From vyasamoorthy at gmail.com  Sun Mar  2 15:08:57 2008
From: vyasamoorthy at gmail.com (Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy)
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 15:08:57 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Fwd: AccessMyLibrary - News, Research,
	and Information that Libraries Trust
In-Reply-To: <47CA0E37.3080206@macinfo.net>
References: <47CA0E37.3080206@macinfo.net>
Message-ID: <9765c2050803020138p77a44f1etef7d94e5fdd3d7d@mail.gmail.com>

Excellent link for full text articles / news items etc.
Millions of public domain articles are indexed and access  provided.

Link Courtesey : Sri Rangarajan

http://www.accessmylibrary.com/


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From rkdce2004 at gmail.com  Mon Mar  3 10:30:08 2008
From: rkdce2004 at gmail.com (rajesh bhardwaj)
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 10:30:08 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Libraries in 2020
In-Reply-To: <c13c85220802272136t3ed04b93w7d35a15d8716163d@mail.gmail.com>
References: <c13c85220802272136t3ed04b93w7d35a15d8716163d@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <2f0a14600803022100w53d54920u23a4396e5bbae70c@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Shukhdev
You have taken a very interesting issue regarding Impact of Technologies on
libraries.
Sh. P.N. Kaula Sahab have realised the impact  and mentioned in his article
published & avalable in "Selections from University News-5"  " Information
Technology in Higher Education" 2000:p20-31, AIU, New Delhi.
Definitely application of technologies has changed the whole phenomenon of
the LIS field; it will reduce the quantity of traditional libraries &
librarians; Librarian have not only to be the technology savvy but more
competitive with computer professionals; it is the principle of the
nature that only fittest will be survived.. and for that we being the LIS
professionals have a challenging  task on which we have to prove our self.
regards


On 2/28/08, Sukhdev Singh <esukhdev at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Around Dec 2005 I made bit of speculations about Libraries in 2020.
>
> Here is a similar item - but gives one year less to libraries i.e. 2019.
>
> http://www.rossdawsonblog.com/weblog/archives/2008/02/will_libraries.html
>
> Have a look,
>
> --Sukhdev Singh, NIC.
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From sbilibrary at gmail.com  Mon Mar  3 10:42:56 2008
From: sbilibrary at gmail.com (Dr.D.P Prathap)
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 10:42:56 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] email ID of publishers
Message-ID: <d612dc320803022112g7d78c5e0s47372f0d21f08326@mail.gmail.com>

Dear colleagues

Please provide the email ID of the following publishers:

1. Kalyani publishers, ludhiana
2. Atlas books and periodicals, Delhi

The information is needed urgently.

Yours sincerely

==============================
(D.PUTHIRA PRATHAP)
OFFICER IN-CHARGE, LIBRARY
SUGARCANE BREEDING INSTITUTE, COIMBATORE ? 641 007. INDIA
PHONE: 91-422-2472621; FAX: 91-422-2472923
www.sugarcane-breeding.tn.nic.in
sbilibrary at gmail.com

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From sbilibrary at gmail.com  Mon Mar  3 13:17:37 2008
From: sbilibrary at gmail.com (Dr.D.P Prathap)
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 13:17:37 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] information
Message-ID: <d612dc320803022347p6defc61fx320626810d6d3a5a@mail.gmail.com>

Dear colleagues

Please inform one or two REPUTED PUBLISHER
for  'MAPS OF INDIA ON CD". This information is
needed urgently.

Yours sincerely
Library
Sugarcane Breeding Institute
sbilibrary at gmail.com

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From vyasamoorthy at gmail.com  Mon Mar  3 15:01:58 2008
From: vyasamoorthy at gmail.com (Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy)
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 15:01:58 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] information
In-Reply-To: <d612dc320803022347p6defc61fx320626810d6d3a5a@mail.gmail.com>
References: <d612dc320803022347p6defc61fx320626810d6d3a5a@mail.gmail.com>
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http://www.mapsofindiacd.com/

Above link gives details of the best maps of India CD i Know of.
Costs around Rs 1000/-

Vyasamoorthy

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 1:17 PM, Dr.D.P Prathap <sbilibrary at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear colleagues
>
> Please inform one or two REPUTED PUBLISHER
> for  'MAPS OF INDIA ON CD". This information is
> needed urgently.
>
> Yours sincerely
> Library
> Sugarcane Breeding Institute
> sbilibrary at gmail.com
>
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From aditya.tripath at gmail.com  Mon Mar  3 15:05:43 2008
From: aditya.tripath at gmail.com (Aditya Tripathi)
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 15:05:43 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] BLIS Revision at IGNOU
In-Reply-To: <20080229070056.M9167@isical.ac.in>
References: <20080229070056.M9167@isical.ac.in>
Message-ID: <d39baa690803030135i5698bf02maf6b5ee8a630cea9@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Dr. Raychaudhury,
It is true we are moving towards having integrated MLISc. program rather
good old one yr BLISc and one yr MLISc program. But if one sees the  library
positional hierarchy there are different levels of jobs in libraries which
requires different levels of competencies. For example, an attends job in a
library does not require Master degree and only BLISc is sufficient for the
post. And if at all a person with higher qualification is appointed on
smaller positions it will create professional dissatisfaction in him and as
soon as he a gets suitable position he will move.  It will create an
environment of instability at lower levels in library.  We need people at
lower level with lesser competency level. Hence, may be BLISc. one yr was a
good option!!!

That way the old system was good for handling the situation.  I feel we
should think thoroughly before going to 2 yr course masters program.

Well I do agree with you about the level of questions asked in interviews.
But it is moral responsibility of expert that he/she should ask questions
only according to the competency required for the advertised post.

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Lecturer
Department of Library & Information Science
Banaras Hindu University
Varanasi-221005
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On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Arup Raychaudhury <arup at isical.ac.in>
wrote:

> It is a bold step. However, it is the time when universities should
> discontinue BLISc course (as they did at the time of introducing
> BLIS/BLISc
> in place of diploma) and introduce 2 years MLISc course. This will
> certainly
> give opportunities to increase the "depth" of the content, reduce
> duplication and include new "topics".  Does any "expert" on
> recruitment/promotion committee ask questions to even a fresh professional
> considering the fact that the candidate has only BLISc degree?
>
> LIS departments are expected to impart the necessary library and
> information
> skills to their students so that the student can to function effectively
> in
> libraries and other information-related work environment with minimum
> supervision. The course designers/expert committee should design an
> appropriate curriculum keeping in view the facts that
> * Employers are many and varied.
> * Employers having different missions and objectives
> * Employers needs to be surveyed in order to know their requirements and
>  assessments
> * Demands of the employers change over time.
> * The Department may be conducting Master and other programme in LIS
> * Feedback of "experts" are important
> * Different skills needed to perform positional responsibilities &
>  professional activities.
> * Students are coming from different socio-economic backgrounds with
> various
>  academic specializations and language skills.
> * Specialized skills needed to serve under privileged, illiterate, neo-
>  literate and physically challenged fellow citizen.
> * Specialized skills needed to play effective role in information literacy
>  programme
>
> IGNOU may also consider allowing student to take a few courses from other
> areas: mass communication, technical writing, computer (CIC, BCA, MCA?),
> psychology etc.
>
>
>
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> Indian Statistical Institute
> 203 BT Road
> Calcutta 700 108
> INDIA
>
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From murari at nio.org  Mon Mar  3 16:27:01 2008
From: murari at nio.org (MP Tapaswi)
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 16:27:01 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] BLIS Revision at IGNOU
In-Reply-To: <d39baa690803030135i5698bf02maf6b5ee8a630cea9@mail.gmail.com>
References: <20080229070056.M9167@isical.ac.in>
	<d39baa690803030135i5698bf02maf6b5ee8a630cea9@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <007001c87d1d$4eeb82c0$11281bac@nio.org>

I fully support Dr Aditya's view. 

Regards, - Murari Tapaswi 

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[mailto:lis-forum-bounces at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of Aditya Tripathi
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 3:06 PM
To: Arup Raychaudhury
Cc: lis-forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in
Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] BLIS Revision at IGNOU

Dear Dr. Raychaudhury,
It is true we are moving towards having integrated MLISc. program rather
good old one yr BLISc and one yr MLISc program. But if one sees the  library
positional hierarchy there are different levels of jobs in libraries which
requires different levels of competencies. For example, an attends job in a
library does not require Master degree and only BLISc is sufficient for the
post. And if at all a person with higher qualification is appointed on
smaller positions it will create professional dissatisfaction in him and as
soon as he a gets suitable position he will move.  It will create an
environment of instability at lower levels in library.  We need people at
lower level with lesser competency level. Hence, may be BLISc. one yr was a
good option!!!

That way the old system was good for handling the situation.  I feel we
should think thoroughly before going to 2 yr course masters program.

Well I do agree with you about the level of questions asked in interviews.
But it is moral responsibility of expert that he/she should ask questions
only according to the competency required for the advertised post. 

-- 
Dr. Aditya Tripathi
Lecturer
Department of Library & Information Science
Banaras Hindu University
Varanasi-221005
----------------------------------------------------
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  https://drtc.isibang.ac.in
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  http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/dlrg 


On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Arup Raychaudhury <arup at isical.ac.in>
wrote:


	It is a bold step. However, it is the time when universities should
	discontinue BLISc course (as they did at the time of introducing
BLIS/BLISc
	in place of diploma) and introduce 2 years MLISc course. This will
certainly
	give opportunities to increase the "depth" of the content, reduce
	duplication and include new "topics".  Does any "expert" on
	recruitment/promotion committee ask questions to even a fresh
professional
	considering the fact that the candidate has only BLISc degree?
	
	LIS departments are expected to impart the necessary library and
information
	skills to their students so that the student can to function
effectively in
	libraries and other information-related work environment with
minimum
	supervision. The course designers/expert committee should design an
	appropriate curriculum keeping in view the facts that
	* Employers are many and varied.
	* Employers having different missions and objectives
	* Employers needs to be surveyed in order to know their requirements
and
	 assessments
	* Demands of the employers change over time.
	* The Department may be conducting Master and other programme in LIS
	* Feedback of "experts" are important
	* Different skills needed to perform positional responsibilities &
	 professional activities.
	* Students are coming from different socio-economic backgrounds with
various
	 academic specializations and language skills.
	* Specialized skills needed to serve under privileged, illiterate,
neo-
	 literate and physically challenged fellow citizen.
	* Specialized skills needed to play effective role in information
literacy
	 programme
	
	IGNOU may also consider allowing student to take a few courses from
other
	areas: mass communication, technical writing, computer (CIC, BCA,
MCA?),
	psychology etc.
	
	
	
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
	Arup Raychaudhury
	Indian Statistical Institute
	203 BT Road
	Calcutta 700 108
	INDIA
	
	
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From cwbailey at digital-scholarship.com  Mon Mar  3 20:40:55 2008
From: cwbailey at digital-scholarship.com (Charles W. Bailey, Jr.)
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:10:55 -0600
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Version 71, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
Message-ID: <47CC14FF.2070702@digital-scholarship.com>

Version 71 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.

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

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

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

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

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

In addition to the bibliography, the XHTML document
includes:

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

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

(2) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources (directory
of over 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://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-02/bailey.html
-- 

Best Regards,
Charles

Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
Publisher, Digital Scholarship
http://www.digital-scholarship.org/

DigitalKoans
Open Access Bibliography
Open Access Webliography
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources
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From jagtar.kindu at gmail.com  Tue Mar  4 06:35:04 2008
From: jagtar.kindu at gmail.com (Jagtar Singh)
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 06:35:04 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Quality Indicators for Academic Libraries from today.
	The workshop proceeding will be posted on the web and these
	mailing lists as well
Message-ID: <41e21fb90803031705o2f2b96cdr257c4f0b8d0c1510@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Colleagues,

The 3-day Workshop on Quality Indicators for Academic Libraries will be
inaugurated today on 4 March at 11.00 a.m.in the Senate Hall of the Punjabi
University, Patiala. Please keep an eye on your mailing lists for getting
information about the learning outcomes of the workshop. About 100 delegates
and 10 resource persons will do brainstorming on quality indicators and best
practices for academic libraries. This would be very valuable for the
institutions seeking NAAC Accreditation.

Best wishes,

Jagtar
-- 
Dr. Jagtar Singh,
Professor,
Department of Library and Information Science, Punjabi University, Patiala
Pin - 147 002 (India)
&
Standing Committee Member,
IFLA Information Technology Section
Email: jagtar.kindu at gmail.com
Tel: +91 (0)175 304 6179 (Work)
       +91 (0)175 228 2727 (Home)
Fax: +91 (0)175 228 3073

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From mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in  Tue Mar  4 11:49:14 2008
From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin)
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 11:49:14 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Librarian vacancy at Palampur
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0803041148050.9172@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>

Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 10:30:14 +0530 (IST)
From: Dr. Nabi Hasan <nabihasan2002 at yahoo.co.in>

Dear collegues, my university has advertised the post of LIBRARIAN and the 
last date is 21/03/2008. The details are 
availablehttp://hillagric.ernet.in/news&jobs/jobs_advt/advt/ADVERTISEMENTNO.04-2008.h 
tml.  you can also e-mail me for further clarification in the matter, 
please.

  Best regards,

--

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Assistant Librarian cum Library System Administrator
University Library, CSK Himachal Pradesh Agricultural University
Palampur (H.P.)- 176 062 (India)
Phone: +91-1894-283184 (Direct), +91-1894-230361 (O)
Cell- +91-9418493990,  +91-1894-234571 (R)
E-Mail: nabihasan at rediffmail.com
             nabihasan at gmail.com
Web:    http://hillagric.ernet.in

From leonardfernandes at yahoo.com  Wed Mar  5 22:18:23 2008
From: leonardfernandes at yahoo.com (Leonard Fernandes)
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 16:48:23 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] New technology for printing books one at a time
Message-ID: <498106.40784.qm@web56306.mail.re3.yahoo.com>

Hello,

I would like to bring your notice to a service we have recently introduced in India - print-on-demand service. This allows us to print one copy of a book at a time thus totally avoiding the need to invest in 1000 copies of book as is usually the case when books are printed using the traditional method of printing.

As expected, the unit cost of a book is high. For example, a 200 page book of size 8 x 5 with a coloured cover, perfect binding and lamination costs Rs. 175/-. Compare this with the unit cost of a book when it is printed using the offset method and you will find a vast difference. A similar book can cost Rs. 40/- using the offset method on condition that you print 1000 copies. However, if you want only 1 copy or only 10 copies of the book either because they are lecture notes compiled together for a class, or because it is a collection of papers saved for future reference or because it is dissertation published handsomely in a book format, it really does not make sense to invest 40000/- (40 x 1000). A better option would therefore be to have it printed and published using the print-on-demand method where one copy would cost Rs. 175/- and 10 would cost Rs. 1750/-.

Although we had never imagined such a use for this technology, a chance visit to the Central Library in Panaji, Goa, enlightened us on what this might be put to us. The Library has manuscripts dating back to pre-portuguese times that visitors to the library often wish to visit. These manuscripts and books are sometimes too delicate to leave in the hands of readers. We are therefore in talks with the library to have these works scanned and have one copy printed so that the copy can be referred to. Copyrights will of course be taken care of during the exercise.

The process of having a book published is simple and allows authors to freely publish their books and manuscripts and distribute it themselves. We believe we have democratized the process of publishing and made it easy for authors to save their work for posterity. All details regarding preparation of manuscript, submission and delivery and even author royalty are explained on our website http://cinnamonteal.dogearsetc.com. Further, in case of clarifications, we are only a phone call away at 91 98503 98530

Regards,

Leonard Fernandes
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From prakash at inflibnet.ac.in  Tue Mar  4 13:38:15 2008
From: prakash at inflibnet.ac.in (K Prakash)
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 13:38:15 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] E FLYER:2009 IFST Award
Message-ID: <006f01c87dd0$11a5d790$a001a8c0@KPrakash>

From: Sarina Paranjape [mailto:sarina at fulbright-india.org]
Sent: 27 February 2008 17:00

Below is the EDM (electronic direct mailer) for the IFST award. Please send
out widely to all your contacts in the network.  Thanks so much,  Sarina
---------------

2009 International Fulbright Science and Technology Award for Outstanding
Foreign Students

The United States Educational Foundation in India (USEFI) invites
applications from interested Indian applicants for the International
Fulbright Science and Technology Award for outstanding foreign students.
This award is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and is designed to
be the most prestigious international scholarship in science and technology.
The International Fulbright Science and Technology Award reaffirms America's
pre-eminence and competitiveness in the fields of science, technology, and
engineering, as the U.S. remains the most attractive destination for serious
scientific and technological research and study.

For more details please visit
http://www.fulbright-india.org/Scripts/ForIndianNationalsForStudentsInternationalFulbrightScienceandTechnologyAward.aspx

http://www.fulbright-india.org/


With best regards.

Bye.
_____________________________
Dr. K Prakash,  PhD
Scientific/Technical Officer-I
Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) Centre
An Inter-University Centre of University Grants Commission
Near Gujarat University Guest House
Post Box No.4116, Navrangpura
Ahmedabad - 380 009   India


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From naveecm at gmail.com  Wed Mar  5 22:06:53 2008
From: naveecm at gmail.com (Naveen M)
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 22:06:53 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Emerald Research Fund Awards 2007/2008
Message-ID: <dae14a5e0803050836q1ba2168cne35c215ff09b3d25@mail.gmail.com>

 Call for Indian LIS research proposals

 "Supporting the dissemination of knowledge for social good in India"

Emerald is offering research grant for an Indian project in the field
of library and information science (LIS). The funding award will
amount to up to ?2,000 (US$4,200 equivalent).

Applications should address the dissemination of knowledge for social
good with a specific orientation toward benefit for India.
Eligibility:

At least one member of the research team must be based in India.
Judging criteria

Each application will be judged, by a panel of experts, on the five
criteria below. The research must:

    * Be of significance, particularly illustrating how it will
benefit the social good.
    * Demonstrate originality and innovation.
    * Make an outstanding contribution to theory and its application.
    * Illustrate the appropriateness and application of the methodology.
    * Demonstrate sound implications for theory and practice.

Application requirements

Each proposal, to arrive either by post or by e-mail, must contain:

   1. A summary stating specific goals, outcomes and benefits of the
research. This should not exceed 2,000 words (note that tables,
figures, appendices and reference lists, if provided do NOT count to
the 2,000 word total).
   2. A covering letter containing contact details for all researchers
involved in the project. Please state clearly which researcher will be
the main point of contact.

The 2,000-word summary must:

    * Display clearly a statement of purpose and intent.
    * State clearly the methodology(ies) applied and explicitly
describe the research process.
    * State expected research outcomes and expected impact and
possible application.
    * Specify the expected timescales of the research process.
    * Outline projected costs and total research grant required.

Where to send your application

Please send all applications (either by post or by e-mail), and
address any questions, to:

Ruth Heppenstall
External Relations Assistant
Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Howard House
Wagon Lane
Bingley BD16 1WA
United Kingdom
Tel: 01274 785261
Fax: 01274 785200
E-mail: rheppenstall at emeraldinsight.com
Key dates

The closing date for applications is 1 April 2008.

The initial short-list will be completed by mid-June 2008.

Winners will be announced in early July 2008.

Details of the 2008 Emerald Research Fund Awards: Management Category
will be announced in early 2008


-- 
Naveen C.M.
IKM Trainee
National Center For Science Information,
Indian Institute of Science.
Bangalooru-12.
Cell - 9844528578

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From ram.mlib at gmail.com  Wed Mar  5 19:48:52 2008
From: ram.mlib at gmail.com (shriram pandey)
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 19:48:52 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] ONIX(ONline Information EXchange)
Message-ID: <f531e6b90803050618g3f945e4n385e8fd16ed1d0b@mail.gmail.com>

Hello list.
               ONIX is an acronym for ONline Information EXchange.
ONIX International refers to a standard format that publishers can use
to distribute electronic information about their books to wholesale,
e-tail and retail booksellers, other publishers, and anyone else
involved in the sale of books. ONIX enables book information to be
communicated between different organizations even if they have
different technical infrastructures and business needs. It isn't a
database, but provides a standard XML template for organizing data
storage.
More detail on :http://www.bisg.org/onix/onix_faq.html#What%20is%20ONIX%20International


Regards,
Shri Ram Pandey
Information and Knowledge Management Trainee
NCSI,Indian Institute Of Science,Bangalore

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From mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in  Thu Mar  6 15:13:39 2008
From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin)
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 15:13:39 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] ISBN -13
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0803061512440.26607@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>

Date: 6 Mar 2008 08:23:22 -0000
From: chandra shekar <chandra_gadhari2006 at rediffmail.com>

Dear all

The following link may be useful to some of our professionals regarding 
Converting and calculating the ISBN 10 to 13.

Needed in order to expand the numbering capacity of the ISBN system and 
alleviate numbering shortages in certain areas of the world. Also, by 
changing the ISBN to 13 digits, the book industry has fully aligned the 
numbering system for books with the global GTIN identification system that 
is widely used to identify most other consumer goods worldwide.

http://www.bisg.org/isbn-13/index.html

Regards

G.Chandra shekar
APL Research centre
Hyderabad

From dinesh.ncet at gmail.com  Thu Mar  6 22:43:45 2008
From: dinesh.ncet at gmail.com (DINESH SIDDAIAH)
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 22:43:45 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Library and Knowledge Management
Message-ID: <62c911520803060913h974f370t761d0746636bff1b@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Friends,

Bosco InfoTech has been advancing library and knowledge management solutions
targeting the educational, research and development institutions. B-LIS
(Bosco Library Information System), the flagship of Library and Knowledge
Management Service is currently implemented for forty-six clients in India.

B-LIS Brochure can be down loaded by log on to,
http://www.boscoinfotech.com/library.htm

Dinesh K S

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From vyasamoorthy at gmail.com  Fri Mar  7 12:45:45 2008
From: vyasamoorthy at gmail.com (Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy)
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 12:45:45 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Right to Information Act -Jobs should be given to
	Information Professionals
In-Reply-To: <20051108054228.99697.qmail@web8303.mail.in.yahoo.com>
References: <20051108054228.99697.qmail@web8303.mail.in.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <9765c2050803062315u7da721e1o8f50b8b559f64643@mail.gmail.com>

I am sorry to reply this message after such a long gap.

Vasanth has raised an important issue. He states that Librarians are
better suited to work as Information Officers and that they are
neglected. I would like to ask a few questions and elicit views of LIS
personnel on these:

How many librarians know what is this monster RTI all about? What is
the role of RTI officer in a govt institution? What type of
information is the scope of RTI Officer? How is the librarian better
suited? What do we librarians learn or know about Govt way of files (&
records) organization - numbering, generation, storing, retrieving,
archiving, rules governing files & documents & records preservation
and conservation etc? How about confidentiality coding and providing
restricted access? How about documents relating to public -- say birth
certificates. With absolutely no theoretical or practical knowledge of
any of these things how do librarians claim that they are better
suited? The RTI was talked about for a number of years before becoming
law. Why did not LIS schools provide changes in the curriculam to
mould librarians into RTI officers?

Well I have a lot of doubts.  Any comments?


On Tue, Nov 8, 2005 at 11:12 AM, vasanth raj <gooche_1981 at yahoo.co.in> wrote:
> Dear Sir/Madam,
>
>
>  The much awaited  Right to Information Act has come into force in India.And already we have seen and heard that there is a  great demand  for information which are vital to its functioning and also to contain corruption and to hold Governments and their instrumentalities accountable to the governed.But Govt Authorities have totally neglected the library and Information Professionals, most of the people who have appointed as public Information Officer have came from Journalism and mass communication." Public Information Officer" job is best suited for LIS professionals where the skills of storage , organise and dissemination of Information is highly required.Already there are instances that Public Information Officers have failed  to provide right information to the right people at a right time.This is because of lack of skills to organise and storage of Information.This is the right time to Library Association and Universities to pressurize Govt. appoint library and Infor!
 mat!
>   ion professionals as  " Public Information Officer" and this will definitely helps people to have information quickly whenever they need.This will not only helps govt to function smoothly and huge opportunities for LIS professionals as well.
>
>
>
>  Your Sincerely
>
> -------------------------
>  Vasantha Raju N
>  Enjoy this Diwali with Y! India http://in.promos.yahoo.com/fabmall/index.html Click here
>
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Phone 27846631 / 94908 04278
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From vijaymlib at gmail.com  Sun Mar  9 14:07:47 2008
From: vijaymlib at gmail.com (vijay kumar)
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 14:07:47 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] UGC -NET form
Message-ID: <6f048b380803090037j397de99ofd6864f932b18519@mail.gmail.com>

Dear friends,
UGC NET-JRF application form has been published for June 2008 sessions.
For further information, please go through the UGC web site.
http://www.ugc.ac.in

Last date for submission of complete form is 2nd may 2008

Thanks
Vijay Kumar
NCSI

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From vyasamoorthy at gmail.com  Sun Mar  9 19:58:34 2008
From: vyasamoorthy at gmail.com (Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy)
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 19:58:34 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Fwd: web: ReadWriteWeb
In-Reply-To: <47D3E6D0.8070008@macinfo.net>
References: <47D3E6D0.8070008@macinfo.net>
Message-ID: <9765c2050803090728u1b788c2ap6ad5611ede80cc7@mail.gmail.com>

Link given below on UN data will be useful to academicians & librarians
Vyasamoorthy

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From: Macinfo <tncrangarajan at macinfo.net>
Date: Mar 9, 2008 7:02 PM
Subject: web: ReadWriteWeb
To: undisclosed-recipients




"UN Data: the Ultimate Research Tool
Written by Sarah Perez / March 6, 2008 2:42 PM / 7 Comments

The new site at UN Data allows anyone to access the United Nations Data
Access System. This online, easy-to-use database was created by the UN
in order to provide current, relevant, and reliable statistics to the
whole world, for free. Using UN Data, you can access statistical
information on populations, demographics, trade, commodities,
agriculture, employment, the environment, industry, education, tourism,
and much more."

      http://www.readwriteweb.com/

      or

      http://snipurl.com/21cct


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From amanimekalai.au at gmail.com  Mon Mar 10 10:54:46 2008
From: amanimekalai.au at gmail.com (A.Manimekalai)
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:54:46 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Librarian Post
Message-ID: <5aa8325d0803092224x71ad4aefm8ac9d6603f4643d@mail.gmail.com>

Dear LIS professionals,

Please find the Librarian Post in TWo Places:

1.  Post: Librarian
Scale: AS per AICTE Norms.
Qualifications: PG in LIbrary Science
CV  Within 10 Days:

mail ID for CV to Send:  rsom at rajagiri.edu

Ref:  The NEw Indian Express: Career, Page 2, MArch 10th 2008
        Dinamani: Ilagnar MAni:  Page: II, 10th March 2008



2.


