August 2021 - LIS-Forum - ncsi.iisc.ernet.in

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Australian Research Council’s decision to reject early career funding applications that mention preprints is hopelessly outdated, say scientists.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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SRELS Lectures 2021
by K.S. Raghavan 30 Aug '21

30 Aug '21

SARADA RANGANATHAN ENDOWMENT FOR LIBRARY SCIENCE in association with BITES (Board for IT Education Standards) & IIIT, Dharwad Present Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science Lectures 2021 By Dr. S. R. Mahadeva Prasanna Dean, R & D and Professor of Electrical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology, Dharwad at 5 pm on 16th and 17th September 2021 on Representation Learning and Pattern Recognition: Human vs Computing Part I: Journey in Speech Processing (16th Sept. 5-6 PM) Part II: Journey in Machine Learning and Deep Learning (17th Sept. 5-6 PM) Prof. K. N. Balasubramanya Murthy Vice-Chancellor, Dayanand Sagar University, Bangalore & Chairman, BITES will preside (Google Meet Video link https://meet.google.com/zbm-ewof-wcr) ALL ARE CORDIALLY INVITED Dr. Kavi Mahesh Dr. K. S. Raghavan Director, IIIT, Dharwad Member-Secretary, SRELS K. S. Raghavan Dean (Academic) (Retd.) University of Madras Professor (Retd.) DRTC, Indian Statistical Institute Visiting Scientist (Retd.), Centre for Knowledge Analytics & Ontological Engineering, PES University, Bangalore Visiting Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (2015) Visiting Professor, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil (2003) Senior Fulbright Scholar, University of California at Los Angeles, USA (1987) Member-Secretary, Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science Vice-Chairman, Ranganathan Centre for Information Studies Editor, SRELS Journal of Information Management -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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MILAN & SRELS Present Teachers' Day, September 5, 2021| Talks, Elegies to the memories of teachers, and a Dialectic Dialogue on "LIS Education in Changing Times" | Please join
by Shalini Urs 30 Aug '21

30 Aug '21

Mysore University Information and Library Science Alumni Network (MILAN) *&* Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science (SRELS) *---* *Present* *TEACHERS’ DAY 2021* *September 5, 2021: 11 am to 1 pm* *---* *“Turning Information into Knowledge: The Teacher’s Role”* *By* *Chief Guest* *Professor V.K.Natraj * Former Director, Madras Institute of Development Studies; Former Director, Institute of Development Studies, University of Mysore; Former Registrar, University of Mysore Our Teachers : A Journey of Reminiscence (Elegies to the memories of Professors K.S. Deshpande, P. K Patil, T.V. Subramanyam, N.B. Pangannaya, and B.Nagappa) By Dr. M.S. Sreedhar Former Librarian, ISRO Satellite Centre, Bangalore & Professor N.S. Harinarayana Department of Library and Information Science, University of Mysore --- *LIS Education in Changing Times: A Dialogue* *(An interactive session between practitioners and professors)* *Panelists * ● *Dr. **Shantanu Ganguly, Chief Librarian,* All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India ● *Professor Uma Kanjilal,* *Pro-Vice Chancellor*, Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi ● *Dr. Dinesh K. Siddaiah,* *Librarian,* Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar, Punjab ● *Professor Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay,* Professor & Head, LIS, Kalyani University, Kalyani, W.B Google Meet joining info Video call link: https://meet.google.com/ave-whvy-tge Come, join us: let us celebrate the Teachers’ Day Professor Shalini R. Urs Professor K. S. Raghavan President, MILAN Member-Secretary, SRELS -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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IATUL2021 Conference sessions are now on YouTube
by Dr. J. K. Vijayakumar 29 Aug '21

29 Aug '21

The Libraries of Universidade do Porto hosted the 41st IATUL Annual Conference from 13 July to 15 July 2021 as an online conference with the theme "Bridging Universities and Society: Libraries as Connectors". The emergence of movements such as Open Science, Open Innovation, and Citizen Science highlights how society benefits when higher education institutions expand access to research and teaching. Ongoing engagement and collaboration between universities and communities are essential components of these open initiatives. The recent developments in research to fight COVID-19 emphasize the advantages of open collaboration. Academic libraries worldwide are playing vital roles in facilitating these initiatives by developing new and innovative services and infrastructure. The overall themes for the conference are: - Expanding information and digital literacies Library spaces and services advancing innovation and engagement - Partnerships with communities, local and global - Library strategies and actions supporting open science and collaboration - Open Science: communicating and measuring impact beyond the university - Workforce development in open science practices (repositories, presses, RDM and more) - Innovative library responses to the pandemic situations. If you missed to attend the sessions, you can now watch the recorded sessions from https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYChCU_pZS_ExorctqDDMj8SQtoa2bku2 ---------- Dr. J. K. VIJAYAKUMAR, King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST), https://www.linkedin.com/in/vijayakumarjk/

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Webinar on "Best Practices in Knowledge Management"
by Paramjit Singh 27 Aug '21

