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

iGoogle is retiring !
by Satish Munnolli 05 Jul '12

05 Jul '12

iGoogle will be retired in 16 months, on November 1, 2013. http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en <http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2664197> &answer=2664197 Satish S Munnolli Librarian, Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer (ACTREC) Tata Memorial Centre (TMC) Sector 22 Kharghar Navi Mumbai 410210 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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ISiM Industry Talk Series on Entrepreneurship (5) and (6)
by Athif Mohammed 05 Jul '12

05 Jul '12

ISiM Industry Talk Series on Entrepreneurship (5) "SPI: Strategic & Operational Model" By Mr. Sid Mookerji, Global CEO & Founder Software Paradigm Inc. Date and Time: July 6, 2012 10:30 AM You are cordially invited Dr.Shalini R Urs Executive Director and Professor Abstract: Mr. Mookerji, a native of Mysore, is a prominent success story in software industry entrepreneurship. Using his in depth experience from founding Software Paradigm Inc., and leading it to global success, he will discuss strategic issues and operational models that entrepreneurs face while running their start-ups. He will also talk about the Outsourcing Industry overall and India's role in it as well as the specifics of how SPI operates. He will try to provide a holistic view and the local eco-system for want-to-be software entrepreneurs in the coming years. Speaker Bio: Mr Mookerji has several years of corporate leadership experience in IT and Business Process Outsourcing particularly for global Retailers. He has received the Indian government's Excellence in IT Exports award twice. In 2008, he helped secure SPI's placement in the Atlanta Business Magazine's list of Top Ten Fastest-Growing Companies. He has been honored for SPI's rapid growth by USPAACC as well as by Inc. Magazine several times. Mysore born entrepreneur Mr. Sid Mookerji made Indians proud as his company - Software Paradigms International (SPI) has been honoured in the US. The company has been named in the list of 50 fastest growing companies in Atlanta, US. Mr. Mookerji holds a BE (Hons) Electrical and Electronics from BITS, Pilani, India and an MBA from Emory University's Goizueta School of Business. _____ ISiM Industry Talk Series on Entrepreneurship (6) "Challenges, Successes, Survival, & Incarnations for an Entrepreneur" By Mr. A. Sadhasivam CEO Ignis Aerospace & Design Pvt. Ltd. Date and Time: July 6, 2012 1:30 PM You are cordially invited Dr.Shalini R Urs Executive Director and Professor Abstract: Mr. Sadhasivam will bring his rich experience of 20 plus years, as the General Manager of Wipro Tech Pvt. Mysore, Co-founder and COO of Majoris Soft Tech Pvt. Bangalore, Director of Preva Test Solutions Pvt. Bangalore, and currently as CEO of Ignis Aerospace Ltd., to talk about the daunting uncertainties of becoming an entrepreneur, its life-cycle, and what attributes contribute to becoming a successful entrepreneur. Speaker Bio: Mr. A. Sadhasivam, with 40 years of IT industry experience, has significant experience of building organizations from scratch. He has spent 10 years of his career at ECILin Design; Development and Testing. He was instrumental in developing Automated Testing Systems (ATS) for in-house needs and also for Indian Navy. He was the head of micro-computer design and manufacturing activity for a premier IT organization at a time when computer was just a buzz word for most of us. Subsequently, he had joined Wipro and contributed unmatched value to the company for over 20 years. He was responsible for bringing out the first computer from WIPRO and subsequently managed the Engineering and Manufacturing operations for next 10 years. He was a key member involved in technology transfers from USA, Taiwan and Japan for various IT products. Mr. Sadhasivam was CEO of Wipro's System Engineering Division catering to country's Defense, Space and Atomic Energy units and built it to be one of the most successful and profitable business unit. He has worked on several strategic programs of Defense, BARC and NAL. He is regarded as the pioneer in popularizing barcodes in the country. He was the key brain behind establishing the Testing Division of Wipro and nurtured it for 3 years. This division, as strategic business unit of Wipro, has bloomed in to US $ 500 Million revenue and 7000 employees. His stint as the Founder, Director and COO of Majoris Systems was quite remarkable. He has developed first smartcard based payment systems, resulting in a business of Rs.30 Million in a year. He has a BE from Coimbatore Inst. of Technology and holds MBA degree from University of Mysore. He is a recipient of Visveshwariah Award by Institution of Engineers for contribution to Computer Engineering. He is widely respected in the industry as an able administrator and nurturing green field organization and building them to international size. Athif Mohammed Assistant Manager International School of Information Management (ISiM) University of Mysore, Manasagangotri, Mysore - 570006. Email- office(a)isim.ac.in M: +91 9886772356 Website: www.isim.ac.in -- 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] Regarding UGC-NET
by Vimal Kumar 05 Jul '12

