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TALKING WEBSITE
by Shaheen, Farooque 13 May '08

13 May '08

IT major IBM India Private Limited is now working on a talking website at its India Research Laboratory. This will ensure that even the unlettered can create a website and access information from others for business transactions. Disclosing the details to Business Standard, IBM India Research Laboratory Director Guruduth Banavar said pilots of the project have been completed and were in the final stages. The highlight is that it will be a spoken website. An individual can call up the registry (agency) to create a site for him. There will be a list of services and products available, the price and time frame set for him. The clients will call up the same registry to perform a 'search'. Instead of keying it on a computer, they will spell out the requirements. The registry will throw up choices that are closest to the search criterion. Banavar said several such registries will be created for locale and product-specific talking websites. "This project is scalable and can be used across sectors,'' he said, adding that the booming mobile revolution in India was the basis for this mobile-web initiative. This also transcends language barriers. The idea is to reach out to a large section of the population and this will eventually be part of the IBM business units. http://www.business-standard.com/common/news_article.php?leftnm=8&autono=32… Thanks & Regards Farooque Shaheen Manager- Information Services Keane India Pvt Ltd. +91-80-26678388 Ext 4105 (Tel) ______________________________________________________________________ Disclaimer: This communication, along with any documents, files or attachments, is confidential, intended only for the use of the recipient(s) named above and may contain information that is legally privileged, attorney work product or otherwise exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient(s) or have received this message in error, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of any information contained in or attached to this communication is strictly prohibited; instructed to immediately notify the sender by return email or by a phone call to the sender; and required to delete this message from your computer. This communication does not form any contractual obligation on behalf of the sender, the sender's employer or such employer's parent company, affiliates or subsidiaries. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Invitation - Symposium
by SRELS 13 May '08

13 May '08

Dear Moderator, Kindly arrange to announce the following symposium for the benefit of lis-forum members. Thanking you, Yours truly, K.N. Prasad Executive Officer, SRELS, Bangalore ***** Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science (SRELS) 702, 'Upstairs', 42nd Cross, III Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalore 560 010 in association with Ranganathan Centre for Information Studies, Bangalore invites you to a Symposium on the Design and Development of Bi-lingual- and Multi-lingual Thesaurus for Information Indexing and Retrieval Lead by Dr. K.S. Raghavan Professor, Documentation Research and Training Centre Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore on Saturday, 31st May 2008 at 2.30 p.m. at Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science, Bangalore RSVP: Ph: 23305109 E-mail: srels(a)dataone.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography
by Raj K Bhardwaj 13 May '08

13 May '08

Dear Friends, Electronic theses and Dissertation bibliography version 2 is available at below mentioned link. http://www.digital-scholarship.org/etdb/etdb.htm The bibliography present the selected English language articles and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding electronic these and dissertations(ETD) Raj Kumar Bhardwaj Hon'ble Judges Library High Court of Punjab and Haryana, Chandigarh -- http://raajchd.googlepages.com/home " There is a difference between an objective and actions. Unless you understand your objective, you will be wasting your time in actions. Know your objective first " – Swami Vivekananda -- 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] Writings of great Indians on an open access portal (fwd)
by Library 13 May '08

