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

Preparatory Programme for NET/SET for LIS Professionals
by Arunachalam Hariharan 30 May '12

30 May '12

Dear Sir/Madam, SALIS Erode chapter in association with C.S.I Erode Christian College of Arts & Science for Women, Erode is going conduct a Preparatory Programme for NET/SET for LIS Professionals on 02 June 2012- 03 June 2012 and 16 June 2012- 17 June 2012( Four Days) . The Registration Fee details are as follows Paper – I - Rs`.400( 2 days) LIS - Paper – II & III - Rs`.400(2 days) Paper 1 and LIS Paper – I & II, III - - Rs.700(four days) ( Concession of Rs.50 will be given to SALIS members) Ist Paper - 2nd June and 17 th June 2nd and 3rd Paper 3rd June & 16 th June Registration fee Includes Course Material, Working Tea & Refreshment - Candidates have to make own arranagements their accommodation and food) For Registration and Further Details Pl. conduct Programme Co-ordinator Lt T. Magudeeswaran (Librarian & Company Commander – NCC) Chikkaiah Naicker College, Erode Mobile: 99421 50744 Additional Co-Ordinator Stephen Thangaraj, Assistant Professor Vellalar College for Women (Autonomous), Erode Mobile: 96779 08959 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Online survey on Social software usage
by Kshirod 30 May '12

30 May '12

Respected All, I am working on the theme "Knowledge Management and Sharing in Libraries". I would like to invite you to participate in survey which will take about 5-10 minutes to complete. All data entered will be kept confidential, strictly be used for my research. To participate in this survey click on the link: http://kwiksurveys.com?u=socialsoftware Please feel free to share above link to your colleagues working with other Institutes / Companies which will help me to get good response. Thank you very much for participating in this survey. Your time and effort will be greatly appreciated. Looking forward to get good response. Thanks and Regards -- Kshirod Das National Institute of Technology Rourkela-769 008, Orissa kdas(a)nitrkl.ac.in daskshirod(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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Pillars of Library Science in India .
by manoj kumar pant 30 May '12

30 May '12

Dear Sir, Please consider Prof. J C Binwal for the pillars of Library Science list. Regards Manoj Kumar Pant, Librarian, Uttarakhand Judicial and Legal Academy, Bhowali, Nainital, Uttarakhand-263132. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Koha 3.8 Live DVD
by Madaiah krishnamurthy 30 May '12

30 May '12

Dear Friends, I am happy to inform that I have just uploaded Koha 3.8 live DVD on sourceforge.net You can download ISO file from following location: http://sourceforge.net/projects/kohalivedvd-mk Koha Version : 3.8 Operating System : Ubuntu 10.0.4 After Installation: Type in Browser: 127.0.1:8080 Opac : 127.0.1 Kohausername: kohaadmin Password : katikoan Thanking You, M.Krishnamurthy -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Pay teachers more to attract talent: Sibal
by Rahul Hiremath 30 May '12

30 May '12

Pay teachers more to attract talent: Sibal Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal has said that teachers should be paid more in order to attract talent in the academic field. Expressing concern over the degrading quality of faculty in the country, he said teaching won't attract talent unless teachers were given proper benefits. "There is no uniformity in salaries of teachers. No medical benefit, no house rent allowance, incentive or pension," Sibal said. "Even parents encourage their children to go for jobs that get them liquid capital (money)... Unless we realise it is the most important to invest in building human capital by educating children, we can't do anything," he said. The minister also stressed on the need of devising a mechanism that will helped teachers update themselves with latest knowledge in their field. "Data banks with high quality teacher education material can be set up which can be accessed by all. There is no system in place to ensure life-long learning for teachers," the minister said. Sibal mentioned that a national mission on teacher's education is being launched in the 12th plan had its focus on improving quality of teachers. [Source: DNA] -- Rahul R. Hiremath Librarian, N.S.S.College of Commerce and Economics, 94, M.P.Mill Compound, Behind A.C.Market, Tardeo, Mumbai - 400 034 Mobile 9867325650 http://rahulrh.yolasite.com/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Fw: Re: Call for profiles of the pillars of library profession in India
by JAGDISH KULKARNI 30 May '12

