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India’s first e-book “State Of India’s Environment 2016: In figures
by Kiran Pandey 30 Sep '16

30 Sep '16

Dear Moderator, The members of this forum will find this annual book useful for their organisation. By adding this book to their organisation's collection, they will be creating their own library of data that is comparable and can be used for research and referral. *India’s first e-book “State Of India’s Environment 2016: In figures”* We are now in a time when data is overflowing; information is available from so many sources and so fast that sometimes we end up not making any sense of the happenings. So, processing data and information is the new way to communicate. And this annual report uses data as the messenger. It communicates key developments around us in easy to digest and visually appealing ways to understand fast. It demystifies complex issues through data series. The report has been organised into two broad sections: the key news of the year just gone by (April 2015-March 2016) in numbers and the next section is the state of key aspects related to environment. While the first section works as the digest for the last year and gives you the perspectives of developments in number, the second section is your data library for ever on key environmental aspects of the country. By adding this report to your e-collection, you are creating your own library of data that is comparable and can be used for research and referral. At a time when views are getting sold as news in high-decibel TV talk shows and newspaper edits, "State of India's Environment 2016: In Figures" showcases all the important facts and headline numbers that will help form an informed opinion on issues that matter in India Find more details here: http://www.downtoearth.org.in/reviews/state-of-india-s-environment-2016-in-… Kiran Pandey Programme Director – Library and Information Management Centre for Science and Environment New Delhi India India Environment Portal http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/ Follow On Twitter https://twitter.com/indiaenvportal Be our friend on Facebook http://ow.ly/GZsf <http://ow.ly/GZsfb> -- <http://www.downtoearth.org.in> -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Call for Participation in UNESCO Sponsored Capacity Building Workshop
by Jagtar Singh 30 Sep '16

30 Sep '16

*Call for Participation in the UNESCO Directed Media and Information Literacy Capacity Building Training Workshop for Youth-led Organizations in India at Punjabi University, Patiala from 17-19 October 2016.* Are you part of a youth-led organization? Is your organization membership-based? Then, this is for you. UNESCO, Punjabi University, Patiala and Media and Information Library Network of India (MILUNI) are planning a workshop at Punjabi University, Patiala for membership-based youth-led organizations. The workshop will focus on giving training to participating youth on a set of critical skills – comprehension, analysis, evaluation and production – to help them appreciate media messages and use media and information to their own advantage in life and work and bring about the required change in their environment. We shall take care of participants' boarding, lodging and travel expenses. Two people (one male and one female) will be invited from 30 youth organizations across India. This workshop is open to all youth organizations regardless of their areas of interest (environment, religion, sports, education, literacy, gender, human rights, inter-cultural dialogue, etc). Interested organizations (membership-based and youth-led) must be registered and get the approval of their boards that they would apply the Media & Information Literacy (MIL) strategies developed at the end of the workshop to their work. Selected organizations will be expected to present a short report (one page) on how they will apply MIL in their work. UNESCO will offer further opportunities to the participating organizations for implementation of MIL-related activities to work and training in Media & Information Literacy (MIL) MOOC. *Interested organizations should send an email to youthcb.india(a)yahoo.com <youthcb.india(a)yahoo.com> or call Dr. Jagtar Singh at 09855444785 or Dr. H. P. S. Kalra at 09855943338 latest by 03 October 2016.* *What is Media & Information Literacy and why it matters?* Media and Information Literacy emphasizes critical thinking and creative skills. Media and Information Literacy is defined by UNESCO as “the ability to access, analyze, evaluate and create media in a variety of forms”. It is about developing critical thinking and media production skills to promote global understanding. UNESCO promotes media literacy education through the development of reading, listening and visual decoding skills with the belief that all those components, combined, support life-long democratic citizenship. Interdisciplinary by nature, media and information literacy represents a necessary, inevitable and realistic response to the complex, ever-changing electronic environment and communication environment that surrounds us. *Media and Information Literacy and University Network of India (MILUNI)* is a non-profit organization working for the empowerment of students and youth through the promotion of media and information literacy. *MILUNI aims at:* - Developing media and information capacity in students and young people to create a general understanding and appreciation of youth issues; - Assisting students and youth (by using media and information) to work up to their full potential; - Encouraging media to include youth issues and perspectives in their contents by regularly providing them with stories and relevant information about young people; - Disseminating widely the best of the results of the youth work in various media forms, and - Facilitating exchange of experiences and views of young people as a way of enhancing intercultural dialogue. Dr. Jagtar Singh, Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, & Professor In-charge, Bhai Kahn Singh Nabha Library, Punjabi University, Patiala-147002 (Punjab) Phone: 0175-3046152 & 3046153. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Sponsorship for Attending and presenting paper in Conference in Foreign
by Pradip Das 29 Sep '16

