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A Service Framework for Libraries
by Mailing List Manager 14 Aug '06

14 Aug '06

Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 12:27:13 +0530 From: Gangadharesha.A.S <ermys_tmp22(a)infosys.com> Dear Professionals, As libraries continue to engage with an ever-shifting information landscape, it is apparent that their efforts would be facilitated by a shared view of how library services should be organized and surfaced in these new settings and contexts. For more detail link is like this: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july06/lavoie/07lavoie.html Thanks n Regards, Gangadharesha, A. S. E&R Library, Infosys Technologies Limited, Mysore.

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"Winter Programme on Data Analysis in Social Sciences", November, 2006 (TISS, Mumbai)
by Puttaraj Choukimath 14 Aug '06

14 Aug '06

Dear Sir/Friend: Greetings! FYI: Centre for Reseaech Methodology, TISS, Mumbai is organising ICSSR sponsored "Winter Programme on Data Analysis in Social Sciences", November, 2006. Closing Date: 6/10/2006 Please visit: http://www.tiss.edu and look/click at programmes on the home page. For more details please contact: Dr. D. P. Singh, Coordinator, Programme on Data Analysis in Social Sciences, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Post Box 8313, Deonar, Mumbai 400 088. Tel: 022-25563290, Ext. 653 (O) Fax : 022-25562912 Email: dpsingh(a)tiss.edu Best regrads, Puttaraj. Mr.Puttaraj, A. C. Asst. Librarian (Periodicals) SDTM Library, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, P.B. No.8313, Deonar, MUMBAI - 400 088 INDIA Tel: +91-22-2556 3290, Ext.285 (O) Fax: +91-22-2556 2912 Email: puttuc(a)yahoo.com, choukimath(a)tiss.edu URL: www.tiss.edu --------------------------------- Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. Great rates starting at 1¢/min. Dear Sir/Friend: Greetings! FYI: Centre for Reseaech Methodology, TISS , Mumbai is organising ICSSR sponsored "Winter Programme on Data Analysis in Social Sciences" , November, 2006. Closing Date: 6/10/2006 Please visit: http://www.tiss.edu http://www.tiss.edu and look/click at programmes on the home page. For more details please contact : Dr. D. P. Singh, Coordinator, Programme on Data Analysis in Social Sciences, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Post Box 8313, Deonar, Mumbai 400 088. Tel: 022-25563290, Ext. 653 (O) Fax : 022- 25562912 E mail: mailto:dpsingh@tiss.edu dpsingh(a)tiss.edu Best regrads, Puttaraj. Mr.Puttaraj, A. C. Asst. Librarian (Periodicals) SDTM Library, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, P.B. No.8313, Deonar, MUMBAI - 400 088 INDIA Tel: +91-22-2556 3290, Ext.285 (O) Fax: +91-22-2556 2912 Email: mailto:puttuc@yahoo.com puttuc(a)yahoo.com , mailto:choukimath@tiss.edu choukimath(a)tiss.edu URL: http://www.tiss.edu/ www.tiss.edu Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/postman7/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/ev… Great rates starting at 1¢/min.

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SALIS Workshop on Research Methodology and Statistical Techniques-
by Arunachalam Hariharan 14 Aug '06

