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

FW: Project Information Literacy's Latest Research Report
by Dr. Indira Koneru 02 May '12

02 May '12

Dear Professionals, here is the latest research report from Project Information Literacy (based in the University of Washington's Information School). Indira -------------------- Dr. Indira Koneru Faculty Member Dept. of Library Science Icfai Academic Wing 23, Nagarjuna Hills Hyderabad-500082 ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: pilstudy(a)u.washington.edu Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 15:16:26 -0800 (PST) We are pleased to let you know that Project Information Literacy's latest research report was released today. In "Lessons Learned: How College Students Find Information in the Digital Age," we present findings from our student survey, administered last spring to students (n=2,318) enrolled at six U.S. college campuses (42 pages, PDF, 3 MB). We were struck by what we found. We hope that our findings will help inform educators, such as yourself, about today's college students and how they look for information and conduct research for course-related work and in their everyday lives. Finally, a few thanks are in order for this year's work. We thank ProQuest for their generous support of our research this past year and the MacArthur Foundation for contributing funds to make the current year's ongoing research possible. And we thank you for your interest, support, and collaboration. ! All our best, - Alison and Mike -- Alison J. Head, Ph.D. and Michael Eisenberg, Ph.D. ______________________________ Co-Directors and Co-Principal Investigators Project Information Literacy The Information School | University of Washington Seattle, Washington (707) 939-6941 ajhead1(a)u.washington.edu mbe(a)u.washington.edu _________________________________________________________________ New Windows 7: Find the right PC for you. Learn more. http://windows.microsoft.com/shop -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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INFLIBNET Newsletter and Annual Report
by Rajesh Chandrakar 27 Apr '11

27 Apr '11

Dear All The current issue of the INFLIBNET Newsletter, Vol. 16, No. 1 (January to March 2009) is available online. To access the newsletter, kindly follow the link http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/publication/newsletter/Vol.16,No.1_Jan-March2009…. The INFLIBNET Annual Report 2007-2008 is also published and available online at http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/publication/annualreport/Annual%20Report07-08.pdf. Interested person can download it for the purpose. With best regards Rajesh -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Donation of Chemical Abstracts, Journals and Books
by madhuresh.singhal 20 Jan '11

20 Jan '11

Advinus Therapeutics Pvt Ltd (A TATA Enterprises) would like to donate the following collection to suitable organization(s). Interested person/organization can contact me for either full collection or part of the collection, indicating the choice in case of part of collection at madhuresh.singhal(a)advinus.com <mailto:madhuresh.singhal@advinus.com> . Chemical Abstracts - Chemical Abstract - Vol. 1-111 (1907-1989) CA Decennial Index - Vol. 1-50 (1907-1956) CA Collective Index - Vol. 51-95 (1957-81) (till 10th Collective Index) All volumes are in good condition and also hard bound till 1986. From 1986-89, we have loose issues. Journals - Various titles on Chemistry, Pesticides, Environmental Science, Agriculture, Veterinary etc. Select titles are AOAC Journal, Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, Journal of Food and Agricultural Chemistry, Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, International Journal of Pest Management, International Pest Control, Journal of Environmental Entomology, American Journal of Pharmacy, Analytical Chemistry, JOC etc. A full list with years is available on request. Books - we have appx 1500 books to be disposed off in the areas of Agriculture, Botany, Agrochemical and Pesticides, Environmental, Fertilizers, Soil, Microbiology etc. Interested parties have to bear all associated cost like packaging/transportation etc. Regards Madhuresh Singhal Manager - Knowledge Services Advinus Therapeutics Pvt Ltd (A TATA Enterprises) 21 & 22, Phase 2, Peenya Industrial Area, Bangalore - 560058 Phone: +91 80 66553106, 28394959 Ext 331 http://www.advinus.com/ ************************************************************************************************* This email and its attachments are confidential and proprietary to Advinus Therapeutics Pvt. Ltd. and are meant for the intended recipient only. If you are not the intended recipient, do not take any actions based on the contents of this message, except to permanently delete the message and its attachments and inform the sender immediately. ************************************************************************************************* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Full explanation: ‘Half-Life’ in the context of library materials. How is it calculated?
by Pawan Agrawal 06 Jan '11

