October 2005 - LIS-Forum - ncsi.iisc.ernet.in

oss4lib-discuss -- for free software in libraries
by vimal kumar 04 Oct '05

04 Oct '05

Dear Library Professionals, There is a listserv service available to inform about open source solutions in libraries. According to its administrators "the oss4lib listserv is used for new project and site announcements as well as general discussion" . The 'oss4lib listserv' is maintained by 'OSS4LIB: open source systems for libraries' website developed by Daniel Chudanov. The website listed a lot of open source solutions suitable for libraries. Web Links 1. oss4lib-discuss -- for free software in libraries Listserv http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oss4lib-discuss 2. 'OSS4LIB: open source systems for libraries' www.oss4lib.org Vimal kumar Asian School of Business Library Trivandrum, Kerala vimal0212(a)yahoo.com --------------------------------- Yahoo! for Good Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. Dear Library Professionals, There is a listserv service available to inform about open source solutions in libraries. According to its administrators "the oss4lib listserv is used for new project and site announcements as well as general discussion" . The 'oss4lib listserv' is maintained by 'OSS4LIB: open source systems for libraries' website developed by Daniel Chudanov. The website listed a lot of open source solutions suitable for libraries. Web Links 1. oss4lib-discuss -- for free software in libraries Listserv http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oss4lib-discuss http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oss4lib-discuss 2. 'OSS4LIB: open source systems for libraries' http://www.oss4lib.org www.oss4lib.org Vimal kumar Asian School of Business Library Trivandrum, Kerala mailto:vimal0212@yahoo.com vimal0212(a)yahoo.com Yahoo! for Good http://store.yahoo.com/redcross-donate3/ Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.

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job
by DJ manjunatha 04 Oct '05

04 Oct '05

Dear Friends Wanted Female Librarian B.Lib/ M.Lib St. Paul's Educational Institution (Primary, High School D.Ed & B.Ed Colleges) Prashanth Nagar (pattegarapalya) Vijaya Nagar, Bangalore-79 Ph: 23287415 & 57600313. Walk-in Interview for immediate appointment. with regards dj manjunatha --------------------------------- Yahoo! for Good Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. Dear Friends Wanted Female Librarian B.Lib/ M.Lib St. Paul's Educational Institution (Primary, High School D.Ed & B.Ed Colleges) Prashanth Nagar (pattegarapalya) Vijaya Nagar, Bangalore-79 Ph: 23287415 & 57600313. Walk-in Interview for immediate appointment. with regards dj manjunatha Yahoo! for Good http://store.yahoo.com/redcross-donate3/ Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.

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accreditation in lis
by Mailing List Manager 04 Oct '05

04 Oct '05

Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 14:03:51 +0000 From: nishavathi elangovan <e_nishavathi(a)hotmail.com> is there any accreditor for library and information science in india like ALA's COA? e. nishavathi librarian t.s. narayanaswami college of arts and science chennai - 30103

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Librarians are Teachers
by Mailing List Manager 04 Oct '05

04 Oct '05

Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 02:49:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Aloor Thomas Francis <francisaloor(a)yahoo.com> Dear Professionals, I have already raised the issue of UGC Career Advancement Scheme for Librarians, few weeks back and requested all professionals to whole heartedly join this effort to rectify this anomaly. As the qualifications prescribed by UGC for the direct post of Deputy Librarian is MLISc + 5 years experience in Asst. Librarian, it is justifiable to fix the qualifications for the post of Asst. Librarian as:- MLISc 55% + NET or 5 years Experience in Junior Libraian or equivalent (ie, the post just below the Asst. Libraian). The career advancement and other conditions like advance increments, etc. for libraians should be equal to that of teachers in colleges/universities. It is highly unjustifiable to equate the librarians with Asst. Registrars. In Kerala, all posts of Asst./Dy./Joint Registrar are filled by promotion. Their recruitment qualifications are only any Degree. Their promotion is far far sppedier than the teachers and other cadres. That is, an Asst. Registrar will normally be promoted to Dy. Registrar wihtin 2 years and also to the Joint Registrar post within another two years. AT. FRANCIS ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN KERALA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY

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Microsoft Office 12 Will Support PDFs
by Farooque Shaheen 04 Oct '05

04 Oct '05

Microsoft will build a "Save As" function in Office 12 for publishing Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, and other applications' documents in the popular PDF format. Users will be able to save documents in PDF form by using the "Save As" command from within Office applications. "Instead of printing the document and faxing it, or overnight-mailing it, customers can save a PDF and electronically distribute a read-only, 'as-printed' representation of the document. http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=171202726 Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449 Microsoft will build a "Save As" function in Office 12 for publishing Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, and other applications' documents in the popular PDF format. Users will be able to save documents in PDF form by using the "Save As" command from within Office applications. "Instead of printing the document and faxing it, or overnight-mailing it, customers can save a PDF and electronically distribute a read-only, 'as-printed' representation of the document. http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=171202726 Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449

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Yahoo to follow google path
by Sreeharsha_Gopalakrishna＠i2.com 03 Oct '05

03 Oct '05

In Challenge to Google, Yahoo Will Scan Books An unusual alliance of corporations, nonprofit groups and universities plans to announce today an ambitious plan to digitize hundreds of thousands of books over the next several years and put them on the Internet, with the full text accessible to anyone http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/03/business/03yahoo.html Ultimately we, the Info. Professionals are going to be benefitted :-) Regards **************************************** Sreeharsha BG i2 Technologies "One i2 Place" #132 / 133, DivyaSree Technopolis Yamalur Post, Off Airport Road, Bangalore 560 037. Phone: +91-80-3028 8016 Email: sreeharsha_gopalakrishna(a)i2.com visit us @ www.i2.com **************************************** Values are more important than People...!!!

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Lecture on 'PROJECT PROPOSAL WRITING' - SALIS Monthly lecture - Nov 2005
by Arunachalam Hariharan 03 Oct '05

03 Oct '05

Society for the Advancement of Library and Information Science (SALIS) Kindly make it convenient and do attend the lecture Topic : "PROJECT PROPOSAL WRITING" Speaker : Ms.Gunavathy. J.S, Lecturer, Madras School of Social Work Chennai. Date : 09.10.05 Time : 11.00 a.m. Venue : III Floor, Connemara Public Library Chennai Tea at 12.00 noon ALL ARE WELCOME TO PARTICIPATE! Expecting to meet you all, V.Sakthi Rekha Secretary SALIS-Chennai Chapter vsakthirekha(a)yahoo.com __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com

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NATIONAL DIGITAL LIBRARY: DRAFT PAPER BRINGS ISSUES
by K A. Sardesai 03 Oct '05

03 Oct '05

Respected Sir, The draft initative from the government is a nice issue.As mentioned in your mail i shall be glad to add to the contents suggested by you, are Government reports, agricultural data, NSSO reports , statistical abstracts, databases related to simple subjects like purchase of land ,scholarshipes,foreign education, etc.The website should be userfriendly. also as a librarian i shall like to add to this project the job opportunities for Library professionals staring from Library certificate course to Doctorate level. Otherwise as usual the opporunities will be diverted towards IT ptofessionals. In Maharashatra, as my experience in giving coaching to Library Certificate course ,the students are well educated and ask for the job opprtunities.As the jobs.com are asking for your attracred CVS for various other proessionals with grand packages there is are no columns for Library and information Science professionals except one or two academic librarians. I know I am diverting the topic ,but I feel we may take this issue with Libforum and if u are one of the institution if on the captioned subject it will be humble request. Thanking You kshipras

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Call for participation
by Mailing List Manager 03 Oct '05

