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Kerala Agricultural University - Report of National Book Festival, Book Release and Library Seminar
by Dr. A.T. Francis 30 Oct '12

30 Oct '12

Governments should support Reading and Libraries instead Wine Shops Governments should support Reading and Libraries instead Wine Shops – Prof. Sarah Joseph, eminent writer and social activist opined while inaugurating the three day National Book Festival organised in the College of Horticulture of the KeralaAgriculturalUniversity, Vellanikkara. People have to return back to books and refine themselves. The education system should support learning and teaching in humanities along with science and technologies topics, she continued. Dr. K.P. Rajeevan, Registrar, Kerala Agricultural University (KAU). C. Abdul Razak, Former University Librarian, KAU delivered Key Note Address. The book, “Re-engineering and Re-defining University Libraries in the context of modern ICTs”, authored by Dr. A.T. Francis and published by Ess Ess Publishers has been released by Prof. Sarah Joseph and Administrative Officer K.S. Vijayalakshmi received the book. KAU General Council member Avinash Regi Thomas and Horticulture College Students’ Union President A. Jamaludheen spoke. Dr. Digee Bastian and K.V. Aparnasree have been honoured as Best Readers of the Library. Associate Dean Dr. C.T. Abraham welcomed and Library Head Dr. A.T. Francis proposed vote of thanks. Thousands of books in all subjects like agriculture, science and technology, health, literature, linguistics, entertainment, cinema, etc. has been displayed in the exhibition by several Govt. and private agencies, publishers, distributors, writers etc. All books are available for purchase at a minimum discount of 15%. Admission to the festival was free and open to all, including farmers and public. Modern Library Technologies should provide better services to Library Clientele Modern library technologies should be targeted to provide better services to the library clientele, Horticulture College Associate Dean, Dr. C.T. Abraham opined while inaugurating the “Seminar on Technology Management in Modern Libraries” jointly organised by the Kerala Library Association (KLA) and College of Horticulture, KeralaAgriculturalUniversity. KLA Thrissur Region President Dr. A.T. Francis presided over the function and K.P. Sathian, Librarian, KAU delivered Key Note address. C. Abdul Razak, Former Librarian, KAU, V.C. John, Librarian, ThejusEnginneringCollege, Vellarakkad, P.M. Biju, Librarian, Quilandy Centre of SanskritUniversityspoke on the occasion. V.S. Swapna, KAU delivered welcome address and Humayoon Kabir, KLA Regional Secretary and Librarian, Govt.MedicalCollege, Thrissur proposed vote of thanks. Dr. P. Vijayakumaran Nair, Former Scientist, KFRI, Peechi, Vinitha Davies, Librarian, St. Aloysius College, Elthuruth and N. Sarojam, Scientist & Chief Librarian, KFRI were presented theme papers, “Digital Library: A critical survey of packages available", “WiFi Networks in Libraries” and "How to make available the contents of the journals subscribed in the library for searching in online" respectively. K.N. Vijayalekshmi, Librarian, Govt. Nursing College, P.D. Anto, Librarian, Prajothi Nikethan College, Pudukkad, E.K. Mohanlal, Veterinary University, V.G. Siju, Cochin University, K.R. Nagarajan, Librarian, Govt. Engineering College, Thrissur, M.C. Sathi, Librarian, Veterinary College, Mannuthy, K.A. Fincy, Librarian, Valappad Grama Panchayath, V.S. Sreedevi, Librarian, Holy Grace Academy, Mala etc. led the discussions. 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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Service Tax of 12.36% on Online information and databases
by G.K.MANJUNATH 29 Oct '12

29 Oct '12

As per the Govt circular, based on the Finance Act, 1994, all 'Online and off-line products' will now attract a service tax of 12.36%. Earlier these products / services were under negative list. Such a change in the policy will put pressure on the already constrained library budget. In view of this policy change, most of the vendors have postponed forwarding subscription to the publishers with an assumption the Govt may withdraw the change and it seems have also made representation in this regard. As we are gearing up for next year renewals, the matter will be of serious concerns to all of us. Please refer to section 75 of the below mentioned circular : http://www.servicetax.gov.in/st-act-upd-dec10.pdf It says "on-line information and database access or retrieval" means providing data or information, retrievable or otherwise, 5[to any person], in electronic form through a computer network" Our regular vendors have already indicated that, henceforth, libraries need to pay a service tax of 12.36% for renewing online journals and databases. I highly appreciate further debate on this issue. Can our associations and consortia coordinators, take up this matter immediately with the concerned Department/ Ministry to seek exemptions ? thanks, Dr.G.K.Manjunath Chief Librarian Indira Gandhi Inst of Development Research Film City Road Santosh Nagar Goregaon(East ) MUMBAI - 400 065 India Phone: 022-28416528 email: gkm(a)igidr.ac.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Need Article
by Bharat Alasandi 29 Oct '12

