;softeyest at gmail.com
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From konnur at bub.ernet.in  Sat Jun 14 12:32:22 2008
From: konnur at bub.ernet.in (Pandurang Konnur)
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:32:22 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Let us leave Library Association politics snd fight for
	our profession.
Message-ID: <80b6c0c10806140002x2b2a853ck8e32998a2b350ea7@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Friends,
Today I am really happy that a constructive suggestion has come on the forum
regarding Library Associations. I have been sevirly pained and protested in
different forums againist the dictatorship attitudes of the people who are
holding the treads of the Associations. Some of them are still feeling that
our predecessors have formed the Associations for them to rule.  They still
feel that they can recruit (Not elect)  anybody as president and  through
away whenever they want after the elections. If we have such people in the
Associations definetly we deserve today's situation.

However we have formed Indian Academic Library Association (IALA) because
our demands are different from others. If the Associations do not advocate
our cause properly before the PRC (Pay Review Committees) we will be denied
of our opportunities as happend last time. Academic Librarians in India
suffered for one long DECADE without any promotional opportunities. Some of
them retired without  any promotions. I thank the Academic Librarian
community for supporting IALA. To day we have been able to convince the PRC
committee members individually as well collectively. I am sure we will get
the much awaited ACADEMIC STATUS PAR WITH THE TEACHERS. We will fight till
the last for restoring the grievances of the Academic Librarians.

We still desire that there should be an APEX body at national level. ILA
should hold this crown. But ILA should also prove its worth to hold the
same???

Thanks,
Dr.P.V.Konnur
President,
Indian Academic Library Association (IALA)
Bangalore.


On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Manjunath K <manjunath at mail.tapmi.org>
wrote:

>
> Dear LIS members,
>
> I feel the weakness of our associations lies in the absence of a strong LIS
> body at National, regional, state and local levels.
>
> I had suggested earlier on this forum (when lot of comments on ILA
> elections/etc) to make ILA as an APEX body at national level and make it
> mandatory that all LIS professionals should become member of ILA.
>
> The national ILA body should be based in New Delhi and should have
> influential office bearers who can have strong links with Govt and other
> bodies.
>
> The national body needs to function through its regional associations (four
> or more), State Units (one for each state), District bodies and Local
> chapters. The local chapters should induct all LIS professions in that
> region as its members. Once they become members of local chapters, they
> become members of ILA by default.
>
> The local bodies nominate/elect members for District/state unit- who intern
> select/elect members for regional centres. The regional centres will elect
> the office bearers for national body.
>
> All the other professional LIS Associations should have affiliations to
> ILA. This makes ILA powerful and this body can honestly strive for
> upliftment and justice to the profession.
>
> I invite and request all LIS professionals to think constructively and
> offer their valuable thoughts in this direction. I used the term 'ILA' to
> represent the nation. Let us not attach any importance to the Terminology
> 'ILA' per se. Let us not again start 'criticizing/throwing mud' on the
> issues revolving around the current Indian library association.
>
> Let us have discussions at all levels and constitute a body with
> comprehensive coverage of our professions goals and objectives.
>
> It is good to note that Mr. Thimmappa, Dr. PV Konnur and Mr. Sukhdev Singh
> have already initiated the discussions. Let us have a strong representative
> body to address our problems in the country and move boldly along
> legal/policy journey. If need be, I am ready to join the movement.
>
>
> 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; manjunathak at gmail.com
> web: http://www.tapmi.org
>  -------------
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: digilib_india at yahoogroups.com [mailto:digilib_india at yahoogroups.com]
> On Behalf Of thimma naik
> Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2008 9:52 AM
> To: NMLIS; DIGILIB INDIA; IATLIS; ncsi lis forum
> Subject: [digilib_india] Role of Library Associations
>
>
>
>
> Library Associations having major role in influencing the formation and
> implementation of government
> policy concerning libraries and information. They can act as effective
> Pressure
> Groups for political action. But in India,
> Library associations are not in the right place. In my personal view
> Library
> Associations are conducting some seminars, workshops in a year, and
> elections
> for the committee. No professionals questioning the activity of the
> associations. Why we can?t discuss the role of Library Associations in
> India
> on this forum. So it will help to us to make unity between Library
> professionals and to know the activities of these Associations.
>
>
> Thimmappa N. MLISc, PGDHL
> Bengaluru
> +91 94488 69387
> thimmappa03 at yahoo.com;softeyest at gmail.com
> Read an eBook, Save a Tree; Buy an eBook Reader, Save a Forest
> Wanted a job, where there is no print, only E
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From dinesh.ncet at gmail.com  Sat Jun 14 16:13:41 2008
From: dinesh.ncet at gmail.com (DINESH SIDDAIAH)
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 16:13:41 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Library Gang
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relevant to one of the topics under discussion. The Library 2.0 Gang is
produced by Talis and syndicated by Library Technology Guides.

Source: http://www.librarytechnology.org/

Thank You,

Dinesh K. S
Librarian (Sl. Gr.)
Nagarjuna College of Engg. & Technology,
Devanahally Bangalore.

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From dinesh.ncet at gmail.com  Sat Jun 14 16:21:04 2008
From: dinesh.ncet at gmail.com (DINESH SIDDAIAH)
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 16:21:04 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Dialog business from Thomson Reuters
Message-ID: <62c911520806140351m2ecd8ec1o634d54cc9919dcc4@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Friends,

 *ProQuest*, a Cambridge Information Group company, has signed an agreement
under which ProQuest would acquire the Thomson Reuters Dialog business. The
transaction is expected to close pending a successful completion of the
formal consultation period.

Source: http://www.librarytechnology.org/

Thank You,

Dinesh K. S
Librarian (Sl. Gr.)
Nagarjuna College of Engg. & Technology,
Devanahally Bangalore.

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From dinesh.ncet at gmail.com  Sat Jun 14 16:27:18 2008
From: dinesh.ncet at gmail.com (DINESH SIDDAIAH)
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 16:27:18 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Six Centuries books for auction
Message-ID: <62c911520806140357p8f031bdpb7075d7fba524ea5@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Friends,

 More than 300 books representing six centuries of revolutionary thought in
science, mathematics, psychology and philosophy are being offered at auction
next week. The single-owner collection contains works by Nicolaus
Copernicus, Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Sir Isaac Newton and
Johnannes Kepler. It is expected to bring $6 million at Christie's New York
auction on Tuesday

Source: http://www.lisnews.org/

Thank You,

Dinesh K. S
Librarian (Sl. Gr.)
Nagarjuna College of Engg. & Technology,
Devanahally Bangalore.

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From dinesh.ncet at gmail.com  Sat Jun 14 16:35:54 2008
From: dinesh.ncet at gmail.com (DINESH SIDDAIAH)
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 16:35:54 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] New Rules for Unsold Books
Message-ID: <62c911520806140405j2b7dcaa1ra690a94691f45523@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Friends,

 For decades, the publishing industry has paid stores to return unsold
books. The method forces publishers to gamble on the success of a given
title, a risk many small presses can't afford. In a move seen to signal a
possible industry change, a new imprint at HarperCollins will not allow
stores to return unsold merchandise.

Source: http://www.lisnews.org/

Thank You,

Dinesh K. S
Librarian (Sl. Gr.)
Nagarjuna College of Engg. & Technology,
Devanahally Bangalore.

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From konnur at bub.ernet.in  Sat Jun 14 17:59:23 2008
From: konnur at bub.ernet.in (Pandurang Konnur)
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 17:59:23 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Memorandum submitted to UGC-PRC committee
Message-ID: <80b6c0c10806140529v5212bbd6s9b0feee4e7725b9e@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Friends,

 The Indian Academic Library Association (IALA) has submitted its memorandum
to the UGC-PRC committee. We have been called to make our presentations at
Hyderabad and Bangalore. We have also sought their appointment at Delhi also
before finalization of their report. The members of the IALA have met all
the PRC members personally at New Delhi in their offices and residences
including the chairman Prof.Chadda and Member Secretary Shri.Chouhan. The
Chairman and members are very much convinced of the gravity of the problems
of the Academic Librarians and have assured us that they will look in to the
issues sympathetically.


Now the committee is visiting the professionals in one university in every
state. Accordingly the committee has met in the following places:

 University of Pune

Gouhati University, Guwahati

Jadhavpur University, Kolkata.


Now following are  the places the committee is visiting in the month of June
and July:

 1. Baratulla Viswavidyalaya Bhopal                               16th and
17th June 2008

 2. University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad                           19th and 20
th June 2008

 3. Patna University, Patna
 23rdand 24
th June 2008

 4. Bangalore University, Bangalore                                25th and
26th June 2008

 5. University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram                   27th
and 28thJune 2008

 6. Gujarath University, Ahmedabad                               29th and 30
th June 2008

 7. University of Delhi,  Delhi
  2ndand 3
rd July 2008


Friends, now my request to all of you is that, I have already tried to
enclose an attachment along with the message placed on the different forums.
Unfortunately, except IALA Forum and NMLS forum in other forums we could not
communicate the attachments.



Hence now the memorandum to be submitted to the PRC committee is put on the
IALA website http://iala.org.in  please download the same and print and
submit in your respective places. Please do not wait for getting an
invitation from any of these universities where the meeting is being held.
Please volunteer yourselves and enquire in the above places and seek for an
appointment with the committee and submit this memorandum to the chairman of
the committee. Fortunately the committee has explicitly allotted a slot of
45 minutes for Librarians and Physical Education Directors.



The Librarians from those states which are not included above may contact:
Mr.Tanwarsingh, Deputy secretary UGC in-charge of  PRC on his office phone
no. 011-23381972  and enquire for the date of the committee's visit in your
states.

 I wish you all the best.

For any clarifications please send me a mail or call me on my cell number
09449679737



Thanks,

P.V.Konnur

President

Indian Academic Library Association (IALA)

Bangalore.


-- 
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Fulbright Fellow (University of Illinois)
University Librarian,
Bangalore University Library,
Jananabharati, Bangalore-560056
Phone: 080-22961131, 23215510
Website: http://library at bub.ernet.in

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From puna_05 at yahoo.co.in  Sat Jun 14 19:41:11 2008
From: puna_05 at yahoo.co.in (Puna Das)
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 19:41:11 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] UNESCO is launching Internet discussion on Open
	Educational Resources Toolkit
Message-ID: <80077.7349.qm@web8605.mail.in.yahoo.com>

UNESCO is launching Internet discussion on Open Educational Resources Toolkit

11-06-2008 (Paris)

The UNESCO Community on Open Educational Resources (OER) is launching an Internet discussion in order to provide input to the finalisation of an OER Toolkit, which has been created to support the development and use of Open Educational Resources. The session will take place from 16 to 27 June 2008 and will be open to everybody.
?
OER Toolkit is a UNESCO initiative. The draft text has been prepared by Philipp Schmidt of the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. The work was inspired by, and builds on a discussion organized by the UNESCO OER Community in 2006, which focused on a 'Do-It-Yourself/Do-It-Together' resource aimed at building capacity for local OER development and use. 

The UNESCO OER Community has become a recognised international space for debate and information sharing on the growing OER movement. It recently received the 2008 MERLOT Africa Network and eLearning Africa (MANeLA) Leadership Award. This award recognises the community's "significant contribution to the global understanding of the issues and innovations surrounding OER and the OER movement". 

If you wish to take part in the UNESCO OER Toolkit discussion, please send a message to Catriona Savage, UNESCO, Education Sector. 

The UNESCO Community of Interest on Open Educational Resources was formed in 2005 at the end of a formal Internet discussion forum on Open Educational Resources: open content for higher education. This forum was the third of a series organized by the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) to examine key issues related to the use of Information and Communication Technologies in higher education.
?
Source: http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=27031&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
?
Thanking You
?
Anup Kumar Das
New Delhi, India
http://anup-jnu.blogspot.com 


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From esukhdev at gmail.com  Sun Jun 15 08:15:41 2008
From: esukhdev at gmail.com (Sukhdev Singh)
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 08:15:41 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] [Engg-Lib-Forum] Let us have apex body of Library
	Association to fight for our profession.
In-Reply-To: <a8d4e6a30806132341l53309d7fr45fd8d10bb19baf5@mail.gmail.com>
References: <185621.31883.qm@web33006.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
	<14DD8DBEA18D4148BC2A8502DE75027A86E15B@mail.tapmi.org>
	<a8d4e6a30806132341l53309d7fr45fd8d10bb19baf5@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <c13c85220806141945v4852b195o93bf7e7b7025722c@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Friends,

I fully endorse the view points expressed in emails on the issue of
better activism for Library Associations. I propose a coordination
forum or joint committee of all national / state associations. Such a
forum should have online presence and should engage in online
discussions.

Let me update you all on my own fight to get membership of Medical
Library Association of India. Not that I am dying for its membership.
But I am fighting because matter is of principles and my rights. I am
professionally qualified with master degree and a Life Member of ILA.
I applied for membership for "Medical Library Association of India"
(MLAI) on the suggestion of one of my colleague. To my great surprise
my Cheque came back in an envelop without any covering letter. Don't
jump to conclusion that there might be some administrative mistake (as
latter on it became clear that there was a method in their madness).
I wrote number of emails to the office bearers of MLAI, but could not
get a single reply. My colleagues (including one  EC member of MLAI
and their "Best Medical Librarian of the Year" awardee) also wrote to
them to seek a reply as what is happening. At last the president of
the  association wrote back that she will investigate the matter and
respond back shortly. That "SHORTLY" is now THREE YEARS OLD. I am
still waiting for an official reply from MLAI about my membership. I
just want to know why my membership was not accepted. I know the
plight of that rubber stamp president  while power flow from Delhi.

Now tell me, Can such an association have guts to write a memorandum
to any authority? They don't even have the guts to update on
membership status of an individual. Should not I believe that other
associations are also like that?

Some of you might be wondering on my stupidity of belittling myself
while narrating this incidence. But that is what I am. I will continue
to belittle myself till I get an answer from MLAI.

--Sukhdev Singh.



On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 12:11 PM, K.R. Mulla <krmulla at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear LIS Professionals,
>
> I am completely agree with Dr. K. Manjunath's suggestions & lighting on the
> issues. in this direction we should not blame any others we should think
> positively.
>
> I am requesting all our elder library professionals they may in teacher or
> librarian should come forward join hands to gather and strengthen the Local
> Library Association such as ILA  chapter of Karnatak, Maharashtra, Kerala,
> TN, Andra, MP, Rajastan, Gujarat, UP, Bihar, HP, J&K, Delhi, Punjab,
> Assam,West Bengal and other state
>
> On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Manjunath K <manjunath at mail.tapmi.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> Dear LIS members,
>>
>> I feel the weakness of our associations lies in the absence of a strong
>> LIS body at National, regional, state and local levels.
>>
>> I had suggested earlier on this forum (when lot of comments on ILA
>> elections/etc) to make ILA as an APEX body at national level and make it
>> mandatory that all LIS professionals should become member of ILA.
>>
>> The national ILA body should be based in New Delhi and should have
>> influential office bearers who can have strong links with Govt and other
>> bodies.
>>
>> The national body needs to function through its regional associations
>> (four or more), State Units (one for each state), District bodies and Local
>> chapters. The local chapters should induct all LIS professions in that
>> region as its members. Once they become members of local chapters, they
>> become members of ILA by default.
>>
>> The local bodies nominate/elect members for District/state unit- who
>> intern select/elect members for regional centres. The regional centres will
>> elect the office bearers for national body.
>>
>> All the other professional LIS Associations should have affiliations to
>> ILA. This makes ILA powerful and this body can honestly strive for
>> upliftment and justice to the profession.
>>
>> I invite and request all LIS professionals to think constructively and
>> offer their valuable thoughts in this direction. I used the term 'ILA' to
>> represent the nation. Let us not attach any importance to the Terminology
>> 'ILA' per se. Let us not again start 'criticizing/throwing mud' on the
>> issues revolving around the current Indian library association.
>>
>> Let us have discussions at all levels and constitute a body with
>> comprehensive coverage of our professions goals and objectives.
>>
>> It is good to note that Mr. Thimmappa, Dr. PV Konnur and Mr. Sukhdev Singh
>> have already initiated the discussions. Let us have a strong representative
>> body to address our problems in the country and move boldly along
>> legal/policy journey. If need be, I am ready to join the movement.
>>
>> 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; manjunathak at gmail.com
>> web: http://www.tapmi.org
>> -------------
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: digilib_india at yahoogroups.com [mailto:digilib_india at yahoogroups.com]
>> On Behalf Of thimma naik
>> Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2008 9:52 AM
>> To: NMLIS; DIGILIB INDIA; IATLIS; ncsi lis forum
>> Subject: [digilib_india] Role of Library Associations
>>
>> Library Associations having major role in influencing the formation and
>> implementation of government
>> policy concerning libraries and information. They can act as effective
>> Pressure
>> Groups for political action. But in India,
>> Library associations are not in the right place. In my personal view
>> Library
>> Associations are conducting some seminars, workshops in a year, and
>> elections
>> for the committee. No professionals questioning the activity of the
>> associations. Why we can?t discuss the role of Library Associations in
>> India
>> on this forum. So it will help to us to make unity between Library
>> professionals and to know the activities of these Associations.
>>
>> Thimmappa N. MLISc, PGDHL
>> Bengaluru
>> +91 94488 69387
>> thimmappa03 at yahoo.com;softeyest at gmail.com
>> Read an eBook, Save a Tree; Buy an eBook Reader, Save a Forest
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>
> --
> 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/
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From navinsoni22 at gmail.com  Sat Jun 14 11:00:24 2008
From: navinsoni22 at gmail.com (Navin Soni)
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:30:24 -0700
Subject: [LIS-Forum] One post of Junior Research Fellow (LIS) at DESIDOC,
	DRDO, Delhi
Message-ID: <bdafd8500806132230q50b1c3das840bb4f78ff302ee@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Colleagues,

Kindly bring the following announcement to the notice of interested
candidates and also request you to recommend potential candadates.
Advterisement in The Times of  India (Delhi) dated 14 June 2008 Pg. 13.


http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Daily/skins/TOI/navigator.asp?Daily=CAP&login=default

*Subject:* One Post of Junior Research Fellow (LIS) at DESIDOC, Delhi

*Qualifications:*  First Class M. Sc. with Professional degress in LIS

*Duration:* Two years from the date of joining (extendable as per rule

*Last date for applying:*  21 days from the date of advt ie. from 14 June
2008

For more information and application form please see advertisement or use
above link.


=================================
Navin Kumar Soni
INMAS, DRDO,
Min of Defence, Brig SK mazumdar Marg
Delhi-110054.
Ph: 01123985466, 09868459805
http://www.drdo.org/labs/inmas/index.html
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From mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in  Mon Jun 16 11:03:47 2008
From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin)
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:03:47 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Nominations invited for the eINDIA2008 Awards
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0806161102580.32686@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>

Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 11:37:00 +0530 (IST)
From: Dimple Patel <dimple148 at yahoo.co.in>

Welcome to eINDIA2008 Awards

Nominations are invited for the eINDIA2008 Awards, to be presented at the 
eINDIA2008 Conference and Exhibition, to be held from 29-31 July 2008 at 
the Pragati Maidan, New Delhi, India. The award ceremony is in recognition 
of exemplary and innovative projects which demonstrate the use and 
application of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in 
efforts towards achieving sustainable and equitable development.

The award winners will be duly felicitated and honoured by development 
sector professionals, government officials, corporate representatives, 
researchers and domain experts. Pathfinding projects deserving applause, 
recognition and replication, will be nominated for eINDIA2008 Awards 
through the online submission form.

Nominations for eINDIA2008 Awards are invited under seven fields viz 
e-Agriculture, e-Governance, Digital Learning, e-Health, Telecentre, 
m-Serve, MunicipalIT.

For more details: http://www.eindia.net.in/2008/Awards/index.asp

To send the nomination form via mail: awards at eindia.net.in

From i_sanr at yahoo.co.in  Mon Jun 16 12:27:18 2008
From: i_sanr at yahoo.co.in (Abdulmajid Inamdar)
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:27:18 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] website for librarians
Message-ID: <276091.43705.qm@web8412.mail.in.yahoo.com>

Dear librarians,
I am happy to inform you that Dnyandnyandeep education and research trust, a public trust devoted for web  publishing has launched a website for librarians i.e "www.worldlibrarians.info" which will help the librarians to share and update their knowledge and interact on various issues including academic issues. since you all are involved in the development of library movement, I request you to go through the website and be a member of this activity for betterment of the profession. I hope you will appreciate the efforts taken by the trust.

thanking you 





Dr.S.A.N.Inamdar,
LIBRARIAN,
WALCHAND COLEGE OF ENGG.,
VISHRAMBAG, SANGLI 416 415
Phones (Offi) 0233 2300357 
       (Res.) 0233 2225586
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From krmulla at gmail.com  Mon Jun 16 12:53:59 2008
From: krmulla at gmail.com (K.R. Mulla)
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:53:59 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Indinfo - Your Guide To Engineering University
	Information Projects, Syllabus, Notes...
Message-ID: <a8d4e6a30806160023l1c0b7287j6d33348456cd8a25@mail.gmail.com>

Dear All,

INDINFO is built to help the engineering students of Vishweshwaraiah
Technological University ( VTU )seeking information on their course,
Syllabus, tutorials, notes, guidance, downloads and much more.
http://indinfo.webpulsar.com/index.php

Indinfo offers the most dynamic information material, exposes one to the
fast changing and expanding fields of various disciplines in engineering
courses from VTU, the most exciting, rewarding and lucrative information.
Last Updated ( Friday, 25 February 2007 )

On request from our student community of VTU, this site has been WAP
enabled. Now you can access this site from you mobile devices such as your
mobile phones, palm top and anything through which you can browse internet.
Take http://wap.indinfo.webpulsar.com/ to your campus...to your class room.
Now time and place is not a constrain for accessing this site

Yours Truly
Sindhu V K
Computer Science & Engineering
Bangalore
Karnataka
India
Email: sindhu at webpulsar.com


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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/
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From dmsahu at gmail.com  Mon Jun 16 15:15:04 2008
From: dmsahu at gmail.com (Durga M.)
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:15:04 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Starting of a librarians association in National Level
Message-ID: <1b9580d50806160245j6408a748t3060ba454392abf9@mail.gmail.com>

Dear sir,



The initiation made by Dr P.V.Konnur, Manjunath, K and Thimnappan, Dinesh
K.S. are very much appreciated and should be welcomed by one and all
librarian, teachers and students of lib.sc as well as those are directly
related with lib & inf professional. In India there should be a platform at
national level which can raise the issues and problems faced by us in every
step of our routine work. Particularly in Academic Institute our profession
was treated neither as academic nor administrative staff. Some institutes
treated them as technical staff with out facility. Not only that we are only
against us. Those who are in the higher post they never think for
subordinates either due to lake of knowledge or due to jealousness, Hence at
least if we would coordinate and unite we could have a say and voice of
ourselves. We could help each other for awareness and information. With in
two months of joining my self in t his forum I have received several useful
information. Thanks to the forum. Any responsibility or work would have
given to me I will do with a honored manner. Let a group of professionals
should join and call for other groups to join that forum/group on online and
let us start for a good cause.

D.M.Sahu

Assistant Librarian, NERIST (Deemed University)

NIRJULI ? 791109. Arunachal Pradesh

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From sankaran_thehindu at yahoo.com  Mon Jun 16 15:22:17 2008
From: sankaran_thehindu at yahoo.com (sankaran arumugam)
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 02:52:17 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] [Engg-Lib-Forum] Let us have apex body of Library
	Association to fight for our profession.
Message-ID: <166679.65778.qm@web36208.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Dear All,
I agree to some points pointed out by our friends Mr. Sukhdev Singh, Mr.Mulla, Dr. Manjunath, Dr. Thimmappa, Dr. Konnur and others. But, I differ in one point. i.e. starting new associations or organisations to fight for LIS cause.
?
We have too many associations, societies at both national and state levels like ILA, IASLIC,?IALA, SALIS, SIS,?TN LA,?Kerala LA, Karnataka LA, MAdras LA,?etc., etc.,?etc.,
This leads to a position, we cannot present our case in a united single strong voice to be heard by Govt. /university/ authorities. Instead of starting new assns., we can give more representation to young professionals (age below 40) in electing/selecting office bearers.
?
We quote America for everything, then why not we should follow ALA for a good cause.
?
About members:
How an association will become strong, if there is no active participation of members in the association activities.
?
When I invited my friend to attend an association?Meet/Talk, he said "Oh! You organised it in a working day, how can I come after attending office", When I invited him for a Meet/Talk organised on a holiday, he said " Oh! that is a holiday, how can I come all the way from my residence to the venue". People always give some excuses.
If this is the attitude of members towards associations, how our friends blame the office-bearers. 
I request the office-bearers of LIS associations to throw more light on this.
Thanks & Regards
sankaran


?
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From: Sukhdev Singh <esukhdev at gmail.com>
To: K.R. Mulla <krmulla at gmail.com>
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Sent: Sunday, 15 June, 2008 8:15:41 AM
Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] [Engg-Lib-Forum] Let us have apex body of Library Association to fight for our profession.

