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Good/ Reputed Indian S& T Journals
by Mariyam Shipha 10 Jul '13

10 Jul '13

Respected Professionals, Many librarians from academic and research institute face a tough questions from its faculty/ researchers to tell them some good indian journals of their respective discipline. Recently, I have found a good article in Annals of Library and Information Studies (NISCAIR) which along with its long appendix give us a handy and ready made solution to the librarian. I feel that this article will be of immense help to the librarians to face such a question. The details of the article is given below: Title: Indian S&T journals in international indexing and abstracting databases: A study Available at : http://op.niscair.res.in/index.php/ALIS/article/view/199 Regards, Mariyam -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Recognition of Academic Degrees of Foreign Universities in India: reg
by Anand Dodamani 10 Jul '13

10 Jul '13

Dear friends, Association of Indian Universities (AIU) is the only recognized body in India for granting academic equivalence of degrees/diplomas not only within the country but also to other similar bodies in foreign countries. As per the notification (Dated 13th March, 1995) issued by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, New Delhi, the equivalence done by AIU will be valid for the purpose of higher education as well as employment in the country. After obtaining the Academic Degree of a Foreign University, a student is required to obtain an Equivalence Certificate from AIU. For more information one can refer a book EQUIVALENCE OF FOREIGN DEGREES published by AIU. With best, -- *Anand Dodamani Asst. Librarian- User Services Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) V. N. Purav Marg, Deonar Mumbai- 400 081* *Phone: 022-2552 5274* *Website: www.tiss.edu* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Three day training program on Information Delivery Systems for Academic and Research Institutions
by Viswanath G.S 09 Jul '13

09 Jul '13

* "3 day training program on Information Delivery Systems for Academic and Research Institutions" International Centre for Free & Open Source Software (ICFOSS) and Centre for Continuing Studies, Indian Institute of Information Technology & Management-Kerala (IIITM-K) are organizing a three day training program on "Information Delivery Systems for Academic and Research Institutions" during 24th to 26th July 2013 @ RTC, 3rd Floor, IIITM-K. This 3-day programme, directed at the staff, Programme Officers/Course Co-ordinators, teachers, and librarians is to equip the participants with knowledge of modern information storage, delivery and management systems such as Digital Library, Moodle and DSpace. B esides theory sessions on the basics of relevant FOSS-based server platforms and software, the programme will also have hands-on sessions where participants can directly install and manage these software. Participants will receive completion certificates as well as selected software at the successful completion of the programme. For more details and registration, please visit: http://programs.icfoss.org/idsari/index.html * -- *Viswanath G S* *Library Assistant,* *IIITM-K, * *Technopark,* *Mob:-9447713578* *viswanathgs.weebly.com* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Hurry !!!! Just few days for registration to NCILS-2013
by Shekar H P 09 Jul '13

09 Jul '13

Dear Moderator Please circulate this information for the benefit of forum members. Thanking you With regards Shekar.H.P. Dear Professional Friends, GREETINGS !!! Thanks for your over whelmed response and the support extended by way of contributing papers to NCILS- 2013 in the short span of time. It gives me immense pleasure to invite you all for a National Conference organizing by Sree Siddartha Education Society, Tumkur, Karnataka (India) The theme of the National Conference is INSPIRING LIBRARY SERVICES (NCILS) -2013 Date: 12-13th July, 2013 Venue: Auditorium, SSIT, Tumkur. The objectives of the conference is to bring together all the library professionals to a common platform, to facilitate the exchange of ideas and help to bridge the knowledge gap among the professionals associated with libraries, and to develop the professional competency in librarians. Keeping in view your interest and participation in NCILS-2013, we are extending you a special invitation and believe, your participation will add more value to the conference. We look forward your confirmation of participation. For more details please log on to the website: http://ncils.ssit360.com ,OR http://www.ssit.edu.in E-mail: ncils2013(a)gmail.com Thanking you With best regards Sunitha Ramakrishna Organizing Secretary NCILS-2013 Ph: +91-9449185744 -- Shekar.H.P. Head, KRC IBS Business School, Bangalore #231, Babasabara Palya Near Kengeri Check post Mysore Road, Bangalore-60 Mob:+91-9945799927 LOVE WHAT U DO- Babuji. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Help us to generate awareness about IndMED / MedIND
by Sukhdev Singh 09 Jul '13

