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

Understand the question b4 replying
by Rajesh K Patil 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

My query was "What is best about "LIBSYS" in BCLs". Do you have the answer ? then enlighten me. Rajesh http://clients.rediff.com/signature/track_sig.asp http://ads.rediff.com/RealMedia/ads/adstream_nx.cgi/www.rediffmail.com/inbo… My query was "What is best about "LIBSYS" in BCLs". Do you have the answer ? then enlighten me. Rajesh

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New arrivals with gif files
by theresa.williams＠wipro.com 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

Hello Can any of you please confirm whether we can send image files of the books added during the month along with abstract by downloading the files from Amazon or any other website. Is it a copyright issue. Thanks n regds Theresa Williams Information Services Division Wipro Technologies 72,Keonics E-city Hosur road Bangalore 560100 Tel:91-80-51381791 91-80-28520408#1791 FAX:91-80-28520478 VOIP:808-5512 Mobile:9845324613 Confidentiality Notice The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s) and may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender at Wipro or Mailadmin(a)wipro.com immediately and destroy all copies of this message and any attachments. New arrivals with gif files Hello Can any of you please confirm whether we can send image files of the books added during the month along with abstract by downloading the files from Amazon or any other website. Is it a copyright issue. Thanks n regds Theresa Williams Information Services Division Wipro Technologies 72,Keonics E-city Hosur road Bangalore 560100 Tel:91-80-51381791 91-80-28520408#1791 FAX:91-80-28520478 VOIP:808-5512 Mobile:9845324613 Confidentiality Notice The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s) and may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender at Wipro or Mailadmin(a)wipro.com immediately and destroy all copies of this message and any attachments.

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WG: [LIS-Forum] Newsletter from MMB Regional Information Centre
by Seth, Renu 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

