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Sad demise of Prof. N.M. Malwad
by Mr.Puttabasavaiah <bas＠library.iisc.ernet.in> 21 Oct '09

21 Oct '09

Dear Professional friends, With great sorrow with heavy heart it is informed that one of the stalwarts in the profession, a great teacher, scholar and very humanitarian Librarian Prof. N.. M. Malwad is no more with us. He left for heavenly abode on 15th, October, 2009 at 09:30AM. His sad demise is a great loss to the LIS Profession. As we all know, he had a very distinguished career heading TIFR and IISc Library and a rare distinction of working on INIS system in its initial stages. He was instrumental in setting up of several organizations including INFLIBNET. He was Invited by the UGC to work on a Special Committee formed for preparing a Project Report on INFILBNET and worked as the core member in preparing and finalizing Report on INFLIBNET. He is fondly remembered for his lively and scholarly talks and his human approach to help any body. It is a great personal loss to me and my family. We pray God to rest the departed Soul in Peace. Puttabasavaiah. Deputy Librarian JRD Tata Memorial Library Indian Institute of Science Bangalore - 560 012 INDIA.

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Vendors list for complete digital library solutions
by Shriram Pandey 20 Oct '09

20 Oct '09

Dear List members, We are am looking for the compete digital library solutions for our library. If anyone have experience and list of such vendors/company, please send to me. Any suggestion would be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance.- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Regards, Shri Ram Pandey - Asst. Librarian The LNM Institute of Information Technology Rupa ki Nangal, Post-Sumel, Via-Jamdoli Jaipur-302 031, (Rajasthan) INDIA Tel: 0141-5189211(Ext-253(O),324(H)) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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IFLA International Newspaper Conference 2010 at IGNCA, New Delhi in India
by Dr. Ramesh C Gaur 20 Oct '09

20 Oct '09

apologies for cross-posting Dear Colleagues, I am pleased to inform you that Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) www.ignca.nic.in in collaboration with IFLA Newspaper Section is organizing IFLA International Newspaper Conference 2010 at IGNCA, New Delhi in India during 26th February to 28th February, 2010 on theme "Digital Preservation and Access to news and views". The Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) was established in 1987 as an autonomous institution under the Ministry of Culture, as a centre for research, academic pursuit and dissemination in the field of the arts. The Arts' encompass a wide range of subjects - from archaeology and anthropology to the visual and performing arts, enveloping them in a complementary and non-demarcated vision. IFLA (The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions) is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. It is the global voice of the library and information profession. This is the first time, such an international newspaper libraries conference being organized in India. Even at national level problems and issues concerning media libraries are hardly discussed. So, this is the opportunity to all media librarians to actively participate and make this event a grand success. More details regarding the conference can be had from http://www.ignca.nic.in/ifla2010/ifla2010.htm We take an opportunity to invite you to this International event and also request you to share your views by contributing papers and be the delegate in the conference Best regards Ramesh C Gaur Conference Director IFLA International Newspaper Conference 2010 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Ramesh C Gaur PGDCA, MLISc,Ph.D. Fulbright Scholar (Virginia Tech, USA) Librarian & Head-Kala Nidhi Division Coordinator- ABIA International Index Project Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts(IGNCA) (An Autonomous Trust under Ministry of Culture. Govt. of India) 11 Man Singh Road, New Delhi-110001 Phone: 91-11-23385442, 23385884 Fax: 91-11-23385884 Mobile: 91-9810487158 URL: www.ignca.gov.in Email: gaur(a)ignca.nic.in; rcgaur(a)bol.net.in ramesh.gaur(a)fulbrightmail.org http://www.ignca.nic.in/PDF_data/Profile_Dr_RC_Gaur.pdf -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Trend In LIS Profession............
by Charu Mathur 20 Oct '09

