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library trainee
by krottapalli ratnakar 06 Jun '08

06 Jun '08

Dear Members, Can you send me the list of Govt. organiztions which are paying more than Rs 5000/- for library apprentices/Trainees (K. V.. Ratnakar) ICMR Hqrs Ansari Nagar, New Delhi-29 Share files, take polls, and make new friends - all under one roof. Go to http://in.promos.yahoo.com/groups/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Big Buck Bunny: open content movie
by Vimal Kumar 06 Jun '08

06 Jun '08

Dear Friends, The Amsterdam based 'Blender Institute' announced release of the short 3D animation movie 'Big Buck Bunny'. "The primary intent of the movie was to stimulate the development of open source 3D software" said producer and Institute director Ton Roosendaal, "But the result equals on artistic level as well as on technical ingenuity the quality of what you would expect from large animation studios". The movie differentiates itself mostly by its totally open character. Not only open source tools such as the 3D suite Blender were used to create the movie, but also the movie itself - including all assets as used in the animation studio - will be freely accessible for everybody to reuse, to learn from it or just to enjoy it. The promotion of Open Content creation and distribution is one of the main goals of the Creative Commons, the organization that created the 'Creative Commons' licenses, which have been widely adopted by artists, musicians, and other creative individuals who wish to freely share their creative endeavors. Blender Institute in Amsterdam is one of the first companies worldwide exploiting Open Content professionally and commercially. Big Buck Bunny is a comedy about a well-tempered rabbit "Big Buck", who finds his day spoiled by the rude actions of the forest bullies, three rodents. In the typical 1950ies cartoon tradition Big Buck then prepares for the rodents a comical revenge. You can download the movie here, http://www.bigbuckbunny.org/ -- Vimal Kumar V. Asst. Librarian Asian School of Business Technopark, Trivandrum-695 581 Web: www.asb.edu.in/vimal/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt" -Patrick White -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Nomination invited for SALIS Awards (4 awards) for the year 2008
by Arunachalam Hariharan 05 Jun '08

05 Jun '08

Nominations are invited for SALIS Awards for the year 2008 SALIS AWARDS I. National Awards 1. Dr. Harish Chandra-Sushila Chandra Best Librarian Award (National Level Award) SALIS has instituted a national level Dr. Harish Chandra-Sushila Chandra Best Librarian Award, sponsored by Dr. Harish Chandra, Librarian, Indian Institute of Technology, to encourage the library professionals. (pl visit http://harichandra.net for more details) 2. A.N.Marappan Memorial National Best Young Librarian Award (Below 40 years) (National Level award) SALIS hasinstituted a national award sponsored by the trust 'Amarar A.N.Marappan Ninaivu Elakiaya Mandaram', Athani, Erode Dist, Tamil Nadu. A.M.Venkatachalam, Librarian, Jansons School of Business, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu established the trust in the memory of his father in the year 1998. The aim of the award is to encourage young library professionals who contribute more to the profession. II. State Level Awards 1. AutoLib-Tamilnadu-Best Librarian Award 2. AutoLib-Tamilnadu-Best Young Librarian Award SALIS has instituted Autolib-Tamilnadu-Best Librarian Award and Autolib-Tamilnadu-Best Young Librarian Award (below 40 years) sponsored by M/s.AutoLib Software Systems for the Library Professionals working in Tamilnadu. The main aim of the award is to identify the professional who contributes more to our profession and recognize him/her every year. Eligibility Criteria for all the Awards 1. Applicant/Nominee should be a citizen of India and his/her conduct must be good. 2. The applicant should be a working library professional who holds at least Bachelors degree in library science or its equivalent. 3. Interested professionals should apply in the prescribed application form only 4. Nomination can be self or by a responsible library professional 5. Give full details for each category and attach support documents for verification 6. Enclose separate sheets wherever necessary to give details 7. Applications without full details and support documents will be rejected 8. The application form can be downloaded from SALIS website http://autolib-india.net or can be obtained by e-mail to salis_info(a)yahoo.co.in 9. Filled application should reach the office on or before 15.07.2008 10. The decision of the committee constituted by SALIS to select the candidate for the award is final. 11. Award Committee has the right to post-pone or cancel the award for any unavoidable reason. 12. All correspondence should be addressed to the Convener, SALIS Award Committee, SALIS, B2-Solai Apartment, Opp. to MGR Garden, Mount-Poonamallee Road, Chennai 600 089. Any enquires about the award may be sent to the Convener at salis_info(a)yahoo.co.in Note: 1. Library Professionals working any where in India can apply for the award Dr. Harish Chandra-Sushila Chandra Best Librarian Award (National Level) and A.N.Marappan Memorial National Best Young Librarian Award. 2. Library professionals working in Tamilnadu only can apply for the awards AutoLib-Tamilnadu-Best Librarian Award and AutoLib-Tamilnadu-Best Young Librarian Award (Below 40 years) Please vist SALIS website http://autolib-india.net/salis for more details of the award and download application forms Convener SALIS Award Committee salis_info(a)yahoo.co.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Scheme of Financial Assistance for Preservation of Manuscripts/Rare Books
by Sanjo Jose 04 Jun '08

