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Qyery for M.Phil
by pravesh chaudhary 14 Aug '05

14 Aug '05

Dear Member Please help me Actually I want to do M.Phil in Lib & Inf. Sc. From where can I do the same, and what is the proceess for that ? Recently I am working in Central Library, I.S.M., Dhanbad under MHRD. please suggest me with regards yours Pravesh Choudhary --------------------------------- Check out Yahoo! India Rakhi Special for Rakhi shopping, contests and lots more. http://in.promos.yahoo.com/rakhi/index.html Dear Member Please help me Actually I want to do M.Phil in Lib & Inf. Sc. From where can I do the same, and what is the proceess for that ? Recently I am working in Central Library, I.S.M., Dhanbad under MHRD. please suggest me with regards yours Pravesh Choudhary Check out Yahoo! India Rakhi Special for Rakhi shopping, contests and lots more. http://in.promos.yahoo.com/rakhi/index.html

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Dr.S.R.Ranganathan's Birthday Celebrations - Invitation
by Arunachalam Hariharan 12 Aug '05

12 Aug '05

Society for the Advancement of Library and Information Science (SALIS) Dr.S.R.Ranganathan's Birthday Celebrations Date: 13th August 2005 Time: 4.00 PM to 7.30 PM Venue: Besant Hall, Thanjavur Programme Welcome Address: S.A.Sampthkumar Librarian S.K.S.S. Arts College, Thirupananthal Special Lectures Impact of IT on Library Dr. S.Balasubramanian and Information Services Librarian Periyar Maniammai College of Technology Vallam Contributions of Dr. A.Ganesan S.R. Ranganthan to Librarian & HOD, DLIS Library Science Sri Pushpam College Poondi Status of Libraries - in Today P. Ramasamy Librarian M.S. Govt. Arts College, Thanjavur SALIS Contributions A.Hariharan to Library Professionals Felicitation Dr. A.Kaliammal Librarian Bharadhisan University, Trichy Vote of Thanks P.Perumal Librarian Saraswati Mahal Library Thanjavur High Tea : 4.00 PM All are welcome ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

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The medIND now covers 35 Free Access Full Text Medical Journals
by Sukhdev Singh 12 Aug '05

12 Aug '05

Dear Members, We have added the following TWO Journals to our medIND Site, http://medind.nic.in . --The Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology of India --Journal of Indian Academy of Forensic Medicine The FREE ACCESS medIND [ http://medind.nic.in ] site covers Full Text of Indian indexed journals. Total number of journals under medIND are now 35 as listed below: * Endodontology * Health Administrator * Indian Journal of Aerospace Medicine * Indian Journal of Allergy Asthma and Immunology * Indian Journal of Anaesthesia * Indian Journal of Chest Diseases and Allied Sciences * Indian Journal of Clinical Biochemistry * Indian Journal of Community Medicine * Indian Journal of Gastroenterology * Indian Journal of Medical & Paediatric Oncology * Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology * Indian Journal of Medical Research * Indian Journal of Nuclear Medicine * Indian Journal of Occupational and Enviornmental medicine * Indian Journal of Occupational Therapy * Indian Journal of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery * Indian Journal of Pediatrics * Indian Journal of Pharmacology * Indian Journal of Preventive and Social Medicine * Indian Journal of Sexually Transmitted Diseases * Indian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery * Indian Journal of Tuberculosis * Indian Pediatrics * J.K. Practitioner * Journal, Indian Academy of Clinical Medicine * Journal of Family Welfare * Journal of Indian Academy of Forensic Medicine * Journal of Indian Rheumatology Association * Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology of India * Journal of The Anatomical Society of India * Journal of Indian Association of Pediatrics Surgeons * Journal of Indian Society of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry * Medical Journal Armed Forces India * NTI Bulletin * Trends in Biomaterials and Artificial Organs --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. http://indmed.nic.in http://medind.nic.in http://openmed.nic.in

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UNESCO's Memory of the World Programme discussed in Oslo
by noufal palliparamban 12 Aug '05

