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

UGC mandatory qualification
by rajendra kumar panda 04 Apr '09

04 Apr '09

Dear listed members, Adding to recent discussion of UGC qualification for the post of Asstt. Librarian in college and university or similar grades in non academic library, UGC NET/SET qualification should be mandatory (according my opinion) to maintain the quality of service and job, NET/SET exams are higher standard in quality, there is no question of partiality and petting towards candidates, the met question papers are set by chosen top most LIS people and evaluation method is similar too. Besides one’s subject knowledge candidates must have general ability to think scientifically and logically to respond an environment judiciously and rationally. The functional credibility of some of Indian universities is well known to most of us. It is not much difficult to obtain M.Phill / Ph.D degree. In this process always there is nepotism and favoritism prevails. On other side, there are plenty of evidence people with having first class careers could not qualify LIS all India written tests conducted by various govt. bodies and most of the Govt appointed LIS professionals working in various top level positions are directly appointed on the basis of career and qualification marks. Since last two decades, there are hearing of dithering between UGC NET/SET relax and mandatory. Knowledge Commission of India is also suggested in favour of essentiality. I think every LIS people should prove their credentials by qualifying highest body exams. thanks -- R.K.Panda Librarian Kendriya Vidyalaya -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Scrutinizing LIS-Forum posting
by Baban Chavan 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

Respected, Dr.Gaudar I Fully agree with you sentiments. It is realy a troublsome job for moderator to go through the posting by members if it is not relevent & therefore every professional should always take care while posting their messages, as the professionals not from india but also from abroad reads the messages. However ,some of our people having a good contents but not written in good English or badly written shold not be ignored as we are non English people and even some professionals are not having English as their medium of instructions upto M.L.I.S. stage so they are poor in English.Therefore these type of messages must be cosidered with moderators editing and approval as there may be regional impact due to regional languges. With regards Baban Chavan Librarain Sangamner College Sangamner Maharashtra.422605 babanchavan(a)gmail.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Regret - for the posting on 31-3-2009
by DINESH SIDDAIAH 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

Dear Friends, I personally regret for the mistakes both spelling and gramatical in the posting which was appeared in this forum on 31/03/2009 report on conference at NAL on "Scholorly Communication in India in the Age of the Commons (Open Access). I think it is typing error. I also regret with the organizers of the program. With the good intention and open mind, i have written report. The motive beyond this is many of us may not be knowing many of the thnigs going on this field. With best regards, dinesh -- Dr. Dinesh K. S. MLISc., Ph.D. Selection Grade Librarian, Nagarjuna College of Engineering & Technology, Devanahalli, Bengaluru - 562 110. Ph: +91-9845102382, Email: dinesh.ncet(a)gmail.com www.dineshks.webs.com, Official Blog: libraryofncet.blogspot.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Scrutinizing LISFORUM postings
by I.R.N.Goudar 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

Dear Professional friends, Many a times we waste our time in reading very badly written as well as frivolous postings in the LIS-FORUM. We should not forget that these messages are read by more than 2000 professionals including academicians not only in India but abroad as well. I do understand that it would be difficult to read all the postings by the moderator as it is a voluntary service and not a paid job to spare lot of office timings for this work. However we members of this forum need to take care of sending only professionally useful messages of good quality. I would like to quote one of the recent posting on 31-3-2009 reporting about recently held conference at NAL on "Scholorly Communication in India in the Age of the Commons (Open Access)". While any one can give their opinion about any event, the report should be posted only by the concerned like Organizing Secretary / Convener, etc. The least one has to do is to read the postings at least once before sending it to the LIS-FORUM. This report contained sentences like: "...... the conference begin with "WORM" welcome by...." ".....Arunachalaiah was brief the significance of...." ".....Prof. Mukunda was also inaugurated...." ".....Dy Head, ICAST was "comparer...." "....He has argues a scientific judgement..." While I had appreciate the enthusiasm of the concened professional, I request him and others as well to take care of correctness before submitting postings to the extent possible atleast it should not give different altogether. In fact almost two years back I had posted an item on LIS-FORUM about DOs and Don'ts LIS-FORUM postings. I remember one or two now: 1. If any professional gets an award or achieves something definitely it is an item to be announced by some body who comes to know about the achievement. The first announcement is most welcome. However further postings on the same news congratulating one after the other and the recipient reciprocating the same for every mail should be avoided. One can as well congratulate the individual to his email once the posting is already done through LIS-FORUM. 2. ILL requests are most welcome on LIS-FORUM. Further postings on the same item like thanking through Lis-Forum are unnecessary. 3. It is interesting when some body raises an issue concerned to profession/service and others react. I appreciate the recent postings with issues and topics like SOUL, NEWGENLIB. Any number of reactions are welcome on such topics. 4. Although it takes away some time of the moderator, I strongly feel that he should have a look at the content of the posting. Either he can correct himself before releasing the posting or return it back to the sender if too many mistakes are found, unless it is very urgent message. I invite Professionals to add to what I suggested. With regards, Goudar -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. I.R.N. Goudar Tel: 91-80-25086081 Sci G & Head, Information Centre for 91-80-25235315 Aerospace Science and Technology Fax: 91-80-25268072 National Aerospace Laboratories E-mail:goudar@css.nal.res.in Airport Road, BANGALORE-560 017 India http://www.icast.org.in/staff/goudar.html -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Free Online Access to all SAGE Journals until April 30, 2009
by Indira 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

