October 2018 - LIS-Forum - ncsi.iisc.ernet.in

Koha on Cloud free for Public Libraries in India
by manju nayak 15 Oct '18

15 Oct '18

DearSir/Madam, Iwould like to inform you that the National Virtual Library of India (NVLI)project can help to set up`Koha on cloud' for Public Libraries in thecountry free of cost. This facility will help them to use the Koha facility,without having to install it, maintain it, etc. The only requirementwill be the need to have Internet access. At a later time, itwill be possible to migrate it to a local server as well. Ifyou think that the above help may be useful to you, please let us knowby a email. At this moment you collect the following information for your library and please email to eoutreach(a)cse.iitb.ac.in, then we can make available the Koha on Cloudfacility for your library. a.Libraryname, and address. b.Collection/Itemstype available in Libraries as per their requirement. c.Approximate size of Bibliographical data. d.Detailsof Librarian at least one who will manage as super librarianfor Koha administration. e.Logoand banner of library for customization. Optionalrequirement from library. f.Details of staff patron, who will be using staff interface. g. Biblio, patron and transactional data in form of excel/CSV if theywant to import or migrate to their instance of Koha. h. Header and Footer information. i.Importantlink, message for display in OPAC home page, etc. Fordetails contact: Email : eoutreach(a)it.iitb.ac.in Call on: 022-2576 4989 Thanksand regards, Prof.Kannan Moudgalya,PI,NVLI project, IITBombay With Regards Dr.Manju Naika Chief Library Officer Central Library Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Mumbai, INDIA, 400 076 Phone:+91 22 2576 8929 Fax:91-22-25720227

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Panel Discussion at Bangalore Book Fair
by Krishnamurthy Madaiah 15 Oct '18

15 Oct '18

Dear All, Bangalore Book Festival 2018 is being held from 15th to 21st October 2018 at Palace Grounds Bengaluru. The Book Festival is jointly organized by The Bangalore Booksellers and Publishers Association and Indya Comics. As part of the Book Festival a Panel Discussion is arranged as follows Topic: Libraries and promotion of reading habits in the digital age Venue: Palace Grounds, Bengaluru Date and time: Tuesday, 16th October, 2018 @ 4.00 PM Anchor: Dr. M Krishnamurthy, DRTC, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore Panelists: Prof. B Ramesha, Bangalore University, Bengaluru Dr. Satishkumar S. Hosamani, Director, Dept. of Public Libraries, Govt. of Karnataka Dr. R B Gaddagimath, Dean - LR & AS, Acharya Institutes, Bengaluru Dr. N Chowdappa, Chief Librarian, BMS College of Engineering, Bengaluru Dr. John Clarence, Librarian, St. John's National Academy of Health Sciences, Bengaluru On behalf of the organizers, I cordially invite you for the program. RSVP Dr. M Krishnamurthy, Mobile No. 9980035933 Mr. Lokesh Reddy – 9845143485 With regards, M.Krishnamurthy Regards, M.Krishnamurthy ************************************************************** Dr. M.Krishnamurthy,M.A.,M.L.I.Sc.,Ph.D., Fulbright Scholar, (U.S.A) Digitization Course,( U.S.A) Associate Professor Documentation Research and Training Center Indian Statistical Institute Mysore Road Bangalore 560059 India Phone No: 91-80-26985493 Mob:91-9980035933 URL:http://www.isibang.ac.in/~krish/ Secretary Finance- Association of British Scholars (ABS -2009-till date) ________________________________ From: Krishnamurthy Madaiah <mkrishna_murthy(a)hotmail.com> Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2018 2:15 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.ernet.in Subject: Panel Discussion at Bangalore Book Fair Dear All, Bangalore Book Festival 2018 is being held from 15th to 21st October 2018 at Palace Grounds Bengaluru. The Book Festival is jointly organized by The Bangalore Booksellers and Publishers Association and Indya Comics. As part of the Book Festival a Panel Discussion is arranged as follows Topic: Libraries and promotion of reading habits in the digital age Venue: Palace Grounds, Bengaluru Date and time: Tuesday, 16th October, 2018 @ 4.00 PM Anchor: Dr. M Krishnamurthy, DRTC, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore Panelists: Prof. B Ramesha, Bangalore University, Bengaluru Dr. Satishkumar S. Hosamani, Director, Dept. of Public Libraries, Govt. of Karnataka Dr. R B Gaddagimath, Dean - LR & AS, Acharya Institutes, Bengaluru Dr. N Chowdappa, Chief Librarian, BMS College of Engineering, Bengaluru Dr. John Clarence, Librarian, St. John's National Academy of Health Sciences, Bengaluru On behalf of the organizers, I cordially invite you for the program. RSVP Dr. M Krishnamurthy, Mobile No. 9980035933 Mr. Lokesh Reddy – 9845143485 With regards, M.Krishnamurthy Regards, M.Krishnamurthy ************************************************************** Dr. M.Krishnamurthy,M.A.,M.L.I.Sc.,Ph.D., Fulbright Scholar, (U.S.A) Digitization Course,( U.S.A) Associate Professor Documentation Research and Training Center Indian Statistical Institute Mysore Road Bangalore 560059 India Phone No: 91-80-26985493 Mob:91-9980035933 URL:http://www.isibang.ac.in/~krish/ Secretary Finance- Association of British Scholars (ABS -2009-till date) [https://ipmcdn.avast.com/images/icons/icon-envelope-tick-round-orange-anima…]<https://www.avast.com/en-in/recommend?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_…> I’m protected online with Avast Free Antivirus. Get it here — it’s free forever.<https://www.avast.com/en-in/recommend?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_…>

