November 2014 - LIS-Forum - ncsi.iisc.ernet.in

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by monisha mishra 14 Nov '14

14 Nov '14

Dear All, Good afternoon. Does anybody has access to the below mentioned article as it being urgently required by one of our professionals. The bibliographical details of article is as below: Characteristics in Evaluating Stream Functions in Ground-Water Flow by by G. B. Matanga, M.ASCE, (Sr. Staff Engr., Radian Corp., Sacramento, CA 95827) *Journal of Hydrologic Engineering*, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1996, pp. 49-53, (doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)1084-0699(1996)1:1(49)) regards M*onisha Mishra* *LibrarianOrissa University of Agriculture & Technology,Bhubaneswar-751003Orissa* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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KALA Celebrates National Library Week
by Meera B. M. 14 Nov '14

14 Nov '14

National Library Week 14-20 November, 2014 (An event of Karnataka State Library Association) Reading for joy is boring Reading for joy is not useful. Talk By Umesh Malhotra C EO Hippocampus Learning Centres ( www.hippocampus.in/ ) Date & Time: 17 th November 2014, 1.30 P M Venue: Poorna Prajna Education Centre Sadashiva Nagar, Armane Nagar, Bengaluru - 560080, Karnataka -- 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] SoftCopy of Conference proceedings--Planner 2006 by Karunakar.N.
by Karunakar N 14 Nov '14

14 Nov '14

Dear professional friends, One of our colleague requires the following reference Kindly please arrange to provide a copy of this article if available in your library.*PLANNER - 2006* which was held in Mizoram University, Aizawl during *9-10th November, 2006*. -- * Thanks & Regards,*** *Karunakar.N Librarian, -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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One Million Kannada Wiki pages-Launched
by Madaiah Krishnamurthy 14 Nov '14

14 Nov '14

Dear Professional Friends, I congratulate Prof. Kavi Mahesh, PES University, who developed "One Million Kannada Wiki pages" under the project KAONE: Centre for Knowledge, Analytics and Ontology Engineering at PES University, Bangalore. The Project sponsored by world Bank, Govt of India, and Govt of Karnataka. "PES Ullekhaa Maalaa"which describes one million Kannada Wiki pages was inaugurated by Nadoja Prof.G. Venkatasubbaiah, who had penned the Kannada dictionary and he was the person who started Kannada wiki pages 12 years back. On November 13th ,2014 at 4.00 PM he inaugurated the Kannada wiki pages at PES Tech Park Auditorium. During this moment Prof. H.S. Venkatesha Murthy, renowned Kannada poet enlightened the gatering about the importance and about the beauty of kannada. Professor Kavi Mahesh spoke about the advantages of this wikipages. He told information about Sachin tendulkar, Narendra Modi, Einstein and their works can be available in kannada which he used translation of german techology with high end computetrs. M. Doreswamy chairman and Chancellor of university enlightened the project and congratualated to Prof Kavi Mahesh. This work can be found at http://54.213.4.161:8000/index where in the user can edit and upgrade any information. I once again congratulate Prof. Kavi Mahesh for this great work. Regards, M.Krishnamurthy ************************************************************** Dr. M.Krishnamurthy,M.A.M.L.I.Sc.Ph.D. Fulbright Scholar, University of Illinois, USA Documentation Research and Training Center Indian Statistical Institute Mysore Road Bangalore 560059 India Phone No: 91-80-28483002/3/4 Ext 493 URL:http://www.isibang.ac.in/~krish/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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1st Alumni Meet and Seminar on Library Development in Odisha: Past, Present and Future
by Bibhuti B. Sahoo 14 Nov '14

