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Historyof Department of Library and Information Science (BHU)
by krishna nand singh 01 Jan '09

01 Jan '09

*History* The Department of Library and Information Science at Banaras Hindu University is one of the pioneer Department in the field of Library and Information Science education in India. The Department was established in 1941. The Department has been served by a number of eminent scholars namely Dr. S. R. Ranganathan, Professor P. N. Kaula, C. G. Vishwanathan, J. S. Sharma, Professor B. Guha, Professor J. B. Subrahmaniam, Professor Y. P. Dubey and Professor S. N. Singh etc. Presently, Department is blooming under the able leadership of Professor H. N. Prasad. The Department conducts 2-years integrated Master of Library & Information Science (M.L.I.S.) Programme. Apart from M.L.I.S. Course, Department conducts Research Programme for the award of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree. Department has recently started a special course of study (self finance) Post Graduate Diploma in Manuscriptology (PGDM) which aims to provide education and training of handling Manuscripts - its storage, preservation, conservation, study and use. The Department initiated Diploma Course in Librarianship, second of its kind in India after Madras University in 1942. In 1961, Diploma course was converted to Bachelor Degree Course with necessary modifications in course content. The course has been discontinued from 2005 onward. Department introduced One year Master of Library and Information Science (M.L.I.S.) Programme in the 1965 second after University of Delhi in order to train specialist librarians for specialized libraries. From 2005 onwards Department has introduced Two years integrated Master of Library and Information Science (M.L.I.S.) programme as per guidelines of Curriculum Development Committee (CDC) of the University Grant Commission (UGC). Ph.D. course was initiated in the Department in 1980. Ninteen (19) Doctoral dissertations so far have been successfully defended at Department for the award of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.). KRISHNA NAND SINGH MLIS(BHU) -- 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 Open Source Library Solutions (OSLS) on 16th - 17th January, 2009.
by krishna nand singh 01 Jan '09

01 Jan '09

Dear All, Department of Library & Information Science, BHU & Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), New Delhi are jointly going to organise *National Seminar On Open Source Library Solutions (OSLS)* on 16th - 17th January, 2009. *About Seminar:* The rising cost of technology has compelled the libraries to use Open Source Software (OSS) for library automation, digital library and so on. OSSs are developed in public domain by the technology experts for the libraries. The professional community implements the software solutions and renders feedback to developers, which is a real time testing of software. The OSS products are provided with source code for implementation level customization and future development of software. These solutions are often free for use and could be redistributed. Today, there are OSSs available for different library activities which are better than the commercial solutions using cutting age technology. These solutions range from Operating System to specialized institutional repositories. This has made the library services more cost effective and least dependent on commercial software and vendors. However, there is a concern of the professionals over stability of software implementation and continuing support to these OSSs. There is an equal and opposite concern from the end of developers also towards having a sustainable funding for running the software development projects. Whatever the concerns may be, the increased use of open source software among the library community is very encouraging for open source solution developers. The Department of Library and Information Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi proposes to conduct two days National Convention on Open Source Library Solutions (OSLS), 16th – 17th January, 2009. The proposed seminar would provide a common platform for library professionals to share their experience. Research papers, demonstration and case-studies are invited for presentation and discussion during the convention in following areas: Implementation of OSS in:- Library automation, Digital repositories, Digital preservation, Consortium planning, Community education, Office management, Content development, Event management, E-publishing, Knowledge management, E-governance, Community networks. *Target Participants:* Practicing Librarians and Information Scientists, Faculty Members, Researchers, Students, Information System Personnel, Managers, etc. *Call for Papers:* Full texts paper(s) in English (in A4 size, double space, not more than 10 pages) should be sent to the *Organising Secretary, Deptt. of Library and Information Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi - 221005*. adityatripathi(a)hotmail.com aditya(a)bhu.ac.in Last date for submission of full texts of paper(s) is 20.12.2009. *Registration:* Rs. 500/- per participant. The DD / Cash payable in favour of *"National Seminar on Open Source Library Solutions"*, payable at Varanasi. The Registration Fee includes -Conference Kit & Working Lunch / Tea. *Accommodation:* Limited accommodation is available on payment basis on first come first basis. For further enquiry please contact: Coordinator Prof. H. N. PRASAD Head, Deptt. of Library and Information Science Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi- 221 005 Tel: +91 542 6701028 (Off.) +91 9415336709 (Mob.) E-mail: hnprasad.bhu(a)gmail.com Organising Secretary Dr. ADITYA TRIPATHI Lecturer, Deptt. of Library and Information Science Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi- 221 005 Tel: +91 542 6701027 (Off.) +91 9450710628 (Mob.) E-mail: adityatripathi(a)hotmail.com; aditya(a)bhu.ac.in *Registration Form:* Registration form can be downloaded from the Department's website http://www.bhu.ac.in/lis.html or directly from the URL http://www.bhu.ac.in/dlis/osls.pdf KRISHNA NAND SINGH MLIS(BHU) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Peer Training on new Technologies
by Rajan 01 Jan '09

