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Library Trainee vacancy at Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore - The last to receive the application is 20th September, 2018 (CORRECTED)
by arumugam.pitchai 18 Mar '21

18 Mar '21

Dear LIS Professionals, Indian Institute of Astrophysics is inviting online applications from the Post Graduates in Library & Information Science who are highly motivated to serve as a Library Trainee. Qualification: Post Graduate in Library & Information Science (MLISc) Emoluments: Rs.20000/- per month (inclusive of all) in the 1st year and Rs.21000/- per month (inclusive of all) in the 2nd year. The last to receive the application is 20th September, 2018. For more details and registration, please visit: https://www.iiap.res.in/iia_jobs/ Kindly bring this advertisement to the notice of interested candidates to apply for the positions. Thanks and Regards, Dr. Arumugam Pitchai Librarian Indian Institute of Astrophysics Koramangala, Bengaluru, Karnataka-560034

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Online Workshop on eLearning Content Creation from 13th Jul - 17th Jul 2020
by Mohan Hr 02 Jul '20

02 Jul '20

Dear all IEEE CS Madras, ACM Chennai & CSI Chennai in association with CDAC Mumbai, pleased to announce a five-day online workshop on "eLearning Content Creation" from 13th Jul to 17th Jul 2020 between 4 pm and 6 pm each day. For more details of the workshop and the day wise schedule of the sessions, pl visit https://bit.ly/2Z2CeYO For online registration and payment, pl visit https://in.explara.com/e/workshop-on-elearning-content-creation An electronic participation certificate will be provided to participants of the workshop who attend at least 80% of the live sessions and complete all assignments. To facilitate personal interaction, the number of participants will be limited and the registration will be first come first served basis. For additional details and queries, pl. contact: ieeecsmds(a)gmail.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Controlled Digital Lending - CDL - India?
by Chief Librarian, SAIACS 02 Jul '20

02 Jul '20

Dear Professional Colleagues, I hope many of you are aware of Controlled Digital Lending (CDL) - https://controlleddigitallending.org. CDL allows libraries to lend digital copy of a book to its patrons for a particular period, as long as they have the same book in physical format. Recently Archive.org had a national emergency library under this initiative 3-4 libraries made their digital resources available to everyone to borrow for a particular period of time. Now a few publishers have filed a lawsuit against the Internet Archive https://www.infodocket.com/2020/06/10/temporary-national-emergency-library-…. As a result, the internet archive has moved the emergency library to https://openlibrary.org/, you can still borrow books for one hour. Earlier it was allowed to hold for 14 days upto 10 books. This has paved the way for many library patrons to access resources. My question is whether our country IPR has any provision for such services that can be offered by libraries in India. Especially during this covid situation where patrons can't have access to physical resources, whether same physical resources can be made available under controlled digital lending (CDL) scheme? Is CDL far from reach in our country. Hoping to hear some insights from experts in law and from Senior LIS professionals Thanking you Sincerely ______________________________________ *Dr. Yesan Sellan, * *MLISc., PGDLAN, BCS., UGC-NET., PhD* *Chief Librarian* South Asia Institute of Advanced Christian Studies (SAIACS) 363 Dodda Gubbi Cross Road, Kothanur P.O., Bangalore 77, India Phone: 91 80 2846 5235/5344/ 5649, Fax: 91 80 28465412, Mobile: 91-9972348251 www.saiacs.org Alternative Email: yesans(a)gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0501-5661 <yesans(a)gmail.com> ______________________________________ IMPORTANT : This message is intended only for the addressee. It may contain confidential information. Any unauthorized disclosure is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify us immediately so that we may correct our internal records. Please then delete the original message. Thank you. P Please consider the environment before printing this email*.* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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LIS Academy Virtual Conference - Call for papers
by LIS Academy 30 Jun '20