20 Oct '09

Respected Friends, Greetings for the day, Please accept my heartiest gratitude for overwhelming positive response of the issue raised. Ever LIs professional is somehow is agree with this statement that this profession is the nice integration of all stake holders, I.e. Faculties, Students, Professional Groups –Online and Offline and last but not the least Government Bodies. I am in with same opinion of Dr. I.R.N.Goudar that each part has to take equal interest to change the scenario. No doubt some of them are doing well at their own level and making sincere efforts in this regard. I wish to add some points in list of their valuable and note to worthy suggestions… 11. A. In continuation of Point No. 11 of Dr. Goudar, delegation of authority is an essential element of successful management. 14. Unlike learned Professional Association, we have a nice array of online groups managed by learned professional friends. They are actively involved in many types of activities like arranging the one day conferences, seminars and group talks to enlighten and encourage the new entrants on regular basis. MLOSC and Mr.Ajay Kamble is the best example of this. These activities can be extended to state level and some time at national level also. 15. Library and Information word is associated with SCIENCE and this word demands the necessity of a LABORATORIES. This should be equipped with all necessary latest and updated tools and equipments. On the pattern of any scientific lab we can develop LIBRARY LAB where a student can get chance to aware the practical environments where they suppose to be serve later on. Again I am thankful and grateful to all friends for such nice support and encouragement. Please accept my heartiest wishes for Diwali and Kali Pooja ….. Thanks and Regards, -- Miss Charu Mathur. http://openlink-charu.blogspot.com/ http://charu-virtualworld.blogspot.com/ http://charu-libraryworld.blogspot.com/ http://charu-openair.blogspot.com/ -- 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 ramesh chander 19 Oct '09

19 Oct '09

Dear Members, I need of this article for one of our reserach Scholar. It is very urgent, please those who have access to it, mail soft copy to me. The details of the article are as under: Title: The Use of Piezoelectric Thin Film Sensors for Structural Integrity Monitoring Journal Title: Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, Vol. 5, No. 5, 683-693 (1994) DOI: 10.1177/1045389X9400500513 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ With Best Regards, Romesh Chander National Center for Science Information(NCSI), Indian Institue of Science, Bangalore-560012. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Scopus Young Scientist Awards
by Mailing List Admin 19 Oct '09

19 Oct '09

Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:48:56 +0800 From: "Muralidharan, Padma (ELS-DEL)" <P.Muralidharan(a)elsevier.com> Dear LIS_forum Moderator, Could you please post this message on LIS-FORUM on my behalf? Scopus Young Scientist Awards 2009 Elsevier announced their 4th Scopus Young Scientist Awards for 2009 and the last date for sending in applications is the 25th October, 2009. All information about the eligibility and criteria can be had from their South Asia website : http://southasia.elsevier.com For any further queries, please contact Padma at the address and numbers below. Thanks & regards, Padma Muralidharan Senior Manager - Account Development Elsevier India (Science & Technology) 14th Floor, Building 10B, DLF Cyber City, Phase II Gurgaon - 122 002 Phone : +91-124-4774202 l +91-9810739993 kk

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Greeting Messages
by Francis Jayakanth 19 Oct '09

19 Oct '09

Dear Members, In the last couple of days, there have been many Diwali greeting messages being posted on this forum. While it is very nice and thoughtful of members to wish the fellow members during the festive seasons, I would like to bring to your kind attention the repercussion these messages can have on the network bandwidth, if they were to be approved for circulation. As of today (Monday 19 Oct 2009) there are 4980 registered members on LIS-Forum. In the last of couple of days, close to 30 greeting messages have been received. if These messages were to be approved then the mail servers at NCSI and IISc will have have to send out close to 1.5 lac emails! This can have adverse effect on the network traffic. As it is members would have noticed that there is considerable amount of delay in the delivery of LIS-Forum mails. Apart from LIS-Forum, NCSI mail server is also handling few other mailing lists. The traffic on the other lists handled at NCSI are also quite high. The combined traffic of all the mailing lists from NCSI is very high and I wouldn't be surprised if NCSI will be reprimanded for high volume of email traffic it has been generating. Also, the NCSI mail server itself might get choked for the sheer volume of mails that it needs to handle on a day-to-day basis. I therefore request all the members to use the mailing list judiciously and avoid greeting messages and other lengthy forwarded messages. On behalf of all the members who have sent their good wishes for Diwali and my personal self, I Wish all the members A Very Happy, safe, and Prosperous Diwali. Thanks for your cooperation. With best wishes. - Moderator NCSI, IISc

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Information as public commons
by Subbiah Arunachalam 19 Oct '09