Dear Friends,

I fully endorse the view points expressed in emails on the issue of
better activism for Library Associations. I propose a coordination
forum or joint committee of all national / state associations. Such a
forum should have online presence and should engage in online
discussions.

Let me update you all on my own fight to get membership of Medical
Library Association of India. Not that I am dying for its membership.
But I am fighting because matter is of principles and my rights. I am
professionally qualified with master degree and a Life Member of ILA.
I applied for membership for "Medical Library Association of India"
(MLAI) on the suggestion of one of my colleague. To my great surprise
my Cheque came back in an envelop without any covering letter. Don't
jump to conclusion that there might be some administrative mistake (as
latter on it became clear that there was a method in their madness).
I wrote number of emails to the office bearers of MLAI, but could not
get a single reply. My colleagues (including one? EC member of MLAI
and their "Best Medical Librarian of the Year" awardee) also wrote to
them to seek a reply as what is happening. At last the president of
the? association wrote back that she will investigate the matter and
respond back shortly. That "SHORTLY" is now THREE YEARS OLD. I am
still waiting for an official reply from MLAI about my membership. I
just want to know why my membership was not accepted. I know the
plight of that rubber stamp president? while power flow from Delhi.

Now tell me, Can such an association have guts to write a memorandum
to any authority? They don't even have the guts to update on
membership status of an individual. Should not I believe that other
associations are also like that?

Some of you might be wondering on my stupidity of belittling myself
while narrating this incidence. But that is what I am. I will continue
to belittle myself till I get an answer from MLAI.

--Sukhdev Singh.



On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 12:11 PM, K.R. Mulla <krmulla at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear LIS Professionals,
>
> I am completely agree with Dr. K. Manjunath's suggestions & lighting on the
> issues. in this direction we should not blame any others we should think
> positively.
>
> I am requesting all our elder library professionals they may in teacher or
> librarian should come forward join hands to gather and strengthen the Local
> Library Association such as ILA? chapter of Karnatak, Maharashtra, Kerala,
> TN, Andra, MP, Rajastan, Gujarat, UP, Bihar, HP, J&K, Delhi, Punjab,
> Assam,West Bengal and other state
>
> On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Manjunath K <manjunath at mail.tapmi.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> Dear LIS members,
>>
>> I feel the weakness of our associations lies in the absence of a strong
>> LIS body at National, regional, state and local levels.
>>
>> I had suggested earlier on this forum (when lot of comments on ILA
>> elections/etc) to make ILA as an APEX body at national level and make it
>> mandatory that all LIS professionals should become member of ILA.
>>
>> The national ILA body should be based in New Delhi and should have
>> influential office bearers who can have strong links with Govt and other
>> bodies.
>>
>> The national body needs to function through its regional associations
>> (four or more), State Units (one for each state), District bodies and Local
>> chapters. The local chapters should induct all LIS professions in that
>> region as its members. Once they become members of local chapters, they
>> become members of ILA by default.
>>
>> The local bodies nominate/elect members for District/state unit- who
>> intern select/elect members for regional centres. The regional centres will
>> elect the office bearers for national body.
>>
>> All the other professional LIS Associations should have affiliations to
>> ILA. This makes ILA powerful and this body can honestly strive for
>> upliftment and justice to the profession.
>>
>> I invite and request all LIS professionals to think constructively and
>> offer their valuable thoughts in this direction. I used the term 'ILA' to
>> represent the nation. Let us not attach any importance to the Terminology
>> 'ILA' per se. Let us not again start 'criticizing/throwing mud' on the
>> issues revolving around the current Indian library association.
>>
>> Let us have discussions at all levels and constitute a body with
>> comprehensive coverage of our professions goals and objectives.
>>
>> It is good to note that Mr. Thimmappa, Dr. PV Konnur and Mr. Sukhdev Singh
>> have already initiated the discussions. Let us have a strong representative
>> body to address our problems in the country and move boldly along
>> legal/policy journey. If need be, I am ready to join the movement.
>>
>> 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; manjunathak at gmail.com
>> web: http://www.tapmi.org
>> -------------
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: digilib_india at yahoogroups.com [mailto:digilib_india at yahoogroups.com]
>> On Behalf Of thimma naik
>> Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2008 9:52 AM
>> To: NMLIS; DIGILIB INDIA; IATLIS; ncsi lis forum
>> Subject: [digilib_india] Role of Library Associations
>>
>> Library Associations having major role in influencing the formation and
>> implementation of government
>> policy concerning libraries and information. They can act as effective
>> Pressure
>> Groups for political action. But in India,
>> Library associations are not in the right place. In my personal view
>> Library
>> Associations are conducting some seminars, workshops in a year, and
>> elections
>> for the committee. No professionals questioning the activity of the
>> associations. Why we can?t discuss the role of Library Associations in
>> India
>> on this forum. So it will help to us to make unity between Library
>> professionals and to know the activities of these Associations.
>>
>> Thimmappa N. MLISc, PGDHL
>> Bengaluru
>> +91 94488 69387
>> thimmappa03 at yahoo.com;softeyest at gmail.com
>> Read an eBook, Save a Tree; Buy an eBook Reader, Save a Forest
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> HKBK College of Engineering, # 22/1, Nagawara, Bangalore - 560 045.
> Karnataka, India.
> Tel. +91-80-25441722, 25443744 Ext 152
> .................................................................................................
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> Home Page: http://krmulla.googlepages.com/
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From manjunath at mail.tapmi.org  Mon Jun 16 17:37:51 2008
From: manjunath at mail.tapmi.org (Manjunath K)
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:37:51 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Let us have apex body of Library Association to
	fight for our profession.
In-Reply-To: <166679.65778.qm@web36208.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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Message-ID: <14DD8DBEA18D4148BC2A8502DE75027A86E2AC@mail.tapmi.org>

Like sankaran I too don't advocate for another fresh association for LIS. It creates confusion and becomes one more addition to the existing number of LIS associations.

 

Already Indian Library Association (ILA) has become popular and generic in nature for all categories of library professionals. Let us strengthen ILA by making it as an apex body to include all library professionals as its members. The membership to ILA should be mandatory for all professionals irrespective of type of library and it should function from gross-root level. The local chapters should identify all the professionals in that region and motivate them to get inducted to ILA (they may approach the parent institutions for membership). 

 

Let us burry our past bitter experiences and individual differences with associations/officers, and come forward to have a healthy and very powerful in policy making and at the same time more academic in its functions. Like AMA and INFORMS, the transformed ILA can start publishing many reputed journals in the field. I am sure our professionals will welcome the re-charged ILA and support its academic activities too. 

 

The other specialized LIS associations like iaslic, MANLIBNET, IALA, KLA, SIS etc  can become associate Organs of ILA and focus on specific categories of professionals ... The membership for associate bodies could be optional. 

  

 

Manjunath

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

Dr. Manjunatha K

Chief Librarian

T.A. Pai Management Institute

Manipal - 576 104

Udupi Dist. Karnataka, India

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

 

________________________________

From: Engg-Lib-Forum at yahoogroups.com [mailto:Engg-Lib-Forum at yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of sankaran arumugam
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 3:22 PM
To: Sukhdev Singh; K.R. Mulla
Cc: NMLIS; digilib_india at yahoogroups.com; digitalindia at yahoogroups.com; softeyest at gmail.com; Engg-Lib-Forum at yahoogroups.com; corporatelibrns at yahoogroups.com; thimmappa03 at yahoo.com; ncsi lis forum; IATLIS; medlib at yahoogroups.com; emala at yahoogroups.com; salis_info at yahoogroups.com; infoscientists yahoogroups
Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] [Engg-Lib-Forum] Let us have apex body of Library Association to fight for our profession.

 

Dear All,

I agree to some points pointed out by our friends Mr. Sukhdev Singh, Mr.Mulla, Dr. Manjunath, Dr. Thimmappa, Dr. Konnur and others. But, I differ in one point. i.e. starting new associations or organisations to fight for LIS cause.

 

We have too many associations, societies at both national and state levels like ILA, IASLIC, IALA, SALIS, SIS, TN LA, Kerala LA, Karnataka LA, MAdras LA, etc., etc., etc.,

This leads to a position, we cannot present our case in a united single strong voice to be heard by Govt. /university/ authorities. Instead of starting new assns., we can give more representation to young professionals (age below 40) in electing/selecting office bearers.

 

We quote America for everything, then why not we should follow ALA for a good cause.

 

About members:

How an association will become strong, if there is no active participation of members in the association activities.

 

When I invited my friend to attend an association Meet/Talk, he said "Oh! You organised it in a working day, how can I come after attending office", When I invited him for a Meet/Talk organised on a holiday, he said " Oh! that is a holiday, how can I come all the way from my residence to the venue". People always give some excuses.

If this is the attitude of members towards associations, how our friends blame the office-bearers. 

I request the office-bearers of LIS associations to throw more light on this.

 

Thanks & Regards

sankaran

 

 



 

----- Original Message ----
From: Sukhdev Singh <esukhdev at gmail.com>
To: K.R. Mulla <krmulla at gmail.com>
Cc: NMLIS <nmlis at yahoogroups.com>; digilib_india at yahoogroups.com; digitalindia at yahoogroups.com; softeyest at gmail.com; Engg-Lib-Forum at yahoogroups.com; corporatelibrns at yahoogroups.com; thimmappa03 at yahoo.com; ncsi lis forum <lis-forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>; IATLIS <iatlis at yahoogroups.com>; medlib at yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, 15 June, 2008 8:15:41 AM
Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] [Engg-Lib-Forum] Let us have apex body of Library Association to fight for our profession.

Dear Friends,

I fully endorse the view points expressed in emails on the issue of
better activism for Library Associations. I propose a coordination
forum or joint committee of all national / state associations. Such a
forum should have online presence and should engage in online
discussions.

Let me update you all on my own fight to get membership of Medical
Library Association of India. Not that I am dying for its membership.
But I am fighting because matter is of principles and my rights. I am
professionally qualified with master degree and a Life Member of ILA.
I applied for membership for "Medical Library Association of India"
(MLAI) on the suggestion of one of my colleague. To my great surprise
my Cheque came back in an envelop without any covering letter. Don't
jump to conclusion that there might be some administrative mistake (as
latter on it became clear that there was a method in their madness).
I wrote number of emails to the office bearers of MLAI, but could not
get a single reply. My colleagues (including one  EC member of MLAI
and their "Best Medical Librarian of the Year" awardee) also wrote to
them to seek a reply as what is happening. At last the president of
the  association wrote back that she will investigate the matter and
respond back shortly. That "SHORTLY" is now THREE YEARS OLD. I am
still waiting for an official reply from MLAI about my membership. I
just want to know why my membership was not accepted. I know the
plight of that rubber stamp president  while power flow from Delhi.

Now tell me, Can such an association have guts to write a memorandum
to any authority? They don't even have the guts to update on
membership status of an individual. Should not I believe that other
associations are also like that?

Some of you might be wondering on my stupidity of belittling myself
while narrating this incidence. But that is what I am. I will continue
to belittle myself till I get an answer from MLAI.

--Sukhdev Singh.



On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 12:11 PM, K.R. Mulla <krmulla at gmail.com <mailto:krmulla at gmail.com> > wrote:
> Dear LIS Professionals,
>
> I am completely agree with Dr. K. Manjunath's suggestions & lighting on the
> issues. in this direction we should not blame any others we should think
> positively.
>
> I am requesting all our elder library professionals they may in teacher or
> librarian should come forward join hands to gather and strengthen the Local
> Library Association such as ILA  chapter of Karnatak, Maharashtra, Kerala,
> TN, Andra, MP, Rajastan, Gujarat, UP, Bihar, HP, J&K, Delhi, Punjab,
> Assam,West Bengal and other state
>
> On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Manjunath K <manjunath at mail.tapmi.org <mailto:manjunath at mail.tapmi.org> >
> wrote:
>>
>> Dear LIS members,
>>
>> I feel the weakness of our associations lies in the absence of a strong
>> LIS body at National, regional, state and local levels.
>>
>> I had suggested earlier on this forum (when lot of comments on ILA
>> elections/etc) to make ILA as an APEX body at national level and make it
>> mandatory that all LIS professionals should become member of ILA.
>>
>> The national ILA body should be based in New Delhi and should have
>> influential office bearers who can have strong links with Govt and other
>> bodies.
>>
>> The national body needs to function through its regional associations
>> (four or more), State Units (one for each state), District bodies and Local
>> chapters. The local chapters should induct all LIS professions in that
>> region as its members. Once they become members of local chapters, they
>> become members of ILA by default.
>>
>> The local bodies nominate/elect members for District/state unit- who
>> intern select/elect members for regional centres. The regional centres will
>> elect the office bearers for national body.
>>
>> All the other professional LIS Associations should have affiliations to
>> ILA. This makes ILA powerful and this body can honestly strive for
>> upliftment and justice to the profession.
>>
>> I invite and request all LIS professionals to think constructively and
>> offer their valuable thoughts in this direction. I used the term 'ILA' to
>> represent the nation. Let us not attach any importance to the Terminology
>> 'ILA' per se. Let us not again start 'criticizing/throwing mud' on the
>> issues revolving around the current Indian library association.
>>
>> Let us have discussions at all levels and constitute a body with
>> comprehensive coverage of our professions goals and objectives.
>>
>> It is good to note that Mr. Thimmappa, Dr. PV Konnur and Mr. Sukhdev Singh
>> have already initiated the discussions. Let us have a strong representative
>> body to address our problems in the country and move boldly along
>> legal/policy journey. If need be, I am ready to join the movement.
>>
>> 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 <mailto:manjunath at mail.tapmi.org> ; manjunathak at gmail.com <mailto:manjunathak at gmail.com> 
>> web: http://www.tapmi.org <http://www.tapmi.org/> 
>> -------------
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: digilib_india at yahoogroups.com <mailto:digilib_india at yahoogroups.com>  [mailto:digilib_india at yahoogroups.com <mailto:digilib_india at yahoogroups.com> ]
>> On Behalf Of thimma naik
>> Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2008 9:52 AM
>> To: NMLIS; DIGILIB INDIA; IATLIS; ncsi lis forum
>> Subject: [digilib_india] Role of Library Associations
>>
>> Library Associations having major role in influencing the formation and
>> implementation of government
>> policy concerning libraries and information. They can act as effective
>> Pressure
>> Groups for political action. But in India,
>> Library associations are not in the right place. In my personal view
>> Library
>> Associations are conducting some seminars, workshops in a year, and
>> elections
>> for the committee. No professionals questioning the activity of the
>> associations. Why we can?t discuss the role of Library Associations in
>> India
>> on this forum. So it will help to us to make unity between Library
>> professionals and to know the activities of these Associations.
>>
>> Thimmappa N. MLISc, PGDHL
>> Bengaluru
>> +91 94488 69387
>> thimmappa03 at yahoo.com <mailto:thimmappa03 at yahoo.com> ;softeyest at gmail.com <mailto:softeyest at gmail.com> 
>> Read an eBook, Save a Tree; Buy an eBook Reader, Save a Forest
>> Wanted a job, where there is no print, only E
>>
>> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>>
>> ------------------------------------
>>
>> Yahoo! Groups Links
>>
>> 
>
>
> --
> 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/ <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Engg-Lib-Forum/> 
> Home Page: http://krmulla.googlepages.com/ <http://krmulla.googlepages.com/> 
> Library: http://203.90.120.126:8081/ <http://203.90.120.126:8081/> 
> ****************************************************************************

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From mukeshanand2006 at gmail.com  Mon Jun 16 17:32:31 2008
From: mukeshanand2006 at gmail.com (Mukesh Anand)
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:32:31 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Heavy Water Plant,
	Baroda(DAE) : Scientific Assistant / B (Librarian) Post
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Dear Members',

Heavy Water Plant (Baroda)
Deptt. of Atomic Energy
Govt. of India

Advt. No. HWP(B)/1/2008
Last date of receipt of Applicationn : 30th June, ' 08

Applications are invited for the following Library Post

Caregory -I
1. Name of the Post - Scientific Assistant / B (Librarian)
2. No. of Post - 01 (One) (Unreserved)
                          Reserved for Physically Challenged (Hearing Impaired)
3. Pay Scale - Rs. 5,500-175-9,000
4. Essential Qualification - B.Sc. + B. Lib.Sc. or equivalent Diploma
with minimum 50% marks in B.Sc. & 60% marks in B. Lib.Sc. or
equivalent Diploma  as the case may be
5. Desirable - Persons having 2 years experience in Library will be preferred
6. Age Limit - 18-40 Years
                       (Those candidates who have passed M.Sc. /
Degree in Engg./AMIE/equivalent or appearing for M.Sc./Degree in
Engg./AMIE equivalent (final year) will not be considered for
appointment & hance need not apply.

Selection Procedure & Criteria, General Instructions, Proforma for
Application & Checklist published in

English :- The Indian Express (Vadodara City Edition) dated 14th June,
' 08 (Saturday), Page # 11

Hindi :- The Times of India (Ahmedabad Edition) dated 14th June, ' 08
(Saturday), Page # 15

All the Best
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Officers' Training College for Indian Railways
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From mukeshanand2006 at gmail.com  Mon Jun 16 17:36:42 2008
From: mukeshanand2006 at gmail.com (Mukesh Anand)
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:36:42 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] National Book Trust : Financial Assistance Scheme to
	Voluntary Organisations for Book Promotion Activities
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Dear Members',

National Book Trust India,
Plot No. 5, Instutional Area ,Phase II, Vasant Kunj ,New Delhi -70

Scheme for Financial Assistance to Voluntary Organisations for Book
Promotional Actovities

Last Date 15th July, ' 08

Brief Advt. published in The Times of India (Ahmedabad Edition ) dated
14th June, ' 08 (Saturday), Page # 7

For Detailed info. (Guidelines & Application Form)
SCHEME OF ASSISTANCE TO VOLUNTARY/PRIVATE ORGANISATIONS FOR ORGANISING
SEMINARS/TRAINING COURSES/ WORKSHOPS/ ANNUAL CONVENTIONS, ETC.,
CONNECTED WITH BOOK PROMOTIONAL ACTIVITIES & APPLICATION FORM & Check
List for Filling up of Bond, Resolution and PSR
Visit

http://www.nbtindia.org.in/download/Financial%20Scheme%20-%20Guidelines%20&%20Application%20Form.doc

Bond & Resolution
http://www.nbtindia.org.in/download/Financial%20Scheme%20-%20Bond%20&%20Resolution.doc

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From esukhdev at gmail.com  Tue Jun 17 10:14:26 2008
From: esukhdev at gmail.com (Sukhdev Singh)
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:14:26 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Let us have apex body of Library Association to
	fight for our profession.
In-Reply-To: <14DD8DBEA18D4148BC2A8502DE75027A86E2AC@mail.tapmi.org>
References: <166679.65778.qm@web36208.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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Dear friends,

It is perhaps the first time when someone from any association
communicated through online discussion forums. The result is that at
least some initiative has been taken. We should be thankful to such a
gesture.

Now in a democratic country you can not put restrictions on
association of people under relevant acts of the country. Every
association has its own constitution compliant to Registrar of
Societies norms. We can not force any such body to follow any of our
directives. We can only wish that there could of a strong body to care
of professional matters. Now, since number of professional bodies have
already come up for whatever reasons, the only way left is ask for
proper coordination among these bodies.

Now the question is - what could the practical approach in achieving
our objective? The best I can think of is through passing of
resolutions in the General Body Meetings by the members of such
associations. Anybody who has read "Animal Farm" would understand the
tendency of "power". So obviously, resolutions seeking transparency
and onus to perform would not be liked by any office bearers.  I would
suggest professionals to give suitable notices to their associations
to adopt resolutions:

Responsiveness: The best way to make associations responsive is to
make mandatory for office bearers to take part in on-line discussion
forums. One of these forums should be out of their control of
moderation.

Coordination forum: To pass a resolution to be part of a coordination
forum constituing of various bodies.

Transparency: Liability of office bearers to answer queries from its
members and non-members within specified time frame. (This is in-lieu
of RTI Act which otherwise is not applicable to societies)

So friends, whenever you go to any AGM, remember to voice the above issues.
They will not listen to you. So you have to be LOUDER enough.

--Sukhdev Singh.




