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Re: [LIS-Forum] FW: [DIGITALDIVIDE] Supreme Court Cases Get a Fresh Hearing
by Mailing List Manager 18 Aug '03

18 Aug '03

Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 12:07:58 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] madhu ks" <madhuks4u(a)yahoo.co.in> Dear Mr. Arun, I am happy to see your mail in connection with the idea of making available the Supreme Court Proceedings ( Cases as well as arguments )in audio format in a CD/DVD/MP3 for the benefit of general public/Professionals use. As mentioned in the case of USA, the Proceedings are already available in the tape recorded format hence, they can either copy/record in a MP3 format whereas, I doubt, the Procedings of any court/s are available in audio/visible format in India. Ofcourse, The Supreme Court Case Laws CDs are available in text format for example, SCC Online, AIR Supre Court on CD, Grand Jurix etc. But, if this type of project/s can be undertaken in India atleast in future , which again requires Government as well as Judiciary's will and prior approval. If this is done then, one can go for such project/s which will be beneficial for both common man as well as to professionals. This project needs to be initiated institionally,Government , Judiciary or by the Business Firms. Hope someone will initiate this project in India soon and make it available in audio format probably, by reading this mail. Thanking you, Sincerely yours, C U Navalgund N L S I U Bangalore (cnavalgund(a)hotmail.com)

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printable catalogue cards
by Mailing List Manager 18 Aug '03

18 Aug '03

Date: 13 Aug 2003 12:25:38 -0000 From: Subbiah Gunasekaran <gunasekaran_subbiah(a)rediffmail.com> Dear Members: I just want to know the availability of printable [continuosly] catalogue cards in Tamil Nadu. Please give me the contact details of the firm. Thanks Guna

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article needed
by Aman Kumar Jha 14 Aug '03

14 Aug '03

Hi friends, Now I work with Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) as a Librarian. I am in need of an article. Can anyone let me know the local availability of the following article? Title: A LOOK AT THREE REGULATORY FORCES INFLUENCING CONTENT AND DISTRIBUTION IN THE MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION INDUSTRIES Author: Robert A. Burgelman; Philip Meza (Stanford University) Industry: Motion picture, television, consumer electronics Location: United States Publication date: 11 July 2002 Pages: 11 pp Abstract: Much of the landscape in which today's media companies find themselves as they contend with the impact of digitization of content and the convergence of means of distribution was shaped by regulatory forces. Three government rulings in particular were influential: the Consent Decree of 1948 (often referred to as the 'Paramount Case'), the Financial Interest and Syndication ruling (also called the 'FinSyn' ruling of 1970 of the United States Federal Communications Commission), and the United States Supreme Court ruling in Universal City Studios et al (including Disney) vs Sony Corp. (also known as the Betamax case of 1984). These regulatory forces broke up tight vertical integration between content production and distribution (Paramount case and FinSyn ruling) or helped to pave the road for the introduction of new technologies for distribution (Betamax case). The teaching purpose is to discuss the market power available by owning both sources of content and distribution in media and the controversies surrounding such verticalization. Availability: Harvard Business School Source: Stanford School of Business, Stanford University Note: I have checked Harvard Business Review, July 2002 Thanks & regards, Aman Kumar Jha Librarian Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) _________________________________________________________________ Race along with NK. The fastest Indian. http://server1.msn.co.in/sp03/tataracing/index.asp Feel the thrill!

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Digital Divide in India ?
by Abdul J Tharayil 13 Aug '03

13 Aug '03

Hi ALL I got to read an article, rather an interview with Keninston (MIT), says that cheap information kiosks are helping India bring computing power to the masses, providing a model for how to bridge the digital divide. The full version is available at http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_keniston081303.asp?p=0) However I failed to learn any good Library based intitiative helping us bridge the digital divide in the country except the one I happend to read about the Kallara Project in Kerala (the Department of IT in association with the State Library Council -launched the first computerized rural information centre at Kallara Gram Panchayat Library) which ofcourse is a proud initiative for all of us. Is it because I am kept ignorant about it myslef? OR are we very much confined to the library stacks and forgotten the role of library in social development. Or is it because our public library system in the country is in Chaos? Are there professionals seriously thinking about it ? Regards, Abdul J Tharayil,

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RE: [LIS-Forum] FW: RE Dr T.V. Sathyamurthy 12 8 2003
by Mailing List Manager 13 Aug '03

13 Aug '03

Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 10:11:09 +0530 From: "Chidambaram, Siva" <Schidambaram(a)ncaer.org> Tennalur Vengara Sathyamurthy, political scientist; born Madras, India, 29 October 1929; Lecturer in Government, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 1962-63; Lecturer in Political Science, University of Singapore, 1963-65; Senior Lecturer in Political Science, Makerere University, Kampala, 1965-67; Lecturer in International Relations, Department of Politics, Strathclyde University, 1967-68; Lecturer, Department of Politics, York University 1968-71; Senior Lecturer, 1971-96; Professor, 1996-1997 (Emeritus 1997); married 1963 Carole Methven (one daughter); died, York, 25 August 1998.

