January 2012 - LIS-Forum - ncsi.iisc.ernet.in

Fwd: Fw: Four Days National Workshop on Bibliometrics / Webometrics / Scientometrics
by Anil Talawar 17 Jan '12

17 Jan '12

Dear Professional Colleagues Greetings from Karnatak University, Dharwad The Department of Library and Information Science, Karnatak University, Dharwad is going to organize a *four days* National Workshop (Under UGC SAP-DRS) on Bibliometrics / Scientometrics / Webometrics in the last week of February 2012. Interested professionals who are pursuing their Ph.D. in these areas / the professionals who are working on these areas can send their Bio-data immediately to the address mentioned below. The exact date and the details of the Workshop will be intimated very soon. Dr. B. D. Kumbar Professor & Chairman Dept. of Library and Information Science Karnatak University, Dharwad - 580 003 Karnataka State, INDIA Phone: Office : 0836-2215260 Residence : 0836-2776085 Mobile : 09945408212 mail: bdkumbar(a)yahoo.com -- 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] UGC-NET: Necessary Changes and Amendments
by Vinit 17 Jan '12

17 Jan '12

Dear colleagues, Apropos to the post on UGC Amendments (UGC-NET: Necessary Changes and Amendments - Madhurjyamoy Das), I second with the thoughts of my dear budding colleague. There is no doubt that the objective type questions provide transparency and a fair level playing, but they just ruin the basic tenets of education. The education is just not mugging facts and by heart some questions. It trains our mind to think intuitively, observe, analyse the observations and most importantly *interpret* and* express* the observations in a standard and unambiguous way. Unfortunately our educational setup has produced more mugging experts than thinkers. The exams (IIM-CAT and GATE) mentioned by my colleague are entrance examination for a course of study and not for a herculean task of teaching and research which involve independent thinking and analysis. In the case of entrance exams objective type questions can be justified as the session has to be started on time. Where UGC does not have any deadlines to meet. I think this is the reason till date UPSC for its IAS mains examination has not opted objective type questions. Here one can easily argue that the objective type questions can also be set intuitively to check the conceptual, analytical ability of a candidate. But after a period of time the questions start getting repeated and then again the mugging starts. This has been exemplified by the IIT JEE modification in 2002( the main exam was made objective), now the big cram shops have opened in every street. The point raised by my colleague that this objective type pattern will handle the problem of inter examiner varibality of marking third paper is baseless. As in the present system one answer sheet is checked by a panel of 12-13 experts and not by a single person and this is the reason for delay in the results. This delay can be justified if the quality evaluation is the cause of it. In my opinion, the only good decision of UGC of having national level test is everyday diluted by UGC itself and over the passage of time this will ruin the quality of NET and UGC. Rest UGC is known for changing policies frequently. With best regards -- Regards Vinit Kumar Assistant Professor, Dr. Ranganathan Institute of Library and Information Science Bundelkhand University Jhansi, U.P. 284128 Alt email: vinit(a)drtc.isibang.ac.in Home page: http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/~vinit =============== Join DLRG : http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/dlrg Submit your articles to LDL : https://drtc.isibang.ac.in/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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librarians are eligible for the post of Principal
by Vasantha M.C 17 Jan '12

17 Jan '12

Maharashtra Government, Department of Higher and Technical Education issued a GO that college *librarians are eligible for the post of Principal*similar to Director of Physical education. this is the milestone for the community. Every one should make effort to pass similar order in their own state. with regards -- *Vasantha M C.* Librarian Bangalore Technological Institute (B T I) Bangalore - 560 035 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Workshop on Statistical Analysis - Change in Event Date
by Sunil MV 16 Jan '12

16 Jan '12

Dear Professional Friends, This is to inform you that the Workshop on “Statistical Analysis of Research Data” scheduled during February 3 & 4, 2012 is postponed to February 8 & 9, 2012. The Two-Day Hands-on workshop is aimed to introduce the social science researchers, practitioners and students to wide variety of advanced statistical techniques in Microsoft Excel with the freeware add-in R. The last day for registration to this workshop is January 31, 2012. For more information please visit the workshop web page http://www.sdmimd.ac.in/workshop/index.html. With Sincere Regards, -- *Please consider your environmental responsibility before printing this e-mail* Sunil M.V. Librarian SDM Institute for Management Development No. 1, Chamundi Hill Main Road Siddharthanagar Post Mysore - 570 011 KARNATAKA -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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INBOFA 2012 Blog
by Vimal Kumar 16 Jan '12

16 Jan '12

Dear Friends, INBOFA 2012, international book fair organize by Mahatma Gandhi University started on January 13. We started a blog to report the events in INBOFA 2012. Theme discussions, seminars, cultural programmes and book exhibitions are the highlights of the event. Blog address is http://inbofa2012.blogspot.com Regards, -- Vimal Kumar V. Mahatma Gandhi University Library Kottayam, Kerala- 686 560 Web: http://www.vimalkumar.org Blog: http://linuxhalwa.blogspot.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt" -Patrick White -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Invitation-Nat Conf on Innovative Library Services - inaugural & Valedictory Function
by Arunachalam Hariharan 15 Jan '12