12 Aug '05

Dear friends, UNESCO's Memory of the World Programme discussed in Oslo 11-08-2005 (UNESCO) The Memory of the World Programme will be the theme of the "UNESCO Open Forum" at the World Library and Information Congress that the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) organizes from 14 to 18 August in Norways capital Oslo. The UNESCO Open Forum on Memory of the World on 14 August will include presentations on regional activities of the Memory of the World Programme focusing on: Timbuktu Manuscripts, Slave Trade Archives project, Memory of the World in Asia and the Pacific, and UNESCO/Jikji Prize. The session will be chaired by Bendik Rugaas, former Minister, former Norwegian national librarian, Norwegian Cultural Attaché in the USA and former Chair of the Memory of the World Programme International Advisory Committee There will be in Oslo a 7-speaker panel presentation followed by a discussion. Speakers at the session will include: Jasmine Cameron, Deputy Director of the National Library of Australia, Celia Zaher, Director of the National Library of Brazil, Alida Boye, University of Oslo, Ekaterina Genieva, Director M.I. Rudomino All-Russia State, Library for Foreign Literature, Moscow, Adolf Knoll, Deputy Director of the Czech National Library, Deanna Marcum, Associate Librarian of Congress and Chair of the Memory of the World Programme International Advisory Committee, and Aziz Abid, UNESCO Memory of the World Programme Officer. IFLA, which maintains official relations with UNESCO for many years, is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. It describes itself as the global voice of the library and information profession. Source:http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=19745&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&U… Regards Noufal.P.P Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur --------------------------------- Check out Yahoo! India Rakhi Special for Rakhi shopping, contests and lots more. http://in.promos.yahoo.com/rakhi/index.html Dear friends, UNESCO's Memory of the World Programme discussed in Oslo 11-08-2005 (UNESCO) The Memory of the World Programme will be the theme of the "UNESCO Open Forum" at the World Library and Information Congress that the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) organizes from 14 to 18 August in Norways capital Oslo. The UNESCO Open Forum on Memory of the World on 14 August will include presentations on regional activities of the Memory of the World Programme focusing on: http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=14224&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECT… Timbuktu Manuscripts , http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=8780&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTI… Slave Trade Archives project , Memory of the World in Asia and the Pacific, and http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=16050&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECT… UNESCO/Jikji Prize . The session will be chaired by Bendik Rugaas, former Minister, former Norwegian national librarian, Norwegian Cultural Attaché in the USA and former Chair of the Memory of the World Programme International Advisory Committee There will be in Oslo a 7-speaker panel presentation followed by a discussion. Speakers at the session will include: Jasmine Cameron, Deputy Director of the National Library of Australia, Celia Zaher, Director of the National Library of Brazil, Alida Boye, University of Oslo, Ekaterina Genieva, Director M.I. Rudomino All-Russia State, Library for Foreign Literature, Moscow, Adolf Knoll, Deputy Director of the Czech National Library, Deanna Marcum, Associate Librarian of Congress and Chair of the Memory of the World Programme International Advisory Committee, and Aziz Abid, UNESCO Memory of the World Programme Officer. IFLA, which maintains official relations with UNESCO for many years, is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. It describes itself as the global voice of the library and information profession. Source:http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=19745&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&U… Regards Noufal.P.P Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/TEMPLATE/images/spacer_tr.gif Check out Yahoo! India Rakhi Special for Rakhi shopping, contests and lots more. http://in.promos.yahoo.com/rakhi/index.html

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Kerala Libraries going digital
by noufal palliparamban 12 Aug '05

12 Aug '05

Dear friends, Kerala Libraries going digital THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With information technology capturing the imagination of youngsters, libraries in Kerala are going the digital way in a bid to attract more readers from the younger generation.Digital and online libraries, which now enrich a select few institutions, are going public with the Kerala State Library Council resolving to set up such ''libraries of the future'' in the state. The council has decided to bring all district and rural libraries in the state under the ''digital umbrella'' in a bid to usher in new reading culture in the state. ''With the world going hi-tech, it is time that we also change. In Kerala, digital and online libraries are with a select few institutions and unless this goes public, it will not benefit the whole society,'' said Dr G Balamohan Thamby, President of the Library Council. The libraries in the state would not only be connected with each other but also with those outside the country, he told and added a final decision on digital libraries would be taken at the Council's executive meeting to be held next week. Source: http://www.kaumudi.com/news/072105/kerala.stm#2 --------------------------------- Check out Yahoo! India Rakhi Special for Rakhi shopping, contests and lots more. http://in.promos.yahoo.com/rakhi/index.html Dear friends, Kerala Libraries going digital THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With information technology capturing the imagination of youngsters, libraries in Kerala are going the digital way in a bid to attract more readers from the younger generation.Digital and online libraries, which now enrich a select few institutions, are going public with the Kerala State Library Council resolving to set up such ''libraries of the future'' in the state. The council has decided to bring all district and rural libraries in the state under the ''digital umbrella'' in a bid to usher in new reading culture in the state. ''With the world going hi-tech, it is time that we also change. In Kerala, digital and online libraries are with a select few institutions and unless this goes public, it will not benefit the whole society,'' said Dr G Balamohan Thamby, President of the Library Council. The libraries in the state would not only be connected with each other but also with those outside the country, he told and added a final decision on digital libraries would be taken at the Council's executive meeting to be held next week. Source: http://www.kaumudi.com/news/072105/kerala.stm#2 http://www.kaumudi.com/news/072105/kerala.stm#2 Check out Yahoo! India Rakhi Special for Rakhi shopping, contests and lots more. http://in.promos.yahoo.com/rakhi/index.html

