February 2009 - LIS-Forum - ncsi.iisc.ernet.in

Request for article
by Kshema Prakash 09 Feb '09

09 Feb '09

Dear friends, Can someone kindly send a copy of the following article for one of our faculty members? Synthesis and SAR of vinca alkaloid analogues<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6TF9-4V75YP5-5&_u…> *In Press, Corrected Proof*, *Available online 25 December 2008* Matthew E. Voss, Jeffery M. Ralph, Dejian Xie, David D. Manning, Xinchao Chen, Anthony J. Frank, Andrew J. Leyhane, Lei Liu, Jason M. Stevens, Cheryl Budde, Matthew D. Surman, Thomas Friedrich, Denise Peace, Ian L. Scott, Mark Wolf, Randall Johnson With regards, Kshema Mrs. Kshema Prakash Faculty Librarian - Gr I, Contact Person e-Journals (Library) & Coordinator - Distance Library Services DEI Central Library Dayalbagh Educational Institute (Deemed University) Dayalbagh, Agra 282 0110 Uttar Pradesh, India Mob: +919897190604 http://kshema-distancelibraryservices.blogspot.com/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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New discussion on Open Educational Resources starts today
by Puna Das 09 Feb '09

09 Feb '09

New discussion on Open Educational Resources to start today 09-02-2009 (Paris) The UNESCO Open Educational Resources (OER) Community is launching a new three-week discussion on the subject of access issues. The discussion will take place from 9 to 27 February 2009 and is open to all. During the first week the community will focus on identifying - and attempting to classify - the main problems in accessing OER. The theme of the second and third weeks will be "tried and tested solutions", as participants are invited to share their experiences in working around such problems. The discussion will be facilitated by Bjoern Hassler of Cambridge University's Centre for Applied Research in Educational Technologies. If you wish to take part in the discussion, please send a message to Catriona Savage [c.savage[at]unesco.org] UNESCO's international Community on Open Educational Resources has been active since 2005. It connects over 700 individuals in 105 countries to share information and discuss issues surrounding the production and use of Open Educational Resources - web-based materials offered freely and openly for use and reuse in teaching, learning and research. UNESCO's work on Open Educational Resources is generously supported by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. More information can be found on the UNESCO OER Community wiki http://oerwiki.iiep-unesco.org/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Anup Kumar Das New Delhi, India http://anupkumardas.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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Conference Proceedings VS Journals
by Apurba Jyoti Majumder 09 Feb '09

09 Feb '09

Dear professionals, I have 15 publications in different national and international cenferences and published in conference proceedings also. can they be treated as journal publications? can i get marks for those publications in interviews? I have uploaded all of my published papers in the website apurba.110mb.com. please have a look. Thank you -- Apurba Jyoti Majumder, JRF Deptt. of Library & Information Science. Arts Block, Gauhati University. Guwahati- 781014 Cell No: 09435268733, 09707626388 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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New BUACLA Committee
by Ajay Kamble 09 Feb '09

09 Feb '09

The General Body Meeting of Bombay University Affiliated College Librarians Association (BUACLA) was held on 7th Feb. 2009 at Ruparel College, Matunga(W), Mumbai. The meeting was called to reform the committee of the association. The Committee of BUACLA is formed as follows Mr. Prakash Karmarkar (Vaze-Kelkar College) President Dr. Pradip Karnik (Ruparel College) Vice President Mr. Subhash Aathavale (CHM College) Vice President Mr. Sachin Shastri (Krishna Menon College) Secretary Mr. Ajay Kamble (Annasaheb Vartak College) Joint - Secretary Mrs. Shubhangi Vedak (ZunZunwala College) Joint - Secretary Mr. Vinay Haware (M.D. Shah Mahila College) Treasurer Mr. Bhaskarrao Thorat Member Mr. Narayan Barse Member Mrs.Swapna Gawade Member Mr. N. D. Phad Member Mrs. Syeed Shajida Member Mr. Sanjay More Member Mr. Firoz Shaikh Member -- Ajay M. Kamble Librarian Annasaheb Vartak Arts, Commerce, Science College, Vasai Road (W), Dist. Thane - 401202 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Google Makes iPhone the New eBook Reader
by DINESH SIDDAIAH 09 Feb '09