30 Jun '20

Dear Professional Friends, The entire country has been under the Lockdown status due to Covid-19 Pandemic disease. At this juncture, we need to maintain social distance and stay safe. Due to this lockdown status, Education Institutions are closed, and the Librarians confined to the empty Libraries and the students to their houses. The LIS Academy had earlier announced it's National Conference at the University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, from 27-29 August 2020. Unfortunately, due to the mass spreading of pandemic COVID-19 disease across the country, the organizers have planned to organize a Virtual Conference from LIS Academy Studio on the same dates. Online Virtual LISACON-2020 The LISACON-2020 Conference will now be held in a Virtual Mode operated from LIS Academy. All the Conference's activities will be web-streamed, and the paper presenters will be allowed to present their papers from their places through Video Recording. The Conference Venue will be created with a studio. Only Plenary speakers and Panel Members will be invited for their physical presence. However, if they are unable to attend physically, they can also address their paper through a webinar. The entire Conference will be held on the scheduled three days, and every day there will be two sessions. Each session will consist of 90 minutes with six invited paper presenters and a Plenary Speaker who will moderate the session. Papers are invited from the professionals, and the best six papers fitting to the theme and cleared through the peer review process will be selected for presentation at the Conference. Accepted Paper Presenters will be treated as Invited Speakers. They will be paid Rs.2000 towards Cash prize, free registration, a memento, and a certificate of appreciation. Plenary Speaker will be paid an honorarium of Rs.5000, a certificate of appreciation and a Memento. The selected presenter will have to share his/her PPT. After scrutiny, they will be asked to create a video for 10 minutes using a zoom platform or any other platform with HD quality MPEG-4 format videos. Conference Theme: Reinventing Excellence in Librarianship Excellence is about being the best, striving to be better, and delivering quality services. Libraries are universally considered as social institutions, which facilitate acquisition and dissemination of knowledge. Library professionals are eﬃciently serving the information needs of end-users by adopting new tools, techniques, and technologies from time to time. The advent of digital technologies has brought in disruptive changes in all spheres of the library. Today's library is less about what we have for users and more about what we do for users. Librarianship has to reinvent and reposition itself to achieve excellence. The librarianship needs to rethink innovative content acquisition models, out of the box thinking in extending library services, leveraging technologies, and new modes of reaching the user community. The LISACON-2020 theme "Reinventing Excellence in Librarianship" will focus on bringing best practices, success stories, case studies, and innovative research outcomes to a common platform. CALL FOR PAPERS Original research papers/case studies / best practices are invited to the following theme and sub-themes. Conference Theme: Reinventing Excellence in Librarianship Conference Sub-themes: 1.Reinventing Library Services in the Digital Age Discovery and retrieval services; Archiving and Networked Services; Web-based information services; User proﬁling services; Research data management services; Research support services: 2.New Paradigms in Collection Development User-Focused Collection Development; Collaborative collection development; Innovative content acquisition models; Open access and collection development policies; New perspectives in collection assessment; Changing Content Types & Formats; Content Licensing; 3.Leveraging Library Technologies: Converging library technologies; Open source tools; Library technologies & ERP integration; Social media platforms; Protocols and interoperability; Data visualization tools; 4.Data, Metrics, and Ranking: Role of Librarians Data aggregation Sources & Models; Publication metrics for ranking & accreditations; Usage metrics-driven decision making; Online metric tools for Librarians; 5.Role of libraries in Inculcating Research Ethics Research integrity; Research misconduct; Publication ethics; Predatory publishing; Plagiarism; Institutes research integrity policies; 6.Library Diplomacy Libraries as Instruments of Cultural Diplomacy; Libraries reﬂecting their national heritage; Library diplomacy to globalize libraries; Libraries as foreign policy; Important Dates: Submission of Abstracts:10/06/2020 Notification of accepted Papers: 20/06/2020 Submission of Full-length paper: 1/07/2020 Notiﬁcation of Acceptance of full-length paper: 10/07/2020 Submission of camera-ready paper: 24/07/2020 Submission of PPT and 10 Minute video : 5/08/2020 Publication Guidelines: The authors are requested to submit original papers related to the conference theme and subthemes. Papers that are not relevant to the scope of the conference theme and subthemes will be rejected. The papers aligned to the conference theme and sub-themes will be checked for Plagiarism / Similarity as per UGC guidelines with 14 words ﬁlter by excluding text in quotes and references. The overall similarity needs to be within 10% All selected papers will be double-blind peer-reviewed. The authors will be requested to submit a camera-ready copy as per the conference template. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. The conference proceedings will be published with ISBN Number. For formatting guidelines and paper-template, authors are requested to visit the conference website: http://www.lisacon2020.lisacademy.org Presentation Guidelines: Since the Conference is organized in virtual mode, authors of the accepted papers are requested to record a video of their presentation for 10 minutes. The organizers will share the backdrop for display on the zoom platform and are required to use the same. The curated videos will be consolidated and streamed on the day of the Conference by the session chairman. All presenters will have to be present as a panelist during their session. REGISTRATION DETAILS: · International Participants $20 · SAARC & ASEAN Countries $15 · Indian Professionals: Rs. 500 · Each session Participation: Rs. 100 Conference certificate / Session certificate will be issued through LISACON-2020 mobile APP after confirmation of payment and attendance. For more details please visit Conference Website: http://lisacon2020.lisacademy.org You may also download the Conference Mobile app from the following link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=lisacon2020.lisacademy.org Thanks & Best Regards, Dr. P. V. Konnur President LIS Academy, First Floor, 7/29, Mathikere Main Rd, Gokula 1st Stage, Nanjappa Reddy Colony, Yeswanthpur, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560054 Mobile : 09449679737 E-Mail : pvkonnur(a)gmail.com Website: www.lisacademy.org -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Bhadariya Library, Rajasthan - An underground library with 900,000 books, one of Asia’s biggest
by Temin Thomas 30 Jun '20

