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

Innovative Services for Special Libraries
by D Jotwani, Librarian IIT Bombay 21 Feb '07

21 Feb '07

Dear All The Central Library, IIT Bombay in collaboration with Max Muller Bhavan, Mumbai is organizing a half day's program on "Innovative Services for Special Libraries". Dr R.Ball, Head of the Central Library of Research Centre Jülich, Germany will be the main speaker. Dr Ball has been in the profession of Library Science since 1994 and has served both as a teacher of library science as well as a librarian. The programme also includes a presentation on the recently launched, Institutional Repository of IIT Bombay and a couple of demos on EBooks. The Library and Information Science Professionals serving in academic, scientific, technical and research libraries may find the programme interesting and useful for their work. Registration is free. But please confirm your participation in advance. Date:27th February 2007 Time: 2- 5 pm Place:Institute auditorium,IIT,Bombay. Thank you. --------------------------------------- D. Jotwani Librarian Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Powai, Mumbai 400076 Phone 91-22-25768920, 91-22-25720227 email:jotwanid@iitb.ac.in librarian(a)iitb.ac.in ---------------------------------

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REFRESHER COURSE IN LIS
by gopikuttan gopikuttan 21 Feb '07

21 Feb '07

Dear Professionals Academic staff College of Kerala University is planning to conduct refresher course in Library science From 3-5-2007 to 23-5-2007. Those who wish to apply can down load the application from www.ugcasc.keralauniversity.edu Thank u Dr.A.Gopikuttan General Secretary Kerala Library Association email: agopikuttan(a)yahoo.co.in --------------------------------- Heres a new way to find what you're looking for - Yahoo! Answers

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Digital Library Initiatives using GSDL & DSpace - Last date for Registration: 12th March 2007.
by Arunachalam Hariharan 21 Feb '07

21 Feb '07

Dear Friends, Kindly read the last date for the Registration of the Workshop on Digital Library Initiatives using GSDL & DSpace as Last date for Registration: 12th March 2007. Workshop Date: 16-17, March 2007 Venue: B.S.Abdur Rahman Crescent Engineering College, Chennai Thanks Mr. PANNEERSELVAM Librarian Crescent Engineering College GST Road, Vandalur Chennai-600 048 044-22751347,48,50/ 22751375 Cell: 9841103912/9444109089/9444885083 libworkshop(a)cresentcollege.org p_panneer(a)yahoo.co.in salis_info(a)yahoo.co.in A.Hariharan Structural Engineering Research Centre CSIR Campus Taramani Chennai - 600 113 hariharan_ah(a)yahoo.com Cell: 9841601901 Off:044-22549133 -------------------------------------------------- SALIS B2-Solai Apatments Mount-Poonamallee Road (opp.to.MGR Garden) Chennai - 600 116 Tel: 044-22522448/42014772 www.autolib-india.net/salis ____________________________________________________________________________________ It's here! Your new message! Get new email alerts with the free Yahoo! Toolbar. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/

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General Body meeting of OPLib
by prafulla tv 21 Feb '07

21 Feb '07

ANNOUNCEMENT The general body meeting of the Organization for the Protection of Libraries (OPLib) would be held on Sunday, March 4, 2007 on the lawns opposite University College of Arts & Social Sciences, Osmania University at 11 am. All the members of OPLib are invited to attend. Agenda 1. Presentation of a report on the activities so far and statement of accounts. 2. Finalisation of activities to be taken up during April 1, 2007 to March 31, 2008. 3. Any other item with the permission of the Chair. Dr A Kishore President ____________________________________________________________________________________ It's here! Your new message! Get new email alerts with the free Yahoo! Toolbar. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/

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A talk by Imma Subirats of FAO on E-LIS (fwd)
by Francis Jayakanth 20 Feb '07

