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InfoQuiz 2005 - Count down begins - just six days to register
by Mouna 12 Apr '05

12 Apr '05

Friends- the count down for the Exciting Event of the year - InfoQuiz 2005 has begun. Register soon to tease your brains and try your luck Visit www.informindia.co.in or www.infoquiz.org for details and register. With best wishes, N V Sathyanarayana - Informatics ______________________ InfoQuiz 2005 (An Informatics Silver Jubilee Celebration Event) Visit www.informindia.co.in <http://www.informindia.co.in> to register and participate in the first ever Online InfoQuiz conducted by Informatics. InfoQuiz 2005 consists of two rounds: Round-1 : Online Quiz 18th April 2005 Round-2 : Stage Quiz 5th May 2005 (Top-6 Scorers of Round-1 qualify for Round-2, scheduled to be held in Bangalore. Expenses of these Top-6 scorers will be borne by Informatics) Prize Money: Winning Team will get Rs. 50,000/- cash plus trophy from Informatics. (And, a host of other sponsored Prizes from publishers like Springer and others.) Dateline: 1. Register between 6th and 17th April 2005 2. Round - 1 (Online Quiz) : 18th April 2005 3. Round - 2 (Stage Quiz-Bangalore) : 5th May 2005 REGISTER ONLINE BETWEEN 6TH AND 17TH April 2005 at www.informindia.co.in <http://www.informindia.co.in> or contact events(a)informindia.co.in <mailto:events@informindia.co.in>

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Vacancy at PES School of Engineering
by Subhash Reddy 12 Apr '05

12 Apr '05

Dear Members PES is looking for M.Lib. Sc. candidates with computer skills for PES School of Engineering at Hosur Road Campus. The interested can meet the undersigned with their resume within 2 days at the address given below. Mrs. Gayathri Sen Librarian & Head PES Institute of Technology 100 Feet Ring Road, BSK III Stage, BANGALORE - 560 085 Ph: (080) 30918985 www.pes.edu __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Dear Members � PES is �looking for M.Lib. Sc. candidates with computer skills for PES School of Engineering at Hosur Road Campus. The interested can meet the undersigned with their resume within 2 days at the address given below. � Mrs. Gayathri Sen Librarian & Head PES Institute of Technology 100 Feet Ring Road, BSK III Stage, BANGALORE - 560 085 Ph: (080) 30918985 http://www.pes.edu www.pes.edu � __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Re: [eGovINDIA] Re: Request to C-DAC & NIC / Open Source
by Subbiah Arunachalam 12 Apr '05

12 Apr '05

Friends: Scientists and scholars who publish research papers in refereed journals and who submit research proposals to national and international donor agencies find commercial products such as EndNote, ProCite and Research Manager (all three of them sold by Thomson Group which also publishes Web of Science and Current Contents) very useful. I do not know of any open source product which can perform the same functions. Best wishes. Subbiah Arunachalam

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Candidates for SandBox(sm): Wiki Applications and Uses
by Gerry Mckiernan 11 Apr '05

11 Apr '05

Apologies for Duplication Candidates for _SandBox(sm): Wiki Applications and Uses_ Colleagues/ I am greatly interested in learning of Any and All Wiki applications and uses implemented in * Corporations * Education * Government * Libraries * Research Environments for inclusion in my recently- established registry titled _SandBox(sm)_ . _SandBox(sm)_ is located at [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/SandBox.htm ] and is currently UnderConstruction. BTW: I Googled a number of months ago, and will do so again, but would prefer recommendations from my WorldWideWeb colleagues as well. In addition to the application and use of wikis in the institutions/organization noted, I am also interested in their application in/for novel venues (e.g., conferences, directories, etc.). I am also interested in learning of additional key/significant literature for potential inclusion in my WikiBibliography. [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/WikiBib.htm ] P.S. Of course, in time, there will be a Wiki to allow uses to contribute, but it's not yet available [:-(] but StayTuned [:-)] Regards, /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Theoretical Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu http://theoretical-librarian.blogspot.com http://disruptivescholarship.blogspot.com

