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J-Gate Newsletter - May Issue
by Sumitha 17 May '11

17 May '11

Dear All We have pleasure in inviting you to click the below link to access the 3rd Volume (Issue 5) of J-Gate Newsletter. http://www.informindia.co.in/iil_newsletter.htm Awaiting your valuable feedback & suggestion. Thanking You, Sumitha K Mani Information Analyst Informatics (India) Limited No 194, R.V.Road, P. B. No 400, Basavangudi, Bangalore - 560 004, INDIA Phone: +91 - 80 - 40387777 Fax: +91- 80 - 40387600 sumitha(a)informindia.co.in <http://in.mc1374.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=sumitha@informindia.co.in> www.informindia.co.in <http://www.informindia.co.in/> -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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NMIMS, Mumbai Organizes A One-day Program on “Achieving Professional Excellence”
by Kishore Ingale 16 May '11

16 May '11

SLA Asian Chapter in Co-ordination with NMIMS, Mumbai Organizes A One-day Program on “Achieving Professional Excellence” on Saturday, 4th June 2011 Venue The Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), Mumbai 7th Floor, Room No 715 Mithibai College Bldg V.L.Mehta Road Vile Parle(W) Mumbai – 400056 About the Program organisers About SLA Special Libraries Association (SLA) is a nonprofit global organization for innovative information professionals and their strategic partners. SLA serves the information profession, including corporate, academic, government, corporations, media, finance, science, research, academies, museums, trade associations, nonprofit organizations, and nontraditional enterprises information specialists. The mission of the Special Libraries Association is to advance the leadership role of SLA members in putting knowledge to work for the benefit of decision makers in corporations, government, the professions, and society as well as to shape the destiny of our information and knowledge-based society. For further detail: www.sla.org SLA – Asian Chapter Special Libraries Association is one of the world’s largest information related Associations with 12,000 members in 85 countries with 58 chapters and 25 divisions. The Asian chapter covers a large geographical area consisting of 22 countries. More information about chapter, its activities is available at http://units.sla.org/chapter/cas/ About NMIMS The Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS) established in 1981 under the aegis of Shri Vile Parle Kelavani Mandal (SVKM) is one of the largest, most renowned educational complexes in Mumbai. The flourishing NMIMS has over 6000 students and more than 300 faculty members who represent an eclectic mix of industry and academic experience. NMIMS offers undergrad programs like B.Tech. ,B.Pharm., BBA, B.Com. (Hons.) and B.Sc. (Economics) which are industry Oriented integrated programs and are tailor made to train students to play an important role in their chosen filed and assist the industry at various levels. Besides these regular programs, it also offers 5 year integrated dual degree programs like MBA (Tech.) and MBA (Pharma. Tech.). NMIMS’s R.M.Desai Library will be true learning resource centre and has precious collections in Management, Business, Economics, Technology, Pharmacy, Architecture & Sciences. It also has e-resources. NMIMS is committed to strengthening it to make one of leading reference libraries in the city. About the PROGRAM Library of yester years bring a picture of a shy, subdued librarian quietly shelving away books and attending the counters. Today’s librarian is often someone who is cross mingling with different internal/external stakeholders, is engaged in new opportunities and collaborations to prove their value in a constantly threatening & competitive environment of e-resources, open –accesses, and google! Planning in line with the organizational missions, thinking strategically to provide useful offerings, engaging with senior management, and communicating effectively at workplace, requires good professional skills and leadership qualities. SLA believes that good communicators and leaders are not only born, they can also be made. Image of a librarian can speak volumes, and grooming this image has to be taken seriously. Special Library Association, Asian Chapter in collaboration with NMIMS, Mumbai, is organizing a one day program on “Achieving Professional Excellence”. Let us meet such impacting professional colleagues who have showed their competitive mettle to mark a success at their work places, which make them indispensable in their institutes. Their experiences will provide insights into new approaches of information service delivery. Later part of the programme is designed to pump in lot of positivism and image building, through a captivating video screening and a talk by a leading management guru. You will also get to interact with the abstracting and book vendor ‘Kwench’ and know about a few interestinglibrary automation products. Who Should Attend? Information professionals in all sectors - Academia, Government and Industry Program Date :4th June 2011 Fees :INR 300/- Last date of registration : 4th June 2011 No. of Participants : 100 only (first come first served basis) Speakers Ms. Anita Pujari – DNA Dr. Manjunath - IGIDR Ms. Lata Nair – IL&FS Mr. Charudatta Ganpule, TCS Organizing Committee Mr. Shivanand Sadlapur <librarian(a)nmims.edu> Dr. Dhanashree Date <dhanashree.date(a)tcs.com> Ms.Truptee Shah <truptee.shah(a)gmail.com> Ms.Banalata Das <banalata.das(a)tcs.com> Dr. Medha Joshi <joshimv(a)tmc.gov.in> Sponsors Kwench - www.kwench.in Beegees Computers Pvt. Ltd. www.beegeesindia.com Registration Details Registration Fee is Rs. 300/- Duly filled registration form should be sent to the Program Secretary or to any of the committee member. Program Timings 10.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. Registration - 9.00 am to 10.00 am Program on “Achieving Professional Excellence” Registration Form Name_____________________________________ Designation ________________________________ Affiliation __________________________________ Address ___________________________________ __________________________________________ _________________________________________ Telephone / Fax ____________________________ Email _____________________________________ Rs................/- enclosed as registration fees vide Cheque / Draft No................................ dated.......................................... drawn in favour of SVKM’s NMIMS payable at Mumbai . Please send the completed form to the Program Secretariat. Place ................................... Date..................................... On-the- spot registration will be accepted provided the organizers are informed about the participation in advance. 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Mumbai University & OSS Labs: Koha workshop in Mumbai 15th to 17th Jun
by savitra sirohi 16 May '11

