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What is Your Stand on Open Access
by Sridhar Gutam 02 Nov '11

02 Nov '11

Greetings!!! Open Access Week Oct 24-30, 2011 had passed without much activity here in India... I have not seen many posts except two or there... did i miss them or what?? But concretely .... I have not heard anything from LIS professionals on Open Access... I am curious to know what is your stand on Open Access?? There is AALDI... Agricultural Librarians Association.... they have still reservations on Open Access... they say that they cannot make their journal open access... as they would loose revenue... please comment.. They have established Krishi Prabha... all thesis are scanned... no fulltext search facility... and only thru web browser you can read... not off-line readability.... But we have Vidhyanidhi and Shodhganga... I am surprised why LIS people could not support/educate the Krishi Prabha project people to work on lines of Vidhayanidhi/Shodhganaga?? Thanks & Regards Sridhar _________________________________________________________________________ Sridhar Gutam PhD, ARS, PG Dip Patent Laws (NALSAR), IP & Biotechnology (WIPO) Senior Scientist (Plant Physiology) & Joint Secretary, ARSSF Central Institute for Subtropical Horticulture (CISH) Rehmankhera, P.O.Kakori, Lucknow 227107, Uttar Pradesh, India Fax: +91-522-2841025, Phone: +91-522-2841022/23/24; Mobile:+91-9005760036 CISH http://www.cishlko.org ARSSF http://www.arssf.co.nr My site http://www.gutam.co.nr My Publications http://works.bepress.com/sridhar_gutam/ My Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/gutam2000 My Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gutamsridhar My LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/sridhargutam -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Need clarification about AEL
by silent listener 02 Nov '11

02 Nov '11

Sir, As you know Access engineering library(AEL) is the E-Journal package from McGra Hill.In the INDEST-AICTE consortium list there is mentioned a term ''DEL''. I would like to knoe whether both DEL and AEL are the same (Mcgraw Hill).Kindly provide me with enough information. Thanking You JOSEPH ZACHARIA -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Special Lecture Programme at DLISc., Bangalore University
by bramesha B 02 Nov '11

02 Nov '11

*BANGALORE * *UNIVERSITY* ***DEPARTMENT OF LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE* Sneha Bhavan, Jhanabharathi Campus, Bangalore – 560 056. * * * “SPECIAL LECTURE”* * * *ON* * * * “Capacity Building Skills for LIS Professionals in the Knowledge Environment”* * * * * *By* * * * * *Dr. B. Ramesh Babu* Professor Dept. of Library and Information Science University of Madras, Chennai – 5 Date: 03.11.2011 Time: 12.30pm. * * * * * * *Venue:* *Dr. S.R. Ranganathan Hall* *Department of Library & Information Science* *Bangalore University, Jnanabharathi Campus* *Bangalore – 560 056* "*All are Welcome"* * * *Chairman, Staff and Students * Dept. of Library and Information Science, BUB -- Dr. Ramesha Associate Professor Dept. of Library and Information Science Bangalore University Jnana Bharathi Campus BANGALORE - 560 056 Phone: Mobile 09481246961 Office Direct :080 22961401 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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7th Dr. TBR Memorial Seminar (2011): Designing Web Portal / Gateway Services Using Drupal
by shivaram gowda 02 Nov '11

