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Invitation to submit papers for Library and Information Professionals Summit (LIPS) 2012
by Debal C Kar 11 Dec '11

11 Dec '11

Society for Library Professionals and SLA Asian Chapter are going to organize jointly Library and Information Professionals Summit (LIPS) 2012 on Leadership, Ethics, Accountability and Professionalism in Library Service, 16-17 March 2012, New Delhi, India. For details contact http://www.slp.org.in/LIPS/Lips2012.html You are requested to submit your papers on the following themes:** * * *Thematic areas * The conference will discuss all aspects of libraries. Each theme will be divided into several sub-themes as detailed below, but not necessarily limited to: *Leadership, Ethics, and Accountability in LIS* *Maximizing Leadership and Effectiveness * *Ethics and Professionalism* *Digital Library, Leadership and Ethics* * * *For details contact: *http://www.slp.org.in/LIPS/Lips2012.html** -- Debal C Kar, PhD University Librarian Ambedkar University, Delhi Library Sector-9, Dwarka, New Delhi-110077 Lothian Road, Kashmere Gate, Delhi 110006 debal(a)aud.ac.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Migrate or Merge your LIS Group with LIS Links
by Badan Barman 10 Dec '11

10 Dec '11

Respected forum members, At present LIS Links (http://www.lislinks.com) have 6,996 Library and Information Science Professionals as members. In this occasion of happiness, I would like request you to migrate your own group related to LIS that are over Yahoo Groups, Google Groups, Facebook, Orkut, and others with LIS Links (I think we have already 80% and above members of your group in our database). Even, I will be glad to help you to migrate your group successfully. If we can merge the small groups with LIS Links it will have many benefits. We all can solve many problem at a time. Further, Your Group over LIS Links will have many facilities beyond your existing group over Google, Yahoo or Facebook. Besides private or group chat, provision of sending SMS alert, your group will have the following facilities * Your unique website address * Just like a formal website, you can create pages for your group. * Sending "comments" to the entire group members at a time. * "Discussion forum" for discussing any issues online. * "Text Box" to write content about your group. * RSS Reader to pull out contents from other. * Provision of sending email message to the entire group members. * Provision of making a group private or public. * Provision of contacting individual members. And all other facilities you saw over the LIS Links.. Thanking you, Yours faithfully (Sri Badan Barman) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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by subhash khode 10 Dec '11

10 Dec '11

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Empowering Academic Libraries in Knowledge Society : Hurry Register Now !!!
by sandeep bhavsar 09 Dec '11

09 Dec '11

Respected All http://universityofmumbailibrary.webs.com/ National Seminar on Empowering Academic Libraries in Knowledge Society 21st & 22nd December 2011 Registration Details : Library Professionals Rs.1500/- Students Rs.750/- ( Excluding Seminar Volume ) The Registration fee covers seminar kit, seminar volume, lunch and tea for two days. On-the-spot registration on the actual run day will not be permitted. All registration must be done by 15thDecember, 2011. Seminar Venue Prof. D. N. Marshall Auditorium Jawaharlal Nehru Library, University of Mumbai Kalina, Santacruz (E), Mumbai 400 098 For more details please visit : http://universityofmumbailibrary.webs.com/ Thanks and Regards Sandeep Bhavsar Librarian Dr.V.N.Bedekar Institute of Management Studies Thane(W) 400601 MUMBAI. INDIA -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Report of Open Access Day at CFTRI, Mysore
by padmavathi t 09 Dec '11

09 Dec '11

Dear Moderator, Please announce the appended content. Regards, Padmavathi CFTRI, Mysore Report of the Open Access Day Celebration at CSIR‐CFTRI, Mysore In accordance with the CSIR open access mandate, the first ‘Open Access Day” celebration was held at CSIR-CFTRI on Friday, the 2nd December 2011 at the IFTTC Auditorium, CFTRI. The primary objective of this was creating awareness about the benefits of Open Access publishing among the CFTRI Research community. Dr. Geetha Seetharam, Head, Library, CSIR-CFTRI welcomed the gathering and gave an introduction about the open access initiatives at CSIR. The Chief Guest, Dr. Gangan Prathap, Director, NISCAIR, New Delhi who inaugurated the “Open Access Day” also launched the Eprints@CFTRI web site (Institutional Repository of CSIR-CFTRI URL: http://ir.cftri.com) The topic of his inaugural talk was “Science Communication Channels: Open access avenues and institutional repositories”. In his inaugural talk, Gangan Prathap, Director, NISCAIR said that the access to the scientific data and research papers has many advantages. The exchange of ideas and research between reputed scientific institutions in the world will be the future of science and technology. “We will be able to share and exchange the ideas about particular research process done in Brazil and China and that of India. There should not be any hesitation to make the research findings public in fear of somebody finding a mistake or pose a challenge to it. The data used by others and challenged by others is good. Science learns from mistakes and don’t be afraid of it,” he told the gathering. He cited the example of how famous drug companies in India and worldwide and retail giants like Wal-mart have a process called data mining to keep tab on their progress in the respective markets. He appreciated the role of CSIR‐CFTRI in actively advocating and promoting the OA initiatives. He congratulated CSIR-CFTRI, Head, Library & team and presented a ‘Gold Plaque' as a special appreciation award for their contribution towards the CSIR Open Access Movement. Dr. G. Venkateswara Rao, Acting Director, CFTRI, presided over the open access day. In his presidential address, he briefed about the institute’s library collection, e-resources, infrastructure and various other services offered to institute staff. He also said that CFTRI’s works and research papers were available hitherto within the campus through LAN and switching to open access would provide full text of all resources through internet. Dr. P. V. Salimath, Head, Biochemistry & Nutrition and Mr. S. N. Krishna Rao, Head, Computer Centre were also present on the dias during the Open Access Day Celebration. The technical session on “Benefits of Open Access for Scholarly Literature” was delivered by Dr. Francis Jayakanth, Scientific Officer, NCSI, IISc, Bangalore.In his presentation, he highlighted about the open access movement, journal system and initiatives being adopted globally. He also talked about the author’s concern and rights about OA. “Open Access Initiatives of NAL, Bangalore” was delivered by Dr. Poornima Narayana, Head, ICAST. In her presentation, she highlighted about the OA movement and emphasised about the CSIR OA Mandate and policy. She talked about the various initiatives taken for the establishment of NAL-IR and OA initiatives. She also mentioned of Open access day celebration at CSIR-NAL and about the NAL-IR user awareness program. “Eprints@CFTRI: IR of CFTRI- a bird’s eye view” was delivered by Mrs. T. Padmavathi, Senior Technical Officer, Library. In her presentation, shetalked about the IR initiatives at CFTRI and also highlighted the guidelines for self archiving and the publishers’ copyright policies to be followed for making the IR 100% OA. Dr. Geetha Seetharam Head, Library CFTRI, Mysore -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Urgent requirement for DSpace Developer for Delhi.‏
by Vinayak Gonjare 09 Dec '11

