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National Diversity of International Journals
by srinivas rao 21 Feb '11

21 Feb '11

National Diversity of International Journals The journals ranking and Impact factor of the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) is increasingly turning into an international currency for the quality of research output. More than 14000 journals are ISI-ranked as journal quality and impact. In that most of them are labeled “major international” journals this analysis of ISI data reveals that the attribute “international” is not always appropriate. National diversity of journals is very low due to a dominance of authors from English-speaking countries and U.S. authors in particular. Younger journals and journals with an explicitly stated international mission tend to be international, whereas the internationality of the affiliated organization or impact of a journal had no influence on national diversity. The results suggest that it may be desirable to clearly distinguish between national and international journals, to increase the number of international journals, and to support authors whose mother tongue is not English. Srinivasa Rao Ganta Librarian Bharat Institute of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Seminar on Library Advocacy at IIT Bombay
by Daulat Jotwani 21 Feb '11

21 Feb '11

Central Library, IIT Bombay is organizing a Seminar on Library Advocacy on 23rd Feb 2011 as per following details Topic : Library Advocacy Speaker : Margaret Law, Associate University Librarian, University of Alberta, Canada Date & Time : 23rd Feb 2011 at 3.00 pm Venue : Lecture Hall No.22, Victor Menezes Convention Centre, IIT Bombay, Powai, Mumbai No registration fee. All are welcome. Thanks. -- D. Jotwani Librarian Indian Institute of Technology Bombay -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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ICLAM 2011: A Report
by Dr.Tariq Ashraf 21 Feb '11

