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

Designing Internet and Web-Based Education
by Sanjeev Kumar Jain 24 May '07

24 May '07

Dear LIS Professionals and Managers Tutorial on Designing Internet and Web-Based Education. This resource describes issues related to using the Internet for education and training, although it also addresses other aspects of Web site design. It focuses on integrating multiple services and resources and encouraging interaction and collaboration in addition to accessing information resources. Full text accessed from: http://collab.nlm.nih.gov/tutorialspublicationsandmaterials/sitedesigncp.ht… -- With Regards _____________________________ SANJEEV KUMAR JAIN Resource Center NIFT Campus, LA Block, Near 16 No. Water Tank, Sector III, Salt Lake City, Kolkata - 700 098 Tel: +91-33-23357342 / 8351 Fax: +91-33-23355734 Wesite: http://www.kolkata.niftindia.com Email: sanjeevmlis(a)yahoo.co.in -- 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] Efforts of MyDLIS, University of Mysore in introducing ICT skills among students
by Shalini Urs 24 May '07

24 May '07

Dear All, First a disclaimer: I cite the MyDLIS case as a case in point only - it does not mean 'others' are NOT doing what is expected. Secondly my apologies for a long winding message. I would like to thank all those who have conveyed their greetings and responses (for the posting by my colleague Hari) To continue the discussion, I have a question in the context of LIS curriculum. Has anyone done a systematic study of the LIS syllabus of universities before branding them as NOT GOOD ENOUGH or AS GOOD AS NCSI/DRTC?. I beg to differ here - our (MyDLIS) syllabus is in tune with both the changing scenario of LIS as well as market expectations/demands. Please have a look at our syllabus - <http://lisc.uni-mysore.ac.in/> http://lisc.uni-mysore.ac.in PLEASE DO NOT MAKE SWEEPING GENERALISATIONS. Please also note that graduates from LIS schools are also doing quite well in many companies. We have our students working in companies such as IBM, Wipro, TCS, InfoSys, Accenture, I2 technologies, etc. We have received 'words of praise' about our students from their bosses. Some of our students also have effortlessly transited to KM and a few of them to even mainstream 'technical' areas. I would say it is all individual specific and case dependent. Excellence or progress is NOT the monopoly of elite institutions only. Let me respond to some of the questions/assumptions/opinions expressed with reference to the following- * LIS curriculum * Market expectations and demands/requirements Designing/adoption of LIS curriculum etc: * UGC is only a recommendatory /norm setting body in academic matters. UGC may recommend a model syllabus, but cannot make it mandatory. Each university is autonomous. The Board of Studies (BOS) in LIS of each university is in charge of drafting the syllabus/curriculum. They have the autonomy to design the syllabus. The BOS in any discipline (including LIS) consists of senior faculty of the Department as well couple of external experts. * There is usually a norm that the BOS revise/review the syllabus once in said number of years (in our case it is 3 years). In fact university encourages us to modify and keep it up to date. Many times, we get some small grants to organise workshops etc and invite experts to discuss on the curriculum. And we do carry out such exercises too. * The guiding principles of curriculum innovations are -changing dynamics of the LIS as a discipline and the market expectations/demands. * In addition to these two guiding principles, we also need to keep in mind - the pragmatics of imparting the syllabus such as infrastructure and other resources. * When it comes to ICT skills etc, the physical infrastructure such as an IT lab and the well trained teachers are two important criteria for the effectiveness of imparting the programme. * It is the responsibility of the departments to mobilise the resources and create the necessary infrastructure and resources in terms of trained teachers. Individual teachers also are responsible for keeping their knowledge and skill sets contemporary. There are many different strategies/opportunities that an LIS department uses to accomplish the above. Many LIS Departments have been successful in this regard. Market expectations/demands (wrt ICT): * In today's digital age, all sectors need ICT infrastructure and therefore LIS professionals with these skills are in need. The difference is in the kinds of specialised knowledge required. We cannot generalise again. * The market may vary in terms of opportunities. Today we may find more opportunities (in terms of number) in the private sector than in the public sector. Sometimes it is seasonal. * Deploying ICT many a times depends on the individuals working in these segments. I can cite examples of some of our students working in college libraries taking the initiative and deploying open source software (be it Koha or Open Biblio or something else) for automating their libraries. Instances where college libraries having deployed DSpace/ Greenstone for different types of repositories (may be student project reports/question papers etc) are NOT uncommon. * In a company LIS professionals may be called upon to manage electronic resources through intranets and portals, but not necessarily be required to deploy software tools or handle ICT infrastructure issues as they have technical people to manage the same, where as in academic segment, the librarians maybe called upon to install software, and manage the ICT infrastructure! I would like to end this lengthy note with the following - please do not dismiss LIS schools. Given the constraints that we work in, some of us have done very well indeed. Our products have also done fairly well and responded to the market expectations very well and MyDLIS is proud of them. Thank you Dr. Shalini R. Urs Executive Director and Professor International School of Information Management University of Mysore Mysore - 570006 India Tel : 91-821-2514699 Fax : 91-821-2519209 Email : shalini(a)isim.ac.in URL : www.vidyanidhi.org.in/shaliniurs.htm -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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IFAP Preservation of Information - Key Messages for Governments and Industry
by Puna Das 24 May '07

