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Vacancy for Post of Librarian
by Sunita Bakhru 19 Dec '15

19 Dec '15

Dear All,Vacancy for post of Librarian for an International School in Malad west, Mumbai urgently. This is a full time job. SUNITA BAKHRU India -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Corporation-academic library collaboration
by Subbiah Arunachalam 18 Dec '15

18 Dec '15

Friends: Corporations and academic libraries collaborate in very meaningful ways in the West. A fine example is the collaboration between Carnegie Corporation and Columbia University. Please see < http://www.finebooksmagazine.com/press/2015/12/columbia-university-librarie… >. When will see such collaborations in India? What should we do for it to happen? 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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LIPS 2016: Conference announcement and call for paper
by Debal C Kar 18 Dec '15

18 Dec '15

*Library and Information Professionals Summit (LIPS) 2016* On *From Ownership to Access: Leveraging the Digital Paradigm* Thursday-Friday, 19-20 May 2016 New Delhi, India Jointly organized by *Ambedkar University Delhi*& *Society for Library Professionals (SLP)* Conference Venue: *Ambedkar University Delhi* *Lothian Road, Kashemere Gate* *New Delhi- 110006, India* It gives us great pleasure to inform you that next Library and Information Professionals Summit (LIPS) 2016 on From Ownership to Access: Leveraging the Digital Paradigm will be held Thursday-Friday, 19-20 May 2016 at Ambedkar University Delhi, Delhi LIPS 2016 will be an excellent opportunity for all including Librarians, Information Professionals, Researchers and Practitioners to share experiences, ideas, research results, meeting and networking. Don’t miss out on the many opportunities which will allow you to share your experiences and learn from other professionals. The principle objective of this event is to provide a platform for the exchange of knowledge and skills relevant to students, professors and Information professionals. This conference will offer an opportunity to put forward innovative plans, debate classic ideas, and promote closer cooperation among colleagues. It will solicit high quality research papers and provide an international forum for researchers, developers and practitioners to present applied and theoretical research findings. *Conference Theme* The conference aims to address the main issues of concern within the framework of *From Ownership to Access: Leveraging the Digital Paradigm* issues. Some of the important areas, which conference intends to engage itself with are listed below: 1. *E-**Books Access in Libraries* · New ways for Library Resource Access · Procurement and Management including Right management of E-books · Trends, New models and tools · Impact of eBooks on learning · E-books Accelerating - Will print books disappear? · Future of eBooks *2. **Web Based Access in Libraries* · Semantic Web · Text mining · Cloud Computing and Libraries · Social Media and Applications in Libraries · Social Networks, Virtual Organization and Networked Information · Web Archiving and Preservation · Next-generation web services *3. **Future Models of Accessing the Libraries * · Acquisitions and Collection Development · Access, Ownership and Resource Sharing · Economics of access versus ownership · Licensing Pricing IPR & Privacy Issues · Threats to Digital Lending · Database Ownership: Myth or Reality · New & Emerging Resources, Products, & Services · Library Outreach, Marketing & Advocacy · Open Access Participants are invited to contribute papers for presentation on the above themes and related aspects. The papers should be based on research surveys; case studies or action plans rather than theoretical explanations. Papers are to be sent to Conference Secretariat at: *LIPS2016may(a)gmail.com* <LIPS2016may(a)gmail.com> Submission of full papers (not more than 6 pages) with an abstract in approximately 200 words, keywords and references on A4 size paper with margin 1.5 cm on all sides in MS Word format in 10 points New Times Roman type single line spacing. Length of the paper should not exceed 4000 words. Details such as name of the author, designation, title of the article, abstract, name of the affiliating institution, mailing address, telephone number, fax number and E-mail address are to be included. The paper submitted must not have been previously published or presented elsewhere. The Programme Committee will have the right to edit the papers. Selected papers will be published in the proceedings. The selected papers will be published as edited book with ISBN number in print or digital format. *Registration Fees* Early Bird Registration till 31st March 2016 1st April 2016 onwards Indian Delegates Rs.1500/- Rs.2000/- Students/ SLA Members / Accompanied Person/ Retired Professionals Rs. 1000/- Rs.1200/- Foreign Participants US$50 US$60 *Date to Remember* Last Date for Submission of full paper February 15, 2016 Authors to be intimated of accepted papers March 15, 2016 Early Bird Registration March 31, 2016 Accepted papers will be included in the proceedings, only if Registered on or before March 31, 2016 Conference Secretariat *Dr. Debal C. Kar* *Organising Secretary * *Library and Information Professionals Summit -2016* Ambedkar University Lothian Road, Kashmere Gate, New Delhi-110006 Ph. 23865084, 9811392242 Email: debal(a)aud.ac.in http://www.aud.ac.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Add one reference to Wikipedia
by mailman＠ncsi.iisc.ernet.in 18 Dec '15