21 Feb '11

*International Conference “ Convergence of Libraries , Archives and Museams on User Empowerment through Digital Technologies* * * The three day International Conference “ Convergence of Libraries , Archives and Museums on User Empowerment through Digital Technologies organized by National institute of Fashion Technology, New Delhi in collaboration with IFLA Art Libraries section held on February 14-17, 2011 concluded successfully. The truly world class and prestigious venue of IIC provided a stimulating environment and fostered an unleashing of intellectual discourse, debate and discussion in this unique international conference of Librarians, Archivists & Conservators to promote digital convergence of the memory institutions. The well attended event sourced together nearly 300 delegates and scores of experts ranging from academicians , Librarians, , Computer Scientists, Conservationist , Software Engineers to Technocrats both from academia and industry representing several countries . Conference was marked by lively talks, passionate presentations and subtle arguments and counter arguments. Stalwarts from across the country grappled with issues and offered wide ranging opinions and views. Conference opened with the remarks of Dean, Academics, NIFT who welcomed the participants and speakers and wished conference a great success and emphasized the need for preserving cultural heritage of the country through digital depositions . She further laid stress upon the need for sectoral collaboration and networking for the exchange and sharing of knowledge. The conference was inaugurated by Ms.Monika. Garg, (IAS) Director General , NIFT who in her inaugural talk deliberated upon preservation of knowledge for posterity.. She dwelt upon the need for organizing and delivering information in more efficient ways as it is driving force behind knowledge economy. In ‘knowledge-driven’ environment, scholarship can flourish if the existing stock of knowledge is made adequate use of, and concerted efforts are made to build further on it. Accessing and retrieval of desired information, to facilitate this process is, undoubtedly, a most challenging task. She stated that Information Technology (IT) has facilitated this challenging task a great deal for both, users as well as providers of information, Spread over four days , 2 plenary sessions, 18 technical sessions, 12 invited talks, product presentations , tutorials by leading Academicians & Industry experts, special session by Wikimedia , a special day of parallel sessions on Preservation of Heritage Resources and two penal discussions, conference witnessed presentation of nearly 60 research papers and involved a galaxy of eminent experts, leading professionals, academicians and entrepreneurs like Prof. Shalni Urs, ,Prof.PB Mangla Prof.T Visvanathan, Dr. Jan Simane, Ms Lucy Tedd, Mr. Guss Ven Den Brakel, Mr. Rolf Kallman, Mr.Matin Flaynn, Dr. S Majumdar, Dr. Roshan Raina Dr. Jagtar Singh , Dr. RK Chadha , Dr. PR Goswami, Dr. Rakesh Bhatt Prof. IV Malhan, Mr. Dinsh Katre ,Prof, JK Mitra and Dr. Mrs SP Singh and many others exchanged views on issues related to technological, infrastructural and organizational developments including partnerships in the knowledge sector. One of the recurring thread which held the discussion together for three days was bringing together of set of individual cognitions and experiences of authors forming a common collective of memories sharing, interacting and integrating with the memories of a wide array of participants. The themes and topics of papers straddle the whole spectrum from collaboration to convergence to divergence, from social media for empowerment to digital divide, from digital preservation to institutional repositories, from enhancing user access to heritage material to library service through social networking, from information literacy as a tool for user empowerment to visualization for digital libraries, from information seeking behavior to open content; from hanging together to crossing continents. The issue of empowerment of users in Libraries, Archives and Museums was analyzed from multiple perspectives during the conference. All issues related to user empowerment ranging from changing roles of users and their rights, special needs of the disadvantaged user communities to digital preservation technologies, social media and sustainability concerns were dealt with. Library & Information professionals, Archivists and Conservators, as end users of open source and commercial software discussed trends and problems specific to their own sectors. It was opined that digital revolution has initiated an irrevocable process of convergence in the knowledge sector in the 21st century. The traditional barriers of academic disciplines, professions and institutions are disappearing fast as a unified world of knowledge is emerging. The traditional physical infrastructure and organizational setups have become irrelevant and various forms - textual, audio and visual – have fused together to create a mutable global knowledge repository. It was further observed that advancements in the fields of Information and Communication Technologies have also unleashed democratizing forces enabling access to all to the inner recesses of the knowledge world. The role of the user in knowledge repositories such as libraries, archives and museums has transformed from a passive receiver to a participant in the creation and dissemination of information. Some of the specific themes and areas covered during the conference are as under: 1. Development of information systems and services with the goal of optimum user empowerment 2. Sensitization of information professionals and conservators to deliver user-oriented service 3. Creation of awareness among users about their rights 4. Promotion of partnerships of institutions and professionals of the knowledge sector for resource sharing 5. Attaining of convergence of the memory institutions viz., Libraries, Archives and Museums. Participating delegates complimented the organizers for organizing such a successful convention and bringing together so many diverse stream at a single platform and discussing issues both in context and threadbare and felt they will go back to their work places much enlightened and keep the memories of this four day convention alive in their minds and hearts for long time to come . They emphasized the need for continuing with such kind of endeavor in future too so as to institutionalise and strengthen the concept of convergence for the larger benefits of information based professionals. The beautifully produced 600+ conference volume and an attractive conference kit was a special draw with the delegates. Dr.Tariq Ashraf University of Delhi South Campus -- Dr.Tariq Ashraf South Campus, University of Delhi Benito Juarez Road New Delhi (India )110021 Email: tariq22(a)gmail.com ; tariq(a)south.du.ac.in Ph: 011-24110221 (Direct) Fax: 011-24110221 Cell:9868335593 Website: http://www.du.ac.in The information contained in this e-mail message is privileged, confidential, and protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination or copying is strictly prohibited. If you think that you have received this e-mail message in error, please e-mail the sender. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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8th International CALIBER 2011 - Spot Registrations
by Gopakumar Velayudhanpillai 20 Feb '11

20 Feb '11

Dear professional colleagues, The arrangements for 8th International CALIBER 2011 is in full swing and we are receiving an overwhelming response from the professional colleagues and glad to inform that it has almost crossed 90% of the target of the committee. But unfortunately we have to restrict the registrations with in our available facilities. Hence, I request that those who intend to register themselves on the spot on 2nd at the venue of the conference, may intimate the same to us in advance. Also let us know about accompanying person if any. This will help us to make all necessary arrangements and make the conference a grand success. Your mail should reach us at least by 25th of February 2011. Since the number of registrations has to be limited to the capacity of venue and other arrangements, no further registrations will be entertained. Kindly cooperate. Dr GOPAKUMAR V. Organizing Secretary 8th International CALIBER 2011 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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article request
by Veeru 18 Feb '11

