March 2015 - LIS-Forum - ncsi.iisc.ernet.in

Bits and Bytes Lecture Series – Talk # 2 – Metamorphosis of Library physical space to virtual environment: A retrospect
by shivaram gowda 09 Mar '15

09 Mar '15

Dear Members, You are cordially invited to attend the following lecture organized by NCSI-Net Foundation, Karnataka State Library Association (KALA) and SRELS. Title: Metamorphosis of Library physical space to virtual environment: A retrospect SPEAKER: Prof. Lalitha Aswath, Dept. of Library and Information science. Bangalore University PLACE: Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science (SRELS) 702, 'Upstairs', 42nd Cross, III Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalore - 560 010 DATE & TIME: Friday March 13, 2015 at 6.15 p.m. Abstract: A lot of literature has been published world over about planning and designing of library buildings focusing on space, service and user requirements/dimensions. There is an increase in the diversity of new libraries constructed around the world, making an attempt to integrate architectural expression, inspiring internal environment, good functionality and continued research in converting the existing spaces in to a more conducive and continuously accommodative space. Library building and space management is not much researched area in Indian Librarianship. Research output in LISA from 1968-2011 and web of sciences has shown only 30 publications constituting to 0.80% of the total output on the issue. Irrespective of this academic indifference, it is the umbrella sheltering both human and material resources useful for educational and research goals of any college or University. Here an attempt has been made to explore the principles behind establishing the library as space, place and a virtual environment in academic establishments with warm regards Shivaram BS Treasurer, KALA -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Library Voices: a new initiative by Taylor & Francis
by Segon, Shafina 09 Mar '15

09 Mar '15

Hello everyone, I am happy to share with you a new initiative from the Taylor & Francis Team called the "Library Voices''. Library Voices aims to capture stories from academic librarians around the world, focusing on what their library roles entail, how they are changing, and to demonstrate the positive and considerable contribution libraries are making to the research community, particularly those in developing regions. This output will primarily be a collection of short videos, but will also include audio recordings, images, and text-based accounts. For any clarifications, please write to me: Shafina.segon(a)tandfindia.com<mailto:Shafina.segon@tandfindia.com> Below are further details on how to go about sending us your story. We hope this will provide some inspiration for your story. What should my story include? Please consider the following questions when thinking about the story you would like to tell. What do you think someone in another region could learn about how you work in your library? What would they find interesting, or surprising? 1. What does a typical day look like for you in your library? Which task keeps you busiest? 2. How do you tend to interact with your library users? Do you undertake any work to engage with users outside of the physical library space? 3. Do you have an online presence at all for your library and your library collection? 4. How do you monitor usage of your collection? 5. Would you say your role as a librarian is changing? If so, how? You might like to focus on answering just one of these questions, or share a more general account of the everyday work undertaken in your library - it's entirely up to you! Options for submitting your story Video recordings Videos should be no more than 5 minutes in length. Please clearly introduce yourself, your role, and the library you work in at the beginning of your recording. - A recording on a mobile device or phone, such as an iPad, iPhone, or Galaxy is of a sufficient quality. - Videos should be provided in one of the following formats: .mp4, .mov, .mpg - Remember to make your recording holding your device in the landscape position (sideways) rather than portrait (upright) - Think about the setting: do you want to be in a static position, or would you like the guide the viewer around your library? - Think about location: aim to record the video in a location that is relevant to the subject matter, ideally in the library environment. - Think about framing: distance from the camera and positioning in the frame - Think about background and costume: Try not to have a mess in the background or wear unprofessional/stripy clothing - Think about lighting: Lighting directly onto the speaker, not behind or from the side - Think about the audio: Quiet room to minimise background noise; close enough to the camera to pick up the audio clearly if the microphone is built into the camera Audio recordings Audio recordings should be no longer than 5 minutes in length. Please clearly introduce yourself, your role, and the library you work in at the beginning of your recording. - A recording via a mobile device is of sufficient quality - Recordings should be provided in the following file formats: .mp3, .wav - Think about capturing clear audio: Quiet room to minimise background noise; close enough to the device to pick up the audio clearly if the microphone is built in Submitting a video or audio recording Videos and audio recordings should be submitted using ZendTo, a file transfer website hosted by Taylor & Francis Group, which allows you to transfer files of up to 2GB internationally. The Taylor & Francis Communications team can guide you through this process. We require you to sign a Recording Rights Agreement before we can publish your video. The Taylor & Francis Communications team will arrange for this to be forwarded on to you. Please sign the agreement and post/email it back as soon as possible, as without it we are unable to host your video. Written account Written accounts should be no more than 300 words in extent. They should be accompanied by an image of yourself and the library you work in. These can simply be emailed to Shafina.segon(a)tandfindia.com<mailto:Shafina.segon@tandfindia.com> Please note: all submissions to Library Voices will be assessed for editorial suitability and quality. Submissions which do not meet these criteria will not be published online. How your Library Voices story will be used Once accepted, we will post your recording or account on the Taylor & Francis website so that others around the world can gain an insight into your working practices and learn more about issues affecting libraries in your region. We aim to build this collection over time so that experiences and knowledge can easily be shared amongst the international library community. 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Query request
by Hemavathi.R 09 Mar '15