14 Aug '06

Dear Professionals, SALIS is organising a two days workshop at Chennai. The details are given below: Workshop on Research Methodology and Statistical Techniques Jointly Organized by Society for the Advancement of Library and Information Science SALIS Chennai Chapter &Connemara Public Library, Chennai Date 9-10 Sep 2006 Time 9.00A.M to 5.30 P.M. Workshop Coordinator: Mrs.V.Sakthi Regha, MSSW, Chennai Venue: Connemara Public Library Chennai â 600 008 About the Workshop Research brings new insight into any field in which it is carried out. Library and Information Science is a growing field added with many facets of knowledge. To deepen the knowledge and to explore new things in the field, having right knowledge on research and its application is very important. Hence this workshop aims to facilitate the LIS professionals and students to carry out many researches for the development of the filed. Objectives â¢ To improve the research knowledge and skill of LIS professionals, scholars and students. â¢ To facilitate the participants to apply their research knowledge in carrying out a research â¢ To apply right tools and techniques while conducting a research â¢ To improve the quality of research in the field of LIS Course Content -Defining the Research Problem -Defining the Research Design -Sampling Design -Measurement Scales -Framing & Testing of Hypotheses -Presentation of Data -Descriptive Statistics -Inferential StatisticsReport Writing Target Participants: Library & Information Science Professionals, M.Phil and P.hD Scholars. Registration Fee: Rs. 250 for SALIS members and Rs.300 for no-members and 200 for students. Payment should be sent by DD favoring âSALISâ payable at Chennai. Registration fee includes workshop kit, working lunch, tea and snacks for 2 days Spot registration is allowed with prior intimation. Resource Persons: Dr. N.Kalai Arasi Lecturer(SG), N.K.T.College of Education, Chennai Ms.J.S.Gunavathy, Lecturer (SS), Madras School of Social Work, Chennai Methodology -Lecture -Presentation -Group Discussion -Exercise No. of Participants : Restricted to 40 only (first cum first serve basis) Fore more details of the workshop, please visit SALIS web site at http:/autolib-india.net/salis Organising Committee Members G.G.Sivakumar RMK Engineering College, Kaveripettai K. Karunairaghavan St.Peterâs Engineering College, Avadi P. Panneer Selvam Crescent Engineering College, Chennai P.Meenakshisundaram Connemara Public Library, Chennai Ms. S.Kamatchi NKT College of Education, Chennai S. Balamurugan Sakthimariamman Engg College, Chennai A. Janakiraman, Eswari Engineering College, Chennai Completed registration form can be sent to: Mr. P. Panneer Selvam Secretary, SALIS Chennai Chapter B2-Solai Apartment(opp.to MGR Garden) Mount-Poonamallee Roadv Chennai â 600 089 044-22522448, 42014772 Cell: 9841103912 salis_info(a)yahoo.com ----------------------------- A.Hariharan SALIS __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Library Trainee Vacancy at SFIMAR
by Mailing List Manager 14 Aug '06

14 Aug '06

This is a forwarded message. Do NOT jusr use the 'Reply' commAnd on your mail clients to send replies to this message. Replies are to be sent to: M F Kumbar <mfkumbar(a)rediffmail.com> Thanks for your cooperation - Moderator ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: 12 Aug 2006 13:14:29 -0000 From: M F Kumbar <mfkumbar(a)rediffmail.com> � Dear All, St. Francis Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai is looking for the Trainee in Library. Qualification: MLISc or BLiSc with 1-2 years experience fair knowledge of IT applications and also knowledge about library softwares. Salary : for M.L.I.Sc candidates 5000/per Month and For BLISC candiadates 4000/per month. Interested candidates e-mail their CV to : mfkumbar(a)gmail.com or send CV to the following address within 10 days Good Luck M F Kumbar Librarian St.Francis Institute of Management and Research, Mount Poinsur, S.V.P.Road, Borivali(West), Mumbai - 400 103 Ph. No. 022 - 2891 7089 Extn. 24 Cell : 09820895577 Website : www.sfimar.org

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Re: Actual site (careeri) hosted through lis-forum, name changed to "optcar"
by vinita 14 Aug '06

