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Alumni Meet and seminar
by sasikala chagari 07 Apr '13

07 Apr '13

WELCOME TO YOUR ALMA MATER To All the Alumni of Department of Library&Information Science,Andhra University Greetings! The Department of Library&Information Science is organizing an Alumni Meet 2013 on 08-04-2013 followed by a one day seminar. The registration for new members starts at 9am on 08-04-2013 in the Department. We ,the faculty, Research Scholars and the Students* invite all the alumni to participate in the programme and make it as a grand success.* Invitations are attached with this mail. Consider this invitation as a personal invitation and visit your alma mater. With best wishes Prof.C.Sasikala Head, Department of Library&Information Science,Andhra University Visakhapatnam-530003 Ph.9848278454(M);0891-2844386(Off) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Two Sr. Library Information Officers @ NIFTEM, MoFPI, Govt. of India
by Nihar Patra 06 Apr '13

06 Apr '13

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FOOD TECHNOLOGY ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND MANAGEMENT (An autonomous Organisation under Ministry of Food Processing Industries, Govt. of India) Plot No. 97, Sector- 56, HSIIDC Estate, Kundli - 131008, Distt.- Sonepat, (Haryana), India. Vacancy for the Non - Faculty Positions Advertisement No. N/S/K/NF/40/13 NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FOOD TECHNOLOGY ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND MANAGEMENT (NIFTEM) is set up as an apex world class institute of global standards in Food Science & Technology under the aegis of GOI, MOFPI, requires two Sr. Library Information officers. For details please visit @ http://www.niftem.ac.in/NIFTEM/downloads/Detailed%20Advertisement%20non%20f… Nihar K Patra **************************************************************************************** Nihar Kanta Patra National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management (NIFTEM) (Deemed to be University under De-novo Category) Ministry of Food Processing Industries, Govt. of India) Address: Plot No. 97, Sector 56, HSIIDC Industrial Estate, Kundli District- Sonipat, Haryana, India - 131028 www.niftem.ac.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Article Request
by Nihal Alam 06 Apr '13

06 Apr '13

Dear Professionals, One of our researcher need the following article for reference. The Role of Leadership in a Start-up Organization, in a U.S. American Context Author: Erika L. Seid Publication: Capstone Collection URL: http://digitalcollections.sit.edu/capstones/1064/ If it is accessible to anyone of you, kindly send me the soft copy of it. Regards, Nihal Alam Research Associate Knowledge Management Division TERI (The Energy and Resources Institute) Tel. +91 11 2468 2100, ext. 2758 Mobile: +91 9311305823 E-mail nihal.alam(a)teri.res.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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[Fwd: Details of Faculty Status for Librarians is required]
by mailman＠ncsi.iisc.ernet.in 06 Apr '13

06 Apr '13

From: "Dr. A.T. Francis" <francisaloor(a)yahoo.com> Date: Thu, April 4, 2013 12:31 pm Dear Professionals, Please let me know and provide the details of Universities in India having Faculty Status (Teaching Staff) for Asst. Librarians, Deputy Librarians and Librarians. If there, please provide copies of decisions and/or orders of the University, Governments, Courts or other agencies in this regard. If librarians are designated as Asst. Professor, Assoc. Professor and Professor, available information of the same also may be given. With regards,Dr. A.T. FRANCIS, MCom, MLISc, NET, PhD HEAD, LIBRARY, IT NODAL OFFICER& WEBADMINISTRATOR College of Horticulture Kerala Agricultural University Thrissur - 680 656, India, 91-9496839409 (m) francisaloor(a)yahoo.com

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Anomaly in the Implementation of UGC Scheme (1986, 1996, 2006) in Kerala]
by mailman＠ncsi.iisc.ernet.in 06 Apr '13

