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Palampur varsity wins the Best Library of the year 2010 Award
by Mailing List Admin 10 Jan '11

10 Jan '11

Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2011 01:12:07 -0800 (PST) From: Dr.Nabi Hasan <nabihasan72(a)yahoo.com> Dear colleagues It gives me immense pleasure to share with you all that my parent institution - Himachal Pradesh Agriculture University Library, Palampur Library has been awarded with the BEST LIBRARY OF THE YEAR 2010 AWARD at the India International Centre, New Delhi during December 30-31, 2010. The award was presented by Mr.Marzouk (Ambassador of the Republic of Tunisia) and Mr.Woldemarian (Ambassador of the Republic of Eritrea) at the World Management Congress. It is important to mention here that this Library is an ISO 9001:2000/2008 Certifiedsince longand was rated as one of the best automated library during one of the NATP/ICAR Workshops during 2003. Thanks and Regards -- Dr. Nabi Hasan Deputy Librarian, Central Library Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Hauz Khas, New Delhi - 110016, India Phone - +91-11-2659-1452 (Work), 9560978667 (Mobile) FAX - +91-11-26596759 E-mail: nabihasan(a)gmail.com ; hasan(a)library.iitd.ac.in Web: http://web.iitd.ac.in/~library/about/hasan.html

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Students Seminar
by drtc＠isibang.ac.in 07 Jan '11

07 Jan '11

INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE Documentation Research and Training Centre 8th Mile Mysore Road Bangalore 560059 Seminar on Libraries and Cloud Computing Abstract :- Today the web is not only a collection of web sites, pages, and forms. It can host much more, including rich applications, public datasets, software interfaces, and customizable databases. Cloud computing is a useful abstraction, where an application or other capacity is made available over the internet as a service. The hardware/software behind this service is abstracted as a cloud. All needed is an internet connection and anything can be accessed in the cloud. In the light of above, libraries are not an exception to the changing times. Libraries have been adopting cloud-based solutions for different services including electronic journal access management, statistics tracking, digital library hosting, and even integrated library system hosting. This has allowed libraries to make strategic choices about the allocation of resources and to offer better service than in-house solutions. So the impact of cloud computing and its services on libraries will be highlighted. With the growing uptrend in hosted/proxy services, cloud computing has already started making inroads in offering e-information services management and access to these touted electronic libraries - library without walls and the hanging libraries on clouds have arrived here. http://www.librarytechnology.org/ltg-displaytext.pl?RC=15267 http://www.librarytechnology.org/ltg-displaytext.pl?RC=15248 Student Presenter: Alka Rani Singh Venue: DRTC Classroom Date : 10-01-11 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.

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Change odf Date for the National Seminar
by Susmita Chakraborty 07 Jan '11

07 Jan '11

Dear LIS-Scholar, The date of the National Seminar on 'Implementation of ICT is changed from 4th to 2nd February. Please see the enclosed for 'Call for Papers' . Thanks & regards. Dr. Susmita Chakraborty Organising Secretary -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Artilce request
by Francis Jayakanth 07 Jan '11

07 Jan '11

Dear Members, One of our researchers is in need of the following article. Would appreciate if someone can either provide the article or point to the source where it is likely to be available: Geller W., and Sun T., "Influence of Alloy Additions on Hydrogen Diffusion in Iron and Contributions to the System Iron-Hydrogen", Arch. Eisenhuettenw, Vol 21, 1950, pp 423-430. Thanks for your attention. With best wishes, - Francis NCSI, IISc, Bangalore

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Message appearence
by Mailing List Admin 07 Jan '11

