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Training Programme on “Utilization of e-Resources in Agriculture” in Kerala Agricultural University
by Dr. A.T. Francis 11 Dec '12

11 Dec '12

Dear all, In order to equip the scientific community with modern tools of digital knowledge resources and e-learning, a Series of Training Programmes on “Utilization of E-Resources in Agriculture” has been organized by the KeralaAgriculturalUniversity for Scientists, Teachers, and Research Students. First of this Training Programme is being organised on 12-12-2012. The Training Series and first programme will be inaugurated Prof. (Dr.) P. Rajendran, Hon. Vice Chancellor, KAU in a function chaired by Prof. (Dr.) E.K. Mathew, Registrar. Major topics covered in the training are “Searching techniques of CAB Database & E-Books”, “Consortia based Knowledge Resources”, “E-Resources of KeralaAgriculturalUniversity”. Most welcome to the registered participants as well as all others to the Inaugural function at 10.00am at the University Library, Thrissur. With regards, Dr. A.T. FRANCIS, MCom, MLISc, NET, PhD HEAD, LIBRARY & IT NODAL OFFICER College of Horticulture Kerala Agricultural University Thrissur - 680 656, India, 91-9496839409 (m) francisaloor(a)yahoo.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Article Request
by LIJESH TK 11 Dec '12

11 Dec '12

Dear All Professionals, Our Research scholar need below article. Kindly help me in this regard. Title:Morphological and Phytochemical characterisation of different accessions of Hemidesmus indicus Authors:Satheesh George; Unnikrishnan K.P; Udayan P.S; Tushar K.V; Anu Augustine; Indira Balachandran Source:Journal of Tropical Medicinal Plants Vol/Issue:8(1): 97-103 Link:http://www.tropmedplants.com/article.php?aid=312 By, Lijesh T.K Project Fellow (Library) Kerala Forest Research Institute (KFRI), Peechi, Thrissur, Kerala. PH: 09497249813 Email: tklijesh(a)yahoo.com or lijeshalapad(a)gmail.com Visit: http://www.libraryjobs4u.blogspot.com/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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9th Annual Meet and Workshop of INDEST-AICTE consortium at IIM Ahmedabad
by Bibhuti B. Sahoo 11 Dec '12

11 Dec '12

Dear All, We are happy to announce that the 9th Annual Meet and Workshop of INDEST-AICTE consortium is being held at Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA) and is jointly organized by IIM Ahmedabad and IIT Gandhinagar. The venue of the meeting is IIMA Campus during January 18-19, 2012. We invite all INDEST members (Core, Active and others) to register at the earliest to avail campus accommodation as we have limited number of rooms available. Other Library professionals interested can also register for the meet. For more details please visit to the following website: http://www.iimahd.ernet.in/indest/ or http://paniit.iitd.ac.in/indest/ Details of programme will be posted soon on the workshop website. -- Thanks and Regards Dr. Bibhuti Bhusan Sahoo Central Library, INDEST - AICTE Consortium Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Hauz Khas, New Delhi - 110016 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Request for an article
by Dr. Vinod Kr. Sharma 11 Dec '12

11 Dec '12

Dear Professional Friends, If you have access, please forward me a copy of the below mentioned article required by one of our senior faculty member for his research work - Saxena S, Kesharwani RK, Singh V, Singh S. Designing of putative siRNA against geminiviral suppressors of RNAi to develop geminivirus-resistant papaya crop.Int J Bioinform Res Appl. 2013;9(1):3-12. doi: 10.1504/IJBRA.2013.050655. Link: http://inderscience.metapress.com/content/p004805646270355/?genre=article&i… Thanks in advance for your kind cooperation. Regards, -- *Dr Vinod Kr Sharma,* *Librarian/Information Scientist National Institute of Plant Genome Research, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, P B No.10531,J.N.U. Campus, New Delhi - 110067. Ph. : 91-11-26735101(Direct) 91-11-26741612, 14, 17 Ext. 101, 102 * -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Article request
by Manas Samanta/মানস সামন্ত 10 Dec '12

