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An Analytical Study of E-Learning Initiatives in Library and Information Sector in India (Research Questionnaire for LIS Teachers/Professionals)
by Neelam kabra VMOU PHD 18 Oct '21

18 Oct '21

Respected Sir/Madam, I am Neelam Kabra, a Ph.D. research scholar in the department of library and information science, Vardhman Mahaveer Open University, Kota. I am doing my research work under the guidance of Prof.(Dr.) Dinesh K Gupta, Department of Library and Information Science, Central University of Haryana on the topic “An Analytical Study of E-Learning Initiatives in Library and Information Sector in India”. My research is based on e-learning and I am sending a related questionnaire to you, which I hope you will complete and submit to me taking some moments from your precious time. Your cooperation and comments are much valuable for my research, kindly click the link mentioned below to go to the questionnaire https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdRBPQ2TJOO5y0ptSogiaa-b5RJaF43Wjx… Sir/Madam, it is a kind request that if any of your contacts belong to the library science field or are students of library science kindly mail/ share this questionnaire to them also. This is for students:- https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfeY3khuxuZlTlhxxDOq-Hh8FYu74EtCm2… I will be very grateful to you for this cooperation. Yours Sincerely, Neelam Kabra, Research Scholar, Department of Library and Information Science, Vardhmaan Mahaveer Open University, Kota. -- <https://online.vmou.ac.in/General_Instruction.aspx> *वर्धमान महावीर खुला विश्वविद्यालय <http://www.vmou.ac.in>*Vardhman Mahaveer Open University रावतभाटा रोड | Rawatbhata Road कोटा - ३२४०२१ | Kota-324021 (राजस्थान) (Rajasthan) भारत | INDIA TOLL FREE : 1800-180-6166 Students One View <http://wiki.vmou.ac.in/index.php/Students_One_View> : One Solution to all Learner needs !!! AJMER <http://www.vmou.ac.in/ajmer>| BIKANER <http://www.vmou.ac.in/bikaner>| BHARATPUR <http://www.vmou.ac.in/bharatpur>| JAIPUR <http://www.vmou.ac.in/jaipur>| JODHPUR <http://www.vmou.ac.in/jodhpur>| UDAIPUR <http://www.vmou.ac.in/udaipur>| KOTA <http://www.vmou.ac.in/kota> Youtube <http://www.youtube.com/user/vmouonline/videos> | Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/vmouonline>| Twitter <https://twitter.com/vmouonline> <http://radio.vmou.ac.in:8000/iradio.m3u> *"Print this mail only if absolutely necessary. Save Paper. Save Trees." * -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Fwd: [IFLA-L] That is a quick message about deadline for submitting proposals for October's webinar for LIS students
by Prof. N. Laxman Rao. 16 Oct '21

16 Oct '21

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: NPSIG IFLA <npsig.ifla(a)googlemail.com> Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2021, 4:55 pm Subject: [IFLA-L] That is a quick message about deadline for submitting proposals for October's webinar for LIS students To: <ifla-l(a)iflalists.org> Dear Colleagues, If you study librarianship at university now or you know LIS students who are involved in international collaboration, this message is exactly for you! Division C returns with a webinar series for LIS students where students are speakers. They can present their knowledge and exchange experience. October's webinar topic is: International Engagement and Collaboration – Getting Started. It will be interesting to know how you got started and involved with your international engagement and cooperation, who helped you or what you did with a partner library from another country. You can also say more about international conferences, study trips, and internships. Deadline for submitting proposals is: 14 October (that's tomorrow!) Please send your proposals to Albina Krymskaya (krymskayaalbina(a)gmail.com) and Susanne List-Tretthahn (list-tretthahn(a)bvoe.at).For more info read this website. Best regards * * * IFLA New Professionals Special Interest Group (NPSIG) E-mail: npsig.ifla(a)gmail.com Blog: https://npsig.wordpress.com/ Website: https://www.ifla.org/new-professionals Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/npsig/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/npsig YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/iflaNPSI Unsubscribe from this list : https://mail.iflalists.org/wws/sigrequest/ifla-l For assistance please contact mailto:mailing.lists@ifla.org

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LIS Academy Symposium on Skill Development for LIS Professionals on 13th November 2021 at Bangalore
by Pandurang Konnur 16 Oct '21

