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Vacancies at West Bengal National University of Juridicial Sciences( WBNUJS), Kolkata
by Vinod Singh 17 Sep '08

17 Sep '08

Dear Professionals Posts: 1. Librarian (16400-450-22400): 1 UR http://www.nujs.edu/academics/advertisementforacademicandofficersposts.pdf 2.Assistant Librarian (8000-275-13500): 1UR ttp://www.nujs.edu/academics/advertisementforacademicandofficersposts.pdf<http://www.nujs.edu/academics/advertisementforacademicandofficersposts.pdf> 3. Library attendants ( 2550-55-2660-60-3200 ): 2UR http://www.nujs.edu/academics/advertisementfornonacademicposts.pdf Last date:20 Oct, 2008. Aplication form for posts 1 & 2 click the site http://www.nujs.edu/academics/applicationformforfacultyrecruitment.pdf and for post 3 click the site edu/academics/applicationformofficersandnonacademicstaffrecruitme.pdf<http://www.nujs.edu/academics/applicationformofficersandnonacademicstaffrec…> Best Regards, Vi (Vinod) Ku (Kumar) Si (Singh) Research Scholar (M.Phil) Dept. of Lib. & Info. Sci. University of Delhi Delhi-7 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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[lisnet] Registrations Open for ICoASL 2008, SLA Asian Chapter, New Delhi
by parveenbabbar 17 Sep '08

17 Sep '08

Special Libraries Association-Asian Chapter SLA Asian Chapter is organizing an "International conference of Asian Special Libraries (ICoASL 2008) on Shaping the future of special libraries: beyond boundaries" in association with Society for Library Professionals, Delhi and IASLIC, Kolkatta at India Islamic Cultural Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi, India from 26-28 November 2008. Some of the objectives of the Conference 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 1000 participants from India, Asia, U.S. and the globe. You are invited to attend the same. For details please visit: http://units.sla.org/chapter/cas/ICoASL2008.html <http://units.sla.org/chapter/cas/ICoASL2008.html> Registrations are open. You are invited to attend the same. Dates to Remember Early Bird Registration - 30 September 2008 Last Date for Registration- 15 November 2008 Registration Fee: Early Bird Registration Till 30 September 2008 From 01 October 2008 Indian Delegates Rs.4000/- Rs.5000/- Developing and Asian Countries Delegates US$ 175 US$ 200 SAARC countries Delegates US$ 115 US$ 130 Other countries Delegates US$ 225 US$ 250 SLA members, accompanied persons, Students, retired professionals and additional participants from the same organization can avail 15% discount. SPEAKERS 1. Stephen Abram, President, Special Libraries Association (SLA), USA 2. Janice Lachance, CEO, Special Libraries Association (SLA), USA 3. Gayle Gossen, Secretary, B&F Division, SLA, Business Information Specialist at Dow Jones and Company. Worked as a librarian at the Toronto Star, Canada. 4. Nevenka Zdravkovska, Chair, International Relations Committee, S& T Division, SLA and works as the Head, Engineering & Physical Sciences Library at University of Maryland. 5. Linda Broussard, Chief Community Officer, SLA 6. Jay Bhatt, Information Services librarian W. W. Hagerty Library, Drexel University. 7. Jack W. Plunkett CEO, Plunkett Research Ltd. 8. Rebecca B. Vargha, Past President SLA, University of North Carolina, USA. 9. Jane Macoustra, Tai- Pan Research, U.K. 10. Rajwant S.Chilana, Ph.D. Asso.Professor of Lib. Admn & South Asian Studies Librarian, Univ.of Illinois,USA. 11. Dr. S Majumdar, Librarian, University of Delhi, Delhi. 12. Dr. H.K.Kaul, Director, DELNET, Delhi. 13. Dr. Subhash Deshmukh, Librarian, I P University, Delhi. 14. Dr. Usha Mujoo Munshi, Librarian, IIPA, Delhi 15. Dr. Krishan Lal, NPL, Delhi. 16. Mr. Sudhir Arora, Librarian, IGNOU, Delhi. 17. Mr. G K Manjunath, Chief Librarian, IGIDR, Mumbai. 18. Dr. Iswara Bhatt, BITS, Pilani. 19. Dr. Jagtar Singh, Head and Dean, Punjabi University, Patiala. 20. Dr. R C Gaur, Director, IGNCA, Delhi Payment Details : The payment should be sent through local cheque/ demand draft to be made in favour of "ICoASL" and payable at New Delhi. The filled-in registration forms and the payment should be sent to the conference Secretariat or can be registered online at ICoASL website. For further information, please contact: P.K.Jain Organizing Secretary Conference Secretariat ICoASL 2008 C/o Institute of Economic Growth University of Delhi Enclave DELHI- 110007. India Ph. 91-11-27667463; 27666364; 27666367 Fax: 91-11-27667463; 91-11-27667410 Cell: 09899110787 Email: asiansla(a)gmail.com Email: asianchaptersla(a)yahoo.com http://units.sla.org/chapter/cas/ICoASL2008.html Regards Parveen Babbar Assistant Librarian L&DD, IGNOU New Delhi-110068 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Impact factor of journals: IJSOM and GJFSM
by harry＠pbi.ac.in 16 Sep '08

