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Regarding Rural Library Collection
by Gowri Ravindranth 08 Feb '05

08 Feb '05

This is regarding Appasaheb Naikal's request for suggestions for collection development in a school library. I wish to share my personal experience with him: I have set up a small children's library in a village near Pondicherry spending money from my pocket to purchase books. It is actually a story reading session - we sit under a tree and I read stories to them in regional language and english and then explain it to them line by line. Sometimes we sing together. Children will tell a story, joke, riddles which they have learnt. We discuss current affairs since last class. Do craft work on alternate sessions. At the end of the session issue journal/books to them. Initially I collected the weekly supplements meant for children from the regional language newspapers and circulated them among the children. It helped me to identify the serious readers and their capacity to handle the reading material given to them. Recently I bought books in the Chennai Book Fair (i.e. the Fairs might help you to buy regional language books with a discount). Children's Book Trust, New Delhi might have a few regional language publications. You may check with your Government's Directorate of Public Libraries for possible help. I heard Infosys's Sudha Murthy is interested in establishing School Libraries in rural Karnataka. She might help you. I keep play material like Chess, Box of crayons and papers, Carrom, Tic Toe etc., They wish to have skipping ropes, volleyball or football - I tactfully declined this request since it will not keep them focused on 'reading' People might be willing to pay subscription for children's magazines should you let them know about your efforts. Hope the information will be of use. Regards L. R. Gowri, Reference Librarian, AIRC, Chennai 600 006 The real power of teamwork. Experience it in real time. http://g.msn.com/8HMAENIN/2749??PS=47575 Experience MS Office System.

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Rural Library
by Achar 08 Feb '05

08 Feb '05

Ref. to Appasaheb Naikal, I am very happy to hear the news about your friends interest in rural library. I hav done my research in rural library development last year and got M.Phil degree also. I have some ideas to set up rural libraries and which inturn leads to social and economic change. You can start with News papers, childerens magazines, cultural programmes for childrens, debates, quizes to attract kids, book festival in the form of exibitions, etc. With this we can attract children for coming to school. You can explain this to your friend. You can put one TV to show programmes related to news, and entertainments. With best wishes. Achar Librarian Ohio-Manipal School of Business Bangalore website:www.ohiomanipal.edu Ref. to Appasaheb Naikal, I am very happy to hear the news about your friends interest in rural library. I hav done my research in rural library development last year and got M.Phil degree also. I have some ideas to set up rural libraries and which inturn leads to social and economic change. You can start with News papers, childerens magazines, cultural programmes for childrens, debates, quizes to attract kids, book festival in the form of exibitions, etc. With this we can attract children for coming to school. You can explain this to your friend. You can put one TV to show programmes related to news, and entertainments. With best wishes. Achar Librarian Ohio-Manipal School of Business Bangalore website:www.ohiomanipal.edu

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Rural Library Collection
by Appasaheb Naikal 08 Feb '05