24 May '07

Dear Madam/Sir, We are pleased to share with you the outcomes of the thematic debate on the "Preservation of Information" held at the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris on 3 April 2007, within the framework of the 12th meeting of the Bureau of UNESCO’s Information for All Programme. The debate helped to clarify the role that Governments can play in developing policies and in setting priorities for the preservation of information, particularly in the context of the digital age. Governments need to take a pro-active stance, especially in view of the rapid growth in digital information and the lack of effective solutions for preserving this information. The specific outcomes of the debate have been summarized in the enclosed document entitled "Key messages for Governments and industry" [ http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=24447&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECT… ]. For IFAP, these messages are particularly important in the context of UNESCO’s celebration of World Information Society Day 2007 dedicated to the principle of "Universal access to information and knowledge". Indeed, preservation is not an aim in itself, but an indispensable pre-requisite for enabling the world’s citizens to access information and use it. The proceedings of the thematic debate as well as the electronic version of the "Key messages for Governments and industry" are also available from the IFAP website at: www.unesco.org/webworld/ifap. Thank you for your attention. Bryan Corbett University Archivist, University of Alberta, Book and Records Depository (BARD) 100, 8170-50th Street Edmonton, Alberta CANADA T6B 1E6 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.unesco.org/webworld/portal_bib/ http://www.unesco.org/newdelhi/ http://www.anupkumardas.blogspot.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Download prohibited? No problem! To chat from any browser without download, Click Here: http://in.messenger.yahoo.com/webmessengerpromo.php -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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currently looking for information from libraries which have already carried out such retrospective conversion projects
by Vijayakumara 24 May '07

24 May '07

Dear All, , I am Vijayakumar M, working for the Birla Institute of Technology Library, Mesra-Ranchi. I am currently gathering information to examine ways our library could update it's 1,10,000+ OPAC records from its physical books and accession register. To do so, I am currently looking for information from libraries which have already carried out such retrospective conversion projects. If yes, would you please take the time to answer these few questions. What was the size of the collection converted? Was the project done in-house or by a vendor? If the project was done by a vendor, which vendor did you use? Could you estimate the cost and the time taken of your project? The average time needed for a record? What was the scale of the quality check once the records were converted? Did unexpected problems occur? Do you got any sponsers from DST/AICTE/UGC/CSIR/ and others With warm Regards Vijayakumar M \ \ | / / \ \ ~ ~ / / | @ @ | ---------------oooo------ (_)-------------oooo------------------ Vijayakumar M. MSc., PGDLAN., Ph.D. Central Library Birla Institute of Technology, Deemed Univeristy Mesra, Ranchi- 835215, India Tel:0651-2276675 Fax:0651-2275401 http://www.bitmesra.ac.in/ coolvg(a)gmail.com --------------------------------- Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, news, photos & more. -- 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] Efforts of MyDLIS, University of Mysore in introducing ICT skills among students
by Mailing List Admin 24 May '07