18 Feb '11

Dear Professionals, Can anyone please provide me these articles need urgent 1. *Using Spreadsheets To Emulate Diffusion and Thermal Conductivity* Harvey F. Blanck p 651 Publication Date (Web): May 1, 2009 (Tech Report) DOI: 10.1021/ed086p651 2. *Surfactant Adsorption Parameters from Surface Tension Measurements* Mário N. Berberan-Santos p 433 Publication Date (Web): April 1, 2009 (Letter) DOI: 10.1021/ed086p433.1 3.* Self-Cleaning Surfaces: A Third-Year Undergraduate Research Projec*t Ronald S. Haines , Alex H. F. Wu , Hua Zhang , Jacob Coffey , Thomas Huddle , Justin S. Lafountaine , Zhi-Jun Lim , Eugene A. White and Nam T. Tuong , Robert N. Lamb p 365 Publication Date (Web): March 1, 2009 (Article) DOI: 10.1021/ed086p365 -- *with regards Virupaksh BH Senior Research Fellow, University of Agricultural Science, GKVK, Bangalore**,* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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KALA/ NCSI-NET Talk on Wikipedia and GLAM's by Liam Wyatt
by madhuresh.singhal 18 Feb '11

18 Feb '11

Dear LIS Professionals, Karnataka State Library Association (KALA) and NCSI-NET (an alumni association of Students and staff of NCSI) are happy to invite you to the Special Lecture on; Topic: "Wikipedia and GLAMs (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums)" Speaker: Liam Wyatt (Wikimedia Foundation's Cultural Partnerships Fellow) Date and Time: 19th Feb 2011 at 10.30AM Venue: Seminar Hall, National Centre for Science Information (NCSI), IISc, Bangalore -12 Abstract: In this presentation Liam will discuss his project as the "Wikipedian in Residence" at the British Museum and the current global cultural partnerships project. He will then talk about the kinds of collaboration that libraries and librarians can achieve with Wikimedia and also answer any questions about Wikipedia more generally. About the Speaker: Liam Wyatt is the Wikimedia Foundation's Cultural Partnerships Fellow<http://bit.ly/GLAMfellow> (a.k.a GLAM fellow), based in Sydney. He has done his bachelors in Globalisation. He had been given a one year fellowship to focus on Cultural Partnerships within the Wikiverse. His role is to help create systems and processes to make outreach partnerships more efficient and effective. The key phrase is "capacity building" as described in his blogpost a few months ago "How to make cultural collaborations scale<http://www.wittylama.com/2010/11/how-to-make-cultural-collaborations-scale/>". He believes that now the cultural sector has seen that working with Wikimedia can be A Good Thing(tm), that we must have reasonably professional processes in place for managing those relationships. As a first step in this he has built a bit of a GLAM hub on-wiki<http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM>. For more details, he can be accessed at this URL http://glamwiki.org<http://glamwiki.org/> He has been Vice President of Wikimedia Australia<http://wikimedia.org.au/> and the "Wikipedian in Residence<http://www.wittylama.com/2010/03/the-british-museum-and-me/>" at the British Museum. Also, a project officer at Austlii<http://www.austlii.edu.au/austlii/> and multimedia coordinator at the Dictionary of Sydney<http://www.dictionaryofsydney.org/www/html/51-project-teams.asp>, a historian, podcaster<http://wikipediaweekly.org/>, fire-twirler<http://www.circusoc.com/>, museuophile, snowboarder, förman<http://www.ostgota.nu/>, bartender and backpacker. Thanks and Regards, Rajendra Babu H General Secretary Karnataka State Library Association (KALA) Visit us at ToxExpo, 6-10 March 2011 in Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington, D.C., Booth# 1228 ************************************************************************************************* 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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Now, get best of IIT, IISc lectures online
by shankar nadoor 18 Feb '11

