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Change in Moderation of LIS-Forum
by Francis Jayakanth 09 Aug '26

09 Aug '26

Dear LIS-Forum Members, Greetings. After nearly three decades of moderating and administering the LIS-Forum, the time has come for me to step down from this responsibility as I retire from the Indian Institute of Science on 31 July 2026 upon attaining superannuation. It has been a privilege to serve the library and information science community through this forum. Over the years, LIS-Forum has grown into a vibrant platform for sharing professional knowledge, announcements, discussions, and opportunities. I sincerely thank all the members for your active participation, valuable contributions, and support, which have made the forum a meaningful resource for our profession. I am pleased to inform you that, effective August 1, 2026, the administration and moderation of LIS-Forum will be assumed by Mr Pradeep Kavi, my colleague at J.R.D. Tata Memorial Library, Indian Institute of Science. I request all members to extend the same encouragement, support, and cooperation to Mr. Pradeep Kavi that you have generously extended to me over the years. With my sincere thanks and best wishes to all. Warm regards, Francis Francis Jayakanth Moderator, LIS-Forum J.R.D. Tata Memorial Library Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru

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Final Call: ICKOLIS2026_DRTC
by Nabina Khamaru 30 Jul '26

30 Jul '26

Dear Professionals, Greetings! We are pleased to inform you that the Documentation Research and Training Centre, Indian Statistical Institute, Bengaluru is organizing the International Conference on Knowledge Organization and Library Information Systems: Exploring Multidimensional Facets (ICKOLIS 2026) from September 21–23, 2026, at Bengaluru. 🌐 *Details & Registration*: 👉 https://sites.google.com/ickolis.com/ickolis 🔹 Highlights: * Paper presentations * Networking with experts * Latest trends in LIS Venue: Platinum Jubilee Auditorium Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore Centre 8th Mile, Mysore Road, RVCE Post Bengaluru – 560059, Karnataka, India For more details, please visit: https://sites.google.com/ickolis.com/ickolis/home *We request you to kindly circulate this information among faculty members, researchers, and students, and encourage active participation.* Looking forward to your valuable contributions. Warm regards, Prof. M. Krishnamurthy Conference Chair Head, DRTC, ISI Bengaluru.

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Invitation to Participate in the ONOS & INFLIBNET User Awareness Programme - 5 August 2026
by sp.arumugam＠gmail.com 29 Jul '26

29 Jul '26

Dear Madam, Greetings from the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), Bengaluru! As part of the outreach initiative under the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) programme, the INFLIBNET Centre, in collaboration with Indian Institute of Astrophysics, is organising a User Awareness Programme on ONOS and INFLIBNET Services in offline mode. The programme is scheduled as follows: Date: 5 August 2026 (Wednesday) Time: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM Venue: IIA Auditorium, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru Campus The programme aims to create awareness about the benefits, access, and effective utilisation of ONOS resources and various INFLIBNET services that support teaching, learning, and research activities. We cordially invite your institution to participate in this programme. You are kindly requested to nominate faculty members, researchers, library professionals, and students to attend the event. We also request you to circulate this invitation among the members of your institution who may benefit from the programme. There is no registration fee for participation. Working lunch and high tea will be provided, and participation certificates will be issued to all participants. Interested participants may register online on or before 2 August 2026 at: https://onos.gov.in/outreach Please note that registration confirmation will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis due to limited seating capacity. If you require any further information or assistance, please feel free to contact us. We look forward to your institution's active participation and support in making this outreach programme a success. With regards, Dr. Arumugam Pitchai Librarian, Indian Institute of Astrophysics Koramangala, Bengaluru, Karnataka-560034. Email: arumugam.pitchai(a)iiap.res.in Web: https://arumugampitchai.com

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Francis Jayakanth and the Making of Open Access in India - online talk
by Pradeep P Kavi 27 Jul '26

