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

Suvarna Karnataka Portal
by Nagana Goudar 24 Dec '09

24 Dec '09

Dear Professional Colleagues, Congratulations to Department of Public Libraries, Govt. of Karnataka for having launched the Portal on Karnataka in Kannada entitled " Suvarna Karnataka Kannada Antarjala Vahini (Suvarna Karnataka Portal)" on the occasion of Golden Jubilee Celebration of the formation of Karnataka State. This unique Portal gives various kinds of information about Kannada and Karnataka including Education, Health, Agriculture, Entertainment, Kannada Films and songs, Kannada Literature, Fine Arts, Sports, Cooking, Law, etc. One of the main attraction is Children Section with stories and songs. Although there is lot of scope for improvement in terms design, browse and search options and content organization with still more coverage, being sincere attempt of its kind to give one source for everything about and on Kannada and Karnataka, the group responsible is praise worthy for this wonderful work. This Portal was conceived and developed by Mr. RS Venkatraj under the guidance of Mr. P.Y. Rajendrakumar, Director, DPL. Please visit the site at: http://www.karnatakapubliclibrary.gov.in/ Then click Suvarna Karnataka Kannada Antarjala Vahini Your suggestions and comments are most welcome to e-mail address: py_kumar(a)yahoo.co.in Dr. I.R.N. Goudar 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 --------------------------------- Get the freedom to save as many mails as you wish. Click here to know how. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Webology: Volume 3, Number 1, 2006
by Alireza Noruzi 01 Jun '09

01 Jun '09

Dear All, apologies for cross-posting. We are pleased to inform you that Vol. 3, No. 1 of Webology, an OPEN ACCESS journal, is published and is available ONLINE now. This issue contains: ------------------ Editorial: Link Spam and Search Engines -- Alireza Noruzi -- http://www.webology.ir/2006/v3n1/editorial7.html ----------------------------------------- Stemming and root-based approaches to the retrieval of Arabic documents on the Web -- Haidar Moukdad -- http://www.webology.ir/2006/v3n1/a22.html ----------------------------------------- E-marketing, Unsolicited Commercial E-mail, and Legal Solutions -- Li Xingan -- http://www.webology.ir/2006/v3n1/a23.html ----------------------------------------- Environmental Knowledge and Marginalized Communities: The Last Mile Connectivity -- A. Neelameghan and Greg Chester -- http://www.webology.ir/2006/v3n1/a24.html ----------------------------------------- Book Review of 'Digital Libraries: Principles and Practice in a Global Environment'/ Lucy A. Tedd & Andrew Large -- Hamid R. Jamali -- http://www.webology.ir/2006/v3n1/bookreview3.html ========================================= Call for Papers: http://www.webology.ir/callforpapers.html ========================================= Regards, A. Noruzi __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Again About LIS Accreditation
by J. K. Vijayakumar 06 Apr '08

06 Apr '08

Dear LIS Friends, I would like to request your attention to my earlier mail "LIS Departments need Accreditation System and New Courses". We have a good news that Indian Engineering Degrees will soon be accredited in US and other developed countries. Read the news from Rediff.com [ http://www.rediff.com/money/2007/jul/05eng.htm ] National Board of Accreditation (NBA) of the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) is the accreditation agency for Engineering Education in India. They did a good job in getting a provisional signatory membership in Washington Accord, which recognises engineering degrees among the member countries. NBA is allowed 2 years to to bring its academic programmes, curricula and syllabus, examination and evaluation system to the international level and revise its accreditation system to make it fully outcome based, with credit system for flexibility and continuous evaluation for improved learning being the basis of such programmes.If NBA and our technical institutes are successful in achieving this goal, Indian engineering degrees will be internationaly recognised. What is the message for LIS? 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 ____________________________________________________________________________________ Get your own web address. Have a HUGE year through Yahoo! Small Business. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/domains/?p=BESTDEAL -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Right to Information Act -Jobs should be given to Information Professionals
by vasanth raj 18 Mar '08