20 Feb '07

Imma Subirats Coll, an information management specialist at the Food and Agriculture Organization, FAO of the United Nations, http://www.fao.org/, Coordinator of E-LIS, E-prints in Library and Information Science URL: http://eprints.rclis.org/ will share her experiences in managing the E-LIS, world's largest open access archive for LIS. You are invited for the talk. Date: Saturday, 24 Feruary, 2007 Time: 11 AM Vanue: NCSI Seminar Hall, IISc, Bangalore For more details about the speaker, please visit: http://openlib.org/home/subirats/ [Abstract] E-LIS is an open access archive for library and information science. With over 5,100 documents as of February 2007, E-LIS is the world's largest archive for LIS. Over half the documents in E-LIS are peer-reviewed. E-LIS is particularly strong in English and Spanish language documents, but supports over 22 languages. With this multilingual support and a global team of volunteer editors, E-LIS has significant diversity in content, an advantage over traditional, english-based LIS resources. Not surprising, this tool designed by and for librarians features robust and user-friendly search options. Lack of phrase searching, and pointing to a cross-archiving searching tool no longer supported when much better options are available, are identified as areas for improvement. [References] Bassi, Maria Cristina and Subirats Coll, Imma and De Robbio, Antonella and Krichel, Thomas (2005) E-LIS : E-prints in Library and Information Science. In Proceedings 71st IFLA General Conference and Council, Oslo (Norway). http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00004497/ De Beer, Jennifer A. (2005) Expanding (y)our field with E-LIS. In Western Cape Higher Education Libraries Interest Group (WCHELIG) Winter Workshop: Getting published Cape Town (South Africa). http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00004033/ De Robbio, Antonella and Subirats Coll, Imma (2005) E-LIS : an international open archive towards building open digital libraries. High Energy Physics Libraries Webzine (11/2005). http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00004476/ Medeiros, Norm (2004) A repository of our own: the E-LIS e-prints archive. OCLC Systems & Services 20 (2): pp.58-60. http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00001655/ Arencibia Jorge, Ricardo and Santillán Aldana, Julio and Subirats Coll, Imma (2005) Iniciativas de acceso abierto en Ciencias de la Información y Documentación : evolución y perspectivas de E-LIS. Revista Española de Documentación Científica 28(2):pp. 221-232. http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00004475/ Subirats Coll, Imma and Barrueco Cruz, José Manuel (2004) Un archivo abierto en ciencias de la documentación e información. El Profesional de la Información 13(5):pp. 346-352. http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00002472/ - Francis NCSI, IISc Bangalore

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Update on IndianJournals.Com
by Chandrima Roy 20 Feb '07

20 Feb '07

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Creating a Greenstone Digital Library with Winisis Database -A self-instructional Guide
by Rajan 20 Feb '07

20 Feb '07

We have prepared an easy-to-follow Manual for Conversion of Winisis Archive into Greenstone collections with Greenstone digital Library software 2.72 Wnisis Archive here means an archive of full-text documents created by using link.......OPENFILE command. The manual is useful only for those who are familiar with creation of Winisis database with linked fulltext documents. (The contents in this manual are dealt with in the Dr John Rose's guide available in Internet. But we have excluded "as is" conversion of Winisis dabase to greenstone to make it simple). Our next document will be on easier customization of Greenstone. The manual can be had from librariankila(a)hotmail.com K Rajasekharan Librarian, Kerala Institute of Local administration Mulagunnathukavu - 680 581 Thrissur, India Ph 0487-2204097 (O) 2201428 (R)

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ISiM-TCS Workshop on Text Mining and Business Intelligence, March 5-6 2007, Hotel Regalis, Mysore
by Angrosh 20 Feb '07

