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

English...?
by A.V. Nagarathna 04 Mar '05

04 Mar '05

Dear All, ........Response to Mr./Dr. Hiremath I am annoyed only because your arguments are not logical. Basically members on this forum can offer their suggestions when the argument is logical. I am surprised that you talk about decency! Can you just read once again all your messages to this forum how decent the words you have used. Disserviceunwarrantedslaves to Englishunfortunate Indiansshow oof...look down upon By the way who are you to refer to others as unfortunate You are questioning me what is show off, it is you who used these words in your message first timeif you can offer me explanation what you mean by this.. I can give you reply Dont you understand even now, after reading several messages on this forum explaining why you need to know English and when you need it ? Who are you to declare Tamil is the language of Bangalore? If you want to promote or advice usage of regional languages, canvas in that language, why are you using English for this purpose? Since you are opposing usage of English, first you have to implement and stop using English before you advice others. In spite of several responses on this forum --- explaining why English is essential, you are continuing to argue BLINDLY and enforcing your fixed concepts and ideas on others. May be it is better to simply IGNORE messages with no logical arguments, so that little time is saved. Thank you, Regards, AVNagarathna

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by mouni＠nitt.edu 04 Mar '05

04 Mar '05

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MyLISA Monthly Lecture - March 2005
by SUNIL M.V. 04 Mar '05

04 Mar '05

Dear Professional, Mysore Librarians and Information Scientists Association MyLISA, Mysore Invites you for An Exposition on INTERNET RESOURCES FOR LIBRARIES BY Smt. V. Vijayalakshmi Faculty, CIST (Center for Information Science and Technology) University of Mysore, Mysore On 5th March 2005 at 3.30pm Venue: Vidyanidhi Seminar Hall Department of Library and Information Science Manasagangothri, University of Mysore Mysore MyLISA Sunil MV Librarian SDM Institute for Management Development No. 1, Chamundi Hill Road Siddartha Nagar, Mysore Phone : 0821 - 2420490/491 2429722/161 Fax: 0821-2425557 --------------------------------- Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web Dear Professional, � Mysore Librarians and Information Scientists Association MyLISA, Mysore � Invites you for � An Exposition on INTERNET RESOURCES FOR LIBRARIES � BY Smt. V. Vijayalakshmi Faculty, CIST (Center for Information Science and Technology) University of Mysore, Mysore � On 5 th March 2005 at 3.30pm � Venue: Vidyanidhi Seminar Hall Department of Library and Information Science Manasagangothri, University of Mysore Mysore � MyLISA Sunil MV Librarian SDM Institute for Management Development No. 1, Chamundi Hill Road Siddartha Nagar, Mysore Phone : 0821 - 2420490/491 2429722/161 Fax: 0821-2425557 Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/ Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web

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Library to Offer audio books on iPod.
by Farooque Shaheen 04 Mar '05

04 Mar '05

South Huntington Public Library , New York, became one of the first public libraries in the country to loan out iPod shuffles bundled with audio books. For detail " http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,66756,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_4" Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449 South Huntington Public Library , New York, became one of the first public libraries in the country to loan out iPod shuffles bundled with audio books. For detail � � "http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,66756,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_4" Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449

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Phishing - U should know this - read on
by Ravi Nandhan 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

Dear All, I was checking my Gmail and came across the term 'Phishing' in the mail option. Gmail is a very good mail service and is still in beta and one of the best available today. Gmail is good for lot many reasons like search facility for mails that you receive, labeling the mails for organizing, and of course Phishing. It is important for any LIS professionals to be with the latest technology. Phishing: Phishing is a form of fraud in which a message sender pretends to be a representative of a legitimate organization in an attempt to trick the recipient into divulging important personal information like a password or bank account number. If you believe the message that you got is a phishing attack, you can report it to the Gmail abuse team and help thwart the attack and others like it. Reporting this message as an attack will send the entire message to Gmail the team for review. To learn more just open Gmail that you have received and in the 'Show options' link you can find out more about this (check out wiht friends if you do not have a gmail id). Many of you would remember the mails that you would have forwarded to others thinking that the forward would fetch help to someone in trouble or promising a prize like a mobile phone etc. and the sender would have requested a copy to the original sender. This is nothing but drama to fetch the new email ids' and to send unsolicited or spam mails to the available mail Ids'. Pls remember not to send any such forwards as all the recepients would get so many spams. Try getting Gmail from your friends and start using it immediately as it requires invitation. I can help some of you as I have a few invitations. Wirh regards from, Sahini R Sahana MIM IV Sem, DOS in LIS, Manasa Gangothri, Univ. of Mysore, Mysore -- Wit Luv & Care Urs Ravi

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GDN/BLDS Document Delivery Service
by Shyam Prasad pujar 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