02 Nov '11

Dear Members, NCSI-Net (http://ncsi-net.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in) an informal association comprising of NCSI staff, trainees, and alumni, cordially invites you to the 7th Dr. TBR Memorial Seminar (2011). This year’s seminar topic is, Designing Web Portal / Gateway Services Using Drupal. It is a one-day seminar targeted for the benefit of Library and Information Science (LIS) students and budding LIS professionals. The details of the seminar are given below: Title: 7th Dr. TBR Memorial Seminar (2011): Designing Web Portal / Gateway Services Using Drupal Date: November 12, 2011 (Second Saturday) Venue: NCSI Seminar Hall, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore - 560012 About the Seminar Theme: With the explosive growth of online resources, managing such resources has become a challenge for Information professionals. Well designed organization or library web portals / Gateway services helps in the efficient dissemination of online resources to the user community. Today’s online resources includes variety of authoritative web resources (free & priced), integrating the relevant and useful resources into a web portal facilitates in the effective and efficient dissemination of information to the end users. This can be achieved using either commercial or open source content management tools. Various open source CMS tools are available on the Internet. Drupal, Joomla, OpenCMS, and Wordpress are few such examples. In this seminar, some basic and useful features and functionalities of Drupal, one of the popular CMS tools will be featured. Drupal (http://www.drupal.org) is an open source, platform independent content management system (CMS). Its popular features include simple to install and use, modularity, customizable, multi-platform, multilingual, web 2.0 complaint, web based administration, powerful report generation functionality, well organized browse and search etc. Being a modular package, it facilitates in enabling / disabling the functionalities as per the needs of implementers. It has a strong and active user and developer community who provide the much needed support in using the package effectively. Self explanatory online and offline documentation are also available for the package and they are updated frequently. Drupal is being used in developing different genres of website like Education, Institutional, E-commerce, News, Multimedia etc., World wide, more than 6000 registered websites are using drupal in various languages. Objective of the Seminar: To demonstrate the basic and essential features and functionalities of the Drupal CMS as to how this Open Source Web application can be used to build Web Portals and provide Web-based information services. At the end of the seminar, the participants should have a clear understanding of the various features of the Drupal CMS so that they can plan to make use of this CMS for their user Community Resource Persons: NCSI-Net members who have practical experience with the CMSs will serve as resource persons Who should attend the Seminar? LIS Students and fellow professionals interested in developing Web portals and in providing web-based information services using a CMS Registration Fee: Rs. 250 for Students (Should carry ID Card) and Rs. 500 for working professionals, for NCSI-Net members Rs. 150. Fee covers software CD, Seminar kit, working lunch and tea / coffee Please do note that no arrangements for accommodation are being made for outstation participants. Number of participants is restricted to 50 (Space constraint) and it will be on first-cum-first-served basis. Seminar Topics: 1. Introduction to Web Portals / Gateways & Overview of Drupal 2. Installation of Drupal on Windows Demo 3. Modules Configuration, Content Creation Functionality & CCK 4. Themes configuration, Site Configuration 5. Configuring Menus & Blocks, User management 6. Views, Report Generations & Backup 7. Multilingual Content 8. A Drupal based Case study 9. Career Advice Kindly bring this to the attention of the LIS students and budding professionals and encourage them to attend the seminar. Participants will get an opportunity to interact with fellow professionals working in the industry and academia. For further information, please visit the Seminar website at: http://ncsi-net.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/workshop/ Registration form is available at: http://ncsi-net.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/workshop/registration2011.html with warm regards NCSI-Net Coordinators Shivaram BS ICAST, CSIR-NAL Kodihalli Bangaluru-560017 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Regarding AICTE policy to subscribe INDEST resources.
by nag naga raja 02 Nov '11

02 Nov '11

Dear Professionals AICTE has made a policy that all engineering colleges should subscribe at least 6 INDEST resources. As a librarian I welcome this decision. But the main criteria used for selecting the journals for any consortia are1.Cost 2.Relevancy and 3.Usage of e-journals. But many studies reveal that the use of e-journals by PG students is more than UG students. Then why should a college having only UG courses should pay the same subscription amount prescribed for PG and research institutions. So AICTE/INDEST should reduce the subscription rates of electronic resources especially for the colleges offering UG courses. This is much more needed for all engineering colleges offering only UG courses.This is my personal opinion. A.Nagaraja Librarian Sri Krishna Institute of Technology Bangalore-560090 NAGARAJA.A -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Library Clearance
by Library.Mum＠dasturco.in 02 Nov '11

