October 2004 - LIS-Forum - ncsi.iisc.ernet.in

Lending Library in Trains
by vyasamoorthy 10 Oct '04

10 Oct '04

Lalu urged to launch library in trains [] <http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/javascript:clippopup(783491);> Add to Clippings P K SURENDRAN [] TIMES NEWS NETWORK [] [ MONDAY, JULY 19, 2004 05:59:04 PM ] [] THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Do trains encourage reading habit which is sliding worldwide? Yes, says a highcourt lawyer who has approached Railway Minister to introduce lending library in long-distance trains. Johnson Manayani has, in his letter to Lalu Prasad Yadav, urged him to set a portion of a coach in long journey trains to help passengers pass their time profitably by reading novels or journals of their choice. "This not only encourages reading habits but earn the railway additional revenue". The library can take a deposit for the book and charge a reading fee. Deposit could be given back when a book is returned at the end of the journey or later. The Railway cannot lose. It could gain.

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RE: [Sigiii-l] plaza
by Subbiah Arunachalam 09 Oct '04

09 Oct '04

Dear Nafiz and friends: I try to answer Nafiz's questions briefly. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] 1. What if library and information science institutions throughout the world follow the same standard and curriculum ? The world of LIS education will become dull and drab! It will curb all growth and new ideas. Variety is the spice of life. As the great Chairman Mao said, let thousand flowers bloom! 2. What if every country (developed , less developed , developing ) could get the same technological facilities ? A good thing to dream about. Such things do not happen 3. What if every people throughout the world becomes information literate ? Some goals are Utopian. Good to hear, but do not happen! This is one of them. 4. What if information professionals could control the world ? Why should anyone control the world? 5. What if ISBN & ISSN could be done online and a centralized agency control this (in cooperation with other countries still providing ISBN & ISSN ) . ---- 6. What if a World Repository Center was established to collect the publication published throughout the world and maintain a database from which people around the world could get information regarding the publication of his own country as well as of other countries ? This is precisely the goal of the Open Access Archiving that is being promoted by Stevan Harnad, Leslie Chan and Peter Suber and several others 7. What if every publication published online in various subject could be freely accessible for developing countries professionals ? Projects such as the Million Books Project aim at this goal. Nafiz Zaman Shuva Dept. of Information Science & Library Management University of Dhaka Bangladesh e-mail : nafiz_z(a)hotmail.com website : www.infosciencetoday.com _________________________________________________________________ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail _______________________________________________ Sigiii-l mailing list Sigiii-l(a)asis.org http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigiii-l RE: [Sigiii-l] plaza Dear Nafiz and friends: I try to answer Nafiz's questions briefly. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] 1. What if library and information science institutions throughout the world follow the same standard and curriculum ? The world of LIS education will become dull and drab! It will curb all growth and new ideas. Variety is the spice of life. As the great Chairman Mao said, let thousand flowers bloom! 2. What if every country (developed , less developed , developing ) could get the same technological facilities ? A good thing to dream about. Such things do not happen 3. What if every people throughout the world becomes information literate ? Some goals are Utopian. Good to hear, but do not happen! This is one of them. 4. What if information professionals could control the world ? Why should anyone control the world? 5. What if ISBN & ISSN could be done online and a centralized agency control this (in cooperation with other countries still providing ISBN & ISSN ) . ---- 6. What if a World Repository Center was established to collect the publication published throughout the world and maintain a database from which people around the world could get information regarding the publication of his own country as well as of other countries ? This is precisely the goal of the Open Access Archiving that is being promoted by Stevan Harnad, Leslie Chan and Peter Suber and several others 7. What if every publication published online in various subject could be freely accessible for developing countries professionals ? Projects such as the Million Books Project aim at this goal. Nafiz Zaman Shuva Dept. of Information Science & Library Management University of Dhaka Bangladesh e-mail : nafiz_z(a)hotmail.com website : www.infosciencetoday.com _________________________________________________________________ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail _______________________________________________ Sigiii-l mailing list Sigiii-l(a)asis.org http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigiii-l http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigiii-l

