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

STALLMAN TO SPEAK IN MGU ON 7th DECEMBER 2008
by University LIbrary Mahatma Gandhi University 04 Dec '08

04 Dec '08

STALLMAN TO SPEAK IN MGU ON 7th DECEMBER 2008 Dr. Richard Matthew Stallman, who heralded software freedom movement and the brain behind the GNU Project which resulted in he creation of free Unix-like operating system (LINUX), will address the academia and the public in Mahatma Gandhi University Campus on 7th December 2008 at 11.00 am. Vice-_Chancellor Prof. (Dr.) Rajan Gurukkal will preside over the function. Recipient of several honorary doctorates from leading Universities including Sweden's Royal Institute of Technology, Stallman set up the Free Software Foundation in 1985. He pioneered the concept of copyleft and is the main author of several copyleft licenses including the GNU General Public License, the most widely used free software license. Since the mid-1990s, Stallman has spent most of his time advocating free software, as well as campaigning against both software patents and what he sees as excessive extension of copyright laws. He co-founded the League for Programming Freedom in 1989. Teachers, students and the public interested to attend the programme as well as interact with Dr. Stallman are requested to register their names/send their queries through email promgu(a)gmail.com. For further details contact: G.Sreekumar, Public Relations Officer, Mahatma Gandhi University <http://sites.google.com/site/stallmanslecture/Home/StallmanF.JPG?attredirec…> Contributions of Dr. Richard Stallman<http://sites.google.com/site/stallmanslecture/Home/contributions> Personal Page of Dr. Richard Stallman <http://www.stallman.org/> Open Access Digital Archives of Doctoral Dissertations of Mahatma Gandhi University <http://www.mgutheses.org/> -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Book Tome
by Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy 04 Dec '08

04 Dec '08

Here is a good personal library management software. bookTome bookTome, a book management system, can help catalog and manage your library or personal book collection. Its features include: Add and edit books manually or using web services; sort and organise your books by author, series or reading status; display books - view books by author or series, as well as by the reading status; search your books with free-form text searching and links; and print out book lists, book information; and keep track of books that you want to read with the wish list. The 2.95 MB bookTome, version 1.20 (29th Nov, 2008), for Windows XP / Vista, can be downloaded at http://booktome.shanemca.com/downloads/bookTome.exe Dr P Vyasamoorthy Link to me through: http://vyasa-kaaranam-ketkadey.blogspot.com/ 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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International conference on Freedom in Computing, Development and Culture
by Vimal Kumar 04 Dec '08

04 Dec '08

2nd International conference on Freedom in Computing, Development and Culture" start on 9 December 2008 at Mascot Convention Center, Thiruvananthapuram. Three day conference is end on December 12. Seat availability is 400, online registration facility is available. Seats will be based on First-Come First-Served mode. Organizers of this event are Kerala State IT Mission and SPACE, the Society for Promotion of Alternative Computing and Employment. Celebrities in free software movement attend this conference and lots of related programs are the highlights of this conference. Main attraction among speakers are Eben Moglen, Jimmy Wales, Richard Matthew Stallman, Subbiah Arunachalam, and Adam Arvidsson. Other sweet session of this conference are Linux install fest, Open Movie Fest and display of Malayalam Computing, General Word Processing Applications, Scientific Computing, Games and Educational Software, Open Hardware and Computing for Disabled. Various interesting topics are take place for speech and discussion; ethical economy, Free Software in E-Governance, open access, software patents, FOSS in Agriculture and Fisheries, Free Software Education and Research. More details available at http://fsfs.in/ -- Vimal Kumar V. Asst. Librarian Asian School of Business Technopark, Trivandrum-695 581 Web: www.asb.edu.in/vimal/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt" -Patrick White -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Post Graduate Diploma in Location Guidance
by Ratneshwar Bhavsar 04 Dec '08

04 Dec '08

Dear Professionals, I am a librarian in Sinhgad Institute in Management College in Pune. I want to do the "Post Graduate Diploma in Location Guidance". Do you have any idea, information or knowledge about this course then please tell me. I want direct students that how to choose career, educational field by which they can get success in their life. For doing this I think Post Graduate Diploma in Location Guidance this course help me. Thanking you in advance. Ratneshwar C Bhavsar Librarian SIBACA, Lonavala Dist Pune Mobile No. 9372579948 -- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Koha for Malyalam Catalogues
by Rajan 04 Dec '08