10 Dec '12

Dear all Kindly send me the following article Magnetic Properties and Giant Magneto-Impedance Effect of Ductile Amorphous Microwires Without Glass Coating *Authors: *Zhukova, V.; Umnov, P.; Molokanov, V.; Shalygin, A.N.; Zhukov, A. *Source:* Sensor Letters <http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/asp/senlet>, Volume 10, Numbers 3-4, March/April 2012 , pp. 731-735(5) Reference link: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/asp/senlet/2012/00000010/F0020003/art… with regards -- ---------------------------------------------------- Manas Samanta Computer Sc(H). MLIS Technical Assistant CSIR-National Metallurgical Laboratory Jamshedpur . Ph.No.- 0657-2345112(O) Mobile No. - 8102387227 (Jharkhand), 9126345586 (West Bengal) man_lis(a)rediffmail.com , lis_man(a)hotmail.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Call for papers:IATLIS Conference, 26-28 December 2012 at DRTC, Bangalore -
by Khushpreet Singh Brar 10 Dec '12

10 Dec '12

*DRTC Golden Jubilee National Conference on Library Education* *Jointly with* *XXIX IATLIS* *NATIONAL CONFERENCE, 2012* *26-28 December 2012* *Theme* *LIS Education and Research: Contemplating Persistent and Debatable Issues* *Organized jointly by* * * Indian Association of Teachers of Library and Information Science (IATLIS) and Documentation Research & Training Centre (DRTC),Indian Statistical Institute, 8th Mile Mysore Road, Bangalore- 560 05*9* * * *IATLIS: *Indian Association of Teachers of Library and Information Science (IATLIS) is a professional association of more than 600 teachers and professionals in Library and Information Science in India. Since its inception in 1969, IATLIS has been active in taking up several issues of LIS Education in India especially relating to the development of curriculum, teaching methods, infrastructure, teachers’ training, etc. It actively works for the promotion of the professional interests of LIS teachers. As part of its activities, it conducts national seminars, workshops, training programmes, etc. It brings out its official organ ‘IATLIS Communications’ besides publishing conference volumes. This year the annual IATLIS conference is being held at Documentation Training and Research Centre (DRTC), at Bangalore on the broad theme of *“LIS Education and Research: Contemplating Persistent and Debatable Issues” from 26-28 December 2012* *DRTC:*Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC) established by Prof. S R Ranganathan in 1962, is a research centre at Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) conducting Research, Training and Higher Education in the field Library and Information Sciences and allied areas. In the last five decades, DRTC has been involved in Research, Education, Training and cutting edge applications of Information and Communication Technology to Libraries and Information Centres, Knowledge centers and systems. 2012 marks the Golden Jubilee of DRTC and we are happy to host as part of 'Golden Jubilee Celebrations', the national conference on LIS Education and Research jointly with the XXIX IATLIS conference on *“LIS Education and Research: Contemplating Persistent and Debatable Issues” from 26-28 December 2012* *Theme of the Conference*:* * *LIS Education and Research: Contemplating Persistent and Debatable Issues* *Sub-themes: (suggested topics but not limited to the following)* - What course components are relevant and irrelevant in LIS Curriculum? - Is LIS research over-emphasizing Survey Research, Citation Analysis, and redundant topics? - What ICT topics should form the core and specializations in LIS Curriculum? - Core vs. Specializations with special reference to Public Library system and School Library system - How to facilitate smooth transition from: - Tradition to modernity - Classification to Ontology - Cataloging to Bibliographic Metadata - Authority files to Metadata Schema - Moving beyond Informatics and work in Data and Text Mining - Information Sources to Information Gateways and Discovery tools - National Mission for Libraries and LIS Education - E-learning in LIS, Open Courseware, LISwiki (Open invitation for voluntary editors) - IPRs and Open Access - Open Source Software in LIS - Open Standards in LIS - Library 2.0: Web 2.0 Technologies - Role of Social Networks in Library Services - Resource Discovery tools: A critique of Web Search Engines *Invited talks on:* - Data Science: Data Repositories, Linked Data, Data Analytics - Semantic web: Ontology, metadata and Inferencing - Cloud Computing: LIS Clouds Panel Discussion on LIS Education and Research Note: These sub-themes are not exhaustive, rather indicative only. *Call for papers:* Full articles and research papers (with abstracts) on the above mentioned theme and sub-themes for the XXIX IATLIS* *National Conference should reach to Dr. H. P. S. Kalra, General Secretary, IATLIS, Department of Library & Information Science, Punjabi University, Patiala – 147002 (Punjab) as a hard copy and also as an email attachment latest by *21 December 2012*. The paper should not be more than 3000 words. Please send your paper both in print and electronic form on a CD in Microsoft Word and also a soft copy through email to iatlis2012(a)gmail.com. The paper should include Title, Name and Address of author(s), Abstract and Key Words. References at the end of the paper and their in-text citing should be according to APA Style manual. For further information about this check this link: http://www.wooster.edu/psychology/APA-crib.html *Registration Fees:* *Indian Delegates:* Sponsored: Rs. 3,000/- Non-Sponsored Rs. 2,000/- Retired Professionals: Rs.1,500/- Accompanying Person: Rs. 1,500/- Students: Rs. 750/- *Foreign Delegates:* SARRC Countries: $ 150 Other Countries: $ 300 The registration fee covers conference kit, proceedings of the conference (upon post- publication), and working lunch, dinner and breakfast and session tea for the days of the conference. The registration fee does not include accommodation charges. Papers presented at the conference will be published in the post-conference volume and would be sent to the registered delegates later on. Delegates are requested to include registration fees for accompanying persons while forwarding their registration forms since it would not be possible to entertain last minute request in view of shortage of accommodation. Accompanying persons shall not be entitled for conference kits. Delegates are requested to intimate their travel plan in advance to avoid inconvenience. The Demand Draft for registration fee should be in favour of IATLIS payable at Patiala, and should be sent along with duly filled Registration Form latest by 21 December 2012 to: Dr. H. P. S. Kalra, General Secretary, IATLIS and Head, Dept. of Library and Information Science, Punjabi University, Patiala 147002 (Punjab) Ph.-0175-3046179 and 3046180 Email: hpskalra(a)gmail.com *Accommodation: *Accommodations in ISI guest house are very limited and will be arranged by the local Organizing Secretary ONLY on first-come-first served basis for those participants who send prior information for it in the registration form. Charges for accommodation are to be borne by the participants as per actuals. Bangalore is host to several hotels and hostels catering to all budgets. Delegates can also make their booking on their own. *Climate and Clothing:* Weather is generally pleasant in December in Bangalore with temperatures between 15-27 degrees Celsius. Heavy woolens are not required but sweaters and shawls are advisable. *How to reach DRTC, Indian Statistical Institute: * *By Bus* The city bus service is known as BMTC (or BTS) and its main terminal is right opposite the city railway station. Please use the subway from outside the railway station to reach the BTS bus station. (The area that covers the railway station, bus station etc. is known as Majestic.) You may take a Kengeri bound bus (nos. 222A, 226A and 403A) from platform no. 19A to come to ISI. Platform no. 19A is closest to the railway station. Ask for a ticket to "Jairamdas Bus stop". (The ISI bus stop is known as 'Jairamdas'.) This bus stop is just after the University Gate bus stop and just before the R. V. College bus stop. The bus journey takes 30-40 minutes. *By Air * Bangalore International Airport is approximately one and a half hour drive from the Institute about 56 kms. It handles direct flights from a number of national and international destinations. A journey by taxi from the air port to the Institute will cost approximately Rs.1050/- *By Rail* Bangalore, is well connected with rail and roads. There are plenty of trains from all the major cities of India to Bangalore City. Indian Statistical Institute, which is next to the Bangalore University, is about 12 km on the way to Mysore from the city railway station. A journey by taxi from the railway station to the Institute will take approximately 30 minutes and costs approximately Rs.500. * * *Registration Form* XXIX IATLIS National Conference,26-28 December 2012 Documentation Training and Research Centre, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore Name: (Prof./Dr./Mr./Mrs./Ms):………………………………………………………….. Name of accompanying person/s (if y):………………………………………………. Designation: …………………………………………... Institution: ……………………………………………………………………………….. Mailing Address: ………………………………………………………………………… ………………………………………………………………………….. E-mail: …………………………………………………………………………………….. Phone: (O) …………………………….., (M) …………………………. *Payment Details: * Bank: ……………………………. Draft No. …………………………… Dated: ………................................ Amount: ……………………………… (DD to be drawn in favour of IATLIS, payable at Patiala). Whether accommodation is required: Yes / No. If Yes, number of persons and their names:……………………………………….. Arrival and Departure Details (Train / Flight No., Date, Time): ……………………. ……………………………………………………………………………………………… Signature *Important Dates: * Receipt of full papers: 21 December 2012 Conference Dates: 26 – 28 December 2012 *On behalf of Organizing Committee we extend a very cordial invitation to all IATLIS members, LIS teachers, LIS students and Library professionals for participation in XXIX IATLIS National Conference 2012 and to celebrate Golden Jubilee of DRTC. * The filled-in registration form along with registration fee is to be sent to the General Secretary, IATLIS C/o Dept. of Library and Information Science, Punjabi University, Patiala 147002 (Punjab) Ph.-0175-3046179, 3046180. *IATLIS Office Bearers:* Dr. Jagtar Singh, *President, IATLIS *& Professor, Dept. of Library and Information Science, Punjabi University, Patiala 147002 Ph.-0175-3046179 and 3046180, Email: jagtardeep(a)gmail.com, iatlis.patiala(a)gmail.com Dr. H. P. S. Kalra, General Secretary, IATLIS and Head, Dept. of Library and Information Science, Punjabi University, Patiala 147002 (Punjab) Ph.-0175-3046179 and 3046180 Email: hpskalra(a)gmail.com *Organising Secretary:* Dr. Devika P. Madalli, devika(a)drtc.isibang.ac.in Regards -- Khushpreet Singh Brar UGC-JRF Department of Library and Information Science, Punjabi University, Patiala-147002 E-mail: khushpreet.singh(a)gmail.com Mobile: +919815303000 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Request for Article from Taylor and Francis
by Dr. Badan Barman 10 Dec '12

