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Meet Mr Rameshwar Sarda - the bibliotherapist
by Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy 10 Oct '12

10 Oct '12

Link: http://vyasa-kaaranam-ketkadey.blogspot.in/2012/10/back-pain-how-to-get-cur… You can learn how a dedicated septuagenarian is helping several persons with ailments like back pain ans sciatica to get cured by suggesting suitable books to be read and followed. He is a true librarian but without any professional (librarianship) qualifications. Dr P Vyasamoorthy, 30 Gruhalakshmi Colony Secunderabad 500015 Ph 040-27846631 / 9490804278. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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ISiM InfoVision 2012: The Knowledge Summit, Oct 19-20, 2012
by Athif Mohammed 10 Oct '12

10 Oct '12

International School of Information Management, University of Mysore, Mysore ---- Presents ---- InfoVision 2012: The Knowledge Summit, Oct 19-20, 2012 ( <http://www.infovision2012.org.in> http://www.infovision2012.org.in) Hosted by SAP Labs, Bangalore And Organised in association with Information Excellence Group, CSI Bangalore Chapter, DAMA Bangalore and TDWI Chapter-India --- Welcome to the 6th edition of InfoVision - The Knowledge Summit Series. On "SMAC (Social, Mobile, Analytics, Cloud) is smart" SMAC is the latest acronym to enter the jargon-filled technology space. SMAC--an acronym for Social, Mobility, Analytics, and Cloud has entered the business conversations in a big way. Experts and business heads believe that SMAC will help companies to ride the next wave of business opportunities and is also expected to help Indian companies to innovate and move away from traditional business models. Industry veterans see an integrated SMAC to change the way companies do business in future. Based on the industry trending, a unified Social, Mobile, Analytics (Big Data predominantly) and Cloud based solutions appear to be the 'next big thing'. The combined potential of SMAC technologies is estimated to be $70 billion to $200 billion over the next three years. And, that's the reason why most of the software vendors today are betting on SMAC. Research firm Gartner terms it as the nexus of four IT forces - cloud, social, mobile, and information (in other words analytics). Those forces, along with the continued impact of consumer spending, are expected to essentially set the stage for the next generation of capabilities that drive new business scenarios. ------ Distinguished Speakers at InfoVision 2012: . Anand S ,Chief Data Scientist, Gramener . Sanjay Chitnis, LG Soft, India . Anil Valluri, President-India & SAARC Operations, NetApp . Sanjeev Kumar, VP and MD, Informatica India . Vijay Srinivas Agneeswaran, Director and Principal Scientist, Impetus . Sudha Srinivasan, Intel technologies . Devendra Singh, Director, Fidelity Business Services . Venkatesh D K, Vice President SAP Labs, India Registration is Free: Don't miss this great opportunity For registrations: http://infovision2012.eventbrite.com/ For details and updates,: www.infovision2012.org.in Come, participate, listen to and interact with eminent speakers. See you at InfoVision 2012! InfoVision 2012 Summit Team For more details, contact: International School of Information Management University of Mysore, Manasagangotri Mysore - 570 006 Tel: +91-821-2514699; +91-821-2411417 Fax: +91-821-2519209 Athif Mohammed - 9886772356 Email: office(a)isim.ac.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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E-Content 2012 - Panel Debate Topics
by Soji Mathew 09 Oct '12

09 Oct '12

Informatics (India) limited is pleased to announce the Panel Debate topics for E-Content 2012 - Seminar on Convergence of Content and Technology in the Digital Age: Mumbai -Tuesday, 16th October: Cloud Computing for Libraries New Delhi - Wednesday, 17th October: Convergence of Content for Unified Discovery Kolkata - Thursday, 18th October: Library in the E-learning Space Bangalore - Friday, 19th October: E-Books and the Commercialization of Library Services We have experts debating on the above issues in the seminar platform. Please register yourself for participating in the seminar to listen to the panelists or question them. Register at: www.informindia.co.in/event2012 If you are not able to attend please send your questions to events(a)informindia.co.in and we shall try our best to put these questions to the panelists during the debate. Hurry up... few seats left... Regards, E-Content 2012 Team -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Webinar Programme "Open Access Week @ AIMS" online!
by Imma Subirats 08 Oct '12

