November 2008 - LIS-Forum - ncsi.iisc.ernet.in

Refresher Course for L&ISc lecturers, College Librarians etc
by Dr Pawan Kumar Gupta 26 Nov '08

26 Nov '08

Dear..., I am getting a number of queries about the Refresher Course in L&IS to be held in the University of Rajasthan. In brief I am placing below information for all members. - The Course is meant for Lecturers in LIS, College Librarians, and Assistant Librarians in the university libraries intending to qualify for personal promotion for senior scale or selection scale etc as per UGC guidelines. - The dates: From 05 Jan to 24 Jan 2009. - Venue Academic Staff College, University of Rajasthan, Jawahar Lal Nehru Marg, Jaipur 302055 - Please apply to Director, Academic Staff College, University of Rajasthan, Jawahar Lal Nehru Marg, Jaipur 302055. - Application should accompany a DD for Rs 500/- in favour of Director, UGC-ASC, University of Rajasthan, payable at Jaipur. - Please get the application form from the Univ Of Rajasthan website: www.uniraj.ernet.in in Academic Staff College area. I hope the information will be of help to intending persons. With best wishes. -- Dr Pawan Kumar Gupta, Deputy Librarian, Rajasthan University Library, Jaipur - 302 020 INDIA +91-141-2707866 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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International Essay Competition 2009 & Prize in Higher Education Policy Research
by Puna Das 25 Nov '08

25 Nov '08

IAU/Palgrave Prize in Higher Education Policy Research The theme of the 2009 edition of the Prize is "Equitable Access, Success and Quality - three essential ingredients or three mutually exclusive concepts for higher education development?" The IAU/Palgrave Prize, valued at £1,000, is awarded to the most outstanding essay received from a researcher/scholar working in an IAU Member institution/organization. Deadline for submissions: March 31, 2009 More Details: http://www.unesco.org/iau/pdf/2009_Prize.pdf OR http://cssp-jnu.blogspot.com/2008/11/international-essay-competition-2009.h… ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Anup Kumar Das New Delhi, India http://www.anup-jnu.blogspot.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From Chandigarh to Chennai - find friends all over India. Go to http://in.promos.yahoo.com/groups/citygroups/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Corporate Librarians and special training?
by vasanth raj 25 Nov '08

25 Nov '08

Dear sir/madam, This is in response to the LIS-Forum member request to suggest on how LIS departments can train Corporate Librarians? Though my response would not offer any suggestion, but contradicts with the postings itself. - How can LIS departments prepare corporate librarians? I am deliberating on the issue why there is much fuss about corporate world. Library Science and Information Science (Information Studies-Including wide spectrum of behavioral theories, science and technology) Schools have been training LIS professionals to perform their duties irrespective of the organization they aspire to work. It was not previously discussed so much about academic library or public library. But we have been making our graduates to be a perfect fit to a corporate world. Again these all have been become forefront in the light of globalization. Corporate venture have very strong financial back up to train their workers and they have been successful doing that over the years (Infosys global training centre). Today’s need is to prepare our graduates to work for the people from whom they have got benefitted (local tax payers). Andhara Pradesh itself is a naxal prone area with so much of economic inequalities, let our graduate take step in reducing the economic barrier and fill the gap of information rich and poor. There we need training and enrich our people. Globalization itself has become a halt, because of recent economics meltdown in US. Economists’ likes of Joseph Stiglitz and Paul Krugman have propagating the humanistic economic policy with equal opportunity for every one. Coming back to the topic – LIS schools have leveraging the technology and new crop of Information schools are in a way modeled to survive in the information rich world. Syllabuses of some of the information schools can throw some lights on how LIS schools can tune their curriculum to prepare their graduates in the 21st century. Good thing is that library school basics have not changed lot-then why LIS departments prepare corporate librarians. Holistic approach is the need of the hour. ------------------------- With best wishes Vasantha Raju N Govt First Grade College Periyapatna Mysore Dist. Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Research Methodology and Techniques
by kunwar.air air 25 Nov '08