13 May '08

Dear all: To begin with, we planned to include in our IR all the newspaper clippings(1925s and onwards), which are very much in demand by historians of science. We scanned all the newspaper clippings in our archives (relating to Raman) and sought copyright clearance from all the newspapers, (which they gave readily) and posted them in our IR; Then, we showcased all the research output of RRI from 1971 to date, keeping them open access wherever publishers have given permission to authors. The other articles are restricted access and one can e-mail us for a copy; With the above exposure, we hit upon the idea of digitizing all of C.V. Raman's collected works, published by the Indian Academy of Sciences in 6 volumes and followed the following norms: - We first got the Indian Academy's permission to digitize and make pdfs and host in IR; - Then we sought individual publisher's copyright permission for each article/s highlighting that papers published are of historical significance, which needs preservation and wide dissemination by placing in the IR; - Many of the publishers gave copyright clearance with the result that we could host them in our IR and make them open access. For carrying out such a stupendous task, one needs an open mind, sustained effort, dedication and team spirit. Dr.Y.M.Patil Librarian -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Raman Research Institute Library, Tel: +91 80 2361 0122 Extn 250 C V Raman Avenue, Sadashivanagar, Fax: +91 80 2361 0492 Bangalore 560 080, India. Email: library(a)rri.res.in -------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Mon, 12 May 2008, Subbiah Arunachalam wrote: > Dear Sunder and Sathya: > > Thanks very much for your mails. I am requesting Mr Patil of RRI to tell us > the problems RRI faced in putting together of all of Raman's papers and how > they overcame them. > > I am also requesting Mr Pitroda to take up the matter of reducing the age of > the copyright with the government. > > Best wishes. > > Arun > > == > > On 5/12/08, sunder singh bg <bgs(a)nic.in> wrote: >> >> Arun: >> >> In a world of faster rates of obsolescence, copyrights need not remain >> hindrance to OA. While copyrights and the Law are important, >> can the Raman Research Institute or those who created the Raman Archive >> like resources share their experiences? >> >> regards, >> ss/20080512/13:00 >> ----------------------------------- >> >> At 01:49 AM 5/12/2008, sathya wrote: >> >> Arun >> >> The simple solution lies in reducing the age of copyright for all >> literary works from the current 75 years or so to a more reasonable level >> of say less than 10 years. In case of India it is some X number of years >> after the death of the author! Even patents have maximum of 14 years for >> expiry date (Some countries, I think, have 17 years). >> >> OA champions should indeed focus on getting the law makers attention to >> the exceedingly long life for copyright. But any changes in the copyright >> law at global level is a bigger battle! >> >> *Sathya >> *======= >> | *N V Sathyanarayana *| Managing Director *|* *Informatics (India) Ltd* * >> |* 194, R V Road, Basavanagudi *|* Bangalore 560 004. INDIA *|* * >> ww.informindia.co.in* <http://www.informindia.co.in/> | Phone >> +91-80-4038-7777 *|* FAX +91-80-4038-7600 *|* >> >> ------------------------------ >> *From:* Subbiah Arunachalam [ >> mailto:subbiah.arunachalam@gmail.com<subbiah.arunachalam(a)gmail.com>] >> >> *Sent:* Monday, May 12, 2008 5:08 AM >> *To:* sam.pitroda(a)c-sam.com; ratnakar(a)informindia.co.in; >> prgoswami(a)icssr.org; prgoswami(a)hotmail.com; seth(a)delhi.goethe.org; >> hkkaul(a)delnet.ren.nic.in; bgs(a)nic.in; chadha(a)nic.in; naina(a)nic.in; >> giridhar(a)chemeng.iisc.ernet.in >> *Cc:* rrrlf(a)wb.nic.in; library(a)rri.res.in; ard(a)drtc.isibang.ac.in; >> dasgupta_kalpana(a)hotmail.com; lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in; >> nandula.raghuram(a)gmail.com; ragh(a)ces.iisc.ernet.in; naglaxman(a)yahoo.com; >> satyanarayan(a)gmail.com; sathya(a)informindia.co.in; balki(a)serc.iisc.ernet.in; >> dbala(a)lvpei.org; mv(a)mbu.iisc.ernet.in; akolaskar(a)yahoo.com; >> bviswanathan(a)gmail.com >> *Subject:* Writings of great Indians on an open access portal >> >> Friends: >> >> In the US, the writings of the founding fathers of the country are being >> brought into the public domain. Should we not do the same in India for the >> writings of our great leaders (Gandhi, Nehru, Subash Chandra Bose, Patel, >> Rajaji, Tagore and a large number of others)? We can do the same for our >> great scientists (Srinivasa Ramanujan, J C Bose, S N Bose, M N Saha, K S >> Krishnan, H J Bhahba and a number of others; Almost all papers of C V Raman >> are already in the RRI archive). >> >> Best wishes. >> >> Arun >> >> == >> >> *Plan for OA to American Founding Fathers' >> papers<http://www.earlham.edu/%7Epeters/fos/2008/05/plan-for-oa-to-american-foundi…> >> * >> National Archives Creates Plan for Online Access to Founding Fathers >> Papers <http://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2008/nr08-102.html>, >> press release, May 7, 2008. >> >> On Tuesday, May 6, 2008, Archivist of the United States Allen Weinstein >> submitted a report, entitled The Founders Online, to the Committees on >> Appropriations of the U.S. Congress. This report is the National Archives >> response to concerns raised by the Committees that the complete papers of >> America's Founding Fathers are not available online. The Founders Online is >> a plan for providing online access, within a reasonable timeframe, to >> researchers, students and the general public. The report is available >> electronically<http://www.archives.gov/nhprc/publications/founders-report.pdf>at >> the National Archives website. >> >> In announcing the completion of the report, Professor Weinstein said, "We >> feel this plan would provide scholars and the public access to the best >> available versions of the complete papers; it would also protect the >> longstanding interests of the publishers and host organizations which along >> with the Federal government have invested great resources in the past four >> decades. Most importantly, it would build a monument to the Founders of our >> nation in their own words." >> >> The National Archives received suggestions from the editors of the papers >> of John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and >> George Washington, university publishers, and others in crafting a blueprint >> for providing access to the already completed print editions and the raw >> materials for the editions to come. If carried out, the plan ensures that >> interested readers worldwide can see the work in progress with the already >> complete editions accompanied by transcriptions of the papers yet to be >> published. To hasten the transition process, the National Historical >> Publications and Records Commission plans to invest $250,000 as a >> demonstration pilot project. >> >> The plan outlines three basic steps that remain: Digitizing the existing >> 217 volumes and publishing the Papers on a single website to allow for >> research and inquiry across America's Founding Era collections; Transcribing >> and otherwise preparing for publishing on the web the remaining papers >> (approximately 90,000 documents) and replacing these raw materials with >> authoritative annotated versions as these are completed; and Creating an >> independent oversight process to ensure that rigorous performance goals are >> established and met by the parties carrying out all aspects of the work. >> [image: Permanent link to this post] >> <http://www.earlham.edu/%7Epeters/fos/2008/05/plan-for-oa-to-american-foundi…> >> Posted >> by Gavin Baker at 5/10/2008 05:33:00 PM. >> >> >> > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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NET results
by Apurba Jyoti Majumder 12 May '08