30 May '12

Respected Sir, Please add the name of Prof. S Seetha rama and Prof A A Vaishnav in the list of pillers of library profession in India. Dr. Jagdish N Kulkarni Incharge University Librarian SRTMU Nanded --- On Tue, 29/5/12, Meera B M <meera(a)rri.res.in> wrote: From: Meera B M <meera(a)rri.res.in> Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Call for profiles of the pillars of library profession in India To: "Jagtar Singh" <jagtar.kindu(a)gmail.com> Cc: india-lis(a)infoserv.inist.fr, rscao-l(a)infoserv.inist.fr, "list forum" <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>, iatlis(a)yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, 29 May, 2012, 5:42 AM Dear Dr Jagtar Singh I find one name missing in the list. The name is Dr T B Rajashekar of NCSI who made outstanding contribution to Librarianship. Regards Meera > Dear friends and professional colleagues, > > You would be glad to know that the 'Satinder Kaur Ramdev Memorial Trust > for > Advancement of Librarianship (SATKAL)' has decided to publish a series of > books on the > *Pillars of Indian Librarianship: A SATKAL Tribute to the library doyens > in > India.* It will include the profiles and contributions of the library > doyens who are no more with us (left for their heavenly abode) but have > made profound contribution to the library profession in India. The first > volume is likeky to be released in November 2012 at the annual function of > the SATKAL in collaboration with the annual conference of the IATLIS. > > Kindly browse the list below and suggest the additional names and also the > potential authors who can write about them. The names in bold letters have > already been alloted to the authors. For others you are invited to > contribute the articles. > > *Dr.S.R.Ranganathan > B.S.Kesavan > *Prof. S.Dasgupta > Dr.Jagdish S. Sharma > *Prof.P.N.Kaula > *Prof. S.Bashiruddin > Prof.A.P.Srivastava > *N.N.Gidwani > *Prof. K.A.Issac > *Prof Probir Roy Choudhary > T.S.Rajagopalan > D.N.Marshall > Prof.B.Anderson > *Prof.C.G.Vishwanathan > *Dr.V.A.Kamath > S.P.Aggarwal > *Dr.Ganesh Bhattacharya > *D.R.Kalia > *Prof..B.Krishana Rao (First PhD in LIS in India) > *C.V. Subba Rao > *S. R. Bhatia > Dr. R. L. Mittal > *Prof. M.R. Kumbhar > Miss Vidyut Khandwala > *Dr. M.G.K. Naidu > *Prof. A.C.Tikekar > *Prof. Ramakrishna Nair > Dr. Mrs. Susheela Kumar > > Please take care and keep in touch. > > Warm regards, > > Jagtar Singh > President, > Satinder Kaur Ramdev Memorial Trust for Advancement of Librarianship > (SATKAL), Punjab Library Association (PLA), and IATLIS, > and > Professor, Dept. of Library and Information Science > Punjabi University, Patiala-147002 (Punjab) > Email: jagtar.kindu(a)gmail.com > Mobile: +919855444785 > Landline: +91 (0)175 3046179 (Work) > +91 (0) 175 2282727 (Home) > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > >

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Help Promote the Open Access White House Petition
by Subbiah Arunachalam 30 May '12

30 May '12

Friends: Have you planned how you are going to celebrate the Open Access Week this year, 22-28 October 2012? You can make a good beginning now by signing the White House Open Access Petition and forwarding the petition to all your friends with a request to sign it. In terms of research papers published, journals subscribed, articles downloaded, etc India is among the top dozen countries of the world. We have a stake in keeping scholarly communication space as open as possible. Incidentally, anyone anywhere in the world can sign the White House Open Access Petition. It is not restricted to US citizens/ scientists/ researchers/ librarians. Any citizen above a certain age can sign. Best wishes. Arun From: Andrea Higginbotham <andrea(a)arl.org> Hello All! We're on our way to surpassing 20,000 signatures on the White House Open Access petition - in just one week! - and we need your help to close this out successfully. To help drive this effort home, please consider sending out one more email blast to your contact lists. This is a truly effective way of not only getting the word out, but also of showing your support. Consider a "+1" email request - encouraging those on your network who have already signed to recruit a friend or colleague to sign, to be their "+1." It's a great way to include new voices into the mix! Our social media efforts have been phenomenally effective - Twitter is aglow with references to #openaccess and #OAMonday so please use these hashtags if you tweet. Facebook is also a great way of getting the petition link out to all of your friends - you can add a link directly to the petition in your Facebook posting to make it easy for folks to sign. Here are a few links to include in your email blasts, and to spread far and wide in your social media endeavors: The Petition: https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/require-free-access-over-i… Short URL to Petition for Tweets: wh.gov/6TH Banner Ads to use on your Websites/Blogs: http://www.arl.org/sparc/media/white-house-open-access-petition-support-ban… Thank you so much for your continual help with this campaign! And please let me know if you have any questions! Best, Andrea -- Andrea Brusca Higginbotham Communications Manager, SPARC 21 Dupont Circle, Suite 800 Washington, DC 20036 (202) 296-2296 ext 121 andrea(a)arl.org www.arl.org/sparc -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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UGC Course Work and the Dilemma of Ph. D. Scholars
by Vasanth 29 May '12

