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The UGC’s Colonial Hangover
by Vasanth 24 Jan '17

24 Jan '17

Dear Sir/madam, The UGC’s approved list of journals for the CareerAdvancement Scheme (CAS) and Direct Recruitment of Teachers and other academicstaff is at receiving end. How a prime body in higher education can come up with alist of journals for the Career Advancement Scheme (CAS) and Direct Recruitmentof Teachers without much discussion with its stakeholders. According to Reuters India speaksmore than 780 languages, with such a vast diversity of languages, how come UGC neglectthe journals published in vernaculars and compile the list. Though English isthe binder, still we have vast number of people using vernaculars forcommunications (writings/Speaking) and many learned societies also have theirown publications in local languages. In Kannada itself there are very goodperiodicals which carries the research publications mainly in social sciences. Beforepublishing the list UGC should have at least included some of the good journalspublished across India mainly in vernacular languages. Compilation of list of journalspublished in local languages is not at all difficult in today’s world or elsethey should have seek the opinion of academics and other stakeholders involvedin research and publishing activities. The list is completely western and biased.It has only included journals published by the major publishing houses, forinstance Elsevier. The list is also clueless about what was the basis forselecting these journals. Is it theimpact factor of the journal? Is it because of the journal is indexed in Web ofScience (WoS) or Scopus? Is it theeditorial board of the journal? Is it many of the Indian authors have publishedpapers in these journals? This is not clear at all. At least UGC should havebeen open on this aspect. The current government atcentre is promoting Hindu everywhere, under its own nose UGC is promoting acolonial language. Though English hasbecome lingua franca for global communication UGC should promote and encourage itsacademicians to write and publish in their own vernaculars to respect thediversity of India at least in social sciences. Views are Personal------------------------- With best wishes Vasantha Raju N.GFGC-Periyapatna

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International Conference - DLIS - Bharathidasan University - Reg
by Dr. R. Balasubramani 24 Jan '17

24 Jan '17

Dear Professionals, Greetings from Department of Library and Information science, Bharathidasan University We the faculty members, Research Scholars, Students and alumni of Department of Library and Information Science, Bharathidasan University happily announce on International Conference on "Knowledge Resources and Library Technologies" February 24-25, 2017 Objective: To bring together LIS professionals, Teaching fraternity, Scientists, knowledge workers in corporate and information industries, the students and research scholars of LIS, Education, Computer Science, Information Technology and other relevant disciplines to deliberate on the prevailing trends, the future technologies towards identification, organization, dissemination and conception and generation of information and knowledge data sets. Call for Papers Original papers as the outcome of research, Case Studies, Surveys, Projects, Best Practices, Innovative information services, Conceptual Papers from LIS Professionals, Faulty Members, Students and Industries are welcome. Themes To meet the objective of the progamme, papers/research articles can be contributed in the following related themes · Knowledge Society and Economy · Knowledge resource building by different types of libraries. · Knowledge Management and the Libraries · Facilitating access to different types of knowledge resources · Knowledge Organization and Knowledge Organization Systems · Tools and Components of Knowledge Organization · Classification, Cataloguing, Indexing, Subject Heading Lists, Thesaurus · Taxonomies, Authority Lists, Metadata, Ontology, Semantic Web · Library Automation, Resource Sharing and Networking · KOS in digital environment · Digital Rights Management (DRM) · Public Library Systems and Services · Scholarly Communication and Publication · Digital Library System · Open Course Ware and Scholarly Open Access · LMS, CMS, E-learning software etc. · Open Source Software · Social Networking Tools and Techniques · User Studies and Information Seeking Behaviour · Library Tourism · Cultural and Heritage Documentation and Archives · Information and Knowledge Ethics · Bibliometrics, Scientometrics, Webometrics, Altmetrics · Quality Assurance and Accreditation of Libraries *Guidelines for Submission of Papers* Authors are requested to submit the soft copy of full paper (with abstract not exceeding 200 words and at least three keywords) on e-mail attachment to the organizing secretary. The paper should not exceed 6 pages of A4 size with double line spacing and font size 12 in Times New Roman. Charts, graphs, photographs, if any, should be inserted in appropriate places of the article. References should be given as per the APA Style manual. Accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings with ISBN. A few of the selected and extended papers will be published in peer-reviewed/ referred and Indexed Journals. Papers can be e-mail to Organizing Secretary at ickrelt2017(a)gmail.com For details please visit the conference website: https://ickrelt2017conference.wordpress.com/ *Important Dates* Conference Dates 24-25, February 2017 Last Date of Submission Full Paper 15, February 2017 *Registration * *Registration Type* *LIS Professionals - India Rs. 1500/-* *SAARC Participants $75* *Overseas participants $100* *Students Rs. 750/-* *(only MLIS, M.Phil., Ph.D Regular Scholar)* *Last Date for Registration* The last date for registration is 20th February 2017 Papers will be published Conference Proceeding with ISBN Number only after the receipt of Registration Fee (Registration is mandatory for at least one of the author) The Registration fee includes Conference kit, working lunch, refreshments. The demand draft may be drawn in favour of “Bharathidasan University, Trichy -24”. An author can contribute a maximum of two papers (either first or co-author). The paper will be included in the conference volume only after receiving the registration fee along with filled in Registration Form. The soft copy should be mailed to ickrelt2017(a)gmail.com. *Accommodation * Accommodation for outstation participants will be arranged at the University Guest House and neighboring facilities on request. The Guest House has Rs. 500 per day on twin sharing basis. The payment for the guest house accommodation should be made on the spot by cash. The participants are requested to confirm the arrival and departure timing over phone/e-mail. Plenty of Hotels/Lodges are also available with nominal cost. Please visit our conference site for more information. with kind regards *Organizing Secretaries* *Dr. S. Srinivasa Ragavan* Professor and Head Department of Library and Information Science Bharathidasan University Trichy – 24 Cell: 9486916358 & *Dr. R. Balasubramani * Assistant Professor Department of Library and Information Science Bharathidasan University Trichy – 24 Cell: 9994889426 https://ickrelt2017conference.wordpress.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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I Request the Article for our Students-reg
by planisamy ilangumaran kumar 24 Jan '17