06 Apr '13

From: "Dr. A.T. Francis" <francisaloor(a)yahoo.com> Date: Thu, April 4, 2013 12:34 pm Dear Professionals, I would like to highlight a serious anomaly happened and still continuing in KeralaState on the implementation of UGC Scheme (1986, 1996 and 2006) for librarians in universities and colleges in Kerala. Though there is no provision in the UGC Scheme for the promotion from the lower cadre to the UGC Entry Cadre of Asst. Librarian/ College Librarian, in Kerala it is still continuing. While implementing UGC Scheme, in the case of other teachers, the existing Non-UGC Cadre posts like Junior Lecturer and Junior Asst. Professor have been upgraded to Lecturer and Asst. Professor respectively and all the incumbents in the Junior Lecturer and Junior Asst. Professor cadres possessing Masters Degree in the concerned subject (Exempted NET) have been inducted to the UGC Cadre and the then cadres in the Pre-UGC Scheme like Junior Lecturer and Junior Asst. Professor have been closed for ever. Due to some unscientific administrative reasons, either this type of induction to UGC Scheme was not done in the case of librarians or the NET was not insisted to the entry cadre of library professionals like Library/Professional/Reference Asst. Ultimately, now the professionals are divided into several classes and groups and many court cases have emerged only because of the system generated issues. Hence, most of the professionals,instead of concentrating in documentation and information services, they are gathering, thinking and acting on the issues on how get rid of these issues. The only way to solve these issues permanently is implementing UGC Scheme to librarians as envisaged in the Scheme. The following are the actions needed in this regard: 1. As in the case of other teachers, all existing incumbents in Library/ Professional/ Reference Asst. should be inducted to UGC Scheme as on the date of possessing Masters Degree in the concerned subject (Exempting NET). 2. To accommodate all incumbents in the Library/ Professional/ Reference Asst. cadres on induction to UGC Scheme, sufficient number of posts should be upgraded to Asst. Librarians as super numerary. 3. The existing cadre of Library/ Professional/ Reference Asst. may be closed by upgrading few posts as Asst. Librarian and the remaining posts should be downgraded to Jr. Professional/Technical Asst. (JPA/JTA) for CLISc holders. All Dept. Libraries working in one shift should have one AL and JPA/JTA each and all College Libraries and Divisions of the University Library working in two shifts should have two AL and JPA/JTA each (one each for one shift) and the existing posts of Library/ Professional/ Reference Asst. may be upgraded / downgraded accordingly. 4. It is also suggested to introduce Time Bound Promotion on completion of 5 years for JPA/JTAs, instead of the existing system of Ratio Promotion or vacancy/retirement based promotion. Dr. A.T. FRANCIS, MCom, MLISc, NET, PhD HEAD, LIBRARY & IT NODAL OFFICER College of Horticulture Kerala Agricultural University Thrissur - 680 656, India, 91-9496839409 (m) francisaloor(a)yahoo.com

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Fwd: KLA National Seminar, 12-13 July 2013, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala: Registration and Call for papers
by faisal sl 06 Apr '13