.  Post: Librarian Scale: AS per AICTE Norms.
Qualifications: PG in LIbrary Science
CV  Within 20-03-2008
 PSR Rangasamy College of Engg.  for Women
9E- NPSN Arumugam Raod,
Sivakasi- 626123
ph:  04562- 225261

Ref:   Dinamani Add: page: IV
date: 10th MArch 2008


BEST OF LUCK
FROM

Dr. A. Manimekalai
Asst. Librarian,( Sr. G)
Faculty of Engg. & Tech./ Library,
Annamalai University
Annamalainagar- 608 002.

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From esukhdev at gmail.com  Mon Mar 10 12:43:56 2008
From: esukhdev at gmail.com (Sukhdev Singh)
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:43:56 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Right to Information Act -Jobs should be given to
	Information Professionals
In-Reply-To: <9765c2050803062315u7da721e1o8f50b8b559f64643@mail.gmail.com>
References: <20051108054228.99697.qmail@web8303.mail.in.yahoo.com>
	<9765c2050803062315u7da721e1o8f50b8b559f64643@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <c13c85220803100013u726146e0x37d5a4c9b73aac77@mail.gmail.com>

I think Information Officer under RTI Act would be a very bad idea for
Librarians.

--Sukhdev Singh, NIC.

On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy
<vyasamoorthy at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am sorry to reply this message after such a long gap.
>
>  Vasanth has raised an important issue. He states that Librarians are
>  better suited to work as Information Officers and that they are
>  neglected. I would like to ask a few questions and elicit views of LIS
>  personnel on these:
>
>  How many librarians know what is this monster RTI all about? What is
>  the role of RTI officer in a govt institution? What type of
>  information is the scope of RTI Officer? How is the librarian better
>  suited? What do we librarians learn or know about Govt way of files (&
>  records) organization - numbering, generation, storing, retrieving,
>  archiving, rules governing files & documents & records preservation
>  and conservation etc? How about confidentiality coding and providing
>  restricted access? How about documents relating to public -- say birth
>  certificates. With absolutely no theoretical or practical knowledge of
>  any of these things how do librarians claim that they are better
>  suited? The RTI was talked about for a number of years before becoming
>  law. Why did not LIS schools provide changes in the curriculam to
>  mould librarians into RTI officers?
>
>  Well I have a lot of doubts.  Any comments?
>
>
>  On Tue, Nov 8, 2005 at 11:12 AM, vasanth raj <gooche_1981 at yahoo.co.in> wrote:
>  > Dear Sir/Madam,
>  >
>  >
>  >  The much awaited  Right to Information Act has come into force in India.And already we have seen and heard that there is a  great demand  for information which are vital to its functioning and also to contain corruption and to hold Governments and their instrumentalities accountable to the governed.But Govt Authorities have totally neglected the library and Information Professionals, most of the people who have appointed as public Information Officer have came from Journalism and mass communication." Public Information Officer" job is best suited for LIS professionals where the skills of storage , organise and dissemination of Information is highly required.Already there are instances that Public Information Officers have failed  to provide right information to the right people at a right time.This is because of lack of skills to organise and storage of Information.This is the right time to Library Association and Universities to pressurize Govt. appoint library and In!
 for!
>   mat!
>  >   ion professionals as  " Public Information Officer" and this will definitely helps people to have information quickly whenever they need.This will not only helps govt to function smoothly and huge opportunities for LIS professionals as well.
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >  Your Sincerely
>  >
>  > -------------------------
>  >  Vasantha Raju N
>  >  Enjoy this Diwali with Y! India http://in.promos.yahoo.com/fabmall/index.html Click here
>  >
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>  >
>  >
>
>
>
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>  Society for Serving Seniors
>  30, Gruhalakshmi Colony, Secunderabad 500015
>  Phone 27846631 / 94908 04278
>  http://societyforservingseniors.satyamcsr.org
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From mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in  Mon Mar 10 13:01:54 2008
From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin)
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:01:54 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Detailed report of the National Workshop on Quality
 Indicators held at Punjabi University, Patiala, 4-6 March 2008 (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0803101258271.21194@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>

Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 18:44:59 +0530
From: Jagtar Singh <jagtar.kindu at gmail.com>

*Library Should be the Second Home of Library Users*

Presiding over the Valedictory Function of the three-day National Workshop
on Quality Indicators and Best Practices for Academic Libraries, organized
by the Department of Library and Information Science, Punjabi University,
Patiala during 04-06 March 2008, Dr. G.S. Kang, Dean, Faculty of Education
and Information Sciences, Punjabi University Patiala underlined the need for
providing quality resources and services in college and university
libraries. He also said that libraries are integral parts of any academic
institution; hence they should strive to provide value-added library
services. Speaking on this occasion, the Guest of Honour Mr. Mohammad Ahsan
Tahami, President of the Punjab Branch of Pakistan Library Association, said
that the workshop has provided an opportunity to him develop professional
relationship with India and other South Asian countries. He further said
that in this era of rapid change and obsolescence, continuous professional
education and training is essential to come up to the expectations of
library users. Such workshops provide an opportunity to the Library and
Information Professionals (LIPs) to share their experiences, expertise, and
professional problems. This workshop has been a great success and I
congratulate the organizers.

Prof. Jagtar Singh, the Workshop Coordinator, said that in this workshop
about 100 LIPs from India and Pakistan have interacted very seriously to
identify quality indicators and best practices for academic libraries. This
workshop was conceived with the objectives of (a) sensitizing the
stakeholders about quality issues in libraries, (b) updating them with the
latest in library and information work; (c) exchanging experience,
expertise, and issues facing the profession; (d) developing partnerships;
(e) managing feedback from the professionals; (f) identifying quality
indicators and best practices; and (g) finding out possibility of
establishing a federation of library association for South Asian countries.
The workshop was organized into eight technical sessions which included the
inaugural, valedictory, and open session, besides five technical sessions.
Though there was tremendous response to this workshop, yet only top 25
presentations could be made in five technical sessions. These included
presentations from the experts, such as Dr HK Kaul, Director, DELNET on ICT
Literacy for* *library educators and practitioners; Prof. RL Raina,
Director, Lal Bahdur Shastri Institute of Management, Delhi on
University-Industry partnership; Dr Harish Chandra, Librarian, IIT Madras on
Quality indicators and best practices in the digital context; Dr. CR
Karisiddappa, President, Indian Association of Teachers of Library and
Information Science on Quality indicators for college libraries; Dr. DV
Singh, Senior Vice President, Indian Library Association on change
management; Dr M. Koganuramath, Librarian, Tata Institute of Social
Sciences, Mumbai on managing learning resources in academic libraries; Dr W.
Senewiratne, Librarian, Open University of Sri Lanka on Criteria for  Quality
Assurance; Prof MP Satija of Guru Nanak Ddev University (GNDU) on Knowledge
organization; Prof. IV Malhan on NAAC accreditation and academic libraries;
SK Arora of Indira Gandhi National Open University on Quality management for
open and distance learners; Prof. Manorama Srinath from Madras University on
TQM in academic libraries; Mr PV Rao of MG state Institute of Public
Administartion Punjab, Chandigarh on Open source software for empowerment of
information poor; Dr HS Chopra of GNDU on Impact of ICTs on academic
libraries;  Prof. Jagtar Singh on Quality collection development in academic
libraries; Dr Trishanjit Kaur on Quality in context of library users; Dr HPS
Kalra on Quality indicators for information services; Kuvir Kaur and Dr.
Kulwinder Singh on Copyright concerns for academic libraries; and Mr Kadsam
Mashroowala of National Institute of Fashion technology (NIFT) Resource
Centre, Gandhinagar on Best practices at NIFT Resource Centre.

Earlier, while inaugurating this workshop organized by the Department of
Library & Information Science, Punjabi University, Patiala on 4 March 2008,
Prof. R.G. Prasher, Former Dean, Faculty of Arts, Sagar University, Sagar
forcefully concerned that Academic Libraries should not be starved of funds
and quality manpower. Mr. M. Moni, Deputy Director General of National
Informatics Centre (NIC), Govt. of India, said in his keynote address that
ICT must be used to spread education and support library outreach,
particularly in the rural areas. Mrs. Kalpana Dasgupta, Library Advisor,
National Knowledge Commission (NKC), informed the workshop participants
about the recommendations of NKC to facilitate access to quality information
at grassroots level. Mr. DV Singh, Senior Vice President of Indian Library
Association stressed upon developing learning resources in local languages
and promoting quality consciousness among the LIPs for strategic
professional learning and change management. Dr Jaspal Singh, Vice
Chancellor, Punjabi University said in his presidential address that library
should be a second home for the library users. He further said that from the
next financial year, special grant will be made available to the Punjabi
University Library to preserve valuable manuscripts and make it a model
university library.

Delegates at the workshop represented various institutions such as National
Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources (NISCAIR), New
Delhi; National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) Resource Centre,
Gandhinagar; Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai; MG State Institute
of Public Administration, Punjab, Chandigarh; various management
institutions; and Jammu, Guru Nanak Dev, Panjab, Kurukshetra, and Delhi
universities. The workshop was also represented from cross section of
library networks and associations at international, national, and local
levels, e.g. from International Federation of Library Associations and
Institutions, (IFLA), International Association of School Librarianship
(IASL), Developing Library Network (DELNET), Information and Library Network
(INFLIBNET), Pakistan Library Association (PLA), Indian Library Association
(ILA), Indian Association of Teachers of Library and Information Science
(IATLIS), Confederation of Library Associations of North India (COLANI),
Punjab Library Association (PLA), Haryana Library Association (HLA),
Chandigarh Librarians Association (CLA),  and Punjab Govt. College
Librarians Association (GCLA). Various facets of academic libraries were
discussed in the context of quality issues from the broader context of
quality in academic libraries, changing context and change management,
quality criteria, TQM, users perspectives, industry expectations and best
practices, collection development, processing, preservation, dissemination
and use, information services, digital context and the impact of ICTs, open
source software, resource sharing and library networks, LIS education,
research and training, open and distance education, etc.

Mrs. Jaspal Kaur, Chairperson, COLANI and General Secretary, CLA; and Mr
Kuldip Singh, Librarian, Government College, Tanda represented the delegates
of the workshop in echoing their concerns regarding need for balancing
theory and practice through more such workshops, conferences, seminars, and
refresher courses. They also suggested that for future such programmes,
recent developments and trends, practical demonstrations and library visits
should respectively be arranged. Authors, presenters, delegates and
dignitaries at the workshop said in one voice that LIPs should focus on
strategic professional learning and quality assurance for staying ahead of
change and competition in the emerging knowledge society.

  --
Dr. Jagtar Singh,
Workshop Coordinator & Professor,
Department of Library and Information Science, Punjabi University, Patiala
Pin - 147 002 (India)
&
Standing Committee Member,
IFLA Information Technology Section
Email: jagtar.kindu at gmail.com
Tel: +91 (0)175 304 6179 (Work)
        +91 (0)175 228 2727 (Home)
Fax: +91 (0)175 228 3073

From librarianmace at yahoo.co.in  Mon Mar 10 12:19:01 2008
From: librarianmace at yahoo.co.in (Shihab Illias)
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 06:49:01 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Information please website
Message-ID: <331760.35463.qm@web8903.mail.in.yahoo.com>

  Dear Professionals 
               ?Information Please? is useful website. It provide links to provides links to :-
     Almanacs
     http://www.infoplease.com/almanacs.html
       World Atlas & Map Library
     http://www.infoplease.com/atlas/
       Encyclopedia
                Access more than 57,000 articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.
     http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/
      Dictionary
   Dictionary Search gives you access to more than 125,000 entries, from aalii to zymurgy
     http://www.infoplease.com/dictionary.html
     Thesaurus
  http://www.infoplease.com/thesaurus
                   The Infoplease thesaurus gives you access to more than 150,000 synonyms.
     Other Features
     Biography, Business, Entertainment, Health & Science, History & Gov't, Society &Culture, Sports, United States, World and also Search Features
       http://www.infoplease.com/spot/
     Quizzes
                 Quizzes in Biography, Business, Entertainment, Health & Science, History & Gov't, Society & Culture, Sports, United States, World
     http://www.infoplease.com/quizzes/
     Timelines: Links to world history 
     http://www.infoplease.com/spot/timelinearchive.html
   Countries of World 
                 Each Country Profile provides information on: Geography ? Maps ? Flag ? History ? Current ruler ? Area ? Population ? Capital ? Largest cities ? Languages ? Ethnicity/race . Religion ? Literacy rate ? Economy ? Governments.
     http://www.infoplease.com/countries.html
     Information Please also allows single windows to search form the above resources and lot more 
     http://www.infoplease.com/
   Shihab.I. 
http://shihabillias.googlepages.com/  
       
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From riz_cusmc at yahoo.co.in  Mon Mar 10 13:03:07 2008
From: riz_cusmc at yahoo.co.in (RIZWAN SHEIKH)
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 07:33:07 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Eligibility Criteria for Librarian
Message-ID: <561951.220.qm@web8803.mail.in.yahoo.com>

Dear professionals,
   
           I am in need of Eligibility criteria for the recruitment of  Librarian in Medical College.  
   
           It is not clearly mentioned on the UGC's & MCI's website. I have written a letter for that purpose to our University registrar through our Dean. but the response is yet to come.
   
          Please oblige me by sending written & authentic document duly signed by  university registrar of any Indian Univeristy, deemed university or any other officer of higher or equivalent grade.
   
  (Rizwan Sheikh)
  Librarian
  C U Shah Medical College,
  Surendranagar, Gujarat,
  India
  Cell : 09924150634


Rizwan
       
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From prakash at inflibnet.ac.in  Mon Mar 10 13:40:27 2008
From: prakash at inflibnet.ac.in (K Prakash)
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:40:27 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] SOUL Coordinator for the different region of the
	Country...requirement from INFLIBNET
Message-ID: <010101c88286$5b2921f0$a001a8c0@KPrakash>

Information and Library Network Centre
An IUC of University Grants Commission
Ahmedabad ? 380 009

March 7, 2008

"Advertisement for 'SOUL Coordinator' for the different region of the
Country"

Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) is an Autonomous
Inter-University Centre of the University Grants Commission (UGC) located at
Gujarat University Campus, Ahmedabad.  Its activities are directed towards
modernization of libraries and information centers for information transfer
and access, to support scholarship, learning and academic pursuits by
establishing a national network of libraries and information centers in
universities, institutions of higher learning and R & D institutions in
India.  It is basically a co-operative endeavour in resource development,
sharing and its utilisation at national level.

Over the years INFLIBNET Centre has developed library management software
called SOUL (Software for University Libraries), to facilitate automation of
various in-house operations in academic libraries. SOUL software works in
Client/ Server mode in Windows environment using MS-SQL server as back end
tool.  SOUL is attracting many libraries and till date 1425 installations
have been done and more than 900 installations are in pipeline.  This
software is capable of handling in house operations of any type of
libraries.

The INFLIBNET Centre wishes to deploy SOUL Coordinators

Incumbent person should be working librarian of University / College or from
academic sector to take up the challenge for activities of Library Science
and automation through our SOUL software.  He will be responsible for
promotions of SOUL software and providing after sale support to the
college/institute/university under his jurisdiction of states.

INFLIBNET Centre is looking for Seven (07) SOUL Coordinators for following
regions:

1. Western Region
2. Southern Region
3. Eastern Region
4. Central Region
5. Maharashtra and Goa
6. Delhi, Punjab, Haryana
7. North Eastern Region

Terms and Condition of the appointment:

1. Educational Qualification:
Incumbent person should have minimum master?s degree in Library and
Information Science (MLISc.)  with IT exposure and literacy in Computer is
must.

2. Experience:
Working Librarian of University/College or Retired Librarian with sound
experience in Library Automation

3. Age:
 Incumbent person should not be above 50 years in case of working librarian.

4. Period of Contract:
 One year from the date of appointment as a SOUL Coordinator

5. Remuneration:
Rs. 3,000/- per month as honorarium. It is likely to be revised to Rs.
9,500/- per month shortly and Rs. 1,000/- per month towards the incidental
expenses to the SOUL Coordinator.

6. Other terms and Conditions:

* The Coordinator will be authorized to appoint two qualified graduate each
from Library Science and Computer Science on consolidated salary of Rs.
5,000/- per month respectively as a Technical Assistant for period of 1
year. It is likely to revised Rs. 7,500/- per month shortly.
* Travel expenses towards the promoting, installation, training and
maintenance of SOUL in their assigned geographical area will be born by
INFLIBNET Centre, maximum limit will be Rs. 25,000/- per annum for self and
for two technical assistants on production of travelling vouchers for each
journey.  For travelling purpose the TA/DA rules will be applicable as per
INFLIBNET Centre?s rule.
* SOUL Coordinator as well as his two technical assistant will be given
orientation and hands on training free of cost by INFLIBNET Centre.

7. Targets:
The Coordinator will be responsible for minimum 50 installations in one year
in their assigned geographical area.

The further information can be had from The Director, INFLIBNET Centre, P.B.
No. 4116, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad ? 380 009 (GUJARAT) for necessary
clarification.
Email: root at inflibnet.ac.in


(Jagdish Arora)
Director



With best regards.

Bye.
_____________________________
Dr. K Prakash,  PhD
Scientific/Technical Officer-I
Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) Centre
An Inter-University Centre of University Grants Commission
Near Gujarat University Guest House
Post Box No.4116, Navrangpura
Ahmedabad - 380 009   India

URL: http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/
Email: prakash at inflibnet.ac.in; prakash_k at yahoo.com
Tel: 079-2630 5971/2630 4695(Off); 2676 3724(Res)
Cell: 94270 00758
Fax: 91-079-2630 0990/ 2630 7816


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From amanimekalai.au at gmail.com  Mon Mar 10 17:59:34 2008
From: amanimekalai.au at gmail.com (A.Manimekalai)
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:59:34 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Please send a soft copy or zerox copy of my paper
Message-ID: <5aa8325d0803100529q55b0077cm53f0588dfa817cb9@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Professionals,

My self and my guide have sent a paper to the International Conference of
the International
Society for Scientometrics & Informatics, ( 5th ) Chicago 1995 entitled


*" Evaluation of Research Productivity of the Marine Scienctists in
Annamalai University: A Bibliometric Analysis.*

* By *

*Suriya, M and Manimekalai, A*



The same had been published in the conference volume  published by   Learnerd
Information Inc., Medford ( NJ) , 1995,



Our paper is published in the pages: 545 to  554.



Kindly if any one of you happened to have this volume, please let me know so
that I can have a xerox copy of  it.



I assure you that i will send the money spent on the xerox taken by DD
before i receive the copy.



It will be verymuch useful for my career.



If possible please scan that paper and send the same to my mail ID.



Thanking you in anticipation,

Dr. A. Manimekalai

Asst. Librarian (Sr.G)

FAculty of Engg. & Tech. Library,

Annamalai University.

Annamalainagar- 608 002.

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From drtc at isibang.ac.in  Tue Mar 11 10:28:52 2008
From: drtc at isibang.ac.in (DRTC General)
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:28:52 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Workshop on Ontology
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0803111024510.762@ns.isibang.ac.in>


Dear Colleague:The DRTC, Indian Statistical Institute has organized a 
3-day Workshop on Ontologies from 19th to 21st March 2008 in association 
with the  Department of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Canada and 
PES Institute of  Technology, Bangalore. The workshop is intended for 
information professionals and  knowledge managment professionals. The 
workshop will also be useful for tecahers and researchers in the area. The 
Workshop methodology will be:Presentations by eminent resource persons;Demonstration of Software and ProductsHands-on 
Besides  members of faculty of the Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore, the workshop 
faculty will include:Mr. P.J. Bhat, Managing Director, Parity Computing 
India,  BangaloreDr. Raj Datta, Vice Presdient, Knowledge Management, 
MindTree Consulting Ltd, Bangalore Mr.Shahnawaz Khan, Associate Director - Knowledge Management, MindTree 
Consulting Ltd,Bangalore Ms. A. Latha, Associate Vice-President and Group Head, Knowledge
Management, Infosys Technologies, Ltd., BangaloreDr. Kavi Mahesh, 
Professor, Dept.of Computer Science, PES Institute of Technology, BangaloreDr. Michael 
Shepherd, Dean, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, 
CanadaThe number of participants will be restricted to 20. Those 
interested in registering for the workshop may send the course fee of Rs. 
1000/- in the form of a crossed demand draft
payable at Bangalore drwan in favour of the Indian Statistical Institute, 
Bangalore. The course fee covers the cost of workshop kit, lunch and tea 
for 3 days. Accommodation in the Guesthouse on the campus of the Indian 
Statistical Institute could be arranged for a limited number of 
participants at a nominal cost. For any other information please write to 
Dr. K. S. Raghavan
(raghavan at drtc.isibang.ac.in; raghavan at isibang.ac.in) or to Dr. Devika 
Madalli (devika at drtc.isibang.ac.in)
Dr. K. S. Raghavan Professor, DRTC, Indian Statistical Institute Bangalore 
560 059
Tel: +91-80-28483002 to 28483006 Ext. 492 Fax: +91-80-28484910



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From mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in  Tue Mar 11 14:43:26 2008
From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin)
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:43:26 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] National Symposium on Recent Advances in Information
	Science
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0803111441210.2430@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>

Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 13:26:23 +0530
From: madaiah krishnamurthy <mkrishna_murthy at hotmail.com>


Dear Professional Friends,


Mysore University Library in association with Society for Information 
Science (SIS) Bangalore chapter plans to organise a sympoium on Recent 
Adances in Information Science during 28-29 March, 2008 .

Objectives of the Symposium:

The main objective of the sympoium is to share experiences and knowledge 
on the recent advances in information science field. Particularly, the 
discussions in the symposium will be centered on:

Electronic Information sources and services
Open Access and Open (Source)Wares
Library Consortia and Networking
E-Learning
Web 2.0 and Library 2.0


Inviteds Experts:  Learned Experts in the field of Library and Information 
Science are invited to deliver lectrues on the theme of the symposium.

Participants: Librarians, Information Scientists, Researchers and School 
of Library and Informaton Science.

Registration fee:

The Registration fee for the sympoisum is Rs. 600/= (Rupees six hundred 
only).This includes working lunch, tea and resource kit.

Accommodation:  Accommodation at a nominal cost could be arranged for a 
limtied number of participants on a first - cum-first serve basis in the 
guest house attached to the University of Mysore.

Registration Form:

1. Name.........
2. Designation .....
3. Institution ......
4. Address.......
5. Phone....
6. Email .....
7. Accommodation Requried            Yes           No

8. Registration Fee:       Rs   600/=

     D.D   No         Date



Date                                  Signature


Registration form and Broucher of the symposium theme have been sent to 
the different organisation.

Dr. M.Krishnamurthy
Organising Secretary
NSRAIS-2008

Dr.M.Krishnamurthy,M.A.,M.L.I.Sc., PhD.
University Librarian
University of Mysore
Manasagangothri,
Mysore 570006
Ph: 91-0821-2514808/2419388
Fax: 91-0821-2419335

From esukhdev at gmail.com  Tue Mar 11 14:42:36 2008
From: esukhdev at gmail.com (Sukhdev Singh)
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:42:36 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Author asking for his own paper,
	this is why Open Access is required.
Message-ID: <c13c85220803110212j5c85b2d6va69296c25035a2b7@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Friends,

First of all, please do not take it personal. But this reminds me once
again the serious problems with the conventional academic publishing
model. Author is asking for his own paper and ready to pay. If the
author himself is not able to see his own paper, what are the chances
of his paper seen by his peers?

Had the authors retained their (own) paper with (own) rights to
self-achieve, this problem would not had occurred. No wonder few days
back Harvard faculty voted to make their articles openly accessible.
http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2008/02.14/99-fasvote.html

"You Write The Papers,
You Review the Papers..
Why Should You Pay to Read Them?"
-- plos.org - http://www.plos.org/downloads/plos_cartoon001.jpg


Time to think again? Isn't Open Access the answer?

--Sukhdev Singh, NIC.



> Dear Professionals,
>
> My self and my guide have sent a paper to the International Conference of
> the International
> Society for Scientometrics & Informatics, ( 5th ) Chicago 1995 entitled
>
>
>
> " Evaluation of Research Productivity of the Marine Scienctists in Annamalai
> University: A Bibliometric Analysis.
>
....
>
> The same had been published in the conference volume  published by
> Learnerd Information Inc., Medford ( NJ) , 1995,
>

...

>
> Our paper is published in the pages: 545 to  554.
>
> Kindly if any one of you happened to have this volume, please let me know so
> that I can have a xerox copy of  it.
>

>
> I assure you that i will send the money spent on the xerox taken by DD
> before i receive the copy.

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From rajankila at hotmail.com  Tue Mar 11 16:20:02 2008
From: rajankila at hotmail.com (Rajan)
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:20:02 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] On RTI Act
Message-ID: <BAY143-DAV1296677E484BD2C2090A28A00F0@phx.gbl>



Dear Shri P Vyasamoorty,


As a person with very good knowledge about RTI act and its requirements, I 
would suggest that librarians are not very suitable for working as State 
Public Information Officers(SPIO)  in the Institutions they work. The job 
requirements of SPIO  are to receive applications, ensure access to 
information and dispose of applications after careful examination of merit 
of each one. Under the RTI Act. the cataloging, arrangement and retrieval of 
information need to be done by the concerned officer and not by anyone else 
including the SPIO.
As well, an officer in sufficient command and authority in that office is 
the right choice for the position of SPIO so as to ensure easy access to 
information through the subordinate officers. The job of SPIO involves a lot 
of quasi-judicial decision making on which librarians are ill-equipped 
unlike the administrative personnel.

As RTI involves a lot of administrative re-arrangement of records, the 
librarians can do a lot in that area, particularly in numbering and 
cataloguing of them.

Best Regards,

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

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy" <vyasamoorthy at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Right to Information Act -Jobs should be
given to Information Professionals
To: "vasanth raj"

I am sorry to reply this message after such a long gap.
Vasanth has raised an important issue. He states that Librarians are
better suited to work as Information Officers and that they are
neglected. I would like to ask a few questions and elicit views of LIS
personnel on these:
How many librarians know what is this monster RTI all about? What is
the role of RTI officer in a govt institution? What type of
information is the scope of RTI Officer? How is the librarian better
suited? What do we librarians learn or know about Govt way of files (&
records) organization - numbering, generation, storing, retrieving,
archiving, rules governing files & documents & records preservation
and conservation etc? How about confidentiality coding and providing
restricted access? How about documents relating to public -- say birth
certificates. With absolutely no theoretical or practical knowledge of
any of these things how do librarians claim that they are better
suited? The RTI was talked about for a number of years before becoming
law. Why did not LIS schools provide changes in the curriculam to
mould librarians into RTI officers?
Well I have a lot of doubts.  Any comments? 


