October 2003 - LIS-Forum - ncsi.iisc.ernet.in

New Global Resource Website For ICT Literacy (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 21 Oct '03

21 Oct '03

Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 10:39:21 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Here is something I received a few days ago. I thought you might be interested. Best wishes. Arun New Global Resource Website For Information And Communication Technology (ICT) Literacy Published on on Sep 11, 2003 Source: ictliteracy.info Readers are invited to access the new website - www.ictliteracy.info - being developed through the collaboration of a global partnership intended to serve as a resource for business, education, and policymakers - all stakeholders - in closing the gap between the rhetoric and reality of what is required to efficiently and effectively take advantage of information and communication technology (ICT) in the global economy. This website represents a global effort to promote universal ICT literacy. The "digital divide" in ICT literacy remains a reality that has prompted the partners involved in this effort to collaborate on actions at the national and international level for bridging the digital divide. They recognize a priority need to achieve ICT literacy worldwide - thus fostering "digital opportunity" for the children and the workforce of the new millennium. This website provides a rich, centralized portal for the repository of ICT Literacy resources, highlights innovative efforts and partnerships promoting ICT Literacy, and facilitates the interaction between researchers, business, government and educational segments. New surveys, studies and reports on ICT literacy will be presented on the site. Readers and participants in the field are invited - encouraged - to share information, collaborate for strategic efforts, present leading research and thinking in the area of ICT literacy, and encourage global leaders to dialogue on important issues and consensus building efforts. We encourage strategic planners, futurists, and thought leaders to share with our audience their "out of the box" thinking and their innovative, radical ideas. Thank you all in advance for sharing this information with other stakeholders as well as participating in this important undertaking. Dr. David E. Leveille del44(a)adelphia.net Source: distance-educator.com

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RE: Evaluating Website Sources
by Mailing List Manager 21 Oct '03

21 Oct '03

Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 22:17:53 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Thanks very much Jorge. I am circulating this to many key people in India with a request to spread the word. Regards. Arun -----Original Message----- From: Jorge Gallardo Rius To: Subbiah Arunachalam Sent: 10/17/03 9:26 PM Subject: Evaluating Website Sources Evaluating Website Sources By Jorge Gallardo Rius Many students in Honduras use the World Wide Web to research homework topics. Sometimes they take the content directly from the web and insert it as their own work. Other times they take parts of the work and insert it into their own, often forgetting to quote the source. At best, they use it as reference material to write their own work but often do not indicate the source. Some teachers only require references from printed sources. Teachers in all academic areas should be concerned because often they won't know if they are evaluating the student's work, a respectable outside source or a quack's eerie sense of humor. That is why many schools are now using website evaluation worksheets as part of the homework completion material. By not using them, schools are missing the opportunity to fulfill important educational standards. Using a website evaluation worksheet helps students recognize authorship and helps them learn to respect intellectual property rights. Standard 2 of the North American Education Technology Standards (NETS) and other international standards place much importance on learning to use technology resources responsibly. It is important that students learn to indicate website references, using the URL, as well as printed references. Secondly, a good website evaluation worksheet will guide a student to properly evaluate a website and distinguish "good" sources of information from "bad" ones. This helps student develop their critical thinking abilities. Not everything in the World Wide Web is informational and students must learn to select respectable sources of knowledge or, at least, beware possibly tainted information. In a sixth grade science class, a teacher asked her students to search websites and find three important discoveries made possible by space travel. She gave students a list of websites which included NASA, CNN and other good sites. She included other sites to test her students. One was about space aliens and had links to "Elvis lives" websites. Another presented a detailed "scientific" analysis proving that squirrels are aliens. In social studies classes, website evaluation worksheets help students identify compromised opinions. Another sixth grade class did a project on the Middle East about the role religion plays in regional conflicts. By recognizing the URL and the author's resume they were able to determine what his biases were likely to be. This data was part of filling the website evaluation worksheet. Both of these projects, and others reviewed for this article, were designed by teams made up of class teachers and computer lab teachers, and all used website evaluation sheets to document the student's research and webquest results. Webquests are web pages that gather different resources and make them easily available for student projects. The computer teacher prepares them in conjunction with the regular class teachers. Students, specially younger ones, find it easier to simply click on the screen and access predetermined contents. Access to search engines, such as Google or AltaVista are also included for more advanced students who want to be creative. Website evaluation worksheets document the student's navigation through the web and are part of the project completion requirements. If you are interested in sample website evaluation worksheets to implement in your school or furthur descriptions of these and other similar projects, write to me at the e-mail listed below. I have several lesson plans for different topics and grades available in PDF format (Acrobat Reader is also free and easy to download and install in your computer). Send comments to: jgallardo515(a)yahoo.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com

