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Invitation to participate in the 2021 Library Automation Perceptions survey
by Marshall Breeding 05 Nov '23

05 Nov '23

The 2021 International Library Automation Perceptions survey conducted through Library Technology Guides is now underway. This survey, conducted annually since 2007, provides an important opportunity for libraries to register their perceptions of the strategic automation products they use, organizations that provide these products, and the quality of support delivered. The survey also probes at considerations for migrating to new systems and the level of interest in open source products. While the numeric rating scales support the statistical results of the study, the narrative comments provide even more interesting insight into the current state of library automation satisfaction. Comments will be published in the survey results, though redacted to conceal any text that might identify the individual or organization responding. Please help your fellow libraries who might be in the process of evaluating library automation options by responding to the survey. Any information regarding vendor performance and product quality can be helpful when making strategic decisions regarding automation alternatives. A large number of responses strengthen the impact of the survey and the subsequent report. This survey also provides constructive criticism to the vendors involved to help them address any prevailing issues or concerns. If you have responded in previous years, please respond again this year to help identify any trends regarding improvement or worsening of the products or support services. For more information about the survey, for instructions on how to participate, and to see results of previous year's survey reports, see: https://librarytechnology.org/perceptions/2021/invite/ The results from last year's survey, including data from all previous editions, is here: https://librarytechnology.org/perceptions/2020 I hope that we can receive a large number of responses from libraries in India this year. The survey covers open source products as well as those from commercial vendors. Please let me know if there are any questions regarding the survey. -marshall Marshall Breeding marshall.breeding(a)librarytechnology.org<mailto:marshall.breeding@librarytechnology.org> www.librarytechnology.org/<http://www.librarytechnology.org/> twitter.com/mbreeding http://www.linkedin.com/in/breeding http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=NnvfJ5cAAAAJ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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LIS Academy Appeal to LIS Professionals to join LISACON-2021 Physically or Virtually
by Pandurang Konnur 31 Dec '21

31 Dec '21

Dear Professional Friends, Wishing you all a very happy and Prosperous New Year - 2022. LIS Academy wishes you all a pandemic free year. As already informed you all the LIS Academy Conference is being organized at Visvesvaraya Technological University, belagavi from 6-8 January 2022 in BLENDED MODE. You can attend physically as well as in virtual Mode. I have tried to wish you Happy New Year 2022 and shared with me my appeal to you all to join us in the ensuring LISACON-2021 Conference. Please click the following link to listen to my video Appel: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wvgvpHFBDZmhdDEqZ9gJ90T3oV7GLHzh/view?usp=… If you prefer to participate physically in the conference please register by paying Rs.2500 and experience a conference of difference If you are a student and desire to participate in the conference physically, please join us. We will offer you free registration If you want to participate virtually please register by paying Rs.500 and experience a conference of difference. If in any case you are not affordable to pay any registration fees, Please select FREE Registration in the form and join us to experience a conference of difference. Please use the following link to register for the conference for any of the above options. https://www.lisacademy.org/lisacon/online/ Please visit the conference website with the following link: https://www.lisacon2021.org/ Please download the PROGRAM SCHEDULE from the following link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UQJ9nubq9ig6YpWRU7krR6hGNGHC13rZ/view Please view the Conference Inauguration Inauguration & Valedictory Function Invitation Card: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jBjPuD2Hn8bgFHJ3aSQ_DoQI5PN1MG-7/view My Final appeal to you all is that, Please support the LIS Academy initiatives to enable us to strengthen the profession at large. 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 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Library Music
by Mohan Hr 30 Dec '21

30 Dec '21

Library Music In the age of streaming, public libraries offer small-scale alternatives for local archiving https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast/library-music-liz-pelly -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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LIS Academy Annual Conference LISACON-2021 will be held in Blended Mode
by Pandurang Konnur 28 Dec '21