04 Jun '08

Dear Subscriber, National Archives of India has a scheme to help individuals and organizations in cataloguing, translation, and digitization of manuscripts and rare books. Under this scheme, a maximum of Rs. 2 lakhs is available per year for each approved project. Voluntary Organizations, Educational Institutions including Private Colleges, Private Libraries, Museums and Universities including deemed Universities, Religious Institutions, Freedom Fighters and Individuals having hereditary collections of manuscripts/records of historical importance are eligible for financial assistance under this scheme. A brochure in PDF is available at http://nationalarchives.nic.in/Brochure.pdf For more details: http://www.nationalarchives.nic.in/financial.html Email : archives(a)nic.in Sanjo Jose From Chandigarh to Chennai - find friends all over India. Go to http://in.promos.yahoo.com/groups/citygroups/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Dublin Core metadata editor
by Nihar Patra 04 Jun '08

04 Jun '08

Dear LIS Professional !!! Greetings !!!! Please visit the sites http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcdot/ for creating Dublin Core metadat... This service will retrieve a Web page and automatically generate Dublin Core metadata <http://uk.dublincore.org/>, either as HTML <meta> tags or as RDF/XML, suitable for embedding in the <head>...</head> section of the page. The generated metadata can be edited using the form provided and converted to various other formats (USMARC, SOIF, IAFA/ROADS, TEI headers, GILS, IMS or RDF) if required. Optional, context sensitive, help is available while editing. With regards, Nihar K patra Librarian ( (Assistant General Manager) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Invitation for III Dr. T.B. Rajashekar Memorial Lecture- Reminder
by Ramya Krishna 04 Jun '08

04 Jun '08

Dear Members/Friends, On Behalf of NCSI-Net, an informal association comprising of NCSI staff, trainees,and its alumni, we cordially invite you to the III Dr. T.B. Rajashekar Memorial Lecture. The details of the lecture are given below: Title: "Scientometrics with special emphasis on measuring Scientific productivity" (Kindly note that in the previous announcement there was a typographical error in the title of the talk. We are sorry about it) Speaker: Dr. I.K. Ravichandra Rao, Professor and Head Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC) Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Bangalore Date: Saturday, 7th June, 2008 Time: 6.00 PM Venue: Choksi Hall, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (Choksi Hall is located at the entrance of IISc main gate, opposite BHEL) Prof. Giridhar Madras, Chairman, NCSI will preside over the lecture. RSVP: ramya(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in / hipandian(a)gmail.com / 22933273 About the Speaker: Prof. Ravichandra Rao is on the Faculty of DRTC, ISI, Bangalore. Currently he is the Head and Professor of DRTC. Earlier, he was Head of the Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore Centre from Oct. 2002 to Sept. 07 Prof. Rao joined DRTC in 1970. Since then he is been involved in teaching and research in applied statistics, (-- bibliometrics / informetrics and scientometrics), programming, library automation, information retrieval, information management and DBMS with special emphasis on bibliographical databases. He has been on several UNESCO/UNDP missions. Prof. Rao has also worked as a Visiting Professor at Limburgs University (now known as University of Hasselt), Diepenbeek, Belgium in 1990, 2001,2007 and at Addis Ababa University in 1990. He has visited a number of library schools in India as a resource person to deliver a series of special lectures. In the early 1970's he was involved in developing software to provide SDI service based on locally developed databases. This software was implemented for the first time in India on an experimental basis at BHEL, Hyderabad in 1975. Prof. Rao was a founder Executive Committee Member of the International Society for Scientometrics / Informetrics, The Netherlands. till 2005. Prof. Rao's research interests include growth and obsolescence of literature, library statistics, theories of bibliometrics, scientometrics and informetrics; Library automation, information retrieval, information management, in addition to the development of software for library applications. Based on his research and teaching experience, he has authored two books (-- Quantitative Methods in Library and Information Science and Library Automation (it has been translated into Portuguese language.)) Both the books have been recognized as textbooks for students at the post-graduate level in some of the Indian and foreign Universities. He has edited a number of seminar volumes both at the national and international levels and also was a Guest Editor for a few journals in Information field in India. He has more than sixty research papers to his credit and has reviewed a number of books and articles. 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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Project Assistant Position at NCSI
by Francis Jayakanth 04 Jun '08

