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Heartiest wishes...
by sangita narang 12 Aug '07

12 Aug '07

The moderator, Today is Dr. SR Ranganathan's Birthday. I wish to send my tribute to such a person whose genius will alwaya be admired. words are short but his works will always be admist us. I read recently one of the article and realised exceptional works which will foreever hold the relevance in every field. Find one such link for every one to read this article www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1435839 Thanks Hope u will post it, if it deserves any changes do correct it Sangeeta Narang Librarian Gd-II BB Dikshit Library AIIMS New Delhi Mob No-9868704009 mailme at : sangeetanarangx(a)yahoo.co.in --------------------------------- Unlimited freedom, unlimited storage. Get it now -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Free Journal Access: Sage Publications
by ryerna＠iitk.ac.in 11 Aug '07

11 Aug '07

Dear Friends, Please share the following info.. Free trial access through Sept. 30 to current and back issues of: IFLA Journal Journal of Information Science Journal of Librarianship and Information Science Information Development Business Information Review Journal of Health Informatics Visit URL https://online.sagepub.com/cgi/register?registration=FT77503 Ramesh Yernagula Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Have a Free Trial of Unesco Eolss
by sandeep bhavsar 11 Aug '07

11 Aug '07

Respected All The Largest On-line Encyclopedia A virtual dynamic library equivalent to 200 volumes http://www.eolss.net/ The EOLSS body of knowledge is an integrated compendium of sixteen encyclopedias. It attempts to forge pathways between disciplines in order to show their interdependence and helps foster the transdisciplinary aspects of the relationship between nature and human society. It deals in detail with interdisciplinary subjects, but it is also disciplinary as each major core subject is covered in great depth, by world experts. Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Mathematical Sciences Biological, Physiological and Health Sciences Social Sciences and Humanities Physical Sciences, engineering and Technology Resources Chemical Sciences, Engineering and Technology Resources Water Sciences, Engineering and Technology Resources Energy Sciences, Engineering and Technology Resources Environmental and Ecological Sciences, Engineering and Technology Resources Food and Agricultural Sciences, Engineering and technology Resources Human Resources Policy and Management Natural Resources Policy and Management Development and Economic Sciences Institutional and Infrastructural Resources Technology, Information, and Systems Management Resources Regional Sustainable Development Reviews (Area Studies) Thanks and Regards SANDEEP BHAVSAR --------------------------------- Yahoo! Answers - Get better answers from someone who knows. Tryit now. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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PLANNER 2007 at Guwahati
by Apurba Jyoti Majumder 11 Aug '07

11 Aug '07

Dear Professionals, PLANNER 2007 is gong to be held at the Department of LIbrary & Information Science, Gauhati University in the 2nd half of November. details of programme will be given later. Apurba Jyoti Majumder JRF, Dept of LIS, GU -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Is AACR3 has been published ?
by Mukesh Anand 10 Aug '07

10 Aug '07

Dear Professionals', Is Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules 3rd Edition (AACR3), which is based on Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) & edited by a Canadian Information Consultant (probably) Tom Delsey has been published or not. It was expected to be published in the year 2007. Please give its Bibliogarphical Details, Online Access & other details (how it is different from AACR2). With Thanx & Regards, Mukesh Anand M Lib I Sc Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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making contents available on Intranet
by bhagyashree sane 10 Aug '07

10 Aug '07

Dear All, We would like to have a guideline on: 1. Making CD/VCD contents available on Intranet. 2. How much extra we shall pay for such licence? 3. A separate server is required for? 4. Is CD mirroring the same concept? With Regards, B.J.Sane Chief Librarian National Insurance Academy Pune Ph: 020-27204064 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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People-focused search engine
by Farooque Shaheen 10 Aug '07

10 Aug '07

Spock.com, a new search engine focused on finding people by crawling social networking sites launched in a beta. http://www.spock.com/ Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Keane India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 Ext. 4105 VOIP- 40366 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Open Access Initiative, Self-Archiving and Instituitional Repositories
by T. Shahab 10 Aug '07