On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Manjunath K <manjunath at mail.tapmi.org> wrote:
> Like sankaran I too don't advocate for another fresh association for LIS. It
> creates confusion and becomes one more addition to the existing number of
> LIS associations.
>
>
>
> Already Indian Library Association (ILA) has become popular and generic in
> nature for all categories of library professionals. Let us strengthen ILA by
> making it as an apex body to include all library professionals as its
> members. The membership to ILA should be mandatory for all professionals
> irrespective of type of library and it should function from gross-root
> level. The local chapters should identify all the professionals in that
> region and motivate them to get inducted to ILA (they may approach the
> parent institutions for membership).
>
>
>
> Let us burry our past bitter experiences and individual differences with
> associations/officers, and come forward to have a healthy and very powerful
> in policy making and at the same time more academic in its functions. Like
> AMA and INFORMS, the transformed ILA can start publishing many reputed
> journals in the field. I am sure our professionals will welcome the
> re-charged ILA and support its academic activities too.
>
>
>
> The other specialized LIS associations like iaslic, MANLIBNET, IALA, KLA,
> SIS etc  can become associate Organs of ILA and focus on specific categories
> of professionals ? The membership for associate bodies could be optional.
>
>
>
>
>
> Manjunath
>
> -------------
>
> Dr. Manjunatha K
>
> Chief Librarian
>
> T.A. Pai Management Institute
>
> Manipal - 576 104
>
> Udupi Dist. Karnataka, India
>
>  -------------
>
>
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: Engg-Lib-Forum at yahoogroups.com [mailto:Engg-Lib-Forum at yahoogroups.com]
> On Behalf Of sankaran arumugam
> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 3:22 PM
> To: Sukhdev Singh; K.R. Mulla
> Cc: NMLIS; digilib_india at yahoogroups.com; digitalindia at yahoogroups.com;
> softeyest at gmail.com; Engg-Lib-Forum at yahoogroups.com;
> corporatelibrns at yahoogroups.com; thimmappa03 at yahoo.com; ncsi lis forum;
> IATLIS; medlib at yahoogroups.com; emala at yahoogroups.com;
> salis_info at yahoogroups.com; infoscientists yahoogroups
> Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] [Engg-Lib-Forum] Let us have apex body of Library
> Association to fight for our profession.
>
>
>
> Dear All,
>
> I agree to some points pointed out by our friends Mr. Sukhdev Singh,
> Mr.Mulla, Dr. Manjunath, Dr. Thimmappa, Dr. Konnur and others. But, I differ
> in one point. i.e. starting new associations or organisations to fight for
> LIS cause.
>
>
>
> We have too many associations, societies at both national and state levels
> like ILA, IASLIC, IALA, SALIS, SIS, TN LA, Kerala LA, Karnataka LA, MAdras
> LA, etc., etc., etc.,
>
> This leads to a position, we cannot present our case in a united single
> strong voice to be heard by Govt. /university/ authorities. Instead of
> starting new assns., we can give more representation to young professionals
> (age below 40) in electing/selecting office bearers.
>
>
>
> We quote America for everything, then why not we should follow ALA for a
> good cause.
>
>
>
> About members:
>
> How an association will become strong, if there is no active participation
> of members in the association activities.
>
>
>
> When I invited my friend to attend an association Meet/Talk, he said "Oh!
> You organised it in a working day, how can I come after attending office",
> When I invited him for a Meet/Talk organised on a holiday, he said " Oh!
> that is a holiday, how can I come all the way from my residence to the
> venue". People always give some excuses.
>
> If this is the attitude of members towards associations, how our friends
> blame the office-bearers.
>
> I request the office-bearers of LIS associations to throw more light on
> this.
>
>
>
> Thanks & Regards
>
> sankaran
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Sukhdev Singh <esukhdev at gmail.com>
> To: K.R. Mulla <krmulla at gmail.com>
> Cc: NMLIS <nmlis at yahoogroups.com>; digilib_india at yahoogroups.com;
> digitalindia at yahoogroups.com; softeyest at gmail.com;
> Engg-Lib-Forum at yahoogroups.com; corporatelibrns at yahoogroups.com;
> thimmappa03 at yahoo.com; ncsi lis forum <lis-forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>; IATLIS
> <iatlis at yahoogroups.com>; medlib at yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Sunday, 15 June, 2008 8:15:41 AM
> Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] [Engg-Lib-Forum] Let us have apex body of Library
> Association to fight for our profession.
>
> Dear Friends,
>
> I fully endorse the view points expressed in emails on the issue of
> better activism for Library Associations. I propose a coordination
> forum or joint committee of all national / state associations. Such a
> forum should have online presence and should engage in online
> discussions.
>
> Let me update you all on my own fight to get membership of Medical
> Library Association of India. Not that I am dying for its membership.
> But I am fighting because matter is of principles and my rights. I am
> professionally qualified with master degree and a Life Member of ILA.
> I applied for membership for "Medical Library Association of India"
> (MLAI) on the suggestion of one of my colleague. To my great surprise
> my Cheque came back in an envelop without any covering letter. Don't
> jump to conclusion that there might be some administrative mistake (as
> latter on it became clear that there was a method in their madness).
> I wrote number of emails to the office bearers of MLAI, but could not
> get a single reply. My colleagues (including one  EC member of MLAI
> and their "Best Medical Librarian of the Year" awardee) also wrote to
> them to seek a reply as what is happening. At last the president of
> the  association wrote back that she will investigate the matter and
> respond back shortly. That "SHORTLY" is now THREE YEARS OLD. I am
> still waiting for an official reply from MLAI about my membership. I
> just want to know why my membership was not accepted. I know the
> plight of that rubber stamp president  while power flow from Delhi.
>
> Now tell me, Can such an association have guts to write a memorandum
> to any authority? They don't even have the guts to update on
> membership status of an individual. Should not I believe that other
> associations are also like that?
>
> Some of you might be wondering on my stupidity of belittling myself
> while narrating this incidence. But that is what I am. I will continue
> to belittle myself till I get an answer from MLAI.
>
> --Sukhdev Singh.
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 12:11 PM, K.R. Mulla <krmulla at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear LIS Professionals,
>>
>> I am completely agree with Dr. K. Manjunath's suggestions & lighting on
>> the
>> issues. in this direction we should not blame any others we should think
>> positively.
>>
>> I am requesting all our elder library professionals they may in teacher or
>> librarian should come forward join hands to gather and strengthen the
>> Local
>> Library Association such as ILA  chapter of Karnatak, Maharashtra, Kerala,
>> TN, Andra, MP, Rajastan, Gujarat, UP, Bihar, HP, J&K, Delhi, Punjab,
>> Assam,West Bengal and other state
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Manjunath K <manjunath at mail.tapmi.org>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear LIS members,
>>>
>>> I feel the weakness of our associations lies in the absence of a strong
>>> LIS body at National, regional, state and local levels.
>>>
>>> I had suggested earlier on this forum (when lot of comments on ILA
>>> elections/etc) to make ILA as an APEX body at national level and make it
>>> mandatory that all LIS professionals should become member of ILA.
>>>
>>> The national ILA body should be based in New Delhi and should have
>>> influential office bearers who can have strong links with Govt and other
>>> bodies.
>>>
>>> The national body needs to function through its regional associations
>>> (four or more), State Units (one for each state), District bodies and
>>> Local
>>> chapters. The local chapters should induct all LIS professions in that
>>> region as its members. Once they become members of local chapters, they
>>> become members of ILA by default.
>>>
>>> The local bodies nominate/elect members for District/state unit- who
>>> intern select/elect members for regional centres. The regional centres
>>> will
>>> elect the office bearers for national body.
>>>
>>> All the other professional LIS Associations should have affiliations to
>>> ILA. This makes ILA powerful and this body can honestly strive for
>>> upliftment and justice to the profession.
>>>
>>> I invite and request all LIS professionals to think constructively and
>>> offer their valuable thoughts in this direction. I used the term 'ILA' to
>>> represent the nation. Let us not attach any importance to the Terminology
>>> 'ILA' per se. Let us not again start 'criticizing/throwing mud' on the
>>> issues revolving around the current Indian library association.
>>>
>>> Let us have discussions at all levels and constitute a body with
>>> comprehensive coverage of our professions goals and objectives.
>>>
>>> It is good to note that Mr. Thimmappa, Dr. PV Konnur and Mr. Sukhdev
>>> Singh
>>> have already initiated the discussions. Let us have a strong
>>> representative
>>> body to address our problems in the country and move boldly along
>>> legal/policy journey. If need be, I am ready to join the movement.
>>>
>>> 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; manjunathak at gmail.com
>>> web: http://www.tapmi.org
>>> -------------
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: digilib_india at yahoogroups.com
>>> [mailto:digilib_india at yahoogroups.com]
>>> On Behalf Of thimma naik
>>> Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2008 9:52 AM
>>> To: NMLIS; DIGILIB INDIA; IATLIS; ncsi lis forum
>>> Subject: [digilib_india] Role of Library Associations
>>>
>>> Library Associations having major role in influencing the formation and
>>> implementation of government
>>> policy concerning libraries and information. They can act as effective
>>> Pressure
>>> Groups for political action. But in India,
>>> Library associations are not in the right place. In my personal view
>>> Library
>>> Associations are conducting some seminars, workshops in a year, and
>>> elections
>>> for the committee. No professionals questioning the activity of the
>>> associations. Why we can?t discuss the role of Library Associations in
>>> India
>>> on this forum. So it will help to us to make unity between Library
>>> professionals and to know the activities of these Associations.
>>>
>>> Thimmappa N. MLISc, PGDHL
>>> Bengaluru
>>> +91 94488 69387
>>> thimmappa03 at yahoo.com;softeyest at gmail.com
>>> Read an eBook, Save a Tree; Buy an eBook Reader, Save a Forest
>>> Wanted a job, where there is no print, only E
>>>
>>> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>>>
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>>>
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>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> 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/
>>
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From kshipra.sardesai at gmail.com  Tue Jun 17 10:13:29 2008
From: kshipra.sardesai at gmail.com (Kshipra Sardesai)
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:13:29 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] [Engg-Lib-Forum] Let us have apex body of Library
	Association to fight for our profession.
In-Reply-To: <166679.65778.qm@web36208.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
References: <166679.65778.qm@web36208.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <8751201f0806162143ke7e0079w34fd91015ec5dbc5@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Sir,
I really appreciate your forming ILA as an apex institution for
library professionals. In Mumbai there is no strong
organisation/association for and of this profession. I am teaching for
Certificate course in LIS run by Granth Sanchanalaya Marashatra
Govt.The future and further scope of  these students is in dark .I
always feel to work on following fields for our profession
1) coaching classes for Bilb & Mlib which are running on distance
education options by many universities
2)Internship like other technical courses for 6 months
3)Workshops for new technologies in reservation and retrieval
4)A platform to open themselves on problem discussions
5)A stong recommendation of apex institution for job allocation in
corporate /public libraries as well as academic libraries
6)Librarian's active role and his deputation for many imprtant
committees of the parent organisation
7)The centers of Apex ILA at all state levels with transperent committee
8)The easy approach to ILA state level authority for problem solution
of a small institutional librarian

I shall be glad to inform you and as well sad to tell you that we the
Librarians in Bandra-Kurla Complex are trying to build a network of
Librarians for sharing the open resources but yes only few (5)
organisations showed the interest and others !Still we have not lost
the battle. The efforts aare going on.

One more thing there are many organisations in Mumbai where no library
professional is posted as Librarian but the senior manager is carrying
the responsibilities and who is  at his due retirement of 2 to 3
years.
If a librarian is posted he may not be of his salary package. Why such ?
If ILA abecomes an apex with state level offices such problems may be sovled.

We are ready to work hard ready to learn new technologies but if our
talent is just hired for 5000 to 6000 salary package  and just a store
keeper then alas!!

Regards
Kshipra Sardesai
Librarian, RBI, Dept of Statistics and Information Management,Bandra
Mumbai 400 051
Ph No 022-26572315(o)
          022-26578300 ext 7355


On 6/16/08, sankaran arumugam <sankaran_thehindu at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> Dear All,
> I agree to some points pointed out by our friends Mr. Sukhdev Singh,
> Mr.Mulla, Dr. Manjunath, Dr. Thimmappa, Dr. Konnur and others. But, I differ
> in one point. i.e. starting new associations or organisations to fight for
> LIS cause.
>
> We have too many associations, societies at both national and state levels
> like ILA, IASLIC, IALA, SALIS, SIS, TN LA, Kerala LA, Karnataka LA, MAdras
> LA, etc., etc., etc.,
> This leads to a position, we cannot present our case in a united single
> strong voice to be heard by Govt. /university/ authorities. Instead of
> starting new assns., we can give more representation to young professionals
> (age below 40) in electing/selecting office bearers.
>
> We quote America for everything, then why not we should follow ALA for a
> good cause.
>
> About members:
> How an association will become strong, if there is no active participation
> of members in the association activities.
>
> When I invited my friend to attend an association Meet/Talk, he said "Oh!
> You organised it in a working day, how can I come after attending office",
> When I invited him for a Meet/Talk organised on a holiday, he said " Oh!
> that is a holiday, how can I come all the way from my residence to the
> venue". People always give some excuses.
> If this is the attitude of members towards associations, how our friends
> blame the office-bearers.
> I request the office-bearers of LIS associations to throw more light on
> this.
>
> Thanks & Regards
> sankaran
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Sukhdev Singh <esukhdev at gmail.com>
> To: K.R. Mulla <krmulla at gmail.com>
> Cc: NMLIS <nmlis at yahoogroups.com>; digilib_india at yahoogroups.com;
> digitalindia at yahoogroups.com; softeyest at gmail.com;
> Engg-Lib-Forum at yahoogroups.com; corporatelibrns at yahoogroups.com;
> thimmappa03 at yahoo.com; ncsi lis forum <lis-forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>; IATLIS
> <iatlis at yahoogroups.com>; medlib at yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Sunday, 15 June, 2008 8:15:41 AM
> Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] [Engg-Lib-Forum] Let us have apex body of Library
> Association to fight for our profession.
>
> Dear Friends,
>
> I fully endorse the view points expressed in emails on the issue of
> better activism for Library Associations. I propose a coordination
> forum or joint committee of all national / state associations. Such a
> forum should have online presence and should engage in online
> discussions.
>
> Let me update you all on my own fight to get membership of Medical
> Library Association of India. Not that I am dying for its membership.
> But I am fighting because matter is of principles and my rights. I am
> professionally qualified with master degree and a Life Member of ILA.
> I applied for membership for "Medical Library Association of India"
> (MLAI) on the suggestion of one of my colleague. To my great surprise
> my Cheque came back in an envelop without any covering letter. Don't
> jump to conclusion that there might be some administrative mistake (as
> latter on it became clear that there was a method in their madness).
> I wrote number of emails to the office bearers of MLAI, but could not
> get a single reply. My colleagues (including one  EC member of MLAI
> and their "Best Medical Librarian of the Year" awardee) also wrote to
> them to seek a reply as what is happening. At last the president of
> the  association wrote back that she will investigate the matter and
> respond back shortly. That "SHORTLY" is now THREE YEARS OLD. I am
> still waiting for an official reply from MLAI about my membership. I
> just want to know why my membership was not accepted. I know the
> plight of that rubber stamp president  while power flow from Delhi.
>
> Now tell me, Can such an association have guts to write a memorandum
> to any authority? They don't even have the guts to update on
> membership status of an individual. Should not I believe that other
> associations are also like that?
>
> Some of you might be wondering on my stupidity of belittling myself
> while narrating this incidence. But that is what I am. I will continue
> to belittle myself till I get an answer from MLAI.
>
> --Sukhdev Singh.
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 12:11 PM, K.R. Mulla <krmulla at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Dear LIS Professionals,
> >
> > I am completely agree with Dr. K. Manjunath's suggestions & lighting on
> the
> > issues. in this direction we should not blame any others we should think
> > positively.
> >
> > I am requesting all our elder library professionals they may in teacher or
> > librarian should come forward join hands to gather and strengthen the
> Local
> > Library Association such as ILA  chapter of Karnatak, Maharashtra, Kerala,
> > TN, Andra, MP, Rajastan, Gujarat, UP, Bihar, HP, J&K, Delhi, Punjab,
> > Assam,West Bengal and other state
> >
> > On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Manjunath K <manjunath at mail.tapmi.org>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Dear LIS members,
> >>
> >> I feel the weakness of our associations lies in the absence of a strong
> >> LIS body at National, regional, state and local levels.
> >>
> >> I had suggested earlier on this forum (when lot of comments on ILA
> >> elections/etc) to make ILA as an APEX body at national level and make it
> >> mandatory that all LIS professionals should become member of ILA.
> >>
> >> The national ILA body should be based in New Delhi and should have
> >> influential office bearers who can have strong links with Govt and other
> >> bodies.
> >>
> >> The national body needs to function through its regional associations
> >> (four or more), State Units (one for each state), District bodies and
> Local
> >> chapters. The local chapters should induct all LIS professions in that
> >> region as its members. Once they become members of local chapters, they
> >> become members of ILA by default.
> >>
> >> The local bodies nominate/elect members for District/state unit- who
> >> intern select/elect members for regional centres. The regional centres
> will
> >> elect the office bearers for national body.
> >>
> >> All the other professional LIS Associations should have affiliations to
> >> ILA. This makes ILA powerful and this body can honestly strive for
> >> upliftment and justice to the profession.
> >>
> >> I invite and request all LIS professionals to think constructively and
> >> offer their valuable thoughts in this direction. I used the term 'ILA' to
> >> represent the nation. Let us not attach any importance to the Terminology
> >> 'ILA' per se. Let us not again start 'criticizing/throwing mud' on the
> >> issues revolving around the current Indian library association.
> >>
> >> Let us have discussions at all levels and constitute a body with
> >> comprehensive coverage of our professions goals and objectives.
> >>
> >> It is good to note that Mr. Thimmappa, Dr. PV Konnur and Mr. Sukhdev
> Singh
> >> have already initiated the discussions. Let us have a strong
> representative
> >> body to address our problems in the country and move boldly along
> >> legal/policy journey. If need be, I am ready to join the movement.
> >>
> >> 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; manjunathak at gmail.com
> >> web: http://www.tapmi.org
> >> -------------
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: digilib_india at yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:digilib_india at yahoogroups.com]
> >> On Behalf Of thimma naik
> >> Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2008 9:52 AM
> >> To: NMLIS; DIGILIB INDIA; IATLIS; ncsi lis forum
> >> Subject: [digilib_india] Role of Library Associations
> >>
> >> Library Associations having major role in influencing the formation and
> >> implementation of government
> >> policy concerning libraries and information. They can act as effective
> >> Pressure
> >> Groups for political action. But in India,
> >> Library associations are not in the right place. In my personal view
> >> Library
> >> Associations are conducting some seminars, workshops in a year, and
> >> elections
> >> for the committee. No professionals questioning the activity of the
> >> associations. Why we can?t discuss the role of Library Associations in
> >> India
> >> on this forum. So it will help to us to make unity between Library
> >> professionals and to know the activities of these Associations.
> >>
> >> Thimmappa N. MLISc, PGDHL
> >> Bengaluru
> >> +91 94488 69387
> >> thimmappa03 at yahoo.com;softeyest at gmail.com
> >> Read an eBook, Save a Tree; Buy an eBook Reader, Save a Forest
> >> Wanted a job, where there is no print, only E
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> > --
> > Thanks with regards
> >
> > K. R. Mulla,
> > Librarian,
> > HKBK College of Engineering, # 22/1, Nagawara, Bangalore - 560 045.
> > Karnataka, India.
> > Tel. +91-80-25441722, 25443744 Ext 152
> >
> .................................................................................................
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From: kginfo at gmail.com (Kaushik)
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:39:30 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Journal of World Energy Law & Business
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From mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in  Tue Jun 17 11:17:04 2008
From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin)
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:17:04 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Seminar on ~SOpen Access Movement: Initiatives,
	Promotion and Impact
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0806171114520.12941@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>

Date: 16 Jun 2008 11:16:17 -0000
From: Nadeem Akhtar khan <khannadeem at rediffmail.com>
  ?
CALL FOR PAPERS

Department of Library and Information Science, The University of 
Kashmir(J&K) is organizing a seminar on ?Open Access Movement: 
Initiatives, Promotion and Impact? from 15-17 October, 2008. The scholars, 
teachers and professionals and other stakeholders can submit their 
original research papers covering conceptual innovations, case studies, 
evaluations etc the following e-mail addresses:

1. smshafi at kashmiruniversity.ac.in OR 2. dlis_2006 at yahoo.co.in

The full paper with references and citations preferably following APA 
Style (http://www.apa.style.org ) should be submitted latest by 15 
august,2008. The scholars will be informed about the acceptance of their 
papers in the first week of September, 2008. The other details about the 
seminar etc will be available in due course of time.

FOR More details:
CONTACT:
Professor S.M.Shafi
Head of the Department
Department of Library and Information Science
The University of Kashmir
190006.
Email: smshafi at kashmiruniversity.ac.in
Cell:9419008599

Broad facets of the theme :

(NOTE: The list is not exhaustive and scholars can choose other relevant 
topics as well). Scholarly Communication and New publishing Models

?	Evolution
?	Access Problems
?	Crisis
?	Electronic Publishing; advantages and drawbacks
?	Electronic Journals
?	Hybrid ? paper electronic journals (the p-e)
?	Author self posting
?	Subject and institutional repositories

Open Access Movement and Initiatives

?	General concept, barriers and trends
?	Milestones
?	Critics
?	Political History
?	OA Initiatives, survey and problems
?	International Arena
?	OA Initiatives in different regions with emphasis on
         developing countries, description and evaluation
?	OA Mendates
?	Role of employers and research funders

Open Access Publishing

?	OA Journals, growth and development
?	OA Publishing, different models
?	OA Publishing in different disciplines
?	OA Publishing Trends

Open Access Repositories

?	Institutional and Subject Repositories: Growth and Development
?	Challenges and Opportunities
?	Progress Issue
?	Implementation, Content Recruitment, Policy Formation,
         Collection Management, Services etc.
?	Certification and Quality Control
?	Peer Reviewing and Information Retrieval Systems.

Open Access Standards

?	Open Archives Initiative (OAI)
?	Digital Object Identifier System (DOI)
?	Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI)
?	Open URL
?	Open Source Softwares

MetaData Harvesting and Interoperability
?	OAI-PMH and Interoperability
?	Semantic Web Search
?	Specific Data Discovery Tools

Copyright and Preservation
?	Publishers Copyright Policies
?	Author?s Copyright Issues
?	Various Projects (Creative Commons; RPMEO; SPARC etc)
?	Preservation Issues (Long and Short Term)
Use and Impact
?	Survey
?	Impact on Research
?	Author utility
?	Impact on Libraries and Publishers
?	Changing Role of Librarians
?	Developing Countries: use and impact

From mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in  Tue Jun 17 11:26:16 2008
From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin)
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:26:16 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Fw: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: Access to Learning
 Award (ATLA) 2009 (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0806171125520.12941@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>


Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:26:10 +0530 (IST)
From: Shamprasad Pujar <pujar at igidr.ac.in>

Dear Members,
FYI
Regards,
Dr S.M. Pujar, IGIDR, Mumbai
======================
-- Original Message --
From: Carol Priestley <carol.priestley at nida-net.org>
To: <ifla-l at infoserv.inist.fr>
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:16:16 +0100

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: Access to Learning Award (ATLA) 2009

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is inviting applications from libraries and 
organisations with a mandate to provide public access to information to apply 
for the Access to Learning Award (ATLA) 2009. The award recognizes excellence 
and innovation in public libraries and similar institutions in providing access 
to information through the use of computers and the Internet, at no cost to the 
user. The recipient will receive a prize of US$1 million. The 2009 brochures 
(in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish), application form 
and further information are now available from

<http://www.gatesfoundation.org/GlobalDevelopment/GlobalLibraries/AccessLearningAward/RelatedInfo/ATLABrochure.htm>www.gatesfoundation.org/GlobalDevelopment/GlobalLibraries/AccessLearningAward/ 
Please notethe closing date for the 2008 award is 31 October 2008. If you, or 
any of your contacts, have any questions please contact ATLA at 
<atla at gatesfoundation.org> ATLA Administrator

email: <atla at gatesfoundation.org>
Carol Priestley
Director
Network for Information & Digital Access (NIDA)
37/39 Ludlow Road, London, W5 1NX, UK
Tel: 44 (0)20 8997 3274
http://www.nida-net.org/

From srels at dataone.in  Sat Jun 14 13:25:43 2008
From: srels at dataone.in (SRELS)
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 13:25:43 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Book
Message-ID: <000001c8d03e$6e30f0b0$0301a8c0@SRELSHP1>

Dear Moderator:
Kindly arrange to announce the following request for a book.
Sincerely,
K.N. Prasad
SRELS, Bangalore

*****

Please inform us if the following book is available in any of the libraries in Bangalore.

Hale-White, William.  Great doctors of the nineteenth century.  Reprint 1935.  Ayer Publishing.

K.N. Prasad
Executive Officer
Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science
702, 42nd Cross, III Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalore 560 010.
Ph: 080-23305109 ; 
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From kgoel at icssr.org  Tue Jun 17 12:28:23 2008
From: kgoel at icssr.org (Kamlesh Goel)
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:28:23 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Fight for library profession
Message-ID: <200806170704.m5H74jNU016729@mail.iisc.ernet.in>

Dear Friends

I also msupport to Mr. Manjunath and Sankaran that no need 
to create separate one more association but we must 
strengthen the existing professional bodies with active 
contribution.

Kamlesh Goel
Doc. Officer
NASSDOC
ICSSR
kgoel at icssr.org


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From ranjitkdas at kiit.ac.in  Tue Jun 17 13:01:57 2008
From: ranjitkdas at kiit.ac.in (Ranjit Kumar Das)
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:01:57 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] ILA National Workshop at KIMS, Bhubaneswar
Message-ID: <42093.10.3.208.1.1213687917.squirrel@mail.kiit.ac.in>


Dear Friends/ Esteemed Sir/Madam

       It is a great pleasure in my part to announce that ILA National
Workshop on Digital Library is scheduled to be held on 12th & 13th
August 2008 at Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences, KIIT
University, Bhubaneswar.
Papers are also invited for the same.For details log on to
http://www.kiit.ac.in






Ranjit Kumar Das
Librarian,
Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences,
KIIT University
KIIT Campus-5, Kushabhadra Campus,
Bhubaneswar-751 024
Mobile No:+91-94371-77669

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From bhomrac at yahoo.com  Tue Jun 17 14:26:52 2008
From: bhomrac at yahoo.com (Bhomra Chatterji)
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:56:52 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] RTWIADL 2008
Message-ID: <114163.20116.qm@web32604.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Regional Training &amp; Workshop on Building Institutional Archives &amp; Digital Libraries on June 24 through 27, 2008 at SMIT Campus, Majitar, Rangpo, East- Sikkim, jointly organizing by Library, Documentation &amp; Information Science Division of Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata &amp; Sikkim-Manipal Institute of Technology, Sikkim has been postponed due to present political situation in North Bengal. Dates will be announced shortly.
Mrs Bhomra Chatterji


      
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From esukhdev at gmail.com  Tue Jun 17 14:48:00 2008
From: esukhdev at gmail.com (Sukhdev Singh)
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:48:00 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] SPARC includes my article in its June's Newsletter
Message-ID: <c13c85220806170218y784d6622pdd235bc85036150e@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Friends,

Just wanted to inform you all that a write up by me on
"What can Bloggers do for Open Access?" < http://snipr.com/2jpwn > has
been covered by SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources
Coaliation) < http://www.arl.org/sparc/index.shtml >.

It appears in its Newletter of June 08 under ' 8.  Articles of
Interest ' -  <http://www.arl.org/sparc/publications/enews/08jun.shtml>

--Sukhdev Singh, NIC.

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From raja13_kumar at yahoo.co.in  Tue Jun 17 16:49:34 2008
From: raja13_kumar at yahoo.co.in (raja kumar)
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:49:34 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] National Workshop on IR: A report
Message-ID: <261970.57296.qm@web94210.mail.in2.yahoo.com>

?
A report? on the two day National Workshop on Insititutional Repositories conducucted during 12-13 June, 2008,organised by the Department of Library and Information?Centre, M.S.Ramaiah Medical College, Bangalore. Dr..Ramarajaurs, Univesity Librarian, Rajiv Gandhi University of Health?Science, inaugurated the workshop. While delivering the inaugural address he emphasised? more about recent advances in the field of LIS and how best our profefssionals take this opprotunity? to provide better services to user community.?? Shri Prabhakar, I.A.S., Chief Executive of the GEF who was chief guest of the occassion and release the workshop CD. He spoke on importance? of digitial libraries? and in general Institutional Repositories in particular he was suggested the participants to form a health science librarians network.?Dr. M.Krishnamurthy, University Librarian, University of Mysore,? spoke? about? on DSpace.?Dr. Kumar, Principal, M.S. Ramaiah
 Medical College, in his presidential address advice? to adopt modern technologies. 
?
Further, Dr.M.Krishnamurthy, University Librarian, University of Mysore, served as? resource person? and installed Dspace on Linux?platform successfully.??And showed practical? work? how to build on Institutional Repositories.?All the? participants asked work on Dspace with on exercise.??? Dr. Ramesha, Reader, Bangalore University,? invited speaker and he spoke on Institutiona Repositories: Issues and Challenges. About 75 participants? from all over India? have been participated.? 
The workshop discussed the following aspects: An over view of IR, the process , hardware and software, and copyright issues involoved in the development of IR ; and hands on experience? in the development of IR.
?