12 May '08

Hello professionals, UGC has declared NET December,2007 Results. Hope you will find your number there. Best of Luck visit: http://www.ugc.ac.in/inside/netresults.html http://www.ugc.ac.in/inside/netresults/net07d.pdf -- Apurba Jyoti Majumder, JRF Department of Library & Information Science Gauhati University, Guwahati-781014 Ph: 0-94352-68733 -- 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] Writings of great Indians on an open access portal
by sathya 12 May '08

12 May '08

Arun The simple solution lies in reducing the age of copyright for all literary works from the current 75 years or so to a more reasonable level of say less than 10 years. In case of India it is some X number of years after the death of the author! Even patents have maximum of 14 years for expiry date (Some countries, I think, have 17 years). OA champions should indeed focus on getting the law makers attention to the exceedingly long life for copyright. But any changes in the copyright law at global level is a bigger battle! Sathya ======= | N V Sathyanarayana | Managing Director | Informatics (India) Ltd | 194, R V Road, Basavanagudi | Bangalore 560 004. INDIA | <http://www.informindia.co.in/> ww.informindia.co.in | Phone +91-80-4038-7777 | FAX +91-80-4038-7600 | _____ From: Subbiah Arunachalam [mailto:subbiah.arunachalam@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 5:08 AM To: sam.pitroda(a)c-sam.com; ratnakar(a)informindia.co.in; prgoswami(a)icssr.org; prgoswami(a)hotmail.com; seth(a)delhi.goethe.org; hkkaul(a)delnet.ren.nic.in; bgs(a)nic.in; chadha(a)nic.in; naina(a)nic.in; giridhar(a)chemeng.iisc.ernet.in Cc: rrrlf(a)wb.nic.in; library(a)rri.res.in; ard(a)drtc.isibang.ac.in; dasgupta_kalpana(a)hotmail.com; lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in; nandula.raghuram(a)gmail.com; ragh(a)ces.iisc.ernet.in; naglaxman(a)yahoo.com; satyanarayan(a)gmail.com; sathya(a)informindia.co.in; balki(a)serc.iisc.ernet.in; dbala(a)lvpei.org; mv(a)mbu.iisc.ernet.in; akolaskar(a)yahoo.com; bviswanathan(a)gmail.com Subject: Writings of great Indians on an open access portal Friends: In the US, the writings of the founding fathers of the country are being brought into the public domain. Should we not do the same in India for the writings of our great leaders (Gandhi, Nehru, Subash Chandra Bose, Patel, Rajaji, Tagore and a large number of others)? We can do the same for our great scientists (Srinivasa Ramanujan, J C Bose, S N Bose, M N Saha, K S Krishnan, H J Bhahba and a number of others; Almost all papers of C V Raman are already in the RRI archive). Best wishes. Arun == Plan <http://www.earlham.edu/%7Epeters/fos/2008/05/plan-for-oa-to-american-foundi ng.html> for OA to American Founding Fathers' papers National <http://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2008/nr08-102.html> Archives Creates Plan for Online Access to Founding Fathers Papers, press release, May 7, 2008. On Tuesday, May 6, 2008, Archivist of the United States Allen Weinstein submitted a report, entitled The Founders Online, to the Committees on Appropriations of the U.S. Congress. This report is the National Archives response to concerns raised by the Committees that the complete papers of America's Founding Fathers are not available online. The Founders Online is a plan for providing online access, within a reasonable timeframe, to researchers, students and the general public. The report is available <http://www.archives.gov/nhprc/publications/founders-report.pdf> electronically at the National Archives website. In announcing the completion of the report, Professor Weinstein said, "We feel this plan would provide scholars and the public access to the best available versions of the complete papers; it would also protect the longstanding interests of the publishers and host organizations which along with the Federal government have invested great resources in the past four decades. Most importantly, it would build a monument to the Founders of our nation in their own words." The National Archives received suggestions from the editors of the papers of John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington, university publishers, and others in crafting a blueprint for providing access to the already completed print editions and the raw materials for the editions to come. If carried out, the plan ensures that interested readers worldwide can see the work in progress with the already complete editions accompanied by transcriptions of the papers yet to be published. To hasten the transition process, the National Historical Publications and Records Commission plans to invest $250,000 as a demonstration pilot project. The plan outlines three basic steps that remain: * Digitizing the existing 217 volumes and publishing the Papers on a single website to allow for research and inquiry across America's Founding Era collections; * Transcribing and otherwise preparing for publishing on the web the remaining papers (approximately 90,000 documents) and replacing these raw materials with authoritative annotated versions as these are completed; and * Creating an independent oversight process to ensure that rigorous performance goals are established and met by the parties carrying out all aspects of the work. <http://www.earlham.edu/%7Epeters/fos/2008/05/plan-for-oa-to-american-foundi ng.html> Permanent link to this post Posted by Gavin Baker at 5/10/2008 05:33:00 PM. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Request for articles and Books on Retrospective conversion for research purpose
by ashok upadhyay 11 May '08

11 May '08

Dear Friends, I am doing research on Retroconversion of Documents in English Language in Central Secretariat Library, Zakir Husain Library, JMI and Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi: An evaluative study. For this purpose I have needed some full text articles and references of books on Retrospective Conversion by which I would complete my research work. Please help me regarding this because much material is not available on that topic and give me valuable suggestions regarding this. Provide me book reference on that topic and book availability because much books are not available on that topic if available anywhere give me information to me. I shall be highly thankful to you. waiting for your response. From Ashok Kumar Upadhyay Assistant Librarian Mangalayatan University Aligarh- Mathura Highway Beswan, Aligarh 202145 (M) 09359146945 E-MAIL: ashoka143(a)gmail.com Ashok.K.Upadhyay --------------------------------- 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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Librarian Post-Dindigul
by A.Manimekalai 09 May '08

