February 2006 - LIS-Forum - ncsi.iisc.ernet.in

New Openings
by Thapar, Amit 20 Feb '06

20 Feb '06

check employment news of 18-24 feb 2006 on page 17. Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi requires SLIA in pay scale of 5500-9000. apply within ten days of publication of advertisement. Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi has advertised the posts of semi-professional assistant. refer to employment news of 18-24 feb 2006 on page 37. scale is 4500-7000. last date of submission is 10th april 2006. don't miss these opportunities !!!!!!!!!!!! best of luck to all professionals.. amit@niper Cell: 9855701060 / 9417419457 e-mail: amit_thapar(a)yahoo.com URL: http://www.niper.gov.in/ check employment news of 18-24 feb 2006 on page 17. Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi requires SLIA in pay scale of 5500-9000. apply within ten days of publication of advertisement. Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi has advertised the posts of semi-professional assistant. refer to employment news of 18-24 feb 2006 on page 37. scale is 4500-7000. last date of submission is 10th april 2006. don't miss these opportunities !!!!!!!!!!!! best of luck to all professionals.. mailto:amit@niper amit@niper Cell: 9855701060 / 9417419457 e-mail: mailto:amit_thapar@yahoo.com amit_thapar(a)yahoo.com URL: http://www.niper.gov.in/ http://www.niper.gov.in/

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Re: Information and Library Studies MSc
by Mailing List Manager 20 Feb '06

20 Feb '06

Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 11:57:39 +0530 From: K.R. Mulla <krmulla(a)gmail.com> Hi Dear all.....! Information and Library Studies MSc Overview The MSc in Information and Library Studies has been established for over thirty years and has an excellent record of student success, both academically and in terms of subsequent professional employment across the information sector. Information professionals provide essential expertise in our knowledge-based society. Information and its effective communication is a fundamental and vital activity within all areas of industry, commerce, education, and social life. Professionals working in this broad area provide expertise in the collection, storage, retrieval, and management of information. This necessitates an understanding of the need for libraries and information services, the ways in whichthey are used; the wide variety of information sources available; as well as a firm grasp of the underlying theories and principles of management, information retrieval, and Information Technology. MSc Information >and Library Studies provides all of these things and more. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Funding For 2005/2006 SAAS funding is available and all eligible applicants to the on-campus course will be considered for an award, see Student Awards Agency for Scotland. Information on this can be found by contacting the Admissions Office at PostgraduateAdmissions(a)rgu.ac.uk. or by linking to: http://www.rgu.ac.uk/abs/postgraduate/page.cfm?pge=5352 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Career Opportunities Take a look at what jobs are currently available in the sector by viewing Lisjobnet.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Professional Recognition The Information and Library Studies Course is fully accredited by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP). The next accreditation is due in the summer of 2010. CILIP accreditation means that the course is recognised, around the world, by other professional bodies such as the American Library Association. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact the Course Leader Dr Peter Reid Aberdeen Business School Management Building The Robert Gordon University Garthdee Road Aberdeen AB10 7QE Tel: +44 (0)1224 263900 Fax: +44 (0)1224 263939 Email: p.reid(a)rgu.ac.uk

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12th Annual Lecture on Informatics & Launch of Open J-Gate
by mouna 20 Feb '06

20 Feb '06

Informatics (India) Limited, Bangalore, Cordially invites you to the 12th Annual Lecture on Informatics & Launch of Open J-gate Date & Time: February 27, 2006, 5.45pm to 7.45pm Venue: The Auditorium, Indian National Science Academy, Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, New Delhi 110 002 Dinner: 8.00 pm Speakers: Dr. Jean-Claude Guedon, Professor, University of Montreal, Canada OSI Information Program Sub-Board member Beyond Plutocracy: Open Access to globalize scientific communication Prof. V N Rajasekharan Pillai Vice Chairman, University Grants Commission, New Delhi Open Access: Researchers Perspective Presided by Dr R A Mashelkar Director-General, Council for Scientific & Industrial Research and, Secretary, Dept of Scientific & Industrial Research, New Delhi Open J-Gate Launch by Prof. Jean Claude Guedon Launching Open J-Gate www.openj-gate.com J-Gate (www.J-gate.informindia.co.in) is an e-journal portal for scholarly, research and professional journals. It is a searchable database of index to articles published in 13,800+ e-journals. Every article in J-gate is linked to full-text. All major institutions - IITs, IIMs, ICMR Labs, and Universities use J-Gate and its customized solutions for accessing journal literature through Internet. Open J-Gate The J-Gate coverage includes over 2,500-open access journals. About 1,500 of these are peer-reviewed research journals. J-Gate is the only service in the world to index articles from the largest number of open access journals. Responding to the Open Access movement in the world for scholarly and research literature, Informatics is launching Open J-Gate as a separate free portal to access open access literature. Currently Open J-Gate has indexed over a million articles published since 2001. Informatics plans to go back in coverage to all available years for these 2,500+ journals. As the portal name suggests, access to Open J-Gate is free to all students and researchers. Informatics is proud to launch and dedicate Open J-Gate as Indias contribution to the cause of promoting global science communication. (The support of Open Society Institute, New York, USA Is gratefully acknowledged) _________________________________________ N V Sathyanarayana Chairman & Managing Director Informatics (India) Ltd Bangalore 560 003 sathya(a)informindia.co.in www.informindia.co.in

