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Opportunity to host Wikipedia Workshops
by Mailing List Admin 14 Sep '11

14 Sep '11

Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 12:09:28 +0530 From: Arjuna Rao Chavala <arjunaraoc(a)gmail.com> Dear sir/madam, Wikimedia has collaborated with KALA in the past, where in we organised a talk on GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) by LyamWyatt. I think the recent report on a wiki academy will be of interest to the members of the list and will also encourage some of them to host such academies to improve the knowledge. Request you to release my mail to the list. Cheers Arjun Wikimedia Chapter, a Not for Profit independent society closely working with Wikimedia Foundation, has kicked of its outreach activities with the first Wiki Academy organised at Department of Public Libraries to familiarize people about contributing to the sum of human knowledge on Wikipedia Here is a report. http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy/Department_of_Public_Libraries,_Banga… Kindly get in touch if any of your institutions would like to host such event. Sincerely, Arjuna Rao Chavala President, Wikimedia Chapter http://wiki.wikimedia.in

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Condolence message
by SRELS 14 Sep '11

14 Sep '11

Dear Professional Colleagues, I regret to inform you that Sri.B.S. Ramananda, Formerly Deputy General Manager, Central Technical Information Centre, HMT Ltd., Bangalore, passed away on Saturday, 10th September 2011. He was a student of Dr.S.R. Ranganathan at the Documentation Research and Training Centre during 1963-64. Sri. Ramananda was actively associated with the Bangalore Management Association and Thoreau Foundation. He was also once the Secretary of the erstwhile Mysore Library Association. I pray God to keep his soul rest in peace. K.N. Prasad Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science Bangalore -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Job Opportunity
by Mailing List Admin 14 Sep '11

14 Sep '11

Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:12:39 +0530 From: iqbal ahmad <iqbal360(a)gmail.com> Two Post of of English (UGC-NET or Phd Qualified) Govt. Added in College A. E. Kalsekar Degree College, Kausa, Mumbra, Thane, Mumbai has been vacant please contact immediately on our college address or Contact at Phone No. 022-25490404, 022-25491766 or Mail your Resume immediately on aekalsekarcollege(a)yahoo.com or contact personally on my contact no. 08268543831 Thank You, Iqbal Ahmad Ansari Librarian A. E. Kalsekar Degree College Kausa, Mumbra, Thane-400612 (Maharashtra) +91-8268543831 +91-9450427212

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workshop on Implementation of e-learning Software Using Moodle
by praveen savadi 14 Sep '11

14 Sep '11

Dear all, U. S. Consulate General - Chennai and American Corner, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Banaglore cordially invite you along with your friends and colleague to attend the workshop on Implementation of e-learning Software Using Moodle at 10 am to 1 pm on 20th September 2011 (Tuesday) at Kincha Auditorium, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Race Course Road, Bangalore. Resource Person: Dr. M Krishnamurthy, DRTC Bangalore. No Registration Fee, (First-cum-first served basis) Please send your confirmation to Mr. Praveen Savadi or Mr. V Muralidhar Mr. V Muralidhar Manager, American Corner Mobile: 94485 54258 -- Praveen Savadi Librarian MPBirla Institute of Management Associate Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan #43, Race Course Road Bangalore - 01 Mobile: 99722 54318 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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J-Gate@25000 Seminar - Friday, 16th September - Hurry, Register Now!
by Soji Mathew 14 Sep '11

14 Sep '11

J-Gate, launched in 2001, is one of the earliest specialized search engines for e-journals developed by Informatics. In July this year J-Gate hit a new world record of indexing articles from 25,000 e-journals in English language. Another world record that J-Gate has created is its coverage of open access journals including 6,500 peer-reviewed journals in English. Informatics is proud and happy to celebrate this historic event with its J-Gate user community. Please join us to celebrate this joyous occasion on 16th September 2011 at 6.00 pm at Hotel La Marvella, Bengaluru Kindly note that registration is mandatory to attend this event. Please confirm your participation by registering at http://informindia.co.in/jgate25k/index.asp Programme Libraries: A writing on the web (A perspective of the future vision for libraries from what we see today) Dr. Jagdish Arora, Director, INFLIBNET, Ahmedabad J-Gate: A decade of journey and developments ahead N V Sathyanarayana, CMD, Informatics, Bengaluru Presided by Prof. K Muniyappa, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru Regards, Soji Mathew | Sales & Marketing Administrator | 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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Request
by monisha mishra 14 Sep '11