25 Nov '08

Dear LIS Professionals RESEARCH SCHOLARS, 25.11.08 Sub: Research Methodology and Techniques --- Arrangement of apecial Lecture by Dr.Rajendran, Prof. of Management, Anna University -- Request for participation and getting benefit -- Reg. *********** This is to inform my Ph.D. Research scholars that a Special lecfture on"Research Methodology and Techniques" has been arranged at Anna University Library. All are requested to participate and get benefit with regard to their Ph.D. Project. PL. BRING A COPY OF YOUR Ph.D. PROJECT QUESTIONNAIRE IF AVAILABLE. Also bring a scribbling pad. You can interact with the resource person and get clarified. Each Scholar is requested to contribute Rs. 100 towards Honorarium for the Resource person and lunch for everyone. Hence you are requested to convey your willingness to attend the above said programme through mail within 2 days . Ph.D.Research Scholars l are requested to attend the Programme without fail. Topic : Research Methodology and Techniques Name of the Resource Person : Dr. Rajendran, Prof. of Management, Anna University. Date of the Programme : 30.11.08 (Sunday) Time : 9 a.m. Venue : Seminar Hall, Anna University Library Regard:- K. S. Rawat Central Library Indian Institute of Technology Madras Chennai-600036 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Free Sanskrit Software Tools and Fonts has been released by DIT, Ministry of Communication and Technology, Govt. of India
by Ajay Kum Sharma 25 Nov '08

25 Nov '08

Dear Library and Information Professionals, It is very good news for us that DIT, Ministry of Communication and Technology, Govt. of India has released a complete set of free Sanskrit Software Tools and Fonts for linking the people through Indian Language Technology in association with the Technology Development for Indian Languages Programme & Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) at Tirupati on November 25, 2008 to bring about a language computing technology revolution in the country. For Your free software CDs, Kindly register at: http:www.ildc.in OR http:www.ildc.gov.in (for download) Sources: Times of India, Kolkata dated November 25, 2008 Thanks and regards. Ajay Kumar Sharma Assistant Librarian, Central Library, Visva Bharati, Santiniketan, Birbhum - 731235, W.B. Email: ajaysharma.lib(a)visva-bharati.ac.in Web: http://www.geocities.com/ajaysharma_lib/ *********************************************************** 1. Join today Digital Library Discussion Forum http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/dlrg 2. Join today LIS-Forum mailing list http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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i-Quiz 2008 Contest : Part of 23rd National Seminar of IASLIC
by Dr. Arun K. Chakraborty 24 Nov '08

24 Nov '08

Dear Moderator Pl. circulate this. Dear LIS students and professionals, Subject : i-Quiz 2008 Contest : Part of 23rd National Seminar of IASLIC 2008 at BI, Kolkata) Important Dates : Round 1 - Online Quiz is on 28th November, 2008 and the Grand finale - Stage quiz is on December 11, 2008 in the Bose Institute, Kolkota during 23rd National Seminar of IASLIC 2008. Register Before : 2nd December, 2008 ___________________________________________________________________________ Informatics is happy to announce the return of Q-Times. Yes, We are back with our popular quiz contest !!!!! We bring the "i-Quiz 2008" to tease your brains and let you win prizes ...... i- Quiz 2008 is part of the "23rd National Seminar of IASLIC 2008" at Bose Institute (to commemorate 150th Birth Anniversary of Acharya J.C. Bose and 90th Foundation Day of the Institute" during 10-13 December, 2008, being organised by Bose Institute, Kolkata. InfoQuiz is now i-Quiz. i-quiz has 2 rounds: Round 1 - Online Quiz & Round 2 - Stage Quiz. Round 1 - Online Quiz is on 28th November, 2008 and the grand finale - Stage quiz is on December 11, 2008 in Kolkota during 23rd National Seminar of IASLIC 2008. Registration for i-Quiz begins on November 21 and closes on 27th, at www.i- quiz.in Please note - you have just 7 days to register for the event. The last date for registration is November 27, 2008. Top 6 scorers in the Online Quiz will be called for the Final Round on December 11,2008 in Kolkata, during IASLIC 2008. CASH PRIZES and other AWARDS for the Winners and 1st Runners-up. Spread the good word - tell your friends and colleagues... "More, the Merrier" More details visit - www.i-quiz.in I-Quiz Team Informatics India ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please Register yourself for the Seminar before 30th November, 2008, after that it may not be possible for us to Register any particpants. http://bic.boseinst.ernet.in/seminar/workshop/library/ Contact : Dr. Arun Kumar Chakraborty DR. ARUN KUMAR CHAKRABORTY LIBRARIAN BOSE INSTITUTE, KOLKATA, INDIA CENTENARY CAMPUS : P1/12 CIT SCHEME - VII-M, KOLKATA 700 054 INDIA PH: 91-33-2569 3268, 3270 FAX: 91-33-2355 3886 MAIN CAMPUS: 93/1 A.P.C. ROAD, KOLKATA 700 009 INDIA PH: 91-33-2350 2402/03, FAX: 91-33-2350-6790 Ph(Res): 91-33-23242100, E-MAIL: akc(a)bic.boseinst.ernet.in ------- End of Forwarded Message ------- DR. ARUN KUMAR CHAKRABORTY LIBRARIAN BOSE INSTITUTE, KOLKATA, INDIA CENTENARY CAMPUS : P1/12 CIT SCHEME - VII-M, KOLKATA 700 054 INDIA PH: 91-33-2569 3268, 3270 FAX: 91-33-2355 3886 MAIN CAMPUS: 93/1 A.P.C. ROAD, KOLKATA 700 009 INDIA PH: 91-33-2350 2402/03, FAX: 91-33-2350-6790 Ph(Res): 91-33-23242100, E-MAIL: akc(a)bic.boseinst.ernet.in (Fulbright Scholar 2005-2006) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Registration Open for IASLIC Seminar 10-13 December, 2008 at BI
by Dr. Arun K. Chakraborty 24 Nov '08

