January 2011 - 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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Article request
by Veeru 31 Jan '11

31 Jan '11

Dear Professionals, Can anyone please provide me the article Title:- * The Future of Project Management in Technical Communication: Incorporating a Communications Approac* Source:- I*nternational Professional Communication Conference, 2006 IEEE*<http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=4114138> * * *Issue Date:* 23-25 Oct. 2006 *Digital Object Identifier:* 10.1109/IPCC.2006.320372 Link : * http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/login.jsp?url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.iee… * *with regards Virupaksh BH Senior Research Fellow, University of Agricultural Science, GKVK, Bangalore**,* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Registration of early bird accommodation for CALIBER 2011 extended to 25th January 2011
by Rajesh 31 Jan '11

31 Jan '11

Dear expected delegates Due to the demand from various delegates, the early bird registration for accommodation is extended from 10th January to 25th January 2011. Apart from that there is special tour programmes for the interested delegates who have plan to stay one more day for site scene on 5th March 2011. Details about the programme is available on the CALIBER website at http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/caliber2011. There is also possibility for accompanying person. The charges for the accompanying persons are described in the registration column of the above website. With best regards Rajesh Chandrakar Co-convener, International CALIBER 2011 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Vacancy of Assistant Librarian at MIT Mysore
by ashokar kar 31 Jan '11

31 Jan '11

Dear Moderator kindly post it Maharaja Institute of Technology Mysore invites applications to fill the post of "Asstistant Librarian" fot it's library situated at Mysore. Required Qualifications and Experience: 1. Name of the Post : Asstistant Librarian 2. Educational Qualifications : B.L.I.Sc with Computer background. 3. Experience : One or Two years work experience in Academic institutional library. Applay to ashokarmlisc(a)gmail.com on or before 6-2-2011. Contact No. : 9620228133 Regards Ashoka R, Librarian, Maharaja Institute of Technology Mysore. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Vacancy of STA 'B' (Library Science) in DRDO
by Navin Soni 29 Jan '11

29 Jan '11

Dear LIS Professionals, Please see DRDO Advt. No.: CEPTAM-04 *Post: Senior Technical Assistant 'B' Library Science 5 (UR)* * * *Qualification: Bachelor's Degree in Science with minimum one year Diploma in Library Science,* *from recognized University/ Institute* *Download * *Advertisement : http://www.drdo.gov.in/drdo/ceptam/Advertisement04.pdf* * <http://www.drdo.gov.in/drdo/ceptam/Advertisement04.pdf>Application Form : *http://www.drdo.gov.in/drdo/ceptam/Application%20Form04.pdf *With regards * ================================= Navin Kumar Soni *INMAS, DRDO, * *Min. of Defence, Brig SK Mazumdar Road, * *Delhi- 110054 *Ph: +91-1123985466, +91-9868459805, 9555720136 http://www.drdo.org/labs/inmas/index.html http://lislinks.ning.com/profile/NavinKumarSoni Email: navinsoni22(a)gmail.com, navin(a)inmas.drdo.in =================================== -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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SET Notification
by shekara ppa 28 Jan '11

28 Jan '11

Announcement: The University of Mysore, Mysore has been identified by the UGC, New Delhi as a Nodal agency to conduct Karnataka State Eligibility Test for Lecturership (SET) during the year 2011. The following 26 subjects have been approved by the UGC to conduct SET examination. The Notification calling for applications for the SET will be notified during the month of February 2011 and the examination will be held in the month of MAY 2011. For further details contact: The Co-ordinator, KSET, University of Mysore Preeksha Bhavan, Mysore 560 005, Ph: 0821 2419202 http://www.uni-mysore.ac.in/news/ -- S Shekarappa, M.L.I.Sc, M.Phil Librarian M.S.Ramaiah College of Law New BEL Road , Bangalore-54 shekarappas(a)gmail.com shekar_001(a)rediffmail.com cell-9980537090 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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KALA Monthly Lectures Series - Talk on "Digital Environment: Users Empowered and Librarians Deserted" by Dr. M S Sridhar
by Babu Rajendra 27 Jan '11