16 Oct '21

Dear LIS professional Friends, LIS Academy has initiated to undertake Skill Development Proficiency Courses affiliated to Visvesvaraya Technology University (VTU), Belagavi In this connection to understand the need for different skill sets in LIS Profession and to trace the expertise manpower to train the professionals with these skill sets, a Symposium is organised on 13th November 2021 at 9.30am at VTU Regional Office Nagarabhavi,Bangalore. The Symposium focuses on the following topic of discussion: 1. To identify the prevailing skill set requirements of the market 2. To Identify mode and method, convenient to both working librarians and novice 3. To workout collaboration with various well equipped libraries and librarians across the country to impart skill set 4. To identify suitable institutions (good with tools, technology and expertise) and industries to provide exposure or provide chances for students to work in ongoing projects. Following session are identified for discussion: -- Digital technologies for libraries including library automation -- Library Data Analytics and Scientometrics -- Models of Collection development and E-Resource Managements tools -- E-Publishing and prevailing publishing models -- Web tools, Technologies for researchers & authors -- E-learning, Virtual learning and Research Integrity -- Intellectual Property Management & Patenting Call for Participation Registration: The participation is free for experts as well as participants. Following LIS Professionals may participate in the Symposium: -- All those who are keen to share their expertise and interested to build a strong manpower team for the future Librarianship. -- All those who feel there is a gap between the present LIS Curriculum and the Industry requirement and desire to extend their suggestions / support to conduct the Proficiency courses. -- All those who are really keen to learn the skills in Librarianship and desire to add their wish list for the skill being imparted to LIS Professionals. -- All those who have just completed their LIS professional course and working as trainees / unemployed and desirous to improve their skills. The total number of participants is restricted to 40, the selected participants among those who have registered will be invited separately. Those who are interested to participate may register from the link provided in the Brochure. Call for Moderators & Panelists: LIS professionals who possess the expertise in the above skills and are interested to serve as Moderator / Panelists may volunteer and register through the link provided in the Brochure. Please download the Symposium Brochure <https://bit.ly/3n2bXWj>LIS Academy Symposium Brochure <https://bit.ly/3n2bXWj> The registration will close on 30th October 2021 Thanks & Regards, *Dr. P. V. Konnur* *President* - LIS Academy, Bangalore *Former LIS Professor*, *Fulbright Scholar* - (UIUC, USA) *Adviser - VTU Consortium, * *Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belagavi - 590 018, * *Mobile* : 09449679737 *E-Mail* : pvkonnur(a)gmail.com Website: *www.lisacademy.org <http://www.lisacademy.org/>*

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I need a copy of a letter to the editor of BMJ I wrote many years ago
by Subbiah Arunachalam 16 Oct '21

16 Oct '21

Friends: Could any of you send me the full text of https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.320.7242.1144 LettersCaring for marginalised peopleBMJ 2000; 320 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.320.7242.1144 (Published 22 April 2000)Cite this as: BMJ 2000;320:1144 - Article <https://www.bmj.com/content/320/7242/1144> - <https://www.bmj.com/content/320/7242/1144/related> - Metrics <https://www.bmj.com/content/320/7242/1144/article-info> - Responses <https://www.bmj.com/content/320/7242/1144/rapid-responses> Appropriate external intervention is needed 1. Subbiah Arunachalam, distinguished fellow -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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LISACON2021 Conference Paper Submission Date - Extended till 31st October 2021
by Dr. Shivaram Gowda 15 Oct '21