28 Dec '21

Dear Professional Friends, WISHING YOU ALL A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR – 2022 LIS Academy wishes you all a Pandemic free Year We all spent these two years with fear and hidden behind four walls. The Covid – 19 pandemic has taken away our progress a decade back. As you all know that LIS Academy is doing its best to help Libraries and Librarians to get updated with technology. In this connection during its journey of five years, LIS Academy has conducted several Seminars, Conferences and workshops. Now the LIS Academy Annual Conference LISACON-2021 is being held during 6-8 January 2022 at VTU Belagavi. The Conference has been scheduled in blended mode Physical as well as in virtual mode. Please visit the LISACON-2021 website from the following Link: https://www.lisacademy.org The physical mode is planned purposely because we have been out of touch with each other for two years due to Covid-19. We know it is a deadly pandemic disease. But we will have to learn to live with it. We do not know how many variants it will generate in future. Hence it is a small effort to make all of you come out of this fear and start our professional activities. This Conference has been officially permitted by District Authorities of Belgaum to conduct for a maximum 300 participants physically. Be sure, all covid-19 SOPs will be followed during the conference. The Venue, Guest Houses and Hostels will be sanitized and cleaned. I request all of you to get registered to this conference and join us to enjoy the professional discourses for three days. In case of your inability to participate physically to this conference, I request you all to join the online mode by registering to the conference with just Rs.500. All the registered participants will get the Participation Certificates. Please register for the participation with the following Link: https://www.lisacademy.org/lisacon/online/ Friends, I promise you all that every penny you contribute to LIS Academy will in turn be used for the benefit of the Profession. Please participate in ensuring LIS Academy Conference in large numbers and encourage us to work more for the profession. I request you all to HELP LIS ACADEMY TO HELP LIS PROFESSION 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 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Kindly attend DELNET Webinar on "NEP 2020 : Redefining Libraries & LIS Education" by Prof. Jaideep Sharma, IGNOU, New Delhi on December 29, 2021 at 2:30 p.m.
by Paramjit Singh 27 Dec '21

27 Dec '21

*DELNET Webinar on "NEP 2020 : Redefining Libraries & LIS Education" by Prof. Jaideep Sharma, Faculty of Library and Information Science, IGNOU, New Delhi on 29.12.21* * Join us for a Webinar on Dec 29, 2021 from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. IST. * Register now! <https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/7641171925850979596> About the Speaker *Prof. Jaideep Sharma* is a Professor, Faculty of Library and Information Science, School of Social Sciences, IGNOU, New Delhi. Prof. Jaideep Sharma is a well known name in the field of LIS education and has been immensely contributing for past nearly four decades.He joined Kurukshetra University as a Lecturer in 1989 and worked till 2003.Prior to it, he worked in a college library ( Vivekananda College, DU and on a project of ILA in IGNCA). He joined as a Reader in Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) in 2003. He is currently Professor & Head, Faculty of Library and Information Science in IGNOU. He has been coordinating different programmes and taught in f2f mode and online mode also. He regularly teaches in the online programmes of IGNOU, through TV and Radio and is also involved in course curriculum design. Prof. Sharma hold PhD in "Professional Competencies and LIS Education" Prof. Jaideep Sharma has been associated in professional activities, associated with professional peer review journals acting as reviewer. Edited special issues of well known journals like Annals of Library and Information Studies and DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology. Also Joint Editor of well known peer review journal, Library Herald. He is a Life member of prominent professional national associations like ILA, IASLIC and DLA. Have been regularly delivering lectures in Refresher Programmes in universities, research institutions, Navodayay Vidyalaya and other schools. Also involved as Convener in designing standard for Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS). Have been a member of Board of Studies of different universities. Have been associated in designing curricula of different universities. Have also acted as co- guide for PhD student in other universities. Have been regularly evaluating PhD thesis of different universities. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. The digital Certificate of participation will be sent to all the attendees on their registered email id. *Please ensure that only one participant registers per email id.* Also kindly mention your name carefully in order to avoid any discrepancy in the certificate which gets issued automatically. View System Requirements <https://link.gotowebinar.com/help-system-requirements-attendees> -- *Khushal Giri Goswami* *Network Assistant* *DELNET ( Developing Library Network )* *E-mail : khushaldelnet(a)gmail.com <khushaldelnet(a)gmail.com>* *Phone No :011-26741122,9717734478* P *please consider the environment before printing this email !!!*