18 Feb '11

*Dear Professional Friends Those students of engineering, who did not get opportunity to attend top rated institutions, can now learn from some of the best teachers of IITs and IISc, Bangalore as several hours of their lectures on various disciplines have been uploaded on internet for a free access. For More Details : http://www.deccanherald.com/content/138750/now-get-iit-iisc-lectures.html Source : DHNS,18th Feb 2011 Thanking You With Regards * Shankar Nadoor Assistant Librarian M.S.Ramaiah Institute of Technology Bangalore -54 http://sites.google.com/site/shankarnadoor/ www.msrit.edu/ Mobile:8553533135 * * -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Institutional Repository@RGUHS DL
by thimmappa naik 17 Feb '11

17 Feb '11

Dear Professionals, Kindly look into our institutional repository using DSpace at http://119.82.96.198:8080/jspui/ and even No 605 in who's using Dspace (www.dspace.org) and kindly give suggestions to improve the project more effectively. Thimmappa N. MLISc, PGDHL Bengaluru thimmappa03(a)yahoo.com/ softeyest(a)gmail.com "The Illiterate of the present is not one who cannot read & write, but the one who cannot learn, unlearn, relearn” "Read an eBook, Save a Tree; Buy an eBook Reader, Save a Forest" -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Today's lecture stands canceled; Re: Lecture invitation
by Francis Jayakanth 17 Feb '11

17 Feb '11

Dear Members, Dr. KN Prasad of SRELS had called to inform the LIS-Forum members that today's (Thursday 17 Feb 2011 Dr. S.R. Ranganathan Memorial Lectures (16) (2011) on PEOPLE, CULTURE, AND 21 CENTURY LIBRARIES by Dr. Gary Marchionini stands canceled as the speaker is held up in the delhi airport due to the inclement weather condition in delhi. Kindly inform your friends / colleagues about the cancellation of today's lecture. Please do note that the remaining two lectures on Friday (18 Feb) and Saturday (19 Feb) will be held as per the schedule. The original announcement of the lecture series is appended to this mail. With regards, - Francis NCSI, IISc On Thu, 17 Feb 2011, Francis Jayakanth wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: SRELS <srels(a)dataone.in> > Date: Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 3:17 PM > Subject: [LIS-Forum] Lecture invitation > To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > > > Dear Moderator: > Kindly arrange to announce the following invitation for the benefit of > LIS-FORUM members. > > Sincerely, > > K.N. Prasad, SRELS > > ********* > > > > Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science (SRELS), > > Bangalore > > > > in association with > > > > Informatics (India) Ltd., Bangalore > > and > > Ranganathan Centre for Information Studies, > > Chennai & Bangalore > > > > cordially invites you to the > > Dr. S.R. Ranganathan Memorial Lectures (16) (2011) > > on > > PEOPLE, CULTURE, AND 21 CENTURY LIBRARIES > > by > > Dr. Gary Marchionini > > Dean and Cary C. Boshamer Professor, > > School of Information and Library Science, > > University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, > > Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA > > > > on > > 17 , 18 , and 19 February 2011, at 6.00 pm each day > > at > > SRELS, 702, 'Upstairs', 42 Cross, III Block, Rajajinagar, > > Bangalore 560 010 > > > > Mr. N.V. Sathyanarayana > > Chairman & Managing Director, Informatics (India) Ltd., Bangalore > > Inaugurates > > > > Tea: 5.30 pm > > > > > RSVP:1. K.N. Prasad-Ph: (080) 23305109 E-mail: srels(a)dataone.in > > > > > ********* > > > > Abstracts > > > > Day 1. > > > > The transformation of Libraries as Institutions: Physical-Digital Hybrids > > Electronic technologies have brought great changes to information > work, including libraries > > Library automation: classification, organizations, catalogs (e.g., > > MARC, OCLC, ISI) > > Online searching, virtual reference > > Databases and IR techniques > > > > Digital libraries > > Technology Drivers > > Digitization > > Indexing, Metadata > > Network transfer, interoperability > > Preservation > > > > Human Drivers > > New skills, roles, adoptions > > > > Culture Drivers > > Economies of scale and action > > Intellectual Property > > Cooperation, Policies > > > > Hybrid Libraries > > Shared collections > > Local special collections > > lnteroperations > > High tech vs high touch decisions > > > > Day 2. > > Humans as information Creators, Collectors, Consumers, and Communicators > > Human Memory and Institutional History > > Creation, capture, and reuse revolutions in the information life cycle > > Capture: cameras, recorders, sensors, scanners > > Editors, mixers and mashups > > > > Personal Collections > > Physical > > Digital > > > > Information Consumption > > Learning: effectiveness, retention > > Working: flow, efficiency > > Entertaining: engagement, enjoyment > > > > Communication > > Social networks > > Participatory Libraries: Institutional + Personal Libraries > > > > Day 3. > > > > Libraries of People and their State Changes: Saturday > > Computational Agents and Social Media > > Agents as Assistants, Surrogates, Observers, and Adversaries > > Social media: individuals, groups, culture blur > > > > Proflection Theory > > Projections of Self: Exoinformation > > Purposeful > > Unconscious > > Reflections of Self > > Human > > Machine > > Participatory Libraries of Proflections of Personal Identity > > Libraries as Reflections of Cyberspace Culture > > > > > > Gary Marchionini, Brief Bio > > > > Gary Marchionini is the Dean and Cary C. Boshamer Professor in the > School of Information and Library Science at the University of North > Carolina at Chapel Hill. He teaches courses in humaninformation > interaction, interface design and testing, and digital libraries. He > heads the Interaction Design Laboratory at SILS. His Ph.D. is from > Wayne State University in mathematics education with an emphasis on > educational computing. He has published over 200 articles, chapters > and reports in a variety of books and journals. He is author of a book > titled Information Seeking in Electronic Environments published by > Cambridge University Press and a forthcoming book titled Information > Concepts: From books to Personal Identities in Cybespace. Professor > Marchionini has had grants or research awards from the National > Science Foundation, Council on Library Resources, the National Library > of Medicine, the Library of Congress, Bureau of Labor Statistics, > Kellogg Foundation, and NASA, The Nationa! > l Cancer Institute, Microsoft, Google, and IBM among others. > Professor Marchionini was Editorin- Chief for the ACM Transaction on > Information Systems (2002- 2008) and is the editor for the > Morgan-Claypool Lecture Series on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and > Services. He has been program chair forACM SIGIR (2005) and ACM/IEEE > JCDL (2002) as well as general chair ofACMDL96 and JCDL2006. He serves > or has served on a dozen editorial boards and is the 2010 president of > the American Society of Information Science and Technology. His > current interests and projects are related to: interfaces that support > information seeking and information retrieval; usability of personal > health records; alternative representations for electronic documents; > multimedia browsing strategies; digital libraries; and evaluation of > interactive media, especially for learning and teaching. He currently > has a 3-year grant from NSF on established a search results framework > that supports searches over multip! > le sessions and in collaboration. He also has a one-year grant! > from NS > F to investigate the viability of Second Life as an environment for > promoting digital preservation. > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > >

