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

[Fwd: Jcom - new March issue]
by arun＠mssrf.res.in 22 Mar '06

22 Mar '06

Dear all, we announce that the March 2006 issue of JCOM - Journal of science communication - (issue 1, volume 5) http://jcom.sissa.it/ is online. Comments, remarks and papers by you are kindly requested. Next issue will be online on the 21st June 2006. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Contents ........ EDITORIAL New scandals - time to rethink the rules? Pietro Greco http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/05/01/E0501-en/ http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/05/01/E0501/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ FOCUS Blind track Yurij Castelfranchi, Giancarlo Sturloni The people of Val di Susa (Italy) blocked the construction of the new high-speed railway line that should connect Turin with Lyons (France). This project is regarded as a strategic achievement for the economic development of the European Union, but local communities have a different concept of development and are asserting their rights through ad hoc experts' reports and the production "from the bottom" of new specialised knowledge. We shall describe these events as a case study to put ecological democracy to the test of facts, also through a comparison with the experimental actions taken in some Southern countries of the world. From Europe to Brazil, the debate on health and environmental risks resulting from modernisation is upsetting democratic societies and urging new forms of participation in the decision-making process. There is a clash between different "concepts of the world", in which communication strategies play a crucial role and from whose outcome the society in which we wish to live in will emerge. http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/05/01/F050101-en/ http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/05/01/F050101/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ ARTICLES Berliner Ensemble 1957 - Piccolo Teatro 1963. Science in the reception of Brecht's "Galileo" as from the press reviews on both stagings Francesco Cuomo http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/05/01/A050101-en/ http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/05/01/A050101/ Contemporary aesthetic forms and scientific museology Alessandra Drioli http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/05/01/A050102-en/ http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/05/01/A050102/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ JCOM is completed by contribution only in the original language of the authors COMMENTS Cui prodest Michel Foucault? Yurij Castelfranchi, Nico Pitrelli Do we have to drag in the thought of Michel Foucault to show the political (and not neutral), partial and local (and not universal and non-historic), active (and not merely transmissive) face of science communication? Do we need the work of the controversial French intellectual to dispute the anxious search - almost a quest like that for the Holy Grail - for the "best practices" in the dissemination of scientific culture? If we read over the pages that Foucault dedicated to words and things, to the archaeology and genealogy of knowledge, to biopolitics, we have few doubts. Two elements, on the one hand the central nature of discourse and "regimes of truth", on the other the concept of biopower (a "power over bodies"), enable us to reflect both on the important specific features of modern science in comparison with other forms of production and organisation of knowledge, and on the central role of its communication. http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/05/01/C010101-en/ http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/05/01/C050101/ ............................................... Medicalisation Mario Colucci http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/05/01/C050102-en/ http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/05/01/C050102/ "For Your Own Good". Biopolitics told by J.G. Ballard Pierangelo Di Vittorio http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/05/01/C050103-en/ http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/05/01/C050103/ Convergent discourses: neoliberalism, technoscience and journalism Flavia Natércia da Silva Medeiros http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/05/01/C050104-en/ http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/05/01/C050104/ ------------------------------------------------------------------

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Lecture Presentation of Dr. Ramesh C. Gaur of IGNCA, New Delhi at Frankfurt, Germany
by Puna Das 22 Mar '06

22 Mar '06

Lecture Presentation of Dr. Ramesh C. Gaur of IGNCA, New Delhi at Frankfurt, Germany on 15th February 2006 Digital Libraries in India with special reference to experiences at IGNCA, New Delhi, India http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/volltexte/2006/2445/ PDF-Format: http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/volltexte/2006/2445/pdf/germany_fi… (3,647 KB) ___________________________________________________ Swapan Kumar Patra/ Anup Kumar Das/ Bidyarthi Dutta Information and Communication Society of India New Delhi ____________________________________________________ --------------------------------- Jiyo cricket on Yahoo! India cricket Yahoo! Messenger Mobile Stay in touch with your buddies all the time. Lecture Presentation of Dr. Ramesh C. Gaur of IGNCA, New Delhi at Frankfurt, Germany on 15th February 2006 Digital Libraries in India with special reference to experiences at IGNCA, New Delhi, India http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/volltexte/2006/2445/ http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/volltexte/2006/2445/ PDF-Format: http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/volltexte/2006/2445/pdf/germany_fi… http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/volltexte/2006/2445/pdf/germany_fi… (3,647 KB) ___________________________________________________ Swapan Kumar Patra/ Anup Kumar Das/ Bidyarthi Dutta Information and Communication Society of India New Delhi ____________________________________________________ Jiyo cricket on http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailcricket/*http://in.sports.yahoo.com/cric… Yahoo! India cricket http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/mailmobilemessenger/*http://in.mobile.yahoo.… Yahoo! Messenger Mobile Stay in touch with your buddies all the time.

