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Are you facing any problem after upgrading your DSpace?
by vinod mishra 16 Mar '16

16 Mar '16

Dear All, Please refer the below document if you are upgrading your old DSpace to latest and facing some problem like deletion of items, community etc. and any indexing related issues. http://mishravk.com/dspace/ Thanking You. -- 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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Prof. Shivalingaiah- The New Vice-Chancellor of KSOU
by vasappa gowda 16 Mar '16

16 Mar '16

With a request to the moderator to publish Dear all,I am very happy to inform that our LIS professional Prof. D Shivalingaiah is appointed as the Vice- Chancellor of Karnataka State Open University, Mysore. I am very proud and happy to say that he is my PhD guide. He is a very hard working, committed academician. He started his career as an Assistant Librarian at Mangalore University. Soon after his PhD from Mangalore University, he joined as a Reader and the as Professor in the Dept, of LIS at Mangalore University, he has also worked as Deputy registrar, special officer and Regustrar(Evaluation at Mangalore University. He has brought lot of administrative changes in the Mangalore University. Recognising the administrative skills, the Govt. of Karnataka has appointed him as the registrar of Tumkur University and he has worked as the registrar for 8 years. The Govt of Karnataka again appointed him as the Vice Chancellor of KSOU, Mysore. It is an additional feather to his cap. The KSOU is facing lot of problems and I am sure because of the administrative experience, Prof. Shivalingaiah will definitely handle the issues and solve them and bring the name and fame to the University. I join hands with my professional friendly and I pray almighty to give him strength to handle the issues successfully. Karnataka State College Librarians Association, Bangalore and Dakshina Kannada and Kodagu Library Association, Mangalore specially congratulates him and wishes him all the best for his new assignment.With regards Dr. VASAPPA GOWDA, MCom, MLISc, PGDCA, PhDSELECTION GRADE LIBRARIAN, BESANT EVENING COLLEGE, MANGALORE-575 003, KARNATAKA STATE,INDIA.Ph (0824) 2491204(O) (0824) 2453109(R)Mob: 09448150365

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OSS - Koha - Invite for Bits and Bytes Lecture Series
by Ishwar Goudar 16 Mar '16

16 Mar '16

Dear Professional Friends, You are cordially invited to attend the following lecture organized by Karnataka State Library Association (KALA), NCSI-Net Foundation and SRELS. Title: Library Automation using OSS - Koha SPEAKER: Mr. Gopalakrishna, Librarian, BMS Institute of Technology & Management, Bangaluru . PLACE: Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science (SRELS), 702, 'Upstairs', 42nd Cross, III Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalore - 560 010 DATE & TIME: Friday March 18, 2016 at 6.15 p.m. ABSTRACT: Koha, a world's first truly free Open Source Integrated Library Management System. It is fully featured, scalable for all types and sizes of libraries. Widely used world over including more than 1000 Indian Libraries, Koha supports branch libraries, transfer of items from one branch to another, Search or Retrieve via URL (SRU), full MARC21 and UNICODE, Z39.50, RFID, Discovery tools and CMS to some extent. Koha requires a server running Perl 5.10 or later; MySql 5, Zebra 2.0.22 or greater, and a Webserver preferably Apache2 before installation. It is designed to be used with the support of 3rd party paid support company by spending a nominal amount or by libraries with in-house IT support. Installation can be done using any one of the installation methods viz GIT (Version Control) for developers, Package (Standard) and tarball installation methods. Data migration can be done using MARC Edit application which requires data in text or excel format. With MySql update query knowledge one can port current transactions also from legacy software. One can manage Koha at zero maintenance charges on standard installations. Above all Koha has strong community support like Mailing Lists, IRC etc. While recently version Koha 3.22 has has many advanced features, few Indians are also working towards its development especially adding features useful for Indian Libraries. Few commercial supporters, apart from doing installation, data migration are also offering low cost shared cloud hosting of Koha. One can also take help from Librarian like Mr. Gopalakrishna, who is a self made Koha expert and has helped many libraries in installing and configuring OS LMS Koha on operating systems like UBUNTU. I am sure that many Librarians will get inspired to adopt Koha by attending this lecture. We can also have discussion on issues like customisation, data migration, etc. Regards, Dr. I.R.N. Goudar On behalf of Office Bearers of KAKA, NCSI-NET and SRELS "Access E-Resources for Academic and Research Excellence" *- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -* Dr. I.R.N. Goudar - Adjunct Professor, Mangalore University - Visiting Professor Cum Library Adviser Bangalore University Library, BANGALORE - 560056 - Ex. Visiting Professor Cum Library Adviser, UoM, Mysore - Ex. Scientist 'G' and Head, ICAST, NAL, Bangalore - Ex. Dy Librarian, IITM, Chennai - Ex. Scientist (Information), IICT, Hyderabad - Fulbright Scholar, Univ. of Michigan and Columbia Univ, USA (1995-96) - British Council Scholar (1982-83) E-mail: goudarishwar(a)gmail.com Tel: 080-23215510 Mob: 91+9611165781 (If not reachable pl try land line) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Request
by Prof. N. Laxman Rao. 15 Mar '16

