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Report on the Fourth Dr. TB Rajashekar Memorial Lecture
by Arumugam Pitchai 19 Jun '09

19 Jun '09

Dear Members, Here's is the brief report on the Dr. T.B. Rajashekar Memorial Lecture (2009) held on Friday, 12 June 2009 at NCSI, IISc. Topic: "Academic Access in a Globalized World: Scholars without Borders" Speaker: Dr. Ram Ramaswamy, Professor, School of Physical Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. The event was set in motion with Mr. Francis Jayakanth of NCSI welcoming the well-attended gathering. He gave a brief life sketch of late Dr. TBR emphasizing on TBR's contributions and initiatives while he served at NCSI. Later, Francis Introduced Dr. IRN Goudar. Dr. Goudar, presided over the talk. Dr. Goudar being the alma mater of TBR at the DRTC, narrated couple of incidences that happened during their DRTC course and also after they started their careers. These incidences only exemplified the fact that TBR was very clear as to what he intended to do and went about in completing it with dedication. Later, Dr. Goudar introduced Dr. Ram and requested him to deliver the lecture. Dr. Ram's talk is accessible at: http://ncsi-net.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/workshop/seminars.html#_2009 Dr. Ram began his talk by giving some insights into the higher education in the country, which is the largest in the world. GoI is playing a major role in the higher education system in terms of framing of major policies for the system. He briefly mentioned about poor library system in most of the colleges and Universities, which is hindering access to the library holdings. For accessing the online journals, though INFLIBNET administered UGC Infonet is in place, poor Internet connectivity beyond the metros is an hindrance in accessing the online journals. He also emphasized on Books and book publishing in the country especially in the social sciences, where scholars publish their findings in books rather than journal articles. The speaker also presented some interesting facts about Books and Book publishing in India. Annually, India publishes between 70,000 to 80,000 titles, comes from between 16,000 to 17,000 publishers, ranging from those who do as many as 300-400 titles a year to one person operations-who may produce only two or three titles/year. According to Federation of Publishers, Booksellers Associations in India, the Federation of Indian Publishers, as well as a study of the Indian book market conducted by the British Publishers Association (2007) puts the value of the Indian book market at Rs.10,000 crores. In this 10,0000 crores, approximately Rs.3500 crores comprises educational books and Higher education Books market is at Rs.2500 crores. He also gave some insights into publishing business in the western world by citing Thomson Reuters as an example. The speaker expressed his concern in the poor distribution network in the country for quality textbooks and lack of University Press culture in the country are contributing to the growth of low quality academic publishing. He then touched upon the growth of e-books with big players in field like Thompson, spending great deal of their budget on e-books. He cited the example of JSTOR. JSTOR was founded in 1995 to build trusted digital archives for scholarship. Working with the scholarly community to preserve their work and the materials they rely upon, and to build a common research platform that promotes the discovery and use of these resources. In the context of our country, there was a mention of Language/ Literacy barriers such as * Computing in regional languages remains a somewhat distant goal. * Low investment in local technological solutions. * Need for more video content if primary educational goals are to be addressed. There was a special mention of ALUKA, an international, collaborative initiative building an online digital library of scholarly resources from and about Africa. Now a part of JSTOR. The speaker said, similar initiatives in the country are need of the hour to showcase India's academic publishing. Then Ram presented the demographies of India * Total India population: 1.037 billion * Rural population: 72% * Literacy: 52% * Computer ownership per 100 inhabitants: 0.6 * Telephone lines per 100: 4.2 * Internet hosts per 10,000: 0.35 * Internet cafés/telecentres per 10,000: 0.1 * Internet users per 100 0.33 subscribers: 1.65 users * Cell phone subscribers 10.81 million * Number of websites in the national language(s): 20,000 * Number of websites in English and other language(s): 130,000 * National bandwidth to and from the country: 1,670.3 Mbps Thus he proposed to have something like SwB: www.scholarswithoutborders.in (Academic Books from India delivered Everywhere). Few facts about SwB are: * Scholars without Borders (SwB) are an online bookstore for academic books from India. * Also other material such as journals, periodicals, reports, documentaries, CDs. * Facilitates online ordering and purchase. * Offers a range of payments: money orders, VPP, cheques, cash, credit card, etc. * Over 6000 titles from about 100 publishers. The motivation for such a SwB by Ram is "To make access to quality academic books simple, regardless of location." SwB runs a blog on books from India. It has a presence on Twitter, Facebook and other networking sites. Ram also presented the visitors to SwB from various parts of both India and worldwide. SwB's documentary site(scholarswithoutborders.in/video). This site is developed in collaboration with TCS. It provides, Semantic search of video content and partially view documentaries. Presently this site is undergoing Beta Testing. Access equity is the major item in Ram's presentation. An initiative to promote the distribution of books/academic material through the Internet and mobile phone. This will largely be a vehicle for the physical product initially, but they are aiming to increase digital content, especially of textbooks. The distribution of books and other published matter across India, especially to places with poor access to books and bookstores will be a major activity of this Initiative. While talking about future plans and the path ahead: Ram mentioned about the book readers such as Amazon Kindle and Olai. He also spoken about Cell phone based services. After the question and answer session, Dr. Goudar nicely summed up Dr. Rams talk. Mr. T.B. Anand proposed vote of thanks. (Thanks to H Rajendra Babu for Preparing this Report) Regards, NCSI-NET Co-ordinators -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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news papers archives
by S.F KATTIMANI 19 Jun '09

