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research work
by arun yadav 15 Sep '05

15 Sep '05

Hi I am going for the research in "Marketing of library and information services and products in 21st century" If any one have any ideas or resorces.Please help me in the same. Thank You Arun yadav arunyadav28(a)yahoo.co.in Sr.Catalougure Acharya narendra dev public library Ashok marg Lko. --------------------------------- Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner now. Hi I am going for the research in "Marketing of library and information services and products in 21st century" If any one have any ideas or resorces.Please help me in the same. Thank You Arun yadav mailto:arunyadav28@yahoo.co.in arunyadav28(a)yahoo.co.in Sr.Catalougure Acharya narendra dev public library Ashok marg Lko. http://yahoo.shaadi.com Yahoo! India Matrimony </a href>: Find your partner now.

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Information boom
by Sreeharsha_Gopalakrishna＠i2.com 15 Sep '05

15 Sep '05

Dear All, Here is an Excerpt with Prof. Shalini with Deccan Herald on the occasion of Foundation laying stone for I-SIM. ********************************************************** Information boom Shankar Bennur International School of Information Management is a strategy and a model to confront the challenges of crossing borders in terms of disciplines, institutional frameworks, sectors, and geo-spaces. Mysore will soon have a new generation centre called ‘International School of Information Management’ (I-SIM). This endeavour and initiative of University of Mysore is perhaps first of its kind in the country and also in Asia. Establishment of I-SIM and joining the International Consortium of I–Schools, could be described as a trail blazing effort of the University of Mysore. The University of Mysore is laying the foundation for the establishment of I-SIM in collaboration with International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT-B), Bangalore and School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh and many other organisations including industry. http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/sep152005/dheducation1628222005914… ********************************************************** Regards ~Sreeharsha

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Apply for IFLA/OCLC Fellowship Program - 2007
by JK Vijayakumar 15 Sep '05

15 Sep '05

IFLA/OCLC Early Career Development Fellowship Program for 2007 For more details, visit http://www.oclc.org/education/earlycareer/default.htm Application deadline: 17 March 2006 Selection: April-July 2006 Award announcement: August 2006 Program dates: April - May 2007 (specific dates to be determined) Jointly sponsored by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), OCLC Online Computer Library Center and the American Theological Library Association (ATLA), this program provides early career development and continuing education for library and information science professionals from countries with developing economies. Program overview On an annual basis, five individuals, including a theological librarian, are selected to come to OCLC headquarters in Dublin, Ohio, USA, for an intensive four-week program of lectures, seminars, and mentoring. Topics and issues include information technologies and their impact on libraries, library operations and management, and global cooperative librarianship. During their visit to the United States, Fellows participate in seminars and workshops, observe portions of an OCLC Members Council meeting, and visit selected North American libraries and cultural heritage institutions. By observing a Members Council meeting, the Fellows gain insight into issues affecting global library cooperation and are exposed to the governance of a global library cooperative. Visits to selected North American libraries and cultural heritage institutions provide an opportunity for Fellows to meet leading practitioners and discuss real-world solutions to the challenges facing libraries today. Fellows translate their learning and experiences into specific professional development plans that guide their continued growth as well as their personal contributions to their home institutions and country of origin. For more details, visit http://www.oclc.org/education/earlycareer/default.htm ------------- Posted by J.K.Vijayakumar IFLA-OCLC Fellow-2002 --------------------------------- Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. IFLA/OCLC Early Career Development Fellowship Program for 2007 For more details, visit http://www.oclc.org/education/earlycareer/default.htm http://www.oclc.org/education/earlycareer/default.htm Application deadline: 17 March 2006 Selection: April-July 2006 Award announcement: August 2006 Program dates: April - May 2007 (specific dates to be determined) Jointly sponsored by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), OCLC Online Computer Library Center and the American Theological Library Association (ATLA), this program provides early career development and continuing education for library and information science professionals from countries with developing economies. Program overview On an annual basis, five individuals, including a theological librarian, are selected to come to OCLC headquarters in Dublin, Ohio, USA, for an intensive four-week program of lectures, seminars, and mentoring. Topics and issues include information technologies and their impact on libraries, library operations and management, and global cooperative librarianship. During their visit to the United States, Fellows participate in seminars and workshops, observe portions of an OCLC Members Council meeting, and visit selected North American libraries and cultural heritage institutions. By observing a Members Council meeting, the Fellows gain insight into issues affecting global library cooperation and are exposed to the governance of a global library cooperative. Visits to selected North American libraries and cultural heritage institutions provide an opportunity for Fellows to meet leading practitioners and discuss real-world solutions to the challenges facing libraries today. Fellows translate their learning and experiences into specific professional development plans that guide their continued growth as well as their personal contributions to their home institutions and country of origin. For more details, visit http://www.oclc.org/education/earlycareer/default.htm http://www.oclc.org/education/earlycareer/default.htm ------------- Posted by J.K.Vijayakumar IFLA-OCLC Fellow-2002 http://store.yahoo.com/redcross-donate3/ Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.