09 May '08

Dear LIS professionals, Please utilise the opportunity Post : Librarian Qualification : MLIS, MPhiL, Contact: The administrative Office, NPR College of Engg. & Tech. 20, Thiruvalluvar Salai Near Bustand Dindigul Source: Employment Service Tamil Weekly, April, 16- 22, 2008 Page: 20 From Dr. A. Manimekalai, Asst. Librarian(Sr.Sc) Faculty of Engg. & Tech. Library, Annamalai University Annamalainagar- 608 002. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Natianal Metallurgical Laboratory, Jamshedpur:Tech.Staff Vacancy in Library
by Mukesh Anand 09 May '08

09 May '08

Dear Members', Natianal Metallurgical Laboratory, Jamshedpur Advt. No. 03/2008 Tech. Staff Grade III, Pay Scale Rs. 4,500-7000, Age not exceeding 28 years Edu. Quali.- 1st class B. Lib.Sc. Des. Quali. - M.Lib.(with B.Sc.) with Computer Know. Job. Req. - Library Automation,Networking,Digital Library, Technical Publishing Last Date - 30June, ' 08 Web Access to Detailed Advt. :- http://www.nmlindia.org/download/advt3_2008.pdf Print Access to Brief Advt. - Indian Express dated 7th May, ' 08 (Wednesday) Page # 5 Thanx, Mukesh Anand Asst. Libn. Indian Railways Officers' Training College Sanskari Nagari Vadodara -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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National Chemical Laboratory, Pune:Scientist & Tech. Staff positions in Information Division
by Mukesh Anand 09 May '08

09 May '08

Dear Members', NATIONAL CHEMICAL LABORATORY (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research) Dr. Homi Bhabha Road, Pune-411 008 ADVT. NO. 1/2008 (ABSTRACT) APPLY ONLINE ON OR BEFORE 02.06.2008 (III) SCIENTIST - GROUP IV(1) (Rs. 8000-13500) (1) CODE NO. 11 : INFORMATION DIVISION [RESERVED FOR PWD (LOCOMOTOR DISABLED OR ORTHOPAEDICALLY HANDICAPPED)] Qualification : 1st class Masters in Library and Information Science with B.Sc from reputed institutions. Desirable:: The candidate should have one year of experience in a research laboratory. Strong communication and interpersonal skills and ability to work well in a collaborative team based environment. Knowledge of computational tools and techniques for data management and manipulation, digital resource management and metadata. Familiarity with some of the commonly used repository platforms would be helpful. Experience with relational database design, tools for metadata manipulation and scripting. The candidate with Advanced Diploma in Information Science/Knowledge Management from DRTC(ISI) or NCSI (IISC) would be preferred. Job Requirements: The selected candidate will work in the area of Application of IT in the library, Dvelopment and Management of information systems and databases, information portals and gateways and setting up institutional repository. (VI) TECHNICAL STAFF IN GROUP III(1) – (Rs.4500-125-7000) 2)CODE NO. 21 – INFORMATION DIVISION – 1 POST(UNRESERVED) Qualification : 1st Class B. Lib. Science or equivalent.. Desirable : At least one year of experience of working in a research library of repute, knowledge of working with digital resources. Strong communication skills and ability to work in a team. 1st class Masters in Library and Information Science will be an added advantage. Job Requirements: To help in the day to day functioning of the library. Web Access to Detailed Advt. :-http://www.ncl-india.org/jobs/advt_ncl.pdf Print Access to Brief Advt. : - The Times of India, dated 7 May, ' 08 (Wednesday), Page # 19 The Hindu, dated 7 May, ' 08 (Wednesday), Page # 9 Thanx, Mukesh Anand Asst. Libn. Indian Railways Officers' Training College Sanskari Nagari Vadodara -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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