18 Mar '08

Dear Sir/Madam, The much awaited Right to Information Act has come into force in India.And already we have seen and heard that there is a great demand for information which are vital to its functioning and also to contain corruption and to hold Governments and their instrumentalities accountable to the governed.But Govt Authorities have totally neglected the library and Information Professionals, most of the people who have appointed as public Information Officer have came from Journalism and mass communication." Public Information Officer" job is best suited for LIS professionals where the skills of storage , organise and dissemination of Information is highly required.Already there are instances that Public Information Officers have failed to provide right information to the right people at a right time.This is because of lack of skills to organise and storage of Information.This is the right time to Library Association and Universities to pressurize Govt. appoint library and Information professionals as " Public Information Officer" and this will definitely helps people to have information quickly whenever they need.This will not only helps govt to function smoothly and huge opportunities for LIS professionals as well. Your Sincerely ------------------------- Vasantha Raju N --------------------------------- Enjoy this Diwali with Y! India Click here Dear Sir/Madam, The much awaited Right to Information Act has come into force in India.And already we have seen and heard that there is a great demand for information which are vital to its functioning and also to contain corruption and to hold Governments and their instrumentalities accountable to the governed.But Govt Authorities have totally neglected the library and Information Professionals, most of the people who have appointed as public Information Officer have came from Journalism and mass communication." Public Information Officer" job is best suited for LIS professionals where the skills of storage , organise and dissemination of Information is highly required.Already there are instances that Public Information Officers have failed to provide right information to the right people at a right time.This is because of lack of skills to organise and storage of Information.This is the right time to Library Association and Universities to pressurize Govt. appoint library and Information professionals as " Public Information Officer" and this will definitely helps people to have information quickly whenever they need.This will not only helps govt to function smoothly and huge opportunities for LIS professionals as well. Your Sincerely ------------------------- Vasantha Raju N Enjoy this Diwali with Y! India http://in.promos.yahoo.com/fabmall/index.html Click here

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LIS Departments need Accreditation System and New Courses
by J. K. Vijayakumar 04 Dec '07

04 Dec '07

Dear Colleagues, It is good to see the ongoing discussion about integration of ICT technologies to LIS Courses in India. I agree that we need to incorporate ICT in LIS Syllabus, and most of the Departments have done that already. I doubt about the quantity practical orientation provided by them, it varies from one to another. A good IT lab with latest hardware and software is still a dream for many of the Departments. Few of them have collaboration with IT / Computer Science departments. This is the era or Globalisation and Specialisation. India is trying to become a developed nation, and we have to think from this background. In this regards, I have two points to discuss. 1. Our main problem is that, we do not have a "National Accreditation Process for Library Science Programmes" in India. NAAC accredits the Universities as a total. There are national library associations bearing this responsibility in developed nations, like ALA for USA, CILIP for UK etc. The accreditation process is carried out regularly and Departments will get accreditation for 5 /6 years. The course, syllabus, teaching methods, ability of faculty, facilities etc are standardised or regularised through this process. Departments failing in accreditation can not attract students, because the employers always prefer to appoint candidates with an accredited degree. If we implement this system in India, we can set standards for LIS Departments and its courses. We can approach associations from other countries to get our Courses recognised, may be in developed countries like USA and UK. Indian Library Association should take up this issue and find out the ways to start accreditation process in India. This will help us in making our candidates globally accepted. With my experience, I know that it is not simple as I wrote here, but we should start somewhere. 2. Second point is about starting new (specialised) courses. If you watch LIS Departments in developed countries, you can see atleast two or three master level courses are offered by them. Those are specialised courses, but clearly fits in our area of services, like Knowledge Management, Information Science, Medical/Helath librarianship, Information Systems, Electronic Information Management, Digital Libraries, School Librarianship etc apart from pure Library and Information Science. In India, our tendency is that, we compress all these subjects in to a 2 year course and call it as MLISc. Along with MLISc, why can't we think of starting few more Masters from any of the above mentioned areas. We also need specialisation in our Courses to supply specialised library professionals to the present vibrant job market. Market needs Knowledge Managers, Digital Librarians, Medical Librarians, Information Analysts etc. For this, along with the present faculty members, we may need new members or collaboration with other departments. I hope our teachers, practitioners and celebreties in Indian LIS will give importance to these two points. Thanks for reading. Dr. J. K. Vijayakumar --------------------------------- Need a vacation? Get great deals to amazing places on Yahoo! Travel. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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National Workshop on Koha
by Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay 30 Sep '07

