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First CFP: M4D2012 - 3rd International Conference on Mobile Communication for Development
by atanu 11 Apr '11

11 Apr '11

------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers M4D2012: 3rd International Conference on Mobile Communication for Development February 28–29, 2012 New Delhi, India www.m4d2012.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Institute of Management Studies (Ghaziabad, India) in cooperation with HumanIT (Karlstad University, Sweden) invite you to the 3rd International Conference on Mobile Communication for Development (M4D2012), following the inaugural conference in Karlstad, Sweden in 2008 (http://m4d.humanit.org/2008/) and 2nd conference in Kampala, Uganda (http://m4d.humanit.org/) M4D2012 aims to provide a forum for researchers, practitioners and all those with interests in Mobile Communication for Development. M4D2012 will combine two days of workshops, discussions, demos, plenary, paper and panel sessions. The conference activities will take place at a reputed hotel in the National Capital Region of Delhi and the campus of Institute of Management Studies, Ghaziabad. More information in subsequent call for papers and on the website: http://www.m4d2012.com. ***Call for papers, panels and workshops*** We strive to create an inclusive event where all types of actors and formats are included. If you wish to present a paper, demo or poster you submit either to the practitioner or the research track. The research track has a traditional academic conference design while in the practitioner’s track industry, NGOs, and public bodies can discuss experiences, ideas and disseminate knowledge. However this conference is not only for paper presenters but also for all who have an interest in areas of mobility, communication, social change and their intersections. It is our explicit aim to make room for extensive discussions and interaction between all participants throughout the conference. We therefore also invite you who have ideas of different kinds workshops, panels, demos and discussion formats to contact the conference organization (m4d2012(a)gmail.com) All topics that relate to mobile communication and development are welcome. The suggested topics (but not limited to) include: • Social implications of mobile communication • Mobile health • Mobile communication and political participation/ change • Agriculture, rural development and mobile communication • Economic development and mobile communication such as mobile banking and mobile money • Mobile learning • Mobile communication and community awareness/ development • Mobile communication and disaster management • Mobile communication and fighting corruption • Mobile communication and election/ government monitoring • Mobile communication and community awareness/ development • Mobile communication and disaster management • Mobile communication and climate control • Challenges to the proliferation of mobile technology • Mobile communication and women empowerment • Mobile communication and surveillance • Innovative applications for mobile communication ***Important Dates*** Workshop/ panel proposals: Jun 30, 2011 Paper/ poster/ demo: Jul 31, 2011 Acceptance/ review note: Sep 30, 2011 Travel grant application: Oct 15, 2011 Final paper submission: Nov 15, 2011 Early bird registration: Nov 15, 2011 Regular registration: Dec 31, 2011 ***Submission*** All paper presenters will have to apply directly with a more or less finished version upon deadline (July 31), no abstracts should be sent in advance. Paper presenters can choose whether to submit a full paper (maximum of 10 pages) or a short paper (4 pages) to the practitioners or the research track. Poster and demo presenters as well as workshop and panel organizers are requested to submit a 1 page abstract for conference proceedings upon deadline (see above). Poster size is 80 cm maximum width and 120 cm maximum height. Submitting your papers and abstracts, you must use the M4Dtemplate found here: http://m4d.humanit.org/m4d_template.doc. All Submissions to the M4D 2012 should be done using the EasyChair Conference Management system. Please click the following link for the Paper submission: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=m4d2012 ***Travel Grants*** HumanIT will sponsor travel costs and conference fees for a few participants from the developing countries with accepted full papers. Upon acceptance notification, send your paper, together with the reviews of the paper and a motivation letter (1 page maximum) to jakob.svensson(a)kau.se (deadline for application October 15th). The decision on who will get their fees covered will be made by the board of HumanIT. ***Interested in Reviewing? *** Interested in reviewing? Please contact Vikas Kumar (m4d2012(a)gmail.com) and tell how many papers you are interested in reviewing, your areas of interest and your level of expertise. ***Organization*** Conference Chairs: General Chair: Vikas Kumar, IMS, Ghaziabad, India Co-Chair: Jakob Svensson, HumanIT, Karlstad University, Sweden International Advisory Committee: R K Bharadwaj, Director General, IMS, Ghaziabad, India John Sören Pettersson, President, HuamanIT, Karlstad University, Sweden H M Gupta, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India R G Gupta, Ministry of Communications & IT, Govt. of India, New Delhi, India Harinder Kumar, DGM (IT & TM), Advance Level Telecom Training Centre, Ghaziabad, India International program committee: Johan Hellström, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden Kiran Prasad, Sri Padmavati Mahila University, Tirupati, India Gudrun Wicander (IPID/ HumanIT), Karlstad, Sweden Jude T Lubega, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda Pushpendra Singh, Indraprashtha Institute of Information Technology, New Delhi, India Ravinder Jena, Institute of Management Technology, Nagpur, India Rasika Dayarathna, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka Atanu Garai, AROHEE Institute of Health and Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, India Local organizing committee: Nripender Dwivedi, IMS, Ghaziabad, India Awadhesh Gupta, IMS, Ghaziabad, India Rajnish Jain, IMS, Ghaziabad, India Smita Agarwal, IMS, Ghaziabad, India Kavindra Garg, IMS, Ghaziabad, India Nitin Rastogi, IMS, Ghaziabad, India Preeti Sirohi, IMS, Ghaziabad, India Tushar Jindal, IMS, Ghaziabad, India -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Vacancy for Library Assistants at ISEC
by yekanath kamble 11 Apr '11

