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Book returned to library after 80 years
by Sambhu Nath Halder 18 Jul '12

18 Jul '12

*Dear Professionals, * * * *There is an interesting newscast at *ANI | Jul 14, 2012, 12.00AM IST ** * * *A book that had been issued from Navan library in the Republic of Ireland<http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Republic-of-Ireland>, has been returned 80 years late.* A mystery borrower slipped the book discreetly through the letterbox at the county library at the weekend. It was checked out in 1932. County librarian<http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/County-librarian> Ciaran Mangan <http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Ciaran-Mangan> estimates that the book has chalked up a fine of 4,160 euros, based on the original 1930s fine of one penny per week. But they are just delighted to see it back. "It was an item that had been out on loan effectively since it was published and put into stock and the system in 1932," the BBC<http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/BBC>quoted him as saying. The librarian calculated the fine incurred by the book, but they would like to make a bargain for the penalty. "As good Christians, we decided we would waive that fine if the person appears in person and confesses to having returned the book," the librarian said. There are no details on the original borrower because the library's computerised records only date back to 1994. However, someone may have had their conscience pricked because the overdue book is a pictorial record of the 31st International Eucharistic Congress in Dublin <http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Dublin> in 1932. The 50th International Eucharistic Congress takes place in Dublin next month. The book has generated a lot of interest. "We believe it was well cared for and was probably shelved with the family's collection, getting lost among their own books. "We have it on display as it is attracting a lot of attraction," Mangan said. Reference: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/books/Book-returned-to-librar… -- With regards, Sambhu Nath Halder Chief Librarian ==================== Learning Resource Centre JDBI (Main Campus) 11 Lower Rawdon Street Kolkata - 700 020 Mobile: +91 9733964714 ==================== -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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List of Koha users from India
by Vimal Kumar 18 Jul '12

18 Jul '12

Dear Friends, Koha user are increasing day by day from India. But list of Koha users from Indian is not complete in Koha website , http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/KohaUsers/SouthAsian I would like to collect information about Indian Koha users and add to official Koha users list. I have created a form for the collection of Koha users details. I invite library professionals from India who are using Koha in libraries for production purpose. This initiative is not for collecting information about Koha implementation for learning purpose or trial. Click the following link to enter the details of you Koha implementation, https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/embeddedform?formkey=dDZadmIxeFRTXzc2ZH… 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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Collaborative Librarianship in Social Networking age : A Survey
by Raj K Bhardwaj 17 Jul '12

17 Jul '12

Dear Sir / Madam This survey is being conducted with objectives to understand the usage, preference of Social Networking Tools among Library Professional in India. This survey will take 5 to 7 minutes to complete. Kindly fill it properly, i shall be thankful to you. Click the link below https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEY5VGRuR2JYem EzYWVuRldFZmNxeXc6MA Sincerely yours Raj K Bhardwaj <https://www.facebook.com/raj.k.bhardwaj.90> College Librarian St Stephen's College Delhi-110007 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Artical Requires
by sridhar gowda 17 Jul '12

17 Jul '12

Dear professionals, For our Nursing Superintendent " Nurses of India" 2003 journal urgently required, if u have please mail to sridhar.cool06(a)gmail.com -- Sridhar M. P. Librarian, Narayana Hrudayalaya College of Nursing, Bangalore Ph. +91-9538898126 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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IEEE papers
by Pradip Das 17 Jul '12

17 Jul '12

Dear Professional, One of our faculties needs the following Articles as an Urgent basis. I shall highly appreciate if anyone (who is having access to IEL Online) help me by sending the Full text documents for those articles. 1. Hee Beng Kaun Tan, Yong Yang, Lie Bian, "Systematic Tranformation of functional analuysis model into 00 design and implementation" pg. 111-135, Vol 32, No. 2 Feb. 2006. 2. Alexnder Egyel, David S, Wile : :"Support for Managing Design - Time decision" pg 299-314, Vol 32, No. 5 May 2006. 3. Christian Attiogbe, Pascal Poizat, Gwen Salaun " A formal and tool equipped approach for the Integration of state diagrams and formal datatypes" pg 159-170, Vol 33, No. 3, March 2007 4. Ivan Di Pietro, Francesco Pagliarecci, Luca Spalazzi: " Model Checking Semantically Annotated Services" pg . 592 - 608, Vol. 38, No. 3 May June 2012. Thanking you, *Regards,** ……**?* _____________________________________________ *Pradip Das, * Dy. Librarian, Mukesh Patel School of Technology Management & Engineering, SVKM's Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, (Deemed to-be University) Bhakti Vedant Swami Marg, JVPD, Vile Parle (W), MUMBAI - 400056 Contact Tel : 91-22-42334000 Extn : 4004 DID : 91-22-42334004, CELL : 9420836138 E-mail : Pradip.Das(a)nmims.edu or pradipbhadreswardas(a)gmail.com **** *Visit us at : www.nmims.edu* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ************************************************************** -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Translation resources online
by Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy 17 Jul '12

