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Faster arXiv with Fastly
by Subbiah Arunachalam 20 Dec '23

20 Dec '23

Friends, This may be of interest: https://blog.arxiv.org/2023/12/18/faster-arxiv-with-fastly/ With warm regards, Arun http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4658 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9925-2009

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Public Lecture (Hybrid) - Fair Dealing in Copyright Law - The Made-in-Canada Version by Dr.Meera Nair on 21st December 2023 at 3.30pm
by Dr. Mahesh Yaranal 19 Dec '23

19 Dec '23

Gentle Reminder : Dear Professional Colleagues Merry Christmas & New Year in Advance! We are organising the Library Public Lecture (Hybrid) on 21st December 2023 at 3.30pm to 4.40pm on | "Fair Dealing in Copyright Law - The Made-in-Canada Version" by Dr.Meera Nair. *About the Lecture: * In 2004, in a case addressing the scope of fair dealing, the Supreme Court of Canada uttered a never-before-heard phrase in Canada’s judicial copyright lexicon: User Rights. Though any meaningful arc of history is necessarily still in its infancy, as the twentieth anniversary approaches, reflection is inescapable. More ground has been gained since that handful of librarians made history, yet it cannot be denied that opposition has been fierce and continues to be relentless. Further complicating matters is Canada’s subordinate role in the international publishing sector, a disadvantage which began with its colonial birth and continues today. Along with required adherence to the Berne Convention, as ordered by the British masters of 1886, it is not an exaggeration to say that it took close to 140 years for a distinctly Made-in-Canada approach to both fair dealing and copyright to come to fruition. Given the somewhat parallel histories of India and Canada with respect to statutory copyright, Canada’s past and present may be of interest to librarians and lawyers alike, or indeed anyone in India advocating for user rights in general, and fair dealing in particular. *About the Speaker* Dr. Meera Nair holds a doctorate in Communication, with a research interest in systems of copyright. Currently appointed as the Copyright Officer for the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (Canada), she blogs about user rights, copyright, creativity, education, and the politics that invariably accompany those topics, at her blog, Fair Duty: https://fairduty.wordpress.com/ *When:* Thursday, December 21, 2023 03:30 PM India at NLSIU *Join Zoom Meeting:* https://nls-ac-in.zoom.us/j/97455301420?pwd=RnFiRlZmZVlzQ2hRSytuRzRFeThOdz09 Meeting ID: 974 5530 1420 Passcode: 365098 *The Organisers: * Dr. Arul George Scaria - Discussant Dr. Mahesh Yaranal - 9886074980 Mr. Madhu KS - 9886020788 -- Thanks & Regards, ----- Mahesh Yaranal, PhD Librarian(I/C) National Law School of India University P.B.No. 7201., Nagarbhavi, Bangalore - 560 072 Tel : 080-23010000 Extn 227 ; Mobile: 91-9886074980 Email : mahesh(a)nls.ac.in, maheshyaranal(a)gmail.com

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Forthcoming Events in Dec 2023 & Jan 2024
by Mohan Hr 16 Dec '23

16 Dec '23

*Forthcoming Events* 20th Dec 2023 at 3.30 pm IST. Webinar HCC, IEEE CS Madras, ACM & CSI Chennai cordially invite you to the webinar on "FUTURE PROOFING YOUR BUSINESS: Thriving in these times of unprecedented change" by Ms. Madiha Mouchtak, MBA, Mentor and Business Accelerator, Founder and Managing Director @ Answer Inside Transition and Scale up, Author of Amazon Bestseller: The Sustainable Turnaround. Register at https://bit.ly/47VoGzV Participant Gifts: A Free Growth Mindset Scan (For All); A Free Digital Business Scan (For Business Founders and Leaders) - Small and Medium sized businesses (not Micro); and A free Digital Copy of Madiha’s Amazon Bestselling book: The Sustainable Turnaround More Events in Dec 2023: https://bit.ly/dec2023events 10th Jan 2024 at 6 pm IST. Webinar IEEE CS Madras, CSI & ACM Chennai cordially invite you to the webinar on "A ChatGPT for the Mobility Industry -- Opportunities & Challenges" by Dr Dr. Arunkumar M. Sampath, Principal Consultant and Industry Advisor, Tata Consultancy Services, Chennai. Register at https://bit.ly/48aLOeg *Interesting Reads And Information (IRAI) Posts* Stories in IRAI -- 231211: https://bit.ly/irai-231211 Stories in IRAI -- 231201: https://bit.ly/irai-231201 Stories in IRAI -- 231121: https://bit.ly/irai-231121 Stories in IRAI -- 231111: https://bit.ly/irai-231111 Earlier Posts of IRAI and Archives: https://lnkd.in/ewR3UdD