11 Apr '11

Dear All, Applications are invited for three posts of ‘Library Assistant’ at Dr.V K R V Rao Library of Institute for Social and Economic Change, Nagarbhavi, Bangalore. The tenure of position is for six months and it is extendable. Essential Qualification: Graduate in Library and Information Science. Post Graduates may also apply. Salary: Rs.7000/- PM Interested candidates may send or e-mail/their application/resume with full details to. Deputy Librarian Institute for Social and Economic Change Nagarabhavi, Bangalore 560072 Phone: 080-23215468, 23215519, Ext.-305/303 Fax :( 91 080)23217008 Mobile.09448585358 leela(a)isec.ac.in yekanathnkamble(a)yahoo.com yekanathnk(a)isec.ac.in ************************************************************************************** Yekanath N K Assistant Librarian Institute for Social and Economic Change (An All-India Institute for Interdisciplinary Research and Training in the Social Sciences) Nagarabhavi,Bangalore 560072 Phone: 080-23215468, 23215519, Ext.-305 Fax:(91 080)23217008 Mobile.09448585358 E-mail:yekanathnkamble@yahoo.com E-mail:yekanathnk@isec.ac.in www.isec.ac.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 an article
by LIBRARY 11 Apr '11

11 Apr '11

Namaskars, One of the academicians in our Centre needs this article. Could any one kindly help us by sending a copy of the same. Factoring and weighting approaches to status scores and clique identification The Journal of Mathematical Sociology Volume 2, Issue 1, 1972, Pages 113 - 120 Author: Phillip Bonacicha Thanks & regards, Veena -- -------------------------------------------------- Library TIFR Centre for Applicable Mathematics Phone: 91-80-66953757 Post Bag No. 6503, Sharada Nagar, Fax: 91-80-66953799 Chikkabommasandra, GKVK Post, URL: http://math.tifrbng.res.in Yalahanka New Town, Bangalore-560 065 Bharat -------------------------------------------------- "Every duty is holy and devotion to duty is the highest form of the worship of God." - Swami Vivekananda -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Announcement and Call for Papers
by Ranjit Das 10 Apr '11