30 Sep '07

Dear Colleague, As you know the Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) movement has created lot of enthusiasm and opportunities in the domain of library services. Open source software are available free of cost, support you to work at the system level and provide freedom to customize software as per the requirements of your library. Koha is possibly the most feature rich Library Management Software (LMS) from the open source domain. It is Web-centric, modular, multilingual, and compliant with almost all the bibliographic standards like ISO-2709, FRBR, Z 39.50, MARC 21/UNIMARC framework etc. Moreover, it supports storing, processing and retrieving of Indic script based documents. A commercial LMS with all these features may cost you anything in the range of Rupees two to five lakhs apart from recurring payments for updation, maintenance etc. Koha is free, supported by an international group of developers, and obviously has a tremendous application possibility in automation of college libraries and public libraries in India. Department of Library and Information Science, University of Burdwan has developed necessary skills and expertise in the application of Koha in Indian environment and already installed and configured Koha for a few college libraries in West Bengal. In response to wide-scale demand for training and consultancies in Koha, the department is going to organize five-day national level workshop on Koha during the period from December 03-07, 2007. This workshop will provide you software CDORM (containing Koha and all other companion open source software), a handbook on Koha (first of its kind in the world) and hands-on skills for installation, configuration and use of Koha in library automation. As the department is planning an intensive training schedule, total intake for the workshop will be limited to twenty only on the basis of first-cum-first. The workshop brochure and registration form can also be downloaded from the University homepage (http://www.buruniv.ac.in) or directly from http://www.buruniv.ac.in/Notices/UBUR_143_NOT_WEBPAGE.pdf. Hope to see you at the workshop. Thanks and regards, (Subal Chandra Biswas) Professor and Head, Department of Library and Information Science, The University of Burdwan, Burdwan - 713104 (Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay), Workshop Coordinator, Department of Library and Information Science, The University of Burdwan -- _______________________________________________ Search for products and services at: http://search.mail.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Regarding CAS Scheme to Librarians in Uttar Pradesh State
by Kshema Prakash 30 Sep '07

30 Sep '07

Apologies for cross postings. Dear professionals, Can someone kindly let me know the present status of Career Advancement Scheme for Librarians and Assistant Librarians, College Librarians working in UP State financed posts? I am amongst the many affected. Regards, Kshema -- 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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PLANNER 2007
by badan barman 29 Sep '07

29 Sep '07

Greetings, The Seminar Volume of the National Seminar on "Problems and Prospects of Rural Libraries with reference to North East India" which was jointly organized by Central Reference Library, Kolkata and Department of Library and Information Science, Gauhati University during March 27-28, 2007released on 28 th September at Gauhati University. I am happy to inform that all contributors to the volume will get a copy shortly through post. It is another proud privilege to inform you that this time the 5th Convention PLANNER-2007 will be held at Gauhati University during December 7-8, 2007. The details can be had by clicking on the following link. If the links does not work, please cut and paste either of the addresses in a new browser window. PLANNER 2007: http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/planner2007/index.html Or PLANNER 2007: http://dlisgu.white.prohosting.com and PLANNER 2007 Brochure: http://gulis.googlegroups.com/web/PLANNER2007.pdf Thanking you Yours faithfully Sri Badan Barman http://bbarman.rain.prohosting.com Research Scholar Mobile: 094351-48924,E-Mail: badanbarman(a)gmail.com Dept. of Lib. & Info. Science http://dlisgu.white.prohosting.com/ Gauhati University http://www.guniv.ernet.in/, Guwahati: 781014, Assam. LIS Job: http://lisjob.blogspot.com/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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About International Journal of Internet Science
by vijay kumar 29 Sep '07

29 Sep '07

Dear friend, International journal of internet science is a peer reviewed open access journal for empirical findings, methodology, and theory of social and behavioral science concerning the Internet and its implications for individuals, social groups, organizations, and society. The journal publishes high quality research in the social and behavioral sciences in the field of internet research/internet science. It is a peer reviewed journal that is interested in manuscripts that deal either with the social impact of the internet (online communities, social networks, digital inequality, etc) or with the opportunities that the internet, including mobile communication, offers for the collection of data (online surveys, online experiments, automated data collection, etc.). If you are interested and you have manuscript that fits into that scheme then consult the management committee of International Journal of Internet Science. Here the web address of International Journal of Internet Science http://www.ijis.net/ With regards Vijay kumar -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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UGC NET on 16th December 2007
by Dhanukumar Pattanashetti 29 Sep '07

29 Sep '07

Dear Professionals, UGC has announced holding of NET on 16th December. For more details, please visit http://www.ugc.ac.in/inside/netadv/adv1207.pdf http://www.ugc.ac.in/inside/netadv/application1207.pdf Last date for receipt of application forms at respective centers would be 23rd October. Warm Regards, Dhanu Dhanukumar M. Pattanashetti Central Library, PES Institute of Technology, Bangalore -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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