06 Jan '11

Dear library Professionals, You must have remember about a question asked in UGC NET exam last Sunday. We were asked a question about *half life in context of library material and its calculation*. As per the question it's indication was about library material and in that case we can not exclude books half life. I have browsed a lot on this question and received a lot on citation only. cited half life, citing half life, citation half life etc. which was covering only journal or periodicals half life. There was almost nothing on books or other library material. Some how I could get some hints of it and I though I must share it with all of you. I have prepared a short answer of this question which I feel would be useful for you. *Half life concept in Bibliometrics* Half life is a method though to be practical for evaluating the usefulness of specific library material examines citation half life (for journals) and use half life (for books and other material). Half life studies attempt to evaluate the length of time in which a journal or book is used, either as resources as indicated by citation, or physical use as indicated by circulation (books). Tsay (1998) examines journal or book “life” based on uses as demonstrated by citation or circulation. The premises “half life” in bibliometrics is to determine when half of all the active literature of a field has been published, or the time period that includes half of more of the references made. Short half life, whether citation based or use based which means more than 50% of the use or the citations occurred in a short period of time, implies “new volumes of a title are generally used more often than older volumes”. Half life studies may suggest which library resources are most used, but may also exaggerate use in that there are more publications now than previously. There have been suggestions that half life studies could identify which resources are least used, resulting in a list of items for considered for discontinuation of write off. Caution should be taken in applying such a plan; the mission of the institution, the orientation and the behavior of the users, and any possible other contributors to low use, such as inaccessibility, should be considered. 1995(9 citation or no item issued in a year) 1996 (6) 1997(7) 1998(6) 1999(7) 2000(7) 2001(7) 2002(3) 2003(7) 2004(5) 2005(7) 2006(2) 2007(5) 2008(2) 2009(2) 2010 (1) *Half life on the basis of Citation:* This can be achieved by subtracting the publication year of the source documents from the median publication year of the documents that cite the source document. We take an example of the data given above. Here, in this example citation data is given for a certain article which was published in 1994. In the table above the account of the citation received by the article from 1995 to 2010 is given. Total number of documents citing this article in period of 16 years is 83. It is also possible that total 83 documents are published during this period on the subject of the article published in 1994. Now If we take out median of the publication date of citing documents it will come 42, which is received in year 2000. Then, 2000 minus 1994 equals six years. So the half life of the article published in 1994 would be of 6 years. *Half life on the basis of circulation: *This can be achieved by subtracting the acquisition year of the source item from the median of issue years of the document. We can take an example again of the data given above. A resource acquired by a library in the year 1995. The statistics given above are of the circulation in the period of 16 years. Total number of issue of this book in period of 16 year is 83 and the median as similar of the above example comes 42, which is achieved in year 2000. Then, 2000 minus 1995 equals five year. So the half life of the item received in 1995 would be of 5 years. Comments are welcome -- Join hands, Join eLibrarian www.grou.ps/elibrarian Thanks and Regards ------ *Pawan R. Agrawal *Librarian Takshshila Centre for Learning Transpek Silox Industry Ltd. Kalali Road- Atladra Vadodara- 390012 Ph. 9376135580 http:\\www.grou.ps/elibrarian -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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IEEE journals
by subhash khode 31 Dec '10

31 Dec '10

Dear library professinals, If our institute is subscribing IEEE journals via INDEST then also we have to subscribe print and international journals as per AICTE norms or not? Thanking you Subhash Khode MIT, Ujjain -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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A query about copyright registration and ISBN for our publication
by Mailing List Admin 31 Dec '10

31 Dec '10

Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 14:13:52 +0530 From: kishore chinni <cvsskisorkumar(a)gmail.com> Dear Sir / Madam, I am working in a government organization which serves in the field of publishing instructional media packages ( Books ) for industrial training institutes. We want to go for copyright registration and ISBN for our publications. Hence, kindly provide the information regarding agencies / consultancies in Chennai Who can take up such assignments. With Regards, Kishore kumar Librarian Advanced Training Institute Vidyanagar Hyderabad � 500 007 Phone : 9866004977 cvsskisorkumar(a)gmail.com

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Inaugural function of Karnataka State Library Association (KALA) Monthly Lectures and Felicitation to LIS Achievers
by Babu Rajendra 30 Dec '10

