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

OpenLX.com: first company offers Koha support in India
by Vimal Kumar 25 Sep '08

25 Sep '08

Dear Friends, First time in India commercial service support available for Koha, popular open source library management system. OpenLX from New Delhi now offers their support for Koha. OpenLX is actively involved in Open Source development since 1994 in India. OpenLX Linux is the First Indian Linux Distribution that is Open Source and available for free download and includes many third party Open source products including KOHA. OpenLX provides complete range of services on Koha including installation, migration, customisation, support, data conversion, staff training and software maintenance. OpenLX also provides the Koha support on Indian languages. In continuation of its effort of providing very low-cost services to NGOs on Linux, OpenLX offers Koha services to NGOs to help improve their working effectiveness, as part of our commitment towards Humanisation of the world. They recently completed Koha implementation project for Delhi Public Library. And OpenLX Team now involved in the implementation of Koha for a number of clients. Contact: Amit Gupta Sudhir Gandotra Website : www.openlx.com/koha.php Email : koha(a)openlx.com Phones : +91 98101-20918, +91 98915-59754, +91-11 26014670 & 71 Fax : +9111 26014672 Mailing Address: R-10, 3rd floor, Khirki Extn., Malviya Nagar, New Delhi 110017, India -- 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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Internet Resources Newsletter - October issue
by MacLeod, Roderick A 25 Sep '08

25 Sep '08

The latest edition of the FREE monthly newsletter for academics, students and researchers is now available at: http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn166/irn166.html No subscription or registration is needed to access this full-text newsletter at the above site. You can also subscribe to the free, full-text email version at: http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn.html An RSS feed for the newsletter is available: http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn.rss Featured in this issue: Comment Internet Resources Newsletter by email and RSS Random Quotes News items of interest A-Z New & Notable Web Sites: About 100 new and notable websites: new services, ejournals, directories, search engines, publishers, government sites, eResources, booksellers, calls for papers, software, news services, conferences, research groups, plus anything else of interest, etc, etc. Nice Web Site(s): Nature databases and gateways, and nanoHUB Blogorama Selected interesting blogs, RSS feeds and related news items Recent Internet books in the Library Get a life! Leisure Time After hours Published by Heriot-Watt University Library, and edited by Roddy MacLeod (R.A.MacLeod(a)hw.ac.uk), Catherine Ure and Marion Kennedy -- Heriot-Watt University is a Scottish charity registered under charity number SC000278. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Congratulations to Mr. Kishor Satpathy (S.K.Pathy, RC, NIFT Gandhinagar)
by sushanta kumar pathy 25 Sep '08

25 Sep '08

Dear Members, Its great to know that Mr. Kishor Satpathy, awarded with young librarian award. With his strong desire and determination to excel LIS activities, he deserves for this award. I heartly congratulate Mr. Satpathy through this forum.Rgds,Sushanta Kumar Pathy,Resource Centre, NIFT Gandhinagar Sushanta Kumar Pathy Resource Centre National Institute of Fashion Technology, Ministry of Textiles, Govt. of India Gandhinagar, Gujarat(INDIA) Ph. 079-23241849(Off) 09898162677 (M) http://www.gandhinagar.niftindia.com/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Digital Library for School Children
by DR.K.ADHINARAYANAN 25 Sep '08

25 Sep '08

To Dear All Sub:Digital Library for School Childrens The Education Development Centre (EDC) in collaboration with DSERT and Department of Public instruction has launched a digital library for school children (Indian Educational Digital Library ).It has contain almost 450 interactive program modules ofdifferent subjects ranging from Astronomy to Water conservation.This Digital library provides interesting stuffs vide knowldege to students of all levels with very userfriendly interface. Also available some modules on Indian freedom fighters and on Indian history. The web site is http://www.edudl.gov.in This site is designed and developed by vidyanidhi www.vidyanidhi.org.in. Regards, Dr.K.Adhinarayanan Deputy Librarian, Amrita University,Ettimadai,PO,Coimbatore,Tamilnadu Ph:09894043062 Be the first one to try the new Messenger 9 Beta! Go to http://in.messenger.yahoo.com/win/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Lecture Invitation
by Ratnakar Aspari 24 Sep '08

24 Sep '08

Dear Moderator: Kindly circulate the following Programme on Lis-forum Thanking You Ratnakar New Delhi _____________ RANGANATHAN RESEARCH CIRCLE (An organ of Ranganathan Research Trust, Regd.:25953, 1995) J8/123, Rajouri Garden, New Delhi RANGANATHAN RESEARCH CIRCLE In collaboration With National Social Science Documentation Centre, Firoz Shah Road, New Delhi-110 001 Cordially invites you to Xth Shri C. V. SUBBARAO Memorial Lecture at Social Science Documentation Centre, Firoz Shah Road, New Delhi On September 27th , 2008 Saturday at 10.00 A.M. “Marketing of Library Services” By Prof. (Mrs.) S. P. Singh Prof. Department of Library and Information Science, University of Delhi Chairperson Shri. K. Ramaswami, Former Librarian, National Science Library, INSDOC, New Delhi P R O G R A M M E 9.30 AM : Registration 10.30 AM : Floral tribute to Shri C V Subbarao 11.00-11.05 AM : Welcome by Shri Subhash Deshmukh 11.05-11.10 AM : Inaugural Address by Dr. A. Ratnakar 11.10-11.15 PM : Opening Remark by Chairman 11.15-12.30 PM : Shri. C.V. Subbarao Memorial Lecture 12.30-1.00 PM : Discussion & Question Answer 1.00 - 1.10 PM : Summing up by Chairman 1.10 - 1.15 PM : Vote of Thanks by Dr. N.K. Khatri 1.15 : Lunch -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please renew your RRC Membership by paying Rs. 100/- for one year Dr. A. Ratnakar Shri. K.K. Bhatia Shri. Subhash Deshmukh Dr. N.K. Khatri Shri. Suresh Paliwal Ph.: 26181325 25496916 95124-2578715 26513120 9868842812 9891390300 9873680484(M) 9910613694 _________________________________________________________________ Search for videos of Bollywood, Hollywood, Mollywood and every other wood, only on Live.com http://www.live.com/?scope=video&form=MICOAL -- 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] Digital conversion of Library materials
by Leonard Fernandes 24 Sep '08