09 Jul '13

Dear Professional Colleague, As, you are aware that Bibliographic Informatics Division at the National Informatics Centre, New Delhi is developing information resources for meeting information needs of bio-medical community with continued support from Indian Council of Medical Research. These are IndMED (Indexing of Indian Medical Journals, http://indmed.nic.in ) and MedIND (Hosting of full text articles of Indexed Indian Medical Journals, http://medind.nic.in ) resources. While IndMED indexes about 120 Indian Medical Journals, MedIND hosts full texts articles of 65 of these journals. Access to these resources is FREE without any registrations etc. These resources coupled with International Resources like PubMED serves as crucial information resources for bio-medical research and practice. While your institution's researchers, faculty as well as post-graduate students may be well aware of international information resources like PubMed, yet they may not be aware of national information resources like IndMED and MedIND. We are seeking your help to generate awareness of these national resources. You may organize IndMED / Medind Training-cum-Awareness Programmes at your organization. We can share our training material like PPT slides on IndMED and MedIND. If you require, we can also travel at our own expense to deliver lectures on topics like IndMED and MedIND databases, as well as on Internet Biomedical Information Resources, Copyright and intellectual property rights etc. If you planning to organize such awareness programmes with intention to invite us for delivering lectures, please let us know details in advance along with suitable dates. The target participants could be Medical researchers, medical professionals, Medical Library professionals and persons associated with medical journals i.e. Editors, publishers, executive members etc. There should be a minimum of 25-30 committed participants. The venue should have suitable infrastructure for projecting PPT Slides. Kindly note that our expenses of TA/DA will be borne by us. Any arrangements like tea or lunch for the participants could be met from your side. You may contact my colleague Mrs Rekha Gupta, Scientist-E with your proposal along with possible dates at her email id g.rekha(a)nic.in. (Phone 011-24305533). With regards, Sukhdev Singh Technical Director, Bibliographic Informatics Division National Informatics Centre A – Block, CGO Complex, Lodhi Road. New Delhi - 110003 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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article request
by Librarian 09 Jul '13

09 Jul '13

Dear All, One of our scientist needs this article, please help me to get this if possible Non-native aggregation of recombinant human granulocyte-colony stimulating factor under simulated process stress conditions. Roessl U<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Roessl%20U%5BAuthor%5D&cauthor=true…>, Wiesbauer J<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Wiesbauer%20J%5BAuthor%5D&cauthor=t…>, Leitgeb S<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Leitgeb%20S%5BAuthor%5D&cauthor=tru…>, Birner-Gruenberger R<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Birner-Gruenberger%20R%5BAuthor%5D&…>, Nidetzky B<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Nidetzky%20B%5BAuthor%5D&cauthor=tr…>. Biotechnol J.<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22422582> 2012 Aug;7(8):1014-24. doi: 10.1002/biot.201100436. Epub 2012 Apr 23 Thanks & regards, Ram Laut Tyagee Librarian, IBPL Ahmedabad ________________________________ DISCLAIMER: Please note that this e-mail and its attachments are intended for the named addressee only and may contain information that is confidential and privileged. If you have by coincidence or mistake or without specific authorization received this e-mail and its attachments we request that you notify us immediately that you have received them in error, uphold strict confidentiality and neither read, copy, nor otherwise make use of their content in any way. Please note that the sender of this e-mail and its attachments is solely responsible for its content if it does not concern the operations of Intas group or its subsidiaries. All E-Mails scanned by Trend Micro IMSVA -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Malaysian LIS degrees
by A. B. NAIKAL 09 Jul '13

09 Jul '13

Dear Professionals, Greetings! I wish to know if Malaysian Universities degrees are recognized and accepted by UGC and other statutory bodies in India. university of Malay ( http://www.um.edu.my/) is of one of the oldest university in Malaysia and fully funded by Government of Malaysia. If offers masters and Ph.D. Degrees in Library Science. Appreciate if someone share your knowledge/experience on this matter Best regards Appasaheb Naikal Librarian S P Jain School of Global Management Singapore -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Seeks guidelines for building Book bank scheme.
by silent listener 09 Jul '13

09 Jul '13

Dear LIS professionals, We would like to start a BOOK BANK system for our Engineering Library. It will be appreciated to get valuable information to implement the system. My major concern are whether a separate accession is to be maintained. ,how will we differentiate titles in book bank in Library software system, if so will it overlap with other collection, how can we customize the maximum number of books students can borrow. Any way I will be grateful if provide my all the procedures from the very beginning to operate an error free BOOK BANK system. Joseph Zacharia +91 9947997767 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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KLA National Seminar 2013: Invitation, Programme Schedule & Spot Registration
by faisal sl 09 Jul '13