04 Dec '08

Dear All, Koha is a good choice for libraries in Kerala. But the possibility of using Koha for creating catalogue of Malayalam books (due to its Unicode compliance) has not been explored much because of poor knowledge of most of the librarians about Unicode, it seems. Dr P Mukhopadhyay ( University of Burdwan), a prominent practitioner of Koha, clarifies that Koha can be used for creating searchable catalogue of books in Malayalam, if we use utf-8 encoding for character set and the mysql supports utf-8 as native character set. Kindly inform me, if anyone is using Koha 2.2.9 on Windows for Malayalam catalogue preparation. 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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Re: [LIS-Forum] biased towards their candidate in filling vacancies:Hinders to the growth of corporate librarian
by Mailing List Admin 04 Dec '08

04 Dec '08

Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 23:06:50 -0800 (PST) From: jaya khare <i_amacquarian(a)yahoo.com> � i am going through all the forums seriously� specially atanu garai� and appreciate his observation towards this situation ,what i found as a research scholar (Mphil) and professional ,�is LIS education on one side and successful corporate librarian another side. All the advertisements gets published to fill up the vacancies but gets fill up without any announcement that is one point. � � Another �People are so biased in india that they prefer their candidates and all other qualified professionals records go to the dustbin� everyday� and biased towards their candidate on job too , i am really unable to understand .� � � Unless and until we deal with this situation , we will never be�successful in bringing quality in Librarianship profession. � Nidhi.k Mlisc,Mphil(pursuing) s p university, Anand Gujarat 09974168052 --- On Wed, 12/3/08, Mailing List Admin <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: From: Mailing List Admin <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Training for corporate librarianship To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 12:23 AM Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 20:17:49 +0530 From: atanu garai <atanugarai.lists(a)gmail.com> Dear Professors, I am very glad to interact with you all again, as I always look for opportunities to ask questions to teachers. Let me be very honest here. I will of course agree to what is said regarding the imminent need for improving the quality of intake and output of LIS incumbents. There is no doubt about it. But, this is just one side of the coin. [truncated]

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Just Published: EFA Global Monitoring Report 2009 - Overcoming inequality:why governance matters
by Puna Das 04 Dec '08

04 Dec '08

Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2009 - Overcoming inequality:why governance matters Despite much progress since 2000, millions of children, youth and adults still lack access to good quality education and the benefits it brings. This inequality of opportunity is undermining progress towards achieving Education for All by 2015. Who are these individuals and groups? What are the obstacles they face? How can governance policies help break the cycle of disadvantage and poverty? What policies work? Is education reform integrated into the bigger picture? Is the international community making good on its commitments? Download Press release: http://www.unesco.org/education/gmr2009/press/GMR2009_pressrelease_EN.pdf Download Summary Report: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0017/001776/177609e.pdf Download the Full Report: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0017/001776/177683E.pdf ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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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vacancy of Librarian
by Manoj Verma 03 Dec '08

03 Dec '08

Librarian at Sir M. Visvesvaraya Institute Of Technology, Krishnadevarayanagar, Hunasamaranahalli, Via : Yelahanka, Bangalore – 562157<http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lisjob/~3/h45oZWqKuOM/librarian-at-sir-m-vis…> For more details please visit: http://www.sirmvit.edu -- MANOJ KUMAR M.Sc.(Phys), MLISc,M.PHIL.(LIS), ADCA,UGC-NET(June & Dec.2006) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Article request
by ramesh chander 03 Dec '08

03 Dec '08

Dear Colleagues, I need an article which one of our IISc research scholar needs for his research work. If any one has access to it, please send me the same. The details of the article are High-Temperature Heat Content and Entropies of Cerium Dioxide and Columbium Dioxide,Authors: E.G. King, A.U. Christensen, , Rep. Invest., vol. 5789, U.S. Bureau of Mines, 1961, p. 1. -- With Regards, Romesh Chander Sharma National Center for Science Information(NCSI), Indian Institue of Science, Bangalore-560012, -- 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] Training for corporate librarianship
by Mailing List Admin 03 Dec '08