09 Feb '09

Dear Friends, Google Makes iPhone the New eBook Reader If you already have an Apple iPhone or a T-Mobile G1 in your pocket, more than 1.5 million books are now at your fingertips. Google used Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology to transform the scanned book pages into screen-friendly text for iPhone and g1s. To access Google Mobile Book Search, just point your mobile phone browser to http://books.google.com/m. Source: http://www.pcworld.com/article/159067/google_makes_iphone_the_new_ebook_rea… Thanking You, Dinesh K. S. -- Dr. Dinesh K. S. Selection Grade Librarian, Nagarjuna College of Engineering & Technology, Devanahalli, Bengaluru - 562 110.

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Amazon Kindle E-Book Reader - A Review
by DINESH SIDDAIAH 09 Feb '09

09 Feb '09

Dear Friends, Amazon is pushing e-books back into the limelight with the launch of its $399 Kindle e-book reader and corresponding service. The Kindle, which is larger than an average paperback book but not as thick, is a boxy rectangle of white plastic with a matte finish. The device includes 180MB of user-accessible memory (which the company says can hold about 200 books) and supports SD Cards up to 2GB. Instead of an LCD, a 6-inch electronic-paper display from E ink occupies the top portion of the device. The monochrome display, which is designed to save power, supports four levels of grayscale but no color. For the most part no issues reading the display under various circumstances. The one exception was under the dim light, the Kindle lacks a backlight; on an airplane, for example, you'll need to keep your seat light on to read. The text was generally clear, though a few characters had jaggies. A button on the keyboard lets you switch among six different font sizes. Source: A review in http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/product/30957/review/kindle.html Thanking You, Dinesh -- Dr. Dinesh K. S. Selection Grade Librarian, Nagarjuna College of Engineering & Technology, Devanahalli, Bengaluru - 562 110.

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FW: New York Times: Digital Archivists, Now in Demand
by Shalini Urs 09 Feb '09

09 Feb '09

This might be of interest to our professionals http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/08/jobs/08starts.html February 8, 2009 FRESH STARTS Digital Archivists, Now in Demand By CONRAD DE AENLLE WHEN the world entered the digital age, a great majority of human historical records did not immediately make the trip. Literature, film, scientific journals, newspapers, court records, corporate documents and other material, accumulated over centuries, needed to be adapted for computer databases. Once there, it had to be arranged along with newer, born-digital material in a way that would let people find what they needed and keep finding it well into the future. The people entrusted to find a place for this wealth of information are known as digital asset managers, or sometimes as digital archivists and digital preservation officers. Whatever they are called, demand for them is expanding. One of them is Jacob Nadal, the preservation officer at the University of California, Los Angeles. He does not use the "digital" modifier because his duties include safeguarding analog materials in U.C.L.A.'s collection, not just preparing them to cross the digital divide. "I don't think there's any day where I would say I'm the digital guy," he said. But he concedes that he's not really an analog, ink-on-paper guy, either, and that is increasingly the case in his field. These days, he noted, "if you want to work in a library, you have to deal in electronic resources." Mr. Nadal and 10 or so colleagues at U.C.L.A. devote much of their effort to organizing and protecting material in digital form. Their duties include licensing and buying digital content from vendors, assigning identification markers called meta-tags so that material can be found easily, researching copyright matters and ensuring that files remain intact whenever new iterations of relevant software or hardware come along. Befitting a nascent discipline like digital asset management, Mr. Nadal, 32, said he went into it almost by accident. Unsure of his career ambitions, he began work on various book-scanning and preservation projects as a student at Indiana University, then took them over when the head of preservation left. After that, he said, it "took a year or two for me to realize my career in preservation had started a year or two past." He reckons that many of his peers have had similar experiences. "Among librarians, I think that happenstance may be a typical career path," he said. Some backgrounds are considered better than others for budding digital asset managers. Familiarity with information technology is necessary, but it is possible to have too much tech know-how, said Victoria McCargar, a preservation consultant in Los Angeles and a lecturer at U.C.L.A. and San José State University. "People with I.T. backgrounds tend to be wrong for the job," she said. "They tend to focus on storage solutions: 'We'll just throw another 10 terabytes on that server.'" A result, she said, can be "waxy buildup" a lot of useless files that make it hard to find the good stuff. Ms. McCargar estimates that 20,000 people work in the field today plus others in related areas and she expects that to triple over the next decade, assuming that economic conditions stabilize before long. Many work for public institutions, and businesses use them, too, said Deborah Schwarz, chief executive of Library Associates Companies, a consulting and headhunting firm. Especially big employers in this area are law firms, which need experts on digital copyright and other issues tied to the migration of legal documents from filing cabinets to databases. One comparative advantage of private-sector jobs is the pay. Digital asset managers at public facilities would do well to make $70,000 a year. Salaries for their corporate counterparts are generally higher. "Compensation varies wildly because it's an emerging area," said Keith Gurtzweiler, vice president for recruiting at Library Associates. "Consultants who can make recommendations on systems can make $150 an hour." Those who "manage them once they're up and running and maintain the machinery," he said, make from the $70,000's up to $100,000. Michael Doane is an information management consultant at Ascentium, a consultancy in suburban Seattle that employs 100 to 150 digital asset managers in a staff of 500. He said that fresh graduates with master's degrees in information systems management or a similar discipline could "easily expect $80,000 to $90,000 in consulting and a little less in the commercial world." As much as it might help his bank balance, Mr. Nadal cannot envision leaving U.C.L.A. for a corporate job. He finds the challenge of taming a vast collection of information for a major academic institution too appealing. "We belong to the people of California and hold our collections in trust for them and for future generations of students, scholars and members of the public," he said. "Public-sector institutions just strike me as far, far cooler. They have better collections, obviously, and they are innovative, connected and challenging in ways that seem more substantial to me." Fresh Starts is a monthly column about emerging jobs and job trends. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Copyright Query
by parinitas＠hexaware.com 09 Feb '09