24 May '07

Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 17:33:13 +0530 From: Mr. B. G. Sunder Singh <bgs(a)nic.in> At 07:27 PM 5/22/2007, Sukhdev Singh wrote: Dear Friends, Most of us read emails from this forum, however very few of us try to discuss issues contained in these emails. Even when some people do respond - they just reply to the originator of the email and not to the whole forum. I can understand most of forum servers are configured in that manner only. So while clicking on "Reply" - reply goes to only to the author of the email. I would request lis-forum members to click on "Reply All" if they feel that whole forum would be interested in the issue. I feel e-forums like lis-forum are meant to discuss rather than announce. The respondent may want his/her reply addressed to the originator only, though be definition the forum is for useful discussion. Now let me come to the issue of ICT skills among students of Library Science. I would rather like seek an answer? What does market expects from Student Librarians. Does market ( employment opportunities) favours ICT skilled students? For answer, I would suggest some M.Lib.Sc student take it as master thesis. At one of my alma mater's, this was periodically done by a senior teacher (Frances Wood) both for the purposes of refocussing one'sown curriculum and similar decisions and also for enabling the alumnus to set his/her best foot forward. I am not aware of similar studies in our context. I feel there are four are market segments - 1. Academic Segments - Here the requirements are more or less are fixed by some accrediting body UGC. ICT Skills are just considered desirable. 2. Public Libraries Segment - Usually has lower eligibility criteria. I wonder if any preference given to ICT Skills. 3. Govt Sector / Research Segment - Depends upon the employer department. 4. Private and Corporate Segment - They need highly ICT Skilled professionals. But only problem is that they would employ librarian for very routine jobs and give ICT jobs to MBAs or Computer Professionals. Like one of my earlier teachers at Mysore University used to maintain -- the niche at that point of time was an information triangle -- the USER, the Source of information and the Intermediary. The User decides the services/contents that s/he wants, the source is unmanageable and unpredictable but the intermediary always finds a way to interface both these components. The technology and costs of access are dictated by those who pay for it. I think even today this has remained valid. If a school of professional experience has to cater to all the four segments mentioned by Sukhdev or emphasized by Murari (Tapaswi!), then it has to take care of the intake (through rigorous selection policy and pick of the aspirants), the resources (of all kinds), the human capital (that some times ceases to add any value to its teaching/learning capabilities), the ability to place its alumnus in the right places, and of course the employers (read as market and opportunities) . Where nothing is of certainty, then you only produce poor graduates in library science, who will take any job that comes their way and perpetually keep moaning!!! This is what I assume. The truth may quite different from it. Therefore we should further elaborate on this issue and take it as a scientific study. Not only we should answer the marketability of ICT skills but should also try to find out what exact skills are required and what priority each skill get in the market. Only then we should be able to fine tune our LIS curriculum. Agreed, although such market surveys should be made by professionals -- not by way of guided/unguided surveys by post-graduate students of library/information science. And mere Prescription should not be an academic solution! ss/20070523/17:35

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Congratulations to Winners of the 2007 ASIST SIG IIIInternational Paper Contest
by pku＠nic.in 23 May '07

23 May '07

"Heartiest Congratulations" to 2007 SIG III eighth International Paper Contest Winners organized by ASIST. It was my unique and valuable professional experience to interact and participate in the last year ASIST Conference at Austin, Texas during November 2006 as one of the paper contest winner. Paricipation was full of professional papers and colleagues. cheers Pradip Kumar Upadhyay 2006 SIG III International Paper Contest Winner, Fulbright Scholar (India)(2002-03), Officer Incharge Library National Informatics Centre(NIC) New Delhi(India) > > Dear All, > > It is my great pleasure to announce the results of the eighth > International > Paper Contest organized by the American Society for Information Science & > Technology (ASIST) Special Interest Group on International Information > Issues > (SIG III). Thanks to Julian, Judy and their jury team for making it > happen! > > Our six winners this year are: > > 1. Shampa Paul, India. > "A case study of e-governance initiatives in India." > > 2. Soumitra Sharma, India. > "Exploring best practices in public-private partnerships (ppp) in > e-government > through select Asian case-studies." > > 3. Rama Devi, India. > "Towards promotion and dissemination of IK. A case of NIRD." > > 4. M.Masoom Raza Amar Nath, India. > "Use of IT in University Libraries of Punjab, Chandigarh and Himachal > Pradesh : > A Comparative study." > > 5. Elsa Barber, Silvia Pisano, Sandra Romagnoli, Verónica Parsiale and > Gabriela > De Pedro y Carolina Gregui, Argentina. > "User Interface of Web Opacs in Mercosur Member and Associate Countries." > > 6. Medha Joshi, India. > "Digital resources for information accessibility at the point of care: an > overview of Library Information System at Tata Memorial Hospital." > > The theme of this year?s contest was "Joining Research and Practice: > Social > Computing and Information Science." > > The principal authors of each of the six winning papers will be awarded a > two-year individual membership to ASIST. In addition, the leading two > winners, > Shampa Paul and Soumitra Sharma will be awarded a minimum of $1,000 each > to > attend the October 18-25, 2007 ASIST Annual Meeting, in Milwaukee, > Wisconsin. > > These winning papers and other submitted papers for the competition will > be > considered for publication by Elsevier's International Information and > Library > Review, which is edited by Toni Carbo. > > Thanks to the generous donations from participants of the October 6 2006 > Kenya > Embassy Fundraiser, Elsevier, and many of our previous organization and > individual donors. Your efforts have enabled us to continue with this > International Contest. Further fundraising effort -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Efforts of MyDLIS, University of Mysore in introducing ICT skills among students
by N.S. Harinarayana 23 May '07