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From nandeesh_nandu at rediffmail.com  Tue Mar 11 18:39:49 2008
From: nandeesh_nandu at rediffmail.com (nandeesh nandu)
Date: 11 Mar 2008 13:09:49 -0000
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Need Information Urgently
Message-ID: <20080311130949.23143.qmail@f5mail-236-232.rediffmail.com>

  
Dear professionals,

Let me know, Any Indian Universities given Distance Education in Master of Hospital Management or MBA in Hospital Management.



Thanks and regards,

B. Nandeesha,
Deputy Librarian,
IIITB,
Electronic City,
Bangalore - 100.
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From kshipra.sardesai at gmail.com  Tue Mar 11 20:14:16 2008
From: kshipra.sardesai at gmail.com (Kshipra Sardesai)
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:14:16 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] On RTI Act
In-Reply-To: <BAY143-DAV1296677E484BD2C2090A28A00F0@phx.gbl>
References: <BAY143-DAV1296677E484BD2C2090A28A00F0@phx.gbl>
Message-ID: <8751201f0803110744ia0acbbcvbb3ea97475a1fe0a@mail.gmail.com>

Dear LIS Professionals,

I also agree with K Rajashekharan views about RTI Act professionals as
Librarians.I would like to add some more points to that.

   1. Librarians have approach of solving the problems.
   2. They are good listeners and ability to know the subject.
   3. Librarians are polite and servicing attitudes
   4. Cataloguing and classification experts
   5. They are expert in preservation, retrieval and dissemination .
   6. To get the best implemtation of RTI Act among the common people
   they are the proper persons to guide in a correct fashion.
   7. Reagrding Govt Procedures and regulations these things are to be
   trained to every professionals and once this type of training and knowledge
   is given then LIS professionals will definately give best outputs.
   8. The Information Technology updates are being accepted by this
   profession
   9. If such officer fron LIS is in this field and if he is in rural
   region, definately there will be more coordination from rural people to
   Librarian than a govt professional or other IPS
professional.Ruralpeople have fear and complex about Govt employees
but they respect and
   listen to their librarians.
   10. This will give status and Yes the job satisfaction too.


 Regards

Mrs Kshipra Sardesai
Librarian, RBI, DESACS
Bandra



sOn 3/11/08, Rajan <rajankila at hotmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> Dear Shri P Vyasamoorty,
>
>
> As a person with very good knowledge about RTI act and its requirements, I
> would suggest that librarians are not very suitable for working as State
> Public Information Officers(SPIO)  in the Institutions they work. The job
> requirements of SPIO  are to receive applications, ensure access to
> information and dispose of applications after careful examination of merit
> of each one. Under the RTI Act. the cataloging, arrangement and retrieval
> of
> information need to be done by the concerned officer and not by anyone
> else
> including the SPIO.
> As well, an officer in sufficient command and authority in that office is
> the right choice for the position of SPIO so as to ensure easy access to
> information through the subordinate officers. The job of SPIO involves a
> lot
> of quasi-judicial decision making on which librarians are ill-equipped
> unlike the administrative personnel.
>
> As RTI involves a lot of administrative re-arrangement of records, the
> librarians can do a lot in that area, particularly in numbering and
> cataloguing of them.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> K Rajasekharan
> Librarian, Kerala Institute of Local Administration(KILA)
> Mulagunnathukavu, Thrissur - 680581 , India
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy" <vyasamoorthy at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Right to Information Act -Jobs should be
> given to Information Professionals
> To: "vasanth raj"
>
> I am sorry to reply this message after such a long gap.
> Vasanth has raised an important issue. He states that Librarians are
> better suited to work as Information Officers and that they are
> neglected. I would like to ask a few questions and elicit views of LIS
> personnel on these:
> How many librarians know what is this monster RTI all about? What is
> the role of RTI officer in a govt institution? What type of
> information is the scope of RTI Officer? How is the librarian better
> suited? What do we librarians learn or know about Govt way of files (&
> records) organization - numbering, generation, storing, retrieving,
> archiving, rules governing files & documents & records preservation
> and conservation etc? How about confidentiality coding and providing
> restricted access? How about documents relating to public -- say birth
> certificates. With absolutely no theoretical or practical knowledge of
> any of these things how do librarians claim that they are better
> suited? The RTI was talked about for a number of years before becoming
> law. Why did not LIS schools provide changes in the curriculam to
> mould librarians into RTI officers?
> Well I have a lot of doubts.  Any comments?
>
>
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From haravu at newgenlib.com  Wed Mar 12 07:42:29 2008
From: haravu at newgenlib.com (L J Haravu)
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 07:42:29 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Mr D K Singhs comments on NewGenLib services at CALIBER
Message-ID: <47D73C0D.1080605@newgenlib.com>

Dear Dr Singh

I was very saddened to learn that Dr Singh of BHU library made 
disparaging remarks about NewGenLib and its services at the recent 
INFLIBNET's CALIBER meeting. You are of course completely free to 
express your views in public and private and I am not questioning this 
freedom. However, as a dispassionate third party (I have no commercial 
interests) involved in NewGenLib's development and support, I will be 
failing in my duty if I do not set the record straight.

    * The development company (Verus Solutions Pvt. Ltd. or VSPL)
      dedicated one of its staff members exclusively for BHU for 6
      months to sit with your library staff. Although you paid for the
      staff's stay at Varanasi, kindly do not forget that this person
      was not available for other training and support work at all to
      VSPL. This did put a lot of pressure on this front. I wonder if
      any other vendor would have agreed to put one of its staff
      exclusively for BHU use for 6 months.
    * VSPL customized the software at BHU request for a number of
      things. All customizations were done free of charge. Some examples
      of the customization which was very specific to your needs: 1. We
      created easy-to-use data entry templates so that data entry
      operators that you appointed could enter data into the database..
      2. We developed routines for you to print 5 x 3 inch catalogue
      cards, a requirement that is no longer needed by other libraries,
      nor provided by most ILMS vendors.
    * VSPL conducted three training programmes at BHU library at various
      times (two of these were at VSPL cost) during the last two years
      because we wanted your staff to become as comfortable with the
      functional modules as possible. Unfortunately, not all of your
      staff took interest and many of them did not participate
      wholeheartedly.
    * Whenever VSPL received a phone call from you/colleagues or when
      one of your colleagues was on chat, the support staff attended to
      you patiently and attempted to help solve problems.
    * On several occasions, VSPL supported via customizations of the
      software, the capability for you to continue with old practices
      that are not necessarily considered best practices today.
    * VSPL helped your barcode printer vendor to use output from
      NewGenLib to print barcode labels.
    * Whenever you telephoned me, you expressed your disappointment that
      you yourself could not participate in the training programmes.
      Kindly recall that I invited you several times to come to
      Hyderabad and spend a few days with developers and trainers.
      However, your busy schedule apparently did not allow this to happen.

I am the last person to claim that NewGenLib is bug free, etc., etc. But 
I can claim quite proudly that we (VSPL and KIIKM) are constantly 
testing and improving the software and new versions with new features 
will always be on our road map. Very soon we will release a z39.50 
client which will be well integrated with NewGenLib.

It is more than a year since VSPL installed the software, trained your 
staff, gave you email, chat and telephone support without getting an 
Annual Maintenance fee which incidentally BHU library has not paid.

I hope you will realize why I was saddened when I heard that you spoke 
rather disparagingly about NewGenLib which is now open source. I am 
happy to let you know that it has been welcomed by many current and 
potentially new users.

In the final analysis, neither your criticism nor my defense is 
important. What is enduring long after we have passed into oblivion is 
that the extremely valuable collection at BHU, built painstakingly by 
erstwhile librarians and scholars should become known and accessible to 
your students, faculty, researchers and indeed worldwide. If indeed you 
can do this with NewGenLib or any other software,  good luck and God 
Speed to you.

Best regards.

L J Haravu

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From ramannair_r at yahoo.com  Wed Mar 12 09:01:26 2008
From: ramannair_r at yahoo.com (Raman Nair.)
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:31:26 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] On RTI Act
In-Reply-To: <BAY143-DAV1296677E484BD2C2090A28A00F0@phx.gbl>
Message-ID: <659762.2185.qm@web54506.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

Dear Sri Rajasekharan

Library has very improtant roles to play in achieving
the objectives of Right to Information Act.
I ahve earlier prepared a paper on this aspect which
you can find at:
http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00007845/

Regards

Dr. R. Raman Nair
Mahatma Gandhi University


--- Rajan <rajankila at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> Dear Shri P Vyasamoorty,
> 
> 
> As a person with very good knowledge about RTI act
> and its requirements, I 
> would suggest that librarians are not very suitable
> for working as State 
> Public Information Officers(SPIO)  in the
> Institutions they work. The job 
> requirements of SPIO  are to receive applications,
> ensure access to 
> information and dispose of applications after
> careful examination of merit 
> of each one. Under the RTI Act. the cataloging,
> arrangement and retrieval of 
> information need to be done by the concerned officer
> and not by anyone else 
> including the SPIO.
> As well, an officer in sufficient command and
> authority in that office is 
> the right choice for the position of SPIO so as to
> ensure easy access to 
> information through the subordinate officers. The
> job of SPIO involves a lot 
> of quasi-judicial decision making on which
> librarians are ill-equipped 
> unlike the administrative personnel.
> 
> As RTI involves a lot of administrative
> re-arrangement of records, the 
> librarians can do a lot in that area, particularly
> in numbering and 
> cataloguing of them.
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> K Rajasekharan
> Librarian, Kerala Institute of Local
> Administration(KILA)
> Mulagunnathukavu, Thrissur - 680581 , India
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy"
> <vyasamoorthy at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Right to Information Act
> -Jobs should be
> given to Information Professionals
> To: "vasanth raj"
> 
> I am sorry to reply this message after such a long
> gap.
> Vasanth has raised an important issue. He states
> that Librarians are
> better suited to work as Information Officers and
> that they are
> neglected. I would like to ask a few questions and
> elicit views of LIS
> personnel on these:
> How many librarians know what is this monster RTI
> all about? What is
> the role of RTI officer in a govt institution? What
> type of
> information is the scope of RTI Officer? How is the
> librarian better
> suited? What do we librarians learn or know about
> Govt way of files (&
> records) organization - numbering, generation,
> storing, retrieving,
> archiving, rules governing files & documents &
> records preservation
> and conservation etc? How about confidentiality
> coding and providing
> restricted access? How about documents relating to
> public -- say birth
> certificates. With absolutely no theoretical or
> practical knowledge of
> any of these things how do librarians claim that
> they are better
> suited? The RTI was talked about for a number of
> years before becoming
> law. Why did not LIS schools provide changes in the
> curriculam to
> mould librarians into RTI officers?
> Well I have a lot of doubts.  Any comments? 
> 
> 
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From sanjeevmlis at gmail.com  Wed Mar 12 11:47:56 2008
From: sanjeevmlis at gmail.com (Sanjeev Kumar Jain)
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:17:56 -0800
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Model Library for Library Professionals
Message-ID: <fbdfa3c60803112317r1e1c258eg5c4b99c0d597278@mail.gmail.com>

Dear LIS Professional

Please visit DAIICT (Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information Communicaton
and Technology) Resource Centre. Make a web tour, I am providing a link
http://resourcecentre.daiict.ac.in/

This can make out view of a model Library. If you got opportunity to vist
DAIICT its wonderful for iibrary and information professional.


Sanjeev Kumar Jain
C/o Anministration Dept.
GH-0, Behind Infocity
National Institute of Fashion Technology,
Gandhinagar-382 007
Email: infolibrarian at gmail.com

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From angrosh at isim.ac.in  Wed Mar 12 11:51:11 2008
From: angrosh at isim.ac.in (Angrosh)
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:51:11 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Workshop on Machine Learning, April 21-25, 2008,
	Bangalore - Call for participation
Message-ID: <GEEDIKOEAOFBDNJNCHIBOEMLCBAA.angrosh@isim.ac.in>


The International School of Information Management (ISiM), University of
Mysore is organizing a Workshop on Machine Learning - its second Executive
Education Programme during April 21-25 in Bangalore. (www.isim.ac.in/mlw)

The Workshop faculty is Prof. Sargur Srihari, SUNY Distinguished Professor
of Computer Science and Engineering at the University at Buffalo, State
University of New York, USA and Visiting Faculty at ISiM. Professor Srihari,
author of more than 300 research papers including 6 US patents, is the
founding director of CEDAR (Centre of Excellence for Document Analysis and
Recognition) and a well-known expert in pattern recognition and Machine
Learning.

Registration fee: Rs. 15000/-* per participant (Earn yourself 3 credits from
this Executive Education Programme) ? Limited seats available. Registration
on first come, first serve basis.

Focus of the Workshop:

Balancing theory and practice, this Workshop, will focus on the following
applications:

? Information Retrieval,
? Language Processing,
? Document Analysis
? Speech Recognition

Objectives of the workshop:

? Introduce participants to concepts of ML including concepts of clustering,
Gaussian mixtures and dimensionality reduction
? Enable the use of the state of the art methods and tools in ML techniques
? Provide an overview of the major areas of applications of ML
? An in depth understanding of ML applications in the four focus areas -
Information Retrieval; Language Processing; Document Analysis and Speech
Recognition
? Provide hands on training on the key techniques

Course Outline

Module 1.  Introduction: What is ML; Discriminative vs Generative ;
Regression Example
Module 2: Probability Theory ; Decision Theory ; Information Theory ;
Probability Distributions ; Linear Regression Models ;  Linear Basis
Functions ; Bias-Variance Trade-off ; Bayesian Linear Regression
Module 3.  Neural Networks and Kernel Machines: Biological Motivation;
Perceptrons ; Multilayer Networks and Backpropagation ; Representational
Power; Applications ; Support Vector Machines
Module 4.  Graphical Models and EM: Bayesian Networks; Conditional
Independence; Markov Random Fields ; Inference in Graphical Models ; K-means
Clustering ; Mixtures of Gaussians
Module 5. Sampling Methods: Basic Sampling Methods; Monte Carlo Methods,
Gibbs Sampling
Module 6: Sequential Data : Markov Models ; Hidden Markov Models ;
Extensions to HMMs ; Linear Dynamical Systems ; Conditional Random Fields
Module 7. ML Applications with focus on  Information Retrieval, Document
Analysis and Recognition, Natural Language Processing, Data Mining


Participant Profile

This Workshop is designed for academicians and professionals in Computer
Science and Engineering, Statistics and Social Sciences. The workshop is
mainly targeted for:

? Academicians and industry practitioners of ML
? Professionals working in the areas of Information Retrieval, Language
Processing, Document Analysis and Speech Recognition
? Researchers working in the application areas but new to ML
? Students pursuing projects in ML

Workshop Highlights and Benefits to Participants

? Get a panoramic view of ML
? Understand the basics of ML
? Learn the latest tools and techniques used in ML
? Get hands on experience on developing basic biometric, character and image
recognition modules
? Gain knowledge of implementing advanced classifiers and boosting
? Get exposure to new arenas of research and projects

Workshop Venue

Informatics (India) Ltd.
No. 194, R.V. Road
Basavanagudi, P.B. No. 400
Bangalore 560 004

For more details Please contact Angrosh at 9886970411 or mail to
office at isim.ac.in

*Registration fee includes workshop material, lunch and refreshments

************************************************
M. A. Angrosh
Project Manager
International School of Information Management
University of Mysore, Manasagangotri
Mysore - 570 006
Tel: +91-821-2514699; Fax: +91-821-2519209
Email: angrosh at isim.ac.in
Website: www.isim.ac.in

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From akc at bic.boseinst.ernet.in  Wed Mar 12 21:11:15 2008
From: akc at bic.boseinst.ernet.in (Dr. Arun K. Chakraborty)
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:11:15 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Call for Papers : 23rd National SEMINAR OF IASLIC --
	2008
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0803101258271.21194@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>
References: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0803101258271.21194@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>
Message-ID: <20080312154115.M45720@bic.boseinst.ernet.in>

Dear Moderator

Pl. circulate this news.

Dr. Arun Kumar Chakraborty
Organizing Secretary IASLIC Seminar 2008 and General Secretary, IASLIC

23rd National SEMINAR OF IASLIC On Library Profession in Search of a New 
Paradigm 10? 13 December, 2008

Organized by
Bose Institute
P-1/12 CIT SCHEME, VII-M, KANKURGACHI,  KOLKATA   700054
Ph : 91-33-25693200, 3301  Fax : 91-33-23553886
www.boseinst.ernet.in, e-mail : akc at bic.boseinst.ernet.in 
 and 
INDIAN ASSOCIATION OF SPECIAL LIBRARIES AND INFORMATION CENTRES (IASLIC)
P-291, CIT SCHEME NO. 6M, KANKURGACHI, KOLKATA  700 054
IASLIC Phone : (033) 2362-9651
Website : www.iaslic1955.org,  e-mail : iaslic at vsnl.net  

Important dates
a.	Submissions 	of Papers	: 	July 18th, 2008
b.	Acceptance of Papers		: 	September 5th, 2008
c.	Camera-ready copy of Papers	: 	October 3rd, 2008

ABOUT THE THEME

Library Profession in Search of a New Paradigm  ----  In the emerging 
Knowledge Society the conception of Library & information is required to be 
changed and that is the current trends. IASLIC with a strong linkage with 
the Professionals and stake holders is providing a common forum to address 
various issues relating to Library Profession in the era of Knowledge 
Society at its 23rd National Seminar to be held at the Bose Institute, 
Kolkata from 10-13 December, 2008. The seminar will provide an opportunity 
to review and discuss comprehensively the matters related to the changing 
society to meet the challenges posed by the National Knowledge Commission 
(NKC), India.

THEME	: LIBRARY PROFESSION IN SEARCH OF A NEW PARADIGM

Papers are invited in the following areas for deliberations    

1.     Paradigm shifts in LIS profession in the Knowledge Society.
       ?     Implications of the National Knowledge Commission (NKC) 
                 recommendations
             
2.     Libraries and Information Centres (LICs) in the changing paradigm
       ?     Transformation of LICs
       ?     Consortia and network formation
       ?     Technological advancement  and LICs : Role of mobile computing 
               and ICT
       ?     Role of LICs in conservation of heritage
       ?     Changing library architecture

3.     Information Resources (IRs) in changing scenario
        ?     New media of resources
        ?     New technologies used in producing IRs
        ?     Conservation of information resources

4.     New forms of work organization in LICs : team work, job sharing, 
       outsourcing, telework

5.     Libraries and information services in new environment
       ?     Adoption of new technologies in providing services
       ?     Electronic information services

6.     Users in the new paradigm
       ?     Changes in information needs and information seeking behavior 
                of users     
       ?     User education and information literacy issues
       ?     User satisfaction and management

7.     LIS professionals in changing environment 
        ?     New roles and responsibilities as collection developer/  
               content manager/ consortia manager/ consultant/ teacher
       
        ?     Status, reputation and image of the library & information 
               professionals

        ?    Competency development issues : reorientation and restructuring 
               of LIS courses, continuing education programmes

        ?     Aptitude development : Human reengineering approach

 8.     Role and responsibilities of Library Associations in Knowledge 
              Society
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SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP (SIG) MEETINGS

SIG	Theme	Convener 
SIG-Computer Application	Open Access Initiatives- Role of LIS 
professionals	Dr. Subarna Das, skd_ju2002 at yahoo.co.in   

SIG-Library & Information Science Education	Virtual Learning Environment
	Dr. J. Sharma, j_sharma2002 at yahoo.com

SIG-Humanities Information	Humanities and impact of IT	Md. Syed 
Abuzar, 9330057962
SIG-Social Sciences Information	Organization of Newspaper sources 
information in India ? problems and prospects.	Dr. P.R. Goswami
23385959/23381571 (O)
SIG-Informatrics	From Librametrics to Webometrics	Dr. P.S. 
Mukhopadhyay, psm_vu at india.com

SIG-Industrial Information	Environmental analysis and industrial 
information	Sri S.B. Banerjee

Note :  Paper may be written on any one or more facets mentioned above or 
any other related area but it must be oriented towards the main theme.

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS

1.	Both invited and contributed papers will be considered. Submitted 
papers or extended abstracts will have participative peer-to-peer reviews. 

2.	A generalized presentation should be avoided. 

3.	Full Paper with abstract not exceeding 2500 words (not more than 10 
pages of A-4 Size paper single space with margin of 1.25? in left / right / 
top and bottom and duly signed by the author(s) and typed / printed in 
double space (in duplicate) and also on diskettes composed in MS Word, 
should reach IASLIC office by 18th July, 2008. Photographs, graphs, charts, 
if any should be submitted along with the negative copy/ print / tracing 
paper. Papers may be sent through e-mail and members of the editorial 
committee would like to communicate all information regarding papers through 
e-mail. (akc at bic.boseinst.ernet.in, iaslic at vsnl.net). 

4.	A declaration by the author(s) should be made separately (with 
original signature) that the paper(s) has / have not been sent elsewhere for 
publication / presentation and copyright of the paper(s) has/have been 
assigned to IASLIC. 

5.	Author must clearly indicate the category of sub-theme of the paper.

6.	All accepted papers will be invited for presentation either in the 
main thematic session or in the SIG Meetings of the Seminar. Presenter will 
be allowed maximum ten minutes for presentation including introduction and 
conclusion.

7.	There will be provision for Poster presentation. All papers accepted 
for poster presentation will have extended abstract within 300 words in the 
pre seminar volume. All papers accepted for poster presentation will be 
allocated time for display of full papers, the area for poster presentation 
shall be about 3?x5? (length x breadth). 

8.	Papers accepted for presentation on the main theme of the Seminar,  
SIG Meetings as well as Poster presentation will be included in the printed 
pre-seminar volume only on receiving non-refundable Rs.800/- (Rupees eight 
hundred only) in advance / for students and retired persons Rs.500/- (Rupees 
five hundred) only which will be adjusted with Registration Fees. DD or 
local cheques may be sent in favour of ?IASLIC, Payable at Kolkata? and may 
be sent to Dr. Arun Kumar Chakraborty, Hony. General Secretary, IASLIC, P-
291, CIT Scheme No. 6M, Kankurgachi, Kolkata ? 700054. In no case money will 
be refunded.

9.	First Author is entitled to get ten copies of reprints

10.	The decision of the Editorial Committee will be final and no 
correspondence regarding the acceptance of papers for presentation in the 
seminar or otherwise will be entertained. 

11.	Correspondence regarding papers should be addressed to Dr. Arun 
Kumar Chakraborty, Hony. General Secretary, IASLIC, P-291, CIT Scheme No. 
6M, Kankurgachi, Kolkata ? 700054. akc at bic.boseinst.ernet.in  and for 
seminar update / online registration etc. please visit www.iaslic1955.org / 
www.boseinst.ernet.in/bi-lib-ialsic-seminar-2008. 

    Important dates
a.	Submissions 	of Papers		: 	July 18th, 2008
b.	Acceptance of Papers		: 	September 5th, 2008
c.	Camera-ready copy of Papers	: 	October 3rd, 2008


                        SOME USEFUL INFORMATION

Dates 					:	December 10-13, 2008

Venue 				         :	Bose Institute
                                                P-1/12 CIT SCHEME, VII-M, 
                                                KANKURGACHI, KOLKATA   700054

Organizing Secretary 		: 	Dr. Arun Kumar Chakraborty
                                        Librarian
                                        Bose Institute
                                       Ph : 91-33-25693200/ 3301  Fax : 91-
                                       33-23553886, e-mail : 
                                       akc at bic.boseinst.ernet.in, 
                                        c_arunk at hotmail.com 
  

Director of Thematic Sessions 	: 	Prof. P.B. Mangla
                                        Retd. Professor & Head 
                                        Department of Library & Information 
                                        Science, University of Delhi 

Rapporteur General 		:	Dr. Shyamal Roy Choudhury
                                        Former Head, Physiology Dept. 
                                        Tamralipta Mahavidyalaya, Tamluk. 
                                        Guest Lecturer, Physiology 
                                        Department, Calcutta University, 
                                        Kalyani University and Vice-
                                        President of Bengal Library 
                                        Association (BLA), Kolkata. 

Board and Lodging		:	Accommodation may be arranged to the 
                                        participants in the Institutional 
                                        Guest Houses / Dormitories 
                                        (furnished with minimum amenities) 
                                        on first- come-first-served basis.

Accommodation must be booked in advance with advance payment. Accommodation 
without advance payment may be arranged in hotel(s) only with actual 
payment. 
			
Registration Fees and Accommodation

		                      Category	Registration fees  (In Rs./-)
Individual (Non-residential)		1000.00
Individual  (Residential in a Guest House)	1500.00
Individual  (Residential in Dormitories)	1300.00
Students / Retired Persons (Non-Residential)	800.00
Students / Retired Persons (Residential in a Guest House)	1300.00
Students / Retired Persons (Residential in Dormitories )	1100.00
Deputed (Non-Residential)		2000.00
Deputed (Residential in a Guest House)	2500.00
Deputed (Residential in Dormitories)	2300.00
Accompanying family member (with kit) (Non-Residential)	1000.00
Accompanying family member (with kit) (Residential in a Guest House)
	1500.00
Accompanying family member (with kit) (Residential in Dormitories)
	1300.00
Accompanying family member (with kit) (Non-Residential)	1000.00
Individual from SAARC / Other countries 	US$150.00+ Accommodation as 
per actual

NB: 	
1.	Registration on or before 10th November, 2008  ---- 10% discount on 
registration fees
2.	75% refund will be given if cancelled before 1st December, 2008, no 
refund will be given for non-participation
3.	Hotel accommodation may be booked on request after receiving of an 
advance payment on actual cost.

Delegate fees		:	Every delegate will have to pay a sum of 
Rs.50/- at the IASLIC
(for all categories of delegates)		counter (at the venue).

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        Guidelines for Preparing and Transferring Final Papers to IASLIC
First Author*, Second Author?
*Institution and Country of first author?s affiliation
firstauthor at server.net

?Institution and Country of second author?s affiliation, if different from 
previous
secondauthor at server.net

Abstract
This is where the abstract should be placed. It should consist of a concise 
summary of the material discussed in the article below. It is preferable not 
to use footnotes in the abstract or the title. The acknowledgement for 
funding organizations etc. is placed in a separate section at the end of the 
text. We wish you success with the preparation of your manuscript. The 
Abstract must not exceed 100 words.