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Call for papers: National Conference at Tumkur University, 1-2 March 2019
by Rupesh Kumar 14 Oct '18

14 Oct '18

Dear Professionals, We are pleased to inform you that Department of Studies and Research in Library and Information Science, Tumkur University, in association with Karnataka State College Librarians Association (KSCLA) and Alumni Association of Library and Information Science, Tumkur University (AALISTU), is organizing the 9th KSCLA two-day National Conference on "LIBRARY IN THE LIFE OF THE USER" on 1-2 March 2019. The Conference will be held at Sir M Visvesvaraya Auditorium, Tumkur University. CALL FOR PAPERS Papers are invited on the main theme or any of the sub-themes of the Conference. The last date for submission of paper is 15th January 2019. Papers may be emailed to liblife2019(a)gmail.com. For submission guidelines, visit www.sampathkumar.info/conference.htm. Select papers will be published in the form of Conference Proceedings with ISBN. Distinguished papers will be published in a reputed journal. Theme of the Conference Library in the Life of the User Sub-themes LIS Education, Research and Training LIS Curriculum: Experience and Expectations, Innovative technologies for teaching, Research Trends in LIS, MOOCS and Role of Libraries, Role of associations in development of LIS, Future Prospects of Library Science Trends and Technologies in Libraries Cloud Computing and Linked Data, Trends in Digitization, Data Curation and Archiving, Mobile Applications for Libraries, Information & Data Analysis Tools and Technologies, Library automation, Library Security, Library as a social space , Taking libraries to the users, Green Libraries Information Storage and Retrieval Systems Digital Libraries, Metadata Interoperability and Standards, Digital Conservation and Preservation, Big Data and Data Mining, Semantic Web, Development in Open Source Technologies, Internet: Affordability and Access Knowledge Organization & Management Knowledge Commons and Research Commons, Organization of e-resources, Research Data Management, Digital information seeking behavior Management of Library and Information Centers Best practices in Library & Information Science, Outreach Services, Transition from print to electronic, Information literacy and lifelong learning, Free and Open source software, User Relationship Management, Social Networking sites and their applications in Libraries IPR: Role of Libraries Plagiarism: Issues and Challenges, Digital Rights Management, Ethics in Publishing Metric Studies Bibliometrics, Scientometrics, Webometrics, Altmetrics, Infographics For details contact: Dr. B T Sampath Kumar Organizing Secretary National Conference on Library in the Life of the User Department of Studies and Research in Library and Information Science Tumkur University, Tumakuru, Karnataka 572 103, INDIA Ph: +91 9448320187 e-mail: liblife2019(a)gmail.com <liblife2019(a)gmail.com> website: www.sampathkumar.info/conference.htm -- With regards, Rupesh Kumar A Assistant Professor Department of Studies and Research in Library and Information Science Tumkur University, Tumakuru 572 103 INDIA -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Hanging libraries of Barpeta in Assam
by Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy 14 Oct '18