23 May '07

Sri. K. Rajasekharan of Kerala Institute of Local Administration, Thrissur in his recent postings in LIS-FORUM on creating website with Google Page Creator has rightly observed "Our library science schools should not refrain from focusing on such things (teaching of new technologies) too in their academic activities". While endorsing in principle the concern of Sri Rajashekaran, I would like to add that a few library schools have been striving hard to prepare library science students to the new environment. Unfortunately, their efforts are either rarely being reported or documented. I feel that Listservs like LIS-FORUM could be used as one such forums where Library Schools can report to the professional community their activities and programs more regularly. Department of Library and Information Science (MyDLIS), University of Mysore, Mysore has* *always striven hard to incorporate and inculcate new technologies in its teaching/ mentoring programmes. Mention may be made of the following specific experiments/ innovations. - Blogging : MyDLIS has been encouraging students to create their own blogs. It may not be out of context to say that a blogging competition was held in November 2005 and 56 students out of 64 participated in the competition and successfully created their own blogs. - Email: Students are encouraged to submit their assignments and other written documents and many times being made compulsory by some faculty members. - On-line tests: Tests for students are being conducted in online mode for their internal assessment in one of the subjects. - Friday talks - one of our successful traditions for the last 4 decades, are being conducted every week. Under this Friday talk programme, efforts are made to help develop students 'well rounded personality' both professionally and personally - Under this program experts from different walks of life, including those in the field of IT, are invited to talk on their experience. This provides the students insight into challenges and issues that one might face in their careers / life. - The cataloguing practical is being conducted in IT labs and students prepare catalogue records in MARC21, Dublin Core etc. using HTML, XML and RDF formats. - Training in library automation software and digital library software are part of practical training. - Online Social bookmaking and other tools/techniques are being used for academic purposes by students and staff. - The syllabus is being updated almost every three years to incorporate the latest developments. - Project work is compulsory and invariably students take up ICT based topics. The students key in their project/dissertation on their own using the computing facility available in the Department. In fact, the custom of projects/work experience was introduced earlier to 1980. - MyDLIS had introduced "Computers in Libraries" paper way back in 1980s - A computer lab was started early as 1989 in the Department. It was the first among very few computer labs at that time in the Mysore University. - The concept of electives was first introduced by MyDLIS in mid 1970s itself. However , we would like to confess , that despite our enthusiasm and best efforts, the outcome may not be 'fantastic' for the simple reason that LIS profession does not attract forget about top level, not even the mid level talent*. *Majority of the students come from rural areas, having studied in the regional language and from poorer section of the society without access to computers. They do not have any computer orientation at all. They are starters as for as IT is concerned. They have to not learn only the library science subjects but also the skill of IT* *within a span of 2 years. For some students it is too much to cope up with. However, we encourage our students to keep themselves abreast of new technologies. * *given their background, some of them get motivated and are transformed. Of course there is an urgent need for some organised mechanism to train the trainers (teachers) also. ____- N.S. Harinarayana, Ph.D Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore, Manasagangtori Mysore 570 006 Off. Ph: (0821) 2419393 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Presentations at Computers in Libraries 2007 Conference , Arlington VA
by sandeep bhavsar 23 May '07

23 May '07

Respected All Computers in Libraries is the leading conference for librarians and information professionals who need to know about the latest technologies, equipment, software, and services available. The presentations at Computers in Libraries 2007 conference are now available. Please log on to http://www.infotoday.com/CIL2007/Presentations/default.shtml Looks like quite a lot of useful information on web 2.0 applications in libraries. Best Regards Sandeep Bhavsar Librarian Dr.V.N.Bedekar Institute of Management Studies Thane(W). 400601 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ email : sandeep.bhavsar(a)gmail.com Mob : 09870484626 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ --------------------------------- Yahoo! Answers - Got a question? Someone out there knows the answer. Tryit now. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Job Opportunity at Library & Information Centre (LIC) - Tata Consultancy Services, Hyderabad.
by Nagappa B 23 May '07