19 Jun '09

dear all Important archives of british library uk , 1857 riots, important news in the 19th and 20th century archives available at ( source: prajavani 19th june 2009 page no :10) http://newspapers.bl.uk./blcs thanks with regards -- S.F.KATTIMANI DEPUTY LIBRARIAN M.S.RAMAIAH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Autonomous Institute affiliated to vtu, ISO 9001-2000 certfied, NBA Accredited) MSR NAGAR MSRIT POST BANGALORE 560054 (080) 23600822, 23606936 Extn :223, 107,312 http://sfkattimani.blogspot.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Websites for Online Maps
by Sainul Abideen P, IIITMK 19 Jun '09

19 Jun '09

Dear Friends, Following online Map websites may be useful for you . *'OpenStreetMap* is a free editable map of the whole world. OpenStreetMap allows you to view, edit and use geographical data in a collaborative way from anywhere on Earth'. Website: http://www.openstreetmap.org/ *'Wikimapia* is an online editable map - you can describe any place on Earth. Or just surf maps discovering tons of already marked places'. Website:http://wikimapia.org/ <http://wikimapia.org/> Sainul Abideen P, (BSc,ADIS,PGDCA, VLIR Scholar Belgium) Librarian Indian Institute of Information Technology & Management-Kerala [IIITM-K] NILA, Technopark, Karyavattom PO Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala Ph 0471-2700777,2527567,2700965 exn 111 Mobile -9496252786 www.iiitmk.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 ILL
by Arup Raychaudhury 19 Jun '09

19 Jun '09

We need the following book on ILL for 15 days: "Nowcasting" by K. A Browning (Editor), Academic Press. London, 1982 Arup Raychaudhury Library, Documentation & Information Science Division Indian Statistical Institute 203 BT Road Calcutta 700 108 INDIA This mail is scanned by Ironport -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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new society formation suggestion for name
by Prof. N. Laxman Rao. 18 Jun '09

18 Jun '09

helo friends to initiate and keep pace of the professional activities , i planned to start a non profit Society especially to motivate younger generation professionals.This is being felt on the basis of the experience i hav gained and also on the basis of my observations. THE SUCCESS of the nmlis group had motivated me to do more professional activities. i cannot venture in to the present professional organsiations as they are ful of elected members. every one knows tht there are many organizations, who are ready to fund for gud projects. I wnt to join with committed professionals and take some projects on the name of this Society. It will never work independently but join with any organization or school in organising these programs.ALL THE PROFESSIONALS ARE WELCOME TO JOIN INTO THIS SOCIETY AFTER ITS FORMATION. friends may suggest a GUD NAME FOR THE SAID SOCIETY. THANKS LAXMAN RAO THANKS Prof. N.LAXMAN RAO, EMERITUS FELLOW, Dept of Library & Information Science, Osmania University, HYDERABAD- 500 007 (INDIA) President, Association of British Scholars (Hyderabad Chapter) 91-40-27171565, 27177763 (res): 09246547599 (Mobile) e:mail-- naglaxman(a)yahoo.com OR naglaxman(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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Job Vacancy (Urgently required)
by Ruchika Sharma 18 Jun '09

18 Jun '09

please post this on forum to forward all... Applications are invited for the post of *Librarian* at PCTE Institute of Pharmacy, Jhande(Ferozpur Road) Ludhiana.. PCTE (Punjab College of Technical Education) was founded in the year 1999 by Punjab Management Education Trust based at Ludhiana. PCTE is more of a group of Institutes: * Punjab College of Education, Baddowal (Campus 1); * PCTE Institute of Management & Technology, Jhande (Campus 2); * PCTE Institute of Pharmacy (Campus 2); * PCTE Institute of Hotel Management & Catering Technology( Campus 2). For further information, you can visit www.pcte.edu.in Those interested, are required to send their CVs at ruchika314(a)gmail.comasap. -- Ruchika Sharma Librarian Punjab College of Technical Education(PCTE) Ferozepur Road, Baddowal,Ludhiana-142021 ................................................................. To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.... -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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One Year Post Graduate Diploma Course in Health Science Librarianship (PGDHL)
by thimma naik 18 Jun '09