15 Oct '21

Dear Professional friends, As Editorial committee of LISACON2021 have received many requests from prospective authors, the last date for submission of paper is extended to *October 31st, 2021* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LISACON2021 (Annual national Conference of LIS Academy) is being organized on a theme “Open Scholarship and Libraries”, to bring OA practices to the common platform under 5 sub-themes, namely: 1. Open Access Publishing 2. Open Education Resources 3. Open Science / Open Data 4. Open Source / Open Code 5. Open Access Ethical Issues LISACON-2021 offers many unique opportunities to young researchers to showcase their research work in the form of full-length articles and poster presentations. The uniqueness of LISACON2021 are as follows: 1. Double blindfold review after clearing plagiarism (Similarity guidelines are stated on the conference website) 2. Selected articles will be published with SCOPUS indexed journals (after fulfilling journal expectations) to provide greater visibility, Conference organizers are in touch with several publishers. 3. Cash prize for best paper award separately for contributory papers in general and student category. 4. The few best papers recommended by the Editorial Committee will be converted into invited papers with discounting registration fee and Local Hospitality. 5. Every Contributory paper presenter will be given 15 minutes time to present his/her paper and discuss with participants/peers. 6. Conference expert team will help every Contributory paper presenter with assistance to prepare the best PPT Presentation once the paper is accepted by the Editorial Team. 5. The paper contributors will have the opportunity to share the session with leading plenary and theme speakers. (Each session will have one plenary talk from other domain experts to give library perceptive, two Theme Talk by the leading Library professional. For more details visit conference website: https://www.lisacon2021.org/ Unique Opportunity to contribute your papers: LISACON2021 provides the best platform for all LIS Professions to update and upgrade their knowledge by presenting their research output and by discussing with the giant experts in the Conference. For more details: Download Brochure: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dNIkHk8PDzGEacnsGtcNmf7wZdlrDlRQ/view?usp=… Download Conference Tentative Program Schedule: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UQJ9nubq9ig6YpWRU7krR6hGNGHC13rZ/view?usp=… The editorial team of LISACON2021 eagerly looks forward to your original research papers. With warm regards -- Shivaram BS, PhD Jt. Head ICAST, CSIR-National Aerospace Laboratories Govt. of India (Autonomous), HAL Airport Road Kodihalli, Bangalore-560017 Phone:- 080-25086083 Mobile (Official):9611839998 Mobile:9902177998 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Preprint ban in grant applications deemed ‘plain ludicrous’
by Mohan Hr 14 Oct '21

14 Oct '21

Preprint ban in grant applications deemed ‘plain ludicrous’ Australia’s major research funder has ruled more than 20 fellowship applications ineligible because they mentioned preprints and other non-peer reviewed materials. The decision sparked an outcry from scientists, who say the move is a blow to open science and will stymie careers. At a time when the COVID-19 pandemic has brought the use of preprints to the fore, researchers say the Australian Research Council’s stance is out of step with modern publishing practices and at odds with that of other funding agencies. The Australian Research Council’s decision to reject early career funding applications that mention preprints is hopelessly outdated, say scientists. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02318-8 Quite strange. It is a unwelcome move. It will discourage scientific research. Requires to be relooked. With regards -- hrmohan -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Updated Call: Science & Technology Metrics (STMet 2021)
by Francis Jayakanth 14 Oct '21

14 Oct '21

From: fgct(a)socio.org.uk <fgct(a)socio.org.uk> Sent: 12 October 2021 11:51 Third International Conference on Science & Technology Metrics (STMet 2021) Virtual Event December 06-08, 2021 (www.socio.org.uk/stm<http://www.socio.org.uk/stm>) POST-CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS PUBLICATION Building metrics is the key to science and technology, measurement, and translating the measures to work better. Metric is not confined to drawing numbers and analyze. Selecting a metric depends on synthesizing multiple directions and evidence-based data. Producing benchmarks and standards in science and technology evaluation and implementing them with real data, mark the full-fledged system. Quite recently, we have witnessed the emergence of new metrics-based models aiming to reflect science and technology growth. The proposed Science and Technology Metrics (STMet 2020) conference is concerned with how the use of many metrics may involve the assessment of different aspects of science and technology which are best expressed using different approaches. Besides the standard conference track and the Doctoral Symposium, STMetrics will host a number of workshops and tutorials related to the theme of the conference. The purpose of the workshops is to provide participants with a friendly, interactive atmosphere for presenting novel ideas and discussing their application of metrics in the Science and Technology System. The goal of the tutorials is to enable the participants to familiarize themselves with theoretical as well as practical aspects and the application of metrics. The proposed conference consists of invited talks, presentations, tutorials, workshops, and discussions. The STMet has tracks on specialized topics. The STMet addresses the below themes, not limited. Citation-based metrics Ranking of Journals, Institutions, and Countries Discipline and Domain Analysis Economic factors Databases and datasets for evaluation Evaluation Tools and Indicators Web-based metrics Visibility and impact Internationalization Text-based Metrics Innovation indicators Wearable Devices Open data Scientific Collaboration and cooperation analysis National Evaluation Systems Open access and open publishing New indices for evaluation Altmetrics Web-based metrics Data Science and Digital Repositories Scientific Visualization e-Science in the Cloud Scientific Journalism Scientific Publications All submitted papers will be reviewed by a double-blind and participative peer review. The review process will enable the selection process of those that will be accepted for their presentation at the international conference. Authors of accepted papers who registered in the conference can have access to the evaluations and possible feedback provided by the reviewers who recommended the acceptance of their papers, so they can accordingly improve the final version of their papers. Mentoring support is available to young researchers and authors of developing countries. Paper review and publication process The committee will classify the papers as Theory, Methodological, Experimental, Seminal, review, replicability, reproducibility and repeatability. Repeatability papers will be rejected. The papers even after acceptance will be completely edited to ensure fair presentation. Each paper gets DOI and subjected for publication in the journals listed. The papers will be published as open conference proceedings. Registration Fees There is no registration fee for authors and participants. 1. Journal of Digital Information Management 2. Frontiers in Research Metrics 3. Journal of Scientometric Research 4. International Journal of Computational Linguistics Research 5. Research in Production and Development There is no publication fee for the papers selected for the above journals. Keynotes Title: The Sex (or Gender) of Cancer Researchers in 2009 and 2019, and there Impact by Dr Grant Lewison FRSA Title: Semantic Strength between Textual (linguistic) and Non-textual (non-linguistic) content of scientific papers by Prof Pit Pichappan General Chairs Andrei Grinёv, Saint-Petersburg State Polytechnic University, Russia Grant Lewison, King’s College, UK Program Chairs Ramesh Kundra, NISTADS, India Daisy Jacobs, University of Zululand, South Africa Pit Pichappan, Digital Information Research Labs., UK & India Program Co-Chairs Kazuyuki, Motohashi, University of Tokyo, Japan José André Villas Boas Mello, Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica Celso Suckow da Fonseca, Brazil Amir Reza Asnafi, Shahid Beheshti University, Iran Important Dates Submission of Abstracts/papers: October 25, 2021 Notification: November 05, 2021 Camera-ready: November 30, 2021 Registration: November 30, 2021 Conference Dates – December 06-08, 2021 Contact: stm(a)socio.org.uk<mailto:stm@socio.org.uk> --------------------------