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Request for the articles for the educational project
by Library CJC 27 Dec '21

27 Dec '21

Hi, Kindly requesting for the below mentioned articles for the education projects: Walmart's Flipkart Acquisition: A Showstopper Deal? By: Tulsi Jayakumar, <https://hbsp.harvard.edu/search?action=&author=Tulsi%20Jayakumar>Sushmita Srivastava <https://hbsp.harvard.edu/search?action=&author=Sushmita%20Srivastava> (https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/W19567-PDF-ENG) Walmart - Flipkart Deal: In Search of Stability by Neera Jain <https://store.hbr.org/search.php?search_query=Neera%20Jain&section=product> and Amogh Bansal <https://store.hbr.org/search.php?search_query=Amogh%20Bansal&section=product> ( https://store.hbr.org/product/walmart-flipkart-deal-in-search-of-stability/… ) Origami-based deployable tubular structure with Yoshimura pattern Jong-Eun Suh <https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/profile/Jong-Eun.Suh-4075200>, Jinkyu Yang <https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/profile/Jinkyu.Yang-37668>, Jae-Hung Han <https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/profile/Jae-Hung.Han-18724> ( https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/11588/115… ) *Thanks & Regards* *Sona Raphel* *Librarian* library(a)cjc.christcollege.edu *"Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. * *They open up windows to the world and inspire us * *to explore and achieve, and contribute * *to improve our quality of life."* *Sidney Sheldon * (1917-2007. American writer and producer) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Mumbai: Senior citizens set up free library on Mulund footpath to promote reading
by Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy 26 Dec '21

26 Dec '21

I found this news item interesting for many reasons: It is initiated by senior citizens. It is open 24X7 with nobody 'manning' it. It is run on a 'on trust' basis. Many have already benefited from it. ========== December 25, 2021 8:09:07 pm Unknown author https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/mumbai-footpath-library-mul… Mumbai: Senior citizens set up free library on Mulund footpath to promote reading Written by Jayprakash S Naidu | Mumbai | The open library is not guarded by anyone and is open 24 hours a day. A few social workers have set up a 24×7 library on a footpath in Mulund (east) where people can come and pick up books for free. The library at Khandoba Mandir chowk has a collection of more than 2,000 books on a wide variety of subjects, donated mainly by senior citizens across Mumbai. Anyone can pick up a book of their choice and take it away for free after writing down their name and contact number on a register, and return it later. Senior citizens like Sadanand Desai, a mechanical engineer, Jaywant Hargude, retired assistant police commissioner, Deepak Khedkar, a journalist, and Jayshree Bise, a businesswoman, are some of the people who have donated books to the library. https://images.indianexpress.com/2020/08/1x1.png Desai, 73, told the Indian Express: “My late wife and I loved reading and collecting books. We had a collection of more than 500 books. After she passed away, I thought I should donate the books so people could get to read them for free. It includes a biography of politician Sharad Pawar.” “It’s a good initiative and the best thing is that the footpath where the library is located has minimal vehicular traffic and has some greenery around it,” added Desai. Ramesh Meshram, a senior citizen who came up with the idea, said: “These days, when everyone at home is hooked to their phones, I wanted old people to have a space where they can sit and read or take a book back home as a good time pass. There is Kelkar college nearby and the students passing by pick up books on their way home.” Shubham Gavand, an ITI student, said: “I picked up a book related to public speech as I wanted to increase my confidence while addressing an audience during presentations.” Heena Savla, a resident, said: “ I picked up a motivational book. It’s a good initiative and I hope it will help to get people to read books.” The open library is not guarded by anyone and is open 24 hours a day. “Few people said that the books might get stolen, but we are not worried about that. It is our endeavour to get people to read books,” added Meshram. =============== Dr P Vyasamoorthy / 9490804278 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Dr Dr R Guruprasad Selected as Asia's Top 50 Academicians and Researchers and Best Aerospace Information Scientist
by Ramachandran Guruprasad 25 Dec '21