08 Feb '05

Dear All, We are in the process of setting up a School Library at kudiganur (A remote village in Gulbarga Dist Karnataka State) This village is having school only till 7th std. But children's attendance at school is very poor due to poor infrastructure and other things like shortage of staff etc. One of my friend who was born and brought up in that village is now working in China as Mechanical Engineer and has approached me with the idea of starting a library. Using this library, we think we can provide a better Platform for rural kids to gain good knowledge and build confidence to come up in life. Apart from books we are planning to add some indoor games to attract children to school. So may I request you all to suggest what kind of books we can add and some good games as well along with supplier's name and address. Since He is paying everything from his pocket the initial budget will be Rs. 10,000 to 15, 000/- which may go up later. In second phase we are even thinking of donating some second hand PC with CD drive and give some good educational CD's to them Looking forward for your valuable suggestions Thanks in advance With regards Appasaheb Naikal MBT Mumbai Library Tel: 022- 56792000 Ext. 7438 Fax: 022-28478959 Cell: 91-9820524320 Visit us at: www.mahindrabt.com ********************************************************* Disclaimer: The contents of this E-mail (including the contents of the enclosure(s) or attachment(s) if any) are privileged and confidential material of MBT and should not be disclosed to, used by or copied in any manner by anyone other than the intended addressee(s). In case you are not the desired addressee, you should delete this message and/or re-direct it to the sender. The views expressed in this E-mail message (including the enclosure(s) or attachment(s) if any) are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views of MBT. This e-mail message including attachment/(s), if any, is believed to be free of any virus. However, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that it is virus free and MBT is not responsible for any loss or damage arising in any way from its use ******************************************************** Dear All, We are in the process of setting up a School Library at kudiganur (A remote village in Gulbarga Dist Karnataka State) This village is having school only till 7th std. But children's attendance at school is very poor due to poor infrastructure and other things like shortage of staff etc. One of my friend who was born and brought up in that village is now working in China as Mechanical Engineer and has approached me with the idea of starting a library. Using this library, we think we can provide a better Platform for rural kids to gain good knowledge and build confidence to come up in life. Apart from books we are planning to add some indoor games to attract children to school. So may I request you all to suggest what kind of books we can add and some good games as well along with supplier's name and address. Since He is paying everything from his pocket the initial budget will be Rs. 10,000 to 15, 000/- which may go up later. In second phase we are even thinking of donating some second hand PC with CD drive and give some good educational CD's to them Looking forward for your valuable suggestions Thanks in advance With regards Appasaheb Naikal MBT Mumbai Library Tel: 022- 56792000 Ext. 7438 Fax: 022-28478959 Cell: 91-9820524320 Visit us at: http://www.mahindrabt.com www.mahindrabt.com ********************************************************* Disclaimer: The contents of this E-mail (including the contents of the enclosure(s) or attachment(s) if any) are privileged and confidential material of MBT and should not be disclosed to, used by or copied in any manner by anyone other than the intended addressee(s). In case you are not the desired addressee, you should delete this message and/or re-direct it to the sender. The views expressed in this E-mail message (including the enclosure(s) or attachment(s) if any) are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views of MBT. This e-mail message including attachment/(s), if any, is believed to be free of any virus. However, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that it is virus free and MBT is not responsible for any loss or damage arising in any way from its use ********************************************************

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The Library of Everything
by Farooque Shaheen 08 Feb '05

08 Feb '05

?The Library of Everything?, an article published in Business Standard, 8 Feb 2005. It talks about issues relating to Digital Libraries,Publishing Industries, mp3 file sharing, services offered by Amazon and Google etc. You can access the same article on http://www.business-standard.com/common/storypage.php?hpFlag=Y&chklogin=N&a… Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Bangalore-04 Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449 “The Library of Everything”, an article published in Business Standard, 8 Feb 2005. It talks about issues relating to Digital Libraries,Publishing Industries, mp3 file sharing, services offered by Amazon and Google etc. You can access the same article on http://www.business-standard.com/common/storypage.php?hpFlag=Y&chklogin=N&a… Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Bangalore-04 Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449

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Major CDS?ISIS databases
by Francis Jayakanth 07 Feb '05

07 Feb '05

Dear Member: I'm urgently in need of information or pointers related to major CDS/ISIS databases being maintained across the world. The databases could be on any subject domain. Its all the more better, if such databases are accessible on the web. Thanks very much for your attention. With regads, - Francis

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Approaches to make CDS/ISIS Databases OAI-Compliant
by Francis Jayakanth 07 Feb '05

