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Librarians Day Celebration at 6th Zone
by IASLIC Kolkata 07 Aug '16

07 Aug '16

*Librarians’ Day 2016* Sir/Madam Believably you are aware and will appreciate that we observe the Birth Anniversary of the father of Library Science, Dr. S. R. Ranganathan as the “Librarians’ Day” every year befittingly to pay homage and tribute to this great son of mother India The 12th August stands as that sacred date to us. On this Occasion of celebration of *Librarians’ Day 2016*, in collaboration with the RRRLF and Shibpur Public Library, Howrah a day-long seminar on “Capacity Building Among Librarians” will be held on *August 14, 2016*(*Sunday)* at 10 am at the Auditorium of Shibpur Public Library, Mandirtala, Howrah. The event will be inaugurated by Professor Mita Banerjee, Vice Chancellor, The West Bengal University of Teachers’ Training, Education Planning and Administration, Dr Rathin Chakraborty, Mayor, Howrah Municipality will grace the event as the Guest in Chief, Dr Arun Kumar Chakraborty will grace the event as the Guest-of Honour. Dr Barun Mukherjee, Former M P (Rajya Sabha) and the President, Indian Association of Special Libraries and Information Centres, and Bengal Library Association will preside over the function. Prof Amitabha Chatterjee, Ms Indrani Bhattacharyya, Dr Soma Mukherjee will speak on the theme. *You are requested to registered yourself by 12.08.2016 positively (registration fees Rs 200/-) to confirm your participation. * Sri Shibaprasad Chakraborty Sri Goutam Goswami Prof Pijushkanti Panigrahi Secretary, Secretary General Secretary WBPLEA BLA IASLIC -- Indian Association of Special Libraries and Information Centres (IASLIC), P-291, CIT Scheme No. 6M, Kankurgachi, Kolkata - 700054 iaslic(a)vsnl.net or iaslic.india(a)gmail.com www.iaslic1955.org.in *Join IASLIC, Contribute to IASLIC, Strengthen IASLIC* -- Indian Association of Special Libraries and Information Centres (IASLIC), P-291, CIT Scheme No. 6M, Kankurgachi, Kolkata - 700054 iaslic(a)vsnl.net or iaslic.india(a)gmail.com www.iaslic1955.org.in *Join IASLIC, Contribute to IASLIC, Strengthen IASLIC* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Installation of MarcEdit on Ubuntu/Lubuntu-14.04
by Dp Tripathi 06 Aug '16

06 Aug '16

Dear All, MarcEdit, a free tool developed by Terry Reese in 1999, is used for different purposes and highly used by computer experts and especially, it is very useful in Data Migration and Conversion. It can be installed on cross platforms such as Windows, Linux etc. Marc Edit is software used mainly for cleansing the data for migration purpose. The software makes the work easy as it enables the technical experts to add/delete the information in data exported from the source structure. It also helps in making the data as per the target structure. This software is available free of cost and available to download and install for windows, linux etc. I tried to install on Lubuntu-14.04 LTS and here are the steps to install MarcEdit: http://www.dptripathi.in/download/installmarcedit.pdf Hope this will be useful for all, Thanks, DP Tripathi NIT Rourkela -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Kudos - Researchers: Increase the reach and impact of your publications
by Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy 06 Aug '16

06 Aug '16

Kudos for Researchers Kudos is a free service through which you can broaden readership and increase the impact of your research. Kudos is more than a just a networking site, and more than just a publication listing. It is a toolkit for explaining your work in plain language and for enriching it with links to related materials (watch a video about explaining and enriching). Kudos also provides a unique one-stop shop for multiple metrics relating to your publications: page views, citations, full text downloads and altmetrics. When you explain, enrich and share your work through Kudos, we map your actions against these metrics in charts that show you which activities are most effective when it comes to increasing the reach and impact of your work (watch a video about sharing your work). https://www.growkudos.com/about/researchers -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Walk-In-Interview for Information Management Trainees at NIFT Mumbai
by Dr. Mallikarjun Angadi 05 Aug '16