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Public Lecture on Fair Dealing in Copyright Law - The Made-in-Canada Version by Dr.Meera Nair
by Dr. Mahesh Yaranal 14 Dec '23

14 Dec '23

*Please publish this version:* Dear All We are organising the Library Public Lecture (Hybrid) on 21st December 2023 at 3.30pm to 4.40pm on | "Fair Dealing in Copyright Law - The Made-in-Canada Version" by Dr.Meera Nair. *About the Lecture: * In 2004, in a case addressing the scope of fair dealing, the Supreme Court of Canada uttered a never-before-heard phrase in Canada’s judicial copyright lexicon: User Rights. Though any meaningful arc of history is necessarily still in its infancy, as the twentieth anniversary approaches, reflection is inescapable. More ground has been gained since that handful of librarians made history, yet it cannot be denied that opposition has been fierce and continues to be relentless. Further complicating matters is Canada’s subordinate role in the international publishing sector, a disadvantage which began with its colonial birth and continues today. Along with required adherence to the Berne Convention, as ordered by the British masters of 1886, it is not an exaggeration to say that it took close to 140 years for a distinctly Made-in-Canada approach to both fair dealing and copyright to come to fruition. Given the somewhat parallel histories of India and Canada with respect to statutory copyright, Canada’s past and present may be of interest to librarians and lawyers alike, or indeed anyone in India advocating for user rights in general, and fair dealing in particular. *About the Speaker* Dr. Meera Nair holds a doctorate in Communication, with a research interest in systems of copyright. Currently appointed as the Copyright Officer for the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (Canada), she blogs about user rights, copyright, creativity, education, and the politics that invariably accompany those topics, at her blog, Fair Duty: https://fairduty.wordpress.com/ *When:* Thursday, December 21, 2023 03:30 PM India at NLSIU *Join Zoom Meeting:* https://nls-ac-in.zoom.us/j/97455301420?pwd=RnFiRlZmZVlzQ2hRSytuRzRFeThOdz09 Meeting ID: 974 5530 1420 Passcode: 365098 *The Organisers: * Dr. Arul George Scaria Dr. Mahesh Yaranal - 98806074980 Mr. Madhu KS - 9886020788 On Thu, 14 Dec 2023 at 20:25, Dr. Mahesh Yaranal <Mahesh(a)nls.ac.in> wrote: > Dear All > > We are organising the Library Public Lecture (Hybrid) on 21st December > 2023 at 3.30pm to 4.40pm on | "Fair Dealing in Copyright Law - The > Made-in-Canada Version" by Dr.Meera Nair. > > *About the Speaker* > > In 2004, in a case addressing the scope of fair dealing, the Supreme Court > of Canada uttered a never-before-heard phrase in Canada’s judicial > copyright lexicon: User Rights. Though any meaningful arc of history is > necessarily still in its infancy, as the twentieth anniversary approaches, > reflection is inescapable. More ground has been gained since that handful > of librarians made history, yet it cannot be denied that opposition has > been fierce and continues to be relentless. > > Further complicating matters is Canada’s subordinate role in the > international publishing sector, a disadvantage which began with its > colonial birth and continues today. Along with required adherence to the > Berne Convention, as ordered by the British masters of 1886, it is not an > exaggeration to say that it took close to 140 years for a distinctly > Made-in-Canada approach to both fair dealing and copyright to come to > fruition. > > Given the somewhat parallel histories of India and Canada with respect to > statutory copyright, Canada’s past and present may be of interest to > librarians and lawyers alike, or indeed anyone in India advocating for user > rights in general, and fair dealing in particular. > > *When:* > > Thursday, December 21, 2023 03:30 PM India at NLSIU > > *Join Zoom Meeting:* > > > https://nls-ac-in.zoom.us/j/97455301420?pwd=RnFiRlZmZVlzQ2hRSytuRzRFeThOdz09 > > Meeting ID: 974 5530 1420 > Passcode: 365098 > > *The Organisers: * > > Dr. Arul George Scaria > Dr. Mahesh Yaranal - 98806074980 > Mr. Madhu KS - 9886020788 > > -- > Thanks & Regards, > ----- > Mahesh Yaranal, PhD > Librarian(I/C) > National Law School of India University > P.B.No. 7201., Nagarbhavi, Bangalore - 560 072 > Tel : 080-23010000 Extn 227 ; Mobile: 91-9886074980 > Email : mahesh(a)nls.ac.in, maheshyaranal(a)gmail.com > -- Thanks & Regards, ----- Mahesh Yaranal, PhD Librarian(I/C) National Law School of India University P.B.No. 7201., Nagarbhavi, Bangalore - 560 072 Tel : 080-23010000 Extn 227 ; Mobile: 91-9886074980 Email : mahesh(a)nls.ac.in, maheshyaranal(a)gmail.com