15 Mar '16

Helo friends Prof Amudha want to have the list of LIS schools in India. If any one has, please send the list or url to her address or put in the groupthanks Prof. N.LAXMAN RAO, President, Telangana Library Association Member, Advisory Board, National Library, KolkataUGC-Emeritus Fellow (2009-11) Professor in Library and Information Science, Osmania University, Hyderabad (super-annuated). Formerly Director, UGC-Academic Staff College (2006-8). Formerly President of Indian Association of Teachers in Library and Information Science (IATLIS) and Association of British Scholars (AP Chapter) . On Tuesday, 15 March 2016, 20:09, amudhavalli Alagusundaram <aamudh(a)gmail.com> wrote: Dear prof Rao garu May I know if I can get a list of LIS schools in India? Thanks Amuda

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OA and Chinese Academy of Sciences
by mailman＠ncsi.iisc.ernet.in 15 Mar '16

15 Mar '16

From: "Subbiah Arunachalam" <subbiah.arunachalam(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, March 14, 2016 10:40 pm All the more than 100 institutes under the Chinese Academy of Sciences have set up institutional repositories and more than 650,000 research papers have been deposited in these IRs as on 14 March 2016. Best. Arun http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4658 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9925-2009

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Bits and Bytes Lecture Series: Library Automation using OSS - Koha
by Shivaram Gowda 15 Mar '16

15 Mar '16

Dear Members, You are cordially invited to attend the following lecture organized by Karnataka State Library Association (KALA), NCSI-Net Foundation and SRELS. Title: Library Automation using OSS - Koha SPEAKER: Mr. Gopalakrishna, Libraian, BMS Institute of Technology & Mgmt., Bangalore . PLACE: Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science (SRELS), 702, 'Upstairs', 42nd Cross, III Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalore - 560 010 DATE & TIME: Friday March 18, 2016 at 6.15 p.m. Abstract: Koha is one of the truly free open source, web based, Integrated Library Management Softwares, widely used in small and large libraries of all types throughout the world. Supports branch libraries, transfer of items from one branch to another, Search or Retrieve via URL (SRU), full MARC21 and UNICODE, Z39.50, RFID, Discovery tools and CMS to some extent. Koha requires a server running Perl 5.10 or later; MySql 5, Zebra 2.0.22 or greater, and a Webserver preferably Apache2 before installation. It is designed to be used with the support of 3rd party paid support company or by libraries with in-house IT support. Installation can be done using any one of the installation methods viz GIT (Version Control) for developers, Package (Standard) and tarball installation methods. Data migration can be done using Marc Edit application which requires data in text or excel format. With MySql update query knowledge one can port current transactions also from legacy software. One can manage KOHA at zero maintenance charges on standard installations. Above all Koha has strong community support like Mailing Lists, IRC etc. with warm regards Shivaram BS Treasurer, KALA - -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Call for Papers
by mailman＠ncsi.iisc.ernet.in 15 Mar '16