09 Mar '15

Dear All I am looking for one answer? can you please help me 1.How many number of members are provided for FORSA and what are there services as on july 2014. 2.How many number of members are provided for CONCERT and what are there services as on july 2014. Regards Hemavathi.R Biological Science Library IISc,Bangalore-560012 E-mail:hemavathi@ces.iisc.ernet.in Ph:08022932786 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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BITS & BYTES Lecture Series:Minutes of First lecture held on 13th February 2015 at SRELS, Rajajinagagr, Bangalore
by shivaram gowda 09 Mar '15

09 Mar '15

BITS & BYTES Lecture Series: Minutes of First lecture held on 13th February 2015 at SRELS, Rajajinagagr, Bangalore Topic: “Big Data and Analytics: Applications in LIS” Speaker: Suvarasha Minj, Kaybus, Bangalore Organizers:NCSI-Net Foundation, Karnataka State Library Association (KALA) and Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science (SRELS) Date & Venue:Friday 13th February 2015 at SRELS, Rajajinagar, Bangalore. The Lecture started with welcome address and brief introduction of lecture series by Dr. Francis Jayakanth. Dr. IRN Goudar, who presided the function, introduced speaker and presented his views about the buzz word “Big Data” which is widely talked in present social networking context. He also appreciated organizers – and the three organizations - for reinitiating monthly lecture series in Bangalore. Mrs. Suvarsha, the speaker, introduced concept &history of Big Data and its nature. She explained Big data with its 4Vs terminology i.e Volume (terabytes to exabytes of data), Velocity (Data in motion, streaming data), Variety (Data in many formats like structured, semi structured, unstructured etc), Veracity (Data in doubt). She spoke about big data analytics which has got wide market applications, for example market trends, customer preferences etc. The history of big data analytics was demonstrated with a YouTube video. Survasha highlighted key enablers and technologies of big data. She explained MapReduce,Apache Hadoop – 2005, NoSQL and other big data related technologies. She also mentioned applications of big data in various fields by giving various examples like, Wal-Mart can predict what products will sell, Car insurance companies understand how well their customers actually drive, Obama’s 2012 election win by analyzing big data analytics etc. She concluded her talk byexplaining applications of Big Data concepts in LIS field; she mentioned various ongoing projects in LIS arena. She opined that possible applications of Big Data in LIS field can be: 1.Knowledge production – keeping the tabs – using web data, 2.Information – Books, articles, data sets, metadata along with other data 3.Users – Usage of information 4.Webometrics - large scale data analysis identifying appropriate research fields for new information sources based upon an initial analysis of its potential 5.Bibliometrics and Altmetrics - identify patterns, discover new knowledge, and inform public and scholarly decision making Finally she concluded her talk by explaining path of Knowledge automation and Kaybus knowledge automation tool demonstration. There was interactive question answer session. The lecture was attended by more than 40 professionals from academic, R & D, corporate, student community. The lecture was well received and appreciated by the participants. Mr. Ananda Byrappa thanked Mrs. Suvarsha for informative talk and Dr. IRN Goudar for presiding over the lecture. Anand thanked audience for making the first Bits and Bytes lecture successful by turning in large numbers. Anand explained how the BITS and BYTES lecture series would help LIS professionals in Bangalore going forward. About BITS & BYTES Lecture Series: A Joint lecture series initiated in Bangalore by three LIS organizations namely - NCSI-Net Foundation, Karnataka State Library Association (KALA) and Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science (SRELS). Organizers welcome others to join the initiative. The lecture would be held on second Friday of every month at 6.15 pm at SRELS, Rajajiangar, Bangalore. Next talk would be organized on 13th March about “Library Space in context of Internet World” by Prof. Lalitha Aswath, Director, Prasaranga, Bangalore University. The lecture would be presided by Prof. AY Asundi. Former Prof. Bangalore University. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Minutes Prepared by: Shivaram with inputs from Madhuresh Singhal& Ananda Byrappa ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://kalaonline.com/ with warm regards Shivaram BS Treasurer, KALA Shivaram BS ICAST, CSIR-NAL Kodihalli Bangaluru-560017 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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CFP & CFR -- National Conference on "Recent Trends in Computing and Communications"
by Mohan Hr 07 Mar '15

