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

Cataloguing Project for Mark21 Standards.
by mouna 24 Oct '05

24 Oct '05

We have a project on original cataloguing of Indian languages books. The catalogued records require strict adherence to Mark21 format. Librarians who have practical knowledge of and expertise in Mark 21 rule based cataloguing are requested to contact us immediately. Languages : Gujarathi, Bengali, Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, Panjabi, Kannada Thank you. N V Sathyanarayana (sathya(a)informindia.co.in <mailto:sathya@informindia.co.in>)

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Informatics organises Seminars on Usage Promotion of e-Information Resources
by mouna 24 Oct '05

24 Oct '05

E-Information Resources have become an integral part of the libraries and their user community. The major concern faced today by the LIS professionals and decision makers is the optimal usage of these e-Information resources. Informatics, in association with Springer, Taylor & Francis, Annual Reviews and IEE Inspec is organizing series of seminars to discuss the issues related to User Awareness and Training on e-Information Resources. The serminars are scheduled to be held in different parts of the country the details of which are as follows: Cochin November 11, 2005 Pune November 14, 2005 Bhubaneswar November 16, 2005 Chandigarh November 18, 2005 The Programmme Structure: 1.Keynote on Seminar Topic 2 Panel Debates on issues related to the topic focusing on the following areas: § User awareness for different e-resources being subscribed. § Choice of relevant e-resources § Training the User and the Information Manager on the Resources. § User Training Responsibility (Librarian, Publisher or Agent) § Training Infrastructure, Course Material Development, Costs & Budgets § Internal Marketing for Usage Promotion § Usage Models & Analysis § Information Needs & Usage Levels § Users need for information and its quick access/availability on a scale comparable to developed world § Impact of education and research culture/quality on usage promotion. You are invited to register online (www.informindia.co.in) and submit your questions for the Panel Debate. REGISTRATION is FREE. For more details you can also write to us at events(a)informindia.co.in or contact: Amit Verma Product Marketing Manager Informatics (India) Ltd Bangalore 560 003, India Phone: 91 80 23365940 or 9845941610 email: amit(a)informindia.co.in

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Seminar on Standards for Health Science Libraries...
by hemanth rao 23 Oct '05

23 Oct '05

Dear Professionals, The Digital Library and Information Centre of Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Karnataka is organizing one day seminar on Professional Standards & Quality Improvement in Health Science Libraries on 26th October 2005 at 10.00 a.m. at Dhanwanthri Hall, Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, 4th T Block, Jayanagar, Bangalore-560 041. This seminar is being organized to evolve the Standards and Policies required for collection development, Library Services, ICT Infrastructure, Staff pattern- Qualifications, job-description and analysis, status-and-pay structure etc towards the development of high quality competence and performance in all the affiliated college Libraries of RGUHS in the State of Karnataka. Information Resources, Services, Infrastructure, and Manpower are the specific issues on focus for evolving standards through this seminar for quality improvement in Health Science Libraries under Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Karnataka. A steady growth can be seen in the Health Science Library sector under the leadership of RGUHS, Karnataka as far as the quality of collection development and information services are concerned. But there is a an immediate need of standardization required for the staff development, collection development, budgetary provisions, ICT infrastructure, performance, competence and excellence. This situation called for organizing the seminar with the objective of bringing out standards and policies on the issues indicated and finding out solutions to the burning issues of standards in resources, services, staff pattern of professionals, semi-professionals and supporting staff required in health science libraries; qualifications, experience, status and payscales; continuing education and IT skills development etc. The Librarians of health science institutions are hereby requested to participate and take an active part in making this seminar a success and evolve the necessary standards. For further details: Mr.Hemanth Rao Digital Library and Information Centre Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Karnataka 4th T Block, Jaynagar Bangalore-560 041 Phone: 080-26961943 Email: hemanthrao(a)rguhs.ac.in --------------------------------- Yahoo! FareChase - Search multiple travel sites in one click. Dear Professionals, The Digital Library and Information Centre of Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Karnataka is organizing one day seminar on Professional Standards & Quality Improvement in Health Science Libraries on 26th October 2005 at 10.00 a.m. at Dhanwanthri Hall, Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, 4th T Block, Jayanagar, Bangalore-560 041. This seminar is being organized to evolve the Standards and Policies required for collection development, Library Services, ICT Infrastructure, Staff pattern- Qualifications, job-description and analysis, status-and-pay structure etc towards the development of high quality competence and performance in all the affiliated college Libraries of RGUHS in the State of Karnataka. Information Resources, Services, Infrastructure, and Manpower are the specific issues on focus for evolving standards through this seminar for quality improvement in Health Science Libraries under Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Karnataka. A steady growth can be seen in the Health Science Library sector under the leadership of RGUHS, Karnataka as far as the quality of collection development and information services are concerned. But there is a an immediate need of standardization required for the staff development, collection development, budgetary provisions, ICT infrastructure, performance, competence and excellence. This situation called for organizing the seminar with the objective of bringing out standards and policies on the issues indicated and finding out solutions to the burning issues of standards in resources, services, staff pattern of professionals, semi-professionals and supporting staff required in health science libraries; qualifications, experience, status and payscales; continuing education and IT skills development etc. The Librarians of health science institutions are hereby requested to participate and take an active part in making this seminar a success and evolve the necessary standards. For further details: Mr.Hemanth Rao Digital Library and Information Centre Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Karnataka 4th T Block, Jaynagar Bangalore-560 041 Phone: 080-26961943 Email: mailto:hemanthrao@rguhs.ac.in hemanthrao(a)rguhs.ac.in http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/_ylc=X3oDMTFqODRtdXQ4BF9TAzMyOTc1MDIEX3MDOTY2ODgxNj… Yahoo! FareChase - Search multiple travel sites in one click.