06 Apr '13

KERALA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION (KLA) NATIONAL SEMINAR 12-13 July 2013, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala MAIN THEME: "New Information Technology Interfaces in Libraries and Information Centres (NITILIC)” SUB THEMES: Evolving Models of Library and Information Centres in the New Millennium Social Media in Libraries Cloud computing and Libraries Recent Developments in Software applicable to Libraries E-reading and E-Devices Library Designing in the Digital Era Human Resource Development in the Digital context Technology Interfaces for Public Libraries Details at http://klanationalseminar2013.wordpress.com/2013/03/17/annoncement/#more-169 CALL FOR PAPERS The Editorial Committee invites research and technical papers, case studies, technology updates, etc. related to the theme and sub-themes of the Seminar. Details: http://klanationalseminar2013.wordpress.com/2013/03/15/first-call-for-paper… Kindly send, (a) Soft copy as e-mail attachment to: kla.org(a)gmail.com / klanationalseminar2013(a)gmail.com (b) Print version to : The General Convener, KLA National Seminar-2013, Kerala Library Association, 36, II Floor, Kairalie Plaza Annexe, Karamana P.O., Thiruvananthapuram– 695 002, Kerala TIMELINE FOR PAPER SUBMISSION Receipt of full paper with Abstract: 05 May 2013 Submission of final version (revised after reviewer’s comments): 31 May 2013 Paper acceptance notification: 05 June 2013 Submission of slide presentation: 01 July 2013 Seminar dates: 12-13 July 2013 GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Visit http://klanationalseminar2013.wordpress.com/submission-of-papers/guidelines… REGISTRATION Individual participants: Rs 1250.00 Institutional participants: Rs 1750.00 Concessional rate for KLA Life Members and Research Scholars in LIS: Rs 1000.00 Students: Rs 750.00 Last date for Registration: 05 July 2013 Download Registration form: http://klanationalseminar2013.wordpress.com/downloads/registration-form/ ONLINE REGISTRATION All participants have to register online at http://klanationalseminar2013.wordpress.com along with the submission of duly filled registration form and fee. MODE OF PAYMENT By DD drawn in favour of Kerala Library Association and payable at Thiruvananthapuram or by cash to the General Secretary, KLA. DD along with the registration form may be sent to the General Convener, KLA National Seminar-2013, Kerala Library Association, 36, 2nd Floor, Kairalie Plaza Annexe, Karamana P.O., Thiruvananthapuram– 695 002, Kerala. VENUE OF THE SEMINAR The Seminar Hall at Kerala State Science and Technology Museum and Priyadarsini Planetarium (KSSTMPP), PMG Junction, Vikas Bhavan P.O, Thiruvananthapuram - 33. FOR MORE DETAILS AND SEMINAR UPDATES Seminar Blog: http://klanationalseminar2013.wordpress.com KLA Website: www.keralalibraryassociation.org CONTACT General Convener: Dr. A. Gopikuttan , President, Kerala Library Association (E-Mail : agopikuttan(a)yahoo.co.in / Mob. 919446428163) Joint General Conveners Shri M. Chandrakumaran Nair, Vice President, Kerala Library Association (E-mail: ckumarnair(a)gmail.com / Mob: 919447276657) Shri S. L. Faisal, General Secretary, Kerala Library Association (E-mail: slfaizal(a)gmail.com/Mob: 919447699724) ********************************** Regards S.L.Faisal, General Secretary, Kerala Library Association (KLA) 36, II Floor, Kairalie Plaza Annexe, Karamana P.O. Thiruvananthapuram– 695 002, Kerala slfaizal(a)gmail.com/Mob: 919447699724 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Prevalent Practice of Plagiarism: Is there a Solution ?
by Byrappa, Ananda (GE Global Research) 05 Apr '13