14 Nov '14

1st Alumni Meet and Seminar on Library Development in Odisha: Past, Present and Future Organized by Alumni Association and Department of Library and Information Science, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar Date – 14th and 15th February 2015 About Us: The Department of Library and Information Science (DLIS), Utkal University (UU), Bhubaneswar was established in 1981. By now it has completed 33 years of its existence and produced thousands of students working all over India and other parts of the world in different capacities. By the untiring efforts of a bend of dedicated teachers, the department could rise to the occasions by providing teaching and research facilities attracting students from all over India. The department had also organized several national level seminars, conferences, workshops, Refresher courses and many meetings from time to time taking leadership in this region. It also received a good score in NAAC assessment. The alumni association has been established since 2006 to support the department in various activities relating to professional developments and teaching programmes. It provides a platform to discuss various issues of the profession rendering its invaluable support in giving back to its alma mater in the best way possible. Now this is the occasion for the alumni to hold its 1st Alumni meet followed by a seminar on “Library Development in Odisha: Past, Present and Future” in collaboration with department of library and Information Science, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar. In this context all the alumni of the department and other library professionals are requested to send their original papers on any one of the topics given below to have overall picture of library development in the state and its future vision. The original papers should reach in softcopy to alumni.dlis.uu(a)gmail.com by 20th December 2014. Selected articles will be published in a book form with ISBN number. Editorial board has the right to reject/accept the paper. Prof. P. Padhi President, Alumni Association Prof. P.Jena Organising Secretary and HOD, DLIS, UU SUBTHEMES A. Development of Public Library and Information Centers in Odisha 1. Library movement in Odisha 2. Role and Status of public library and information centers of Odisha 3. Restructuring and redesigning the public library systems in Odisha in an digital era 4. Odisha Public Library Act 2001 – its implementation for developing the public library system 5. Role of HKM state library in providing library and information service to the community 6. Status and scope of developing city central libraries in Odisha 7. Status of district library and information service centers in Odisha 8. Developing community library and information centers on government programmes and policies 9. Planning for developing library services for the disables 10. Mobile library services for the rural public 11. Developing a public library network for the state of Odisha 12. Need for developing and publishing bibliographical tools like state bibliography, indexing, directories and other related databases for the literary output of Odisha in both odia and English language B. Academic Libraries as a Support System in Teaching and Research programme 1. Organisational structure and status of college library services in the state of Odisha 2. Present status of university libraries in Odisha and their scope for future development 3. Need for developing a library manual for college and university libraries of Odisha 4. Academic status of college and universities university libraries of Odisha 5. A model School library service for the state of Odisha 6. Restructuring and redesigning the college and university libraries in the digital era 7. Developing a database of doctoral dissertations for each university a tool for bibliographic control of doctoral thesis 8. Designing and developing a database of research publication of the academic community of the state/central universities of Odisha by the University Central Library 9. Need for and present status for computerization and digitization of college and university libraries in Odisha 10. Institutional repositories at the university library in Odisha 11. Scope and status of continuing education for the technical staff and semi professionals working in college and university libraries 12. Planning and development of an academic library network for college & university libraries of Odisha C. Special Libraries and Information Centers in Odisha 1. An overview of Library development in public sector undertaking 2. Special Libraries and information service centers available in Bhubaneswar 3. A model Library of national repute. 4. Need for developing an institutional depository library for the Odisha State Archives. 5. Developing an institutional repository for Odisha state museum library 6. Quality Library services & management in Agriculture and other related library systems 7. An overview of Judicial library system in Odisha 8. Quality Library services & management in Health care and Research libraries of Odisha 9. Quality Library services & management in engineering and Management colleges Libraries of Odisha. D. Library and Information Science Education and Research in Odisha 1. Restructuring and redesigning of Library and Information Science education in Odisha in digital environment 2. Need for establishing a State Training Institutes in Library and Information Science for professional and Human Resource development 3. Role of Library & Information Science literature in Odisha for library development 4. Library and information science research in Odisha 5. Bibliometric analysis of Ph. D thesis and dissertations submitted in LISc, UU, Bhubaneswar 6. Scholarly Publishing in Odisha - An analysis of Research Papers AUTHOR GUIDELINES FOR PAPER SUBMISSION Author Guidelines for paper Submission All Authors are requested to send their articles electronically, through email ID: alumni.dlis.uu(a)gmail.com Author(s) are requested to use following format: Format of Manuscript All papers should be typed on Microsoft Word-version. Paper size should be A4, Portrait of size 8.5" x 11" with Margins: 1" (top & bottom); 1.5"(left & right) All text should be typed in Arial or Times New Roman Font with size 12 and single-spaced. Headings and subheadings must be in Bold font, left justified and numbered according to Level of heading as below: 1. First Level Heading 1.1 Second Level Heading 1.1.1 Third Level Heading Header & Footer of font size 8. Use double space after the headings, before starting the next paragraph. Page Break can be given to give a logical end to a page. The main title of your paper must not exceed 50 characters. This includes letters, spaces and punctuation. Title should be followed by name, affiliation and address of the Author(s) An abstract of length not more than 250 words should be supplied. Few keywords must be given after the abstract. Size of the paper to be kept within 5000 words. All papers must be accompanied by one passport size color photograph together with a brief CV. Illustrations such as photographs, charts, graphs, drawings, and diagrams should be labeled, so that they correspond with their mention in the text (e.g. Table-1, Figure-2, Diagram-3). Guidelines for references Provide the list of references at the end of the paper in sequence as per the guidelines and the examples suggested. The reference guidelines for the author(s) are provided below. Books SURNAME followed by initials. (Year). Title of the book in bold italics. (pp. referred pages). Place of publication: Name of the publisher. For a paper/chapter in a book (multi-authored) SURNAME followed by initials, Surname followed by initials, and Surname followed by initials. (Year) Title of the paper/chapter in bold. In X and Y (Eds). Title of the book in italics, (pp. 45-50) . Place of publication: Name of publisher, Year. (Number of Pages of the book) p. Journals/Magazines/Newsletters SURNAME followed by initials. Surname followed by initials, and Surname followed by initials. (Year). Title of the paper in bold. Title of the journal/magazine/newsletter in italics, Vol. No (issue no.), 45-55. Reports SURNAME followed by initials /organization (Year). Title of the report in bold (only the first letter in caps).pp.(Referred page numbers) Place of publication: Name of the organization/ publisher. Web site Author/organization. Name of the article in bold. Available at Web site URL (Accessed on dd/mm/yyyy). Paper in published proceedings SURNAME followed by initials. Title of the paper in bold. (Year). In X, Y, and Z (Eds).Title of the published proceedings in italics. Name of the conference/workshop, city, country, date, organized by name (s) of organizer(s). p.(number of pages of the paper) Place: Publisher, Year.. Some examples of the bibliographic reference as per the guidelines are as below: ROWLEY, Jennifer. (1998). The electronic library. (pp.100-110). London: Library Association Pub. INFLIBNET Centre. (2005) Annual Report 2004-05 (pp.30-32). Ahmedabad: INFLIBNET Centre. CAIN, Jack. Assessment of options for handling full Unicode character encoding in MARC 21: a study for the Library of Congress. Part 1: New Scripts. Available at http://www.loc.gov/marc/marbi/2004/2004-report01.pdf (Accessed on 22/11/2007). PREM CHAND [et. al.]. (2007). Access to scholarly literature in higher education institutions under INFLIBNET Consortium. In Information and Knowledge Management in Networked World. Proceedings of the International CALIBER 2007, Punjab University, Chandigarh, 8th - 10th February 2007. (pp. 570-588). Ahmedabad: INFLIBNET Centre. -- Thanks and Regards Dr. Bibhuti Bhusan Sahoo Deputy Librarian Central Library, Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar Toshali Bhavan, Satyanagar Bhubaneswar-751007 (India) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Congralulations for Award of Ph.D-Reg
by Bhaskar Reddy M 14 Nov '14

