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100 Volumes in Single DVD
by nirmala reddy 23 Jun '09

23 Jun '09

A Treasure of Natural History: 100 JBNHS volumes now in one DVD BNHS, the largest NGO in South Asia, engaged in nature conservation research, has introduced a unique treasure of natural history for students, researchers, naturalists and policy makers, in the form of a DVD of the first 100 volumes of the Journal of BNHS (JBNHS). This is a good opportunity to read rare and valuable articles and research papers from all the Journals of BNHS published since 1886 ( VOl. No. 1 to 100) JBNHS articles and research papers are a unique work in the world of natural history. The main focus of the Journal is the spread of knowledge pertaining to nature conservation and research. Research papers by several renowned scientists and experts in the field of natural history and conservation like Jim Corbett, George Schaller, E P Gee, Dr Salim Ali, Humayun Abdulali, H G Champion and J C Daniel are covered in the DVD. It appears in a user-friendly format with browsing based on volumes, authors and articles. For more details visit the site www.bnhs.org or contact Mr. Santosh on (022)22821811 (Ext 227) or mail to bnhs(a)bom4.vsnl.net.in Ms. Reddy Nirmala P. Librarian Bombay Natural History Society, Opp. Lion Gate,Dr. Salim Ali Chowk, Shaheed Bhagat Singh Road, Fort, Mumbai- 400 001 Ph. 22821811( Ext 334) , 22876279( Direct) Fax- 91-22-22837615 ICC World Twenty20 England '09 exclusively on YAHOO! CRICKET http://cricket.yahoo.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Last date of KOHA Workshop Registration is 30th June 2009
by Sunita Barve 23 Jun '09

23 Jun '09

Dear All, This is to reminde you all about the KOHA workshop which is being planned by NCRA, Pune from 13th - 15th July 2009. The last date of registration is 30th June 2009. If you are planning to attend the workshop please register at the earliest. It is a good opportunity to learn installation of KOHA on Linux Operating System, understand features of software and learn how to import MARC records through Z3950 server directly into local KOHA server as well as adding and searching muli lingual documents in KOHA. The registration fees for the workshop is Rs. 3000/- which include training material, breakfast, tea and lunch with excellent lab facilities. For outstation candidates guest house facility is available in the NCRA campus. Each participant will get sufficient opportunity to work on KOHA. The following are the workshop faculties:-- 1. Dr. ARD Prasad, DRTC, Bangalore will cover MARC 21/UNIMARC 2. Shri. Vimal Kumar, Asian School of Business, Trivandrum, will cover demo of all modules of KOHA(acquisitions, serial control, cataloguing, circulation, setting system preferences etc.) 3. Shri. Koustubha Kale, Anant Corporation, Thane, will cover how to make KOHA convenient to add multilingual documents as well as bringing virtual key board support in KOHA OPAC to search books in other languages. Please visit http://www.granthalaya.org/ to get a feel of multilingual search in KOHA. This site is developed by Anant Corporation. 4. Dr. Sunita Barve will cover installation of KOHA on Debian Lenny operating System and introduction to linux operating system. More details about the workshop can be found at:- http://www.ncra.tifr.res.in/library/kohaworkshop/index.html Please register online. Online registration form is available at the above address. The number of participants is limited to 30 participants only. For any further queries please contact Dr. Sunita Barve National Centre for Radio Astrophysics PO Box 3, Pune Univ. Campus Pune 411 007, INDIA Email: sunitab@ncra.tifr.res.in;sunitabarve2003@yahoo.com; sunitabarve(a)gmail.com Phone: 91-020-25719211 (Office) ; 9922753827 (Mobile) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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ISiM to organize COMAD 2009 - the 15th International Conference - Call for papers
by roopa 20 Jun '09