23 May '07

Job Opportunity at Library & Information Centre (LIC) - Tata Consultancy Services. Hyderabad. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is one of the world?s leading information technology companies. Commencing operations in 1968, today TCS has a presence in 47 countries, 169 offices across the globe. Through its Global Network Delivery Model, Innovation Network, and Solution Accelerators, TCS focuses on helping global organizations address their business challenges effectively. TCS continues to invest in new technologies, processes, and people, which can help its customers succeed. From generating novel concepts through TCS Innovation Labs and academic alliances, to drawing on the expertise of key partners, it keeps clients operating at the very edge of technological possibility. Whether TCS is envisioning a business advantage, engineering an IT solution, or executing an outsourcing strategy, it helps its customers experience certainty in their every day business. TCS has one of the largest corporate library networks with 58 libraries located in 12 cities managed by about 120 professionals. Backed with world-class infrastructure facilities and high quality processes & benchmarks, TCS libraries offer a variety of information services in alignment with the business needs of the organization. TCS LIC community ensures a professional environment with regular training, skills upgradation and sharing of best practies. TCS is looking for suitable candidates for the following positions at Hyderabad: 1. Officer - Library & Information Centre (Two positions/ Regular) Qualifications: M.L.I.Sc/M.Sc (Lib.Sc)/MIM/MSc. (ISc)/ADIS or equivalent, Experience: 1 to 3 years (Max.) experience in library / documentation / information handling, preferably in corporate, scientific, IT environments. 2. Trainee - Library & Information Centre (Two positions/ Temporary) Qualifications: B.L.I.Sc. and above. Freshers (awaiting results) or with up to 1year (Max.) experience can also apply. The positions are temporary ( 6 months max ) and are stipend based. Candidates with a flair for IT and good communication skills (written and spoken) will be preferred. Knowledge of any foreign language other than English will be a plus point. Job Description: The person would be a part of Hyderabad library team and the key responsibilities wd include: Offer timely & relevant information services Handling electronic resources & queries, Design / update the library portals, Create and archive information assets Housekeeping operations Provide uninterrupted library hours Assist the branch libraries to achieve their objectives The person should be flexible to work at any of the locations within the city (as well as other cities) & carry out extended hours. The compensation will match the best in the industry Interested candidates may email / post their resumes including complete academic records (10th std onwards) with percentage of marks, passport size photograph, latest by 4th June 2007 With warm regards Nagappa B. Branch Head Library & Information Centre Tata Consultancy Services Limited Plot No. 1, Survey No. 64/2, Software Units Layout, Seri Lingampally Mandal, Hi-tech City, Madhapur, Hyderabad - 500 081, Andhra Pradesh, India Tel. 91-40-6667 2533/31 Mailto: nagappa.b(a)tcs.com Special Note: * Superscribe the envelope or mention in the subject line of the email as "Application for the post of Officer - Library & Information Centre". * Please do not enclose photocopies of mark sheets/certificates etc., now. * Those who have already applied in last six months need not apply. * Only short-listed candidates will be contacted. =====-----=====-----===== Notice: The information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, use, review, distribution, printing or copying of the information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it are strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us by reply e-mail or telephone and immediately and permanently delete the message and any attachments. Thank you -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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EMERALD/EFMD OUTSTANDING DOCTORAL RESEARCH AWARDS- 2007
by Mailing List Admin 23 May '07

23 May '07

Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 07:05:23 +0100 From: Rajneesh Rajpal <RRajpal(a)emeraldinsight.com> The 2007 Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Awards TEN Euro 1,5000 PRIZES TO ENCOURAGE AND REWARD EXCELLENCE IN MANAGEMENT RESEARCH WORLD-WIDE Emerald Group Publishing Limited, publisher of the largest collection of international business and management journals, and the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD), a global membership organization with more than 500 institutional members from academia, business and pubic services, seek to celebrate excellence in research by sponsoring the 2007 Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Awards. Further information Winners will be listed on the web sites of both Emerald (www.emeraldinsight.com <http://www.emeraldinsight.com/> ) and the EFMD (www.efmd.org <http://www.efmd.org/> ). Short-listing and further contact will occur during October/November 2007. Winners will be announced in the first week of December 2007. Details of last year’s winners can be found at http://www.emeraldinsight.com/info/researchers/funding/awards/doctoral/2006… Reaction to the awards from winning institutions can be found at http://www.emeraldinsight.com/info/researchers/funding/awards/testimonials.… To view the application details online, please visit http://www.emeraldinsight.com/info/researchers/funding/awards/doctoral/inde…

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