16 Sep '08

Dear professionals, Latest impact factors of the following journals are needed by a library user. We have already searched the Web using general search engines. 1. International Journal of Services and Operations Management 2. Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management Library having access to JCR or other relevant sources can help us find this information. Any help regarding this would be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Dr. H.P.S. Kalra DLIS, Punjabi University Patiala (Punjab) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Accession Register
by M. Ram 16 Sep '08

16 Sep '08

Dear All It is requested you kindly let us know the procedure of entering the cost of books in Accession Register. We wish to know that the Gross value of books or after discount value is entered in your accession register. If we entered Gross value of books it is according to any rules or a General Practice. Yours Dr.Mange Ram Incharge Central Library Dayalbagh Educational Institute (Deemed University), Dayalbagh Agra-5 (UP)INDIA Mail: m_ram72(a)yahoo.co.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Registration Open SLA Asian Chapter Conference New Delhi ICoASL 2008
by Debal Chandra Kar 15 Sep '08

15 Sep '08

Special Libraries Association-Asian Chapter Dear Sir, We are pleased to inform that the SLA Asian Chapter is organizing an International conference of Asian Special Libraries (ICoASL 2008) on Shaping the future of special libraries: beyond boundaries. This conference is coordinated in association with Society for Library Professionals, Delhi and IASLIC, Kolkatta. The venue for this conference is: India Islamic Cultural Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi, India Date: 26-28 November 2008. We request you to attend this conference and forward this mail to Library Professionals. This is the first time the Asian Chapter is organising this International Conference. We look forward to your wholehearted participation. Please feel free to forward this to your friends, colleagues, local LIS newsletters and Local LIS Association. The objectives of the Conference are to bring together library professionals to a common platform, promote special libraries, and facilitate the exchange of ideas and help bridge the knowledge gap amongst the professionals associated with special libraries and to further develop professional competentency. This seminar is expected to attract more than 1000 participants from India, Asia, and the U.S. Registrations for this conference are open. For details please visit: http://units.sla.org/chapter/cas/ICoASL2008.html You can register online also and can pay through credit card. Please click: http://www.tbimice.com/icoasl2008/sla_regn_main.asp SLA members, accompanied persons, Students, retired professionals and additional participants from the same organization can avail of 15% discount. SPEAKERS: Some of the speakers are: 1. Stephen Abram, President, Special Libraries Association (SLA), USA and Vice President, Innovation for SirsiDynix and Chief Strategist for the SirsiDynix Institute, Canada 2. Janice Lachance, CEO, Special Libraries Association (SLA), USA 3. Gayle Gossen, Secretary, B&F Division, SLA, Business Information Specialist at Dow Jones and Company. Worked as a librarian at the Toronto Star, Canada. 4. Nevenka Zdravkovska, Chair, International Relations Committee, S& T Division, SLA and works as the Head, Engineering & Physical Sciences Library at University of Maryland. 5. Linda Broussard, Chief Community Officer, SLA 6. Jay Bhatt, Information Services librarian W. W. Hagerty Library, DrexelUniversity. 7. Jack W. Plunkett CEO, Plunkett Research Ltd. 8. Rebecca B. Vargha, Past President SLA, University of North Carolina, USA. 9. Jane Macoustra, Tai- Pan Research, U.K. 10. Rajwant S.Chilana, Ph.D. Asso.Professor of Lib. Admn & South Asian Studies Librarian, Univ.ofIllinois,USA. 11. Dr. S Majumdar, Librarian, Universityof Delhi, Delhi. 12. Dr. H.K.Kaul, Director, DELNET, Delhi. 13. Dr. Subhash Deshmukh, Librarian, I P University, Delhi. 14. Dr. Usha Mujoo Munshi, Librarian, IIPA, Delhi 15. Dr. Krishan Lal, NPL, Delhi. 16. Mr. Sudhir Arora, Librarian, IGNOU, Delhi. 17. Mr. G K Manjunath, Chief Librarian, IGIDR, Mumbai. 18. Dr. Iswara Bhatt, BITS, Pilani. 19. Dr. Jagtar Singh, Head and Dean, PunjabiUniversity, Patiala. 20. Dr. R C Gaur, Director, IGNCA, Delhi For further information, please contact: P.K.Jain Organizing Secretary Conference Secretariat ICoASL 2008 C/o Institute of Economic Growth University of Delhi Enclave DELHI-110007. India Ph. 91-11-27667463; 27666364; 27666367 Fax: 91-11-27667463; 91-11-27667410 Cell: 09899110787 Email: asiansla(a)gmail.com Email: asianchaptersla(a)yahoo.com http://units.sla.org/chapter/cas/ICoASL2008.html Lead Sponsor / Platinum Gold Sponsor Tata Consultancy Services Dow Jones Silver sponsor and Media Partner Silver Sponsor ISI Emerging Markets IEEE -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Invitation for Paper submission to World Digital Libraries: An International Journal
by Debal Chandra Kar 15 Sep '08