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OpenMED@NIC is now 1K strong
by Sukhdev Singh 20 Feb '06

20 Feb '06

Dear Friends, Biomedical Archive - OpenMED@NIC < http://openmed.nic.in > now has morethan One Thousand documents. Hopefully in future, more and more authors would be archiving their published and valueable research output here. It has been proved time and again that visibility of research improves its impact. No wonder why more and more journals are now allowing their authors to self-archive their papers<http://romeo.eprints.org/stats.php > While Open Access movement has been gaining momentum world-wide, We all have to introspect - Are we doing enough? --Sukhdev Singh, NIC.http://openmed.nic.in

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ALA acrediated MLIS Why not Indian MLISC considered worlwide
by kumar lis 19 Feb '06

19 Feb '06

Dear Professionals, Why Our Indian MLISC degrees are not considered for a postion in US. Even though Many of the companies recruiting persons having Indian B.E,/M.B.A,/M.C.A.Why Indian MLISC degree holders are not recruited. Where our MLISC degree stands ? What kind of standards do they need in MLISC degree?To whom should we contact regarding this? Are there any initiatives taken to recognize Indian MLISC world wide.It is better to change the curriculum /Syllabus of Indian MLISC and standardize it to Uniquely if needed otherwise we should fight to recognize ourselves. why our senior Library professionals are not bothering regarding this.My sincere appeal to senior professionals is to resolve this problem. Can any body give list of colleges offering ALA accredited MLIS through out the world(that you know) or colleges you know those offering ALA accredited MLIS degrees Through ONLINE courses or DISTANCE learning courses. Kumar. --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail Use Photomail to share photos without annoying attachments. Dear Professionals, Why Our Indian MLISC degrees are not considered for a postion in US. Even though Many of the companies recruiting persons having Indian B.E,/M.B.A,/M.C.A.Why Indian MLISC degree holders are not recruited. Where our MLISC degree stands ? What kind of standards do they need in MLISC degree?To whom should we contact regarding this? Are there any initiatives taken to recognize Indian MLISC world wide.It is better to change the curriculum /Syllabus of Indian MLISC and standardize it to Uniquely if needed otherwise we should fight to recognize ourselves. why our senior Library professionals are not bothering regarding this.My sincere appeal to senior professionals is to resolve this problem. Can any body give list of colleges offering ALA accredited MLIS through out the world(that you know) or colleges you know those offering ALA accredited MLIS degrees Through ONLINE courses or DISTANCE learning courses. Kumar. http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/tsmileys2/06.gif Yahoo! Mail http://pa.yahoo.com/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=38867/*http://photomail.mai… Use Photomail to share photos without annoying attachments.

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Scirus-Science-specific search engine
by vimal kumar 18 Feb '06

18 Feb '06

Scirus (www.scirus.com), another science specific search engine in the Internet. It searches in scinece specific web pages in the web and enabling scientific, scholarly, technical and medical data on the Web. It is help ful to find Find the latest reports, peer-reviewed articles, patents, pre prints and journals. Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail Use Photomail to share photos without annoying attachments. Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com Yahoo! Mail http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/pmall2/*http://photomail.mail.yahoo… Use Photomail to share photos without annoying attachments.

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a portal with a difference
by Mailing List Manager 17 Feb '06

17 Feb '06

Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 12:29:25 +0530 From: "Thapar, Amit" <amitt(a)niper.ac.in> European Library http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/portal/index.htm "a portal which offers access to the combined resources (books, magazines, journals.... - both digital and non-digital) of the 43 national libraries of Europe. It offers free searching and delivers digital objects - some free, some priced." The search results tell you which libraries have materials on your topic and link you to each catalog's list of retrieved items. The system is slow and unwieldy, but it will still be helpful to scholars. Yahoo! User Interface Library http://developer.yahoo.net/yui/ "a set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, HTML and AJAX." All available free under a BSD license. amit@niper Cell: 9855701060 / 9417419457 e-mail: amit_thapar(a)yahoo.com URL: http://www.niper.gov.in/

