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

Job Opportunity @ UNDP, Chennai
by Puna Das 27 Jun '07

27 Jun '07

Job Opportunity @ UNDP Vacancy: Knowledge Centre Facilitator, ICT for Development Organization: UNDP Location: Chennai Closing: July 1, 2007 For Details See: http://www.solutionexchange-un.net.in/drm/comm_update/res-01-190607-14.doc ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.unesco.org/webworld/portal_bib/ http://www.anupkumardas.blogspot.com www.unesco.org/newdelhi ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The DELETE button on Yahoo! Mail is unhappy. Go here to know why http://help.yahoo.com/l/in/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/tools/tools-08.html -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Two Scholarships, One grant and URLs of Indian LIS Associations
by J. K. Vijayakumar 22 Jun '07

22 Jun '07

Details of Two Scholarships and One grant, may be of your interest and URLs of Indian LIS Associations are available at http://libinfospace.blogspot.com/ Thanks, ---------------------------------- J. K. Vijayakumar MLIS PhD IFLA-OCLC Fellow Assistant Director of Library American University of Antigua College of Medicine PB No W1451, St. Johns ANTIGUA, West Indies http://students.auamed.net/library ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better Globetrotter. Get better travel answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545469 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Position Announcement--Database Input Developer (Botany)
by prafulla tv 22 Jun '07

22 Jun '07

Dear All, Please send your applications directly to: support(a)arboretum.org.in and NOT TO MY PERSONAL EMAIL ACCOUNT (that is, tallurivpc(a)yahoo.com) Thanks T.V. Prafulla Chandra ---------------------------------------------- POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT The Dharma Vana Arboretum (DVA) is a non-profit international tree park under development over an area of 455 acres at Bhongir, Nalgonda district. In this park, a wide variety of trees would be cultivated. Designed to be among the largest arboreta in the world and the largest located in a semi-arid tropical climate, the DVA's primary scientific mission is to collect and preserve threatened and endangered species of indigenous trees, with an emphasis on the Deccan Plateau and the Eastern Ghats. The DVA invites applications for the position of: Database Input Developer (Botany) The position is based in the DVA's administrative office located in Cherlapally, about 17 km from the Secunderabad Railway Station. Qualifications i) M.Sc. (Botany, Agriculture, Horticulture, Forest Sciences, Silviculture or any related subject); AND / OR ii) M.L.I.Sc. or any equivalent degree Essential skills i) Ability to type with speed and accuracy ii) Familiarity with internet browsing iii) Good communication skills, both in written and spoken English Work Hours: 5 days a week (Monday through Friday, 9 am to 6.30 pm) Equipped with state-of-art ICTs, on-job training facilities, a special library consisting of 800 documents devoted to botanical literature and access to global databases, the DVA offers a pleasant, comfortable and enjoyable work environment with enriching opportunities for professional fulfillment. The DVA operates an in-house, modern canteen to provide hygienic and healthy food (snacks and meals) to its employees. Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience. The DVA considers applications from candidates who have appeared for examinations and are awaiting results. Please send your application, enclosing a detailed curriculum vitae, to the undersigned. Applications are accepted until the position is filled. Anu Kashyap Dürr Managing Director June 22, 2007 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dharma Vana Arboretum Administrative Office Plot 95/1, Phase 2 IDA Cherlapally Hyderabad 500 051 Andhra Pradesh India Phones Direct +91 40 2726 0930 +91 40 3911 4202 EPABX +91 40 2726 0801 Ext. 202 +91 40 2726 0802 Ext. 202 +91 40 3911 4200 Ext. 202 Fax +91 40 2726 0825 +91 40 3911 4219 Email: support(a)arboretum.org.in www.arboretum.org.in ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ____________________________________________________________________________________ Pinpoint customers who are looking for what you sell. http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Bibliography tool
by Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy 21 Jun '07

