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Will the internet kill the printed book?
by asim kumar 14 Apr '05

14 Apr '05

Dear professionals, Of course Internet is a medium where authors can put their knowledge in a form that is accessible easily, but the main question remains the same as the authenticity of the source and more important users choice of the source. As a professional my personal experience is that users ask for documents from internet but for the purpose of consultation they always prefer printed material. In our collection we have got more than 200 e-books, but users have always asked for their printed version, they feel more comfortable with that. So Internet will remain a platform for sharing knowledge and easy retrieval of that, but rest all depends on users choice and at the moment they are going for printed documents and driving force will remain users only. Asim Kumar, Librarian, The Jain Group of Institutions. Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline. Dear professionals, Of course Internet is a medium where authors can put their knowledge in a form that is accessible easily, but the main question remains the same as the authenticity of the source and more important users choice of the source. As a professional my personal experience is that users ask for documents from internet but for the purpose of consultation they always prefer printed material. In our collection we have got more than 200 e-books, but users have always asked for their printed version, they feel more comfortable with that. So Internet will remain a platform for sharing knowledge and easy retrieval of that, but rest all depends on users choice and at the moment they are going for printed documents and driving force will remain users only. Asim Kumar, Librarian, The Jain Group of Institutions. http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matri… Yahoo! India Matrimony : Find your life partner http://in.rd.yahoo.com/specials/mailtg2/*http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matr… online .

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ILS benchmarks/benchmarking
by Carlos Vílchez Román 13 Apr '05

13 Apr '05

Sorry if this has been posted before. Hi, my name is Carlos Vilchez-Roman, head of the Automation Office of the UNMSM Central Library. The Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos is located in Lima, Peru. I am looking for some benchmarks to evaluate the performance of our Integrated Library System (it is called Sabini, an ILS developen in Spain), spe- pecially the OPAC, but I have found nothing in the LIS periodicals such as Computers in Libraries or The Electronic Library. Anoyone knows an article or document (PDF/HTML) related to ILS benchmarks/benchmarking? I mean indicators such as: - Requests per second - Response time - Latency time and so on. Thanks for your time. Best, Carlos Vilchez-Roman Head of Automation Office Central Library - UNMSM --------------------------------------------------------------- Banco de Crédito BCP - Dedicados a hacerte la Banca más simple. Visita nuestra Banca por Internet http://www.viabcp.com ---------------------------------------------------------------

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LIBRARY SOFTWARE
by Manik Nand lal 13 Apr '05

13 Apr '05

Dear Colleagues, Can you please let me know the list of LIBRARY SOFTWARE ( alongwith the Vendor's contact address, telephone, fax & E-Mail numbers) available in India? Thanking you & with best regards, N. MANIK DEPUTY MANAGER LIBRARY AND INFORMATION CENTRE DABUR RESEARCH FOUNDATION 22, SITE IV, SAHIBABAD GHAZIABAD-201010 INDIA http://www.dabur.com TEL. 91-20-2777901/2778501 EXTN.2761 91-120-2772627 (DIRECT) 91-120-2959761 (DIRECT) FAX : 91-120-2777303

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Will the internet kill the printed book?
by Rashid Hussain 13 Apr '05

13 Apr '05

Will the internet kill the printed book? More and more books are now being published electronically. Is it just a �passing gimmick� or the emergence of a phenomenon that will gather momentum? E-books are gaining popularity because they obviate the need for writers to place their skills and talents at the mercy of unscrupulous publishers, the cost of production starts from �very little to zero� since there are no production in advance of demand, warehousing and shipment costs � thus eliminating the frustration of not getting their work published and read by a wider public, they offer higher royalties to authors � at least 50% compared to 10-20% for printed books. So Dear professional will internet kill the printed book? So please share your thoughts and comment on this topic. For further reading about this article please visit the following site. http://www.lexpress.mu/display_article_sup.php?news_id=39644 = = = = = = = = = = = Rashid Hussain Siddiqui ADIS 2nd Year Student Documentation Research & Training Centre(DRTC) Indian Statistical Institute 8th Mile Mysore Road Bangalore : 560059 Phone No. : 080-28483975 --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! Will the internet kill the printed book? � More and more books are now being published electronically. Is it just a �passing gimmick� or the emergence of a phenomenon that will gather momentum? E-books are gaining popularity because they obviate the need for writers to place their skills and talents at the mercy of unscrupulous publishers, the cost of production starts from �very little to zero� since there are no production in advance of demand, warehousing and shipment costs � thus eliminating the frustration of not getting their work published and read by a wider public, they offer higher royalties to authors � at least 50% compared to 10-20% for printed books. � So Dear professional will internet kill the printed book? So please share your thoughts and comment on this topic. � For further reading about this article please visit the following site. � http://www.lexpress.mu/display_article_sup.php?news_id=39644 http://www.lexpress.mu/display_article_sup.php?news_id=39644 = = = = = = = = = = = Rashid Hussain Siddiqui ADIS 2nd Year Student Documentation Research & Training Centre(DRTC) Indian Statistical Institute 8th Mile Mysore Road Bangalore : 560059 Phone No. : 080-28483975 Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=31637/*http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ Try our new resources site!