25 Dec '21

*Dr. Ramachandran Guruprasad, Principal Technical Officer, (Retd.)Roddam Narasimha Civil Aircraft Centre (RN-CAC), CSIR-National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore, Karnataka has been elected as one of Asia's top 50 Academician and researcher by EET-CRS Research Wing for Excellence in Professional Education and Industry, Mumbai, 5 Dec 2021 and also as the Best Aerospace Information Scientist by KTK Outstanding Achievers and Association Foundation in association with Helium Production, Mumbai. The Virtual Award Ceremony will be held at New Delhi on 30-1-2022.* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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LTC2022 - The 6th Library Technology Conclave invites you to the Curtain-raiser seminar - Bangalore, 7th January, 2022.
by Sathyanarayana NV 25 Dec '21

25 Dec '21

Dear Members of the LIS-Forum, Greetings of Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! to you and your families, from the Informatics Group, and on my personal behalf - N. V. Sathyanarayana, Chairman, Informatics India Ltd., Bangalore. As the world starts ringing the New Year bell, Informatics is going to launch its LTC2022 -- the 6th International Library Technology Conclave. I have pleasure in inviting you to the series of programs of LTC2022 which will be organised jointly by Informatics and Somaiya Vidyavihar University, Mumbai, our conclave host-partner of LTC2022. As a launch event of LTC2022, we are organising a Curtain-raiser seminar in Bangalore, on 7th January 2022, (4-6.30 PM). The event will be hybrid, as both seminar and webinar -- physical and virtual. The seminar venue is Hotel ITC Fortune Park, 5/43, Race Course Road, Bangalore, with arrangements conforming to Covid-appropriate compliance norms. The Webinar venue will be Zoom platform. Please join us to celebrate the launch seminar of LTC2022 and raise a toast to welcome the New Year with us by registering at https://www.ltc2022.org/curtain-raiser/. The curtain-raiser seminar of 7th January has two distinguished speakers: - "Open science data availability by networking with researchers"; by Dr. Debabrata Das, Director, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore. - "A citation model beyond Garfield's vision of citation index"; by Dr. Josh Nicholson, Co-Founder & CEO, Scite.AI, Brooklyn, NY, USA. Looking forward to seeing you at the conclave in person or online. Once again, wishing you a safe and happy New Year full of joy and peace. | N. V. Sathyanarayana | Chairman | Informatics India Ltd. | Bangalore 560004 | INDIA | |www.informaticsglobal.com<http://www.informaticsglobal.com/>| http://LTC2022.org<http://ltc2022.org/> -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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My kind of heaven
by madhan muthu 25 Dec '21

