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

"Project Assistant" required for another Project at ISI, Kolkata
by Shikha Bhowmik 10 Apr '08

10 Apr '08

Dear Moderator, Please post this information in LIS-Forum. Thank you. One Project Assistant is required in ISI Library for a period of one year to work in the project entitled "Digital repository of the contributions of Professor P.C.Mahalanobis using open source software (Dspace)". Essential qualification: A consistently good academic record with Masters degree in Library & Information Science or its equivalent from a recognized University/Institute with knowledge in computer applications in library operations. Desirable qualification: Familiarity with the concepts of Digital Library and Open source software (Dspace). Total remuneration is RS.5000/- plus 30%HRA per month. A walk-in-interview will be conducted on 23 April 2008 at 10.30 A.M. Candidates are required to bring with them an application addressed to the Director,Indian Statistical Institute along with bio-data and photocopies as well as original copies of their certificates and they must report at the office of the ISI Library half an hour before the time mentioned. Shikha Bhowmik Indian Statistical Institute Library -- Open WebMail Project (http://openwebmail.org) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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How to get a usage feedback? - Need inputs
by Suvarsha Walters 10 Apr '08

10 Apr '08

Hi everyone, I want to measure usage of Journals/Magazines (J/M) used in the library. Let me give you the setting of the library: Ours is a small corporate library where borrowing and returning of library material works mostly on trust. So it's up to the user to record material that he/she takes out of the library - including books and journals on cards placed in the library. While most of our users sincerely record books taken out, they are not bothered about the J/M. Moreover, J/M are also scanned and read when inside the library and replaced back (which is also usage). For the last few months I tried attaching little slips of paper to new issues and asked people to write their names if they used it. But that was not very successful. I am now looking at new ways to record usage. If you have had any practical experience or can come up with some innovative ideas, do let me know. Thanks very much, Suvarsha Information Analyst, HP Labs India Bangalore __________________________________________________ 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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request for article
by sheeba jasmine 10 Apr '08

10 Apr '08

Dear Professionals, I need the full text of the following articles. It will be helpful to me if anyone can send these articles. 1. literature of disasters from the human factors point of view: a descriptive analysis - Nestor L. Oscorio, Jitka Hurych - Collection Building - V.23, 2 - 2004 - p.64-72 - Emerald 2. Bibliometric analysis of tsunami research - Scientometrics - V.73,1 - October 2007 - p.3-17 - Akademiai Klado with Springer Science+Business media Thank you, with regards, Sheeba Jasmine Librarian Valliammai Engineering College Kattankulathur Tamil Nadu 603 203 Ph:044-22391011 Explore your hobbies and interests. Go to http://in.promos.yahoo.com/groups/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Free access in April from RSC Publishing
by Thapar, Amit 09 Apr '08

09 Apr '08

Free access to RSC journal content in April Free access in April 14 March 2008 Do you enjoy reading journals from RSC Publishing? Would you like to have access to even more RSC content? From April 1st to April 30th 2008, you can! "We are delighted to have this opportunity to reward all our valued customers for their continued loyalty." - Philip Abrahams, Customer Services Director Like any organisation, we are keen to reward our loyal customers. So, to show our appreciation for your continued support of RSC journals, we are giving you free online access to all of our online journals - completely free! Whatever your area of interest, you are sure to find relevant research in RSC journals. And, as an existing customer, you know that you can rely on the high quality of the articles. You can also take the opportunity to check out the award-winning RSC Prospect enhanced HTML articles, which use subject ontologies and identified compounds to link related articles, and provide links to definitions, synonyms and structures. No other publisher can offer these added-value enhancements. All you need is a current institutional subscription (or rights to access online) for one or more RSC journal titles. Then, for the whole of April 2008, you and your colleagues will be able to read all content, published between 1997 and the present day, in the following journals: a.. The Analyst b.. Annual Reports on the Progress of Chemistry c.. Chemical Communications d.. Chemical Society Reviews e.. CrystEngComm f.. Dalton Transactions g.. Faraday Discussions h.. Green Chemistry i.. JAAS j.. Journal of Environmental Monitoring k.. Journal of Materials Chemistry l.. Lab on a Chip m.. Molecular BioSystems n.. Natural Product Reports o.. New Journal of Chemistry p.. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry q.. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics r.. Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences s.. Soft Matter Information for Librarians/Information scientists We have arranged access via the IP addresses you have already supplied, so no action is required. Usage statistics can be made available on request. Usage Statistics See what your institution is using with your own usage statistics. Project Prospect Home For FAQs, examples, contact information and latest news about Project Prospect Journals Home RSC Journals are recognised as the fastest in the field. This is made possible by a dedicated, professional staff and innovative electronic workflow systems. Contact and Further Information Sales and Customer Services Royal Society of Chemistry, Thomas Graham House, Science Park, Milton Road, Cambridge CB4 0WF, UK Tel: +44 (0)1223 432360 Fax: +44 (0)1223 426017 Email: Sales and Customer Services -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Organize Books & Music Quickly
by DINESH SIDDAIAH 09 Apr '08