14 Nov '14

Dear Library Professionals, I would like to inform all the library professionals that *Sri.SHIVAPUTRAPPA KATTIMANI* , Librarian and head of Learning Resource Center in M.S.RAMAIAH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Bangalore. He has been awarded with Ph D degree in Library and Information Science by Karnatak University, Dharwad. The Entitle" Evaluation of ICT Skills of Library and Information Professionals Working in the Engineering College Libraries in Karnataka State: A Study ". The research was carried out under the supervision of Dr. Ramesh R.Naik, Professor, Dept of Library & Information Science, Karnatak University, Dharwad…! *CONGRATULATIONS...!!!!!!* Wish you hearty congratulation to you on big achieve and success of your Ph.D Degree. Today, you achieve more hardworking success, your life. That Best Wishes to you from me & all Library Professionals......! We wish you continue to do research and contribute for the betterment of LIS profession. Again Congratulations!!!!!!!! To U for Ur Life Success, *Thanking you…Yours Faithfully,* *M.Bhaskar Reddy* *Assistant Librarian,* *M.S.Ramaiah Institute of Technology,* *Bangalore-560054* *9620450297* -- 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] [Open-access] Fwd: [open-science] Yesterday, we leaked the French agreement with Elsevier
by Subbiah Arunachalam 14 Nov '14