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Metrics of info society
by Subbiah Arunachalam 09 Oct '04

09 Oct '04

Friends: Two useful documents that go beyond the routine concerns of managing a library and information centre. I thought many LIS-Forum members will find them useful. Especially forward-looking teachers who want to introduce the role information access plays in development and poverty reduction may find these documents useful. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ------ UNCTAD: Measuring the Information Society http://topics.developmentgateway.org/ict/rc/ItemDetail.do~1012791~intcmp=000 01 According to the website, "the Measuring-ICT Website is both an online source of information on indicators, methodologies and statistics related to the information society and a forum that allows practitioners from all countries - developed as well as developing ... Information & Communication Technology Development Indices http://topics.developmentgateway.org/ict/rc/ItemDetail.do~1012794~intcmp=000 01 >From the Introduction: "This report analyses and evaluates information and communication technology (ICT) development using indicators of ICT diffusion across countries. It develops a conceptual framework for and selects key indicators measuring ICT development. Metrics of info society Friends: Two useful documents that go beyond the routine concerns of managing a library and information centre. I thought many LIS-Forum members will find them useful. Especially forward-looking teachers who want to introduce the role information access plays in development and poverty reduction may find these documents useful. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ------ UNCTAD: Measuring the Information Society http://topics.developmentgateway.org/ict/rc/ItemDetail.do~1012791~intcmp=00… http://topics.developmentgateway.org/ict/rc/ItemDetail.do~1012791~intcmp=00… According to the website, "the Measuring-ICT Website is both an online source of information on indicators, methodologies and statistics related to the information society and a forum that allows practitioners from all countries - developed as well as developing ... Information & Communication Technology Development Indices http://topics.developmentgateway.org/ict/rc/ItemDetail.do~1012794~intcmp=00… http://topics.developmentgateway.org/ict/rc/ItemDetail.do~1012794~intcmp=00… >From the Introduction: "This report analyses and evaluates information and communication technology (ICT) development using indicators of ICT diffusion across countries. It develops a conceptual framework for and selects key indicators measuring ICT development.

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Candidate RSS/Web Feeds for Library Services
by Gerry Mckiernan 08 Oct '04

08 Oct '04

Colleagues/ I am greatly interested in learning about additional candidates for either/all of my registries devoted to RSS/Web feeds for enhanced library services 1. RSS(sm): Rich Site Services [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/RSS.htm ] RSS(sm): Rich Site Services is a categorized registry of library services that are delivered or provided through RSS/XML, Atom, or other types of Web feeds 2. eFeeds(sm): Web Feeds from Electronic Journals [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/eFeeds.htm] eFeeds(sm): Web Feeds from Electronic Journals is a categorized registry of electronic journals that offer RSS/XML, Atom, or other Web feeds. Publisher-specific and vendor Web feeds are categorized in a separate category. 3. B-Feeds(sm): Web Feeds for Books and Monographs [http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/B-Feeds.htm ] B-Feeds(sm): Web Feeds for Books and Monographs is a categorized registry of sites that offer RSS/XML, Atom, or other Web feeds, to compilations, directories, lists, reviews, or other relevant sources for/or about academic or scholarly books or monographic works In addition, I am also interested in learning of key publications/ Web sites/tutorials for potential inclusion in my RSS(sm) General Bibliography [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/GenBib.htm ] BTW: I will be giving a presentation at the Library of Congress titled "Seize The Feed: Content Syndication for Enhanced Governmental Information Services" [ http://www.loc.gov/flicc/ma/2004/ma0437.pdf ] on Monday, October 18, 2004, 12- 3, [Room 139, Madison Building]. This Brown Bag presentation is co-sponsored by the FLICC Content Management Working Grou [ http://www.loc.gov/flicc/ ] and the Science, Technology, & Business Division of the Library of Congress. The presentation is Open to the Public, but Pre-Registration is *Required* [contact FLICC at 202-707-4800 (voice), 202-707-4818 (fax), FLICCFPE(a)LOC.GOV (email)] Seating is Limited [60 Max] and is available on a first-come/firstserve basis. Enjoy /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Syndicated Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu

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Let's unite!
by prafulla tv 08 Oct '04

08 Oct '04

Dear All, Here's an email posted by Shri Prakash to Corporate Librarians Group: _________________________________________ It is better to work under one group, instead of having so many groups of same profession.Since, most of the same members are appearing in so many groups.So, according to me, all the professional group should come under one umbrella.We can share our ideas and professional opportunities and difficulties with one another. We should encourage more and more professionals, to join this group. At least one member should invite one professional. Kindly share your view, regarding the unification of Librarians group. With regards Prakash Gouda Dy. Librarian FORE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT B-18, QUTAB. INSTT. AREA NEW DELHI-110016 __________________________________________ How about using LIS-FORUM as the single communication point by all Indian LIS professionals: teachers as well as practising library professionals. LIS-FORUM has excellent institutional base and good service track record. Perhaps, it has the largest number of subscribers among all Indian LIS email lists. Let's avoid posting same messages to multiple lists. Its sheer wastage of time and Internet bandwidth. These are some of the issues which we need to think about: How can we improve the quality of postings? How to increase participation of all Indian LIS professionals? Is it not high time to provide to the Indian general public/foreign correspondents a single communication point from where they can address Indian LIS profession. We subscribe to multiple lists with a hope to receive new content but not just repetition of the same message. Thank you Sincerely T.V. Prafulla Chandra __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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RESEARCH DAY - INDIA 2004
by Mailing List Manager 08 Oct '04

08 Oct '04

Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 16:11:09 +0530 From: Mouna Raju <mouna(a)informindia.co.in> Research Day and Citation Laureate India 2004 Awards (October 10, 2004, 5pm-8pm, Hotel Leela Palace, Bangalore) jointly organized by Thomson Corporation, USA and Informatics (India) Ltd, Bangalore Chief Guest Dr V N Rajasekharan Pillai Vice Chairman, UGC, New Delhi Guests of Honour Prof. T Ramasami Director, CLRI, Chennai Prof. M Vijayan Honorary Professor and Distinguished Biotechnologist Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Presided By Prof. R Natarajan Chairman, AICTE, New Delhi Thomson's ISIhighlycited.com has identified seven scientists from India among highly cited scientists of the world in the category of top-250 in each of the 22 disciplines. On the occasion of Research Day, these seven scientists are presented Citation Laureate Awards. Citation Laureates - 2004 1. Prof. Soumitro Banerjee, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur ( Engineering) 2. Prof. Jayaraman Chandrasekhar, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore ( Chemistry) 3. Prof. Atul H Chokshi, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, ( Materials Science) 4. Prof. K L Chopra, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi ( Materials Science) 5. Prof. Sadhan Kumar De, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur ( Materials Science) 6. Prof. Vinod Kumar Gupta, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee ( Ecology/ Environmental Engineering) 7. Prof. Narendra K Karmarkar. Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Pune ( Mathematics & Computer Science) For Registration and Invitation contact http://www.informindia.co.in/researchday.html mouna(a)informindia.co.in Phone: 23365940

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New Free Software Library Automated System -- Virtual Data Center (VDC) 1.0 Release
by Bhojaraju G. 08 Oct '04