?Dr. Siddamallaih, Princiopal and Information Officer, National Institute of Mental Health? Science, Bangalore delivered the valedictory address. In his speech? he highlighted the importance of IR and Content. Mr. I.H jahagirdar, Manager, the British Library, was chief guest and spoke on Issues and challenges before implementing IR. 
All the participants were given the course materials on Dspace and related software in CD form and distributed certificates.? Organising Secretary N. Subramanyam, Librarian,? M.S.Ramaih Medical College proposed? vote of thanks.
?
Rajakumar,
Lirbrarian
Oxford College,
Bangalore



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From mukeshanand2006 at gmail.com  Tue Jun 17 19:33:21 2008
From: mukeshanand2006 at gmail.com (Mukesh Anand)
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:33:21 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Tumkur University(Karnataka):Prof.,
	Reader & Lecturer Post in LIS & Libn., Dy.Libn. & Asst. Libn. Post
Message-ID: <b0de4a880806170703k14499ea5m9416e2c04892edda@mail.gmail.com>

Respected Members',

Tumkur University (Karnataka)

Re-Notification
NO.TU:EST:TSRN-2:673:2008-09                DATE:13.06.2008
Ref:
1. Univ. Notif. No. TU-EST:TSN:2295:2006-2007 dated:09/25/10.2006
2. Univ. Notif. No. TU-EST:TSRN:1919:2007-08 dated:09.11.2007

Applications in the prescribed form are invited from eligible
candidates of Indian Nationality for the following Teaching &
Non-Teaching Posts.The filled in application should reach :
Registrar,Tumkur University, Tumkur on or before 03.07.2008 at 4.00
p.m.

Special Note :- Candidates  who have already applied in response to
earlier notifications (Ref: 01 & 02) need not apply again. However
they can send the copies of certificates, if any regarding any further
academic improvements

Teaching Posts
Sl. No. 12
Description - Lib. & Inform. Science
Pofessor- 01 Post
Reader- 02 Post
Lecturer - 02 Post (Reserved SC-01 & GM-1)

Non - Teaching Posts
Librarian - 01 (Un-Reserved)
Deputy Librarian - 01(SC)
Assistant Librarian - 01(SC)

Further details about the posts regarding general instructions,
qualifications etc. can be downloaded from the website
www.tumkuruniversity.in

Print Access to this Advt. :- The Indian Express (Vadodara City Edition), dated
15th June, Sunday, Page # 13

Thanx & Regards,
Mukesh Anand
Asst. Libn.
Officers' Training College for Indian Railways
Sanskari Nagari Vadodara

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From jaya.kalra1 at gmail.com  Tue Jun 17 19:49:43 2008
From: jaya.kalra1 at gmail.com (JK)
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:49:43 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Library Trainees Needed
Message-ID: <224e28cc0806170719l4083dd81kd237a2366876c09c@mail.gmail.com>

Dear all,

 Currently we are looking for Library Trainees (2 Positions). Candidates
doing B.Lib and looking for training can send their CVs to hr at totalit.co.in

*Note:* Stipend will be given on the basis of candidate's knowledge, skills
& capabilities.

*Contact Person : *
Vijeta Kumari
HR Executive
Total IT Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
412-C, Suneja Tower - I,
District Centre, Janak Puri
New Delhi - 110058


*Regards*
*Jaya Kalra*
 *Senior Consultant - LIS Group*
*Total IT Solutions Pvt. Ltd.*
*412-C, Suneja Tower - I,*
*District Centre, Janak Puri*
*New Delhi - 110058*

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From rathoreas at hotmail.com  Wed Jun 18 11:29:50 2008
From: rathoreas at hotmail.com (ANIL SINGH)
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 05:59:50 +0000
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Memorandum submitted to UGC-PRC committee
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Dear friends and professional colleagues,
 
After going through memorandum to be submitted to the PRC committee which is available on the IALA website, it is found that there is no promotional avenue for the staff below the rank of Assistant Librarian i.e., Information Scientist, Professional Assistant, Semi- Professional Assistant, and Library Attendants in the university libraries. This is very discriminating. It is very unfortunate to say that all the Library Associations in India whether it may be ILA, IASLIC, IATLIS, IALA or any other are only interested in the up-gradation of Librarians, Dy. Librarians and Assistant Librarians and demanding the parity of these posts only with the Academicians.   
 
In the NKC recommendations, it is clearly mentioned that the Professional Assistants are the backbone of University and College Library. But in reality what is the condition of backbone in the Libraries. It is critical and severe. There is no any promotional avenue like CAS or time bound promotion as compared to AL, DL, and Librarians. In university and college libraries, number of Information Scientist, Professional Assistant, Semi- Professional Assistant, and Library Attendants are stagnating without any career advancement schemes, which causes frustration and demoralization among the professionals. 
 
Development of any Library depends on the team work. No single librarian can provide the library services alone. Hence it is also the responsibility of our senior colleagues that if they are suggesting any promotional avenues for the senior staff, they should also incorporate the demands of their subordinates. 
 
I also agree with the opinion of Dr. P.V.Konnur, President, IALA towards the dictatorship attitudes of the people who are holding the treads of the Associations. And as a result by such types of attitudes, several associations are being formed. If such type of step behavior and attitudes continues than the day will definitely come when another library associations will be formed for the development of above mentioned library professionals.
 
Hence, it is a request to the President IALA to also incorporate all other library professionals which comes under the jurisdiction of Academic Library System & UGC in their proposal. 
 
Anil Singh
NCERT Library
New Delhi ? 110016
rathoreas at hotmail.com
dr_anilsingh at rediffmail.com
 

 
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From murari at nio.org  Wed Jun 18 11:41:17 2008
From: murari at nio.org (MP Tapaswi)
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:41:17 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] document request
Message-ID: <004401c8d10a$1ea929a0$11281bac@nio.org>

Dear Colleagues,
Can somebody help us in providing a copy of the following article please? An
e-copy as mail attachment would be preferred. This is required for the
research purpose by one of the scientists of this institute. 

Dyer, M. Optical Tests on the Slow Release of Biogenic Gas Bubbles in
Sediment. Journal of ASTM International (JAI). Volume 3, Issue 6 (June
2006). Page Count: 6

With warm regards, 

Dr Murari P Tapaswi
Natl Info Centre for Marine Sciences (NICMAS)
National Institute of Oceanography (NIO)
Dona Paula 403 004 Goa, India
Phone: 91-832-2450275; Fax: 91-832-2450602
Visit websites: http://www.nio.org; http://www.mangroveindia.org



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From mgulibrary at gmail.com  Wed Jun 18 11:39:41 2008
From: mgulibrary at gmail.com (University LIbrary Mahatma Gandhi University)
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:39:41 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Workshop
Message-ID: <a37258310806172309g4240edb9l277ca7450cca094@mail.gmail.com>

Sub:  *International Workshop**  on UNESCO's WINISIS/GenISIS **For Digital
Libraries/Archives*

Mahatma Gandhi University Library is organizing in association with Marian
College Kuttikkanam an  International Workshop  on UNESCO's WINISIS/GenISIS
For Digital Libraries/Archives from  6-9 September 2008 at Marian College,
Kuttikkanam, Peermade, Idukki, Kerala India

The workshop intended for researchers, librarians and information managers
will provide capacity to the participants:  for developing and managing
Digital Archives, Digital Libraries and personal e-Document collections
using WINISIS and GenISIS, making them accessible with search mechanisms
over Intranet/Internet using GenISISWEB, publishing them with search engine
in CDROMs using GenISISCD; all simple and easy to use open source packages
from UNESCO. At the end of the workshop participants will be able to create
electronic publications with search and full text retrieval facility and
launch Digital Libraries/Archives of full text, image, audio and video
files, accessible over the Web.

Resource Persons will be experts in developing and publishing
e-documents/collections using GenISIS including K. Rajasekharan from KILA
who has developed the simplified manuals used worldwide on the concerned
packages, and Sainul Abideen P from IIITM-K, who has developed various
electronic publications and collection using the package.

Participants need only prior basic knowledge in using computers.
Training Kit will be a functional CDROM Publication demonstrating the
power of the packages covered and will include the software, manuals,
and course materials.

The venue of the programme;  Marian College Kuttikkanam occupies a site,
nestled in the Sahyadri mountain ranges of Kerala. The scenic environment is
mountainous, with forestland and mist covered landscape. The eco friendly
Campus is situated at *Kuttikkanam*, a famous tourist place beside
Kottayam-Kumily road. Located at an altitude of 4500 ft. above the sea level
in a sylvan setting of scenic beauty, the temperature at the Campus vary
from 12 degree C to 30 degree C. The College provides quality education in
Information Technology, Commerce, Social Work and Management. *Kuttikkanam
lies 14 km from Wagamon the hill station amidst pine forests, *40 km from
the famous Periyar Tiger Reserve and Lake Resort of Thekkady, 72 km. from
Kottayam (nearest Railway Station), 125 km. from Ernakulam/Cochin (nearest
Airport), 125 km. from Munnar hill station, 212 km. from Trivandrum (State
Capital), 84 km. from Kumarakam lake resorts and 100 km from Alleppey the
famous backwater tourist centre.

Further details can be had from the Website on the workshop:
www.genisis.net.tc


Or you can contact the Programme Director: Dr. R. Raman Nair, University
Librarian, Mahatma Gandhi University,Priyadarshini Hills P.O, Kottayam -686
560,Kerala, India.

Tel: 91-481-2731080. 2731018, 9387826738, 9495020591, URL: www.mgu.ernet.in

E-mail: mgulibrary at gmail.com.  ramannair.r at gmail.com

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From esukhdev at gmail.com  Wed Jun 18 12:16:39 2008
From: esukhdev at gmail.com (Sukhdev Singh)
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:16:39 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Firefox 3 available for download.
Message-ID: <c13c85220806172346j58c185c3v92345947df1b263e@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Friends,

Just to share a news with you.
Firefox 3 has been released yesterday. It can be download from
http://mozilla.com . There are number of useful Plug-ins available for
it. Because of these plug-ins, Firefox is my favourite and default
internet browser.

--  Sukhdev Singh, NIC.

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From tariq22 at gmail.com  Wed Jun 18 13:41:23 2008
From: tariq22 at gmail.com (Dr.Tariq)
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:41:23 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Memorandum submitted to UGC-PRC committee
In-Reply-To: <BAY123-W197B7481709DE7CE88A014AAAB0@phx.gbl>
References: <BAY123-W197B7481709DE7CE88A014AAAB0@phx.gbl>
Message-ID: <4354703e0806180111n2f95252dqa524b9dd9057e419@mail.gmail.com>

For the kind information of Mr.Anil Singh, the memorandum has been prepareed
in the light of terms of reference of UGC-PRC which covers only AL onward
positions. The pay scale of other library professionals  do not fall under
the perview of  above PRC.

Dr.Tariq
University of Delhi.

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 11:29 AM, ANIL SINGH <rathoreas at hotmail.com> wrote:

>  Dear friends and professional colleagues,
>
>
>
> After going through memorandum to be submitted to the PRC committee which
> is available on the IALA website, it is found that there is no promotional
> avenue for the staff below the rank of Assistant Librarian i.e., Information
> Scientist, Professional Assistant, Semi- Professional Assistant, and Library
> Attendants in the university libraries. This is very discriminating. It is
> very unfortunate to say that all the Library Associations in India whether
> it may be ILA, IASLIC, IATLIS, IALA or any other are only interested in the
> up-gradation of Librarians, Dy. Librarians and Assistant Librarians and
> demanding the parity of these posts only with the Academicians.
>
>
>
> In the NKC recommendations, it is clearly mentioned that the Professional
> Assistants are the backbone of University and College Library. But in
> reality what is the condition of backbone in the Libraries. It is critical
> and severe. There is no any promotional avenue like CAS or time bound
> promotion as compared to AL, DL, and Librarians. In university and college
> libraries, number of Information Scientist, Professional Assistant, Semi-
> Professional Assistant, and Library Attendants are stagnating without any
> career advancement schemes, which causes frustration and demoralization
> among the professionals.
>
>
>
> Development of any Library depends on the team work. No single librarian
> can provide the library services alone. Hence it is also the responsibility
> of our senior colleagues that if they are suggesting any promotional avenues
> for the senior staff, they should also incorporate the demands of their
> subordinates.
>
>
>
> I also agree with the opinion of Dr. P.V.Konnur, President, IALA towards
> the dictatorship attitudes of the people who are holding the treads of the
> Associations. And as a result by such types of attitudes, several
> associations are being formed. If such type of step behavior and attitudes
> continues than the day will definitely come when another library
> associations will be formed for the development of above mentioned library
> professionals.
>
>
>
> Hence, it is a request to the President IALA to also incorporate all other
> library professionals which comes under the jurisdiction of Academic Library
> System & UGC in their proposal.
>
>
>
> Anil Singh
>
> NCERT Library
>
> New Delhi ? 110016
>
> *rathoreas at hotmail.com* <rathoreas at hotmail.com>
>
> *dr_anilsingh at rediffmail.com* <dr_anilsingh at rediffmail.com>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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From chitrarao at nitie.edu  Wed Jun 18 14:12:44 2008
From: chitrarao at nitie.edu (Chitra Prakash Rao)
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:12:44 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Let us have apex body of Library Association
Message-ID: <2509.10.40.1.252.1213778564.squirrel@10.40.1.250>

Hello:

Like all the stalwarts of the profession, I also agree that there is no
need for another apex body. We should strengten ILA and also make a
charter of expectations from ILA, also ensure that all Library schools are
involved more in ensuring that fresh graduates also enrol this will
encourage the young professionasl and modernise the profession.

Regarding having meetings etc..physically going out to meet at the end of
day or on a holiday is not possible for most of us. hence involvement and
enrichment of our association suffers...Since we are in the information
field and use ICT regularly we myst devise a Facebook or a Blog for each
district or local,statewise and national lebels. where like LIS forum many
issues locally can be resolved and those of national interst will be
forwarded to the national blog with comments from all of us for whom it is
effected. It will give uniform representation and since the matter is also
discussed extensively. mnay private ofirms have used facebook very
effectively to report day to day activities to the colllegues etc.

Regarding the many conferences and meetings I have attended very few have
added substance and value to us. Quite often there is a lot of absentism
after the first day, hence we must think how better and how effectively we
can come together without leaving our offices. Regarding the issues which
trouble our profession the most important one is lack of a strong
association at national level. It does not have any funding and if so its
not enough to create more open forums for discussions and informal
meetings if necessary.


Like many of the educational alumni Library schools also should have a
mandatory Assocition membership of the professional body of ILA. In
today's time a sum of Rs 500 / eg. can be made mandatory.

Once this money is collected this should be used only under the guidance
of a committee and only to address professional problems we face. Quiet
often it is the salary structure, and misuse of our professional
expertise.

For those of us who are working many a time the parent organisation does
not appreciate our involvement in Library associtions and hence we will
not be alloed to participate actively.Nor will we be allowed to leave our
premises, hence we can only play a support role and participate in local
statelevel and national forums blogs facebook etc.

Due to the changing times and the deeper involvement of cooperation to
succed in our work we must have a very strong participatory
representation.

Chitra Rao
NITIE Mumbai

022 28573371 Extn 337




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From chitrarao at nitie.edu  Wed Jun 18 14:34:57 2008
From: chitrarao at nitie.edu (Chitra Prakash Rao)
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:34:57 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Let us leave Library Association politics snd...
Message-ID: <3818.10.40.1.252.1213779897.squirrel@10.40.1.250>

Respected Librarians:

While appreciating Dr PV Konnur's point i only would like to add that 
different governmental libraries fall under different umbrellas and hence
have to make individual associations to fight their cause. Academic
Libraries are a big group, but quiet often smaller single unit libraries
have no where to turn and hence a strong National body enriched by all
such bodies like the IALA should be planned. Representations are long
drawn out procedures and handled best on their own but if a body like ILA
have the authority to approve the grieveinces before we can put up to our
athorities then the matter will be uniform and there is a stamp of a
prodfessional Association. Hence we must revamp and strenthen our ILA..

ALL assocaitions must trust ILA and  empower them to fight on our behalf
with the Ministry or UGC as the case may be.

If a charter is made and approved for ILA then if we get the approval from
ILA we should be able to get what is our due rather than be denied our
rights.

We have henc to first work ourselves to make a mark and then support ILA
to make its mark.

Since the last 28 years in my career I have yet to recieve communication
from ILA on time whereas I am updated regularly by ALA, why cant we use
their system in a more simple manner and update...

I can only say Quodos  to the LIS forum, NCSI team.....

Their success in uniting so many professionals should encourage us to do
more!!!


Chitra Rao
NITIE Mumbai

022 28573371 extn 337

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From mukesh.monitor at gmail.com  Wed Jun 18 15:52:55 2008
From: mukesh.monitor at gmail.com (Mukesh - Monitor)
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:52:55 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Firefox 3 available for download.
In-Reply-To: <c13c85220806172346j58c185c3v92345947df1b263e@mail.gmail.com>
References: <c13c85220806172346j58c185c3v92345947df1b263e@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <2bfa63740806180322o72ab9267m4ebb02c5683bd67e@mail.gmail.com>

And the Firefox Dowload is also attempting to set a Guinness World's Record
for the most software download in 24 hours. Firefox 3 release time is 10
a.m. PDT today. You can pledge to join the World's Record attempt on the
site and receive a reminder when Firefox 3 is officially released.

I have recorded more than 52,000 dowloads till 1600hrs IST on 18 June'2008,
way behind China, Iran, Brazil, Australia and of course US( more than 2
lakhs so far) .

You can download Firefox 3 here:
http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord

-Mukesh Anand
*http://monitorlinks.typepad.com*

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Sukhdev Singh <esukhdev at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Friends,
>
> Just to share a news with you.
> Firefox 3 has been released yesterday. It can be download from
> http://mozilla.com . There are number of useful Plug-ins available for
> it. Because of these plug-ins, Firefox is my favourite and default
> internet browser.
>
> --  Sukhdev Singh, NIC.
>
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From vimal0212 at gmail.com  Wed Jun 18 17:44:58 2008
From: vimal0212 at gmail.com (Vimal Kumar)
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:44:58 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Installation of PMB using EasyPHP
Message-ID: <5b978ad90806180514p49926c78if6cf17aa38c154aa@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Friends,

I just created a documentation for PMB installation using Easyphp for
Windows. A brief description of PMB follows,

 PhpMyBibli (PMB) project originated from France in 2002 by Francois
Lemarchand and now oversee by a French company PMB Services. PMB has modules
of circulation, acquisition, OPAC, cataloguing, serial control and an SDI
(Selective dissemination of Information) system. An easy to use graphical
interface for database back up, maintenance, import and export of
bibliographic records between various formats is available with PMB. Using
this feature librarian can maintain the daily database back up without the
help of computer administrator. Other key features are UNIMARC, Z39.50, in
built barcode generator, Multi language support (French, English, Spanish,
Italian and Portuguese), import and export of bibliographic records in
different formats, user friendly web interface, detailed documentation for
users and administrator.

 PMB is written in PHP language and require Apache web server and MySQL
database. Installation of PMB is comparatively easy in Linux and Windows.
Wiki, mailing lists and BerliOS hosting facilities are available for
communication between PMB developers and users. PMB is licensed under
CeCILL, an adoption of GNU GPL harmonious with French law. Latest version of
PMB (3.1.21 released in June 2008) is web 2.0, OAI compliant and ready to
integrate RFID.


You can access the document from here,

http://www.asbindia.in/vimal/pmb/

-- 
Vimal Kumar V.
Asst. Librarian
Asian School of Business
Technopark, Trivandrum-695 581
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From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin)
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:37:08 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] library legislation passed in Indian states
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0806191036180.2069@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>

Date: 18 Jun 2008 12:41:45 -0000
From: avijit dutta <avijitda at rediffmail.com>

  ?
Dear professionals,

Please tell how many states in India have passed library legislation till 
date. I have noted 14 states upto 2006.

Thanking you,

Avijit Dutta
College of Engineering & Management, Kolaghat
West Bengal - 721 171

From mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in  Thu Jun 19 10:41:27 2008
From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin)
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:41:27 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] KOHA Training
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0806191038400.2069@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>

Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:02:25 +0530
Dr.Dineshan K <dineshank at gmail.com>

From:

Dr.Dineshan Koovakkai
Calicut University Study Centre
P.T.Usha Road Kozhikode-673 032

KOHA TRAINING

Kerala Library Association, Kozhikode Region is conducting a one-day 
training programme on KOHA software on 12th July 2008.  Library graduates 
with basic knowledge in computer can apply.

Maximum intake: 25

Programme fee: Rs. 300/-

For registration and other details please contact:

Dr. Dineshan Koovakkai
Secretary, Kerala Library Association, Kozhikode Region
Calicut University Study Centre
P.T. Usha Road
Kozhikode, Kerala 673 032
e-mail: dineshank at gmail.com

       OR

T.M.Vasudevan
President, Kerala Library Association, Kozhikode Region
DLIS University of Calicut
e-mail: amandev44 at yahoo.com

       OR

Musthafa K. M.
Librarian
AWH Engineering College, Kuttikkattoor
e-mail: kmusthu at rediffmail.com

From rathoreas at hotmail.com  Thu Jun 19 10:40:56 2008
From: rathoreas at hotmail.com (ANIL SINGH)
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:10:56 +0000
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Memorandum submitted to UGC-PRC committee
Message-ID: <BAY123-W43F965EB40CC1123E9DE58AAAA0@phx.gbl>


Dear Dr. Tariq 
 
I know very well that the memorandum has been prepared in the light of terms of reference of UGC-PRC which covers only AL onward positions, but the question is which association will take care of other library professionals. Is there a need to constitute another library association for the lower staff which can raise pay related issues.
 
Anil Singh
NCERT Library
New Delhi ? 110016
rathoreas at hotmail.comdr_anilsingh@rediffmail.com

 
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From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin)
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:14:20 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Memorandum submitted to UGC-PRC committee (ANIL
	SINGH) (
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Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:33:53 +0530
From: sanjeev kumar <sanjeevdldi at hotmail.com>

I agree with Dr.Anil Singh no need to create separate one more associatio= 
n.The NKC recommendations, Professional Assistants are the backbone of 
Univ= ersity and College Library. It is critical and severe. There is no 
any prom= otional avenue like CAS or time bound promotion as compared to 
AL, DL, and = Librarians. In university and college libraries, number of 
Information Scie= ntist, Professional Assistant, Semi- Professional 
Assistant, and Library At= tendants are stagnating without any career 
advancement schemes, which cause= s frustration and demoralization among 
the professionals. So kindly do Henc= e it is also the responsibility of 
our senior colleagues that if they are s= uggesting any promotional 
avenues for the senior staff, they should also in= corporate the demands 
of their subordinates.

Sanjeeev Kumar DLDI,
NCERT
Sanjeevdldi at hotmail.com>


From dinesh.ncet at gmail.com  Thu Jun 19 11:43:21 2008
From: dinesh.ncet at gmail.com (DINESH SIDDAIAH)
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:43:21 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Let us have apex body of Library Association to
	fight for our profession
Message-ID: <62c911520806182313m6f5596cak8a9d0ad3c0f07bc1@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Friends,

Instead of too many associations, the persons who are in top positions in
our profession especially who are coordinating in making and executing
policies related to library science in central & state govt. level should
consider all these problems which are facing by our fellow professionals.

One more solutions to over come this is, one can take initiative to merge
all these associations as a single association and make sub-association
under single entity by considering type of libraries.

For this our professionals especially they are in better positions should
leave their egos, politics and commit themselves to work towards the
betterment of our profession.

Thanking You,

Dinesh K. S.

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From jatashankarbp6 at gmail.com  Thu Jun 19 13:46:38 2008
From: jatashankarbp6 at gmail.com (Jatashankar Gupta)
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:46:38 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Needed Response
Message-ID: <a560e6630806190116y5c75adb6u1ceebedd5430e2c1@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Professionels,
  I am conducting a dissertation work on Creation of Database of LIS
Teachers in University in India. I have prepared a data collection survey
which is available on following URLs. Your positive response is required for
successful completion of this work. These two Urls are listed following:

1.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/MySurvey_CollectorList.aspx?sm=0aURDtC1hfGSrvi%2bgYtl7kkmommdWi%2fvNhuXcFUluzM%3d
2. http://docs.google.com/?hl=en#all
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Library Trainee,
Knowledge Centre & Library Online
Delhi College of Engineering,
Bawana Road, Delhi.
Mobile: 9211328039

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From chitrarao at nitie.edu  Thu Jun 19 15:02:06 2008
From: chitrarao at nitie.edu (Chitra Prakash Rao)
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:02:06 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] panel Discussion On IT Infrastruction in Academic
	Institutes
Message-ID: <2231.10.40.1.252.1213867926.squirrel@10.40.1.250>

Respected Professional Collegues:

NITIE Mumbai is organizing a panel Discussion on " managing IT
Infrastructurein Academic Institutes of Higher Learning" on July 5th 2008.

May I request all my professional collegues in Mumbai to kindly inform
their respective Computer Section In Charge to Participate themselves or
recommend the Technical expert to take part as a Panel member in this
discussion. He will have to make a presentation of what he has achieved
how and who have provided the services and if the quality is satisfying.
Then there will be a Question Answer session. I sincerely request the
Librarians  from  the IT industry and Services to kindly make the
necessary enquiries at their end and mail me at chitrarao at nitie.edu.