20 Jun '09

The 15th COMAD is organized by the International School of Information Management (ISiM), University of Mysore during December 9-11, 2009 at Infosys Technologies campus, Mysore. Similar to previous years, COMAD 2009's scope will include all areas in the data management space including database management systems, Web and Information Retrieval and Data Mining. For details: http://www.isim.ac.in/comad2009 For close to two decades COMAD - the International Conference on Management of Data, modeled along the lines of ACM SIGMOD, has been a premier international database conference hosted in India. The first COMAD was held in 1989, and it has been held on a nearly annual basis since then. COMAD always had significant international participation with about 30% of the papers from outside India including Europe, USA, and East/South East Asia. Call for Papers Original research submissions are invited not only in traditional database areas but also in Data Quality, Web, Information Retrieval and Data Mining. We invite submission of original research contributions as well as proposals for demonstrations, tutorials, industrial presentations, and panels. Areas of interest include but are not limited to: Data Management Systems: * Benchmarking and performance evaluation * Data exchange and integration * Database monitoring and tuning * Data privacy and security * Data quality, cleaning and lineage * Data warehousing * Managing uncertain, imprecise and inconsistent information * Multilingual data management * Novel Data Types * Parallel and distributed databases * Peer-to-peer data management * Personalized information systems * Storage and transaction management Web and Information Retrieval: * Categorization, Clustering, and Filtering * Document Representation and Content Analysis * Information Extraction and Summarization * IR Theory, Platform, Evaluation * Question Answering and Cross-Language IR * Web and IR * Social Network Analysis Data Mining * Novel data mining algorithms and foundations * Innovative applications of data mining * Data mining and KDD systems and frameworks * Mining data streams and sensor data * Mining multi-media, graph, spatio-temporal and semi-structured data * Security, privacy, and adversarial data mining * High performance and parallel/distributed data mining * Mining tera-/peta-scale data * Visual data mining and data visualization To ensure wide visibility of material published at the conference, we plan to make arrangements with ACM SIGMOD for including the proceedings of the conference in the SIGMOD on-line and CD-ROM archives. Two awards- for Best Paper and Best Student Paper, will be presented at the conference. Important Dates: . Research and Student Papers-July 31, 2009 . Industrial Papers, Demo, Panel and Tutorial Proposals-August 28, 2009 . Notification to authors-September 25th, 2009 . Camera-ready copy due-October 30, 2009 . Early-Bird Registration Deadline-December 1, 2009 . Conference-December 9-11, 2009 Conference Organization: General Chair . Shalini Urs, ISiM, University of Mysore, India Organizational Chair . Srinath Srinivasa, IIIT-Bangalore, India Program Chairs . Sanjay Chawla, University of Sydney , Australia . Kamal Karlapalem, IIIT-Hyderabad, India. Contact Details: Dr. Shalini Urs COMAD 2009 - General Chair & Executive Director and Professor International School of Information Management University of Mysore, Manasagangotri Mysore - 570 006 Tel: +91-821-2514699; +91-821-2411417 Fax: +91-821-2519209, Email: office(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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Article required
by Shailesh Lohiya 19 Jun '09

19 Jun '09

Sir, Please do me favour to send following fulltext article available at Science Direct Environmental impact assessment: Retrospect and prospect *Environmental Impact Assessment Review*, *Volume 27, Issue 4*, *May 2007*, *Pages 287-300* Stephen Jay, Carys Jones, Paul Slinn, Christopher Wood Regards -- Shailesh K. Lohiya Librarian (NUIL) NIRMA University SG Road,Ahmedabad Mob. 09601851608 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Need Article
by Ajay Kum Sharma 19 Jun '09

19 Jun '09

Dear Professionals, One of our library user has need of the below article for his research work. It will be highly appreciated if any one send me a soft copy of the below paper at an earliest. *Article Title:* Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, and the Childhood Roots of Health Disparities: Building a New Framework for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. *Authors:* Jack P. Shonkoff; W. Thomas Boyce; Bruce S. McEwen *Journal:* Journal of the American Medical Association ; Vol. 301 No.21 Year 2009 [Pagn. 2252-2259 ] Thanks and regards. Ajay Kumar Sharma Assistant Librarian & In-charge, Journal Section, Central Library, Visva Bharati, Santiniketan - 731235, Bolpur, Birbhum, West Bengal Email: ajaysharma.lib(a)visva-bharati.ac.in Web: http://www.geocities.com/ajaysharma_lib/ *********************************************************** 1. Join today Digital Library Discussion Forum http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/dlrg 2. Join today LIS-Forum mailing list http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Report on the Fourth Dr. TB Rajashekar Memorial Lecture
by Arumugam Pitchai 19 Jun '09