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Position at Accenture, Chennai
by prabhakara.prabhu＠accenture.com 11 Apr '05

11 Apr '05

Accenture Services, Chennai has an opening for a position of an Associate - Information Resource Centre on contract Basis. Salary to commensurate with qualification and experience. Educational: Basic Degree with DLISc, BLISc or MLISc in Library & Information Science. Experience: 6 Months - 2 years work experience, a passion for customers/library users, good team player, Preference would be given to persons with IT and global exposure. Job Requirements: * Book Procurement, Journal Subscription, Cataloguing and Classification * Online Database Resources, Managing the Digital Library Resources. * Providing Document Delivery Services (DDS) * Provide Reference & Referral Service * Computer Skills, Scanning, OCR, MS Office Tools, Web based searches. * Design and development of Web page, Database Design, & its management. Interested candidates may send their updated CV to me by 10.00 AM on Wednesday, 13th April 2005. PS: Those who have already responded/interviewed by Accenture in the last 6 months need not apply again. Best Regards ********************************************************** Prabhakara Prabhu Lead - Information Resource Centre Accenture - India Delivery Centre Bangalore Phone: +91- 80- 5138 4718 Email: prabhakara.prabhu(a)accenture.com *********************************************************** This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, proprietary, or otherwise private information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any other use of the email by you is prohibited.  Accenture Services, Chennai has an opening for a position of an Associate – Information Resource Centre on contract Basis. �Salary to commensurate with qualification and experience. � Educational : Basic Degree with DLISc, BLISc or MLISc in Library & Information Science. � Experience: 6 Months – 2 years work experience, a passion for customers/library users, good team player, Preference would be given to persons with IT and global exposure. � Job Requirements: � � �� Book Procurement, Journal Subscription, Cataloguing and Classification � �� Online Database Resources, Managing the Digital Library Resources. � �� Providing Document Delivery Services (DDS) � �� Provide Reference & Referral Service � �� Computer Skills, Scanning, OCR, MS Office Tools, Web based searches. � �� Design and development of Web page, Database Design, & its management. � Interested candidates may send their updated CV to me by 10.00 AM on Wednesday, 13 th April 2005. � PS: Those who have already responded/interviewed by Accenture in the last 6 months need not apply again. � Best Regards ********************************************************** Prabhakara Prabhu Lead - Information Resource Centre Accenture - India Delivery Centre Bangalore Phone:� +91- 80- 5138 4718 Email: prabhakara.prabhu(a)accenture.com *********************************************************** � � This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, proprietary, or otherwise private information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any other use of the email by you is prohibited.

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"NASA World Wind" - Innovative, Interesting & very useful for people interested in GIS / Geographical Information
by Samdarshi Pali 11 Apr '05

11 Apr '05

Recently NASA has released "World Wind 1.3" as open source software. World Wind lets you zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth. Leveraging Landsat satellite imagery and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data, World Wind lets you experience Earth terrain in visually rich 3D, just as if you were really there. As of now US is well covered with up to one meter resolution, INDIA and many other parts of world have a resolution of 15 meters (its better than having nothing). For US we may even see our cars but for India only up to the nearby village, river and mountain. This is an innovative, really interesting and very useful software for everyone interested in GIS / Geographical information. Broadband connection is recommended to download, as the software is a big 171MB size file. This is freely downloadable from NASA site: http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/ http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/ Best wishes Samdarshi Pali Reliance Engineering Associates Pvt Ltd 4W21 - G Block, First Floor Dhirubhai Ambani Knowledge City Koper Khairane, Navi Mumbai 400 709 Tel # Direct +91-22 - 303 85407

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Position vaccant
by Achar 10 Apr '05

