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

Need Indian Standard for Furniture
by jyoti shreeram bhabal 27 Sep '05

27 Sep '05

Hello I need latest Indian standard for furniture and equipment and for space planning in libraries. kindly suggest sites where i can look for? Jyoti Bhabal Lecturer SHPT School of Lib. Sci. Mumbai Hello I need latest Indian standard for furniture and equipment and for space planning in libraries. kindly suggest sites where i can look for? Jyoti Bhabal Lecturer SHPT School of Lib. Sci. Mumbai 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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RE:Library: Shopping malls
by Mailing List Manager 27 Sep '05

27 Sep '05

Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 16:00:32 +0530 From: K A. Sardesai <kshipras(a)rbi.org.in> Dear Mr Jha, The public Libraries picture of Singopore is just wonderful.Times of India dated 22/9/05 International news has explored it very sound way. Hindu has made it as shopping mall. it is a good thing that if the infrastructure is so fool proof with everything including managemnt of money,HR and technology it may be possible.In a new marketing strategy of good business and best services, I am imagining a picture, reaching nearby to it for Indian Public Libraries. kshipras(a)rbi.org.in original message ---------------- Two news items, I found interesting in today's Hindu. May be interesting for you as well. 1. Libraries vs shopping malls 2. Beware, malware is out there!

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ICT and Education: Challenge and Practice And Conflux 2005: The e-Government Conference, Delhi, India
by Madhuresh 27 Sep '05

27 Sep '05

Dear Friends, There are 2 conferences in Delhi, India of interest of some members during 17-19 October, 2005. 1. ICT and Education: Challenge and Practice (Digital Learning 2005) A two day conference on Digital Learning on the theme 'ICT and Education: Challenges and Practices'. The objective of the conference will be to create a platform for interchange of views among experts, professionals, researchers and academicians regarding theoretical and practical aspects of ICT implementation in education. Special focus will be made on open source applications and related policy issues. This two-day conference will be of interest to policy imple-menters, persons associated with advocacy, decision makers, managers, administrators, e-Learning content developers, ICT experts and the learning community. Keynote address: Learning ICT and Learning through ICT: Prospects and Challenges Session I: Tools for Learning through ICT: Availability and Scope Session II: e-Learning: Best Practices and Challenges Session III: Technology in Education Session IV: Policy and Advocacy: Critical Issues Session V: Government initiatives in ICT and Education Session VI: Civil Society and NGO initiatives in ICT and Education Session VII: Private Sector initiatives in ICT and Education Conference dates: 18-19 October 2005 Conference Venue: The Grand New Delhi Last date for receipt of abstracts: 30 September,2005 Last date for paper submission (for Full & Brief Papers): 10 October, 2005. Last date for submission of presentation: 15 October 2005 For more details, see http://www.dl.csdms.in/index.asp 2. Conflux 2005 Conflux 2005 is a three day conference and exhibition being organized by Centre for Science Development and Media Studies (CSDMS) in collaboration with Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi. The objective of the event is to showcase e-Government developments in India and the Asia Pacific and learn from the succesful practices in the region. The conference program will serve as a platform to bring experts from the various countries, key government representatives, industry and academia together to discuss the issues and priorities on the subject. The particpants will be able to demonstrate their initiatives, take feedback from the communinty and learn about the processes, technologies and solutions which can address their concerns. The three key stakeholders in e-Government program implementation-the government, private and the NGO sector will be sharing their successes, failures and opportuninties during the conference. Conflux 2005 is designed to help attendees address these challenges and provides practical, actionable knowledge through sharing of better learning practices, presentation on e-Government case studies from various Indian states and also from other Asian countries. Conference dates: 17-19 October 2005 For more details, see http://conflux.csdms.in/index.asp Madhuresh Singhal Aurigene Discovery Technologies Limited, Electronic City, phase II, Hosur Road, Bangalore 560100 Phone 28521314-16 Ext.- 212 Mobile 98861 82822 E-mail: madhureshsinghal(a)yahoo.com http://nettalk2.tripod.com/

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State Central Library , West Bengal, NEWS
by abhijit bhowmick 26 Sep '05

