December 2007 - LIS-Forum - ncsi.iisc.ernet.in

ask LC to support open bibliographic data
by Anand Chitipothu 14 Dec '07

14 Dec '07

Hi all, The Library of Congress is asking for comments on their proposal for the future of bibliographic records and we'd like to ask them to include a section supporting open data -- providing bibliographic records in such a way that they can be reused by projects like Open Library and others. Our comment is here: http://www.okfn.org/wiki/FutureOfBibliographicControl And we'd love it if you would add your name to it and spread the word to others in this field. Comments are due Friday so time is limited. Thanks so much for your help, Anand Open Library http://demo.openlibrary.org -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Temporary vacancy at IGIDR, Mumbai
by G.K.MANJUNATH 13 Dec '07

13 Dec '07

We are looking for young LIS professionals, preferably residents of Mumbai, to work in a project for 6 months. Number of Posts : 2 Qualifications : MLISc or BLISc with minimum 55% marks Skills : Very good communication skill. Knowledge of AACR II. WINISIS or CDS/ISIS. LC Subject Headings. Ability to type atleast 25 words per minute. Nature of Work: The selected candidates are required to prepare index to certain Indian journals, with abstracts and keywords. Learning opportunity : Will get good exposure to Indian economy, Web desiging (CSS and HTML) and MySQL Remenaration : Rs.6000/- or Rs.7000/- per month depending on qualifications and skills. Those interested may please send their resume, with in 7 days, over email to: Thanks G.K.Manjunath Chief Librarian >>> Indira Gandhi Inst of Development Research >>> Film City Road >>> Santosh Nagar >>> Goregaon(East ) >>> MUMBAI - 400 065 >>> gkm(a)igidr.ac.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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49th Bengal Library Conference
by abhijit bhowmick 12 Dec '07

12 Dec '07

Dear Profesionals, The 49th Bengal LibraryConference will be held at Hemchandra ibrary , 11/1 Mohanchand Road , Khidirpore , Kolkata - 700023 during 14th to 16th December 2007. Theme : Application of computer in different libraries : Problems & Prospects. Program will be inaugurated by Hon'ble I T Minister Prof. Debesh Das in presense of the Hon'ble Library Minister Shri Tapan Roy & Guest of Honour Hon'ble Dr Barun Kr Mukhopadhya , Member of Perliament. and Hon'ble Shri Kishor Krishna Bandopadhya , Director RRRLF. Thematic sessions will be held on 15th & 16th December 2007. Abhijit Kumar Bhowmick Librarian State Central Library Kolkata , West Bengal --------------------------------- Why delete messages? Unlimited storage is just a click away. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Journal of Genetics!
by Mailing List Admin 12 Dec '07

12 Dec '07

Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:47:50 +0530 (IST) From: Riki Krishnan <riki(a)ias.ernet.in> Dear Member, We would like to know which library has the following volumes of the Journal of Genetics. We are archiving them on our website. Journal of Genetics: Vol.3, 4,...15. With regards Riki Krishnan Indian Academy of Sciences Sadashivnagar Bangalore

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Appreciate Uploaded Presentation
by Rajan 12 Dec '07

12 Dec '07

Dear Mr Sukhdev Singh, Your presentation is an excellent invitation to the digital world of medical information. Opening it to others for re-use is an act that deserves appreciation.As well, your focus on free information is really appreciative. It is heard that there are some others who conduct seminars in the name of free software like greenstone, dspace etc and propagate private interests. It is a glad news that you speak about open knowledge and practice it as well. Please upload such presentations in future too. Regards, K Rajasekharan Librarian, Kerala Institute of Local Administration(KILA) ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:22:38 +0530 From: "Sukhdev Singh" <esukhdev(a)gmail.com> Subject: [LIS-Forum] PPT Slides Available for REUSE on "Bio-Medical Information Retrieval from Net" To: iami_gen(a)googlegroups.com, indmed-forum(a)yahoogroups.com, medlib(a)yahoogroups.com, lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID: <c13c85220712112152m5e631857hd34799663a7b5fc4(a)mail.gmail.com> I have delivered a lecture at Lady Irwin College (New Delhi) yesterday on "Bio-Medical Information Retrieval from Net". I wish to share my lecture slides with you. The Presentation consists of over 90 Power Point PPT slides .... can be viewed or Downloaded (for reuse) from http://snipurl.com/1v51n --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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six techniques for better search results
by Rajesh Rangappa 12 Dec '07

12 Dec '07

Dear professionals I found an interesting and useful article, titled "Six techniques to get more from web than google will tell you" By Margaret Locher, CIO. Which will be heplful in searching better infromation specially on Science and technology & Current happenings in specific field etc. link is "http://www.cio.com/article/print/156900" Thanks and Regards -- RAJESH ALDARTHI LIBRARIAN (Jain Institute of vocational and Advanced Studies) #127/3, Bull Tempel Road, Chamarajpet, Bangalore-560096 Email: deepakdeepa89(a)gmail.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Request for an article
by Kshema Prakash 12 Dec '07

