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

Delayed Open Access Journals in LIS
by Mukesh Anand 06 Jun '07

06 Jun '07

Dear LIS Resource Persons', Teachers', Working Professionals', Reserch Scholars' & Students'; Delayed Open Access Journal :- These journals are made freely available after a short period of their publication by their publisher online. Advantage for Users :- Users are getting access online to these scholarly journals,only the thing is delayed. Advantages for Publishers :- Publishers can show the numbers of Hitts & Downloads (Because when it delayed open accessed, then people access it in large numbers) to their advertisers to attract more advertisement to their journal. I am giving here two Delayed Open Access Journal in Library & Information Science. Libri : International Journal of Libraries and Information Services (Quarterely), published by K.G.Saur Verlag, Munchen (Germany).Libri makes full text articles available online in PDF format without subscription one year after publication. Website :- http://www.librijournal.org/ & http://www.librijournal.org/issues.html Delayed Access to Retrospective Issues:- From Vol. 49, No.1 (March,' 99) - Vol.56, No.1(March.' 06) Free Current Issue Access :- Table of Contents with Abstracts. College & Research Libraries (Bimonthly) :- It is Scholarly Research Journal of Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL), a division of American Library Association, Chicago, Illinois (U.S.). It is available free of charge in PDF format on the ACRL website six months after publication.Youmay access the Journal at http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/crljournal/collegeresearch.htm Delayed Access to Retrospective Issues from Vol. 58 (1997) to Vol. 67, No. 5 (Sept.,2006) Free access to Current Issue :- Abstracts & Book Reviews. Now I am requesting to all of you, if you know any more Delayed Open Access Journal in LIS field, then let us know through this forum. With Regards, Mukesh Anand M Lib I Sc Final Year Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Library Staff according to UGC & AICTE norms
by Mailing List Admin 06 Jun '07

06 Jun '07

Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 11:11:44 +0530 From: Amit Thapar <amitt(a)niper.ac.in> Respected All Forum Members, Does library staff / librarian comes under Technical staff according to UGC & AICTE norms? Is there any source of information which can be refered to know the details? Kindly provide information on this issue. Regards, Amit Thapar

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Walk-in-interview for LIS freshers
by Satish Munnolli 05 Jun '07

05 Jun '07

Glacier Dear members, The below mentioned URL may be of interest to freshers from LIS background. You may pass on this information to interested candidates. Teaching and practicing professionals are requested to display this ad in their respective display areas for wider publicity. http://www.actrec.gov.in/data%20files/Walk-in-interview-library.pdf Walk-in-interview is on 19th June 2007 (Tuesday) at ACTREC, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai at 10.00 am. The absorbed candidate will have an exposure to all modern techniques of maintaining a good scientific and medical library with hands on experience. Other facilities that are not mentioned in the advertisement, but includes - Accommodation at concessional charges (maximum Rs. 100/- per month) & subsidised food in institute canteen. Common facilities (most of them are free) - Institute's bus shuttle services; Hi-tech gym; Music room; Laundry and others. For any detailed information you may contact at (022) 2740 5026 or send an email to smunnolli(a)actrec.gov.in Satish S Munnolli Librarian Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research & Education in Cancer (ACTREC) Tata Memorial Centre Sector 22, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai 410 210 India Ph : +91 22 2740 5026 Fax : +91 22 2740 5085 Email : smunnolli(a)actrec.gov.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Over 680, 000 books are OA!
by Subbiah Arunachalam 04 Jun '07

04 Jun '07

Friends: People in developing countries - academics, students, general publioc - should take advantage of all these books available at no cost if only one has access to the Internet. Arun >From Peter Suber's blog OA books at the Second Annual World eBook Fair The Second Annual World eBook Fair will start on July 4, 2007. The plan is to make available over 680,000 OA ebooks. (Thanks to ResourceShelf.) From the announcement: ...These are all full text editions that are yours to keep once their files have been downloaded to your computer, enough titles to fill 25 average public libraries. The Second World eBook fair includes the entire ~100,000 eBook set from Project Gutenberg's various collections as well as a ~400,000 set of collections from The World eBook Library, all of which will be available free of charge. and ~100,000 eBooks from The Internet Archive + 87,000 downloadable in progress eBooks... Posted by Peter Suber at 6/04/2007 10:20:00 AM. ______________________________________________________ Yahoo! Mail now has unlimited storage, which means you can have spam control and more space for those important e-mails. http://uk.mail.yahoo.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Search Engine
by Mahesh G T 04 Jun '07