Dear Professionals, You can register for free online access to more than 500 SAGE journals with content available from 1999-current. Free access is until April 30, 2009. Here is the path: https://online.sagepub.com/cgi/register?registration=FTApr2009-14 Regards, Indira -------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Indira Koneru Faculty Member Dept. of Library Science Icfai Academic Wing 23, Nagarjuna Hills Hyderabad-500 082 India -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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NDPP-Proceedings of Indo-US Workshop on International Trends in Digital Preservation, 24-25 March 2009, Pune
by Dr. Ramesh Gaur 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

Hi! Department of Information Technology, Government of India is in the process of formulating the national initiative on National Digital Preservation Programme (NDPP). It is intended to address the technological challenges involved in the long term digital preservation of historically significant cultural materials, heritage archives, citizen information, libraries, scientific data, and other important information resources, etc. More details about the programme can be had from www.ndpp.in. A step ahead in this direction, during March 24-25, 2009 Indo-US Workshop on International Trends in Digital Preservation was organized at Pune by C-DAC pune and MICT in collaboration with Indo-US Science and Technology Forum. The following were the main objectives of the workshop: Getting an exposure to international trends in digital preservation Understanding the case studies of digital preservation and learn from the rich experience of experts involved in digital preservation. Evolving a comprehensive strategy and recommendations for effective implementation of National Digital Preservation Programme (NDPP) The proceedings with full papers and slide presentations are now downloadable in PDF format from the URL as given below. Explore the URL below- http://www.ndpp.in/Programme_schedule.html I hope that this material will be useful to the archiving community in India and around the world. Regards Ramesh ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Ramesh C Gaur PGDCA, MLISc,Ph.D. Fulbright Scholar (Virginia Tech, USA) Librarian & Head-Kala Nidhi Division Coordinator- ABIA International Index Project Additional Charge: Director, National Mission for Manusripts Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts(IGNCA) (An Autonomous body under Ministry of Culture. Govt. of India) 5 Dr. Rajendra Prasad Road, New Delhi-1 Phone: 91-11-23385442, 23385884 Fax: 91-11-22385884 Mobile: 91-9810487158 URL: www.ignca.gov.in Email: gaur(a)ignca.nic.in; rcgaur(a)bol.net.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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U G C announces NET Exam
by satish kumar 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

Dear Professional, The University Grants Commission announces holding of the National Eligibility Test (NET) on 28th June, 2009 (Sunday) for details see this website http://www.ugc.ac.in/inside/net.html#intro Paramanand, MLISc; M Phil. Assistant Librarian, M. S. Ramaiah College of Law, Library and Information Center, New BEL Road, Bangalore-560054, Fax: 080-23601446, Phone No: 080-65708015, Cell No: 9844116650. Web site: - www.paramanandjh.webs.com E-Mail: paramanand.jh(a)gmail.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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ISiM Research Colloquium (1), 3rd April, 2009 : 3:00 p.m.
by Angrosh 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