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RE: [BOAI] Guide to Institutional Repository Software
by Mailing List Manager 21 Oct '03

21 Oct '03

Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 22:12:15 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Thanks very much Peter for circulating this much needed Guide. I am forwarding it to key people in India without whose whole-hearted support the Open Access movement cannot take off or succeed in India. Regards. Arun -----Original Message----- From: Peter Suber To: SPARC-OAForum(a)arl.org; boai-forum(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk Sent: 10/17/03 8:35 PM Subject: [BOAI] Guide to Institutional Repository Software OSI is pleased to announce the release of the Guide to Institutional Repository Software. The guide describes the five open source, OAI-compliant systems currently available. As many institutions are developing repositories, OSI thought it would be helpful to produce such a guide so that each institution could select the software best suited to meet its needs. Included in the guide is a brief narrative overview of each system followed by a summary of the systems technical features. The guide will be updated as additional systems are developed. To view the guide, please see: http://www.soros.org/openaccess/software/ <http://www.soros.org/openaccess/software/> best, Melissa Hagemann Open Society Institute

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good idea!
by Mrs. Vaishnav 21 Oct '03

21 Oct '03

Dear All, So far I hv not very frequently participated in many of our discussions,I myself do not have internet access at my workplace, so I miss out many of our URls suggested , online forms to be submitted, etc....I take this opportunity to strongly support "Ask your Librarian" move, we already have creative suggestions pouring , and yes, under competent leadership of people like Dr. T V A Murthy , this can & should shape up at its earliest, My regards to all & Wishes for Diwali Mrs. Y.T.vaishnav Consulting Librarian Godrej Learning Center Vikhroli, Mumbai

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Ask Your Librarian & INFLIBET--Corrected Copy
by prafulla＠nisc.co.in 20 Oct '03

20 Oct '03

Dear Colleagues: Dear All: The enthusiasm shown by DRTC students through their active participation in the form of valuable postings and sending responses to queries in the LIS-Forum is praiseworthy and worthy of emulation by one and all. I have personally benefitted a lot from their contribution. This is a bright ray of hope. Perhaps, because of lack of Internet access, students of LIS from Indian universities are unable to participate. How about providing Internet access to all the Departments of Library and Information Science in India and offer facilities to LIS faculty and students to handle "live" reference queries (under the guidance of their Reference Tutor) from the public in the ASK YOUR LIBRARIAN service?This would offer the LIS students "real life" examples of the queries they would be facing in their career in future. More than the IT, we have to regain the joy of library service to make our professional life much more meaningful and inspiring. Also, there is an urgent need to make SOUL package an integral component of all our LIS education programmes at the university level. Once this is done, we would have within a couple of years, LIS manpower capable of appreciating and handling properly the SOUL software. It is hoped that INFLIBNET under the dynamic leadership of Dr TAV Murthy would break institutional barriers and strengthen all the DLIS in the country to make them adequately IT- equipped so that they would be participating actively in the HRD to support the INFLIBNET project. It is high time to recognise all the DLISs in the country as the stakeholders and beneficiaries of INFLIBNET programme. The logic is simple: if you train a member of the library staff, he/she would be often be contributing to his/her parent library. But, if you train a member of the faculty or student of DLIS in an Indian university, the benefits would be far-reaching and percolate to various sections of the society. Thank you Sincerely T.V. Prafulla Chandra Senior Editor --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NISC Export Services Pvt. Ltd. (an affiliate of NISC International, Inc. USA) S-1 Ballad Estates, St.Ann's School Road, Tarnaka, Hyderabad 500 017 Andhra Pradesh, India - Tel:+91 40 27001517 Tel/Fax:+91 40 27002538 WWW.NISC.COM A company in service to NISC worldwide. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Impact Factor of Journals
by ppich＠vsnl.net 18 Oct '03