02 Nov '11

Dear friend Bhakti Gole, As per our procedure we are giving Clearance Certificate to our member when he retire or leave the job because we have a technical library like special for engineers only. If the member lost any documents, the library can charge a such amount for the member to replace the same copy. If librarian unable to replace the lost copy for any reason, he would inform to higher authority with witting letter and then the subject closed. Thanking you, Regards, Gajanan Jadhav Librarian M.N. Dastur & Co. P. Ltd. Engineering Centre, Mumbai - 400 004 Mob - 9967641170 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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National seminar at Vidyasagar University
by soumen mallik 01 Nov '11

01 Nov '11

Dear moderator kindly post the following Announcement: Two Day National Seminar on Glorious 100 Years of LIS Education in India Introspect and Prospects In Collaboration with Raja Rammohun Roy Library Foundation, Kolkata December 8-9, 2011 Organised by- Department of Library and Information Science, Vidyasagar University, Midnapore – 721 102, West Bengal, India. Sub Themes Historical Perspectives of LIS Education in India Present Status of LIS Education in India LIS Education and its Future LIS Education and ICT Job Opportunities and LIS Education Trend of Research in LIS Designing Curriculum in LIS Professional Associations and LIS Education Teaching Methods in LIS Education Accreditation of LIS Courses User Studies and LIS Education Qualitative Analysis and LIS Education Call for Papers We invite articles on the aforementioned sub-themes. Full paper in MSWord 2003 format and of maximum 3000 words using APA Style of citation in CD or by e-mail and a hard copy of the same must reach us by November 30, 2011. The abstracts of the accepted articles will be published in the Pre-Seminar Publication Volume and those articles will be presented in the seminar by the respective author. An edited volume will be published with the selected articles presented in the seminar along with some invited papers. Accommodation Accommodation will be provided to the outstation authors who will present their papers in the seminar.However, accommodation of other outstation participants may be arranged if request is sent at least seven days before the Seminar and in that case participants will have to bear the charges. Registration Fees Student (V. U.) - Rs.250.00 Others - Rs. 350.00 Payment should be made by Cash/DD in favour of the Dept. of Library and Information Science,Vidyasagar University. Filled in Registration Form and Fees must reach on or before December 2,2011. However,registration will also be made on spot. Important information for authors: All manuscripts should be unpublished original work. An author can contribute more than one paper. However, an author will present only once throughout the seminar and for any one of his/her contributed articles.The author/authors should provide their name/names, address of the institution along with telephone no., fax no. and e-mail ID. for detailed information log on to - http://vidyasagar.ac.in and download information brochure http://ecircular.vidyasagar.ac.in/Notice-Details-View.aspx?notice-refid=201… -- Soumen Mallik Assistant Professor Department of Library and Information Science Vidyasagar University Midnapore-721102 91-9476432869 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Heartily Congratulation of Dr Mangala Hirwade madam for Emerald LIS Award 2011
by ravindra mendhe 01 Nov '11

01 Nov '11

*Dear Madam* * * *Heartily Congratulation !* * * *Dr. Mangala Hirwade awarded with prestigious Highly Commanded 2011 Emerald Indian LIS Research Fund Award* *Dr Mangala Anil Hirwade*, Assistant Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University, Nagpur has been awarded the prestigious *Highly Commanded 2011 Emerald Indian LIS Research Fund Award.* This award was declared for the research proposal "Bibliographical Control through Digitization of Government Publications in India: A Study" co-authored by her research scholar *Vinay Choudhary, Assistant Librarian, * *Sau Vasudhatai Deshmukh College of Agriculture, Talegaon, Amravati.* * * Emerald Group Publishing Limited, United Kingdom actively promotes and rewards high quality research in Library and Information Science. In addition to the research fund it also provides an opportunity to publish the findings of the research in one of Emerald’s many excellent library and information studies titles. High involvement of Emerald in scholarly academic activities like this provides the researchers a great enthusiasm and dynamism to excel in vital academic research for the social good. Dr. Mangala Hirwade : Mobil No. 9850341329 e-mail : hmangala(a)rediffmail.com h.mangala(a)rediffmail.com with best wishes from : *Ravindra M. Mendhe * *Deputy Librarian,Central Library* *SVKM's NMIMS ( Deemed to be University) ,Mumbai* *Mukesh Patel Technology Park* *Shirpur Campus, Bank of Tapi River,* *Mumbai - Agra Road, Shirpur, Dist- Dhule- 425 405, * *MS, India* *Tel: 02563 -286545 email: ravindra.mendhe(a)nmims.edu, , ravindramendhe@ <ravindramendhe@g> gmail.com * *Blog: www.ravindramendhe.blogspot.com* * * * * *" Life is always in a flux; it keeps changing. Your Knowledge is the same if you stop learning" * -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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E-Content 2011 - From Discovery to Delivery
by Soji Mathew 01 Nov '11