14 Aug '06

Today's Topic: Name changed of site hosted Dear Friends, A site on "Career Options in India" was hosted by me in June, 2004. Thanks to the suggestions and well-wishes received, the site has been updated. However, the site name has been changed from careeri to "optcar". Please visit the newly updated site: <http://www.freewebs.com/optcar>http://www.freewebs.com/optcar Suggestions for further updation and improvements are most welcome! Thanks, Vinita L. Hattangadi, (Library Assistant) Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research Gen. Vaidya Marg, Film City Road Goregaon (East) MUMBAI-400 065 India E-mail: <vinita(a)igidr.ac.in>vinita(a)igidr.ac.in  Today's Topic: Name changed of site hosted Dear Friends, A site on "Career Options in India" was hosted by me in June, 2004. Thanks to the suggestions and well-wishes received, the site has been updated. However, the site name has been changed from careeri to "optcar". Please visit the newly updated site: http://www.freewebs.com/optcar http://www.freewebs.com/optcar Suggestions for further updation and improvements are most welcome! Thanks, Vinita L. Hattangadi, ( Library Assistant) Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research Gen. Vaidya Marg, Film City Road Goregaon (East) MUMBAI-400 065 India E-mail: mailto:vinita@igidr.ac.in vinita(a)igidr.ac.in

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Prof.M.A.Gopinath Lecture series- 2006
by M Krishnamurthy 14 Aug '06

14 Aug '06

KARNTATAKA STATE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION (R) Cordially invites you for Prof. M.A.Gopinath Annual Lecture Series-2006 By PROF.C.R.KARISIDDAPPA Dean, Faculty of Social Science, Professor and Chairman, Department of Library and Information Science, Karnatak University, Dharwad 58003 Topic INFORMATION LITERACY FOR LIFE LONG LEARNING Prof. K.S Raghavan Professor, DRTC, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore will preside Date and Time : 17th August, 2006 at 5.30 PM Venue: Canara Bank School of Management, Central College Campus, Dr.Ambedkar Veedhi, Bangalore 560001 Dr.I.R.N Goudar Prof.T.D.Kemparaju President , KALA Secretary, KALA Office Bearers and Members of GC, KALA *************************************** Dr.M.Krishnamurthy,M.A.,M.L.I.Sc.,Ph.D Fulbright Scholar (University of Illinois, USA) Librarian Indian Statistical Institute 8th Mile Mysore Road Bangalore 560059 www.isibang.ac.in/library Ph:91-80-8483002/3 Fax :91-80-28484265

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Work after retirement
by latha krishnaprasad 14 Aug '06

14 Aug '06

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CD3WD - digital library of technical info for 3rd world developemt
by vimal kumar 14 Aug '06

14 Aug '06

Dear Professional, cd3wd is a project which provides free of charge 1.2 gigabytes of electronic books and documents on practical technical aspects of 3rd world development both for online browsing and (more importantly) for offline useage on pc's. It is comprised of html, jpg, gif and pdf files and is truly cross-platform, being useable on windows, linux, mac, and unix computers. Since going online august 2004 we have an average of 6 downloads of 700+ megabytes per day, i.e. 4.2 gigabytes per day, 1.4 terrabytes per year, 2.8 terrabytes total to date. cd3wd covers agriculture, health, watsan, appropriate technology and alternative energy, construction, education, forestry, fisheries, food processing, metalwork, woodwork, election systems, economics, business management, SME management etc etc.. Our next major move is the issue of complete translations from english to spanish, french, portuguese, arabic, chinese and russian. Thereafter an expansion into formal and informal education material. http://www.cd3wd.com/CD3WD/ Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and 30+ countries) for 2¢/min or less. cd3wd is a project which provides free of charge 1.2 gigabytes of electronic books and documents on practical technical aspects of 3rd world development both for online browsing and (more importantly) for offline useage on pc's. It is comprised of html, jpg, gif and pdf files and is truly cross-platform, being useable on windows, linux, mac, and unix computers. Since going online august 2004 we have an average of 6 downloads of 700+ megabytes per day, i.e. 4.2 gigabytes per day, 1.4 terrabytes per year, 2.8 terrabytes total to date. cd3wd covers agriculture, health, watsan, appropriate technology and alternative energy, construction, education, forestry, fisheries, food processing, metalwork, woodwork, election systems, economics, business management, SME management etc etc.. Our next major move is the issue of complete translations from english to spanish, french, portuguese, arabic, chinese and russian. Thereafter an expansion into formal and informal education material. http://www.cd3wd.com/CD3WD/ Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/postman1/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/ev… Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and 30+ countries) for 2¢/min or less.

