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Seminar on Content Management at IISc on 27 June 2009 - Reminder
by Francis Jayakanth 24 Jun '09

24 Jun '09

Dear All, Karnataka State Library Association (KALA) and NCSI-Net (Association of NCSI Trainees and Staff) are organizing a One-day Workshop on "Content Management" on Saturday, June 27 at IISc. Detailed information of the workshop is appended to this mail. On behalf of KALA and NCSI-Net, we cordially invite you to participate in the workshop. We would appreciate if you could cascade this information to your professional contacts. The response for the event has been very good. Since the venue of the event can accommodate more than 100 participants, we are keeping the registration open till the date of the event. If you wish to participate in the workshop, please confirm your participation by sending a mail to one of the following email ids: Rajendra Babu H <Rajendra.Babu(a)capco.com> Ananda TB <ananda.byrappa(a)ge.com> Francis Jayakanth franc(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Please note that spot registration will be entertained. Best regards, Rajendra Babu, Ananda Byrappa, and Francis Jayakanth For Karnataka State Library Association (KALA) ________________________________________________________________________ Details about the Workshop: Event: One Day National Workshop on Content Management Date and Place: Saturday, June 27, at Choksi Hall,Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India Organizers: Karnataka State Library Association and NCSI-Net (Alumni of NCSI Students and Staff) 08.30 - 09.20 Registration 9.25 Welcome 09.30 - 10.15 Keynote address on CMS: A case of plenty of content and too many CMS? by Dr. Shalini Urs Executive Director and Professor International School of Information Management University of Mysore, Manasagangotri Mysore - 570 006 10.15 - 10.40 Coffee/Tea Break 10.40 - 11.20 An Overview on Content Management 11.20 - 12.00 Evaluation of Major Commercial/Open Source CMS 12.00 - 12.45 An Overview on Drupal & its Installation 12.45 - 13.00 Product presentation I 13.00 - 13.45 Lunch break 13.45 - 14.45 Live Demonstration of Drupal Features 14.45-15.30 Case study - Western Ghats Biodiversity Information System: Pre and Post CMS by Dr. T V Ramachandra Centre for Ecological Sciences, IISc 15.30 - 15.45 Product Presentation II 15.45 - 1600 Coffee/Tea Break 16.00-17.00 Panel discussion Theme: Career opportunities in Content Management Vote of thanks

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LIS Vacancy
by Charu 24 Jun '09

24 Jun '09

Respected Friends, Greetings for the day, National Institute of Technology, Silchar has advertized one post of Librarian (Lien Vacancy). The details are as follows--------- Essential Qualifications - A Master degree in Arts/Science/Commerce with degree in Library Science from a recognized university or BA/BSc/BCom with M. Lib. Sc/.M.L.Sc. Desirable- 5 years experience in a library preferably in technical institute in a responsible position Rs. 8000-13500 pm plus other allowances as per Government of India rules (likely to be revised as per the recommendation of the 6th CPC). To download the application please visit the following link------ http://www.nits.ac.in/images/fac2009.pdf Note: The extended date of application is 10 July 2009. Regards, Miss Charu Mathur, Delhi. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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ICAL 2009 PROMINENT SPEAKERS
by Rajesh Singh 23 Jun '09

23 Jun '09

Dear Professional Colleagues, It gives me immense pleasure to announce that Delhi University Library System of the University of Delhi has taken the responsibility to host an International Conference on Academic Libraries involving large number of professionals from India and abroad. The registration for the conference is open. The objective of the conference is to reposition the Academic Libraries by taking advantage of modern developments in the field of ICT; management techniques including change management; scholarly communications; advocacy; user-vendor-librarians interface etc. and develop a ROAD MAP which can be used by the governmental agencies for upgrading the library systems in India. We have developed a document having the conceptual framework which provides a framework on how various facets are conceived. We expect a professional gathering of about 1000 experts from India and abroad for almost four days with dates being October 5-8, 2009 at the Delhi University Conference Venue through several parallel sessions and tutorials. I take this opportunity to inform about the following prominent speakers of the conference. PROMINENT SPEAKERS Dr. Ellen Ramona Tise, President-Elect, IFLA and Director, LIS, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa Prof. Carol Tenopir, Chancellor's Professor, School of Information Science, University of Tenessee, United States Prof. Anne Shumelda Okerson, Associate University Librarian, Yale University, United States Prof. David Kohl, Editor, Journal of Academic Librarianship and Dean and University Librarian, University of Cincinnati, United States Prof. Joyce Chao-chen Chen, Professor & University Librarian, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan, Province of China Prof. Gobinda Chowdhury, Professor of Information and Knowledge Management, University of Sydney, Australia MANY MORE PROMINENT SPEAKERS FROM INDIA AND ABROAD ARE EXPECTED For more details please visit: http://library.du.ac.in/ocs or http://crl.du.ac.in/ical09 For all querries and further details, please send your mail to : ICAL 2009 Conference Secretariat Dr. S. Majumdar, Organising Secretary, ICAL C/o University Librarian, Central Library, University of Delhi New Delhi - 110 007, India Phone - 91-11-27666034, 27667848 or 24682100 Fax - 91-11-27666034 E-mail: ical2009.os(a)gmail.com with regards Rajesh Singh Dy. Librarian E-Resources & Training Central Library University Of Delhi DELHI-110 007 011-27666404, 27667848 http://crl.du.ac.in/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Recommendation of YASH PAL committee having A ~QSuper Regulator~R For Higher Education
by Mailing List Admin 23 Jun '09