Dear Colleagues, Sorry for the mistake. There is a spelling mistake in the E-mail ID given, here it is once again: info.manager.mmb(a)delhi.goethe.org With best regards, Renu Seth -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Mailing List Manager [mailto:mailman@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 1. September 2004 17:47 An: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Betreff: [LIS-Forum] Newsletter from MMB Regional Information Centre Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 12:13:58 +0530 From: "Seth, Renu" <seth(a)delhi.goethe.org> Dear Colleagues, Please find enclosed a newsletter from "Max Mueller Bhavan Regional Information Centre" for LIS professionals. This newsletter is designed to keep you informed about the LIS scenario in Germany. In case you would like to receive this newsletter regularly and would like to be on our mailing list, please write to us at: info.mmanager.mmb(a)delhi.goethe.org With best regards, Renu Seth Librarian Max Mueller Bhavan Regional Information Centre & Library 3, Kasturba Gandhi Marg New Delhi 110001 Telephone +91-11-23329506 librarian.mmb(a)delhi.goethe.org www.goethe.de/newdelhi Newsletter for Librarians & Information Professionals, from the RIC August 2004 Dear Friends! We bring to you the first issue of our newsletter on Information Services, which aims to provide you with the latest in the field of Media & Information in Germany. In the first section of this newsletter, we invite you to browse through DigiBib - an online library. The second section informs you about the latest happenings in the German Library & Information Science sector. In each issue, Literary Projects will introduce you to a web project organized by the Goethe Institute. In this edition we introduce you to www.litrix.de - a portal for promoting contemporary German literature. Meet Cornelia Funke, the 'German J.K. Rowling', and get to know about her fascinating creations in our Author in Focus section. Our separate Corner for Bibliophiles puts you into the current German literary picture and also gives you a foretaste of some of the finest literary pieces being published there today. We would also like to draw your attention to the fact that we have recently started offering our readers the services of the internationally recognized databank Lexis Nexis. This databank is well known as a rich source of articles, which are gathered from newspapers, magazines and journals from all over the world. We will be happy to receive your queries on any topic related to Germany - be it art, culture, literature or science. Your queries will then be processed by our team of professionals and the results will be made available to you. We hope that this newsletter will prove to be interesting and insightful for you. Please do write to us with your valuable suggestions & feedback at the following e-mail address: mailto:online.editor.mmb@delhi.goethe.org Best wishes from The MMB RIC team - DigiBib-The online library from Nordrhein-Westfalen Finding answers with Digibib DigiBib offers you the opportunity to search through different sources of information under one unified interface. Search simultaneously through the catalogues of international libraries as well as through bibliographic databases, from all over the world. DigiBib offers its users:- selected links from the WWW- WWW-Metasearchmachine and much more... http://www4.digibib.netAlthough DigiBib offers information in English language, the search interface is German. Hence, you may face difficulties in accessing it. You are welcome to contact us in case you need help in this regard. - In the News The Dresden medien@age - a Library for the 21st Century For a long time the library of the twentieth century may have been just "a collection of books", but other media forms are becoming increasingly important this century. The medien@age library in Dresden has courageously embraced this change - and has scored points with its target audience along the way. http://www.goethe.de/kug/mui/bib/thm/en139876.htm Information Services in Germany Unlike in the Anglo-American countries, information services in libraries in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century initially referred mainly to literary information and less to factual information.For two decades now ever more people in Germany have been asking questions about facts to the information sectors of libraries. Today, highly specialised information teams in the field of general information who have many databases for literature and factual information at their disposal can increasingly be found in the academic and large public libraries. http://www.goethe.de/kug/mui/ask/ein/en21811.htm vascoda - the Internet Portal for Scientific Information Being able to access the information lying dormant on the shelves of German libraries with a click of the mouse and download it onto your computer with another click - this is a vision that has just moved one step closer to becoming reality. Since August 2003 the interdisciplinary Internet portal vascoda has been providing access to 37 German libraries, research institutes and information providers. http://www.goethe.de/kug/mui/bib/thm/en69733.htm - Literary Projects Litrix.de - German Literature Online Since January 2004, excerpts from outstanding new publications, specimen translations and the latest information on the German book market are available from the online magazine Litrix.de. The magazine is aimed at an international audience and is a major part of a project promoting contemporary German literature abroad. Project partners are the Federal Cultural Foundation, the Goethe-Institut and the Frankfurt Book Fair. www.litrix.de - Author in Focus Portrait of Cornelia Funke Cornelia Funke is currently the most successful German author of books for young people. She was born in 1958 and has sold a million copies of her books for young people and children. She has been compared internationally with JK Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter series. In September 2003 her book "Tintenherz" was released. http://www.goethe.de/in/d/film/e/kubus-e-59-1-f.html - Bibliophile's Corner Lexikon der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur - Revised Germany, the "land of poets and thinkers", has brought forth a great number of writers since time immemorial. So it isn't easy keeping track, especially of the latest names. A newly revised encyclopaedia has arrived to help out. http://www.goethe.de/kug/kue/lit/thm/en96421.htmEncyclopaedia only in German language. Where the Good Guys Still Win German detective stories about FBI agent Jerry Cotton have been an international hit for 50 years. "His leap was an act of desperation, the insane reaction of a cornered killer who has nothing left to lose. He dove smack into the line of fire of my revolver. I had released the safety: all I had to do was pull the trigger. But I chose not to: I have a deep-seated aversion to shooting an unarmed man." http://www.goethe.de/kug/mui/buv/thm/en91801.htm "The Wild East" - Young East German authors look back By contrast with the young West Germans who accommodated themselves with Helmut Kohl perfectly well for eight years after the Berlin Wall came down and watched, relaxed and uninterested, as the so-called "Berlin Republic" decayed into "Berlin provinciality", the East Germans of the same age, who have been largely speechless until now, have suddenly appeared from nowhere and are now publishing one book after another. http://www.goethe.de/kug/kue/lit/thm/en72032.htm To unsubscribe from the mailing list, please click here: mailto:online.editor.mmb@delhi.goethe.org?body=unsubscribe _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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CD Sorter
by sainul＠iiitmk.ac.in 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

Dear Friends, This is with reference to Rajeev's mail regarding CD Stand. There are some adjustable CD Rack called CD Sorter in which we can insert CDs in-between the existing CDs. More details are available at http://www.cdholdings.com/cdsorter/howcanorder.html I do not know the availability in India. We need to see the durability also. I would like to know if any of our professional colleagues have bought such CD Stands. With regards Sainul Abideen P Librarian IIITM-K Trivandrum This Mail has been sent from: ________________________________________________________________________ Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management - Kerala, Park Centre, Techno Park, Thiruvananthapuram - 695 581. Kerala. India. Contact: Website: http://www.iiitmk.ac.in Phone: +91-471-2527567 / 3091334 Fax: +91-471-2527568 ________________________________________________________________________ The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and /or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you have received this in error,please contact the sender and delete the material from anycomputer.

