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Information commodity
by shashi kumar 19 Oct '04

19 Oct '04

Dear Sir/Madam/Friends, In the context of "Information marketing" Information is considerd as a commodity. I want to know exactly how information as a commodity and how it applicable to Library and Information Science field. If you have any information about this issue please mail me. Thanking you, Shashikumar Dept. of Library and Information Science, University of Mysore mysore. Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline. Dear Sir/Madam/Friends, In the context of "Information marketing" Information is considerd as a commodity. I want to know exactly how information as a commodity and how it applicable to Library and Information Science field. If you have any information about this issue please mail me. Thanking you, Shashikumar Dept. of Library and Information Science, University of Mysore mysore. http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matri… Yahoo! India Matrimony : Find your life partner http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg2/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matr… online .

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Agriculture Gateway to India (AGI)
by JK Vijayakumar 19 Oct '04

19 Oct '04

Agriculture Gateway to India (AGI) The Agricultural Gateway to India is a website designed to satisfy the information needs for agriculture in India. Our target users include scientists, researchers, extension personnel, students, farmers, policy-makers, media, consumer groups, and agribusiness professionals. This site is managed by Dr N. Sandhya Shenoy, Senior Scientist, National Academy of Agricultural Research Management (NAARM) in Hyderabad, India. Site contents: What's New; Animal Sci; Audio Files; Crop Sciences; Economics; Engineering; Extension; Fisheries; Gender Issues; General Ag; Home Science; Horticulture; Human Res; InfoTech; Issues; Libraries; Maps; Natural Res; Organisations; Programmes; Publications; Sustainable Ag; Weather; Search; Tools; The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR); DAC; FAO; CGIAR, other portals to Indian Agriculture. URL http://web.aces.uiuc.edu/aim/diglib/india/ -------------- J.K.Vijayakumar INFLIBNET _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com

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Metadata Leadership
by Rajesh Chandrakar 18 Oct '04

18 Oct '04

"Metadata Leadership" Library Journal (08/15/04) P. 27; Tennant, Roy Libraries will have to embrace bibliographic records encoded with different standards and emerging specs such as Dublin Core, the Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS), and VRA Core, or become even more marginalized. The number of useful items online without MARC cataloging now reaches into the millions, and may never be catalogued in MARC. Catalogers can plan a key role in accommodating records not catalogued in MARC or AACR2 because they understand that the important metadata issues of granularity, accuracy, authority control, and controlled vocabularies remain the same. Rebecca Guenther at the Library of Congress has helped lead the way by being involved in the Dublin Core effort, and also by helping to pioneer the MODS. And some library schools are updating their curricula and creating new classes to address all forms of biographical metadata. However, libraries need to stress the importance of metadata expertise so that catalogers long out of school will be motivated to revamp their skills. The National Information Standards Organization offers the superb paper "Understanding Metadata," which should help get library staff up to speed. (www.libraryjournal.com). Rajesh "Metadata Leadership" Library Journal (08/15/04) P. 27; Tennant, Roy Libraries will have to embrace bibliographic records encoded with different standards and emerging specs such as Dublin Core, the Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS), and VRA Core, or become even more marginalized. The number of useful items online without MARC cataloging now reaches into the millions, and may never be catalogued in MARC. Catalogers can plan a key role in accommodating records not catalogued in MARC or AACR2 because they understand that the important metadata issues of granularity, accuracy, authority control, and controlled vocabularies remain the same. Rebecca Guenther at the Library of Congress has helped lead the way by being involved in the Dublin Core effort, and also by helping to pioneer the MODS. And some library schools are updating their curricula and creating new classes to address all forms of biographical metadata. However, libraries need to stress the importance of metadata expertise so that catalogers long out of school will be motivated to revamp their skills. The National Information Standards Organization offers the superb paper "Understanding Metadata," which should help get library staff up to speed. ( http://www.libraryjournal.com/ www.libraryjournal.com ). Rajesh

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Google Desktop
by Farooque Shaheen 18 Oct '04

18 Oct '04

Find your email, files, web history and chats instantly, view web pages you've seen, even when you're not online. Google's new Desktop Search (http://desktop.google.com) is a small file that Windows users can download to their computers . Once installed, it adds a "Desktop" link to the Google home page, allowing users to conduct hard-drive searches with a Web browser in the same way as an Internet search. The software can search the content of most common file types, including Word documents, Excel spreadsheets and Outlook e-mail messages. Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Sr. Executive- Information Services Caritor (India) Pvt Ltd. Bangalore, Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-080-34007449 �Find your email, files, web history and chats instantly, view web pages you've seen, even when you're not online. Google's new Desktop Search ( http://desktop.google.com ) is a small file that Windows users can download to their computers . Once installed, it adds a "Desktop" link to the Google home page, allowing users to conduct hard-drive searches with a Web browser in the same way as an Internet search. The software can search the content of most common file types, including Word documents, Excel spreadsheets and Outlook e-mail messages . Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Sr. Executive- Information Services Caritor (India) Pvt Ltd. Bangalore, Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-080-34007449