15 Sep '08

The Editor of World Digital Libraries: An International Journal (WDL) invites Papers for the December 2008 and June 2009 issue. World Digital Libraries: An International Journal is a peer reviewed bi-annual journal on digital libraries. The first issue of this journal has just been published. Content can be found at http://bookstore.teriin.org/journal_inside.php?material_id=477&qty=1. You are requested to subscribe the same or recommend to your library to subscribe. The second issue will be published in December 2008. The aim of the journal is to advance the theory and practice of acquisition, organization, management and dissemination of digital information on a sustainable basis. The journal will seek quality research papers that present original theoretical approaches as well as experimental case studies related to digital library development and maintenance. In doing so, the journal will keep readers abreast with the current developments in the field. The journal will include articles, reviews, current developments, and case studies dealing with § theoretical and methodological issues that relate to the interrelationships among electronic resources management, digital preservation, multiple access, multilinguality, copyright issues and security aspects; § initiatives taken towards digitization through lucid case studies; § current developments across the globe; and § dialogues between the scientific community and society at large. The journal will be having global coverage with local focus and would provide a platform for decision-makers, planners, consultants, library and information science professionals to share their experiences. It will also facilitate dialogue among the digital library communities. Articles and reviews should examine concepts, analyses, new approaches, and techniques pertaining to this field. Case studies covering new initiatives, as well as procedural breakthroughs of important issues in the digital library field would be included. Book reviews will cover recent books in the field, reviewed by an independent reviewer. All submissions will be peer-reviewed using the criteria of originality, accuracy, and quality of contribution in these fields. The journal will also provide an update on topical developments in the field; notes on important breakthroughs; information on forthcoming conferences, workshops, seminars and relevant events; and highlight activities of national and international importance in the field. We would like to request all of you to submit paper for the same to dckar(a)teri.res.in address below. Editor-in-Chief: Prof N Balakrishnan, Professor & Associate Director, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India Editor Debal C Kar, Fellow, TERI, New Delhi Editorial Board: Dr. Jagdish Arora, Director, INFLIBNET, India Prof. José Luis Borbinha, INESC-ID - Information Systems Group, Engineering School, Lisbon Technical University, Portugal Prof. Daniel Chandran PhD, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Prof. Ching-chih Chen PhD, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmond College, USA Dr Gobinda Chowdhury, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde, UK Dr P R Goswami, Director, National Social Science Documentation Centre (NASSDOC), Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), New Delhi, Prof. Alan Hopkinson, Head of Library Systems, Learning Resources, The Sheppard Library, Middlesex University, UK Prof. Ee-Peng Lim, PhD, School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University, Singapore Prof. Gary Marchionini, School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA Dr. A. Lakshmana Moorthy, Director, Defence Scientific Information and Documentation Centre, India Dr Usha Mujoo-Munshi, Librarian, Indian Institute of Public Administration, India Prof. Dr Erich J Neuhold, Professor, Computer Science, Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Research Studios Austria, University of Vienna, Austria Prof. Paul Nieuwenhuysen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Mr John Paschoud, Information Systems Engineer of the Library, London School of Economics, UK Dr. A.R.D. Prasad, Documentation Research & Training Centre, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore, India Prof. Dr Michael Seadle, Director, Berlin School of Library and Information Science, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany Dr. V N Shuka, Director (Application), CDAC, India Prof. Ingeborg Torvik Sølvberg PhD, Dept. of Computer and Information Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Prof. M G Sreekumar Phd, Librarian, Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode, India. Prof. Shigeo Sugimoto, Graduate School of Library, Information and Media Studies, University of Tsukuba, Japan Prof. P. Tapio Varis Ph.D. , Acting President, Global University System., Unesco Chair in global eLearning with applications to multiple domains, Professor and Chair of Media Education, University of Tampere, Finland Prof. Shalini R. Urs PhD, Executive Director, International School of Information Management, University of Mysore, India Prof. Om Vikas PhD, Director, ABV Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, India Prof Ian H. Witten PhD, Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato, New Zealand Thanking you and with personal regards Yours sincerely, Debal C Kar, Fellow Library and Information Centre ************************************************************ TERI (The Energy and Resources Institute) Darbari Seth Block IHC Complex, Lodhi Road New Delhi 110 003 (India) Tel. +91 11 2468 2100, 2468 2111 Ext 2724 Fax +91 11 2468 2144, 2468 2145 E-mail dckar(a)teri.res.in Web site www.teriin.org ************************************************************ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Open Knowledge Society Gaining Momentum
by Sukhdev Singh 15 Sep '08