19 Jun '09

Dear Members, Here's is the brief report on the Dr. T.B. Rajashekar Memorial Lecture (2009) held on Friday, 12 June 2009 at NCSI, IISc. Topic: "Academic Access in a Globalized World: Scholars without Borders" Speaker: Dr. Ram Ramaswamy, Professor, School of Physical Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. The event was set in motion with Mr. Francis Jayakanth of NCSI welcoming the well-attended gathering. He gave a brief life sketch of late Dr. TBR emphasizing on TBR's contributions and initiatives while he served at NCSI. Later, Francis Introduced Dr. IRN Goudar. Dr. Goudar, presided over the talk. Dr. Goudar being the alma mater of TBR at the DRTC, narrated couple of incidences that happened during their DRTC course and also after they started their careers. These incidences only exemplified the fact that TBR was very clear as to what he intended to do and went about in completing it with dedication. Later, Dr. Goudar introduced Dr. Ram and requested him to deliver the lecture. Dr. Ram's talk is accessible at: http://ncsi-net.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/workshop/seminars.html#_2009 Dr. Ram began his talk by giving some insights into the higher education in the country, which is the largest in the world. GoI is playing a major role in the higher education system in terms of framing of major policies for the system. He briefly mentioned about poor library system in most of the colleges and Universities, which is hindering access to the library holdings. For accessing the online journals, though INFLIBNET administered UGC Infonet is in place, poor Internet connectivity beyond the metros is an hindrance in accessing the online journals. He also emphasized on Books and book publishing in the country especially in the social sciences, where scholars publish their findings in books rather than journal articles. The speaker also presented some interesting facts about Books and Book publishing in India. Annually, India publishes between 70,000 to 80,000 titles, comes from between 16,000 to 17,000 publishers, ranging from those who do as many as 300-400 titles a year to one person operations-who may produce only two or three titles/year. According to Federation of Publishers, Booksellers Associations in India, the Federation of Indian Publishers, as well as a study of the Indian book market conducted by the British Publishers Association (2007) puts the value of the Indian book market at Rs.10,000 crores. In this 10,0000 crores, approximately Rs.3500 crores comprises educational books and Higher education Books market is at Rs.2500 crores. He also gave some insights into publishing business in the western world by citing Thomson Reuters as an example. The speaker expressed his concern in the poor distribution network in the country for quality textbooks and lack of University Press culture in the country are contributing to the growth of low quality academic publishing. He then touched upon the growth of e-books with big players in field like Thompson, spending great deal of their budget on e-books. He cited the example of JSTOR. JSTOR was founded in 1995 to build trusted digital archives for scholarship. Working with the scholarly community to preserve their work and the materials they rely upon, and to build a common research platform that promotes the discovery and use of these resources. In the context of our country, there was a mention of Language/ Literacy barriers such as * Computing in regional languages remains a somewhat distant goal. * Low investment in local technological solutions. * Need for more video content if primary educational goals are to be addressed. There was a special mention of ALUKA, an international, collaborative initiative building an online digital library of scholarly resources from and about Africa. Now a part of JSTOR. The speaker said, similar initiatives in the country are need of the hour to showcase India's academic publishing. Then Ram presented the demographies of India * Total India population: 1.037 billion * Rural population: 72% * Literacy: 52% * Computer ownership per 100 inhabitants: 0.6 * Telephone lines per 100: 4.2 * Internet hosts per 10,000: 0.35 * Internet cafés/telecentres per 10,000: 0.1 * Internet users per 100 0.33 subscribers: 1.65 users * Cell phone subscribers 10.81 million * Number of websites in the national language(s): 20,000 * Number of websites in English and other language(s): 130,000 * National bandwidth to and from the country: 1,670.3 Mbps Thus he proposed to have something like SwB: www.scholarswithoutborders.in (Academic Books from India delivered Everywhere). Few facts about SwB are: * Scholars without Borders (SwB) are an online bookstore for academic books from India. * Also other material such as journals, periodicals, reports, documentaries, CDs. * Facilitates online ordering and purchase. * Offers a range of payments: money orders, VPP, cheques, cash, credit card, etc. * Over 6000 titles from about 100 publishers. The motivation for such a SwB by Ram is "To make access to quality academic books simple, regardless of location." SwB runs a blog on books from India. It has a presence on Twitter, Facebook and other networking sites. Ram also presented the visitors to SwB from various parts of both India and worldwide. SwB's documentary site(scholarswithoutborders.in/video). This site is developed in collaboration with TCS. It provides, Semantic search of video content and partially view documentaries. Presently this site is undergoing Beta Testing. Access equity is the major item in Ram's presentation. An initiative to promote the distribution of books/academic material through the Internet and mobile phone. This will largely be a vehicle for the physical product initially, but they are aiming to increase digital content, especially of textbooks. The distribution of books and other published matter across India, especially to places with poor access to books and bookstores will be a major activity of this Initiative. While talking about future plans and the path ahead: Ram mentioned about the book readers such as Amazon Kindle and Olai. He also spoken about Cell phone based services. After the question and answer session, Dr. Goudar nicely summed up Dr. Rams talk. Mr. T.B. Anand proposed vote of thanks. (Thanks to H Rajendra Babu for Preparing this Report) Regards, NCSI-NET Co-ordinators -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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news papers archives
by S.F KATTIMANI 19 Jun '09

