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DRTC Colloquium (4) 2008-2010
by DRTC - General 04 May '09

04 May '09

INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE Documentation Research and Training Centre 8TH Mile, Mysore Road Bangalore 560059 DRTC Colloquium (4) 2008-2010 The Importance of Open Access, Open Source, and Open Standards for Libraries Abstract Open access facilitates the availability and distribution of scholarly communication freely, as a means and effort to solve the problem of inaccessibility, primarily due to financial constraints, particularly in the developing countries. Studies suggest that the articles which are published in open access journals are more cited. In spite of all these, there are still many issues not completely resolved such as pricing models, peer reviewing, indexing, impact factor, archiving, and the stability of this new publishing model for scientific literature. The use of open standards can assure interoperability of diverse systems and long lasting preservation. This colloquium will discuss some important ways to achieve open access by exploiting open source software and open standards in creating institutional repositories. The colloquium will further discusses some light on major issues in achieving this. Facets Speaker Overview Ali Raza (Leader) Open access initiative Babar Raees Institutional Repository Binit Kiran Standards and Tools Shion Ghuha Open source software Nilesh Shewale Implications Priyanki Sinha Conclusions Tarun Kumar Venue: DRTC Classroom Date: 6th May 2009 Time: 2.00pm All are cordially invited (M.Krishnamurthy) Colloquium Coordinator -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Geoinformatics Workshop at IISc, 1st -6th June 2009 (fwd)
by Ramachandra T.V. 03 May '09

03 May '09

Workshop GEOINFORMATICS: PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS IN URBAN ENVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT 1st June 6th June 2009 Details are available at: http://ces.iisc.ernet.in http://cistup.iisc.ernet.in http://ces.iisc.ernet.in/energy Background: Geoinformatics is increasingly being used to solve complex environmental problems in domains such as management of natural resources, land use planning and management, nature conservation, and environmental monitoring, require reliable spatial information and methodologies. Geoinformatics combines expertise from the fields of: - information and communication technology (ICT); - geographical information systems (GIS), remote sensing, GPS and mapping; - environmental and social sciences such as land use planning, geography, and communication. This workshop provides an overview of the key concepts and principles in Geoinformatics and its applications in environmental management, areas of global and national environmental concern. Various tools, which can be used to address environmental problems and the role that the professionals can play in managing environment in their respective areas would be discussed. The workshop is meant for faculty (recognized engineering colleges in India) and CiSTUP stakeholders. TA would be provided to the select teachers. Faculty desiring for Travel allowance need to send a brief write-up on Relevance of Geoinformatics in India and how Geoinformatics workshop would benefit their career. Application and write-up is to be routed through their institution. Selected outstation candidates would be paid TA three-tier train / bus fare by the shortest route from the place of work to IISc, Bangalore and back. The lodging charges at campus guest house is Rs.150 per day (for teachers - sponsored by an education institution) ___________________________________________________________________________ Workshop Registration Fee: 1. Fee waiver for young teaching faculty (< 30 years) 2. TA would be paid to the outstation participants whose write-up is accepted by the committee 3. Fee waiver for women unemployed engineering graduates 4. Fee of Rs 1500 for officials from the State Government agencies (CiSTUP stakeholders) and teaching faculty (>30 years and members of ISTE) 4. Rs.12000 for practicing engineers and scientists from R & D organisations, industries, and others interested in this workshop. The registration fee entitles the candidates to participate in the workshop and receive the workshop materials. _____________________________________________________________________________ Deadlines: Completed Application form (with DD and other enclosures): 20th May 2009 Intimation of Selection: 25th May 2009. Application / announcement copy is available at http://ces.iisc.ernet.in/energy/Geoinfoworkshop.pdf ****************************************************************************** Dr. T.V. Ramachandra * Tel: 91-080-23600985/22932506/22933099 Energy & Wetlands Research Group [CES] * Fax: 91-080-23601428 (CES/TVR) Centre for Ecological Sciences * 91-080-23600085/23600683 (Attn: CES/TVR) CES ERG RNO 215 (TVR/DKS/NVJ) * E Mail: energy(a)ces.iisc.ernet.in Indian Institute of Science * cestvr(a)ces.iisc.ernet.in Bangalore 560 012, India * lake2008(a)ces.iisc.ernet.in URL ----> http://ces.iisc.ernet.in/energy http://ces.iisc.ernet.in/biodiversity/ *******************************************************************************

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NACLIN 2009 from September 22-25, 2009 at Panjab University, Chandigarh - Call for Papers and Participation
by Sangeeta Kaul 02 May '09

02 May '09

Dear All We take pleasure in informing you that NACLIN 2009 will be organised by DELNET jointly with Panjab University, Chandigarh from September 22-25, 2009 at PUC, Chandigarh. The theme of this year's Convention is "Managing Knowledge, Technology and Change in Libraries". You are requested to kindly contribute papers on the theme/sub-themes of NACLIN 2009. The details are available at www.naclin.org Should you require any assistance or clarifications, please do kindly write to us. Thanking you, Yours faithfully Sangeeta Kaul _______________________________________________________________________________ Sangeeta Kaul Network Manager DELNET-Developing Library Network Jawaharlal Nehru University Campus Nelson Mandela Road Vasant Kunj New Delhi-110070 Tel: 91-11-26742222, 32471010, 32471002, 32471011 Fax: 91-11-26741122 Email: sangs(a)delnet.ren.nic.in, sangskaul2003(a)yahoo.co.in Web : www.delnet.nic.in ________________________________________________________________________________ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Open Access Medical Journals
by Pawan Agrawal 02 May '09