08 Oct '12

**** apologies for cross postings *** Dear all, We are glad to inform all of you that as part of the CIARD Movement<http://www.ciard.net/> the Agricultural Information Management Standards (AIMS) <http://aims.fao.org/>community is organizing a series of webinars on the theme "*Making Agricultural Research Information Publicly Available and Accessible"* during Open Access Week 2012. The event is co-sponsored by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR), the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) and the International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists (IAALD). The webinars will take place from October 23 to 26. On October 23, Enrica Porcari and Jean-Claude Guédon will talk about the experience of CGIAR <http://www.cgiar.org/>and the status of Open Access focusing in the agricultural domain respectively. On October 24, Alma Swan will focus on Open Access policy developments and Wouter Gerritsma will present the value-added services for the Wageningen Institutional Repository. On October 25 and 26, the event will consist of three webinars composed of short presentations on "Promotion of Open Access", "Search Engines for Open Access Web Resources" and "Digital Repository Development Use Cases" experiences. For more information on the time schedule, how to join the webinars and system requirements please visit the Open Acccess Week @ AIMS programme<http://aims.fao.org/oa-week-2012>. Do not worry if you can't make it: the sessions will be recorded and you can play them back from the AIMS <http://aims.fao.org/>, CIARD <http://www.ciard.net/> and SIDALC <http://www.sidalc.net/>(Agricultural Information and Documentation Service of the Americas) portals. More information at http://aims.fao.org/oa-week-2012 Looking forward to seeing you there! -------------- Imma Subirats Knowledge and Information Management Officer *OEKC, FAO of the United Nations* Viale delle Terme di Caracalla 00153 Rome (Italy) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Library -Position
by Madaiah krishnamurthy 08 Oct '12

08 Oct '12

Dear Professional Friends, ISIBC Library Advertised for the Post of Assistant Librarian, for more detail visit http://www.isibang.ac.in/Advertisements/ISIBC-Job-Advertisements-AO-AL-SA-O… M.Krishnamurthy -- 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
by honnappa ramannanavar 08 Oct '12

08 Oct '12

Dear all, Kindly arrange to send the following article. Our faculty need this one. It would be great to you, if you could send this full text Article. Ford J, Rowlingson K, 1996, "Low-income households and credit: exclusion, preference, and inclusion" Environment and Planning A 28(8) 1345 – 1360 Best Regards, Honnappa Ramannanavar Asst. Librarian IFIM Business School Electronic City Bangalore 100 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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request for the article
by Ravi Hullur 06 Oct '12

06 Oct '12

Dear All LIS ProfessionalsOur faculty need below articles. Kindly help me in this regard 1)Loss of PDCD4 expression in human lung cancer correlates with tumour progression and prognosis The Journal of Pathology Volume 200, Issue 5, pages 640–646, August 2003 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/path.1378/full 2)Down-regulation of PDCD4 expression is an independent predictor of poor prognosis in human renal cell carcinoma patients, Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology March 2012, Volume 138, Issue 3, pp 529-535 http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00432-011-1121-y -- ** Ravi Hullur Asst.Librarian Incharge to Dr.S.G.Desai Digital Library KLE University, Belgaum E-Mail ID rvhullur(a)gmail.com Mob.No.9740638831 -- 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 T K 06 Oct '12

06 Oct '12

Dear All Professionals, Our Scientist need below article. Kindly help me in this regard. On power and sample size calculations for likelihood ratio tests in generalized linear models. Shieh, G Biometrics 56(4): 1192-1996 (2000) By, Lijesh T.K Project Fellow (Library) Kerala Forest Research Institute (KFRI), Peechi, Thrissur. 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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Call papers on Information Literacy in promoting e-resources & its empowerment for LIS professionals
by somaraya Tallolli 05 Oct '12