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PROF. K.A. ISAAC PASSED AWAY
by Prof. N. Laxman Rao. 14 Sep '05

14 Sep '05

Dear fellow professionals Prof Isaac was one of the most senior and revered professionals in the country. he is being respected for his contribution. He is one of the personalities, who gave continuous support to the younger generation and his attitude is friendly to every one immaterial what the age may be. all the professionals feel sorry for his sad demise. on behalf of my self and all the professionals, i pray God almighty to provide peace to the departed soul. I request some one near to his place may convey the condolenses to the bereaved family laxman rao Sadasivan KP > wrote: Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 06:18:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Sadasivan KP <kps31147(a)yahoo.com> To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] PROF. K.A. ISAAC PASSED AWAY Dear Friends / LIS Professionals, I am reporting with deep sorrow, the sad demise of Professor K.A. Isaac , on 12th Sep. 2005 at night ! Professor Isaac was the former University Librarian & Head of the Dept. of Library & Information Science, University of Kerala. He was the recipient of the Fellowship of the Raja Rammohun Roy Library Foundation. Prof. Isaac had held several important assignments, which included, Senate Member and Dean of Faculty of Arts of the University of Kerala, Governing Body Member of INSDOC, Special Officer (Library) of the M.G. University, UGC Professor, Chairman / Member of several Commissions & Committees, etc. Prof. Isaac, an ardent disciple of Dr. S.R. Ranganathan, was responsible for initiating and developing the professional Library Science Education in Kerala through the DLIS of the University of Kerala, which he spearheaded for two-and-a-half decades since its inception. He had significantly contributed to the Public Library Movement and the Special Library development in the State too. Better known as the 'Father of Professional Librarianship in Kerala' and the 'Gentleman Librarian of India' , he was a beacon for LIS professionals - both young and old. His hundreds of disciples now stretch across the world, carrying out their professional jobs with mission mode. He had authored a number of well-known books including the titles 'Library Legislation' , ' Literature Search' and several Papers and Reports. Prof. Isaac had been the Patron of the Kerala Library Association too. The blend of his highly intellectual personality and refined behaviour made him a respected friend to limitless people cutting across all professions .That was the secret of his success too, for effectively disseminating the message of our profession to a wider domain - something very rare during these days! His demise is a great loss to the education sector in general and to the LIS domain, in particular! He is survived by his wife Chechamma and sons Madhu (Advocate, Trivandrum) and Balu (Professor, IIT Bombay) . Cremation : on 14.09.2005 (Wednesday) at 10.30 am at Pattoor Orthodox Cemetery, Trivandrum. Residential Address : G-10, 'Kadapuram' Shri Vidyadhiraja Nagar Poojapura, Trivandrum - 695 012 Tel : 91-471-2359502 Reported by : KP Sadasivan / Head, Library & Informatics / RRL (CSIR) Trivandrum and Vice President, Kerala Library Association __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum Prof. N.LAXMAN RAO, Chairman, Board of Studies, Dept.of Library & Information Science, Osmania University, HYDERABAD- 500 007 (INDIA) Vice President, Association of British Scholars(AP Chapter) Vice-President, Faculty Club, Osmania University Ph:+91-40-27171565(res): +91-40-27682290(off) 9246547599(Mobile) e:mail-- naglaxman(a)yahoo.com OR naglaxman(a)indiatimes.com --------------------------------- To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre. Dear fellow professionals Prof Isaac was one of the most senior and revered professionals in the country. he is being respected for his contribution. He is one of the personalities, who gave continuous support to the younger generation and his attitude is friendly to every one immaterial what the age may be. all the professionals feel sorry for his sad demise. on behalf of my self and all the professionals, i pray God almighty to provide peace to the departed soul. I