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Last Call for Papers (ICoASL 2008) ~V 15 July 2008
by Mailing List Admin 09 Jul '08

09 Jul '08

Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:18:47 -0000 From: parveenbabbar <parveenbabbar(a)yahoo.com> 2008 Special Libraries Association- Asian Chapter SLA (Special Library Association, USA) - Asian Chapter 2008 in association with Society for Library Professionals and Indian Association of Special Libraries and Information Centres (IASLIC) is organizing an "International conference of Asian Special Libraries on Shaping the future of special libraries: beyond boundaries" to be held at India Islamic Cultural Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi, India from 26-28 November 2008. Some of the objectives of the Conference are to bring together special library professionals to a common platform, to promote special libraries, and facilitate the exchange of ideas and help to bridge the knowledge gap amongst the professionals associated with special libraries and to develop the professional competent. This seminar is expected to attract more than 1000 participants from India, Asia and the globe. You are invited to attend the same. For details please visit: http://units.sla.org/chapter/cas/ICoASL2008.html Submission of Papers Participants are welcome to contribute papers for presentation on the above themes and related themes. The Papers should be based on research surveys; case studies or action plans rather than theoretical explanations and should not publish earlier. Papers should be sent to asiansla(a)gmail.com Dates to Remember Last Date for Submission of Abstract/ Proposal - July 15, 2008 Last Date for Submission of Final Papers - September 15, 2008 Early Bird Registration - September 30, 2008 Last Date for Registration - November 15, 2008 For further information, please contact to: P.K.Jain, Organising Secretary, ICoASL 2008. C/o. Institute of Economic Growth, University of Delhi Enclave, DELHI- 110007. India Ph. 91-11-27667463; 27666364; 27666367. Fax: 91-11-27667463; 91-11- 27667410. Cell: 09899110787 Email: asiansla(a)gmail.com ; asianchaptersla(a)yahoo.com Regards Parveen Babbar Member, SLA & Webmaster, SLA Asian Chapter, Treasurer, ICoASL 2008 Assistant Librarian, L&DD, IGNOU New Delhi-110068 Email:parveenbabbar@yahoo.com

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Iam also Agree with Amm Jha
by ladu basappa 09 Jul '08

09 Jul '08

Librarian Profession is Challenging, Dynamic and Ethusiastic. monster .com should stop giving adds like that Salamantapi.L.B M.A.,M.L.I.Sc.PGDLAN.( M.Phil ) Librarian M.S.Engineering College Navarthana Agrahara Sadahalli(PO) Bangalore-562110.Karnataka,india E-Mail:salamantapi2000@yahoo.co.in Mobile-9844374868 --------------------------------- Explore your hobbies and interests. Click here to begin. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Are Intellectual Property Rights Laws holding back progress of science?
by Sukhdev Singh 09 Jul '08

09 Jul '08

Are Intellectual Property Rights Laws holding back progress of science? Yes, argues John Sulston and Joseph Stiglitz in their letter to TIMES. [John Sulston, (Novel prize winner and Chair, Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation, University of Manchester) along with Joseph Stiglitz (Chair, Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester) In a letter "Science is being held back by outdated laws" to TIMES <http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/letters/article4271555.ece>] They say, .."The ideal shared by almost all scientists is that science should be open and transparent, not just in its practices and procedures, but so that the results and the knowledge generated through research should be freely accessible to all. There is a broad consensus in the scientific community that such openness and transparency promotes the advancement of science and enhances the likelihood that the benefits of science are enjoyed by all. For more than a hundred years, these principles have been the bedrock of academia and the scientific community".. --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Negative publicity
by Aman Jha 09 Jul '08

09 Jul '08

Friends, Monster.com's recent advertisement in television portraying librarian as a boaring profession is a negative and bad publicity to the profession. We must protest against it and request the agency whosoever to stop broadcasting such ads. Regards, Aman Jha DISCLAIMER:The information in this message may be privileged. If you have received it by mistake please notify the sender by return e-mail and delete the message from your system. Any unauthorised use or dissemination of this message in whole or in part is strictly prohibited. Any information in this message that does not relate to official business shall be understood to be neither given nor endorsed by the Confederation of Indian Industry. Reach us via our unique Membership Helpline: 00-91-11-435 46244 / 00-99104 46244 (Monday-Saturday: 0900-1700 hrs) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Electronic Papyrus - The Digital Book
by DINESH SIDDAIAH 09 Jul '08

09 Jul '08

Dear Friends, It is a new mobile device, the radius, designed mainly for reading books, magazines, news papers and mail, is the size of a standard cellphone. Flip it open, through, and a screen tucked within the housing opens to a 5-inch diagonal display. The screen looks just like a LCD but can bend so flexibly that it can wrap around a finger. The details of the article may be obtained from "Deccan Hearald" - Bangalore Edition on 09-07-2008. The same reported has been published by "Anne Eisenberg" in "The New York Times" recently. Dinesh K. S. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Pondicherry Central University needs Prof, Reader and Lecturers for the DLIS
by Arunachalam Hariharan 09 Jul '08

09 Jul '08

Pondicherry Central University Advertised the following posts for the Dept of Library and Information Science 1 Professor - 1 2. Reader - 2 3. Lecturer - 2 For more details, pl see the Hindu dt 09.7.2008 A.Hariharan SERC Chennai -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Librarian (SG) IITMK Thiruvananthapuram
by J. K. Vijayakumar 08 Jul '08

