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

RANGANATHAN RESEARCH CIRCLE
by Swapan kumar Patra 11 Apr '08

11 Apr '08

RANGANATHAN RESEARCH CIRCLE (An organ of Ranganathan Research Trust, Regd.:25953, 1995) J8/123, Rajouri Garden, New Delhi Manager Program Committee SUBHASH DESHMUKH A-103, C-DOT Apartments, GH 2, Gurgaon, Haryana 122003 Ph. 95124-2578715, 9873680484 Date : 19th April, 2008 We have the pleasure to announce the 130th Monthly Meeting of RRC on 19th April, 2008 (3rd Saturday) at 10.00 hrs. The Meeting is to celebrate *"World Book Day"* *Venue : National Social Science Documentation Center, * * **Firoz Shah Road**, Near Mandi House Metro Station,* * New Delhi-110 001 * * * *Speaker : Prof. S. Ansari * * Former Librarian & Head, Department of Library and Information* * Science, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi * * * *Topic : Use of Books in Digital Era* * * Kindly make it convenient to attend the meeting and participate to benefit the group by discussions. Swapan Kumar Patra Research Scholar Center for Studies in Science Policy School of Social Science Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi-67 -- 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] UNESCO helps preserve Indian documentary heritage
by Mailing List Admin 11 Apr '08

11 Apr '08

Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:19:29 +0530 From: Susmita Chakraborty <susmitachakraborty94(a)gmail.com> With regard to Mr. Leonard Fernandes' comments, I have a question to ask the LIS community. When some (rare) resources are uploaded so that everyone can have it for free, is it not defeating the purpose if someone (publisher or any other other profitmaking body) tries to earn profit from it? On the other hand, I feel that libraries having such rich archives must go the digital way(digitization and dissemination of rare materials) by exploring state/national government or other funds and then try to derive some revenue from these resources to cover the running costs of those libraries. In these days of finance-crunch, it may point out one way to break-even. Regards. Susmita Chakraborty Bengal Engineering & Science University, Shibpur, Howrah, W.B. On 4/10/08, Mailing List Admin <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: > > Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 16:07:57 +0100 (BST) > From: Leonard Fernandes <leonardfernandes(a)yahoo.com> > > Bold step indeed!! > > Being a print-on-demand publisher myself, we had approached the Goa > Central Library with a unique proposal. The Central Library, instituted > during the Portuguese rule in Goa, has a unique collection of rare > manuscripts written in Konkani, Marathi, English and Portuguese, not to > mention a vast archive of newspapers. However, the collection has aged and > is fragile. Therefore, when people come to research on this part of the > world and have to either turn them away or risk damaging the books > further. > > We had proposed that we will scan these books and produce one copy (most > copyrights have expired) that they can use to give to researchers and > other visitors. Print-On-Demand allows printing of just one copy at a time > and the technology is aptly suited for this kind of a situation. We had > also proposed that we will print their books that are stored in microfilm. > Both proposals met with rejection despite the curator being in favour of > them because "books were a step backward when the whole world was going > digital" > > In the context of such hare-brained decisions, one can only admire the > initiative taken by the Xavier college at Kolkota > >>Mailing List Admin <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: Date: Mon, 7 Apr >>2008 11:02:21 +0530 From: Susmita Chakraborty > >>Congratulations to The Librarian, The Principal and the other members of >>the team for doing a tremendous piece of work towards preserving great >>cultural heritage of mother India. > >>Hope many others will get inspired. > >>Regards. > >>Susmita Chakraborty > >>Kolkata > > _______________________________________________ > LIS-Forum mailing list > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum >

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Talk on Copyright Compliance in Organizations
by madhuresh.singhal 11 Apr '08

11 Apr '08

Dear All, A one hour talk on Copyright is being organized by NCSI-Net tomorrow 12th April 2008 at NCSI Seminar Hall at 11 AM. Sorry for such short notice. Below is the detail. Topic: "Copyright Compliance in Organizations: Can Library and Information professionals take the challenge?" Speaker: Ananda T. Byrappa, Manager, Whitney Knowledge Centre, GE India Technology Centre. Place: NCSI Seminar Hall, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. All are welcome to attend the talk. Regards Madhuresh Singhal Deputy Manager - Knowledge Services Advinus Therapeutics Pvt. Ltd. 21 & 22, Phase 2, Peenya Industrial Area, Bangalore - 560058 Phone: +91 80 28394959; Mobile 098861 82822 E-mail: madhureshsinghal(a)yahoo.com http://nettalk2.tripod.com/ ************************************************************************************************* This email and its attachments are confidential and proprietary to Advinus Therapeutics Pvt. Ltd. and are meant for the intended recipient only. If you are not the intended recipient, do not take any actions based on the contents of this message, except to permanently delete the message and its attachments and inform the sender immediately. ************************************************************************************************* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Haryana Institute of Engineering & Technology : Jobs
by sri priya 11 Apr '08