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Buying CD Rack - help required
by Rajeev K R 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

Hi, I would like to get the phone numbers of vendors who deals with CD - Rack (For keeping the CD's in the shelf.). If you know any vendors in Bangalore, please send me the phone numbers. We do have approximately 750 + CDs and currently it is kept in the ordinary shelf. So if you have any suggestions in buying the CD Rack, please let me know. With Warm Regards Rajeev K R Library & Information Center Sasken Communication Technologies Limited 139/25, Ring Road, Domlur Bangalore - 560071 India Email: krr(a)sasken.com Tel: + 91 80 25355501 Extn: 2021 Fax: + 91 80 25351133 URL: www.sasken.com SASKEN BUSINESS DISCLAIMER This message may contain confidential, proprietary or legally Privileged information. In case you are not the original intended Recipient of the message, you must not, directly or indirectly, use, Disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message and you are requested to delete it and inform the sender. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender unless otherwise stated. Nothing contained in this message shall be construed as an offer or acceptance of any offer by Sasken Communication Technologies Limited ("Sasken") unless sent with that express intent and with due authority of Sasken. Sasken has taken enough precautions to prevent the spread of viruses. However the company accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email

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RE: [LIS-Forum] scanning books and copyright laws
by Byrappa, Ananda (Research) 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

Thanks, Sathya. LOCKSS(Lot of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe)is an interesting project. But it apprars to me that, the scope of the project is limited to crawling, preserving and providing access to digital content. I did not see anything about converting "print" to "digital". Please let me know if my understanding is not correct. But, it sounds like a promising initiative for archiving subscribed digital content provided the publishers allow us to do the following: - To provide permission to collect, preserve and provide access to their content - Give permission to LOCKSS crawler to collect the content through a publisher manifest Thanks for letting us know about an interesting digital project, LOCKSS (http://lockss.stanford.edu) Regards, Anand ______________________________________________________________________________________ Ananda T Byrappa e-mail: ananda.byrappa(a)ge.com Whitney Knowledge Centre, GE Global Research Work: +91-80-25032618 DCom:8*9012618 John F. Welch Technology Center Fax: +91-80-28412114 Address: EPIP, Phase-II, Hoodi Village, Whitefield Rd., Bangalore 560066, INDIA -----Original Message----- From: sathya [mailto:sathya@informindia.co.in] Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 5:31 PM To: Byrappa, Ananda (Research) Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] scanning books and copyright laws Anand U wld find it interesting to study LOCKSS project of Stanford University. There are certain conditions under which digitization can be permissible. LCKSSS is one. Sathya -------------------------------------------------- N V Sathyanarayana Chairman & Managing Director Informatics (India) Ltd Bangalore 560003, India Phone : 91-80-23365940 www.informindia.co.in -------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Byrappa, Ananda (Research) [mailto:ananda.byrappa@ge.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 11:53 AM To: radha_inf(a)yahoo.co.in Cc: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] scanning books and copyright laws Anuradha, Copyright law does not allow you to scan the books even for academic and research purpose. You need to take written permission from the publisher/copyright holder to digitize any book. Its unlikely that you get a permission from them. As an alternative, you may want to consider online books like knovel, netlibrary, e-brary, 24/7 etc for subscription. Again they may not fill your requirements as these e-book models are still evolving (slowly!) There are security methods to control accessing digital documents. For example, British Library(BL), London is recently started using 'secured document delivery' method for their electronic document delivery service. Which allows end users to access the document only one time. You may wish to visit BL website for more details Regards, Anand ________________________________________ Ananda T. Byrappa Whitney Knowledge Centre GE India Technology Centre Pvt.Ltd., 122, EPIP, Phase 2, Hoodi Village, Whitefield Road, Bangalore - 560066, INDIA Phone : +91-80-2503-2618, DialCom: 8*901 2618 Fax : +91-80-2841-2114, Email : Ananda.Byrappa(a)ge.com

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Fwd: An Invitation to Submit
by Prof. N. Laxman Rao. 01 Sep '04