05 Apr '13

Dear LIS Professionals, Plagiarism is a hot topic on lis-forum, these days. We see one class of people commenting aggressively/passionately about the copyright compliance and plagiarism etc. We are also getting prompt, candid and honest responses from many. In total, a healthy, heated and very relevant discussion happening on lis-forum. Thanks to all those who have initiated these discussions on plagiarism. These discussions have really brought in awareness, fear and commitment for compliance - all the three essential for copyright compliance! I thought of sharing couple of my opinions and thoughts about the ongoing discussion. Copying and/or reproducing any portion of content without rights holder permission or proper acknowledgment is a plagiarism - A broad definition for 'plagiarism'! In couple of discussions, people have complained about following (copying?) a process or a research methodology - survey, questionnaire etc. Does a 'methodology' or a 'process' comes under copyright act? I think these are protected by the Patent Act in India (not by copyright act). In a real world environment, processes, methodologies, basic laws etc. are intended to be applied and tested. I think, the 'academic spirit' should be encouraged by allowing researchers to use and re-use any methodologies, processes and laws since they help us to prove/dis-prove a point or a concept or an outcome. The outcome/results are generally vary depending on various parameters - your scope of study, subject, geography, sample etc. To be precise, what is wrong in re-using any methodology or a process in academic writing, of course with a due acknowledgement to the original author?. However, many argue that, It can be termed as GREY area as it goes by ones interpretation... Someone on Wikipedia writes - Plagiarism is considered as an 'Academic Dishonesty'... Plagiarism is not a crime per se but in academia and industry it is a 'serious moral offence'... How do we control plagiarism in LIS profession? Is there a solution?... AUTHORS - BE ORIGINAL! - Authors should aim to be original! Write about what you understand and grasp out of your readings. Don't copy from your readings and don't forget to acknowledge your readings/articles. 'Copy & paste' techniques will surely expose you one or the other day, it's a time factor! - Once your draft/write-up is ready, run it by a plagiarism detection tool. You find quite a few of them freely available on the net. They may not be perfect but they will surely help you to a great extent. TEACHERS - AIM TO BE IDEAL - We know that, teachers can't check every word and originality of it. It's an unfair expectation from society. However, teachers should teach their students about basics of academic writing and copyright compliance. - Every research scholar should attend at-least one training programme on academic writing and copyright compliance. I remember, Kerala Central University conducting such programmes recently. Such trainings/workshops would create required amount of awareness about copyright compliance and plagiarism and would surely position students and researchers to be much better authors. PUBLISJERS AND EDITORS - FOLLOW PEER REVIEW PROCESS/SYSTEM - People who care for quality and originality in publications should adopt peer review process. Short timelines, lack of experts/expertise and pressure to get more participants and papers to conferences are reasons why editors and organizers don't insist on peer review system/process - If a Conference Organizers and editors don't push for peer review system, they would be responsible for adding sub-standard content/publications to the scholarly world. Now, every conference organizers/editors ask themselves - How much of sub-standard content you have pushed (contributed!) to the scholarly world? I guess, we all senior LIS professionals, have a good share in this! POLICY MAKERS AND CONFERENCE DONERS Insist on quality of publications. Don't fund or donate if you don't see a quality process for publications in place. Best Regards, Ananda Byrappa Global Leader, Whitney Knowledge Centre Six Sigma Black-Belt GE India Technology Centre 122, EPIP, Phase 2, Whitefield Road, Bangalore - 560066, INDIA Ananda.byrappa(a)ge.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 04:14:21 +0000 From: Vara Lakshmi Rudrabhatla <rvsn1234(a)hotmail.com> To: "LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in" <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>, "nmlis(a)yahoogroups.com" <nmlis(a)yahoogroups.com> Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] [nmlis] Fwd: Prevalent Practice of Plagiarism: Is there a Solution ? Message-ID: <BAY151-W6127A991BEB2048EEA9C7CD2D90(a)phx.gbl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Dear Professional friends I would like to share my opinion on the above issue that may lead to further discussion and help to reach a solution. Background: U.G.C. and managements are compelling the departments / libraries to organize conferences / seminars to get NAAC grade points and supporting financially. The organizers need participants hence accepting every paper that is submitted. The professionals need papers for their CAS promotions or selections and the seminars / conferences are a channel for fast track publication. Further they are submitting for journal publication also. These developments are indeed desirable for the development and recognition of the profession. Outcome: However the outcome is not that encouraging as expected to be. The quantitative growth lead to the qualitative depreciation. Reason: Many of the professionals are not familiar with writing standards and skills. They are not familiar with difference between research article and research paper; innovative ideas and opinion studies; pasting and logical presentation; copying and citing; arbitrary citation and standard citation using a style manual These are not a part of their studies. Even if so, one will forget after examinations. Therefore there is no opportunity for the professionals to learn and acquire the skills of writing and presentation and the standards to be followed. Hence the need is to train our professionals in these aspects. Only then we can expect true academic contributions. The way out: There may be many ways to improve the situation but submitting three propositions for discussion 1. Conducting workshops on preparation and presentation of research paper not for name sake but with real zeal. 2. Applying anti-plagiarism software and reject the identified papers. This is good from the quality point of view but may demoralize the professionals. 3. Having a panel of voluntary editors who will review papers and suggest revision / modification of papers instead of outright rejection. This will improve the writing skills of the author and encourage him/her for standard contributions. I think it is high time to find solutions to the problem and enhance the standard of papers. ThanksVaralakshmi Dr R.S.R.Varalakshmi Professor (Rtd) 54-12-64/5, Bhanu Nagar H.B.Colony Post Visakhapatnam - 530 022 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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CONGRATS TO Dr Akhter Pervez- FOR his appointment as Librarian, IIM Indore
by Prof. N. Laxman Rao. 05 Apr '13

05 Apr '13

dear friends Dr Akhter Pervez had been selected and appointed as Librarian of IIM, Indore. We all know him, he is an active professional and made the MANLIBNET a dynamic Association.He is soft and simple and works hard, I join hundreds of professional friends to congratulate Dr Akhter on the occasion of his elevation as Librarian of IIM, Indore, We all wish him all the best in his endeavours. God bless him with success and service to the profession LAXMAN RAO Prof. N.LAXMAN RAO, Visiting Professor, Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies, Hyderabad-500032ADDRESS FOR CORRESPONDENCE: Plot No: A-194, H.No- 1-8-10/1, Ravindra Nagar, Habsiguda, HYDERABAD- 500 007 (INDIA) 9246547599 (Mobile) e:mail-- naglaxman(a)yahoo.com OR naglaxman(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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Reg: Openness 'needs both political will and technical skill, fortunately ICRISAT has had both' an interview with Mr. M Madhan
by sanat kumar Behera 05 Apr '13