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FW: [DIGITALDIVIDE] Supreme Court Cases Get a Fresh Hearing
by Mailing List Manager 13 Aug '03

13 Aug '03

Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 09:40:11 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Dear Fred and members of bytesforall and Lis-Forum lists: Here is an excellent initiative from the USA. Do you think that we in India should mount such an effort and make audio recordings of all Supreme Court proceedings available to the public free of cost? Best wishes. Arun ----------- Subject: US Supreme Court Cases Get a Fresh Hearing (fwd) SUPREME COURT CASES GET A FRESH HEARING Since 1994, Northwestern University's OYEZ project has made audio of US Supreme Court cases available in a "streaming" format that requires a continuous Internet connection. Now the project is converting the files to MP3 format, which permits downloading, file sharing and use on portable devices. The MP3 files are free and sharable, if users agree to credit OYEZ and limit usage to noncommercial purposes. Jerry Goldman, the project's director, hopes to make available with search functionality all of the approximately 6,000 hours of the Supreme Court recordings since 1955, when taping of oral arguments began. "The whole idea is to build a digital commons, make accessible materials that are really valuable in a free and open society," he said. Particularly with controversial cases such as affirmative action and abortion, "there's so much more information and emotion in the human voice that a transcript can't do it justice," explained Goldman. SOURCE: Washington Post; AUTHOR: Phuong Le http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41812-2003Aug10.html ***********************************

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Re: Re: Re: [LIS-Forum] Areas in LIS Res
by afsar bukhari 13 Aug '03