Thanks and regards

Chitra P Rao
LIO and Head LIC
NITIE Mumbai

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From mgsree at um.edu.my  Thu Jun 19 16:53:05 2008
From: mgsree at um.edu.my (M.G.Sreekumar)
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:23:05 +0800
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Call for Papers - ICoLIS08: Towards An Information
	Literate	Society, 18-19 November 2008
Message-ID: <20080619192305.le8e5vprksoso8o8@umpda.um.edu.my>



   Dear Colleagues:

   The Library and Information Science Unit, Department of Information
Science, Faculty of Computer Science & Information Technology
University Malaya is pleased to announce that it will be organizing
ICoLIS 2008 at Armada Hotel, Petaling Jaya (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
from 18-19 November 2008.

   A full call for papers and other conference details are available
online at the conference website: http://icolis08.fsktm.um.edu.my[1].
Abstracts are required in the first instance and should be submitted
online by 10 July 2008. Prospective authors and participants are
encouraged to create an account with ICoLIS08 to create and manage
their profile, and also for online submission purposes.

   Enquiries regarding the conference may addressed to
icolis2008 at um.edu.my[2].

   With best regards,

   ICoLIS08 Secretariat

-- 
Dr. M.G. Sreekumar
(UNESCO Coordinator, Greenstone Support for South Asia)
Visiting Professor
Department of Information Science
Faculty of Computer Science & Information Technology
University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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From mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in  Thu Jun 19 19:01:11 2008
From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin)
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:01:11 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Job Opening at IOL, Mumbai
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0806191859130.7953@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>

Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:39:32 +0530 (IST)
From: anand bandi <anb321in at yahoo.co.in>

IOL Netcom Ltd. is looking for the bright and dynamic young Library and 
Information Science professional.

It is Next Generation Company and intensifying vigorously.

Company Profile: IOL Netcom Ltd. is India???s first commercial Metro 
Ethernet Fibre Network Infrastructure Company. It has a fully integrated 
backbone network, featuring ???1-1000Mbps??? access that provides superior 
network experience over its competitors. The company, with head quarters 
in Mumbai, is well uniquely positioned with a focus on Value Added 
Broadband Services like IPTV / VOD. It is the First Company in Asia to 
Launch IPTV / Triple Play MPEG 4. IOL Netcom is the only company in India 
today to enjoy a distinct advantage in terms of access to fibre in major 
metros and a Content Delivery Network (CDN) agreement with BSNL / MTNL ??? 
allowing it to have an Access to over 2 million homes. IOL is uniquely 
positioned to exploit the first mover advantage and has sensed dramatic 
changes in the consumer consumption of entertainment and interactive 
services in the Indian market from traditional broadcast viewing to ???On 
Demand Viewing???.

URL: www.iolnetcom.com

IOL Netcom Ltd. is looking for the bright and dynamic young Library and 
Information Science professional.

Criteria:

Minimum one year professional experience;
Well versed with latest technology related to LIS;
B.L.I.Sc / M.L.I.Sc;
??Male Candidate is preferential.

Remuneration: 10000=00 to 12000=00 per month.

Interested candidates can send application and resumes to below mentioned 
e-mail id. sujata.bansode at iolnetcom.com


For further details Contact:

Ms.Sujata Bansode.
Head - Library / Knowledge Centre,
IOL Netcom Ltd.,
601, Raheja Centre, Nariman Point,
Mumbai - 400021, India
Tel:022 40193300
M :9867106931


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

From mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in  Thu Jun 19 19:04:32 2008
From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin)
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:04:32 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Memorandum submitted to UGC-PRC committee
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0806191901590.7953@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>

Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:31:14 -0700
From: Pandurang Konnur <konnur at bub.ernet.in>

Dear Friends,

I am happy to know the keenness of the professionals in development of the 
Professional Association and also in inmprovement of the service 
conditions of the professionals.

As explained by Mr.Angadi, IALA memorandum is prepared in response to the 
termes of reference of UGC-PRC. But it doesn't mean that the IALA will not 
fight for the cause of professional assistants. We assure Mr Singh and 
other friends who are agrieved of their genuine opportunities, IALA will 
definetly figh for their cause on different platforms at different time. 
Please be assured that IALA will definetly take care of all the Academic 
Librarians provided we all together build it strongly.

Hoping for all your support and timely guidance and advise.

Thanks,
Konnur.
President, IALA

> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 11:29 AM, ANIL SINGH wrote:

> Dear friends and professional colleagues, After going through memorandum 
> to be submitted to the PRC committee which is available on the IALA 
> website, it is found that there is no promotional avenue for the staff 
> below the rank of Assistant Librarian i.e., Information Scientist, 
> Professional Assistant, Semi- Professional Assistant, and Library 
> Attendants in the university libraries.

From angrosh at isim.ac.in  Fri Jun 20 11:03:33 2008
From: angrosh at isim.ac.in (angrosh)
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:03:33 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] M.Tech @ ISiM, University of Mysore - Admissions Open
Message-ID: <200806200532.m5K5W6lK011500@mail.iisc.ernet.in>


For those looking for an exciting career in information systems and management - 

Admissions are now open for a truly multidisciplinary M.Tech Programme in Information Systems and Management offered by the International School of Information Management (ISiM), University of Mysore in collaboration with some of the leading Information Schools in the US. 

What do we offer?

? Cutting edge global curriculum blending the science, technology and management of information. Our course catalogue includes courses ranging from information economics to software systems to data mining and data warehousing to information security. Check out our syllabus for details.
? Truly international learning experience ? with faculty drawn from our partner institutions. Course would be taught by world renowned experts  from across the academia and industry 
? Need based Bridge courses 
? World class facilities ? a brand new well appointed 24 x 7 accessible Wi-Fi enabled building. 
? Internships and projects with leading industry partners 
? Informal but rigorous pedagogy 


Who is eligible? 

Engineering Graduates / 4-Year Degree Graduates (10+2+4) / Master?s Degree in any Discipline

Admissions based on CAT/MAT/GATE/PGCET/ISiM Entrance Test Scores

Course Fee: Rs. 60,000/- per year 

Last date for receiving applications: July 28, 2008

Course start date: September 1, 2008

ISiM Collaborating Partners:

? Dalhousie University, Canada
? University of Michigan, USA
? University of Pittsburgh, USA
? Syracuse University, USA
? International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore
? Informatics (India) Ltd., Bangalore

For application forms and more details, please visit www.isim.ac.in or contact us at:

International School of Information Management
University of Mysore, Manasagangotri
Mysore ? 570 006
Tel: +91-821-2514699; +91-821-2411417
Mobile: 98869 70411
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From kps31147 at yahoo.com  Fri Jun 20 11:01:37 2008
From: kps31147 at yahoo.com (Sadasivan KP)
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:31:37 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Memorandum submitted to UGC-PRC committee
In-Reply-To: <BAY123-W43F965EB40CC1123E9DE58AAAA0@phx.gbl>
Message-ID: <362411.60953.qm@web30708.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Dear All,
?
The best option is to address the issues of the professionals at all levels through the same forum/Association(s), rather than mushrooming more such outfits for every grade of staff. After all, the qualified professionals will move up the ladder in the career... Are they expected to then change over to new Associations every now and then? 
?
Associations should instead, adopt a holistic approach, to protect the interests of all the professionals for the healthy functioning of the profession vis-a-vis the system.
?
Time has come to have a federated approach and discussion by different Associations on common career-related?issues.
?
Sadasivan?KP / Trivandrum?

--- On Thu, 6/19/08, ANIL SINGH <rathoreas at hotmail.com> wrote:

From: ANIL SINGH <rathoreas at hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Memorandum submitted to UGC-PRC committee
To: lis-forum-request at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in
Cc: "LIS Forum" <lis-forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>
Date: Thursday, June 19, 2008, 10:40 AM




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Dear Dr. Tariq 
?
I know very well that the memorandum has been prepared in the light of terms of reference of UGC-PRC which covers only AL onward positions, but the question is which association?will take care of other library professionals. Is there a need to constitute another library association for the lower staff which can raise pay related issues.
?
Anil Singh
NCERT Library
New Delhi ? 110016
rathoreas at hotmail.comdr_anilsingh@rediffmail.com


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From rajankila at hotmail.com  Fri Jun 20 14:15:31 2008
From: rajankila at hotmail.com (Rajan)
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:15:31 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Educate us on  Firefox Plugins
Message-ID: <BAY128-DAV108D84443DEC40FEF83392B6A50@phx.gbl>

Dear Shri Sukhdev Singh,

It would be useful for many, if you point out the Mozilla Firefox Plugins
that are  of much use to librarians.
'Stumble upon' and 'Zotero' are the two Plugins I am familiar with.
Those who are so familiar with the emerging technologies and learn them
easily, can educate the fellow librarians in developing their capabilities,
as Mr Vimal Kumar helped us learn installing PMB, by using the Lis- Forum as
a tool.

Best Regards,

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

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Sukhdev Singh <esukhdev at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Friends,>
> Just to share a news with you.
> Firefox 3 has been released yesterday. It can be download from
> http://mozilla.com . There are number of useful Plug-ins available for
> it. Because of these plug-ins, Firefox is my favourite and default
> internet browser.>
> --  Sukhdev Singh, NIC.


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From yusuf.du at gmail.com  Fri Jun 20 15:56:45 2008
From: yusuf.du at gmail.com (yusuf ilyas)
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:56:45 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] jobs in Dr. B.R.Ambedkar University, Agra
Message-ID: <cd6f0bc80806200326i53bceee4ge4e390eac5d766bb@mail.gmail.com>

jobs in Dr. B.R.Ambedkar University,
Agra<http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SarkariPost/~3/315456263/>

* *

*Librarian *- 1 (UR) (PG Library Science with 3 years exp.),* *

*Assistant Librarian* - 1 (UR) (PG in Library Science),

*Library Assistant*- 4 (2 UR, 1 SC, 1 OBC) (Preferably Inter with Science)

*How to apply for above post:*
Application form can be downloaded from University Website www.dbrau.ac.in.
Applications form along with photocopies of requisite documents relating to
educational qualification, teaching/research experience, publications,
contribution in seminars, Conferences and reservation (if any) along with a
Bank Draft of Rs. 500/- (Rs. Five Hundred only)/ (Rs. 300/- (Rs. Three
Hundred only) for SC/ST) drawn in favour of Finance Officer, Dr.
B.R.Ambedkar University, Agra should reach *Registrar *latest by *30th June
2008*.

*Fees:*
Rs. 500/- (Rs. Five Hundred only)/ (Rs. 300/- (Rs. Three Hundred only) for
SC/ST)

*Last Date of Application Submission:*
30th June 2008

*Application Form /Advertisement Source Credits:*
http://www.dbrau.ac.in/teaching.pdf
-- 
Mohd.Yusuf
M.L.I.Sc.
Department of Library and Information Science
University of Delhi
Delhi 110007

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From mukeshanand2006 at gmail.com  Fri Jun 20 16:19:02 2008
From: mukeshanand2006 at gmail.com (Mukesh Anand)
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:19:02 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] 'Technophobia' among the Teaching Community (Article in
	University News)
Message-ID: <b0de4a880806200349s4e6e137fr610576b1d911b5cf@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Members',

 Here I am giving a Synopsis of an Interesting Article published in
the University News recently.

 Article Title :- 'Technophobia'  among the Teaching Community

 Contributors'

1. Z. Zayapragassarazan (Senior Grade Lecturer, Deptt. of Education,
Pope John Paul II College of Education, Pondicherry - 605 010 )
zprazan at yahoo.co.in

2. E. Ramganesh (Reader, Deptt. of Educational Technology,
Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirapalli - 620 023, Tamil Nadu )

 Journal :- University News , Issue dated 9-15 June, ' 08, Vol. 46,
No. 23, Page No 12-14

 Synopsis of the Article

 1. Introduction

2. What is 'Technophobia' ?

3. Various Factors for Technophobia

     i. Age

     ii. Race

     iii. Biological Sex vs. Psychological Gender

     iv. Early Experience

     v. Social Status (Education & Occupation)

     vi. Residence

     vii. Religion & Religiosity

4. Types of Technophobes

    i. Anxious Technophobes

    ii. Cognitive Technophobes

    iii. Uncomfortable Users

5. Some Statistics of Technophobes

    i. In the U.S. in general

    ii. In the Industrial World in general

    iii. In business setting

    iv. In education community

6. Symptoms of 'Technophobia'

7. Overcoming 'Technophobia'

8. Guidelines to overcome 'Technophobia' and use Technology
Comfortably and Successfully

9. References

 Thanx & Regards,

Mukesh Anand

Asst. Libn.

Officers' Training College for Indian Railways

Sanskari Nagari Vadodara

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From mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in  Mon Jun 23 11:25:26 2008
From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin)
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:25:26 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] [Lis-Forum] library legislation passed in Indian
	states
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Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 12:30:04 +0530
From: Waseem Raja <silverabez at gmail.com>

1. Tamil Nadu  1948
2. Andhra pradesh 1960
3. Karnatka 1965
4. Maharashtra 1967
5. West Bewngal 1979
6. Manipur 1988
7. Kerala 1989
8. Haryana 1989
9. Mizoram 1993
10. Goa 1993
11 Gujrat 2000
12 Orissa 2000
13. Rajasthan 2005
14. Uttar Pradesh 2005
15. Uttrakhand 2005


Waseem Raja
Phone No. 09868003971
University of Delhi , Delhi

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From navinsoni22 at gmail.com  Mon Jun 23 11:11:10 2008
From: navinsoni22 at gmail.com (Navin Soni)
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:11:10 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Blackwell Synergy merges into Wiley InterScience
Message-ID: <bdafd8500806222241k23cd6d76t496691dcab48ab97@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Moderator,

Please post this information on LIS-Forum.

Navin Kumar Soni
INMAS, DRDO,
Delhi
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Dear All Professinals,


As of July 1, 2008, all Blackwell journal content?including all
full-text HTML and PDF versions of articles from current issues,
backfiles, and issues published online before print?will be
incorporated into Wiley InterScience. Over the weekend of June 28th
and 29th, 2008, there will be a period when both Blackwell Synergy and
Wiley InterScience will be unavailable while they transition and
re-index data.

For more information, go to: interscience.wiley.com/transition

=================================
Navin Kumar Soni
INMAS, DRDO,
Min of Defence, Brig SK mazumdar Marg
Delhi-110054.
Ph: 01123985466, 09868459805
http://www.drdo.org/labs/inmas/index.html
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From sandeep31581 at yahoo.co.uk  Mon Jun 23 11:41:56 2008
From: sandeep31581 at yahoo.co.uk (sandeep bhavsar)
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 06:11:56 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] SKYPE : Voice/Video Call Reference Service
Message-ID: <936353.72635.qm@web26003.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>

Respected all,
 
I am pleased to inform you that our library has started a Reference Service 
through ?SKYPE? software. 
 
 
You can now ask us a question via Skype, the free internet calling service. You can call, videocall, or message us for free using your Skype account - just add our Skype ID : drvnbrimslibrary, to your contact list to begin. This service will be available from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m on all working days..
 
For more information about skype,  please log on to http://www.skype. com/intl/ en/useskype/

Thanks and Regards

Sandeep Bhavsar
Librarian
Dr.V.N.Bedekar Institute of Management Studies
Thane(W) 400601
MUMBAI.
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From mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in  Mon Jun 23 12:02:36 2008
From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin)
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:02:36 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Information about journalism university
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0806231140420.22721@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>

Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:00:47 +0530
From: vijay anand <anandwarm at gmail.com>

Dear Professionals,

The Makhanlal Chaturvedi National University of Journalism and 
Communication, Bhopal M.P.the only university of journalism in Asia.The 
University has three Campus 1. Bhopal 2. Noida 3. Khandwa. The university 
is devoted to the media education and research. The following courses are 
conducted by the university.

BJMC
BAMC
BSc (Electronic Media)
MJ
MABJ
MAPR
MsC (Electronic Media)
MSC (IT)
MCA
BLIS
MLIS
PGDCA
PhD in all Subject

The website of the university

www.mcu.ac.in

with regards

Vijay anand
Head, Library
MCRPSV
Noida Campus


From vrd at cpri.in  Mon Jun 23 13:28:57 2008
From: vrd at cpri.in (Vijayalakshmi)
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:28:57 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] library building - reg
Message-ID: <000d01c8d506$fe804b80$021c10ac@library.com>

Dear Sir,

      Central Power Research Institute, Bangalore is building a building for Library and Information Centre above the canteen. 

      The question is  
             
             1. Where should be library building located? 
             2. Whether above the canteen or centrally located in 
                  a separate building considering points mentioned in the standard IS:1553?

     Kindly enlighten me in this regad.

(Smt. V.R.DESHPANDE)
SENIOR LIBRARIAN
LIBRARY AND INFORMATION CENTRE,
CENTRAL POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE,
P.B.NO.8066, SADASHIVANAGAR POST,
BANGALORE - 560 080

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From mukeshanand2006 at gmail.com  Mon Jun 23 13:31:53 2008
From: mukeshanand2006 at gmail.com (Mukesh Anand)
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:31:53 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Karnataka State Women's University,
	Bijapur: Professor & Reader Post in LIS
Message-ID: <b0de4a880806230101p68907ca2j909167b536163784@mail.gmail.com>

Respected  Members',

Karnataka State Women's University, Bijapur -586 101
No. : BWU/HRM/2008-09/
Date : 5.6.2008

Application in the prescribed form r invited from eligible candidates
of Indian Nationality for the following teaching posts.The completed
application should reach the Registrar,Karnataka State Women's
University on or before 7.7.' 08

Sl.No. - Post Graduate Department
06 - Library and Information Science
Professor - 01 Post
Reader - 01 Post

N.B. :- The prescribed application format, information regarding
general instructions qualification for each post can be downloaded
from the website
www.kswubij.org
OR
www.kswubij.ac.in

Thanx & Regards,
Mukesh Anand
Asst. Libn.
Officers' Training College for Indian Railways
Sanskari Nagari Vadodara

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From jaya.kalra1 at gmail.com  Mon Jun 23 15:40:42 2008
From: jaya.kalra1 at gmail.com (JK)
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:40:42 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] OAI-PMH Interoperability
Message-ID: <224e28cc0806230310k369727aeu1798af600c6d3793@mail.gmail.com>

Dear All,



I would like to have in-depth information on Open Access Initiative Protocol
for Meta Harvesting (OAI-PMH) and its implementation in Digital Library
Software We, as information professionals must be knowing about its
interoperability framework and functionality which is used to
communicate/exchange the bibliographic metadata. Although I know its
implementation guidelines in a library software but it would be very
beneficial if someone having experience in the same can guide me.



Thanks & Regards,

Jaya Kalra
Senior Consultant ? LIS Group
Total IT Solutions Pvt Ltd.
412-C,Suneja Tower -1, District Centre
Janak Puri, New Delhi - 110058

Website : www.totalit.co.in

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From rao_majid0786 at yahoo.co.in  Mon Jun 23 16:34:26 2008
From: rao_majid0786 at yahoo.co.in (majid khan)
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:04:26 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Benefits of Library Legislation in India?
Message-ID: <754357.21760.qm@web7604.mail.in.yahoo.com>

It is a list of Library legislation passed in various states of India 
   
  1. Tamil Nadu  1948
2. Andhra pradesh 1960
3. Karnatka 1965
4. Maharashtra 1967
5. West Bewngal 1979
6. Manipur 1988
7. Kerala 1989
8. Haryana 1989
9. Mizoram 1993
10. Goa 1993
11 Gujrat 2000
12 Orissa 2000
13. Rajasthan 2005
14. Uttar Pradesh 2005
15. Uttrakhand 2005

 
  But what is benefits of Library Legislation. In today technological era. The Job of librarian is not so easy as it seemed to be. Due to exponential growth of literature in all fields of universe of Knowledge increasing day by day, the Job of Librarian became more challenging and tuff. and without Librarian It is not Possible to retrieve  exact information in minimum possible time.
  But when talking about the wages and allowances to Librarian that is nil.
  Nobody in our field think about this. 
  and Librarian became a Clerk and salary below the salary of clerk.
  No pay scale no facility no allowances but Librarian still ready to work only for saving this field and to serve humanity.
   
  Our Government and seniors should be think about the welfare of our field. Otherwise, the existence Library & information science from Universe of Knowledge unseen. And no one want to became a Librarian in New Generation.
     
Majid Khan
  IET Alwar Rajasthan

       
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From mukeshanand2006 at gmail.com  Mon Jun 23 18:46:49 2008
From: mukeshanand2006 at gmail.com (Mukesh Anand)
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:46:49 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] PGDLAN from Alagappa University,
	Karaikudi(Directorate of Distance Education)
Message-ID: <b0de4a880806230616q3030e202p64ff806bc477cebb@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Members',

Alagappa University , Karaikudi - 630 003
Directorate of Distance Education
Admission Notification - 2008-09

Alagappa University invites applications for admission to the
following programme offered through Distance Education for the
academic year 2008-09

Post-Graduate Diploma Programme (1 Year) in Library Automation & Networking

This course is offered in English Medium only.
This course is offered under Non-Semester Pattern
Cost of Application & Prospectus Rs. 100/-

Applications & Prospectus can be obtained from
i. The Director, Directorate of Distance Education, Alagappa
University, on payment of prescribed fees by means of DD in favour of
"The Director,DDE,Alagappa University" payable at Karaikudi
ii. The approved Study Centres (Refer website
www.alagappauniversity.ac.in) on payment of prescribed fee.
iii. In case of downloading the application through University website
www.alagappauniversity.ac.in, the canditate have to remit the cost of
application alongwith filled-in application to the Directorate.

Last date for Issue & Receipt of Applications : 30th August, ' 08

For details contact
Phone :- 04565-229 230
Fax :- 04565-225 216
E-mail :- alagappadde at yahoo.co.in
Website :- www.alagappauniversity.ac.in

Print Access to this Admission Notification :-
The Hindu(Chennai City Edition), dated 22nd June , '08 (Sunday), Page # 13

Thanx,
Mukesh Anand
Asst. Libn.
Officers' Training College for Indian Railways
Sanskari Nagari Vadodara

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From upendra at myway.com  Tue Jun 24 10:10:06 2008
From: upendra at myway.com (UPENDRA PANDYA)
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:40:06 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Book Require on ILL
Message-ID: <20080624044006.1D0EC7E42D@mprdmxin.myway.com>

 Dear All, Can any one with-in our forum give me the following book on Inter Library Loan ?  Title : Fertilizer Statistics - 2002-2003Pub. : Fertilizer Association of India I have tried to procure the same from publisher and most of the relevant suppliers but not successed. Our Faculty member require the same very urgent. I request to our forum members that, please send the relavent information if any one have and possible to send it on ILL. Sincerely, Upendra PandyaProfessional Assistant-SeniorBook Acq.SectionV S LibraryIndian Institute of ManagementVastrapur RoadAHMEDABAD 380 015Gujarat StatePhone: 079-66324979Mobile : 9879301847e-mail : upendra at iimahd.ernet.in  

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Make My Way  your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com

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From sridhar at sabicind.com  Mon Jun 23 16:00:19 2008
From: sridhar at sabicind.com (Sridhar Brahma)
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:00:19 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Job Vacancy - SRTPL
Message-ID: <BC596960C74BD740A214A193055A68E855BED3@SABICMAIL.sabicind.com>

Dear All,

Please be informed of the vacancy for the post of Information officer at
SABIC Research and Technology Pvt Ltd.

 

Information Officer 
Master of Library Sciences with MSc/ BSc in chemical sciences with
minimum 3 years of experience in managing the information system
<http://www.careerage.com/>  of an R & D centre or an academic
institution. Diploma in intellectual property and or information
technology <http://www.careerage.com/>  with MCSE certification and
added advantage. 

The job requires management, maintenance and upgraduation of the
organization's information resources and tools to facilitate access,
retrieval, distribution and usage of scientific knowledge and
information in a prompt and secure manner. 

The remuneration for all the positions will be attractive and
competitive. Interested candidates meeting the requirements may send/
Email resume to HR Manager. Email ID - jobs at sabicind.com

 

 

Regards,  

 

Sridhar Brahma 

+91-9898107707

 


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From mukeshanand2006 at gmail.com  Tue Jun 24 11:21:23 2008
From: mukeshanand2006 at gmail.com (Mukesh Anand)
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:21:23 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] International Prof Kaula Gold Medal and Citation to Dr.
	W. Boyd Rayward
Message-ID: <b0de4a880806232251l206a8441s1387cdb7f35e918d@mail.gmail.com>

Respected Members',

Dr. W. Boyd Rayward , Professor, Graduate School of Library &
Information Science,University of Illinois (United States) is the 23rd
receipient of the Award.The
International Award Committee of the Kaula Endowment for Library & Information
Science has selected Dr. W. Boyd Rayword for the International Prof
Kaula Gold Medal and Citation.

Prof. Kaula Endowment for Library and Information Science was formed
on 13th March,1975, at the 51st Birthday of the world-renowned library
educator, bibliographer,library and information scientist, UNESCO
Expert & professional journalist of overfive decades, Prof. P.N.
Kaula, with Guntur(Andhra Pradesh)as its headquarter. TheEndowment
decided to award International Kaula Gold Medal & Citation to a
topranking professional who was distinguished himself as a library &
informationscientist or educator in library & information science.This
Award is given away every year from 1975 onwards.There are 22
distinguished reciepients of the Award from 11 countries & some
international organisations.