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Workshop on Digtial Libraries - Last Date (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 22 Mar '06

22 Mar '06

Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 21:37:20 -0800 (PST) From: SUNIL M.V. <libra_sunil(a)yahoo.com> Friends, The last date of registration for the Workshop on Digital Libraries is 31st March 2006. Since we will not entertain spot registrations we request you to send in your registration form along with the payments by the said date. Further details on the workshop please visit www.sdmimd.net/workshop Regards, MyLISA team Information Services, HCL - Capital Market Services ayesha.taranum(a)hcl.in

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Appeal for Help
by prafulla tv 22 Mar '06

22 Mar '06

Dear Library Lovers, 1. GLIC We are happy to inform you that a village library titled GUNDRAMPALLY LIBRARY AND INFORMATION CENTRE (GLIC) is being started in Gundrampally Village (Chityal Mandal, Nalgonda district, Andhra Pradesh) in the first fortnight of April 2006. This initiative is being supported by the Organisation for the Protection of Libraries, (OPLib), a library advocacy group based in Hyderabad as part of its 100 Village/School Libraries Within a Year project. Already 500+ books have been received as donation from various places throughout Andhra Pradesh and several individuals had sponsored annual subscriptions for daily newspapers and magazines. The local panchayat had offered to provide free accommodation to the library and a school teacher had come forward to serve as its honorary librarian. He promised to keep the library open for a couple of hours both in the morning and evenings. A group of educated youth led by Mr Srinivas of Gemini Television are working very hard to place GLIC on a firm foundation. GLIC urgently requires two glass paned steel almirahs for keeping its book collection. The cost is likely to be about Rs.15000. OPLib appeals to all library lovers to help GLIC in the purchase of steel almirahs. GLIC also plans to provide ICT-based information services to the villagers and train them on Internet searching and on text/image transmission for getting answers to their local problems. A computer system along with a digital camera, speakers, modem, etc., is also required for this proposed library. OPLib solicits donations from you for the purchase of a new computer system and the cost is likely to be Rs.35,000. If you have any old computer systems to spare, they are also welcome. These systems would be utilized to provide hands-on experience to the villagers. We hope that the LIS professional fraternity, library associations and library lovers would respond to this appeal positively and lend their helping hand in the form of cash donations/books/magazines, etc. 2. KANAKAVALLI MEMORIAL LIBRARY We are pleased to inform you that a School Library is being started by OPLib at Balakarmika Vikasa Kendram, Residential Bridge Centre (Indian Red Cross Society), Yadagirigutta, Nalgonda district in April 2006. This School provides education and hostel facility to 68 street children (Classes 1 to 5, mother tongue Telugu) who are below the poverty line and children of local sex workers. The main objective is to prevent these children of sex workers from taking up their parents profession. Already we have received a donation of Rs.5000 from Ms. Geetha of NISC and a small book rack and 70 childrens books have been purchased with this amount. This library is being named in memory of her mother Late Smt. Penmetsa Kanakavalli Tayaru. Smt. Kanakavalli is daughter of Sri Bhupati Raju Tirupati Raju, founder of Kumudavalli Library (West Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh.) regarded as one of the greatest heritage libraries. Shri Tirupati Raju is revered as the Bhishmacharya of public library movement in Andhra Pradesh. It is a matter of immense joy that grace from this selfless library stalwart continues to flow through his children. OPLib appeals for donations to Kanakavalli Memorial Library in the form of cash/childrens books/ work tables/chairs, computer system, etc. Computer Systems for OPLib Finally, OPLib needs three computer systems , one for Andhra (Visakhapatnam), Rayalaseema (Tirupati) and Telangana (Hyderabad) region of Andhra Pradesh, to manage its operations effectively and efficiently. Any help (either new or old systems) in this regard would be greatly appreciated. Address for communication: Dr A Kishore Honorary President Organization for the Protection of Libraries (Registered under the Andhra Pradesh Societies Registration Act, 2001 vide no.1502 of 2005) c/o Parma Reddi Building, 9-1-34/30/16/A, Bapu Nagar, Langar House, Hyderabad 500 008 Email: saikishoresvu(a)yahoo.co.in Mobile 92474 28778 Cheques/DDs to be drawn in favour of Organization for the Protection of Libraries (OPLib) and payable at Hyderabad. Thank you very much in advance for your kind support and cooperation to our School/Village Libraries Project. Please mark a copy of your email to Dr Kishore to me as well. That helps in better coordination. Sincerely T.V. Prafulla Chandra Senior Editor NISC Email: tallurivpc(a)yahoo.com OPLibempowering the masses through better library services at the grassroots level. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Where the self is, there is no love. Where there is love, there is no self. --J Krishnamurti __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Mass digitization projects
by Mailing List Manager 22 Mar '06