09 Feb '09

Dear All, I have this query about the copyright law... As additional services provided by the library - I want to provide my readers the "Table of Contents" of the existing library collection. We already have an LMS in place and on the OPAC I plan to tag the ToC of that specific book - so the readers not only get to know the cataloged details of the book, but they can also go through the ToC of that book before issuing it out of the library. How does this hold with the copyright laws? Is it a copyright violation to scan and make available the ToC of the library collection? Please let me know.... Thanks in advance and Regards, Parinita Samant --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [cid:image001.jpg@01C9886F.79CDD610] HexaVarsity Mumbai * 67919595 * 9707 I * parinitas(a)hexaware.com<mailto:parinitas@hexaware.com> ________________________________ Please do not print this email unless it is absolutely necessary. This e-mail communication and any attachments to it are confidential and privileged to Hexaware and are strictly intended only for the personal and confidential use of the designated recipient(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please notify the sender immediately and destroy all copies of this message along with all attachments thereto. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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8th National Conference-Change of Date
by Senthil Kumar T 09 Feb '09

09 Feb '09

Dear Members This is for your kind information, LIST 09- 8th National Conference on "Decision Making and New Investments in Knowledge Resource Centres" has been postponed, due to the undefined holiday announced by the TN Government. New Dates are 19th -21st March, 2009, kindly convey the massage to others also Authors are requested to send their Papers with registration fees to The Organizing Secretary, LIST-8th National Conference, Bishop Heber College, Tiruchirappalli-620 017, Tamilnadu on or before 06th March 2009. With Regards SENTHIL KUMAR.T Librarian Christ University Bangalore-560 029 Mobile: 98863 71610(Bangalore) 97501 07407(Trichy) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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'Time to rethink intellectual property laws?
by Shriram Pandey 08 Feb '09

08 Feb '09

Dear List members 'Time to rethink intellectual property laws?' It is a very good article written by David Dickson. The author has given many innovative idea like : 'Patents on scientific knowledge may not be as useful — or valuable — as many claim them to be. 'The speed of the global economic collapse is provoking a widespread — many would say belated — realisation that many of the beliefs underlying economic expansion over the past 20 years need close questioning, particularly those involving the relationship between the state and the market.' The full article is available on : http://www.scidev.net/en/editorials/time-to-rethink-intellectual-property-l… -- Regards, Shri Ram Pandey - MLIS(BHU), IKM(IISc), UGC-NET (JRF) Asst. Librarian The LNM Institute of Information Technology(LNM IIT) Jaipur(Rajasthan) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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