14 Sep '11

Dear All, Good morning. Can anybody send the page no.(s) of the follwing articles from the Journal "*Indian Journal of Poultry Science*" 1) 2001, 36(3) *Genetic Analysis of Growth, Conformation and Feed Efficiency Traits in Broilers* Authors: S.C. Gupta ; R.Y. Singh; R.B. Prasad; Balvir Singh** 2) 2002, 37(2) *Inheritance of Body Weights and Egg Production in White Leghorn* Authors: P.K. Sharma ; S.K. Varma; R.K. Sharma; Brijesh Singh** 3) 2002, 37(2) *Study of Genetic parameters of broiler Sire Line* Authors : Shive Kumar ; R.P. Singh; S.K. Singh; Andharpal Singh 4) 2004, 39(3) *Heritability and Genetic Correlation Estimates in Broiler Chicken* Authors : V.P. Kumar 5) 2005, 40 (6) *Genetic Studies of Broiler Traits in Dam Line* Authors : Shive Kumar ; R.P. Singh; S.K. Singh 6) 2006, 41(1) *Genetic Parameters of IBI-91 Male Line Broilers for some Economic Traits* Authors : P.K. Mishra ; Keya Chanda; S.C. Mishra; P.K. Dehuri the above information is urgrntly required by one of our PhD scholars. regards *Monisha Mishra* *Librarian Orissa University of Agriculture & Technology, Bhubaneswar Orissa* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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JASIST TOC - Vol 62, 10
by atanu 13 Sep '11

13 Sep '11

This was originally posted in Asist-announce list. -- Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology © 2011 ASIS&T Volume 62, Issue 10 Pages 1867 - 2083, October 2011 The latest issue of Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology is available on Wiley Online Library Editorial The intelligence disconnect (pages 1867–1868) Blaise Cronin Advances in Information Science Videogame preservation and massively multiplayer online role-playing games: A review of the literature (pages 1869–1883) Megan A. Winget Research Articles Physicians' assessment of the value of clinical information: Operationalization of a theoretical model (pages 1884–1891) Roland Grad, Pierre Pluye, Vera Granikov, Janique Johnson-Lafleur, Michael Shulha, Soumya Bindiganavile Sridhar, Jonathan L. Moscovici, Gillian Bartlett, Alain C. Vandal, Bernard Marlow and Lorie Kloda Evaluation of an information source illustrated by a case study: Effect of screening for breast cancer (pages 1892–1898) Birger Hjørland Cultural bias in Wikipedia content on famous persons (pages 1899–1915) Ewa S. Callahan and Susan C. Herring Web 2.0 according to Wikipedia: Capturing an organizing vision (pages 1916–1932) Arnaud Gorgeon and E. Burton Swanson The cognitive structure of Library and Information Science: Analysis of article title words (pages 1933–1953) Staša Milojevi?, Cassidy R. Sugimoto, Erjia Yan and Ying Ding Which cities produce more excellent papers than can be expected? A new mapping approach, using Google Maps, based on statistical significance testing (pages 1954–1962) Lutz Bornmann and Loet Leydesdorff Application of the distribution of citations among publications in scientometric evaluations (pages 1963–1978) Péter Vinkler Book reviews in humanities research evaluations (pages 1979–1991) Alesia Zuccala and Thed van Leeuwen Collaboration in computer science: A network science approach (pages 1992–2012) Massimo Franceschet Ranking of the subject areas of Scopus (pages 2013–2023) J. A. García, Rosa Rodriguez-Sánchez and J. Fdez-Valdivia Complexity and the practice of web information architecture (pages 2024–2037) Sally Burford Birger Hjørland's Manichean misconstruction of Marcia Bates' work (pages 2038–2044) Marcia J. Bates OCA: Opinion corpus for Arabic (pages 2045–2054) Mohammed Rushdi-Saleh, M. Teresa Martín-Valdivia, L. Alfonso Ureña-López and José M. Perea-Ortega Improving Farsi multiclass text classification using a thesaurus and two-stage feature selection (pages 2055–2066) Nooshin Maghsoodi and Mohammad Mehdi Homayounpour Enhancing sentence-level clustering with integrated and interactive frameworks for theme- based summarization (pages 2067–2082) Xiaoyan Cai and Wenjie Li Book Review Knowledge Management in Theory and Practice (2nd ed.) (page 2083) Michael E.D Koenig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Condolence Meeting
by rajendrababu.hanumanthappa＠wipro.com 12 Sep '11