22 Mar '06

Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 20:32:54 +0530 (IST) From: arun(a)mssrf.res.in Mass digitization conference The presentations and webcasts from the conference, Scholarship and Libraries in Transition: A Dialogue about the Impacts of Mass Digitization Projects (Ann Arbor, March 10-11, 2006), are now online. (Thanks to Elizabeth Winter.) http://www.lib.umich.edu/mdp/symposium/ Arun

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Re: [LIS-Forum] DDC Schedule
by vishal verma 21 Mar '06

21 Mar '06

Dear Ms Veena, The DDC schedules are now available online. To use the DDC schedules online you can subscribe to OCLC's product WebDewey, which is a part of the OCLC suite of cataloging and metadata services that OCLC offers through OCLC's Connexion service. If you do not have a very large collection base and do not classify in depth, you can consider subscribing Abridged WebDewey. Here I am listing some of the features of WebDewey: 1. An easy-to-use, browser-based interface that allows you to search the DDC (and related terminology) efficiently and navigate intuitively 2. Thousands of Relative Index terms and built numbers not available in the print DDC 3. Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) that have been intellectually mapped to Dewey headings by DDC editors 4. Selected LCSH mappings from the Forest Press publication, People, Places & Things 5. LCSH that have been statistically mapped to Dewey numbers from records in WorldCat (the OCLC Online Union Catalog) 6. Links from mapped LCSH to the LCSH authority records 7. Quarterly updates, incorporating the latest changes to the Classification and new LCSH mappings, index terms and built numbers 8. An annotation capability, which allows you to add your own notes into WebDewey to reflect local classification practices For more information and subscription options, please follow the following link: http://www.oclc.org/dewey/versions/webdewey/ I hope this information would be of some use to you. Regards Vishal Verma Information Specialist Edutech India Pvt Ltd #8 Khader Nawaz Khan Road Chennai 600006, India Tel: +91 44 28330999 Fax: +91 44 28331777 GSM: +91 98409 97846 www.edutechindia.com "Enhancing knowledge and skills for success, lifelong." On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 veena bhat wrote : >Dear Sir/ Madam, > >Can I have the access of DDC Schedule (Main Class including Subclasses) on the internet? I have gone through many websites. But, I couldn't find the particular information, which I want. Could you please furnish the details. I will be greatful to you. > >Thanking You, > >Yours faithfully, >Veena Bhat >Asst. Librarian-Documentation Services >International Institute of Information Technology, >P-14, Pune Infotech Park, >Hinjawadi, Pune 411 057 >Maharashtra State >India > >Yahoo! Mail >Bring photos to life! http://pa.yahoo.com/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=39174/*http://photomail.mai… New PhotoMail >makes sharing a breeze. >_______________________________________________ >LIS-Forum mailing list >LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum Information Specialist Edutech India Pvt Ltd #8 Khader Nawaz Khan Road Chennai, India Tel: +91 44 28330999 Fax: +91 44 28331777 GSM: 00 91 98409 97846 www.edutechindia.com "Enhancing knowledge and skills for success, lifelong." Dear Ms Veena, The DDC schedules are now available online. To use the DDC schedules online you can subscribe to OCLC's product WebDewey, which is a part of the OCLC suite of cataloging and metadata services that OCLC offers through OCLC's Connexion service. If you do not have a very large collection base and do not classify in depth, you can consider subscribing Abridged WebDewey. Here I am listing some of the features of WebDewey: 1. An easy-to-use, browser-based interface that allows you to search the DDC (and related terminology) efficiently and navigate intuitively 2. Thousands of Relative Index terms and built numbers not available in the print DDC 3. Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) that have been intellectually mapped to Dewey headings by DDC editors 4. Selected LCSH mappings from the Forest Press publication, People, Places & Things 5. LCSH that have been statistically mapped to Dewey numbers from records in WorldCat (the OCLC Online Union Catalog) 6. Links from mapped LCSH to the LCSH authority records 7. Quarterly updates, incorporating the latest changes to the Classification and new LCSH mappings, index terms and built numbers 8. An annotation capability, which allows you to add your own notes into WebDewey to reflect local classification practices For more information and subscription options, please follow the following link: http://www.oclc.org/dewey/versions/webdewey/ I hope this information would be of some use to you. Regards Vishal Verma Information Specialist Edutech India Pvt Ltd #8 Khader Nawaz Khan Road Chennai 600006, India Tel: +91 44 28330999 Fax: +91 44 28331777 GSM: +91 98409 97846 www.edutechindia.com "Enhancing knowledge and skills for success, lifelong." On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 veena bhat wrote : >Dear Sir/ Madam, > >Can I have the access of DDC Schedule (Main Class including Subclasses) on the internet? I have gone through many websites. But, I couldn't find the particular information, which I want. Could you please furnish the details. I will be greatful to you. > >Thanking You, > >Yours faithfully, >Veena Bhat >Asst. Librarian-Documentation Services >International Institute of Information Technology, >P-14, Pune Infotech Park, >Hinjawadi, Pune 411 057 >Maharashtra State >India > >Yahoo! Mail >Bring photos to life! http://pa.yahoo.com/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=39174/*http://photomail.mai… New PhotoMail >makes sharing a breeze. >_______________________________________________ >LIS-Forum mailing list >LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum Information Specialist Edutech India Pvt Ltd #8 Khader Nawaz Khan Road Chennai, India Tel: +91 44 28330999 Fax: +91 44 28331777 GSM: 00 91 98409 97846 www.edutechindia.com "Enhancing knowledge and skills for success, lifelong." 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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A very interesting article
by arun＠mssrf.res.in 21 Mar '06