29 Oct '12

Dear All Professionals, I need following article for my study. If anybody have access please send me the same. *Content** **Management** Software: Success Factors for its Selection and Implementation* · Martin White *Business Information Review, March 2004; vol. 21, 1: pp. 36-43.* * * * * *thanks and Regards* -- Bharat B. Alasandi Librarian Bharatesh Education Trusts Global Business School B.C. 188 Fort Road Belgaum - 6 Karnataka E-mail : bharatalasandi(a)gmail.com Phone: 9986135406 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Request to fill up the survey
by Mallikarjun 29 Oct '12

29 Oct '12

Dear Sir/Madam, I am Mallikarjun Dora, working at IIM, Ahmedabad library. We are doing a survey on "OSS Application in libraries" will be grateful if you spend few minute and fill up the same. https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/7RHWDN7 The main objective of this study is to understand the status of IT applications in libraries in areas like Integrated Library Solutions, Digital library solutions, Website solutions, etc. in India and the potential of OSS in these areas of library functioning. We plan to identify factors that play a major role in, promoting and preventing, OSS implementation. The study also seeks to identify the preferred business models that may be appropriate in promoting the use of OSS in libraries. Regards !~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!! Mallikarjun Dora Professional Assistant Vikram Sarabhai Library Indian Institute of Management, Ahemadabad http://mallikarjundora.wordpress.com/ !~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!! -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Koha 3.8.6 Live CD Lite released
by Vimal Kumar V. 28 Oct '12

28 Oct '12

Dear Friends, Koha Live CD Lite is based on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Koha 3.8.6. File size is 690 MB. Live CD is customized for ready to use. Highlights are: - Easy installation steps, - Koha installation based on Ubuntu packages, it means easy to upgrade Koha in future, - Koha customised for ready to use, - Zebra server enabled, - Customised MARC fields in cataloguing, - Scheduled database backup, - Build on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with OpenBox Desktop, - Detailed Read Me file, - Sample reports, Visit for download https://sourceforge.net/projects/kohalivecd-lite/files/ Upgrade to new version of Koha is now very easy with this Live CD. No need to execute lot of commands and editing various files to upgrade to a new version. Installation made from Koha package repository. When new version of Koha available, you can upgrade Koha using only two commands in Terminal. It automatically download new release from Internet and will make necessary changes. sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade I stripped off many applications from Ubuntu 12.04 to reduce the size of the ISO file. So it is convenient to download from Internet. You can install other useful applications after the installation of Live CD. See some examples. *Gnumeric Spreadsheet* sudo apt-get install gnumeric *Gnome-Shell Desktop:* for conventional Windows like desktop sudo apt-get install gnome-shell Log out and select gnome-shell desktop environment. *Libre Office* sudo apt-get install libreoffice Happy to inform you that I am elected as Koha Live CD/DVD Release Manager. http://koha-community.org/roles-3-12-koha-release/ My duty is to organise the efforts to build an official Koha Live CD/DVD. Koha community decided to make available official Live CD/DVD with the release of the version 3.12. Our vision is to build a user friendly Koha Live CD/DVD for Koha newbies. And it is useful for learning process and small scale implementation. Consider the release of this CD as a pilot build of Koha official Live CD/DVD. I invite you to use it and give your valuable feed back to improve this CD. Regards, -- Vimal Kumar V. Mahatma Gandhi University Library Kottayam, Kerala- 686 560 Web: http://www.vimalkumar.org Blog: http://linuxhalwa.blogspot.com http://kohageek.blogspot.in --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt" -Patrick White -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Fw: [SIGMETRICS] OA Week: Testing the Finch Hypothesis on Green OA Mandate Effectiveness
by Subbiah Arunachalam 27 Oct '12

27 Oct '12

----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Stevan Harnad <harnad(a)ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> In June 2012, the UK Finch Committee made the following statement: "The [Green OA] policies of neither research funders nor universities themselves have yet had a major effect in ensuring that researchers make their publications accessible in institutional repositories…" [Finch Committee Recommendation, June 2012] Testing the Finch Hypothesis We have now tested the Finch Hypothesis. Using data from ROARMAP institutional Green OA mandates and data from ROAR on institutional repositories, we found that deposit number and rate is significantly correlated with mandate strength (classified as 1-12): The stronger the mandate, the more the deposits. The strongest mandates generate deposit rates of 70%+ within 2 years of adoption, compared to the un-mandated deposit rate of 20%. The effect is already detectable at the national level, where the UK, which has the largest proportion of Green OA mandates, has a national OA rate of 35%, compared to the global baseline of 25%. Conclusion The conclusion is that, contrary to the Finch Hypothesis, Green Open Access Mandates do have a major effect, and the stronger the mandate, the stronger the effect (the Liege ID/OA mandate, linked to research performance evaluation, being the strongest mandate model). RCUK (as well as all universities, research institutions and research funders worldwide) would be well advised to adopt the strongest Green OA mandates and to integrate institutional and funder mandates. The findings are in the link below. Discussion invited! Gargouri, Yassine, Lariviere, Vincent, Gingras, Yves, Brody, Tim, Carr, Les and Harnad, Stevan (2012) Testing the Finch Hypothesis on Green OA Mandate Effectiveness. Open Access Week 2012 Please read the full paper at http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/344687/1/finch2.pdf Arun -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Re: [LIS-Forum] {LIS-Forum] Re: Service Tax of 12.36% on Online information anddatabases
by Mailing List Admin 26 Oct '12