26 Sep '05

Friends, State Central Library West Bengal is going to open its digital section to the people on 28th Septembner 2005.Books before 1925 ( in SCL W.B. )are now avilable in digitised form.In addition with this, one information kiosk powerd by touch screen monitor will serve the needs of the people. Where all the information in connection with various Govt Departments of West Bengal will be available along with some other info i.e. train timings, scholarships info, census data etc. This is for the information of all. Abhijit Kr Bhowmick Librarian --------------------------------- Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner now. Friends, State Central Library West Bengal is going to open its digital section to the people on 28th Septembner 2005.Books before 1925 ( in SCL W.B. )are now avilable in digitised form.In addition with this, one information kiosk powerd by touch screen monitor will serve the needs of the people. Where all the information in connection with various Govt Departments of West Bengal will be available along with some other info i.e. train timings, scholarships info, census data etc. This is for the information of all. Abhijit Kr Bhowmick Librarian http://yahoo.shaadi.com Yahoo! India Matrimony </a href>: Find your partner now.

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PMB website address
by vimal kumar 26 Sep '05

26 Sep '05

Dear Library Professionals, Website address of PMB is www.sigb.net. Sorry for not mentioned web address in the last letter. This web link can also use for translated version of PMB home page: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.sigb.net/&pr… Best wishes, vimal kumar Asian School of Business Library Technopark Trivandrum Kerla vimal0212(a)yahoo.com __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com

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"Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia" now becomes 37th medIND Journal
by Sukhdev Singh 26 Sep '05

26 Sep '05

Dear Friends, "Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia" - http://medind.nic.in/aad/aadm.shtmlbecomes the 37th Indian Medical Journal that is available for free from our medIND Site i.e. http://medind.nic.in . Thus medind Site now has fulltext of 37 Indian Biomedical Journals that are indexed in IndMED [ http://indmed.nic.in ] or PubMed. Thanks --Sukhdev Singh, Technical Director, Bibliographic Informatics Division, National Informatics Centre, A-Block, CGO Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi - 110003 http://indmed.nic.in ; http://medind.nic.in & http://openmed.nic.in Dear Friends, "Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia" - http://medind.nic.in/aad/aadm.shtml http://medind.nic.in/aad/aadm.shtml becomes the 37th Indian Medical Journal that is available for free from our medIND Site i.e. http://medind.nic.in http://medind.nic.in . Thus medind Site now has fulltext of 37 Indian Biomedical Journals that are indexed in IndMED [ http://indmed.nic.in http://indmed.nic.in ] or PubMed. Thanks --Sukhdev Singh, Technical Director, Bibliographic Informatics Division, National Informatics Centre, A-Block, CGO Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi - 110003 http://indmed.nic.in http://indmed.nic.in ; http://medind.nic.in http://medind.nic.in & http://openmed.nic.in http://openmed.nic.in

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Re: RE: [LIS-Forum] LIS-FORUM: ITS ROLE
by Sourav Chakraborty 26 Sep '05