30 Jun '20

Libraries come in different shapes and sizes across the world. But Rajasthan has a treasure trove knowledge that is one of Asia’s biggest libraries. Having a collection of over 9,00,000 books and a seating capacity of 4000 people, this hidden gem of a library is Rajasthan’s answer to the UK’s British Library. Situated beneath a temple at the Bhadariya village of the Thar Desert region this is known as the Bhadariya Library. Its 16-feet underground location is indeed a goldmine for book lovers. So why travel abroad when you can go #Vocalforlocal and visit one of Asia’s largest libraries in Rajasthan! https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/travel/destinations/rajasthans-treasure… Regards, Temin Thomas MLISc Student (2019-2020), Rajagiri College of Social Sciences (Autonomous), Kochi- Kerala. teminthomas89(a)gmail.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Virtual Meeting No. 16 - How to make effective search over the Internet?
by Dp Tripathi 30 Jun '20

30 Jun '20

Dear Friends, Happy to let you know about the webinar on "How to make effective search on Internet?" Dr. Shamprasad Pujar, Chief Librarian, IGIDR, Mumbai will be delivering the talk on different search techniques for searching information over the Internet. If you are willing to join, you can register your name by filling up the form.... https://forms.gle/4SBweEN99rAwZCJ9A Date: July 04, 2020 Time: 11:00 am Thanks DP Tripathi -- ************************************** *Dhanwantari Prakash Tripathi* MA (ECO), MLISc, HDISM, ECDL Ph.D. (Pursue) Commonwealth Fellow, University of East London ************************************** Assistant Librarian & AR (Offg.) AC-UG Biju Patnaik Central Library National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Odisha –769008 INDIA ************************************** *YouTube - Librarian Guide <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqq2XkD5KKp5W7VrMJOsGhw>* ************************************** *M - +91-8895296796* *U - www.dptripathi.co.in <http://www.dptripathi.co.in/>* ************************************** -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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British Council Library Bangalore shuts down
by Krishnamurthy Madaiah 30 Jun '20