10 Apr '11

Dear Professionals, I take the pleasure in informing you that KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha is organizing the First “*International Conference* *On* *Digital Library and Electronic Information Management and Control” during **8th to 10th October 2011 *for the first time in the state. Digital Library and Electronic Information Management and Control is the out come of the development of information and communication technology or access facilities in libraries, an enhanced skill base and improved telecommunication and information technology facilities within and across geographical boundaries. The Information Communication Technology revolution at the end of 20th Century has revamped the ways in which information can be created, harvested, assembled, combined, manipulated and enhanced. Therefore, a nation’s capacity to develop systems that support the upgradation in the lifestyle of the civilized and cultured society. The objective of the conference is to juxtapose the library professionals with IT professionals for the management and control of the electronic information with regards to Digital Library. This interaction is expected to create understanding of the needs to manage the Libraries now-a-days with the advent of new technology. * * *Delegate Profile:* * * ICDLEIMC 2011 will witness cross-disciplinary participation by policy makers - Library and Information Scientists - IT Professionals - Knowledge Managers - Educationists - Electronic Publishers - Information Scientists - Information providers and vendors - All stakeholders in the digitization and knowledge business - Policy makers The conference aims to explore the topics in themes and sub themes through tutorials, workshops, demonstrations, invited talks and presentations. Eminent researchers, academicians and practitioners will be invited to deliver theme papers on selected papers. * * *CALL FOR PAPERS:* ICDLEIMC 2011 invites original papers and case studies on various facets of the conference theme, as listed here. *Theme: Digital Library and Electronic Information Management and Control* - Planning, development and management of Digital Libraries - New Technologies and adaptability - Digital Library Development: Technical Issues - Web design and Interfaces - Digital Preservation - Digital Resource sharing and Networking: Consortia, Open Archives etc. - Content organization and knowledge management - Information Storage and Retrieval for global access - User studies and system evaluation - E-learning - Multilingual information retrieval system and Unicode - Organization of traditional and electronic Resources cataloguing, metadata, XML, Dublin Core, New Generation Catalogues, etc. - Indexing and Classification in a digital Environment, Taxonomies, Information architecture, Ontology, Natural Language Processing, Intelligent Mediators, etc. - Resource Discovery Tools-Search Engines, Directories, Semantic web, Intelligent Retrieval, Multi and Cross Lingual Retrieval, Information audit, etc. - Digital Library services - Copy right issues in Digital Era *Important dates :* * * *Deadline for Submissions of Abstract of Papers* *May 1st , 2011* *Notification for Acceptance of Papers* *June 1st, 2011* *Full Paper Submission* *July 1st, 2011* * * For details please log on to the conference website at www.kiit.ac.in/icdleimc2011 -- Thanking You. Yours sincerely, Dr. Ranjit Kumar Das, Organizing Secretary, ICDLEIMC-2011, Kushabhadra Campus, KIIT Campus-5, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar-751 024, ODISHA, INDIA. Mob:- +91-94371 77669, Tel: +91-674-2725472, 2725415,2725708 Fax No: +91-674-2725708. Email: library(a)kiit.ac.in, ranjitkumardaskims(a)gmail.com Web: www.kiit.ac.in/icdleimc2011 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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A presentation on "The time for Libraries now"- very cool and must see for all LIS professionals
by Shalini Urs 09 Apr '11

09 Apr '11

Hello friends, I came across the coolest presentation on Libraries. This is as good and would say far superior any cool marketing blitz any company has done it. Please see, enjoy and use it to market and reposition libraries. It also tells how to reposition! http://www.slideshare.net/thewikiman/the-time-for-libraries-is-now Happy viewing! Shalini Dr. Shalini Urs Executive Director and Professor International School of Information Management University of Mysore Mysore - 570006 Phone : + 91 821 2514699 Fax : + 91 821 2519209 www.isim.ac.in ISiM - Management School of IT. Technology School for IM -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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20% of peer-reviewed articles across all disciplines are now freely available .
by Pawan Agrawal 08 Apr '11

08 Apr '11

20% of peer-reviewed articles across all disciplines are now freely available. <http://elibrarian.grouply.com/message/113> Following study shows that 20% of all peer reviewed articles from all disciplines are now available with open access. This is really a mile stone for library professionals and those who are big supporter of Open Access. Background The Internet has recently made possible the free global availability of scientific journal articles. Open Access (OA) can occur either via OA scientific journals, or via authors posting manuscripts of articles published in subscription journals in open web repositories. So far there have been few systematic studies showing how big the extent of OA is, in particular studies covering all fields of science. Methodology/Principal Findings The proportion of peer reviewed scholarly journal articles, which are available openly in full text on the web, was studied using a random sample of 1837 titles and a web search engine. Of articles published in 2008, 8,5% were freely available at the publishers' sites. For an additional 11,9% free manuscript versions could be found using search engines, making the overall OA percentage 20,4%. Chemistry (13%) had the lowest overall share of OA, Earth Sciences (33%) the highest. In medicine, biochemistry and chemistry publishing in OA journals was more common. In all other fields author-posted manuscript copies dominated the picture. Conclusions/Significance The results show that OA already has a significant positive impact on the availability of the scientific journal literature and that there are big differences between scientific disciplines in the uptake. Due to the lack of awareness of OA-publishing among scientists in most fields outside physics, the results should be of general interest to all scholars. The results should also interest academic publishers, who need to take into account OA in their business strategies and copyright policies, as well as research funders, who like the NIH are starting to require OA availability of results from research projects they fund. The method and search tools developed also offer a good basis for more in-depth studies as well as longitudinal studies. for full article: http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0011273 -- Thanks and Regards *-------* Join hands, Join eLibrarian http://elibrarian.grouply.com <http://elibrarian.grouply.com%20/> *-------* *Pawan R. Agrawal *Librarian Takshshila Centre for Learning Transpek Silox Industry Ltd. Kalali Road- Atladra Vadodara- 390012 Ph. 9376135580 http://www.pragrawal.wordpress.com http://elibrarian.grouply.com Skype ID: pawanagrawal4u4u -- 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 08 Apr '11