30 Dec '10

KARNATAKA STATE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION (KALA) invites you to the Inaugural function of KALA MONTHLY LECTURES AND FELICITATION TO LIS ACHIEVERS Prof. H A Ranganath Director, National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), Bangalore Inaugurates Prof. M R Doreswamy. MLC Founder-Secretary, PES Institutions, Bangalore. Will be the Chief Guest Prof. V G Talawar Vice Chancellor, University of Mysore, Mysore. Presides LIS Achievers to be Felicitated Dr. R Shivanna Dy. Librarian (Rtd.), Bangalore University, Bangalore. Prof. D Shivalingaiah Registrar, Tumkur University, Tumkur. Date: 2nd January 2011 Time: 10.00 am Venue: Auditorium, City Central Library, Hampinagar (RPC Layout), Bangalore. You are cordially invited, please also bring your friends to make this program a success. Thanks and Regards, Rajendra Babu H General Secretary Karnataka State Library Association (KALA) The information in this email is confidential and is intended solely for the addressee(s). Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not an intended recipient, please notify the sender of this email immediately. You should not copy, use or disseminate the information contained in the email. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Capco. http://www.capco.com/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Happy and Prosperous New Year 2011
by Shantanu Ganguly 30 Dec '10

30 Dec '10

Wishing you and your family a very Happy and Magnanimous New Year 2011. May Almighty..shower you with Good Health, Wealth and Strength for all your future endeavours. This video is dedicated to you... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNuHTG6TRfw -- With best regards *Shantanu Ganguly, PhD* Fellow, Librarian and Area Convenor Library and Information Center Knowledge Management Division TERI India Habitat Center Complex Lodhi Road New Delhi - 110003 Tel: 011-24682100/2111 (Extn 2763) ----------------------------------------------------------------- A-67, Chittaranjan Park, First Floor New Delhi-110019 Tel (R): 011-26272596 (M): 9811330235 Email: sganguly67(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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Half life for library materal: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 93, Issue 20
by Librarian 30 Dec '10