01 Sep '04

IRMA <irma(a)irma-international.org> wrote:From: "IRMA" To: Subject: An Invitation to Submit Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 13:38:16 -0400 2005 IRMA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CONFERENCE THEME: MANAGING MODERN ORGANIZATIONS WITH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY www.irma-international.org TIME AND LOCATION: May 15-18, 2005 U.S. Grant Hotel San Diego, California, USA IMPORTANT DATES: Submission Deadline October 4, 2004 Notification of Acceptance/Rejections November 26, 2004 Final Submission Due January 10, 2005 Early Registration Ends January 10, 2005 Conference Period May 15-18, 2005 TRACKS AND TRACK CHAIRS/CO-CHAIRS: Full-length papers, research-in-progress proposals (abstracts/summaries), and panel, workshop, tutorial or symposium proposals focusing on different aspects of information technology are invited to be considered for the 51 tracks of IRMA2005 International. For a complete list of tracks and track chairs/co-chairs, please visit: www.irma-international.org/conferences/2005/tracks.asp. SUBMISSION CATEGORIES AND GUIDELINES: Submissions for the IRMA2005 International Conference may be submitted in the following categories: 1. Full Length Submissions 2. Research-in-Progress Submissions 3. Panel, Workshop, Tutorial and Symposium Submissions For more information on submission categories and complete submission guidelines, please visit: www.irma-international.org/conferences/2005/submission.asp. IRMA MEMBERSHIP: To learn more about IRMA membership benefits and services, or to join IRMA, please visit IRMA's website at www.irma-international.org. SEND ALL INQUIRIES AND SUBMISSIONS TO: Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, program chair 2005 IRMA International Conference E-mail: irmaconf(a)irma-international.org Sent to: naglaxman(a)yahoo.com Prof.N.LAXMAN RAO, Dept.of Library & Information Science, Osmania University, HYDERABAD- 500 007 (INDIA) President, Indian Association of Teachers in Library and Information Science (IATLIS). Ph:+91-40-27171565 (res): +91-40- 27682290 (off) 9246547599 (Mobile) e:mail-- naglaxman(a)yahoo.com OR naglaxman(a)indiatimes.com --------------------------------- Does your mail provider give you a FREE online calendar? Yahoo! does. Get Yahoo! Mail IRMA <irma(a)irma-international.org> wrote: From: "IRMA" To: Subject: An Invitation to Submit Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 13:38:16 -0400 2005 IRMA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CONFERENCE THEME: MANAGING MODERN ORGANIZATIONS WITH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY www.irma-international.org TIME AND LOCATION: May 15-18, 2005 U.S. Grant Hotel San Diego, California, USA IMPORTANT DATES: Submission Deadline October 4, 2004 Notification of Acceptance/Rejections November 26, 2004 Final Submission Due January 10, 2005 Early Registration Ends January 10, 2005 Conference Period May 15-18, 2005 TRACKS AND TRACK CHAIRS/CO-CHAIRS: Full-length papers, research-in-progress proposals (abstracts/summaries), and panel, workshop, tutorial or symposium proposals focusing on different aspects of information technology are invit! ed to be considered for the 51 tracks of IRMA2005 International. For a complete list of tracks and track chairs/co-chairs, please visit: www.irma-international.org/conferences/2005/tracks.asp. SUBMISSION CATEGORIES AND GUIDELINES: Submissions for the IRMA2005 International Conference may be submitted in the following categories: 1. Full Length Submissions 2. Research-in-Progress Submissions 3. Panel, Workshop, Tutorial and Symposium Submissions For more information on submission categories and complete submission guidelines, please visit: www.irma-international.org/conferences/2005/submission.asp. IRMA MEMBERSHIP: To learn more about IRMA membership benefits and services, or to join IRMA, please visit IRMA's website at www.irma-international.org. SEND ALL INQUIRIES AND SUBMISSIONS TO: Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, program chair 2005 IRMA International Conference E-mail: irmaconf(a)irma-international.org Sent to: naglaxman(a)yahoo.com Prof.N.LAXMAN RAO, Dept.of Library & Information Science, Osmania University, HYDERABAD- 500 007 (INDIA) President, Indian Association of Teachers in Library and Information Science (IATLIS). Ph:+91-40-27171565 (res): +91-40- 27682290 (off) 9246547599 (Mobile) e:mail-- naglaxman(a)yahoo.com OR naglaxman(a)indiatimes.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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Re: [LIS-Forum] Re: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 17, Issue 18
by Mailing List Manager 01 Sep '04