29 Sep '16

Dear Library Professional, I will highly appreciate if you kindly send me details for getting sponsorship from any organization for presenting my paper in China International Conference. What is the procedure for getting sponsorship etc. -- *Regards **……* _______________________________________________ * Pradip Das* *Librarian,* *MIT Art, Design and Technology University,* *Raj Baug, Next to Hadapsar,* *Loni-Kalbhor, Maharashtra – 412201. * *Phone : +91-20-30693604, Cell : 9420836138* ****E-mail :**pradipbhadreswardas@gmail.com <pradipbhadreswardas(a)gmail.com> **Or **Pradip_das_55(a)rediffmail.com* <Pradip_das_55(a)rediffmail.com> -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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ICSSR Data Service: An initiative by ICSSR & MoSPI with technical help of INFLIBNET Cenre
by Miteshkumar Pandya 29 Sep '16

29 Sep '16

Dear Professionals, It gives us immense pleasure to inform you that the ICSSR has developed a Social Science Data Repository in collaboration with Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation and INFLIBENT Centre. The “ICSSR Data Service” is culmination of signing of Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) and Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI). The MoU provides for setting-up of “ICSSR Data Service: Social Science Data Repository” and host NSS and ASI datasets generated by MoSPI. Under the initiative, social science research institutes, NGOs, individuals and others dealing with social science research are also being approached to deposit / provide their research datasets for hosting into the repository of ICSSR Data Service. The ICSSR Data Service includes social science and statistical datasets of various national-level surveys on debt & investment, domestic tourism, enterprise survey, employment and unemployment, housing condition, household consumer expenditure, health care, etc., into its repository. ICSSR Data Service aims to facilitate data sharing, preservation, accessibility and reuse of social science research data collected from entire social science community in India & abroad. The Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) Centre, Gandhinagar has been assigned the task of setting-up the data repository. The interface have been launched by the Prof. Sukhdeo Thorat, Chairman, ICSSR and is now accessible/available at http://www.icssrdataservice.in/ As of now, the repository hosts 131 ASI and NSS and other datasets. All the data in raw format and transformed format is available under the menu 'Microdata Catalogue'. You may redirect your users to above mentioned site, in case they need any dataset generated by MoSPI. Warm regards Miteshkumar Pandya Scientist - B (Library Science) Information and Library Network Centre Infocity, Gandhinagar - 382007 Gujarat, India (O) +91-79-23268294 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Presentation on “Excellence Through Innovation” on 6th Oct 2016 at 6.00 p.m.
by Mohan Hr 29 Sep '16