30 Dec '10

Dear Pawan ji, You did a very good effort and explain the topic in an easy way. Hope it will be helpful to every library professionals I also searched on the same topic and get some similar articles, but your explanation is best among them Thanking you With best regards, Ram Laut Tyagi Information Resource, Intas Biopharmaceuticals Ltd., 423/P/A/GIDC, Sarkhej Bavla Highway, Moraiya, Ahmedabad, Gujarat-382210 (India) Phone: +912717660100, Etn.246 -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 2:21 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: LIS-Forum Digest, Vol 93, Issue 20 Send LIS-Forum mailing list submissions to lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in You can reach the person managing the list at lis-forum-owner(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of LIS-Forum digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Students Seminar (drtc(a)isibang.ac.in) 2. Full explanation: ?Half-Life? in the context of library materials. How is it calculated? (Pawan Agrawal) 3. Indian IRs which are not listed in ROAR (Shivraj Thorat) 4. Vacancy for the post of libraria (js vijaya) 5. Re: Are we able to maintain the quality of International Conference in LIS? (library) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 14:52:01 +0530 From: drtc(a)isibang.ac.in To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] Students Seminar Message-ID: <1ecf2e7a41a76eda84726eefec8dd223.squirrel(a)mail.isibang.ac.in> Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE Documentation Research and Training Centre 8th Mile Mysore Road Bangalore ? 560059 Seminar on Search Engines: A Comparative Study Abstract: We are living in the age of information explosion. Mainly electronic environment and WWW is responsible for this information explosion. In the present situation, to get right information at right time from this heap of information, is very tedious job. To do the job a little easier search engine came into existence. Today information seekers are heavily dependent on these search engines to satisfy their information need. But the problem is, their are several search engines present and most of users do not know how to use them effectively. In this seminar we will discuss on different types of search engine and their working in general, also we will throw some light on the features of good search engine. At last we will try to compare some of todays popular search engines based on certain characteristics. Student Presenter : Sudipta Biswas Venue : DRTC Classroom Date : 30/12/2010 Time : 2:00 pm All are cordially invited Devika P. Madalli Seminar Co-ordinator -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 17:18:03 +0530 From: Pawan Agrawal <pawanagrawal4u4u(a)gmail.com> To: elibrarian <elibrarian(a)googlegroups.com>, mlosc <mlosc(a)googlegroups.com>, libtech(a)yahoogroups.com, adinetyuva(a)googlegroups.com, LIS-Forum <LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>, lislforum(a)gmail.com Subject: [LIS-Forum] Full explanation: ?Half-Life? in the context of library materials. How is it calculated? Message-ID: <AANLkTinxmf8BHgVomuu5qYS63H5M0gVJ0NhH-6W0P3au(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Dear library Professionals, You must have remember about a question asked in UGC NET exam last Sunday. We were asked a question about *half life in context of library material and its calculation*. As per the question it's indication was about library material and in that case we can not exclude books half life. I have browsed a lot on this question and received a lot on citation only. cited half life, citing half life, citation half life etc. which was covering only journal or periodicals half life. There was almost nothing on books or other library material. Some how I could get some hints of it and I though I must share it with all of you. I have prepared a short answer of this question which I feel would be useful for you. *Half life concept in Bibliometrics* Half life is a method though to be practical for evaluating the usefulness of specific library material examines citation half life (for journals) and use half life (for books and other material). Half life studies attempt to evaluate the length of time in which a journal or book is used, either as resources as indicated by citation, or physical use as indicated by circulation (books). Tsay (1998) examines journal or book ?life? based on uses as demonstrated by citation or circulation. The premises ?half life? in bibliometrics is to determine when half of all the active literature of a field has been published, or the time period that includes half of more of the references made. Short half life, whether citation based or use based which means more than 50% of the use or the citations occurred in a short period of time, implies ?new volumes of a title are generally used more often than older volumes?. Half life studies may suggest which library resources are most used, but may also exaggerate use in that there are more publications now than previously. There have been suggestions that half life studies could identify which resources are least used, resulting in a list of items for considered for discontinuation of write off. Caution should be taken in applying such a plan; the mission of the institution, the orientation and the behavior of the users, and any possible other contributors to low use, such as inaccessibility, should be considered. 1995(9 citation or no item issued in a year) 1996 (6) 1997(7) 1998(6) 1999(7) 2000(7) 2001(7) 2002(3) 2003(7) 2004(5) 2005(7) 2006(2) 2007(5) 2008(2) 2009(2) 2010 (1) *Half life on the basis of Citation:* This can be achieved by subtracting the publication year of the source documents from the median publication year of the documents that cite the source document. We take an example of the data given above. Here, in this example citation data is given for a certain article which was published in 1994. In the table above the account of the citation received by the article from 1995 to 2010 is given. Total number of documents citing this article in period of 16 years is 83. It is also possible that total 83 documents are published during this period on the subject of the article published in 1994. Now If we take out median of the publication date of citing documents it will come 42, which is received in year 2000. Then, 2000 minus 1994 equals six years. So the half life of the article published in 1994 would be of 6 years. *Half life on the basis of circulation: *This can be achieved by subtracting the acquisition year of the source item from the median of issue years of the document. We can take an example again of the data given above. A resource acquired by a library in the year 1995. The statistics given above are of the circulation in the period of 16 years. Total number of issue of this book in period of 16 year is 83 and the median as similar of the above example comes 42, which is achieved in year 2000. Then, 2000 minus 1995 equals five year. So the half life of the item received in 1995 would be of 5 years. Comments are welcome -- Join hands, Join eLibrarian www.grou.ps/elibrarian Thanks and Regards ------ *Pawan R. Agrawal *Librarian Takshshila Centre for Learning Transpek Silox Industry Ltd. Kalali Road- Atladra Vadodara- 390012 Ph. 9376135580 http:\\www.grou.ps/elibrarian -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Are we able to maintain the quality of International Conference in LIS?
by Mailing List Admin 30 Dec '10