The International Award is named after Prof. Kaula who has been described as the
"Apostle" of the world famous Indian Library Science Genious Dr. S.R.
Ranganathan.
Widely travelled, Prof. Kaula has served UNESCO Expert in UNESCO
Regional Centre in Western Hemisphere for Latin American
Countries(1967-68) & has been a legendry figure & has received several
national & international awards including "
Pro-MundiBeneficio" Medal from Brazil, "Deutsche Bucheref" Medal from Germany &
"Padmshree"(2004), a top civilian honour from the Government of India
& which Dr.
Ranganathan himself received in 1957.

With Regards,
Mukesh Anand
Asst. Libn.
Officers' Training College for Indian Railways
Sanskari Nagari Vadadara

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From badanbarman at gmail.com  Mon Jun 23 16:19:44 2008
From: badanbarman at gmail.com (Badan Barman)
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:19:44 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] LIS Links is Live
In-Reply-To: <38055c8a0806220602n1599d978kfc34e70b6525c7fb@mail.gmail.com>
References: <38055c8a0806220602n1599d978kfc34e70b6525c7fb@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <38055c8a0806230349p1bdf399he8ef570273554dca@mail.gmail.com>

Respected All,

The ever expecting
LIS Links: http://lislinks.110mb.com is now live over the web. Due to
various reasons for the time being only home page of the site is available,
though other pages are also ready for uploading, together with each sections
under the heading of
"Subscribe to the Following Alerting Services in LIS in India"
1. Upcoming Seminars, Conferences, Workshops & Refresher Courses in LIS:
http://lisseminar.blogspot.com/
2. Jobs in LIS: http://lisjob.blogspot.com/
3. Awards, Prizes, Scholarships or Fellowships in LIS:
http://lisscholarship.blogspot.com/
4. Admission Notice for Courses in LIS: http://liscourse.blogspot.com/
5. Latest Happenings & Contemporary Issues in LIS:
http://lislatest.blogspot.com/

Many subscription options are also available for all of the above sites.

It is my proud privillage to announce that the various components of the
site already able to receive overwhelming support and response from the
professional, in a sense that the site presently having more than 550
subscriber. More than 400 hits a day. Considering the specialized nature of
the site as well as its biassness to India it is a great success.

I invite your valuable comments and suggestion for further improvement of
the site as well as any of its components. Your valuable comments and
suggestions should be drop at http://lislinks.ning.com. You can also join us
in the above site to help us in improving our managerial approach to current
information in LIS from India.  The home page of the site (
http://lislinks.110mb.com/) after clicking on "Contributors to This Site"
will also take one to the above site (http://lislinks.ning.com).

----------------------Your comments will bound to make a
difference------------

Thanking you
Yours faithfully
Sri Badan Barman
Academic Consultant: Krishna Kanta Handique State Open University
Research Scholar: DLISc, Gauhati University

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From srels at dataone.in  Tue Jun 24 13:02:03 2008
From: srels at dataone.in (SRELS)
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:02:03 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Workshop
Message-ID: <00bd01c8d5cc$65bda070$0301a8c0@SRELSHP1>

Dear Moderator,
Kindly arrange to announce the following forthcoming workshop for the benefit of lis-forum members.

Thanking you,
Yours truly,
K.N. Prasad
Executive Officer, SRELS, Bangalore
*****


Forthcoming Event

Workshop on GENISISWEB, WINISIS DATABASE TO GSDL

(18-20 August 2008)

Organized by

Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science, Bangalore

with

Ranganathan Centre for Information Studies, Bangalore

WORKSHOP OBJECTIVE

To provide intensive training in GENISISWEB and conversion of WINISIS database into GSDL.

WORKSHOP CONTENT

-   WINISIS archiving of full text documents in all ordinary formats including a fully downloaded website.

-   Creation of web front end with GenisisWeb for making it user-friendly and accessible over a network

-   Creation of a CD-ROM library of full text documents

-   Conversion of a WINISIS database into GSDL archive

RESOURCE PERSON

K. Rajasekharan, Kerala Institute of Local Administration (KILA), Thrissur, Kerala

The target audience includes librarians, information professionals and others interested in building different types of databases.

WORKSHOP FEE

Those interested are invited to register for the Workshop on or before 1st August 2008 on payment of Rs. 3,000/- by DD drawn in favour of 'Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science'.

The duly filled-in form along with the payment should be forwarded to the Executive Officer, Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science, 702, 42nd Cross, III Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalore 560 010 on or before 1st August 2008

For more information contact:

Dr. K.N. Prasad, Executive Officer, Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science, Bangalore

Tel: 080-23305109     E-mail: srels at dataone.in

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From R.A.MacLeod at hw.ac.uk  Tue Jun 24 14:02:29 2008
From: R.A.MacLeod at hw.ac.uk (MacLeod, Roderick A)
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:32:29 +0100
Subject: [LIS-Forum] OAI-PMH Interoperability
In-Reply-To: <mailman.1160.1214287362.2649.lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>
References: <mailman.1160.1214287362.2649.lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>
Message-ID: <4F6F33D7A78FCD48BE50C4D7C1688F37819C14@ex6.mail.win.hw.ac.uk>

In answer to Jaya Kalra's email about OAI-PMH, the Repositories Support
Project website may provide some help. 
http://www.rsp.ac.uk/ and http://www.rsp.ac.uk/usage/harvesters

Roddy MacLeod
Heriot Watt University

> Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:40:42 +0530
> From: JK <jaya.kalra1 at gmail.com>
> Subject: [LIS-Forum] OAI-PMH Interoperability
> To: lis-forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in
> Message-ID:
> 	<224e28cc0806230310k369727aeu1798af600c6d3793 at mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> 
> 
> I would like to have in-depth information on Open Access 
> Initiative Protocol
> for Meta Harvesting (OAI-PMH) and its implementation in 
> Digital Library
> Software We, as information professionals must be knowing about its
> interoperability framework and functionality which is used to
> communicate/exchange the bibliographic metadata. Although I know its
> implementation guidelines in a library software but it would be very
> beneficial if someone having experience in the same can guide me.
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks & Regards,
> 
> Jaya Kalra
> Senior Consultant ? LIS Group
> Total IT Solutions Pvt Ltd.
> 412-C,Suneja Tower -1, District Centre
> Janak Puri, New Delhi - 110058
> 
> Website : www.totalit.co.in


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From shekarhp at gmail.com  Tue Jun 24 14:13:02 2008
From: shekarhp at gmail.com (Shekar H P)
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:13:02 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] workshop
Message-ID: <689f12250806240143k2196789dm3e81f3a60e4fcbf@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Professional Friends,
                      We have great pleasure to inform you all that,
the Dakshina Kannada and Kodagu Library Association ( R ) is intending
to have a workshop on "SLIM-Integrated Library Management Software
(ILMS) :   Its Applications for a Knowledge Center" preferably for
working Librarians and information scientists / Documentationists /
Lecturers in Library and Information Science who are serving for the
noble cause in information society. We propose to hold the programme
on 13th July 2008 at Corporation Bank Centenary Public Library
premises. There will be a lecture cum demo in two sessions from
10.00AM ? 4.30PM. Hence we request all the professional friends to
take part in this workshop and make it a grand success.

                                     With regards ,
                                         Sd/-

                              Dr.Purushottama Gowda

                                               Secretary

Please note:

Workshop: "SLIM - Integrated Library Management Software (ILMS): Its
Applications for a Knowledge Center"
Date: 13Th July 2008	
Venue: Corporation Bank Centenary Public Library, Mangalore-3

Registration Fee Rs.100/-per participant
Payment may be made through DD / M.O
in favor of D. K. and Kodagu Library Association,
Payable at Mangalore.
Spot registration: on 13.07.2008 (9.00AM-10.00AM)
Subject to availability of seats.

For further details please contact:

Shekar.H.P. (Jt. Secretary)
Librarian
Corporation Bank
Centenary Public Library
Mangalore-575003
Ph :( Mob) 9945799927
   (O) 0824-2450845, 2450846
Fax:  0824-2450848 				
E-mail:shekarhp at gmail.com
            shekarhp_libn at yahoo.co.in






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Nr.Mangala stadium
Mangalore-575 003
Ph:0824-2450845, 2450846, 9945799927
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From sri_lib at yahoo.com  Tue Jun 24 14:50:45 2008
From: sri_lib at yahoo.com (sri priya)
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:20:45 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] INTERNET LIBRARY FOR LIBRARIANS
Message-ID: <261184.7465.qm@web57001.mail.re3.yahoo.com>


INTERNET LIBRARY FOR LIBRARIANS

A Portal Designed for Librarians to Locate Internet Resources Related to Their Profession. 
A Popular Information Resource Site for Librarians Since 1994.  

Library Journals:
Library and Information Science

http://www.itcompany.com/inforetriever/ej_libsc.htm

Regards,
S.Sripriya



      

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From callrakesh at gmail.com  Tue Jun 24 15:47:42 2008
From: callrakesh at gmail.com (Rakesh Singh)
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:47:42 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Library Building for Central Power Research
	Institute
Message-ID: <21c37aad0806240317v43cd1059u93163e4be5c83a19@mail.gmail.com>

> Dear Smt Deshpande and Fellow LIC Professionals,
>

(copying my  response to everybody to start the discussion on this topic)



> I don't have ready access to the standard IS:1553, but have read it before.
> It says that the library should be located at a place which has some scope
> for enlargement, etc. etc... However, I am sure, it would have been written
> in an era before the Wifi. I am not sure, if your library is wifi, but it
> will definitely become one in the next 2-3 years. You must be wondering, why
> I am referring to wifi while discussing Library. Because I believe that wifi
> has given a boost to the place called library and information centre. I
> believe library to be a place which can spark ideas to be discussed later.
> Sitting in the library, if you come up with an idea, there should be a place
> immediately outside the library where you can go and discuss it with the
> colleauges / friends. And if required, come back and do some more research.
> Therefore, I have no objection in the LIC being next door the cafe (provided
> your LIC is AC and therefore sound proof and therefore the cafe noise will
> not disrupt the purpose of LIC). I see the cafe becoming an extension of the
> LIC. In my experience, it is not difficult to implement the 'Eatables not
> Allowed' rule.
>
>
>
> Gone are the days, when people were coming to the Library for information.
> Information is spread everywhere on the net, which is searchable via google
> search (Scholar, books, etc.). But I see library more of a place of idea
> generation and getting good leads to look for quality information. Most of
> the time you get information on the Net and therefore it is essential that
> the library should be wifi and therefore create a place and provide an
> unique experience where the users can go through the actual books and scroll
> through the information on the net (more and more people now own Laptop with
> wifi capability. In the next couple of years, every reader will have a
> laptop). Books have to live with the information available on Internet and
> therefore should be capable of delivering more than the information.
>
>
>
> Therefore, I think, you should fight for
>
> ?         putting some computers in the library not only to search the
> catalogue but to surf internet (chatting strictly prohibited, your server
> administrator can implement this rule)
>
> ?         all the tables should have electricity points where people can
> connect their laptops, cell phones, etc. These days even cell phone have
> internet browsing capabilities and people are more adept in using the cell
> phone, even while searching for information (REMEMBER iphone popularity is
> not because it makes good phone calls but because internet browsing is a
> pleasure on iphone)
>
> ?         The inside layout should be done in a way that it does not
> resemble an archives but a modern library and information centre. Don't
> trust the architects, they have weird ideas about the libraries; do get
> involved in planning the internal design of the library.
>
> ?         The office space of the librarian should be accessible to the
> users. He should be more of an accessible person rather than one sitting in
> the office closed from all four sides.
>
>
>
> Regarding the standard IS? which says that library should have scope for
> enlargement -  gone are the days when more books meant more space required;
> now more internet usage puts the question ? 'Why do you need more library
> space when everything is available on net?"
>
>
>
> With apologies to those who do not agree with me,
>

Best regards,


>
> Rakesh Singh
>
> New Delhi
>
>
>
>
>
> On 6/24/08, *lis-forum-request at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in* <
> lis-forum-request at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote:
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:28:57 +0530
> From: "Vijayalakshmi" <vrd at cpri.in>
> Subject: [LIS-Forum] library building - reg
> To: <lis-forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>
> Cc: mail2all at cpri.in
> Message-ID: <000d01c8d506$fe804b80$021c10ac at library.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
> Dear Sir,
>
>      Central Power Research Institute, Bangalore is building a building for
> Library and Information Centre above the canteen.
>
>      The question is
>
>             1. Where should be library building located?
>             2. Whether above the canteen or centrally located in
>                  a separate building considering points mentioned in the
> standard IS:1553?
>
>     Kindly enlighten me in this regad.
>
> (Smt. V.R.DESHPANDE)
> SENIOR LIBRARIAN
> LIBRARY AND INFORMATION CENTRE,
> CENTRAL POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE,
> P.B.NO.8066, SADASHIVANAGAR POST,
> BANGALORE - 560 080
>
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From vimal0212 at gmail.com  Tue Jun 24 11:56:52 2008
From: vimal0212 at gmail.com (Vimal Kumar)
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:56:52 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Koha 3 released
Message-ID: <5b978ad90806232326p10d0b3a0l2b93172389dd1a0d@mail.gmail.com>

Koha 3 stable version now released.  You can download from the usual
location:

http://download.koha.org/koha-3.00.00-stableRC1.tar.gz


1. Zebra plugin - Zebra is a high-performance, general-purpose structured
text indexing and retrieval engine

2. New installer - based on the common Perl module ExtUtils::MakeMaker, the
new installer makes it a snap to get Koha running on just about any
platform.

3. Standard APIs - Koha 3 supports a number of important library search and
retrieval standards and microformats, such as SRU/W, Z39.50
and COinS/OpenURL. Also supported is the popular Internet standard:
OpenSearch
(http://opensearch.a9.com/) created by Amazon's A9.

Records are stored internally in an SGML-like format and can be retrieved in
MARCXML, Dublin Core, MODS, RSS, Atom, RDF-DC, SRW-DC, OAI-DC, and EndNote;

4. Cross-platform, multi-RDBMS, Web-server agnostic - Run Koha on the
platform
of your choice: Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Solaris. Koha 3 also
includes better support for multi-RDBMS (MySQL 5.0 and PostgreSQL), and runs
under Apache2, IIS, or the web server of your choosing.

5. Multi-lingual support - Koha was designed from the ground up for
multilingual
libraries. Koha 3 can handle Chinese, Japanese, and even right-to-left
languages
such as Arabic and Hebrew with ease (BiDi).

Koha's index engine (Zebra) can handle record formats containing any UNICODE
compliant script, such as Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Japanese and Korean.
Zebra
has this support via the ICU libraries created and maintained by IBM.

6. New templates - Koha's staff and patron interfaces are developed with a
template system that's easy to theme.

7. Koha 3 has quite a few new modules, as well as enhancements to existing
modules, including: news writer, label creator, calendar, OPAC comments,
MARC
staging and overlay, notices, transaction logs, guided reports with a data
dictionary and task scheduler, classification sources/filing rules.




-- 
Vimal Kumar V.
Asst. Librarian
Asian School of Business
Technopark, Trivandrum-695 581
Web: www.asb.edu.in/vimal/
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From esukhdev at gmail.com  Tue Jun 24 23:44:22 2008
From: esukhdev at gmail.com (Sukhdev Singh)
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:44:22 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Educate us on Firefox Plugins
In-Reply-To: <BAY128-DAV108D84443DEC40FEF83392B6A50@phx.gbl>
References: <BAY128-DAV108D84443DEC40FEF83392B6A50@phx.gbl>
Message-ID: <c13c85220806241114n5b297a37odd58c20e0740d197@mail.gmail.com>

Yes, Firefox is one of my favorite software applications. It is a web
browser like Internet Explorer. It is from Mozilla Application Suite,
managed by the Mozilla Corporation. It uses open source Gecko layout
engine and is compliant to current web standards. It is available for
free for most operating systems like Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Its
version 3.0 has been released recently on 17th June 2008, the day
hyped as "Download Day 2008".  It is a feature rich application,
however I like its add-ons capability the most. There are around 2,000
add-ons (plug-ins) available to extend its functionality. Most of
these add-ons are from third party developers.

Out of these 2,000 add-ons or Plug-ins, there are few which are useful
for librarians and library users. You may like to see "100 Essential
Firefox Add-Ons for Librarians" by Jessica Merritt. There are some
more lists of add-ons by librarians. Like the one of Teri Vogel - My
Favorite Firefox Extensions and he one by Jessamyn West - Pimp My
Firefox. However I don't feel all these add-ons are just for
librarians alone. Most of these are good for even non-librarians.
However, there are few, which are special for librarians. LibX is one
such plug-in. Libraries can create their own edition of LibX to
provide to access to their resource catalogues through LibX add-on.
Around 422 academic and public libraries have already done so.
Another interesting Plug-in is Zotero. It is an easy-to-use Firefox
extension to help collection, management and cite Internet sources.
There is a nice tutorial available for using LibX and Zotero in
combination.

Firefox also has a built-in search box on the Navigation Toolbar,
which has a drop-down box showing the available searches. These are
created using search plug-ins. Search plug-ins are simple text files
which are installed by adding them to the Mozilla Firefox
searchplugins folder. Such a search plugin can be created for a
library.

Librarians could experiment with thousands of available add-ons. Few
months back I had advised a librarian to use an add-on for display a
ticker for RSS feeds of current News. There are many more add-ons
waiting for getting used by librarians and library users.

I would advise to have a look tutorial for using LibX and Zotero as a
good starting point for learning about Firefox and Add-ons.
http://snipr.com/2o6wa has links to this tutorial as well as the lists
of add-ons mentioned above.

--Sukhdev Singh


On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Rajan <rajankila at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Shri Sukhdev Singh,
>
> It would be useful for many, if you point out the Mozilla Firefox Plugins
> that are  of much use to librarians.
> 'Stumble upon' and 'Zotero' are the two Plugins I am familiar with.
> Those who are so familiar with the emerging technologies and learn them
> easily, can educate the fellow librarians in developing their capabilities,
> as Mr Vimal Kumar helped us learn installing PMB, by using the Lis- Forum as
> a tool.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> K Rajasekharan
> Librarian, Kerala Institute of Local Administration(KILA)
> Mulagunnathukavu, Thrissur - 680581
>
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Sukhdev Singh <esukhdev at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear Friends,>
>> Just to share a news with you.
>> Firefox 3 has been released yesterday. It can be download from
>> http://mozilla.com . There are number of useful Plug-ins available for
>> it. Because of these plug-ins, Firefox is my favourite and default
>> internet browser.>
>> --  Sukhdev Singh, NIC.
>
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From nbarse at gmail.com  Wed Jun 25 07:45:48 2008
From: nbarse at gmail.com (Narayan Barse)
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:45:48 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Info about PGDLAN Course
Message-ID: <a4ccb280806241915v76b24f2fr94e91f59238235df@mail.gmail.com>

* *

* *

*Dear professionals,*

 *As you know, libraries have evolved from being a collection of chained
books to Networked Multimedia Learning Resource Centres accessible 24 X 7,
disregard of physical boundaries.  Library Science education has tried to be
in tune with the changing time.  But the pace is not matching with that of
technology.   *

* *

*It is observed that the Library and Information Science syllabus being  taught
at the Indian universities has its limitations as far as ICT component is
concerned, as technology keeps on  changing very fast.  However, on the
other hand, the need for the professionals  having ICT skills is ever
increasing in modern libraries and information centers. *

* *
*In view the above, The Department of Library and Information Science,
Joshi-Bedekar College, Thane is happy to announce an autonomous course
leading to the  Post-Graduate Diploma in Library Automation and Networking
(PGDLAN).  This is a proactive effort to bridge the knowledge gap.  It is an
attempt to develop a band of technology savvy librarians to take on new
challenges.  Please visit *
*http://www.vpmthane.org/prospect%202006/Prospectus_of_PGDLAN.htm*<http://www.vpmthane.org/prospect%202006/Prospectus_of_PGDLAN.htm>
* to see the course content and online application .*

* *

*This initiative is aimed at working librarians in and around the city of
Mumbai and Thane.   Please depute or nominate your library staff for the
PGDLAN course.  The course is designed to empower library staff to introduce
new state-of-the-art information services in your library.*

* *

*With Regards.*


*
*--
Barse N. S.
Librarian and Coordinator
Department of Lib & Information Science
VPM's Joshi-Bedekar College
'Janadweep' Chendani, Bundar Rd,
Thane (West) Pin- 400601
MS, India
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Phone No: 022 25384591
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From rupak at pu.ac.in  Wed Jun 25 09:19:12 2008
From: rupak at pu.ac.in (Rupak Chakravarty)
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:49:12 -1200
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Institutional Repository Questionnaire with a humble
	request...
Message-ID: <20080625034310.M21145@pu.ac.in>

Dear Repository Managers and Administrators (INDIA),

I'm Rupak Chakravarty, Lecturer-cum-Assistant Librarian at theDepartment of Library & Information Science, Panjab University,Chandigarh. I'm doing PhD onthe topic "Open Access Institutional Repositories: role of University Libraries in India". To collect data I have prepared a questionnaire. I most humbly request you to fill it.

The questionnaire is available online at: 

http://creator.zoho.com/rupakzoho/research-survey

OR

http://creator.zoho.com/rupakzoho/research-survey/form/3/

(if the link does not works initially, please refresh)

May I also request you to upload (email attachment.) any document whichyou think can add value to my research work (the upload optionavailable in the questionnaire is not working). For collectingadditional data, I'll use the databases available online including theIndian IRs.

I understand that you will have to spare time form your hecticschedule but it is my humble request, please help me as without thisdata, I'll unable to complete my research work. Please feel free tomake any suggestion to add value to my study. 
After filling the online questionnaire please press the submitbutton. The data filled by you will arrive at my inbox directly. Thequestionnaire contains 83 questions and at the outset my seem lengthy,but being online and all the options available (radio button, dropdown,multiselect etc), it will take much lesser time. As you press the submit button, the date will come to me.

Thank you for all your help and kindness.
Thank you for finding time for me.

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


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From pawansharma0927 at gmail.com  Wed Jun 25 10:26:39 2008
From: pawansharma0927 at gmail.com (pawan sharma)
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:26:39 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] information
Message-ID: <f60f2e2c0806242156peaf77fl6db6172990672c87@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Professional
                           i am confused in AICTE-Norms. acc to AICTE norms
at the time of opening a institution we requires 150 titles with 1000
volumes but after that if we required more copies for the same title than in
that condition no information is their. acutally in my library we have more
than 15 copies of a single title and now we are in the processes for
accredation for a deemed university and i think at the time of acredation we
face some problems.


with regard

*Pawan Kumar Sharma*
*Dy. Librarian*
*ITM Universe*
*  *

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From mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in  Wed Jun 25 11:09:46 2008
From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin)
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:09:46 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Re- OAI-PMH
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0806251108070.12853@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>


---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: 24 Jun 2008 10:09:39 -0000
From: manoj kumar pant <manojpant2 at rediffmail.com>

This is some of the articles on OAI PMH
However article by is Lynch, Clifford is very good for more technical aspec=
ts you can follow the bibliographic references .

Carl Lagoze and Herbert Van de Sompel (2001). "The Open Archives Initiative=
: Building a Low-Barrier Interoperability Framework". Proceedings of the fi=
rst ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL'01): 54-62.

Lynch, Clifford A. (2001). "Metadata harvesting and the open archives initi=
ative". ARL Bimonthly Report 217.

Frank McCown, Xiaoming Liu, Michael L. Nelson and Mohammed Zubair (March/Ap=
ril 2006). "Search Engine Coverage of the OAI-PMH Corpus". IEEE Internet Co=
mputing 10 (2): 66=9673.

Herbert Van de Sompel and Carl Lagoze (2000). "The Santa Fe Convention of t=
he Open Archives Initiative". D-Lib Magazine 6 (2). doi:10.1045/february200=
0-vandesompel-oai.

Herbert Van de Sompel, Jeffrey A. Young, and Thomas B. Hickey (2003). "Usin=
g the OAI-PMH ... Differently". D-Lib Magazine 9 (7/8). doi:10.1045/10.1045=
/july2003-young (inactive 2008-06-21).

From sri_lib at yahoo.com  Wed Jun 25 11:33:03 2008
From: sri_lib at yahoo.com (sri priya)
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:03:03 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Recruitment: Applications for Teaching Positions
	:Bundelkhand University, kanpur
Message-ID: <417005.52708.qm@web57011.mail.re3.yahoo.com>

Recruitment: Applications for Teaching Positions for Reader and Lecturer
?
For more details see this link:
?
http://www.bujhansi.org/_recru/recru_home.html
?
Application - Pdf: http://www.bujhansi.org/_recru/_pdf/Adv_01June08.pdf
?
Regards,
S.Sripriya




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From library.mcrc at gmail.com  Wed Jun 25 12:24:06 2008
From: library.mcrc at gmail.com (IES Library)
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:24:06 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Books Write -off Rule
Message-ID: <7a23550b0806242354p54ae102ciaef433088d36f9c7@mail.gmail.com>

Dear All,
I want the exact rule for the Write-off of the missing books . After how
many Stock verification it is permissible to write them off. please give me
the exact principle.

thank u.