18 Jun '09

Respected Professionals > Apologies for previous posting The Examination and Interview date is 25.07.2009. The last date for apply for the PGDHL is 15.07.2009. The advertisement is published all major dailies on 18.06.2009. > Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Karnataka has > invited applications for Admission for One Year Post > Graduate Diploma Course in Health Science Librarianship > (PGDHL) for the academic year-2009-10 (August 2009 to July > 2010). > Eligibility: MLIS > Intake: 5 students from merit and 5 students from > sponsoreship > Term: The course of study including submission of project > work is one year > Entrance Test: 25.07.2009 11.00am > Interview:25.07.2009 3.30pm > Stipend: 5 merit students will get 5000/-per month. > > more details at www.rguhs.ac.in/digital library > > Thimmappa N. MLISc, PGDHL > Bengaluru > thimmappa03(a)yahoo.com > or softeyest(a)gmail.com > If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not > say it Read an eBook, Save a Tree; Buy an eBook Reader, Save > a Forest > > > Cricket on your mind? Visit the > ultimate cricket website. Enter http://cricket.yahoo.com > 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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Reminder for CALL FOR PAPERS ICAL-2009
by Mailing List Admin 18 Jun '09

18 Jun '09

Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:36:26 +0530 (IST) From: Rajesh Singh <rajeshzone29(a)yahoo.co.in> INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACADEMIC LIBRARIES FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS VISION FOR THE FUTURE October 5 to 8, 2009 University of Delhi Delhi-110007 ( India) � Invites original papers reflecting Case Studies; State of the Art; Review Papers; Specific Proposals; Current Trends etc. � LAST DATE OF PAPER SUBMMISSION : 30TH JULY, 2009 � CONFERENCE THEMES � Theme 1: Vision & Roles of the Future academic libraries University libraries as partners in the knowledge creation; Academic Libraries in e-teaching and e-learning; Future of Print Publications Theme 2: Technology, Policy and Innovation Local to Global: Implications of repositioning libraries into digital future; Technologies and critical issues involved in the provision of digital information and services;� Technological Innovations leading to improved Library management and services Theme 3: Change Management Empowering staff to meet the challenges, professional leadership and development, and new models of academic library governance; Models and success stories of deliveries, exchange of ideas of how to work together in future; and Government and institutional policies on infrastructure, �accesscontrol, resource sharing, and resource development and management. Theme 4: Library Vendor/ Publisher Interface Library Vendor Publisher relationship in knowledge access and management; Indigenous knowledge creation ,content development and digital libraries; Copyright and open access publishing, self archiving, and open access policy; Legal deposit, electronic publications, and digital archiving; National and international cooperation and collaboration in knowledge access and management Theme 5: Management Models and Framework, Library Services Emerging management models for academic libraries; Manpower structure in ICT environment Library budgeting models; Evolving ways and means for better relationship for working with faculty; User centric services, reference and outreach; Changes in emerging user characteristics, behaviors, and expectation;� Academic Library linkages with Public Libraries, Special Libraries and others Analyze users expectations in the emerging digital environment; Information literacy and competency programmes, e-tutorials; Best practices on modern library services; Convergence in collection management and technical services; Cataloguing and metadata; Management systems and standards; Marketing and promotion Theme 6: Advocacy Problems, issues and best practices for academic library advocacy; Advocacy for better use of library services, for better inflow of finances, better infrastructure and better faculty status; and Advocacy for transforming the academic libraries to e-environment � � For 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 Rajesh Singh Dy. Librarian E-Resources & Training Central Library University Of Delhi DELHI-110 007 011-27666404, 27667848 http://crl.du.ac.in/��

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Article required
by sujata.laxmeshwar＠wipro.com 18 Jun '09

18 Jun '09

Hi! I needed one article from International Journal of Production Research - Capacity planning with reconfigurable kits in semiconductor test manufacturing from Source: International Journal of Production Research, Volume 44, Number 13, 1 July 2006 , pp. 2625-2644(20) Best regards, Sujata Information Services Division, Wipro Technologies No.70/1,keonics Electronic City, Tower-17 basement,Bangalore-560100 Tel: -080-30299891 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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One Year Post Graduate Diploma Course in Health Science Librarianship (PGDHL)
by thimma naik 17 Jun '09

17 Jun '09

Respected Professionals Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Karnataka has invited applications for Admission for One Year Post Graduate Diploma Course in Health Science Librarianship (PGDHL) for the academic year-2009-10 (August 2009 to July 2010). Eligibility: MLIS Intake: 5 students from merit and 5 students from sponsoreship Term: The course of study including submission of project work is one year Entrance Test: 27.07.2009 11.00am Interview:27.07.2009 3.30pm Stipend: 5 merit students will get 5000/-per month. more details at www.rguhs.ac.in/digital library Thimmappa N. MLISc, PGDHL Bengaluru thimmappa03(a)yahoo.com or softeyest(a)gmail.com If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it Read an eBook, Save a Tree; Buy an eBook Reader, Save a Forest Cricket on your mind? Visit the ultimate cricket website. Enter 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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