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Invitation to write text books
by L J Haravu 08 Apr '08

08 Apr '08

Dear Members One of the objectives of the Kesavan Inst. of Information & Knowledge Management (KIIKM) (http://www.kiikm.org) is to provide a forum and assistance to senior professionals in publishing good quality text books for use in library and information science courses. KIIKM will consider getiing such publications edited and published. I welcome experienced professionals to write books on topics of current interest as well as on those which expose important concepts in library and information science/management. Manuscripts may be submitted to me. These will be peer reviewed before a decision to edit/publish it is taken. I also welcome views of members on topics on which text books are needed. Haravu . -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Explore the nexus and..
by Rupak Chakravarty 08 Apr '08

08 Apr '08

Dear All, 1. please explore ResearchID.org (http://www.researchintelligentdesign.org/wiki/Main_Page) It is really a springboard for innovative research ideas. 2. Also build your own newsletter: Rupak Chakravarty Lecturer-cum-Assistant Librarian Department of Library & Information Science Panjab University, Chandigarh - 160014 INDIA Website: http://libsc.puchd.ac.in Phone # (0172) 2700459(R) (0172) 2534775(O) 9217133380(M) Email: rupak2811(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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Annals of Library and Information Studies: Table of Contents
by gmahesh＠niscair.res.in 08 Apr '08

08 Apr '08

Annals of Library and Information Studies Vol 55, No. 1, March 2008 Changing pattern of user expectations regarding the library catalogue as an information retrieval tool: a case study of Mangalore University S.S.Kumbar and T. Y. Mallaiah.................................7 Research publication trends in structural engineering based on Journal of Structural Engineering S. Maheswaran, R.D. Sathish Kumar and K.R. Sridharan...............17 Open access journals and institutional repositories: practical need and present trends in India Mohammad Nazim and Maya Devi...............................27 Citation analysis of Journal of Oilseeds Research 1993 2004 Surendra Kumar and S. Kumar..................................35 Strengthening R&D information systems through library consortium: A case of CSIR laboratories Prakash Chand and Nishy P......................................45 Pramana - Journal of Physics: A scientometric analysis Anil Kumar, E. R. Prakasan, V.L. Kalyane and Vijai Kumar.............52 Use of search engines by research scholars and faculty members of physics departments in the universities of Karnataka State B.S. Biradar and B.T. Sampath Kumar..................................52 Strategic Management Journal: a citations study Tapas Kumar Raut, Sada Bihari Sahu and Shantanu Ganguly..............69 Scientometric profile of the journal Mausam K.C. Garg, Praveen Sharma and Suresh Kumar...........................76 Book Review......................................................81 G. Mahesh Scientist, NISCAIR ----------------------------------------- This email was sent using NISCAIR's web mail service. "" http://niscair.res.in/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Manuscriptology.
by rajiv tripathi 08 Apr '08

08 Apr '08

Dear Moderator: Kindly announce the following in LIS Forum. Rajivaksh Tripathi mlib student of BHU Banaras. BHU is going to start a new course Manuscriptology. Duration of course is one year for detail contact to BHU website. Rajivaksht Tripathi rajiv.lis2008(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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UNESCO publishes a book on Open Access to Knowledge in South Asia
by Puna Das 07 Apr '08