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Lecture invitation - Prof. M.R. Kumbhar Memorial Lectures, Bangalore
by SRELS 13 Apr '05

13 Apr '05

Dear Coordinator : Kindly arrange to announce the following lecture invitation to the lis forum members. Sincerely, K.N. Prasad Executive Officer Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science 702, 42nd Cross, III Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalroe 560 010. **** Executive Committee Prof. M.R. Kumbhar Memorial Lectures, Bangalore cordially invites you to the Prof. M.R. Kumbhar Memorial Lectures (11) (2005) on THE ETHICAL ISSUES IN LIS RESEARCH IN INDIA by Dr. B.S.Maheswarappa Professor, Dept. of PG Studies and Research in Library and Information Science Gulbarga University, Gulbarga Mr. H.C. Revannasidappa Librarian, S.B.M.S. Institute of Technology, Bangalore presides on Saturday, 16th April 2005 at 6.00 pm at Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science 702, 42nd Cross, III Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalore 560 010 Dear Coordinator : Kindly arrange to announce the following lecture invitation to the lis forum members. Sincerely, K.N. Prasad Executive Officer Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science 702, 42nd Cross, III Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalroe 560 010. **** Executive Committee Prof. M.R. Kumbhar Memorial Lectures, Bangalore cordially invites you to the Prof. M.R. Kumbhar Memorial Lectures (11) (2005) on THE ETHICAL ISSUES IN LIS RESEARCH IN INDIA by Dr. B.S.Maheswarappa Professor, Dept. of PG Studies and Research in Library and Information Science Gulbarga University, Gulbarga Mr. H.C. Revannasidappa Librarian, S.B.M.S. Institute of Technology, Bangalore presides on Saturday, 16th April 2005 at 6.00 pm at Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science 702, 42nd Cross, III Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalore 560 010

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RE: [LIS-Forum] where can I find space fiction....
by Benny 13 Apr '05

13 Apr '05

Dear Ms. Panse Try the following authors for an excellent collection of "space fiction" suitable for the school children. 1. Isaac Asimov 2. Terry Brooks 3. Robert Olen Butler 4. Christie Golden 5. Peter David 6. Diane Carey 7. Greg Cox 8. Michael Jan Friedman 9. Daffyd ab Hugh 10. Eric Kotani 11. Captain W.E. Johns 12. Sylvia Engdahl and also try the following ISBNs 0751370584; 0751370576 and try the following URLs http://www.sflovers.org/SFRG/ http://www.magicdragon.com/UltimateSF/authors.html http://www.computercrowsnest.com/directory/fdauthr.shtml Best wishes Benny.M.D. Librarian TISB www.tisb.org -----Original Message----- From: sumita panse To: lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in; LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Sent: 4/12/05 4:11 PM Subject: [LIS-Forum] where can I find space fiction.... Dear friends, Our children's monthly DIMDIMA of Bharatiya vidya bhavans is going to publish science special this year. I would like to know does any library has the books on space fiction stories or any writer who writes such stories. Sumita panse librarian amrita bharati Bharatiya vidya bhavan MSN Careers! http://g.msn.com/8HMBENIN/2746??PS=47575 Your ticket to the best jobs! Sign up now! _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (4/11/05)
by Charles W. Bailey, Jr. 12 Apr '05