15 Mar '16

From: K.S. Raghavan ksragav(a)hotmail.com Sent: Tuesday, March 8, 2016 9:08 AM Recent technological developments have enabled ready access to more information and data than can be comprehended and managed effectively. Ontology is an important knowledge organization tool and has a crucial role to play in capturing, organizing, representing and assigning meaning to information, data and knowledge. However, even after three decades of research, ontology development remains within the realm of research and has not entered the daily professional activity of librarians and information professionals. Ontology promises to enable intelligent Web applications, but such intelligent applications do not seem to have invaded the public and business domains. Many papers on ontology are merely descriptive - describing an ontology, ontology construction process, or a prototype application; there has been insufficient effort to draw out lessons and derive fundamental principles. This special issue of LIBRES seeks to identify such lessons and principles related to ontology development and application, and to suggest a direction for ontology research in the field of Information Studies. Papers that focus on issues and challenges in building large-scale ontologies, representing complex semantic constructs in languages like OWL, merging ontologies as well as successful designs for systems and experiments in the use of ontologies in knowledge management, information retrieval and knowledge discovery are sought. The special issue will also seek to bridge the gap between perceptions of the LIS community and ontology engineers to suggest a way forward. Critical papers on ontology editors - both commercial and open source software - will also be considered for publication. All submissions will be peer-reviewed. Deadlines: Submission of title & abstract for preliminary review: May 15, 2016 Submission of full paper for review: June 30, 2016 Author guidelines can be found at: http://libres-ejournal.info/author-guidelines/ LIBRES is a peer-reviewed open-access journal, published by Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), Wee Kim Wee School of Communication & Information. It was previously published by Curtin University (Australia), Department of Information Studies. LIBRES is indexed by ISA, LISA, EBSCO, Scopus and Cabells. Guest editors for the special issue of LIBRES: Dr. Kavi Mahesh (drkavimahesh(a)gmail.com<mailto:drkavimahesh@gmail.com>) Dr K. S. Raghavan (ksragav(a)hotmail.com<mailto:ksragav@hotmail.com>) Centre for Knowledge Analytics and Ontological Engineering (KAnOE), PES University, Bangalore, India K. S. Raghavan Visiting Scientist Centre for Knowledge Analytics and Ontological Engineering (KAnOE) PES University 100 Feet Ring Road, BSK 3rd Stage Bengaluru 560085

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Students Colloquium-3
by drtc＠isibang.ac.in 15 Mar '16

15 Mar '16

INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE Documentation Research & Training Centre 8th Mile, Mysore Road, RVCE Post Bangalore, 560 059 COLLOQUIM - 3 (2015 2017) Intellectual Property Rights A Debate ABSTRACT Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) has been a subject of intense discussion. On one side, IPR brings value to ensure that innovators are rewarded for their intellectual creations and on the other sides, it is argued that it is against free expression and exchange of ideas. IPR dispute has involved the fun-damental trade-off between this two arguments. It brings a dilemma as how to balance artistic and entrepreneurial incentives with the interest of the larger community of users in a free unhindered exchange of ideas and product. There is a criticism that aggressive protection schemes of IPR re-gime goes beyond any possibility of creativity by others. So in recent times, the question arises as does it promote the progress of science and useful arts or promotes the unnecessary government monopoly. In this debate, we are going to discuss the issues of IPR and whether we still need it in a knowledge and technology age or should we do away with it. This will shed light on a critical reassessment of IPR. In this colloquium the speakers are as follows: Moderator Kanu Chakraborty Group 1 Shiva Shankar Mahato Gurrala Srinivas Dipanwita Das Group 2 Alovi Zhimomi Sagar Gajbe Kumari Vandana Date: 16-03-2016 Time: 2 p.m. Venue: DRTC (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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Photocopier that translates
by Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy 15 Mar '16

15 Mar '16

This is pretty wild - your photocopier doing your translation! "Xerox, however, has done something interesting: its photocopiers are literally like Google Translate IRL. A new service from the company called Xerox Easy Translate lets you scan a document and it’ll plop out the other end in a different language." http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2016/03/10/photocopiers-basically-google-t… -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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OA and young (and not-so-young) doctors
by Subbiah Arunachalam 15 Mar '16

15 Mar '16

Friends: I recommend this blog post from a young doctor to all doctors, medical researchers and medical librarians: < http://kpurshouse.blogspot.in/2016/03/open-access-where-did-all-doctors-go.… >. Arun http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4658 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9925-2009 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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