04 Jun '07

Dear Friends, You can now simultaneously use GOOGLE and YAHOO for your search efforts by following this link, http://www.gahooyoogle.com/ Happy Searching! ========================================================== "Knowledge is of two kinds,We Know a subject ourselves, or,we know where to find information on it" ========================================================== Mahesh G T Alliance Business Academy, Bangalore-68 Off No - 080-26684369 Mob No - 9845727385 ____________________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! oneSearch: Finally, mobile search that gives answers, not web links. http://mobile.yahoo.com/mobileweb/onesearch?refer=1ONXIC -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Lecture by Prof. Kaula
by Mailing List Admin 04 Jun '07

04 Jun '07

Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 10:46:33 +0530 (IST) From: I.R.N.Goudar <goudar(a)css.cmmacs.ernet.in> Dear Professionals, I had sent an announcement inviting all for the lecture to be delivered by 86 year old well known Professor Padmashree P. N. Kaula, retired from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. By mistake I had given the wrong date. The lecture is very much on 5th June at 5 pm in the same venue. Please grace the occasion. Inconvinience caused is regretted. Goudar -------------------------------------------------------------- LECTURE INVITATION Karnataka State Library Association in collaboration with Bangalore University and Department of Public Libraries Government of Karnataka has arranged a Special Lecture TOPIC : Public Library Development in India and Problems SPEAKER : Padmashree Prof. P.N. Kaula Professor & Head (Retd.) Department of Library & Information Science Banaras Hindu University VENUE : Sir C V Raman Hall Academic Staff College Central College Campus Bangalore-560 001 DATE & 5th June 2007 (Tuesday) TIME : 5.00 pm ALL ARE CORDIALLY WELCOME Dr. IRN Goudar Dr. PV Konnur Dr. PY Rajendrakumar President University Librarian Director KALA Bangalore University Dept of Public Libraries -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. I.R.N. Goudar Tel: 91-80-25086081 Sci F & Head, Information Centre for 91-80-25235315 Aerospace Science and Technology Fax: 91-80-25268072 National Aerospace Laboratories E-mail:goudar@css.nal.res.in Airport Road, BANGALORE-560 017 India http://www.icast.org.in/staff/goudar.html

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Blackle: The eco-friendly alternative to Google!
by hemaa＠ingvysyabank.com 04 Jun '07

04 Jun '07

A few months ago, TreeHugger Mark Ontkush wrote a post on his blog EcoIron titled Black Google Would Save 750 Megawatt-hours a Year. The post lays out the following train of thought. "An all white web page uses about 74 watts to display, while an all black page uses only 59 watts." Google, which has a white background and gets about "200 million queries a day" could reduce global energy use by 750 Megawatt-hours a year by simply changing the color of its homepage to black. In response to this post a black version of Google emerged called Blackle.com According to Blackle's homepage at publication time, 4,408.917 Watt hours have been saved by . Nice ideas. But how does the search measure up? Very well indeed. Give it a whirl yourself and start saving energy one search at a time. :: Blackle.com ( http://blackle.com/ <http://blackle.com/> ) Thanks & Regards Hema Amble Librarian ING Vysya Bank CDC Bangalore Ph: 080 - 26507281 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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"Academics strike back at spurious rankings" (Nature, 31 May)
by Mailing List Admin 04 Jun '07