18 Dec '15

---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: From: "Subbiah Arunachalam" <subbiah.arunachalam(a)gmail.com> Date: Fri, December 18, 2015 6:39 am To: "LIS-Forum" <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear friends in libraries and info centres: CILIP invites you all to contribute (at least) one reference to Wikipedia in January 2016. Please read "Wikipedia needs you in January," < http://www.cilip.org.uk/uk-einformation-group/news/wikipedia-needs-you-janu… ?<utm_source=Communicator_membership_list&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=Untitled33&utm_campaign=Weekly+News+from+CILIP%2c+17+December+2015>. -- Arun http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4658 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9925-2009 Posted on 14 December 2015 Wikipedia needs you in January! #1Lib1Ref (One Librarian, One Reference) is a campaign during the week of January 15â23, 2016, calling on librarians around the world to apply their special expertise in research to add just one more reference to Wikipedia. The campaign is part of Wikipedia's 15th anniversary celebration. #1Lib1Ref Imagine a World where Every Librarian Added One More Reference to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is a first stop for researchers: let's make it better! Everything you need to start can be found on The Wikipedia Library 1Lib1Ref <http://tinyurl.com/j5rlrao> page... which starts: "Wikipedia is an invaluable part of every researcher's process: every reference added by a librarian means one more reference in any Wikipedia article that helps the next researcher, or librarian helping a researcher, ensure that the best information gets shared with the public. Join us, and make a small contribution to the sum of all human knowledge! Because anyone can edit Wikipedia, the Wikipedia community developed a core strategy for ensuring quality of information in its articles: including footnotes to reliable sources to allow Wikipedia readers to "verify" the information. This strategy helps the global volunteer community effectively work towards meeting Wikipedia's vision: "the sum of all human knowledge." On English Wikipedia, and many other language Wikipedias, readers and editors who don't feel confident about the information in an article will add a "citation needed" tag next to that statement. In many ways, these tags are reference questions you would expect at a library reference desk: members of the public asking for that information to be backed by reliable research. English Wikipedia alone has over 350,000 such statements. Moreover, hundreds of thousands of articles just need more references, with 200,000 articles having no references at all. Globally there are hundreds of thousands of librarians. Imagine if every librarian in the world took 15 minutes to solve one of the citation needed queries! Wikipedia would no longer have these gaps." For more information or to start: see The Wikipedia Library 1Lib1Ref <http://tinyurl.com/j5rlrao> page.

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Dr. T.B. Rajashekar 11th Memorial Seminar (2015): Designing e-content portal using WordPress: reminder
by Shivaram Gowda 18 Dec '15