14 Oct '18

Learn about hanging libraries in schools in Barpeta Assam. thehindu.com <https://www.thehindu.com/books/the-writings-on-the-wall/article25191347.ece> The ‘hanging libraries’ of Assam's Barpeta help display the books while keeping them safe from floodwaters Rahul Karmakar October 13, 2018 16:00 IST Updated: October 11, 2018 15:46 IST 3-4 minutes ------------------------------ A few books hung on a piece of rope held in place by three bricks were all that 12-year-old Utpal Das needed to become a poet and fiction-writer. In little more than two months, he has penned seven poems and three short stories. His fourth work of fiction — developed from *Pithar Mel* (‘Meeting of sweet rice cakes’), a poem from a book picked up from the school-library-on-rope — has been selected for the wall magazine of his lower primary school on Jail Road in the outskirts of Assam’s Barpeta town, about 95 km from Guwahati. *It’s exciting* Utpal, in Class V, is from Karertal village. His classmate, Rajeda Khatun, from the same village, has become an advocate of wildlife conservation after reading books where animals are the central characters. Both boys found these books from their school’s unique library, a wall with ropes strung across it, to which the books are clipped. The wall separates the teachers’ room from a storeroom. “We got some books from Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) 10-12 years ago, but they were kept in trunks and taken out only when required. Insects and damp damaged them. The hanging library, introduced in our school in August, has worked wonders,” says Chandana Pathak, who takes turns with six other teachers at conducting reading classes with library books for at least two hours a week. The 56 students at Paschim Kholabhanda L.P. School, on an island in the Brahmaputra, had never seen a library before. The new hanging library in their flood-prone school has generated much excitement. *Rediscovering talent* “When we pioneered the hanging library concept in Barpeta district six-seven months ago, the idea was to make the books visible in order to arrest the declining reading habit among students, which was affecting their learning. We have so far put up such libraries in 190 schools,” says Thaneswar Malakar, Barpeta’s Deputy Commissioner and a former Mission Director of SSA. The district has 1,697 lower primary schools, 303 middle-level schools, and 301 secondary schools. The hanging idea serves another purpose; it keeps the books safe during floods. Madhyachar Kholabandha L.P. School, for instance, gets inundated regularly during floods even though it is built on higher ground. With the books hanging high, water can’t reach them. Measures such as the hanging library have helped Barpeta leave other districts of Assam behind in adding value to education across government schools. “The new ideas are working to the extent that many students are leaving private schools,” says Kapil Das, headteacher of Suliyakata Adarsha L.P. School in Barpeta. The school drop-out rate has come down too, and frequent visits by officials to far-flung schools to assess the impact of the programmes have checked child marriage to some extent. Students are not the only beneficiaries of this change in the way education is imparted. “Teachers are rediscovering their talents in singing, playing an instrument, dancing, acting, painting and various sports,” says Jyotsna Rani Barman, the district inspector of schools for Barpeta. The artistic abilities of the teachers are coming together with the gift of imagination of students like Utpal to make learning fun in Barpeta. *rahul.karmakar(a)thehindu.co.in <rahul.karmakar(a)thehindu.co.in>* ======== Dr P Vyasamoorthy 040-27846631 / 09490804278 When I had to note down something after a phone conversation, I sent an SMS to myself to my LL number -- no charges, but a record is available. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Dr. Manorma Tripathi: New Librarian of JNU
by vinod mishra 12 Oct '18

12 Oct '18

Dear all, It gives me immense pleasure to inform you all that Dr. Manorama Tripathi, Alumni of B.H.U has been appointed as Librarian of JNU. http://lib.jnu.ac.in/dr-manorama-tripathi -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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International Conference-Thailand
by Rama Reddy Enukonda 12 Oct '18

12 Oct '18

Dear Professional colleagues please see the conference website for more details. Paper submission date is extended. best wishes rama reddy Dr. E. Rama Reddy, PhD University Librarian (Retd), University of Hyderabad Formerly Visiting Professor, Mahasarakham University, Thailand Formerly Visiting Faculty, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai +91 9000955729 enukondar(a)yahoo.co.in

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Request for articles
by Francis Jayakanth 12 Oct '18

12 Oct '18

Dear Members, One of our research students is in need of following 2 research articles: 1. Hydroxyacyl CoA dehydrogenase, an enzyme important in fat metabolism in different cell types in the islets of Langerhans (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/334589 2. Determination of D-3-hydroxybutyrate dehydrogenase in mouse pancreatic islets with a photokinetic technique using bacterial luciferase (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4298 https://doi.org/10.1159/000458851 Can someone help us in getting the above articles, please? Thanks and regards, Francis Francis Jayakanth JRD Library Indian Institute of Science Bengaluru francis(a)iisc.ac.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Project Trainees (LIM & ERM) at the JRD Tata Memorial Library, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
by Francis Jayakanth 11 Oct '18

11 Oct '18

With reference to the above, call letters to all the shortlisted candidates have already been sent by email and SMS. A copy of the shortlisted candidates along with the call letter has also been put up on the library website accessible at, http://library.iisc.ac.in. The written test for the shortlisted candidates will be held on Wednesday, 24th of October 2018 at the Central Lecture Hall Complex, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru - 560012, from 10 a.m. onward. The results of the written test will be announced on the same day by 5.30 p.m. Candidates qualifying in the written will have to appear for a personal interview the following day, i.e. Thursday, 25th of October 2018 from 10 a.m. at the JRD Tata Memorial Library, IISc. With best wishes, Francis Francis Jayakanth J.R.D. Tata Memorial Library IISc.