18 Oct '03

Dear ALL: I would like to mention an important problem while using the Impact factor of the journals. They cannot be used as such when comparing the journals from different fields and subfields. Subfield normalisation can help to do it. P.Pichappan Dept. of Library & Information Science Annamalai University ppich(a)vsnl.net omprakash(a)admin.iitb.ac.in wrote Dear Mr Shivendra Singh Please try the following URL (pdf file) in future http://cbmc.umh.es/ebarrajon/pdf%C2%B4s/Impact%20factor%202002.pdf Any way I have given against each title wherever possible the impact factor for 2002 > Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 17:57:04 +0530 > From: Shivendra Singh <shivendra(a)niper.ac.in> > > Dear Sir/colleagues, > > I would like to know the impact factor of following journals for the > year of 2002. I would appreciate if someone can send me. > > > Planta Medica 2.085 > > Phytotherapy Research 0.603 > > Phytochemical Analysis 0.97 > > Journal of Natural Products 1.737 > > Journal of Ethnopharmacology 0.78 > > Fitoterapia 0.486 > > Journal of Agriculture and food Chemistry 1.576 > > Biochemistry, bioscience and biotechnology Try from URL > > JCS- Perkin Trans I 2.208 > > Tetrahedron Letters 2.28 > With Best Wishes Omprakash Bhendigeri +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Omprakash Bhendigeri 25768927 / 257689299(O) Central Library 25722545/Extn 8929 IIT BOMBAY 25720393 (R) 2B/41, T C S Area Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Powai, MUMBAI 400 076 INDIA omprakash(a)iitb.ac.in +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > Thanks and Regards, > > Shivendra Singh > > Electronic Information Retrieval System > National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research > Sector-67, SAS Nagar (Mohali) - 160062 > Phone: 9815526163 > http://sshivendra.tripod.com > > > _______________________________________________ > LIS-Forum mailing list > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Need Information regarding RFID.
by Saiful Amin 17 Oct '03

17 Oct '03

Greetings, I don't know if you are still in need of information on RFID. Today I got some links from a newsletter which might interest you. RFID links... Libraries eye RFID to track books [MSNBC News] http://www.msnbc.com/news/975754.asp "SF library wants to track books with computers," San Jose Mercury News, 3 October 2003 http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/6928513.htm Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) http://www.aimglobal.org/technologies/rfid/ City Library Adopts Controversial RFID Chips http://www.berkeleydaily.org/article.cfm?issue=10-10-03&storyID=17547 RFID Zeitgeist http://www.thefeature.com/article?articleid=100132&threshold=-1 Hope it helps. Best regards, -- Saiful Amin c/o, Learning Resource Center Indian School of Business Gachibowli Hyderabad - 500019 Ph. +91-40-2318-7963/7999 Rajendra Babu H wrote: > Dear Professionals, > > I would like to know if any one of you are implemented/practicing RFID for > circulation in your libraries, if so, please let me know as I am doing some > study on RFID. > > Warm Regards, > > H Rajendra Babu ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner online. Go to http://yahoo.shaadi.com

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concrete steps
by prafulla＠nisc.co.in 17 Oct '03