07 Apr '08

UNESCO publishes a book on Open Access to Knowledge in South Asia 07-04-2008 (New Delhi) UNESCO Office in New Delhi has released Open Access to Knowledge and Information: Scholarly Literature and Digital Library Initiatives the South Asian Scenario. This book illustrates South Asian initiatives on open access to information and knowledge. It has its genesis in the recommendations and proceedings of UNESCO-supported international conferences and workshops. Universal access to information and knowledge is a key principle in UNESCO's overall mandate to promote the free flow of information by word and by image and thus to place information and knowledge at the doorsteps of communities. In the information society, free flow of information is a fundamental principle for bridging the knowledge gaps between privileged and under-privileged communities. Open access to information and knowledge is an innovative mode of scholarly communication within the digital environment, which is gaining momentum in developed countries that already have necessary information infrastructure. The emerging economies amongst the developing countries are not far behind in building up necessary information infrastructure, essential for sustainable economic development. These emerging countries, however, have limitations in terms of bridging the digital divide within their societies, due to the co-existence of marginalized and privileged communities. The South Asia sub-region is now in the forefront of the open access movement within developing countries, with India being the most prominent partner in terms of its successful open access and digital library initiatives. The book describes successful digital library and open access initiatives in the South Asia sub-region that are available in the forms of open courseware, open access journals, metadata harvesting services, national-level open access repositories and institutional repositories. It may be considered an authoritative source-book on open access development in this sub-region. The publication is available online in PDF format: http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=26393&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECT…. Source: http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=26397&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECT… Thanking You Anup Kumar Das New Delhi India --------------------------------- Bollywood, fun, friendship, sports and more. You name it, we have it. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Farewell to CHIK sir
by Dipen Deka 07 Apr '08

07 Apr '08

I have met sir while visiting the central library of IIMB last year. And i can say that person like him are rare in the profession. he is friendly and so helpful that whenever i requested for some information immediately he responded. myself on behalf of the Departmentof Library and Information Science, Gauhati University wish him a healthy and happy future. Dipen Deka JRF, DLISc Gauhati University Assam -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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2009 Endeavour Award - Australia - Applications close 31 July 2008.
by Bhojaraju G 07 Apr '08

07 Apr '08

Dear All, *2009 Endeavour Award - Australia - Applications close 31 July 2008.* The Endeavour Awards is an internationally competitive, merit-based program providing opportunities for citizens of the Asia-Pacific region to undertake study, research and professional development in Australia. Awards are also available for Australians to do the same abroad. A smaller number of awards are available for participants from Europe and the Americas. The Endeavour Awards provide individuals with a unique opportunity to take the next step in their academic or professional career. For more details, please refer http://www.endeavour.dest.gov.au/ Thanks & Regards *Bhojaraju Gunjal* **2008 Endeavour Research Fellow School of Computer Science and Mathematics Victoria University Footscray Park, Melbourne Phone: 61 3 9919 4574 Fax: 61 3 9919 4050 Mobile: 61 402 530 568 Email: Bhojaraju.Gunjal(a)vu.edu.au<http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/KM-Forum/post?postID=nzp7ATn5JARBH5WP8d0…> Web: http://www.vu.edu.au -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Call for Articles/Papers for Prof. M.P. Satija's Festschrift Volume
by Jagtar Singh 07 Apr '08