21 Mar '06

Manifesto for Critical Information Studies Siva Vaidhyanathan, Critical Information Studies: A bibliographic manifesto, Critical Studies, March/May 2006. Excerpt: This paper takes measure of an emerging scholarly field that sits at the intersection of many important areas of study. Critical Information Studies (CIS) considers the ways in which culture and information are regulated by their relationship to commerce, creativity, and other human affairs. CIS captures the variety of approaches and bodies of knowledge needed to make sense of important phenomena such as copyright policy, electronic voting, encryption, the state of libraries, the preservation of ancient cultural traditions, and markets for cultural production. It necessarily stretches to a wide array of scholarly subjects, employs multiple complementary methodologies, and influences conversations far beyond the gates of the university. Economists, sociologists, linguists, anthropologists, ethnomusicologists, communication scholars, lawyers, computer scientists, philosophers, and librarians have all contributed to this field, and thus it can serve as a model for how engaged, relevant scholarship might be carried out. CIS interrogates the structures, functions, habits, norms, and practices that guide global flows of information and cultural elements. Instead of being concerned merely with one's right to speak (or sing or publish), CIS asks questions about access, costs, and chilling effects on, within, and among audiences, citizens, emerging cultural creators, indigenous cultural groups, teachers, and students. Central to these issues is the idea of semiotic democracy, or the ability of citizens to employ the signs and symbols ubiquitous in their environments in manners that they determine.... [C]ontroversies over copyright, technology, corporate control over information, and access to knowledge easily flow across newspaper pages, generating widespread curiosity about these issues. As a result, even the most high-level, advanced work within CIS can find its way into surprising and exciting places....[M]any CIS scholars have reached beyond spheres of scholarly discourse to influence both general public perceptions and specific policy matters. Public interest organizations such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Public Knowledge, and Creative Commons employ CIS scholarship when pursuing their agendas in courts, legislatures, international governing bodies, and the public sphere....By all indications, CIS has succeeded in changing the terms of the conversation about issues such as copyright, cultural policy, and the relationships among democracy, culture, and technology. More practically, CIS has helped generate the open content and open journals movement, which allows authors and artists to retain more control over the ways that publishers exploit their work and enables authors to lock content open. CIS not only has made its arguments, it has lived its arguments....Beyond the text of the scholarship, the commitment to positive liberty comes through most clearly in the projects and experiments that facilitate access to and use of scholarship and information: chiefly the development and proliferation of open access journals, open courseware, open curricula, and open archives.... Too often, academic leaders forget their ethical duty to the community of scholars and world citizens at large. They rabidly protect their intellectual property to the detriment of the scholarly world (and the species) as a whole, and as such many suffer from what I call the Content Provider Paradox (Vaidhyanathan 2002a). In addition, scholars themselves often overreact to perceived threats that someone is teaching their course or relying too heavily on their data. This is an unhealthy and anti-intellectual disposition magnified by the general tenor of the times. Foolishly, however, scholars continue to sign away all their rights to their scholarly work to commercial publishers, who then sell their work back to their libraries at great cost. Recognizing this absurdity, some scholars have insisted on publishing their work with Creative Commons licenses, ensuring that the general public and not just patrons of expensive research libraries may read, quote, and improve on their work. And the Open Journals movement, led by the Public Library of Science and the Science Commons, also promises to let scholars contribute to the greater good while ensuring effective peer review and distribution of work (Harnad 2004). Still, many tenure committees outside of the sciences have yet to learn that open journals are better and that the commercial journal publishing process as it now stands is unethical. Indeed, it will take many years to wake scholars from the false consciousness of the academic-publishing industrial complex. Meanwhile, every scholar committed to CIS should insist on retaining some of her or his rights to publications and making them available as widely and cheaply as possible. Demanding that a publisher allow the use of a Creative Commons license is a start. If a few senior scholars withhold publication from unethical journals, then the publishing world will have to negotiate and concede that Creative Commons offers no threat to their business but greater opportunity to attract consumers. And if they do not, then scholars should found their own open journals through scholarly associations and sever ties with commercial publishers. In this way, CIS scholars can change more than the conversation about culture, control, commerce, and copyright. They can affect the workings of an industry in flux and better serve their mission to educate and illuminate the remarkable times in which we live.