Dear Members, Global Development Network (GDN) and the British Library of Development Studies (BLDS) have teamed up to bring you the GDN/BLDS Document Delivery service to meet the information needs of research institutes in the developing and transition countries and can be accessed by GDNet Organization Contacts. If your organization do not have GDNET profile, go to the organization sign up page to create one. The costs of delivering the documents are covered by GDN so there are NO COSTS to you. This is a very good facility especially for Social Science libraries in India. More information can be found at: http://www.gdnet.org/online_services/journals/gdn_journal_services/document… Regards, S.M. Pujar ********************************************************************** Shamprasad M. Pujar Assistant Librarian Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research Gen. Vaidya Marg, Film City Road Goregaon (East) MUMBAI-400 065 India %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% * Phone: (022) 28400919-21 Extn: 514 * * Fax: (022) 28402752 * * E-mail: pujar(a)igidr.ac.in * * URL: http://www.igidr.ac.in * %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

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Don't Shoot the Dog!
by Prafulla Chandra 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

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Frequently Asked Interview Questions
by Jayadev P Hiremath 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

A compilation from From SLIS, South Carolina 1. Describe your strengths and weaknesses. 2. Considering your education and work experience, why do you feel you are qualified for this job? 3. What do you see as the value of belonging to professional organizations? 4. Why did you apply for this job? 5. What is your philosophy of collection development? 6. Do you like working with people? 7. Do you have any experience with audio-visual materials? 8. Do you have any experience in setting up displays? 9. How do you feel that your education has prepared you for this job? 10. Where do you expect to be professionally in five years? 11. How would you handle a person who objects to a sex education book on the shelf? 12. How would you handle a question over the phone that you canít answer immediately? 13. Is there any time that you would refuse to answer a patronís request? 14. If we ask your present supervisor what your present strengths are, what would he/she say? 15. Why should we hire you? 16. Name two books you have read within the past two months and describe one of them as though you were recommending it to a patron to read. Why would they want to read it? 17. What qualities do you think we should look for in a prospective reference librarian? 18. Considering your working career, tell about the most stressful event you ever faced, and how you coped with it. 19. Picture this: It is 5:00 PM and you are relieving the day shift. You are the only reference librarian on the desk and the following are waiting for help. In what order would you answer them and why? a. A young child with a homework assignment b. A trivia question; the contest is on now. c. A woman who has just read Jannette Daileyís latest book and wants a recommendation for a similar book. d. An elderly couple wanting advice on how to do their genealogy. e. The city managerís office is on the telephone. 20. What did you do to prepare for this interview? 21. What is your style of leadership? 22. Describe your ideal job. 23. What was your most challenging supervisory experience? 24. What do you like most about archival work? 25. Describe differences among patrons in a public library, an academic library, and a special library. 26. If you were assisting a person at the reference desk and the telephone rang, what would you do? 27. After you have eliminated the backlog, how do you see this job as challenging to you? What will motivate you to come to work? 28. Why did you elect to attend the University of South Carolina? 29. Why did you choose librarianship as a career? 30. Can you tell us about a particularly tense or chaotic situation at the reference desk and how you handled the incident? 31. What would you do if you heard a staff member provide a patron with an incorrect answer? 32. Tell us about a team or group project you have worked on and how you have contributed to it. 33. Tell us about your experience with information technology. 34. Why are you interested in this particular career? 35. What strengths do you bring to a reference position and what areas would you like to improve? 36. What are the things you particularly like about your present job? 37. What was your most important work-related accomplishment in the past year? 38. What contributions could you make to our library? 39. How would you describe your management philosophy? 40. What type of management style do you prefer? 41. What sorts of people do you enjoy working with most? 42. What kinds of situations do you find stressful? 43. What would you do if you were at the desk and both the phones were ringing and there were three or four patrons already waiting and a demanding professor interrupted? 44. Outline your science background, including: science coursework, library school coursework in science reference, and science library experience. 45. What is your public service experience, including bibliographic instruction, reference desk, and collection development? 46. What is your knowledge and/or experience of library technology: CD ROMís, online searching, OPACs, Internet. 47. How does this position fit into the career path you have set for yourself? 48. Give us an example of a time in which you felt you were able to build motivation in your coworkers or fellow students in school. 49. Describe the most significant achievement or written project/presentation/report which you have had to complete. 50. What are your strengths and weaknesses as a librarian? 51. Give us an example you did in a former job that contributed to a teamwork environment. 52. What would you do if you were unsure of how to answer a reference question? 53. What are your current research interests? 54. The role of the reference librarian and the reference department has changed a lot in the past five years and will probably continue to change. How do you see reference service changing in the next five years?