30 Jun '20

Dear Professional Friends, British council Library Bangalore is going to disappear from July 1st, 2020. https://www.google.co.in/amp/s/www.theweek.in/news/india/2020/06/21/british… Regards, M.Krishnamurthy ************************************************************** Dr. M.Krishnamurthy,M.A.,M.L.I.Sc.,Ph.D., Fulbright Scholar, (U.S.A) Digitization Course,Illinois Digitization Institute, UIUC( 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 General Secretary-Karnataka State Library Association -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Events of CSI Chennai, ACM Chennai & IEEE CS Madras during 30th Jun - 18th Jul 2020
by Mohan Hr 29 Jun '20

29 Jun '20

Dear Friends CSI Chennai, ACM Chennai & IEEE CS Madras cordially invite you all to participate in the following five events and get benefitted. 30th Jun -- Webinar on "IoT and AI for Healthcare and Manufacturing" 4th Jul -- Webinar on "Mastering Digital Writing and Entrepreneurship" 11th Jul -- Webinar on "Social Media Governance in a Connected World" 13-17 Jul -- Online workshop on "eLearning Content Creation" (limited seats) 18th Jul -- Webinar on "Demystifying VR, AR and MR" As the meeting room capacity is limited & admission is on First Come First Served basis, pl register early to avoid disappointments. 30th Jun 2020 at 6 pm IST ====================== Topic: IoT and AI for Healthcare and Manufacturing. Speaker: Dr. Arpan Pal, Chief Scientist and Research Area Head, Embedded Systems and Robotics, TCS Research and Innovation, Tata Consultancy Services PDF Invite at https://bit.ly/30Gzymc Register at https://bit.ly/2Adiol3 4th Jul 2020 at 6 pm IST ==================== Topic: Mastering Digital Writing and Entrepreneurship Speaker: Ms. Nandini Alagar, Business Owner, Talent Canvas PDF invite at https://bit.ly/2AjnD2C Register at https://bit.ly/2AeQGEv 11th Jul 2020 at 6 pm IST ===================== Topic: Social Media Governance in a Connected World Speaker:Dr K Rama Subramaniam, Director & CEO, Valiant Technologies Group Invitation link: https://bit.ly/3cJJaPc Registration at https://bit.ly/2ALy9ji 13 -17 Jul 2020 daily from 4 pm to 6 pm IST ==================================== Five-day online workshop on "eLearning Content Creation" For more details of the workshop and the day wise schedule of the sessions, pl visit https://bit.ly/2Z2CeYO For online registration and payment, pl visit https://in.explara.com/e/workshop-on-elearning-content-creation An electronic participation certificate will be provided to participants of the workshop who attend at least 80% of the live sessions and complete all assignments. To facilitate personal interaction, the number of participants will be limited and the registration will be first come first served basis. For additional details and queries, pl. contact: ieeecsmds(a)gmail.com 18th Jul 2020 at 6 pm IST ===================== CSI Chennai, ACM Chennai & IEEE CS Madras present a webinar Topic: Demystifying AR, VR and MR Speaker: Dr. PK Mishra, CTO, Adapro Consulting PDF invite at https://bit.ly/2Ze7Meh Register at https://bit.ly/3g4SO13

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Invitation for Dr. T.B. Rajashekar 15th Memorial Lecture, 2020
by madhuresh.singhal 28 Jun '20