01 Jan '09

Dear All, It is nice that Mr Ehtesham had gone a step ahead in the right way to train his peers. It seems that helping others to learn essential new technologies, that enable them to perform better, is an indirect way to build our professional status. Therefore I am offering my help to those who are interested in learning those technologies, in and around my state. It seems that we should develop some sort of distance training too. Sometime ago I conducted a Distance Training on Digital Archiving using Winisis/Genisis with the help of the site http://rajankila.googlepages.com/ The training went on well and a few among the 88 participants turned up initially, could learn the technology easily. Now one can create free site for digital training using Google site ( http://sites.google.com/) for the purpose. Regards, K Rajasekharan Kerala Institute of Local Administration Thrissur Ph 0487 - 2200244 + 208 ( extn) ------------------------------ Original Message Date: 26 Dec 2008 12:23:32 -0000 From: "Ehtesham" <ehte786(a)rediffmail.com> Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] ICT - Open Source tools for Library ? Dear All, I appreciate and thankful for overwhelming response from LIS community which I got through mails and phone calls. Many members shown there interest in implementing Open Source tools and serve there user best. Yes why not! "when there is a will there is a way". I received number of mails asking for the details - (features and functionality) of the software which can be implemented for their respective libraries. The tools which I suggested in my mail are well known and are being used world wide. I will provide you the Gist and website from where you can get more details and for DSpace and OpenURL suite you can look at my project report (links are provided below). 1. DSpace: It is a well known Digital repository software developed by MIT. It has all the inbuilt features which is required for any ideal institutional repository. Details you can get from the official website of DSpace : http://www.dspace.org/ You can also look at my project report on DSpace testing of its features and functionality. Here is the link : https://drtc.isibang.ac.in/handle/1849/415 2. ePrints: It is a digital library software being used by IISC, IIT for there digital repository. Feature wise it is as good as DSpace. You can look for more details at http://www.eprints.org/ 3. Moodle: It is one of the best free elearning tool used across the world. At DRTC we implemented it for many organisation and conduted workshop and training session. We are using it in our company. Details you can get from : http://moodle.org 4. Joomla & Drupal: - These are free content management system tool. It can be used to manage the different forms of online collection for the organization. Go to there website where you can get more information: http://joomla.org http://drupal.org 5. WordPress : With advent of w3 and the era of web 2.0 it became very easy to become a writer and invite others to read our articles and thought. This tool is meant for such kind of idea. Get more details from http://wordpress.org 6. MediaWiki : Yes Wikipedia are there from centuries to make our self informative on some given subject. Now we are into digital age and our need and volume of information also increased. We need to have information at a single mouse click. So to fulfill all this mediawiki a free tool has been designed. To get more information look at : http://mediawiki.org. 7. OpenURL reSearcher suite (CUFTS, GODOT, DBWIZ): Developed by SFU. This is entirely a new initiative and efforts are being done. You can look at SFU websit and my project report : http://software.lib.sfu.ca/ https://drtc.isibang.ac.in/handle/1849/414 Hope these all will be useful to you. Please let me know if you have any query. I am always open for it and invite other peer members also to join this initiative. As Mr. K Rajasekharan mentioned this will directly or indirectly help us to improve ourselves. Ehtesham (+91)9985100322 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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National Conference & Workshop on High Performance Computing & Applications
by krishna nand singh 31 Dec '08