21 Jun '07

Dear Friends Please visit the following. www.bibme.org Bibme offers a tool to create a bibliography that can be saved on the web. Books Journals, news. website, Radio, Film etc can be included. You can search for an item from the web and add it. Or You can add an entry manually. Bibliography can be saved in many formats ALS Chicago etc. Data can be exported to rtf file and saved. All For Free. Good Tool for researchers. -- Dr P Vyasamoorthy, Society for Serving Seniors 30, Gruhalakshmi Colony, Secunderabad 500015 Phone 27846631 http://societyforservingseniors.satyamcsr.org -- Dr P Vyasamoorthy, Society for Serving Seniors 30, Gruhalakshmi Colony, Secunderabad 500015 Phone 27846631 http://societyforservingseniors.satyamcsr.org -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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IIT - Kharagpur top tech college in India.
by Sandeep Pathak 20 Jun '07

20 Jun '07

IIT-Kharagpur top tech college in India: Survey Wednesday, 20 June , 2007, 08:08 New Delhi: The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, in West Bengal is the top technology and engineering college of the country, edging out IIT-Madras which held the position last year, a survey said on Tuesday. According to the survey by Dataquest, a technology magazine in India, and International Data Corporation (IDC), a US-headquartered research firm, the seven IITs have bagged the top seven positions. IIT-Kharagpur climbed two places to the first slot. The National Institute of Technology (NIT), Warangal, has stormed into the top 10 list for the first time. While IIT-Madras has slipped from the top slot to second position, IIT-Bombay climbed two spots to occupy the third slot. The premier IIT-Delhi had slid to fourth from No 2 last year, while IIT-Roorkee has jumped two places to fifth spot. IIT-Guwahati is ranked sixth, while IIT-Kanpur is surprisingly the last in the rung of IITs at seventh spot. Describing the National Institute of Technology (formerly, Regional Engineering College) Warangal, being in the top 10, the study said that for the "first time, a second-rung school broke into the Top 10 list". It was at number eight, up four notches from last year. While Indian Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, bagged the ninth spot, Institute of Technology of Banaras Hindu University (BHU) was at 10th spot. Dataquest and IDC had surveyed 117 top technology and engineering colleges of the country. The ranks were awarded based on composite scores arrived on the basis of parameters like placements, infrastructure, academic environment, industry interface and HR perception. The survey found that over one-third of the engineering students from the top 100 engineering colleges were recruited by IT companies in 2007. The number of students employed on campus rose to 87 percent this year against 72 percent last year. The survey underlined the growth of second-tier engineering schools - six NITs formerly known as Regional Engineering Colleges (REC) have entered the Top 20 list. Of these, NIT-Hamirpur (Himachal Pradesh) showed the most remarkable progress, moving up 14 places to rank 20. The survey attributes the rise of NIT-Hamirpur to a marked improvement in every parameter like increase in the number of IT companies visiting the campus for placements and average number of research papers. NIT-Calicut (Kerala), NIT-Kurukshetra (Haryana) and IIIT-Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh) registered the highest growth in terms of companies visiting campuses for placements. Over 22 technology schools have shown a shift of more than 10 positions. Private institutes increased their placement performance to 75 percent from 60 percent last year. The survey found that private institutes are lacking in the number of faculty members with a PhD, which it said was as low as 21 percent compared to NITs (64 percent) and IITs (94 percent). The survey underlined that in 2007 the average annual salary has gone up by 28 percent to Rs 341,000 from Rs 266,000 in 2006. The maximum salary offered by IT companies has increased from Rs 1.5 million per annum last year to Rs 1.8 million this year. - sandeep ---------------------------------------------- S K PATHAK ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (IIT) KHARAGPUR - 721 302 Ph.: 03222-282466 (O) / 282453 (R) Fax: 03222-282431 Web: http://www.library.iitkgp.ernet.in/pathak/skp.htm ---------------------------------------------- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Project trainee for SSB Library automation project
by Mailing List Admin 20 Jun '07

20 Jun '07

Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:38:03 +0530 From: deepak.venkatappa(a)wipro.com Dear Friends, Selection Centre South, which selects officers for Army & Navy is looking for a Project trainee to help them automate their library using LibSYS. It is an ideal opportunity for Library/Information science freshers who are willing to gain exposure. Candidates with knowledge of LibSYS are preferred. Details about the project: Organization: Selection Centre South, Cubbon Road, Opposite Manipal Centre, Bangalore (It is for SSBs for selection of officers for Army and Navy) Project background: They have around 3000 books and a few journals housed in 20-odd shelves. Right now all library operations happen through manual ledgers which are not up-to-date. They have procured LibSYS Library Mgmt S/W that needs to be implemented. Also categorization of books and other library assets, plus framing of some basic issue/return policies for the library. Expected duration: 2 months, extendable by another month or so depending on the need. No of positions: One Remuneration: As per the central govt organization rules. They will give certificate of work done. Interested candidates pls. contact me at the following phone numbers. Thanks & Regards Deepak V Project Manager Global Microsoft Unit .................................................................. Wipro Technologies www.wipro.com <blocked::blocked::outbind://3/www.wipro.com> Bangalore | Phone: +91 80 28520408 Extn: 6632 | Mobile: +91 9886008985