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A new book on Scholarly Communication Librarianship and Open Knowledge
by Subbiah Arunachalam 14 Dec '23

14 Dec '23

Friends, Here is an open access book all of us can benefit from. Bonn_Bolick_Cross_ScholarlyCommunicationLibrarianship_2023.pdf (11.36Mb) <https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/bitstream/handle/1808/34797/Bonn_Bolick_Cross…> . Published earlier this year, "*Scholarly Communication Librarianship and Open Knowledge* is an open access text to guide librarians, scholars and students interested in scholarly communications and open knowledge through theory, practice and case studies in the movement. Edited by Maria Bonn of the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana, Josh Bolick of the University of Kansas and Will Cross of North Carolina State University, the book addresses issues in scholarly publishing and open knowledge movements," says Mike Krings of the University of Kansas News Service. See New book provides guide to librarians, scholars on open access, scholarly communication | The University of Kansas (ku.edu) <https://today.ku.edu/2023/10/23/new-book-provides-guide-librarians-scholars…> . I recommend the book to teachers and students of LIS, as well as scientists and scholars in other fields who want to keep abreast of developments in scholarly communication. About eighty authors from dozens of institutions have contributed chapters, and they have referred to many earlier sources. Individuals can download them, but it would be fair if institutional libraries bought physical copies from the publisher. With best wishes, Arun http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4658

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Fwd: GOAL Digest - 6 Dec 2023 to 12 Dec 2023 (#2023-61)
by Subbiah Arunachalam 13 Dec '23

13 Dec '23

Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2023 11:42:46 +0000 From: Jessica Lindholm <jessica.lindholm(a)CHALMERS.SE> Subject: Open Repositories Conference 2024 *Extended call for proposals deadline* Apologies for cross-posting *Extended call for proposals deadline* The extended deadline for submissions is the 12th of January 2024. The 19th International Open Repositories Conference (OR2024)< https://or2024.openrepositories.org/about/> will be held from June 3-6th 2024 in Göteborg, Sweden. The theme for the conference is: Empowering Global Progress OR2024 provides an opportunity to explore and reflect on the ways repositories enable transparent and sustainable information and data. How can we better utilize repositories for empowering global progress? How can we develop the capacity of institutions to implement sustainable open repositories to improve data equity worldwide and support the SDGs? How can the repository community harness AI responsibly to support their goals? We particularly welcome proposals aligned to the overall theme, but also on other administrative, organisational, or practical topics related to digital repositories. We are interested in the following sub-themes: * Transparency: Promoting research transparency * Community: Elevating underrepresented communities * Sustainability : Opening research for climate justice Submission categories include posters, workshops, lightning talks, roundtable discussions, papers, and panels. Please visit the Call for Proposals page< https://or2024.openrepositories.org/programme/call-for-proposals/> to learn more about the sub-themes and submission categories of the conference, including a full list of submission templates and key dates for submission deadlines and approvals. The extended deadline for submissions is the 12th January 2024. Fellowship application open The Open Repositories Steering Committee is now accepting applications for fellowships<https://or2024.openrepositories.org/fellowships/> to attend OR2024 in Gothenburg, Sweden. Fellowship recipients will receive funding for travel, accommodation, meals and incidentals, as well as full conference registration, including the poster reception and conference dinner. We look forward to the vibrant conversations and learning opportunities of the conference. Cheers, Programme Co-Chairs: Emily Bongiovanni, Carnegie Mellon University Nora Mulvaney, Toronto Metropolitan University Urban Andersson, Chalmers University of Technology Contact: or24-program-chairs(a)googlegroups.com<mailto: or24-program-chairs(a)googlegroups.com> ****************************************** Jessica Lindholm Acting Head of Division, Information Resources and Scientific Publishing Member, Open Repositories Steering Committee, https://openrepositories.org< https://openrepositories.org/> Co-chair Open Repositories, Local hosts 2024, https://or2024.openrepositories.org/ Chalmers University of Technology Department of Communication and Learning in Science (CLS) S-412 96 Gothenburg, Sweden +46(0)31 772 38 72 jessica.lindholm(a)chalmers.se<mailto:jessica.lindholm@chalmers.se> linkedin.com/in/jessical<http://www.linkedin.com/in/jessical> orcid.org/0000-0002-3634-6471<http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3634-6471> ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the GOAL list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=GOAL&A=1 This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/GOAL, a mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/ ------------------------------ End of GOAL Digest - 6 Dec 2023 to 12 Dec 2023 (#2023-61) ********************************************************* -- Arun http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4658 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9925-2009