05 Jul '12

Dear Friends, I would like to challenge Manoj Kumar opinion regarding UGC NET exam. How it is possible to measure one's teaching ability merely through objective questions? Ans: Descriptive exam mode is not the apt tool to evaluate teaching skill. To test teaching skill, UGC has to conduct practical class room teaching test in-front of students. Teaching posts are very few in LIS. Librarian job is considered as a professional one and need skill set. For the selection of library professionals objective mode is good. Objective mode is enough to test a candidates practical knowledge base. But questions should follow the standard. It should not be cut and paste from LIS guides. Great teachers in LIS are not UGC NET holders. In my knowledge, lot of senior good teachers in LIS without UGC NET has been successfully sharing knowledge to students. In our knowledge, Dr. S.R. Ranganathan had not qualified any NET type competitive exam conducted by UGC. But he was a successful teacher. The same way lot of good teachers still in service without NET. The only advantage of this mode is that the paper valuation will be done fastly and easily. Ans: This is one of the great disadvantage or curse of this exam. In certain extent, objective mode can make the UGC NET exam transparent. Regards, -- Vimal Kumar V. Mahatma Gandhi University Library Kottayam, Kerala- 686 560 Web: http://www.vimalkumar.org Blog: http://linuxhalwa.blogspot.com http://kohageek.blogspot.in --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "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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UGC-NET-COMMENTS
by Sunny Joseph 05 Jul '12

05 Jul '12

Dear Mr.Manoj, How can the teaching skills can be measured through descriptive written test alone??? Whether Oral presentation skill is more important than writing skills for teachers??? Whether it is tested by UGC??? India may be the only nation where persons become eligible for teaching after only a written test. I know many teachers who cleared UGC NET but miserably fail in class room. Why interview is inevitable for IAS Officers after written test??? Comments please........ Sunny Joseph, Govt.IASE, Thrissur. Message: 1 Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 11:28:43 +0530 From: manoj kumar <manukhd(a)gmail.com> To: LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Reg UGC NET Exam Message-ID: <CAOvHRxrb2kxCv-RiGz1PVT6i3AsfGNhGM=Po0JqVr0YR0waKnA(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" In my opinion, making the NET exam in objective mode is a great rubbish by UGC. How it is possible to measure one's teaching ability merely through objective questions? The only advantage of this mode is that the paper valuation will be done fastly and easily. let us wait for the results of the june 2012 exam to draw further conclusions reagrds manojkumar -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Koha Live CD Lite released
by Vimal Kumar 04 Jul '12

04 Jul '12

Dear Friends, Koha Live CD Lite <http://sourceforge.net/projects/kohalivecd-lite/> is based on Ubuntu Linux 10.04 and Koha 3.8.2. File size is 600 MB. Live CD is customized for ready to use. Download Link, http://sourceforge.net/projects/kohalivecd-lite/ Highlights are: - Easy installation steps - Koha customised for ready to use - Zebra server enabled - Customised MARC fields in cataloguing - Scheduled database backup - Build on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS - Detailed installation manual and Read Me file - Sample reports If you are using Koha previous version (e.g. Koha-3.6.4), try to upgrade to new version using the instructions in the following link, http://kohageek.pbworks.com/w/page/31795398/upgrade Regards, -- Vimal Kumar V. Mahatma Gandhi University Library Kottayam, Kerala- 686 560 Web: http://www.vimalkumar.org Blog: http://linuxhalwa.blogspot.com http://kohageek.blogspot.in --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "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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UGC-NET-REG
by Sunny Joseph 04 Jul '12