25 Dec '21

My kind of heaven Teacher Plus - Special issue on libraries: https://www.teacherplus.org/my-kind-of-heaven/ I risk repeating just about everything you are about to read in this issue when I say that if there is a space where one can not only be oneself but find the self that one would like to become, it is inside a book. Correct that: there’s one other place/space – and that is the library, in the company of those who love and know books. For those of us fortunate enough to have grown up with access to such spaces, there are many fond memories we carry, of many formative moments and interactions, both with books and the people who have made that access possible. It becomes, then, for many, a restless passion that drives them to (for want of a better word) evangelize, to introduce others to the pleasures of reading, and also to the joys of building communities of readers. As Sujata Noronha, our guest editor for this issue of *Teacher Plus* puts it, “Library as both a concept and construct is so full of possibilities,” possibilities that go much beyond a collection of books or a place of knowledge curation and reference. Building a library and sustaining it requires not only an expansive imagination, but using it productively (and that can be a troublesome word) also needs us to go much beyond the instrumental framing that limits the popular understanding of such a place. The ongoing section in *Teacher Plus, Off the Library Shelves,* has attempted to offer a continuing exploration of what a library is and what it can be, drawing from varied experiences and contexts. This issue is a natural extension of this journey, bringing together in a very concentrated package some of the rich experiences of librarians, library enthusiasts, book lovers and educators. It takes us into a little bit of history, and gives us plenty of hope for what learning and the pleasure of knowledge seeking and even escape, can look like when books and other resources are organized into what becomes a library by many names. We discovered very quickly that so much can – and needed to – be said about libraries, and the slim space of a magazine doesn’t quite do it all justice. But think of this as a beginning (or maybe a middle) of a conversation that doesn’t really have to end when you turn the last page. That’s what happens with a good book, isn’t it? *Guest Editorial* Welcome to the Library *Sujata Noronha* Imagine you are in a quiz on great Indian thinkers and you find a question being asked about the Father of Library Science in India. If you do not know this answer, rest back, there will be a librarian in the audience – if not on a team – who will quickly call out Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan or S.R. Ranganathan as he is more commonly referred to. Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan (1892-1972) was a mathematician, a university teacher who lived in south India and was known for his ‘active’ teaching methods. He was beloved in the classroom and dynamic in the ways in which he brought his students to ideas and topics. He was selected to become the librarian at Madras University in 1924. But having no experience and training in librarianship and dreading the lonely life of the librarian, S. R. Ranganathan (S.R.R) asked for a reprieve. He was invited to study librarianship in a University/Public Library in the United Kingdom and to decide thereafter if he wanted to continue as a librarian or not. The nine-month observation study appeared to have transformed S.R. Ranganathan’s mind towards this field of library study and practice, and thereafter changed his ideas about the science of library. In India and many other countries, library science gets its philosophical foundation and social recognition from the immense contributions of S.R. Ranganathan. He is widely known for the Five Laws of Library Science and for his classification and indexing theory. However, for those of us who work with young people, S.R. Ranganathan’s contribution to the imagination and nature of school libraries is a treatise that can inform best practices in the simplest of ways. He was a strong advocate of the public library movement and enabling book access to all. In an essay written in 1941, based on a speech commemorating the silver jubilee of the installation of the Public Library in Bangalore, 80 years ago, S.R. Ranganathan made an argument for public enthusiasm to form a library movement within the public library stream. He felt very strongly that this movement would impact government policy and funding, professionalism for the field of library science, practice of librarianship and dissemination and access to libraries in the country. Eighty years have passed and in early 2021, when the editors of *Teacher Plus* decided to devote a special issue to the library, it felt like the winds of that very enthusiasm beginning to stir again. But this time for library work with children and young people. When I first accepted this wondrous opportunity, all I could think about was that this is a chance to document more deeply and share more widely the range of library practices that make up our world in India in 2021. As I began to think of how to include and structure the issue, I realized that the breadth and width of library work is fuelled by so many micro and macro aspects that it is foolhardy to think of it from the point of view of practice or existence of library spaces alone. Library both as a construct and a concept is so full of possibilities that it was suddenly within my scope to imagine a more expanded issue because of the work that has gone before and the people who have enabled the domain to form. Without imagination, a market, a professional community, policy, school systems, the curiosity and open mindedness of children, the human pursuit for learning and pleasure, our compelling need for social justice, library work would be hollow. This formed the basis of imagining this issue. It is with immense pleasure that I present to you a collection of essays that cover the gamut of library work from points of view that intersect with the library and are of the library as well. I trust, based on my learning of bringing this issue together that you will find fresh insights and learning and that ideas of practice and possibilities will open up for us as librarians and teachers. I have had the honour of partnering with many colleagues who devoted themselves to writing out essays or editing essays that make the picture whole. I am indebted to each and every one of them and hope that this special issue marks the continuation of the library movement envisaged by S.R. Ranganathan for our future – through our children. The issue is divided into three sections that open up life lines into the library. From the physical library as place to the cerebral library in our imagination and thinking, matters of collection, inclusion, literacy, technology, policy, school and community find place and purpose in this issue. Each section is highlighted with art work to set the tone of the section and provoke us to imagine further and interact with the ideas that we present. Welcome to the library! -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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