09 Apr '08

Dear Friends, The Software LIBRA, which is completely free for non-commercial use. It has some nifty features such as the ability to use any web cam as a barcode scanners. You can hold the book in any orientation and it will recognize the barcode. This is a real time saver and takes much of the tedium out of creating the catalogue. One of the important aspect of this is, it pulls information from amazon databases. LIBRA can be download from www.getlibra.com. (Source: PC World, April 2008, Vol. 13, Iss. 10, P.60) Thanking You, Dinesh K S -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Neglected Role of Librarians
by Rajan 09 Apr '08

09 Apr '08

Dear All, Dr Shahab has raised a very pertinent issue. Librarians were appointed, given all the responsibilities and not provided with necessary enabling environments. So libraries are tend to fail in delivering the services normally. Why does this happen? Many librarians are happy with confining themselves to some routine duties and not interested to think, plan and implement library development and services. Some others are incapable of functioning as a professional librarians due to their poor exposure and lack of interest. Other capable and innovative librarians do not get the luxury of a supportive and enabling environment for their professional work. Very few institutions provide reasonable environment for library development. This is a very bad situation. The book selection is considered to be a domain of some experts and librarian is considered not capable of proper book selection. The selection of books should be in tune with the information needs of the users. Book selection can be done without the deeper knowledge of the subject or reading seriously, if you know the criteria to evaluate a book based on the quality consideration of the publisher, book reviews and even the citation statistics, if one is a capable librarian. On the other hand teachers, having doctorate degrees etc and incapable of making a good selection for the library, are provided with the right to selection based on the knowledge that they are experts and librarians are ignorant. We need to change this situation for which the library professional associations should raise this issue, promote the concept and should show good results at least in some institutions where librarians can build a better collection, if provided with a free hand. Unless the librarian is supported with facilities like men money, materials , methods etc, they cannot go ahead reasonably in proper library development. In this age of interdisciplinary studies, proper book selection require very good understanding of the main subjects in general and their inter- relationships. Librarian should develop that knowledge by becoming a generalist, rather than a specialist. Library schools should work as a breeding ground of such new breed of library professionals. Regards, K Rajasekharan Librarian, Kerala Institute of Local Administration(KILA) Mulagunnathukavu, Thrissur - 680581 , India Original Message Subject: [LIS-Forum] Seeking discussion on problems with a balance BOOK SELECTION POLICY & PROCEDURE From: T. Shahab <tshahab(a)jamiahamdard.ac.in> Dear Memberss, Through the popular LIS-Forum for exchanging professional ideas, I wish to engage the valuable attention of the practicing librarians to the ever increasing problem of breach in librarians' domain by faculty members in light of the shrinking role of librarians in determining the policy and procedures involving many of the library activities, particularly the collection development through BOOK SELECTION. In some libraries that I know, the Acquisition Dept. has been turned into just like a clearance house; the librarian is not consulted on matters of Book selection; even the budgeted amount under the Central library has to be used on the authorization of the Vice-chancellor or one of his/ her nominees. Book suppliers will directly contact the faculty members get the books recommended and pass-on the recommended lists to the Acquisition Dept. for necessary followups. Some times, two or more departments may recommend the same title, and the librarian being unaware of the reason, has only to meekly put his/her signature. Even in matters of acquiring multiple copies of the already purchased books (on students' demand), the hands of a librarian is bound. A Librarian being in close touch with the students is always approached by them with their requests on different library related matters, but the librarian is most of the cases is unable to make any firm committment for a facility or extension of services to the students. This change in power dynamics in Universities is making the job of a librarian a very unsavoury one; most librarians are feeling dejected and professionally emasculated. Please, take the above write-up as a point of discussion. Feel free to express your considered opinion on this matter of great importance. Regards. Dr. T. SHAHAB -- 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 09 Apr '08