27 Jul '26

Dear LIS-Forum Members, Greetings! Gentle reminder on today's online talk by Professor Leslie Chan honouring Francis Jayakanth. You are cordially invited to an online talk honouring Francis Jayakanth, whose four decades at the Indian Institute of Science and more than three decades of stewardship of LIS-Forum have made a lasting contribution to open access, digital libraries, and the library and information science community in India. The Quiet Infrastructure of Openness: Francis Jayakanth and the Making of Open Access in India. Speaker: Professor Leslie Chan, University of Toronto, Canada Long before open access became a formal policy agenda, a commercial publishing model, or a measure of institutional performance, it was built through the care work of librarians, technologists, researchers, and advocates. This talk honours Francis Jayakanth, whose four decades at the Indian Institute of Science placed him at the heart of India’s early digital library and open access movements. From his early work at the National Centre for Science Information to the creation and long-term stewardship of ePrints@IISc, his development of interoperable systems, support for institutional repositories, professional training, and more than three decades of sustaining LIS-Forum, Francis exemplifies the often-unseen labour through which open knowledge infrastructures are created, governed, and maintained. Situating his contributions within the wider history of open access in India, the talk will also recognize pioneers such as Subbiah Arunachalam and T. B. Rajashekar, alongside the librarians, researchers, institutions, and community initiatives that established repositories, open journals, professional networks, and new forms of scholarly communication across the country. Retelling this history is particularly urgent at this juncture, as attention shifts toward centralized proprietary platforms, extractive publishing agreements, and prestige-branded programmes that can obscure the community-driven and commons-based foundations of openness. Honouring Francis is not simply an occasion to celebrate an exceptional career. It is also an opportunity to remember the people, relationships, and practices of care that made open access possible, and to renew our shared commitment to infrastructures that are non-commercial and interoperable, community governed, grounded in the commons, and sustained through care. Date: Monday, 27 July 2026 Time: 4:00 PM IST (UTC+5:30) Platform: Microsoft Teams Teams Link: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/454657375013009?p=Mm9pMdgZO6YhANoU27 About the Speaker Professor Leslie Chan is Associate Professor, Teaching, in the Department of Global Development Studies and the director of the Knowledge Equity Lab at the University of Toronto Scarborough. An early practitioner of the Web for scholarly exchange and online learning, Leslie has been interested in the role and design of knowledge infrastructure and their impact on local and international development. In particular, he has been studying the geopolitics of academic knowledge production and the uneven power relations embedded in this production. Since 2000, Leslie has served as the director of Bioline International, an open access platform for scientific journals from the global south. Leslie was the PI of the Open and Collaborative Science in Development Network (OCSDNet). He has published widely on open access and knowledge production. Currently, he is on the board of several international organizations, including the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), and the steering committee of Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI). We warmly invite all LIS-Forum members and colleagues to join us for what promises to be a thought-provoking reflection on the history, values, and future of open access in India, while celebrating the enduring contributions of Francis Jayakanth. We look forward to your participation. -- Madhan, M https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1651-4180 =================================== ಪ್ರದೀಪ್ ಪಿ ಕವಿ/ प्रदीप पी कवि/Pradeep P. Kavi ಭಾರತೀಯ ವಿಜ್ಞಾನ ಸಂಸ್ಥೆ/ भारतीय विज्ञान संस्थान/Indian Institute of Science (IISc) ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು/ बेंगलूर 560012/Bengaluru 560012 ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ/ कर्नाटक/Karnataka/

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Koha : Online Course | 08-09 August 2026 | ₹100 OFF
by LibAuto 25 Jul '26

25 Jul '26

Online Course on Koha: Integrated Library Management System 08 – 09 August 2026 *Organised by LibAuto* India’s premier library automation specialist (Est. 2008) with 18+ years of experience and 6,000+ trained professionals. 📅 *Sessions:* 08-09 August 2026 | 8:00 PM onwards (Zoom) 🎥 *Live Doubt Clearing* + 13 Pre-recorded video lectures (24/7 access) 📜 *E-Certificate* on successful completion 💰 *Early Bird Fee:* ₹299 *₹199* Save ₹100 (Register by 04 August 2026) Register Now – Pay ₹199 <https://forms.gle/iryf4RUzuq3mkFNu9> More Info <https://www.libauto.in/2026/04/koha-integrated-library-management.html> Limited seats • First-Come, First-Served • Medium of Instruction: Hindi Includes training materials, video recordings & e-certificate LibAuto – Library Automation Specialist UDYAM-PB-11-0025691 | +91 94631 16032 www.libauto.in | contact.libauto(a)gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Library Automation2" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to contactlibauto2+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/contactlibauto2/CAPZkjaqfpRUOV3T3ZGyA5V0i….