10 Apr '05

Dear Sir, Librarian is required for an International Business school in Bangalore. Post Graduates in library science, good communication skills, computer knowledge and with 1-3 years experience to run the library independently are welcome. Pl mail their Resumaes to achar_10(a)yahoo.com. Trainees from IIMs are given preference. Contact for further details:9880715660 Last date:25th April 2005 Dear Sir, Librarian is required for an International Business school in Bangalore. Post Graduates in library science, good communication skills, computer knowledge and with 1-3 years experience to run the library independently are welcome. Pl mail their Resumaes to mailto:achar_10@yahoo.com achar_10(a)yahoo.com . Trainees from IIMs are given preference. Contact for further details:9880715660 Last date:25th April 2005

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Fwd: Brewster Kahle's Internet Archive as OA Back-Up
by Subbiah Arunachalam 10 Apr '05

10 Apr '05

Friends: Here is some very good news fro Stevan Harnad. Thanks to the efforts of Peter Suber in collaboration with Brewster Kahle, the Internet Archive http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.archive.org%2F will now begin serving not only as a back-up for institutional OA archives worldwide, but also as an OA archive for those researchers who are not affiliated with universities or research institutions with OA archives of their own. Here is the announcement from Peter Suber's Open Access News http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2005_04_03_fosblogarchive.html#a11129743… followed by some excerpt's from Peter's Sparc Open Access Newsletter: More on Brewster Kahle and the OA projects of the Internet Archive Paul Boutin, The Archivist: Brewster Kahle made a copy of the Internet. Now, he wants your files, Slate, April 7, 2005. http://slate.msn.com/id/2116329/ Excerpt: 'Kahle is less the Internet's crazy aunt --the tycoon who can't stand to throw anything away-- than its evangelical librarian. "The history of digital materials in companies' hands is one of...loss," he tells me in a rushed meeting. Like it or not, the Web is the world's library now, and Kahle doesn't trust the guys who shelve the books....Instead of creating another startup that crawls the Web to make money, Brewster used his millions to preserve as much knowledge as possible and --just as important-- make it accessible to anyone who can get to a computer....The Internet Archive isn't just the Wayback Machine --the nonprofit's two dozen or so employees have filled an equal amount of disk space with uploaded film collections, presidential debates, Bugs Bunny cartoons, and news broadcasts from the Middle East. The archive is especially keen on books. They've scanned about 25,000 of them so far as part of the Million Book Project, a collaboration with Indian and Chinese agencies to create an online library in the place of bricks-and-mortar reading rooms....The final step in building the archive into a true global library: getting you to contribute. Ourmedia, a project launched two weeks ago, offers free, unlimited, permanent storage of your videos, photos, Word files, podcasts?anything that's not porn and not covered by someone else's copyright. The one catch: The files, stored on Internet Archive servers, will be freely available to anyone in the world.' (Peter Suber: If you missed it, see this announcement from SOAN for 4/2/05: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/04-02-05.htm#oara 'Many publishing researchers don't have OA repositories in their institutions or disciplines. The missing piece of the puzzle is an OAI-compliant "universal repository" that will accept eprints from any scholar in any discipline. I'm very happy to say in public for the first time that Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive (IA) has agreed to launch just such a repository. I'm working with the technical staff of the IA to set it up now. Not only will it host new content for scholars with no other place to deposit their work, but it will offer to preserve all the other OAI-compliant repositories in the world. The IA's proven commitment to open access and long-term preservation make this a most exciting prospect.') http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/04-02-05.htm#oara (2) Many publishing researchers don't have OA repositories in their institutions or disciplines. The missing piece of the puzzle is an OAI-compliant "universal repository" that will accept eprints from any scholar in any discipline. I'm very happy to say in public for the first time that Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive (IA) has agreed to launch just such a repository. I'm working with the technical staff of the IA to set it up now. Not only will it host new content for scholars with no other place to deposit their work, but it will offer to preserve all the other OAI-compliant repositories in the world. The IA's proven commitment to open access and long-term preservation make this a most exciting prospect. Moreover, the good people at the Creative Commons are working on a drag-and-drop interface for depositing new eprints in the IA repository. More details later. The Internet Archive http://www.archive.org/ (1) The process of OA archiving is not intrinsically time-consuming or intimidating, but even low barriers are too high when authors are desperately short of time. One piece of good news is that we are making progress on automating the generation of metadata. This will reduce both the time and the difficulty of self-archiving and one day may automate the entire process after an author clicks "yes". Another piece of good news is that a new study by Leslie Carr and Stevan Harnad based on "two months of submissions for a mature repository" shows that "the amount of time spent entering metadata would be as little as 40 minutes per year for a highly active researcher." The problem isn't a real time-sink but a groundless fear of a time-sink. Leslie Carr and Stevan Harnad, Keystroke Economy: A Study of the Time and Effort Involved in Self-Archiving. A preprint put online March 15, 2005. http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/10688/ http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2005_03_13_fosblogarchive.html#a11110069… Automating or semi-automating the archiving deposit process won't help scholars without deposit rights at an OA, OAI-compliant repository, and a universal repository won't help scholars who believe they are too busy to bother. That's why it's important that we're seeing progress on both fronts at once. Each development removes another excuse for not archiving. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Services Management - List of Books
by ++ Mukesh Anand ++ 08 Apr '05

