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Books from China - Vendor required
by Suvarsha Walters 04 Sep '07

04 Sep '07

Hi all, Do you know of any vendor who can procure books from a publisher in China, 'China Statistics Press'? Thank you, Suvarsha Information Analyst, HP Labs, Bangalore ____________________________________________________________________________________ Fussy? Opinionated? Impossible to please? Perfect. Join Yahoo!'s user panel and lay it on us. http://surveylink.yahoo.com/gmrs/yahoo_panel_invite.asp?a=7 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Adoption of Open Source Software in Libraries: Last 3 days to close
by Muhammad Rafiq 04 Sep '07

04 Sep '07

Apology for cross posting. Dear LIS professionals I am conducting a research on the perceptions of LIS professionals about Adoption of Open Source Software in Libraries. The questionnaire is available at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=KMBnaoJI4L3efHVopXqZJw_3d_3d The survey will close on Sept. 7. The questionnaire will take approximately 7-10 minutes to complete. You are requested to please spare your time and record your response. If you feel any problem to get the questionnaire, please email me. I will be highly thankful. Thanking you in anticipation for your cooperation and to support the research activities. Best Regards. Muhammad Rafiq PhD Student Department of Library & Information Science, University of the Punjab, Lahore (Pakistan) Cell: +92-321-7836131 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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IATLIS - good theme and sub-themes
by sidda＠nimhans.kar.nic.in 04 Sep '07

04 Sep '07

IATLIS National Conference 2007 It gives me immense pleasure to inform you that the IATLIS 2007 Annual National Conference is going to be organized in Karnatak University, Dharwad, during 19-21 November 2007. The past 23 conferences have made a land mark in presenting and projecting the professional image as well as efforts to coping with the fast changing subject field. Considerable attention is paid to select the burning issues for the discussion and also modest attempt is made to evolve the viable resolutions in the respective conferences. Many of the vital resolutions were sent to the concerned authorities for consideration and taking needful action. Keeping in view the rich tradition of IATLIS in organizing the National level meets and the growing participation specially the younger generation of LIS teachers and researchers, the council has decided to select the following theme for the ensuring conference Equity of LIS education in IT-based pedagogical environment of the knowledge society. Sub themes are; 1. The Educational environment 2. Governance and Policies 3. Pre-service and in-service teacher education 4. teaching practices 5. Assessment practices 6. Evaluation of Personnel and Curricular Materials 7. Individualized Educational Planning 8. Data Collection and Accountability 9. Partnership Building among schools of library / information sciences and industry. 10. Accomplishment of industry standards based on educational reform 11. Introducing specialty and super specialty courses in various subjects in the IT environment 12. On demand education (or customized education) for the industry needs. The focus of equity of LIS education in an inequitable system of haves and have-nots is to achieve equal higher standard to all the students irrespective of location of the schools / departments of library and information science (rural, small cities or metropolitan cities) including the distance education. The equity needs to be developed without compromising the quality of education across the country in todays highly complex and diverse society. The knowledge society demands all LIS students/professionals to reach as high level of academic excellence as possible. The brainstorming is targeted to evolve equity b sharing expertise, curriculum, content and pedagogy for better learning between haves and have-nots. The new partnership is inevitable to achieve equality and to eliminate current inequities by identifying specific indicators. The contributions of all the learned professionals help educators and policy-makers to examine and improve the total educational system. It is hoped that all the members of the IATLIS fraternity and the fellow professional colleagues will take keen interest in contributing thoughtful papers based on research and the experience gained and participate in large number. Last date for submission of full text papers: 30th September 2007. Send your paper (s) to the following address: Dr. B.D. Kumbar Organising Secretary Department of Library and Information Science Karnatak University Dharwad - 580 003 E:mail: bdkumbar(a)yahoo.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Free Trade Magazine Subscriptions & Technical Document Downloads
by Vijayakumara 03 Sep '07

03 Sep '07

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Book
by Library 03 Sep '07

03 Sep '07

Dear Moderator: Could you please place the following in the LIS Forum? Thanks: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Dear Colleagues: We are in urget need of the following book and not able to track the same with many leading science libraries. Will you please inform about its availability in your library? Kindly confirm so that I will request for the same on ILL. Meadows, A.J. Science and controversy:A biography of Sir Norman Lockyer. MIT Press, 1972, ISBN: 0-262-13079-0. Thanks and Regards, 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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[Fwd: request for paper]
by LIBRARY 03 Sep '07

03 Sep '07

Dear Colleagues, Could anyone help me in getting this article. Low-Discrepancy Sequences: Monte Carlo Simulation of Option Prices J. OF DERIVATIVES, Fall 1997 Silvia Galanti and Alan Robert Jung Thanks & regards, Veena -- -------------------------------------------------- Library TIFR Centre Phone: 91-80-23600 062/138/816 P.O.Box.1234, Fax: 91-80-23600 851 IISc Campus, Bangalore-560 012 Bharat -------------------------------------------------- "Every duty is holy and devotion to duty is the highest form of the worship of God." - Swami Vivekananda -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Fwd: Goodreads | get book recommendations from people you know
by Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy 02 Sep '07

