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Call for Papers - National Seminar on Access to Social Science Information
by Puna Das 18 Jan '07

18 Jan '07

National Seminar on Access to Social Science Information | February 7 – 8, 2007 Organised by Department of Library and Information Science Vidyasagar University Medinipur – 721 102 West Bengal Though for a long time Social Science has been accepted as Science in the learned society, still it could not attract the same amount of attention as in case of Natural Sciences. So happened in case of Social Science Information also. As yet the pertinent features of Social Science Information have not been delineated. Consortia are primarily concerned about Natural Science journals only. There is a paucity of Social Science Information available digitally. Traditionally the libraries working primarily on Social Science Information do not find its due budget for its smooth functioning. But it is felt that the Social Science Information has not only made a significant contributions to the society but also it has a great impact in generating the information in the field of Natural Sciences. At this juncture, our department deems it necessary to organise a two-day National Seminar on Access to Social Science Information. Call for Papers We invite articles on the following sub-themes. Abstracts must reach us by 7th January, 2007. Full papers in MSWord, references following Indian Standard in CD or by e-mail must reach us by 21st Jan, 2007. Sub-themes a. Social Science Information: characteristic features b. Social Scientists’ attitude towards information c. Impact of Social Science Information on R & D d. Use and Users of Social Science Information e. Social Science Information: Sources, Systems and Services f. Impact of Social Science Information on socio-economic development g. Organisation and Control of Social Science Information h. ICT and Social Science Information i. Social Network Analysis Target Audience LIS Professionals, Students, teachers, researchers, administrators and other stake holders associated with Social Science Information processing and dissemination. All Communications should Address: Convener of the Seminar, 2007 Dept. of Library and Information Science Medinipur 721 102 Ph. (03222) 267 554/555/557/558 Extn. 448 Mob: 09434146158, 09434991159 e-mail: dlisc(a)vu.ernet.in ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Anup Kumar Das Personal webpage: www.anupkumardas.blogspot.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger. Download Now! http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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The new knowledge management?
by Mailing List Admin 18 Jan '07

18 Jan '07

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:52:04 +0530 From: dhanu.pattanashetti(a)accenture.com The new knowledge management? By Christopher Harris-Jones, Ovum 11 January 2007 The key objective of knowledge management (KM) is to make the expertise of individuals more widely available, and used, across the organisation. Effective delivery of KM has two major aspects. The first is the cultural, social and interpersonal element of encouraging people to share their knowledge and expertise, which is the most difficult element to implement effectively in organisations. The second aspect is the implementation of technology to support these activities, which is relatively straightforward in comparison with softer people-issues. The technologies used for KM have typically come from the collaboration software sector - for example discussion groups, workspaces and communication technologies (such as audio and video conferencing) - and these software tools are well developed. One of the perennial problems of KM has been to encourage people to share their knowledge. The rise of 'social media' such as blogs and wikis has seen a huge outburst of people wanting to share selected information (such as video clips). While this is hardly KM, it is a significant increase in the use of the Web to record and exchange information. Changes like these that happen voluntarily in the consumer sector have a habit of percolating into the corporate sector, which potentially gives a significant boost to the use of collaboration tools. However, any change in mindset is not always going to be helpful. A significant element of the motivation for the use of social networking tools is to publish rather than to use or re-use. One of the requirements of effective KM is to get the right people to share the right pieces of knowledge and expertise. While social media encourages sharing, it is not necessarily the right kind of sharing that will support effective KM and improve company performance. Access the complete report by Ovum : Social networks, collaboration and KM: spot the joins http://www2.ovum.com/secure/p,50433,67075,68704 Regards, Dhanukumar M. Pattanashetti Knowledge Management Development Center (KMDC) ACCENTURE Bangalore

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Fwd: KnowGenesis IJTC supports OADL initiatives
by Sukhdev Singh 18 Jan '07