08 Apr '05

Services Management: An Integrated Approach, 2nd Edition By Paul Gemmel (Editor), Bart Van Looy (Editor), Roland Van Dierdonck (Editor) Paperback / 555 Pages / Trans-Atlantic Pubns / April 2004 / 027367353X Service Management, Operations, Strategy and Information Technology By James A. Fitzsimmons Hardcover / McGraw-Hill College / August 2000 / 0072424192 Retailing Management, 5th Edition By Michael Levy, Barton A. Weitz Hardcover / McGraw-Hill College / June 2003 / 0072553928 Service Operations Management: Strategy, Design and Delivery By Christine Hope, Alan Muhlemann Paperback / 352 Pages / Prentice Hall / September 1997 / 0131499157 Competing in a Service Economy: How to Create a Competitive Advantage Through Service Development and Innovation, 1st Edition (Illustrated) By Michael D Johnson Hardcover / 190 Pages / John Wiley & Sons Inc / May 2003 / 0787961566 Automotive Service Management: Operations Management (Illustrated) By Mitch Schneider Paperback / 125 Pages / Thomson Learning / May 2003 / 1401826652 Retail Management: A Strategic Approach, 9th Edition By Joel R. Evans, Barry Berman Hardcover / 584 Pages / Prentice Hall / July 2003 / 0131009443 Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Planning, and Operation, 2nd Edition By Sunil Chopra, Peter Meindl Hardcover / 567 Pages / Prentice Hall / April 2003 / 013101028X Foundations of Service Level Management By Rick Sturm, Mary Jander, Wayne Morris Paperback / 272 Pages / Macmillan Computer Pub / April 2000 / 0672317435 Market Leadership Strategies for Service Companies: Creating Growth, Profits, and Customer Loyalty By Arthur Middlebrooks, Craig Terrill Hardcover / 268 Pages / McGraw-Hill / October 1999 / 0844224413 Managing Service Quality By Paul Kunst (Editor), Jos Lemmink (Editor) Hardcover / 121 Pages / Sage Pubns / January 1996 / 1853963305 -------------------------- Mukesh Anand Director - Marketing Monitor Information Services # 203, Moghal Marc Ratan Complex Narayanguda, Hyderabad - 500 029 India Telephone: 040-55787065 Fax: +91-40-27552390 http://www.monitorinfo.com Importers n Distributors of Technical Publications Services Management: An Integrated Approach, 2nd Edition By Paul Gemmel (Editor), Bart Van Looy (Editor), Roland Van Dierdonck (Editor) Paperback / 555 Pages / Trans-Atlantic Pubns / April 2004 / 027367353X Service Management, Operations, Strategy and Information Technology By James A. Fitzsimmons Hardcover / McGraw-Hill College / August 2000 / 0072424192 Retailing Management, 5th Edition By Michael Levy, Barton A. Weitz Hardcover / McGraw-Hill College / June 2003 / 0072553928 Service Operations Management: Strategy, Design and Delivery By Christine Hope, Alan Muhlemann Paperback / 352 Pages / Prentice Hall / September 1997 / 0131499157 Competing in a Service Economy: How to Create a Competitive Advantage Through Service Development and Innovation, 1st Edition (Illustrated) By Michael D Johnson Hardcover / 190 Pages / John Wiley & Sons Inc / May 2003 / 0787961566 Automotive Service Management: Operations Management (Illustrated) By Mitch Schneider Paperback / 125 Pages / Thomson Learning / May 2003 / 1401826652 Retail Management: A Strategic Approach, 9th Edition By Joel R. Evans, Barry Berman Hardcover / 584 Pages / Prentice Hall / July 2003 / 0131009443 Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Planning, and Operation, 2nd Edition By Sunil Chopra, Peter Meindl Hardcover / 567 Pages / Prentice Hall / April 2003 / 013101028X Foundations of Service Level Management By Rick Sturm, Mary Jander, Wayne Morris Paperback / 272 Pages / Macmillan Computer Pub / April 2000 / 0672317435 Market Leadership Strategies for Service Companies: Creating Growth, Profits, and Customer Loyalty By Arthur Middlebrooks, Craig Terrill Hardcover / 268 Pages / McGraw-Hill / October 1999 / 0844224413 Managing Service Quality By Paul Kunst (Editor), Jos Lemmink (Editor) Hardcover / 121 Pages / Sage Pubns / January 1996 / 1853963305 -------------------------- Mukesh Anand Director - Marketing Monitor Information Services # 203, Moghal Marc Ratan Complex Narayanguda, Hyderabad - 500 029 India Telephone: 040-55787065 Fax: +91-40-27552390 http://www.monitorinfo.com http://www.monitorinfo.com Importers n Distributors of Technical Publications