26 Sep '05

Dear Professionals, I fully appreciate the views expressed by Shri Goudar. Let us all work in that direction. Regards, Sourav. ------- Sourav Chakraborty Aunwesha Knowledge Technologies Webel Bhavan,3rd Floor,Block EP & GP Sector-V,Salt Lake Electronics Complex Kolkata - 700 091 Phone:+91 33 2357 7183 Mobile:+91 98302 81140 Fax:+91 33 2357 1739/7183 email:sourav@aunwesha.com web:http://www.aunwesha.com On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 M Koteswara Rao wrote : >Dear Colleagues, > >I do agree that this LIS-Forum started by Late Dr. Rajashekar is the first >of its kind in the country for library professionals. Over the year it has >helped all of us in many ways. It is an example of a practical work done >by Dr. TBR, and not just 'plain talk' given by many. However, I do not >agree to Mr. Goudar's statement ".... Rather we need (not?) bother about >the quality, importance and relevance of the of the content in the >postings....". I think that the quality and relevance of the content is >also very important in lis-forum. We are already aware that many of the >postings on this forum are too immature and lack quality and sense of >direction. If we need to keep this forum active and alive, we should >definitely adhere to some standards. > > >M. Koteswara Rao >------------------------------------- >Deputy librarian >Indian Institute of Technology Madras >Chennai - 600036, India >Tele: 91-044-22574954 > >On Fri, September 23, 2005 2:14 pm, Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com said: > > RE: [LIS-Forum] LIS-FORUM: ITS ROLE > > I agree with Mr Gouder. > > Lis-forum has already become (by virtue of heavy usage, members > > from diverse institutions, and the perceived utility by subscribers) >number one among such forums for librarians and library science. It is >necessary for the professional to keep > > abreast > > of happenings > > in the country. Therefore posts from other foru > > m > > s should be welcome. > > > > Only one minor problems needs to be addressed. As I am > > greedy, I subscribe to several mailing lists: Lis-forum, corp. >librarians, > > Emala, IATLIS,Lis-net etc. When messages are cross-posted a lot of >duplication at the subscriber's end occurs. As many messages > > contain replies to some first link in a thread, one has to read through >a lot of messages before deleting duplicates. > > How can we avoid such duplication? > > Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, > > ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal, RR >District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA > > Email: vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com > > Phone - Office: +91(40)23480053 Fax: +91(40)23480007 Phone Residence: >+91(40)27846631 > > -----Original Message----- > > From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > [ mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > ]On Behalf Of I.R.N.Goudar > > Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 12:05 PM > > To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > Subject: [LIS-Forum] LIS-FORUM: ITS ROLE > > Dear Professionals, > > As you are aware LIS-FORUM has emerged as an effective means of > > communication and discussion among LIS Professionals in the country for >the last few years. One of the Lis-Forum member has strongly >expressed > > his feelings that postings covering Regional/State level associations >should not be broadcast on Lis-Forum. But if you see the postings all >these years, forum has been covering items issued by be it MALIBNET, >KALA, MYLISA, RSC-Delhi, IATLIS, SIS, etc or a message from an >University. > > In this way forum is networking LIS Professionals and concerned > > professional associations all over the country, be it fron Kashmir, TN, >West Bengal or Karnataka. > > I am of the opinion that apart from discussing professional matters we >should know what is going on in professional circles elsewhere too. >While each Association can have its own discussion forum, important >announcemnets should be covered by Lis-Forum irrespective of whether >the > > LIS Association is State/Regional level one as long as the matter is of >interest, as has been the case all these days. Rather we need bother >about the quality, importance and relevance of the of the content in the >postings. Infact Late Dr. T.B. Rajashekar had posted an item toucing >some > > issues concerned in this matter a year back or so. > > I INVITE LIS-FORUM MEMBERS TO GIVE THEIR OPINION IN THIS MATTER. Goudar > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- >I.R.N. Goudar Tel: 91-80-25086081 > > Head, Information Centre for 91-80-25235315 > > Aerospace Science and Technology Fax: 91-80-25268072 > > National Aerospace Laboratories E-mail:goudar@css.nal.res.in >Airport Road, BANGALORE-560 017 India > > http://www.icast.org.in/staff/goudar.html > > http://www.icast.org.in/staff/goudar.html > > _______________________________________________ > > LIS-Forum mailing list > > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > > _______________________________________________ > > LIS-Forum mailing list > > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >LIS-Forum mailing list >LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum Dear Professionals, I fully appreciate the views expressed by Shri Goudar. Let us