11 Apr '08

Haryana Institute of Engineering & Technology 6th K.M. Stone, Ambala Road, Kaithal - 136 027 (Haryana) Phone: 01746-280100, 280102, Fax: 01746-280711 (Under Dr. Puran Chand Dharmarth Trust) Received Letter of Intent from AICTE, New Delhi and is under process of establishment from session 2008-09 Applications are invited for the following posts Librarian, Asstt. Librarian & Library Assistant. Qualification and pay scales as per AICTE/Kurukshetra University norms. Apply within 10 days on plain paper along with testimonials. Source :http://www.careerage.com/cgi-bin/showad.cgi?file=/20080410/cf30d859a02204d0ce8be2fed5818df9.html&kwd=be Regards, S.Sripriya __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://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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Position for Junior Professional Officer, JPO - Maternal and Newborn Health - India
by Tomas Allen 11 Apr '08

11 Apr '08

Position for Junior Professional Officer, JPO - Maternal and Newborn Health Dear Friends I am hoping that as medical Health librarians, you will be willing to share this with potentially interested candidates for the position of Junior Professional Officer, JPO - Maternal and Newborn Health It is a wonderful opportunity for those that qualifyThank you for any assistance in advertising this positionTomas AllenWHO LibraryGenevaThe Belgian government has agreed to sponsor one Junior Professional Officers (JPO) from a developing country to WHO in the area of reproductive health in the Western Pacific Region (Viet Nam) . In order to find the best young and dynamic individual for this post, we would like to kindly request your assistance in spreading the word of this vacancy through your networks via any appropriate means. Details of the positions and how to apply can be found under the following web link: http://www.jposc.org/content/programme/current_vacancies-en.html Thank you so much in advance for helping provide an opportunity to JPOs from the developing world. Yours sincerely, From Tomas of WHO Library but please to contact for further information via email. Cornelia GrissHuman Resources Officer Recruitment, Career Management and Organizational Designjpoapplications(a)who.int _________________________________________________________________ Going green? See the top 12 foods to eat organic. http://green.msn.com/galleries/photos/photos.aspx?gid=164&ocid=T003MSN51N16… -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Refresher course
by gopikuttan gopikuttan 11 Apr '08

11 Apr '08

Dear professionals, Academic staff college of University of Kerala has invited applilactions for refresher course in library science, which is proposed from May 8th onwards. Details can be had from the website of Academic Staff college,University of Kerala. Thanking you Dr.A.Gopikuttan Department of Library & Information Science University of Kerala Thiruvananthapuram Meet people who discuss and share your passions. Go to http://in.promos.yahoo.com/groups/bestofyahoo/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Fw: Librarians Role in Book Selection
by Rajan 11 Apr '08

11 Apr '08

Dear All, It seems that Mr. Saheb (?), the original query poser, requires moral support in exerting himself as a professional librarian in his work place where he might have been sidelined and left to be in defensive without providing the basic support by his institutional managers. So he should be motivated to do whatever he can in choosing books, classifying them properly, providing better services and in demanding more institutional support. He should not be discouraged or dissuaded just because some others in the profession cannot read, understand, select, classify qualitatively the books or information materials on the emerging subjects and leave aside some critical part of their professional work, either to the book suppliers who can even manage faculty recommendation or to the faculty who remain as 'rent-seekers' of the book supply firms. There can be much variant scenario too in many other better libraries. But specialist faculty members alone are not good book selectors for developing a comprehensive collection, in majority of cases. It doesn't mean that the entire faculty should be kept away, like a leprosy patient, from the entire process of book selection. The former is a strenuous route of deeply involving in book selection by utilizing the well read facility and the latter is to leave aside everything to others and get even 'speed money' from the book supplier. This is the practical reality in our library scene which we need not be afraid of to speak. If you choose the former option, you can become a provider of information or knowledge materials to the most learned professor or academic dean in your institution and can become a most respected knowledge manager on par with your professors. Other wise, your can became a 'store keeper librarian' or a bureaucratic librarian and possibly a 'money maker' too. The option is yours. Almost all our libraries (except a very few) and the library profession, which I belong to, doesn't command respect in India like most other professions as per my experience. The most important delimiting factor is our attitude that doesn't motivate us to grow and our tendency to confine ourselves in some earlier learned rudimentary things without knowing much about the knowledge development and technology environment around us. The 'post Google era' provided us so many tools to develop, grow and flourish ourselves as god knowledge managers due to the imaginative work of the information technology professionals, which we are poorly using. I think that we, as librarians, should be able to gather about new ideas, important books and digital information in diverse areas which we deal with so as to feed the users as a knowledgeable professor, as we get professors salary and better facilities. The purpose of this third and last mail is to motivate the query poser to develop a healthy disregard for the status quo in order to him as a good library professional and not to convince others. Best Regards, K Rajasekharan Librarian, Kerala Institute of Local Administration(KILA) Mulagunnathukavu, Thrissur - 680581 , India Email rajankila(a)gmail.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Dr. M. Koteswara Rao To: Rajan Cc: Dr. M. Koteswara Rao Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 6:29 PM Subject: [?? Probable Spam] Re: Librarians Role in Book Selection Dear Colleagues, I do not mean to hurt the sentiments or demoralise the library profession, but let us be practical in approach. I am aware that librarians are taught about 'book selection' in LIS schools, but it does not mean that they should select books for the library. For a specialised library dealing with a subject or two, the librarian can make the selection. Imagine a University library or a medical library or an engineering library where the subjects are specialised and/or too many, and I am sure that no librarian can really do justice in selecting the books. I think it is foolish to think so, and if someone feels that 'we are experts in all subjects' then we will be called 'jack of all and master of none'. In todays world books are written on very narrow subjects, which our professional colleagues are not able to even classify them. I sincerely feel that we should restrict ourselves to our duties rather than trying to learn all the subjects of the universe of knowledge. I think that Librarians can still command respect and participate in the collection building process in many other ways. Dr. M. Koteswara Rao Librarian, UoH -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Teachers/Course Coordinators for Library and Information Science required
by Raman Nair. 11 Apr '08