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SoFerence 2024: Transformation of Libraries: The Design Thinking Way" - A Place to Make A Difference
by Nagappa Bakkannanavar 12 Dec '23

12 Dec '23

TCS Confidential Dear All, Season’s Greetings…!!! SoFerence is a leading biennial National Social Conference on Library & Information Science (LIS) organized by India’s largest Corporate Information Resource Centre from Tata Consultancy Services. This year, the 7th edition is scheduled on Saturday, 20th January 2024. The theme of SoFerence is “Transformation of Libraries: Design Thinking Way”. Libraries are continuously evolving in the fast-paced technological milieu, making it increasingly imperative for Libraries to reimagine its collection, services as well as infrastructure in the pursuit of aligning with New Normal. Reimagining involves out-of-the-box thinking and decision-making which are pivoted tightly around library users. Design Thinking is a process applicable to all types of libraries interested in creating innovative services and solving problems iteratively. This year, in SoFerence, we will be conducting an in-person Design Thinking workshop for Library Professionals, focusing on live library problems. The takeaway from this workshop would be a practical understanding of the complete design thinking process with a tailormade roadmap for transforming your libraries. Registrations are invited for in-person SoFerence conducted at TCS Bangalore on Saturday, 20th January 2024. A Pre-SoFerence online workshop will be held on Saturday 6th January, 2024. REGISTRATION & SUBMISSION OF PROBLEM(S)/CHALLENGES: § No Registration Fee (Free for all) § 150 Seats only available (First come first serve basis) § All participants will be rewarded with an E-Certificate. § Submit your library problem(s) for brainstorming during SoFerence to elicit workable ideas. Register & Submit Problem | Click Here →<https://forms.gle/szjmuQfEhpCMtRg8A> OR Copy the below link paste on the internet browser https://forms.gle/szjmuQfEhpCMtRg8A AWARDS § Best Articulated Problem (Individual Awards) § Best Pre-SoFerence Workshop (Group Awards) IMPORTANT DATES § 31st December 2023 | Last date for Registration § 2nd January 2024 | Registration Confirmation § 6th January 2024 | Online Pre-SoFerence § 20th January 2024 | SoFerence SPEAKER @ WORKSHOP Reeta Mehrishi Head, Corporate Design Tata Consultancy Services SPEAKER PROFILE: Pioneering the concept of Connected Design, she leads transdisciplinary design projects, focusing on transformational innovation for inclusiveness, sustainability, and improved long-term quality of life. She has designed brand strategies, products, games, data visualization, simulations, learning experiences, and built environments working with technologies ranging from image recognition, Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality, to social media and text analytics, GIS and the IoT. VENUE Tata Consultancy Services | Gopalan Global Axis H Block | Opp. to Sri Satya Sai Hospital | ITPL Road | Whitefield, Bangaluru Karnataka, India SoFerence Brochure Click here<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lQQ-EsMfUNFSelJ0-tQpZtVAgxg73Ayu/view?usp=…> → OR Copy the below URL paste on the internet browser to download the same. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lQQ-EsMfUNFSelJ0-tQpZtVAgxg73Ayu/view?usp=… For more details visit the SoFerence website: https://sites.google.com/view/soference/home For queries, please write to us at: soference(a)gmail.com<mailto:soference@gmail.com%3cmailto:soference@gmail.com> With Best Regards, Dr. Nagappa B |Head | Information Resource Centre Tata Consultancy Services | Gopalan Global Axis H Block | Bangalore Ph: +91 80 66821890 | Cell: +91-8147001193 | Mailto: bangalore.IRC(a)tcs.com<mailto:bangalore.IRC@tcs.com> TCS Confidential =====-----=====-----===== Notice: The information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, use, review, distribution, printing or copying of the information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it are strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us by reply e-mail or telephone and immediately and permanently delete the message and any attachments. Thank you