request some one near to his place may convey the condolenses to the bereaved family laxman rao Sadasivan KP > wrote: Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 06:18:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Sadasivan KP <kps31147(a)yahoo.com> To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] PROF. K.A. ISAAC PASSED AWAY Dear Friends / LIS Professionals, I am reporting with deep sorrow, the sad demise of Professor K.A. Isaac , on 12th Sep. 2005 at night ! Professor Isaac was the former University Librarian & Head of the Dept. of Library & Information Science, University of Kerala. He was the recipient of the Fellowship of the Raja Rammohun Roy Library Foundation. Prof. Isaac had held several important assignments, which included, Senate Member and Dean of Faculty of Arts of the University of Kerala, Governing Body Member of INSDOC, Special Officer (Library) of the M.G. University, UGC Professor, Chairman / Member of several Commissions & Committees, etc. Prof. Isaac, an ardent disciple of Dr. S.R. Ranganathan, was responsible for initiating and developing the professional Library Science Education in Kerala through the DLIS of the University of Kerala, which he spearheaded for two-and-a-half decades since its inception. He had significantly contributed to the Public Library Movement and the Special Library development in the State too. Better known as the 'Father of Professional Librarianship in Kerala' and the 'Gentleman Librarian of India' , he was a beacon for LIS professionals - both young and old. His hundreds of disciples now stretch across the world, carrying out their professional jobs with mission mode. He had authored a number of well-known books including the titles 'Library Legislation' , ' Literature Search' and several Papers and Reports. Prof. Isaac had been the Patron of the Kerala Library Association too. The blend of his highly intellectual personality and refined behaviour made him a respected friend to limitless people cutting across all professions .That was the secret of his success too, for effectively disseminating the message of our profession to a wider domain - something very rare during these days! His demise is a great loss to the education sector in general and to the LIS domain, in particular! He is survived by his wife Chechamma and sons Madhu (Advocate, Trivandrum) and Balu (Professor, IIT Bombay) . Cremation : on 14.09.2005 (Wednesday) at 10.30 am at Pattoor Orthodox Cemetery, Trivandrum. Residential Address : G-10, 'Kadapuram' Shri Vidyadhiraja Nagar Poojapura, Trivandrum - 695 012 Tel : 91-471-2359502 Reported by : KP Sadasivan / Head, Library & Informatics / RRL (CSIR) Trivandrum and Vice President, Kerala Library Association __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum Prof. N.LAXMAN RAO, Chairman, Board of Studies, Dept.of Library & Information Science, Osmania University, HYDERABAD- 500 007 (INDIA) Vice President, Association of British Scholars(AP Chapter) Vice-President, Faculty Club, Osmania University Ph:+91-40-27171565(res): +91-40-27682290(off) 9246547599(Mobile) e:mail-- naglaxman(a)yahoo.com OR naglaxman(a)indiatimes.com To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/uk/taglines/yahoo_com/security_centre/*http://u… Yahoo! Security Centre . _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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Ad - British Library
by Dattatreya 14 Sep '05

14 Sep '05

Ad - Untitled AdDear Moderator Request to post this message in LIS forum. Thanks Kulkarni d r Dy Manager British Library Ahmedabad Advertisement for the posts vacant at the British Library Ahmedabad has appeared in TOI. Applications are to be sent to ICCR New Delhi and the last date for applications is 25 September. Publication:Times Of India Ahmedabad; Date:Sep 10, 2005; Section:India; Page Number:9 Ad - Untitled Ad Dear Moderator Request to post this message in LIS forum. Thanks Kulkarni d r Dy Manager British Library Ahmedabad Advertisement for the posts vacant at the British Library Ahmedabad has appeared in TOI. Applications are to be sent to I CCR New Delhi and the last date for applications is 25 September. Publication: Times Of India Ahmedabad; Date: Sep 10, 2005; Section: India; Page Number: 9 getimage.dll?path=TOIA/2005/09/10/9/Img/Ad0091002.png