24 Jan '17

Good Morning, I am need of the following articles (pdf's) on urgent basis, can some body share them   Non contact measurement of body temperature for the identification of thermoregulation abilities in preterm patients, Ilaria Ercoli The influence factor analysis for preterm neonates via grey entropy, Mei-Li You Determination of temperature in neonates based in a face IR thermography image segmentation algorithm, Lucia B. Chávez Rivera Facial Expression Recognition of Pain in Neonates, Guanming Lu Low-cost fluorescence-based temperature sensing system for neonatal care Kirit Chatterjee, Hung Lam   Your kind early reply would be appreciated.   P.ILANGUMARAN Senior Librarian Sethu Institute of Technology Kariapatti-626 115 Virudhunagar Dist Tamil Nadu,India mobile:9789527616 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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DRTC Colloquium 1(2017) on "Modern Publishing Models and the Libraries"
by Biswanath Dutta 24 Jan '17

24 Jan '17

To The LIS-FORUM Moderator Dear Sir, Reuqest you to kindly arrange to publish the following DRTC Colloqiuim announcement to the LIS-FORUM. Thanking you, With regards, Biswanath *INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE* *Documentation Research & Training Centre (DRTC)* 8th Mile, Mysore Road, RVCE Post Bangalore, 560 059 *COLLOQUIUM-1* *(2016-2018)* *Modern Publishing Models and the Libraries* *Abstract* Since ancient times human beings has been communicating to express their ideas through various medium, be it for personal or public expression.One of the most dominant and currently relevant media is publishing.Publishing is the act of communicating a message to the public through a medium.Publications links authors and their creation with readers. With evolution in technology, there has been a shift from the publisher-centric model to the author-friendly model of publishing.Many platforms assist the authors and the users in getting access to quality material for an affordable price.In this era, it thus becomes necessary to have an overview of the new publishing models.A critical analysis is conducted for each model starting from post Gutenberg to open access publications.The impact it has on libraries is also studied and how a library can play a crucial role in this new publishing scenario.This colloquium will discuss how various publishing model works and how authors, users, and librarians are benefiting from them. The colloquium is organised into sub-topics and corresponding speakers as follows: *Speaker * *Topic* Udaya Varadarajan Introduction Susheel Chourasiya Ancient publishing Supriya Bag Emergence of modern publishing and publishing process Dipanjan Munshi Evaluation of modern publishing models Amrish Dubey Open access publishing Amit Tiwari Self publishing and Indie publishing Harsha Rathi Hybrid publishing Gautam Mondal Social media publishing Harish Kumar Impact on libraries Naveen Patil Conclusion *Date**: 25-01-2017* *Time**: 2 p.m.* *Venue: *DRTC Class Room(G-16), ISI Bangalore. *All are cordially invited.* *Coordinator* *Dr. Biswanath Dutta * -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Congratulating Prof. Amudhavalli, University of Madras on her Retirement
by Narenthiran R 24 Jan '17