all work in that direction. Regards, Sourav. ------- Sourav Chakraborty Aunwesha Knowledge Technologies Webel Bhavan,3rd Floor,Block EP & GP Sector-V,Salt Lake Electronics Complex Kolkata - 700 091 Phone:+91 33 2357 7183 Mobile:+91 98302 81140 Fax:+91 33 2357 1739/7183 email:sourav@aunwesha.com web:http://www.aunwesha.com On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 M Koteswara Rao wrote : >Dear Colleagues, > >I do agree that this LIS-Forum started by Late Dr. Rajashekar is the first >of its kind in the country for library professionals. Over the year it has >helped all of us in many ways. It is an example of a practical work done >by Dr. TBR, and not just 'plain talk' given by many. However, I do not >agree to Mr. Goudar's statement ".... Rather we need (not?) bother about >the quality, importance and relevance of the of the content in the >postings....". I think that the quality and relevance of the content is >also very important in lis-forum. We are already aware that many of the >postings on this forum are too immature and lack quality and sense of >direction. If we need to keep this forum active and alive, we should >definitely adhere to some standards. > > >M. Koteswara Rao >------------------------------------- >Deputy librarian >Indian Institute of Technology Madras >Chennai - 600036, India >Tele: 91-044-22574954 > >On Fri, September 23, 2005 2:14 pm, Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com said: > > RE: [LIS-Forum] LIS-FORUM: ITS ROLE > > I agree with Mr Gouder. > > Lis-forum has already become (by virtue of heavy usage, members > > from diverse institutions, and the perceived utility by subscribers) >number one among such forums for librarians and library science. It is >necessary for the professional to keep > > abreast > > of happenings > > in the country. Therefore posts from other foru > > m > > s should be welcome. > > > > Only one minor problems needs to be addressed. As I am > > greedy, I subscribe to several mailing lists: Lis-forum, corp. >librarians, > > Emala, IATLIS,Lis-net etc. When messages are cross-posted a lot of >duplication at the subscriber's end occurs. As many messages > > contain replies to some first link in a thread, one has to read through >a lot of messages before deleting duplicates. > > How can we avoid such duplication? > > Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, > > ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal, RR >District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA > > Email: vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com > > Phone - Office: +91(40)23480053 Fax: +91(40)23480007 Phone Residence: >+91(40)27846631 > > -----Original Message----- > > From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > [ mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > ]On Behalf Of I.R.N.Goudar > > Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 12:05 PM > > To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > Subject: [LIS-Forum] LIS-FORUM: ITS ROLE > > Dear Professionals, > > As you are aware LIS-FORUM has emerged as an effective means of > > communication and discussion among LIS Professionals in the country for >the last few years. One of the Lis-Forum member has strongly >expressed > > his feelings that postings covering Regional/State level associations >should not be broadcast on Lis-Forum. But if you see the postings all >these years, forum has been covering items issued by be it MALIBNET, >KALA, MYLISA, RSC-Delhi, IATLIS, SIS, etc or a message from an >University. > > In this way forum is networking LIS Professionals and concerned > > professional associations all over the country, be it fron Kashmir, TN, >West Bengal or Karnataka. > > I am of the opinion that apart from discussing professional matters we >should know what is going on in professional circles elsewhere too. >While each Association can have its own discussion forum, important >announcemnets should be covered by Lis-Forum irrespective of whether >the > > LIS Association is State/Regional level one as long as the matter is of >interest, as has been the case all these days. Rather we need bother >about the quality, importance and relevance of the of the content in the >postings. Infact Late Dr. T.B. Rajashekar had posted an item toucing >some > > issues concerned in this matter a year back or so. > > I INVITE LIS-FORUM MEMBERS TO GIVE THEIR OPINION IN THIS MATTER. Goudar > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- >I.R.N. Goudar Tel: 91-80-25086081 > > Head, Information Centre for 91-80-25235315 > > Aerospace Science and Technology Fax: 91-80-25268072 > > National Aerospace Laboratories E-mail:goudar@css.nal.res.in >Airport Road, BANGALORE-560 017 India > > http://www.icast.org.in/staff/goudar.html > > http://www.icast.org.in/staff/goudar.html > > _______________________________________________ > > LIS-Forum mailing list > > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > > _______________________________________________ > > LIS-Forum mailing list > > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >LIS-Forum mailing list >LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum 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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PMB Open source IntegratedLibrary System
by vimal kumar 26 Sep '05