28 Jun '20

Dear All, NCSI-Net Foundation cordially invites you and your colleagues to Dr. T.B. Rajashekar 15th Memorial Lecture, 2020 on: "The State of Open Access: Where does it stand and where is it heading?" By Mr. N.V. Sathyanarayana, CMD, Informatics India Limited, Bengaluru and presided over by Professor Subbiah Arunachalam Date & Time: Monday, 29th June 2020 at 3.30 p.m. Online registration link: https://bit.ly/TBRlecture Note: Upon registration, you will get the Webinar link. Abstract of the talk: The Open Access (OA) movement has been going through two decades of the most highly debated evolution. Various initiatives by all stakeholders - scholarly community, authors, publishers, libraries, funding agencies, and the Government - involved in the movement have brought in changes in journal publishing today. The number of open access journals outnumbers the subscription journals. Even in total article views, OA has overtaken subscription journals. Currently, 31% of all articles are available as OA and 52% of article views are from OA journals. Yet, all these initiatives and results have been limited in their impact. The movement's goal post of 100% OA for scholarly communication is still not in sight. On the contrary, libraries and their consortia models continue to spend a significant amount of their budget on their subscriptions besides additional spending by authors on Article Processing Charges (APC). New business models like Plan S are being talked about with no global consensus emerging. The lecture will focus on the critical issues at the heart of the movement such as the institutional repositories (IRs), OA publishing models, copyright conflicts, challenges of finding a sustainable business model and accelerated role of libraries. The speaker proposes to pose and debate on the question - Is there a disruptive OA model in the reckoning? The lecture will also address the Indian scenario and the challenges it poses for Indian scholarly publishing to become an integral part of global OA models. About the speaker Shri. N V Sathyanarayana is a former librarian, information entrepreneur, and information services and products developer rolled into one. He is the Founder Director of Informatics India Ltd., - a leading Information Products and Services Company, established in 1980. Currently, he is the Chairman and of Informatics. Shri Sathyanaraya started his career as a librarian and worked in institutions such as the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, HMT, Bangalore, and Smith Kline & French, Bangalore for seven years before promoting his brainchild Informatics. He is also associated with several professional/academic bodies connected with the LIS profession and the information industry. To mention a few: Infotex'93; First National Conference on Digital Libraries (in India) in 1996, Bangalore; Infovision 2005, the first International Information Industry Summit, Bangalore. He is the recipient of the Young Information Scientist Award (1991). The Government of Karnataka conferred on him the Best Librarian Award (2006). The lecture will be presided over by: Professor Subbiah Arunachalam, Visiting Professor, DST Centre for Policy Research, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. About Professor Arunachalam Prof. S. Arunachalam is globally known for his expertise in Scientometrics and their use for assessing the research impact on a wide scale ranging from individuals and departments to institutions and countries. His interests include scientometrics, science policy, information science, public understanding of science, openness in scholarly communication, ICT for Development and rural knowledge centers, and improving information access, both for scientists and for the rural poor. He is one of the earliest in the developing countries to use citation indexes to study developments in science and science policy. He was instrumental in CSIR, DBT and DST adopting Green open access as official policy. We look forward to seeing you at the event. With best regards, Madhuresh Singhal On behalf of NCSI-Net Foundation Disclaimer: The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. 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Install Zotero using Snap package management tool
by Vimal Kumar V. 28 Jun '20

28 Jun '20

Zotero reference management tool has no Debian/Redhat package for installation. Users had to install from source. Installation from source is not easy for Linux newbies. Now Zotero snaps packaging available. Snap is a software package management and deployment system developed by Canonical (Mother organisation of Ubuntu Linux). It's easy to deploy applications using the Snap tool. Snap package management system can work with most Linux distributions (e.g. Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch). Packages are called 'snaps' and the package management tool called 'snapd'. Linux users have to install the snapd tool in Linux to install applications in the snap repository. Install Snap sudo apt update sudo apt install snapd Restart the computer after the installation of snapd. Install Zotero using snap Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organise, cite, and share your research sources. Apply the following command to install Zotero snap package, sudo snap install zotero-snap Zotero icon will appear in application launcher (Zotero icon appeared in Office > Zotero in my Ubuntu 20.04 LTS). A Snap store is available; users can search and find apps from here, https://snapcraft.io/store. Reference Snap getting started https://snapcraft.io/docs/getting-started How to Install and Use Snap on Ubuntu 18.04 https://codeburst.io/how-to-install-and-use-snap-on-ubuntu-18-04-9fcb6e3b34… -- Vimal Kumar V. Technical Assistant Mahatma Gandhi University Kottayam, Kerala, India-686 560 My Home Page: http://www.vimalkumar.info My Blogs: http://linuxhalwa.blogspot.com http://kohageek.blogspot.com http://dspacegeek.blogspot.com http://moovandan.blogspot.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt" -Patrick White -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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