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RE: RSS Reader
by Nabonita Guha 23 Oct '05

23 Oct '05

Dear Professionals, As Mr. Vyasamoorthy rightly said about RSS reader that "...It is one easy way of creating current awareness service" I would like to share some more information on the same. HOW RSS READER WORKS The RSS reader keeps track of new additions in a Web site (only RSS specification compliant) of your interest. It notifies you about the latest changes in your chosen site. These websites can be of such kind in which information are being added periodically like news sites, mailing lists, weblogs, etc... To know more about RSS visit http://www.mnot.net/rss/tutorial/ http://www.mnot.net/rss/tutorial/ AVAILABLE OPEN SOURCE RSS READER SOFTWARE (I used...) Software name: FeedReader (avilable at http://sourceforge.net/projects/feedreader http://sourceforge.net/projects/feedreader ) Features Supports all major syndication formats: RSS 0.9, 0.91, 0.92, 1.00, 2.0 plus Dublin core and Slashback extensions Pre-configured with hundred of quality feeds from leading syndicators such as NewsIsFree and Moreover Alerts about incoming feeds on taskbar Caches headlines for offline viewing Supports proxies Allows one-click subscription of Radio Userland and AmphetaDesk feeds Search support Multilanguage support New in version 2.6: OPML import and export. Requirements Windows 95 or newer Internet Explorer 4.0 or newer Download & explore more about the software. Best wishes -- Nabonita Guha DRTC Bangalore ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Message: 1 >Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 17:39:10 +0530 (IST) >From: pku(a)nic.in >Subject: [LIS-Forum] RSS Reader >To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >Message-ID: <38994.192.168.1.1.1129810150.squirrel@mail2021> >Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 > >It may also be also of interest to mention that RSS 1.0 published last >year allows a ContextObject-the data structure at the heart of the new >OpenURL Framework that is being developed by ANSI/NISO as information >statdard Z39.88-2004. > >By year 2006, the growth rate in application-generated RSS data to exeed >human produced RSS content by atleast a factor of 0.8 probability. Some of >the software packages using email messages for notifications will be >replaced by RSS, because of simpler and more efficient from the >perspective of sender and receiver. >Publishers are now using RSS for content distribution to users. hence in >future we should now use checkpoints for selectimg any software and >vendors for compliance of RSS feed like Z39.50, OAI-PMH, etc. > >Good luck. > >P K Upadhyay >NIC Library > > > Dear Friends > > > > You may be interested in the following Google feature: > > > > http://www.google.com/reader/things/intro > > > > This page helps you search for news items on chosen keywords and > > thereafter subscribe to RSS feeds from such result pages. Please > > explore > > > > It is one easy way of creating current awareness service. > > > > Vyasamoorthy, P http://g.msn.com/8HMBENUS/2737??PS=47575 Find e-mail, documents and more on your PC instantly with Windows Desktop SearchFREE!