26 Sep '05

PMB Open source IntegratedLibrary System PMB is a ILS entirely free .This software is easy to install than other Opensource ILS. It can work in Windows and Linux. PMB Website available in French, google transalte tool can use to traslate web content into English. PMB supports French, English, Spanish and Prtuguese. User can cutomise languge modules.Following feature available in the latest version(2.1), Financial management Management of the subscriptions Management of the fines Management of the multiple revivals Management of the tariffs of loans Management of the blocking of the loan DSI Selective dissemination of Information Management of the subscriptions to the innovations Management of the criteria of innovations Diffusion by mall and in the OPAC General interface Pagination of the results Possibility of substituting the messages or the standard wording of PMB by its own texts in file XML. OPAC Skeletal limitation of the posting of the categories to the last descriptor term Masking of the specimens of the sections or localizations invisible Masking of the fields persos when vacuums Parameter setting URL image label of the work Choice of the language in the OPAC by the visitor Possibility of substituting the messages or the standard wording of PMB by its own texts in file XML. Seek on the bulletins by date of publication Categories, sorting in posting Cataloguing Skeletal limitation of the posting of the categories to the last descriptor term Addition of a statute of note to manage visibilities in OPAC, preparation of the module acquisitions, extension of research "all the catalogue" " note in order "... Alarm on duplicated ISBN/ISSN Addition of mention of edition: "N ième edition" Update of notes by Z3950 Addition of the columns of dates of creation/modification on notes and specimens Seek on the bulletins by date of publication Categories, sorting in posting Possible posting of the labels of the monographs Administration Columns of audit of the notes and specimens (which created or modified? ...) Internationalization of the installation Parameter of limitation of the indexing Dewey in importation UNIMARC or Z3950 Circulation/Réservations Calendar of the days of opening and calculations of the return Loans express train: to be able to lend a book not catalogued Mall of information of reservation posed in the OPAC Mall of information to user of the validated, priority reservation compared to letter pdf New column of management of confirmation of validation of reservation résa addressed or not with the reader Information on the borrower provided at the time of the not yet returned loans and return, borrowed books, possible delays, reservations Prolongation of the loans by batch (check box and button) Addition of the columns of date of last loan on specimens and borrowers Possible connection of the readers to a directory LDAP Editions Posting of the delays by possible date Pagination of the states personnalisables PMB need helps transalate existing docuentation in French to English. Vimal kumar, Asian School of Business, Trivandrum P.S. Translated version of PMB installation manual available with me. Anybody interested, please contact me at vimal0212(a)yahoo.com __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com

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LIS-FORUM : ITS ROLE
by Sadasivan KP 26 Sep '05

26 Sep '05

Friends, I don't think there is any need for a debate on this issue. It is precisely the job/prerogative of the moderator. I am sure, a periodical review/analysis by NCSI, of the messages that inadvertantly bleed beyond the boundaries of its policy, could resolve the aberrations. SADASIVAN KP / RRL(CSIR) TRIVANDRUM / 26.09.2005 --------------------------------- Yahoo! for Good Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. Friends, I don't think there is any need for a debate on this issue. It is precisely the job/prerogative of the moderator. I am sure, a periodical review/analysis by NCSI, of the messages that inadvertantly bleed beyond the boundaries of its policy, could resolve the aberrations. SADASIVAN KP / RRL(CSIR) TRIVANDRUM / 26.09.2005 Yahoo! for Good http://store.yahoo.com/redcross-donate3/ Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.

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Role of LIS Forum
by chandrashekhar navalgund 26 Sep '05

26 Sep '05

Dear Professional Freinds, I agree with what Dr. Shalini Urs has mentioned about the Role being played by the LIS-Forum being run by NCSI. Here I would like to share my personal views how the forum is helpful to the people in general and Library professionals in particular. All members are not actively participating in communicating / sending the messages and that does not mean that only few members are using the LIS- Forum for example me itself. Though I am not sending the messages regularly but, regularly, I go through the messages and lots of things I am able to know by going through the messages sent to this forum be it the professional activities , knowing some of the technical details, new web sites found by someone etc. etc. like this many such things I come to know from this forum. So, like me, many others are getting such benefits though this forum though they are not acticve communicators to the forum. C U Navalgund Dy. Librarian National Law School of India University Nagarbhavi Bangalore - 72 Tel : 080-22729259 email : mailto:cun@nls.ac.in cun(a)nls.ac.in

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