17 Jul '12

http://thenextweb.com/media/2012/07/15/bye-bye-babel-breaking-language-barr… Dr P Vyasamoorthy, 30 Gruhalakshmi Colony Secunderabad 500015 Ph 040-27846631 / 9490804278. If you have a doubt, however silly it is, ASK. Otherwise, you may have to feign being knowledgeable and remain ignorant for the rest of your life. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Free access to British scientific research within two years
by G Mahesh 16 Jul '12

16 Jul '12

Free access to British scientific research within two years >From The Guardian, UK, Sunday 15 July 2012 The government is to unveil controversial plans to make publicly funded scientific research immediately available for anyone to read for free by 2014, in the most radical shakeup of academic publishing since the invention of the internet. Under the scheme, research papers that describe work paid for by the British taxpayer will be free online for universities, companies and individuals to use for any purpose, wherever they are in the world. In an interview with the Guardian before Monday's announcement David Willetts, the universities and science minister, said he expected a full transformation to the open approach over the next two years. The move reflects a groundswell of support for "open access" publishing among academics who have long protested that journal publishers make large profits by locking research behind online paywalls. "If the taxpayer has paid for this research to happen, that work shouldn't be put behind a paywall before a British citizen can read it," Willetts said. "This will take time to build up, but within a couple of years we should see this fully feeding through." He said he thought there would be "massive" economic benefits to making research open to everyone. Though many academics will welcome the announcement, some scientists contacted by the Guardian were dismayed that the cost of the transition, which could reach £50m a year, must be covered by the existing science budget and that no new money would be found to fund the process. That could lead to less research and fewer valuable papers being published. British universities now pay around £200m a year in subscription fees to journal publishers, but under the new scheme, authors will pay "article processing charges" (APCs) to have their papers peer reviewed, edited and made freely available online. The typical APC is around £2,000 per article. Tensions between academics and the larger publishing companies have risen steeply in recent months as researchers have baulked at journal subscription charges their libraries were asked to pay. More than 12,000 academics have boycotted the Dutch publisher Elsevier, in part of a broader campaign against the industry that has been called the "academic spring"........ Read complete article at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jul/15/free-access-british-scientifi… ----------------------------------------- This email was sent using NISCAIR's web mail service. "" http://niscair.res.in/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Job Vacancy
by Mailing List Admin 16 Jul '12

16 Jul '12

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 13:43:24 +0530 From: Paramjit Singh <param126(a)gmail.com> *Vacancy * Dr B R AMBEDKAR NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 1. Assistant Librarian : 01 post (GEN), Pay Scale : Rs. 15600-39100 AGP 6000 2. Library Information Assistant : 04 posts (GEN-3, OBC-1), Pay Scale : Rs. 9300-34800 GP Rs.4200 For more details please visit: http://nitj.ac.in/News/nfp.pdf

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SHODHGANGA, E-WAY TO ARCHIVE THESES
by Mailing List Admin 16 Jul '12

16 Jul '12

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 12:33:15 +0530 From: Ragaavendra R <Ragaavendra_R(a)jubilantbiosys.com> University of Mysore to take up digitisation of research work Access to the repository of theses could be a mouse click away in the near future. The University of Mysore has inked a memorandum of understanding with Inflibnet to digitise its repository of theses as part of the ‘Shodhganga’ project. Theses submitted to various universities are not available most of the time for reference due to various reasons. Comparing notes on research already done is a difficult proposition. And this has led to repetition of research on the same topics causing wastage of human resources, money and time. To provide an open and easy access to Indian theses and dissertations to the academic community worldwide and to avoid repetitions, the University Grants Commission in collaboration with Inflibnet (informationlibrary network) has come up with an innovative concept called ‘Shodhganga,’ a repository of Indian theses. The system The theses submitted by research scholars of Indian universities will be uploaded on the repository. One can go through the entire gamut of theses of choice and refer other theses too, with the help of Shodhganga. Digitisation is also part of the project wherein universities are given funds to digitise old theses. Plagiarism in research can be avoided to a great deal with Shodhganga. The universities will be provided softwares to detect plagiarism. Shodhganga will help avoid the repetition of research on the same topic and help research scholars to come up with findings of their own, said CP Ramesh, Librarian, University of Mysore. Shodhgangothri, another initiative, allows researchers to get to know of ongoing research in Indian universities. Under the project, the synopsis approved by the universities will be made available to researchers. SOURCE LINK: http://www.deccanherald.com/content/264392/shodhganga-e-way-archive-theses.… Best Regards, Raghvendra R

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[ELF] Evaluating Online Information
by Mailing List Admin 16 Jul '12

16 Jul '12

Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 06:43:05 +0000 From: Engg-Lib-Forum from India <krmulla(a)gmail.com> With the exponential growth of the world wide web, students need a more critical eye to sift through the bulk of information available online. While the Internet speeds up access to information, it also paves to the publication of anything, by anyone anywhere. Gone are the days when articles must be critiqued and evaluated before publication. Today, scholarly articles are not just buried in the bounty files of information. Their unscholarly counterparts also outnumber them. This reality reinforces the importance of critically evaluating online information. College students should learn the art of evaluating web-based information to make the most of them. For more please follow the link below: http://www.collegeathome.com/articles/evaluating-online-information/

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