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Preprint depository
by Vijay Raghav Tiwari 22 Oct '05

22 Oct '05

Dear Professionals I am in need of creating a depository for the preprints of our institute. Kinldy suggest me how to create a preprint server, which should be accessible to a limited number of users. Hope that dspace would be better. Please advide whether it can work for the limited access and will be possible to work on windows machines. Please suggest quick. with regards vrt Vijay Raghav Tiwari Librarian Harish Chandra Research Institute (Department of Atomic Energy, Govt of India) Chhatnag Road Jhunsi Allahabad -211 019. Phone.91-532-2668302(O), 2667509,2667318,2667578 add extention 4064 (R) <vrtiwari(a)mri.ernet.in> Mobile: 9839252956 Dear Professionals I am in need of creating a depository for the preprints of our institute. Kinldy suggest me how to create a preprint server, which should be accessible to a limited number of users. Hope that dspace would be better. Please advide whether it can work for the limited access and will be possible to work on windows machines. Please suggest quick. with regards vrt Vijay Raghav Tiwari Librarian Harish Chandra Research Institute (Department of Atomic Energy, Govt of India) Chhatnag Road Jhunsi Allahabad -211 019. Phone.91-532-2668302(O), 2667509,2667318,2667578 add extention 4064 (R) <vrtiwari(a)mri.ernet.in> Mobile: 9839252956 http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigclick.cgi/www.rediff.com/signa… http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigimpress.cgi/www.rediff.com/sig…

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Costly journals and developing countries
by Subbiah Arunachalam 22 Oct '05

22 Oct '05

Friends: According to the University of Pennsylvania's Van Pelt Library "An annual subscription to the chemistry journal Tetrahedron, published by Elsevier, costs the library $31,600." I wish to ask all organic chemists, especially those working in India, China, Brazil, South Africa, and other developing countries, is the journal worth that price? It would be interesting to see how many Indian researchers ACTUALLY read articles published in Tetrahedron and quote them in their own papers. While journals of the quality of PNASc are available absolutely free on the web, it is rather difficult to accept that developing country libraries should subscribe to such outrageoulsy expensive journals. Tetrahedron was originally owned by Pergamon Press (Robert Maxwell) and later acquired by the Elsevier group. India has several consortia subscriptions to Elsevier's Science Direct aggregation of journals. But very few librarians have invested the time and little effort required to set up their own institutional open access archives, despite the excellent model provided by the Indian Institute of Science. Indian authors publishing in such expensive journals are unwittingly doing a great disservice to progress of science in India. As they are so expensive, many institutions would not subscribe to these journals and therefore most Indian researchers will not have easy access to the papers published in them. Thus results of reserch supported by Indian taxpayers' money is NOT AVAILABLE to other Indian researchers. Subbiah Arunachalam ---- >From Peter Suber's blog on OA University of Pennsylvania cuts 2,255 subscriptions, blames price hikes Jesse Rogers, As costs rise, library cuts journals, The Daily Pennsylvanian, October 20, 2005. Excerpt: Students combing the stacks at Van Pelt Library may notice they have a little extra breathing room. The library has cut 2,255 journal subscriptions from its 2004-05 holdings, as journal prices have increased faster than the library's budget. But the size of the materials budget -- $13.1 million allotted for books, journals, magazines, periodicals, films and electronic resources -- is not to blame, library officials said. Rather, officials blame big publishing companies, which they say have raised prices as the companies have bought up academic journals over the last two decades. In 1993, journals accounted for 64 percent of the materials budget. This number has increased to almost 70 percent in the 2005 materials budget. Publishing giant Reed Elsevier claims 18 percent of the market in science, technology and medical journals. An annual subscription to the chemistry journal Tetrahedron, published by Elsevier, costs the library $31,600. The Brown University library system has also criticized price increases. However, it has not had to cancel subscriptions since the early 1990s, as its materials budget has kept pace with journals' price increases. The 2005 Brown materials budget stands at $5 million, of which 66 percent is devoted to journals. As research libraries across the nation decry price increases, Penn's library system is calling for reform through its Winning Independence Web site. Linked to the library system's Web site this September, the site encourages professors to be active on journals' editorial boards and to push for fair pricing policies. At the heart of the uproar over pricing is frustration -- on the part of the library and some professors -- with publishers' restrictive copy agreements. Many journal publishers require faculty members to sign over their copyright as a condition for publication. This prevents professors from submitting published journal articles to online archives such as Penn's [OA repository] Scholarly Commons, which is one way the library can increase its holdings in the face of a limited budget.

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From Peter Suber's blog on OA
by Subbiah Arunachalam 22 Oct '05

22 Oct '05

Friends: Here is something interesting and relevant - fro Peter Suber's blog. Forward it to vice chancellors, principals, headmasters you know! Arun More on Sun's GELC Sharing Teaching Tools Online, Wired Campus Blog, October 20, 2005. Scott McNealy, the CEO of Sun Microsystems, has long promoted the use of open-source software, in which volunteers work collaboratively online to build and improve computer code. Now he hopes to bring the same basic concept to the development of online teaching materials. In a keynote speech on Wednesday at the Educause annual meeting in Orlando, Mr. McNealy announced the creation of a nonprofit organization called the Global Education and Learning Community, which will provide a framework for educators to work together to develop and distribute educational resources online. For now the project is focusing on K-12 education, but in an interview after his speech, Mr. McNealy said that he hopes to extend the system to higher education eventually. "It's optional. No parent, teacher, or student has to use GELC content, but it's there," he added. "It's just a broader and deeper and richer platform on which to build your curriculum, and at zero cost."