29 Sep '16

Dear all, Pl. find an invite for a presentation on “Excellence Through Innovation” on 6th Oct 2016 at 6.00 p.m. The pdf invite is available at http://ieeecs-madras.managedbiz.com/pgms/2016/mm-161006-innovation.pdf To facilitate logistics, please pre-register at https://goo.gl/o87xc1 INVITATION ===================================================== Computer Society of India, Chennai Chapter IEEE Computer Society, Madras Chapter IEEE Professional Communication Society, Madras Chapter IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Society, Madras Chapter cordially invite you for a presentation on “Excellence Through Innovation” by Dr. Rekha Shetty Author, Entrepreneur and Managing Director, Farstar Distribution Network Ltd on Thursday, 6th Oct 2016 at 6.00 p.m. at Seminar Hall, CSI Education Directorate, Taramani, Chennai – 600113 (Situated in the opposite lane to Indira Nagar MRTS Railway Station. About 100 meters away from the Dharmambal Women’s Polytechnic & Opposite to the Inst. of Mathematical Sciences and Inst. of Hotel Management) Dr. B. Srinivasan, Chairman, CSI Chennai Chapter Dr. P. Sakthivel, Chairman, IEEE CS Madras Chapter Mr. H.R. Mohan, Chairman, IEEE PCS Madras Chapter Mr. S. Sundaresh, Chairman, IEEE TEMS Madras Chapter Programme ========= 6.00 p.m. : Tea & Fellowship 6.30 p.m. : Presentation 8.00 p.m. : Dinner About the Presentation ================= The presentation objectives include: Innovating happily and creating a profitable organization; new approach to create a higher Happiness Quotient; developing a written plan for happy, productive organization; learn the art and science of improving your Happiness Quotient and creating an epidemic of happiness in your organization by improving the Happiness Quotient in both personal and official life. This is a tailor-made program that will help each participant develop a time bound, detailed plan to cultivate happy organizations. The plan will include the four pillars of the happy organizations as well as the seven habits that will generate a higher Happiness Quotient. This program is designed to be lively, interactive, effective and extremely enjoyable. About the Speaker =============== Dr. Rekhta Shetty is the Managing Director of Farstar Distribution Network Ltd (www.mindspower.com) a unique consultancy company devoted exclusively to innovation and creativity under the brand name Mindspower. She is an author, an entrepreneur and an original thinker. She is a PhD from Madras University, on the subject of Innovation. She has a brilliant academic record with two university ranks. Her thoughts come from a deep study of many disciplines: Management, Sociology, Psychology, Economics, History and Spirituality. Popularly known as the Corporate Doctor, Rekha Shetty has created a new tool for managers and entrepreneurs to develop the Competitive Edge, Innovation and Creativity through Mindspower. As a member of the Syndicate of Anna University, she helped introduce a 40-week programme on Innovation for Budding Engineers. She is a faculty of leading business schools for the MBA course. She speaks at global seminars on Innovation. She has conducted Mindspower programmes worldwide in places as far flung as Siberia, Sri Lanka, Singapore and USA.. She is consulted in successful turnarounds, new product development and increasing profitability. Her long term Innovation Initiative, using 47 thinking tools helps in a steep increase in profits, reduction in costs, while improving customer satisfaction and employee participation levels. She is an Innovation consultant to blue chip companies. Some of her books include: “Corporate Strategy, Mindspower Innovation”; “Innovate! 90 Days To Transform Your Business”; “The Happiness Quotient”; “Innovate Happily”; and “Innovation Sutra”.. Through her books, Dr.Rekha Shetty has successfully integrated western thought with the Eastern ethos of creativity. To facilitate logistics, please pre-register at https://goo.gl/o87xc1 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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DSIMS - IGIDR 'Workshop on Koha - An Open Source Software for Library Solutions'
by Sunita Pujar 28 Sep '16