05 Aug '16

The National Institute of Fashion Technology, Ministry of Textiles, Government of India is looking for bright and dynamic young Library Professionals as "Information Management Trainees" for its State of the Art resource Centre. The Walk In Interview is been fixed on 16th August, 2016 at 11. 00 am in the Office of the Director, NIFT Campus, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai-410 210. Fresh M.L.I.Sc <http://m.l.i.sc/> Candidates from any Indian Universities attended regular two years integrated programme may appear for the interview along with their academic certificates in original on the date and time indicated. (Other Candidates from any other School need not to attend). No TA/DA be paid for attending the interview. The selected candidates will be paid a stipend of Rs 12,000=00 Per Month for a period of one year. Interested Candidates may send in their Bio-Data to the undersigned or directly walk in for the interview with their respective Biodata. Dr. A. N. Bandi, Head, Resource Centre, National Institute of Fashion Technology, NIFT Campus, Ministry of Textiles, GoI, Plot No.15, Sector 4, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai - 410 210. *Mobile :7715833561* e-mail: anb321in(a)yahoo.co.in ; dr.anbandi(a)gmail.com -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mallikarjun Angadi, Ph.D Chairperson Centre for Library and Information Management Studies (CLIMS) Commonwealth Fellow (University of East London, UK) Sir Dorabji Tata Memorial Library Tata Institute of Social Sciences (Deemed University) P.B.No.8313,V. N. Purav Marg, Deonar, Mumbai - 400 088 Ph : 91-22-2552 5284 (off) Fax : 91-22-2552 5050 E-mail : mallikarjun(a)tiss.edu URL : http://library.tiss.edu Blog : http://mallikarjunangadi.wordpress.com -------------------------------------------------------------------- "Mind is like parachute it works only when it's open. " -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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KALA Office Bearers
by Rajendrakumar Py 05 Aug '16

05 Aug '16

<Subject: KALA Office Bearer> - The newly elected Office Bearers of Karnataka State Library Association for the years 2016-18. President: Dr.P.Y.Rajendrakumar Vice-Presidents: Dr.Satish K Hosamani. Dr.S.L.Kadadevara Mut. General Secretary: Sri.G.K.Govinda Reddy. Joint Secretaries: Dr.Mahesh Horakeri. Smt.V. Sunitha Treasurer: B.Subash Reddy -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Fw: Koha User Meet
by Rajesh Chandrakar 05 Aug '16

05 Aug '16

Dear All Koha User Meet in Mumbai and Pune is organised on 29th August 2016 and 30th August 2016, respectively at Nehru Centre Library, Mumbai and PULISAA, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune. One of the original Koha developers, Ms. Joann Ransom, will be the expert to interact with. The event is organised by Firstray Consulting, Pune, an ISO 9001: 2008 certified consulting firm. With best regards Rajesh ChandrakarShanti Business School, Ahmedabad Show original message ---------- Forwarded message ----------From: "Swati Palekar" <swati1776(a)gmail.com> Date: 05-Aug-2016 11:57 AM Subject: [ILOSC.29919] Koha User Meet To: "ilosc" <ilosc(a)googlegroups.com> Cc: Kindly post the details of coming event for koha users. Thisis the first of its kind event in Mumbai and pune for koha users. Joann Ransom one of thelibrarians who worked with Chris Cormack to develop the original Koha librarymanagement system back in 1999 and ex-CEO of Horowhenua Library Trust,willinteract with participants.Host : Nehru centre library, Mumbai 29th August 2016 PULISAA, Savitribai Phule Puneuniversity, Pune 30th August 2016ProgrammeTime:-9.30-4.00Targetedaudience:-Active koha usersOrganisedby:-First Ray consulting ,PuneMoredetails can be seen on following websites:-http://www.firstray.in/koha-us er-meet http://www.firstray.in/koha-us er-meet-reg With regards,Mrs. swati PalekarLIBRARIAN, RCA

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K G Sudhier- KLA Newsletter Released
by Sudhier K G Pillai 04 Aug '16

04 Aug '16

Dear Professionals, KLA Newsletter, the official organ of the Kerala Library Association, Thiruvananthapuram, (Vol. 45, Nos.1-4, July 2015-June 2016) is published. Visit the KLA website www.keralalibraryassociation.org/ and KLA Blog http://klaweblog.wordpress.com/ to download the e-version. rgds *Dr. K. G. SUDHIER (Editor, KLA Newsletter)* Librarian, Library & Knowledge Centre School of Distance Education (SDE) University of Kerala, Senate House Campus Thiruvanathapuram-695 034, KERALA kgsudhier(a)keralauniversity.ac.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Invitation for Participation in “Regional (North) Workshop on Institutional Digital Repository for National Digital Library (NDL) Project” for Institutes of NCR and adjacent areas of West UP, Haryana, South Punjab, North-East Rajasthan.
by Ramesh C Gaur 04 Aug '16