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Re: [sla-kiie] Call for Volunteers and Suggestions, SLA Natural Disaster Taskfor ce
by Smita Chandra 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

Dear Professionals, Please go through the mail below. A special request to our professional bodies, please take congizance of the message being conveyed. Regards, Smita-- (SLA-SF Bay Region Twinning Member 2003-2005) Ms.Smita Chandra Librarian Indian Institute of Geomagnetism Kalamboli Highway, New Panvel, New Mumbai 410 218. INDIA Ph. 91-22-27484137 "Robertson, Dav (NIH/NIEHS)" <robert11(a)niehs.nih.gov> wrote: To all members of the International Information Exchange Caucus: SLA seeks your suggestions on how we might be able to assist in the recovery effort following the tsunami in Southern Asia. We have urged our members to make financial donations; now we are trying to determine how we can apply our expertise in information organization and delivery to be of assistance. SLA President Ethel Salonen has established a Taskforce on Natural Disasters with the following mandate: "To investigate and establish ways in which the global community of information professionals can contribute their expertise in information organization and access to the recovery efforts following the tsunami in south Asia. The focus will be on voluntary contributions of time and resources rather than direct financial donations. Vital to this effort will be alliances between SLA and other library and information organizations to make the best use of the knowledge and skills of the informal, international network of information professionals. The resulting methodology will be used as a model for providing assistance in future instances of natural disasters." For example, the Taskforce is establishing a recovery information response center that will be composed of an international network of volunteers who will respond to questions from non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and other aid groups. These volunteers will do online searches and provide reference assistance in areas such as clinical medicine, environmental clean-up, ecological restoration, business development, disaster recovery, and library restoration. The focal point will be SLA, but the network will be an alliance of volunteers from library associations around the world. The alliance is called the Information Professionals' Alliance on Natural Disasters and Accidents (IPANDA). Here's how you can help: Volunteer to be a responder in the recovery information response network. There will be no reimbursement for expenses, so your time and your organization's resources will have to be donated. Be sure to get your organization's permission to use its commercial databases. If you work for an organization that has significant publications, collections or human resources that relate to disasters or disaster recovery, send a brief description and contact information to the Taskforce to become part of a resource directory. Tell the Taskforce about NGOs or other organizations you know of that might have an immediate need to use the recovery information response network so the Taskforce can send them descriptive information. Send other suggestions to the Taskforce about how SLA and other library organizations might be able to assist the people, libraries, and recovery organizations in south Asia. (We need ideas beyond the direct financial contributions SLA is already urging its members to make.) Contact the Taskforce at IPANDA(a)sla.org. More information will be forthcoming, especially for those who volunteer to be information responders. The Taskforce is targeting March 2005 to begin the response network. Best regards to all, Davenport ("Dav") Robertson, Chair SLA Taskforce on Natural Disasters ************************* Davenport ("Dav") Robertson, M.S.L.S. Library Director National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences P.O.Box 12233, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 robert11(a)niehs.nih.gov (919)541-1386 Fax (919)541-0669 --- You are currently subscribed to sla-kiie as: smitac_in(a)yahoo.com To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-sla-kiie-120509735H(a)lists.sla.org ********************************************************************************** Ms.Smita Chandra Librarian, Indian Institute of Geomagnetism Kalamboli Highway, New Panvel, New Mumbai 410 218 Maharashtra, INDIA Ph.: 91-022-27484137 (9.30AM-6.00PM, excluding Sat/Sun) Fax: 91-022-27480763 Email : iiglib(a)iigs.iigm.res.in (official) smitac_in(a)yahoo.com (personal) ********************************************************************************** --------------------------------- Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web Dear Professionals, � Please go through the mail below. A special request to our professional bodies,� please take congizance of the message being conveyed. � Regards, � Smita-- (SLA-SF Bay Region Twinning Member 2003-2005) Ms.Smita Chandra Librarian Indian Institute of Geomagnetism Kalamboli Highway, New Panvel, New Mumbai 410 218. INDIA Ph. 91-22-27484137 "Robertson, Dav (NIH/NIEHS)" <robert11(a)niehs.nih.gov> wrote: To all members of the International Information Exchange Caucus: SLA seeks your suggestions on how we might be able to assist in the recovery effort following the tsunami in Southern Asia.� We have urged our members to make financial donations; now we are trying to determine how we can apply our expertise in information organization and delivery to be of assistance. SLA President Ethel Salonen has established a Taskforce on Natural Disasters with the following mandate: "To investigate and establish ways in which the global community of information professionals can contribute their expertise in information organization and access to the recovery efforts following the tsunami in south Asia. The focus will be on voluntary contributions of time and resources rather than direct financial donations. Vital to this effort will be alliances between SLA and other library and information organizations to make the best use of the knowledge and skills of the informal, international network of information professionals. The resulting methodology will be used as a model for providing assistance in future instances of natural disasters." For example, the Taskforce is establishing a recovery information response center that will be composed of an international network of volunteers who will respond to questions from non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and other aid groups.� These volunteers will do online searches and provide reference assistance in areas such as clinical medicine, environmental clean-up, ecological restoration, business development, disaster recovery, and library restoration.� The focal point will be SLA, but the network will be an alliance of volunteers from library associations around the world.� The alliance is called the Information Professionals' Alliance on Natural Disasters and Accidents (IPANDA). Here's how you can help: Volunteer to be a responder in the recovery information response network.� There will be no reimbursement for expenses, so your time and your organization's resources will have to be donated.� Be sure to get your organization's permission to use its commercial databases. If you work for an organization that has significant publications, collections or human resources that relate to disasters or disaster recovery, send a brief description and contact information to the Taskforce to become part of a resource directory. Tell the Taskforce about NGOs or other organizations you know of that might have an immediate need to use the recovery information response network so the Taskforce can send them descriptive information. Send other suggestions to the Taskforce about how SLA and other library organizations might be able to assist the people, libraries, and recovery organizations in south Asia.� (We need ideas beyond the direct financial contributions SLA is already urging its members to make.) Contact the Taskforce at IPANDA@sla.org.� More information will be forthcoming, especially for those who volunteer to be information responders.� The Taskforce is targeting March 2005 to begin the response network.� Best regards to all, Davenport ("Dav") Robertson, Chair SLA Taskforce on Natural Disasters ************************* Davenport ("Dav") Robertson, M.S.L.S. Library Director National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences P.O.Box 12233, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 mailto:robert11@niehs.nih.gov robert11(a)niehs.nih.gov (919)541-1386�� Fax (919)541-0669 --- You are currently subscribed to sla-kiie as: smitac_in(a)yahoo.com To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-sla-kiie-120509735H(a)lists.sla.org **********************************************************************************� Ms.Smita Chandra Librarian, Indian Institute of Geomagnetism Kalamboli Highway, New Panvel, New Mumbai 410 218 Maharashtra, INDIA Ph .: 91-022-27484137 (9.30AM-6.00PM, excluding Sat/Sun) Fax : 91-022-27480763 Email : mailto:iiglib@iigs.iigm.res.in iiglib(a)iigs.iigm.res.in �(official) �� mailto:smitac_in@yahoo.com smitac_in(a)yahoo.com �(personal) ********************************************************************************** Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/ Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web