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Dr Guruprasad has been elected as Fellow of the National Environmental Science Academy (NESA) for his Outstanding Contributions to Aerospace Engineering.
by Ramachandran Guruprasad 12 Oct '21

12 Oct '21

Dr. R. Guruprasad, Principal Technical Officer, Roddam Narasimha Civil Aircraft Centre (RN-CAC), Bangalore, INDIA *has been elected as Fellow of the National Environmental Science Academy (NESA), New Delhi (2021) for his outstanding contributions to Aerospace Engineering and his remarkable and commendable contributions to Education. * He is also the recipient of the Bharat Shiksha Gaurav Puraskar. He is a Fellow of the Engineering Research Council, (FERC), USA, Fellow of the Glocal Environment Social Association (FGESA), New Delhi. Dr. Guruprasad holds a MLIS and Ph.D. from the Annamalai University and the University of Mysore, Department of Library and Information Science (DLIS). ============================= Date 07/10/2021 Ref. No. NESA/Annual Awards-2021/Congratulatory Letter/5001 To Sir / Madam On behalf of the National Environmental Science Academy, New Delhi, we wish to congratulate you for your selection for the *NESA FELLOWSHIP OF THE YEAR AWARD-2021 *by the NESA Award Committee. The Award function will be held on *12th December, 2021* at *Auditorium, Campus-11, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Bhubaneswar, Odisha* (*Physical and Online Mode*). ======================================= -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Sessions to watch: OASPA 2021 Online Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing
by Dr. J. K. Vijayakumar 12 Oct '21

12 Oct '21

OASPA 2021 : Online Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing was held on the theme "Designing 21st Century Knowledge Sharing Systems". If you missed attending the sessions of OASPA 2021 Conference, you can now watch the recorded sessions from https://go.copyright.com/l/37852/2021-09-28/x81knq ------------------------- Dr. J. K. VIJAYAKUMAR, King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST), https://www.linkedin.com/in/vijayakumarjk/

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Article required
by Paramjit Singh 12 Oct '21

12 Oct '21

Dear Library professionals Warm wishes Can I have the following article on urgent basis please: Karana, Dhruv & Sahoo, Rashmi. (2021). Experimental study on exergy and sustainability analysis of the thermoelectric based exhaust waste heat recovery system. International Journal of Exergy. 34. 1. 10.1504/IJEX.2021.10034152. -- Thanks & Regards <https://www.linkedin.com/in/paramjit-singh-8aa1238/> *S Paramjit Rana | **Librarian *| M.A., M. Phil. <https://www.linkedin.com/in/s-paramjit-singh-8aa1238> Tel. +91 9968 308970, 9911 270778 *"Vidya Vichari Ta Parupkari"* 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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