20 Feb '07

Dear All, Workshop Announcement ISiM-TCS Workshop on Text Mining and Business Intelligence, 5-6 March, 2007, Hotel Regalis, Mysore Topics Covered: Text Mining and Data Analytics Concepts, Tools and Technologies Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence Application Areas, Case Studies and Trends Text Mining Tools and Technologies: Hands on Business Intelligence Systems: Demo Programme Schedule: Day 1 (5th March 2007) Sessions Text Mining: Discovering the unknown through categorization, clustering and structuring. Theories and Technologies in support of Text Mining Text Mining Software: Hands on with software such as TextAnalyst Text Mining and Data Analytics Day 2 (6th March 2007) Sessions Understanding Data Warehousing & Business Intelligence Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence: Application Areas & Case Studies Team Exercise addressing a BI Scenario, Understanding BI tools such as Data Modeling Tools, Database, ETL Tools, Reporting Tools, Analytics Tools etc. Trends in Data Warehousing BI Architecture, Issues in BI implementation (Project Governance, Data Quality etc.), Planning successful BI programs BI System: Demo Takeaways: Understanding of Text Mining: Tools, Techniques and Applications with hands on training Knowledge of Data Warehousing Tools, Concepts and Trends Text Mining and Data Warehousing applications in Business Intelligence Facilitators: Dr. Michael A. Shepherd, Professor, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Canada Dr. Shalini R. Urs, Executive Director, ISIM, University of Mysore, Mysore TCS Business Intelligence Team Workshop Fees: Workshop Fee: Rs. 12,000/- per participant Early Bird Offer: Registration before 25th February 2007: Rs. 10,000/- per participant The Workshop is designed as a two-day residential course for providing maximum benefits to the participants. The Workshop Fee covers: Hotel accommodation for one night and two days at Hotel Regalis, Mysore Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner Workshop Kit including course material Registration: Registration forms can be downloaded from http://www.isim.ac.in/tmworkshop/ For enquiries please contact: Angrosh Tel: +91-821-2514699 or Mobile: 9886970411 For more details visit http://www.isim.ac.in/tmworkshop

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Workshop on Digital Library Initiatives using GSDL & DSpace by SALIS
by Arunachalam Hariharan 20 Feb '07

20 Feb '07

Dear Friends, SALIS Society for the Advancement of Library and Information Science (SALIS Chennai Chapter) & The Central Library of B.S.Abdur Rahman Crescent Engineering College, Chennai organizing a two-day workshop on Digital Library Initiatives using GSDL & DSpace Date: 16-17, March 2007 Venue: B.S.Abdur Rahman Crescent Engineering College, Chennai Objectives The objective of the workshop is to provide X An Overview of the Metadata Standards X Overview of the Open Archives Initiatives X A first hand knowledge of the GSDL and DSpace X Training in building digital library collection X Training to build Institutional Repositories/Archives Coverage X Digital Library X Digitization and OCR X Metadata Standards X Dublin Core X Overview of Open Access Archives and OAI-PMH X Institutional Repositories/Archives Methodology X Lectures X Presentation X Demonstration X Practical training This workshop will be conducted by the experts in the field. Eligibility Practicing Librarians, information professionals. Registration fee: For SALIS members : Rs.350 Non members : Rs.400 Students / Research scholars : Rs.300 The registration fee includes workshop kit, working lunch and tea for two days. No. of Participants Limited to 50 delegates on first come first serve basis. Last Date 30th Sep 2006 DD in favour of ¡¥ Principal, of B.S.Abdur Rahman Crescent Engineering College¡¦ payable at Chennai Registration Form Name Designation Organisation Address for Communication Tel: Off: Res: Cell: Are you a member of SALIS : Fee Particulars: Information about the candidate as given above should be sent along with the DD to: Mr. PANNEERSELVAM Librarian Crescent Engineering College GST Road, Vandalur Chennai-600 048 044-22751347,48,50/ 22751375 Cell: 9841103912/9444109089/9444885083 libworkshop(a)cresentcollege.org p_panneer(a)yahoo.co.in salis_info(a)yahoo.co.in ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a PS3 game guru. Get your game face on with the latest PS3 news and previews at Yahoo! Games. http://videogames.yahoo.com/platform?platform=120121

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BioMed Central Open Access Colloquium Slide shows and presentations
by Swapan Patra 20 Feb '07

20 Feb '07

BioMed Central Open Access Colloquium, "Open Access: How Can We Achieve Quality and Quantity?" held at The Royal College of Physicians, Regent's Park, London NW1 4LE, UK on Thursday 8th February, 2007 Podcasts and powerpresentations are available with the following link "http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/about/oacolloquium" Swapan kumar Patra Deaprtment of Biochemical Engineering & Biotechnology Indian Institute of Technology Delhi New Delhi-

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