04 Jun '08

NCSI needs a Project Assistant for its ongoing Science Observatory Project. The candidate needs to possess a minimum qualification of a First Class Master's degree in Library and Information Science preferably with NCSI/DRTC experience. The candidate should be familiar with searching databases such as Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar and Bibliometric/ Scientometric Analysis. The position is for a period of 4 months after which it may be extended based on a review. Please apply with your CV to venky(a)library.iisc.ernet.in on or before 15th June 2008. -- Dr. S. Venkadesan Librarian JRD Tata Memorial Library Indian Institute of Science Bangalore-560012 INDIA Ph: +91 80 23601653 + 91 80 22932408 Fax: +91 80 23601653 E-Mail- venky(a)library.iisc.ernet.in venkys(a)gmail.com Dr. S. Venkadesan (Venky) DQ-8, Indian Institute of Science Campus, BANGALORE-560012 INDIA Gmail- venkys(a)gmail.com

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ISIS3 - What is ABCD? - first nugget (fwd)
by Sainul Abideen P 04 Jun '08

04 Jun '08

Forwarded message regarding the forthcoming Integrated Library Automation Software from ISIS family ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Dear colleagues, As previously anounced, here comes a first note or information nugget about ABCD = Automation of Libraries and Documentation Centers. ABCD is a long held aspiration for the ISIS community, since the first MS-DOS version came out more than 20 years ago. Finally, this aspiration is about to come true. We'll first present a list of its basic functionalities and attributes. In further nuggets we'll give details about each of them. * ABCD is an integrated library management software comprising the main basic library functions: · Definition of any number of new databases (similar to Winisis), which includes: FDT, PFT, FST, and worksheets directly on the Web, or copying from existing ones either from the Web or from Winisis on a local hard disk, · cataloguing of books and serials, independently of the format: MARC, LILACS, AGRIS, etc. · end-user searching (OPAC), · loans circulation, · acquisitions, · statistics, · library services like SDI, barcode printing, quality control, etc. * The software will be compatible with CDS/ISIS database technology for the bibliographic databases, i.e. reading ISIS-databases and making use of ISIS Formatting Language (or something functionally similar) for producing output (PFT) and indexing (FST) of records; * The software will run on both Windows and Linux platforms; * The software will allow the use of MARC-21 cataloging formats and other current standards or protocols (Dublin Core, METS, Z39.50...); * The software will be published as Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) with the accompanying tools for the developer community; * The software will be intrinsically multi-lingual, with English, Spanish, Portuguese and French interfaces being available by the end of 2008; * The software will be fully documented for system-managers in at least one language, preferably English, by the end of 2008; * UNICODE-compatibility will at least be envisaged and prepared, if not in the actual version then for an upcoming future version, which is part of the ISIS-NBP paralell project; * A testing version will be ready by September 2008 to be presented in the 3rd World Isis Meeting; * This version and manuals will be used as training materials for an international Training Workshop on the software in March 2009. More information about the ISIS3 Congress can be found at the official congress website: Spanish http://www.eventos.bvsalud.org/agendas/isis3/?lang=es English http://www.eventos.bvsalud.org/agendas/isis3/?lang=en Portuguese http://www.eventos.bvsalud.org/agendas/isis3/?lang=pt Regards Ernesto Spinak thanks to Wenke Adams for the translation -- .^. .^. ( ) ( ) === === =[=]================================[=]= | | Ernesto Spinak | | | | spinaker(a)adinet.com.uy | | | | Montevideo, Uruguay | | | | tel/fax (5982) 622-3352 | | | | celular (598) 99612238 | | =[=]================================[=]= === === ( ) ( ) V V -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Dewey Training Courses
by Vimal Kumar 04 Jun '08

