January 2010 - LIS-Forum - ncsi.iisc.ernet.in

MyLISA, Mysore New Team
by Mailing List Admin 12 Jan '10

12 Jan '10

Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 06:03:05 -0800 (PST) From: SUNIL M.V. <libra_sunil(a)yahoo.com> Dear Professional Friends, MyLISA�wishes to convey a happy and�prosperous�new year to all the LIS Forum Members. Mysore Librarians and Information Scientists Association (MyLISA)�is a professional association established in the year 2001, based at�Mysore. Its AGM was held recently, 12 members were elected unanimously and 3 were included by nomination into the Executive Committee. In a meeting of the EC held on January 2, 2010 the Office Bearers have been selected for the 3 years tenure.� I am pleased to introduce you the New MyLISA Executive Committee -� ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- President:� Dr. Mallinath Kumbar, Professor, Department of Library and Information Science,�University of Mysore, Mysore Vice-president: Mr. Nagaraja S., Chief Librarian,�Regional Institute of Education�(NCERT), Mysore Secretary: Mr. K.L. Basappa, Librarian, Jayachamarajendra�College of Engineering�(JCE), Mysore Joint Secretary:� Ms. T.N. Vani, Librarian, Chamarajendra�College of Visual Arts�(CAVA), Mysore Treasurer: Ms. M.R. Prathibha, Librarian, Marimallappa's First Grade College, Mysore Public Relations Officer:� Mr. Sunil M.V., Librarian, SDM Institute for�Management Development�(SDMIMD), Mysore Members: Dr. Shalini R. Urs, Professor and Executive Director,� International School of Information Management (ISiM), University of Mysore, Mysore Mr. H.Y. Mahakuteshwar Head - FOSTIS,�Central Food Technology�and Research Institute (CFTRI), Mysore Dr. N.S. Harinarayana, Reader Department of Library and Information Science, University of Mysore, Mysore Dr. M. Chandrashekar,�Reader Department of Library and Information Science, University of Mysore, Mysore Ms. H.S. Umadevi Chief Librarian, JSS College for Women (Autonomous), Mysore Mr. I. Nargund Chief Librarian, Rare Material Project (RMP), Mysore Mr. Siddalingaswamy Librarian, JSS Arts, Science and Commerce College, Mysore Mr. Harish, H.Y. Librarian,�National College of Engineering�(NIE), Mysore Mr. Rudrappa S. K. Librarian, SJCE�College of Business Management, Manasagangotri, Mysore With best wishes, Sunil MV Librarian SDM Institute for Management Development No. 1, Chamundi Hill Road Siddartha Nagar, Mysore Phone : 0821 - 2420490/491 2429722/161 Fax: 0821-2425557

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UGC Sponsored National Level Conference at St.Agnes College -Mangalore
by Dr.Vishala B.K. 11 Jan '10

11 Jan '10

Inaugural Programme UGC Sponsored National Level Conference on "EMPOWERING Library Professionals in Managing Digital Resources AND Providing Extension Activiities" Inaugurator Dr.V.S.Acharya Hon. Home Minister, Govt. of Karnataka Chief Guest Dr. N Nagambika Devi I.A.S., Commissioner , Department of Collegiate Education Govt. of Karnataka Keynote address Dr.G.K.Manjunath Chief librarian, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Bombay Guest of Honour Sandhya S. Pai Executive Editor, Taranga Kannada Weekly Capt. Ganesh Karnik Deputy Chairman of the Karnataka NRI Forum, & Member Legislative Council Govt. of Karnataka President Dr.Sr.Marie Prem D'Souza A.C Principal Venue: Conference Hall, St. Agnes College, Mangalore. Date: 18th-01-2010 Time: 9.30am ALL ARE CORDIALLY INVITED Dr.Vishala B.K. Convenor 9448824505 Valedictory Programme UGC Sponsored National Level Conference on "EMPOWERING Library Professionals in Managing Digital Resources AND Providing Extension Activiities" Chief Guest Dr. N V Satyanarayana Chairman & Managing Director,Informatics (India) Ltd., Bangalore Guest of Honour Sri. M.N.Ullas Director, Easylib Software Pvt.Ltd.,Bangalore President Dr.Sr.Marie Prem D'Souza A.C Principal Venue: Conference Hall, St. Agnes College, Mangalore. Date: 19th-01-2010 Time: 3.30pm ALL ARE CORDIALLY INVITED Dr.Vishala B.K. Convenor 9448824505 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Plagiarism and Indian LIS Professionals.
by Badan Barman 11 Jan '10