28 Sep '16

Dear Sir/Madam, Greetings from DSIMS Knowledge Resource Centre, Mumbai ! We are pleased to inform you that, Durgadevi Saraf Institute of Management Studies (DSIMS), Mumbai, in association with Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai, is organizing two days 'Workshop on Koha: An Open Source Software for Library Solutions' between November 11-12, 2016 at DSIMS, Mumbai. The Workshop intends to enhance the knowledge and skills of participants in installation, basic customization and housekeeping operations using Koha integrated library system through demonstrations and hands-on training for each of the technical session. The workshop is open for B-School Librarians, College Librarians, Information Scientists, LIS-Teachers, and Students. Registration for the workshop is limited to 25 participants on first-cum-first served basis and the last date for registration is October 20, 2016. Resource persons for the workshop are drawn from academic, research institutions and Koha support provider. For more details about the workshop, you may please refer to workshop website at : http://bit.ly/2cy2S1l We cordially invite you and your colleagues to please register for the workshop at the earliest, on or before Oct 20, 2016. Looking forward to meet you at the workshop. Thanks & Regards, Sunita Pujar Librarian Durgadevi Saraf Institute of Management Studies R S Campus, S V Road, Malad (West) Mumbai- 400064, Maharashtra, India Contact No. +91 22 6681 2311 Ext: 2351/2352 Mobile : 9869624256 Email Id : sunita.pujar(a)dsims.org.in Website : http://www.rset.edu.in/dsims/ Disclaimer: Information contained and transmitted by this E-MAIL is proprietary to Rajasthani Sammelan Educational Endeavours and is intended for exclusive use by the individual or entity to which it is addressed, and may contain information that is privileged, confidential or exempt from disclosure under applicable law and shall not attach any liability on the originator. Any use, distribution, transmission, printing, copying or dissemination of this information in any way or in any manner is strictly prohibited. If you have reason to believe that you are not the intended recipient of this communication, please contact the sender immediately. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Information from a book emtitled"Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research
by Binod Yadav 28 Sep '16

28 Sep '16

*Dear professionals,* You are requested to provide information on ways of coping checklist from the given book. Book "Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research" <http://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-94-007-0753-5> pp 7014-7017 Ways of Coping Checklist Filippa Kolokotroni <philippa_ph04(a)yahoo.com> -- Binod Kumar Yadav Senior Librarian B. P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences Dharan, Nepal Phone: +97725525555 Mobile:+977-9804060641 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Faculty Status for Academic Library Professionals
by Pandurang Konnur 28 Sep '16

28 Sep '16

*Dear Professional Friends,* I am happy to inform all of you that the IALA has filed its memorandum to the Pay Review Committee of UGC for consideration of including our demands in the recommendations of 7th PRC of UGC. Some time back I had given a call through this forum to all the Academic Librarians to send the anomalies to be included in our appeal. I thank everybody who have responded to our call. We have tried our best it include all the sentiments of our Academic Librarians in the petition. The following are the points which we have included in our 26 pages of our petition. If at all there are any more issues left out, I request all of you to kindly alert us. We will include the same in another additional representation. If at all any other LIS Professional Associations are desirous of using our petition and submit to the PRC, they are most welcome. Please send us an email; we will forward you the text of the petition. You may add/delete/modify as per your requirement and submit the same to the PRC. We will again share our PPTs to be presented before the PRC visit to our regions and project our profession unitedly. Thanking you, Dr.P.V.Konnur President IALA pvkonnur(a)gmail.com Points included in the Memorandum *Faculty Status for **Academic Library Professionals:* A concept document on the provision of faculty status to the library professionals in Universities and Colleges submitted by INDIAN ACADEMIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION (Regd) Bangalore · *Indian Academic Library Association* · *Knowledge Society* · *National Knowledge Commission Recommendations on Libraries* · *Recommendations: * · *Staffing requirement in Academic Libraries* · *Skills required to fulfill the changing role of libraries* · *Current Status of Higher Education* · *Excellence in Academics: Recommendation of Various Committees* · *Higher Education Commissions’ & Expert Committees’ Recommendations on the Importance of Library in Higher Education:* · *Academic Role of Librarians at par with Teachers* · *Standard criteria for Academic Status* · *Academic Responsibility of Librarians* · *Impact of Information and Communication Technology on Libraries * · *Role of Librarians in Digital Environment * · *New Skills Required for Changing Role of Librarian* · *Impact of Academic Status* · Standard Parameters Used By Pay Review Committees o *Direct Recruitments:* o *Career Advancement:* · *Anomalies in the UGC Regulations 2010 & Remedial Measures* · Comparative Statement of Anomalies between Faculty and Library Positions · *Promotional Opportunities for Information Scientists* · *Recommended Measures for the Improvement of Status of Librarians in Universities and Colleges in the Country* · *Extend New Designations of Asst. Professor, Associate Professor and Professor in Library and Information Services to Librarians in Universities and Colleges for uniformity and Parity* · *Impact of new designation of Asst. Professor, Associate Professor and Professor in Library and Information Services to librarians in Universities and Colleges* · *Prescribe Same Uniform qualifications and experience of Faculty for appointment and Promotion of Librarians* · *Provide same pay scales, status and Career Advancement promotional opportunities of faculty to that of* *Librarians.* · *Extend all other benefits like study leave, sabbatical leave, superannuation age etc of teachers to the Librarians without any discrimination.* · *Constitution of UGC Library Review Committee for University and College Libraries* · *Measures suggested for the improvement of academic libraries in the county are give in * · *Summary of Recommended Measures* · *Conclusion * · *Annexure – I* · *Measures suggested for the improvement of Academic Libraries in India* · *Annexure –II* · *Designations of Heads of Libraries of the Prestigious National R & D Institutions* *Dr. P. V. Konnur* *Director Prasaranga,* *Adviser, VTU Consortium,* *Visvesvaraya Technological University,* *Belagavi - 590 018* Present Res: # 1075, "*Ganga Nivas*" 5th 'A' Main, Ist stage, IInd Phase, Gokul, Bangalore- 560 054 Karnataka State, (India) Mobile : 09449679737 E-Mail : pvkonnur(a)gmail.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Student's Seminar-4
by drtc＠isibang.ac.in 28 Sep '16