01 Sep '04

Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 16:12:26 +0530 From: chauhan <chauhan(a)inflibnet.ac.in> Dear Anuradha Ji, In true sense your two questions are very much relevant to the present time. Question 1: ("If i want to scan few books and make availabe to our patrons that is for academic and research purpose only --- what about the copywright act.") Answer: This is the first and last question of any professional who want to digitize his/her library or some documents. If you want to scan few books you have to ask the publisher or as well as author of that particular book in due respect of copyright act. Question 2: ("Once i digitize the book and if it is made availabe - How to controlthat inf is not copied or printed out or made any changes the person who ever is accessing the document.") Answer: Violation of copyright is not a new thing, we are dealing with this since the inception of these copyright laws, and in digital environment violation of these IPR laws is very easy. We can not change this because this is depending on the attitude of the 'violator'. Anyhow, you can take the example of "Online Journals", we are accessing these e-journals through login- password or through IP addresses. Most of the publishers are using some special software to make control over the usage of their journals. Through the help of that software they can provide you the complete statistics regarding browsing, downloading etc. (means what and where a particular user is accessing right now). Right now, especially in India, we are in the entrance of the digital environment. Everyone has thousands of queries regarding this digital environment. Exploration and interaction are two key features to get answers. With kind regards S Kumar ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mailing List Manager" <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> To: <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 1:38 PM Subject: [LIS-Forum] Re: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 17, Issue 18 > Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 06:03:52 +0100 (BST) > From: "[iso-8859-1] anuradha" <radha_inf(a)yahoo.co.in> > > > Dear professionals > I will be thankful if any of you reply to my questions. > > 1. If i want to scan few books and make availabe to our patrons that is > for academic and research purpose only --- what about the copywright act....

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Re: [LIS-Forum] What is best about BL ?
by Mailing List Manager 01 Sep '04

01 Sep '04

Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 13:23:59 +0100 (BST) From: "[iso-8859-1] Subbiah Arunachalam" <subbiah_a(a)yahoo.com> Just visit the nearest British Library. You will know what is good about it. I am using - not often as I would want to - the BCL for more than 4 decades and I work closely with them. They have always lived up to my expectations. Arun --- Mailing List Manager <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: > > Date: 25 Aug 2004 09:22:22 -0000 > From: Rajesh K Patil <rajeshbcd(a)rediffmail.com> > > Dear All, > > Many academic, public and special Libraries have > automated their > operations over a period of time. Just like BL's > they too have used > LIBSYS. It would be interesting to know as to what > is best about British > Libraries ? > > Regards. > > Rajesh

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Newsletter from MMB Regional Information Centre
by Mailing List Manager 01 Sep '04