14 Nov '14

Congratulations to Rayna, Pierre-Carl Langlais, Jenny and Katelyn for making this widely known. In India every consortium signs such secret contracts although all the money they pay the publishers come from the taxpayers. In the US and UK activists have used Freedom of Information Act to bring out the contracts into the open. At least in two cases a major publisher objected to it but the courts turned down their unjust objections. There is a Right to Information provision in India and we must use it to get the details of the contracts consortia sign with publishing companies. Arun On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 9:23 PM, Marieke Guy <marieke.guy(a)okfn.org> wrote: > Likely to be of interest to the Open Access list too. > > -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [open-science] Yesterday, we > leaked the French agreement with Elsevier Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 > 16:49:38 +0100 From: Rayna <rayna.st(a)gmail.com> <rayna.st(a)gmail.com> To: > open-science <open-science(a)lists.okfn.org> <open-science(a)lists.okfn.org>, > "open-access(a)lists.okfn.org" <open-access(a)lists.okfn.org> > <open-access(a)lists.okfn.org> <open-access(a)lists.okfn.org> > > Hi everyone, > > Just a short message to highlight a piece we wrote with Pierre-Carl > Langlais (@Dorialexander). It was published in a prominent online > publication yesterday, in French and was aimed to release the recently > concluded agreement between the French Ministry of Research and Elsevier.Â > > With precious help from Jenny and Katelyn, the piece is now available in > English on the main OKF blog:Â > http://blog.okfn.org/2014/11/11/france-prefers-to-pay-twice-for-papers-by-i… > > Such secret contracts are what hinders any meaningful incentive to an > Open Access policy. This is the first installment in a series of materials > we will be running in the coming weeks, aiming to achieve greater > transparency (and later on, to conquer the world ;) ). > > Comments, insights, ideas, tweets, etc. greatly appreciated, > Rayna > > -- > "Change l'ordre du monde plutÃ´t que tes dÃ©sirs." > > http://me.hatewasabi.info/ > > _______________________________________________ > open-access mailing list > open-access(a)lists.okfn.org > https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-access > Unsubscribe: https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/open-access > > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Reply to : Does Introduction of LIS Syllabus in Undergraduate Course Curriculum Change the Libraries/Librarians image?
by Anand Dodamani 13 Nov '14

13 Nov '14

Dear friends, I have been observing the discussions on the image and status of the librarian in the forum. I am disappointed to read some of the opinions expressed by my senior colleagues on the issue. My first question is : why should we feel unimportant? The UGC and Governments have provided all the facilities to librarians on par with teachers. We should be thankful for that. The basic role of the librarian is to support the teaching-learning programmes by way of providing required study and reference material. We should do that work efficiently and effectively. We should think about how to increase our efficiency in our routine work. Change in designation will not change our nature of work. What is wrong in the present nomenclature? Why are we so eager to get re-designated as Assistant Professor/ Associate Professor/ and Professor? Do you think teachers are superior to librarians? No. We all are equal. We should learn from Doctors, Lawyers and Engineers about feeling proud of the profession. Creating a brand or image depends on the quality of work that we do. If we start feeling low, the others will also start ignoring us. Instead of fighting for the introduction of Library Science as a subject at the Undergraduate Level, we should work for strengthening the library system in our respective colleges and institutes. I don't know how others feel about me but, I feel proud of myself. Thanks and regards, Anand Dodamani Mumbai -- 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] Does Introduction of LIS Syllabus in Undergraduate Course Curriculum Change the Libraries/Librarians image?
by Venkata Kesavan 13 Nov '14