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Number of public libraria books per capita in India
by Tomas Allen 15 Oct '04

15 Oct '04

Dear Colleagues, I have perhaps a rather unusual request for the list serv, but I am trying to locate some figure that indicates the number of books in Indian Public libraries (or volumes) per inhabitant for India. I have used the UNESCO Institue for Statistics but neither the print nor the online show any figures for India. See http://stats.uis.unesco.org/eng/ReportFolders/Rfview/explorerp.asp I am using the baseline year 1995, but will accept figures from other years. For example the United States figure is approx 2.9 books/volumes per inhabitant. I would expect for India that number might be slightly lower. Any assistance is greatly appreciated and all the best for the weekend. Tomas Allen _________________________________________________________________ Highlight Viewer - heben Sie von Ihnen gesuchte Wörter auf Webseiten hervor. http://toolbar.msn.ch?&DI=165&XAPID=2170

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Position at Honeywell, Bangalore
by Satish, Mariyappagoudar (IE10) 15 Oct '04

15 Oct '04

Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab (HTSL), Bangalore has an opening for the position of an Information Assistant on contract basis. Salary to commensurate with qualification and experience. Qualification / Job Requirements: B.Sc with M.L.I.Sc in Library & Information Science, 6 months - 2 years work experience, a passion for customers/library users, resourceful abilities, teamwork and good communication skills. Preference be given to persons with IT and global exposure. The job will require: -- Book procurement, cataloging, circulation -- Managing magazines and online databases resources -- Providing Document Delivery Service (DDS) -- Provide Reference & Referral Service -- Computer Skills: Scanning, OCR, MS Office Tools, Web based searches, Web & Associated technologies Interested candidates may send their updated CV to me by Wednesday, October 20, 2004. Regards, Satish K M Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab, 151/1, Doraisanipalya, Bannerghatta Road, Opp: IIMB Post Office, Bangalore - 560076 INDIA Phone : +91-80-26588360 ext: 4001 Fax: +91-80-51109907 E-mail: satish.mariyappagoudar(a)honeywell.com <mailto:satish.mariyappagoudar@honeywell.com> Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab (HTSL), Bangalore has an opening for the position of an Information Assistant on contract basis. Salary to commensurate with qualification and experience. Qualification / Job Requirements: B.Sc with M.L.I.Sc in Library & Information Science, 6 months - 2 years work experience, a passion for customers /library users , resourceful abilities, teamwork and good communication skills. Preference be given to persons with IT and global exposure. The job will require: -- Book procurement, cataloging, circulation -- Managing magazines and online databases resources -- Providing Document Delivery Service (DDS) -- Provide Reference & Referral Service -- Computer Skills: Scanning, OCR, MS Office Tools, Web based searches, Web & Associated technologies Interested candidates may send their updated CV to me by Wednesday , October 20 , 2004 . Regards, Satish K M Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab, 151/1, Doraisanipalya, Bannerghatta Road, Opp: IIMB Post Office, Bangalore - 560076 INDIA Ph one : +91-80-26588360 ext: 4001 Fax: +91-80-51109907 E-mail: mailto:satish.mariyappagoudar@honeywell.com satish.mariyappagoudar(a)honeywell.com

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Back issues of Current Science
by Shahab 15 Oct '04

15 Oct '04

Dear All: Its a great news that Current Science has now made all its volume, since its inception, available. Regards to all, Shahabuddin http://clients.rediff.com/signature/track_sig.asp http://ads.rediff.com/RealMedia/ads/adstream_nx.cgi/www.rediffmail.com/inbo… Dear All: Its a great news that Current Science has now made all its volume, since its inception, available. Regards to all, Shahabuddin

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Journal Citation reports - Help
by mkrao 14 Oct '04

14 Oct '04

Dear Colleagues, I am desperately in need of 'Journal Citation Reports' prior to 1995, either in print or CDROM format for my research. I shall be grateful if anyone having this publication in their collection would please reply to this e-mail. Looking forward to your cooperation and help. Koteswara Rao, M

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The FID
by Shahab 14 Oct '04

14 Oct '04

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IATLIS NATIONAL CONFERENCE- CALLING FOR PAPERS
by Prof. N. Laxman Rao. 13 Oct '04