09 Dec '11

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Call for Papers : ICTK2012, 10 - 13 July 2012, Bangalore, India
by ictk drtc 09 Dec '11

09 Dec '11

**** APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING **** *International Conference on Trends in Knowledge and Information Dynamics** 10-13, July, 2012* *Hosted by: Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC) Indian Statistical Institute (ISI)* *Bangalore, India* *http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/ictk* Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC) of Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) was founded by late Prof. S.R. Ranganathan in 1962. We are happy to announce ICTK-2012 as part of DRTC Golden Jubilee celebrations. *CALL FOR PAPERS* We invite extended abstracts in English on a wide range of *themes and sub themes.* Broadly the themes of the conference are divided into main streams. However, authors are encouraged to submit papers on narrower and related areas, as the following are only broader guiding themes. Stream 1: Trends in Library Education and Research Stream 2: Trends in Public Library Services Stream 3: Trends in Domain Specific Information Systems and Service Stream 4: Trends in Open Access to Information and Data Stream 5: Trends in ICT applications to Library and Information Science For complete list of topics please visit * http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/ictk/themes* Extended abstract may be sent to: ictk2012 at drtc dot isibang dot ac dot in LAST DATE FOR ... - Submission of Extended Abstract: *1st February, 2012* - Acceptance of Extended Abstract: *1st March, 2012* - Submission of Full Paper: *1st April, 2012* - Camera Ready Copy (after suggestions from reviewers): *1st June, 2012* - Registration: Opens from *15th December,2011 *onwards *CONTACT AND ENQUIRY* Prof. A.R.D. Prasad (Convener - ICTK-2012) Documentation Research & Training Centre (DRTC), Indian Statistical Institute (I.S.I), 8th Mile, Mysore Road, R.V. College Post, Bangalore - 560059, Karnataka INDIA Phone: +91-80-28482711 Fax : 91-80-28484265 Email: ictk2012 at drtc dot isibang dot ac dot in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Article
by ksgimahesh 09 Dec '11

09 Dec '11

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RRC Monthly Meeting- Lecture on Digital Library Perspective of Cloud Computing
by Mailing List Admin 09 Dec '11

09 Dec '11

Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2011 11:27:27 +0500 From: Upadhyay P K <pku(a)nic.in> RANGANATHAN RESEARCH CIRCLE (An organ of Ranganathan Research Trust, Regd.:25953, 1995) J8/123, Rajouri Garden, New Delhi Date : 7th Dec, 2011 Manager Program Committee SUBHASH DESHMUKH A-103, C-DOT Apartments, GH 2, Gurgaon, Haryana 122003 Ph. 01242578715, 9873680484 We have the pleasure to announce the 139th Monthly Meeting of RRC on 10th Dec.2011 (2nd Saturday) at 10.00 hrs. Venue : Conf�rence Hall (New Building) Indian Statistical Institute, Opp. Katwaria Sarai, Near Qutub Hotel, New Delhi-110 016 Date & Time: 10th December 2011 at 10:00 hrs Chairperson : Sh. Ramesh Singh Sr. Technical Director, National Informatic Centre, New Delhi Speaker : Sh. Gopal Krishan Computer Service Centre, IIT Delhi, New Delhi & Speaker : Sh. P.K. Upadhayay Technical Director, National Informatic Centre, New Delhi Topic: Cloud Computing and its Applications in Library and Information Management Kindly make it convenient to attend the meeting and participate to benefit the group by discussions. Thanking you, Yours sincerely, (SUBHASH DESHMUKH)

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Artical Required
by sridhar gowda 09 Dec '11

09 Dec '11

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