June 2011 - LIS-Forum - ncsi.iisc.ernet.in

Request for Article: Is it fair?
by Gireesh Kumar T K 02 Jun '11

02 Jun '11

Dear Sir/Madam/Professional friends This has reference to some of the recently published posts in LISFORUM with a topic "Request for Article", for their requirement of full text journal articles. In most of the requirements it is found that the bibliographic details given by the requester is deficient to find out even the source of the article and moreover it is a time-consuming process. And also seen that some of our professional friends are not even mentioned the title of the journal or year of publication/vol.No/Issues No/ number of pages etc etc. Is it a good practice to ask a person to do complete search and find out the details and then download the article even if we desire to help our friends? In my personal view, it would be very easy and time saving to find out the softcopy (fulltext) of the article (since we need to find out whether we have the full text access or not) if the requester could give the full text link of the source article. or the URL which directs to the publishers platform. With Regards Gireesh Kumar TK ARC International Hyderabad http://www.arci.res.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Information courses in new central universities
by atanu 02 Jun '11

02 Jun '11

Under the current plan period, central government intended to set up 30 central universities, out of which 15 are in various stages of operation for the 2010-11 session. It has been noted only a small fraction of these universities have opened any information-related courses/ curricula. Historically, central universities have not included information as a subject in their academics. Out of these newly established set-ups, only Central university of Himachal Pradesh appears to have included this subject in their academics. In view of this, the industry associations and professional bodies are kindly requested to submit their representations before the relevant regulatory bodies, state and central ministries and institutes themselves with a view to improve this situation. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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M.L.I.Sc. (2-year) admission in M.D. University, Rohtak
by Anil Librarian 01 Jun '11

01 Jun '11

Dear Friends, The Department of Library and Information Science, M.D. University, Rohtak, Haryana is offering a 2-year integrated M.L.I.Sc. course. Admissions will be done on merit prepared on the basis of marks obtained in the eligibility examination. The last date to receive the application forms is 14 June, 2011. Also there is provision of lateral entry in the 3rd semester for those who have done B.L.I.Sc. For more information and application form please visit the university website www.mdurohtak.ac.in Regards Anil Kumar Siwach Assistant Professor Department of Lib. & Inf. Sc. M.D. University Rohtak (Haryana) e-mail: aks.mdu(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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IALA - Request for UGC orders related to Pay Revision from first PRC till date
by Pandurang Konnur 01 Jun '11

01 Jun '11

Dear Academic Librarian friends, Indian Academic Library Association lead a deligation under the leadership of Prof.V.G.Talawar, Vice Chancellor, University of Mysore, Mysore recently to UGC and had a detailed discussion with the Chairman, Secretary and Joint Secretary UGC regarding the Complete parity of status of Teachers to Academic Librarians. The discussion was very encouraging and the Chairman assured us to submit a revised and short memorandum with historical background of the granting of status in all pay review committees. They assured us thet the same will be recommend to the MHRD for further considerations. We there and then itself prepared another memorandum sitting in Delhi University Library and submitted the same next day to UGC. I happend to meet Mr.Dogra, Joint Secretary, UGC a couple of days back in University of Mysore during his visit to Mysore University and learnt that, they need to know with the substantiated justification with the previous orders of UGC in different PRCs over the peiod of time. He said they do not have the old records with the UGC. Hence, I request all the academic Librarians to help us to prepare a memorandum with the justification that the parity was given in earlies PRCs and denied in the last and the current PRCs. Kindly get us the copies of the relevent orders of UGC if you have any, to enable us to get the issue resolved by UGC and MHRD. Lastly let us all thank Prof.Talawar for having given us a leadershi in fighting for our status.<vc(a)uni-mysore.ac.in>, -- Dr.P.V.Konnur President, IALA Fulbright Fellow (University of Illinois) *University Librarian,* Bangalore University Library, Jnanabharati, Bangalore-560056 Phone: 080-22961131, 23215510 Website: http://library.bub.ernet.in/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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