11 Jan '10

Respected forum members, Many LIS professionals in India in their books, papers submitted to seminar / conference / festschrift volume as well as magazines / journals including contents posted to their blog, message posted to online groups / forum are copied from some one else and try to showcase as their own. I have a very bitter experience and I think many of you too. Such practices should be avoided but no one taking serious steps in this regard. We are living in a digital society, where forget about the journal articles, even blog post, message posted to groups / forum even personal email and chat messages are treated as copyrighted. Its time to make a voice in this regard and explore such bad practices with evidences. No doubt, in moving to the same we will faced a lot of personal attack but we should be able to bear all of them to build a new practice of a culture society in LIS in India. So, in eliminating the garbage from the world of information explosion, I just want some cooperation form the Indian LIS Professionals, and I hope you will. Your comments are welcome over: http://lislinks.ning.com/forum/topics/plagiarism-and-indian-lis LIS Links: Connecting LIS Professional in India: http://lislinks.ning.com/ Thanking you Yours faithfully (Sri Badan Barman) Academic Consultant, School of Library & Information Science, Krishna Kanta Handique State Open University, Housefed Complex, Last Gate, Dispur, Guwahati-781006, Assam Phone: 0361-2234964 / 2235971, Fax: 0361- 2235398. Mobile: +9198642-05166 Website: www.kkhsou.org Note: If you forward this e-mail, please delete my e-mail address to reduce Spam, Viruses & Identity Theft! -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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KLA Seminar
by Dr.Dineshan K 11 Jan '10

11 Jan '10

Dear Sir, Please Post this messsage in the LIS Forum. * * * * *KERALA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, KOZHIKODE REGION* * * *in association with* * * *DEPARTMENT OF LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE, UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT AND DELISAA, UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT * * * * * * * *Organises* * * * * * * *Seminar on * * * *BEST PRACTICES IN LIBRARIES* * * * * * * * * * * *on* *16th January 2010* * * *At 9-00am* * * * * * * * * Venue : Seminar Hall, ASC, University of Calicut * * *Librarianship and the information profession are now passing through an all time crucial phase as the old practices are unable to stand the irresistible paradigm shift that is sweeping across the world. The best thing about the traditional library technologies and the ‘classical’ practices are that they are filed proven, time tested and are in vogue for more than several decades and a century. The ways in which the library in-house activities and the plethora of information services performed across the profession from time to time had emerged as accepted norms and tools, practice guidelines, best practices and eventually they were accepted as common practices too. During the past five to seven years the information professionals’ lives have been made extremely challenging and at times even made miserable with the tremendous developments in technology, especially the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), and the amazing speed with which it started diffusing into the information domain in particular and the society at large. One has to also appreciate the host of opportunities and solutions these technologies offer the information professionals a way smooth forward. No sensible information system in the world will ever dare to ignore or sideline the significance and relevance of the paper paradigm and the traditional systems. At the same token, the information profession should indeed proactively and efficiently address the requirements of the new world order. In other words, in the current information environment, libraries need to strategically envision and fabricate a hybrid and a vibrant information system by leveraging on the latest digital technologies as well as the traditional paper technologies.* *The Kerala Library Association, the pioneer professional association in Kerala is joining its hands with Department of Library and Information Science, University of Calicut and the Alumni Association of the Department to bring about awareness among the academic and professional communities bout the influx of new technology and practices in the Library and Information field.* *Seminar Themes* The One-Day Seminar on Best Practices in Libraries is set to unleash the topic on the following facets: 1. Best Practices in Library – User Interfacing; 2. Best Practices in Library & Information Marketing; 3. Best Practices in Information Literacy Missions; 4. Best Practices in ICT Applications; 5. Best Practices in Professional Capacity Building & Continuing Education. *Speakers* Experts in the field of Library & Information Science and library patrons will be sharing their vast treasure of knowledge and experience with the audience during the Seminar. *You are invited to be with us on the 16th January 2010 to receive and share the experiences and feelings.* *For more details please contact:* 1. Dr. M. G. Sreekumar, President KLA, Kozhikode Region, E-mail: mgsree(a)iimk.ac.in 2. Dr. Jalaja, V., Head, DLIS, University of Calict, E-mail: jalajadlis(a)yahoo.com 3. Dr. Dineshan Koovakkai, Secretary, KLA, Kozhikode Region, E-mail: dineshank(a)gmail.com -- Dr.Dineshan Koovakkai Assistant Librarian Central University of Kerala Vidyanagar P.O. Kasargod Blog: www.dineshkoovakkai.blogspot.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Articles
by G. K. Sachdeva 11 Jan '10