27 Jan '11

Dear LIS Professionals, Karnataka State Library Association (KALA) is happy to invite you to the Monthly Lecture Series. The first talk of the series has been scheduled on Tuesday 1st Feb 2011 @ 6.00pm at the following Address: Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science (SRELS) # 702, 'Upstairs', 42nd Cross, III Block Rajajinagar, Bangalore - 560 010 Title: Digital Environment: Users Empowered and Librarians Deserted Abstract: Digital world is characterized by user empowerment, content boom, democratization of information, nomadic nature of users, image-based (content) society etc. Huge number of users of libraries has migrated to digital world and the existing knowledge of librarians does not reflect truly the needs and behaviour of digital information users. Digital world has provided a great opportunity to those who wish to understand digital information users in terms of log data of what users have done (as against what users say in legacy studies). Digital environment also has certain inherent threats like dehumanization while excessively emphasizing speed and access, disintermediation/ user-enabling logic, too many complex strategies, multitude of choice and so on. The talk tries to explore the environment to determine what kind of understanding of digital information users is required and through what methodology. Citing the results and findings of selected recent studies discusses values, needs and behaviour of digital information users vis-à-vis exploring whether user-empowerment has isolated and deserted librarians and what kind of strategies like 'embedded librarianship', 'invisible librarian', 'repositioning' or 're-orientation' can save and be more effective in facing the challenges of digital world. The talk also cover the below mentioned items. 1. Features of digital content 2. Characteristics of digital era 3. Need for digital information user studies 4. What to understand? 5. Digital environment: implications, Opportunities and Threats 6. Some findings and results 7. Repositioning alternatives 8. Conclusion: some implications on librarians About Speaker: Dr. M S Sridhar is a post-graduate in mathematics and management and a doctorate in library and information science with over 36 years of experience in different capacities in three premiere institutions in Bangalore, namely, ISRO Satellite Centre, Indian Institute of Management (IIMB) and National Aeronautical Laboratory (NAL). He was heading the Library and Documentation Division of ISRO Satellite Centre for over 30 years till retirement in February 2009. He has published 4 books, contributed 5 chapters to books, over 100 research papers (including 45 in Kannada), 47 conference & seminar presentations and 25 course materials to MPhil, MLISc and BLISc courses. A short profile and publications can be accessed from: 1. http://www.scribd.com/people/view/75039-m-s-sridhar 2. http://www.scribd.com/doc/16996353/List-of-Publications-of-Dr-M-S-Sridhar. Please confirm your participation. 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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Yad Vashem’s Holocaust archives goes online+new OCR tech.by google
by jasim s 27 Jan '11

27 Jan '11

Jerusalem-based center for remembering the Holocaust's victims and survivors put their collections on the web.The project is in collaboration with Google,and the use of a new OCR technology is adopted to make the search more precise.read more at http://googland.blogspot.com/2011/01/g-explore-yad-vashems-holocaust.html <http://googleblog.blogspot.com/> <http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/explore-yad-vashems-holocaust-archiv…> -- Jasimudeen.s MG University KOttayam Kerala "*Life<http://www.amazon.com/dp/1416542744?tag=acatlif-20&camp=213381&creative=390…>is like a book <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book>: what matters is how good it is, not how long it is".....* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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National Workshop on E-granthalaya Software (22- 24 Feb 2011)
by librarian BITT 27 Jan '11

27 Jan '11

Dear all, You are welcome to participating in National workshop on E- Granthalaya software for Automation and Networking of Libraries ( 22-24 Feb 2011) Organized by BIRSA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ( TRUST) -- BITT Getlatu , Ranchi, Jharkhand , 835217 Phone No:- 0651- 2273063/64 Follow this link :- http://www.bitt.ac.in/updt/e-granthalaya-workshop.htm Niraj Kumar Srivastava -- -- --------------------------------------------------------------- *librarian* BIRSA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY(Trust)- BITT Getlatu, Ranchi JHARKHAND -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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