04 Aug '16

Dear Sir /Madam, Greetings from Central Library, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi MHRD, under its NMEICT mission, has entrusted IIT Kharagpur to host, coordinate and set-up National Digital Library (NDL) towards building a national asset. The objective of the project is to integrate all the existing digitized and digital contents across educational institutions of the nation to provide a single-window access with e-learning facility to different groups of users ranging from primary level to higher education level of our county. NDL will harvest metadata and contents from all the Institutional Digital Repositories (IDR) of Universities and Institutions, all other digital library initiatives, and NMEICT projects and index in the National Digital Library Server so that all the e-contents can be searched and accessed in the full-text by the users through a single window. Please visit https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in to view an initial version of NDL. In view of the above, Central Library of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, in collaboration with NDL Project, IIT Kharagpur,is organizing a 2-day Workshop on Institutional Digital Repository for National Digital Library (NDL) Project on 01-02 September, 2016 at, JNU, New Delhi. The workshop will contextualize the roles of various Institutions in NDL and their participation through the maintenance of IDR. It will also include an advanced-level Hands-on Training for the development of IDRs in each institution so that e-contents of individual institution can be harvested and indexed by the NDL server. The following will be covered at the Workshop: NDL Project IDR* Hands-on · - National Digital Library – A Vision, Overview and Design · - Metadata Envelop for NDL · - Role of Contributing Institutions 1. - Installation of DSpace Version 5.x 2. - Configuration of DSpace (UI, OAI, ORE, Work flow model) 3. - Registry process of NDL metadata Schema into installed Dspace 4. - Uploading steps of e-content’s metadata as per NDL metadata schema * The participant will be given all required IDR software and softcopy of IDR manual. The workshop will be conducted by the faculties from Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Librarian of Central Library, and professionals from NDL Project, IIT Kharagpur. This is an important event for all the academic institutions in India to set up National Digital Library. Therefore, you are requested to kindly depute two persons –one from your Library (preferably Librarian) and another with Information Technology (IT) / Computer Science background who supports IT function of your Library. The invitation is open for Institutes of NCR and adjacent areas of West UP, Haryana, South Punjab, North-East Rajasthan.Please send the names and contact details of the persons you are nominating for attending the Workshop to: Dr. Ramesh C. Gaur Coordinator, NDL Regional (North) Workshop and University Librarian Jawaharlal Nehru University(JNU) New Meharuli Road, New Delhi - 110067 Tele +91-11-26742605, 26704551 Fax : +91-11-26741603 Email: rcgaur(a)mail.jnu.ac.in ;rcgaur66(a)gmail.com URL: www.jnu.ac.in Brief Profile:http://lib.jnu.ac.in/Ramesh_C_Gaur It may be noted that there is no registration fee participation in this Workshop. The local hospitality will be provided by JNU. However only 80 participants will be registered on firs-cum-first-served basis. For more details and registration, pl. check the URL as given below: http://lib.jnu.ac.in/workshop-cum-training-programme-institutional-digital-… With best regards, Ramesh C Gaur ************************************ Dr. Ramesh C Gaur PGDCA, MLISc,Ph.D. Fulbright Scholar (Virginia Tech, USA) University Librarian & Chair- ETD 2015 India Jawaharlal Nehru University(JNU) New Meharuli Road, New Delhi - 110067 Tele +91-11-26742605, 26704551 Fax : +91-11-26741603 Email: rcgaur(a)mail.jnu.ac.in ;rcgaur66(a)gmail.com URL: www.jnu.ac.in Brief Profile:http://lib.jnu.ac.in/Ramesh_C_Gaur -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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National workshop cum trrainig program on Dspace
by Mailing List Admin 03 Aug '16

03 Aug '16

Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2016 10:03:08 +0530 From: Manoj Kumar Verma <manojdlisbhu(a)gmail.com> I feel happy to inform you that Department of Library and Information Science, Mizoram University in Collaboration with INFLIBNET, Gandhinagar is going to organize a 3 days National Workshop cum Training Program on Dspace on 6-8 September 2016.The details brochure of workshop is available on http://www.mzu.edu.in. <http://www.mzu.edu.in/> Dr. Manoj Kumar Verma Assistant Professor (Stage-2) Department of Library and Information Science Mizoram University(a Central University) Aizawl-796004 Contact No.- 09774003201(M) 0-9436707900(M)

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Walk-In Interview for "Information management trainee" position at NIFT, Mumbai
by anand bandi 03 Aug '16

03 Aug '16

Dear Moderator,Kindly post the information on walk-in interview scheduled for 16th August, 2016. The National Institute of Fashion Technology, Ministry of Textiles, Government of India is looking for bright and dynamic young Library Professionals as "Information Management Trainees" for its State of the Art resource Centre. The Walk In Interview is been fixed on 16th August, 2016 at 11. 00 am in the Office of the Director, NIFT Campus, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai-410 210. Fresh M.L.I.Sc Candidates from any Indian Universities attended regular two years integrated programme may appear for the interview along with their academic certificates in original on the date and time indicated. (Other Candidates from any other School need not to attend). No TA/DA be paid for attending the interview. The selected candidates will be paid a stipend of Rs 12,000=00 Per Month for a period of one year. Interested Candidates may send in their Bio-Data to the undersigned or directly walk in for the interview with their respective Bio-Data.Dr.A.N.Bandi, Head, Resource Centre, National Institute of Fashion Technology, NIFT Campus, Ministry of Textiles, GoI, Plot No.15, Sector 4, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai - 410 210. Mobile :7715833561 e-mail: anb321in(a)yahoo.co.in ; dr.anbandi@gmail.comhttp://14.139.111.26/jspui/

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