Madhura Deodhar
Librarian

IES Management College
Opp. Lilavati Hospital, Bandra Reclamation
Bandra West
M-50
library.mcrc at gmail.com

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From kamblelibrarian at gmail.com  Wed Jun 25 16:37:12 2008
From: kamblelibrarian at gmail.com (Dayanand Kamble)
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:37:12 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Need information on eligibility and scale
Message-ID: <509acb650806250407u30e42df3y2a1f02ae1e2339fd@mail.gmail.com>

Dear All,
I want the exact information (with concerened GR if possible) on the
elegibility criteria for all library posts (i. e. Librarian, Asst.
Librarian, Library Assistant and Library Attendent) and their respective
grade scale for collge library as per AICTE and University Rules.
please give me the exact information if possible with GR proof.



thank u.



Dayanand Kamble

Librarian

Indira School of Business Studies

  Wakad, Pune
kamblelibrarian at gmail.com

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From akash.varma007 at rediffmail.com  Wed Jun 25 17:17:32 2008
From: akash.varma007 at rediffmail.com (Akash Varma)
Date: 25 Jun 2008 11:47:32 -0000
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Professional status
Message-ID: <20080625114732.29171.qmail@f4mail-235-233.rediffmail.com>

 ?
 ?Dear Professionals,

Librarians are neglected a lot i.e, in Pvt Colleges.They are treated as ministerial staff. Does he/she does not come under Academics?
While appointing the  Lectures & Librarians in  degree  colleges UGC has made NET/SLET of M.Phil is compulsory for both.No such qualifications are necesary for appointing clerks or any ministerial staff. Then why this discrimination? 
I would like to have solutions from  experts. & can I get soft copy of UGC rules & regulations in this issue so that I can show to the concerned authority.

Mr. Akash Varma
Librarian 
Panchkula




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From jalal_gtz at yahoo.co.in  Wed Jun 25 21:08:12 2008
From: jalal_gtz at yahoo.co.in (samir jalal)
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:08:12 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] information
In-Reply-To: <f60f2e2c0806242156peaf77fl6db6172990672c87@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <571420.39741.qm@web94515.mail.in2.yahoo.com>


Dear Mr. Sharma,
According to AICTE Norms, an engineering institution is required to procure minimum 250 titles with 1000 volumes of books and? 4 journals (2 national and 2 foreign) for opening up any branch. Besides, it is also required to have 1000 volumes of books for General, Humanities and Applied Science Group.

With regards,
Mr. Samir Kumar Jalal
Assistant Librarian
BIT Mesra, Ranchi


--- On Wed, 25/6/08, pawan sharma <pawansharma0927 at gmail.com> wrote:
From: pawan sharma <pawansharma0927 at gmail.com>
Subject: [LIS-Forum] information
To: lis-forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in
Date: Wednesday, 25 June, 2008, 10:26 AM

Dear Professional
???????????????????????????i am confused?in AICTE-Norms. acc to AICTE norms at the time of opening?a institution we requires 150 titles with 1000 volumes but after that if we required more copies for the same title than in that condition no information is their. acutally in my library we have more than 15 copies of a single title and now we are in the processes for accredation for a deemed university and i think at the time of acredation we face some problems.

?
?
with regard
?
Pawan Kumar Sharma
Dy. Librarian
ITM Universe
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From suvarsha_w at yahoo.com  Wed Jun 25 21:45:46 2008
From: suvarsha_w at yahoo.com (Suvarsha Walters)
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:15:46 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Library Building for Central Power Research
	Institute
In-Reply-To: <21c37aad0806240317v43cd1059u93163e4be5c83a19@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <958521.85098.qm@web31808.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Rakesh,

That's a wonderful visualization of a library. I am not aware of the standards, but here are some comments.

While chatting casually with some corporate librarians they told me about how they are reducing the physical library. In fact, I am told that the plan is to completely do away with the physical space. Everything online.

Even it is possible to make everything digital (though I keep wondering how), I think it would do good to morph libraries as meeting places - of digital information in a physical world. You could still have a small physical collection. Libraries could be places where it is possible for people to find and consume information in novel, satisfying ways. We should make the technologies avaiable for the users. There should be open places where people can discuss, chat etc. and then sound proof nooks for those who prefer to work in silence.  

And I agree, it's a good idea to have cafe closeby where pleople can run for a bite. And if you have resposible users you could also allow the coffee and snack inside - say the computer kiosk or periodicals display section where people can browse while having their coffee.

And mess up the place? Oh that's ok, we are modern librarians.
:D

Suvarsha
HP Labs India

--- On Tue, 6/24/08, Rakesh Singh <callrakesh at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Rakesh Singh <callrakesh at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Library Building for Central Power Research Institute
> To: lis-forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in
> Date: Tuesday, June 24, 2008, 5:17 AM
> > Dear Smt Deshpande and Fellow LIC Professionals,
> >
> 
> (copying my  response to everybody to start the discussion
> on this topic)
> 
> 
> 
> > I don't have ready access to the standard IS:1553,
> but have read it before.
> > It says that the library should be located at a place
> which has some scope
> > for enlargement, etc. etc... However, I am sure, it
> would have been written
> > in an era before the Wifi. I am not sure, if your
> library is wifi, but it
> > will definitely become one in the next 2-3 years. You
> must be wondering, why
> > I am referring to wifi while discussing Library.
> Because I believe that wifi
> > has given a boost to the place called library and
> information centre. I
> > believe library to be a place which can spark ideas to
> be discussed later.
> > Sitting in the library, if you come up with an idea,
> there should be a place
> > immediately outside the library where you can go and
> discuss it with the
> > colleauges / friends. And if required, come back and
> do some more research.
> > Therefore, I have no objection in the LIC being next
> door the cafe (provided
> > your LIC is AC and therefore sound proof and therefore
> the cafe noise will
> > not disrupt the purpose of LIC). I see the cafe
> becoming an extension of the
> > LIC. In my experience, it is not difficult to
> implement the 'Eatables not
> > Allowed' rule.
> >
> >
> >
> > Gone are the days, when people were coming to the
> Library for information.
> > Information is spread everywhere on the net, which is
> searchable via google
> > search (Scholar, books, etc.). But I see library more
> of a place of idea
> > generation and getting good leads to look for quality
> information. Most of
> > the time you get information on the Net and therefore
> it is essential that
> > the library should be wifi and therefore create a
> place and provide an
> > unique experience where the users can go through the
> actual books and scroll
> > through the information on the net (more and more
> people now own Laptop with
> > wifi capability. In the next couple of years, every
> reader will have a
> > laptop). Books have to live with the information
> available on Internet and
> > therefore should be capable of delivering more than
> the information.
> >
> >
> >
> > Therefore, I think, you should fight for
> >
> > ?         putting some computers in the library not
> only to search the
> > catalogue but to surf internet (chatting strictly
> prohibited, your server
> > administrator can implement this rule)
> >
> > ?         all the tables should have electricity
> points where people can
> > connect their laptops, cell phones, etc. These days
> even cell phone have
> > internet browsing capabilities and people are more
> adept in using the cell
> > phone, even while searching for information (REMEMBER
> iphone popularity is
> > not because it makes good phone calls but because
> internet browsing is a
> > pleasure on iphone)
> >
> > ?         The inside layout should be done in a way
> that it does not
> > resemble an archives but a modern library and
> information centre. Don't
> > trust the architects, they have weird ideas about the
> libraries; do get
> > involved in planning the internal design of the
> library.
> >
> > ?         The office space of the librarian should be
> accessible to the
> > users. He should be more of an accessible person
> rather than one sitting in
> > the office closed from all four sides.
> >
> >
> >
> > Regarding the standard IS? which says that library
> should have scope for
> > enlargement -  gone are the days when more books meant
> more space required;
> > now more internet usage puts the question ? 'Why
> do you need more library
> > space when everything is available on net?"
> >
> >
> >
> > With apologies to those who do not agree with me,
> >
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> 
> >
> > Rakesh Singh
> >
> > New Delhi
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 6/24/08, *lis-forum-request at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in*
> <
> > lis-forum-request at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > Message: 2
> > Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:28:57 +0530
> > From: "Vijayalakshmi" <vrd at cpri.in>
> > Subject: [LIS-Forum] library building - reg
> > To: <lis-forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>
> > Cc: mail2all at cpri.in
> > Message-ID:
> <000d01c8d506$fe804b80$021c10ac at library.com>
> > Content-Type: text/plain;
> charset="iso-8859-1"
> >
> > Dear Sir,
> >
> >      Central Power Research Institute, Bangalore is
> building a building for
> > Library and Information Centre above the canteen.
> >
> >      The question is
> >
> >             1. Where should be library building
> located?
> >             2. Whether above the canteen or centrally
> located in
> >                  a separate building considering
> points mentioned in the
> > standard IS:1553?
> >
> >     Kindly enlighten me in this regad.
> >
> > (Smt. V.R.DESHPANDE)
> > SENIOR LIBRARIAN
> > LIBRARY AND INFORMATION CENTRE,
> > CENTRAL POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE,
> > P.B.NO.8066, SADASHIVANAGAR POST,
> > BANGALORE - 560 080
> >
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From daskshirod at gmail.com  Thu Jun 26 09:04:16 2008
From: daskshirod at gmail.com (Kshirod)
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:34:16 -0700
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Free online publications on Social Science (Corruption)
	from Transperancy International
Message-ID: <55dcc8590806252034y5e6e4595y3be762717866319@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Professional,


Transparency International, the global civil society organisation leading
the fight against corruption, brings people together in a powerful worldwide
coalition to end the devastating impact of corruption on men, women and
children around the world. TI's mission is to create change towards a world
free of corruption. For the publications list please click on the following
link:

http://www.transparency.org/publications/publications/subject
-- 
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National Institute of Technology Roukela
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From rajankila at hotmail.com  Thu Jun 26 10:27:08 2008
From: rajankila at hotmail.com (Rajan)
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:27:08 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Fw: Re:Educate us on Firefox Plugins
Message-ID: <BAY128-DAV5D64343640BF8B3FB42ACB6A30@phx.gbl>

StumbleUpon, a web browser plugin, is a good addition for librarians in
finding out websites rated as good. It can be downloaded from
www.stumbleupon.com
It allows its users to discover good web pages, online books, journal sites,
photos, and videos  rated by the community of 5 million stumble upon users.
Web pages appear when the user clicks the "Stumble!" button on the browser's
toolbar. The display of web pages will be normally based on the user's
preference profile, unless any subject keyword ( see the drop down menu
under 'All') is provided in the keyword box .To find out good websites on
any subject, type the subject in the keyword box and click the "stumble!"
button.
Stumbleupon toolbar versions exist for Mozilla Firefox and   Internet
Explorer.

K Rajasekharan
Librarian, Kerala Institute of Local Administration(KILA)
Mulagunnathukavu, Thrissur - 680581 , India

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Sukhdev Singh
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 11:44 PM
Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Educate us on Firefox Plugins

Yes, Firefox is one of my favorite software applications.
Out of these 2,000 add-ons or Plug-ins, there are few which are useful
for librarians and library users. You may like to see "100 Essential
Firefox Add-Ons for Librarians" by Jessica Merritt. There are some
more lists of add-ons by librarians. Like the one of Teri Vogel - My
Favorite Firefox Extensions and he one by Jessamyn West - Pimp My
Firefox. .
However, there are few, which are special for librarians. LibX is one
such plug-in. Libraries can create their own edition of LibX to
provide to access to their resource catalogues through LibX add-on.
Around 422 academic and public libraries have already done so.
Another interesting Plug-in is Zotero. It is an easy-to-use Firefox
extension to help collection, management and cite Internet sources.
There is a nice tutorial available for using LibX and Zotero in
combination.

--Sukhdev Singh 


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From nbarse at gmail.com  Thu Jun 26 10:52:13 2008
From: nbarse at gmail.com (Narayan Barse)
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:52:13 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Professional status
In-Reply-To: <20080625114732.29171.qmail@f4mail-235-233.rediffmail.com>
References: <20080625114732.29171.qmail@f4mail-235-233.rediffmail.com>
Message-ID: <a4ccb280806252222r6c6d24f2ga5382d5305440263@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Mr. Akash,

I think UGC has not stated Librarian as a teacher anywhere. But the pay
sacle and qualification is at par with that of lecturer/reader and professor
for college librarians,university asst.librarian/Deputy librarians and
University librarians respectively.

In Maharashtra the Maharashtra Universities act 1994 has included college
librarians,university asst.librarian/Deputy librarians and University
librarians in the definition of teachers.

Regards,


On 25 Jun 2008 11:47:32 -0000, Akash Varma <akash.varma007 at rediffmail.com>
wrote:
>
>
>   Dear Professionals,
>
> Librarians are neglected a lot i.e, in Pvt Colleges.They are treated as
> ministerial staff. Does he/she does not come under Academics?
> While appointing the  Lectures & Librarians in  degree  colleges UGC has
> made NET/SLET of M.Phil is compulsory for both.No such qualifications are
> necesary for appointing clerks or any ministerial staff. Then why this
> discrimination?
> I would like to have solutions from  experts. & can I get soft copy of UGC
> rules & regulations in this issue so that I can show to the concerned
> authority.
>
> Mr. Akash Varma
> Librarian
> Panchkula
>
>
>
>
>
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From abdulnazar75 at yahoo.com  Thu Jun 26 12:12:35 2008
From: abdulnazar75 at yahoo.com (Abdunnasar. A)
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 23:42:35 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Vacancy of Project Fellow in CESS Library Trivadnrum
In-Reply-To: <430479.65308.qm@web35403.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <885505.24145.qm@web35407.mail.mud.yahoo.com>


Dear Friends,

Centre for Earth Science Studies, Thiruvananthapuram conducts a walk-in-interview for the selection of Project Fellow for the project ' Modernisation of CESS Library' (PLAN - 106).



Qualifications:                   First Class M.L.I.Sc

                                            Working knowledge in Library Application Software

                                            like, SOUL, LIBSYS etc.

Desirable Qualifications: Working knowledge in Digital Library Software like 

                                          GSDL, Dspace etc



Remuneration                 : Rs.8000/pm



Date & Venue                 : 02.07.2008 (Wednesday) 9:30 AM at Centre for Earth

                                          Science Studies, Akkulam, Thiruvananthapuram



Age limit                         : 30 years as on 01.01.2008. relaxation up to 5 years 

                                          for SC/ST and 3 years for OBC candidates



Interested candidates may appear for the walk-in-interview with an application specifying the project code (Plan- 106) and post applied for together with detailed bio-data, copies of certificates showing educational qualifications, age, experience etc and original certificates for verification.



Abdunnasar. A

Scientist - B (Library)

CESS Thiruvananthapuram

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From mukeshanand2006 at gmail.com  Thu Jun 26 13:28:29 2008
From: mukeshanand2006 at gmail.com (Mukesh Anand)
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:28:29 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Nirma University of Science & Technology,
	Ahmedabad :Libn. & Assnt. Libn. Post
Message-ID: <b0de4a880806260058r295f88b0tade11a7d13829111@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Members',

Nirma University of Science & Technology
Applications r invited for the following posts :-

Librarian
Assistant Librarian

Pay Scales & Perks r atractive. The details of the same &
qualifications r available on website
www.nirmauni.ac.in

In deserving cases higher start is possible. Interested persons r
requested to applywith bio-data & necessary certificates within 20
days mentioning the name of post applied for on the envelop for the
following address.Those applying through website may give their
biodata in the prescribed format available on www.nirmauni.ac.in

Executive Registrar
Nirma University of Science & Technology
Sarkhej-Gandhinagar Highway, Chharodi Ahmedabad - 382 481
Ph. :- 02717- 241900-04
Fax :- 02717 - 241916

Print Access to the Indicative Advt. :-
Times Ascent (Ahmedabad Edition) dated 25th June, ' 08
(Wednesday),Page # XII (The Times of India)

With Regards,
Mukesh Anand
Asst. Libn.
Officers' Training College for Indian Railways
Sanskari Nagari Vadadara

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From sri_lib at yahoo.com  Thu Jun 26 14:58:09 2008
From: sri_lib at yahoo.com (sri priya)
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:28:09 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Engineering Science Resources
Message-ID: <134431.59286.qm@web57006.mail.re3.yahoo.com>

The ESc resources including databases, Internet resources, online journals etc..

Contents:

Engineering Science Databases

Engineering Science Vital Research Tools 

E-books

Engineering Science Related Databases

Engineering Science Web Resources 
E-Journals

New Zealand Databases
Engineering Online Reference Collection 

The World-Wide Web Virtual Library 

Encyclopedias and Handbooks

Link : http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/eng/resources/es.htm

Regards,
S.Sripriya
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From mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in  Thu Jun 26 15:54:24 2008
From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin)
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:54:24 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] President IFLA's interview with Prof Dinesh K Gupta on
 "Library Advocacy"
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0806261553470.21460@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>

Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:30:55 +0000 (GMT)
From: Shantanu Ganguly <s_ganguly67 at yahoo.co.uk>

Dear Administrator:

Kindly circulate this information through your database as given in the 
URLhttp://www.ifla.org/I/whatsnew/new.htm

Interview with Claudia Lux about "Libraries on the agenda" in the April 
issue of MEERA: Open and Distance Learning Newsletter, a quarterly 
newsletter of Vardhaman Mahaveer Open University, Kota (Rajasthan, India), 
(p.4-5).

Shantanu Ganguly
Chief Librarian
Knowledge Resource Center
Indus World School of Business (IWSB)
48/4, Knowledge Park III
Greater Noida, U.P.

From achar_10 at yahoo.com  Thu Jun 26 16:24:57 2008
From: achar_10 at yahoo.com (ACHAR S)
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:54:57 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] lIBRARIAN FOR AN AUTONOMOUS B-SCHOOL
Message-ID: <406549.26415.qm@web30706.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Dear All,
National Business School in JP Nagar needs an MLISC qualified with one year experienced candidate(preferably female candidates)for librarian post.
For further details contact:
Achar
Library Incharge
National Business school
JP Nagar, Bangalore
cell:09449340789
web site:www.nsbindia.org


      

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From ajaysharma.lib at gmail.com  Thu Jun 26 17:06:33 2008
From: ajaysharma.lib at gmail.com (Ajay Kum Sharma)
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:06:33 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Urgently required Assistant Librarian (02)
Message-ID: <50ee88430806260436j3f315873g913663fba8dc8150@mail.gmail.com>

Dear All,

Prospective candidates are invited for the post of Assistant Librarian
in the Central Library, Mangalayatan University, Beswan, Aligarh -
202145

Assistant Librarian, Post vacant: 02 Salary. Rs. 8000-275-13500/ -
Qualification. MLIS, NET with Knowledge of Libsys Library Software.
Desirable. PGDLAN/PGDCA, Atleast One Year working experience in a
reputed Institute/University.


Candidates meeting the above requirement( s) are to send their
applications on plain paper, giving the Bio-data i.e. Candidate's
Name, Father's Name, Sex, Date of Birth, Qualification (Giving name
University/Board, Institution and Place, Qualification & Year obtained
and percent marks) from highest down to SSLC, Caste (SC/ST/OBC/Gen)
Address (Permanent & Correspondence) , Experience, Copies of all
testimonials and Certificates duly attested by a Gazetted Officer and
two copies of photographs submit them to the

Dr. Ashish Kumar Sharma
Library In-charge
Central Library, Mangalayatan University,
32 Milestone, Aligarh-Mathura Road,
Beswan, Aligarh - 202145
Email: ashish1077 at yahoo.com,
Mobile: 9319107573, 09936712343



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Assistant Librarian,
Central Library, Mangalayatan University,
32 Milestone, Aligarh-Mathura Road,
Beswan, Aligarh - 202145, U.P.
Web: http://www.geocities.com/ajaysharma_lib/
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From ns.harinarayana at gmail.com  Thu Jun 26 17:06:27 2008
From: ns.harinarayana at gmail.com (N.S. Harinarayana)
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:06:27 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Call for Papers - MyDLIS-SAP-National Conference on
	Library 2.0, August 21-22, 2008, Mysore
Message-ID: <5d6bc5c70806260436g29706b5co9274bbee49319d42@mail.gmail.com>

                          Department of Library and Information Science
                                               University of Mysore
                                                   Mansasagangotri
                                                    Mysore 570 006

 "National Conference on Library 2.0:  The Confluence of Web 2.0 and
the Library Paradigm"
                                           August 21 - 22, 2008.
			                 (A UGC-SAP Programme)

About the Conference

The latest buzz phrase in the technology front is "Web 2.0".
Leveraging the approaches typified by Web 2.0's principles and
technology offers library profession many opportunities to transform
libraries from venerated age-old institutions to agile ones.

The Conference will be a forum for discussing the emerging processes,
technologies and paradigms of the library profession in the backdrop
of the new technology of Web 2.0 and efforts to integrate the same
into the library services.  This two-day conference will ponder over
the issues related to Web 2.0 technologies and highlight the
initiatives and case studies towards deploying them for making
libraries contemporary and user centred.


Organising Committee:
     Chair: Prof. V. G. Talawar
     Co-Chair:  Dr. Mallinath Kumbar

Program Chair:  Prof. Shalini R. Urs


Topics/Sub-themes
    *      Understanding Web 2.0
    *       Web 2.0 and Libraries
    *       Digital Library 2.0
    *       Wikis and blogs for libraries and library services
    *       Tags, Clouds and folksonomies for the library world
    *       Collaborative Workspaces
    *       Exemplars of Library 2.0


Call for Papers

Papers are called for presentation and publication of conference
proceedings from librarians, information professionals, teachers of
LIS, researchers and students.  The paper must be a original
contribution based on research, survey and case studies.  General
presentations and papers giving just historical background are not
encouraged.  The paper should accompany with an informative abstract
(not more than 150 words) and key words. The paper shall not be more
than 10 pages and the font size is to be 12 in Times New Roman. The
paper in Microsoft Word format may be sent over email to the Program
Chair on or before July 31, 2008.

Last Date for Submission ? July 31, 2008

Submit your papers to the following ?
Prof. Shalini R. Urs
Program Chair
Professor, Department of Library and Information Science
University of Mysore
Manasagangotri
Mysore 570 006

email:mydlis.sap at gmail.com

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Off. Ph: (0821) 2419393

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From R.A.MacLeod at hw.ac.uk  Thu Jun 26 18:52:31 2008
From: R.A.MacLeod at hw.ac.uk (MacLeod, Roderick A)
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:22:31 +0100
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Internet Resources Newsletter - July Issue
Message-ID: <4F6F33D7A78FCD48BE50C4D7C1688F37819C48@ex6.mail.win.hw.ac.uk>

 
____________________________________________

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The latest edition of the FREE monthly newsletter for academics,
students and researchers is now available at: 

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No subscription or registration is needed to access this full-text
newsletter at the above site. 