13 Aug '03

Dear Friends, I fully agree that core areas of Research in LIS have been neglected as has been rightly pointed out by Mr. Sukhdev ( specially classification) I also feel that classification forms the basis of life. Everyone practices it every day (although in different ways). One of the areas of LIS research as suggested by Maurice B. Line is Summarisation and Representation of Info this in itself suggest the importance of classification because we cannot represent the info in more accessible form until it is arranged in some helpful sequence. The so called search engines (Google etc developed by the computer professionals), which are being heavily used by all to find information, are not able to give us satisfactory result. It has often been pointed out that No search engine is able to index the entire web. Strength of web is 500 times more that what the search engines are today able to index This I feel is perhaps because the so called computer professionals were much enthusiastic about finding ways of retrieving information without bothering about mapping the resources first. Perhaps librarian mind was not involved. If we think with an inquisitive mind we may find a suitable solution in the underlying principles of classification. Wood Ward J. On cataloguing and Classifying Info Resources on the Net in Ann Rev Inf Sc. Tech. 1996: 31: 189-219 very rightly points out Internet is currently in a state of near chaos in terms of access and organization, and because searching is usually performed only with word based search engines, it is generally not adequate for the needs of most users. We have lot to offer. Computer Professionals can only write a program and the input for a program can be the experience of librarian. The need of the hour is Comp Professionals and Librarian should come together on a single platform. The both should complement each other. If they are left to do at their own the problems will be far more for us because we should not forget the fact that WE ARE A BRIDGE BETWEEN INFORMATION & USERS warm regards bukhari On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 Sukhdev Singh wrote : >It is unfortunate that while computer professionals >are working in areas were library people should have >been working. We are still looking for the areas to >work in. Take for example, while we were beating about >the bushes of "Bibliometrics" some students created >GOOGLE using the same principle of "citations" (links >here). While we were debating on utility of >classification, some other students created "YAHOO". >And still others are building up Open Directory >Project (http://www.dmoz.org/). Classifiaction does >not mean numbers we put on the spine of the books; >dear friends, it is putting things in helpful >sequence. > >Information technology is in use in every aspect of >life. Even some medical professionals left their >profession to join IT Rat Race. I know some for >example http://www.indmedica.com. But should this mean >every professional follow the same path. > >Today we have to answer, the real tough question? Do >we really have something to offer? Something Unique. >What is our USP...? If Yes, then why we are in >hibernation. If No, then why we are pretending...? Why >not to leave the stage to Computer Professionals who >otherwise are today "Plenty in Supply, Less in >Demand". > >Regards >Sukhdev > >--- Vijay Raghav Tiwari <vijayrt(a)rediffmail.com> >wrote: > > Dear Sukhdev ji > > > > I agree with your suggestion that research on > > Classification is required but to be honest, it is > > the need of the hour that a librarian has to be > > perfect in the modern information technology other > > wise the whole scene of librarianship will be > > spoiled. The advent of the new information > > technology the software, online information > > retrieval sources are becoming an essentials of the > > library services. A true professional will have to > > attain the full command of the situation otherwise > > he/she will be left far behind from the present day > > profession. > > > > Hope that you will be agreeing to the concern. It is > > good for us if we start learning more and more in > > this techno field. > > yours truly > > VR Tiwari > > > > On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 Sukhdev Singh wrote : > > >Dear Afsar, > > > > > >Thank you very much for circulation such use > > >information. If possible, please let me know the > > >reference cited (Maurice B. Line). > > > > > >Further I would like to suggest that there should > > be > > >also research in core areas of Library and > > Information > > >Science like Classification. Unfortunately these is > > a > > >trend amoung the LIS schools to make students more > > >Computer Literate at the cost of core subjects of > > LIS. > > > > > > > > >(I wish such LIS schools should stop issueing > > >certificates in LIS and start issueing MCA etc.) > > > > > >Regards > > >Sukhdev > > > > > > > > >--- afsar bukhari <bukhari_786(a)rediffmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > Dear Friends > > > > > > > > This is in response to a recent mail in lisforum > > > > regarding the areas of research in LIS > > > > > > > > LIS, since its inception has been dealing with > > > > organizing information so as to make it > > available to > > > > the users in more efficient manner. > > > > > > > > Information seems like dirt; its everywhere > > you > > > > look, accumulates in piles, and is challenging > > to > > > > organize for easy retrieval. > > > > > > > > It is this very nature of info that has always > > > > threatened LIS professionals and forced them to > > come > > > > up with innovative approaches towards its > > effective > > > > organization. With the advent of WWW, organizing > > > > info is giving tough time for all LIS > > professionals. > > > > Newer and newer approaches are being tried, but > > > > still more and more are required to be done! > > > > > > > > Maurice B. Line has identified 10 key areas > > related > > > > to Info Res in the MILLENIUM > > > > > > > > 1. Internet & WWW (info retrieval aspects) > > > > 2. Search engines & alogorithms > > > > 3. Bibliographic control on the internet > > > > 4. User interface including common user > > > > interface,natural language interface > > etc. > > > > 5. User needs or requirement analysis > > > > 6. Info seeking behaviour of users and cognitive > > > > approach > > > > 7. Digital Libraries > > > > 8. Summarization & representation of information > > > > 9. Visual information > > > > 10. Intelligent Information Retrieval including > > > > intelligent agents > > > > > > > > All the best > > > > > > > > > > > > Bukhari > > > > Librarian > > > > Shantha Biotechnics Pvt Ltd > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ___________________________________________________ > > > > Download the hottest & happening ringtones here! > > > > OR SMS: Top tone to 7333 > > > > Click here now: > > > > > > http://sms.rediff.com/cgi-bin/ringtone/ringhome.pl > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > LIS-Forum mailing list > > > > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > > > > > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > > > > > > > > >__________________________________ > > >Do you Yahoo!? > > >Yahoo! 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FW: RE Dr T.V. Sathyamurthy 12 8 2003 (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 12 Aug '03

12 Aug '03

Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 15:00:51 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Can any member of LIS-Forum help my friend from Africa? Please reply him directly. thanks and best wishes. Arun -----Original Message----- From: Leuben.Njinya-Mujinya(a)teol.uu.se [mailto:Leuben.Njinya-Mujinya@teol.uu.se] Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 3:37 PM To: arun(a)mssrf.res.in Subject: RE Dr T.V. Sathyamurthy 12 8 2003 Professor Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Dear Subbiah, Greetings. I am finishing a study here on Buganda, and all along I have been required to provide the first name (in FULL) of each book OR article that I have drawn upon. One of the writers whom I used is T.V. Sathyamurthy: See down for one of his studies. Sathyamurthy has apparently written much about Uganda and India. HOWEVER, I have been unable to find the FULL NAME of his first initial "T". NOT in his publications that I have seen, NOT on the major libary web sites and NOT in the books where his work is cited. He invariably appears as T.V. Sathyamurthy. Since you are quite acquainted with Indias's scholars because of your many roles, could you please, if you can, let me what Sathyamurthy's FIRST NAME IS in FULL. Sathyamurthy, T.V. 1986. The Political Development of Uganda: 1900-1986. Aldershot (Hunts) and Brookfield (Vermont): Gower Publishing Co. I hope you can help, and thanks beforehand for the help. Leuben

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Re: Re: [LIS-Forum] Areas in LIS Res
by afsar bukhari 12 Aug '03