16 May '11

All, Mumbai University and OSS Labs are offering a Koha training and certification workshop in Mumbai during 15th and 17th June. The workshop will be conducted at Mumbai University. The objectives of this program are to: - Train library professionals & staff on using Koha - To test and certify their readiness to use Koha This is a 3 day program, covering the key modules and functions in Koha. At the end of program, participants will be required to demonstrate their skills on the various modules. Participants who complete 60% of the exercises successfully will be awarded a Koha skills (Level 1) certificate. For more information, including fees, registration and workshop outline please visit this page: http://www.osslabs.biz/koha/training-certification Thank you, Savitra Sirohi Nucsoft OSS Labs http://www.osslabs.biz -- 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] LIS-Forum[Automation of GFGC Libraries in Karnataka (muthu raja)]
by Mailing List Admin 16 May '11

16 May '11

Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 15:27:57 +0530 From: karunakar n <karunakar.nk(a)gmail.com> Dear SIr/Madam, Automation of GFGC Libraries in Karnataka is mean nowdays, as we are in Digital era and at the same time as our friend said their is a lot many problems which we are facing in Government colleges which is unslovable. Firstly Govenment should take initiative in resloving supporting staff for the librarians. Recently we Had discussion, which was coducted in JSS Women College, Mysore with Joint Director(Mysore division) with all Government degree colleges Librarians. But Our Expectation to the queries/issues which we raised to JD was not convincing way. i want to Enlighten those Issues. 1) We are facing Supporting Staff ------Answer by JD(u need to appoint local people by paying 1000 rs. for short time whenever u require, mean when u purchase books /During grants procurement time) 2) whether we can refer books to library---------Librarian is not right to purchase books, but layman or peon can also refer books to library. 3) whether we can give books to Guest facutly--------u can give, but u should cal and get back those pending books with personal interest and u should mointor with proper records. 4) like these so many issues were raised during the interaction session and it has been organised by KSLA, by kadadevarmath with continuing sessions in all other divisions as i heard. This is the tragedy how the librarians are treated and handled in our government colleges and were we put across. All our professionalists are ready to give their best to our society by contributing their knowledge and efforts to enrich the library and profession. So my humble request is firstly we need to form our own community(GOvernment college Librarians) in all districts who can raise our voices in Head Offices(departments/govenments/UGC etc) which can resolve our many problems with short span of time. As we are having so many communities, still we want especially for govenment colleges to raise a voice with proper agenda with the media help/press. And we need realize our senior professionals efforts to come under Grade "B" and lot more benefits and we need to fight with Organized way to raise our voices. As our Friend raised in Automation many of our colleges have given computers to Librarians and many more internal issues. We need to Call Principals and Librarians for INteraction sessions infront of JDs which will resolve many problems of librarians. Karunakar.N Librarian GFGCW, Holenarasipura Hassan District