04 Jul '12

Dear Ratheesh, On analysis of your marks it seems that you would have passed UGC-NETearlier if your hand writing and presentation skills were good. Sunny Joseph, Govt.IASE,Thrissur. Message: 2 Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 12:26:39 +0530 From: Ratheesh K <ratheeshk1980(a)gmail.com> To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] UGC NET Exam analysis Message-ID: <CALn__x+fPZAuYzd70=v0uoELoWyGU+X_hAWAddeJ44kPgNBdnw(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Dear Friends, I totally disagree with the opinion of Mr. Vimal that good handwriting is the criterion for getting marks in NET third paper, in my case I think my hand writing is not at all good (only *just *legible) I invite your attention to my UGC NET Marks from December 2006 to June 2009- (I qualified NET in June 2009, UGC starts to publish the NET marks from December 2006 onwards) -- 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] NET comments--karunakar.N
by karunakar n 04 Jul '12

04 Jul '12

Dear Colleagues, If it is easy, well and good. I thought to comment after the Result? But gud for your confident try?? There was very less questions which were repeated in Paper-2 and Paper-3(May be like 2 to 3 Questions) but Presented differently with Same Answers. I accept there was no relation to some questions. But Everybody is living in system , we should accept and we should try for our best. THat's IT......Because who raises the voice will be thrown away/sidelined permanently. So accept the change and let many have the opportunity......... -- * Thanks & Regards,*** *Karunakar.N** B.Sc., MLISc., M.Phil., MBA. Librarian, Govt First Grade College For Women, Holenarasipura, Holenarasipura (T), Hassan(D). Karnataka, INDIA* *************Life is a school. There is something new to learn wherever we may be, wherever we go, wherever we turn. >............................. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Request for full text article
by Lijesh T K 04 Jul '12

04 Jul '12

Respected All Professionals, One of the researcher requires following article. If anybody having access to Elsevier. kindly send the soft copy of the same. “A method for the determination of starch in wood” by F.R. Humphreys; J. Kelly, Analytica Chimica Acta, Volume 24, 1961, Pages 66–70. Elsevier pub. Thanks & Regards Lijesh T.K Project Fellow (Library) Kerala Forest Research Institute (KFRI) Peechi, Thrissur PH: 9497249813 Email: lijeshalapad(a)gmail.com Blog: http://libraryjobs4u.blogspot.in/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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DOOMS DAY-REG Reply to Sunny Joseph's message
by Niraj Barua 04 Jul '12

04 Jul '12

Dear Sir you are absolutely Right! Thanks for the lucid explanation about my concern on the future of Librarianship in India. Librarianship in India has lost the ground created by father of library science in India Dr. S. R. Ranganathan. Being Indian we must be ashamed that we have deviated from the path shown by Dr. Ranganathan. Today library professionals are looked upon as mere clerks. the reason behind this solely the creations of our own faulty practices. The root of the cause lies at the very faulty system of attracting people to this profession. In India only those people opt for Librarianship (with few exception) who donot have a chance of getting admited to other lucrative courses. You have rightly pointed out that Library & Information Professionals have an edge over Computer Professionals. They are trained or ought to be trained in providing information pinpointedly, exhaustively and expediously. However many of the LIS Professionals are simply busy learning and adopting technology and forgetting the basic role of the LIS Professionals. No doubt technology is important and I am not against learning about technology, but at the same time we should be cautious that we donot forget the basics of Librarianship. But on one point I cannot agree with Sunny Joseph. The job requirements for a particular post cannot be the prerogative of any employer (lest it being a private employer). I think there are certain rules and norms set down by the Central Government for recruiting staff for various posts. Exisiting rules and norms shouldnot be violated. With this regards we have to certain that Government has clearcut rules and norms for for recruiting library personals. If such rules are twisted very now and then for library staff, then its a very sad situation and which must be opposed vehemently. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Niraj Barua Guwahati-781014 Assam INDIA 9435346637(Mobile) Email:niraj_barua@yahoo.co.in. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Information from Medical Book
by Binod Yadav 04 Jul '12

04 Jul '12

Dear Professionals, I request you to provide a chapter from the Medical Book. The details: Title of Book: Manual of pathology of the human placenta; 2nd edition Author: Rebecca N. Baergen Chapter: Early placental development ( Section II, Chapter 5, Page No. 59 to 68) Look forward to your assistance Thanking you in anticipation -- Binod Kumar Yadav Senior Librarian B. P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences Dharan, Nepal Phone: +97725525555 Mobile:+977-9804060641 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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