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Open Course Ware
by aprajita suman 17 Feb '06

17 Feb '06

Dear All, Adding on to the suggestion of Dr. Arunachalam, even seminar/workshop proceedings serve as an important source of self-learning for professionals in general and LIS professionals in particular, but no efforts is being made to make them available for free public access. DRTC, Bangalore has archived almost all of its seminar papers/ presentations on its digital library [https://drtc.isibang.ac.in] for free access, why can't the example be followed for other LIS seminar/ workshops in India? Best regards, Aparajita --- Aparajita Suman Manager- Information and Content Delivery Indigene Pharamaceuticals Indigene House Plot No. 46, Road No. 14 Banjara Hills, Hyderabad- 36 Ph: +91 40 2354 8488 Fx: +91 40 2354 8478 On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 Subbiah Arunachalam wrote : >Friends: > >Here is an excerpt from a recent paper which I reproduce from Peter >Suber's blog. Indian universities and institutes of technology will do >well to join the Open Course Ware movement and do their bit to democratise >knowledge. > >Arun >----- > >Openness as a response to globalization > >Hans van Ginkel, Toward a smarter information superhighway, Asahi Shimbun, >February 14, 2006. Van Ginkel is Under-Secretary-General of the United >Nations and the Rector of the United Nations University. Excerpt: >Universities...are increasingly recognizing that the real expansion today >in international knowledge exchange does not relate to physical mobility >of individuals, but rather to the mobility of knowledge itself. Openness >and sharing knowledge have always been the hallmarks of the most >successful universities around the world....MIT offers a rather >interesting model of an educational institution responsive to globalizing >trends. In particular, I would like to refer to their work with free >online learning through the OpenCourseWare program. Many universities use >distance and online learning as an important measure to increase student >numbers....This represented a revolutionary step forward since up until >then the trend had been for universities to restrict access to their >knowledge behind password-controlled learning management systems. It is >MIT's boldness in promoting this open approach that I believe contributes >to its success and high ranking among international educational >institutions. This same kind of openness is highly relevant to Japanese >universities and would contribute to their climbing up the international >university rankings. Hence, I am delighted to see that a number of >Japanese universities have decided to work together to promote the idea of >OpenCourseWare in Japan. The Japan OCW Alliance includes Keio University, >Kyoto University, Osaka University, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo >University and Waseda University. This alliance was launched in May 2005, >so it is relatively young, but has already placed a large amount of >educational content online. It represents an important showcase of quality >educational materials and, as professor Yuichiro Anzai, president of Keio >University, has remarked, the Alliance is indicative of a new leadership >role for Japanese universities. This view is echoed by President Kazuo >Oike of Kyoto University who views the Japan OCW Alliance as contributing >to the accumulation of intellectual capital on the World Wide Web. >Moreover, as President Hiroshi Komiyama of the University of Tokyo >remarked, "our goal is to give back to society the fruits of our >educational activities. We would also like to assist those who are eager >to learn by themselves, and those who would like to take part in a dynamic >creative activity."...We at UNU share the same vision. At the 2002 >Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development, I called for the >creation of a Global Learning Space to support science-based education >through various projects, including the U.N. Water Virtual Learning >Center, the Global Virtual University and the Asia Pacific Initiative. The >latter includes close collaboration with Keio University and a network of >universities in Southeast Asia and the Pacific to develop and run >educational programs in the region on issues of sustainable development. >More recently, at the World Summit on the Information Society held in >Tunis in November 2005, I called for an "Information Society Open to All" >where the provision of open educational resources would represent a core >component....The way forward in this globalizing world, I would argue, is >to promote openness within the education system. > >_______________________________________________ >LIS-Forum mailing list >LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum Dear All, Adding on to the suggestion of Dr. Arunachalam, even seminar/workshop proceedings serve as an important source of self-learning for professionals in general and LIS professionals in particular, but no efforts is being made to make them available for free public access. DRTC, Bangalore has archived almost all of its seminar papers/ presentations on its digital library [https://drtc.isibang.ac.in] for free access, why can't the example be followed for other LIS seminar/ workshops in India? Best regards, Aparajita --- Aparajita Suman Manager- Information and Content Delivery Indigene Pharamaceuticals Indigene House Plot No. 46, Road No. 14 Banjara Hills, Hyderabad- 36 Ph: +91 40 2354 8488 Fx: +91 40 2354 8478 On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 Subbiah Arunachalam wrote : >Friends: > >Here is an excerpt from a recent paper which I reproduce from Peter >Suber's blog. Indian universities and institutes of technology will do >well to join the Open Course Ware movement and do their bit to democratise >knowledge. > >Arun >----- > >Openness as a response to globalization > >Hans van Ginkel, Toward a smarter information superhighway, Asahi Shimbun, >February 14, 2006. Van Ginkel is Under-Secretary-General of the United >Nations and the Rector of the United Nations University. Excerpt: >Universities...are increasingly recognizing that the real expansion today >in international knowledge exchange does not relate to physical mobility >of individuals, but rather to the mobility of knowledge itself. Openness >and sharing knowledge have always been the hallmarks of the most >successful universities around the world....MIT offers a rather >interesting model of an educational institution responsive to globalizing >trends. In particular, I would like to refer to their work with free >online learning through the OpenCourseWare program. Many universities use >distance and online learning as an important measure to increase student >numbers....This represented a revolutionary step forward since up until >then the trend had been for universities to restrict access to their >knowledge behind password-controlled learning management systems. It is >MIT's boldness in promoting this open approach that I believe contributes >to its success and high ranking among international educational >institutions. This same kind of openness is highly relevant to Japanese >universities and would contribute to their climbing up the international >university rankings. Hence, I am delighted to see that a number of >Japanese universities have decided to work together to promote the idea of >OpenCourseWare in Japan. The Japan OCW Alliance includes Keio University, >Kyoto University, Osaka University, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo >University and Waseda University. This alliance was launched in May 2005, >so it is relatively young, but has already placed a large amount of >educational content online. It represents an important showcase of quality >educational materials and, as professor Yuichiro Anzai, president of Keio >University, has remarked, the Alliance is indicative of a new leadership >role for Japanese universities. This view is echoed by President Kazuo >Oike of Kyoto University who views the Japan OCW Alliance as contributing >to the accumulation of intellectual capital on the World Wide Web. >Moreover, as President Hiroshi Komiyama of the University of Tokyo >remarked, "our goal is to give back to society the fruits of our >educational activities. We would also like to assist those who are eager >to learn by themselves, and those who would like to take part in a dynamic >creative activity."...We at UNU share the same vision. At the 2002 >Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development, I called for the >creation of a Global Learning Space to support science-based education >through various projects, including the U.N. Water Virtual Learning >Center, the Global Virtual University and the Asia Pacific Initiative. The >latter includes close collaboration with Keio University and a network of >universities in Southeast Asia and the Pacific to develop and run >educational programs in the region on issues of sustainable development. >More recently, at the World Summit on the Information Society held in >Tunis in November 2005, I called for an "Information Society Open to All" >where the provision of open educational resources would represent a core >component....The way forward in this globalizing world, I would argue, is >to promote openness within the education system. > >_______________________________________________ >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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Web based online spreadsheets
by Sukhdev Singh 17 Feb '06