11 Jan '10

Dear Librarians, We urgent need below mentioned articles if you have kindly send softcopy to me. *Title: Digital Copyright*** *Author(s):** *Stuart Hannabuss *Journal:** *Journal of Documentation *Year:** *2006 *Volume:** *62 *Issue:** *6 Page: 762 - 765 ISSN: 0022-0418 *Publisher:** *Emerald Group Publishing Limited Title: IPR in the ensuing global digital economy *Author(s):** *Siriginidi Subba Rao *Journal:** *Library Hi Tech <http://www.emeraldinsight.com/0737-8831.htm> *Year:** *2001 *Volume:** *19 <http://www.emeraldinsight.com/0737-8831/19> * Issue:** *2 <http://www.emeraldinsight.com/0737-8831/19/2> *Page:** *179 - 185 *ISSN:** *0737-8831 *DOI:** *10.1108/07378830110394321 *Publisher:** *MCB UP Ltd *Title:** **Digital library intellectual property right evaluation and method* *Author(s):** *Wende Zhang *Journal:** *The Electronic Library<http://www.emeraldinsight.com/0264-0473.htm> *Year:** *2007 *Volume:** *25 <http://www.emeraldinsight.com/0264-0473/25> * Issue:** *3 <http://www.emeraldinsight.com/0264-0473/25/3> *Page:** *267 - 273 *ISSN:** *0264-0473 Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited Thanks & Regards G. K. Sachdeva Library In-Charge JK Padampat Singhania Institute 09911496696 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Indian Citation Index
by soumen mallik 09 Jan '10