12 Sep '11

KALA is organizing a condolence meeting to condole the Sad demise of Prof. S R Ijari and Shri. B S Ramananda. Date: Wednesday, 14th September 2011 @ 6.30pm Venue: Sarada Ranganatha Endowment for Library Science (SRELS), Rajajinagar, Bangalore. All the LIS professionals are requested to please attend. Regards, Rajendra Babu H General Secretary, Karnataka State Library Association (KALA). Please do not print this email unless it is absolutely necessary. The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s) and may contain proprietary, confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately and destroy all copies of this message and any attachments. WARNING: Computer viruses can be transmitted via email. The recipient should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The company accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. www.wipro.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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SALIS 2011-National Conference - 13-15 Oct 2011 at NEC, Kovilpatti - reg
by Arunachalam Hariharan 12 Sep '11

12 Sep '11

NATIONAL CONFERENCE on NETWORKING OF LIBRARIES, RESOURCES, TECHNOLOGIES AND USERS IN THE KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY October 13, 2011 Pre-Conference Tutorial October 14-15, 2011 Main Conference Organized by Central Library NATIONAL ENGINEERING COLLEGE Kovilpatti -628 503 Jointly with Society for the Advancement of Library and Information Science (SALIS) Venue: NATIONAL ENGINEERING COLLEGE (An Autonomous Institution) K.R.Nagar, Kovilpatti â€“ 628 503. Thoothukudi DT, Tamil Nadu. ABOUT THE CONFERENCE AND OBJECTIVES Networking of Libraries, Resources, Technologies and Users in the Knowledge Society Libraries are undergoing tremendous changes worldwide in the recent past due to various factors such as globalization of education, ICT revolution, information explosion, escalation of cost, etc. The expectations of the present day users from the library and LIS professionals are changing enormously. Knowledge resources are being made available in many formats, media and standards. LIS professionals need to acquire many skills to know about various knowledge resources and also to acquire, organize, store, retrieve, and disseminate the resources using various modern IT tools and techniques. It is impossible for any library to acquire all the published documents, technologies and expertise due to various constraints to provide access to the users. Networking of libraries, institutions and resources are paramount important in the knowledge era to share not only the resources but also expertise, experience and best practices among institutions and professionals. OBJECTIVES The objective of the National Conference is to provide a platform to the professionals to explore, discuss, debate and share ideas and knowledge in the following areas of the conference themes among professionals To network the Libraries for resource sharing To empower the users in the knowledge society To sensitize the Librarians to deliver the user-oriented services in the knowledge society To connect the right users to the right resources To know more about the knowledge resources, technologies, tools and techniques for sharing the resources To discuss, debate and exchange the knowledge and ideas towards redefining the Library and Library services in the knowledge society A platform for the practicing Librarians to know about the users' expectations and requirements in the knowledge society ABOUT THE THEMES Papers are invited for presentation in the following sub-themes conformance with the main theme. Original case studies and reports on best practices will be appreciated. The given sub-themes are only indicative and not exhaustive. 1.Users' expectations, requirements, studies and behaviour in theÂ Knowledge Society 2.Knowledge Resources andÂ collection building and organisation 3.Connecting the right users to the right resources 4.Knowledge Resource sharing among Libraries: e-resources, models, consortia, cost- benefit, limitations, key players,Â etc 5.Digital Libraries: standards, software, initiatives, Knowledge / Institutional Repositories/Archives, case studies, preservation 6.Open Access Initiatives (OAI) - OpenÂ Source tools and technologies for sharing knowledge and dissemination 7.Technology implementation for networking institutions, resources and users â€“ standards, Internet, web tools, etc.. 8.Marketing and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) 9.IPR and Copyright issues in sharing knowledge resources 10.Information Literacy, LIS Education and Human Resource Management INVITED PAPERS Each session will focus on a specific emerging topic with special keynote address by subject experts from various reputed institutions across the country. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Authors are requested to submit two hard copies of full papers and a soft copy on CD as per the specifications: format: MS-WORD, font: Times New Roman, size: 12, space: 1.5 Line, paper size: A4, column: single, reference style: APA style, keyword: 2-5 words, abstract: 100 - 200 words, full paper length: 3 to 8 pages in camera-ready form along with the Registration Fee. Charts, graphs, photographs if absolutely essential only any be inserted at the proper place in the paper. Maximum of three authors only can contribute a paper. An author can send maximum two papers only.