04 Jun '08

Dear Friends, DDC training materials now available at OCLC website on the needs of experienced librarians who need Dewey application training. They will also be useful as supplementary materials in other Dewey training contexts, e.g., teaching Dewey to LIS students. The materials will include a basic course<http://www.oclc.org/dewey/resources/teachingsite/200801/default.htm#basic>on the structure and use of the DDC, plus a series of short modules<http://www.oclc.org/dewey/resources/teachingsite/200801/default.htm#short>based on special topics. http://www.oclc.org/dewey/resources/teachingsite/200801/default.htm All the best -- Vimal Kumar V. Asst. Librarian Asian School of Business Technopark, Trivandrum-695 581 Web: www.asb.edu.in/vimal/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt" -Patrick White -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Survey Report: Attitude towards profession of LIS-Forum participants
by Sukhdev Singh 03 Jun '08

03 Jun '08

Dear Friends, As you know, I had sent an online questionnaire on LIS-Forum. This was to test a feature of Google Docs by which online surveys can be conducted conveniently. Most of you had written in the comments box that the results be made public. I am doing the same through this email. Later on I will put this report on some OA Repository. Since file attachments are not allowed, you may view the report interlaced with graphics from the following link - http://snipr.com/lissurvey or ask me by direct mail for PDF File. I am also trying to reproduce the text of the report here: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attitude towards profession of participants of an online discussion forum of Library and Information Science Professionals By Sukhdev Singh, Email: esukhdev at gmail dot com. [This document and the associated data can be freely distributed and used according to Creative Commons license - Attribution-No Derivative Works 2.5 India - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.5/in/] Introduction: Online discussion forums are one of earliest form of online communication among people with common interests. Many of these forums are meant for people associated with a profession. LIS-Forum (LIS-Forum, 2008) is such an email based discussion forum (list-serv) for Library and Information Science (LIS) Professionals. It has been there since 1995 (Rajashekar, 2002) and now has more than 4100 subscribers. This online forum is the most popular and oldest in India. It has wide spread subscription base among Library and Information Professionals from India. It also has decent subscribers from outside India. It would be matter of interest to know what these subscribers think of LIS profession. Why did they entered into this profession? Was it a pure chance, lack of alternatives or deliverate choice? What is their attitude towards the core philosphy of the profession. A brief survey was done on the subscribers in the month of April 2008 to get some insight on these issues. However, the basic objective of this survey was to demonstrate a feature of Google Docs' online spreadsheet (Google Docs, 2008) that can to exploited to conduct online surveys. Methodology: An online questionnaire was created using Google Docs' online spreadsheet (Singh, Conduct Research and Surveys Online: Design, Send and Get Results Directly in Spreadsheet Using Google Docs, 2008). Google Docs has a feature to create an online form and link back it to a spreadsheet on its server. The data entered through forms gets entered directly into this linked spreadsheet. The questionnaire can be sent directly through email to target survey participants. Most email clients and web based emails services can directly display the form in email of the recipients. The recipient can fill in the values and click on submit button. In case the form is not displayed properly, a link to the online form is always there for the recipient to visit and respond. A very simple survey questionnaire (Singh, LIS Motivation Survey, 2008) was created. The objective was to collect only minimal but relevant information. No personal details were collected. Only four questions were asked. Three were close-ended questions where the respondents had to just click on options. The last question was open-ended asking comments from respondents. These questions were asked: • Your Age Group? • Your Occupation? • Why you choose LIS Profession? • Any comments? The questionnaire was mailed to LIS-Forum. The LIS-Forum moderator approved the email containing the survey on 21st April 2008. The responses started pouring in from 11:01 A.M. First day saw most of the responses. On third day, the responses tampered to just three responses. However, responses kept pouring in even later. The last response that was included in the study is the 57th response received on 3rd May 2008. Analysis: 1. Age Groups: The responses were grouped age-wise. Most responses (42%) were from respondents in the age group of 25 -30 years. This