Keywords
Maximum 3 keywords may be placed after the abstract.

Introduction 

Provide briefly a historical perspective regarding the subject of your 
manuscript. 

Background 

Provide broad definitions and discussions of the topic and incorporate views 
of others (literature review) into the discussion to support, refute or 
demonstrate your position on the topic.

Main Thrust of the Paper 

Present your perspective on the issues, controversies, problems, etc., as 
they relate to theme and arguments supporting your position. Compare and 
contrast with what has been, or is currently being done as it relates to 
your specific topic and the main theme of the volume.

Future Trends 

Discuss future and emerging trends. Provide insight about the future of the 
topic from the perspective of published research on the topic. If 
appropriate, suggest future research opportunities within the domain of the 
topic.

Conclusion 

Provide discussion of the overall coverage of the topic in your manuscript 
and conclusion should include key findings of the paper & concluding remarks.

References
References should follow the conclusions. The references should be listed in 
numerical order with the corresponding number cited inside the printed 
manuscript within square brackets at appropriate places [1, 2].
For example:
1.	IEEE Standard for Learning Object Metadata: 
<http://ltsc.ieee.org/wg12/> 
2.	E. Duval, E. Forte, K. Cardinaels, B. Verhoeven, R. Van Durm, K. 
Hendrikx, M.W. Forte, N. Ebel, M. Macowicz, K. Warkentyne, F. Haenni. The 
ARIADNE Knowledge Pool System: a Distributed Digital Library for Education, 
Communications of the ACM, 44(5):73-78, May 2001.
3.	F. Van Assche, E. Duval, D. Massart, D. Olmedilla, B. Simon, S. 
Sobernig, S. Ternier and F. Wild. Spinning interoperable applications for 
teaching & learning. Journal of Educational Technology & Society, 9(2):51-
67, April 2006. Special Issue: Interoperability of Educational Systems.
Acknowledgement
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separate section at the end of the text. 

Biodata
Please include brief bio data of the author (s) within 50 words and also 
attached a scanned copy of the latest passport size colour photograph of 
author (s)

Style

Manuscript should be printed on A4 size good white paper. Papers must be 
typed in English using MS Word. 

 Kindly follow the instructions given below for all the pages

Margins:          		Top            1.2?
                      		Bottom      1.2?
                       		Left           1.2?  
                      		Right         1.2?
Orientation:    		Portrait
Font				Arial / 12 pt
Heading			Times New Roman 15 pt. All Cap.
Author?s Name			Times New Roman 11 pt.  
Author?s Designation		Times New Roman 11 pt.  
Abstract 			Times New Roman  Bold 9 pt.
Sub Heading (1 INTRODUCTION)	Times New Roman 10 pt. All Cap. 
Body of the Matter		Times New Roman 10 pt.  
Reference			Times New Roman 10 pt.  
Spacing 			 single line spacing
Para Indent: 			 6 point
			
Length of Paper

The length of the manuscript should not exceed 10 pages (2500 words), 
including, figures/ photographs and references.       

Figures 

All figures should be captioned and printed / pasted in appropriate place of 
the paper. Caption for the figures should be printed below the figures and 
numbered consecutively throughout the text. Tables should be placed closest 
to the text of citation.
Electronic submission of the full paper
The final paper(s) may kindly be submitted to akc at bic.boseinst.ernet.in and 
iaslic at vsnl.net. In case it is not possible to send the paper by e-mail, 
then the same may be sent along with a CD-ROM / diskette by post addressed 
to:-
Dr. Arun Kumar Chakraborty
Hony. General Secretary
Indian Association of Special Libraries and Information Centres (IASLIC)
P-291, CIT Scheme 6 M
Kankurgachi, Kolkata ? 700054
Phone (O) (033) 2362-9651
E-mail:iaslic at vsnl.net, akc at bic.boseinst.ernet.in
Website : www.iaslic1955.org

All the correspondence regarding the volume may please be addressed to the 
above address / e-mail.
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PAPERS MAY NOT BE CONSIDERED FOR ACCEPTANCE IF GUIDELINES / GENERAL 
INSTRUCTION TO AUTHORS ARE NOT FOLLOWED.




ABOUT THE IASLIC

The Indian Association of Special Libraries and Information Centres (IASLIC) 
was established in 1955 as a non-profit national organization. IASLIC, 
during the last fifty years, has made a remarkable and stellar contribution 
in its mission to promote library and information science movement; to 
improve professional competencies; and to foster coordination and 
cooperation among the professional associations and organizations. IASLIC 
has become the leader-coordinator in the field of special librarianship in 
India.

The IASLIC holds seminar and conference in alternate years. Current problems 
of libraries and information services and other allied areas are selected as 
themes for discussion on these occasions. 22 Seminars and 26 Conferences had 
taken place at different research and academic institutions in various parts 
of the country upto 2007. IASLIC (www.iaslic1955.org) has announced the 23rd 
All India Seminar to be held at Bose Institute, Kolkata during 10-13 
December, 2008. 


ABOUT THE BOSE INSTITUTE

The Bose Institute was founded by Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose, F.R.S., in 
1917. The institute is one of the earliest, perhaps the first modern 
research institute in India. Acharya J.C. Bose is generally acknowledged as 
the father of modern scientific research in India. The institute has evolved 
over the years into a multi-disciplinary research organization with stress 
on fundamental research in its pursuit of advancement of knowledge in 
Science and Technology and Is still developing highly competent and able 
scientific manpower for the country. Highly qualified and experienced 
scientists working in the field of Biological, Biochemical, Chemical and 
Physical Sciences placed in long established departments of Physics, 
Chemistry, Botany, Microbiology, Biochemistry, and Biophysics, 
Bioinformatics and the research sections of Plant Molecular & Cellular 
Genetics, Animal Physiology, Immunotechnology and Environmental Science. 
Besides, there are service centres such as Sophisticated Analytical 
Instrument Facility (SAIF), Central Instrumentation Facility, BIC, Library, 
Workshop, Madhyamgram Experimental Farm etc. The wide ranging and 
comprehensive base of available scientific infrastructure also comprises the 
Acharya J. C. Bose High Altitude Research Centre at Darjeeling and 
experimental field stations at Falta and Madhyamgram in West Bengal catering 
to the need and requirements of scientists in their researches. Bose 
Institute has thus, very effectively and successfully achieved the major 
objectives for which it was established and continues to grow in its 
scientific excellence contending with the best in biochemical, biophysical 
and physical and plant sciences. 

The Bose Institute is one of the few multi-disciplinary institutions in the 
country that has succeeded in developing a vast intellectual resources in 
areas ranging from astrophysics, radiation physics, quantum mechanics to the 
frontline areas of contemporary biology such as bioinformatics & 
computational biology, structure and functional dynamics of Biomolecules, 
Drug Modeling, Molecular Genetics of Microbes, and development of Transgenic 
Plants. In addition to the research and development the institute has 
recently introduced one Integrated M.Sc. - Ph.D. programme in Plant 
Molecular Biology and Biotechnology in collaboration with University of 
Calcutta and M.Sc. programme in Astrophysics in collaboration with 
Astroparticle Physics St. Xavier?s College, Kolkata.  Based on the enduring 
development of scientific expertise for 90 yrs, the institute has scripted a 
programme of research for 11th five year plan that will allow it to retain 
the competitive edge in the 21st Century. Several steps have been recently 
initiated to further improve accessibility and connectivity to internet 
services. In an addition, efforts are underway to develop a digital library 
to improve access to scientific literature search and exchange of data. 
The Bose Institute Library, a national pride, was founded by Sir Jagadis 
Chandra Bose in the year 1917. It is a special science reference Library, 
primarily meant for the use of its research staff i.e. faculty members and 
research scholars and staff of the Institute. It is also frequently used by 
the faculty members and research scholars of other Institutes and 
Universities located in and around Kolkata and West Bengal. A wing of the 
Library has been opened at "Acharya J.C. Bose Centenary Campus" at 
Kankurgachi, Kolkata in the year 1983. A new wing of library is opened in 
2008 in Salt Lake Campus. The Library, besides having a huge collection of 
books on physical and biological sciences offers library services through 
its various Divisions. The Systematic Accession Register was started in this 
Library from 1937. First name that auspicious book was "Space, Time and 
Gravitation" by A.S. Eddington (1929). The library has a collection of 0.50 
lakh books. Few collections are being digitized viz. a few rare books of BI 
library, 400 thesis collection whose metadata upto content level is also 
available in digital format and a few collection of Sir J.C. Bose is also 
digitized by library. The library is in the verge of total computerization 
of its collection. Library provides access to more than 2000 E-Journals and 
E-Book collections. The library is pioneer in subscribing BMN Reviews, 
Scopus of Elsevier and Century of Science of ISI Web of Science. These 
resources can be accessed form library website from Main Campus and 
Centenary Campus of the Institute.  


Bose Institute and IASLIC

The Bose Institute has long association with IASLIC since its inception. The 
first IASLIC Conference was held at the Hindi High School, Calcutta on 10th 
and 11th April, 1956. Dr. D.M. Bose (1956 & 1957) the then Director of Bose 
Institute was elected first President and delivered his Presidential 
Address. Prof. P.K. Ray, Ex-Director of this Institute was the President of 
IASLIC for 1994 and 1995. Bose Institute is celebrating the 150th birth 
anniversary of Sir J.C. Bose, Founder, Bose Institute and 91st year of the 
Institute. On the mark of this occasion IASLIC Seminar 2008 will be held at 
Bose Institute un December, 2008.



DR. ARUN KUMAR CHAKRABORTY
        LIBRARIAN
BOSE INSTITUTE, KOLKATA, INDIA
CENTENARY CAMPUS  : P1/12 CIT SCHEME - VII-M, KOLKATA 700 054  INDIA
PH: 91-33-2355 9544, 9416, 9219  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


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From sulochanp at gmail.com  Thu Mar 13 12:24:26 2008
From: sulochanp at gmail.com (Sulochan)
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:24:26 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] A Lonely Librarian's Battle against Gay Professors!
Message-ID: <1d5285ca0803122354w69e06710jb52b24e399fb2b09@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Professional Friends,

You might have already heard or yet to be heard an interesting but equally
daring news item:

A LONELY LIBRARIAN'S BATTLE AGAINST HOMOSEXUAL PROFESSORS

The only alleged sin/ evil committed by the Librarian was that he promoted a
best seller book,
'Marketing the Evil' in the University Library.

Please do read the full story on the following links:

http://bridgetdgms.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/christian-librarian-takes-gay-profs-to-federal-court/


or

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=58629


with best regards,
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From skpatra at gmail.com  Fri Mar 14 09:54:32 2008
From: skpatra at gmail.com (Swapan Patra)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 09:54:32 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Open access
Message-ID: <da7582b0803132124h34fbffe9w606cd2890803ac55@mail.gmail.com>

Harvard University recently made open electronic publishing compulsory for
students, faculty & scientific staff. The basic argument behind this
initiative is to  secure open access to research that is funded by the
government, and to ensure that commercial journal publishers cannot put
unreasonable restrictions on the use and spreading of research results.

In wake of Harvard's recent move to adopt an institutional open access
policy,  University of Bergen, Norway is also among one of few institutions
around the world taking initiatives to make their R&D output openly
accessible. (Source: http://nyheter.uib.no/?modus=vis_engelsk&id=39535).
Swapan kumar Patra
Research Scholar
Center for Studies in Science Policy
School of Social Science
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi-110067

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From abdulnazar75 at yahoo.com  Fri Mar 14 13:55:48 2008
From: abdulnazar75 at yahoo.com (Abdunnasar. A)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 01:25:48 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Operating System for India
Message-ID: <422080.32309.qm@web35402.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Dear All,
            C-DAC, Chennai has developed an operating system called BOSS (Bharat Operating System Solutions). It is a GNU/Linux distribution developed for enhancing the use of Free/Open Source Software in the country. Made specifically for the Indian environment , it consists of a pleasing Desktop environment coupled with Indian language support and other packages that are most relevant for use in the government domain. Subsequent versions will support the educational domain as well.  
 
 
 CDs can be obtained from CDAC Centers: http://bosslinux.in/get-boss-cd/
 
 
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 Scientist B (Library)
 Centre for Earth Science Studies
 Trivandrum
 
       
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From mallikarjun23j at yahoo.com  Fri Mar 14 15:32:44 2008
From: mallikarjun23j at yahoo.com (Mallikarjun)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 03:02:44 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Traditional journal publisher support author right
Message-ID: <520612.86046.qm@web36902.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Dera Professionals

Recent statement made by the traditional publishing groups STM/PSP/ALPSP 
In a recent white paper "Author and publisher right for academic use: An appropiate balance" given considerable support for author right as the industry standard.
 
from the statement
standard journal aggrement typicaly allow author, to

to use their published paper in their own teaching and generally within thier institution for educational purpose;
to send to their research collegue;
to reuse portion of thier paper in further work;
to post some version of the paper on a pre-print server thier IR or personal website.

it is a good news that author can post to a pre-print server, it will be another success towords institutional repositories.

Mallikarjun 
Professional Assistant(Library)
VS Library
IIM, Ahemadabad
...The Future is here, Its just unevenly distributed.....
http://curiouslib.blogspot.com/

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From srels at dataone.in  Sat Mar 15 15:57:08 2008
From: srels at dataone.in (SRELS)
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:57:08 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Lecture invitation
Message-ID: <000e01c88687$1faeb770$0301a8c0@SRELSHP1>

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

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



********

The Chairman & members of the Board of Trustees of the
Ranganathan Centre for Information Stuides

            in association with the 

Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science

cordially invite you to a Special Lecture

on 

'COLON' AS AN ONTOLOGY

by

Prof. Michael Shepherd
Dean, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada

on
 
Thursday, 27th March 2008 at 6.00 p.m.

at

702, 'Upstairs', 42nd Cross, III Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalore 560 010

                                                    RSVP: K.S. Raghavan    Ph:9448041026                                 E-mail: ksragav at hotmail.com
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From murari at nio.org  Sat Mar 15 15:18:09 2008
From: murari at nio.org (MP Tapaswi)
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:18:09 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] FW:  On RTI Act
Message-ID: <003a01c88681$ad8a3c00$11281bac@nio.org>

Dear Professional colleagues, 
I have been reading the views whether a Librarian should be PIO (Public
Information Officer) or not with interest. It is always a business of Lib &
Info Professional (LIP) when it comes to dealing with information. However,
in current scenario note that everything is information and it is wise not
to place our hands in every information that exists. 

RTI act was introduced in 2005 with a very broad interest to promote
transparency and accountability in the offices where the Government funding
is received. Any citizen of India now using this act can ask information
from any office (designated as public authority) and the office is bound to
give it. Providing information is close to the hearts of LIPs. The PIO is a
very "powerful" person in the public authority and seek information from
other colleagues in the organization. Having given this authority to the
PIO, very large responsibility has also been bestowed on him/her. The
Central Information Commission (CIC) views it very seriously if the
information is not provided within the stipulated time (30 days) and also if
the information is not provided if it is proved to exist (of course, there
are certain items of disclosure and the definition of information itself
indicates what all could be provided). As such it is, no doubt, an
interesting process something beyond books for LIPs to handle. 

But not all roses! I am a PIO for our institute since the act came into
force and so far answered 75 queries (note that each query has several
paragraphs ranging from 10 to 250 nos!). Over 95% of the queries that have
been answered are to satisfy personal interests (seem to be) and not public
interests for which the act has been introduced. Moreover, with whatever
sincerity you dispose off the requests, the querying person hardly gets
satisfied with the replies and the process, at times, continues up to the
level of two appeals. Lot of time is 'invested' (if some one does not like
to use a word 'wasted') for an unproductive (in my opinion) work leaving
aside the normal professional duties that take away peace of mind. 

I would sum up saying it is an interesting job for those having a
temperament like an advocate, who can read through the words and play with
the words and arguments. Let me also indicate that who so ever the PIOs I
came across so far (either LIPs or from other profession), are doing this
job because it has been 'assigned' to them. Of course, a human mind always
feels someone else's job is better than theirs!

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: lis-forum-bounces at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in
[mailto:lis-forum-bounces at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of Kshipra Sardesai
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 8:14 PM
To: rajankila at hotmail.com
Cc: Lis forum
Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] On RTI Act

Dear LIS Professionals,
 
I also agree with K Rajashekharan views about RTI Act professionals as
Librarians.I would like to add some more points to that.

1.	Librarians have approach of solving the problems.
2.	They are good listeners and ability to know the subject.
3.	Librarians are polite and servicing attitudes
4.	Cataloguing and classification experts
5.	They are expert in preservation, retrieval and dissemination .
6.	To get the best implemtation of RTI Act among the common people they
are the proper persons to guide in a correct fashion.
7.	Reagrding Govt Procedures and regulations these things are to be
trained to every professionals and once this type of training and knowledge
is given then LIS professionals will definately give best outputs.
8.	The Information Technology updates are being accepted by this
profession 
9.	If such officer fron LIS is in this field and if he is in rural
region, definately there will be more coordination from rural people to
Librarian than a govt professional or other IPS professional.Rural people
have fear and complex about Govt employees but they respect and listen to
their librarians. 
10.	This will give status and Yes the job satisfaction too.

 

 Regards
 
Mrs Kshipra Sardesai
Librarian, RBI, DESACS
Bandra

 

sOn 3/11/08, Rajan <rajankila at hotmail.com> wrote:



	Dear Shri P Vyasamoorty,
	
	
	As a person with very good knowledge about RTI act and its
requirements, I
	would suggest that librarians are not very suitable for working as
State
	Public Information Officers(SPIO)  in the Institutions they work.
The job
	requirements of SPIO  are to receive applications, ensure access to
	information and dispose of applications after careful examination of
merit
	of each one. Under the RTI Act. the cataloging, arrangement and
retrieval of
	information need to be done by the concerned officer and not by
anyone else
	including the SPIO.
	As well, an officer in sufficient command and authority in that
office is
	the right choice for the position of SPIO so as to ensure easy
access to
	information through the subordinate officers. The job of SPIO
involves a lot
	of quasi-judicial decision making on which librarians are
ill-equipped
	unlike the administrative personnel.
	
	As RTI involves a lot of administrative re-arrangement of records,
the
	librarians can do a lot in that area, particularly in numbering and
	cataloguing of them.
	
	Best Regards,
	
	K Rajasekharan
	Librarian, Kerala Institute of Local Administration(KILA)
	Mulagunnathukavu, Thrissur - 680581 , India
	
	----- Original Message -----
	From: "Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy" <vyasamoorthy at gmail.com>
	Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Right to Information Act -Jobs should be
	given to Information Professionals
	To: "vasanth raj"
	
	I am sorry to reply this message after such a long gap.
	Vasanth has raised an important issue. He states that Librarians are
	better suited to work as Information Officers and that they are
	neglected. I would like to ask a few questions and elicit views of
LIS
	personnel on these:
	How many librarians know what is this monster RTI all about? What is
	the role of RTI officer in a govt institution? What type of
	information is the scope of RTI Officer? How is the librarian better
	suited? What do we librarians learn or know about Govt way of files
(&
	records) organization - numbering, generation, storing, retrieving,
	archiving, rules governing files & documents & records preservation
	and conservation etc? How about confidentiality coding and providing
	restricted access? How about documents relating to public -- say
birth
	certificates. With absolutely no theoretical or practical knowledge
of
	any of these things how do librarians claim that they are better
	suited? The RTI was talked about for a number of years before
becoming
	law. Why did not LIS schools provide changes in the curriculam to
	mould librarians into RTI officers?
	Well I have a lot of doubts.  Any comments?
	
	
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From sri_lib at yahoo.com  Sat Mar 15 14:10:27 2008
From: sri_lib at yahoo.com (sri priya)
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 01:40:27 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Guide to Standards for Library Systems
Message-ID: <780431.41376.qm@web57003.mail.re3.yahoo.com>


MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic Data (Concise
Version)
http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/ecbdhome.html

MARC 21 Concise Format for Authority Data 
http://www.loc.gov/marc/authority/ecadhome.html

MARC 21 Concise Format for Community Information 
http://www.loc.gov/marc/community/eccihome.html

MARC 21 Concise Format for Holdings Data 
http://www.loc.gov/marc/holdings/echdhome.html

Frieda Rosenberg, Introduction to the Marc Format for
Holdings Data, The Future of 
Serials Control, LITA Pre conference Institute, June
15, 2001. 
http://www.loc.gov/acq/conser/litapres-fr/ppframe.htm 

Holdings Statements for Bibliographic Items 
ANSI/NISO Z39.71, Holdings Statements for
Bibliographic Items 
http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/Z39-71.pdf

Future of Serials Control, LITA Preconference
Institute, June 15, 2001. 
http://www.loc.gov/acq/conser/litapres-rg/sld001.htm

MARC 21 Specifications for Record Structure, Character
Sets, and Exchange Media
http://www.loc.gov/marc/specifications/spechome.html

MARC 21 Record Structure 
http://www.loc.gov/marc/specifications/specrecstruc.html

MARC 21 Character Sets
http://www.loc.gov/marc/specifications/speccharintro.html


Diffuse Guide to Character Sets 
http://www.diffuse.org/charguide.html

Unicode: From Chinese to Cherokee; from Kana to
Klingon 
http://www.pla.org/publications/technotes/technotes_unicode.html

The Unicode Standard: A Technical Introduction. 
http://www.unicode.org/unicode/standard/principles.html


Serial Item and Contribution Identifier (SICI) 
ANSI/NISO Z39.56, Serial Item and Contribution
Identifier (SICI)
http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/Z39-56.pdf

Data Elements for Binding Library Materials 
ANSI/NISO Z39.76, Data Elements for Binding Library
Materials 
http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/Z39-76.pdf

NISO Circulation Interchange Protocol (NCIP) 
ANSI/NISO Z39.83, NISO Circulation Interchange
Protocol (NCIP) 
http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/z3983pt1.pdf
http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/z3983pt2.pdf 

NISO NCIP website: 
http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/NCIP_Resource_Page.html

Mark Needleman, The NISO Circulation Interchange
Protocol: An Overview and Status 
Report, Serials Review, v. 26, no. 4, 2000, pp. 42-45.

Pat Stevens, NCIP?The Invisible Stitches, ALA
Midwinter, January 21, 2002 
http://www.niso.org/committees/at_jan_02/index.htm

Code 39 Specification [about] 
http://www.barcodeman.com/info/c39_1.php3

Codabar Barcode Specification [about] 
http://www.barcodeman.com/info/codabar.php

Barcode Technology 
http://www.aimglobal.org/technologies/barcode/

Interlibrary Loan Application Standards Maintenance
Agency (ILL ASMA) website: 
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/iso/ill/

ILL Protocol Implementors Group (IPIG) website: 
http://www.arl.org/access/naildd/ipig/ipig.shtml

IPIG Profile and Guideline Documentation 
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/iso/ill/ipigprfl.htm

Barbara Shuh, et al Tutorial on the ISO Interlibrary
Loan Protocol
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/iso/ill/readtut1.htm

The Accredited Standards Committee (ASC) X12 website: 
http://www.x12.org/

Z39.50 
ANSI/NISO Z39.50, Information Retrieval?Application
Service Definition and Protocol 
Specification
http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/Z39-50.pdf 

Information Retrieval 
U.S. National Profile 
NISO Z39.89, The U.S. National Z39.50 Profile for
Library Applications
http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/Z39-89.pdf 

GILS (Global Information Locator Service) 
FIPS 192-1a, Application Profile for the Government
Information Locator Service (GILS)
http://www.gils.net/prof_v2.html

Source:
http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/RFP_Writers_Guide.pdf.
The RFP Writer?s Guide to Standards for Library
Systems 
This booklet is available for free download from the
NISO 
 website (http://www.niso.org/)
 
Regards,
S.Sripriya


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From vijaymlib at gmail.com  Sun Mar 16 20:56:41 2008
From: vijaymlib at gmail.com (vijay kumar)
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 20:56:41 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Librarian Post of KV
Message-ID: <6f048b380803160826m544543a1sd9603a4022d1b39f@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Library Professionals,
Application are invited for special recruitment drive to fill up
backlog reserved vacancy for SC and ST community for the year 2007-08

Post: Librarian 12 post(SC-7 ST -5)
Pay Scale 5500-9000

Last Date: 15th April 2008
For details advertisement visit Kendriya Vidyalaya Sanganthan website
                                           http://www.kvsangathan.nic.in/

Thanks and with best wishes
Vijay Kumar
NCSI

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From francisaloor at yahoo.com  Mon Mar 17 10:33:19 2008
From: francisaloor at yahoo.com (Aloor Thomas Francis)
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:03:19 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Comment on NewGenLib - A.T. Francis, KAU
In-Reply-To: <mailman.784.1205479076.2603.lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>
Message-ID: <628446.64935.qm@web94809.mail.in2.yahoo.com>

Dear Professionals,

It is a great proud and pleasure for the Indian
Library and Information Professionals that VSPL and
KIIKM could develop a very good ILMS and made it free
for all libraries.  The leadership taken by Dr. Haravu
and his team is painstaking and remarkable.

Several LIS professionals have already appreciated
these efforts.  I think the comments made in the
CALIBER 08 will not only affect the progress of the
software but also give extra enthusiasm for the
developers and users as well.

A.T. FRANCIS
KERALA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY



A.T. FRANCIS
  HEAD, LIBRARY
  COLELGE OF HORTICULTURE
  KERALA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY
  THRISSUR - 680 656, INDIA
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From dinesh.ncet at gmail.com  Mon Mar 17 11:57:39 2008
From: dinesh.ncet at gmail.com (DINESH SIDDAIAH)
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:57:39 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] LIS Online Exam
Message-ID: <62c911520803162327j60bae483nf5baf5d58183aed3@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Friends,

"Information Society Today" http://www.infosciencetoday.org/exam.htm,
providing Library and Information Science free online Examination.
Its intention is to provide vast information about library and information
science that may help for viva-voce, interviews and any other library and
information science competitive exam. This site can be visted most
frequently as new items will be added from time to time.