03 Oct '05

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2005 18:32:51 +0530 (IST) From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Call for participation (fwd) From: "Anita S. Coleman" <asc(a)u.arizona.edu> Date: Sun, October 2, 2005 1:29 am To: "Subbiah Arunachalam" <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Arun, I am writing to bring our survey scholarly communication behaviors to your attention. Would you please forward the invitation below to lists that you think are appropriate and encourage colleagues to participate in survey? I encourage you to complete the survey as well. Best, Anita Coleman ----------Forwarded message ---------- You are invited to complete an online survey of scholarly communication behaviors specifically those related to self-archiving. The survey is part of a study that is being conducted by the editors of DLIST. The survey is available at http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/survey.html. DLIST, http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/, is the Digital Library of Information Science and Technology, an Open Access Archive (OAA) and cross-institutional repository of full-text electronic resources in Library and Information Science and Information Technology. Additionally, DLIST offers an open access aggregator and federated search service through DL-Harvest, http://dlharvest.sir.arizona.edu/, which brings together materials from ten (10) archives. You are welcome to complete the survey whether or not you are a current user of DLIST. DLIST is a service of the School of Information Resources and Library Science in partnership with the Learning Technologies Center of the University of Arizona. Thanks. --------------------------------------------------------------- Anita S. Coleman, Asst. Prof. School of Information Resources & Library Science University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85719 Phone: +1 (520) 621-3565 | Fax: +1 (520) 621-3279 Email: asc(a)u.arizona.edu | URL: http://www.u.arizona.edu/~asc ----------------------------------------------------------------

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OA for Publications from govt funded research projects
by Mailing List Manager 03 Oct '05

03 Oct '05

Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2005 11:13:54 +0100 (BST) From: Subbiah Arunachalam <subbiah_a(a)yahoo.com> To: dgcsir(a)hq.csir.res.in Dear Dr Mashelkar: Here is some good news from onr of the largest funders of biomedical research in the world. CSIR and other government agencies in India funding and supporting S&T research may do well to adopt a similar policy -- all papers resulting from public funding must be made available via open access archives (or published in 100% open access journals). Early this week I attended a three-day workshop on networking for higher education and research in Africa held at CERN. It was a very fruitful meeting where stakeholders from Africa and Europe came together and discussed all related issues. Mr Ponraj from Rashtrapathi Bhavan was there and in his talk he told about how India is helping Africa in its own way. Africans are really looking forward to working closely with India and learning from our experience. I also attended a few sessions at the WSIS PrepCom-3 and several institutions and groups are interested in promoting open access to scientific literature through the WSIS process. I think the time is ripe for India to (1) go ahead and adopt open access in a big way, and (2) to provide support to Africa in going ahead with open access. Africa is looking for low cost equipment (PCs, routers, etc) and low-cost connectivity and Internet access. These are areas India is reasonably well-placed to help. And the forthcoming WSIS meet at Tunis is a great opportunity to make an announcement. We could also depute a team from IISc, Bangalore (NCSI), to conduct a series of workshops on setting up OA archives in Africa. I will be grateful if you could lead India's efforts in this area. Regards. Arun (Subbiah Arunachalam) ------- Wellcome Trust OA mandate starts tomorrow Open Access a Must for Wellcome Trust Researchers, a Wellcome Trust press release, undated but released today. Excerpt: Next week (October) the Wellcome Trust becomes the first scientific research funder to insist that papers emanating from its grant awards are placed in an open access repository. From the 1st October it will become a condition of funding, that papers will have to be posted on PubMed Central (PMC) the free-to access, life sciences archive developed by the National Institutes of Health and made accessible within 6 months of publication. To facilitate this, the Wellcome Trust has with the help of NIH established a manuscript submission system, through which papers accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal can be deposited in PMC. From the 1st October next year all existing Trust grant holders will have to deposit future papers into PubMed Central. This delay will allow existing grant holders time to adjust to the new policy and let us know what problems if any they may experience, affording us time to overcome them. During this time the Trust, working in partnership with other UK life sciences funders, plans to establish a UK version of PubMed Central UKPMC. Wellcome-funded researchers should submit their papers to PMC via the NIH manuscript submission system and consult the Wellcome page of manuscript submission information. ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - NEW crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide with voicemail http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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