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Device to turn the pages
by Satish Munnolli 11 Aug '05

11 Aug '05

*** Apologies for cross posting *** An interesting paper for those who are in the job of digitising their print collection in mass scale. In case of digitisation process, for scanning every page of a document a person need to handle the job manually in Indian context. ('am not sure if any institute has bought this device/technology). A device has been developed, which can turn the sides of a bounded book automatically. While the book is scanned, the operator is free for other tasks, as for example the control and revision of already scanned material and the input of corresponding data records (meta data) into a catalogue system. A paper is available on the device / technology at the below mentioned URL with illustrations. The title of the paper is A Device for automated Scanning of Books http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/conferences/etd2003/ullrich-stephan/HTML/ullrich.h… JUST IMAGINE ... IF, THE SAME DEVICE / TECHNOLOGY IS APPLIED FOR READING BOOKS IN LIBRARY FOR ENHANCING THE USAGE ! Satish S Munnolli Librarian Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research & Education in Cancer (ACTREC) Tata Memorial Centre Sector 22, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai 410 208 India Ph : +91 22 2740 5026 Fax : +91 22 2740 5085 Email : smunnolli(a)actrec.res.in *** Apologies for cross posting *** An interesting paper for those who are in the job of digitising their print collection in mass scale. In case of digitisation process, for scanning every page of a document a person need to handle the job manually in Indian context. ('am not sure if any institute has bought this device/technology). A device has been developed, which can turn the sides of a bounded book automatically. While the book is scanned, the operator is free for other tasks, as for example the control and revision of already scanned material and the input of corresponding data records (meta data) into a catalogue system. A paper is available on the device / technology at the below mentioned URL with illustrations. The title of the paper is A Device for automated Scanning of Books http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/conferences/etd2003/ullrich-stephan/HTML/ullrich.h… http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/conferences/etd2003/ullrich-stephan/HTML/ullrich.h… JUST IMAGINE ... IF, THE SAME DEVICE / TECHNOLOGY IS APPLIED FOR READING BOOKS IN LIBRARY FOR ENHANCING THE USAGE ! Satish S Munnolli Librarian Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research & Education in Cancer (ACTREC) Tata Memorial Centre Sector 22, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai 410 208 India Ph : +91 22 2740 5026 Fax : +91 22 2740 5085 Email : mailto:smunnolli@actrec.res.in smunnolli(a)actrec.res.in

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Open Access Webliography
by Charles W. Bailey, Jr. 10 Aug '05

10 Aug '05

A preprint of the article "Open Access Webliography" by Adrian K. Ho and Charles W. Bailey, Jr. is now available. This annotated webliography presents a wide range of electronic resources related to the open access movement that were freely available on the Internet as of April 2005. http://www.escholarlypub.com/cwb/oaw.htm This article appears in the volume 33, no. 3 (2005) issue of Reference Services Review, which is a special issue about "the role of the reference librarian in the development, management, dissemination, and sustainability of institutional repositories." http://thesius.emeraldinsight.com/vl=2409844/cl=18/nw=1/rpsv/cw/www/mcb/009… A preprint of my "The Role of Reference Librarians in Institutional Repositories" article in this issue is also available. http://www.escholarlypub.com/cwb/reflibir.pdf Both preprints are under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License. Below is a list of the topics covered in the webliography: * Starting Points * Bibliographies * Debates * Directories--E-Prints, Institutional Repositories, and Technical Reports * Directories--Open Access and Free Journals * Directories and Guides--Copyright and Licensing * Directories and Guides--Open Access Publishing * Directories and Guides--Software * Disciplinary Archives * E-Serials about Open Access * Free E-Serials That Frequently Publish Open Access Articles * General Information * Mailing Lists * Organizations * Projects * Publishers and Distributors * Search Engines * Special Programs for Developing Countries * Statements * Weblogs Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Assistant Dean for Digital Library Planning and Development, University of Houston Libraries Home: http://www.escholarlypub.com/ DigitalKoans: http://www.escholarlypub.com/digitalkoans/ Open Access Bibliography: http://www.escholarlypub.com/oab/oab.htm Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog: http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepw.htm