23 Jun '09

Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:18:09 +0530 From: vaini79 <vaini79(a)gmail.com> Dear professionals, Recommendation of YASH PAL committee having A Super Regulator For Higher Education Recommendations of YASH PAL Committee related to Higher Education system. Set up Commission for Higher Education & Research Evolve GRE-like test for university education Have national testing scheme for university admissions Turn IITs/IIMs into universities Limit scope of Medical Council and Bar Council to administration Bring teacher education under purview of higher education Ban the grant of deemed university status Encourage private investment in higher education For detailed information please click on below mentioned link* http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Daily/skins/TOINEW/navigator.asp?Daily=TOIBG… Hemavathi B N Librarian AACP Bangalore

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NICMAN (National Information Center on Management) - Information service on Management
by Nicman Project 23 Jun '09

23 Jun '09

Dear Moderator Kindly forward this mail to LIS forum. "This mail is with regard to our mail regarding NICMAN membership. Please note that we are attempting to help researchers in their search for relevant literature. We cannot supply articles as it will be a copyright violation. This membership is meant for individual researchers who need help in searching for relevant literature. We will conduct the first level search across multiple journals databases and send the references for their use. Individuals can then either visit us and refer the articles or get the relevant articles from publishers or other sources. The rates of Rs. 1500 per year is towards recovering partial manpower costs for servicing the researchers in the year. Look forward to helping the business and management research community." Representative -- NICMAN Project VS Library, IIM-A Ahmedabad 38 00 15. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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100 Volumes in Single DVD
by nirmala reddy 23 Jun '09

23 Jun '09

A Treasure of Natural History: 100 JBNHS volumes now in one DVD BNHS, the largest NGO in South Asia, engaged in nature conservation research, has introduced a unique treasure of natural history for students, researchers, naturalists and policy makers, in the form of a DVD of the first 100 volumes of the Journal of BNHS (JBNHS). This is a good opportunity to read rare and valuable articles and research papers from all the Journals of BNHS published since 1886 ( VOl. No. 1 to 100) JBNHS articles and research papers are a unique work in the world of natural history. The main focus of the Journal is the spread of knowledge pertaining to nature conservation and research. Research papers by several renowned scientists and experts in the field of natural history and conservation like Jim Corbett, George Schaller, E P Gee, Dr Salim Ali, Humayun Abdulali, H G Champion and J C Daniel are covered in the DVD. It appears in a user-friendly format with browsing based on volumes, authors and articles. For more details visit the site www.bnhs.org or contact Mr. Santosh on (022)22821811 (Ext 227) or mail to bnhs(a)bom4.vsnl.net.in Ms. Reddy Nirmala P. Librarian Bombay Natural History Society, Opp. Lion Gate,Dr. Salim Ali Chowk, Shaheed Bhagat Singh Road, Fort, Mumbai- 400 001 Ph. 22821811( Ext 334) , 22876279( Direct) Fax- 91-22-22837615 ICC World Twenty20 England '09 exclusively on YAHOO! CRICKET http://cricket.yahoo.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Last date of KOHA Workshop Registration is 30th June 2009
by Sunita Barve 23 Jun '09

23 Jun '09

Dear All, This is to reminde you all about the KOHA workshop which is being planned by NCRA, Pune from 13th - 15th July 2009. The last date of registration is 30th June 2009. If you are planning to attend the workshop please register at the earliest. It is a good opportunity to learn installation of KOHA on Linux Operating System, understand features of software and learn how to import MARC records through Z3950 server directly into local KOHA server as well as adding and searching muli lingual documents in KOHA. The registration fees for the workshop is Rs. 3000/- which include training material, breakfast, tea and lunch with excellent lab facilities. For outstation candidates guest house facility is available in the NCRA campus. Each participant will get sufficient opportunity to work on KOHA. The following are the workshop faculties:-- 1. Dr. ARD Prasad, DRTC, Bangalore will cover MARC 21/UNIMARC 2. Shri. Vimal Kumar, Asian School of Business, Trivandrum, will cover demo of all modules of KOHA(acquisitions, serial control, cataloguing, circulation, setting system preferences etc.) 3. Shri. Koustubha Kale, Anant Corporation, Thane, will cover how to make KOHA convenient to add multilingual documents as well as bringing virtual key board support in KOHA OPAC to search books in other languages. Please visit http://www.granthalaya.org/ to get a feel of multilingual search in KOHA. This site is developed by Anant Corporation. 4. Dr. Sunita Barve will cover installation of KOHA on Debian Lenny operating System and introduction to linux operating system. More details about the workshop can be found at:- http://www.ncra.tifr.res.in/library/kohaworkshop/index.html Please register online. Online registration form is available at the above address. The number of participants is limited to 30 participants only. For any further queries please contact Dr. Sunita Barve National Centre for Radio Astrophysics PO Box 3, Pune Univ. Campus Pune 411 007, INDIA Email: sunitab@ncra.tifr.res.in;sunitabarve2003@yahoo.com; sunitabarve(a)gmail.com Phone: 91-020-25719211 (Office) ; 9922753827 (Mobile) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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ISiM to organize COMAD 2009 - the 15th International Conference - Call for papers
by roopa 20 Jun '09