26 Oct '12

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 06:23:39 -0400 From: "Bengani, Nirmal" <nirmal.bengani(a)cengage.com> Both TDS and Service tax is applicable on subscribing online subscription/database. TDS @ 10% is deductible in case the publisher has PAN No.,else its 20% for non PAN Card holders. Nirmal Bengani Senior Sales Manager - Library Reference Cengage Learning India Pvt. Ltd. 418, FIE, Patparganj, Delhi 110 092 (m) 91.98180.40327 | (o) 91.11.4364.1141| (f) 91.11.4364.1100 | (e) nirmal.bengani(a)cengage.com | http://lr.cengage.co.in/homelr

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8th Dr. TB Rajashekar Memorial Seminar (2012): Designing Web Portal / Gateway Services Using WordPress
by madhuresh.singhal 26 Oct '12

26 Oct '12

Dear Members, NCSI-Net (http://ncsi-net.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in) an informal association comprising of erstwhile NCSI staff and its alumni, cordially invites you to the 8th Dr. TB Rajashekar Memorial Seminar (2012). This year's seminar topic is "Designing Web Portal / Gateway Services Using WordPress". It is a one-day seminar targeted for the benefit of Library and Information Science (LIS) students and budding LIS professionals. Title: 8th Dr. TB Rajashekar Memorial Seminar (2012): Designing Web Portal / Gateway Services Using WordPress Date: November 24, 2012 (Fourth Saturday) Venue: Archives and Publications Cell (Erstwhile NCSI Building) Seminar Hall, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore - 560012 Registration Fee: Rs. 250 for Students (Should carry ID Card) and Rs. 500 for working professionals, for NCSI-Net members Rs. 150. Fee covers Seminar Material, working lunch and tea / coffee For further information and Seminar Brochure, please visit the Seminar website at: http://ncsi-net.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/workshop/announcement2012.html Past Seminar's material can be viewed at http://ncsi-net.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/workshop/seminars.html Best Regards NCSI-Net ************************************************************************************************* This email and its attachments are confidential and proprietary to Advinus Therapeutics Ltd. and are meant for the intended recipient only. If you are not the intended recipient, do not take any actions based on the contents of this message, except to permanently delete the message and its attachments and inform the sender immediately. ************************************************************************************************* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Rising cost of science journals
by Rabishankar Giri 26 Oct '12

26 Oct '12

The following article in the Mint shows how the rising cost of journals are going to affect the Library's budget constraints. http://www.livemint.com/Politics/trpj70vM3TaZW8j64orqMJ/Rising-cost-of-scie… The constraint can be avoided if some of the following steps can be adopted at our policy level1. Promotion of our own journals like NISCAIR Journals or IAS Journals through concerted efforts as Prakash Chand Sir commented.2. Many University had adopted policy to promote its faculty who has published more no. of articles in high impact factor journals (at least IF >1). Essentially, these high IF journals are being published from abroad as only a few (3-4) Indian journals crossed IF - 1.Instead, had UGC / CSIR taken some pain to categorise journals in different groups like Australian Research Council (http://www.arc.gov.au/era/ANZSRC.htm) did and include some of our Indian journals in higher category, the situation could have been different.3. Promoting Open Access by our elite Institutes like IISc, CSIR, IITs, as Havard University did or Royal Society of London did through their Open Access Membership programme . Regards,Rabishankar Giriwww.igit.ac.inwww.facebook.com/IGITLRChttp://202.159.218.126:8080/newge… -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Data collection through Right to Information request - Is it right to do so?
by Gopakumar Velayudhanpillai 26 Oct '12

26 Oct '12

Dear friendsI am posting this to know about your opinion on a tendency found among research scholars now a days. I have been getting questionnaires of PhD research under the Right to Information Act. As you are aware most of these questionnaires are of minimum 8 to 10 pages and the questions are mostly to be answered on a personal level. Right to Information is a statute designed and promulgated with a specific cause to bring transparency to the governance and its machinery. But this seems to be misutilized by many for personal purposes. One example is this. Data collection for research is the real task in research and you have to enjoy this with utmost sportsman spirit. If there are occasions were you are not getting minute data which are essential, you may use this method. I am more worried about this as this tendency is more among library science professionals. Dr GOPAKUMAR V. University Librarian,Goa University Taleigao Plateau, Goa. PIN 403 206 Personal webpage http://www.vgkumar.weebly.com/ gopakumar.v(a)rediffmail.com Office Phone: 08326519012 Mobile No: 09447056713 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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