You can also subscribe to the free, full-text email version at: 
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An RSS feed for the newsletter is available: 
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From sabuj_c at yahoo.co.uk  Thu Jun 26 22:29:57 2008
From: sabuj_c at yahoo.co.uk (sabuj kumar chaudhuri)
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:59:57 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] our designation is our foe
In-Reply-To: <mailman.1276.1214475996.2649.lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>
Message-ID: <978658.2729.qm@web25401.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>


Dear friends 
?
I work as a college librarian in an affiliated college under the university of calcutta. It is an old as well as renowned college in kolkata.I was selected in this post as substantive basis through West Bengal College Service Commission (WBCSC) . It was the first batch where college librarians were selected via WBCSC?having same eligibility criteria like lecturers. In our recommendation letter from WBCSC as well as appointment letter issued by the college it was mentioned we being recruited as per West Bengal Teachers Act (security and services), 1978.But after joining in the college, I found that myself is being treated virtually as Non-vacational Non-teaching staff. However, with a great surprise , seen that I am also the member of teachers council (TC). May be for some election related vested interest as every now & then college authority says that I should not be the member of the TC. After 1 year, even juniors?lecturers were confirmed in the
 service but still after 1.8 years I did not get any confirmation. Because I am librarian and and lone in the college and librarians have no service rule till today.?So I may be treated as authority wishes to treat me.Authority also says orally that?before giving the recommendation letter it may be possible that WBCSC did not find any suitable paper and that is why they gave it in teachers recommendation forrmat mistakenly. I prayed humbly to the college authority to respect my recommendation letter and my appointment letter so that I that I can get official equal official treatment from the college.Teachers always get 1 day study leave and it is as college manual.We don't get no study leave. We do not have any PhD increament. But the teachers got awarded with?me , everybody is getting increments. I won't get as my designation is librarian.Unfortunately, I did Phd with UGC(JRF) NET fellowship . Now it 's got no meaning at all.Research degree is
 not?rewarded here as my designation is librarian.There is neither any study leave?any facility like lecturers. I have stated considering myself?that I am a lesser human being( teachers are greater ones)?as my designation is librarian.In this context I want to mention that in an interview in a central university an well known prof. asked me -Why do always use Dr. before your name? I was taken a back for a while then I explained it properly but possibly he was not convinced, as my designation was librarian and he was repected teacher. List of is disparities will not stop. And, I think it will continue till our perception as well as our respected teachers perception towards this profession does not change.
?
I have some questions to our respected policy makers are following:
?
1. why college librarian/AL in University will have the same qualification when they are not getting equal facility 
?
2. Why?Librarians are non-vacational. Logic supporting towards non-vacational are very illogical as teachers require advancement of knowledge but librarians do not require it because they are?not more than a?mere dignified book keeper.
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3. Equal qualification must be accompanied by equal status regarding all facilities as per malhotra committee report. Equal pay is not everything. We, librarians are being discriminated in every possible cases and underestimated and undermined every now and then. If this trend goes on and on...on....on qualified and brilliant students will never come to this doomed and cursed career. Please do something concrete to make it meaningful and respectable career option for future generation.
?
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 

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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 
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   1. Free online publications on Social Science (Corruption)	from
      Transperancy International (Kshirod)
   2. Fw: Re:Educate us on Firefox Plugins (Rajan)
   3. Re: Professional status (Narayan Barse)
   4. Vacancy of Project Fellow in CESS Library Trivadnrum
      (Abdunnasar. A)
   5. Nirma University of Science & Technology,	Ahmedabad :Libn. &
      Assnt. Libn. Post (Mukesh Anand)
   6. Engineering Science Resources (sri priya)


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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:34:16 -0700
From: Kshirod <daskshirod at gmail.com>
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Free online publications on Social Science
	(Corruption)	from Transperancy International
To: lis-forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in
Message-ID:
	<55dcc8590806252034y5e6e4595y3be762717866319 at mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

Dear Professional,


Transparency International, the global civil society organisation leading
the fight against corruption, brings people together in a powerful worldwide
coalition to end the devastating impact of corruption on men, women and
children around the world. TI's mission is to create change towards a world
free of corruption. For the publications list please click on the following
link:

http://www.transparency.org/publications/publications/subject
-- 
Kshirod Das
National Institute of Technology Roukela
Rourkela-769 008, Orissa

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Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:27:08 +0530
From: "Rajan" <rajankila at hotmail.com>
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Fw: Re:Educate us on Firefox Plugins
To: "Lis forum" <lis-forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>
Message-ID: <BAY128-DAV5D64343640BF8B3FB42ACB6A30 at phx.gbl>
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StumbleUpon, a web browser plugin, is a good addition for librarians in
finding out websites rated as good. It can be downloaded from
www.stumbleupon.com
It allows its users to discover good web pages, online books, journal sites,
photos, and videos  rated by the community of 5 million stumble upon users.
Web pages appear when the user clicks the "Stumble!" button on the
browser's
toolbar. The display of web pages will be normally based on the user's
preference profile, unless any subject keyword ( see the drop down menu
under 'All') is provided in the keyword box .To find out good websites
on
any subject, type the subject in the keyword box and click the
"stumble!"
button.
Stumbleupon toolbar versions exist for Mozilla Firefox and   Internet
Explorer.

K Rajasekharan
Librarian, Kerala Institute of Local Administration(KILA)
Mulagunnathukavu, Thrissur - 680581 , India

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Sukhdev Singh
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 11:44 PM
Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Educate us on Firefox Plugins

Yes, Firefox is one of my favorite software applications.
Out of these 2,000 add-ons or Plug-ins, there are few which are useful
for librarians and library users. You may like to see "100 Essential
Firefox Add-Ons for Librarians" by Jessica Merritt. There are some
more lists of add-ons by librarians. Like the one of Teri Vogel - My
Favorite Firefox Extensions and he one by Jessamyn West - Pimp My
Firefox. .
However, there are few, which are special for librarians. LibX is one
such plug-in. Libraries can create their own edition of LibX to
provide to access to their resource catalogues through LibX add-on.
Around 422 academic and public libraries have already done so.
Another interesting Plug-in is Zotero. It is an easy-to-use Firefox
extension to help collection, management and cite Internet sources.
There is a nice tutorial available for using LibX and Zotero in
combination.

--Sukhdev Singh 


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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:52:13 +0530
From: "Narayan Barse" <nbarse at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Professional status
To: "Akash Varma" <akash.varma007 at rediffmail.com>
Cc: lis-forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in
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Dear Mr. Akash,

I think UGC has not stated Librarian as a teacher anywhere. But the pay
sacle and qualification is at par with that of lecturer/reader and professor
for college librarians,university asst.librarian/Deputy librarians and
University librarians respectively.

In Maharashtra the Maharashtra Universities act 1994 has included college
librarians,university asst.librarian/Deputy librarians and University
librarians in the definition of teachers.

Regards,


On 25 Jun 2008 11:47:32 -0000, Akash Varma
<akash.varma007 at rediffmail.com>
wrote:
>
>
>   Dear Professionals,
>
> Librarians are neglected a lot i.e, in Pvt Colleges.They are treated as
> ministerial staff. Does he/she does not come under Academics?
> While appointing the  Lectures & Librarians in  degree  colleges UGC
has
> made NET/SLET of M.Phil is compulsory for both.No such qualifications are
> necesary for appointing clerks or any ministerial staff. Then why this
> discrimination?
> I would like to have solutions from  experts. & can I get soft copy of
UGC
> rules & regulations in this issue so that I can show to the concerned
> authority.
>
> Mr. Akash Varma
> Librarian
> Panchkula
>
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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 23:42:35 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Abdunnasar. A" <abdulnazar75 at yahoo.com>
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Vacancy of Project Fellow in CESS Library
	Trivadnrum
To: lis-forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in
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Dear Friends,

Centre for Earth Science Studies, Thiruvananthapuram conducts a
walk-in-interview for the selection of Project Fellow for the project '
Modernisation of CESS Library' (PLAN - 106).



Qualifications:                   First Class M.L.I.Sc

                                            Working knowledge in Library
Application Software

                                            like, SOUL, LIBSYS etc.

Desirable Qualifications: Working knowledge in Digital Library Software like 

                                          GSDL, Dspace etc



Remuneration                 : Rs.8000/pm



Date & Venue                 : 02.07.2008 (Wednesday) 9:30 AM at Centre for
Earth

                                          Science Studies, Akkulam,
Thiruvananthapuram



Age limit                         : 30 years as on 01.01.2008. relaxation up to
5 years 

                                          for SC/ST and 3 years for OBC
candidates



Interested candidates may appear for the walk-in-interview with an application
specifying the project code (Plan- 106) and post applied for together with
detailed bio-data, copies of certificates showing educational qualifications,
age, experience etc and original certificates for verification.



Abdunnasar. A

Scientist - B (Library)

CESS Thiruvananthapuram

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Message: 5
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:28:29 +0530
From: "Mukesh Anand" <mukeshanand2006 at gmail.com>
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Nirma University of Science & Technology,
	Ahmedabad :Libn. & Assnt. Libn. Post
To: lis-forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in
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Dear Members',

Nirma University of Science & Technology
Applications r invited for the following posts :-

Librarian
Assistant Librarian

Pay Scales & Perks r atractive. The details of the same &
qualifications r available on website
www.nirmauni.ac.in

In deserving cases higher start is possible. Interested persons r
requested to applywith bio-data & necessary certificates within 20
days mentioning the name of post applied for on the envelop for the
following address.Those applying through website may give their
biodata in the prescribed format available on www.nirmauni.ac.in

Executive Registrar
Nirma University of Science & Technology
Sarkhej-Gandhinagar Highway, Chharodi Ahmedabad - 382 481
Ph. :- 02717- 241900-04
Fax :- 02717 - 241916

Print Access to the Indicative Advt. :-
Times Ascent (Ahmedabad Edition) dated 25th June, ' 08
(Wednesday),Page # XII (The Times of India)

With Regards,
Mukesh Anand
Asst. Libn.
Officers' Training College for Indian Railways
Sanskari Nagari Vadadara

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Message: 6
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:28:09 -0700 (PDT)
From: sri priya <sri_lib at yahoo.com>
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Engineering Science Resources
To: lis-forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in
Message-ID: <134431.59286.qm at web57006.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1

The ESc resources including databases, Internet resources, online journals
etc..

Contents:

Engineering Science Databases

Engineering Science Vital Research Tools 

E-books

Engineering Science Related Databases

Engineering Science Web Resources 
E-Journals

New Zealand Databases
Engineering Online Reference Collection 

The World-Wide Web Virtual Library 

Encyclopedias and Handbooks

Link : http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/eng/resources/es.htm

Regards,
S.Sripriya
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From suresh_saru at yahoo.com  Fri Jun 27 09:22:59 2008
From: suresh_saru at yahoo.com (suresh kumar)
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:52:59 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Record Retention Schedule & Record Disposal Schedule
In-Reply-To: <mailman.1276.1214475996.2649.lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>
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Dear all, 

I am in search of some important procedures and rules for Record Retention Schedule and Record Disposal Schedule for corporates. 

Kindle help me out to get it. 


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From shalini at isim.ac.in  Fri Jun 27 12:03:16 2008
From: shalini at isim.ac.in (Shalini Urs)
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:03:16 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] CfP- ICADL 2008, Dec 2-5,
	Bali- Deadline Extended to July 13, 2008
Message-ID: <A500F4AA96384DB5AD060C69C4DEF7AA@ProfShaliniR>

----Apologies for cross postings ---

 

Call for Papers

The 11th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries  

(ICADL 2008)

http://icadl2008.org/

Bali, Indonesia

 

December 2-5, 2008

The conference proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the

series of LNCS. See the LNCS Authors Instructions page

(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).

 

Online Submission:

http://icadl08.cs.waikato.ac.nz/openconf/openconf.php

 

The annual International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries

(ICADL) series is a significant forum for digital libraries research,

providing an opportunity for researchers, educators, and practitioners to

share their experiences. The International Conference on Asian Digital
Libraries (ICADL),  

initiated in 1998 and rotated among Asian-Pacific countries, has become one
of the

premiere meetings in digital library. Since its humble beginning in Hong

Kong (ICADL 1998), the meeting has been held in Taipei, Taiwan (ICADL  

1999); Seoul, Korea (ICADL 2000); Bangalore, India (ICADL 2001); Singapore  

(ICADL 2002); Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (ICADL 2003); Shanghai, China (ICADL  

2004); Bangkok, Thailand (ICADL 2005); Kyoto, Japan (ICADL 2006); and Hanoi,

Vietnam (ICADL 2007).

 

ICADL welcomes submissions from a variety of perspectives-previous

conferences in this series have included presentations from computer

science, library and information science, knowledge management, and  

areas in the social sciences and humanities. We particularly welcome
submissions

associated with the ICADL 2008 theme, Digital Libraries: Universal and

Ubiquitous Access to Information.  With this theme, the digital libraries

community can reflect on its progress towards supporting people in  

finding and using the information that they need.

 

ICADL 2008 will be held in Bali Island - Indonesia, a world renowned  

travel destination with exotic nature and exquisite culture.

Bali has been in many of Conde Nast Traveller's lists of tourist

destinations over the years. It specifically mentions on its website  

that Bali "offers an extraordinary caliber of luxury accommodation"

 

Submissions may include research, system evaluation, digital library

infrastructure and architecture, case studies, social and institutional

policy issues, and position papers. Topics include, but are not  

limited to :

 

Mobile services

Digital preservation and archives

Interoperability issues

Content and knowledge management

Information retrieval

Information seeking and use

Intellectual property

Data and information mining

Collection development and management

User communities

Interface and interaction design

Security and privacy

Multimedia digital libraries

Multi-language support

Digital libraries in education

Document genres and categorization

Social media / Web 2.0

Metadata and cataloguing

Sustainability in digital libraries

Open Source tools and systems

Information filtering

Grid architectures

 

Important Dates :

 

Submission of Full Papers : 13 July 2008 (extended)

Notification to Authors : 22 August 2008

 

 

Contact: Kalarensi Naibaho,

E-mail: info at icadl2008.org, (or cnaibaho at yahoo.com)

 

Organizing Committee:

 

General Chair :

Zainal Hasibuan (University of Indonesia, Indonesia)

 

Vice Chair :

Liauw Toong Tjiek/Aditya Nugraha (Petra Christian University, Indonesia)

 

Program Co-Chairs :

Sally Jo Cunningham (University of Waikato, New Zealand)

Rolly Intan (Petra Christian University, Indonesia)

George Buchanan (Swansea University, UK)

Edna Reid (Clarion University, USA)

 

Tutorial Chairs :

Mohammad Aries (University of Indonesia, Indonesia)

Publication Co-Chairs :

Rolly Intan (Petra Christian University, Indonesia)

Publicity Co-Chairs :

Henny Widyaningsih (University of Indonesia, Indonesia)

Anita Nusantari (Petra Christian University, Indonesia)

Local Arrangement Chair :

Kalarensi Naibaho (University of Indonesia, Indonesia)

Adi Wibowo (Petra Christian University, Indonesia)

------

 

 

Thanks and Regards

Shalini

 

Dr. Shalini Urs

ICADL Steering Committee - Vice Chair and Chair Elect 

Executive Director and Professor

International School of Information Management

University of Mysore

Manasagangotri

Mysore - 570006

Phone : + 91 821 2514699

Fax     : + 91 821 2519209

ISiM-Management School for IT, Technology School for IM

www.isim.ac.in

 


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From: pku at nic.in (Upadhyay P K)
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:53:06 +0500
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From: slfaizal at gmail.com (faisal sl)
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:49:09 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Library Blog of Kendriya Vidyalaya Pattom, Trivandrum
Message-ID: <3de71e10806270719i147ecb9arc8a8a07af9a8c6@mail.gmail.com>

Dear friends,

Please visit the library blog of *Kendriya Vidyalaya Pattom,
Thiruvananthapuram,* <http://www.librarykvpattom.wordpress.com> Kerala.It
was started in August 2007.You are requested to comment for its improvement.

Regards

-- 
S.L.Faisal
Librarian
Kendriya Vidyalaya
Pattom,Thiruvananthapuram-695 004
Kerala
India

Mob:09447699724

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From vjkjk at yahoo.com  Sun Jun 29 04:31:14 2008
From: vjkjk at yahoo.com (J. K. Vijayakumar)
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 16:01:14 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Fw:ASIS&T SIG III International Paper Contest winner
	announcement
Message-ID: <960793.32378.qm@web54602.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

Congratulations to the winners.

Dr. J K Vijayakumar


> From: Judy Jeng <jjeng at njcu.edu>
> Subject: [Asis-l] 2008 ASIS&T SIG III International
> Paper Contest winner announcement
> Date: Tuesday, June 24, 2008, 8:04 PM
> 
> 
> WINNERS OF THE 2008 ASIS&T SIG III INTERNATIONAL PAPER
> CONTEST
> ?
> The American Society for Information Science &
> Technology (ASIS&T) Special Interest Group on
> International Information Issues (SIG III) is pleased to
> announce the following winners of its 9th International
> Paper Contest:
> ?
> First Place Winner:
> Maqsood Ahmad Shaheen. Use of social networks and
> information seeking behavior of students during political
> crises in Pakistan . ( Pakistan )
> ?
> Second Place Winner:
> Neela J. Deshpande & S K Pathak. Use of electronic
> journals in astronomy and astrophysics libraries and
> information centres in India : A users? perspective. (
> India )
> ?
> Third Place Winner:
> Manjunatha K. Technology and customer expectation in
> academic libraries: A special reference to
> technical/management libraries in Karnataka. ( India )
> ?
> Fourth Place Winner:
> S. M. Pujar, R. K. Kamat, S. Y. Bansode, R. R. Kamat, &
> S. H. Katigennavar. Identifying and exploiting human needs
> for people centric evolving knowledge society: A case study
> of Indian ICT emergence. ( India )
> ?
> Fifth Place Winner:
> Tariq Ashraf. Empowering people through information: A case
> study of India ?s right to information act. ( India )
> ?
> Sixth Place Winner:
> Pramila Dangwal. Information: By the people, for the
> people, for development. ( India )
> ?
> ?
> The jurors for the 2008 competition included Judy Jeng
> (Chair), Jonathan Levitt (Co-Chair), Aaron Bowen, Yunfei
> Du, Julian Warner, and Yin Zhang.
> ?
> The principal authors of each of the six winning papers
> will be awarded a two-year individual membership to
> ASIS&T. In addition, the first place winner will be
> awarded a minimum of $1,000 to attend the ASIS&T Annual
> Conference in Columbus , Ohio , October 24-29, 2008.
> ?
> Those winning papers and other submitted papers for the
> competition will be considered for publication by
> Elsevier?s International Information and Library Review.
> ?
> We thank the jury members for their hard work and our
> donors for their compassion which makes it possible to
> develop and sustain this international network of scholars
> in developing countries.
> ?
> Judy Jeng
> Chair, 2008 ASIS&T International Paper Contest
> jjeng at njcu.edu





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From abdulnazar75 at yahoo.com  Sat Jun 28 12:43:16 2008
From: abdulnazar75 at yahoo.com (Abdunnasar. A)
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:13:16 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] PGDCA Course at Trivandrum
In-Reply-To: <430479.65308.qm@web35403.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <984306.85991.qm@web35406.mail.mud.yahoo.com>


IHRD Trivandrum conducts PGDCA (part time) course. The duration of the course is one year. Those who are interested may contact the office: 0471 2550612

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From rajesh at inflibnet.ac.in  Sat Jun 28 12:34:59 2008
From: rajesh at inflibnet.ac.in (Rajesh Chandrakar)
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:34:59 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] CNN realising importance of User Generated Content (UGC)
Message-ID: <E4532B7A96C742C2BEAD91668273EAA0@RAJESH>

Dear all
It is interesting to note the importance of the UGC, undoutably it is not University Grants Commission (UGC), it is User Generated Content (UGC). This has been realised by the giant news media like CNN. As per the report, the user generated content has changed the way of reporting TV news. The presence of user generated content is also realised in Indian TV media too, we do observe it daily in our Indian TV news channels, similar to the iReport of CNN, the CNN/IBN has "citizen journalist" times now has "citizen reporter", etc. It is to be noted that not only the TV channels, but the library has also been influenced by the user generated content through Web 2.0, Lib 2.0, wiki and other social networking websites. 

With best regards,

Rajesh

CNN realising importance of User Generated Content (UGC)
Posted by Yasser Buchana in Friday, June 27th 2008   under: Community, Social Media, User Generated Content        
While giant News media corporations have done little more than advertise their brands online, a few have rarely provided their viewers a chance to interact and engage. In actual fact, only a few have acknowledged the relevance of social media and user generated content.


With the advent of the internet , more people are finding it preferable spending their time online rather than watching Tv - something most people now regard as a passive activity .

Although these giant media companies do go after their counterparts of similar size in competing for the number of viewers, it is the internet that has gained a much wider audience leaving giants scrambling to stay relevant to their so called "loyal" viewers.

It's only now that CNN is starting to realise that the internet is the way to the future, with the introduction of iReport. (In case you didn't know) iReport is CNN's public journalism initiative which allows people from around the globe to contribute pictures and videos of breaking news stories from their own towns and neighborhoods.


Frankly , iReport may not prove revolutionary to many but it certainly provides an evidence of evolution . I believe this new model of communication will help foster deeper relationships between CNN and it's viewers - ultimately changing the way traditional TV News has long been done.

By providing viewers with a chance to interact with each other and the corporation , iReport will help point out the increasing importance of User Generated Content , thus establishing an exciting new partnership with viewers - consequently growing the popularity of Social Media.

http://www.genyasser.co.za/2008/06/27/cnn-realising-importance-of-user-generated-content-ugc/

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From ksc at library.iisc.ernet.in  Mon Jun 30 15:28:54 2008
From: ksc at library.iisc.ernet.in (ksc at library.iisc.ernet.in)
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:28:54 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] advertisement for diploma trainees
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0806301519430.21528@library.iisc.ernet.in>



Number of positions
FIVE (Gen-3, SC-1, OBC-1)


Minimum Qualification
Diploma in Library Science or Library & Information Science under 10+2+2 
years of study, awarded  by Department of Technical Education with at 
least   Second Class or equivalent grade (Pass Class or equivalent grade 
in case of  SC/ST candidates).

Sound knowledge in Library activities and basic knowledge of computers is 
desirable.

Emoluments
Consolidated  emoluments of Rs.3,000/- (Rupees three thousand only) per 
month.

  Duration: 1 year

Those desirous of sending their application should submit their 
application before 15th july 2008 along with all enclosures to:

K S Chudamani
Deputy librarian
JRD Tata Memorial Library
IISc, Bangalore

From rajesh at inflibnet.ac.in  Mon Jun 30 16:41:19 2008
From: rajesh at inflibnet.ac.in (Rajesh Chandrakar)
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:41:19 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] INFLIBNET's New Website
Message-ID: <9990E54840B749429B786E2DB384752D@RAJESH>

Dear All,

UGC Chaiperson, Prof. Sukhdeo Thorat has launched INFLIBNET's new website on 23rd June 2008. Archives of the Annual Reports, Newsletters, and other documents are available for downloads. INFLIBNET has also developed toolbar for UGC-Infonet Digital Library Consortium. The toolbar is available for free download at the INFLIBNET website under download link. It has a list of publishers and the resources available for access to the universities. URL of the website is http://www.inflibnet.ac.in.

With best regards,

Rajesh
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From ravinandhan at gmail.com  Mon Jun 30 18:01:08 2008
From: ravinandhan at gmail.com (Ravi Nandhan)
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:01:08 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Best Practices for the Online Discussion Forum
In-Reply-To: <200806300529.m5U5TChG021164@www2.acelogic.com>
References: <200806300529.m5U5TChG021164@www2.acelogic.com>
Message-ID: <4801055b0806300531q6cec2c30uf0726d3e81c24b36@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

Apologies for the long post.

In the world of 2.0s what would happen if we fail to notice and
organize even the bit of information which lies in Discussions and
other areas? Since discussions are where we get the Tacit Knowledge
Explicited, but same time we need to make sure that we manage it
properly.

It would be great if you could please help me with the Online
Discussion Forums "Mail list & Web based discussions" Effective usage,
search and organizing techniques, case studies, best practices etc.

In mailing list the user posts a query and every member gets a mail
and a few would answer replying everyone through the forum or
personally to the user. In the web based discussion, there will be a
space on web for users to discuss.

In both the cases the information that lies in the discussion thread
is lies under a broad category of its taxonomy. Or is there any other
metadata format to organize the topics? Would it help to have
folksonomy apart from Taxonomy while posting as well? After questions
are answered, is it possible to tag each and every post to its context
which induces retrieval?

Archive feature?

If the discussions are old and not used at all? Is it good to Archive
or Delete? If archived, does the search retrieve it?

Publicizing the Discussion Forums ? How can we market the forum? How
does a User know its existence and arrive at it?

Language barriers? User posts in English but a few would not know
English. Is there any way to overcome this - translate service? (If
you feel this question is too much consider this Web 3.0 or 4.0 tech)

Search ? is Categorized search results possible for Forums? In my
understanding most searches in forums retrieves based on relevance.

RSS usage ? to stay in track of the posts ? answers.

If a user posts a query it may take a few days to get the answers,
meanwhile the user may forget about the question he posted. How to get
the user view the answers? RSS or Email alert? Which is best for
keeping the user and Q&A in Loop?

Could moderators be engaged in a mediator's role for Q&A instead of
just having them for approving posts? Moderators are expected to be
good in subject understanding but in corporates such people are busy
to take up additional role of Mediated-Moderator.

User might not know the existence of the answers that are available in
the earlier posts and posts the same question for which the experts
might not answer knowing its existence. How to over come this problem?
As soon as the post is submitted can we make the system suggest the
user to have the existing answers checked and proceed to post the same
question? Does this help?

Regards,
Ravi Nandhan V
KM Specialist,
The Smart Cube
www.thesmartcube.com
Cell - +919958784666

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From info at dlibcom.in  Mon Jun 30 16:52:54 2008
From: info at dlibcom.in (INFO@DLIBCOM)
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:52:54 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] launching DLIBCOM
Message-ID: <009701c8daa3$a97b3e90$190a10ac@GROWTH.COM>

Dear Members,

DLIBCOM is pleased to announce the online version of its magazine
http://www.dlibcom.in

Interested members can register their institute and their individual profile
on the website.

Additional tools include :

News
Events
Poll
Jobs
Profile Display
Associations
Subscribed Journal Database & Location
Useful Links
Glossary....

Look forward to your participation.

Feel free to send-in your valued suggestion / feedback.

Regards,

PC Shah, Editor
DLIBCOM



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From jasimndd at gmail.com  Mon Jun 30 21:07:06 2008
From: jasimndd at gmail.com (jasim s)
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:07:06 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] SOMETHING ON E-BOOK READERS AND BLOGGING
Message-ID: <aff6bd9f0806300837g4abf5edcud8fb4ca1d3bac752@mail.gmail.com>

News scan briefings on e-book readers and also positive aspects of blogging
can be read from the june issue of scientific American magazine.click the
links

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=library-to-go

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-healthy-type



jasimudeen.s

Medical College

Thrissur

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