15 Sep '08

Dear Friends You might have noticed that Open Knowledge Society (http://www.oksociety.in) has started gaining momentum. I have been informed that Open Journal System (OJS) has been installed on its server (http://www.ojs.oksociety.in) and is ready to host journals. The OKSociety would benefit from your suggestions and participation. Please do come forward with your suggestions and advice. --Sukhdev Singh. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Fw: Australian innovation report recommends Open Access to research outputs
by Subbiah Arunachalam 14 Sep '08

14 Sep '08

----- Forwarded Message ---- From: Stevan Harnad <amsciforum(a)GMAIL.COM> To: AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM(a)LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG Sent: Wednesday, 10 September, 2008 23:52:37 Subject: Australian innovation report recommends Open Access to research outputs The Australian minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Kim Carr spoke about this report in a speech released yesterday. Full text here. It is embodied in a series of recommendations aimed at unlocking public information and content, including the results of publicly funded research. The review panel recommends making this material available under a creative commons licence through: machine searchable repositories, especially for scientific papers and data and the internet, where it would be freely available to the world. ...The arguments for stepping out first on open access are the same as the arguments for stepping out first on emissions trading – the more willing we are to show leadership on this, we more chance we have of persuading other countries to reciprocate. This speech reflects a number of recommendations in the report: Recommendation 7.7: Australia should establish a National Information Strategy to optimise the flow of information in the Australian economy. The fundamental aim of a National Information Strategy should be to: ·utilise the principles of targeted transparency and the development of auditable standards to maximise the flow of information in private markets about product quality; and ·maximise the flow of government generated information, research, and content for the benefit of users (including private sector resellers of information). Recommendation 7.8: Australian governments should adopt international standards of open publishing as far as possible. Material released for public information by Australian governments should be released under a creative commons licence. Recommendation 7.9: Funding models and institutional mandates should recognise the research and innovation role and contributions of cultural agencies and institutions responsible for information repositories, physical collections or creative content and fund them accordingly. Recommendation 7.10: A specific strategy for ensuring the scientific knowledge produced in Australia is placed in machine searchable repositories be developed and implemented using public funding agencies and universities as drivers. Recommendation 7.14: To the maximum extent practicable, information, research and content funded by Australian governments including national collections should be made freely available over the internet as part of the global public commons. This should be done whilst the Australian Government encourages other countries to reciprocate by making their own contributions to the global digital pubic commons.. ________________________________ As ROARMAP indicates, the world leader in Open Access, both in time and in absolute size, is indisputably the United Kingdom: A UK Parliamentary Select Committee was the world's first governmental recommendation to mandate OA, in 2004. However, the UK government, under pressure from the publishing lobby, did not accept its own committee's recommendation. Nevertheless, six of the seven RCUK research funding councils went on to mandate OA anyway. The UK now has a total of 18 university and funder OA mandates (including the world's first OA mandate at Southampton's School of Electronics and Computer Science in 2003). Australia, however, adopted the world's first university-wide OA mandate in 2004, and with its current total