 *Two sets of online exams are available, *

LIS Online Exam one contains 50 questions
LIS Online Exam two contains 20 questions


Thanking You,

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From sri_lib at yahoo.com  Mon Mar 17 12:10:59 2008
From: sri_lib at yahoo.com (sri priya)
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:40:59 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Need Information Urgently
In-Reply-To: <20080311130949.23143.qmail@f5mail-236-232.rediffmail.com>
Message-ID: <329639.29798.qm@web57013.mail.re3.yahoo.com>

Master of Hospital Management or MBA in
Hospital Management.
INSTITUTE OF DISTANCE EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF KERALA
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MASTERS & PG DIPLOMA PROGRAMS @ ICFAI DISTANCE
LEARNING 
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List of Institutions Offering Courses on Distance Mode
and Open Universities In India
(As in January 2001)
http://www.education.nic.in/dist_inst.asp

Barkatullah University, BHOPAL
http://www.bubhopal.nic.in/odl.htm

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF COMMERCE & TRADE, LUCKNOW
http://www.coolavenues.com/admiss/070809/iict_distance_1.php

Distance Education courses- Alagappa university,
Karaikudy
http://www.indiastudychannel.com/resources/9959-Distance-Education-courses-Alagappa-university-Karaikudy.aspx

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From dinesh.ncet at gmail.com  Mon Mar 17 12:13:01 2008
From: dinesh.ncet at gmail.com (DINESH SIDDAIAH)
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:13:01 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Mountain View Public Library with LibChip RFID
Message-ID: <62c911520803162343v105d23cau107d85139a90c889@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Friends,

"Mountain View Public Library achieves 98% Patron Self-Checkout on First Day
with RFID". The Mountain View Public Library has embarked on a new era of
patron service and circulation efficiency with the reopening of its library,
complete with a new and comprehensive LibChip RFID and Automated Materials
Handling System from Libramation. More details on this achievement is
available in "Library Technology Guide",  http://www.librarytechnology.org/.

Thanking You,

Dinesh

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From esukhdev at gmail.com  Fri Mar 14 17:13:17 2008
From: esukhdev at gmail.com (Sukhdev Singh)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:13:17 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Traditional journal publisher support author right
In-Reply-To: <520612.86046.qm@web36902.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
References: <520612.86046.qm@web36902.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <c13c85220803140443v37c49f4j6d19a3758ddc1085@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Friends,

It seems the Open Access movement has started making it impact of
traditional academic publishing. However, their statement as inferred
by Mallikarjun, sounds like if the publishers are doing some favor to
authors.

Remember, all rights are originally with the authors. It is the
authors (not publishers) who are doing favor to publishers by
confering or transfering their rights in their favor.

I feel, now authors need to be aware of smart negotiation techniques.
Negotiations!!? Yes nothing bad in it. After all authors are  giving
away their property. [Which most of the time is produced by authors
utilizing national resources directly or indirectly]. They should
better negotiate for NON-EXCLUSIVE agreements.

Here is a good guide for authors to protect their rights.

http://www.arl.org/sparc/author/addendum.html

Regarding self-archiving of articles, reputed publishers like Elsevier
are allowing authors to archive their Pre / or Post-Print Versions of
their papers.

Check out http://romeo.eprints.org for publishers policies.

(Server Problem, When I checked).

Again I would refer to the cartoon by PLOS.ORG

"You Write The Papers,
You Review the Papers..
Why Should You Pay to Read Them?"
- http://www.plos.org/downloads/plos_cartoon001.jpg

Even forget that, Don't we all know -

"BOOKS ARE FOR USE"
(First Law)

--Sukhdev Singh

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 3:32 PM, Mallikarjun <mallikarjun23j at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Dear Professionals
....

>  Recent statement made by the traditional publishing groups STM/PSP/ALPSP
>  In a recent white paper "Author and publisher right for academic use: An appropriate balance" given considerable support for author right as the industry standard.
....

>
>  it is a good news that author can post to a pre-print server, it will be another success towards institutional repositories.
>
>  Mallikarjun
>  Professional Assistant(Library)
>  VS Library
>  IIM, Ahemadabad
>  ...The Future is here, Its just unevenly distributed.....
>  http://curiouslib.blogspot.com/
>

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From pujar at igidr.ac.in  Mon Mar 17 13:11:06 2008
From: pujar at igidr.ac.in (Shamprasad Pujar)
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:11:06 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology
 now Open Access...
Message-ID: <18575354.1205739666040.JavaMail.root@127.0.0.1>

Dear Members,
DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology published by DESIDOC is now available as open access journal w.e.f. Jan 2008. Open Journal System of Public Knowledge Project, a open source journal management and publishing system has been used to make its contents available online. 
You can access DESIDOC Journal.... at:
<http://publications.drdo.gov.in/ojs/index.php/djlit/index>http://publications.drdo.gov.in/ojs/index.php/djlit/index
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 rathoreas at hotmail.com  Mon Mar 17 13:36:17 2008
From: rathoreas at hotmail.com (ANIL SINGH)
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:06:17 +0000
Subject: [LIS-Forum] National Workshop on Newgenlib Software (May 17-19,
 2008) - Call for participation
Message-ID: <BAY123-W2649863F50B09FA6A7BF13AA050@phx.gbl>


Dear friends and Professional Colleagues,

Birla Institute of Management Technology (BIMTECH), Greater Noida is conducting three days Workshop on NewGenLib Open Source Library Automation Software from 17-19 May 2008. The detals of the workshop is given on the Institute's website (www.bimtech.ac.in) or you may also contact to organising secretary on the address given below.

Rishi Tiwari
Organizing Secretary & Librarian
Birla Institute of Management Technology
Plot No 5,Knowledge Park-II
Greater Noida (NCR) 201306
Tele-0120-2323001-10(O) 09810583623(Mob.)
Website : www.bimtech.ac.in, E-mail : newgenlib.workshop at gmail.com


Kindly circulate this to all your professional colleagues and friends.

Dr. ANIL SINGH
Division of Library, Documentation and Information
National Council of Educational Research and Training
Sri Aurobindo Marg
New Delhi - 110016
Mobile 09868167052
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From azimmid at yahoo.co.in  Mon Mar 17 15:38:25 2008
From: azimmid at yahoo.co.in (Sk. Abdul Azim)
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:38:25 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] =?utf-8?q?National_Seminar_on_Scope_of_Retrieval_for_?=
 =?utf-8?q?Assimilation_March_27_=E2=80=93_28=2C_2008_Organised_by_Departm?=
 =?utf-8?q?ent_of_Library_and_Information_Science_Vidyasagar_University_Me?=
 =?utf-8?q?dinipur_=28Sk_Abdul_Azim=29?=
Message-ID: <435892.95862.qm@web8415.mail.in.yahoo.com>

Dear Professionals
Department of Library and Information Science ,Vidyasagar University ,Medinipur Organised a National Seminar on Scope of Retrieval for Assimilation March 27 ? 28, 2008 

Target Audience
Apart from LIS professionals, teachers, researchers, and students; media personal, IT specialists, psychologists, linguistics, alongwith information users from different disciplines and activities are expected to participate and render their experiences and suggestions on the seminar topic. 
Call for Papers
 
            We invite articles on the aforementioned sub-themes. Full paper in MSWord, references following Indian Standard (IS:2381-1978) in CD or by e-mail and a hard copy of the same must reach us by 20th March, 2008. 
 
Venue
 
Department of Library and Information Science
Vidyasagar University
Midnapore
 
About the Place 
 
            The weather is normally soothing cool during this time. Numerous historically important sites, forests are the added attractions of this place.
 
How to Reach the Venue 
 
            Nearest Rail Station: Medinipur (about 15 km. by road from Kharagpur). From Medinipur Rail Station/ Bus Terminus Autorickshaws, Buses and Rickshaws  are available.
 
Accommodation
 
            Accommodation of outstation participants may be arranged if request is sent at least ten days before the Seminar. Participants will have to bear the charges.
 
Registration Fees
 
Student (V. U.) Rs. 100.00
Others                          Rs. 200.00
Payment should be made by Cash / DD in favour of the Dept. of Library and Information Science, Vidyasagar University. Filled in Registration Form and Fees must reach on or before March 24, 2008.
 
All Communication should Address:
Dr. Goutam Maity
 
Organizing Secretary
 
National Seminar
on
Scope of Retrieval for Assimilation
March 27 ? 28, 2008
 
Dept. of Library and Information Science
Medinipur - 721 102
West Bengal, India
 
Ph. (03222) 267 554/555/557/558
Extn. 448
Mob: 9434991159
e-mail: dlisc at vu.ernet.in
gmaity at vidyasagar.ac.in
gm_vu at yahoo.co.in 
 
Sub Themes
 
The following sub themes may be considered in this connection:
I) Variables of psychological make up of   user(s) and their influence on retrieval for assimilation;
 
II) Cognitive models of existing knowledge generation process;
III) Problems of intellectual access for assimilation;
IV) Problems of interaction of non-users and potential users with formal retrieval systems;
V) Media for Communication; the right choice for absorption; 
VI) Philosophy of existing IR models in terms of assimilation;
VII) Traditional and emerging tools and techniques, and their impact in assimilation process;
VIII) Evaluation of retrieval systems, keeping central focus on assimilation;
IX) Trends of retrieval for assimilation
 
 
Application Form
 
National Seminar on Scope of Retrieval for Assimilation
March 27 ?28, 2008
 
Name  ????????????. 
(Block letter)
 
Age ?????????????.. 
 
Designation ??????????.. 
 
Name of Employer / Institute: ???? .. ???????????????.
 
Address (Office): ????????
???????????.???? 
???????????????.. 
 
E-mail: ????????????. 
 
Whether Deputed (Yes / No): ???.. 
 
Educational Qualifications: ???..? 
 
Registration Fee: ?????..??.... 
 
Address for Communication:  
?????..???...?????.. .
???????????.?????????????????.?? 
????????????.??? 
 
 
Signature of the Applicant 
 
 
With Regards
Sk Abdul Azim
Project Fellow
Department of Library and Information Science
University of Calcutta
Kolkata-73
email- azimmid at yahoo.co.in
Mobile +91-9733960550
 


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From vyasamoorthy at gmail.com  Mon Mar 17 15:54:17 2008
From: vyasamoorthy at gmail.com (Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy)
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:54:17 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] FW: On RTI Act
In-Reply-To: <003a01c88681$ad8a3c00$11281bac@nio.org>
References: <003a01c88681$ad8a3c00$11281bac@nio.org>
Message-ID: <9765c2050803170324gca924a6j70883f479c761b02@mail.gmail.com>

I am very happy to see that a Library professional has been given PIO
responsibility.
As a PIO you are compelled to provide info within certain time frame.
Dissatisfied requesters of info may appeal against you.
The type of documents, their arrangement, retrieval are relatively new
to the librarian.
Normally he does not get to organize the Info Collection himself. He
has to adapt himself to use the existing systems such learning its
intricacies de novo.
In order to succeed in his work, he needs to have the co-operation of
person 'holding' access to info records (files, records etc). In the
library documents are just available -- no need to take special
efforts to access them. As a librarian, the responbsibility for
fulfilling your duty arises out of societal pressure; as a PIO it is a
sort of legal responsibility fraught with fine if you do not carry out
your duties correctly. How many librarians are equipped or trained in
these areas?

I am happy again that Mr Tapaswi can talk from his personal experience.

Vyasamoorthy




On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 3:18 PM, MP Tapaswi <murari at nio.org> wrote:
> Dear Professional colleagues,
>  I have been reading the views whether a Librarian should be PIO (Public
>  Information Officer) or not with interest. It is always a business of Lib &
>  Info Professional (LIP) when it comes to dealing with information. However,
>  in current scenario note that everything is information and it is wise not
>  to place our hands in every information that exists.
>

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From R.A.MacLeod at hw.ac.uk  Mon Mar 17 18:23:42 2008
From: R.A.MacLeod at hw.ac.uk (MacLeod, Roderick A)
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:53:42 -0000
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Internet Resources Newsletter: Mar/Apr Issue
Message-ID: <4F6F33D7A78FCD48BE50C4D7C1688F378197E9@ex6.mail.win.hw.ac.uk>

____________________________________________

             Internet Resources Newsletter       
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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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About 100 new and notable websites: new services, ejournals,
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news services, conferences, research groups, plus anything of interest,
etc, etc.

Nice Web Site(s):
  MasterKey Power Search

Blogorama
Selected interesting blogs, RSS feeds and related news items

RSS Feeds for new book announcements in engineering

Book Review: Providing effective library services for research, by Jo
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From azeem_mlisc at yahoo.com  Tue Mar 18 10:28:56 2008
From: azeem_mlisc at yahoo.com (mohammad azeem siddiqui)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:58:56 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] NewGenLib Workshop at BIMTECH, New Delhi
Message-ID: <161325.13340.qm@web36904.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Dear friends,
  This is for your kind information that Birla Institute of Management Technology (BIMTECH), Greater Noida is conducting three days Workshop on NewGenLib Open Source Library Automation Software from 17-19 May 2008. 
  The detals of the workshop is given on the Institute's website. (www.bimtech.ac.in) or you may also contact to
 organising secretary (Mr. Rishi Tiwari).



  
Mohammad Azeem Siddiqui 
Research Scholar 
  Department of Library & Information Science
Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University (A Central University) 
Lucknow-226 025 
Mobile: 09936067170 

Personal URL:   
http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Mohammad_Azeem_Siddiqui 



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From sri_lib at yahoo.com  Tue Mar 18 10:31:43 2008
From: sri_lib at yahoo.com (sri priya)
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:01:43 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Scholarship in India
Message-ID: <58995.5655.qm@web57010.mail.re3.yahoo.com>

Admission News : portal for indian education and
admission updates 

http://www.admissionnews.com/entrance_details.aspx?eid=406
http://www.admissionnews.com/libraryadmission.aspx

Scholarship in India 

http://www.admissionnews.com/scholarshipindia.aspx

Regards,

S.Sripriya


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From librarianmace at yahoo.co.in  Tue Mar 18 11:07:55 2008
From: librarianmace at yahoo.co.in (Shihab Illias)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 05:37:55 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Useful site for information search in Google
Message-ID: <175285.79975.qm@web8904.mail.in.yahoo.com>

  Dear professionals 
   
 Soople website 
   
           This Sites softens all the fantastic advanced functions Google offers. This site is meant for all those who are not yet familiar with all the possibilities of Google and all the required syntaxes. Furthermore there are many useful tools Google offers; search in the latest news, look up definitions or use Google as a phonebook. Calculator. This amazing tool let's you do all kind of (very advanced) calculations. Soople has added the unit-converter, which is based on this calculator, for the conversion of all the commmon units/measures (meters<--->yards). It also provides translation services into foreign languages.
    
  http://www.soople.com/soople_int_india.php
  
 
     To know more about New Scientific inventions
   
 http://www.pbs.org/
    
 
 
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  Librarian
  Muslim  Association College of Engineering
 Venajramoodu (PO)
 Trivandrum, Kerala
  
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From vimal0212 at yahoo.com  Tue Mar 18 14:11:29 2008
From: vimal0212 at yahoo.com (vimal kumar)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 01:41:29 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Collection development of  annual reports
Message-ID: <276116.38281.qm@web52311.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

Hi Friends,


I would like to know the availability of Annual
Reports of Indian companies in DVD or CD.

Whats the procedure to request Annual Reports (print
copy) directly from companies? 

I sent letters to many companies requesting print copy
of  annual reports, but no one responded positively.

Vimal Kumar 
Asst. Librarian
Asian School of Business 
Technopark  
Trivandrum-695 581 
http://www.asb.edu.in/vimal
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From intek_lib at yahoo.com  Tue Mar 18 14:32:23 2008
From: intek_lib at yahoo.com (intekhab alam)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:02:23 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] 3-day workshop for M. Lib students begins at Kashmir
	University
Message-ID: <612398.43859.qm@web33305.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Srinagar, Mar 17: A three-day workshop on 'Open Access Repositories and
Greenstone Software' was inaugurated in the Library Science department of
Kashmir University Monday.
The inaugural function was presided over by the vice-chancellor KU, Prof
Riyaz Punjabi. Prof Shabahat Hussain, a guest from Aligarh Muslim University
who specially visited the valley to attend the seminar was chief guest on
the occasion.
In his presidential address, the VC said that open access system utilizes
new technology and "it is time for us to adhere to this new technology in
order to keep pace with the changing times."
"Open access repositories is something close to my heart," he said.
He advised the management of the department to look for possibilities to
help affiliated colleges of the University to benefit from the new concept.
The VC showed an urge for the formation of a committee, which would carry
forward this work.
"The open access movement attempts to reassert control over publicly funded
research in order to make research output transparent and freely
accessible," he added.
In his address Prof Shabahat said that repositories were being established
world over as free access to knowledge.
"Open access repositories are being developed in the world and it is high
time that the concept be seriously taken up," he said.
Prof Riyaz Rufai, Librarian, Prof Muhammad Aslam, HoD MERC, besides
students, scholars and other dignitaries were also present on the occassion.
The workshop will continue for two days and noted scholars from the field
will read out their papers on the subject.


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From library at rri.res.in  Tue Mar 18 14:46:07 2008
From: library at rri.res.in (Library)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:46:07 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Right to Information Act -Jobs should be given to
 Information Professionals
In-Reply-To: <9765c2050803062315u7da721e1o8f50b8b559f64643@mail.gmail.com>
References: <20051108054228.99697.qmail@web8303.mail.in.yahoo.com>
	<9765c2050803062315u7da721e1o8f50b8b559f64643@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0803110940260.27240@mail.rri.local.net>

I am happy that the issue has been raised now. There is nothing like a 
person has to be trained to become Information Officer or Public 
Information Officer to deal with RTI Act 2005. In an organization, a 
person is identified and appointed as Central Public Information Officer. 
He has to wade through lot many files and get acquinted with RTI Act 2005. 
On regular basis, circulars and guidelines keep pouring from the concerned 
at the top from central govt.

I have been working as CPIO and Vigilance Officer since last few years and 
discharging duties assigned satisfactorily by dealing with RTI Act 2005 
and Vigilance related mamtters.

I donot think LIS Schools could do any thing on such matters. Any one can 
become  a CPIO or Vigilance Officer in an organization.
Y.M.Patil


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On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy wrote:

> I am sorry to reply this message after such a long gap.
>
> Vasanth has raised an important issue. He states that Librarians are
> better suited to work as Information Officers and that they are
> neglected. I would like to ask a few questions and elicit views of LIS
> personnel on these:
>
> How many librarians know what is this monster RTI all about? What is
> the role of RTI officer in a govt institution? What type of
> information is the scope of RTI Officer? How is the librarian better
> suited? What do we librarians learn or know about Govt way of files (&
> records) organization - numbering, generation, storing, retrieving,
> archiving, rules governing files & documents & records preservation
> and conservation etc? How about confidentiality coding and providing
> restricted access? How about documents relating to public -- say birth
> certificates. With absolutely no theoretical or practical knowledge of
> any of these things how do librarians claim that they are better
> suited? The RTI was talked about for a number of years before becoming
> law. Why did not LIS schools provide changes in the curriculam to
> mould librarians into RTI officers?
>
> Well I have a lot of doubts.  Any comments?
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 8, 2005 at 11:12 AM, vasanth raj <gooche_1981 at yahoo.co.in> wrote:
>> Dear Sir/Madam,
>>
>>
>>  The much awaited  Right to Information Act has come into force in India.And already we have seen and heard that there is a  great demand  for information which are vital to its functioning and also to contain corruption and to hold Governments and their instrumentalities accountable to the governed.But Govt Authorities have totally neglected the library and Information Professionals, most of the people who have appointed as public Information Officer have came from Journalism and mass communication." Public Information Officer" job is best suited for LIS professionals where the skills of storage , organise and dissemination of Information is highly required.Already there are instances that Public Information Officers have failed  to provide right information to the right people at a right time.This is because of lack of skills to organise and storage of Information.This is the right time to Library Association and Universities to pressurize Govt. appoint library and Info!
 r!
> mat!
>>   ion professionals as  " Public Information Officer" and this will definitely helps people to have information quickly whenever they need.This will not only helps govt to function smoothly and huge opportunities for LIS professionals as well.
>>
>>
>>
>>  Your Sincerely
>>
>> -------------------------
>>  Vasantha Raju N
>>  Enjoy this Diwali with Y! India http://in.promos.yahoo.com/fabmall/index.html Click here
>>
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> Phone 27846631 / 94908 04278
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From dhaval at rapidradio.co.in  Tue Mar 18 16:14:57 2008
From: dhaval at rapidradio.co.in (Dhaval H K)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:14:57 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Addition to list of Standards by Sri Priya ( Specific
	to RFID ) on 15th March
Message-ID: <baaf46d80803180344i51d69dfdj3dfca1f3335f1d1@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Friends,

I just wanted to add extra information about standards relating to Library
Industry. They are listed below

http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/RP-6-2008.pdf

Above is a document which has been made public by NISO as a set of
guidelines to be followed for implementing RFID technology in library
industry. The same guidelines are going to take shape of few ISO standards
in future.

http://litablog.org/2008/01/29/rfid-in-libraries-standards-and-guidelines/

The above link has a small description about the standards which are coming
up in future as ISO standards for RFID in Libraries. You can visit the link
for more details on the same.

Thank you

Regards

http://www.rapidradio.co.in/library.html
<http://www.rapidradio.co.in/library.html%20>

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From sambhu.halder at gmail.com  Tue Mar 18 17:11:36 2008
From: sambhu.halder at gmail.com (Sambhunath Halder)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:11:36 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Workshop report on IDR
Message-ID: <6cbb9e8d0803180441i1eec3258j2b9b1ff6c6ff5515@mail.gmail.com>

*Report of the 4-days Training Workshop on Designing Institutional Digital
Repository on Social Sciences
Organized by University of Kalyani in collaboration with
NASSDOC  ICSSR, New Delhi
11-14, March, 2008*



It is good news that Department of Library and Information Science e of
University of Kalyani in collaboration with the NASSDOC  ICSSR, New Delhi
recently organized a 4-day training workshop on Designing Institutional
Digital Repository on Social Sciences.

The programme was fully satisfactory, because of its so many lectures,
lab-demonstrations and finally hands-on training of IDR software DSpace.

Mr. Arun Ghosh, Former Librarian of Centre of Studies in Social Sciences has
given lecture on Social Science information: characteristics, growth and
organization.

Dr. P. R. Goswami, The Director of NASSDOC-ICSSR has through the light on
Information system and services of NASSDOC.

In the next session an overview of LINUX Operating System and its
installation lecture has given by Dr. Dibyendu Paul, Lecturer of DLIS,
University of Kalyani.

Finally, Dr. Partha Sarathi Mukhopadhyay, Lecturer of  Burdawn University
and Dr. Aditya Tripathi, Faculty member of Banaras Hindu University have
discussed and presented so many lab-demonstrations of different aspects of
Institutional Digital Repository and its software like DSpace including its
installation, administration, customization, etc. side by side lectures have
given on Metadata standards, Lucen search engine, Unicode and other related
issues.

Therefore, this kind of programme is very helpful for LIS professionals in
different ways.



Sincerely yours

Sambhu Nath Halder

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Narula Institute of Technology,
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Kolkata 700109.
Contact No. : +91 9733964714; 9851280201
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From amanimekalai.au at gmail.com  Tue Mar 18 17:44:58 2008
From: amanimekalai.au at gmail.com (A.Manimekalai)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:44:58 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Norms for Library Professionals in Univery Libraries
Message-ID: <5aa8325d0803180514x4a945e15re0fa9ef569499bf4@mail.gmail.com>

Dear All,
Please any one of you know about the following information kindly reply with
proper evidence.
it will be usefull to many of our professionals as most of the prefessionals
in the university libraries
are suffering like anyhting in getting their promotions.

For University Library Professionals

1. How was the professional assistant experience is measured? Is it
be accounted for promotion as asst. Librarian
2. What is the norms for promotion of Asst Librarian?
3. What is the norms for Promotion to Deputy Librarian?  How is the
Professional assistant / TEchnical Assistant service is accounted?
4. Are the services of Professional Assistant period ignored for the higher
promotions ?

Please any one who know about the norms kindly send reply with official
approval.

Thanks,
manimekalai

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From esukhdev at gmail.com  Tue Mar 18 22:30:56 2008
From: esukhdev at gmail.com (esukhdev at gmail.com)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:30:56 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Right to Information Act -Jobs should be given to
	Information Professionals
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0803110940260.27240@mail.rri.local.net>
References: <20051108054228.99697.qmail@web8303.mail.in.yahoo.com>
	<9765c2050803062315u7da721e1o8f50b8b559f64643@mail.gmail.com>
	<Pine.LNX.4.64.0803110940260.27240@mail.rri.local.net>
Message-ID: <c13c85220803181000g579eecbaudbca626234798aa4@mail.gmail.com>

At personal level, I would encourage to take whatever better
opportunity comes in life. But at professional level, I don't think we
should misuse our information management skill for non-scholarly
domains.
Should we now look for jobs like purchase officers, store keepers etc?
Don't we have these skill?
-- Have to be brief, sending this email through.

