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

Need Article
by Manjunath Ealiger 29 May '15

29 May '15

Dear Library Professional, One of our Faculty member has urgently required the below mentioned article for his research purpose. It would be highly appreciated if anyone can send this article to us. *Article : **Massive epidermoid metaplasia with keratin cyst formation in a giant fibro-adenoma of breast * *Author : R. Salm* *Source : **The Journal of Pathology and Bacteriology * * Volume : 77, Issue No : 01 (January 1959) * * * *Pages : 297 to 299* and *Article : **Extensive squamous metaplasia simulating squamous cell carcinoma in benign breast papillomatosis ** * *Author : **Karl-Ove Söderstrom, Sakari Toikkanen* *Source : Human Pathology ** * * Volume : 14, Issue No : 12 (December 1983) * * * *Pages : 1081 to 1082* -- Thanks and regards. Manjunath Ealiger Librarian ESI- Medical College & PGIMSR, Bangalore - 560010 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Need Article - reg.
by Manjunath Ealiger 28 Mar '15

28 Mar '15

Dear Library Professional, One of our Faculty member has urgently required the below mentioned article for her research purpose. It would be highly appreciated if anyone can send this article to us. **Article : Profile of central corneal thickness in diabetics with and without dry eye in a Saudi population* * * **Author/s : O. Matthew Oriowo, Ph.D., BScOptom, M.Sc.* * Department of Optometry, College of Applied Medical Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia * * * * Source : Optometry - Journal of the American Optometric Association* * Volume : 80, Issue No : 08 (August, 2009)* * * * *Pages : 442 - 446 * Thanks and regards. Manjunath Ealiger Librarian ESI- Medical College & PGIMSR, Bangalore - 560010 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Need Article - reg.
by Manjunath Ealiger 01 Sep '14

01 Sep '14

Dear Library Professional, One of our Faculty member has urgently required the below mentioned article for her research purpose. It would be highly appreciated if anyone can send this article to us. *Article : *Comparison of three different methods of evaluation of metabolic acid-base disorders * * *Author/s : **Dubin, Arnaldo MD; Menises, María M. PhD; Masevicius, Fabio D. MD; * * Moseinco, Miriam C. MD; Kutscherauer, Daniela Olmos MD; Ventrice, * * Elizabeth MD; Laffaire, Enrique MD; Estenssoro, Elisa MD* * * *Source : Critical Care Medicine* * Volume : 35, Issue No : 35 (May, 2007)* * * *Pages : **1264-1270 * -- Thanks and regards. Manjunath Ealiger Librarian ESI- Medical College & PGIMSR, Bangalore - 560010 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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2014 Open access survey: Taylor & Francis authors give their views
by Segon, Shafina 20 Aug '14

20 Aug '14

***APOLOGIES FOR CROSS POSTING*** What are authors' attitudes to open access publishing in 2014? With open access continuing to have a high profile, is all the debate and discussion helping to inform researchers and influence their thinking? The results of the 2014 Taylor & Francis Open Access Survey have been released for the first time today at http://www.tandfonline.com/page/openaccess/opensurvey/2014 The survey asked researchers a series of questions on their perceptions of open access; their attitudes, values and understanding of it; and what they believe the future of research communication to be. Having previously surveyed their authors in 2013, the results offer some intriguing shifts in opinions, placing responses from both years next to each another to show how views have changed, and to what degree. Responses show that positivity towards open access, when discussed in general, is growing. There were significant increases in the proportions strongly agreeing that open access offered a wider circulation than publication in a subscription journal (from 38% to 49%), and that it offered higher visibility (27% to 35%). 70% of respondents also disagreed or strongly disagreed with the statement 'There are no fundamental benefits to open access publication', an increase of 10% year-on-year and a strong indicator that open access continues to be viewed as a force for good. Licences continue to be a contentious issue, with 53% of authors showing a first or second preference for the CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Despite strong advocates for CC-BY, it remained the 'least preferred' option in this survey. However, there is evidence that opinions on this are softening as understanding increases, with this proportion dropping from 52% in 2013 to 35% this year. The full survey results and top level report is now available on Taylor & Francis Online at http://www.tandfonline.com/page/openaccess/opensurvey/2014. Findings on open access mandates will be published soon. Tell us what you think via Twitter @TandFOpen and follow the conversation at #oasurvey2014. Best wishes, Shafina Segon Head of Marketing Journals & Online Resources Shafina.segon(a)tandfindia.com<mailto:Shafina.segon@tandfindia.com> -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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A K Dasgupta passes away
by jharavu 01 Aug '14