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BASE: Academic Search Engine
by Shyam Prasad pujar 10 Aug '05

10 Aug '05

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 11:35:06 +0200 From: Urte Kramer <urte.kramer(a)uni-bielefeld.de> To: diglib(a)infoserv.inist.fr Subject: [DIGLIB] BASE: new release - Apologies for cross posting - BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine), http://base.ub.uni-bielefeld.de Release 2, August 2005 The new release BASE in its updated version discloses now more than 2,3 Mio. documents of 130 online - resources, incl. many scholarly full text archives, accessible through the international protocol of the Open Archives Initiative (OAI). Documents are mainly freely available and can be searched by bibliographic data or full text. BASE offers new features within the search refinement ('restrict results to data source'), various result sorting options and a search history. About BASE BASE is the multi-disciplinary search engine at Bielefeld University to scholarly internet resources, developed by Bielefeld University Library based on the technology of the Norwegian company FAST Search & Transfer (www.fastsearch.com) BASE complements the current metasearch system for catalogues and databases of the Bielefeld Digital Library by disclosing many scholarly full text archives, digital repositories and preprint servers of the internet. BASE is a strategic project of Bielefeld University Library and will be further developed with the perspective of replacing the current metasearch. In the meantime BASE has registered as OAI service provider. BASE characteristics include: + Intellectual selection of resources + Indexes only qualified academic online resources from all academic disciplines + Transparency on the data resources included in BASE through an inventory + Searches metadata and full text (depending on the data source) + Discloses internet resources of the "deep web", that are not indexed by commercial search engines (such as 500,000 digitised pages historical journals and review organs of the German Enlightment) + Displays search results as bibliographic data and full text hits + Various options to sort result sets + Search refinement for authors, keywords, document type, language etc.) Contact: ub(a)uni-bielefeld.de -- Urte Kramer Universitaetsbibliothek Bielefeld Universitaetsstr. 25, 33615 Bielefeld / Germany Voice: +49 521 1064058, Fax: +49 521 1064052 http://www.ub.uni-bielefeld.de

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HBTI Library Digitisation Project
by Vyasamoorthy＠icicikp.com 10 Aug '05

10 Aug '05

Please read the brief news item below. How does one go about getting such good funding, especially for Library activities? Kudos to HBTI, Kanpur ===================== Posted on 09 Aug 2005 # UNI http://www.newkerala.com/news.php?action=fullnews&id=12359 HBTI Kanpur to have digital library Kanpur : The Harcourt Butler Technological Institute (HBTI) Kanpur, one of the oldest State government engineering institute, will have a digital library by the year end, courtsey a World Bank Programme. Director HBTI R P Singh told UNI a total amount of Rs 24.77 crores would be spent under the World Bank's Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme to spruce up the old library and then construct new state of art digital library. Both the libraries would be merged later, he added. ==========sent by =========== Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA Email: vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com Phone - Office: +91(40)23480053 Fax: +91(40)23480007 Phone Residence: +91(40)27846631

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Fwd: [XML4Lib] Current Cites Turns 15 This Month
by Saiful Amin 09 Aug '05