--SUKHDEV

On 3/18/08, Library <library at rri.res.in> wrote:
> I am happy that the issue has been raised now. There is nothing like a
> person has to be trained to become Information Officer or Public
> Information Officer to deal with RTI Act 2005. In an organization, a
> person is identified and appointed as Central Public Information Officer.
> He has to wade through lot many files and get acquinted with RTI Act 2005.
> On regular basis, circulars and guidelines keep pouring from the concerned
> at the top from central govt.
>
> I have been working as CPIO and Vigilance Officer since last few years and
> discharging duties assigned satisfactorily by dealing with RTI Act 2005
> and Vigilance related mamtters.
>
> I donot think LIS Schools could do any thing on such matters. Any one can
> become  a CPIO or Vigilance Officer in an organization.
> Y.M.Patil
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>   Raman Research Institute Library,        Tel:  +91 80 2361 0122 Extn 250
>   C V Raman Avenue, Sadashivanagar,        Fax:  +91 80 2361 0492
>   Bangalore 560 080, India.                Email: library at rri.res.in
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy wrote:
>
> > I am sorry to reply this message after such a long gap.
> >
> > Vasanth has raised an important issue. He states that Librarians are
> > better suited to work as Information Officers and that they are
> > neglected. I would like to ask a few questions and elicit views of LIS
> > personnel on these:
> >
> > How many librarians know what is this monster RTI all about? What is
> > the role of RTI officer in a govt institution? What type of
> > information is the scope of RTI Officer? How is the librarian better
> > suited? What do we librarians learn or know about Govt way of files (&
> > records) organization - numbering, generation, storing, retrieving,
> > archiving, rules governing files & documents & records preservation
> > and conservation etc? How about confidentiality coding and providing
> > restricted access? How about documents relating to public -- say birth
> > certificates. With absolutely no theoretical or practical knowledge of
> > any of these things how do librarians claim that they are better
> > suited? The RTI was talked about for a number of years before becoming
> > law. Why did not LIS schools provide changes in the curriculam to
> > mould librarians into RTI officers?
> >
> > Well I have a lot of doubts.  Any comments?
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 8, 2005 at 11:12 AM, vasanth raj <gooche_1981 at yahoo.co.in>
> wrote:
> >> Dear Sir/Madam,
> >>
> >>
> >>  The much awaited  Right to Information Act has come into force in
> India.And already we have seen and heard that there is a  great demand  for
> information which are vital to its functioning and also to contain
> corruption and to hold Governments and their instrumentalities accountable
> to the governed.But Govt Authorities have totally neglected the library and
> Information Professionals, most of the people who have appointed as public
> Information Officer have came from Journalism and mass communication."
> Public Information Officer" job is best suited for LIS professionals where
> the skills of storage , organise and dissemination of Information is highly
> required.Already there are instances that Public Information Officers have
> failed  to provide right information to the right people at a right
> time.This is because of lack of skills to organise and storage of
> Information.This is the right time to Library Association and Universities
> to pressurize Govt. appoint library and Info!
>  r!
> > mat!
> >>   ion professionals as  " Public Information Officer" and this will
> definitely helps people to have information quickly whenever they need.This
> will not only helps govt to function smoothly and huge opportunities for LIS
> professionals as well.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>  Your Sincerely
> >>
> >> -------------------------
> >>  Vasantha Raju N
> >>  Enjoy this Diwali with Y! India
> http://in.promos.yahoo.com/fabmall/index.html Click here
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
> >>  LIS-Forum mailing list
> >>  LIS-Forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in
> >>  http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Dr P Vyasamoorthy,
> > Society for Serving Seniors
> > 30, Gruhalakshmi Colony, Secunderabad 500015
> > Phone 27846631 / 94908 04278
> > http://societyforservingseniors.satyamcsr.org
> >
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From konnur at bub.ernet.in  Wed Mar 19 09:51:33 2008
From: konnur at bub.ernet.in (Pandurang Konnur)
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:51:33 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] NewGenLib Workshop at BIMTECH, New Delhi
In-Reply-To: <161325.13340.qm@web36904.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
References: <161325.13340.qm@web36904.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <80b6c0c10803182121j2702a54eyc45b9d22d8512061@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Friends,
I am very happy to note that, librarians are trying to learn about the
NewGenLib open source software and many libraries are comming forward to
conduct the training workshop on NewGenLib software.

Bangalore University also has planned to conduct series of training
programmes on NewGenLib software for the benefit of College Libraries
affiliated to Bangalore University. The tentative programme is as Under:

1st Workshop: from 19-22, May 2008

2nd Workshop: from 02-05, June 2008

3rd Workshop: from 116-19, June 2008

4thWorkshop: from 30th,June  to 3rd,July 2008

5th Workshop: from 14-17, July 2008

Interested  Librarians of Colleges affiliated to Bangalore University may
contact the University Library Bangalore University and register for any one
of the workshops as per their convenience. Detailed mail will be posted
shortly.

Thanks,
Konnur.




On 3/18/08, mohammad azeem siddiqui <azeem_mlisc at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Dear friends,
> This is for your kind information that Birla Institute of Management
> Technology (BIMTECH), Greater Noida is conducting three days Workshop on
> NewGenLib Open Source Library Automation Software from 17-19 May 2008.
> The detals of the workshop is given on the Institute's website. (
> www.bimtech.ac.in) or you may also contact to
> organising secretary (Mr. Rishi Tiwari).
>
>
>
> Mohammad Azeem Siddiqui
>
> Research Scholar Department of Library & Information Science
> Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University (A Central University)
> Lucknow-226 025
> Mobile: 09936067170
>
> Personal URL:
> http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Mohammad_Azeem_Siddiqui
>
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From azeem_mlisc at yahoo.com  Wed Mar 19 10:27:39 2008
From: azeem_mlisc at yahoo.com (mohammad azeem siddiqui)
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 04:57:39 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Registeration Form and Library Brouchere for NewGenLib
	Workshop at BIMTECH, Greater Noida
In-Reply-To: <OF9093981D.EF990A08-ON65257410.003A04A8-65257410.003A568B@fluor.com>
Message-ID: <778938.45132.qm@web36901.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Hi Dear Library Professionals,
  Please download the Registeration Form and Library Brouchere for the NewGenLib Workshop at BIMTECH, Greater Noida.


  
Mohammad Azeem Siddiqui 
Research Scholar 
  Department of Library & Information Science
Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University (A Central University) 
Lucknow-226 025 
Mobile: 09936067170 

Personal URL:   
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From patranihar at gmail.com  Wed Mar 19 11:49:44 2008
From: patranihar at gmail.com (Nihar Patra)
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:49:44 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Library Trainee at NSHM, Kolkata
Message-ID: <d139271d0803182319q498a1e47g7b9d2fb679a37aeb@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Professional,
The NSHM Knowledge Campus, Kolkata is stepping towards automation and
digitization of Library, catering to the information needs of academic and
research community in the areas of Management, Media and Communication and
Pharmacy.

 Applications are invited for the post of *Two* *Library Trainees*.

The applicants should be fresh post graduates with first class in Library
Science and well versed in computer application in Library Science.

Duration of Training is for a period of *one year* with no guarantee of
continued employment (purely temporary/contractual basis), carrying a
stipend of *Rs.5000/- per month* with no other facilities / benefits, as
applicable to regular employees, excepting contractual leave.

 Applications with Bio-data with latest Passport size photograph should
reach the undersigned on or before 15th April 2008 super-scribing on the
cover APPLICATION FOR LIBRARY TRAINEE or send the Bio-Data to
nihar.kanta.patra at nshm.com or Assistant Librarian - *
supriya.benerjee at nshm.com*

**
*Nihar K Patra
*Librarian
NSHM Knowledge Campus
60 (124), B L Saha Road
Kolkata ? 700053



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From sri_lib at yahoo.com  Wed Mar 19 14:46:10 2008
From: sri_lib at yahoo.com (sri priya)
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 02:16:10 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Education & Library Science
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From rajesh.ka at rediffmail.com  Wed Mar 19 16:42:50 2008
From: rajesh.ka at rediffmail.com (rajesh kusanur)
Date: 19 Mar 2008 11:12:50 -0000
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Digital library software
Message-ID: <20080319111250.21205.qmail@f5mail-236-234.rediffmail.com>

 ?
Hi Friends,


I would like to know the Digital library software (Commerical) other then Green stone Digital Library software. 


with regard
Rajesh K A
rajesh.ka at rediffmail.com
raajesh.ka at gmail.com
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From anu at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in  Wed Mar 19 19:11:10 2008
From: anu at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (anu at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in)
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:11:10 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Project Assistant post at NCSI
Message-ID: <3197.59.92.131.108.1205934070.squirrel@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>

National Centre for Science Information (NCSI), Indian Institute of
Science, Bangalore 560 012, requires a project assistant for a period of
one and a half years from April 2008 for an ongoing project at NCSI

PROJECT ASSISTNAT (1 post)

Qualification: MCA or B.E./B.Tech/ in Computer Science

Required skill set: Strong academic background with enthusiasm to learn
new areas.  Strong analytical abilities, programming in C, C++ and JAVA,
under the Linux and Windows operating system is essential.  Knowledge of
relational database management system, distributed database search and
retrieval system is desirable.

How to apply: Send your CV before 25th March to
              Ms.Anuradha.K.T., NCSI, IISc, Bangalore 560012
              (email:anu at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in),

Emoluments : Rs.9000-14000/-pm (fixed) depending on experience and
proficiency




From puna_05 at yahoo.co.in  Wed Mar 19 20:03:17 2008
From: puna_05 at yahoo.co.in (Puna Das)
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:33:17 +0000 (GMT)
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Dear Colleagues
   
  Just Published: 
  "Open Access to Knowledge and Information: Scholarly Literature and Digital Library Initiatives ? the South Asian Scenario", by Anup Kumar Das; edited by Bimal Kanti Sen and Jocelyne Josiah. 
  ISBN 978-81-89218-21-8
  Published by: United Nations Educational Scientific & Cultural Organization (UNESCO), New Delhi
  Pages: 137
   
  About the Publication: This book discusses successful open access and digital library initiatives in India and other South Asian countries. This book may be considered an authoritative source-book on Open Access development in this sub-region. 
   
  For getting a free copy of this book for your library, please write a request letter and along with a self-addressed stamped envelope (a good quality A4 size envelope, affixing Indian postal stamp worth Rs. 52.00, for sending by Registered Parcel) to:
  Ms. Audrey D?Souza, 
  UNESCO House
  B5/29, Safdarjung Enclave
  New Delhi-110029
   
  Thanking You
   
  With Best Wishes
   
  Anup Kumar Das
  New Delhi
  Email: puna_05 at yahoo.co.in
  Mobile: +91-9911479926

       
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From esukhdev at gmail.com  Thu Mar 20 06:10:41 2008
From: esukhdev at gmail.com (Sukhdev Singh)
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 06:10:41 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Now Wait For Breaking NEWS
Message-ID: <c13c85220803191740k22da49d8wfd6e00bd2a4cf00b@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Friends,
Some of us have been working silently on one aspect of Open Access in
India. Wait for an important Breaking News in couple of days in
this forum.
- - Sukhdev Singh.

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From atanugarai.lists at gmail.com  Wed Mar 19 20:57:20 2008
From: atanugarai.lists at gmail.com (Atanu Garai/Lists)
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:57:20 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum]
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From lib_bimtech at rediffmail.com  Thu Mar 20 12:00:31 2008
From: lib_bimtech at rediffmail.com (rishi tiwari)
Date: 20 Mar 2008 06:30:31 -0000
Subject: [LIS-Forum] (no subject)
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Dear friends,
 This is for your kind information that Birla Institute of Management Technology (BIMTECH), Greater Noida is conducting three days Workshop on NewGenLib Open Source Library Automation Software from 17-19 May 2008. 
 The detals of the workshop is given on the Institute's website. (www.bimtech.ac.in) or you may also contact to
organising secretary (Mr. Rishi Tiwari)newgenlib.workshop at gmail.com
Vinay Kumar

Rishi Tiwari
Librarian & ILA Executive Member
Birla Institute of Management Technology(BIMTECH)
Plot No.5, Knowledge Park-II
Greater Noida(NCR)
U.P.-201306
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From ssdhaka at gmail.com  Thu Mar 20 12:38:50 2008
From: ssdhaka at gmail.com (Satendra Dhaka)
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:38:50 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] happy holi
Message-ID: <2768ce440803200008xe6ee6d3w21c53727b2649782@mail.gmail.com>

Wish you a very Happy Holi. Please celebrate Holi keping in view the
sentiments of others. Take care of health. again very very happy holi.


-- 
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Ministry of External Affairs
Patiala House, Annexe "B"
Tilak Marg, New Delhi-110001
Phones: 0091-11-23073685, 23389073
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From library at mssrf.res.in  Thu Mar 20 12:45:25 2008
From: library at mssrf.res.in (Murugan)
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:45:25 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Need article
Message-ID: <00b101c88a5a$2b412b00$191e09c0@library.mssrf.res.in>

Dear All,

I would be grateful to anyone send the full text journal artilce for the following.

Land Use Policy, (Vol. 22, No. 2) April 2005, Pages 75-93. 'Received Wisdom' in agricultural land use policy: 10 years on from Rio.

Sincerely,

Thank you very much.


B. Murugan
Information Resource Center
M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation
3rd Cross Street, Institutional Area,
Taramani, Chennai. 600 113.

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From kanakanala at gmail.com  Thu Mar 20 12:48:13 2008
From: kanakanala at gmail.com (Sridhar K)
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:48:13 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] vacancies in an engineering college - hyderabad
Message-ID: <e91d30b80803200018w41db27a4s5af6c6d173b4afa0@mail.gmail.com>

Applications are invited for the posts of Librarian
> & Library Assistant, for a  new engineering college
> in Hyderabad affiliated to JNTU & Approved by
> A.I.C.T.E. New Delhi.
>
> Qualififcations & Experience
>
> 1. Librarian : MLISc with first class ( 0-3 Years of
> Experience)
>
> 2. Library Assistant : CLISc (0-5 years of
> experience)
>
> Mail your resume to:
>
>  kanakanala at rediffmail.com, kanakanala at gmail.com
>
>
>
> K SRIDHAR REDDY
> BRAHMOS AEROSPACE, DRDL Campus
> KANCHANBAGH
> HYDERABAD - 500058
> ANDHRA PRADESH
> INDIA

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From esukhdev at gmail.com  Thu Mar 20 17:42:21 2008
From: esukhdev at gmail.com (Sukhdev Singh)
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:42:21 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum]
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I agree. We have to not only support open access but have to change
the  value system associated with publishing as well.

I would prefer a document under Creative Commons rather than
just a free copy.

Anyway congratulations. Something is better than nothing.

- - Sukhdev Singh.

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 8:57 PM, Atanu Garai/Lists
<atanugarai.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Dear Anup
>
>  I am very glad that you have brought out this book with Dr. Sen and Ms.
> Josiah. Congratulations. I am sure that this provides a good informative
> background on open access issues in India and in this region. My
> recommendation is this book should be available for download over internet.
>
>  Best regards
>  Atanu Garai
>  Online Networking Specialist
>  Globethics.net
>  ________________________________
>
>  Puna Das wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> Dear Colleagues
>
>  Just Published:
>  "Open Access to Knowledge and Information: Scholarly Literature and Digital
> Library Initiatives ? the South Asian Scenario", by Anup Kumar Das; edited
> by Bimal Kanti Sen and Jocelyne Josiah.
>  ISBN 978-81-89218-21-8
>  Published by: United Nations Educational Scientific & Cultural Organization
> (UNESCO), New Delhi
>  Pages: 137
>
>  About the Publication: This book discusses successful open access and
> digital library initiatives in India and other South Asian countries. This
> book may be considered an authoritative source-book on Open Access
> development in this sub-region.
>
>  For getting a free copy of this book for your library, please write a
> request letter and along with a self-addressed stamped envelope (a good
> quality A4 size envelope, affixing Indian postal stamp worth Rs. 52.00, for
> sending by Registered Parcel) to:
>  Ms. Audrey D'Souza,
>  UNESCO House
>  B5/29, Safdarjung Enclave
>  New Delhi-110029
>
>  Thanking You
>
>  With Best Wishes
>
>  Anup Kumar Das
>  New Delhi
>  Email: puna_05 at yahoo.co.in
>  Mobile: +91-9911479926
>
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From esukhdev at gmail.com  Fri Mar 21 09:30:58 2008
From: esukhdev at gmail.com (Sukhdev Singh)
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:30:58 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Our paper: Opportunities and Challenges of establishing
	Open Access Repositories
Message-ID: <c13c85220803202100l33556f50hc70ce4fa916c04cc@mail.gmail.com>

Singh, Sukhdev; Pandita, Naina and Dash, Shefali S. (2008)
Opportunities and Challenges of establishing Open Access Repositories:
A case study of OpenMED at NIC. Trends and Strategic Issues for
Librarians in Global Information Society: ICCSR Sponsored Seminar,
March 18,19, 2008, Organized by Department of Library and Information
Science, Panjab University Chandigarh. pp. 98-104.
http://openmed.nic.in/2762/

National Informatics Centre had established a subject repository in
May 2005. It is meant for Medical and Allied Sciences and named as
OpenMED at NIC <http://openmed.nic.in>. It has MeSH(R) based subject
categorization and this makes it one of its own kind. Taking
OpenMED at NIC as a case ? this paper discusses key issues in
establishing and maintaining an open access repository. Librarians and
information science professionals can play active role in providing
access and exposure to quality research and academic content generated
in their institutions. Mature and standard open sources softwares are
now available for setting up repositories. Libraries can install one
of these on existing institutional or library servers to setup
repositories. However to ensure better access and faster response
time, dedicated hardware and reliable connectivity would be required.
Librarians and information science professional can play important
role in exposing intellectual content produced by their organizations.
They can take of various roles like ? generating awareness among
staff, researchers and students about benefits of self arching in
institutional or subject repositories; training them in uploading
their articles and other documents in such repositories; acting as
meta-data editors and repositories managers. Establishing a
repository, administrating and inviting authors to deposit their
articles and other works in it is golden opportunity available to
librarians and information science professionals. This opportunity
should be grabbed with open hands.

The presentation can also be viewed from: http://snipr.com/229f4

--Sukhdev Singh, NIC

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From ruchika314 at gmail.com  Fri Mar 21 12:06:02 2008
From: ruchika314 at gmail.com (Ruchika Sharma)
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:06:02 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Digital library software
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References: <20080319111250.21205.qmail@f5mail-236-234.rediffmail.com>
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Yea, its DSPACE

On 19 Mar 2008 11:12:50 -0000, rajesh kusanur <rajesh.ka at rediffmail.com>
wrote:

>
> Hi Friends,
>
>
> I would like to know the Digital library software (Commerical) other then
> Green stone Digital Library software.
>
>
> with regard
> Rajesh K A
> rajesh.ka at rediffmail.com
> raajesh.ka at gmail.com
>
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From haravu at newgenlib.com  Fri Mar 21 12:33:57 2008
From: haravu at newgenlib.com (Jai Haravu)
Date: 21 Mar 2008 07:03:57 -0000
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Library science curriculum
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Dear All

It is indeed a good sign that a library school has begun looking at revamping the syllabus for the Bachelor's degree in Library Science and is seeking the help and advice of concerned professionals. Having had some experience of interacting with both students and tecahers of library science, I feel that the following issues are vital to be addressed.

1. The quality of intake into B.L.I.Sc and M.L.I.Sc courses is key to ensuring that future professionals in this field provide the leadership and ensure greater advocacy to libraries and visibility of the profession with the users, managers, and decision makers. I think it is well known that most students who come to library schools in India are those who do not make it to the other so called elite courses. In other words, people who join library courses do so without really a career in their minds. To most of them a degree in library science is a way to a job, any job. Unless our admission norms along with the content are made attractive both to students and potential sectors of the country like corporates (who require innovative information managers, knowledge coordinators/facilitators), research and development centres, academic and public libraries. Academic libraries need to see how their presence is felt in respect of the teachng and learning objectives of the academic environment they are to serve. 
2. The course curriculum at present, in my view, is too much steeped in traditional subjects. These are required but need to be re-oriented to their application in computer- and web- based environments. Fundamental concepts and the theories underlying these are important to be emphasized and then how these are used in both a traditional library and in information systems needed across application environments is required.
3. My own experience of most new library science graduates have very poor soft skills. Their oral and written skills are extremely poor, evidence of the backgrounds from which they come. This does not help them in their jobs, nor are they able to create an impact on others. They need also to be trained to think logically. It is essential that they should be taught life skills in understanding and improvong their self confidence and self image, the value of their skills to society,  and in seeing the bigger picture in which they exist as professionals. I beleive these are sorely lacking in most of our library courses. 
4. Many library schools do not provide adequate access to past and current literature (both books and current journals) although the syllabus does contain many topics of current interest. Faculty and students in these courses cannot keep themselves updated and refer to classic writings in these fields. 
5. My experience is that even in post graduate courses the student is not encouraged to become self-reliant. The emphasis is on completing the syllabus and passing the exams rather than learning and skill development. This can only be done by asking students to do assignments that help them understand the subject or skill (e.g., subject indexing, searching). Performance in the assignments and the student's capability to present his work are important skills that need to be inculcated in these courses. 
6. Many others will, I am sure, spell out in detail new topics in the computer and web related areas in which library professionals need to be equipped with. 

I congratulate the university library school in thinking of changing the syllabus.

Haravu  

On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 Subbiah Arunachalam wrote :
> Friends:
> 
> A leading Indian university library school is in the 
> process of revising its
> BLISc curriculum. The school is seeking the opinion of 
> many experts. I am
> also asked to give my suggestions - perhaps as an avid 
> user of academic and
> special libraries and as one involved in scholarly 
> publishing.
> 
> I will be grateful if you could give me your valuable 
> ideas and suggestions,
> latest by 29 March. Surely the situation has changed a 
> lot from the days
> when most of us went to college. Then there was no 
> Internet, no Web, no
> journal aggregators or online journals, no 
> institutional repositories and
> the list can be really long. But the purpose of 
> libraries remains the same.
> The tools have changed and the way we do things are 
> somewhat different. The
> question is how best we can train the new librarians to 
> excel in their
> profession in today's context. We are not concerned 
> only with academic and
> special libraries; graduates will find jobs in the 
> corporate sector, in
> government and public libraries as well.
> 
> Best wishes.
> 
> Arun
> [Subbiah Arunachalam]





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From esukhdev at gmail.com  Fri Mar 21 13:56:54 2008
From: esukhdev at gmail.com (Sukhdev Singh)
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:56:54 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Why plagiarize when we can write?
Message-ID: <c13c85220803210126r52682c8s892555a789778886@mail.gmail.com>

Just back from a seminar organized by Department of Library and
Information Science, Panjab University Chandigarh. This seminar,
Trends and Strategic Issues for Libraries in Global Information
Society, took place at the university itself from 18th to 19th March
2008.

While going through the printed proceedings of the seminar, one
paragraph looked very familiar to me. Oh, we had written it only few
months back to report a group discussion on open access. This report,
we made widely available over net through various discussion forums.
We also archived it in our repository. This familiar looking paragraph
was included in a paper. I quickly jumped to reference section to see
if we are lucky to get a citation. In vain, I should have remembered
that people, who plagiarize, don't mention their actual source. Well,
not even indirectly. For them, references are mere formality, so they
will cite sources, which they might have not even seen before.

But why get got? There are number of softwares for rewriting articles.
 Read "The best article rewriting software on earth"
(http://snipr.com/229vs ). It mentions WordFlood 2.0, Content Rewriter
Pro and Essay Town. With the help of these tools one can rewrite
articles and hope to escape being caught by search engines like
Google. However, do you know the best software? No prize for guessing
it right, it is our brain. One can definitely use tools along with
brain. WordWeb could also be of great help. It is a small free utility
to serve as English thesaurus and a dictionary.

There are no copyrights on ideas. Only well documented innovations are
protect through patents. But coping ideas' written expressions as such
without acknowledging the original authors is called plagiarism. It
does not go well in academics when someone is trying to project
others' idea as one's own. Punishment is mostly in form of bad
reputation among the peers and negative employer's assessment. Better
would to express the idea in one's own words. Tools can help you if
you are at lost for better words. Importantly, it won't cost anything
if you cite the original author. At the most you will have to add more
line in your word processor.

It is always a bad idea to plagiarize Open Access material because
everybody knows about it. Being openly accessible, such material is
widely indexed by Internet search engines. It will always show up.
Modern search engines are designed in a fashion to understand which
one is original and which one is plagiarized.

--Sukhdev Singh, NIC.

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From esukhdev at gmail.com  Sun Mar 23 10:17:38 2008
From: esukhdev at gmail.com (Sukhdev Singh)
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 10:17:38 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Do you twitter? I am getting addict to it.
Message-ID: <c13c85220803222147r4ca7717bicdf2f962be35bcf4@mail.gmail.com>

Friends,

As you know, I am always experimenting with one thing or the other.
Few weeks back I came to know about something called "twitter" -
http://www.twitter.com. It is light web based application where you
can write short messages. Others can read these messages. If you wish,
you can control who all can read these messages. Reading others'
messages is called "following" in twitter's terminology.

You can write whatever you feel like. It is basically meant to tell
your friends on what you are doing at a particular moment. What is
your mood? What are you thinking at a particular moment? Or how do you
wish to react to your surrounding. You can write whatever you feel
like provided it is limited to 140 Characters. If you share a long
link, it will be automatically converted into a shorter link through
"TinyURL" - http://tinyurl.com/  . You can write messages either by
going to its site and logging in, or adding "twitter" as your buddy in
your Instant Messenger like Google Talk - http://www.google.com/talk/
, or sending them by SMS (I have not tried it) or logging via your
GRPS enabled phone.

I normally login from my GPRS enabled phone while away from my system.
 My MTNL phone is quite affordable in this matter - just 2 Paise / KB
for its GPRS service. Most handsets are now GPRS capable. But you have
to subscribe to GPRS data service from your service provider and
download and install settings. Your service provider will send you the
settings through SMS on request. You have to simply save these. Once
you have GPRS on your set, the Internet is in your phone. You can surf
the net through you phone's browser. I would again like to recommend
Opera Mini - http://www.operamini.com/ . You can download and install
in your phone (Your phone should able to run Java applications).  For
better experience I would recommend smart phones starting from Rs.
7000 onwards especially with expandable memory.

Now coming back to twitter, what is big advantage of using twitter?
Well there is no answer to it. It is one of social networking
applications. If you believe in online communities, then it is for
you. There is other many applications built around the twitter. You
can generate RSS feeds from it and Mash it on your blog or site.
Libraries are experimenting with it elsewhere. What all I can say it
that is a Hot application these days and I am already addicted to it.
You can follow me at http://twitter.com/esukhdev . To some it may
appear very silly thing to do, yes I was also not very much convinced
to start with. But not now.


--Sukhdev Singh, NIC.

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From snehashree.rahalkar at gmail.com  Sun Mar 23 13:00:02 2008
From: snehashree.rahalkar at gmail.com (Snehashree Rahalkar)
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 13:00:02 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Remunaration for internship
Message-ID: <c0e9d79d0803230030g62d85845va1dd032c1bfbbca3@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Professionals,
I have seen   a lots of advertisements here  for internship or for
contractaul positions.
But remunaration or stipend is too low from 3000-7000 for MLISc or BLISc
level.
Dont u think so for a master level remuranation should be more than 10,000.
Dont u think so itz a degradation of our profession?
A simple BA,Bcom or BSc guy also get more than that.
What you say?

Snehashree Shriram Rahalkar.