31 Dec '08

*Conference Themes* Advances in computing and networking, high-end computers, large data stores, and middleware capabilities are ushering in a new era of high-performance parallel and distributed computing. Along with these new capabilities come new challenges. The goal of the 2009 High Performance Computing & Applications (HPCA 2009) is to encourage innovation in high performance computing and communication technologies and to stimulate the use of these technologies in key areas of computer application. It will promote the exchange of ideas and information among universities, industries, and national laboratories about new developments in high performance computing and communication, that address current scientific and technical challenges within the application community. Broad areas of interest include, but not limited to: 1. High Performance Applications 2. Discrete Mathematics and its Applications 3. High Performance Software Tools 4. Distributed and Grid Computing 5. Visualization and Data Management 6. Problem Solving Environments 7. Sequential and Parallel Algorithms and Architectures 8. High Performance Discrete Event Simulation 9. Artificial Intelligence 10. Software Engineering 11. Neuro Computing 12. Bio Informatics/Bio Computing 13. Theory of Computation & Soft Computing 14. Computing Applications etc. Dates TO remember *Full Paper submission : * *Dec 09, 2008 .* *Notification of acceptance: Jan 15, 2009.* *Registration due: Jan 30, 2009.* Call For Papers Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers (up to 10 pages, Single column) on topics related to the areas listed above. Submissions will be evaluated on relevance, technical quality, and exposition. Papers must not have appeared before (or be pending) in a journal or conference with published proceedings, nor may they be under review or submitted to another forum during the HPCA-2009 review process. All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings. Papers should be submitted electronically (in PDF or DOC format). At least one author of an accepted paper must register for the conference and must present the paper at the conference. The conference proceeding will be published. Please send the Abstracts along with the Registration form, giving your (1) Name, (2) Designation, (3) Institution, (4) Address with email ID (5) Title of the paper (6) Telephone /Fax/ Email (7) Accommodation needed/ not needed, to: *Dr P. K. Mishra* * Convener, HPCA-2009* * Dept. of Computer Science* * BHU Varanasi-221005 * * (email: hd_cs(a)bhu.ac.in or hpcabhu(a)gmail.com).* Accommodation is limited and will be arranged with in the University Campus on the basis of first come first serve. However, on advance intimation, hotel accommodation can also be arranged on additional payment. Registration *Registration Fee* is as follows: *Participants Amount* *Student * Rs. 600/- *Academic * Rs. 1200/- *Industry * Rs. 2000/- *Others * Rs. 1500/- Please download the registration form. <http://www.bhu.ac.in/seminar/HPCA2009/registrationform.doc>Registration Fee should be payable by bank draft in favour of *"Convener, HPCA-2009, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi-221005" *(due from 30 Jan 2009). The draft along with registration form should be sent to *Dr. P.K. Mishra* *Convener,* *HPCA-2009,* *Department of Computer Science,* * Banaras Hindu University,* * Varanasi- 221005 (India).* KRISHNA NAND SINGH MLIS(BHU) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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vacancy
by Manoj Verma 31 Dec '08

31 Dec '08

Library Assistants (Permanent position) and Library Trainees (One year Contract), The NSHM Knowledge Campus, Kolkata Posted: 29 Dec 2008 01:36 AM PST Last Date of Application: 8th January 2009. For Library Assistants, applicants should be 1/2 years of experience from a reputed organization with 1st class MLIS and well versed in computer application in Library Science. Pay scale as per AICTE norms. For Library Trainee, The applicants should be fresh MLIS and well versed in computer application in Library Science. Duration of Training is for a period of one year with no guarantee of continued employment (purely temporary/contractual basis), carrying a stipend of Rs.5000/- per month with no other facilities / benefits, as applicable to regular employees, excepting contractual leave. Please send the Bio-Data with latest passport size photograph to nihar.kanta.patra(a)nshm.com -- MANOJ KUMAR M.Sc.(Phys), MLISc,M.PHIL.(LIS), ADCA,UGC-NET(June & Dec.2006) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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questions for the post of librarian
by prabhat kumar 31 Dec '08

31 Dec '08

anybody please send samples questions which are generally asked in the examination for librarian in kendriya vidyalay sangthan. i shall be highly thankful to u prabhat prabhatk.bhu -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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New Searching and Browsing Tools for Open Access (OA) English Language Journals Launched Today
by Badan Barman 30 Dec '08

30 Dec '08

The platform *LIS Links: Link Library of Open Access English Language Journals **http://lislinks.blogspot.com/* <http://lislinks.blogspot.com/> is launched today for searching and browsing free of cost for more than 3200 Open Access English Language Journals in more than 100 subject / branch of knowledge from all over the world. I personally feel great, if you post this massage over other blog/forum/group, make a search and use the platform and further promote the platform in front of your professional colleague and comments on the platform. -- Thanking you Yours faithfully (Sri Badan Barman) Academic Consultant, Library & Information Science, Krishna Kanta Handique State Open University, Housefed Complex, Last Gate, Dispur, Guwahati-781006, Assam, Phone: 0361-2234964 / 2235971, Fax: 0361- 2235398. Website: www.kkhsou.org, Email: kkhsou(a)gmail.com, kkhsoul(a)gmail.com Research Scholar: Department of Library & Information Science, Gauhati University, Guwahati-781014, Assam. Email: dlisgu(a)gmail.com. ---------------------------------------------------------- LIS in India: What's are going on? LIS Links: A Link Library in LIS: http://lislinks.110mb.com LIS Links: Jobs in LIS in India: http://lisjob.blogspot.com/ LIS Links: Upcoming Seminars, Conferences, Workshops & Refresher Courses in LIS in India: http://lisseminar.blogspot.com LIS Links: Latest Happenings & Contemporary Issues in LIS: http://lislatest.blogspot.com LIS Links: Awards, Prizes, Scholarships or Fellowships in LIS: : http://lisscholarship.blogspot.com/ LIS Links: Admission Notice for Courses in LIS in India: http://liscourse.blogspot.com/ Ning: LIS Links Contributors: http://lislinks.ning.com/ Google Groups: LIS Links Users: http://groups.google.co.in/group/lislinks?hl=en&lnk=srg -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Status of Librarian
by S K DEsale 30 Dec '08