30 Dec '10

It is good to see that a debate has been opened up on this issue, though to my mind it has been long overdue. I would, however, like to go deep and would like to understand the reason for such a spate of seminars and conferences. There are two aspects of this issue - one is the frequency of seminars and the other is the quality of papers. Regarding the frequency of seminar happenings I have a question. That is, by organizing seminars/conferences does one get extra points in her/his CV? If, during assessment and promotion, one can earn extra points by showing that s/he has organized a seminar/conference, then the driving force of such seminars/conferences is not entirely professional. Regarding the quality of paper - quality of papers rises when such papers are empirical research driven. Unless theories are tested in practice, knowledge cannot expand and without such tested knowledge, most papers would look same. It need not be a research at doctoral study level. One can do small research in her/his library. Instead, most of the time, we find papers which are mini-text books - on topics such as RFID, knowledge management. Very few try to experiment how the concept of knowledge management can be tested in libraries and the benefit out of it. Regards, Swati Bhattacharyya -------------------------------------------------- Librarian Indian Institute of Management Joka Diamond Harbor Road Calcutta - 700104 Phone: 091-33-24678300 Extn: 416 FAX: 091-33-2467-8062 Email: swati @iimcal.ac.in -------------------------------------------------- > Thanks to Mr.Susanta Kumar Pathy and Thaty dada, > > I am also of the same opinion that we are, now, organizing so many > seminars > that the next is knocking the door hardly the proceedings of preceding > seminar is read or digested. One can encounter many librarian-presenters > of > last seminars with papers on library organization, but in their own > library > the self-professed phenomenon is absent; rather it is disheveled. > > D R Meher > > Librarian, OUAT, Bhubaneswar > > > On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Rajendra Kumar Thaty > <pitam97(a)gmail.com>wrote: > >> Dear All, >> A pinching arrow rightly sent forth from some one who is quality >> conscious like many of us. I have a similar opinion for National >> Conferences too. It is so easy to write a paper for a conference >> now-a-days. one of the causes is the 'publish or perish' rule of the >> organizations. Even periodicals are facing the same problem. Some of >> the periodicals will close their shops if they start looking for >> really qualitative articles. This needs a debate. >> >> Let me invite a very honest answer from all of you. How many of us, >> who send papers regulaly to journals and conferences and get them >> published profusely, have the guts to get the paper circulated in >> lis-forum and other fora like this seeking comments from all so that >> it can be improved? I do not remember anyone to have done so at least >> in India. But that would be a great practice - perhaps most of you >> will agree with me - for enhancing the quality of our publications. >> >> Can we do so for PhD theses also? Is Prof Kapil Sibal listening? >> >> If we have open access journals and open access archives, why not open >> access seminars, symposia and conferences? What about >> teleconferencing? If sight-seeing is important, may be we can demand >> for more frequent LTC so that the money earmarked for attending >> seminars can go to the LTC account to make it more enjyable for the >> family. >> >> Well I think I have given enough food for thought. >> >> Thanks >> >> Rajendra Thaty >> University Librarian, Sambalpur University >> >> >> On 12/8/10, sushanta kumar pathy <skpathy(a)rediffmail.com> wrote: >>> Dear Professional(s),It is seen that for the last 4/5 years we in >> India >>> organised so many International Conference in the field of Library >> & >>> Information Science, many more are coming and more will come in >> future. >> In >>> this regard I would like to discuss few points as mentioned below:1. >>> Although this kind of international conference promotes many >> activities >>> including interaction, debate, resource sharing, exchange of ideas, >> writing >>> articles etc. Is it the right time to organise this many international >>> conference?2. Is it justified to have International Conference by the >> same >>> institutes/body every year? Don't we degrading the value of >> International >>> conference?3. If so, why don't we regulating the system through our >>> associations, body etc? Why not in 3/4yrs on rotation?4. Are the >> quality >> of >>> papers accepted for the international conferences are of high >> standard?I >>> think this is the right time that we should discuss the above topic >> and I >>> invite all the great professionals to con! >>> tribute their ideas/ pros and cons.Thanking youSushanta Kumar >>> PathyCentral Library,Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), >>> BhubaneswarSamantapuri (Rear-side of Hotel Swosti Plaza)Bhubaneswar- >> 751013, >>> ODISHAEmail: >>> spathy@iitbbs.ac.inOffice:0674-2306292www.iitbbs.ac.inwww.iitbbs.gov.in >>> -- >>> This message has been scanned for viruses and >>> dangerous content by MailScanner, and is >>> believed to be clean. >>> >>>

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