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Pleaqse help me
by shivanigowda Nayak 15 May '11

15 May '11

Dear LIS Professionals, I am doing research leading to PhD my topic is entitled as " Use of Information Resources and Services by the Faculty and Students of Law Colleges affliated to National Law School in Karnataka: A Study" . I want research articles related to my research topic and keeping them as a base i will desigh my research questionnaire. Please try to send literature review or research articles related above mentioned research topic. Thanking you, Shivani Gowda Librarian BVS, College of Manmagement Mangalore-22 -- 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 Ajay Kum Sharma 14 May '11

14 May '11

Dear all, One of Research Scholar from our university has urgently needed of the below mentioned article. Kindly arrange to send either hard or soft version of the article as soon as possible. Article Title: Effect of embankment on river and its flow regime Author(s) : MANI P. ; KUMAR R. & CHAKRAVORTY B. Source Journal: Journal of the Institution of Engineers. India. Civil Engineering Division (ISSN. 0020-336X ) Vol. 87, Year 2006 An early action in this regard would be highly appreciated. -- Thanks and regards. Ajay Kumar Sharma Assistant Librarian & In-charge, Journal Section, Central Library, Visva Bharati, Santiniketan - 731235, Bolpur, Birbhum, West Bengal & Webmaster of ABSLA Email: ajaysharma.lib(a)visva-bharati.ac.in Web: http://www.absla.org/ajay.html Web Blog: http://www.blogger.com/home?pli=1 *********************************************************** 1. Join today Digital Library Discussion Forum http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/dlrg 2. Join today LIS-Forum mailing list http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Steaming Videos on GSDL
by Shamprasad Pujar 13 May '11

13 May '11

Dear Members, We are running GSDL 2.83 server on Windows and like to know, whether GSDL has the provision to run or play steaming videos or is there any inbuilt programmes (Configuration) through which it can convert normal videos in to streaming mode. Your inputs will be highly appreciated. If not, we will install streaming sever. In that case, which will be most suitable streaming server for GSDL. Regards, Dr Shamprasad M. Pujar Deputy Librarian Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research Gen Vaidya Marg, Goregaon (East) MUMBAI-400 065, India Phone: ++91-22-2841 6547 E-mail: pujar(a)igidr.ac.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Library automation of GFGCs in Karnataka is a laudable effort, but……..
by Vasanth 13 May '11

13 May '11

Dear Sir/Madam, This is in replay to the message on Automation of Government First Grade College (GFGCs) libraries in Karnataka posted on 12th May 2011. The Department of Collegiate Education (DCE) effort in automating college libraries in Karnataka is laudable effort. However the same zeal or enthusiasm is missing in addressing the plight of libraries and the librarians. As many of the GFGCs librarians aware or experiencing the ground reality, this automation process of the libraries by the DCE looks absurd. Today the librarians of these colleges are very much in need of man power, infrastructure and understanding the vital role that the libraries playing in shaping the young minds and enriching the quality of the teaching in these places by the heads of the colleges. As mentioned above, many of the colleges are running without proper buildings, library books kept in staff room or in a very tiny place, librarian has to work in this very deplorable condition. In recent years there are genuine efforts from the government in providing financial support and land for colleges. But because of lack of understanding of the importance of libraries and lack of library building plan, the authorities build rooms in keeping view that the rooms would be used as a class room not as libraries. They allot one of the classrooms for libraries to run there. But these rooms become insufficient in short period of time as the number of books and other library materials increases. In many colleges, two to three classrooms were converted as libraries. Librarian has to take care of all these rooms or divide his time accordingly. The authorities at the DCE or college heads are totally alien to the ground reality. The only interest of the college principal is, student should not complain that the books are not issued to them. They never listen to librarians or they have no interest in libraries (with few exceptions). GFGCs need principals who understand and have keen interest in overall development of libraries/colleges. DCE has appointed librarians to colleges but there is no supporting staff. As experienced by many, still for many college libraries no support staff is provided. Alone they are maintaining the whole library. Acquisitions, circulations, routine maintaining of libraries all other work is on the shoulder of the librarian. There is lot of grants for purchasing library books in recent years. Because of lack of professional staff librarian has to take care of the acquisition process, whole year the only job that librarian can be able to do is accessioning the books. We left no time or interest in concentrating other library works. Another reality is the power problem. As many colleges are situated in rural areas or tulak head quarters, power supply is very serious problem. We hardly get two hours of power supply every day. With this sorts of ground reality, what they accept from the librarians. This is not the first time that DCE is going for automation, in early 2008 there were similar efforts to automate college libraries, and they invested huge money at that time, why it has failed? It seems that because of NAAC accreditation, DCE is emphasizing for automation of libraries, this effort is like putting the cart before the horse. [views are personal] ------------------------- With best wishes Vasantha Raju N -- 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 Sankaralingam R 12 May '11