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National Seminar on “Plagiarism and Validation of Research in the Internet era: problems and prospects”
by HPS Kalra 17 Feb '11

17 Feb '11

The Department of Library and Information Science, Punjabi University, Patiala is organizing a one-day National Seminar on Plagiarism and Validation of Research in the Internet era: problems and prospects on 24 February 2011. Introduction: Plagiarism has been considered a major problem in academics and research since the written word and the means of reproducing written word reached masses. In the age of the Internet, where access to vast information resources across space and time is possible in seconds, the possibilities for plagiarism have increased manifold. Beside legal and ethical issues, this has serious implications for research process and its validation. This seminar is being organized Department of Library and Information Science, Punjabi University, Patiala, to address these and related issues. The Seminar: The inaugural session would be held from at 10.15 on Thursday, 24 February 2011 in the Senate Hall at Punjabi University, Patiala. The programme would include a mixture of lectures, presentations and panel discussion. Participants: Researchers, Librarians, Academics, Students in any subject can participate Registration: Spot registration for this one-day seminar can be made in cash. Registration fee: Rs. 250/-. Participants requiring accommodation should intimate so with details of their travel plans at the earliest for making necessary arrangements. For more details contact: Dr H.P.S. Kalra, Department of Library and Information Science, Punjabi University, Patiala – 147002 (Punjab). Tel: 0175-3046179, 3046180. Email: hpskalra(a)gmail.com. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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