05 Oct '12

*Dear friends,* * * It gives me an immense pleasure in informing you that we at DBIT in association with AKELPA is organizing a two day National level seminar on “Information Literacy in promoting e-resources and its empowerment for LIS professionals” on 2nd and 3rd of November 2012. In this regard, we are intending to bring out the proceedings on the theme of the Seminar and to receive the papers on or before 25-10-2012. Hence, interested participants are requested to submit the papers in the area of research, technical and also on case studies on or before the stipulated dates i.e 20-10-2012. *About the Seminar:* * * The activity of e-Resources promotion & empowerment of the user community is the major challenge in 21st century’s digital era. This Seminar will be essentially focused on all contemporary issues related to Information Literacy in promoting e-Resources and its empowerment for LIS professionals and their impact on changing the Information literacy Paradigm. A galaxy of Luminaries from the field of Information literacy (IL) will gather together to address some of the Challenging issues like Information Literacy, Standards, e-Resources promotion and empowerment for LIS professional’s etc. Therefore, this Seminar provides an opportunity to enhance our skills to meet the changing needs of the information society and helps LIS professionals to improve their efficiency and effectiveness at workplace by improving his/her skills set. In the era of Information technology, Information storage and retrieval has become unbelievable. The uncertain quality and expanding quantity of information poses a large challenge to information users / Information seekers and library and Information Science professionals. The available information resources are multifarious in nature and range from printed documents, e-Resources, WebPages, on-line databases of full text / Bibliographic journals and other multimedia formats. The new paradigm emphasizes the empowerment of students and encourages them to take control of their own learning. In this age of information explosion, there is a need for LIS professionals to play a vital role by educating the users about the potential resources and develop the suitable devices to help in searching relevant sources along with the assistance to the users in evaluating these retrieved resources. * * *Objectives of the seminar:* · To create awareness among the LIS Professionals about the importance of information literacy and promotion library print as well as e-Resources. · To train and create comfort levels within the existing LIS professionals and encourage them to design Information literacy models to create awareness of e-Resources and empowerment of user community. · To provide an opportunity to discuss various aspects of Information Literacy in promoting e-Resources and Its empowerment for Library & information Science professionals. · To bring the librarians of various engineering colleges, corporate sector and other related institutes together to update them with advances in the field with the help of distinguished resource persons from both industry & academia. *Themes /Subject of the paper:* - Information Literacy & eResources - E-literacy and empowerment of LIS professionals - Planning strategies for information literacy training - Networking & Networks in Information Literacy - Information Literacy v/s Media - Information Literacy v/s Emerging Technologies - Information literacy Best practices - Information literacy & knowledge management - Information literacy & globalization - Future trends in information literacy * * *Important Dates:* * * 1. Last date for Submission of the paper is October 20-10-2012 2. Paper acceptance Intimation is October 25-10-2012 *3. **Seminar Date: 2nd & 3rd November 2012* *Registration fee:* * * All the participants need to pay Rs.500/- as Registration fees in the form of DD/Cheque drawn in favour of “*The Principal*” *DBIT*, payable at Bangalore. The Spot registration facility is also available by cash. The registration fee includes Seminar Kit & hospitality. * * *For further details please contact:* *Somaraya B Tallolli* *Librarian & Organizing Secretary DON BOSCO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KUMBALAGODU, MYSORE ROAD BANGALORE-560074 Mobile.No+91 94 4996 0206, 91 8553948128 E-mail: sbtallolli(a)gmail.com, rrcklibrary(a)gmail.com Website: www.dbit.co.in* --* Somaraya B Tallolli* *Librarian & Organizing Secretary DON BOSCO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KUMBALAGODU, MYSORE ROAD BANGALORE-560074 Mobile.No+91 94 4996 0206, 91 8553948128 E-mail: sbtallolli(a)gmail.com Website: www.dbit.co.in* -- 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
by Ravi Hullur 05 Oct '12

05 Oct '12

Dear All LIS ProfessionalsOur faculty need below articles. Kindly help me in this regard Acta Ophthalmol (Copenh). 1983 Aug;61(4):624-33.Visual acuity testing with preferential looking in mental retardation. Lennerstrand G, Axelsson A, Andersson G -- ** Ravi Hullur Asst.Librarian Incharge to Dr.S.G.Desai Digital Library KLE University, Belgaum E-Mail ID rvhullur(a)gmail.com Mob.No.9740638831 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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