July 2017 - LIS-Forum - ncsi.iisc.ernet.in

Article Request
by Lija KJ 21 Jul '17

21 Jul '17

Dear all, One of our faculty members requires the below listed Havard Business Review Case Study "Montgomery, Cynthia A., and Elizabeth Gordon. "Newell Company: Corporate Strategy." <http://hbr.org/product/Newell-Company--Corporate/an/799139-PDF-ENG> Harvard Business School Case 799-139, March 1999. (Revised January 2005.)" Please help if anyone of you have it in your database. Thanks in anticipation, Regards, Mrs. Lija K John Assistant Libraian Asian School of Business Technocity Pallipuram P.O. TVM 695316 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Walk-In-Interview for the post of Librarian at Bhadrak Autonomous College, Bhadrak
by Narendra Kumar Bhoi 21 Jul '17

21 Jul '17

For more details regarding the vacancy visit https://lisinfoportal.blogspot.in/2017/07/walk-in-interview-for-post-of-lib… -- With thanks & regards! Narendra Kumar Bhoi -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Contribution of the
by Subbiah Arunachalam 19 Jul '17

19 Jul '17

Here is an interesting document: http://wiki.phalkefactory.net/images/3/39/Syjrao.pdf It is part of ALPHA ("America's Library Promotional Heritage in Asia" ). Although the Britsh ruled India, it was America which helped us set up public libraries! Two days ago I had drawn attention to the library in Malwa set up by a Royal. Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III of Baroda had a personal library in the palace as well as he set up the first public library in India in 1910. This, of course, textbook material in Indian library schools. So the Royals - some of them - have made some very useful contributions. Arun http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4658 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9925-2009 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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'Content pirates' and the service they provide
by Subbiah Arunachalam 19 Jul '17

19 Jul '17

This is in response to the post of Prof. Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay. Let me begin with thanking him for responding to my earlier post. I do not think Ms Elbakyan will be cowed down by the big publishers. She seems to be far too smart for that and she seems to believe what she is doing is right. The fact that a very large section of academia around the world (including in North America and Europe) is using the service she provides is testimony to the tacit support she has from around the world. Thousans of people are indebted to her! Of course, she cannot visit the US (and possibly some western countries closely allied to the US) where she could be arrested and incarcerated. In contrast, Aaron Swartz was living in the US and he happened to be the pioneer; Elbakyan would have had the benefit of learning from the experience of Aaron. At the end of his missive, Prof. Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay has posed three questions. Dark OA is *NOT* taking over OA even in science and scholarship. Beginning with arXiv, which was started in 1991, we have more than a dozen preprint servers now catering to fields ranging from biology to social sciences. Sure, most of them are in the early stages and will take a while to attain the level of maturity of arXiv, but sooner or later they will. DOAJ has more than 9,450 fully OA journals. There are many institutional and national repositories although many of them are not fully interoperable (for which the LIS community should take the blame). I don't think 'romanticism' and similarity to 'Robinhood'-kind of robbing the rich to help the poor have anything to do with scholarly communication. While people do research, they need to access some literature and seek the best option to access the literature. Publishers, of course, harp on ethics and morals, but, in the first place they have lost the right to do so by usurping the copyright to the content of research from the researchers. There is no such thing as 'delayed OA.' Please see Peter Suber's definition of OA which emphasizes 'immediate.' The solution lies perhaps in moving away from the current journal system, which had started going against the interest of the researchers ever since Mr Robert Maxwell stepped into the business of journal publishing, to the preprint and post refereeing system (a la arXiv). Best wishes. Arun http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4658 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9925-2009 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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'Content pirates' and the service they provide
by Subbiah Arunachalam 19 Jul '17

19 Jul '17

Friends: An American copyright and IP law professor-librarian has written about 'pirate sites' that provides free access to scientific papers and other scholarly content. It is worth reading. http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/NewsBreaks/Elsevier-and-Other-Scholarly-Pub… Best wishes. Arun http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4658 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9925-2009 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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A library lovingly built by a prince
by Subbiah Arunachalam 19 Jul '17

19 Jul '17

This may be of interest to many members of this list: https://thewire.in/158139/raghbir-library-research-institute-the-jewel-of-m… Arun http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4658 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9925-2009 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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An amazing experience with INMANTEC workshop on Koha and Dspace!
by vinod mishra 19 Jul '17

19 Jul '17

Dear All I am sharing here my Unique and one of the most challenging experience in workshop on Koha and Dspace organized by INMANTEC, Ghaziabad, India from 14-16 July, 2017. The entire story reveals some tips to organize such events when the number of participants are more than 100 and resources are minimum. I congratulate all the participants and organizers for making this event grand success with full satisfaction of the learners. Please click the below link to read entire story. http://mishravk.com/2017/07/inmantec/ With Regards, Vinod Kumar Mishra, Assistant Librarian, Biju Patnaik Central Library (BPCL), NIT Rourkela, Sundergadh-769008, Odisha, India. Mob:91+9439420860 Website: http://mishravk.com/ *"Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul" -- Mahatma Gandhi* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Heartiest Congratulations
by Dr. Saurabh Shukla 19 Jul '17

19 Jul '17

Heartiest congratulations to Sh. Ajeet K.Jha,my buddy room mate from BHU, on being promoted to Assistant Registrar-Library, Delhi High Court, I wish him grand success in all every endeavour of life. warm wishes again, Dr.Saurabh Shukla, Assistant Director, Competition Commission of India, 3rd Floor, Hindustan Times Building, KG Marg, Cannought Place, New Delhi-110001 India Skype- sshukla74 (9868388967)

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Science fiction
by Subbiah Arunachalam 18 Jul '17

18 Jul '17

Friends: If you or any of your readers / friends are science fiction fans, here is some good news for you. 355 separate issues spanning the years 1950 - 1976 of *Galaxy Science Fiction* are now available online and at no cost. <https://www.engadget.com/2017/07/14/seminal-sci-fi-galaxy-free-online/>. -- Arun http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4658 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9925-2009 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Request for Suggestion on Android App
by Wasim Rahaman 18 Jul '17

18 Jul '17

Dear all, I am pleased to announce on behalf of The Co-Professionals [LIS] about the successfully building up the Android App. Now you can get the job notification and other important activities automatically by The Co-Professionals [LIS] in your pocket at any time which may found helpful for the professionals. To access the contents internet is required. I am facing two conditions now- *Condition 1*- The contents are available through manual written pages and for accessing of those contents no internet is required. But the problem is it is not fetching any update from the website. If I am updating the site then I have to edit manually the app contents and update it every time. *Condition 2*- The contents are available through the direct link of the site. No need to edit the app content for the updates. It will automatically fetch from the site. But accessing of all content is possible with the internet connection only. Now please suggest me which one is better, with the internet or without internet/manual or automatic? I have chosen the second option and made the app. It is available from this link <https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_ut6StfCbXaSHJYempXMXdGeTg>. You can also suggest me any further idea. -- ***************************************************************Thanking You* *Wasim Rahaman* *Library Intern* *Biju Patnaik Central Library* *NIT, Rourkela* *Contact- +919732007360* *Email- kolrahaman04(a)gmail.com <kolrahaman04(a)gmail.com>* *Blog <http://wasimrlis.blogspot.in> | Website <http://coprofessionals.wordpress.com> | ORCID <http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1233-0536>*************************************************************** -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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