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From mallikarjun23j at yahoo.com  Sun Mar 23 14:58:10 2008
From: mallikarjun23j at yahoo.com (Mallikarjun)
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 02:28:10 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Pronetos: Social network for scholar
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Dear All

Pronetos is a home to communities and scholar of every academic discipline : a global think tank of the leader in your fields.
it is a platform to network and collaborate with your collegue all over the world.
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From shihabudeenkunju at gmail.com  Sun Mar 23 15:56:32 2008
From: shihabudeenkunju at gmail.com (shihabudeen kunju)
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 15:56:32 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] IFLA President in the hindu metoplus
Message-ID: <8fb2abd60803230326u5b6a7d69l6b1f877cb738b594@mail.gmail.com>

 *Beyond words *

**

**

**
  Claudia Lux talks to SANGEETA BAROOAH PISHAROTY about how to make a
roomful of books vibrant

   Photos: V.V. Krishnan

*Of untapped potential International Federation of Library Associations
President Claudia Lux in New Delhi *

 How many of us go to a public library these days? Honestly, not many. If
you ask yourself why, the answer might vary from shortage of time for such
luxuries, to easy accessibility of the Internet for information, to how such
libraries are often full of only old books, many of which might be sitting
on the shelves for years as someone tore off their vital pages.

And then, there are the better run private libraries to rummage through or
say those run with excellent facilities run by the likes of The British
Council, The American Center, Max Mueller Bhavan, etc. Plus the convenience
of having specialised libraries these days, some even digitalised, with
multiple services for members with an interest in medicine, arts, culture,
and so on.
Stemming the tide

 Claudia Lux, President, International Federation of Library Associations,
understands the times the public libraries are going through the world over
in the age of immediate responses, specialisation and the IT revolution. But
Lux also knows how this tide can be stemmed. "What you need first is a
positive attitude," she says. And that is what, adds the German native, "I
have told the delegates here." Lux is in New Delhi to take part in
"Libraries on the Agenda!", an international seminar on library advocacy,
organised by Max Mueller Bhavan this past week. The seminar emerged from the
National Knowledge Commission's recommendations to turn our libraries into
resource centres to help India become a knowledge hub.

The NKC's list of recommendations also includes a library commission.

"Such a body to look into library affairs can be useful, but what is also
required is the coming together of library operators, private and public, to
send out one voice to the commission to usher in changes," she feels.

Talking about possibilities, she cites the Parliamentary library in Buenos
Aires which has 24 hours free Internet facility for the public.

"It has got four awards for creating possibilities for citizen
participation."

Then, there is a small library in one of the remotest corners of Malaysia
with no phone connection. "With the help of the regional library, it now has
Internet facility for the villagers besides providing information to farmers
about special crops, market prices, etc."

The possibilities are many, she says. "You can do a lot by connecting rural
libraries to the regional ones."

Though India has a culture of community libraries as in Kerala, "one needs
more of that. Finally, all you need is Rs.60,000 to set up a good community
library and Rs.30,000 annually to maintain it."

On her second trip to India after a gap of over three decades, Lux has
visited some city libraries.

"The specialised libraries here have excellent competence," she feels,
referring to the digitised library at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for
the Arts. She liked the Parliamentary library too. "Do you know, it has a
children's corner too?" she asks excitedly. But what she saw in the Delhi
Public Library was far from satisfactory.

"Its children's corner particularly needs a change. It is too dark, has too
many old books. Also as a central library, it is very small," she comments,
adding, "It however has just started an Internet facility."

Lux sums up with a clincher. "To make public libraries popular, more than
policy designers, we need dynamic heads of libraries."

*Libraries on the Agenda*



*Stefan Dreyer, Regional Director, Max Mueller Bhavan *

"The National Knowledge Commission's emphasis on making India a knowledge
resource is extremely interesting. Taking this as a cue, we thought of
providing a platform for exchange of ideas and also to bring perspectives on
library advocacy from Europe. What followed is the international seminar on
library advocacy, "Libraries on the Agenda". We hope to have created a new
network, and maybe there will be follow-ups on the ideas discussed here."




*Getting it right *

**

**

**

**
  Germany's Wurzburg public library director on how a promotional strategy
restored its popularity

   Photo: V.V. Krishnan

*The strategist Hannelore Vogt in New Delhi *

 Hannelore Vogt doesn't have that typical look of a staid librarian sitting
behind an old table at a dank public library, with the hum of a lazy ceiling
fan for company. She has a spring in her step, a wide grin on her cherry red
lips, and a success story to relate. A story that many public libraries can
learn from. If at all those who man them want to take the pains to make
people see a library as much more than a mere house of old books.

A bubbly Vogt, sitting on the lawns of New Delhi's Max Mueller Bhavan, takes
out a file of computer printouts to illustrate her tale ? how she, as the
director of Germany's Wurzburg public library, turned it around.

"We could have put our hands up and requested the Government to help us. But
this would have given an impression to the public that it is an old library
of no use. So we took the reins in our hands," says Vogt, here to share her
experience at an international seminar on library advocacy.

Brainstorming sessions with her staff led to an effective marketing
strategy, to bring the public back to the once-popular library.
Companies and cash

 Flipping the pages, she shows what that strategy was. "We went to some
local companies. That included a popular roast chicken outlet and a
well-known winery. When it comes to giving cash, companies often cringe, but
they love to give their products," explains Vogt.

So what worked out is this: "The winery pasted a picture of our library on a
Riesling wine bottle, and we got 25 cents from every bottle that sold.
Wurzburg is a tourist destination and it helped our cause, as people liked
the picture of that place's library to take back home."

The 25-cent strategy worked with the chicken outlet too.

"We roped in the city mayor, and the local newspapers carried her picture
selling chicken for the library." Children's events were also organised, and
the prize was a night stay at the library. "We didn't have money, so we
thought of that and made it exciting with activities like storytelling,
etc." Also, a company made bags for plays that were mounted in the local
theatres.

With such schemes, Vogt and her staff turned a forgotten library into a
public hub. "We used the money to give people more and more facilities. The
continuous activities kept us in news," she states.

So, it was only natural the Wurzburg public library was given the German
Library of the Year Award in 2003. And became for the staid public
libraries, a much-needed example.

  S.B.P


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From snehashree.rahalkar at gmail.com  Mon Mar 24 12:34:56 2008
From: snehashree.rahalkar at gmail.com (Snehashree Rahalkar)
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:34:56 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Collection development of annual reports
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References: <276116.38281.qm@web52311.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <c0e9d79d0803240004n3df3747exee0f053f499a3ada@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,
Please go for Sansco in this u will get all the anual reports for Listed
Companies in India.
Other than that ISI Securities also provides you the anual reports.

Thanks and regrads,
Snehashree S. Rhalkar.

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 2:11 PM, vimal kumar <vimal0212 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi Friends,
>
>
> I would like to know the availability of Annual
> Reports of Indian companies in DVD or CD.
>
> Whats the procedure to request Annual Reports (print
> copy) directly from companies?
>
> I sent letters to many companies requesting print copy
> of  annual reports, but no one responded positively.
>
> Vimal Kumar
> Asst. Librarian
> Asian School of Business
> Technopark
> Trivandrum-695 581
> http://www.asb.edu.in/vimal
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From hariharan_ah at yahoo.com  Mon Mar 24 14:05:18 2008
From: hariharan_ah at yahoo.com (Arunachalam Hariharan)
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 01:35:18 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Workshop cum Training Programme on  Web Page Design
Message-ID: <257008.40690.qm@web39614.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Workshop cum Training Programme on 
Web Page Design

Jointly Organized  by

Sri Sai Ram Engineering College,
Chennai

 
     And

Society for the Advancement of
Library and Information Science 
SALIS Chennai Chapter

 
Date
18-19 Apr 2008

Venue
Sri Sai Ram Engineering College,
Chennai


About the Workshop
Libraries are undergoing tremendous changes due to
revolution of ICT.  Internet, web resources, digital
libraries, ICT tools and techniques, etc have made a
significant change in the existing library system
services. Librarians need to play a variety of roles
to meet the demands, requirements and expectations of
the users and institutions. Library professionals need
to learn and update their skills to perform various
tasks and roles which are required in the digital era.

Objectives
The training programme  will provide unique
opportunity to LIS professionals to design, and
develop web pages  on their own using various tools
and techniques



Topics covered 

Web Page, Web site, Home page
Web Server, Browser, 
Anatomy of URL
Web Page Design, Concept and guidelines
Elements of a Web page (title, web address, contents,
design, structure and hyperlinks)
Library website design and contents
The Basics of HTML and XML Overview of HTML - Basic
Tags
CSS

Macromedia Dream weaver ? basics ? interface ?
inserting pictures and images 
? using frames- multimedia  - Adding multimedia
elements ? working with layers 

Adobe Photoshop ? features ? basic - design-
manipulation
Button- animation ? drawing ? photo effects 

Adobe Flash ? Introduction ? Flash in HTML ? tweening
? guide tween- shape
 ? button ? animation ? sound ? integration
Integration of images and flash files in web page ?
linking

Installation and Configuration of IIS Web server
Web Hosting
Web site maintenance
Maintenance of Web sites
Do's and Don't Do's



Methodology
Lecture, presentation and Hands on Experience.
Computer will be provided for practical training

Faculty 
Experts from Industry and Professional Web page
developers

Eligibility & Fee

Practicing Librarians, information professionals.
LIS Professionals (SALIS members)         Rs.350
Other Professionals                                 
Rs. 500 
Students                                              
    Rs. 300 
The registration fee includes Workshop kit, working
lunch and tea for two days. 
(Only 30 participants, first come first serve)


Registration
Intending participants are requested to fill-up and
send the attached form along with
 a DD in favour of ?The Principal Sri Sai Ram
Engineering College, Chennai, 
towards the registration fee on or before 10th Apr?08.
Completed registration form can be sent to:
Mrs. Sivakami
Senior Librarian
SRI SAI RAM ENGINEERING COLLEGE
Sai Leo Nagar, West Tambaram,
Chennai - 600 044. Tamil Nadu. India 
Phone : 044- 2238 0031 / 2238 3322 / 2238 3377 / 2238
1177   7333 
Email : Librarian at srisairamengg.com
             n_siva70 at yahoo.co.in


Web Page Design
18-19 Apr 2008

Registration Form

                          
Name          
Designation     
Name of the Institution  

Address for Communication

Tel. :   Off                          Res. 
E-mail ID 
Mobile No. 
Particulars of Payment (Bank Draft)
Name of the Bank : __________________
Rs. _________ D D No. _______________
Date _______________



Signature

Last date :        20.04.2008


About Sri Sai Ram Engineering College
Sri Sai Ram Engineering College, Chennai, established
in the year 1995 by MJF.Ln.Leo Muthu, Chairman of
Sapthagiri Educational Trust, is non-profitable, and
non-minority institution. The College is functioning
at Sai Leo Nagar in a sprawling campus of 300 acres.
The college buildings are architecturally designed
with 25,000 sq. meters plinth area as per AICTE norms.
 The college aims in providing quality technical
education to both urban and rural students from Tamil
Nadu as well as other states. Sri Sai Ram Institute of
Management and Computer Applications, a unit of Sri
Sai Ram Engineering College, was established in 1997,
and it offers MBA and MCA programmes. 

Sri Sai Ram Engineering College has developed into a
reputed Engineering Institution with ISO 9001: 2000
Certification. All the Engineering programs got
accredited by National Board of Accreditation.
Offering top quality technical education and molding
the younger generation with the spirit of service to
society, the college has spared no efforts to induct
dedicated faculty and provide adequate infrastructure
facilities. The college is affiliated to Anna
University and also approved by All India Council for
Technical Education, New Delhi.

The college has an excellent library, fully
computerized and air-conditioned with Reference
Section, Magazine Section and Stack Area. Presently
there are more than 29,346 books and reference volumes
stacked for the benefit of staff and students. The
library subscribes more than 180 specialized journals,
over one third of them being international  

---------------------------------------------
A.Hariharan





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From sainul at iiitmk.ac.in  Mon Mar 24 14:40:43 2008
From: sainul at iiitmk.ac.in (Sainul Abideen P)
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:40:43 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Download 6th Pay Commission Report
In-Reply-To: <e91d30b80803200018w41db27a4s5af6c6d173b4afa0@mail.gmail.com>
References: <e91d30b80803200018w41db27a4s5af6c6d173b4afa0@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0803241438130.996@login.iiitmk.ac.in>

Dear Friends,

6th Central Pay commission report can be downloaded from

http://india.gov.in/govt/paycommission.php

With Best Regards,

Sainul Abideen P,                                        _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Librarian
Indian Institute of Information Technology & Management-Kerala          |
Park Centre, Technopark     | Tel.   : +91-471-2527567,2700777  exn 119 |
Karyavattom PO, PIN 695581  | Tel.   : +91-471-2593961 (Resi)           |
Thiruvananthapuram          | Mobile.: 9946401830                       |
Kerala, INDIA               | Fax.   : +91-471-2527568                  |
http://sainul.tripod.com    | E-Mail : sainul at iiitmk dot ac dot in   |
www.iiitmk.ac.in            |                                           |
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From dimple148 at yahoo.co.in  Mon Mar 24 18:18:50 2008
From: dimple148 at yahoo.co.in (Dimple Patel)
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:48:50 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Invitation to ALSD Formation Day Celebrations on 7th
	April 2008
Message-ID: <619911.15842.qm@web8904.mail.in.yahoo.com>

Dear Professional Colleagues,

It?s my pleasure to invite you to the FORMATION DAY CELEBRATIONS (on the UGADI day) of Academy of Library Science and Documentation (ALSD) on Monday, the 7th of April, 2008 at 4.30 pm at City Central Library, Ashok Nagar, Hyderabad. 

As part of the Celebrations, a Guest Lecture by Prof. E. Rama Reddy, Visiting Professor, Mahasarakham University, Thailand (Formerly, Librarian, IGM Library, University of Hyderabad) is organized on ?LIS Education in Thailand: a Comparative Account?.

Your gracious presence at the Celebrations shall be greatly appreciated.

Yours sincerely,
Dr. K.H. Sunitha,
General Secretary,
Academy of Library Science and Documentation (ALSD).


       
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From ns.harinarayana at gmail.com  Tue Mar 25 09:58:08 2008
From: ns.harinarayana at gmail.com (N.S. Harinarayana)
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:58:08 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Endowment Lecture on Digital Libraries at MyDLIS
Message-ID: <5d6bc5c70803242128l6aa4988cqcd57e1db131c8625@mail.gmail.com>

Informatics (India) Ltd., Bangalore has instituted an endowment
lecture series on digital libraries at the Department of Library and
Information Science (MyDLIS), University of Mysore, Mysore. Four
lectures were held previously.

Prof. Vijay V. Raghavan, Professor of Computer Science, University of
Louisiana, Lafayette (USA) will be delivering a endowment lecture on
"Text Mining for Knowledge Discovery from Biomedical Digital
Libraries" on 27th March 2008 at 4 PM. Sri. N.V. Sathyanarayana,
Chairman and Managing Director, Informartics (India) Ltd., Banglore,
will be the Guest of Honour.  Prof. T.C. Shivashankar Murthy, Vice
Chancellor, University of Mysore, Mysore  will preside over the
function.  The venue of the event is Rani Bhaddhur Auditoriam, Bahadur
Institute of Management Sciences, Mysore

All are cordially invited.


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

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From sklohiya76 at gmail.com  Tue Mar 25 15:01:38 2008
From: sklohiya76 at gmail.com (Shailesh Lohiya)
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:01:38 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Remunaration for internship
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Message-ID: <537634340803250231m5aea92bdi426830b992715d50@mail.gmail.com>

It is nice to see that we are thinking about the status of library &
information science professionals.
I think that only we people are responsible for this position.
As a recruiter, we are offering low stipend or as a fresher professionals
are asking in same way.

 This is not one day task to change image but as initially Library Sciecne
school should think about this matter seriously and motivate new
professional during study.
 Same way working professionals should cooperate for the same.

On 3/23/08, Snehashree Rahalkar <snehashree.rahalkar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear Professionals,
> I have seen   a lots of advertisements here  for internship or for
> contractaul positions.
> But remunaration or stipend is too low from 3000-7000 for MLISc or BLISc
> level.
> Dont u think so for a master level remuranation should be more than
> 10,000.
> Dont u think so itz a degradation of our profession?
> A simple BA,Bcom or BSc guy also get more than that.
> What you say?
>
> Snehashree Shriram Rahalkar.
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Librarian
Amrapali Institute,
Siksha Nagar, Haldwani
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Ph. 05946-238201,238202
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From mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in  Tue Mar 25 16:18:29 2008
From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin)
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:18:29 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Book needed!
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0803251616150.29408@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>

Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:12:51 +0530 (IST)
From: Riki Krishnan <riki at ias.ernet.in>

Dear All

I would like to know if your library has the book mentioned below:

"Travers, M. W. : A Life of Sir William Ramsay K.C.B., FRS; Edward Arnold
Publishers: London, 1956"

With regards
Riki Krishnan

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Sadashivanagar, Bangalore 560 080       *   Between 14th & 15th Cross
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From satpathy_dr at yahoo.co.in  Wed Mar 26 10:59:56 2008
From: satpathy_dr at yahoo.co.in (sunil satpathy)
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 05:29:56 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] concept of pay & publish your paper
Message-ID: <543026.98853.qm@web94415.mail.in2.yahoo.com>

Dear Professionals,
   
  You all may be aware that now a concept has been  developed  in our field that  "you pay and publish your paper " particularly in case of Seminar/conference Volume which I think is the detoriation of quality of these publications.It is a matter of great regrate that the Natial associations like IASLIC,ILA  etc are also demanding money with the paper even if these associations are not financially able to publish a pre seminar/conference volume without collecting money.
  When we are saying about the development of LIS profession and professionals ,we should think what short of development can be acheived with this system.
  So I draw your kind attention towards this emerging concept which aims to detoriate the quality of LIS literatures,education and profession.
  thanking you
  Dr Sunil Kumar Satpathy
  Sr.Librarian
  C.V.Raman College  of engineering
  Bhubaneswar,Orissa
   

       
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From mukeshanand2006 at gmail.com  Wed Mar 26 14:22:47 2008
From: mukeshanand2006 at gmail.com (Mukesh Anand)
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:22:47 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] JNU,
	New Delhi's vacancy for Librarian & Library Attendant
Message-ID: <b0de4a880803260152q7db0ff77ub9dec8def01a6139@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Members',

Jawaharlal Nehru University has notified for the post of Librarian &
Library Attendant.

Details r available on following web link.
http://www.jnu.ac.in/Career/Advertisement_2008.doc

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

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From kanade at ces.iisc.ernet.in  Wed Mar 26 14:55:00 2008
From: kanade at ces.iisc.ernet.in (Yashwant G Kanade)
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:55:00 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] need fllowing papers
Message-ID: <2630.10.132.20.11.1206523500.squirrel@ces.iisc.ernet.in>

Dear Moderator,

Could you please broadcast this message to LIS-FORUM members?
It is needed by one of our Ph.D. student urgently.

With Warm Regards
Yashwant Kanade.


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Subject: need fllowing papers
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Date:    Wed, March 26, 2008 2:11 pm
To:      kanade at ces.iisc.ernet.in
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Dear Sir,

Could you please get me following papers which are published in Russian
Journal of Herpetology and Dumerilia. I am writing my PhD proposal so I
need them.


1) Orlov N. L. and Ryabov S. A. (2002), ?A new species of the genus Boiga
(Serpentes, Colubridae, Colubrinae) from Tanahjampea Island and
description of ?black form? of Boiga cynodon complex from Sumatra
(Indonesia),? Russ. J.
Herpetol., 9(1), 33 ? 56.


2) Orlov N. L., Kudryavtzev S. V., Ryabov S. A., and Shumakov O. V.
(2003a), ?A new species of genus Boiga (Serpentes: Colubridae: Colubrinae)
and color atlas of boigas from Bengkulu Province (Sumatra, Indonesia),?
Russ. J.
Herpetol., 10(1), 33 ? 52.

3) Orlov N. L., Ryabov S. A., Nguyen V. S., and Nguyen Q. T. (2003b), ?New
records and data on the poorly known snakes of Vietnam.? Russ. J.
Herpetol., 10(3), 217 ? 240.


4) Pauwels O. S. G., Laohawat O.-A., David P., Bour R., Dangsee P.,
Puangjit C., and Chimsunchart C. (2000), ?Herpetological investigations in
Phang-Nga Province, southern Peninsular Thailand, with a list of reptile
species and notes on their biology,? Dumerilia, 4(2), 123 ? 154.

Thanks
Yours sincerely
Ashok


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Research Scholar
Centre for Ecological Sciences
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE
BANGALORE
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INDIA
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From srels at dataone.in  Wed Mar 26 11:01:49 2008
From: srels at dataone.in (SRELS)
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:01:49 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Lecture invitation
Message-ID: <000001c88f3b$3e3df770$0301a8c0@SRELSHP1>

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

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



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Ranganathan Centre for Information Stuides

            in association with the 

Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science

cordially invite you to a Special Lecture

on 

'COLON' AS AN ONTOLOGY

by

Prof. Michael Shepherd
Dean, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada

on

Thursday, 27th March 2008 at 6.00 p.m.

at

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From jagtar.kindu at gmail.com  Thu Mar 27 08:07:30 2008
From: jagtar.kindu at gmail.com (Jagtar Singh)
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:07:30 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] UNESCO Training the Trainers (TTT) Regional Workshop on
	Information Literacy at Punjabi Unioversity, Patiala
Message-ID: <41e21fb90803261937n733251en5a1ed726efac9eb0@mail.gmail.com>

Dear All,

You would be glad to know that UNESCO had initiated a project entitled
"Train the Trainers (TTT) Workshops on Information Literacy". In all 12
Workshops are being organized throughout the globe. Punjabi University is
hosting the "TTT Regional Workshop on Information Literacy (IL) for South
and South Asia" from 5-7 November 2008. In this workshop, IL trainers and
other interested professionals from 14 countries of South and Central Asia
are expected to participate. The number of participants will be between
30-50 and facilitators for this workshop will be of international standing.
This is only a very brief information for the stakeholders. More information
will be flashed in the next mail and also put on a dedicated web page
created by us for this purpose. All the information will be available to the
interested professionals during the first week of April 2008. Nevertheless
for immediate information, please send your queries to:

TTTW.Patiala at gmail.com
or
jagtar.kindu at gmail.com

Profound regards,

Jagtar

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Department of Library and Information Science, Punjabi University, Patiala
Pin - 147 002 (India)

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IFLA Information Technology Section
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From librarymahad at pidilite.co.in  Thu Mar 27 09:52:38 2008
From: librarymahad at pidilite.co.in (librarymahad)
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:52:38 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Remunaration for internship
References: <c0e9d79d0803230030g62d85845va1dd032c1bfbbca3@mail.gmail.com>
	<537634340803250231m5aea92bdi426830b992715d50@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <007201c88fc2$48e69ec0$0f32a8c0@pidilite.com>

I think it is serious matter.  The main reason I feel is that, most of the library science professionals (mainly recently qualified)  are degrading their value in the market.  Most of the times I have seen we the library professionals are not taking care of the value of our education.  I have faced lots of interview from various prestigious academic colleges and institution.  Being a DRTCian, when I am preferring to get a good remuneration they are not ready to pay.  The reason they are telling "When I am getting a Qualified librarian (M. Lib. Passed), why should I pay a double or triple to you?"  Yes they are getting.  This is because there are many many M. Libs.  are ready to get a Librarian jobs with a mere salary 5000/- per month.  I know, most of the college (Newly formed)  in Mumbai are paying like that.  They don't bother to have a  quality of library in their institution also.  Many a time they are managing a library with non-qualified one.  I don't know about UGC/ AICTE rules regarding the appointment of Librarian.  But may be for self financed Institution, they may have the reason to do that.
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Shailesh Lohiya 
  To: Snehashree Rahalkar 
  Cc: lis-forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in 
  Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 3:01 PM
  Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Remunaration for internship


  It is nice to see that we are thinking about the status of library & information science professionals.
  I think that only we people are responsible for this position.
  As a recruiter, we are offering low stipend or as a fresher professionals are asking in same way.

   This is not one day task to change image but as initially Library Sciecne school should think about this matter seriously and motivate new professional during study.
   Same way working professionals should cooperate for the same.
   
  On 3/23/08, Snehashree Rahalkar <snehashree.rahalkar at gmail.com> wrote: 
    Dear Professionals,
    I have seen   a lots of advertisements here  for internship or for contractaul positions.
    But remunaration or stipend is too low from 3000-7000 for MLISc or BLISc level.
    Dont u think so for a master level remuranation should be more than 10,000.
    Dont u think so itz a degradation of our profession?
    A simple BA,Bcom or BSc guy also get more than that.
    What you say?

    Snehashree Shriram Rahalkar.

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From vimal0212 at yahoo.com  Thu Mar 27 10:21:03 2008
From: vimal0212 at yahoo.com (vimal kumar)
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:51:03 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Librarian's E-Library
Message-ID: <812451.64159.qm@web52305.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

Dear Friend,

Karen Muller, ALA Librarian and Knowledge Management
Specialist, used the Google Co-op Custom Search Engine
(CSE) to build this useful tool. and explains the goal
of its use is "to be able to focus searches of
web-based materials...," adding that, "Although many
of the sites [included], particularly the association
sites, have 'business information,' they are rich
resources for articles on the range of library
activities?collection management, security issues,
preservation, reader services, service to special
populations, management, statistics, etc. At least at
the outset, all the sites are live, active sites that
are information rich."

Link
http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=015271347771663724636%3Acmwvisovdsg


Vimal Kumar 
Asst. Librarian
Asian School of Business 
Technopark  
Trivandrum-695 581 
http://www.asb.edu.in/vimal
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From esukhdev at gmail.com  Thu Mar 27 10:49:43 2008
From: esukhdev at gmail.com (Sukhdev Singh)
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:49:43 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Reduced Sized File of our Panjab University Seminar
	Paper Presentation
Message-ID: <c13c85220803262219s3d22d27fib08b1cf4427f624d@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Friends,

Some of you had problems in downloading the power point presentation
of our recent paper on OpenMED at NIC [From http://snipr.com/229f4 and
http://openmed.nic.in/2762/] . It was due to large size of the file.

I have now created a PDF file that contains heavily reduced quality
pictures but is of much lighter in size about 2 MB as compared to
original presentation of 16 MB. This File has been uploaded to OADL
Group under files[ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/oadl/ ]  section and
should be available from http://snipr.com/22pxt directly.

If still you feel that it should be mailed to you, please let me know.


Thanks

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From esukhdev at gmail.com  Thu Mar 27 11:07:32 2008
From: esukhdev at gmail.com (Sukhdev Singh)
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:07:32 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] ALA releases report of its study on library service for
	non-English Speakers.
Message-ID: <c13c85220803262237l2b9e7be5g76fe3eb7869d7b66@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Friends,

ALA has released a report of it's study on library service for
non-English Speakers.

.."The findings presented in this study can provide a venue for
developing better and more precise materials, services and programs
for those linguistically isolated"..