24 Sep '08

It is nice to see that digitization of material is finally getting the attention it deserves. I believe that digitization and easy retrieval of data will go a long way in helping data be easily accessed for research and other scholarship purposes. To this end, I am willing to offer some of my webspace available. An ftp site from which matter can be uploaded. Perhaps, even a basic website? Regards, Leonard Fernandes ----- Original Message ---- From: T. Shahab <tshahab(a)jamiahamdard.ac.in> To: Gopakumar Velayudhanpillai <gopakumar.v(a)rediffmail.com>; lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Sent: Tuesday, 23 September, 2008 11:19:17 AM Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Digital conversion of Library materials Dear Moderator, This is in connection with the ongoing discussion on the modalities of Digitization. I would like to put forth the following points concerning policy to be adopted for the selection of materials in a library to be digitized. 1. Meeting the concern of copyright restrictions: In the Indian context 60 years is the period when a copyright to a published material holds valid. That is to say, we will not breaching any copyright obligation if we go for documents published by 1948 (2008-60=1948) 2. But fulfilling the copyright law demand should not make a librarian to conclude that now he/she is free for digitizing any old library material. Every penny to be spent has to be valued in terms of return. We are obliged to be conscientious as the Digitization is costly process- money wise as well as time wise. 3. How to avoid duplication? A number of libraries may be digitizing the same document. 4. Does the document to be digitized have any readership? This should be of particular concern for a librarian going to digitize printed books & documents. 5. Digitization for preservation purpose as one often hears has to be taken only in case of rare documents and manuscripts. 6. Digitization of Theses and post-graduate level Dissertations is greatly recommended. 7. Similarly, one can readily digitize the class notes, lectures etc. of the academic staff. 8. The Syllabus and Question papers can be also digitize on priority basis with a link to the digitized collection on the library Webpage, etc. & etc. My own preference is to start with the creation of ETD (electronic Theses & Dissertation) database for every University. I hope this topic will receive more attention from our professional community, better with a brief case study type presentation. Regards TANWIR -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Digitization
by Gayathri Sen 24 Sep '08

24 Sep '08

Dear friends, I completely agree with Shri Tanwir regarding digitization of library materials. We have digitized almost all the materials which he has mentioned in his communication to this discussion forum, and it can be viewed from anywhere in the world. To avoid duplication of what we have already done, I request those interested to go to site www.pes.edu-->library or http://library.pes.edu and select the material category digital library from OPAC on the search screen. All can view the meta data. Only the bonfide members of the institution and institutional members can view the full text articles, question papers, syllabus etc from their desk top by using the user ID and password. I request all engineering colleges in Karnataka coming under VTU to have a look at our site and make use of it, if required. Regards, Gayathri Sen ______________________________ Cheif Librarian & Head Library & Learning Resource Center PES Group of Institutions 100 Feet Ring Road, BSK III Stage, BANGALORE - 560085 Ph: (080) 26721983/26722108 Extn: 229 www.pes.edu Unlimited freedom, unlimited storage. Get it now, on http://help.yahoo.com/l/in/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/tools/tools-08.html/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Workshop on " DIGITAL LIBRARIES FOR ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS
by Arunachalam Hariharan 24 Sep '08

24 Sep '08

Society for the Advancement of Library and Information Science (SALIS Tirunelveli Chapter ) and National Engineering College, Kovilpatti (TN) and SALIS ( Tirunelveli chapter) Jointly organizing One day workshop on " DIGITAL LIBRARIES FOR ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS using GSDL Date: 4th Oct 2008 Venue: National Engineering College, Kovilpatti (Near Tirunelveli) For further details, pl contact/visit K.VINITHA Senior Librarian, Organising Secretary National Engineering College Kovilpatti – 628 503 E-mail: librarynec(a)gmail.com Tel: 04632-222502 Cel: 9442447261 http://autolib-india.net/salis/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- A.Hariharan SALIS -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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DDC Numbers
by Charu Mathur 24 Sep '08

24 Sep '08

Respected Friends, There are number of web-links are available for DDC but out of them these are some valuable link for Dewey Decimal Classification Numbers. http://www-lib.nearnorth.edu.on.ca/dewey/ddc.htm http://www-lib.nearnorth.edu.on.ca/dewey/ddc_mine000.htm http://www.oclc.org/dewey/resources/summaries/default.htm http://www.deweybrowse.org/ Regards, Miss Charu Mathur, Delhi -- 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 DSpace for Building Institutional Repositories and Digital Libraries
by Binu PC 24 Sep '08

24 Sep '08

Dear Professionals Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala and Federal Institute of Science and Technology (FISAT), Angamaly Kerala, are jointly organising a Five Day National Workshop on "DSpace for Building Institutional Repositories and Digital Libraries" from 21st to 25th October 2008 at FISAT. For details Click on http://www.fisat.ac.in/National_Workshop/index.html Binu P C Librarian, FISAT -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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