07 Apr '08

Dear Colleagues, We have got tremendous response to our request for articles/papers for Prof. M.P. Satija's Festschrift Volume. It was on select invitation only. But now many friends have phoned me that they also want to contribute to this project. Therefore we have decided to publish the Festschrift in two volumes and issue a public call. Please contribute an article/paper by 15 May 2008and use the APA Style for references and bibliography. Prof. Satija is superanuating on 30 June 2008 and his brief CV is papsted below. You may focus on: Collection Development Knowledge Organization, Information Management Knowledge Management Content Management Open Source Software Web-based Resources and Services Search Engines and Online Searching Reference and Information Services Library Consortia Use and User Studies Portals, Vortles and Gateways Capacity Building Information Literacy and Lifelong Learning Digital Preservation, LIS Education, Research and Training Continuous Professional Development & Workplace Learning. These are only indicative areas, but you are free to choose any other topic of importance to our moorings and the cutting-edge. Please mail me immediately if you are interested to contribute. Paper should not be more than 10 typed pages. Regards, Jagtar Email: jagtar.kindu(a)gmail.com *Mohinder Partap Satija*, currently a Professor and Head of the Department of Library and Information Science in the Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, is in the library profession for the last three decades. As an author of more than a dozen books, about 150 papers and 200 bookreviews and many conference papers published in India and abroad, he has collaborated with international experts namely, Dr. John Comaromi, Editor DDC (1979-1991), Ms Joan S. Mitichell, current editor DDC, Dr Ray Prytherch, Editor, Harrod's Glossary and Dr. S. P. Agrawal, former Director, National Social Science Documentation Centre, New Delhi. Some of the journals he has been published are *Libri, International Classification*, *Knowledge Organisation,* *Third World Libraries* (USA), *Information Management Report *(UK), *Cataloging and Classification Quarterly* (USA), *Asian Libraries*(Thailand), Emarld journals (UK), *Herald of Library Science, & Journal of Information Management and Scientometrics. *His works have been translated into Hindi, Spanish, German and French. His major contribution lies in enriching library science literature. Many bibliometric studies have found him a prolific author. Having done his Ph. D. on Ranganathan studies, he has been instrumental in interpreting and propagating Ranganathan's works and ideas to the new generation. He has written extensively on Classification, Book Numbers, Ranganathan Studies and Indian Library Literature. Aboard he is known for his expertise on Colon Classification and Indian state of the art on classification. Accordingly, he is often invited to contribute papers in these areas for books and journals. At home, he started the trend of commentative yet readable bookviews in the library and information science. No wonder then he is a sought after bookviewer in the country. His textbooks on Colon Classification and the Dewey Decimal Classification are being used as class texts in many library schools in India. On receiving his long article on Call Number & Book Number (Published in Encyclopedia of Library & Information science *(Marcel Dekker, vol 45) *Prof. Allen Kent the editor described that as a " Master piece". His various writings on the Sears List of Subject Headings have won the commendations of its chief editor Dr. Joseph Miller (H. W. Wilson. Co.). He has visited Germany, France, Finland, England, Nepal, the Netherlands, Belgium and Sri Lanka in connection with professional work. He is associated with many library journals such as *Information Management Report* ( Bowker-Saur, UK), *Library Times International* (USA), *The Lucknow Librarian* (India*), Library Progress* (*Int*) (India), *Ranganathan Research Bulletin *(India) and *Knowledge Organisation* (USA/Germany). He is the Indian Coordinator of the International Society for Knowledge Organisation (ISKO) (USA), and member UDC Consortium. Dr. Satija is a life member of many library and information science associations: and has delivered lectures in many universities and has written lessons for distance education students of IGNOU, Kurukshetra University, Kota Open University and Aligarh Muslim University. In the summer of 1988 he worked with Dr. Ingetraut Dahlberg in Frankfurt for three months to assist her on various then on going projects. He served as a Visiting Fellow for three months in Maastricht McLuhan Institute, University of Maastricht, the Netherlands in the summer of 1999 and the visit was followed by another visit of six weeks in May 2001. The work done there fructified in the publication of *A* *Dictionary of Knowledge Organization,* (Guru Nanak Dev University, 2004). In 2005 he was invited by the University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka to serve as a Visiting Professor. There he was instrumental in instituting library & information science doctoral programme in the Department of Library of Information Science which is the first ever research degree programme in the country. There he also served as bibliography consultant to the National Library Services Board of Sri Lanka. As is an advisor to the Harrod's Librarians Glossary (Gower, UK) he made considerable input to revise entries relating to classification. He is member advisory board of the *International Yearbook of Library and Information Management*(Library Association Publishing, London) *and Indian Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science* (S. Chand & Co., New Delhi). As a trustee of Professor Kaula Endowment for Library Science, he has actively contributed for its development. Important Publications 1. "Book Number and Call Number" *Encyclopedia of Library & information science* (Marcel Dekker, 1990, Vol 45): 18-45. 2. *Manual of Practical **Colon** Classification. **New Delhi*: Sterling Publisher, 1994. 3. *S. R. Ranganathan and the Method of Science. **New Delhi**: Aditya, 1992.* 4. *Dewey Decimal Classification: A Practical Guide. **Dublin** **Ohio *: the OCLC, 1996 (co- author). 1. *Sears List of Subject Headings,* New Delhi: Concept, 2000. 2. *A Dictionary of Knowledge Organisation. **Amritsar**:* GND University, 2004. 3. *DDC: History and Current Status,* New York: Academic Publishers, 1989 (with Dr. John Comaromi). -- Dr. Jagtar Singh, Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, & Dean, Faculty of Education and Information Science Punjabi University, Patiala Pin - 147 002 (India) Email: jagtar.kindu(a)gmail.com Tel: +91 (0)175 304 6179 (Work) +91 (0)175 228 2727 (Home) Fax: +91 (0)175 228 3073 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Again About LIS Accreditation
by J. K. Vijayakumar 06 Apr '08