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Open Access to publicly funded research
by Subbiah Arunachalam 14 Aug '06

14 Aug '06

25 US University Provosts Support Senate Bill on Open Access. [Please see the full text of the letter at http://www.cic.uiuc.edu/groups/CICMembers/archive/documents/FRPAAletterFina… . The universities include Harvard, University of California, Pennsylvania State University, University of Michigan, Texas A&M University, Syracuse University, University of Iowa, Purdue University, and Carnegie-Mellon University]. A second set of over 20 university provosts came out with their support to FRPAA within a few days of the first 25. ------------------------------------------------------- Twenty-five US University Provosts have issued an open letter to the US Higher Education community, voicing strong support for the Federal Research Public Access Act of 2006 (FRPAA). In the letter, the Provosts state, "We endorse FRPAA's aims and urge the academic community, individually and collectively, to voice support for its passage." FRPAA would require Federal agencies whose extramural research budgets exceed $100 million to develop policies ensuring open, public access to the research supported by their grants or conducted by their employees. The Act is currently awaiting consideration by the US Senate. The signatories of the letter, which include the Provosts of Harvard and the University of California, write, "We believe that this legislation represents a watershed and provides an opportunity for the entire U.S. higher education and research community to draw upon their traditional partnerships and collaboratively realize the unquestionably good intentions of the Bill's framers - broadening access to publicly funded research in order to accelerate the advancement of knowledge and maximize the related public good." The open letter is available on the Committee of Institutional Cooperation website. ___________________________________________________________ Funding agencies (and governments) in developing countries such as India should do well to mandate open, public access to the research supported by their grants. Vice chancellors of universities, directors of research centres, heads of funding institutions and science academies and professional societies should urge the government to enact appropriate legislation (similar to the FRPAA in the USA). And without waiting for the legislation to be in place, they should set up interoperable institutional open access archives (as has been done at the Indian Institute of Science, NCL, NAL, NIO, RRI, IIA and a few other institutions) AND GO ONE STEP FURTHER and mandate OA (as has been done at NIT, Rourkela). Subbiah Arunachalam

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Do journalspermit institutional archiving?
by Subbiah Arunachalam 13 Aug '06