01 Aug '14

I am deeply grieved to report the passing away of by our dear A K Dasgupta, who was affectionately referred to by his students as Arunda (elder brother Arun). Above all, he was a wonderful human being. His scholarship, his objectivity and strong determination never to be swayed by mere names but only by intrinsic worth, his eagerness to add to his professional usefulness to his users, the respect and love he got from his bosses, users and mentors like Sri. B S Kesavan and Prof. Neelameghan, his wide reading, his contacts with scholars in many areas of knowledge and his ability to interpret his findings across many areas of knowledge was truly exemplary. Whenever I visited his home in Banjara Hills, I found him surrounded by tons of newspapers and books on all matter of subjects. When he retired from ASCI, I remember we discussed his options: whether to join NIRD or the Eenadu Newspaper group. I was quite clear that he would make his mark in a totally non-librarian area which indeed he did, showing to professionals like me that a librarian should aim for scholarship and not get bogged down in the nitty-gritty of librarianship and empty terminology. What a great example he set for all of us. With his passing away we have all lost a little of ourselves. Haravu -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Increase the value of library services...
by DP Tripathi 01 Aug '14

01 Aug '14

Increase the value of library services: Use of technology is spread just like mushroom in every walk of our life now-a-days and everyone almost feels really helpless whenever there is gap of these technologies in our day to day life's routine work. Technology has also widened the scope of our working areas as well as level of thinking but, if we just have the glimpses of the days two decades ago in our mind, we hardly used to hear the terms like automation, digitization, content management system etc. Without the much use of technology also, library professionals were able to provide services to their library patrons effectively and the system used to be very strong those days from user satisfaction's point of view. Those days it was really a tough task for any library to market their products & services as the medium of communication was not that much strong in comparison to what it is today. Even then, the libraries were able to disseminate information and assist in research and academic work by providing personalized services, customized services, evaluating different services etc. I am trying to draw your attention towards value of library services in digital era...... We have been using technology to speed up our efficiency but have we ever thought about value of library services being provided? Does it reach to the society & its users successfully? and so on....If answer is 'Yes'......then great and if 'Not'.....we must think it over about how can it reach? In my opinion, social media or networking has been playing a very effective role in maintaining public relations......it is working just like bridge between two ends. In order to stay up-to-date in the socially networked environment and meet the growing needs of their users, libraries therefore need to adopt the new technologies and face the challenges for delivery of better services. We all must actively respond to the popularity of social networking sites e.g. most popular facebook, twitter etc. and their expanding role in the creation, use, and sharing of information by engaging us as a central medium for interacting with library patrons and providing services to meet their information needs. We all must follow the public conversations, posts, updates, and events of these key individuals, and offer advice, resources, and help. We all must act as an active participant of the social space and be able to identify the needs of the members of the library communities and must provide solutions by offering information, links to the websites that are relevant to their information needs; and even direct offers of help. There is an urgent need for libraries to adopt the new social networking tools in their services as a strategy for major change while promoting a role for library users in knowledge creation. Libraries can connect their social networking sites with their library websites to links to their on-line public access catalog, chat reference pages, research guides, calendar of events, e-newsletter etc. In order to increase the value of our library services, we must play the roles of the social networking librarian by: understanding the nature of social networking sites, creating web page and content, establishing friendly user interface over the network, evaluating and applying information, assisting users by providing quality on-line library services. Thanks, ********************* D. P. Tripathi Assistant Librarian Biju Patnaik Central Library NIT Rourkela Odisha - 769008 http://library.nitrkl.ac.in <http://www.librarianguide.in> ********************** -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Fwd: LIBRARIES & THE TAX PROBLEMS: SIGN THE PETITION TO FM by Ishwar Goudar
by Dinesh Siddaiah 31 Jul '14