01 Nov '11

Informatics (India) Limited is pleased to announce the dates and location for E-Content 2011, its Annual Seminar Series planned across four cities in India. This year's theme for the Seminar series is "Discovery to Delivery". The seminar will have keynotes and panel debates on this theme at all locations. This year's seminar will showcase the launch of publishers like the Royal Society (London) - one of the oldest and most famous publishers, Future Science Group, Knovel - a specialized e-book aggregator, and a curtain raiser to J-Gate 2.0 - the world's largest database of e-Journals. Please join us in the series of debates on the evolving digital library landscape and interact with fellow librarians and panel of experts and our publisher partners on content and technology related issues of your concerns and interests at: Chandigarh on November 21, 2011 - Hotel JW Marriot Bhubaneswar on November 23, 2011 - Hotel Mayfair Convention Hyderabad on November 24, 2011 - Hotel Taj Deccan Pune on November 25, 2011 - Hotel Westin The publishers joining hands with us in these seminars are: Annual Reviews Future Science Group Knovel The Royal Society Publishing Click here for details and register: www.informindia.co.in/event2011 Registration is Free for all Library and Information Professionals Regards, Soji Mathew Informatics (India) Limited | 194, R. V. Road, Basavanagudi | Bangalore - 560004, India www.informindia.co.in | Phone: +91 80 4038 7777 Extn: 1013 | Fax: +91 80 4038 7600 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Contractual positions available for LIS professionals
by Swati Bhattacharyya 01 Nov '11

01 Nov '11

Please post this advertisement: Contractual positions available for LIS professionals A Human Resource Agency is inviting applications from qualified library professionals. Selected candidates will be placed at the library of Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. After filling out currently vacant positions, a panel of such professionals will be prepared which will be valid for one year. Depending on future vacancies, professionals from the panel may be called for interview. Other important information regarding these appointments: 1. The candidates will be recruited by the Human Resource Agency. All positions carry the benefits of PF, ESI etc. 2. The recruited candidates will be placed at the library of IIM Calcutta. 3. Candidates must possess M. Lib.Sc. However, candidates possessing B.Lib.Sc and with exceptional experience of working in other places may also be considered. 4. Depending on experiences and performance in the interview, the selected candidates will be placed in one of the following pay-group: (i) Rs 18000/ p.m. for candidates with working experiences of 18-24 months in large academic/technical libraries (ii) Rs 16000/ p.m. for candidates with working experiences of 12-15 months in large academic/technical libraries (iii) Rs 14000/ p.m. for candidates with little or no exposure to library work but who would be able to establish their interest in work during the interview. 5. Selected candidates will have to perform shift duty along with other existing professionals in this category. 6. Selected candidates will be provided shared single accommodation inside the campus (no family accommodation). Interested candidates must send their resume to (udskolkata(a)uds.in) with a copy to librarian(a)iimcal.ac.in immediately. Swati Bhattacharyya -------------------------------------------------- Librarian Indian Institute of Management Joka Diamond Harbor Road Calcutta - 700104 Phone: 091-33-24678300 Extn: 416 FAX: 091-33-2467-8062 Email: swati @iimcal.ac.in -------------------------------------------------- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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