09 Jan '10

Respected Members, The Indian Citation Index (ICI) is now becoming reality and hereby I am posting the introductory message on ICI by Mr. Prakash Chand, former Head of National Science Library and former Coordinator of CSIR e-journal Consortium. "Dear all, At first I wish you a very happy, peaceful and prosperous New Year 2010. Now I am completing six months of my superannuation from NISCAIR. I am happy to inform you that I have utilized this time to realize the dream of having long awaited "Indian Citation Index (ICI)" as a product/tool for the benefit of R&D community including planers, decision makers, funding agencies etc. You are well aware that "Indian Citation Index" is in talks by many people, organizations, and groups etc. for two decade but nothing could be translated. With a view to address this long felt need I started from July 2009 to plan, develop and bring out a multidisciplinary Indian Citation Index (ICI) through a society named "Knowledge Foundation" and in collaboration with M/s Divan Enterprise. Apparently, India is contributing good amount of knowledge contents but there is no tool for evaluation and measurement of its impact, quality and quantity. At international level few tools/databases like WoS and SCOPUS are available but coverage of Indian knowledge contents in these databases are negligible. Therefore, these tools/databases are not adequate to evaluate/analyze India's knowledge contents. To resolve similar limitation of international databases, few countries, like China, Korea, Japan etc. have already brought out their own citation indexes but we could not do it. Indian researchers, scholars, policy makers, decision takers, funding agencies and others too are facing it as a big problem to perform objectively and therefore, they essentially need this tool on immediate basis. Indian Citation Index Database (ICI) is a multidisciplinary research platform primarily intend to perform literature search and multiple angle evaluation using citations similar to international databases like WoS and SCOPUS. Citation databases are specialized Abstracting & Indexing information products used to evaluate, map and measure information contents using citations as the association of R&D ideas. The references that researchers cite in their papers make explicit links between their current research and prior work in the literature archive. Indian Citation Index (ICI) organizes these intellectual links by listing both cited and citing works. Like other indexes, ICI enables users to move back in time to previously published papers, but uniquely one can also look forward in time to determine who has subsequently cited an earlier piece of research. Indian Citation Index (ICI) is a home grown database, planed to have multidisciplinary information/knowledge contents from about 1000 top Indian scholarly journals. It provides powerful search engine basically to perform search and evaluation for researchers, policy makers, decision makers etc. At present, it is planned to start with five years back files (depth) which would go over 10 years and beyond in next few month's time. ICI right now is in zero version stage and its alpha version is being issued for users feedback and comments by 15th January 2010 and thereafter shortly its beta version would be launched. It is also planed and working accordingly that in next few months ICI with full search and analytic features would be served to users for using long awaited essentially needed information product. The ICI is owned by M/s Divan Enterprise for all practical purposes. With above brief introduction, it is requested to use it and give your opinion, comments, observation etc. so that ICI may be corrected/molded accordingly and it can be made user friendly to extent possible . Here I would like to mention that so far the developed stage of ICI is 20% only of the total development and rest 80% development is going on rigorously which would be available to users soon. Currently you may access it by URL: indiancitationindex.com I once again wish you very 2 happy new year 2010 and look forward for your feedback/comments etc. on ICI as a product and its utility. Thanks -----------------------Prakash Chand" e-mail: prakash(a)indiancitationindex.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Library Junction: A social network for KV Pattom Library
by faisal sl 09 Jan '10

09 Jan '10

Dear Professional Partners, We have started a Ning for our Library, Library Junction ( http://libraryjunction.ning.com ). The members are students, teachers, parents and those who are genuinely interested in library, books, reading, web, ideas and knowledge sharing. The objectives of the project are promoting the reading habit, sharing useful information of online and offline resources, enhancing interaction between the library and users and supporting collaborative teaching and learning practices. Visit the network at http://libraryjunction.ning.com Comments and suggestions are welcomed. Thanks and regards S.L.Faisal Librarian Kendriya Vidyalaya Pattom,Thiruvananthapuram-695 004 Kerala India Ph.09447699724 Official http://librarykvpattom.wordpress.com http://libzine.wordpress.com http://homeworksonline.wordpress.com http://mydearbook.wordpress.com Professional http://librarycloud.wordpress.com http://librarynext.wordpress.com http://kvlblogs.wordpress.com Social Networks http://kvlibrarians.ning.com/ http://in.groups.yahoo.com/group/isl-link/ Personal http://slfaisal.wordpress.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Fw: [LISEA] ICADL Special Tracks in Heritage Materials, and National Library Projects
by Prof. N. Laxman Rao. 08 Jan '10