03 Dec '08

Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 20:17:49 +0530 From: atanu garai <atanugarai.lists(a)gmail.com> Dear Professors, I am very glad to interact with you all again, as I always look for opportunities to ask questions to teachers. Let me be very honest here. I will of course agree to what is said regarding the imminent need for improving the quality of intake and output of LIS incumbents. There is no doubt about it. But, this is just one side of the coin. The other side is equally dark and grim and I have serious doubts that even if we are successful in bringing out quality graduates, Indian companies are very unlikely to take them (practice in North America and Europe is very different). Let me explain. First and foremost, the heads of these institutes (say, HR heads - who corporate librarians most often report to, e.g. http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/2006-July/004325.html) have little to no idea of library and librarian. Lets do little bit of survey of Terms of Reference of job advertisements of posts relevant to corporate world (knowledge manager, librarians etc.). Case Study 1: Knowledge Management Officer. This advt is posted in naukri.com on 20 Nov. It says: Client of XYZ HR agency "Job Description: 1.Conceptualizing and implementing the knowledge management processes - both for physical library and virtual knowledge base. 2. Designing & Implementing project based knowledge sharing system ensuring optimum utilization. Desired Candidate Profile: 1. Engineer / Commerce graduate 2.Should be fluent in English and well versed with usage of computers 3. Experience in working with libraries will be added advantage Company Profile: It's India's top maritime and port consultant. It provides Business Research, Consulting, Information and Data services to Ports, Shipping, Logistics and other maritime industry." So, presumably this posting is released by a HR company, which has sufficient knowledge and expertise in this domain, with MBAs in HR and aware of the requirements of "Conceptualizing and implementing the knowledge management processes - both for physical library and virtual knowledge base". For the development of library, they need either an engineer or a commerce graduate, a person who known English and usage of computer (Librarians dont know either for sure) and experience in working with libraries will be advantage (as if, engineers generally work in libraries). Case study 2: Librarian (Client of XYZ HR agencies) "Job Description: should be a Bachelor in Library science/MBA. Preferably from a law institue,law firm or worked earlier in some legal deparment. Preferably a male candidate Desired Candidate Profile: should be a Bachelor in Library science/MBA Preferably from a law institue,law firm or worked earlier in some legal deparment. Preferably a male candidate Company Profile: Leading Law Firm based in Delhi" This is not very clear if the recruitment agency wants to say a Bachelor in Library Science equals to an MBA or, an MBA or BLIB will be required. Also, the gender bias in the advertisement is does not go well. Additionally, one can read the article written by T D Wilson, The nonsense of 'knowledge management' - http://informationr.net/ir/8-1/paper144.html, which is a gem in this regard. Secondly, I do not believe the concept of traditional sense of library as a physical building go well with corporate (or for that matter any other fast paced working environment) working culture. Information has to reside within the grasp of people, not in a distant location where you need to go and come back with your piece of information. Some authors have already written on this issue. Thirdly, since the HR managers do now know what to do with the librarians, they have already started recruiting MBAs (not the librarians with MBAs, but plain MBAs), so abundantly available in Indian market. Drive past the Delhi and Jaipur highway, and you can actually get an MBA degree from the roadside MBA dhabas in lieu of few thousand rupees and don't forget to get it signed from the head of the institute. The current issue of CACM actually gave a dim picture of India's tryst with ICT education as well ( http://mags.acm.org/communications/current): "In addition, while the Indian IT exports industry has a severe need for students to have "soft qualifications" (such as proficiency in spoken and written English and the ability to manage projects efficiently), this education system does not provide any such courses. Hence, it is not surprising that a recent study by the strategy consulting firm McKinsey and Company (www.mckinsey.com/mgi) indicated only 25% of engineering graduates would have the requisite qualifications to be employed in the Indian IT exports industry." (http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1409360.1409369). The immediate strategy will be therefore to educate these HR people about LIS and perhaps few well-drafted TOR for various positions and roles related to corporate world could be sent to all these firms, so that they know they dont have to curse their brains next time. Best regards Atanu Garai

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