08 Oct '04

Subject: New Free Software Library Automated System -- Virtual Data Center (VDC) 1.0 Release Dear Colleagues, Apologies for Cross-Posting This may be of useful to you... The VDC Development Team (vdc-dev(a)latte.harvard.edu <http://us.f128.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=vdc-dev@latte.h arvard.edu&YY=76769&order=down&sort=date&pos=0> ) is pleased to announce the official 1.0 Release of the VDC. The Virtual Data Center (VDC) is an OSS digital library system "in a box" for numeric data. VDC provides a complete open-source, digital library system for the management, dissemination, exchange, and citation of virtual collections of quantitative data The VDC functionality provides everything necessary to maintain and disseminate an individual collection of research studies: including facilities for the storage, archiving, cataloging, translation, and dissemination of each collection. On-line analysis is provided, powered by the R Statistical environment. The system provides extensive support for distributed and federated collections including: location-independent naming of objects, distributed authentication and access control, federated metadata harvesting, remote repository caching, and distributed virtual collections of remote objects. Release 1.0 of the VDC provides RPM's for Redhat 9.0, Fedora 1 Core and Redhat 3 Advance Server. Release 1.0 provides all core features and contains no known bugs. Supported standards and protocols and formats include: DDI, Dublin Core, and MARC for metadata; R,SPSS, SAS,ASCII, and STATA for data ; OAI and Z39.50 for queries; UNF's and Handle's for naming/citation. Features planned for the next point release include: Fedora 2 Core support, DataFerrett/TheDataWeb protocol support. Download: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=25954 RPM's and Yum channels for RedHat? and Fedora Core) Sign up for announcements: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/thedata-announce archive: http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=25954) Users group e-mail for questions and bug reports: thedata-users(a)lists.sourceforge.net <http://us.f128.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=thedata-users@l ists.sourceforge.net&YY=76769&order=down&sort=date&pos=0> (archive: http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=25954) Source code: http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=25954 CVS tree access) News page: http://thedata.org/index.php/DEV/News Release Notes: http://thedata.org/index.php/DEV/ReleaseNotes Changelog: http://thedata.org/index.php/DEV/VerifiedFixes License: GPL Version 2 Thanks and Regards Bhojaraju G. 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VDC provides a complete open-source, digital library system for the management, dissemination, exchange, and citation of virtual collections of quantitative data The VDC functionality provides everything necessary to maintain and disseminate an individual collection of research studies: including facilities for the storage, archiving, cataloging, translation, and dissemination of each collection. On-line analysis is provided, powered by the R Statistical environment. The system provides extensive support for distributed and federated collections including: location-independent naming of objects, distributed authentication and access control, federated metadata harvesting, remote repository caching, and distributed virtual collections of remote objects. � Release 1.0 of the VDC provides RPM's for Redhat 9.0, Fedora 1 Core and Redhat 3 Advance Server. � Release 1.0 provides all core features and contains no known bugs. Supported standards and protocols and formats include: DDI, Dublin Core, and MARC for metadata; R,SPSS, SAS,ASCII, and STATA for data ; OAI and Z39.50 for queries; UNF's and Handle's for naming/citation. � Features planned for the next point release include: Fedora 2 Core support, DataFerrett/TheDataWeb protocol support. � Download: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=25954 http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=25954 � � RPM's and Yum channels for RedHat? and Fedora Core) � Sign up for announcements: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/thedata-announce http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/thedata-announce archive: http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=25954 http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=25954 ) � Users group e-mail for questions and bug reports: http://us.f128.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=thedata-users@lists..sourceforg… thedata-users(a)lists.sourceforge.net (archive: http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=25954 http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=25954 ) � Source code: http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=25954 http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=25954 �CVS tree access) � News page: http://thedata.org/index.php/DEV/News http://thedata.org/index.php/DEV/News � Release Notes: http://thedata.org/index.php/DEV/ReleaseNotes http://thedata.org/index.php/DEV/ReleaseNotes � Changelog: http://thedata.org/index.php/DEV/VerifiedFixes http://thedata.org/index.php/DEV/VerifiedFixes � License: GPL Version 2 � Thanks and Regards � Bhojaraju G. 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information about all mba colleges
by Rajeev Sharma 08 Oct '04