10 Dec '12

Respected forum members, I am in need of the following article: "Angry Pandas": Hindu priest and the colonial government in the dispersal of Hardwar Mela 1982. by Katherine Prior. Publisher: Taylor and Francis. Published in South Asia, Vol. 16; No.1; 1993. pp. 25-52. Link to the full text: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00856409308723173 I shall appreciate if any body can send the article. Note: This is for the second time I am posting the request to the forum members. Thanking you, Yours faithfully Badan Barman -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Fwd: [sss-global] THE FORGOTTEN BOOK READING HABIT
by Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy 10 Dec '12

10 Dec '12

I am reproducing an article on reading that impressed me. As many of us are librarians stocking good literature and fiction, I feel it is our duty not to let this reading habit among our customers to die. Dr P Vyasamoorthy, 30 Gruhalakshmi Colony Secunderabad 500015 Ph 040-27846631 / 9490804278. How to read books and alienate friends *Jairaj Singh, Hindustan Times* December 09, 2012 Of late, I have been finding reading books a little futile and irksome. The more I read, the more I seem to forget, and only now has it is begun to hurt somewhere deep inside. Each time I start a new book, I feel like I'm holding a fistful of sand, and with each page I turn, I can't help but let its fragile content slip through the grasp of memory. When the book finally draws to an end, I'm left with bits of dust and crumbs. I don't know why I'm still reading books. A few weeks ago, I finally found Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything is Illuminated (2002), a book I've been looking for the longest, in a bookstore that vehemently denied of having it on its shelves and stock. For some inexplicable reason, it's one of those few novels I've read, which became an almost instant favourite long before I read its first page. Has this ever happened to you? After I was turned down by Fact & Fiction and told matter-of-factly to hunt for a cheaper edition, I set myself on an adventure to look for the book across the city's bookstores only to be confronted with a cruel and unfortunate reality that I have been ominously harping about in recent times. Bookstores in the city are on the verge of ruin. The future is not far when you won't be left with much choice on what to read. Perhaps, it's to do with the loss of my best friend (we used to share books we enjoyed since Mayo), I found Everything is Illuminated a very sad and moving tale. The story is about a young American Jew (shares the same name as the author) who travels to Ukraine with a yellowing photograph in search of a woman believed to have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. He is accompanied by a local, Alex, who is his age, very fond of American pop culture, and a very terrible translator, Alex's melancholic grandfather, who is the designated driver of the journey and is convinced he's blind, and Sammy Davis Jr Jr, the driver's "deranged seeing-eye bitch", out on a quixotic journey that will cast an indelible impression on the rest of their lives. Told in three narrative strands, loosely set in magic realism, and etched in wit, war, sex and pain, I couldn't help but have tears in my eyes when I read the novel. The book took me incomprehensibly long to read. Since it was the cheaper edition, it has a very fine print, and thus hard to read. But it helped traveling with the book to the hills. If you're ever looking for closure in life, and hold sadness in your heart, then I would advise you to take a book to the mountains. Another book I picked up was Raymond Carver's Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, a collection of short stories by one of America's finest short story writers. The beauty of Carver lies in his ability to be simple and precise as he freely moves between compassion, sadness and humility tucked in careful folds of ordinary life. He has a rich deep working class poet's voice, but not in the lyrical way; he adds heft to composition. Not for a minute will your eyes stray from his stories because they are so neat, precise and concise. Anyone who has ever toyed with the idea of writing a short story must read him. Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? was written at a very harsh period in Carver's life. Around the time this collection of short stories was released, his first, he almost died of alcoholism, and had to settle with a life of sobriety. Perhaps this transition of strife and chaos permeates through in his stories, making this collection all the more endearing. Reading books is becoming increasingly dull in this age of instant messaging, social media, Wikipedia, smartphones, TV shows and films. It takes some inane commitment to develop a habit of reading, and it's only going to grow harder. Why do we read books? To be entertained, stimulated, to learn, or just visit worlds we never knew existed? By not reading books and killing the culture, we're making way for a rudderless world with no balanced view and perspective. Speaking on the pleasures of reading, one of the most celebrated writers of our times, Ian McEwan, who I met many years ago on a cold sunny afternoon in Jaipur, in a recent interview to The New York Times said, "Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist." So, why do I read books? I enjoy stories. It's not always how little you remember or forget from a book that counts. It's the dust and crumbs you hold on to that make a difference. ========== -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Centenary Photography Competition
by Dr.D.P Prathap 08 Dec '12