19 Jun '09

dear all Important archives of british library uk , 1857 riots, important news in the 19th and 20th century archives available at ( source: prajavani 19th june 2009 page no :10) http://newspapers.bl.uk./blcs thanks with regards -- S.F.KATTIMANI DEPUTY LIBRARIAN M.S.RAMAIAH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Autonomous Institute affiliated to vtu, ISO 9001-2000 certfied, NBA Accredited) MSR NAGAR MSRIT POST BANGALORE 560054 (080) 23600822, 23606936 Extn :223, 107,312 http://sfkattimani.blogspot.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Websites for Online Maps
by Sainul Abideen P, IIITMK 19 Jun '09

19 Jun '09

Dear Friends, Following online Map websites may be useful for you . *'OpenStreetMap* is a free editable map of the whole world. OpenStreetMap allows you to view, edit and use geographical data in a collaborative way from anywhere on Earth'. Website: http://www.openstreetmap.org/ *'Wikimapia* is an online editable map - you can describe any place on Earth. Or just surf maps discovering tons of already marked places'. Website:http://wikimapia.org/ <http://wikimapia.org/> Sainul Abideen P, (BSc,ADIS,PGDCA, VLIR Scholar Belgium) Librarian Indian Institute of Information Technology & Management-Kerala [IIITM-K] NILA, Technopark, Karyavattom PO Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala Ph 0471-2700777,2527567,2700965 exn 111 Mobile -9496252786 www.iiitmk.ac.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Request for ILL
by Arup Raychaudhury 19 Jun '09

19 Jun '09

We need the following book on ILL for 15 days: "Nowcasting" by K. A Browning (Editor), Academic Press. London, 1982 Arup Raychaudhury Library, Documentation & Information Science Division Indian Statistical Institute 203 BT Road Calcutta 700 108 INDIA This mail is scanned by Ironport -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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new society formation suggestion for name
by Prof. N. Laxman Rao. 18 Jun '09

18 Jun '09

helo friends to initiate and keep pace of the professional activities , i planned to start a non profit Society especially to motivate younger generation professionals.This is being felt on the basis of the experience i hav gained and also on the basis of my observations. THE SUCCESS of the nmlis group had motivated me to do more professional activities. i cannot venture in to the present professional organsiations as they are ful of elected members. every one knows tht there are many organizations, who are ready to fund for gud projects. I wnt to join with committed professionals and take some projects on the name of this Society. It will never work independently but join with any organization or school in organising these programs.ALL THE PROFESSIONALS ARE WELCOME TO JOIN INTO THIS SOCIETY AFTER ITS FORMATION. friends may suggest a GUD NAME FOR THE SAID SOCIETY. THANKS LAXMAN RAO THANKS Prof. N.LAXMAN RAO, EMERITUS FELLOW, Dept of Library & Information Science, Osmania University, HYDERABAD- 500 007 (INDIA) President, Association of British Scholars (Hyderabad Chapter) 91-40-27171565, 27177763 (res): 09246547599 (Mobile) e:mail-- naglaxman(a)yahoo.com OR naglaxman(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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