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A few simple guidelines for LIS-Forum etiquette
by Mailing List Admin 20 Jun '07

20 Jun '07

Dear Member: I would like to draw your attention and also seek your cooperation in ensuring that the following basic guidelines are adhered to while posting a message or taking part in a discussion on the LIS-Forum. I have been wanting to bring this to your attention for a while now but somehow couldn't do so. In fact, I have been writing individually to several members who are active on the list to pay attention to some basic guidelines of any discussion list etiquette. The points mentioned below and a few other points, covering the basic rules and guidelines for our discussion list, will be included in the confirmatory mail that is sent to all new registrations and also in the monthly reminders that the list sends to all the members. This way, the members will be reminded of most essential dos and don'ts of this list. 1. Almost every posting / message meant for distribution is received as multiple parts, which means that such mails contain attachments apart from the actual content. When the mails with such attachments are opened, they will typically appear as shown below, Parts/Attachments: 1.1 OK 33 lines Text (charset: ISO-8859-1) 1.2 Shown 10 lines Text (charset: ISO-8859-1) 2 Shown 4 lines Text ---------------------------------------- Although mails with above type of attachments are harmless, such attachments can be easily avoided by ensuring that your e-mail client software (used for reading and sending e-mails) is set to send mails in plain text. Sending mails in plain text format will reduce the size of the mails. This reduction will be to the extent of about few hundred bytes. However, if you take into consideration that there are close to 3000 members on this list and on an average, 2/3 messages are circulated each working day then the reduction of size of each mail to LIS-Forum even to the extent of few hundred bytes will be quite significant. So, please do ensure that messages meant for LIS-Forum are in plain text format only. Sending mails in plain text format is quite simple. By default, your mail client may be composing messages as color and graphics. This needs to be changed to compose messages as plain text. This change can be done in the general preferences of your mail client. As a policy, mails with non textual attachments (.doc / PDF etc) are discarded. 2. Whenever a discussion takes place, members who are responding to the earlier mails should include only a portion of the mail in their replies and the inclusion should be at the top. This will enable the readers to easily follow the discussion. What is happening now is that the replies come at the top followed by the full length original mail. Many a times the entire digest is included in the replies. This not only makes the discussion difficult to follow but it also increases the size of the mail substantially. 3. Although the forum is meant for discussing issues related to LIS and related fields, occasionally, it could also be used for seeking help / guidance / suggestions from the fellow members. While doing so, please do ensure that sufficient background details provided about the query and adequate effort has been made to find solution for the problem at hand. In other words, the forum should be used only as the last resort. 4. Every posting should include complete signature. Thanks for your cooperation. - Moderator

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Version 68, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
by Charles W. Bailey, Jr. 19 Jun '07