09 Apr '08

Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 11:02:21 +0530 From: Susmita Chakraborty <susmitachakraborty94(a)gmail.com> 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 On 4/4/08, Mailing List Admin <mailman(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: > > Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 11:46:12 +0100 (BST) > From: Puna Das <puna_05(a)yahoo.co.in> > > UNESCO helps preserve Indian documentary heritage > 04-04-2008 (New Delhi) > > A UNESCO-supported project "Preservation and Conservation of Rare > Documents of St. Xavier's College Library, Kolkata" has recently been > completed. Several thousands of pages of rare documents from the College > library have been recovered, preserved and digitised.

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extremely well communicated presentation (by sukh dev singh)
by Mailing List Admin 09 Apr '08

09 Apr '08

Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 08:52:16 -0500 From: bhawna vashishtha <bhawnavashishtha(a)gmail.com> We have been regularly telling readers how to subscribe to a RSS Feed through a subscribed database. But i think this presentation has proved to be very useful for us to let them understand how they can get the latest updates from their favourite website. I want to thank Dr. Sukhdev Singh for sharing his efforts through forum. Sir i want to further write that today i came to know that if we are using Mozilla FireFox then we may also opt for "Subscribe this page" option under "bookmarks" menu. Bhawna Vashishtha Semi Professional Assistant Central Library Delhi University -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Cheers to Chikkamallaih on his superannuation
by Mailing List Admin 09 Apr '08

09 Apr '08

Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 17:38:16 +0530 From: Sulochan <sulochanp(a)gmail.com> Everybody has to give place to new face and Mr Chikkamallaiah is no exception - he has had good and great time of his quality service rendered tirelessly from that stalwart stone building of IIM, Bangalore. The one-point 'service focused' appraoch of Chikkamallaaih was always amazing and today the IIM-B Library stands tall among the best and finest libraries in the country - a tall model to be emulated. So to use the Kannada tone, today Chikkamallaiah is not small, but really deserves to be called 'Doddamallaiah'. Inserting higher qualifications and feathers of recognitions on his head was not his passion. I understand, his single-point passion to render service first and last to the users was great and this focus might have put less 'need and greed' in him towards acquiring higher or doctorate qualification. (Not that one should not go for higher qualification. All professionals do need that, along the line of quality and dedicated service to the users.) Only once or twice I might have some personal interaction with him - which he even may not remember. As Dr IRN Goudar has aptly pointed out, his services and contributions to the profession, his invisible qualities of supporting, inspiring and shaping up of the many young budding professionals on the corridor and campus of that tall stone buliding of IIM-B is as strong as the very shining stones there. Cheers to Chikkmallaiah - you have done it. P Sulochanan, Bangalore.

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For the post of Librarian and assistant librarian at Veer Narmad South Gujarat University
by vijay kumar 08 Apr '08

08 Apr '08

Dear Library professionals, Veer Narmad South Gujarat University invites application for the post of Librarian(1) and Assistant Librarian(1) Last Date for submission of complete form is 30-04-2008 For Details visit the website http://www.sgu.ernet.in/job/index.php Thanks Vijay kumar NCSI -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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