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Which is better: DDC 21st edition or DDC 22nd edition
by Vijayakumara 21 Oct '05

21 Oct '05

Dear Professionals, We are in the process of purchasing the DDC Schedule for library. when I enquired with my professional friends, a few suggested me to purchase DDC 22nd edition and remaining few professionals are advising to purchase DDC 21st edition as they are facing some problems in DDC 22nd edition. So, If you are using DDC 21st or 22nd edition, kindly send me your comments on these editions and suggest me which edition we have to purchase. Yours Librarian \ \ | / / \ \ ~ ~ / / | @ @ | ---------------oooo------ (_)-------------oooo------------------ Dr. Vijayakumar M, Chief Librarian, East Point College of Engineering and Technology Bidarahalli, Kithaganoor Road, Virgonagar - Post, Bangalore - 5600 049, India Tel:080-8473888, 8473777 Fax:080-8472999, coolvg(a)gmail.com --------------------------------- Yahoo! FareChase - Search multiple travel sites in one click. Dear Professionals, We are in the process of purchasing the DDC Schedule for library. when I enquired with my professional friends, a few suggested me to purchase DDC 22nd edition and remaining few professionals are advising to purchase DDC 21st edition as they are facing some problems in DDC 22nd edition. So, If you are using DDC 21st or 22nd edition, kindly send me your comments on these editions and suggest me which edition we have to purchase. Yours Librarian \ \ | / / \ \ ~ ~ / / | @ @ | ---------------oooo------ (_)-------------oooo------------------ Dr. Vijayakumar M, Chief Librarian, East Point College of Engineering and Technology Bidarahalli, Kithaganoor Road, Virgonagar - Post, Bangalore - 5600 049, India Tel:080-8473888, 8473777 Fax:080-8472999, mailto:coolvg@gmail.com coolvg(a)gmail.com http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/_ylc=X3oDMTFqODRtdXQ4BF9TAzMyOTc1MDIEX3MDOTY2ODgxNj… Yahoo! FareChase - Search multiple travel sites in one click.

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Photocopying tips
by Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy 21 Oct '05

21 Oct '05

Here is an interesting article on making photocopies. It is lenghty article, wory reading. Which librarian would miss this? http://wiki.ehow.com/Make-Great-Photocopies -- ----- Dr P Vyasamoorthy, SENIORS (Society for Enriched Information of Relevance to Seniors), 30, Gruhalakshmi Colony, Secunderabad 500018 Phone 27846631

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Google Librarian Center
by Saiful Amin 21 Oct '05

21 Oct '05

Dear Professionals, A new page on Google's web site, the Google Librarian Center [ http://www.google.com/services/librarian_center.html] expressly targets librarians, advising them that Google will launch a quarterly newsletter aimed just at librarians. Also, Google seeks lesson plans from librarians who are Google wizards: "Do you teach others how to use Google? We've heard from dozens of librarians who have created their own lesson plans, presentations and handouts to help others use Google. We'd love to see what works for our users." [Source: http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6275431.html] Regards, Saiful -- Saiful Amin Information Specialist Edutech India 8 Khader Nawaz Khan Road Chennai 600006, India Tel: +91 44 2833 0999 GSM: +91 98407 76214 Fax: +91 44 2833 1777 www.edutechindia.com <http://www.edutechindia.com> "Enhancing knowledge and skills for success, lifelong." A new page on Google's web site, the Google Librarian Center [ http://www.google.com/services/librarian_center.html http://www.google.com/services/librarian_center.html ] expressly targets librarians, advising them that Google will launch a quarterly newsletter aimed just at librarians. Also, Google seeks lesson plans from librarians who are Google wizards: "Do you teach others how to use Google? We've heard from dozens of librarians who have created their own lesson plans, presentations and handouts to help others use Google. We'd love to see what works for our users." [Source: http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6275431.html http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6275431.html ] Regards, Saiful -- Saiful Amin Information Specialist Edutech India 8 Khader Nawaz Khan Road Chennai 600006, India Tel: +91 44 2833 0999 GSM: +91 98407 76214 Fax: +91 44 2833 1777 http://www.edutechindia.com www.edutechindia.com "Enhancing knowledge and skills for success, lifelong."

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