06 Apr '08

Dear LIS Friends, I would like to request your attention to my earlier mail "LIS Departments need Accreditation System and New Courses". We have a good news that Indian Engineering Degrees will soon be accredited in US and other developed countries. Read the news from Rediff.com [ http://www.rediff.com/money/2007/jul/05eng.htm ] National Board of Accreditation (NBA) of the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) is the accreditation agency for Engineering Education in India. They did a good job in getting a provisional signatory membership in Washington Accord, which recognises engineering degrees among the member countries. NBA is allowed 2 years to to bring its academic programmes, curricula and syllabus, examination and evaluation system to the international level and revise its accreditation system to make it fully outcome based, with credit system for flexibility and continuous evaluation for improved learning being the basis of such programmes.If NBA and our technical institutes are successful in achieving this goal, Indian engineering degrees will be internationaly recognised. What is the message for LIS? Thanks ---------------------------------- J. K. Vijayakumar MLIS PhD IFLA-OCLC Fellow Assistant Director of Library American University of Antigua College of Medicine PB No W1451, St. Johns ANTIGUA, West Indies http://students.auamed.net/library ____________________________________________________________________________________ Get your own web address. Have a HUGE year through Yahoo! Small Business. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/domains/?p=BESTDEAL -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Recommendations of vi th pay commission for lib professionals highlights
by jasbir singh 06 Apr '08

06 Apr '08

Recommendations of 6 th pay commission for lib professionals highlights th Central Pay Commission Report, March, 2008 is available on following weblink. http://pib.nic. in/archieve /others/2008/ mar/6th_payrepor t .pdf It's of 658 Pages, File Size 2.54 MB Browse specially :- Content Pages : 5-8 (4 pages) Summary of main recommendations : 651-657 (7 pages) Some Extracts in this report particularly for Library Staff, which I am giving below. Library staff 3.8.13 The Fifth CPC had recommended distinct cadre structure for Librarians. Consequent to upgradation of all Group 'D' posts being recommended by the Commission, the posts of Library Attendant Grade II and I shall stand merged and placed in therevised pay scale PB-1 of Rs.4860-20200 along with grade pay of Rs.1800 after their skills are suitably enhanced. The posts of Library and Information Assistant (present scale Rs.5500-9000) will come to lie in the revised Pay Band of PB-2 of Rs.8700-34800 along with grade pay of Rs.4200. The next higher post of Assistant Library Information Officer (present scale Rs.6500-10500) will be upgraded and placed in the revised Pay Band of PB-2 along with grade pay of Rs.4600 corresponding to the pre-revised pay scale of Rs.7450-11500. All other posts belonging to this category shall be extended the corresponding replacement pay band and grade pay. page # 221 Librarian Staff 7.5.11 Higher pay scales have been demanded for Library Staff in the Department of Industrial, Policy & Promotion. The Commission has made recommendations for the common categories of Librarians in Chapter 3.8. The recommendations contained therein shall apply in respect of Librarians working in this Department as well. Page # 401 Library Staff 7.9.11 The posts of Library Staff shall be regulated as per the recommendations given in Chapter 3.8 relating to common Page # 417 Librarians and the Library staff 7.57.21 Recommendations made in Chapter 3.8 in respect of Librarians and the Library staff shall also be extended to the similarly placed posts in UT of Delhi. Page # 620 Jasbir Singh Learning Resource Center Jaypee University of Information Technology Waknaghat, P.O. Dumehar Kandaghat, Distt. Solan (H.P.), India http://www.juit.ac.in/Library/staff.php --------------------------------- You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of Blockbuster Total Access, No Cost. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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