18 Jan '07

Dear Friends, As you already know that a eGroup for promoting Open Access and Digital Libraries (OADL) was formed at Yahoo Groups - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/oadl/ The OADL Group had set up a target (I) for itself to produce a Guide for helping people to develop Digital Libraries that can be accessed according to Open Access principles. "Wiki" mode collaboration was selected to produce this guide by setting a wiki at http://oadl.pbwiki.com/ Now this initiative has got the support of KnowGenesis IJTC. Which has selected it as initiative of the year for being an example of collaborative work. The proposed guide is still in infancy and is being receiving contributions of the OADL Group members. It is under Creative Commons License thus once ready could be freely distributed. Please come and Join the Group - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/oadl/ and contribute to the OADL WIKI - http://oadl.pbwiki.com/ Let me not forget to thank KnowGenesis IJTC for their support. Sukhdev Singh, Co-Moderator OADL Group. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Saurabh Kudesia <editorinchief(a)knowgenesis.org> Date: 18-Jan-2007 11:26 Subject: KnowGenesis IJTC supports OADL initiatives To: oadl(a)yahoogroups.com Cc: esukhdev(a)gmail.com Warm Greetings to all volunteers! Efforts, collaboration and dedication certainly make a mark and the fact remains true for the digital era as well. As part of KnowGenesis commitment to promote knowledge sharing and collaboration, we are supporting many activities around the globe that have the potential to define the way knowledge is collected, shared and disseminated. I am pleased to share that OADL has recently been selected as one of the volunteer effort to be supported by KnowGenesis. OADL is one of the best examples to prove how collaboration among community members can bring the difference to the society. KnowGenesis is proud to support OADL in its mission of developing Sukhdev, I will be sending the KG logo for the OADL wiki site/Yahoo!group in a separate mail. --------- About KnowGenesis International Journal for Technical Communication (IJTC) KnowGenesis is a volunteer effort that brought some of the finest International minds at one place. Thanks to their dedication and support, KnowGenesis IJTC became the first Indian Journal listed by American Education Research Association (AERA) SIG Communication of Research. AERA SIG list is a prestigious list of electronic journals consisting of scholarly and peer-reviewed journals, which are accessible without cost. Recently, UNESCO and Digital Curation Centre (DCC) UK have also included KnowGenesis IJTC in their list of international journals. KnowGenesis is proud to have authors listed from prestigious institutes like NISCAIR, University of Mississippi, University of Calcutta, STC IIT, IIIT, TIFR, Syracuse University, Clemson University, Iowa State University of Science and Technology, Pennsylvania State University, National Informatics Centre (India), Lenta (Russia), Chabot-Las (California), Washington State Department of Information Services, GE Research and STC Chapters, to name a few. For more information on KG IJTC and previous issues, visit www.knowgenesis.net or www.knowgenesis.org ------------- Kudos once again for your initiative! Best Wishes, Saurabh Kudesia Co-founder, Editor-in-chief KnowGenesis International Journal for Technical Communication (IJTC) www.knowgenesis.org/tc www.knowgenesis.net/journal ------------- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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benifits of career advancement scheme
by Mailing List Admin 18 Jan '07

18 Jan '07

Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 18:31:18 +0530 From: R.K.SHUKLA <milanramakant(a)hotmail.com> Librarians in university and colleges in Uttar Pradesh to get benifits of career advancement scheme Allahabad High Court ,Lucknow Bench in a writ petition filed by U P Library Association has directed the state govt to give the benifits of carrer advancement scheme w.e.f. from 01.01.86,which were denied at the time of granting UGC scales to college and university librarians in the state.UPLA WAS FIGHTING FOR THE SAME FOR THE LAST 10 YEARS. R.K.SHUKLA LIBRARIAN DELHI COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING DELHI AND PRO UP LIBRARY ASSOCIATION TEL 91-11 27871419

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DRTC Seminar on PM
by Mailing List Admin 18 Jan '07