30 Dec '08

Dear professional friends, I am very thankful to you for extending overwhelming response for our call for meeting to discuss the status of library professionals and how we can improve it. I am also thankful to professionals who could not make it but convey their support to the movement. Friends I am glad to inform you that as many as 62 librarians attended the meeting chaired by Dr. S. K. Patil (Librarian, University of Pune) and almost everybody express their views on the matter concern. All participants express the need of the strong organization & a forum where everybody can have a say & it will work for the development of LIS professionals. Accordingly "Pune University librarians forum" was launched. After the discussions in the meeting and on the different forums I suggest that the forum should have following objectives 1) To train library professionals for using new technology, effective communication & designing need base services. 2) Design Information literacy modules (for students from 11th std to PG) and ask librarians to train students in information literacy (Most of librarians are interested in delivering lectures in colleges) 3) Develop e-learning modules for continuous learning of LIS professionals 4) Organize periodic workshops for training in handling latest technology. open source software's, to develop communication skill etc. 5) Provide consultancy services for automation, digitization & setting up of new libraries etc. 6) Convey our grievances to Govt. on the matters of staffing pattern, Reserved seats in senate, Separate faculty of LIS, appointment of qualified librarians at all colleges as per UGC scale, inclusion of LIS subject in the list of electives for MPSC & UPSC exam etc. Please send your suggestions. With best Regards Mr. S. K. Desale Asst. Librarian Jayakar library University of Pune. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Congradulations to Mr. N. V. Satyanarayana
by DINESH SIDDAIAH 30 Dec '08

30 Dec '08

Dear Friends, On behalf of Nagarjuna College of Engineering & Technology and my personal behalf, I congradulate Mr. N. V. Satyanarayana, Chiarman & Managing Director, Informatics (India) Limited, for his new role of Chief of Library & Knowledge Networks of Karnataka Knowledge Commision. The Karnataka Knowledge Commision has constituted six working groups to interact with the various government departments and obtain feedback and recommendations. Thanking You, Dinesh K. S. Dinesh K. S. Selection Grade Librarian, Nagarjuna College of Engineering & Technology, Devanahalli, Bengaluru - 562 110. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Fw: Final reminder: Only two days left to enter SciDev.Net's prize draw!
by Prof. N. Laxman Rao. 29 Dec '08

29 Dec '08

Prof. N.LAXMAN RAO, Professor of Library & Information Science, & Director, UGC-Academic Staff College (Retd), 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 --- On Mon, 29/12/08, SciDev.Net <info(a)scidev.net> wrote: From: SciDev.Net <info(a)scidev.net> Subject: Final reminder: Only two days left to enter SciDev.Net's prize draw! To: "Laxman Rao N" <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> Date: Monday, 29 December, 2008, 4:30 PM Final reminder: Our 7th anniversary prize draw closes in two days. Encourage your friends and colleagues to sign up before 31 December Dear Laxman Rao N, Help us start 2009 with an even wider and stronger network of members by inviting your friends and colleagues to sign up with SciDev.Net. If they do so in the next two days — by midnight (gmt) on 31 December 2008 — they will be entered into our prize draw for a chance to win a GPS navigator or a solar recharger. And if they identify you as their source when they fill out the online form, you will also be eligible to win one of the prizes. I'd like to thank you if you've already spread the word around, and wish you good luck in the draw. With best wishes for 2009, David Dickson Director, SciDev.Net ************************************ How to enter the prize draw To enter our prize draw, simply ask friends and colleagues you think would be interested in our work to sign up with SciDev.Net. If they do so before 31 December, they will automatically be entered into our prize draw. To ensure you are entered as well, they need to specify your email address upon selecting “Recommendation” as the source in the drop-down menu in question 6. You can forward this email and let them know that by joining you and thousands of other users, they will access FREE quality news, expert views and resources about science and technology from around the developing world. For further details about the prize draw visit: www.scidev.net/en/content/anniversary/ **************************************** Please accept our apologies if you have previously received this message through cross-posting. If you are already registered with us and would like to update your details, or cancel your registration please go to http://www.scidev.net/sign-in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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