20 Jun '09

The 15th COMAD is organized by the International School of Information Management (ISiM), University of Mysore during December 9-11, 2009 at Infosys Technologies campus, Mysore. Similar to previous years, COMAD 2009's scope will include all areas in the data management space including database management systems, Web and Information Retrieval and Data Mining. For details: http://www.isim.ac.in/comad2009 For close to two decades COMAD - the International Conference on Management of Data, modeled along the lines of ACM SIGMOD, has been a premier international database conference hosted in India. The first COMAD was held in 1989, and it has been held on a nearly annual basis since then. COMAD always had significant international participation with about 30% of the papers from outside India including Europe, USA, and East/South East Asia. Call for Papers Original research submissions are invited not only in traditional database areas but also in Data Quality, Web, Information Retrieval and Data Mining. We invite submission of original research contributions as well as proposals for demonstrations, tutorials, industrial presentations, and panels. Areas of interest include but are not limited to: Data Management Systems: * Benchmarking and performance evaluation * Data exchange and integration * Database monitoring and tuning * Data privacy and security * Data quality, cleaning and lineage * Data warehousing * Managing uncertain, imprecise and inconsistent information * Multilingual data management * Novel Data Types * Parallel and distributed databases * Peer-to-peer data management * Personalized information systems * Storage and transaction management Web and Information Retrieval: * Categorization, Clustering, and Filtering * Document Representation and Content Analysis * Information Extraction and Summarization * IR Theory, Platform, Evaluation * Question Answering and Cross-Language IR * Web and IR * Social Network Analysis Data Mining * Novel data mining algorithms and foundations * Innovative applications of data mining * Data mining and KDD systems and frameworks * Mining data streams and sensor data * Mining multi-media, graph, spatio-temporal and semi-structured data * Security, privacy, and adversarial data mining * High performance and parallel/distributed data mining * Mining tera-/peta-scale data * Visual data mining and data visualization To ensure wide visibility of material published at the conference, we plan to make arrangements with ACM SIGMOD for including the proceedings of the conference in the SIGMOD on-line and CD-ROM archives. Two awards- for Best Paper and Best Student Paper, will be presented at the conference. Important Dates: . Research and Student Papers-July 31, 2009 . Industrial Papers, Demo, Panel and Tutorial Proposals-August 28, 2009 . Notification to authors-September 25th, 2009 . Camera-ready copy due-October 30, 2009 . Early-Bird Registration Deadline-December 1, 2009 . Conference-December 9-11, 2009 Conference Organization: General Chair . Shalini Urs, ISiM, University of Mysore, India Organizational Chair . Srinath Srinivasa, IIIT-Bangalore, India Program Chairs . Sanjay Chawla, University of Sydney , Australia . Kamal Karlapalem, IIIT-Hyderabad, India. Contact Details: Dr. Shalini Urs COMAD 2009 - General Chair & Executive Director and Professor International School of Information Management University of Mysore, Manasagangotri Mysore - 570 006 Tel: +91-821-2514699; +91-821-2411417 Fax: +91-821-2519209, Email: office(a)isim.ac.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Article required
by Shailesh Lohiya 19 Jun '09

19 Jun '09

Sir, Please do me favour to send following fulltext article available at Science Direct Environmental impact assessment: Retrospect and prospect *Environmental Impact Assessment Review*, *Volume 27, Issue 4*, *May 2007*, *Pages 287-300* Stephen Jay, Carys Jones, Paul Slinn, Christopher Wood Regards -- Shailesh K. Lohiya Librarian (NUIL) NIRMA University SG Road,Ahmedabad Mob. 09601851608 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Need Article
by Ajay Kum Sharma 19 Jun '09

19 Jun '09

Dear Professionals, One of our library user has need of the below article for his research work. It will be highly appreciated if any one send me a soft copy of the below paper at an earliest. *Article Title:* Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, and the Childhood Roots of Health Disparities: Building a New Framework for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. *Authors:* Jack P. Shonkoff; W. Thomas Boyce; Bruce S. McEwen *Journal:* Journal of the American Medical Association ; Vol. 301 No.21 Year 2009 [Pagn. 2252-2259 ] Thanks and regards. Ajay Kumar Sharma Assistant Librarian & In-charge, Journal Section, Central Library, Visva Bharati, Santiniketan - 731235, Bolpur, Birbhum, West Bengal Email: ajaysharma.lib(a)visva-bharati.ac.in Web: http://www.geocities.com/ajaysharma_lib/ *********************************************************** 1. Join today Digital Library Discussion Forum http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/dlrg 2. Join today LIS-Forum mailing list http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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