17 Oct '03

Dear Professional Colleagues: I am once again taking cue from Dr E. Rami Reddy's suggestion that we should do something concrete towards professional development (with ref to: Dr Lahiri's anguish). Here's something we can do using IT so that we may not face problems like the one Mr Saroj Karle is experiencing (books on UK Pension). To the best of my knowledge, The British Council Library network maintains a list of British publisher's representatives in India. However, this does not give the total picture of international publisher community. CONCRETE STEP 1 It would be useful if we develop a National Library Acquisitions Home Page containing the following components: 1. A national database of Indian publishers/booksellers in English and all other languages giving contact details (postal, email, web, etc.,), name of the contact person, their areas of specialisation (discipline-wise, topic-wise, etc.), regions served, terms of supply. Even the author publishers could be invited to become members of this database. 2. A national database of all the librarians (university, academic, public, special, etc.) listing their areas of specialisation in collection development, documents they wish to acquire or are searching for. The librarians could just post their requirements not as a firm order but only as an enquiry to find out from the publishers/booksellers regarding the availability of a document or their willingness to procure from abroad and supply. Once they receive reply from the publisher/bookseller, they can place the firm order. 3. A list of blacklisted publishers/booksellers who have indulged in unfair practices. 4. Latest GOC Rate Schedule (formulated with participation of all the parties who have a stake). We should have only one, authoritative GOC rate schedule. Mode of Operation The publishers/booksellers would be regularly announcing on the National Library Acquisitions home page, the new books procured by them from abroad. We visualise a scenario of SDI-type activity where the needs of the librarians and stock of the publishers/bookseller are matched for mutual benefit, particularly for foreign publications. To the best of my knowledge, The British Council Library network maintains a list of British publisher's representatives in India. However, this does not give the total picture of international publisher community. Advantages of National Library Acquisitons Home Page Offers equitable opportunities to publishers/booksellers in library supplies. Whoever responds first, would receive the order. If a foreign title is available with one of the Indian stockist, it could be known immediately and order placed for the same. Avoids running around from supplier to supplier for documents. Enables the librarians to have a perspective of foreign titles available in India. (Presently, the book selection by university libraries strongly favours those suppliers who send the books for physical examination. As such, the total literary output in a particular discipline is often not taken into consideration and many useful titles may be missed.) Helps the librarians to know which supplier can provide best service in a particular discipline/topic. Provides information to librarians about new foreign titles available in the Indian market. Booksellers can announce the documents procured by them from abroad. Through just a single email, they would be communicating this information to all the librarians in India. Serves as an effective public relations communication tool both for the librarians and publishers/booksellers. _______________________________________________ CONCRETE STEP 2 MAINTENANCE OF UNIVERSITY/LIBRARY DIRECTORIES Isn't it disappointing that we do not have a reliable, authoritative list which provides UP TO DATE INFORMATION of university librarians along with their contact details. The Web sites of our national bodies concerned with management of higher education and LIS networks DO NOT provide accurate, latest information about our universities. Can't we maintain an UP TO DATE directory of universities giving UP TO DATE details such as names of VCs, Registrars, University Librarians, their contact addresses, email ids, web sites, etc. Doesn't our IT know-how allow us to send an automatic email to every university library daily and request the university librarian to send information about changes in top univ personnel/univ librarians? If the university librarians do not disseminate latest information about changes in their university, then who will? Isn't it a disservice to the user community that we spend so much on creating web pages/directories but fail to maintain them on day to day basis thereby defeating the purpose of their creation and reducing their usefulness? We have miserably failed in meeting the requirements of Dr Ranganathan's definition of reference service as far as maintenance of directories of libraries/librarians/universities is concerned. Being based in India, at least some of us can keep track of the changes through newspapers, newsletters, etc. By providing names of VCs, Registrars, university librarians, etc. in our directories who had retired/shifted, are we not misguiding the users? How about the users abroad? Are we not projecting a negative image about our LIS profession by not taking care of these basic things? THIS IS ONE AREA WHERE WE HAVE TO TAKE A CONCRETE STEP. As always, reactions are welcome. Thank you Sincerely T.V. Prafulla Chandra Senior Editor --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NISC Export Services Pvt. Ltd. (an affiliate of NISC International, Inc. USA) S-1 Ballad Estates, St.Ann's School Road, Tarnaka, Hyderabad 500 017 Andhra Pradesh, India - Tel:+91 40 27001517 Tel/Fax:+91 40 27002538 WWW.NISC.COM A company in service to NISC worldwide. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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ask yr librarian
by suresh kumar 17 Oct '03

17 Oct '03

Dear profulla chandra, I really appreciate your views. It is an excellent idea.We have to work for that to ensure professionalism among us. let us hope for the best Suresh kumar.N Librarian Gr.I, Fluid Control Research Institute Palakkad - 678623.nsureshfcri(a)yahoo.co.In. Prafulla Chandra >Senior Editor ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner online. Go to http://yahoo.shaadi.com

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books on CD in science and engineering
by Vijayalaxmi R Deshpande 17 Oct '03

17 Oct '03

Dear sir, I would like to have list of books avaialable in CD form in the field of science and engineering for our digital library project (I do not want to have ebooks available in websites). If anybody knows please send the list and oblige. Thanking you, Yours faithfully, (Smt. V.R.DESHPANDE) SENIOR LIBRARIAN Central Power Research Institute, P.B.No. 8066, Sadashivanagar Post BANGALORE 560 080

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