04 Jun '07

Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 01:22:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Subbiah Arunachalam <subbiah_a(a)yahoo.com> Friends: All those who are using citation data for evaluating/ comparing different institutions may find this posting by Stevan Harnad useful. If a vast majority of researchers self-archive their papers in their institutional archives, then OA scientometrics can provide a far more reliable evaluation. Best wishes. Subbiah Arunachalam --- Stevan Harnad <harnad(a)ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> wrote: > Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 01:49:19 +0100 > From: Stevan Harnad <harnad(a)ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> > Subject: "Academics strike back at spurious > rankings" (Nature, 31 May) > To: JISC-REPOSITORIES(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK > > Academics strike back at spurious rankings > D Butler, Nature 447, 514-515 (31 May 2007) > doi:10.1038/447514b > > http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v447/n7144/full/447514b.html > > This news item in Nature lists some of the (very > valid) objections to the > many unvalidated university rankings -- both > subjective and objective -- > that are in wide use today. > > These problems are all the more reason for extending > Open Access (OA) > and developing OA scientometrics, which will provide > open, validatable > and calibratable metrics for research, researchers, > and institutions in > each field -- a far richer, more sensitive, and more > equitable spectrum > of metrics than the few, weak and unvalidated > measures available today. > > Some research groups that are doing relevant work on > this are, in the UK: > (1) our own OA scientometrics group at Southampton > (and UQaM, Canada), > and our collaborators Charles Oppenheim > (Loughborough) and Arthur Sale > (Tasmania); (2) Mike Thelwall (Wolverhampton); in > the US: (3) Johan > Bollen & Herbert van de Sompel at LANL; and in the > Netherlands: (5) > Henk Moed & Anton van Raan (Leiden; cited in the > Nature news item). > Universities seek reform of ratings by Declan Butler For details, visit: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v447/n7144/full/447514b.html >

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KALA lecture notice
by Krishnamurthy M 04 Jun '07

04 Jun '07

Dear Professionals, I once agian remind you that KALA has arranged lecture at Central college on 5th June 2007 at Central College. LECTURE INVITATION Karnataka State Library Association in collaboration with Bangalore University and Department of Public Libraries Government of Karnataka has arranged a Special Lecture TOPIC : Public Library Development in India and Problems SPEAKER : Padmashree Prof. P.N. Kaula Professor & Head Department of Library & Information Science Banaras Hindu University (Retd.) VENUE : Sir C V Raman Hall Academic Staff College Central College Campus Bangalore-560 001 DATE & 5th June 2007 (Tuesday) TIME : 5.00 pm ALL ARE CORDIALLY WELCOME Dr. IRN Goudar Dr. PV Konnur Dr. PY Rajendrakumar President University Librarian Director KALA Bangalore University Dept of Public Libraries M.Krishnamurthy Joint Secretary, KALA -- Dr. M Krishnamurthy, Ph.D. Librarian Indian Statistical Institute 8th Mile Mysore Road R.V.C.E. Post Bangalore 560059 Ph:91-80-8483002/3/4/4 Fax: 91-80-8484265 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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my view on current topic of discussion on LIS schools and IT
by Manjunath K 02 Jun '07

02 Jun '07

Dear professionals, After seeing several recent mails on LIS schools and their product capability, I feel, let us not focus on praise or abuse of any specific LIS school. Each school operates on its own strength and weakness. Parent body also contributes to such situations. We can focus our discussion on theme-based rather than any specific school-based. The school based discussions will lead to throwing mud on each other which, finds a tragic end. The current theme is how best LIS schools equip their students in compatible with current trends without loosing basic philosophy of library science. The curriculum need to be on par with current trends and at the same it needs to differentiate from other IT curriculum by its unique courses. The current trends in technology are wikis, open sources, blogs, podcasts, web classifications, digitization, webpage design and hosting, storing devices, methods of providing access to information resources, mobile technology etc... 1. How best LIS schools can deliver these know-how to prospective librarians?, 2. what are basic requirements and expertise required to impart this knowledge? 3. what government and universities should do to provide such environment/opportunity? 4. what is expected from students? What are the basic or minimum skills they should possess? 5. If UGC is insisting on uniform syllabus, how best the authorities could be convinced about incorporating latest techniques in the curriculum?, 6. The rate of obsolescence is very high in IT products and services, how best we can address this threat 7. conferences/seminars/discussions at national and regional level would bring teachers and practitioners together on one platform and participants' wholehearted participation in such discussions might bring meaningful outcomes. Proactive role by LIS associations and schools would bring fruitful results. This benefits both the parties (teachers and students) We can amend or modify the above themes with our experiences. Manjunath __________________________ Dr. Manjunatha K Librarian T.A. Pai Management Institute Manipal - 576 104 Udupi Dist., Karnataka, India. Ph: +91-0820-2573551(Off), 2575161(Res) manjunath(a)mail.tapmi.org manju_tapmi(a)yahoo.com __________________________ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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