12 Dec '07

Dear colleagues, Can someone kindly help me by sending a copy of the following article? *Title:* Individual value structure and diversity attitudes: The moderating effects of age, gender, race, and religiosity *Author(s):* Olukemi O. Sawyerr, Judy Strauss, Jun Yan *Journal:* Journal of Managerial Psychology *ISSN:* 0268-3946 *Year:* 2005 * Volume:* 20 * Issue:* 6 * Page:* 498 - 521 *DOI:* 10.1108/02683940510615442 *Publisher:* Emerald Group Publishing Limited Thanks and regards, Kshema Ms. Kshema Prakash Faculty LIbrarian - Gr I Central Library Dayalbagh Educational Institute (Deemed University) Dayalbagh, Agra 282005 U.P. -- Mrs. Kshema Prakash Faculty Librarian - Gr I Dayalbagh Educational Institute (Deemed University) Dayalbagh, Agra 282005 Uttar Pradesh, India -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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PPT Slides Available for REUSE on "Bio-Medical Information Retrieval from Net"
by Sukhdev Singh 12 Dec '07

12 Dec '07

I have delivered a lecture at Lady Irwin College (New Delhi) yesterday on "Bio-Medical Information Retrieval from Net". I wish to share my lecture slides with you. The Presentation consists of over 90 Power Point PPT slides. It has been prepared keeping in mind the information needs of Bio-Medical Researchers. However it does not include Paid / Fee based services like "Web of Science". The presentation can be viewed or Downloaded (for reuse) from http://snipurl.com/1v51n Presentation starts with an emphasis need for having a planned search strategy and evaluation of the retrieved results. The best tool and Internet resource to explore would depend upon the type of information being sought from the net. For general non-scholarly information Internet Search Engines, Meta Search Engines, Web Directories and Subject Guides would be the best way to start with. However there is need to evaluate all such information. Simple criteria - like the authority behind the information; the date of creation and modification and commercial interests if any - can be used to evaluate the authenticity of the information retrieved. Medical websites with "HONcode" logo could be easily evaluated and trusted. For scholarly literature, researchers are advised to start with Bibliographic Databases. These databases provide references to high quality peer reviewed journals. PubMed and IndMED (For Indian Journals) are best known under this category. The presentation has some interesting pictures to explain the need for "Controlled Vocabulary" like MeSH. Other tools like Scirus can also be used for retrieving scholarly information. Google Scholar can be used to for limited "Cited By" information along with references. Coming to Full Text of articles, looking for libraries' holdings would be a better strategy. "Union Catalogue" is useful tool to explore collection of neighborhood libraries. Many good journals are now coming out from Open Access Publishers like BioMed Central and PLoS. Some of the good Indian medical journals are also available for free through Internet. NIC's medIND project and MedKnow (an Indian Open Access Publisher) have been instrumental in putting most of them online. Directory of Open Access Journals is a useful tool to find out Open Access Journals in a subject domain. Other resources for finding full text articles are Institutional (like EPrints@IISc ) and Subject Repositories (like OpenMED@NIC). There are now about 1000 such registered and OAI-PMH compliant repositories all over the world. Tools like ROAR can used to find a relevant repository. These repositories can also be searched through search engine like Google and some special OAI-PMH search engines. The presentation ends with some special type of resources like Cochrane Library (made freely accessible to Resident Indians through sponsorship by ICMR). --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Needed Help
by Mailing List Admin 12 Dec '07

12 Dec '07

Date: 10 Dec 2007 16:09:38 -0000 From: kirti vaishampayan <kitu1983(a)rediffmail.com> � Hello I am Kirti p. vaishampayan Student of S.N.D.T. M.L.I.Sc. course. my project topic is "RESOURCE SHARING - NEW TRENDS". So i am collecting information on Resource sharing,Library Networks and Consortia. Please can you suggest me helpful journals for this topics. - Kirti

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State Level seminar on IL and IT for School Librarians - Change of date - correction - reg
by Arunachalam Hariharan 12 Dec '07

12 Dec '07

Dear Friends, The date of the State Level Seminar on Information Literacy and Information Technology for School Librarians was wrongly mentioned in our earlier announcement. The correct date is: 5th JANUARY 2008 Registration: Free Last date for registraion: 31.12.2007 State Level Seminar on Information Literacy and Information Technology for School Librarians Jointly Organised by Society for the Advancement of Library and Information Science (SALIS Chennai Chapter) & Connemara Public Library, Chennai Date 5th JANUARY 2008 Venue Connemara Public Library, Chennai Registration: Free Last date for registraion: 31.12.2007 _____________________________________________________ SALIS & Connemara Public Library, Chennai ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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