of 7 mandates along with this vigorous governmental support from Minister Carr, Australia is the world's relative, if not absolute leader in OA, by size as well as timing. And it is about to consolidate that leadership with an international Open Access and Research Conference in Brisbane next week, convened by Tom Cochrane, the DVC who engineered the world's first university OA mandate. By way of comparison, the US, the country with the world's largest research output, has only five OA mandates (though that includes one from the NIH, the world's biggest biomedical research funder, as well as Faculty mandates from Harvard and Stanford).. Universities are the sleeping giants, and the council of the European Universities Association (EUA) has unanimously recommended the adoption of an OA mandate by its 791 member universities in 46 countries -- but that mandate has not been adopted yet (although Professor Bernard Rentier, Rector of University of Liege is working on it, withEurOpenScholar). But Australia looks poised now to be the one that sets all the dominoes falling worldwide. Stevan Harnad American Scientist Open Access Forum -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Regarding eligibility for assistant librarian
by vinod mishra 13 Sep '08

13 Sep '08

Dear Professionals Recently IIT Bombay has announced one post of assistant librarian whose details are as follows. My question is out of two different types of qualification which one is realy satisfying the job requrments, i think first one. So my question is how the second qualification is satisfying the job requirments? ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN (1 postreserved for OBC) The candidate should be well conversant with various activities of an Academic Library, such as procurement and processing of books and periodicals, supervision of special collections, maintenance of Library materials, reprography, binding unit etc. and providing assistance to general library administration. Experience, and knowledge of modern information handling tools, knowledge of any foreign language such as German, French or Russian will be added qualification. Essential Qualification/Experience : Master's degree in Library Science/Information science/Documentation or an equivalent professional degree with at least 55% marks or its equivalent grade of B in the UGC seven point scale plus a consistently good academic record. At least 7 years experience in a responsible capacity in a University level Library. Candidates should be familiar with usage of Library software and have experience in library computerisation. OR Master's degree in Arts/Science/Commerce or equivalent degree with at least 55% marks or its equivalent grade with Bachelor's degree in Library science/Information science/Documentations or an equivalent professional degree with at least 55% marks or its equivalent grade plus a consistently good academic record. Candidates should be familiar with usage of Library software and have experience in library computerisation. Scale of Pay : Rs.800027513500 (Total emoluments on the minimum of the scale excluding HRA is Rs.17940/per month) Age Limit : Preferably below 40 years Regards Vinod Kumar Mishra Senior Library Inforamtion Assistant -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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ProQuest and Google Strike Deal To Digitize Newspaper Pages
by Mallikarjun 13 Sep '08

13 Sep '08

Dear All, ProQuest and search giant Google have reached an agreement to digitize millions of pages of content from ProQuest’s vast newspaper microfilm archives, Google deal aims to create searchable electronic versions of smaller newspapers otherwise unlikely to be digitized, making them available on the open web via Google’s News archive search." http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6595862.html ________________________________________________________________:-) Mallikarjun Dora Professional Assistant Vikram Sarabhai Library IIM, Ahemadabad ...The Future is here, Its just unevenly distributed..... http://curiouslib.blogspot.com/ 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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