18 Jan '07

Date: 17 Jan 2007 08:44:45 -0000 From: hema singh <hemasingh2004(a)rediffmail.com> INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE DOCUMENTATION RESEARCH TRAINING CENTRE 8th Mile Mysore Road, R.V.College Post Bangalore-560059 Seminar On Project Management in Library and Information Center Project Management is a method and a set of techniques based on the accepted principles of management used for planning, estimating, and controlling work activities to reach a desired end result on time, within budget and according to specification. Projects have definite end points and temporary in nature but operations are ongoing, continuing and indefinite. Various Project Management techniques are available such as PERT, CPM, Gantt chart etc. PERT/CPM Techniques are very versatile techniques available for exploitation by Information Managers/librarians, and the executives. PERT/CPM minimizes the delays, interruptions and the conflicts in the whole functions of the system. Now Open source project management softwares are available, which can reduce human task, namely GanttProject, KPlatoOpen Workbench, DotProject etc. Project management is an almost unnatural act in libraries because libraries are mainly transaction-based institutions, but again in libraries there are many projects such as establishing a new service, implementing a new technology, information gathering, weeding a collection, digitizing a collection, installation of new equipments or facilities etc In this Seminar I will focus on the role of Project Management in Library and Information Center and application of CPM technique in acquisition section of a library. Speaker : Hema Singh ADIS 2nd year. Date & Time : 22nd January 2007, 2:00PM Venue : DRTC Classroom All are cordially invited Dr. Devika P. Madalli Seminar Co-ordinator

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Need help
by reshma toraskar 17 Jan '07

17 Jan '07

Dear Professionals, I would like know what procedure do you follow in DDC-classification for the classification of subject which is not cover in DDC. For example in Homoeopathic subject like ORGANON, REPERTORY etc. Please help. Regards Reshma __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new http://in.answers.yahoo.com/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Article request
by Mailing List Manager 17 Jan '07

17 Jan '07

Date: 16 Jan 2007 10:16:30 -0000 From: sckumaresan <sckumaresan(a)rediffmail.com> Dear friends,     The first authour of the article mentioned below is a faculty in our institution and requires a copy of the article since the author\'s copy was not given by the publishers due to change in their policies. If any of you are subscribing the journal or have access to the same, i kindly request you send me copy of the same either hard or soft copy. Chattopadhyay, A. B ; Dubei, S.S and Bhattacharjee, A (INDIA) Modelling of DC � DC boost converter analysis of capacitor voltage dynamics, AMSE Modelling (Advances A) � 2005, Vol. 78 No. 6, pp 15 24. My postal address S.C.Kumaresan  Sr. Librarian BITS, Pilani - Dubai P.O. Box - 500022 Block 11, Dubai Knowledge Village  Dubai, UAE. Looking forward to your kind help S.C.Kumaresan SeniorLibrarian, BITS, Pilani - Dubai UAE --

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Dr Pitroda\'s letter to PM
by Mailing List Manager 17 Jan '07

17 Jan '07

Date: 17 Jan 2007 04:53:52 -0000 From: sushanta kumar pathy <skpathy(a)rediffmail.com> Dear All,Its heartening to know that Dr Pitroda\'s keen interest to develop the library and information centres and setting up Indian Institute of Library Science. His initiatives should be supported and explored by all the library association. I welcome heartly Dr Pitroda\'s thought to develop the librarries and information centres to strengthen the knowledge commission. Regards Sushanta Kumar Pathy,RA(Library)NIFT, Gandhinagar

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Re: online journals in Engg & Technology
by MacLeod, Roderick A 16 Jan '07

