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

Paper Submissiton Date is extended
by DRTC - General 08 Jan '10

08 Jan '10

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Avail Early bird Registration for International Conference on Digital Libraries Feb 2010, New Delhi
by Debal Chandra Kar 08 Jan '10

08 Jan '10

Registration open for International Conference on Digital Libraries (ICDL) Theme: Shaping the Information Paradigm New Delhi, 23 – 26 February 2010 Venue: Conference at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi • 24–26 February 2010 Tutorial at IGNOU, Convention Centre, New Delhi • 23 February 2010 Organiser: TERI, New Delhi Co-Organiser: IGNOU, New Delhi Associate: Ministry of Culture, Govt of India, CSIR, CEMCA and SLA Objectives · Provide a platform and enable interaction among DL experts and researchers · Facilitate creation adoption, implementation and utilization of DL‘s, and their future implications · Bridging the digital divide through knowledge sharing Who should participate? · Library/Information professionals · IT and knowledge service providers · Policy makers · Academicians, students and distance learner · E-publishers and virtual communities · Other stakeholders Conference will be Inaugurated by Hon'ble Sh. Kapil Sibal, Ministry of HRD, Govt of India, on 23rd Feb 2010 at India Habitat Centre Key Note Speakers: Dr R Chidambaram Principal Scientific Adviser Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India Invited Speakers (There are more than 50 invited speakers. Some of them are as below): Ellen R. Tise, IFLA President and Stellenbosch University, South Africa Deanna Marcum, Library of Congress, USA Jean-Marc Comment, Archives fédérales suisses, Switzerland Paul Nieuwenhuysen , Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Edie Rasmussen, The University of British Columbia, Canada Peter Schirmbacher, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany Michael Seadle, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany Andreas Rauber, Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria Shigeo Sugimoto, University of Tsukuba, Japan Rebecca B. Vargha, University Library, USA Joyce, Chao-chen Chen, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan, Gobinda Chowdhury, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Michael Fraser, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Minna Karvonen, The National Digital Library, Ministry of Education, Finland Jens Thorhauge, Danish Agency for Libraries and Media, Denmark Anne Caputo, Special Libraries Association and Dow Jones, USA Vidya Natampally, Microsoft Research India Daniel Chandran, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Alejandro Bia, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Spain Denise Troll Covey, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Sally Jo Cunningham, University of Waikato, New Zealand Valrie Davis, University of Florida Libraries, USA Mario J Gaspar da Silva, UNIVERSITY OF LISBON, Portugal Stefan Gradmann, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany Jeff Graveline, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA Franciska.M.G. de Jong, Universiteit Twente, The Netherlands Elena Maceviciute, Vilnius University, Sweden András Micsik, Hunganian Academy of Sciences, Hungari Arcot (Raja) Rajasekar, University of North Carolina, USA Hideyasu SasakiRitsumeikan Univ., Kyoto, Japan Anna Maria Di Sciullo, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada Tengku Mohd T Sembok, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia Steffen Staab, University Koblenz-Landau, Germany Ming Zhang, Peking University, China Registration: please visit http://www.teriin.org/events/ICDL |-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------| |Delegates |Tutorial |Conference |Conference and | | | | |Tutorial | |-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------| |India/Bhutan/Nepa|Rs 2000 |Rs 6000 |Rs 7500 | |l | | | | |-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------| |Bangladesh/Sri |US$ 55 |US$ 160 |US$ 175 | |Lanka/Pakistan | | | | |-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------| |Other countries |US$ 80 |US$ 250 |US$ 300 | |-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------| For Early–bird registration offer please visit http://www.teriin.org/events/icdl/registration.php Contact: DEBAL C KAR Organizing Secretary ICDL Secretariat TERI, Darbari Seth Block, IHC Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi – 110 003, India Telephone 24682138, 24682100, 41504900 Fax 24682144, 24682145 E-mail icdl(a)teri.res.in Web www.teriin.org/events/icdl India +91 • Delhi (0)11 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Thank you
by library＠rri.res.in 07 Jan '10

07 Jan '10

Dear everyone, I retired from the Raman Research Institute Library on the 31st of December after a long service of 36 years. Over the years the library has changed in so many ways that it is difficult to imagine what it was like when I first joined RRI. I have been keeping in touch with all of you through LIS-FORUM since the time it was started and I would like to thank you all for the many interesting and useful discussions that went on in the forum. Many times we have received help from the members and answers to our queries. Of course I intend to continue to subscribe to the forum as it will help me to keep in touch with the profession. In the meantime, a big THANK YOU to all of you for all the interactions, discussions and help received. Wishing all of you the very best in the new year and in your career! Girija Srinivasan Raman Research Institute Library, C V Raman Avenue, Sadashivanagar, Bangalore 560 080, India. Tel: +91 80 2361 0122 Fax: +91 80 2361 0492 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Good starting point for developing a library website
by Sukhdev Singh 07 Jan '10