13 Nov '14

Dear Friends, This is in response to some very interesting discussions that are currently going on the subject: "Does Introduction of LIS Syllabus in Undergraduate Course Curriculum Change the Libraries/Librarians image". While, at the outset, I broadly agree with various views already expressed by our friends in this discussion trail, it will not be out of place and time to state that, even though we cannot always control various circumstances, factors and players in the LIS field like - LIS Schools, Professional Bodies, Training & Development Organizations, etc. and expect them to do some 'genuine good work' for the upliftment of our profession, I feel that, as working professionals, we ourselves can do our bit in improving the overall situations in our work environments and organizations. As an LIS professional serving in the field for over last two decades, based on my regular interactions with various fellow LIS professionals, I have observed that the following are some of the 'practical reasons', which create real impediments for the LIS professionals to get ahead in their professional life and maintain their professional status / image. Here are my humble observations and suggestions: a) Currently, there are several well-organised libraries in various types and kinds, that are in operations in our Country and these are managed by well-qualified and equally competent LIS professionals. However, as professionals, many of us, quite often does not know how to 'show-case' our 'best professional work / productive work' to attract the much-needed appreciations and recognitions from the Management of our Parent Organizations as well as User Groups. This needs to change through instilling more and more self-confidence in ourselves with a positive approach, supplemented by making effective communications (formal/ informal) within the organization, including with our user groups. b) Another important factor, which contributes to a non-LIS professionals taking charge of Libraries (including in some of the leading and reputed organizations) is that, we as Sr. LIS Professionals fail to create proper succession plan for the future. And in a number of such cases, when a Sr Librarian retires or leaves, without having groomed a person second-in-line (in spite of having a good number qualified and experienced LIS people within the team) to take over the Librarian position, such organizations either make a Faculty member / Research head, Admin person etc., as the in-charge of such Libraries or recruit a new LIS professional from outside the organization. Such a situation actually demoralises the existing LIS team. If these kinds of situations have to change, then it is the Sr LIS Professional who has to play a major positive role (with the blessings of top management) in identifying and grooming the second- in-line person to take over his / her job in future. Equally, in some such cases, here the existing Jr LIS team members are also to be blamed to some extent, as in a quite few cases, howsoever the Sr Librarian tries, the Jr Librarian never shows any positive intent or just remains very reluctant to become the next team leader (Librarian) and tries to be happy (content!) with the role of second fiddle to someone. Only, if such scenarios changes, then the image our profession will also change for better. c) In spite of offering various modern library services and Internet based online library services etc., we still have a long way to go in 'proactively reaching out to our various user groups' by offering value-added and high-quality library and information services with some local level customization and need based service approach. This kind of proactive approach needs to pick-up with more consistent, user-centred innovative strategies and creative strategies in information services design and delivery. d) While a number of us are good at offering high-quality library and information services at the local level with some innovative ways, we are not good at consistently sharing as well as benchmarking our best practices (event worst practices!) with our fellow LIS professionals, at the National as well as International levels. On this front, it may be noted that, some of the so called "National / International LIS Conferences" that are organised in this Country; often the quality of the papers presented / published in various LIS Conferences / Proceedings; and also our 'less-active participation' in such conferences are the clear indicators for such poor and depressing trends in our field. This needs to improve for the better with open minded knowledge-sharing approach, supported by quality research papers, case studies, books, etc. - leading to more and more professionally rewarding debates and discussions. e) Finally, having opted for a noble and scholarly service profession that of LIS, sometimes, we can be less self-centred and more services oriented (we are in the service of others!) and by doing so, our service quality (and mainly its positive impact on our user communities) itself will speak for our status, position and credibility in any organization. I know, this is easier said than done. But, I feel, we can do it by taking ourselves less seriously and our library users more seriously!. (No philosophy - just trying to be more practical, as I had benefited from such positive approaches, every now and then). I hope these points are helpful in further professional discussions...as many of you would have similar views...or...even better views... Best Regards, Dr. R. Venkata Kesavan B.Sc., MLIS., M.Phil., Ph.D. DGM & HEAD TIMES ARCHIVES & KNOWLEDGE CENTRE (TAKC) THE TIMES GROUP THE TIMES OF INDIA BUILDING, 2ND FLOOR DR. D. N. ROAD MUMBAI 400 001 PH: (D): +91-22-66354470 CELL: 09323812172 Email: Venkata.kesavan(a)timesgroup.com<mailto:Venkata.kesavan@timesgroup.com> TAKC - Knowledge is Our Heritage END Vijay Karnataka, 15 years of trust, of truth, of winning, of excitement and of celebration. Disclaimer :----- The information in this e-mail and any attachments is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee or addressees. 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Request for fulltext article
by Mamtha's Gmail 13 Nov '14

13 Nov '14

Dear professional friends, One of our postgraduate student requires the following reference Kindly please arrange to provide a copy of this article if available in your library. Physical measurements as risk indicators for low-back trouble over a one-year period.Biering-Sørensen F <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Biering-S%C3%B8rensen%20F%5BAuthor%…> . Spine (Phila Pa 1976). <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6233709#> 1984 Mar;9(2):106-19. -- -- *Thank you & Regards* *Mrs Mamatha P. Kumar* *Chief Librarian* *Central Library* *Yenepoya University* *Yenepoya University **|** University Road, Deralakatte **|** Mangalore 575018 **|** Karnataka **|* * India*T: +91 824 22046668/69/70 *|* Extn 310 *|*F: +91 824 2204667 *|* www.yenepoya.edu.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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