08 Jul '08

Applications are invited from Indian nationals for Position: Librarian (SG) First class Master’s degree in Library Science / Information Science / documentation or an equivalent professional degree and consistently good academic record throughout. Experience in computerization of library functions. Minimum five years experience as a Librarian in a reputed organization. Desirable: Mphil/Ph.D degree in Library Science / Information science/documentation/Archives and Manuscript – Keeping/computerization of Library. Proven experience, leadership and initiatives in design, development, management and conducting courses, training programmes and coordinating projects in the area. Proven record of innovations is also desirable. Scale of pay : 12000-420-18300 Age Limit : Less than or equal to 45 years. Last date: July 14, 2008 More details at http://www.iiitmk.ac.in/iiitmk/IIITMK_Tenders/index.html -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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From Bidyarthi Dutta
by bidyarthidutta 08 Jul '08

08 Jul '08

Dear Mr. Aman Jha I completely agree with you. The AD published by Monster.com is abusing our profession. This kind of AD will leave wrong impact about our profession to the common people. We must protest it. But the remarkable point is that, most of the common people still think libraries are just book-store and librarians are just polished book-keepers. We have been taught in our BLIS and MLIS classes that libraries are sociocultural institutions, information centres, etc. etc. and so on. But how many people are aware of that? The basic fault lies in our exam-based education system and exams are also suggestion-based. In our education-system students are forced to swallow some questions and answers, and to vomit that pulp on the answer script. After passing an exam almost all lessons studied turn fruitless in the context or real life experience. In such worthless education system the scope of library work is absolutely limited. How many PG/UG students of any university/college do regular reference work in library? Most of them solely depend on class-notes and cheap note-books available in the market. Such an education system hardly requires library. The teachers are mostly interested in spoon-feeding rather than academic discussions with the students. Teachers are also helpless, because everything is exam-oriented. exam brings degree, degree brings job, job brings money and security. Hence, there is no other way to avoid exam, and, in turn, to escape note-swallowing and answer-vomitting education system. This is a vicious circle of idiocy, that control today's knowledge society. We are living in an age where idiocy is disguished in knowledge.This is our tragedy. Our education system has been turned into a big education bazaar, where the education policies are framed by the businessman rather than the educationists. Education is a big profit-making business today, where the central commodity is degree-holding-certificate.It is obvious that the businessmen are interested in their profit, and least bother the contents taught to the pupil. I personally feel this profession a very challenging and enlightening one. Everyday I collect new pebbles out of my profession. Mere providing good service to the library-users is not sufficient for the library-professionals; We have to bring those people in the library, who have never stepped in there. And also to convert seldom library-users to regular library-user.Only we, the library professionals can change the common people's view about library; and the "Monsters" (monster.com) will then stare us with a reverential sight. Thanking you Sincerely yours Bidyarthi Bidyarthi Dutta Librarian St. Xavier's College (An autonomous PG college affiliated to University of Calcutta) 30, Park Street Kolkata 700016; India URL: www.sxccal.edu Ph. 033-22877278(O) 033-24734766(R) Fax: 033-22879966 Email: bidyarthi.bhaswati(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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Re: [LIS-Forum] Negative publicity
by Puna Das 08 Jul '08

08 Jul '08

Dear Members You can find many library professional positions in Monster India website. If it is a negative publicity, then why Monster India advertises for library positions? I don't think this TV advertisement is a negative publicity to a profession. This is only creativity for the sake of advertisement, like many other funny advertisements. Still if you are not convinced, remove your profile from the site and/or stop advertise there. With Best Wishes Anup ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Anup Kumar Das New Delhi, India http://www.anup-jnu.blogspot.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ --- On Mon, 7/7/08, Aman Jha <aman.jha(a)ciionline.org> wrote: From: Aman Jha <aman.jha(a)ciionline.org> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Negative publicity To: "Lis forum" <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Date: Monday, 7 July, 2008, 3:15 PM Friends, Monster.com's recent advertisement in television portraying librarian as a boaring profession is a negative and bad publicity to the profession. We must protest against it and request the agency whosoever to stop broadcasting such ads. Regards, Aman Jha Bollywood, fun, friendship, sports and more. You name it, we have it on http://in.promos.yahoo.com/groups/bestofyahoo/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Negative publicity
by mangesh j ghodke 08 Jul '08

08 Jul '08

Dear Mr. Aman, Rizwan, Ms. Vandana K. & other professionals,I have not seen the advt yet. But if you find it misleading, certainly we need to raise objection for the same.Following governing body of Adverting Industry play crucial role in dealing with complaints against Advertisements in any form.'Advertising Standards Council of India' is a self regulatory voluntary organization of the advertising industry.The Role and Functioning of the ASCI & its CCC in dealing with Complaints received from Consumers and Industry, against Advertisements which are considered as False, Misleading, Indecent, Illegal, leading to Unsafe practices, or Unfair to competition, and consequently in contravention of the ASCI Code for Self-Regulation in Advertising.http://www.ascionline.org/You can file online complaints individually.  Mr. Mangesh Ghodke Librarian, Larsen & Toubro Infotech Ltd., Tel.: 67953011 Fax: 27612580 / 82 Mob.: 09892201993 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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