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OpenAI did not violate copyright laws by using ANI news to train ChatGPT: Delhi High Court declines interim relief
by madhan muthu 25 Jul '26

25 Jul '26

OpenAI did not violate copyright laws by using ANI news to train ChatGPT: Delhi High Court declines interim relief In an interim order, Justice Amit Bansal ruled that such use of content to train the Large Language Model (LLM) falls under the fair dealing provision of Section 52(1)(a) of the Copyright Act. *"Therefore, it does not amount to infringement under Section 51,"* the Court ruled. The Court said that outputs generated by ChatGPT using Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) technique does not amount to copyright infringement since the answers generated by the Artificial Intelligence (AI)-tool were not substantially similar to the original content published by ANI. *"Further, ANI has failed to satisfy this Court that any memorisation or regurgitation of ANI's copyrighted literary works has happened to the responses generated by ChatGPT,"* the Court added. Thus, the Court declined to restrain ChatGPT from using the content published by ANI. It said irreparable injury would be caused not only to OpenAI but to public interest also if any interim injunction is granted in favour of ANI at this stage. *"ANI has failed to make out a prima facie case for grant of interim injunction. Balance of convenience is also against grant of interim injunction,"* the Bench said while dismissing ANI's interim application. The Court stated that ChatGPT has transformed information and is being used all around the world for beneficial purposes. https://www.barandbench.com/news/litigation/openai-did-not-violate-copyrigh… -- Madhan, M

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STMet 2026 Final call
by Pradeep P Kavi 23 Jul '26

23 Jul '26

Seventh International Conference on Science & Technology Metrics (STMet 2026) Physical/Virtual October 02-04, 2026 Bali, Indonesia Universitas Islam Negari Sunan Kalijaga, Indonesia Sessions will be held at the Hilton Garden Inn, Bali. https://www.socio.org.uk/stm Co-located with Springer Real-Time Intelligent Systems (https://www.socio.org.uk/rtis) Building metrics is key to measuring science and technology and translating those measures to improve outcomes. The metric is not confined to drawing numbers and analysing. Selecting a metric depends on synthesising multiple directions and evidence-based data, producing scientific and technological evaluation benchmarks and standards, and implementing them with real data to mark a full-fledged system. Recently, we have witnessed the emergence of new metrics-based models that aim to reflect the growth of science and technology. The proposed Science and Technology Metrics (STMet 2026) conference addresses the assessment of various aspects of science and technology using multiple metrics, which can be best expressed through different approaches. In addition to the standard conference track and the Doctoral Symposium, STMetrics will host several workshops and tutorials related to the conference theme. The workshops provide participants with a friendly, interactive atmosphere to present novel ideas and discuss the application of metrics in Science and Technology Systems. The tutorials aim to enable participants to familiarise themselves with the theoretical and practical aspects, as well as the application of metrics. The proposed conference includes invited talks, presentations, tutorials, workshops, and discussions. The STMet has tracks on specialized topics. The STMet addresses the themes below, but is not limited to them. The proposed conference includes invited talks, presentations, tutorials, workshops, and discussions. The STMet has tracks on specialized topics. The STMet addresses the themes below, but is not limited to them. AI-based evaluation AI-based Metrics 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 Internationalisation Text-based Metrics Innovation indicators Wearable Devices Open data Download 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 Scientific Knowledge Diffusion Research Data Access Co-working in Science Science, Innovation and Economic Performance Public Research Systems Future S & T Policies Translating Metrics to Science Policy Evaluation beyond Metrics All submitted papers will be reviewed by a double-blind (at least three reviewers) and participative peer review. The review process will enable selecting those who will be accepted for their presentation at the international conference. Authors of accepted papers who registered for the conference can access evaluations and feedback from reviewers who recommended acceptance, helping them improve the final version. Mentoring support is available to young researchers and authors from developing countries. Please note that all submitted papers undergo review and editing by senior editors. We will handle content enhancement and language editing. There is no fee for editing and language correction services. Selected post-conference modified versions of the papers will be published in the following journals. 1. COLLNET Journal of Scientometrics and Information Management 2. Journal of Digital Information Management 3. Performance Measurement and Metrics 4. International Journal of Computational Linguistics Research 5. Open Information Science (more journals under negotiation) There are no additional publication fees for the journals listed above. The STMet 2026 has many co-located workshops. Proceedings We publish the papers after restructuring and editing are complete. All the past conference papers are indexed in Google Scholar. The past STM proceedings are available with ISBN and DOI at https://dline.info/newl/STMProceedings Important Dates Submission of Papers: August 05, 2026 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: August 30, 2026 Camera-ready: September 20, 2026 Registration: September 20, 2026 Conference Dates: October 02-04, 2026 General Chairs Grant Lewison, King’s College, UK Valentina Markusova, The All-Russian Institute for Scientific and Technical Information, Russia Organization Chairs Nurdin Laugu, Islam Negeri Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta, Indonesia Erwin Halim, Bina Nusantara University - Indonesia Program Chairs Pit Pichappan, Digital Information Research Labs, India & UK Irvan Muliyadi, Universitas Islam Negeri Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta. Indonesia Co-Program Chairs Amir Reza Asnafi, Shahid Beheshti University, Iran Kazuyuki, Motohashi, University of Tokyo, Japan Giovanni Abramo, National Research Council of Italy Workshop and Special Session Chairs Ulle Must, Estonian Research Council at Archimedes, Estonia Contact: stm(a)socio.org.uk