24 Nov '08

Dear Moderator Kindly circulate this. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- INDIAN ASSOCIATION OF SPECIAL LIBRARIES AND INFORMATION CENTRE (IASLIC), KOLKATA 23rd National Seminar of IASLIC at Bose Institute, during 10-13 December,2008 Dear All We have the honour to submit that Bose Institute, as a part of year long programme in commemoration of 150th Birth Anniversary Founder Sir J. C. Bose and 90th Foundation Day of the Institute, is organizing and hosting the 23rd National Seminar of Indian Association of Special Libraries and Information Centre (IASLIC) during 10-13, December 2008. The Seminar will be inaugurated on Wednesday 10th December, 2008 at 4.30 P.M. SIG Meetings will be at 10.00 A.M. on 10th December, 2008. All of your presence would benefit all the library professionals in India and globe. Please register yourself and also depute at least two persons from Library or LIS Department. Some of the objectives of the Seminar are to bring together special library professionals to a common platform, to promote special libraries, and facilitate the exchange of ideas and help to bridge the knowledge gap amongst the professionals associated with special libraries and to develop the professional competent. This seminar is expected to attract more than 500 participants from India and abroad. Registrations are open. You are invited to attend the same. For details please visit: http://bic.boseinst.ernet.in/seminar.html/workshop.html, or http://www.iaslic1955.org/organ.htm, Dates to Remember Last Date for Registration : 30th November 2008 Cancellation of Registration (for any un-avoidable circumstances) before 7th December, 2008 ---- 80% Registration Fees and accommodation charges (if any) will be refunded after deduction of Paper Publication charges (for authors, if any) Registration Fees : http://www.iaslic1955.org/fee.htm Register Online : http://bic.boseinst.ernet.in/seminar/workshop/library/lib_form.htm PANEL of SPEAKERS --- For Panel Discussions --- from India and abroad Payment Details : The payment should be sent through local cheque/ demand draft to be made in favour of "NS-IASLIC-BI-2008 and payable at Kolkata. The filled-in registration forms and the payment should be sent to the Bose Institute address (http://www.iaslic1955.org/regd.pdf). For further information, please contact: Dr. Arun Kumar Chakraborty Organizing Secretary 23rd National Seminar of IASLIC Bose Institute P-1/12 CIT Scheme VII-M, Kankurgachi, Kolakta 700 054 INDIA Ph. 91-33-25693268/ 3270 Fax: 91-33-23553886 Cell: 09433323424 Email: akc(a)bic.boseinst.ernet.in, c_arunK(a)hotmail.com, iaslic(a)vsnl.net Seminar updates : http://bic.boseinst.ernet.in/seminar/workshop/library/, www.iaslic1955.org Dated : 27th October, 2008 (Dr. Arun Kumar Chakraborty) Hony. General Secretary DR. ARUN KUMAR CHAKRABORTY LIBRARIAN BOSE INSTITUTE, KOLKATA, INDIA CENTENARY CAMPUS : P1/12 CIT SCHEME - VII-M, KOLKATA 700 054 INDIA PH: 91-33-2569 3268, 3270 FAX: 91-33-2355 3886 MAIN CAMPUS: 93/1 A.P.C. ROAD, KOLKATA 700 009 INDIA PH: 91-33-2350 2402/03, FAX: 91-33-2350-6790 Ph(Res): 91-33-23242100, E-MAIL: akc(a)bic.boseinst.ernet.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Lecture on Use pattern of e-Resource Databases in Modern Libraries at NISCAIR, New Delhi on 28-11-2008
by Puna Das 24 Nov '08