18 Dec '15

Dear Members, NCSI-Net foundation (http://ncsinet.org) cordially invites you to the Dr. TB Rajashekar Memorial 11th Seminar (2015). This year’s seminar topic is, Designing Web Portal / Gateway Services Using Wordpress. It is a one-day seminar targeted for the benefit of Library and Information Science (LIS) students and budding LIS professionals. The details of the seminar are given below: Title: 11th Dr. TB Rajashekar Memorial Seminar (2015): Designing e-content portal using Wordpress Date: December 19, 2015 (Third Saturday) Venue: Choksi Hall, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore - 560012 About the Seminar Theme: With the explosive growth of online resources, managing such resources has become a challenge for Information professionals. Well designed organization or library web portals / Gateway services helps in the efficient dissemination of online resources to the user community. Today’s online resources includes variety of authoritative web resources (free & priced), integrating the relevant and useful resources into a web portal facilitates in the effective and efficient dissemination of information to the end users. This can be achieved using either commercial or open source content management tools. Various open source CMS tools are available on the Internet. Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, and OpenCMS are few such examples. In this seminar, some basic and useful features and functionalities of Wordpress, one of the popular CMS tools will be featured. Wordpress (http://wordpress.org/ ) is an open source, platform independent content management system (CMS). Its popular features include simple to install and use, powerful blog functionality, customizable, multiplatform, multilingual, web based administration, powerful report generation functionality, well organized browse and search etc. Being a plug-in based modular package, it facilitates in enabling / disabling the functionalities as per the needs of implementers. It has a strong and active user and developer community who provide the much needed support in using the package effectively. Self explanatory online and offline documentation are also available for the package and they are updated frequently. Wordpress is being used in developing different genres of website in various languages. Objective of the Seminar: To demonstrate the basic and essential features and functionalities of the Wordpress CMS as to how this Open Source Web application can be used to build Web Portals and provide Web-based information services. At the end of the seminar, the participants should have a clear understanding of the various features of the Wordpress CMS so that they can plan to make use of this CMS for their user Community Seminar Topics & Resource Persons: Seminar Overview by Francis Jayakanth, IIM, Bangalore The Future of E-content Content and Content Management by Ananda Byrapp, GE Bangalore Wordpress: Introduction and Installation (Demo) by Shivaram BS, CSIR-NAL, Bangalore Wordpress configuration by Maruthu Pandian, IMSC, Chennai Designing competitive intelligent portal using wordpress: case study Career Advice for Information Professional by Dr. Rajendra Babu, Tumkur University Who should attend the Seminar? LIS Students and fellow professionals interested in developing Web portals and in providing web-based information services using a CMS Registration Fee: Rs. 250 for Students (Should carry ID Card) and Rs. 500 for working professionals, for NCSI-Net members Rs. 150. Fee covers Seminar kit, working lunch and tea / coffee Please do note that no arrangements for accommodation are being made for outstation participants. Kindly bring this to the attention of the LIS students and budding professionals and encourage them to attend the seminar. Participants will get an opportunity to interact with fellow professionals working in the industry and academia. For further information, please visit the Seminar website at: http://ncsinet.org -- Shivaram BS ICAST, CSIR-NAL Govt. of India (Autonomous) HAL Airport Road Kodihalli, Bangalore-560017 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Spl Lecture on - Strategic Changes in the Academic Library Landscape at DLIS, UOM on 19th Dec 2015
by Arunachalam Hariharan 17 Dec '15

17 Dec '15

University of MadrasInternational Centre for University of Madras (ICOM)Department of Library and Information Science & Society for Advancement in Library and Information Science(SALIS) Cordially invite you to attend the Special Lecture on Strategic Changes in the Academic Library Landscape by Dr. Mohan RamaswamyAssociate Head for Research and Graduate ServicesNorth Carolina State University Libraries, USA on 19 December, 2015 (Saturday) at 11.00 a.m. Modern Class Room Department of Library and Information ScienceUniversity of Madras, Chepauk CampusChennai – 600005 Programme 11.00 am - Welcome -- Prof.A.Amudavalli 11.10 am - Special Lecture -- Dr. Mohan Ramaswamy 12.15 pm - Discussion12.30 pm - Vote of Thanks -- Dr. A.Hariharan Tea - 10.30 a.m. Prof.A.AmudavalliDLIS, University of Madras Dr. A.Hariharan Society for the Advancement of Library and Information Science (SALIS) 32G, Sabari Nagar Extension, Mugalivakkam Chennai - 600 125 India hariharan_ah(a)yahoo.com www.salis.in 044-22522327, 09841601903 Vasippoam Nesippoam ( Let us Read and Love books) - a mass movement by SALIS

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Application are invited for the post of Associate Professor (Library and Information Science) in University of North Bengal (NBU), Siliguri
by Subhodip Bid 17 Dec '15

17 Dec '15

Dear Professional Application are invited for the post of Associate Professor (Library and Information Science) in University of North Bengal (NBU), Siliguri Name of Post: Associate Professor (Library and Information Science) Number of Post: 01 (SC) For more details: http://www.nbu.ac.in/Fresh_Vacancies_in_teaching_posts%281%29.pdf -- SUBHODIP BID M.Sc,M.L.I.S, AIS Library & Information Assistant National Library, Kolkata -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Internship opportunities at IIT Bombay, Central Library
by manju nayak 17 Dec '15

17 Dec '15

Applications are invited from fresh Graduates/Post-Graduatesin Library Information Science for Library Internship Programme. Six interns will be selected for period of 1 year andimparted practical training in the latest tools and techniques of informationhandling being used in the Central Library, IIT Bombay. A monthly stipend ofRs. 12,000/- and Rs. 14,000/- will be paid to candidates having B.Lib.Scienceand M.Lib.Science qualification respectively. The selection will be made through a formal interview. Interested candidates may submit their filled application along with self attested photo-copies of educational qualificationand experience in the enclosed proforma to reach the In-charge,Central Library, IIT Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400 076 on or before 31 December2015. Application proforma can be downloaded at below given link:http://www.library.iitb.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Application-form.pdf With Regards Mr.Manju Naika Asst. Librarian Journal and Computer Application Section Central Library Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Mumbai, INDIA, 400 076 Phone:+91 22 25768929 Fax:91-22-25720227