07 Jan '10

I feel the following link would be useful for those who are planning to have a website for their library. http://www.webjunction.org/technology/website-development I got it from WebJunction's Newsletter for January 2010 < http://sn.im/tzlip > --Sukhdev Singh < http://twitter.com/esukhdev > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Digital Object Identifier
by fatima abedi 06 Jan '10

06 Jan '10

Dear Colleagues, Our organisation have registered for DOI from Bowkers. We are in a process alloting DOI numbers to our Institutional publication and to the articles published by our scientist. My doubt is can we assign DOI numbers to the articles which has already given DOI numbers by the publishers. Example: A DOI number is alloted by cropscience journal to the article of our institutional authors.. shall I give our DOI number to that particular article alongwith the publishers assigned DOI ??? Anybody please clarify it. Thanks in advance Regards Fatima Abedi -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Healing Power of books (Bibliotherapy)
by Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy 06 Jan '10

06 Jan '10

The healing power of books Clare Allan A literacy project is being described as the most significant development in mental health practice in the last ten years. On January 8, I am going to Liverpool, north western England, to take part in a conference organised by Get Into Reading, a hugely inspiring outreach literacy programme run by The Reader Organisation, a charity dedicated to bringing about “a reading revolution”. Get Into Reading is the brainchild of Jane Davis, founder and director of the Reader Organisation. As an 18-year-old single mother living on state benefits, Ms. Davis discovered her local library, and never looked back. She believes “books can save lives” — believes it so passionately she has, in less than ten years, created an extraordinary movement, with 150 groups now meeting weekly in hospitals, prisons, refugee centres, children’s homes, libraries, YMCAs, day centres and homes for older people. They are spread throughout the north-west of England and in London, with more springing up around the U.K. and a recent commission to develop the project in Australia. These are not “book groups”, where people come together to discuss a book they have read; they are reading groups, led by trained Get Into Reading project workers, who read the texts aloud, with group members joining in as much or as little as they wish. Interruptions are encouraged and often lead to spontaneous sharing of life experience. Texts include novels, short stories, poems, plays and works of non-fiction. And there is no dumbing down: Shakespeare, Chekhov and Milton have all been devoured, as well as works by contemporary writers such as Mitch Albom and Frank Cottrell Boyce. And while nothing is prescribed, or proscribed, the emphasis is on “great” literature — Tolstoy, say, rather than Agatha Christie. Nothing wrong with Agatha Christie, but the aim is to banish the sense some people have that great literature is not for them, that it belongs to academics in English departments. That is why the term a “reading revolution” is wholly appropriate. The storming of what Doris Lessing has described as “a treasure house of literature” is every bit as significant as the storming of the Winter Palace. Time was I might have thought this an overstatement. We have free public libraries, after all. There is nothing to stop people reading great books. Or is there? As a child of academic parents, it would never have occurred to me that I needed permission to read any book (TV was a different matter), but the mental health system is packed with people who have suffered their whole lives from the failure of others to recognise and respond to them as thinking, feeling, intelligent human beings. Parents, teachers and society in general have repeatedly reinforced the message that the doors to the treasure house are barred to the likes of them. Unfortunately, much mental health treatment does little to challenge it. Thankfully, there are signs this is starting to change. David Fearnley, a forensic psychiatrist at Ashworth high security hospital on Merseyside, Liverpool, runs a Get Into Reading group with patients. Books read include (delightfully) One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Dr. Fearnley — the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ 2009 Psychiatrist of the Year — is unambiguous about the benefits. “Get Into Reading is one of the most significant developments to have taken place in Mersey Care [health board] and mental health practice in the last 10 years,” he says. Last word, though, should go to a dementia sufferer, who commented on reading poetry: “It moves you. I mean, it hits you inside where it meets you and means something.” It is a line the greatest of literary greats would rightly be proud to come up with. — © Guardian Newspapers Limited, 2010 (Clare Allan is an author and writes on mental health issues) =========== The Hindu 6/1/10 p9 Namaste! Dr P Vyasamoorthy, 30 Gruhalakshmi Colony Secunderabad 500015 Ph 040-27846631 / 9490804278 http://www.google.com/profiles/vyasamoorthy. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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social service in hyderabad
by Prof. N. Laxman Rao. 06 Jan '10