07 Mar '15

Dear all, Shri Shankarlal Sundarbai Shasun Jain College for Women, Chennai, the first Arts & Science College which received the "BEST STUDENT BRANCH Award" for the period 2013-14 from Computer Society of India is organizing the 2nd National Conference on "Recent Trends in Computing and Communications" during 26-27 Mar 2015 in association with CSI Chennai Chapter.. For Call For Papers (last date -- 16th Mar 2015) ;& Call For Registrations, pl. see http://www.csi-chennai.org/2nd-nc-racc.pdf Technical papers describing original, unpublished results are solicited in all areas of theory and practice of Computing, Communication and Information Technologies. Authors are invited to submit original & unpublished papers from (but not limited to) the topics listed below: Artificial Intelligence; Cloud Computing; Computer Networks and Communication Technology; Graph Theory and Analysis of Algorithms; Data Engineering (Data Mining and Data Warehousing); Big Data; Data Visualization; Virtual reality; Grid Computing; Image Processing & Pattern Recognition; Information Retrieval; Knowledge Base and Mining; Methods of Simulation and Modeling; Mobile Technology & Wireless Communication; Natural Language Processing; Neural Networks and Applications; Ontology Design and Tools; Robotics; Software Engineering and Design Patterns; Web Mining & Internet Computing; Service Oriented Architecture; E-Governance. For further details pl. contact: Mythili Prakash Asst. Professor, Dept. of CSE Shri Shankarlal Sundarbai Shasun Jain College for Women T. Nagar, Chennai 600 017 Email: mythiliprakash(a)shasuncollege.edu.in Mobile: +919841337438 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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National Conference
by ambika ashok 07 Mar '15

07 Mar '15

Dear Professional Colleagues, We are organizing national conference at K..S. School of Engineering and Management, No.15, Mallsandra,  Off. Kanakapura Road, Bengaluru-62. on 5th May 2015, Tuesday. Last date to submit the full length paper: 31.03.2015 Acceptance Notification : 10.04.2015 Submission of corrected full length paper (in the given format) with registration form : 15.04.2015 Conference Date : 5.05.2015 We request you to submit the paper at the earliest. Paper to be sent to : ncash15(a)kssem.edu.in Topics: eResource/Library Services/ICT/User Education Programme/Citations/Semantic/ and other relevant topics For further more details please go through the link http://www.kssem.edu.in/ncash2015-science/ Regards, Ambika C.A. Librarian K.S. School of Engineering and Management No.15, Mallsandra, Off. Kanakapura Road, Bengaluru-62. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Library Assistants required for SJBIT Bengaluru
by Vinay Channavenkatesh 07 Mar '15

07 Mar '15

Dear Moderator, Kindly publish the following information in LIS Forum SJB Institute of Technology, Kengeri, Bengaluru, requires Library Assistants for its Library & Information Centre with following requirements: *Should be a holder of DLISc., BLISc., or MLISc., *.1 to 2 years of Experience with knowledge of Library software, Digital Library & MS office. *Possess good English communication skills *Should be ready to work in shifts (Day / Night) *Salary will be as per norms of the institution. Deserving candidates shall apply with Hard Copies of Detailed Curriculum Vitae and relevant documents to the below mentioned address.Shortlisted candidates will be called for written test & / or interview. Apply with detailed resume on or before 16th March 2015. With Warm Regards, Vinay. C, Librarian (Senior Grade) SJB Institute of Technology, BGS Health & Education City, Uttarahalli Main Road, Kengeri, Bengalooru - 560 060. Phone: 080-28612445 / 46 Fax: 080-28612651 Mob: +91-9886811828 Web: www.sjbit.edu.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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What The Heck is... Big Data? | Bernard Marr | LinkedIn
by Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy 07 Mar '15

07 Mar '15

Should librarians bother to know about Big Data? Some of you may like to peep in! When you were reading a book in the past, no external data was generated. If you now use a Kindle or Nook device, they track what you are reading, when you are reading it, how often you read it, how quickly you read it, and so on https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20130527063838-64875646-what-the-hell-is-big… -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Pls share - Thanks
by Ragaavendra R 06 Mar '15

06 Mar '15

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Fwd: The historical and empirical study exclusively on surya namaskar.
by Library CJC 06 Mar '15

06 Mar '15

Dear Sir/Madam, I find out there are many comparative study on surya namaskar and yoga with physical and psychological attributes. But I have not come across a single study about *the historical and empirical study exclusively on surya namaskar.* Could you please help me to find out the article on above said subject as soon as possible. Thanks & Regards Sona Raphel Library Christ Junior College Bangalore - 560 029 Email: library(a)cjc.christcollege.edu Tel: 080 - 40129233 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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