16 Jan '07

In answer to Dr Trivedi's question concerning engineering and technology databases, there are many. A fair number are listed at PerX Listing of Engineering Repository Sources http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/perx/sourceslisting.htm and many commercial databases in engineering are listed in http://www.saur.de/index.cfm?id=0000010424 and also in the more recent http://www.amazon.com/Engineering-Literature-Routledge-Studies-Informati on/dp/0824729641 Though it doesn't restrict itself to journal content, TechXtra http://www.techxtra.ac.uk/ might be useful to you, as it cross-searches 31 different collections (databases) in technology, and thereby facilitates access to over 4 million items on technological subjects, many (but by no means all) of which are freely available in full text. Roddy MacLeod ________________________________ Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 10:18:19 +0530 From: mayank trivedi <mjt143 at gmail.com <http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum> > Can anyone give the information of online database of engg and technological journals available online paid of free? e.g. MEDLINE and PubMED in Medicine like wise is there any Engg Database? Awaiting for positive response, with regards, (Dr Mayank Trivedi) PhD Chief Librarian Pramukhswami Medical College Karamsad-388325 Gujarat-India mjt123 at gawab.com <http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum> Roddy MacLeod MA, DipLib, MCILIP Senior Subject Librarian Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS Tel (0131) 451 3576 Fax: (0131) 451 3164 R.A.MacLeod(a)hw.ac.uk <mailto:R.A.MacLeod@hw.ac.uk> http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/libram/roddy.html In answer to Dr Trivedi's question concerning engineering and technology databases, there are many.� A fair number are listed at PerX Listing of Engineering Repository Sources� http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/perx/sourceslisting.htm http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/perx/sourceslisting.htm �and many commercial databases in engineering are listed in http://www.saur.de/index.cfm?id=0000010424 http://www.saur.de/index.cfm?id=0000010424 �and also in the more recent http://www.amazon.com/Engineering-Literature-Routledge-Studies-Information/… http://www.amazon.com/Engineering-Literature-Routledge-Studies-Information/… � � Though it doesn't restrict itself to journal content, TechXtra http://www.techxtra.ac.uk/ http://www.techxtra.ac.uk/ �might be useful to you, as it cross-searches 31 different collections (databases) in technology, and thereby facilitates access to over 4 million items on technological subjects, many (but by no means all) of which are freely available in full text. � Roddy MacLeod � Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 10:18:19 +0530 From: mayank trivedi < http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum mjt143 at gmail.com > Can anyone give the information of online database of engg and technological journals available online paid of free? e.g. MEDLINE and PubMED in Medicine like wise is there any Engg Database? Awaiting for positive response, with regards, (Dr Mayank Trivedi) PhD Chief Librarian Pramukhswami Medical College Karamsad-388325 Gujarat-India http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum mjt123 at gawab.com � Roddy MacLeod MA, DipLib, MCILIP Senior Subject Librarian �� Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS �� Tel (0131) 451 3576 �� Fax: (0131) 451 3164 � mailto:R.A.MacLeod@hw.ac.uk R.A.MacLeod(a)hw.ac.uk �� http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/libram/roddy.html http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/libram/roddy.html �

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Ddatabases in the field of molecular biology
by Subbiah Arunachalam 16 Jan '07

16 Jan '07

Friends: Please spread the word among all new biologists and specialists in bioinformatics. Thanks and best wishes. Arun ------- Advice for OA database maintainers The January 2007 issue of Nucleic Acids Research is devoted to databases, mostly OA databases. (Thanks to bbgm.) From Alex Batemen's editorial introduction to the issue: The 2007 Database Issue of Nucleic Acids Research is the fourteenth in a series dedicated to databases in the field of molecular biology. These databases are essential resources for experimental and computational biologists alike and this compilation provides descriptions and updates of the most important of these databases, and serves to introduce newly compiled resources that provide specialist information in the biological area. The current issue is the largest yet and presents 68 new databases and updates of 106 existing databases. The 2007 Database Issue is not included in the print subscription to NAR. Instead, the Database Issue is freely available online to all under NAR's open access model. However, print copies are available for separate purchase by institutions and individuals.... Having now edited the database issue for 4 years and carefully inspected over a thousand different biological databases. I feel I am well placed to give advice to prospective authors. There are many important aspects to any web accessible database that might be published in [a future edition of] this issue.... Do attribute the original sources of derived data. Do make sure that you are not breaching any license terms by redistributing data.... Do make data available for bulk download as flat files or relational database tables with associated documentation. Web services and DAS are becoming popular ways to make databases programmatically available. Making these available can stop your website being ground to a halt by users trying to screen scrape all your data. Do allow users to provide feedback on your data and submit new data.... ___________________________________________________________ New Yahoo! Mail is the ultimate force in competitive emailing. Find out more at the Yahoo! Mail Championships. Plus: play games and win prizes. http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/evt=44106/*http://mail.yahoo.net/uk -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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