02 Sep '07

Dear Friends Please see the link mentioned below http://www.goodreads.com/ I had mentioned about a similar site for social networking of book lovers. Public libraries like the British Library may either set up their own "goodreads" website (or a section of their website devoted to this activity) or recommend their patrons to register themselves in these sites. Readership promotion will be automatic. Regards Dr P Vyasamoorthy, Society for Serving Seniors 30, Gruhalakshmi Colony, Secunderabad 500015 Phone 27846631 / 94908 04278 http://societyforservingseniors.satyamcsr.org ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Justice <justicerangarajan(a)gmail.com> Date: Sep 2, 2007 7:26 AM Subject: Goodreads | get book recommendations from people you know To: Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy <vyasamoorthy(a)gmail.com>, ramakrishnan <rams1974(a)vsnl.net> http://www.goodreads.com/ -- Dr P Vyasamoorthy, Society for Serving Seniors 30, Gruhalakshmi Colony, Secunderabad 500015 Phone 27846631 / 94908 04278 http://societyforservingseniors.satyamcsr.org -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Students and OA
by Subbiah Arunachalam 02 Sep '07

02 Sep '07

Friends: We have been carrying out an advocacy campaign for 'open access to scientific and scholarly literature' for the past six or seven years. And yet only about 25 Indian institutions have set up their own interoperable institutional open access archives (or repositories), and about a hundred Indian journals are now open access journals , including those published by the Indian Academy of Sciences and the Indian NationalmScience Academy. So far our advocacy efforts have been aimed at librarians, research scientists, university teachers and policy makers (at DST, DSIR, CSIR, PSA, etc.). We have hardly reached out to research students in universities, IITs and other institutions of higher learning. It may help if students take up the issue and lead from the front. University students in the USA, South Africa and Peru have formed FreeCulture.org to promote open access to knowledge. We should encourage Indian students to set up chapters of FreeCulture.org in Indian institutions. Once the students take interest, I am sure the OA movement will pick up momentum. Enlightened students in all developing countries will do well to form chapters of FreeCulture.org and proactively mobilize support for open access. Best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] FreeCulture.org is an international chapter-based student organization that promotes the public interest in intellectual property and information & communications technology policy. A free culture is one where all members are free to participate in its transmission and evolution, without artificial limits on who can participate or in what way. The free culture movement seeks to develop this culture by promoting four things: * creativity and innovation; * communication and free expression; * public access to knowledge; * and citizens' civil liberties. Local Chapters are at the following institutions (not one of which is in India). * Brown University * Bryn Mawr College * Center for Digital Democracy * Chadwick High School * Claremont Colleges * Columbia University * Cornell University * Emerson College * Emory * Florida State University * Franklin and Marshall College * Georgetown University * Hamilton College * Hampshire College * Harvard * McGill University * MIT * Mounds Park Academy * Northeastern University * Northwestern University * NYU * Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru * Princeton University * Reed College * Rochester Institute of Technology * Seattle University (School of Law) * Swarthmore College * Tecnológico de Monterrey * UNC-Chapel Hill * University of Alaska Fairbanks * University of California Santa Cruz * University of Chicago * University of Evansville * University of Florida * University of Iowa * University of Kwazulu Natal * University of Maryland, College Park * University of Michigan * University of Notre Dame * University of Oregon * University of Pennsylvania * University of Southern California * University of Toronto * University of Washington * Virginia Tech ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Answers - Got a question? Someone out there knows the answer. Try it now. http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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reminder:2 day national conference on Environmental Ethics
by priya gopalkrishna kaimal 01 Sep '07