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CONDOLENCE MEETING ON THE DEMISE OF PROF. K.A.ISAAC
by Sadasivan KP 14 Sep '05

14 Sep '05

Kerala Library Association is organising a Condolence Meeting on the sad demise of Prof. K.A. Isaac Date & Time 19.09.2005 (Monday) at 3.30 pm Venue Lecture Hall, DLIS University Library Building Kerala University Trivandrum All LIS professionals are requested to attend / participate. KP Sadasivan Vice President, KLA --------------------------------- Yahoo! for Good Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. Kerala Library Association is organising a Condolence Meeting on the sad demise of Prof. K.A. Isaac Date & Time 19.09.2005 (Monday) at 3.30 pm Venue Lecture Hall, DLIS University Library Building Kerala University Trivandrum All LIS professionals are requested to attend / participate. KP Sadasivan Vice President, KLA Yahoo! for Good http://store.yahoo.com/redcross-donate3/ Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.

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Could u Please Help
by zahid wani 14 Sep '05

14 Sep '05

Dear patrons could please provide information regarding public library systems in punjab and haryana as i am pursuing my research study on the public library systmes in these states and if some body think he/she can be of any help to me, then please write to me at zahid_rais(a)yahoo.com or zahid_rais(a)rediffmail.com . i will be grateful to the person and the this network. Zahid Ashraf wani PhD Res. Scholar Deptt. of Lib. & Inf. Science University of Kashmir Jammu & Kashmir __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Dear patrons could please provide information regarding public library systems in punjab and haryana as i am pursuing my research study on the public library systmes in these states and if some body think he/she can be of any help to me, then please write to me at zahid_rais(a)yahoo.com or zahid_rais(a)rediffmail.com . i will be grateful to the person and the this network. Zahid Ashraf wani PhD Res. Scholar Deptt. of Lib. & Inf. Science University of Kashmir Jammu & Kashmir __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Google Launches Industrial Strength Blog Search
by Sreeharsha_Gopalakrishna＠i2.com 14 Sep '05

14 Sep '05

Google has introduced its long awaited blog search service, becoming the first major search engine to offer full-blown blog and feed search capabilities. It's been nearly two and a half years since Google purchased Pyra Labs, the company that built the hugely popular Blogger publishing service, and Google has been promising blog search ever since then. Know more @ http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3548411 Regards Sreeharsha BG

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request for journal
by sheeba jasmine 14 Sep '05

14 Sep '05

Dear Friends, One of colleague is urgently looking for some journal articles for his research work. Kindly inform the availability of these articles. 1. Current Science of India V.25, p.143, 1956 2. Tetrahedran V.9, p.139 - 144, 1960 3. Olah 205 V.3, p.383 - 497 , 1964 4. Journal of Chemical Society B 579, 1966 5. Organic Reaction V.9, p.37 - 72 , 1957 With regards, D. Sheeba Jebaseeli, Librarian, Valliammai Engineering College, SRM Nagar, Kattankulathur 603 203 nalathamalar(a)yahoo.co.in __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner now. Go to http://yahoo.shaadi.com

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Google is Every Where
by Roopa E 14 Sep '05