was followed (30%) by those in the age group of 31-35. Thus this relatively young age group of 25 to 35 years combined together formed 72% of responses. Age Groups Total Above 60 1 Between 25 - 30 24 Between 31 - 35 17 Between 36 - 40 2 Between 41 - 45 4 Between 46 - 50 3 Between 51- 55 3 Between 56 - 60 1 Under 25 2 Grand Total 57 2. Occupations: Most respondents (65%) were employed in LIS domain. Apart from these 10% were employed in LIS domain as well research students. While 7% more were doing correspondence courses to improve their qualifications while in service. Thus 82% of the respondents were employed in LIS domain. Only one (2%) respondent was working in non-LIS domain. Respondents' Occupations Total Employed but LIS Student of Distant / Correspondence Course 4 Employed in LIS Domain 37 Employed in non-LIS Domain 1 Research Only 2 Research Only, Employed but LIS Student of Distant / Correspondence Course 1 Research, but Employed 6 Research, but Employed, Employed in LIS Domain 2 Retired 1 Student – MLIS 1 Student - MLIS, Employed in LIS Domain 1 Student - MLIS, Research, but Employed 1 Grand Total 57 3. Reason for Joining Library and Information Science (LIS) Profession: Interestingly, almost half (46%) of the persons said they loved the philosophy of LIS profession. Twenty percent of the people said that they joined the profession because jobs were / are easily available. About same number (23%) of people said that they did not care to know much it before joining. Reason for choosing LIS Profession Total I had to do something, What is your problem? 2 I loved the philosophy of the profession 26 I was employed in another field, studied LIS during job and now I am well off. 1 Jobs are / were easily available in LIS 11 Just joined it without caring what it is all about 13 Nothing better was available to me 1 Wanted to spend some more time at university 2 (blank) Grand Total 56 Breaking down responses by two major age groups (25-30 and 31-35) revealed an interesting fact. In 25-30 age group, 9 out of 24 (37.5%) respondents said that they did not care what the profession was all about while joining it. However, in the age group of 31-35, only 1 out of 16 (6.25%) said so. This gives an indication that people tend to love core philosophy of the profession with passage of time. 4. Respondents' General Comments: There was an open ended question asking comments of the respondents. Most of the people wanted to know the results of this survey. Some were with very positive comments towards the profession. At the same time, few were very critical about joining the profession. One person even thought to the extent that juniors are being exploited by their senior professionals. Limitation of study: The questionnaire had a very poor response. It would be risky to draw major conclusions from this study. This study can only reflect the views of active LIS-Forum subscribers who opted to respond. Conclusion: Though the response rate was poor, but still the study does tell about the attitude of active participants of the LIS-Forum who decided to respond promptly. Majority of the responses came within 48 hours. The methodology of the survey, that is using Google Docs, hence has been tested. This methodology works and thus can be used for online surveys. This study also showed that relatively young people from the age group of 25 to 35 years are active on online forum for LIS professionals. This active population either has positive attitude towards the philosophy of profession or consider LIS as a career. Moreover, their commitment and love towards the professional philosophy increases with time. Further studies on this issue are required. The spreadsheet containing the survey responses is being shared as open data to help future similar studies (LIS motivation survey: spreadsheet with survey responses, 2008). To maintain privacy, the comments field has been deleted from this spreadsheet. References Google Docs. (2008). Retrieved June 3, 2008, from http://docs.google.com/ LIS motivation survey: spreadsheet with survey responses. (2008, June 3). Retrieved June 3, 2008, from http://snipr.com/2bvu5 LIS-Forum. (2008). Retrieved June 3, 2008, from LIS-Forum: Discussion Forum for Library and Information Professionals in India: http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum Rajashekar, T. (2002, Oct 1). LIS-Forum: A brief history. Retrieved June 1, 2008, from http://snipr.com/lishistory Singh, S. (2008, April 25). Conduct Research and Surveys Online: Design, Send and Get Results Directly in Spreadsheet Using Google Docs. Retrieved June 1, 2008, from http://snipr.com/gdsurvey Singh, S. (2008, April 19). LIS Motivation Survey. Retrieved June 1, 2008, from http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=p4GBbR26ZPytvtls2v-qhBw -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks, Sukhdev Singh (9868960074) NIC -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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