12 Aug '03

Dear Sukhdev it's an article published in Journal of Documentation 54(3) pp 284-292 (1998) happy reading bukhari On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 Sukhdev Singh wrote : >Dear Afsar, > >Thank you very much for circulation such use >information. If possible, please let me know the >reference cited (Maurice B. Line). > >Further I would like to suggest that there should be >also research in core areas of Library and Information >Science like Classification. Unfortunately these is a >trend amoung the LIS schools to make students more >Computer Literate at the cost of core subjects of LIS. > > >(I wish such LIS schools should stop issueing >certificates in LIS and start issueing MCA etc.) > >Regards >Sukhdev > > >--- afsar bukhari <bukhari_786(a)rediffmail.com> wrote: > > Dear Friends > > > > This is in response to a recent mail in lisforum > > regarding the areas of research in LIS > > > > LIS, since its inception has been dealing with > > organizing information so as to make it available to > > the users in more efficient manner. > > > > Information seems like dirt; its everywhere you > > look, accumulates in piles, and is challenging to > > organize for easy retrieval. > > > > It is this very nature of info that has always > > threatened LIS professionals and forced them to come > > up with innovative approaches towards its effective > > organization. With the advent of WWW, organizing > > info is giving tough time for all LIS professionals. > > Newer and newer approaches are being tried, but > > still more and more are required to be done! > > > > Maurice B. Line has identified 10 key areas related > > to Info Res in the MILLENIUM > > > > 1. Internet & WWW (info retrieval aspects) > > 2. Search engines & alogorithms > > 3. Bibliographic control on the internet > > 4. User interface including common user > > interface,natural language interface etc. > > 5. User needs or requirement analysis > > 6. Info seeking behaviour of users and cognitive > > approach > > 7. Digital Libraries > > 8. Summarization & representation of information > > 9. Visual information > > 10. Intelligent Information Retrieval including > > intelligent agents > > > > All the best > > > > > > Bukhari > > Librarian > > Shantha Biotechnics Pvt Ltd > > > > > > > > > > ___________________________________________________ > > Download the hottest & happening ringtones here! > > OR SMS: Top tone to 7333 > > Click here now: > > http://sms.rediff.com/cgi-bin/ringtone/ringhome.pl > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > LIS-Forum mailing list > > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > > >__________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software >http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ___________________________________________________ Meet your old school or college friends from 1 Million + database... Click here to reunite www.batchmates.com/rediff.asp

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InfoWatch - July 2003
by M.R Lalitha 12 Aug '03

12 Aug '03

------------------------------------------------------------------------ InfoWatch Tracking Networked Scientific Information Sources and Services (An electronic update service brought to you by NCSI) July 2003 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In This Issue: 1. Atlas Conferences [A database of academic conference announcements] 2. Bioinformatics.Org [Free information sources in bioinformatics] 3. C Language Integrated Production System - CLIPS 4. eCourses - Engineering Media Lab 5. Genetics Home Reference [National Library of Medicine's web site for information about genetic conditions] 6. GMP - Arithmetic without limitations 7. GreenCOM Resource Center [A resource for environmental educators and communicators] 8. Homologous Structure Alignment Database - HOMSTRAD [A database of homologous proteins] 9. How Much Information [A measure how much information is produced in the world each year] 10. Knowledgepoint - Knowledge management resources 11. MouseSite [History of the computer mouse] 12. Nationmaster.com [A handy tool to graphically compare nations] 13. Network Design and Research Center 14. Object Oriented Programming Web - OOPWeb 15. Preservation Managament of Digital Materials - The Handbook 16. Slipstick Systems Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center [Problem solving in MS Outlook and MS Exchange Server] 17. Technology Research News 18. TeleSpec - IR Spectra Simulation on the WorldWideWeb 19. The Technology and Environment site 20. The visu project [A scientific simulation data visualization tool] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ About InfoWatch : InfoWatch is a monthly electronic newsletter, brought out by the National Centre for Science Information (NCSI) Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore - 560 012, INDIA. Information in the newsletter is collected and verified by NCSI staff.The newsletter aims to raise awareness of new sources of information on the Internet, particularly those which are relevant for higher education and research. Some items may be of relevance only to the IISc community.Resources reported here have been taken from various discussion lists and other network tools and no special claims are made for accuracy or originality. Most of the sources cited in the newsletter were checked at the time of publication, however it is possible that some of the resources are no longer available. We welcome comments about the newsletter and suggestions for resources to be featured. Please e-mail your comments to Infowatch editors: Ms. K. Thulasi (thulasi(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in) & Ms. M. R. Lalitha (lalitha(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in) ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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