07 Jan '11

Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 06:13:09 +0000 (UTC) From: Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay <psm_bu(a)india.com> Dear Admin My message (posted yesterday to your forum) has not appeared properly. I'm attaching it again for your action. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay Lecturer (Sr.), Department of Library and Information Science, University of Burdwan, Burdwan - 713 104 (WB), India ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Bidyarthi I cannot help you in determing IF of the said journal but can help you to have an idea about the quality of the said journal on the basis of some other Bibliometric Indicators (better than the close indicator like IF). This small citation study carried on the honour of our friendship reveals following figures (based on open database Google Scholar <more comprehensive than WoS) and open bibliometric indicator H-index <more resonable than IF>); Infact i'm now exploring the possibilities of open citation framework (ofcourse alongside the main busines OSS and Open stamndards). Here we go........................ Happy New Year 2011........ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay Lecturer (Sr.), Department of Library and Information Science, University of Burdwan, Burdwan - 713 104 (WB), India ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Journal of Economic Integration" Pub. By: Sejong University Query date: 1/5/2011 Summary: ------------------------------------------------ Years: 26 Papers: 633 Citations: 3898 Cites/paper: 6.16 Cites/year: 149.92 Authors/paper: 1.17 Authorship pattern -------------------------------- 540 paper(s) with 1 author(s) 79 paper(s) with 2 author(s) 13 paper(s) with 3 author(s) 1 paper(s) with 4 author(s) Bibliometric Indicators (Not age-old Imp Fact (close indicator!!! I hate it.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ h-index: 28 g-index: 47 hc-index: 19 hI-index: 20.63 e-index: 31.67 hI,norm: 27 hm-index: 26.33 (****Hirsch a=4.97, m=1.08; Contemporary ac=4.88; Cites/paper 6.16/2.0/0 (mean/median/mode); Authors/paper 1.17/1.0/1 (mean/median/mode)) Top ten papers (based on citations received) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Cites, Authors, Title, Year, Source, Publisher, ArticleURL ,CitesURL 186,"A Mattoo, R Rathindran…","Measuring services trade liberalization and its impact on economic growth: An illustration",2006,"… of Economic Integration","SejongUniversity","http://sejong.metapress.com/index/4Q358PDD5KW32JFU.pdf","http://sch olar.google.com/scholar?cites=11316706572150702739&as_sdt=2005&sciodt=2000&… &num=100" 143,"E Ianchovichina…","Trade liberalization in China's accession to WTO",2001,"Journal of Economic Integration","SejongUniversity","http://sejong.metapress.com/index/A65XFY2QP61PWBKN.pdf","http://sch olar.google.com/scholar?cites=17060155040898965672&as_sdt=2005&sciodt=2000&… &num=100" 124,"TL Walmsley…","Relaxing the restrictions on the temporary movement of natural persons: a simulation analysis",2005,"Journal of Economic Integration","SejongUniversity","http://sejong.metapress.com/index/EQKDFJKQKW144XKD.pdf","http://sch olar.google.com/scholar?cites=11509666495339986192&as_sdt=2005&sciodt=2000&… &num=100" 108,"D Boisso…","Economic distance, cultural distance, and openness in international trade: Empirical puzzles",1997,"Journal of EconomicIntegration","","","http://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=13291295647467036765 &as_sdt=2005&sciodt=2000&hl=en&num=100" 93,"TW Hertel, T Walmsley…","Dynamic Effects of the"" New Age"" Free Trade Agreement between Japan and Singapore",2001,"… of Economic Integration","SejongUniversity","http://sejong.metapress.com/index/N8P2NHRJA57AYXP9.pdf","http://sch olar.google.com/scholar?cites=10442754424234782412&as_sdt=2005&sciodt=2000&… &num=100" 88,"GW Harrison, TF Rutherford…","Increased competition and completion of the market in the European Union: static and steady state effects",1996,"Journal of EconomicIntegration","","","http://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=146008676132310955&a s_sdt=2005&sciodt=2000&hl=en&num=100" 78,"Z Drabek…","The impact of transparency on foreign direct investment",2002,"Journal of Economic Integration","SejongUniversity","http://sejong.metapress.com/index/148hekxl3092r4yh.pdf","http://sch olar.google.com/scholar?cites=1872520959114495212&as_sdt=2005&sciodt=2000&h… num=100" 74,"D Piazolo","Trade Integration between Eastern and Western Europe: Policies Follow the Market",1997,"Journal of Economic Integration","SejongUniversity","http://sejong.metapress.com/index/k6q32dv1q0dmgrww.pdf","http://sch olar.google.com/scholar?cites=3240783231521935906&as_sdt=2005&sciodt=2000&h… num=100" 70,"A Esteradeordal, J Goto…","The New Regionalism in the Americas: the case of MERCOSUR",2001,"… of Economic Integration","SejongUniversity","http://sejong.metapress.com/index/4UJE9RYM4BNN24X9.pdf","http://sch olar.google.com/scholar?cites=6564292876401534467&as_sdt=2005&sciodt=2000&h… num=100" 62,"A Mattoo…","Regional agreements and trade in services: Policy issues",2004,"Journal of Economic Integration","SejongUniversity","http://sejong.metapress.com/index/NP4B10VK5HKDD39E.pdf","http://sch olar.google.com/scholar?cites=15406914877994058078&as_sdt=2005&sciodt=2000&… &num=100" 62,"TJ Prusa","Pricing behavior in the presence of antidumping law",1994,"Journal of EconomicIntegration","econweb.rutgers.edu","","http://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=6 810338014766212683&as_sdt=2005&sciodt=2000&hl=en&num=100" At 5 Jan 2011 07:41:49 +0000 (UTC) from Bidyarthi Dutta <bidyarthi.bhaswati(a)gmail.com>: Can anyone tell me the Impact Factor of "Journal of Economic Integration?" -- Dr. Bidyarthi Dutta Librarian Central Library St. Xavier's College (Autonomous) 30, Park Street Kolkata 700016 India -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Information Scientist in Assam University
by Apurba Jyoti Majumder 07 Jan '11