09 Jul '13

Dear All, Kerala Library Association (KLA) is happy to invite you to the inaugural function (on 12 July 2013 at 10.00am.), of the two day National Seminar scheduled to be held at Thiruvananthapuram during 12-13 July 2013. Invitation Letter: http://klanationalseminar2013.wordpress.com/2013/07/08/national-seminar-inv… Seminar Brochure: http://klanationalseminar2013.wordpress.com/2013/07/08/seminar-brochure/ Programme Schedule:http://klanationalseminar2013.wordpress.com/programme/ ABOUT THE SEMINAR KERALA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION (KLA) NATIONAL SEMINAR 12-13 July 2013, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala MAIN THEME: "New Information Technology Interfaces in Libraries and Information Centres (NITILIC)” SUB THEMES: 1. Evolving Models of Library and Information Centres in the New Millennium 2. Social Media in Libraries 3. Cloud computing and Libraries 4. Recent Developments in Software applicable to Libraries 5. E-reading and E-Devices 6. Library Designing in the Digital Era 7. Human Resource Development in the Digital context 8. Technology Interfaces for Public Libraries Details at http://klanationalseminar2013.wordpress.com/2013/03/17/annoncement/#more-169 REGISTRATION Individual participants: Rs 1250.00 Institutional participants: Rs 1750.00 Concessional rate for KLA Life Members and Research Scholars in LIS: Rs 1000.00 LIS Students: Rs 750.00 Spot Registration facility is available at the Registration Counter. Download Registration form: http://klanationalseminar2013.wordpress.com/downloads/registration-form/ ONLINE REGISTRATION All participants have to register online at http://klanationalseminar2013.wordpress.com along with the submission of duly filled registration form and fee. MODE OF PAYMENT By DD drawn in favour of Kerala Library Association and payable at Thiruvananthapuram or by cash to the General Secretary, KLA. DD along with the registration form may be sent to the General Convener, KLA National Seminar-2013, Kerala Library Association, 36, 2nd Floor, Kairalie Plaza Annexe, Karamana P.O., Thiruvananthapuram – 695 002, Kerala. DUTY LEAVE Download the circular: http://klanationalseminar2013.wordpress.com/2013/07/01/govt-granted-duty-le… VENUE OF THE SEMINAR The Seminar Hall at Kerala State Science and Technology Museum and Priyadarsini Planetarium (KSSTMPP), PMG Junction, Vikas Bhavan P.O,Thiruvananthapuram - 33. FOR MORE DETAILS AND SEMINAR UPDATES Seminar Blog: http://klanationalseminar2013.wordpress.com KLA Website: www.keralalibraryassociation.org CONTACT General Convener: Dr. A. Gopikuttan , President, Kerala Library Association (E-Mail : agopikuttan(a)yahoo.co.in / Mob. 919446428163) Joint General Conveners Shri M. Chandrakumaran Nair, Vice President, Kerala Library Association (E-mail: ckumarnair(a)gmail.com / Mob: 919447276657) Shri S. L. Faisal, General Secretary, Kerala Library Association (E-mail: slfaizal(a)gmail.com/Mob: 919447699724) ****************************** Regards S.L.Faisal, General Secretary, Kerala Library Association (KLA) 36, II Floor, Kairalie Plaza Annexe, Karamana P.O. Thiruvananthapuram– 695 002, Kerala slfaizal(a)gmail.com/Mob: 919447699724 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Library Trainees at DA-IICT Gandhinagar Gujarat
by SatishDeshpande 08 Jul '13

08 Jul '13

Blank Dear Sir/Madam Resource Centre of DA-IICT, Gandhinagar is inviting applications for Library Trainee vacancies for 2013-14. You are requested to kindly announce this on LIS Forum to reach out to deserving candidate(s) for this post. Candidates are requested to read job-requirements and instructions carefully and apply. Stipend is likely to be in the range of Rs.12K and 16K per month for deserving candidates. Please click the link below for the Website Announcement. The Last Date to receive application with Pre-test Answers is 14 July 2013. http://resourcecentre.daiict.ac.in/jobs/WebsiteAnnounceRCVacancies26Jun13.p… You are requested to put this announcement on LIS Forum. Looking forward to your continued cooperation ! best wishes satish deshpande Head Resource Centre DA-IICA Gandhinagar -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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