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DDC Schedule
by veena bhat 21 Mar '06

21 Mar '06

Dear Sir/ Madam, Can I have the access of DDC Schedule (Main Class including Subclasses) on the internet? I have gone through many websites. But, I couldn't find the particular information, which I want. Could you please furnish the details. I will be greatful to you. Thanking You, Yours faithfully, Veena Bhat Asst. Librarian-Documentation Services International Institute of Information Technology, P-14, Pune Infotech Park, Hinjawadi, Pune 411 057 Maharashtra State India --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail Bring photos to life! New PhotoMail makes sharing a breeze. Dear Sir/ Madam, Can I have the access of DDC Schedule (Main Class including Subclasses) on the internet? I have gone through many websites. But, I couldn't find the particular information, which I want. Could you please furnish the details. I will be greatful to you. Thanking You, Yours faithfully, Veena Bhat Asst. Librarian-Documentation Services International Institute of Information Technology, P-14, Pune Infotech Park, Hinjawadi, Pune 411 057 Maharashtra State India Yahoo! Mail Bring photos to life! http://pa.yahoo.com/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=39174/*http://photomail.mai… New PhotoMail makes sharing a breeze.

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Web based Catalogue
by Krishnamurthy M 20 Mar '06

20 Mar '06

Dear Moderator , Kindly arrange to announce the following information to the benefit of the LIS forum members. We are happy to announce that Indian Statistical Institute Bangalore Centre Library (ISIBC) has introduced the Web Opace service. ISIBC Library has rich collection in the field of Mathematics, statistics, Economics , Library and Information Science. Users may access library catalogue through web searach http://www.isibang.ac.in/library/index.htm Regards, M.Krishnamurthy -- Dr.M.Krishnamurthy Librarian Indian Statistical Institute 8th Mile Mysore Road R.V.C.E. Post Bangalore 560059 Ph:91-80-8483002/3/4/4 Fax: 91-80-8484265

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INFN ON PEST CONTROL MEASURES IN LIBRARUES
by K A. Sardesai 20 Mar '06

20 Mar '06

Dear Vijay, These are some procedures which we are following in our Library and getting best results.I wish you these are simple and you might have tried. * First Library should be broomed daily and floor dusting with funnel and little soap should be applied twice in a week. * If more rats are destroying your clloection you may keep Mortin cake at the weekend and careul in searching the books on Monday that is start of the week.Mostly they eat this cake and die not immediately but in one or two days and they generally come in open space.But be attentive. * A personnel care is must for a Library. * Use napthalene balls at each corners, racks, cupboards and shelves. * Good light and ventelation if possible. * Harble Vekhand powder or stick may be kept to avoid germs. * To remove dust either use euroclean twice in a week or outsource some good worker once in a month for physical cleaning Kshipra

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