24 Jan '17

Dear Friends, I would like to join to congratulate Prof. A. Amudhavalli, called Mam A.A. ‘My Hearty Congratulations’ to our respected and beloved Prof. A. A on the occasion of her happy retirement after a memorable and golden teaching service imparted to many students. I was her student in DLIS, University of Madras, in the period of 1988-1990. During my studentship I have never missed Prof. A.A Mam’s lectures. Her lectures used to be very informative and resourceful. Dear teacher…your teachings and services to LIS profession will forever be treasured, can never be measured. I thank God for having blessed me to learn from such an awesome teacher in my life. I pray to Almighty to bestow His blessings on her for a happy and healthy retired life. Best wishes, With regards, R. Narenthiran French Institute of Pondicherry Message: 2 Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2017 14:02:22 +0530 From: mgsree <mgsree(a)iimk.ac.in> To: Lis forum <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Congratulating Prof. Amudhavalli, University of Madras on her Retirement Message-ID: <162563767da5772cf1080c792c0a6931(a)iimk.ac.in> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Dear Colleagues: Please join me in congratulating Prof. Amudhavalli, Professor and Head, Department of Library & Information Science, University of Madras who is retiring from service on the 31st January 2017. ?HEARTY CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR WELL-DESERVED RETIREMENT MADAM!? During her almost four decades of eventful and productive professional service to Library & Information Science, the longest inning was with the University of Madras, which has the rare distinction and identity in our profession owing to its founder Dr. SRR and its accomplished successors. Prof. Amudhavalli has held many key positions in the Department of Library & Information Science, and in the University of Madras and at MALA (Madras Library Association). She has given her might and contributed relentlessly in enhancing as well as keeping the highest standards and traditions of the Department, which has earned substantial respect during the years. Truly a star professor and a multifaceted Guru, that transcend the LIS Profession, she has selflessly and boundlessly enabled and empowered many universities/institutions/professional associations in the country and abroad, in many capacities. She has also intelligently taught and meticulously coached thousands of students and also produced many M.Phils and Ph.Ds. Madam, we will indeed miss you in the Department but your words of wisdom, the timeless knowledge that you have imparted and the ever green principles you held in high esteem, will never be forgotten by your colleagues and students. WISHING YOU THE BEST OF LUCK, A VERY HAPPY, PEACEFUL AND HEALTHY LIFE AHEAD! M.G. Sreekumar Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode -- 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] NIT Needs more Genius Professionals than IIT ?
by mailman＠ncsi.iisc.ernet.in 23 Jan '17

23 Jan '17

---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- From: mouni(a)nitt.edu Date: Mon, January 23, 2017 11:11 am To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in -------------------------------------------------------------------------- It is true that no uniform policy is being followed as regards to library personnel recruitment in our country. The Librarians in the IITs and NITs have lost the academic status. I don't know how many of you are aware of this. The IITs and NITs are the premier higher technical educational institutions under MHRD, Government of India. These institutions do not follow UGC/AICTE rules but respective council rules(RRs) communicated by MHRD is followed. The library personnel (Librarian, Dy. Librarian and Assistant Librarian) in these institutions are declared as NON-TEACHING by respective ACT and Recruitment Rules. Recruitment Rules (RRs), approved by the Council, communicated by the MHRD is adopted in the BOG and implemented. As per the RRs the Librarian, Dy. Librarian and Asst. Librarian are non-teaching and given lower Grade pay and no increment for acquiring PhD, no CAS promotion and no PDA. The scale of pay for the Post of the Assistant Librarian is PB3 GP Rs.5400 instead of AGP of Rs.6000 and for Dy. Librarian PB3 with GP Rs.7600 instead of AGP Rs.8000. Assistant Librarian has to wait for 10 years to be an eligible candidate for DL. These institutions have started appointing the librarian staff as per the RRs and other guides. I request that the Library Associations must take up the issues and come forward to represent to the MHRD for considering the Library personnel of NITs and IITs at par with UGC norms. All are requested to join hands to this issues and support our professional friends. With regards, P. Mounissamy Assistant Librarian NIT, Tiruchirappalli Tamil Nadu