08 Apr '11

Dear all If any library holds the below mention article. Please send to me. *Bulletin of Materials Science Vol-12(3-4),1989, pp.381-405 with regards Manas Samanta. msamanta(a)nmlindia.org TA. NML* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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ASIS&T April / May Bulletin - Knowledge Organization Innovation: Design and Frameworks
by atanu 07 Apr '11

07 Apr '11

[If you are interested to receive any article(s) for study or research, please send an email to atanu at computer.org.] Bulletin TOC Below, but first... - Annual Meeting: May 31 is deadline for paper and panel submissions for the Annual Meeting, October 9-13 In New Orleans http://www.asis.org/asist2011/am11cfp.html - BOOKSTORE ASIS&T has a new bookstore! http://www.asis.org/Bookstore/ - Bulletin http://www.asis.org/bulletin.html SPECIAL SECTION: “Knowledge Organization Innovation: Design and Frameworks” 12] Introduction by Jane Greenberg, Guest Editor 15] A STELLAR Role for Knowledge Organization Systems in Digital Archaeology by Douglas Tudhope, Ceri Binding, Stuart Jeffrey, Keith May and Andreas Vlachidis 19] Developing an Eclectic Terminology Registry by Marjorie Hlava 23] HIVE: Helping Interdisciplinary Vocabulary Engineering by Jane Greenberg, Robert Losee, José Ramón Pérez Agüera, Ryan Scherle, Hollie White and Craig Willis 27] Using Social Discovery Systems to Leverage User-Generated Metadata by Louise F. Spiteri 30] Developing a Dublin Core Application Profile for the Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS) Resources by Marcia Lei Zeng and Gail Hodge 35] The Open Metadata Registry: An Update by Jon Phipps and Diane I. Hillmann 38] Organizing Our Knowledge of Biodiversity by Hilmar Lapp, Robert A. Morris, Terry Catapano, Donald Hobern and Norman Morrison 43] Idea Collider: From a Theory of Knowledge Organization to a Theory of Knowledge Interaction by Richard P. Smiraglia and Charles van den Heuvel COLUMNS 48] The Ouch Factor: What Happens When User Needs Change, IA Column, by Thom Haller Departments 2] Editor’s Desktop, Irene Travis 3] President’s Page, Linda C. Smith 5] Inside ASIS&T __________________ Richard B. Hill Executive Director American Society for Information Science and Technology (301) 495-0900 rhill(a)asis.org ASIS&T 73rd Annual Meeting: Navigating Streams in an Information Ecosystem October 22-27, 2010, Pittsburgh, PA Join Asist-announce mailing list at http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/asist-announce -- 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 07 Apr '11

07 Apr '11

Dear all, If any library holds following article. Please mail me. A simplified method for the detection of Gallionella in water *Pages 395-396* F. Ahmed, P.G. Smith Water Research. Vol.22(3), 1988 with regards Manas Samanta. msamanta(a)nmlindia.org -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Dr Ramdas S. Lihitkar has been awarded Ph.D. contratulation
by ravindra mendhe 07 Apr '11

07 Apr '11

Dear Professional I am pleased to inform you that Prof.Dr Ramdas S. Lihitkar has been awarded Ph.D. in Library and Information Science by RTM Nagpur University. His topic of research was “Application And Implication of Library Software in College Libraries Affiliated to RTM Nagpur University, Nagpur : A Critical Study” under the guidance of Dr.(Mrs) Aswini P. Paradkar Librarian S.F.S. College Nagpur. He gives the credit of her success to his guide Dr.(Mrs) Aswini P. Paradkar, senior fraternity of LIS Dr. P.S.G. Kumar, Prof. Dr.(Mrs) D. Rajyalakshmi, Prof. S. K. Kesarwani etc. he also gives his credit of success to his wife Dr. Shalini Lihitkar Head DLISc RTM Nagpur University Nagpur . He has been in LIS Profession Since 2001, MLISc Gold Medalist from Bhopal University. Presently working as Librarian, Govt. Institute of Science Nagpur. Experience of teaching and guiding for UGC NET/SET, examinations. Published several papers in seminars, conferences and Journals and has more than 25 papers to his credit. "Heartly Congratulation " Thanks with regards -- 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, , ravindra_mendhe(a)rediffmail.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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