13 Oct '04

XXI-IATLIS National Conference Invitation and Call for Papers The Conference The Department of Library and Information Science, Nagpur University in collaboration with the University Library is organizing the XXI IATLIS National Conference, 2004 during 18 - 20 November, 2004 at Nagpur. Theme: Partnership of LIS Teachers and Librarians in Professional Development Facets: - LIS education and Research : Need for partnership - Collaboration for professional development - Collaboration and Contribution for Library Development - Areas, styles and existing methods of partnership - Current Trends in Partnership - Case studies of Partnerships in LIS Schools - Any other sub-theme related to the broad field Call for Papers The Conference shall be a platform for LIS Professionals and Teachers to discuss the theme and its facets in the current context of partnerships: the myths and realities. · The papers in English and regional languages (Marathi and Hindi) are welcome · The papers should be based on original research, survey and case studies · General presentations and historical background should be avoided · Papers should include abstracts · The article should not exceed more than 5000 words printed on A4 paper and be submitted on MS -Word along with 1.44 Floppy disk · The full papers in Hindi and Marathi should reach the Organizing Secretary. Whereas, papers in English should reach General Secretary, IATLIS on or before 30th October 2004. Director of the Conference: Prof. Shabahat Hussian, DLIS, Aligarh Muslim University, ALIGARH 202 002. Registration Fee: For outstation delegates - Rs. 600.00 For Local delegates - Rs. 400.00 (Without accommodation) The registration fee includes accommodation, conference kit, and working lunch on the days of conference. Intending participants are requested to send intimation along with a Bank Draft drawn in favour of Organizing Secretary, XXI IATLIS National Conference payable at Nagpur, towards the registration fees, so as to reach the Organizing Secretary, on or before 30th October 2004. We extend a very cordial invitation to all LIS Teachers and Librarians for participation in XXI-IATLIS NATIONAL CONFERENCE. Dr.S. Sudarshan Rao General Secretary, IATLIS DLIS, Osmania University, Hyderabad-500 007 E-mail: rao_ss2000(a)yahoo.co.in Dr. (Mrs.) D. Rajyalakshmi Organizing Secretary XXI- IATLIS National Conference & Head, Department of Library and Information Science Nagpur University NAGPUR - 440010. Phone:0712- 2548577 E-mail : desarajurl(a)rediffmail.com --------------------------------- Does your mail provider give you a FREE online calendar? Yahoo! does. Get Yahoo! Mail XXI-IATLIS National Conference Invitation and Call for Papers The Conference The Department of Library and Information Science, Nagpur University in collaboration with the University Library is organizing the XXI IATLIS National Conference , 2004 during 18 - 20 November, 2004 at Nagpur . Theme : Partnership of LIS Teachers and Librarians in Professional Development Facets: - LIS education and Research : Need for partnership - Collaboration for professional development - Collaboration and Contribution for Library Development - Areas, styles and existing methods of partnership - Current Trends in Partnership - Case studies of Partnerships in LIS Schools - Any other sub-theme related to the broad field Call for Papers The Conference shall be a platform for LIS Professionals and Teachers to discuss the theme and its facets in the current context of partnerships: the myths and realities. · The papers in English and regional languages (Marathi and Hindi) are welcome · The papers should be based on original research, survey and case studies · General presentations and historical background should be avoided · Papers should include abstracts · The article should not exceed more than 5000 words printed on A4 paper and be submitted on MS -Word along with 1.44 Floppy disk · The full papers in Hindi and Marathi should reach the Organizing Secretary. Whereas, papers in English should reach General Secretary, IATLIS on or before 30 th October 2004. Director of the Conference: Prof. Shabahat Hussian, DLIS, Aligarh Muslim University , ALIGARH 202 002. Registration Fee: For outstation delegates - Rs. 600.00 For Local delegates - Rs. 400.00 (Without accommodation) The registration fee includes accommodation, conference kit, and working lunch on the days of conference. Intending participants are requested to send intimation along with a Bank Draft drawn in favour of Organizing Secretary, XXI IATLIS National Conference payable at Nagpur , towards the registration fees, so as to reach the Organizing Secretary, on or before 30 th October 2004. We extend a very cordial invitation to all LIS Teachers and Librarians for participation in XXI-IATLIS NATIONAL CONFERENCE. Dr.S. Sudarshan Rao General Secretary, IATLIS DLIS, Osmania University , Hyderabad-500 007 E-mail: mailto:rao_ss2000@yahoo.co.in rao_ss2000(a)yahoo.co.in Dr. (Mrs.) D. Rajyalakshmi Organizing Secretary XXI- IATLIS National Conference & Head, Department of Library and Information Science Nagpur University NAGPUR - 440010. Phone:0712- 2548577 E-mail : mailto:desarajurl@rediffmail.com desarajurl(a)rediffmail.com Does your mail provider give you a FREE online calendar? Yahoo! does. http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/mail/taglines/h/calendar/*http://uk.mail.yahoo.com Get Yahoo! Mail

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