ISiM Research Colloquium (1) Date: April 3, 2009 Time: 3:00 p.m. onwards Presentation (1) Title of the talk: On the Nature of Co-citations: Interpretation and Analysis Speaker: Mandar R. Mutalikdesai, Research Scholar, IIITB Abstract: Co-citation has long been used as a measure of topical similarity between objects in various data sets. However, there are some characteristic differences in the way co-citations are formed in different data sets. We summarize these differences with respect to scientific literature, WWW pages and Wikipedia pages. Based on this, we propose three interpretations of co-citations: (1) Endorsements of citations, (2) Knowledge aggregation activities, and (3) Measures of conditional topical relevance. We shall briefly discuss all three interpretations. However, this talk will mainly elaborate on the first interpretation: Co-citations as endorsements of citations. Such an interpretation gives a new measure that can be used by focused or topical crawlers/surfers to surf the Web and digital libraries such as CiteSeer in a fashion that is most pertinent to the topic of interest. We also find some interesting patterns of "citation endorsements" on the Web and on CiteSeer, which we will discuss in this talk. Finally, we propose a topical ranking scheme based on citation endorsements, which can be used as a fine tuning measure to existing techniques for relevance ranking in citation graphs. Presentation (2) Title: Mining Semantics from Lexical Cooccurrence Data Speaker: Aditya Ramana Rachakonda, Research Scholar, IIITB Abstract: Lexical cooccurrence in documents is not uniformly random. The statistics inferred from the term cooccurrence data enable us to probabilistically model the dependencies between terms. It has been argued in cognitive sciences that these dependencies closely resemble the way semantic memory is organised in human beings. This work attempts to model some commonly used semantic associations as probabilistic measures to enable mining of semantics automatically from text corpora. The semantic associations being modelled are synonyms like car and automobile, semantic siblings like Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid and topical anchors like Disney for Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Pluto. Of these, some results on topical anchors will be presented in more detail. You are cordially invited. Venue: ISiM Lecture Hall 1 ISiM, University of Mysore Manasagangotri Mysore 570 006 Thanks and regards Angrosh ********************************************* Angrosh M.A. Project Manager International School of Information Management University of Mysore, Manasagangotri Mysore - 570 006 Tel: +91-821-2514699; +91-821-2411417 Fax: +91-821-2519209 Email: angrosh(a)isim.ac.in ********************************************** -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Vacancy - Librarian
by Anita vashisht 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

*Swift School of Pharmacy* Campus Vill. Ghaggar Sarai, Tehsil Rajpura, District Patiala, Punjab) Swift Fundamental Research and Education Society (R) (Promoted by Ind Swift Group, a fortune 500 Company) ** ** We are looking for qualified, experienced, talented and dynamic human resource capable of taking challenges in their respective area of work as the faculty and other staff at various levels. The society has a solid industrial background of ind Swift Group: The Pharma Giants. Excellent professional and career development in healthy environment is our commitment. The following are the requirements for the session commencing in 2009-2010 *Lecturers -* 3 (One in each subject: Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Pharmacology and Pharmacognosy) *Librarian -* 1 *Lab. Technician -* 1 *Store Keeper -* 1 Qualification, Experience and Pay Scales as per ACITE/PTU Norms. Salary no constraint for deserving candidates. Send your detailed resume along with your photograph in an envelope superscribing Swift School of Pharmacy with the post applied for on or before 20th April, 2009 to: *Vice President, HR* 781, Industrial Area, Phase II, Chandigarh - 160002 Phone: 0172-2638781 Fax: 0172-2652242 Job Ad publication date: 1 Apr 2009 -- Thanks & Regards Anita Vashistha -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Vacant Positions - Librarian & Assistant Librarian
by Anita vashisht 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

*Doon Institute of Engineering & Technology* *Requires For an Engineering college At Rishikesh, Dehradun.* ** *Director & Professors / Associate Professor / Lecturer* with specialization in Computer Science/ Information Technology/ Electronics and Communication Engineering/ Electrical and Electronics Engineering/ Physics/ Chemistry/ Maths/ English *Non teaching & Technical Support Staff: Lab Assistants/ Technicians, Maintenance Supervisors, Librarian, Assistant Librarian, Steno, Receptionist & Office Assistant.* Qualification & Salary as per AICTE/Govt. Norms. Retired Senior Faculty can also apply. (Salary will not be constraint for deserving candidates) Send your Resume with Passport Size Photograph within *15 days* of the advertisement to: *The Chairman Doon Institute of Engineering & Technology* Shyampur, Rishikesh, Dist. Dehradun, U.K. - 249204 or Contact us at: 9897459582, 9897792448, 0135-2453203. Job Ad publication date: 1 Apr 2009 -- Thanks & Regards Anita Vashistha -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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