13 Aug '06

Friends: A few days agoI gave a talk on open access at the Bose Institute, Kolkata (Ultadanga - Salt Lake campus). Afew biologists were very concerned about publishing only in high impact journals and they thought publishers of those journals would not allow authors to self-archive the papers after publication. This afternoon I had lunch with a senior scientist in H'bad and he told me that "most of us are publishing in high impact journals once in a while and if the journal forbids archiving we will not be able to archive." There may be a number of other researchers in India who may share such apprehensions. Here is a message from Stevan Harnad which provides AUTHENTIC information on the actual number of journals that permit author self-archiving. The actual titles of these journals are available at the SHERPA and Romeo sites. All Kluwer journals and all Springer journals, for example, allow author self-archiving (or institutional archiving). Of the 9,214 journals surveyed, 6458 (or 70%) allow archiving of both preprints and post-prints, and 23% allow preprint archiving - making a total of 93% of journals. Please spread the word among all scientists. Thanks and best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] ---------------------------------- Stevan Harnad in a discussion list In Open Access News, Peter Suber wrote: > I applaud Cambridge's decision to continue to allow immediate OA > archiving of peer-reviewed author manuscripts, even when authors > choose not to participate in Cambridge Open. That's a step most of > the other OA hybrid programs have been unwilling to take. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006_08_06_fosblogarchive.html#115541257… Actually, Cambridge University Press's commendable Open Access Policy: (1) Green on PREPRINT self-archiving (2) Green on immediate, unembargoed POSTPRINT self-archiving *and* (3) Hybrid Gold (Cambridge Open Option) is optimal, but CUP, now offering Open Option (for 15 of its 186 journals) is not alone or in the minority among Green Publishers! For example, Springer's Open Choice covers Springer's 502 Journals and (I believe) Kluwer's 837 journals, and these journals are all solid GREEN. I will provide the figures in terms of number and percentage of journals rather than in terms of number and percentage of publishers (because some publishers publish 1000+ journals and some publish only one!). (The primary data are from SHERPA-Romeo http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php ; they are recoded at EPrint-Romeo http://romeo.eprints.org/ ): GREEN journals (6458/9214) (70%): Endorse POSTPRINT (G) or both POSTPRINT and PREPRINT (Gg) self-archiving PALE-GREEN journals (2113/9214) (23%): Endorse PREPRINT (g) self-archiving only. GRAY journals (627/9214) (7%): Endorse neither PREPRINT nor POSTPRINT (X) self-archiving The embargoes (1864/9214) (20%) are, as you would expect, and almost by definition, mostly among the PALE-GREEN journals, who only endorse PREPRINT (g) self-archiving: GREEN (Gg + G) journal embargoes: 27/6458 = <1% PALE-GREEN (g) journal embargoes: 1821/2113 = 86% GRAY (X) journal embargoes: 16/627 = 3% Note that the right way to interpret this is that the endorsement of delayed self-archiving is an *advance* over no endorsement of self-archiving at all. So the 14% of PALE-GREEN (g) journals who don't endorse at least delayed postprint self-archiving are in fact *less* progressive than the 86% that do endorse postprint self-archiving after a delay. And of course the 3% of GRAY journals that endorse delayed self-archiving are at least a smidgen more progressive than those who don't endorse self-archiving at all (though two of these -- the Modern Humanities Research Association journals with a 24-month embargo and the 6 Inter Research journals with a *48-month* embargo are a bit of a joke!). A few updates have to be done, however, in both SHERPA-Romeo and EPrints-Romeo, to downgrade the 27 (1%) of the 6458 GREEN (G) journals to GRAY (X), because embargoed self-archiving is definitely *not* Green. Data details, including the minor re-classifications that are needed, appear below. Stevan Harnad ----------------------------------------------------------------- Australian Psychological Society 12 (3, GREEN-Gg) G-->g Royal College of Psychiatrists 12 (5 GREEN-G) 5G-->X **Royal Statistical Society 12 (3 GREEN-X) 3G-->X Society for Endocrinology 12 (3 GREEN-X) 3G-->X *Inter Research 48! (6, GREEN-X) 6G-->X Modern Humanities Research Association 24! (6, GREEN-X) 6G-->X Total 9339 --> 9197 --> 9214 GREEN (G or Gg)6483 69% --> 70% (+1)--> 6484 70% -3 -23 --> 6458 70% PALE-GREEN (g) 2248 24% (-138) = 2110 --> 23% +3 --> 2113 --> 23% GRAY 604 7% (+16)--> 620 7% +23 --> 627 7% Embargoes Total: 1864/9214 = 20% Gg 3 G 1 5 3 3 6 6 = 24 >1% g 1 698 1 47 188 50 9 56 771 = 1821 86% X 16 3% Association of Applied Biologists 12 (1, PALE-GREEN) Blackwell 6/12 (698, PALE-GREEN) Nature Publishing Group 6 (47, PALE-GREEN) Oxford 12/24 (188 PALE-GREEN) University of Chicago Press (some) (50, PALE-GREEN) Yale Law School 12 (9, PALE-GREEN) Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press 12 (56, PALE-GREEN) Taylor & Francis 12/18 (909 -138 = 771 PALE-GREEN: double-counts!) 83 Dekker, 27 Psychology Press, 28, CRC Press ***University of Texas Press (some) (not yet listed) (16, GRAY) ****Biophysical Society ? (1, GREEN) (not yet listed)

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