12 Apr '05

Below is the latest issue of SEPW, which I am sending as a sample issue to the list. If you are interested in subscribing to this free biweekly e-publication, use this Web form: http://listserv.uh.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=sepw&A=1 For other access methods, see the end of the document. ------------------------------------------------------------ Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog April 11, 2005 ------------------------------------------------------------ Next Weblog update on 4/25/05. Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large [1] 5, no. 6 [2] (2005): Walt Crawford continues his incisive commentary on current issues, new articles worth reading, and other topics. Highly recommended. Computers in Libraries 25, no. 4 [3] (2005): Includes "The Digitizing Project That Made SODA," "Following the Yellow Brick Road to Simplified Link Management," "My Three Wishes for Digital Repositories," "Open Source Digital Image Management Took Us from Raging Rivers to Quiet Waters [4]," and other articles. The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries 21 (April 2005 [5]): Includes "Access to Research in Cameroonian Universities [6]" and other articles. First Monday 10, no. 4 [7] (2005): Includes "Where Does Web Bibliographies' Author Information Come From? [8]" and other articles. Information Today [9] 22, no. 3 (2005): Includes "Bookblogs or Blogbooks? Are New Content Formats on the Way?," "NIH's Embattled Policy," and other articles. Journal of Digital Information 6, no. 1 [10] (2005): Includes "Digital Text Cycles: From Medieval Manuscripts to Modern Markup [11]" and other articles. Learned Publishing [12] 18, no. 2 (2005): Includes "The European Physics Publications Scene: Avant-Garde and Traditionalism," "HighWire Press: Ten Years of Publisher-Driven Innovation," "In a Paperless World a New Role for Academic Libraries: Providing Open Access," "Institutional Repositories: Is the Open Access Door Half Open or Half Shut?," "Open Access--The Impact of Legislative Developments," "Serving Science while Paying the Bills: The History of the Journal of Biological Chemistry Online," "The True Costs of Scholarly Journal Publishing," "Who Owns Scientific Data? The Impact of Intellectual Property Rights on the Scientific Publication Chain," and other articles. LIBRES 15, no. 1 [13] (2005): Includes "The Evolution of a Documents Digitization Project within the American Library Association's New Members Round Table [14]" and other articles. Searcher [15] 13, no. 4 (2005): Includes "Linking Users to Open Access" and other articles. Science & Technology Libraries [16] 25, no. 3 (2005): Includes "Collecting Grey Literature: An Annotated Bibliography, with Examples from the Sciences and Technology" and other articles. SPARC E-News (February-March 2005 [17]): News about the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC). SPARC Open Access Newsletter, no. 84 [18] (2005): News and commentary about the open access movement by Peter Suber [19]. Includes "Getting to 100% [20]," "Helping Scholars and Helping Libraries [21]," "Top Stories from March 2005 [22]," and other articles. ------------------------------------------------------------ http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepw.htm Copyright © 2005 by Charles W. Bailey, Jr. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, California 94305, USA. Bailey, Charles W., Jr. Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography. Houston: University of Houston Libraries, 1996-2005. http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html SEPW Mailing List Subscription http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepwlist.htm Atom Feed http://sepw.blogspot.com/atom.xml RSS Reed (FeedBurner) http://feeds.feedburner.com/ScholarlyElectronicPublishingWeb logrss Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals http://info.lib.uh.edu/cwb/oab.htm ------------------------------------------------------------ [1] http://cites.boisestate.edu/ [2] http://cites.boisestate.edu/civ5i6.pdf [3] http://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/apr05/index.shtml [4] http://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/apr05/dunlap.shtml [5] http://www.is.cityu.edu.hk/research/ejisdc/vol21.htm [6] http://www.is.cityu.edu.hk/research/ejisdc/vol21/v21r2.pdf [7] http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_4/index.html [8] http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_4/craven/ [9] http://www.infotoday.com/it/default.shtml [10] http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/?vol=6&iss=1 [11] http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v06/i01/Hillesund/ [12] http://puck.ingentaselect.com/vl=1806762/cl=28/nw=1/rpsv/cw/alpsp/09531513/… [13] http://libres.curtin.edu.au/libres15n1/ [14] http://libres.curtin.edu.au/libres15n1/Ferris%20-%20Final.htm [15] http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/default.shtml [16] http://www.haworthpressinc.com/store/TOC.asp?sku=J122 [17] http://www.arl.org/sparc/pubs/enews/feb05.html [18] http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/04-02-05.htm [19] http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/hometoc.htm [20] http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/04-02-05.htm#100 [21] http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/04-02-05.htm#libraries [22] http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/04-02-05.htm#top

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loss of library books
by Mailing List Manager 12 Apr '05

12 Apr '05

Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 13:34:38 -0400 From: anjrao <anjrao(a)indiatimes.com> Dear Colleagues The Directore of the Tecjnocal education is his letter No FAR/14353 DATED 31/12/1974 has stated thet a conference of Librarians of the the colleges in karnataka university was held on May 8 1973. In this resolution pased, it is recommended that a loss of 4 books for every 1000 books used (those which are lent out and those which are reference are consultanted in the premises of the library) be regarded normal loss and should be straight away writtes off. ORDER NO.FD 25 TCL 74: BANGALORE, DATED 18/JUNE/1974 BY ORDER AND IN THE NAME OF THE GOVERNMENT. OF KARNATAKA janardhana Rao A N librarian M S RAMAIAH INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT BANGALORE

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where can I find space fiction....
by sumita panse 12 Apr '05

12 Apr '05

Dear friends, Our children's monthly DIMDIMA of Bharatiya vidya bhavans is going to publish science special this year. I would like to know does any library has the books on space fiction stories or any writer who writes such stories. Sumita panse librarian amrita bharati Bharatiya vidya bhavan MSN Careers! http://g.msn.com/8HMBENIN/2746??PS=47575 Your ticket to the best jobs! Sign up now!

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by Jayadev P Hiremath 12 Apr '05

12 Apr '05

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