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Francis Jayakanth and the Making of Open Access in India - online talk
by Pradeep P Kavi 23 Jul '26

23 Jul '26

Dear LIS-Forum Members, Greetings! You are cordially invited to an online talk honouring Francis Jayakanth, whose four decades at the Indian Institute of Science and more than three decades of stewardship of LIS-Forum have made a lasting contribution to open access, digital libraries, and the library and information science community in India. The Quiet Infrastructure of Openness: Francis Jayakanth and the Making of Open Access in India. Speaker: Professor Leslie Chan, University of Toronto, Canada Long before open access became a formal policy agenda, a commercial publishing model, or a measure of institutional performance, it was built through the care work of librarians, technologists, researchers, and advocates. This talk honours Francis Jayakanth, whose four decades at the Indian Institute of Science placed him at the heart of India’s early digital library and open access movements. From his early work at the National Centre for Science Information to the creation and long-term stewardship of ePrints@IISc, his development of interoperable systems, support for institutional repositories, professional training, and more than three decades of sustaining LIS-Forum, Francis exemplifies the often-unseen labour through which open knowledge infrastructures are created, governed, and maintained. Situating his contributions within the wider history of open access in India, the talk will also recognize pioneers such as Subbiah Arunachalam and T. B. Rajashekar, alongside the librarians, researchers, institutions, and community initiatives that established repositories, open journals, professional networks, and new forms of scholarly communication across the country. Retelling this history is particularly urgent at this juncture, as attention shifts toward centralized proprietary platforms, extractive publishing agreements, and prestige-branded programmes that can obscure the community-driven and commons-based foundations of openness. Honouring Francis is not simply an occasion to celebrate an exceptional career. It is also an opportunity to remember the people, relationships, and practices of care that made open access possible, and to renew our shared commitment to infrastructures that are non-commercial and interoperable, community governed, grounded in the commons, and sustained through care. Date: Monday, 27 July 2026 Time: 4:00 PM IST (UTC+5:30) Platform: Microsoft Teams Teams Link: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/454657375013009?p=Mm9pMdgZO6YhANoU27 About the Speaker Professor Leslie Chan is Associate Professor, Teaching, in the Department of Global Development Studies and the director of the Knowledge Equity Lab at the University of Toronto Scarborough. An early practitioner of the Web for scholarly exchange and online learning, Leslie has been interested in the role and design of knowledge infrastructure and their impact on local and international development. In particular, he has been studying the geopolitics of academic knowledge production and the uneven power relations embedded in this production. Since 2000, Leslie has served as the director of Bioline International, an open access platform for scientific journals from the global south. Leslie was the PI of the Open and Collaborative Science in Development Network (OCSDNet). He has published widely on open access and knowledge production. Currently, he is on the board of several international organizations, including the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), and the steering committee of Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI). We warmly invite all LIS-Forum members and colleagues to join us for what promises to be a thought-provoking reflection on the history, values, and future of open access in India, while celebrating the enduring contributions of Francis Jayakanth. We look forward to your participation. -- Madhan, M https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1651-4180 =================================== ಪ್ರದೀಪ್ ಪಿ ಕವಿ/ प्रदीप पी कवि/Pradeep P. Kavi ಜೆ ಆರ್ ಡಿ ಟಾಟಾ ಸ್ಮಾರಕ ಗ್ರಂಥಾಲಯ/ जे आर डी टाटा स्मारक पुस्तकालय /JRD Tata Memorial Library ಭಾರತೀಯ ವಿಜ್ಞಾನ ಸಂಸ್ಥೆ/ भारतीय विज्ञान संस्थान/Indian Institute of Science (IISc) ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು/ बेंगलूर 560012/Bengaluru 560012 ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ/ कर्नाटक/Karnataka/ Website : https://library.iisc.ac.in/