07 Jan '11

Vacancy in Assam University, Silchar 1. Information Scientist Pay band: Rs.15600-39100 + GP Rs.5400/- (PB 3) ii) Master’s degree with atleast 55% marks or its equivalent in Library & Information Science (M.Lib. or M.Lib. Inf. Science) and Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Applications (PGDCA) Age: Not above 35 years as on 30/12/2010. http://www.aus.ac.in/regularposts.html -- Apurba Jyoti Majumder, JRF Assistant Librarian Rabindra Library (Central Library) Assam University. Silchar- 781011 Cell No: 09435268733, 09707626388 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Kindly flash this message in LIS-Forum
by Shilpi Verma 07 Jan '11

07 Jan '11

Dear AllDLIS, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedakar University is organizing Workshop on KOHA from 7th to 13th Feb 2011 in the department. Interest candidates can send their filled Regsitartion form along with Regsiatrion Fee on urgent basis.We are having limited no. of seats. The Selection criteria for the same will be on "FIRST COME FIRST SERVE BASIS". So please register yourself as early as possible to avoid any inconvenience.The complete details along with registartion form can be accesed from University's Web Site:www.bbauindia.orgor by sending mail on these email ids:sksonker@yahoo.co.inshipoo.lko@gmail.commahawar67@gmail.comdlisc@sify.comThanks & RegardsShilpi VermaAsstt Prof.DLIScBabasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar UniversityVidya Vihar, Rai-bareli RoadLucknow-226025 (UP) INDIA  -- 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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article request
by sibsankar jana 06 Jan '11

06 Jan '11

plz convey the message. Dear sir/madam Kindly send the scan/digital/hard copy of the following articles: 1. Ergonomic considerations in information center design for knowledge workers: The basic and foremost requirement for effective knowledge management process / By Sibsankar Jana. Proceeding of IADIS International Conference e-Society 2006 2. Threats and protections of open sources in the changing context of digital environment: Some issues and observations / By Sibsankar Jana. Proceeding of National Conference on Initiatives in Library and Information Centers in the Digital Era 2006 3. Virulent software: A threat to online information in cyberspace in the changing context of digital library environment. / By Sibsankar Jana. Proceeding of NACLIN 2006 4. Open source software: The prominent face of Open Source Initiatives in the digital environment with special reference to Library and Information Center / By Sibsankar Jana. Proceeding of ILA Conference 2006 5. Cornell University digital library: A user friendly approach for modern online information services / By Sibsankar Jana. Proceeding of EMPI Digital Library National Convention 2007 6. Weblogs: The impact of a digital trend on libraries / By Sibsankar Jana. National Conference on Information Access Initiations and Rural India 2009 With regards Sibsankar Jana Assistant Librarian University of Kalyani -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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temporary trainee at JRD Tata Memorial Library
by ksc＠library.iisc.ernet.in 06 Jan '11

06 Jan '11

Applicatins are invited for Temporary project trainees at JRD tata Memorial library J.R.D. TATA MEMORIAL LIBRARY INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE BANGALORE-560 012 INVITES APPLICATIONS FOR TEMPORARY PROJECT TRAINEES Advertisement No.L/L-3A/2010 dated 28th April, 2010 Number of positions 1 Duration Up to march 2011. The duration will be extended on the availability of vacancy Qualifications: B.lib.Sc or dip in Library science or JOC in library science Emoluments: Rs 4000 Last date of receiving application: 12.1.2011 Chudamani Deputy Librarian, IISc, Bangalore -560012 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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