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First Reminder: National Level Workshop on Koha ILMS from 13 to 14 February 2017 at GIPE, Pune
by GIPE Pune 23 Jan '17

23 Jan '17

Dear All Greetings from the GIPE Library! You will be pleased to know that the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (GIPE) Library is organizing a National Level Workshop on Koha Integrated Library Management System from 13 to 14 February 2017. Details of the workshop and the registration form can be downloaded from the following links. http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/42113 or http://www.gipe.ac.in/admin//uploads/1483695484_Koha-2017.pdf Please note that number of registrations is restricted to 30 participants only on first come first served basis and the last date for registration is 31 January 2017. For any clarifications do get back to us at gipelibrary(a)gmail.com Thanks and Regards Nanaji Shewale (Ph D) Librarian and Administrator - DSpace@GIPE Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics B M C C Road, Deccan Gymkhana Pune 411004 (India) T: 91 20 25679940 (Direct) T: 91 20 25654288, 25650287 Ext 401 http://www.gipe.ac.in http://dspace.gipe.ac.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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BOSLA-KJSCE Seminar on Internet of Things and Research Communication - 18th February, 2017
by Deepali V 23 Jan '17

23 Jan '17

*Dear All,* *BOSLA-KJSCE Seminar on Internet of Things and Research Communication - 18th February, 2017* *Watch the Video Teaser….* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TPApUfhI-8 *Come Join us to learn...* -- Thanks & Regards Deepali V Librarian K. J. Somaiya College of Engineering Vidyanagar, Vidyavihar, Mumbai 400077 Tel : 91 - 22 - 66449020 Mobile : 9819687486 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Presentation on “E-Waste Management” on 28th Jan 2017 at 4.00 p.m.
by Mohan Hr 22 Jan '17