14 Sep '05

Dear professionals, Google is coming to the rescue of victims of Hurricane Katrina using Mapping Technology. It is evident that google is every where. In an effort to help displaced hurricane victims and their families, ad hoc communities of Internet users are using mapping technologies from Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) to track storm damage, analyze aerial photos and try to make sense of what little information is available. Three days after Hurricane Katrina made landfall along the Gulf of Mexico, extensive flooding, widespread power outages and general chaos continue to prevent residents from returning home, and limit the amount of useful information emergency workers or members of the media can distribute to the world outside. What little information about individual neighborhoods gets out is spotty, at best, and hard to come by--largely from dramatic, but ill-defined TV news footage. "We're seeing a lot of images from New Orleans that lack context," says Shawn McBride, a phone switch technician from Spokane, Wash., who has been using satellite photos from the Google Earth service to track flooding and analyze damage to neighborhoods. "It's impossible to tell from the outside how things are." But along comes Google. One Web site, www.scipionus.com, is combating the confusion by encouraging users to annotate a Google Map of New Orleans with information about specific locations. Collectively, the community is creating a collaborative map Wikipedia. Anyone with something to add can enter a street address and leave a marker on the map at that location, providing a few lines of text about conditions at that spot. "Never flooded, typical wind damage, passable street 8-31-05," reads one tag. "Trey and April's We are OK ppl," reports another. The site, created by Jonathan Mendez and Greg Stoll, software engineers who work together in Austin, Texas, went up Wednesday afternoon, and already has attracted nearly 300,000 visitors, who've left more than 600 tags. Mendez, who grew up in the New Orleans suburb of Kenner, La., has family who evacuated the area to his home in Texas. "We all were watching the news and scouring the Web for any information we could get," he says. "There were forums set up for people looking for information on particular areas, but they had hundreds of posts with mostly questions and little information, and it was hard to read through it all. I kept thinking, 'I wish there were a map with all this info, so it would be easy to look this up.'" The site runs off of the same technology that has allowed Google users to keep track of everything from potholes to pizza parlors. In June, the company released code that allowed outside developers to use and adapt the Google Maps software. In the months since, Google "mashups" of geographic data have flourished. "My friend Greg had played with it to make a map with markers to particular locations, so I figured if we could get it so that anyone could add those markers straight from the Web, we could get the information on the map quickly," says Mendez. "People have said they've found it very useful." In a separate effort, other Web users have also made use of satellite photographs of the region available through the Google Earth service, a program which allows users to view satellite photos as if they were flying over them, panning, zooming and tilting the image at will. While most of those photos depict the area pre-hurricane, the software allows users to "overlay" other photos and images. So more recent aerial photos--even pictures from news services and solo photographers--can be reshaped and dropped onto a satellite map, illustrating the current conditions. Pleasantville, N.Y.-based editor and blogger Katherine Cramer helped popularize the practice, after she noticed similarities between a Google Earth shot of the south coast of Lake Pontchartrain, and a news photo illustrating a nearly swamped New Orleans neighborhood. "I looked at those and said, 'Somebody needs to be putting these images together and comparing them.'" Cramer posted a few thoughts on her Web site, which was linked to by Boing Boing, a hugely popular blog, and before long, she was getting e-mails and mashed-together images from people around the country. "Suddenly we had an impromptu collaborative process, mostly consisting of people I don't know," says Cramer. Shawn McBride made some of the first post-Katrina images, and posted them online in the Google Earth Current Events Community, a discussion board for users of the system. "Once you have an image that you want superimposed, it's kind of like a puzzle," he says. Photo manipulators look for distinguishing landmarks that appear in both news photos and the Google images--a warehouse with a red roof, for instance--and then stretch and tilt the photo until it lines up with the satellite map. The resulting image is sort of a hybrid overlay that can be directly viewed and manipulated in the Google Earth service, allowing users to see recent images of their neighborhood, inside the context of the entire city. "It's not as good as the original satellite image, but you can get a sense of whether a house is underwater or not," says Cramer. Cramer has posted a series of directions on her site describing how to use Google Earth to check out flood damage in New Orleans. "I wanted to come up with a process for your average frightened person, who can get at the Internet, but is not able to learn new software," she says. "I've had a lot of people say they couldn't find this information until they came to my site." Google Earth images with post-hurricane overlays even appeared on television Thursday, as a number of news networks used the tool to zoom in and out of affected areas to display the damage. Representatives of Google say they encourage this creative use of their mapping technology. "We've been kind of nurturing and growing that for the past two years," says John Hanke, former CEO of Keyhole, a digital mapping company acquired by Google in October of last year, who now serves as general manager of the Keyhole group at Google. On Thursday, Google began releasing new images of the flooded areas, and even posted links to a number of user-supplied image overlays. Hanke says the company will continue to make available new images over the next few days, and that Digital Globe, their satellite provider, is continuing to photograph the area.

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