01 Sep '07

Please send the Participation and registration form along with DD. Only 4 days left. Pls cooperate and Participate Bombay Teachers Training College Accredited A Grade by NAAC Managed by Hyderabad (Sind) National Collegiate Board organising a two day national conference UGC-Sponsored National Conference on Environmental Ethics: Exploring Multiple Perspectives THE THEME OF THE CONFERENCE ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS: EXPLORING MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES Date 12-13th Sept 2007 OBJECTIVES OF THE CONFERENCE 1. To explore the multiple perspectives related to environmental ethics 2. To study the extent of corporate responsibility towards environmental management and sustainable development. 3. To delineate methods of utilizing cultural heritage as a tool for sustainable Development 4. To examine the role of media in the conservation of the environment. 5. To identify classroom strategies for encouraging ecological citizenship. 6. To formulate an action plan for diverse groups to fulfill their responsibilities towards the environment. Papers are invited on the following Sub-themes 1.Corporate Social Responsibility 2. Cultural Heritage as a Tool for Sustainable Development 3. Media as a Vehicle in Promoting Environmental Ethics 4. Learning Strategies for Ecological Citizenship PARTICIPATION Registration Fees (For both the days) Faculty representative: Rs. 500/- Student representative: Rs. 300/- Registration fees may be sent by D.D. in favor of Bombay Teachers Training College, payable at Bank of Maharashtra, Cuffe Parade, Mumbai, on or before 5th September 2007. Accommodation facility on request, can be arranged by the college , on payment basis. Contact: Mr. Rajeev. I. Jha (9967503945) rajeevmukul at rediffmail.com Mr. Bhagwan Balani (9869252901) balani1202 at yahoo.com E-mail ID: bttcollege at hotmail.com www.bttc.edu FORMAT FOR PAPERS Participants can write a paper on any of the sub-themes. Following guidelines need to be adhered before submission: The length of the paper should be maximum 6 pages of A4 size. Margins: 1 Top, 1 Bottom, 1.25 Left and 1 Right. Font: Times New Roman [English Language] and Font size 12. Line spacing 1.5 Title of the paper: Bold Style and Central alignment with font size 14 Authors name: Right alignment below the title of the paper in Italic style. References should be given in the APA Style. Panelists and Speakers Inaugural Address: Honble. Mr. Vijay Khole {Vice ChancellorUniversity of Mumbai} Valedictory Address:-Honble. Shri Ganesh Naik (Minister of Environment, Excise and Labor- Govt. of Maharashtra) Hon. Ms. Sharwari Gokhale, Principal Secretary School Education, Government of Maharashtra. Hon. Mr. Anil Harish President of Hyderabad (Sind) National Collegiate Board Ms. Deepa KolwalkarTATA Consultancy Services Mr. Vitthal KamatHotelier {The Orchid} Mr. Prahlad Kakkar, Media Personality Ms. Farzana DuhadwalaIB Incharge for Asia Dr. D.J.Singh Senior Director Punjab Police & Dean Punjab Police Academy Dr. Y.S. Rao Principal of Jalgaon College of Education PROGRAMME 12th September 2007 9:3010:00 a.m. Registration & Tea 10:0011:30 a.m. Inauguration Keynote Address 11:301:00 p.m. Panel Discussion on Corporate Social Responsibility and Media as a Vehicle in Promoting Environmental Ethics 1:002:00 p.m. LUNCH BREAK 2:004:30 p.m. Paper Presentations on Corporate Social Responsibility and Media as a Vehicle in Promoting Environ mental Ethics 13th September 2007 9:3010:00 a.m. Registration & Tea 10:0010:30 a.m. Welcome Address 10:3012:30 p.m. Panel Discussion on Cultural Heritage as a Tool for Sustainable Development and Learning Strategies for Ecological Citizenship 12:301:30 p.m. LUNCH BREAK 1:303:30 p.m. Paper Presentations on Cultural Heritage as a Tool for Sustainable Development and Learning Strategies for Ecological Citizenship 3:304:30 p.m. Valedictory Function Priya R Pillai Librarian Bombay Teachers Training College ApolloBunder, Colaba,Mumbai-39 Priya R Pillai Librarian Bombay Teachers Training College ApolloBunder, Colaba,Mumbai-39 -- 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] New Director joined INFLIBNET Centre
by T. Shahab 01 Sep '07

01 Sep '07

Sub. Hearty congrat Dr. Arora! Sir, At the outset let me extend my hearty congratulation to you at joining the Inflibnet. Inflibnet as a nodal agency for us at the University libraries has proved both a facilitator and guide to standards.It is a very opporune phase that a profesional having practical exposure in setting and guiding best IT orienterd library practices have come forward to take the helm to steer the world view of the Indian library professionals. We look forward to measures which shall herald a new movement in library practices, rejuvenate the profeesionals and empower them to prove their worth and value to the academic commnunity. Best regards. -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of K Prakash Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 1:14 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] New Director joined INFLIBNET Centre Dear All, INFLIBNET staff and academic fraternity welcome Dr Jagdish Arora who has taken the charge of Director, INFLIBNET Centre on forenoon of Friday August 31st 2007 for five years tenure. He has over 25 years of rich experience in managing research and academic libraries. Dr Arora is particularly recognised for successfully coordinating INDEST-AICTE consortium. Prior to this responsibility he was Librarian, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. Dr Arora's strong abilities to manage and innovate will be put to good use in this important role in support of INFLIBNET's vision for academic libraries development. To achieve this, staff is looking forward for continued cooperation. I wish that the library and academic community will join us in congratulating him and wishing him all the best and good luck. Dr. Arora can be reached on jarora(a)inflibnet.ac.in or director(a)inflibnet.ac.in With best regards. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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