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Publication of a new book titled 'Librarian's Companion to Legal Literacy' reg:
by Joseph I Thomas 12 Dec '23

12 Dec '23

Friends, It's with much satisfaction and excitement i wish to tell you all that my book titled 'Librarian's Companion to Legal Literacy' co-authored with Neethu Mohanan has been published. The book consisting of 14 chapters elaborates upon various laws that librarians need to know. The book also provides a plethora of legal information sources like databases, law reports, law dictionaries, law Universities etc. Reading the book will be a unique experience to all readers as it provides solutions to various challenges that are being faced by Indian information professionals in their professional life. Bibliographical details: Title: Librarians Companion to Legal Literacy Authors: Dr. Joseph Immanuel Thomas Neethu Mohanan Publisher: Book enclave Place of publication: Jaipur Price : ₹1295 ISBN: 978-81-19684-01-4 Please gpay to publisher - 9462655885 (book enclave)

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LibraryGPT: Inviting academic and private libraries to pilot
by Atanu Garai 11 Dec '23

11 Dec '23

Dear All, SocialWell is a data and content startup, bringing enterprise data and content management system, including digital library framework. We have developed and tested a LibraryGPT, a custom GPT model specific to library catalog, holding, and circulation data using college library datasets. We have used LibraryGPT on top of Koha ILMS. We are inviting interested academic and private libraries to join us for a month-long testing and evaluation to understand search behavior among the patrons using standard OPAC search compared to use of natural language-based search. Libraries should be using Koha and ideally have medium to high daily usage, e.g., 100 – 400 searches. We intend to work with 10 libraries in India. Best regards, Atanu Atanu Garai SocialWell w: www.socialwell.net<http://www.socialwell.net/>

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IRAI -- 231211 -- Interesting Reads And Information & Forthcoming Events in Dec 2023
by Mohan Hr 11 Dec '23

11 Dec '23

*IRAI -- 231211 -- Interesting Reads And Information* Read the stories of IRAI -- 231211 at https://bit.ly/irai-231211 How ChatGPT can help you do archival research — but never replace archivists Implementing AI into software engineering? Here's everything you need to know What is an automation engineer? A growing role to address IT automation Disinformation is rampant on social media – a social psychologist explains the tactics used against you How to Create a Pitch Deck -- a series of blog posts I asked DALL-E 3 to create a portrait of every US state, and the results were gloriously strange Books to increase productivity, concentration and success at work Archives of The Academic Insider -- Weekly newsletter on how to secure a tenure-track job in academia, and climb the academic ladder Why Narayana Murthy is wrong about the 70-hour work week Super failure: Horrors of IIT dream *Quiz* The program AlphaZero, which was taught by reinforcement learning from self-play has recently achieved the superhuman performance and convincingly defeated a world champion program in the games of Chess and Shogi as well as Go. What is Shogi? (Answer in the next post IRAI -- 231221) Answer to the Quiz in IRAI -- 231201: Disk Drive Density *Past IRAI Posts* Stories in IRAI -- 231211: https://bit.ly/irai-231211 Stories in IRAI -- 231201: https://bit.ly/irai-231201 Stories in IRAI -- 231121: https://bit.ly/irai-231121 Stories in IRAI -- 231111: https://bit.ly/irai-231111 Earlier Posts of IRAI and Archives: https://lnkd.in/ewR3UdD *Forthcoming Events* 14th Dec 2023 at 6 pm IST. Webinar CSI, IEEE CS Madras & ACM Chennai cordially invite you to the webinar on "Analytics Development Life Cycle and MLOps" by Dr. K. Satya Sai Prakash, Practice Director, HCL Technologies, USA. Register at https://bit.ly/49j93E2 20th Dec 2023 at 3.30 pm IST. Webinar HCC, IEEE CS Madras, ACM & CSI Chennai cordially invite you to the webinar on "FUTURE PROOFING YOUR BUSINESS: Thriving in these times of unprecedented change" by Ms. Madiha Mouchtak, MBA, Mentor and Business Accelerator, Founder and Managing Director @ Answer Inside Transition and Scale up, Author of Amazon Bestseller: The Sustainable Turnaround. Register at https://bit.ly/47VoGzV Participant Gifts: A Free Growth Mindset Scan (For All); A Free Digital Business Scan (For Business Founders and Leaders) - Small and Medium sized businesses (not Micro); and A free Digital Copy of Madiha’s Amazon Bestselling book: The Sustainable Turnaround More Events in Dec 2023: https://bit.ly/dec2023events

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