08 Oct '04

Dear Shashi You can get a useful list from the follwing : 1 Business India - "Best B- School" No 667; Sept 29- Oct 12, 2003 2 Outlook- "India's Top 50 B-school" Vol. 44 No 38; Sept 27, 2004 3. India Today - "India's Top Business Schools" Oct 4, 2004 and also go thru Business today and Business World for last one year's issues for the same studies. Best of luck! Rajeev Kr. Sharma Officer - Information Services Business Information Center Transport Corporation of India Ltd. --------------------------------------- > Dear sir, > Iam the student of MLISc in Dept. of Library and Information Science,University of Mysore,Manasagangothri,Mysore.Iam doing my academic project about creation of database of all MBA colleges in india.So I need information about a list of MBA colleges in india.Already anybady created a database on this topic or if you have any information or references relating to this topic please give me. > Thanking you, yours > shashi

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GOOGLE SMS
by B Sreeharsha 08 Oct '04

08 Oct '04

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Interesting OA initiative
by Krishnan 08 Oct '04

08 Oct '04

C. Steinbeck and S. Kuhn, NMRShiftDB - compound identification and structure elucidation support through a free community-built web database <HYPERLINK "http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&li"htt p://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&li st_uids=15464159&dopt=Abstract> , Phytochemistry, October 2004. Only this abstract is free online, at least so far <HYPERLINK "http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/oaoai.htm"http://www.earlham.edu/~peters /fos/oaoai.htm> : "Compound identification and support for computer-assisted structure elucidation via a free community-built web database for organic structures and their NMR data is described. The new database NMRShiftDB <HYPERLINK "http://www.nmrshiftdb.org/"http://www.nmrshiftdb.org/> is available on [HYPERLINK "http://www.nmrshiftdb.org/"http://www.nmrshiftdb.org/]. As the first NMR database, NMRShiftDB allows not only open access to the database but also open and peer reviewed submission of datasets, enabling the natural products community to build its first free repository of assigned (1)H and (13)C NMR spectra. In addition to the open access, the underlying database software is built solely from free software and is available under an open source license. This allows collaborating laboratories to fully replicate the database and to create a highly available network of NMRShiftDB mirrors. The database contains about 10,000 structures and assigned spectra, with new datasets constantly added. Its functionality includes (sub-) spectra and (sub-) structure searches as well as shift prediction of (13)C spectra based on the current database material." -- Dr. S. Krishnan Head, Information Division National Chemical Lab, PUNE 411008, INDIA e-mail: HYPERLINK "mailto:krish@ems.ncl.res.in"krish(a)ems.ncl.res.in HYPERLINK "http://www.ncl-india.org"http://www.ncl-india.org Tel: 020-25893457; Fax: 020-25893973 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.773 / Virus Database: 520 - Release Date: 10/5/2004  C. Steinbeck and S. Kuhn, NMRShiftDB - compound identification and structure elucidation support through a free community-built web database < http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&li http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&li st_uids=15464159&dopt=Abstract> , Phytochemistry, October 2004. Only this abstract is free online, at least so far < http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/oaoai.htm http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/oaoai.htm > : "Compound identification and support for computer-assisted structure elucidation via a free community-built web database for organic structures and their NMR data is described. The new database NMRShiftDB < http://www.nmrshiftdb.org/ http://www.nmrshiftdb.org/ > is available on [ http://www.nmrshiftdb.org/ http://www.nmrshiftdb.org/ ]. As the first NMR database, NMRShiftDB allows not only open access to the database but also open and peer reviewed submission of datasets, enabling the natural products community to build its first free repository of assigned (1)H and (13)C NMR spectra. In addition to the open access, the underlying database software is built solely from free software and is available under an open source license. This allows collaborating laboratories to fully replicate the database and to create a highly available network of NMRShiftDB mirrors. The database contains about 10,000 structures and assigned spectra, with new datasets constantly added. Its functionality includes (sub-) spectra and (sub-) structure searches as well as shift prediction of (13)C spectra based on the current database material." -- Dr. S. Krishnan Head, Information Division National Chemical Lab, PUNE 411008, INDIA e-mail: mailto:krish@ems.ncl.res.in krish(a)ems.ncl.res.in http://www.ncl-india.org http://www.ncl-india.org Tel: 020-25893457; Fax: 020-25893973 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.773 / Virus Database: 520 - Release Date: 10/5/2004

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