28 Sep '16

INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE Documentation Research & Training Centre 8th Mile, Mysore Road, RVCE Post Bangalore, 560 059 SEMINAR-4 Record to Data: An evolving scenario of Bibliographic information. Abstract Library record has been designed to be read and interpreted by the librarians and users. The rich record management is one of the forte of librarianship and in today's web environment, these bibliographic records can be an asset in making the web smarter. Librarians have achieved in making records machine readable and facilitate the exchange of records within the community, but there is a gap to enable the machine to manage and interpret these records so as to integrate into applications to provide information services on the Internet. Unless we call upon these changing course, libraries are bound to fall out. Therefore, it has become imperative to revamp or reconstruct in the light of semantic web so that Libraries remain relevant. Changes are seen in the services that libraries provide, the content and the information that is created and disseminated by making data in library silos visible on the web, so as to achieve rich user experience in the information ecosystem. In this seminar, the importance of Bibliographic Record shall be discussed, in relation to, changing scenario of the web and the evolutionary activity towards Bibliographic information. The different models, the framework that is being developed, the working groups, projects based on this advancement and the open challenges, shall be a part of the discussion. Speaker: ALOVI ZHIMOMI Date: 29-09-2016 Time: 2 p.m. Venue: DRTC Class Room(G-21), ISI Bangalore. All are cordially invited. Coordinator Dr. Biswanath Dutta -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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National Digital Library OR National Metadata Library OR National Union Catalogue ?
by vinod mishra 27 Sep '16

27 Sep '16

Dear All, National Digital Library (NDL) hosted by IIT Kharagpur https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/index.php seems to be one of the biggest and best project to provide full text educational materials for all.I just searched and find it is nothing but collection of metadata from various sources and has been dumped at one place. For example as per its link top items are: Book 715536 Article 279582 Audio lecture 206336 Thesis 95259 Chapter 49502 Journal 37726 Question paper 33888 But i don't think all are available in full text even 30/40 % and the full text which is available is either already available in open access or subscribed by the concern institutes. For example the e-books, articles etc. Further, The thesis of IIT'S/IIM'S/IISc are not at all available on this portal and you may get error message while attempting to access full text as they are on Intranet. Further, in many cases you may not get resource location information as usually provided in Union catalogue for example Springer e-books catalogue has been blindly uploaded their without full text access or location of library where full text is subscribed. So my view is as per its present shape its name should be National Metadata Library (NML) . Please suggest or give your feedback as i am too much expecting from this huge amount project. -- With Regards, Vinod Kumar Mishra, Assistant Librarian, Biju Patnaik Central Library (BPCL), NIT Rourkela, Sundergadh-769008, Odisha, India. Mob:91+9439420860 Website: http://mishravk.com/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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