09 Aug '05

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Roy Tennant <Roy.Tennant(a)ucop.edu> Date: Aug 8, 2005 10:47 AM Subject: [XML4Lib] Current Cites Turns 15 This Month To: Web4Lib <web4lib(a)webjunction.org>, xml4lib <xml4lib(a)webjunction.org>, currentcites(a)webjunction.org The popular current awareness service "Current Cites" turns 15 years old this month. The monthly electronic newsletter features citations and evaluative abstracts of articles in information technology and librarianship considered by the Current Cites team as the most significant for that month. Sources of citations include professional magazines, journals, web sites and occasionally books. The newsletter goes out to a subscription base of over 3,000 individual subscribers and is either forwarded or featured in additional mailing lists, online forums, paper publications, and blogs. Each issue typically contains about a dozen one-paragraph citations, distributed toward the end of each month. Currency is the publication's strength, with some sources appearing only days (or hours!) before it is cited and published in Current Cites. Distribution was far different with Issue Number One. That came out as a paper insert to the library newsletter at UC Berkeley. The original intent was to provide an in-house guide to the rapidly expanding literature in information science. Soon however, the first electronic version became available through the University of California MELVYL system. Next came distribution through the PACS-L mailing list, and subsequently through a myriad of systems and protocols that reads like a glossary to technology in the 1990's: FTP, Gopher, WAIS, and finally the Web. Most recently, Current Cites completed a move to WebJunction.org, a library support site managed by OCLC and supported in part by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Current Cites has always been a volunteer operation, with no budget to its name but simply a team of committed individuals. The Current Cites team consists of 7 tech-savvy librarians. Their contrasting interests and styles serves to give each annotation a distinctive personal touch. This monthly dive into the literature in order to fish out the pearls is easily as rewarding to the team as the final product hopefully is to the public. Otherwise it would be hard to explain the service's longevity. Nevertheless, as founder and editor Roy Tennant admitted to American Libraries in 2001, "It still amazes me that we have continuously published this resource month after month for almost 11 years." Make that 15 years! Current Cites is available for online browsing at <http:// lists.webjunction.org/currentcites/<http://lists.webjunction.org/currentcites/>> or email subscription at <http:// lists.webjunction.org/mailman/listinfo/currentcites<http://lists.webjunction.org/mailman/listinfo/currentcites> >. -- The Current Cites Team _______________________________________________ XML4Lib mailing list XML4Lib(a)webjunction.org http://lists.webjunction.org/mailman/listinfo/xml4lib -- Saiful Amin Information Specialist Edutech India 8 Khader Nawaz Khan Road Chennai 600006, India Tel: +91 44 2833 0999 GSM: +91 98407 76214 Fax: +91 44 2833 1777 www.edutechindia.com <http://www.edutechindia.com> "Enhancing knowledge and skills for success, lifelong." ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Roy Tennant < mailto:Roy.Tennant@ucop.edu Roy.Tennant(a)ucop.edu > Date: Aug 8, 2005 10:47 AM Subject: [XML4Lib] Current Cites Turns 15 This Month To: Web4Lib < mailto:web4lib@webjunction.org web4lib(a)webjunction.org >, xml4lib < mailto:xml4lib@webjunction.org xml4lib(a)webjunction.org >, mailto:currentcites@webjunction.org currentcites(a)webjunction.org The popular current awareness service "Current Cites" turns 15 years old this month. The monthly electronic newsletter features citations and evaluative abstracts of articles in information technology and librarianship considered by the Current Cites team as the most significant for that month. Sources of citations include professional magazines, journals, web sites and occasionally books. The newsletter goes out to a subscription base of over 3,000 individual subscribers and is either forwarded or featured in additional mailing lists, online forums, paper publications, and blogs. Each issue typically contains about a dozen one-paragraph citations, distributed toward the end of each month. Currency is the publication's strength, with some sources appearing only days (or hours!) before it is cited and published in Current Cites. Distribution was far different with Issue Number One. That came out as a paper insert to the library newsletter at UC Berkeley. The original intent was to provide an in-house guide to the rapidly expanding literature in information science. Soon however, the first electronic version became available through the University of California MELVYL system. Next came distribution through the PACS-L mailing list, and subsequently through a myriad of systems and protocols that reads like a glossary to technology in the 1990's: FTP, Gopher, WAIS, and finally the Web. Most recently, Current Cites completed a move to WebJunction.org, a library support site managed by OCLC and supported in part by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Current Cites has always been a volunteer operation, with no budget to its name but simply a team of committed individuals. The Current Cites team consists of 7 tech-savvy librarians. Their contrasting interests and styles serves to give each annotation a distinctive personal touch. This monthly dive into the literature in order to fish out the pearls is easily as rewarding to the team as the final product hopefully is to the public. Otherwise it would be hard to explain the service's longevity. Nevertheless, as founder and editor Roy Tennant admitted to American Libraries in 2001, "It still amazes me that we have continuously published this resource month after month for almost 11 years." Make that 15 years! Current Cites is available for online browsing at <http:// http://lists.webjunction.org/currentcites/ lists.webjunction.org/currentcites/ > or email subscription at <http:// http://lists.webjunction.org/mailman/listinfo/currentcites lists.webjunction.org/mailman/listinfo/currentcites >. -- The Current Cites Team _______________________________________________ XML4Lib mailing list mailto:XML4Lib@webjunction.org XML4Lib(a)webjunction.org http://lists.webjunction.org/mailman/listinfo/xml4lib http://lists.webjunction.org/mailman/listinfo/xml4lib -- Saiful Amin Information Specialist Edutech India 8 Khader Nawaz Khan Road Chennai 600006, India Tel: +91 44 2833 0999 GSM: +91 98407 76214 Fax: +91 44 2833 1777 http://www.edutechindia.com www.edutechindia.com "Enhancing knowledge and skills for success, lifelong."

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