19 Oct '09

Friends in the LIS profession: Here is a paper by Nobel Laureate Elinor Orstorm that you might find relevant and useful. "Ideas, artifacts and facilities: Information as a common pool resource" by Charlotte Hess and Elinor Orstom, Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 66, No. 1 and 2, Winter/Spring 2003, pp. 111-146. Available at <http://dlcvm.dlib.indiana.edu/archive/00001591/01/Hess_Ideas_Artifacts.pdf>. Here is the abstract: "The goal of this paper is to summarize the lessons learned from a large body of international, interdisciplinary research on common-pool resources (CPRs) in the past 25 years and consider its usefulness in the analysis of scholarly information as a resource. We will suggest ways in which the study of the governance and management of common-pool resources can be applied to the analysis of information and 'the intellectual public domain.' The complexity of the issues is enormous for many reasons: the vast number of players, multiple conflicting interests, rapid changes of technology, the general lack of understanding of digital technologies, local versus global arenas, and a chronic lack of precision about the information resource at hand. We suggest, in the tradition of Hayek, that the combination of time and place analysis with general scientific knowledge is necessary for sufficient understanding of policy and action. In addition, the careful development of an unambiguous language and agreed-upon definitions is imperative. "As one of the framing papers for the Conference on the Public Domain, we focus on the language, the methodology, and outcomes of research on common-pool resources in order to better understand how various types of property regimes affect the provision, production, distribution, appropriation, and consumption of scholarly information. Our analysis will suggest that collective action and new institutional design play as large a part in the shaping of scholarly information as do legal restrictions and market forces." Happy reading. Subbiah Arunachalam -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Institutional Repository Bibliography, Version 1
by Charles W. Bailey, Jr. 19 Oct '09

19 Oct '09

To celebrate Open Access Week, Digital Scholarship (http://digital-scholarship.org/)is releasing version one of the Institutional Repository Bibliography. This bibliography presents over 620 selected English-language articles, books, and other scholarly textual sources that are useful in understanding institutional repositories. Although institutional repositories intersect with a number of open access and scholarly communication topics, this bibliography only includes works that are primarily about institutional repositories. http://digital-scholarship.org/irb/irb.html Most sources have been published between 2000 and the present; however, a limited number of key sources published prior to 2000 are also included. Where possible, links are provided to e-prints in disciplinary archives and institutional repositories. Table of Contents 1 General 2 Country and Regional Institutional Repository Surveys 3 Multiple-Institution Repositories 4 Specific Institutional Repositories 5 Institutional Repository Digital Preservation Issues 6 Institutional Repository Library Issues 7 Institutional Repository Metadata Issues 8 Institutional Repository Open Access Policies 9 Institutional Repository R&D Projects 10 Institutional Repository Research Studies 11 Institutional Repository Software Appendix A. About the Author Translate (oversatta, oversette, prelozit, traducir, traduire, tradurre, traduzir, or ubersetzen): http://digital-scholarship.org/announce/irb_en_1.htm -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Publisher, Digital Scholarship http://bit.ly/Z6HFx -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Fw: Data, openness, and the future of science
by Subbiah Arunachalam 18 Oct '09

18 Oct '09

From: Lee Dirks (Microsoft research) Sent: Saturday, October 17, 2009 5:55 AM To: Digital Library & Archives Community Subject: Data, openness, and the future of science Our group in MSR External Research published this work and it was announced/released yesterday. There is a special section on Scholarly Communication. [And it is published under a creative commons license for free download of any article so it is definitely an open success publication! We will also have a print-on-demand book version and versions for the Kindle and Sony eBook Reader … Tony Hey, Stewart Tansley, and Kristin Tolle, eds., The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery, published by Microsoft Research, October 16, 2009. See especially the section "Scholarly Communication": http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/collaboration/fourthparadigm/ Lee Dirks, Introduction Clifford Lynch, Jim Gray’s fourth paradigm and the construction of the scientific record Paul Ginsparg, Text in a data-centric world Herbert Van de Sompel and Carl Lagoze, All aboard: toward a machine-friendly scholarly communication system Anne Fitzgerald, Brian Fitzgerald, and Kylie Pappalardo, The future of data policy John Wilbanks, I have seen the paradigm shift, and it is us Timo Hannay, From web 2.0 to the global database Also see this interview with Tony Hey: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/fourthparadigm-101609.aspx -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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