29 May '12

Dear Sir/Madam, UGC in 2009 introduced new Ph. D. guidelines with much tout, after (lately) realizing that some of the Universities in Tamil Nadu and across other part of the nation that Ph. Ds were virtually sold. The UGC (Minimum Standards and Procedure for Awards of M Phil/Ph.D. Degree) Regulation, 2009, introduced entrance exam and course work for Ph. D aspirants. One of the mottos of the introduction of Ph. D. entrance exam and course work is to improve the quality of Ph. D. Based on the marks obtained in entrance exams Ph. D. candidates are admitted to pursue Ph. D. degree in their choice of subject domain. The entrance exam and the subsequent interview of the candidate for Ph.D. has also received lot of flak from academia and students as well. There were instances of admitting candidates for Ph D. program, who were not secured the required marks (in some cases, the candidates who have scored less marks than his counterpart have given chances for joining Ph Ds). Let this aside. Let me come to the point of why the Ph. D. course work introduced by the UGC would not yield the result which was intended. This may seem it is too early to examine the outcome of the Ph. D. course work introduced by the UGC. But already the sign of losing its sheen is evident. If we go through the syllabus (advanced research methodology) introduced for course work in many universities, would not help for Ph. D. scholars to help in formulating research problems or questions. Many of the universities (for example, University of Mysore) in India, for many years teaching advanced research methodology at the postgraduate level as a core paper or elective in either third or fourth semester, the same syllabus with little modification is taught at the M. Phil level as well. Now the same syllabus (advanced research methodology) is introduced for Ph. D. course work. Would this help Ph. D. students to formulate research questions or hypothesis on their own? Why so much of duplications and repetitions? Advanced research methodology help students for doing research step by step, or help in selecting and using type of research tools and technique and hypothesis testing with some statistical application, initially it may not sufficient for Ph D student to come up with research problems. It is a great opportunity for universities to introduce course syllabus which would help research scholars to come up on their own with research problems or titles for Ph Ds. In recent times, there are lots of postings in LIS forum for seeking suggestions for selecting titles for Ph. Ds or information and also for further information on the subject which they are going to research. It is not wrong to seek suggestion from collective intelligence like LIS forum, but there is always an element of doubt, why some of us are using LIS Forum for legitimating our research titles. If “Information seeking behavior pattern of media specialists” would anyway change the course of the research if someone select the title “information seeking behavior pattern of Legal professionals”( I have used these two titles as examples, just because of these titles were posted in LIS forum. No other personal interest involved in it). If universities introduce, for example classic books (S.R. Ranganthan’s works, works of J. A. Shera, and others of similar stature) in library and information science to read and prepare term paper (as in the US or other western country) would help in understanding theoretical underpinnings. Some books on critical theory (for example, Thomas Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions) also help students to see things from different perspective. Later, they can be introduced to advanced research methodology from which they learn and apply to their research work. There is a need to build a strong theoretical foundation at the initial stage of research with appropriate course work/syllabus. There is a need to ease the burden of faculty also, in many universities across Karnataka as an example, each faculty in every department is guiding almost 8 to 9 Ph D. students. Are we turning universities as G.S. Radhakrishna of the Telegraph once put it in a column “Doctorate Shop”? (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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Vacancy of Library Assistant 'A' at the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), Trivandrum
by faisal sl 29 May '12

29 May '12

Dear All, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, Asia’s first Space University established under the Department of Space in September 2007, invites applications for post of Library Assistant 'A' in the Pay Band of Rs 9,300-34,800/-+ Grade Pay of Rs 4,600/- with the following qualifications: First Class Degree + First Class Master’s degree in Library Science/ Library & Information Science ( MLISc) or equivalent. Advt. No: IIST/41/12 dated 26.05.2012 Last Date for Receipt of Applications : 17 June 2012 Visit http://www.iist.ac.in/application-ta-la to download the advertisement and the application form. Best wishes. S.L.Faisal Librarian Kendriya Vidyalaya, Pattom Thiruvananthapuram-695 004 Kerala, India Ph.09447699724 http://librarykvpattom.wordpress.com/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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DRTC Colloquium (4) 2011-2013
by Mailing List Admin 29 May '12

29 May '12

Posted by: Amit Shaw amitdrtc(a)gmail.com Mon May 28 14:04:02 IST 2012 Colloquuim Topic: *Strong Semantic: Ontology* ABSTRACT Ontology is a formal, explicit specification of shared conceptualization. Having evolved from philosophical foundations, ontology can be defined as a hierarchical structure that formally defines the semantic relationship of a set of concepts and is used to create structured, controlled vocabularies for the discovery or exchange of information. In computer science, ontologies have emerged from the area of artificial intelligence as a way of representing domainknowledge. In the run to realize the Semantic Web, ontologies provide an impetus that would give rise to logical reasoning, knowledge engineering and applications development in order to make the metadata on the web more semantically enriched. Currently it is a hot topic of interest in the frontier research areasand its usefulness can be perceived in a great number of applications. The aim of this colloquium is to provide a brief knowledge on the recent trends of ontology development and ontologization engineering techniques. The various ontology languages for ontology creation and some popular application tools available will also be highlighted. Facets: 1) Introduction by Subhashis Das 2) Ontology language by Sonali Kishore Kalani 3) Ontology Engineering Tools by Amit Kumar Shaw 4) Application of Ontology by Mayukh Biswas 5) Conclusion by Anurodh Kumar Sinha Venue: DRTC Classroom Date: 30th May, 2012 Time: 2.00pm All are cordially invited Dr. M. Krishnamurthy Colloquium Coordinator

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