27 Aug '21

DELNET Webinar on "Best Practices in Knowledge Management" by Dr Aditi Raool, Manager, Knowledge Management & Sharing Platforms, DSM, Netherlands Webinar on Saturday, Aug 28, 2021 at 3:00 PM IST. For Registration: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/6112325193478579472 -- Thanks & Regards <https://www.linkedin.com/in/paramjit-singh-8aa1238/> <https://www.linkedin.com/in/paramjit-singh-8aa1238/> *S Paramjit Rana | **Librarian *| M.A., M. Phil. <https://www.linkedin.com/in/paramjit-singh-8aa1238/> Tel. +91 9968 308970, 9911 270778 <https://www.linkedin.com/in/paramjit-singh-8aa1238/> *"Vidya Vichari Ta Parupkari" <https://www.linkedin.com/in/paramjit-singh-8aa1238/>* P *please consider the environment before printing this email !!!*

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9 unique library jobs that have nothing to do with books
by Mohan Hr 26 Aug '21

26 Aug '21

9 unique library jobs that have nothing to do with books When you walk into your local public library, you expect to receive help from a reference librarian, a circulation desk librarian, or perhaps a children’s librarian, depending on your needs. However, many libraries are starting to employ people in new, non-librarian roles to better meet the changing needs of the communities they serve. The below nine cutting-edge jobs within libraries showcase the evolving role of this uniquely flexible public institution, an institution whose value as social infrastructure only seems to grow as crisis after crisis rocks society. https://www.shareable.net/9-unique-library-jobs-that-have-nothing-to-do-wit… Nice story Changing role of libraries in the context of building communities. 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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August 26, 2021 India part on Million Book Project (MBP) - DLI 20 years celebrations at 7.00 PM IST
by Francis Jayakanth 26 Aug '21

26 Aug '21

Dear Members, here is a forwarded message. Some of you may be interested in attending the following event. ________________________________ From: Prof N. Balakrishnan <balki.iisc(a)gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2021, 10:34 AM Dear All: Over the last three days, we witnessed a superb display of great activities truly reflecting the past, present and future of Digital Libraries in general and the MBP, DLI and CADAL in particular from the USA, Internet Archives, Google Books, Wikipedia, Canada, China and others. This proved to be stupendous learning for everyone. As you are aware, tomorrow the 26th August will be devoted to India. The program starts at 7.00 PM IST. The link for the meeting is available at: https://www.isri.cmu.edu/events/mbp20/index.html when you click on the Zoom Link. The program will have 4 talks. 1. Dr Ajay Sawhney 2. Prof Partha 3. Dr VN Shukla 4. Prof Rajeev Sangal and 5 Prof N Balakrishnan Each talk will be for 20 Minutes. This will be followed by a Panel discussion on the Future of Digital Libraries. The panellists are: 1. Prof Raj- Chairman of the panel 2. Shri Yashwant Bhave 3. Dr Ajay Sawhney 4. Prof Partha Chakraborty 5. N Balakrishnan I will moderate the program and introduce each speaker. I will use a maximum of two sentences to introduce each of you since you are very accomplished and famous. Then after that, you can share your screen and start the talk. After your talk, please stop sharing the screen. We will continuously get the questions through the Chat Box, and I will take on the questions later during the panel discussions. I also request each of you to send the above details or forward this email to all those involved in DLI and/or interested in Digital Libraries. Looking forward to your active participation as always, and I sincerely seek your advice and guidance. Regards Balki

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As the library sleeps
by Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy 26 Aug '21

26 Aug '21

https://blogs.loc.gov/preservation/2021/08/as-the-library-sleeps/ How did closure of the Library of Congress in March 2020 (absence of visitors & staff) affect the library? Interesting to read how the dedicated PERT staff attending to this unexpected condition handled the situation. 'they walked miles along the shelves..' 'pinhole leak in copper sprinkler pipe', 'books left on the floor' -- as a librarian we can understand the enormity of the task. 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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ETD Metadata Lifecycle at Higher Educational Institutes Survey by Dr D P Tripathi
by Gopakumar Velayudhanpillai 25 Aug '21

25 Aug '21

Dear friends After a long time, I am finding a good initiative in the survey that is being conducted by Dr D P Tripathi. (ETD Metadata Lifecycle at Higher Educational Institutes published in Lis Forum Vol 221 Issue 27. https://forms.gle/Qs9fTJUiXqpRMwAq8) We are all running behind the technology, forgetting the basics of Library and Information Science. Obviously we can not forget technology, but metadata is inevitable for proper information retrieval and sharing. I found that people give least importance to metadata and its maintenance. In fact the Institutional Repository of Goa University was built with utmost care, basically in maintaining metadata standards. Dr M Tapaswi former Scientist and Information professional from NIO was the person behind that task. He was monitoring every new uploads and its metadata for its correctness. I wish Dr D P Tripathi all the best for his efforts and recommend professionals to cooperate with the survey. Dr Gopakumar V Former University Librarian Goa University www.gopan.info Mobile No: 09447056713, 9158835495 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Req. one Article
by Sankar 24 Aug '21

24 Aug '21

Dear Sir / Madam I request you to if possible, please send the below mentioned one article for our doctors research purposes. https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article-abstract/113/6/1398/6238552?redirecte… Title Measuring calf circumference: a practical tool to predict skeletal muscle mass via adjustment with BMI -- Thanks & Regards for Madras Medical Mission P. Sankar Sr. Librarian Madras Medical Mission No.4A, Dr.J.J. Nagar Mogappair, Chennai Tamilnadu, India PIN 600037 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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