24 Nov '08

Dear All, You are coordially invited for the lecture on "Use pattern of e-Resource Databases in Modern Digital Libraries" by Dr. Dirk Fernholz on 28th November 2008 at NISCAIR as per the details given below: Speaker Dirk Fernholz Sr. e- Product Manger, Springer, Heidelberg. Topic Use pattern of e-Resource Databases in Modern Digital Libraries Venue Seminar Hall, NISCAIR, 14 Satsang Vihar Marg, New Delhi -110 067, India Date & Time 28 November 2008. 14:30hrs-16.30hrs Programme 14.30 Hrs. Welcome by Mr. S K Rastogi, Director, NISCAIR 14.35 Hrs. Opening Remarks 15.00 Hrs. Mr. Dirk Fernholz 16.30 Hrs. Closing remarks - Mr. Prakash Chand Regards Prakash Chand National Science Library NISCAIR, New Delhi-110 067, India ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Anup Kumar Das New Delhi, India http://www.anup-jnu.blogspot.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Building Malayalam documents with Greenstone
by Rajan 24 Nov '08

24 Nov '08

Dear All, Recent trials on Greenstone 2.81 revealed that Malayalam full text documents (word, pdf etc) containing Unicode fonts can be built up into digital library collections with browsing classifiers and word search in Malayalam. Greenstone emerges, probably, as the only digital library software with capability to have full text search in Malayalam. The experimentation was surprising to many of us, in spite of NCSI team, who worked on this aspect earlier, had told us about this possibility much earlier. The complexity of Malayalam language and the long delay in standardizing the keyboard made many of us believe that it would be a difficult task to handle Malayalam text. Now Malayalam search is a reality in Greenstone. This indicates that Greenstone has a larger scope from now onwards in local language computing and digitization. Malayalam OCR is still under development and may not expect to have more than 80 percent accuracy in the beginning, according to the development team. Regards, K Rajasekharan Kerala Institute of Local Administration Thrissur -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Fw: Request to fill the Questionnaire on Library Management System Survey for research work
by o u 24 Nov '08

24 Nov '08

Dear Sir, Please try to include the following message in LIS- FORUM mailing for the information of professionals in this region. Thanks --- On Mon, 24/11/08, o u <ojwini(a)yahoo.co.in> wrote: From: o u <ojwini(a)yahoo.co.in> Subject: Request to fill the Questionnaire on Library Management System Survey for research work To: lis-forum-owner(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Cc: "Ojas Upasani" <ojaswini.upasani(a)gmail.com> Date: Monday, 24 November, 2008, 4:03 PM Please publish this request on LIS-FORUM Thanx Ojaswini Upasani Hello Professionals, I am a research (Doctorate level) student at Library and Information Sciences faculty of Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University (YCMOU, Nashik) under the guidance of Dr. D.N. Phadke of IIT Mumbai. I need your cooperation in my research project, entitled: Study of migration of Library Management Systems (LMS) in Western regional Indian libraries. This survey is designed to depict a regional picture of the library software / system migration in India . A questionnaire, to seek data about the migration aspects of LMS pertaining to your library is enclosed herewith. The information sought from you will not only help me to investigate the problem in detail but the process will also help in identifying problems in migration of LMS and solving them with standardization and troubleshooting. I would like to assure you that the data will be used only for the academic purpose and will be treated as “Strictly Confidential”. I need to know if any library other than the western region has migration experience which they are willing to share with the professionals. If you let me know your name and address, I will contact you for the details of the same. If you wish to reply my questionnarie for Librarians, the same is available on my blog http://ojas-lms.blogspot.com. Similarly, Questionnarie for Vendors is preapred separately to understand the type of features of LMS and type of services provided by the vendors. Hope to get you kind support & co-operation. Complete address: Mrs. Ojaswini Subodh Upasani A-202, Chandravel Co-op. Housing Society Katrap D.P. Road, Badlapur (East) Dist. Thane. Pin code – 420 503 Mobile: 9324962146 E-mail id : ojaswini.upasani(a)gmail.com Blog: http://ojas-lms.blogspot.com Get rid of Add-Ons in your email ID. Get yourname(a)rocketmail.com. Sign up now! Get perfect Email ID for your Resume. Grab now http://in.promos.yahoo.com/address -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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