10 Aug '07

The time when the scholarly community was at at the mercy of publishers of scholarly journals to give their reserches and findings a wide circulation is soon coming to an end. The revolution in the field of IT and communication technology has liberated the world of scholarship from the clutches of profit oriented publishers who were bent on restricting the usage of the research data on various pretext. Moreover, being bogged down with an uncertain future on account of decreasing availabilty of schorly journals every year because of the esclating cost of printed journals, the scholarly world must address itself to a new mechanism of redressal. What is required is a paradidigm shift at the part of the scholars as well as the information managers. The access denial and hence the impact denial can be overcome if we embrace the liberating concept of "OPEN ACCESS INITIATIVE" (OAI). Information centres have to look at them no more as stand alone collectors of printed version rather they have to develop themselves as global sharing digital repositories. OAI aims to facilitate the efficent dissemination of scholarly content through the creation of e-print archives.Thus the libraries and information centres are now-a-days increasingly developing into Instituitional Repositories (IR). Another and a very significant rational behind OAI is that the research outputs of all publicly funded research programmes should be freely accessible to be shared among the academic community so that other researchers at other universities and research institutions world wide can use, built-upon and cite those findings in their own reseaches and applications. This bring us to the requirement for an "Institutional Repository" (IR). The IR actually works like a digital clearing house of the intellectual output of an institution/ a University in digital form. The principal difference from a convential library is that in an IR our main focus is on the internally generated research ouputs whether peer reviewed (either preprint or postprint version) or rejected. Moreover, the onus for depositing the reseach materials etc is on the faculty members. However, the logic behind an IR is the similar to that of a traditional library- conservation, preservation, dissemination and impact. Self-Archiving refers to depositing digital documents in a publicly accessible website; preferably, an OAI compliant archive. Depositing involves a simple web interface where depoistors copy/paste in the metadata and then attaches the text-document. The full text document may be in different formats and locations , but if we use the same metadata tags they become 'interoperable'. These metadata can be harvested and all the documents can thus be jointly searched and retrieved as if they were all in one global collection, accessible to everyone. In nutshell, the reward of self-archiving in terms of visibility, accessibility and impact is great. Note: The above piece is being circulated with a view to generate interest among the scholarly community and the administrators of Academic institutions as well as the Information centres towards usefulness of digitization, the need for Self Archiving and building of Instituional Repositories of digitised materials and finally embrace the philosophy of Open Access. With best regards. Dr. T. SHAHAB Central Library, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Workshop on GSDL at IIM-Lucknow Campus from September 23-25, 2007
by Shantanu Ganguly 10 Aug '07

10 Aug '07

Dear Professionals: We are happy to inform you all that IIM-Lucknow Campus in collaboration with NASSDOC, New Delhi is organising a 3 Day Workshop on "Digitization of Resources using Open Source Software: GSDL" at IIM-Lucknow campus from September 23-25, 2007. A nominal fee of Rs 2000/- will be charged from the participants drawn in favour of IIM, Lucknow. We can accomodate only 25 participants, because we will provding intensive training programme to the participants. For any further information please contact: at sganguly(a)iiml.ac.in Regards Shantanu Ganguly Workshop Director and Librarian IIM-Lucknow ___________________________________________________________ For email that puts you in control, choose Yahoo! Mail. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/mail/addressguard2.html -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Librarians Day at MyDLIS
by N.S. Harinarayana 10 Aug '07

10 Aug '07

At a simple yet evocative function, Department of Library and Information Science (MyDLIS), University of Mysore * *paid tributes to the memory of Dr. S.R. Ranganathan and celebrated his 115th birth anniversary on August 9, 2007 . On this occasion, Prof, Shalini R Urs spoke on Ranganathan and his profound influence on the profession, not only in India but around the world as well, even today – 35 years after his death. She mentioned that the * *warm reception given to Ranga Yogeshwar, grandson of Dr. S.R Ranaganthan at the * *opening session of IFLA Conference in Berlin in 2003* *, is a testimony to the greatness of SRR contributions to LIS field. She enthused the students to read the article by David McMenemy, "Ranaganathan's relevance in the 21 st century"(Library Review, 2007, 56(2))* * and revisit the Five Laws of library science in today's context. Prof. Shalini explained the students that age is not a hindrance for achieving higher goals. Citing examples from Ranganathan's life, she said, Ranganthan took the responsibility of organising the whole collection of Banaras Hind* *u University at the age of 54 and established DRTC when he was 70 years. Prof. Shalini brought to the notice of the students and faculty members that Government of Karnataka has declared 12th August as the Librarians day. A group of students enacted a Kannada skit on "Life time achievements of S.R. Ranganthan" for 20 minutes. It was directed and performed by the 3rd Semester MLISc students. *It was a very refreshing and a very enjoyable program where in *students recounted milestones in the life of SRR in a very simple but effective manner. Prof. V.G.Talawar, Dr. Mallinath Kumbar, Dr. M.Chandrashekara and Dr. N.S. Harinaryana were present on the occasion. Research scholars Mr. Vasant Raj and Ms. Monica Sharma also attended the function. -- N.S. Harinarayana, Ph.D Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore, Manasagangtori Mysore 570 006 Off. Ph: (0821) 2419393 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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