07 Feb '05

Dear Members: For those of us using CDS/ISIS, we know how good this package is in handling textual data. This package is in use for decades now and the number of databases being maintained world-wide, using this package must be substantially high! Could somebody please let me know the major initiatives of CDS/ISIS world-wide? In the present day context of interoperability of DLs through the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH), http://www.openarchives.org/ , wouldn't it be wonderful, if CDS/ISIS databases could be made OAI-compliant, too? We have done just that and are happy to share the information with fellow members. The National Centre for Science Information (NCSI), IISc., Bangalore, and the Digital Library Research Group (DLRG) at the Old Dominion University (ODU), Norfolk, Virginia, USA, have jointly developed and successfully demonstrated, two approaches to make CDS/ISIS databases OAI compliant: static and dynamic. This has been reported on the UNESCO site as well and can be reached at: http://www.unesco.org/isis The papers resulting from our work are also available from the above link. For the present, only our first paper, entitled "Approaches to make CDS/ISIS Databases Interoperable With other Digital Libraries" is available from the site. Our second paper, entitled "Interoperability of Legacy Bibliographic Database Systems over Internet - A Case Study with CDS/ISIS" will be available from the above URL shortly. We believe that our work has a tremendous potential and CDS/ISIS community can happily continue to use this excellent package without having to worry about migrating to other software packages in order to be OAI-compliant. You may like to have a look at the test bed federation of a few sample CDS/ISIS databases that we have been able to build. Its available at: http://hutch.cs.odu.edu:9875/arc upon reaching this site, you may enter terms like, digital library, ocean, or information and the system will return a list of databases holding records matching the query string. Please note that Arc is an OAI service provider for DL federation. Its an open source software developed by the DLRG, ODU. For more details about Arc, visit http://dlib.cs.odu.edu With regards, - Francis Visiting Fulbright Fellow Old Dominion Univ Norfolk, VA

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Webology: Call for Papers
by AliReza Noruzi 07 Feb '05

07 Feb '05

Dear All, [Apologies for cross-posting.] Webology, an international online journal, is a scholarly journal in English devoted to the various fields of Library and Information Science and the World Wide Web. It serves as a forum for discussion and experimentation. Webology publishes scholarly articles, essays and reviews, and encourages the participation of academics and practitioners alike. Volume 2, Number 1 will focus on Web Search, including but not limited to, the following topics: - Web Searching - Web Search Behaviour - Web Search Trends - Web Information Retrieval - Search Engines We welcome and encourage all contributions on these or other aspects of the World Wide Web before the deadline on March 20, 2005. Saeid Asadi in the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at the University of Queensland will act as special editor of this issue. For further information, please visit our web site, contact our special editor Saeid Asadi: asadi(a)itee.uq.edu.au or other Editors. Regards, AliReza Noruzi Department of Information Science University of Paul Cezanne, France noruzi(a)crrm.u-3mrs.fr www.webology.ir --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. Dear All, [Apologies for cross-posting.] Web o logy , an international online journal, is a scholarly journal in English devoted to the various fields of Library and Information Science and the World Wide Web. It serves as a forum for discussion and experimentation. Webology publishes scholarly articles, essays and reviews, and encourages the participation of academics and practitioners alike. � Volume 2 , Number 1 will focus on Web Search , including but not limited to, the following topics: - Web Searching - Web Search Behaviour - Web Search Trends - Web Information Retrieval - Search Engines � We welcome and encourage all contributions on these or other aspects of the World Wide Web before the deadline on March 20 , 2005 . � http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~asadi/ Saeid Asadi in the http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/ School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at the University of Queensland will act as special editor of this issue. For further information, please visit our http://www.webology.ir/callforpapers.html web site , contact our special editor Saeid Asadi : asadi(a)itee.uq.edu.au �� or other http://www.webology.ir/editors.html Editors . � Regards, AliReza Noruzi Department of Information Science University of Paul Cezanne , France mailto:noruzi@crrm.u-3mrs.fr noruzi @ crrm.u-3mrs.fr � http://www.webology.ir/ www.webology.ir Do you Yahoo!? http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/mobile/*http://mobile.yahoo.com/mai… Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone.