12 May '11

Dear Friends, Could you please send me the following article which is badly required for our scientist. Or where will it be available? Indian Heart Journal, 2002, Vol. 54, No. 2, pp.170-175,. BHARANI et al., "Efficacy of Terminalia arjuna in chronic stable angina: a double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover study comparing Terminalia arjuna with isosorbide mononitrate," regards Sankar agl bstl copy2 SANKARALINGAM R. | DOCUMENTATION HEAD AVESTHAGEN LIMITED, Discoverer, 9th Floor, International Tech Park, Whitefield Road, Bangalore 560 066, India T: +91 80 2841 1665 ext. 5047 | C: +91 9886057124 | E: sankar(a)avesthagen.com | <http://www.avesthagen.com/> www.avesthagen.com This e-mail message may contain confidential, proprietary or legally privileged information. It should not be used by anyone who is not the original intended recipient. If you have erroneously received this message, please delete it immediately and notify the sender. The recipient acknowledges that Avesthagen Limited / or its subsidiary Companies, as the case may be, are unable to exercise control or ensure or guarantee the integrity of / over the contents of the information contained in e-mail transmissions and further acknowledges that any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and no binding nature of the message shall be implied or assumed unless the sender does so expressly with due authority of Avesthagen Limited and / or its subsidiary Companies, as applicable. Before opening any attachments please check them for viruses and defects. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Automation of GFGC Libraries in Karnataka
by muthu raja 11 May '11

11 May '11

*Dear Moderator, kindly circulate the following information among the LIS members.* *I am Happy to say that, Department of Collegiate Education, Bangalorestarted Implementing E-granthalaya Library automation Software for Government First Grade College Libraries in Karnataka in association with** National Informatics Centre** (NIC).*<http://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCcQFjAA&url=http%3A%…> * **In the first phase I level Department has conducted training for TWO Batches each batch consists of 30 participants .(60 college Librarians) in the month of April 2011. * *JAYAMMA K V Librarian Government Science College Bangalore, has been deputed as Library Automation Co-Ordinator at Department of Collegiate Education, Please contact her at any time in the department. And For information You may Contact * *JAYAMMA K V * *Librarian Government Science College * *Bangalore-560 001* *e -mail: jayagsc(a)gmail.com<http://in.mc959.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=jayagsc@gmail.com> * *e -mail: **jaya_kgowda(a)yahoo.co.in<http://in.mc959.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=jaya_kgowda@yahoo.co.in> * <http://in.mc959.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=jaya_kgowda@yahoo.co.in> *Office: 080-22389459* *Mobile: 94486 15403* -- *------* *With Best Regards, Muthuraja.S MLISc., M.Phil., UGC NET+JRF Librarian, Govt.First Grade College, Bukkapatna, Sira (T), Tumkur (D) - 572 115. Karnataka, INDIA* *+919036828929 +919844110722* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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