02 May '09

Dear Professionals, Please check www.sbksmirclib.blogspot.com this site is updated as the nursing section is added to this. -- Thanks and Regards Pawan R. Agrawal Assistant Librarian SBSK Medical Institute and Reseach Centre Library Sumandeep Vidyapeeth University At & Post. Piparia. 02668-245264 Ph. 9376135580 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Workshop on KOHA at U. C. College, Aluva, Kerala
by Jeb Gorge 02 May '09

02 May '09

Dear Professionals, The U. C. College, Aluva in cooperation with NRC FOSS/ Anna University is going to organize a two-day workshop on KOHA, an Open Source Integrated Library Management System for Library professionals during 22-23 May 2009. All sessions including hands-on session on KOHA and Linux Operating system will be handled by resource persons from Anna University. Number of participants is restricted to 30. Registration fee of Rs. 300/- may be paid in cash or by way of DD (favouring U. C. College, Aluva). Registration form may be sent to the Workshop Coordinator (KOHA), MCA, U. C. College, U. C. College P.O., Aluva – 683 102. Contact Telephone numbers: Dr. Sunny Kuriakose – 9495677688; Mr. Bruce Mathew- 9447209932 Interested ones may send their Name, Designation, Official address, Telephone no., e-mail id, Payment details, whether accommodation needed etc to the coordinator. Cherian K. George Librarian U. C. College, Aluva, Kerala 30.04.2009 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Monographs
by Vijayakumara 01 May '09

01 May '09

Dear Professionals, At the outset I am thankful to you, if you are clarifying on "How to get the number for Monographs" ISBN is for book, ISSN is for journal, Simillarly for monographs what is the term we will use and let me know what is the procedure to get the same. Thanking you Vijayakumar -- Dr. Vijayakumar M. MSc., UGC-NET., PGDLAN., PGDCA., Ph.D. University Librarian I/C. Birla Institute of Technology, A Technical University Mesra, Ranchi- 835215, India Tel:0651-2276675 Fax:0651-2275401 http://www.bitmesra.ac.in/

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Be Careful of such kind of Databases
by Pawan Agrawal 01 May '09

01 May '09

*Dear Professional regards,* Now as the trend going on. We all are looking for e-journal and e-databases for our library to improve our services to the user. But in this trend, there are many professional or i will call them as ill-minded people who are taking benefit of OPEN ACCESS journals to earn money. These people are selling their databases purely contained open access journals only. They collects open access jounals and other literature from the net and selling it to the libraries for higher cost. And We are paying for the content what is already free. So I Request you not to be trapped by such databases and enquire before subscribing such databases and their catagory whether these are subscription based journals or open access journals. So we can use that amount to provide better services to our users in stead vesting money for such kind of databases. -- Thanks and Regards Pawan R. Agrawal Assistant Librarian SBSK Medical Institute and Reseach Centre Library Sumandeep Vidyapeeth University At & Post. Piparia. 02668-245264 Ph. 9376135580 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Internet Resources Newsletter - May 2009 issue
by MacLeod, Roderick A 30 Apr '09

30 Apr '09

____________________________________________ Internet Resources Newsletter ____________________________________________ The latest edition of the FREE monthly newsletter for academics, students and researchers is now available at: http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn172/irn172.html No subscription or registration is needed to access this full-text newsletter at the above site. You can also subscribe to the free, full-text email version at: http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn.html There's also an RSS feed for the newsletter: http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn.rss Featured in this issue: Comment Internet Resources Newsletter by email and RSS Random Quotes News items of interest A-Z New & Notable Web Sites: About 100 new and notable websites: new services, ejournals, directories, search engines, publishers, government sites, booksellers, calls for papers, software, news services, conferences, research groups, plus anything else of interest, etc, etc. Nice Web Site(s): Harvesters - national and international, INIS Database Blogorama and Twittersphere Selected interesting blogs, RSS feeds and related news items, and also Twitter items Get a life! Leisure Time After hours Published by Heriot-Watt University Library, and edited by Roddy MacLeod (R.A.MacLeod(a)hw.ac.uk) Catherine Ure and Marion Kennedy -- Heriot-Watt University is a Scottish charity registered under charity number SC000278. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Congratulations to Yunus and Shena for receiving VLIR Sholarsip
by Sainul Abideen 30 Apr '09

30 Apr '09

Dear Friends, I am glad to inform you that, Mr Yunus TP (Digital Library Trainee, IIITM-K, Thiruvananthapuram) and Ms Sneha Tripati (BHU) have won VLIR Schlarship for "International Training Programme on Scientific and Technological Information Management in Universities and Libraries: an Active Training Environment" at Vrije Universiteit, Brussel, Belgium ; with the scholarship from the <http://www.scholarships.vliruos.be/index.php?language=EN&navid=244&direct_t…>VLIR-OUS,Belgium. I Congratulate them for their achievements With best regards 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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Article published in Hindustan Times
by Mailing List Admin 30 Apr '09

30 Apr '09

Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:43:36 +0530 From: BHAVESH PATEL <bhaveshlib(a)gmail.com> Dear LIS Friends, Article published in Hindustan Times: A machine prints a book in minutes! URL:- http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=a5d9441b-2a8d-401… Regards -- Bhavesh Patel Bsc. MLib & Isc. Librarian, SAARC Documentation Center, NISCAIR, New Delhi 9953546266

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