31 Jul '14

Dear All, I too would like to join with Goudar to appeal LIS community to sign the online petition and support ILA to fight against illogical financial bill which is threat to the development of electronic libraries in India. Imposing service tax and TDS on E-resources will severely lags the advanced teaching/learning and research out put in the country. Please forward the link in social medias as well so that it reach fast and effectively as well: www.ipetitions.com/petition/indian-library-association I also would like to request ILA to revise the first para of the petition if possible, so that taxation issue will be prime concern rather than mixing up the issues of development of e-libraries in the country. ILA can take up development of e-libraries in a separate request. ILA may also give serious thought on revising organizational/work structure and bringing fresh mind in to the fold for the betterment of the county. Many thanks to Goudar for timely advise, motivation, updating the community as and when required. Bottom Line: "Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success." ~Henry Ford (1863-1947) Best Regards, Dinesh Dear Professionals, We have too short time to approach the FM before the budget is approved and becomes a sort of law, making it difficult for libraries and other stake holders to acquire or sell e-resources even for academic and research purpose due to service tax and TDS. Let the Government differentiate between a software and scholarly e-content. Please read the forwarded mail of Prof. Koganurmath and sign the petition immediately ( www.ipetitions.com/petition/indian-library-association) and strengthen ILA and other Associations in convincing the FM appropriately. PLEASE FORWARD THIS MAIL TO YOUR PROFESSIONAL FRIENDS, SO THAT THE NUMBER OF PERSONS SIGNING THE PETITION GROWS FAST. -- Dr. Dinesh K. S. Deputy Librarian, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, Nangal Road, Rupnagar, Punjab - 140 001. Phone: 01881 - 242134 (O) 9779747902 (M) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Sad Demise of Prof. Neelameghan
by Francis Jayakanth 31 Jul '14

31 Jul '14

I was given to understand just a while ago from a very reliable source that Prof. A. Neelameghan, an internationally acclaimed scholar in Library and Information Science and former Professor and Head, DRTC, Bangalore, has passed away. Details are awaited. My heartfelt condolences on the loss of a doyen in the field of LIS. Francis Jayakanth IIMB, Bannerghatta Roa, Bg - 76 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Reg. NAAC
by Vandana Khandelwal 31 Jul '14

31 Jul '14

Dear LIS Professional Greetings from the MITAOE Our college is getting itself accredited through NAAC. Kindly provide list the best practices for NAAC committee visit. I also have some queries regarding the same. I request you to please send me with relevant authentic documents. 1. What is the student and book ratio as per the NAAC or for an engineering institute? 2. What is the percentage of budget allotted for a engineering library? 3. What are the minimum and maximum values of readers that must visit library (circulation, total walk in, reading hall, reference, digital library etc.) 4. Please share any free resource information related to engineering. 5. Any other point you would like to mention. Also if anybody having PPT about the same please share with me. With warm regards (Ms. Vandana Khandelwal) Librarian MITAOE, Pune -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Need of AICTE handbook
by Gulshan Kumar 31 Jul '14

31 Jul '14

Dear Library Professionals!!! If anybody is having copies of AICTE handbook for years 2013-14 and 2014-15 respectively please send me for reference. Thank you -- *.....Thanks & RegardsGulshan Kr. Sachdeva* *M.No.- +91-9911496696* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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