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Loss of books in Libraries
by PRASHANTA KUMAR 08 Apr '05

08 Apr '05

Dear Colleagues The UGC (India) Library Committee forcefully recommends to write off an inevitable loss @ 2 for every 1000 books issued. However in an open access library, annual loss of 3 volumes for every 1000 issues should be considered as a normal loss in normal circumstances as recommended by Dr. Ranganathan REF: Mittal, R. L. Library Administration: Theory and Practice, Fifth ed., 1987, p357-359 More details will be available in the book as mentioned above. ********************************* Mr. PRASHANTA KUMAR BEHERA ********************************* Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology (IHBT) (CSIR), Govt. of India Library Service Division, Po Box No- 6 Palampur, Himachal Predesh Pin 176061 Mobile- 94 181 055 72 E- mail- behera_iisc(a)rediffmail.com Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline. Dear Colleagues The UGC ( India ) Library Committee forcefully recommends to write off an inevitable loss @ 2 for every 1000 books issued. However in an open access library, annual loss of 3 volumes for every 1000 issues should be considered as a normal loss in normal circumstances as recommended by Dr. Ranganathan REF: Mittal, R. L. Library Administration: Theory and Practice, Fifth ed., 1987, p357-359 More details will be available in the book as mentioned above. ********************************* http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/tsmileys2/40.gif Mr. PRASHANTA KUMAR BEHERA http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/tsmileys2/40.gif ********************************* Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology (IHBT) (CSIR), Govt. of India Library Service Division, Po Box No- 6 Palampur, Himachal Predesh Pin 176061 Mobile- 94 181 055 72 E- mail- mailto:behera_iisc@rediffmail.com behera_iisc(a)rediffmail.com 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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