01 Sep '04

Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 12:13:58 +0530 From: "Seth, Renu" <seth(a)delhi.goethe.org> Dear Colleagues, Please find enclosed a newsletter from "Max Mueller Bhavan Regional Information Centre" for LIS professionals. This newsletter is designed to keep you informed about the LIS scenario in Germany. In case you would like to receive this newsletter regularly and would like to be on our mailing list, please write to us at: info.mmanager.mmb(a)delhi.goethe.org With best regards, Renu Seth Librarian Max Mueller Bhavan Regional Information Centre & Library 3, Kasturba Gandhi Marg New Delhi 110001 Telephone +91-11-23329506 librarian.mmb(a)delhi.goethe.org www.goethe.de/newdelhi Newsletter for Librarians & Information Professionals, from the RIC August 2004 Dear Friends! We bring to you the first issue of our newsletter on Information Services, which aims to provide you with the latest in the field of Media & Information in Germany. In the first section of this newsletter, we invite you to browse through DigiBib - an online library. The second section informs you about the latest happenings in the German Library & Information Science sector. In each issue, Literary Projects will introduce you to a web project organized by the Goethe Institute. In this edition we introduce you to www.litrix.de - a portal for promoting contemporary German literature. Meet Cornelia Funke, the 'German J.K. Rowling', and get to know about her fascinating creations in our Author in Focus section. Our separate Corner for Bibliophiles puts you into the current German literary picture and also gives you a foretaste of some of the finest literary pieces being published there today. We would also like to draw your attention to the fact that we have recently started offering our readers the services of the internationally recognized databank Lexis Nexis. This databank is well known as a rich source of articles, which are gathered from newspapers, magazines and journals from all over the world. We will be happy to receive your queries on any topic related to Germany - be it art, culture, literature or science. Your queries will then be processed by our team of professionals and the results will be made available to you. We hope that this newsletter will prove to be interesting and insightful for you. Please do write to us with your valuable suggestions & feedback at the following e-mail address: mailto:online.editor.mmb@delhi.goethe.org Best wishes from The MMB RIC team - DigiBib-The online library from Nordrhein-Westfalen Finding answers with Digibib DigiBib offers you the opportunity to search through different sources of information under one unified interface. Search simultaneously through the catalogues of international libraries as well as through bibliographic databases, from all over the world. DigiBib offers its users:- selected links from the WWW- WWW-Metasearchmachine and much more... http://www4.digibib.netAlthough DigiBib offers information in English language, the search interface is German. Hence, you may face difficulties in accessing it. You are welcome to contact us in case you need help in this regard. - In the News The Dresden medien@age - a Library for the 21st Century For a long time the library of the twentieth century may have been just "a collection of books", but other media forms are becoming increasingly important this century. The medien@age library in Dresden has courageously embraced this change - and has scored points with its target audience along the way. http://www.goethe.de/kug/mui/bib/thm/en139876.htm Information Services in Germany Unlike in the Anglo-American countries, information services in libraries in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century initially referred mainly to literary information and less to factual information.For two decades now ever more people in Germany have been asking questions about facts to the information sectors of libraries. Today, highly specialised information teams in the field of general information who have many databases for literature and factual information at their disposal can increasingly be found in the academic and large public libraries. http://www.goethe.de/kug/mui/ask/ein/en21811.htm vascoda - the Internet Portal for Scientific Information Being able to access the information lying dormant on the shelves of German libraries with a click of the mouse and download it onto your computer with another click - this is a vision that has just moved one step closer to becoming reality. Since August 2003 the interdisciplinary Internet portal vascoda has been providing access to 37 German libraries, research institutes and information providers. http://www.goethe.de/kug/mui/bib/thm/en69733.htm - Literary Projects Litrix.de - German Literature Online Since January 2004, excerpts from outstanding new publications, specimen translations and the latest information on the German book market are available from the online magazine Litrix.de. The magazine is aimed at an international audience and is a major part of a project promoting contemporary German literature abroad. Project partners are the Federal Cultural Foundation, the Goethe-Institut and the Frankfurt Book Fair. www.litrix.de - Author in Focus Portrait of Cornelia Funke Cornelia Funke is currently the most successful German author of books for young people. She was born in 1958 and has sold a million copies of her books for young people and children. She has been compared internationally with JK Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter series. In September 2003 her book "Tintenherz" was released. http://www.goethe.de/in/d/film/e/kubus-e-59-1-f.html - Bibliophile's Corner Lexikon der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur - Revised Germany, the "land of poets and thinkers", has brought forth a great number of writers since time immemorial. So it isn't easy keeping track, especially of the latest names. A newly revised encyclopaedia has arrived to help out. http://www.goethe.de/kug/kue/lit/thm/en96421.htmEncyclopaedia only in German language. Where the Good Guys Still Win German detective stories about FBI agent Jerry Cotton have been an international hit for 50 years. "His leap was an act of desperation, the insane reaction of a cornered killer who has nothing left to lose. He dove smack into the line of fire of my revolver. I had released the safety: all I had to do was pull the trigger. But I chose not to: I have a deep-seated aversion to shooting an unarmed man." http://www.goethe.de/kug/mui/buv/thm/en91801.htm "The Wild East" - Young East German authors look back By contrast with the young West Germans who accommodated themselves with Helmut Kohl perfectly well for eight years after the Berlin Wall came down and watched, relaxed and uninterested, as the so-called "Berlin Republic" decayed into "Berlin provinciality", the East Germans of the same age, who have been largely speechless until now, have suddenly appeared from nowhere and are now publishing one book after another. http://www.goethe.de/kug/kue/lit/thm/en72032.htm To unsubscribe from the mailing list, please click here: mailto:online.editor.mmb@delhi.goethe.org?body=unsubscribe

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