06 Jan '10

dear professional friends from Hyderabad the Sri Krishna Andhra bhasha Nilayam was established in 1901 and it is one of the oldest library in the city. recently they have constructed new building and naturally the books gor spread into diff almirahs / shelves. they want those books to be arranged in serial as they hav asked for help, i suggested tht the professionals will come for a day or two on saturday or sunday and will help th e oldest library in rearranging the books on shelves. I REQUEST THE PROFESSIONALS TO VOLUNTEER THEMSELVES ON SATURDAY AND/ SUNDAY.. PLEASE LET ME KNOW WHO CAN OFFER SUCH TIME, ONCE WE GET THE NAMES OF PROFESSIONAL VOLUNTEERS, WE WILL FIX THE DATE FOR SUCH SERVICE. LUKING FORWARD FOR UR RESPONSE. WITH BEST WISHES Prof. N.LAXMAN RAO, UGC- EMERITUS PROFESSOR, Dept of Library & Information Science, Osmania University, HYDERABAD- 500 007 (INDIA) President, Association of British Scholars (Hyderabad Chapter) +91-9246547599 (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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CfP International Seminar on "Science & Technology in Ancient Indian Texts" (STAIT), Jan 9-10 at JNU, New Delhi
by Puna Das 06 Jan '10

06 Jan '10

Special Centre for Sanskrit Studies (SCSS), Jawaharlal Nehru University in collaboration with Center for Indic Studies, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, USA is organising International Seminar on "Science & Technology in Ancient Indian Texts" (STAIT) January 9-10, 2010 Venue: Special Centre for Sanskrit Studies (SCSS)/ Arts & Aesthetics Auditorium, JNU The Special Center for Sanskrit Studies, JNU, in collaboration with the Center for Indic Studies, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth is organizing a two day seminar on "Science & Technology in Ancient Indian Texts (STAIT)" during January 9-10, 2010. This seminar is an activity under a project running at the Center for Indic Studies, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth under the directorship of Prof. Bal Ram Singh. This project aims to explore provable scientific and technological concepts in ancient Indian texts. The seminar is proposed to invite experts from India and abroad working on natural sciences in Sanskrit under the following broad categories. This seminar aims at bringing together persons having academic interest in diverse areas of Sanskrit and Science. Though the area of Indic Science is broad, we are trying to focus on the following themes - * Biological & Environmental Sciences * Chemical Sciences & Metallurgy * Physical Sciences & Astronomy * Medical Sciences, Ayurveda, Yoga for healing * Mathematical and linguistic Sciences * Engineering including vaastu, vimaana shaastra, ship building, war, armament * Agricultural sciences & animal husbandry * Other novel sciences (not covered above) Seminar Schedule http://sanskrit.jnu.ac.in/conf/stait/Schedule.htm Online Registration http://sanskrit.jnu.ac.in/conf/stait/registration.jsp ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Anup Kumar Das New Delhi, India http://anupkumardas.blogspot.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The INTERNET now has a personality. YOURS! See your Yahoo! Homepage. http://in.yahoo.com/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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LIS_edu_Vision_2010
by dibyendu pal 04 Jan '10

04 Jan '10

Please be kind enough to note the following announcement of LIS_edu_Vision_2010. National Seminar on Vision of LIS Education for Modern India Organized by the Department of Library and Information Science, Universityof Calcutta 19 - 20 March 2010 at College StreetCampus, Universityof Calcutta, Kolkata- 700 073 Sub Themes of the seminar are: · Structure of present LIS programmes and possible future restructuring o Areas and topics of study in LIS curricula · Employability of present LIS courses and future potentialities · Teaching-learning process in LIS: methods, techniques and technicalities o Relationship of skills requirements for employment and LIS programmes · LIS research o Recent development and growth of LIS knowledge and operational activities o Implication of research findings on library services Important Dates Regarding Submission of Papers 21.01.10 Submission of Extended Abstract 18.02.10 Submission of Final Paper 28.03.10 Acceptance of Final Paper for Publishing and Presenting 05.03.10 Last Date of Payment of Registration Fee Contact E-mail: culisseminar2010(a)gmail.com Dr. Dibyendu Paul Jt. Secretary Seminar Org. Committee Department of Library and Information Science University of Calcutta -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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FW: [IFLA-L] Grants for IFLA Gothenburg August 2010
by Dr. J. K. VIJAYAKUMAR 04 Jan '10

04 Jan '10

From: Sjoerd Koopman [mailto:sjoerd.koopman@ifla.org] Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 3:50 PM To: IFLA-L Subject: [IFLA-L] Grants for IFLA Gothenburg August 2010 It is our great pleasure to announce that 2010 funds are now available to support a number of colleagues from countries in Asia/Oceania, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean to attend our IFLA World Library and Information Congress in Gothenburg, 10-15 August 2010. Travel grants can be provided thanks to generous donations from a number of different sources: de Gruyter Saur Publishers, for participants from the Pacific Region, the Swedish Library Association, the Swedish library industry and the Stichting IFLA Foundation. For more information and for application procedures, please refer to http://www.ifla.org/en/ifla76/grants-for-gothenburg Sjoerd Koopman Professional Programmes Director IFLA - International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions P.O. Box 95312 2509 CH Den Haag (The Hague) Netherlands +31 70 3140 884 sjoerd.koopman(a)ifla.org www.ifla.org -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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