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Communication and presentation skills are not English language centric, Classification and cataloguing.........
by Jayadev P Hiremath 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

Hi, Lot's of initiatives by Mysore University L & IS Department and others too. Though commendable, I am still unable to digest the fact that everything is terribly English centric. To begin with ...Communication skills and Presentation skills can be put into action in any language. You do not need mastery in English language to show off your competencies in Communication and Presentation skills. PowerPoint will certainly come in handy !! Mysore University is in Karnataka and the regional language is Kannada. There is a vast amount of Knowledge available in the regional language, thousands of books are published every year in Kannada. All the public and academic libraries in Karnataka, stock Kannada books. Old Kannada manuscripts are a source of history. Technical processing of these books is hampered due to lack of in-depth Kannada language skills of L & IS professionals . I would like to know what Mysore University L & IS is doing for the language of the land. Taking pride in producing Library Science graduates with all the English language, Communication, Presentation and IT skills and all the soft skiils sounds fantastic But does anybody think of the regional languages or the National language ? Doesn't Mysore University have to bother about this. Majority of the LIS teachers in India are fully concentrating on imparting knowledge directly relevant to L & IS sphere and they are the ones who need to be appreciated. English language, communication and presentation skills and other soft skills are secondary and need not be taught in a PG Course devoted to a specialized field. This would not only lead to diversion of limited resources but also affect the students who have just two years to learn about library and information science, gain a solid foundation and build their whole career upon it. All the softskills required for survival in the big bad world of WORKING can be picked up over a period of time or instantly from Training shops. With high unemployment rates there is no possiblity of Campus interviews or Job fairs during LIS Conferences. An essential skill for a freshly minted LIS graduate would be...... how to write a resume, how to hunt for a job and how to face an interview ? Does any LIS Department in India teach this ? Classification, Cataloguing and Indexing of Books : In India we keep reinventing the wheel. The same monograph is classified, catalogued and indexed in thousands libraries by thousands of professionals. It's high time this duplication of work comes to an end. The time, money and resources consumed by this task is phenomenal and can be put to better use in serving the customers. With the advent of library automation and internet penetration we can easily download the bibliographical details of monographs inclusive of call numbers and keywords from various WebPACs and integrate them into individual library's databases, may be after incorporating certain local variations. We are in the twenty first century and the days or original cataloging at individual library level are over, especially with respect to titles published in English. Copy cataloging should be embraced whole heartedly. With regards. Jayadev P Hiremath

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