19 Jun '07

Version 68 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available from Digital Scholarship. This selective bibliography presents over 3,040 articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html New versions of SEPB are announced on DigitalKoans: http://www.digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/ RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/DigitalKoans The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2006 Annual Edition is also available from Digital Scholarship. Annual editions of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography are PDF files designed for printing. http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/annual/annual.htm For a discussion of the numerous changes in my digital publications since my resignation from the University of Houston Libraries, see: http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2007/02/18/summary-of-baileys-d… Changes in This Version The bibliography has the following sections (revised sections are marked with an asterisk): Table of Contents 1 Economic Issues* 2 Electronic Books and Texts 2.1 Case Studies and History* 2.2 General Works* 2.3 Library Issues* 3 Electronic Serials 3.1 Case Studies and History* 3.2 Critiques 3.3 Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals 3.4 General Works* 3.5 Library Issues* 3.6 Research* 4 General Works* 5 Legal Issues 5.1 Intellectual Property Rights* 5.2 License Agreements 6 Library Issues 6.1 Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata* 6.2 Digital Libraries* 6.3 General Works* 6.4 Information Integrity and Preservation* 7 New Publishing Models* 8 Publisher Issues 8.1 Digital Rights Management* 9 Repositories, E-Prints, and OAI* Appendix A. Related Bibliographies Appendix B. About the Author Appendix C. SEPB Use Statistics* Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources includes the following sections: Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata Digital Libraries* Electronic Books and Texts Electronic Serials* General Electronic Publishing Images Legal* Preservation Publishers Repositories, E-Prints, and OAI SGML and Related Standards Further Information about SEPB The XHTML version of SEPB is designed for interactive use. Each major section is a separate file. There are links to sources that are freely available on the Internet. It can be searched using a Google Search Engine. Whether the search results are current depends on Google's indexing frequency. In addition to the bibliography, the XHTML document includes: (1) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (biweekly list of new resources; also available by e-mail--see second URL--and RSS Feed--see third URL) http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepw/sepw.htm http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=51756 http://feeds.feedburner.com/ScholarlyElectronicPublishingWeblogrss (2) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources (directory of over 270 related Web sites) http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepr/sepr.htm (3) Archive (prior versions of the bibliography) http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/archive/sepa.htm Related Article An article about the bibliography has been published in The Journal of Electronic Publishing: http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-02/bailey.html -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Digital Scholarship http://www.digital-scholarship.org/ DigitalKoans/Flashback http://www.digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/ http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/category/flashback-weekly-news/ Open Access Bibliography/Webliography http://www.digital-scholarship.org/oab/oab.htm http://www.digital-scholarship.org/cwb/oaw.htm Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography/Weblog http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepw/sepw.htm -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Fwd: BananaSlug - Long Tail Search Engine
by Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy 17 Jun '07

17 Jun '07

Here is a search engine with a twist. great unexpected results. A fine way to 'improve' searches. Or a strange way to reduce clutter in results. http://www.bananaslug.com/ This was brought to my attention by a friend -- Justice Rangarajan - who is a retired judge, voracious reader and a librarians' delight. -- Dr P Vyasamoorthy, Society for Serving Seniors 30, Gruhalakshmi Colony, Secunderabad 500015 Phone 27846631 http://societyforservingseniors.satyamcsr.org -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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vacancy notice-URGENT
by Mailing List Admin 15 Jun '07

15 Jun '07

Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 10:50:54 +0530 From: Dr Divya Srivastava <drdivya.srivastava(a)gmail.com> To The Administrator, I am working at Indian Council of Medical Research (HQ), New Delhi. I have an opening for Research Assistant in a DST Project , with me. I am pasting the adv. for the vacancy. Please post it on forum site URGENTLY as the date for Walkin Interview is 29th June at Delhi. Thank You Dr (Mrs) Divya Srivastava Assistant Director General ICMR INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH Candiadtes are invited for a walk in Interview of Research Assistant - One Post on 29 June 07, at 2.00 pm, at Council's Head Quarter's Office with CV on plain paper for the purely temporary post under the DST Project *"Global Data base of Research Papers on Malaria during last 50 years and its Analysis" *under *Dr. Divya Srivastava (PI)* *Qualifications Essential :* *(i)* Postgraduate degree in Biological Science/ Science/ or equivalent. *Desirable* *:* (i) Degree in Library Science/Information Science ( DRTC/NISCAIR/University * (ii) Diploma in Computer from a recognize institution * * Candidates appeared in Final Exam may also apply. *Job Requirement : *Data Collection , Recording , processing, development of databases, computerization of scientific information *etc.* *Age :* 28 years. *Salary :* Rs 8325/- per month (Consolidated). Age relaxation for SC, ST , OBC and One year experience in related field as per rules. Those desire to appear for *walk � in personal discussion* should report to *A.O. P&I (Mrs Daya Mallik), at Indian Council of Medical Research, V. Ramalingaswami Bhawan, Ansari Nagar, Post Bag No. 4911, New Delhi-110029, (Ph: 26589497) between 9.30 am �12.30 pm, *and* *bring with them : 1. *All certificates/ testimonials in original.* 2. *One attested copy each of the certificate/testimonial* 3. *Two copies of brief (One Page) Curriculum Vitae.*

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