11 Apr '08

Please publish the following information in LIS Forum Teachers/Course Coordinators for Library and Information Science required for the proposed IGNOU Study Center at Kottayam Public Library. Kottayam Public Library proposes to establish a School of Library and Information Science, which will be offering BLISc and MLISc courses as well as PGD in Library networking etc of the Indira Gandhi National Open University. The School will have a high tech Informatics lab and lecture hall with all modern facilities like computers, LCD projector and Net connectivity. Library is searching for teachers and Course Coordinators for the School. The candidates should have First Class MLISc, good exposure to ICT and automated library systems. Experience will be counted. UGC Net and PhD will be preferable. Interested candidates are requested to send detailed bio data and copies of the certificates to: The President, Kottayam Public Library, Shastri Road, Kottayam, Kerala. Telephone: 0481 2562915. Electronic copies of the data can be mailed to kottayampubliclibrary(a)yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://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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Teachers/Course Coordinators for Library and Information Science for the IGNOU Study Center Kottayam Public Library Proposes to Establish
by Raman Nair. 11 Apr '08

11 Apr '08

Please publish the informatin related to requirement of LIS teacheres at Kottayam Public Library provided below: Teachers/Course Coordinators for Library and Information Science for the IGNOU Study Center Kottayam Public Library Proposes to Establish. Kottayam Public Library proposes to establish a School of Library and Information Science, which will be offering BLISc and MLISc courses as well as PGD in Library networking etc of the Indira Gandhi National Open University. The School will have a high tech Informatics lab and lecture hall with all modern facilities like computers, LCD projector and Net connectivity. Library is searching for teachers and Course Coordinators for the School. The candidates should have First Class MLISc and UGC Net and good exposure to ICT and automated library systems. Experience and PhD will be preferable. Further details if any will be published at http://www.acaemiclibrarian.net.tc Interested candidates are requested to send detailed bio data and copies of the certificates to: The President, Kottayam Public Library, Thirunakkara, Kottayam, Kerala. Telephone: 0481 2562915 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://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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[Lis-Forum] Re: Librarians Role in Book Selection]
by Mailing List Admin 11 Apr '08

11 Apr '08

Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:47:56 +0530 (IST) From: Dr. M. Koteswara Rao <mkrlib(a)uohyd.ernet.in> Dear Colleagues, I do not mean to hurt the sentiments or demoralise the library profession, but let us be practical in approach. I am aware that librarians are taught about 'book selection' in LIS schools, but it does not mean that they should select books for the library. For a specialised library dealing with a subject or two, the librarian can make the selection. Imagine a University library or a medical library or an engineering library where the subjects are specialised and/or too many, and I am sure that no librarian can really do justice in selecting the books. I think it is foolish to think so, and if someone feels that 'we are experts in all subjects' then we will be called 'jack of all and master of none'. In todays world books are written on very narrow subjects, which our professional colleagues are not able to even classify them. I sincerely feel that we should restrict ourselves to our duties rather than trying to learn all the subjects of the universe of knowledge. I think that Librarians can still command respect and participate in the collection building process in many other ways. Dr. M. Koteswara Rao Librarian, UoH > Dear All, > > I presume that there would be some librarians,like me, who think that the > selection of books and other documents in a library is the most critical > factor in bettering the library services in which librarian should play a > very prominent role as a key selector based on the principles he learned > from the subject ' book selection' he studied in the library schools. > [truncated] > Best Regards, > > > K Rajasekharan > Librarian, Kerala Institute of Local Administration(KILA) > Mulagunnathukavu, Thrissur - 680581 , India > Email rajankila(a)gmail.com

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