17 Feb '06

Here are some Web based online spreadsheets. 1 - iRows < http://www.irows.com/xo/Welcome.do > 2 - Makesearchable < http://makesearchable.com/ > 3 - TrimSpreadsheet < http://trimpath.com/project/wiki/TrimSpreadsheet > 4 - Num Sum < http://www.numsum.com/ > --Sukhdev Singh, NIC.http://openmed.nic.in

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Re: Compulsory Internship
by jyoti shreeram bhabal 16 Feb '06

16 Feb '06

Dear all SHPT School of Library Science, SNDT Women's University, Mumbai has 3 days internship programme as a part of the BLISc course. Students visit twice in a year to various reputed libraries of Mumbai as a intern.This may not be exhaustive training but it gives exposure to the different kinds of libraries and their working systems. It also helps student to take decision regarding, in which type of library they would work. Feedback from students and librarians states that this should be continued in LIS Course. Jyoti Bhabal Lecturer SHPT School of Library Science SNDT Women's University Mumbai 400 020 T: 22072792 Mrs.Jyoti Bhabal Lecturer SHPT School of Library Science SNDT Women's University 1 Nathibai Thackersey Road New Marine Lines Mumbai 400 020. Tel: 22072792 22081879 ext.274 or 263 Dear all SHPT School of Library Science, SNDT Women's University, Mumbai has 3 days internship programme as a part of the BLISc course. Students visit twice in a year to various reputed libraries of Mumbai as a intern.This may not be exhaustive training but it gives exposure to the different kinds of libraries and their working systems. It also helps student to take decision regarding, in which type of library they would work. Feedback from students and librarians states that this should be continued in LIS Course. Jyoti Bhabal Lecturer SHPT School of Library Science SNDT Women's University Mumbai 400 020 T: 22072792 Mrs.Jyoti Bhabal Lecturer SHPT School of Library Science SNDT Women's University 1 Nathibai Thackersey Road New Marine Lines Mumbai 400 020. Tel: 22072792 22081879 ext.274 or 263 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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