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Fwd: Call for papers: International conference on Big Data & Knowledge Discovery
by dimple rp 16 Dec '15

16 Dec '15

========================================================== International conference on Big Data & Knowledge Discovery Date: 9th to 11th March 2016 ========================================================== Hosted By Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC), Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Bangalore, India Much of the research generates, analyses data making it ubiquitous especially in applied sciences whether it is natural, physical and social. Worldwide there has been keen interest in Big Data applications in many a domain. We foresee at least four key players in the emerging Data Science - Library and Information Professionals (involved in acquisition, curation and publishing big data), computer science professionals (creating plat forms for big data like hadoop eco-system), statisticians (analytics and visualization) and domain experts. The situation opens up new and interesting opportunities for professionals to explore and learn all aspects of what has taken the shape, holistically, of DATA SCIENCE. In view of the developments in data, Documentation Research and Training Centre, Indian Statistical Institute announces International Conference on Big Data and Knowledge Discovery (ICBK). The objective of the conference is to offer a platform for exchange of ideas of the international community related to all aspects of data science. The conference offers the opportunity to explore the main theme of Big Data and Knowledge discovery under the following themes. ================ Call for papers: ================ Themes and Topics [not limited to these...] General: - Big Data Acquisition, Integration, Cleaning, and Best Practices - Big Data Quality and Provenance Control - Big Data Persistence, Curation and Preservation - Data security, licensing and privacy - Metadata and Ontology for Big Data - Standards and Protocols for Big Data - Role of Librarians in Data Publishing, Data curation and services - Building Data Repositories - Data Citation Practices - Altmetrics and Big Data - Big Data in Social Networks - Capturing, Analysing and Visualising Streaming Data - Big Data Search and Retrieval - Linked Open Data - Big Data in Semantic Web - Mobile Data Management Social Sciences data - Census data analysis - Econometric data, forecasting systems - Budgeting and Data based policies - Agriculture data production and management - Open Government Data - Big Data in E-Governance - Role of Big Data in building Smart Cities - Big Data in Business Analytics - Big Data for Rural Development Domain Specific Data in Science & Technology: - Technology for Big Data Management, Hadoop Eco System - IoT-cloud Integration - Agriculture Data Management, Data Sharing Policies and Platform - Data Analytics in Health - Bioinformatics Data applications - Other domains: meteorological data, geo-spatial data, genomic data, data based analysis of sports etc. Special Sessions - Social Science data analysis and applications - Open Knowledge and Data in Agriculture and Nutrition - Data for Smart Cities - Government and International Open Data Initiatives ================= Important Dates ================= - Registration Open from: 1st Dec 2015 - Submission of Full paper: 8th Jan 2016 - Notification of Paper Acceptance: 8th Feb 2016 - Early bird registration over: 18th Feb 2016 - Camera reedy paper submission over: 25th Feb 2016 Early Bird Registration Fee India & SAARC Countries: Rs.3000/- Other Countries: US $50 Regular Registration India & SAARC Countries: Rs. 3500/- Other Countries: US $60 Students Registration Students: Rs. 1000/- or $20 The Demand Draft (DD) should be made in favour of Indian Statistical Institute, payable at Bangalore. =================== Important Links: Conference Website -> http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/icbk Registration Information -> http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/registration Call for paper -> http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/callforpaper VISA INFORMATION -> https://indianvisaonline.gov.in/visa/ Write to us -> icbk2016@ drtc.isibang.ac.in =================== Venue: Platinum Jubilee Auditorium Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore Centre Address: Indian Statistical Institute 8th Mile Mysore Road, RVCE Post, Bangalore - 560059, Karnataka, India. Landmark: Near Bangalore University Contact Person: Prof. A.R.D. Prasad (CONVENOR) Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC) Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) 8th Mile Mysore Road, RVCE Post Bangalore - 560059, Karnataka, India. Phone: +91-80/26985490/28482711 Fax: +91-80-28484265 E-mail: icbk2016(a)drtc.isibang.ac.in

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Merging of UGC-Inonet DLC and INDEST
by Ishwar Goudar 16 Dec '15

16 Dec '15

Dear Professionals, It is learnt that UGC-Infonet Digital Library Consortium (including N-List) and INDEST Consortium have been merged and combined entity would be operated by UGC-INFLIBNET. A welcome development, a step towards National Consortia. Let us congratulate all those concerned, specifically Dr. Jagadish Arora, Director INFLIBNET. This combined bargaining power can give access to more number of E-Resources to beneficiaries both Consortia. Regards, "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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