22 Jan '17

Dear all, Pl. find an invite for a presentation on “E-Waste Management” on 28th Jan 2017 at 4.00 p.m. The pdf invite is available at http://ieeecs-madras.managedbiz.com/pgms/2017/mm-170128-ewaste.pdf To facilitate logistics, please pre-register at https://goo.gl/forms/IzgBXPj0LlrReMLz1 INVITE ===================================. IEEE Madras Section IEEE Computer Society, Madras Chapter IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Society, Madras Chapter IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society, Madras Chapter IEEE Communications Society, Madras Chapter Computer Society of India, Chennai Chapter Cordially invite you for a presentation on “E-Waste Management” by Dr. K. Prabhakarn Dean, Faculty of Management, SRM University, Chennai And Mr. T. Udhayakumar Solution Architect, Hewlett Packard Enterprises, Chennai on Saturday, 28th Jan 2017 at 4.00 p.m. at Seminar Hall, Alumni Center, Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 (Situated opposite to Ladies Hostel, Anna Univertuty Campus) Programme ========= 4.00 p.m. : Tea & Fellowship 4.30 p.m. : Presentation 6.00 p.m. : High Tea About the presentation: =================== The presentation will provide an introduction to E-Waste, its problems and then focus on how an electronic waste is managed in India. The major defect lies in improper recycling methods which are being adopted in the country. The absence of safety measures such as wearing masks and gloves has proved to be unhygienic in the recycling environment. The demand for electronic waste treatment is increasing day by day because of the extensive use of electronic devices. Additionally, the developed countries like the USA exports E-Waste to India which has become the major challenge for waste management department. In India, the process of E-Waste management takes a very long period of time because of the lack of formal procedures and latest technology. About the Speakers: ================ Dr. Krishnamurthy Prabhakar is currently the Dean and Professor of Management at SRM University. Graduated from Madras University in Science with first class and specialized in operations management in MBA with distinction. His doctoral thesis work at Aligarh Muslim University was on social forecasting. He was further trained at IIM, Calcutta. He has authored books on management discipline in the areas of Software Marketing, Strategic Issues in Software Marketing published by Pondicherry University and Hospital Management by Annamalai University for distance education. He is a Shell Scholar for Corporate Governance and participated in an International Conference on Corporate Governance (2003) on invitation from Asian Institute of Management, Philippines. He is also a recipient of prestigious scholarship to attend an advanced research fellowship at University of Padova, Italy. He was selected as speaker (2012) at Globethics.net on Ethics at Geneva. Oxford University, Human Development and Capability Association provided a scholarship (2012) to study Multidimensional Poverty Index in Jakarta. Institute for Studies on Economics and Employment awarded scholarship (2014) to attend summer school conducted by three Nobel Laureates and had the privilege of being a student of Professor James Mirrlees, Robert Engel and Michael Spence. He is a Research Supervisor for SRM University, Bharathiyar University and Deakin University, Australia in the areas of Strategic Management, Operations Management and Corporate Social Responsibility. He was a member of the board of studies (2014-2015) of the Centre for Social Initiative and Management, a pioneering institution in promoting social entrepreneurship in India. Mr. Udhayakumar Thiyagarajan, an alumnus of Anna University with BE in ECE and Manipal University with MS in CSE is now pursuing his research at SRM University. He has two decades of work experience which includes: Solution Architect at Hewlett Packard Enterprises from Aug 2011: Senior SAL Consultant at HCL- AXON for a year; Associate IT Consultant (SAP) at ITC InfoTech for three years and Sales Coordinator for a decade from 1997 at Tata Chemicals. He is a Certified Environmental Health Management System Lead Auditor and also holds ITIL V3 Certification and also SAP SD ECC EHP6 certification. Mr. Udhay has been trained in SAP Global Trade Service, PMP by reputed organizations. His technical expertise includes: SAP Sales and Distribution (SD); SAP Trade Fund Management (TFM); SAP Transport Management System (TMS) and SAP CRM. His research interest is in the areas of E-waste Management and General Waste management and Environmental Science including Environmental Impact Assessments an dhas nine published papers to his credit. Under social responsibility, he has been involved in Plantations and Cleaning of the Area; Educating environmental Impacts to student community and society and serves as Vice President of a large residential welfare association. To facilitate logistics, please pre-register at https://goo.gl/forms/IzgBXPj0LlrReMLz1 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Papers Invited for Informatics Studies Volume 4 Issue 2 (2017)
by editor＠informaticsstudies.in 21 Jan '17

21 Jan '17

We are happy to invite papers for publication in Informatics Studies Volume 4 Issue 2 to be published in April 2017. Papers can be submitted for the issue upto 28th February 2017. Papers can be uploaded at: informaticsstudies.in or can be send to: editor(a)informaticsstudies.in as MS Word file attache as per standards prescribed in the journal website. Informatics Studies the journal promoted by Centre for Informatics Research and Development and is a media for discussing the emerging trends in theory and application of Information Science. The journal focuses on - Information Infrastructures, Knowledge Management, Institutional Repositories, Digital Library/Archive, Cloud Computing Solutions for Libraries, Unicode, Multi-linguality and Interoperability Issues, Thesauri and Ontologies, Semantics, Metadata and Retrieval, Resources Discovery Solutions, Online Resources Usability Issues, Open Access Initiatives, OAI -PMH, MARC 21, Consortia, IPR, Information Literacy, Training and education of Professionals, Performance Measurement and Metrics, Setting Service Quality Standards and related areas. Latest Issue of Informatics Studies, Volume 4 (Issue 1) 2017 can be accessed at: http://52.205.22.215/index.php/informatics. We also invite you to review the articles and items of interest. in the latest issue Informatics Studies Vol 4, No 1 (2017): Informatics Studies at: http://52.205.22.215/index.php/informatics/issue/view/17 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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