08 Dec '12

Kindly arrange to distribute through LIS forum: ================================ *Centenary Photography Competition * Commemorating its centenary, the Sugarcane Breeding Institute, Coimbatore is organizing a photography competition open to all Indian citizens living in India. The theme for the contest is ‘*Sugarcane’*. Entry is free. Individual digital photographs must be the competitor’s own work, and cannot be older than 10 years. Entrants can upload up to three images related to the theme. There will be three winners with five consolation prizes. *Practical information:* · Deadline for submissions: 12 hrs IST on* 15 December 2012* · Photographs and entry forms must be sent by email to * sbiphotocontest(a)gmail.com* · Information about the competition is available at* * http://www.sugarcane100.blogspot.in , www.sugarcane.res.in & www.caneinfo.nic.in Contact the Chairman, Publicity committee, SBI-Centenary, at sbicentenary(a)gmail.com if anything needs to be clarified. ====================== -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Invitation for DELNET-Daisy Forum Programme at IIC Annexe on December 15, 2012
by Dr Sangeeta Kaul 07 Dec '12

07 Dec '12

Dear Professional Colleagues We would appreciate if you may kindly send us the confirmation to attend the programme at the earliest possible. ========================================================================== DELNET-Developing Library Network & DAISY Forum of India cordially invite you and your colleagues to a panel discussion on Transcending the Boundaries of Vision : Managing Digital Content in the Mainstream Libraries for the Print Disabled Panelists Mr Dipendra Manocha, President, Daisy Forum of India Mr Ashim Bhattacharya, National Library, Kolkata Dr H K Kaul, Director, DELNET Mr Hiroshi Kawamura, Vice-President, Assistive Technology Development Organisation (Japan) and immediate Past President, Daisy Consortium on Saturday, December 15, 2012 at 6:30 p.m. at Lecture Room I (Ground Floor) India International Centre Annexe (Next to World Bank) Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003 Tea: 6:00 p.m. Tea : 6:00 RSVP : 26742222 ========================================================================== Dr Sangeeta Kaul Network Manager DELNET-Developing Library Network Jawaharlal Nehru University Campus Nelson Mandela Road Vasant Kunj New Delhi-110070 INDIA Tel: 91-11-26742222, 26741266, 9810329992 (M) Fax: 91-11-26741122 Email: sangs(a)delnet.ren.nic.in, sangskaul2003(a)yahoo.co.in ========================================================== -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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