Â Â Papers will be accepted only if it is prepared as per the conference specifications and with registration fee. A declaration by the author(s) should be given separately stating that the paper has not been presented / published elsewhere. Papers accepted for presentation will be intimated to the first author by e-mail. The decision of the editorial committee regarding the acceptance of the paper for presentation will be final. Last date for submission of Papers 13.09.2011 Last date for Registration 07.10.2011 PRE - CONFERENCE TUTORIAL Topic: Social Networking Tools Date :13th October 2011 PANEL DISCUSSION TopicÂ Â Â :Â Next Generation users' expectations DateÂ Â Â :Â 15th October 2011 at 04.00 p.m. REGISTRATION FEES Programme Individual Deputed Conference & Tutorial Rs. 1000.00 Rs. 2000.00 Conference Rs. 800.00 Rs. 1500.00 Tutorial Rs.600.00 Rs. 800.00 25% concession will be given to regular students in the registration fee. Non-member has to pay Rs. 100/- extra. The Registration fees may be paid through D.D. in favour of The Principal, National Engineering College payable at K.R.Nagar,Kovilpatti and addressed to the Organizing Secretary. Best paper Awards: Best paper awards for the students and working professionals will be given separately for the best paper published and presented in the conference. Good quality papers presented in the conference maybe considered for publication in SALIS Journals. Conference website: All the announcements about the conference will be made available in the conference website only @ www.nec.edu.in and also at: http://autolib-india.net/salis Participants are requested to visit the conference site regularly to know about the progress of the conference. NATIONAL ENGINEERING COLLEGE (NEC) National Engineering College was established in the year 1984 by a renowned philanthropist Kalvithanthai Thiru. K. Ramasamy, and is approved by AICTE, New Delhi and affiliated to Anna University of Technology, Tirunelveli. The college is accredited by NBA, New Delhi. NEC offers six undergraduate and seven postgraduate courses in Engineering, Technology, Research and Doctoral programme in various departments. It has the state-of-the-art laboratories, a well-stocked Library and the best computing facilities besides well qualified and experienced faculty. Since its inception NEC has achieved national standing in terms of academic performance, co-curricular and extra curricular activities and also in its growth and commitment to social service. The standard of excellence of our teaching is reflected in the success of our students in industry both in India and abroad. CENTRAL LIBRARY Central Library is the Learning Resource Centre which acts as the knowledge hub for the academic activities of our institution with a mission to provide knowledge gateway to the user community with the state of the art technologies.Â A fully air-conditioned modern Library building is housed in an area of around 29585.68 sq.ft. An e - Library is equipped with the 2 mbps broad band Internet, 20 mbps leased Line connectivity and 2 mbps wireless (RF) connectivity for the users. All the library services have been automated on modern line. Library is enabled with wi-fi technology and security systems with Closed Circuit Television System (CCTV). SOCIETY FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE (SALIS) SALIS is a registered professional body, which actively involves in the development of all spheres of Library and Information Science by organizing various programmes such as seminar, lectures, training programs, conferences, etc., on emerging areas. It has many chapters across the country to provide services in the respective regions. One of the objectives of SALIS is to train the LIS professionals to handle the latest IT tools and techniques more effectively and efficiently in order to provide quality based services. SALIS publishes journals, books, newsletter to disseminate latest information to the professionals. SALIS instituted many awards to encourage the LIS professionals. ABOUT KOVILPATTI National Engineering College is located on the Kovilpatti â€“ Tirunelveli National Highway (NH7), 4 km south of Kovilpatti - a town well connected by road and rail. The airport at Madurai isÂ 90 km from NEC. Kovilpatti is surrounded by a lot of entertainments, historical and spiritual places such as Courtallam Falls, Nellai Gandhiamman temple, Tiruchendur Murugan temple, Madurai Meenakshi Amman temple, Pathmanathapuram Palace, Rameswaram, and Vivekananda Rock at Kanyakumari. FURTHER COMMUNICATIONS K.Karunai Raghavan Organizing Secretary & Librarian National Engineering College K.R.Nagar, Kovilpatti - 628 503, Thoothukudi Dt, Tamil Nadu necsalis2011(a)gmail.com, tnneclibrary(a)gmail.com Cell: 91765 76503, 94437 21864,97904 38230 Phone : 04632 248 990, 222 502, 230 277 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Request for full-text article
by Mamtha's Gmail 12 Sep '11

12 Sep '11

Dear Professional colleagues Kindly provide full-text of the following article, if available in your library. 1.Victoria L. Campodonico, Nicolas J Llosa, Leticia V Bentancor,Tomas Maira-Litran, and Gerald B. Pier Efficacy of a Conjugate Vaccine Containing Polymannuronic Acid and Flagellin against Experimental Pseudomonas aeruginosa Lung Infectionin Mice *Infection and Immunity, August 2011,p. 3455-3464, Vol. 79, No.8* Thankyou. Regards Mamatha P. Kumar Chief Librarian Yenepoya University Deralakatte, Mangalore -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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