08 Jan '10

ICADL 2010 CALL FOR PAPERS 12th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL) Gold Coast, Queensland, June 21-25, 2010 http://www.icadl2010.org/ In conjunction with the 10th ACM/IEEE JCDL (Joint Conference on Digital Libraries). Conference Overview ------------------------------- ICADL welcomes submissions in the areas of computer science, library and information science and knowledge management involving applications to environmental sciences, social sciences, humanities and museum studies. Submissions associated with the ICADL 2010 theme, of "Digital Libraries in a Time of Global Change", as well as case studies and practical implementations are particularly welcome. The conferences welcome contributions from all fields associated with Digital Libraries including: * Information Visualisation * Search, retrieval and browsing interfaces to all forms of digital content * Data mining/extraction * Distributed information systems * eScience/eResearch data and knowledge management * Managing Collaborative Collections * Cultural Heritage Preservation * Studies of information behaviour and user needs and modelling * Insightful analyses of existing systems * Novel library content and use environments * Electronic publishing * Preservation systems and algorithms * Social Networking and Information Systems Paper Submission and Publication --------------------------------------------------- Authors may choose between two formats: full and short papers. Both formats will be rigorously peer reviewed. Full papers report on mature work or efforts that have reached an important milestone. Full papers must not exceed 10 pages. Short papers report on significant results that do not require the full paper length for exposition. Short papers might highlight exciting early results or can present theories or systems that can be described concisely in the limited space. Short papers must not exceed 4 pages. All papers must be original contributions and not previously published nor currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. Papers must be written in English. All accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings as part of Springer Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. All submissions should be made through this website and should conform to the LNCS formatting instructions. Submission instructions are available at: http://www.icadl2010.org/submitformat.php Important Dates --------------- Paper submission opening: Dec 20, 2009 Paper submission deadline: Jan 25, 2010 Poster and demonstration deadline: Jan 31, 2010 Tutorial, Panel and workshop proposals: Jan 31, 2010 Decision notification: March 15, 2010 Camera ready version: March 31, 2010 Conference: June 21-25, 2010 --- On Fri, 8/1/10, Khoo Soo Guan, Christopher (Assoc Prof) <chriskhoo(a)PMAIL.NTU.EDU.SG> wrote: From: Khoo Soo Guan, Christopher (Assoc Prof) <chriskhoo(a)PMAIL.NTU.EDU.SG> Subject: [LISEA] ICADL Special Tracks in Heritage Materials, and National Library Projects To: LISEA(a)MLIST.NTU.EDU.SG Date: Friday, 8 January, 2010, 20:33 Dear colleagues and friends, First I'd like to wish you Happy New Year, and a healthful and productive year ahead! Secondly, I'd like to announce 2 Special Tracks in the ICADL 2010 Conference: - Special Track: DL of Asia-Pacific Heritage Materials - Special Track: DL Projects at National Libraries In addition, there is also a Special Track on Digital Curation. The purpose of the new special tracks is to help us to take stock of existing digital libraries and DL projects in the Asia-Pacific region. The ICADL paper submission deadline is Jan 25th -- 2 weeks time! If you're not able to submit a full paper (10 pages or less), do consider submitting a short paper (4 pages) or poster paper (1 page). When submitting papers to a special track, please specify in the topic list of the paper submission system: - Special track: Heritage Materials - Special track: National Libraries - Special track: Digital Curation If you have questions about the special tracks, please let me know. The ICADL 2010 Call for Papers is appended below for your convenience. Best wishes for 2010 and see you at ICADL. -- chris khoo ------------------------------------------------------------ *END OF DOCUMENT* CONFIDENTIALITY: This email is intended solely for the person(s) named. The contents may be confidential and/or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete it, notify us, and do not copy or use it, nor disclose its contents. Thank you. Towards A Sustainable Earth: Print Only When Necessary -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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New updates of SOUL 2.0 released
by Ajay Kamble 08 Jan '10

08 Jan '10

Dear all, INFLIBNET has released the latest updates of SOUL 2.0 on 1st Jan. 2010. For offline updates, please click on the following link http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/soul/downloads.htm With regards -- Ajay M. Kamble Librarian Annasaheb Vartak Arts, Commerce, Science College, Vasai Road (W), Dist. Thane - 401202 www.mlsc.co.nr www.ajaykamble.co.nr -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Request for an article
by Mailing List Admin 08 Jan '10

08 Jan '10

Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 15:24:52 +0530 From: Tejasvini.Ranadive(a)ril.com Rowen, W. I., 1983, “Simplified Mathematical Representations of Heavy Duty Gas Turbine”, Trans. Amer. Soc. Mech. Eng., Vol. 105, pp. 865-869 Regards, Tejasvini Ranadive Librarian Reliance Industries Ltd. Central Library, Patalganga Tel: 02192-256270 tejasvini.ranadive(a)ril.com

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