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One-Day Workshop on AI for Library Services on 08-08-2026 Organized by MyLISA Mysruru
by nandeesh nandu 22 Jul '26

22 Jul '26

Dear Library and Information Professionals, Greetings from Mysore Librarians and Information Scientists Association (MyLISA)!We are delighted to invite you to participate in a One-Day Workshop on "AI for Library Services" organized in collaboration with the Department of Studies in Library and Information Science, University of Mysore.🗓️ Date: 08 August 2026 (Saturday)💰 Registration Fee: ₹200/- (Includes Refreshments & Lunch)👨‍ Resource Persons:* Dr. Sunil M. V. – SDMIMD, Mysuru* Dr. Appasaheb Naikal – Head Librarian, IIM Kozhikode👥 Who Can Participate? Library Professionals | Information Scientists | Faculty Members | Research Scholars | LIS Students | Knowledge Managers📝 Register Now: https://tinyurl.com/mbyap6v4Venue: Dr. S R Ranganathan Hall, Dept. of Studies in Library and Information Science, University of Mysore, MysuruWe look forward to your active participation. Dr. K. Prakash Secretary Mysore Librarians and Information Scientists Association (MyLISA)  

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Francis Jayakanth and the Making of Open Access in India - online talk
by madhan muthu 19 Jul '26

19 Jul '26

Dear LIS-Forum Members, Greetings! You are cordially invited to an online talk honouring Francis Jayakanth, whose four decades at the Indian Institute of Science and more than three decades of stewardship of LIS-Forum have made a lasting contribution to open access, digital libraries, and the library and information science community in India. The Quiet Infrastructure of Openness: Francis Jayakanth and the Making of Open Access in India. Speaker: Professor Leslie Chan, University of Toronto, Canada Long before open access became a formal policy agenda, a commercial publishing model, or a measure of institutional performance, it was built through the care work of librarians, technologists, researchers, and advocates. This talk honours Francis Jayakanth, whose four decades at the Indian Institute of Science placed him at the heart of India’s early digital library and open access movements. From his early work at the National Centre for Science Information to the creation and long-term stewardship of ePrints@IISc, his development of interoperable systems, support for institutional repositories, professional training, and more than three decades of sustaining LIS-Forum, Francis exemplifies the often-unseen labour through which open knowledge infrastructures are created, governed, and maintained. Situating his contributions within the wider history of open access in India, the talk will also recognize pioneers such as Subbiah Arunachalam and T. B. Rajashekar, alongside the librarians, researchers, institutions, and community initiatives that established repositories, open journals, professional networks, and new forms of scholarly communication across the country. Retelling this history is particularly urgent at this juncture, as attention shifts toward centralized proprietary platforms, extractive publishing agreements, and prestige-branded programmes that can obscure the community-driven and commons-based foundations of openness. Honouring Francis is not simply an occasion to celebrate an exceptional career. It is also an opportunity to remember the people, relationships, and practices of care that made open access possible, and to renew our shared commitment to infrastructures that are non-commercial and interoperable, community governed, grounded in the commons, and sustained through care. Date: Monday, 27 July 2026 Time: 4:00 PM IST (UTC+5:30) Platform: Microsoft Teams Teams Link: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/454657375013009?p=Mm9pMdgZO6YhANoU27 About the Speaker Professor Leslie Chan is Associate Professor, Teaching, in the Department of Global Development Studies and the director of the Knowledge Equity Lab at the University of Toronto Scarborough. An early practitioner of the Web for scholarly exchange and online learning, Leslie has been interested in the role and design of knowledge infrastructure and their impact on local and international development. In particular, he has been studying the geopolitics of academic knowledge production and the uneven power relations embedded in this production. Since 2000, Leslie has served as the director of Bioline International, an open access platform for scientific journals from the global south. Leslie was the PI of the Open and Collaborative Science in Development Network (OCSDNet). He has published widely on open access and knowledge production. Currently, he is on the board of several international organizations, including the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), and the steering committee of Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI). We warmly invite all LIS-Forum members and colleagues to join us for what promises to be a thought-provoking reflection on the history, values, and future of open access in India, while celebrating the enduring contributions of Francis Jayakanth. We look forward to your participation. -- Madhan, M https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1651-4180

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