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delivery of books act-amendment
by Prof. N. Laxman Rao. 07 Feb '05

07 Feb '05

hello friends every one of know that the publishers have to send one copy of ech published document act. to National library and other national level libraries (delhi, chennai, Mumbai). at present only 30% of published documents re sent under the act. manly it is due to lack punitive action and loopholes in the act. recently the publishers proposed the govt to reduce the no to TWO. the govt put up the proposal to consultative committee. it is beig examined. we know that the publishers give 40 to 60% discount on the books. may i seek opinion of the professionals in regard to the implementation of the act and suggested proposal by the publishers? further u may also suggestt the punishment, what is the fate of the similar acts in other countries. it will be highly appreciative if evey can participate and send their feelings, opinions and suggested actions. laxman rao ===== 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 ___________________________________________________________ ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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ILL request - National Institute of Communicable Diseases Report
by Tomas Allen 07 Feb '05

07 Feb '05

My dear colleagues, We are seeking the following document and wonder if you would be able to supply a copy to our library. The document being sought is : Verghese T., Kumari S, Ichhpunjni RL Meningococcal Meningitis. Delhi : National Institute of Communicable Diseases 13-20 1990. While an electronic copy is desirable, paper would also be much appreciated. Any assistance would be much appreciated. We also share in your grief that has hit India due to the Tsunami. It has touched many people here as to how life can so quickly change. My best regards and support, Tomas Allen Librarian Library and Information Networks for Knowledge (LNK) World Health Organization Avenue Appia 20 CH-1211 Geneva 27 Switzerland _________________________________________________________________ Die MSN Suche - Kategorien helfen Ihnen dabei, präzise Ergebnisse zu erhalten. http://search.msn.ch/

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Seminar on ZING Standard for IR
by ravi inder 07 Feb '05

07 Feb '05

INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE Documentation Research and Training Centre 8th Mile, Mysore Road, Bangalore - 560059 DRTC Seminar on ZING STANDARD FOR INFORMATION RETRIVAL by Amit Jha Abstract Z39.50 is a standard that defines a protocol to support search and retrieval of information across networks. It is much used in libraries, working 'behind the scenes' to enable complex searches and multiple database searches carried out by users in a user-friendly way, where the complexity of search and retrieval is hidden from them. This seminar offers an overview of the Z39.50 specification, what it is, how and why it has been developed, how it works and where future developments might lead. The seminar also discusses ZING (Z39.50 International: Next Generation) and the experimental work occurring within the Z39.50 community, to determine what might become the future generation of the Z39.50 information retrieval protocol. In addition, the seminar explains terminology associated with ZING standards. Venue : DRTC Classroom Date : 10.02.2005 (Thursday) Time : 03:45 pm All are cordially invited. Seminar Coordinator DRTC, ISI INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE Documentation Research and Training Centre 8th Mile, Mysore Road, Bangalore - 560059 DRTC Seminar on ZING STANDARD FOR INFORMATION RETRIVAL by Amit Jha Abstract Z39.50 is a standard that defines a protocol to support search and retrieval of information across networks. It is much used in libraries, working 'behind the scenes' to enable complex searches and multiple database searches carried out by users in a user-friendly way, where the complexity of search and retrieval is hidden from them. This seminar offers an overview of the Z39.50 specification, what it is, how and why it has been developed, how it works and where future developments might lead. The seminar also discusses ZING (Z39.50 International: Next Generation) and the experimental work occurring within the Z39.50 community, to determine what might become the future generation of the Z39.50 information retrieval protocol. In addition, the seminar explains terminology associated with ZING standards. Venue : DRTC Classroom Date : 10.02.2005 (Thursday) Time : 03:45 pm All are cordially invited. Seminar Coordinator DRTC, ISI http://clients.rediff.com/signature/track_sig.asp http://ads.rediff.com/RealMedia/ads/adstream_nx.cgi/www.rediffmail.com/inbo…

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