.."American Library Association (ALA) study provides new information
about library services and programs developed for non-English
speakers, including effectiveness of services, barriers to library
use, most frequently used services and most success library programs
by language served"..

Full report is available from http://snipr.com/22pzh

--Sukhdev Singh, NIC.

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From monalipanchbhai at hotmail.com  Tue Mar 25 18:37:41 2008
From: monalipanchbhai at hotmail.com (Monali Panchbhai)
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:07:41 +0000
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Remunaration for internship
In-Reply-To: <537634340803250231m5aea92bdi426830b992715d50@mail.gmail.com>
References: <c0e9d79d0803230030g62d85845va1dd032c1bfbbca3@mail.gmail.com>
	<537634340803250231m5aea92bdi426830b992715d50@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <BAY120-W5588AC5403297FCEBE8158B1FC0@phx.gbl>

Dear Sir,

In reference of 2-3 mails I have recently received, I would like to clear few things.

The quality and remuneration has become 2 sides of coin. Because the salary is less no good students are anymore interested in this profession and since no good students the level of pay packages is decreasing day by day. None of our school is taking efforts to explain how to study the company what and how the fresh degree holders should demand at the time of interview. We either in forums or in open discussions talk a lot about what and how much should be demanded by freshers, but when it comes to us we hesitate to give good salary to these candidates who come to us for jobs. I myself had accepted low package at the starting which was battle of level of degree. Within ourselves we differ B.Lib. and M.Lib. levels and try to keep the gap in salary. What is suggest is though the education is important we should not ignore the experience at same time if experience is imp we should not ignore degree. While offering package to new comers in field we should think about current market conditions as well. 

Schools and colleges should help students to study and market and company and co-operate them to design their package. What I have observed that very few people are aware about govt. break up of salary and the corporate way of CTC. All this though can not be included in curriculum should be explain separately to  the students.

Sometimes students confuse one organization with other. And ask for the same amount which the other was offering. If any organization decided to give  x amount and if students demand x-y then the person or head of library of that office would come in trouble. The other professionals would think that by demanding more for library profession the existing professional was doing injustice with  organization.  Thus our current professionals should clearly give min-max salary range while declaring position and the lecturers as well should give clean picture of all these things while sending students outside.

I guess we will think about it and get back with some nice solution which will give value to our profession and will attract more and more qualitative students in field.

Regards,
Monali



Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:01:38 +0530
From: sklohiya76 at gmail.com
To: snehashree.rahalkar at gmail.com
CC: lis-forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in
Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Remunaration for internship

It is nice to see that we are thinking about the status of library & information science professionals.
I think that only we people are responsible for this position.
As a recruiter, we are offering low stipend or as a fresher professionals are asking in same way.
 
 This is not one day task to change image but as initially Library Sciecne school should think about this matter seriously and motivate new professional during study.
 Same way working professionals should cooperate for the same.

 
On 3/23/08, Snehashree Rahalkar <snehashree.rahalkar at gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Professionals,
I have seen   a lots of advertisements here  for internship or for contractaul positions.
But remunaration or stipend is too low from 3000-7000 for MLISc or BLISc level.
Dont u think so for a master level remuranation should be more than 10,000.
Dont u think so itz a degradation of our profession?
A simple BA,Bcom or BSc guy also get more than that.
What you say?
 
Snehashree Shriram Rahalkar.
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From haravu at newgenlib.com  Wed Mar 26 09:01:16 2008
From: haravu at newgenlib.com (L J Haravu)
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:01:16 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] NewGenLib open source web site using a Content
 Management System (CMS)
Message-ID: <47E9C384.7020207@newgenlib.com>

Dear Members

I am very happy to announce that the open source NewGenLib software's 
web site www.newgenlib.com now has been revamped to use an open source 
Content Management Software (CMS) called Drupal. The use of a CMS makes 
lfe extremely easy to administer and update web sites such as ours. I 
invite professionals to visit the site. This will now be frequently updated.

Best regards.

Haravu

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From dinesh.ncet at gmail.com  Wed Mar 26 09:57:52 2008
From: dinesh.ncet at gmail.com (DINESH SIDDAIAH)
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:57:52 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Future Libraries - Interview
Message-ID: <62c911520803252127r3c8db1a8yfd184ab69d2fd0b4@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Friends,

The *Times of India* published an interview of Claudia Lux, New President of
IFLA on 26th March 2008 (Page No. 20). She had spoke about future libraries
and answered some of the questions like,
(i) How has technology impacted libraries?
(ii) What will the future library be like?
(iii) Is there a role for the govt. in managing libraries?
(iv) Do you have a programme for libraries in developing counties etc.,

Thanking You

Dinesh K. S.

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From srels at dataone.in  Wed Mar 26 13:51:34 2008
From: srels at dataone.in (SRELS)
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:51:34 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Talk (All India Radio, Bangalore) - Dr.K.N. Prasad
Message-ID: <000101c88f3b$3e8efda0$0301a8c0@SRELSHP1>

Dear Moderator :
Kindly announce the following for the benefit of LIS-FORUM subscribers.

S. Chitra Devi, Staff, SRELS

*****

Dr. K.N. Prasad, Executive Officer, Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science, Bangalore, will be presenting 'Chintana' on All India Radio, Bangalore on 2nd, 12th and 22nd April 2008 at 6.30 am.


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From mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in  Thu Mar 27 13:04:14 2008
From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin)
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:04:14 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Programme for circulation
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0803271303050.6077@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>

Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:52:22 +0530
From: Ratnakar Aspari <aspari_r at hotmail.com>

RANGANATHAN RESEARCH CIRCLE
J8/123, Rajouri Garden, New Delhi

We have the pleasure to announce the 129th Monthly Meeting of RRC on 29th 
March, 2008 (5th Saturday) at 10.00 hrs.

Venue   :  National Social Science Documentation Center,
                  Firoz Shah Road, Near Mandi House Metro Station,
      New Delhi-110 001

Speaker : Smt. Jayapradha  Ravindran
                   National Archives of India, New Delhi

Topic : Archival Information and Collection at National Archives of India


Kindly make it convenient to attend the meeting and participate to benefit 
the group by discussions.

Thanking you,

Yours sincerely,

SUBHASH DESHMUKH

From jignesh.amin81 at yahoo.co.in  Tue Mar 25 16:58:38 2008
From: jignesh.amin81 at yahoo.co.in (Jignesh Amin)
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:58:38 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Why and How to Use Blogs to Promote Your Library's
	Services
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From mallikarjun23j at yahoo.com  Thu Mar 27 17:11:15 2008
From: mallikarjun23j at yahoo.com (Mallikarjun)
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 04:41:15 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Dspace 1.5 release
Message-ID: <554232.57624.qm@web36907.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Dear Professionals


The DSpace community is pleased to announce the release of DSpace 1.5!
This is an important release of DSpace with many new features,
including a completely new theme-able Manakin user interface, SWORD
integration, many new configurable options, and scalability
improvements. 
Please Visit http://www.dspace.org//


 
Mallikarjun Dora
Professional Assistant(Library)
VS Library
IIM, Ahemadabad
...The Future is here, Its just unevenly distributed.....
http://curiouslib.blogspot.com/

Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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From deutschswati at yahoo.co.in  Thu Mar 27 20:37:12 2008
From: deutschswati at yahoo.co.in (Swati Gajakose)
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:37:12 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Renumeration for Internship
Message-ID: <594415.64701.qm@web94112.mail.in2.yahoo.com>

I completely agree with Snehal. I say you are right Snehal.

MLISc and BLISc Graduates are not paid much as interns and also as regular employees and to add insult to injury non-qualified staff (10th and 12th pass people with no library science background) are given status on par with a MLISc/BLISc graduates. 

Why is it that librarians themselves give step-motherly treatment to the freshers (MLISc and BLISc graduates) in this profession? 

A measly salary of 3000/- or 7000/- only discourages. 

Swati Gajakose


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From jinu_sudhakaran at yahoo.com  Thu Mar 27 22:19:14 2008
From: jinu_sudhakaran at yahoo.com (Jinu Sudhakaran)
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:49:14 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Experience in a workshop
Message-ID: <918621.63075.qm@web37502.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Dear Friends.
Last Day(24th-25thMarch. 2008) I attended a National Workshop on 
Building Digital Libraries using DSpace, (Organised Jointly by 
School of Engineering & Centre For Information Resource Management 
(CIRM) Cochin University of Science & Technology in Collaboration 
with Central Library, IIT Madras). It was such a good experience 
for me.Unlike other workshops which give importance for the resource 
persons expertise, this workshop stood different, which gave good 
emphasis for the participants and I believe that the seminar 
inculcated good knowledge about Dspace.It dealt with the practical 
and theoretical session of Dspace. In the practical session good 
emphasis was given for How to Install Dspace in Windows. Earlier I 
believed or in other words most of my colleagues told me installing 
Dspace is a herculean task, which could be installed only with the 
help of a computer professional. But by attending this workshop, I 
am confident, and I could confidently say that we Library 
Professionals also can install dspace with minimal efforts and which 
would contribute a revolutionary change in the Open Access Movement 
by setting up our Digital Repositories using Dspace. I would like to 
Congragulate all the team members especially Resource Person 
G.Santhosh Kumar and Workshop Co-ordinator Surendran Cherukodan who 
took all the efforts to organise such a wonderful workshop
Thanking You

Jinu Sudhakaran
Research Scholar
DLIS
University of Kerala




 
  JINU SUDHAKARAN
  ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
  Jinu Sudhakaran
  Research Scholar
  DLIS, University of Kerala

       
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From vyasamoorthy at gmail.com  Fri Mar 28 06:39:25 2008
From: vyasamoorthy at gmail.com (Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy)
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 06:39:25 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Google Docs and Spreadsheets
Message-ID: <9765c2050803271809s71c0489cy499fb9a84b4fef65@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Friends

Just in case you do not know.
Google Docs and spreadsheets are a great way to compose documents in a
co-operative way.
Google spreadsheet NOW allows you compose a form for collecting data for a
survey,
send the form to your friends via email,
have them filled out & submitted via submit link in the form,
then have the data go directly into a spreadsheet you have made!

Only analysis remains! Even this may be automated.

This is a boon to librarians doing all kinds of surveys among their clients.

No special programming skills are needed.

http://docs.google.com/



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Society for Serving Seniors
30, Gruhalakshmi Colony, Secunderabad 500015
Phone 27846631 / 94908 04278
http://societyforservingseniors.satyamcsr.org

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From sainul at iiitmk.ac.in  Fri Mar 28 12:02:19 2008
From: sainul at iiitmk.ac.in (Sainul Abideen P)
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:02:19 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] IIITMK Library blog
In-Reply-To: <549489.8395.qm@web94607.mail.in2.yahoo.com>
References: <549489.8395.qm@web94607.mail.in2.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0803281132350.13824@login.iiitmk.ac.in>

Dear Friends,
Indian Institute of Information Technology & Management-Kerala (IIITMK) 
Library has been using Blog for disseminating Library activities to 
our Users and to the external world, since 2006. This can be accessed from 
http://iiitmklibrary.blogspot.com/

Objectives of this blog is to make users abreast of the latest developments in the Library by providing details about the 
library activities, new additions, book reviews, notification about 
forthcoming events, new resources etc It forms as an online notice borad 
of the Library.

Apart from the above blog (which is accessible to all) we use an internal blog, 
which is accessible only to the Library staff. It can be accessed by the 
library staff through internet using login/password. This is used for library's knowledge 
management and effective communication. Every day each staff member communicate 
the proposed work plan and and they need to report in this blog the 
activities done. Hence this forms the collaborative diary of the Library. 
As each and every activities are documented and archived it would be very 
easy to manage the library even if some of the staff are on leave/changed 
their role etc,. as everything is documented other staff can continue the 
activities without any problem.

Libraries can follow this approach if they have regular access to 
internet.

With best regards
Sainul Abideen P
Librarian
IIITM-K, Trivandrum
  ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Notice: Admission open for PGDIT course of IIITM-K, Visit www.iiitmk.ac.in for details

Sainul Abideen P,                                        _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
          (BSc, ADIS, PGDCA, VLIR Scholar, Belgium)                      |
Indian Institute of Information Technology & Management-Kerala          |
Park Centre, Technopark     | Tel.   : +91-471-2527567,2700777  exn 119 |
Karyavattom PO, PIN 695581  | Tel.   : +91-471-2593961 (Resi)           |
Thiruvananthapuram          | Mobile.: 9946401830                       |
Kerala, INDIA               | Fax.   : +91-471-2527568                  |
http://sainul.tripod.com    | E-Mail : sainul at iiitmk dot ac dot in   |
www.iiitmk.ac.in            |                                           |
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From dinesh.ncet at gmail.com  Fri Mar 28 14:32:41 2008
From: dinesh.ncet at gmail.com (DINESH SIDDAIAH)
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:32:41 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Digital Bookmobile
Message-ID: <62c911520803280202l5e75fa8dncdd414527f8250e9@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Friends,

Digital Bookmobile (www.digitalbookmobile.com) is launching national tour of
public libraries in US from August 2008. The Digital Bookmobile will host
hands-on, interactive training events at public libraries in cities around
the United States. Libraries will be encouraged to make the Digital
Bookmobile a part of multi-day community events, book fairs, and other
reading initiatives.

Dinesh K. S.

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From prakash at inflibnet.ac.in  Fri Mar 28 14:56:45 2008
From: prakash at inflibnet.ac.in (Dr K Prakash)
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:56:45 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Job Vacancy at INFLIBNET Centre for
	Scientific/Technical Officer-I (Library Science)
Message-ID: <00bf01c890b6$2a01fc80$a001a8c0@KPrakash>

Dear Members,

Job Vacancy at INFLIBNET Centre...for Scientific/Technical Officer-I
(Library Science)

Advt. No. 02/2008

INFLIBNET Centre invites applications from Indian Nationals for the purely
temporary post of Scientific/Technical Officer-I (Library Science) . 1 (One)
post for the period of one year only and likely to continue further.
Job Description : The incumbent will work in the library and information
group of the Centre. He/she will assist the Senior Scientists in the areas
relating to library automation,creation of database, digital library
consortium, providing information service, conducting training programmes
for the library professionals, organizing seminar/workshop/convention etc.
Qualification & Experience : M.Lib./MLISc or its equivalent OR B.Lib./BLISc
from a recognized universities with 8(eight) years relevant experience.
Upper Age Limit : 30 years.
Scale of Pay :Rs.6,500-200-10,500 (pre-revised) (At present Gross
Rs.16,435/- per month at the minimum of the scale). The scale of pay and
emoluments is likely to be revised upon implementation of 6th Central Pay
Commission.

For more details and application format please visit
http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/advt022008.pdf


With best regards.

Bye.
_____________________________
Dr. K Prakash,  PhD
Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) Centre
An Inter-University Centre of University Grants Commission
Near Gujarat University Guest House
Post Box No.4116, Navrangpura
Ahmedabad - 380 009   India

URL: http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/
Email: prakash at inflibnet.ac.in; prakash_k at yahoo.com
Tel: 079-2630 5971/2630 4695(Off); 2676 3724(Res)
Cell: 94270 00758
Fax: 91-079-2630 0990/ 2630 7816


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From amanimekalai.au at gmail.com  Fri Mar 28 15:32:26 2008
From: amanimekalai.au at gmail.com (A.Manimekalai)
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:32:26 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] LIBRARIAN POST
Message-ID: <5aa8325d0803280302v3b67060dk3143856297cc907b@mail.gmail.com>

Dear LIS Professionals,

Please utilise the opportunity or inform to your friends:


1.           *    Post:  Librairan*
 Organisation:   Iindian INstitute of Management , Bangalore
           Scale:   12, 000
Requirement:    I class or Higher II class in PG in Lib. Sc. or Allied
Library Science course
Desirable:        Mphil or PhD
Experience :     8 years in any large Library Environment
For Address: Visit the Site

*SOURCE:  The Times of India- Times Ascent- III, Date: 28th MArch 2008.*
**
*2. Post : Librarian :*       4 nos.
Qualifications & Pay:  AS Per AICTE

Contact

Mr. RR NARKEHEDE, CHairman,
MAthurabai Rambhau Narkhede Memorial Trust
IIMT, Sun Hi TEch
Shashwat Institutes,
B7-  EL- 39/5
Bhosari, Pune - 26
Email:  mba at iimtpune.com


Source :

*The Times of India- Times Ascent- III, Date: 28th MArch 2008.*
**

From:
Dr. A. Manimekalai,
Asst. Librarian,(Sr.Sc)
Faculty of Engg. & Tech. Library,
Annamalai University
Annamalainagar- 608 002.

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From kshemaprakash at gmail.com  Sat Mar 29 10:16:52 2008
From: kshemaprakash at gmail.com (Kshema Prakash)
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 10:16:52 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Request for an article
Message-ID: <3a4c03220803282146u71abbfc4m46ce4f5ced4aa0ab@mail.gmail.com>

Hello Friends,

Can some one help me by sending the full text of the below reference?

Srivastava, K. and Sharma, R. 2007. A Level Structure Based Hybrid
Evolutionary Algorithm for the Edge Bisection Problem. Proceedings of
 the International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Multimedia
Applications (ICCIMA 2007) - Volume 02. Pages 146-150

Thanks and regards,

Kshema


-- 
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Faculty Librarian - Gr I
Dayalbagh Educational Institute (Deemed University)
Dayalbagh, Agra 282 0110
Uttar Pradesh, India

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From kginfo at gmail.com  Sun Mar 30 15:52:44 2008
From: kginfo at gmail.com (Kaushik)
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:52:44 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Oxford Journals launches first peer-reviewed journal
	dedicated to undergraduate bioscience research
Message-ID: <e8ac0d7b0803300322v13cfe47x3cc0b10096a5b3cb@mail.gmail.com>

26 March 2008

Oxford Journals is delighted to announce the launch of *Bioscience Horizons*,
a free online journal showcasing the best undergraduate bioscience research
from the UK and Republic of Ireland.
As the first peer-reviewed journal dedicated to undergraduate bioscience
research, it is the only journal to provide such a forum for students, their
supervisors and universities, this journal is unique in its field. It is
hoped that by publishing high quality undergraduate research work the
journal will strengthen the link between teaching and research in higher
education.

This exciting new journal is published by Oxford Journals in conjunction
with Oxford University Press' Higher Education department, and has been
awarded a grant from the University of Leeds for its first year. It will be
published twice a year and will include papers covering a wide range of the
biological sciences, from molecular biology to ecology.

The first issue is available online from today. For further information
about this title, and publication details, please visit
www.oxfordjournals.org

For more information, please contact:


Kaushik Ghosh |  South Asia Sales Manager

Oxford Journals | Oxford University Press

Plot No A 1-5, Block GP, Sector V

Salt Lake Electronics Complex

Kolkata 700091 India

+ 91 33 2357 3739 / 2357 3947 telephone

kaushik.ghosh at oxfordjournals.org

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From sri_lib at yahoo.com  Mon Mar 31 14:56:16 2008
From: sri_lib at yahoo.com (sri priya)
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:26:16 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] The Federal Depository Library Handbook
Message-ID: <448905.92486.qm@web57009.mail.re3.yahoo.com>


The Federal Depository Library Handbook 

The Federal Depository Library Manual was intended to
be a practical guide, providing workable solutions for
day-to-day challenges in over 1,300 depository
libraries.
http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fdlp/pubs/fdlm/

Education Loan Rates 

Education or Student Loans from banks have become a
preferred way of financing higher education in India
and to study abroad. Banks have also become more
market-oriented, making it convenient to avail such
loans. Given below are the interest rates from some of
the banks like State Bank of India, ICICI Bank and
others.
http://www.apnaloan.com/education-loan-india/rates.html

With Regards,
S.Sripriya


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From mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in  Mon Mar 31 15:52:40 2008
From: mailman at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Mailing List Admin)
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:52:40 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] POST : ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN AT NIFM (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0803311547080.8695@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>

Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:00:45 +0530
From: Sanjeev Kumar Jain <sanjeevmlis at gmail.com>

*NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT*

(A Society under Ministry of Finance, Govt. of India)

*Sector 48, Pali Road, Faridabad  121001. (Haryana)*

*About NIFM:*

The NIFM is a Centre of Excellence established by the Government of India,
Ministry of Finance

for teaching, research and consultancy in the areas of Public Finance,
Financial Management,

Accounting, Audit and Information Technology. The Institute conducts a
two-year full-time

PGDBM (FM) Programme besides other training programmes. The NIFM follows
Central Govt. Rules in regard to pay & allowances and other service matters.
Faculty at the Institute are entitled to other benefits as decided by the
Board of Governors including sharing of consultancy income according to
Institute's rules. The Institute also has residential accommodation for
faculty members which is allotted subject to availability. The institute
invites applications from Indian Citizens for faculty positions in the areas
of Economics; Finance & Accounts; Information Technology; Quantitative
Techniques; Organisational Behavior and Human Resource  anagement.

*POST : ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN (Rs.8,000- 13,500)*

*Qualifications & Experience:*

A Master Degree and Ph. D. in Library Science/ Library Information Science
with 5 years

continuous experience in a reputed and well stocked Library of University
recognized by

University Grants Commission (UGC), or recognized management institutes of
national / international repute.

*Age*: Not exceeding 35 years for direct recruitment.

*How to apply:*

Interested persons may apply for the posts in the format available on NIFM's
website

www.nifm.ac.in

The applications may be sent to the Chief
Administrative Officer, National

Institute of Financial Management, Sector- 48, Pali Road, Faridabad
121001 (Haryana) so as to reach latest by *11th, April 2008.*

Sanjeev Kumar Jain
C/o Anministration Deptartment
National Institute of Fashion Technology,
GH-0, Behind Infocity
Gandhinagar-382 007
Ph: 079-23240832, 232408034 ext. 106
Email: infolibrarian at gmail.com

From esukhdev at gmail.com  Mon Mar 31 16:46:47 2008
From: esukhdev at gmail.com (Sukhdev Singh)
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:46:47 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Here is the Breaking News - An Open Access Society for
	India
Message-ID: <c13c85220803310416t3e1eee51s5e8b84b8248a1523@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Friends,

India now has a number of individuals and institutions working for the
cause of Open Access. Time has come to further boost such efforts
through a body fully dedicated for it. Such a body can promote better
coordination of individual initiatives under a collaborative framework
aiming Open Access in India.

I am happy to inform you that a group of young professionals has
formed a Registered Society under The Travancore Cochin Literary,
Scientific and Charitable Societies Registration Act, 1955 on 19th
March 2008 with Registration Number : ER-157/08. It is known as Open
Knowledge Society (OKSociety). Its website is located at
http://www.oksociety.org

This newly formed 'OKSociety' aims to promote Open Access in India
through creating awareness and organizing training programmes. However
we all know this is not enough. After getting the training on
implementing institutional repositories, automation of libraries and
on-line journal publishing; people do need some support services in
putting their training into practice. These support services or
'hand-holding' are essential at least in initial stages. Unfortunately
these support services are not available in the present market
scenario. As this is too specialized domain with very small niche.
OKSociety would act as a forum to provide support services through an
array of volunteers. One another major bottle neck for small and
medium institutions is that they do not have high end servers
connected to Internet on 24/7 basis. This hinders the visibility of
good work done by such institutions. Better servers and Internet
infrastructure sometimes become too expensive to justify the exposure
of good work done at such institutions. Even in large institutions,
libraries may not be able to get good share of the server and
bandwidth from the institutional pools. OKSociety could create a pool
of high end servers having adequate bandwidth. This pool of
infrastructure could be used by member institutions. Such a common
reliable infrastructure can also be used for publishing Open Access
Journals as well as hosting Institutional Repositories under the
supervision of the Society.

I wish the society all the success. I am one of its members and hope
in near future more people will get associated with it. This Society
would need dedicated people to carry forward its mission. I can
understand it is just the beginning and more information needs to be
put on its site. Which I hope will evolve in due course in time.

--Sukhdev Singh.

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From franc at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in  Mon Mar 31 17:36:05 2008
From: franc at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in (Francis Jayakanth)
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:36:05 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Here is the Breaking News - An Open Access Society
 for India
In-Reply-To: <c13c85220803310416t3e1eee51s5e8b84b8248a1523@mail.gmail.com>
References: <c13c85220803310416t3e1eee51s5e8b84b8248a1523@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0803311720450.2079@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>

On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Sukhdev Singh wrote:

> Dear Friends,
>
> India now has a number of individuals and institutions working for the
> cause of Open Access. Time has come to further boost such efforts
> through a body fully dedicated for it. Such a body can promote better
> coordination of individual initiatives under a collaborative framework
> aiming Open Access in India.

Hearty congratulations to everybody concerned in the formation of 
OKSociety! Considering the general scenario of the academic libraries 
across the country, the proposed services of OKSociety are most welcome. I 
would certainly like to contribute for the long-term success of the 
society in whatever capacity I can.

With best wishes,

  - Francis

NCSI, IISc.

From jagtar.kindu at gmail.com  Mon Mar 31 20:03:08 2008
From: jagtar.kindu at gmail.com (Jagtar Singh)
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:03:08 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Dr. Jagtar Singh appoined Dean,
	Faculty of Education and Information Science
Message-ID: <41e21fb90803310733s51b65a12o9bc792bd89996d62@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

I am pleased to inform you that our Hon'ble Vice-Chancellor has appointed me
Dean, Faculty of Education and Information Science, Punjabi University,
Patiala  w.e.f. 1.4.2008 for a period of two years. I hope to get your kind
cooperation and expert guidance to enable me to come upto the expactations
of the stakeholders.

Profound regards

-- 
Dr. Jagtar Singh,
Professor,
Department of Library and Information Science, Punjabi University, Patiala
Pin - 147 002 (India)
&
Standing Committee Member,
IFLA Information Technology Section
Email: jagtar.kindu at gmail.com
Tel: +91 (0)175 304 6179 (Work)
+91 (0)175 228 2727 (Home)
Fax: +91 (0)175 228 3073

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From haravu at newgenlib.com  Mon Mar 31 20:41:24 2008
From: haravu at newgenlib.com (L J Haravu)
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:41:24 +0530
Subject: [LIS-Forum] NewGenLib open source - Conversion tools
Message-ID: <47F0FF1C.3050608@newgenlib.com>

Dear Members

Based on the requests that we have received from libraries who have 
downloaded the open source NewGenLib, we have developed tools for 
conversion of data from SOUL and E-Granthalaya. The tools are available 
as part of the services that are provided to open source users. 
Interested libraries may send an email to bala at verussolutions.biz of 
Verus IT Services Pvt. Ltd., with details of number of records to be 
converted.
Haravu

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