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Fwd: Funded PhD student opportunities at the School of Information Sciences at Illinois
by Shamprasad Pujar 11 Oct '18

11 Oct '18

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Downie, J Stephen <jdownie(a)illinois.edu> Date: Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 12:58 AM Subject: [DIGLIB] Funded PhD student opportunities at the School of Information Sciences at Illinois To: Dear Colleagues: We invite applications from highly motivated students from all backgrounds to join our world-renowned research and scholarship program at the School of Information Sciences, the iSchool at Illinois. Our PhD program in Library and Information Science is the oldest existing LIS doctoral program in the U.S. with over 240 graduates. Recent graduates from our PhD program have become faculty members at institutions such as the University of Michigan, University of Washington, University of Maryland, and UCLA, professionals at Baidu and Google, and academic library professionals at the Library of Congress, Princeton University, and the University of Chicago. We guarantee up to four years of funding in the form of research, teaching, and service assistantships, including tuition waivers and stipends. We also offer travel support for our PhD students. Students receive one-on-one mentorship from faculty with a global reputation for excellence in scholarship and high impact science. The School's flexible program ensures that each student is provided with the intellectual guidance and experiences necessary to prepare them for vibrant research careers in a wide range of academic, business, and government settings. We highly value interdisciplinary work at our school. Our faculty and students conduct exciting research on a broad range of topics: * Community informatics * Data curation * Data science * Digital archives and libraries * Digital humanities * Health and bioinformatics * History of information * Human-centered data science, Computational social science * Human-computer interaction, User experience, Computer supported cooperative work * Information access * Information literacy * Information policy, privacy, security, and ethics * Information retrieval * Information visualization * Informetrics * Libraries and librarianship * Machine learning * Natural language processing, Text mining, Text analysis * Network science * Organization of knowledge and information * Scientific data and knowledge practices * Youth services and digital youth For more on our vision see http://ischool.illinois.edu/research/vision For more about our faculty visit http://ischool.illinois.edu/people/faculty APPLICATION To apply, go to https://ischool.illinois.edu/degrees-programs/phd-library-and-information-s… This page also contains detailed information about the application process and the link for submitting your application. Application deadline is Saturday, December 01, 2018, at 11:00 p.m., Central Time. We especially encourage domestic students from historically and statistically underrepresented minority groups to apply. MORE INFORMATION AND ONLINE INFORMATION SESSION For additional information about our PhD program, see http://ischool.illinois.edu/academics/degrees/phd or contact ischool-phd(a)illinois.edu On Wednesday, October 10, 2018, from 8:00-9:00 a.m. Central Time, we will host an online information session about our PhD degree in Library and Information Science. During the session, the program director, iSchool faculty, staff and a current PhD student will answer questions and provide information about our PhD program. Login instructions are below. ONLINE: http://go.ischool.illinois.edu/phd_info_session, please type your name and click “Join Session”. Blackboard Collaborate Instructions: http://help.blackboard.com/Collaborate/Ultra/Participant/Get_Started/Naviga… If you have questions or problems with regard to participation, please contact our Help Desk: help(a)support.ischool.illinois.edu, +1-217-244-4903 or +1-800-377-1892. For additional information about the online information session: https://ischool.illinois.edu/news-events/events/2018/09/26/virtual-informat… For questions, please contact Dr. Jana Diesner, PhD Program Director, at jdiesner(a)illinois.edu. ********************************************************** "Research funding makes the world a better place" ********************************************************** J. Stephen Downie, PhD Associate Dean for Research Professor School of Information Sciences University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [Vox/Voicemail] (217) 649-3839 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Donating library Books
by Sangeetha Govindasami 11 Oct '18

11 Oct '18

Dear Sir/Madam,I saw a mail some one month back regarding the kerala flood who has lost all its library collection.  One of my friend closed their library due to their personal reasons. The library contains Mainly management and computer science books. If any one is interested she is willing to donate the books. Please let me know.G.SangeethaCoimbatore,Tamilnadu

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