15 Jan '12

Dr. Mahalingam College of Engineering and Technology, Pollachi & Society for the Advancement of Library and Information Science Inauguration Function National Conference on INNOVATIVE LIBRARY SERVICES IN THE DIGITAL ERA Inauguration Function on Friday 20th January, at 10.00 AM in Centenary Centre Dr. A.L. MOORTHY Director DESIDOC, DRDO, Delhi has kindly consented to be the Chief Guest and delivers the inaugural address Keynote Address Dr. M. SURIYA Librarian & Professor, Annamalai University & Special Address Mr. K. JOHN PAUL ANBU University of Swaziland Libraries, Swaziland South Africa VALEDICTORY FUNCTION We cordially invite you for the Valedictory Function of National Conference on INNOVATVIE LIBRARY SERVICES IN THE DIGITAL ERA Saturday, 21st January 2012, at 4.00 P.M in the Electrical Seminar Hall Shri M. MURUGASAN Director General Central Power Research Institute, Bangalore has kindly consented to be the Chief Guest and delivers the Valedictory Address------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A.Hariharan SALIS -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Microsoft confirms UEFI fears, locks down ARM devices
by Dimple Patel 14 Jan '12

14 Jan '12

Microsoft confirms UEFI fears, locks down ARM devices By Aaron Williamson | January 12, 2012 At the beginning of December, we warned the Copyright Office that operating system vendors would use UEFI secure boot anticompetitively, by colluding with hardware partners to exclude alternative operating systems. As Glyn Moody points out, Microsoft has wasted no time in revising its Windows Hardware Certification Requirements to effectively ban most alternative operating systems on ARM-based devices that ship with Windows 8. Read More: http://www.softwarefreedom.org/blog/2012/jan/12/microsoft-confirms-UEFI-fea… -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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UGC-NET: Necessary Changes and Amendments
by Madhurjyamoy Das 13 Jan '12

13 Jan '12

Dear Sir/Madam, Warm welcome to the amendments UGC has made for NET Examination 2012 and many thanks to Mr. Ved Prakash and team. As we, who are planning to appear for the National Eligibility Test (NET), June 2012 in LIS, would be able to evaluate the performance immediately after appearing for the much-simplified test. Another good reason to be happy is that the UGC has decided that all the question papers for the test will be objective type. Till now, two papers were objective and the third one subjective. This has led not only delaying in declaration of the results, but also, making the system less transparent and non-uniform. It is indeed a very good step that has been adopted finally by UGC. Some long pending issues that have been tried to be met by the UGC regarding paper III inter alia are (a) Transparency, (b) Reducing the inter and intra examiner variability in marking of paper III, (c) Delay in declaration of NET results and finally there are reasons really to be happy as the recommendations of the NET moderation committee for changing paper III from descriptive to objective type are in place on the pattern of CSIR - NET examination. With this amendment, it tends to be a more regular, homogeneous platform for the NET aspirants. The goal of the MCQ type paper is to ensure a standard of uniformity in the evaluation process. The objective type MCQ pattern has always been tested to be successful globally in delivering the quality and thus producing better results be it IIM CAT exams or GATE Exams. I believe questions can be set quite intuitively to test a student’s degree of knowledge as well as skills of application to the very purpose of the test irrespective of the discipline be it science, management, humanities or arts and making the game fairer and level playing. Madhuryamay Das MSLIS Student, DRTC, ISI-Bangalore. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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EBSCO Publishing Calling MLISc candidates for the post of Bibliographic Database Designer
by saju s raj 13 Jan '12

13 Jan '12

*EBSCO Publishing Calling MLISc candidates for the post of Bibliographic Database Designer* * Bibliographic Database Designer* Department: Information Technology and Services Position Type: Full-Time Regular Experience: 2 years Education: MLISc Location: MA - Ipswich - EBSCO Publishing *Basic Function* Create detailed specifications for implementing bibliographic databases and associated features for EBSCO’s online bibliographic products. * Required Qualifications* • Minimum of two years in the field of librarianship or bibliographic database development or design, including demonstrated experience creating or manipulating bibliographic data in a searchable database environment • Minimum of two years of demonstrated experience with web-based bibliographic database search and retrieval techniques • Minimum of one year demonstrated experience with indexing methods as applied to bibliographic data • Minimum of one year demonstrated understanding of MARC21 bibliographic format • Minimum of one year demonstrated experience reading and understanding documents in XML format • Minimum of one year demonstrated ability to balance multiple projects concurrently in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment • Master of Library Science degree Read More http://tech2librarian.blogspot.com/search/label/LIS%20Career -- *W*ith *t*hanks *&* *R**egardz....* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Article
by Manas Samanta&&মানস সামন্ত 13 Jan '12

13 Jan '12

Dear Professionals Please help me to get the below mention article 2001 Ironmaking Proceedings - Vol. 60 Characteristics And Behaviour Of High Alumina Iron Ore Sinter A. K. Das, A. Kumar, A. K. De, T. Mukherjee Reference link: http://www.steellibrary.com/PartDetails/tabid/56/partid/0800820450480490540… -- মানস সামন্ত টেকনিকল অ্যাসিটেন্ট সি. এস. আই. আর.-এন. এম. এল. জামশেদপুর-৮৩১০০৭ ---------------------------------------------------- Manas Samanta Computer Sc(H). MLIS Technical Assistant CSIR-National Metallurgical Laboratory Jamshedpur . Ph.No.- 0657-2345112(O) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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