05 Apr '13

Dear Sir: I would be grateful if you can share with our LIS professionals. Open Access Interviews@AIMS: a new service on AIMS Wed, 27/03/2013 — AIMS AIMS announces the introduction of 'Open Access Interviews@AIMS ' as a new quartely service. The objective is to publish use cases on various open access issues affecting access to agricultural research outputs and share experiences on the uptake of openness by institutions in the agricultural domain. This service will share these experiences by means of structured interviews. The inaugural interview focuses on the experiences from the International Crops and Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics<http://oar.icrisat.org/> (ICRISAT), in India - read the interview here<http://aims.fao.org/community/blogs/aims.fao.org/community/open-access/blog…> . Openness 'needs both political will and technical skill, fortunately ICRISAT has had both' an interview with Mr. M Madhan http://aims.fao.org/community/open-access/blogs/openness-needs-both-politic… Thank You Regards Mr. Sanat kumar Behera Research Fellow J.S.K. Library ICRISAT Patancheru Hyderabad India S.Behera(a)cgiar.org Sanatku.behera(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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Re: [LIS-Forum] kindly mail 2 forum members. Open source software
by G.K.MANJUNATH 05 Apr '13

05 Apr '13

I do not agree with Mr.Arunachalam's remarks - "Many Institutions have squandered public funds ". Open source software, whether Operating System or Applications software, are available for many other applications too and only for libraries. I would like to highlight few of these: According to some experts, 'R' is a good open source software available for statistical analysis. But, how many of the statisticians and social scientists from the publicly funded institutions and Government Departments are using it ? Why majority of them still demand for and use expensive commercial software such as SPSS, Matlab, SAS, Gauss, Stata, Mathematica, LIMDEP, GAMS, etc.? Linux is an open source Operating System. How many of the publicly funded institutions have completely abandoned Windows OS and are using OSS for workstations /PCs or for server applications? How many of these institutions are using Open Office instead of MS-Office. If not, why ? Why majority of the libraries in United States and European countries are using commercial software ? I do not have any empirical evidence to quote the numbers. However, my observations and discussion with professional friends during my visits to some of the these places revealed that majority of the big libraries in these countries prefer commercial software. It is an understatement to say that people are now seeing the light at the end of tunnel. I would like to delineate reasons and compulsion Indian libraries had to use the commercial software and to continue with it. When no suitable open source software meeting all the local requirements was available to libraries, there was no option but to go in for commercial software. Library automation using commercial software began some time in late 1980's and during this period no open source software was available. For that matter, no user friendly, easy to install and ready to use OSS was available till 2006 or so. Lots of experiments have been conducted on OSS, some with success and some with no or limited success.We always proudly share our success stories with others, but refrain from sharing the failures. Authorities in many institutions insist on quick implementation using a tested commercial software rather on experimenting with OSS, indefinitely. Secondly, it is slightly difficult to migrate to OSS or any other software when one is highly conversant with the existing one. Therefore, I would like to know from those libraries, who migrated from commercial software to Open source software, the following : 1. How much money ( Direct and Indirect cost ) and time was spent on data migration and customization? 2. Whether librarians themselves did the job or took help from computer professionals ? 3. Whether they could convert all the time-series administrative data or only the bibliographic data ? How do they retrieve administrative data, if it is not transferred during migration ? 4. After migration, whether they have totally discontinued the earlier software or still using the old one for some reasons? Going by certain observations and genuine reasons, it will take some more time for the LIS professionals to learn, test, understand, implement and successfully use open source software. "Never be the first or never be the last. Learn from others experience", said some one. Therefore, I do not think the main intention would be to squander public funds. With great appreciation and due respect to all those who developed or contributed for further improvements of Koha, I have few observation to make. No doubt Koha is an excellent software built on sound architecture and proven technology and has great potential to become the most preferred OSS. However, from my personal experience, I hesitate to accept Koha in its present format. The flow of work in Koha's acquisition and serial control module is not suitable for Indian libraries. I feel, these modules need lots of customization. Same is the view expressed by some of my senior professional friends who have tested it. Many libraries who have opted for Koha are directly cataloging the books and using only the circulation module and OPAC. Following are some of the requirements to make Koha more popular and acceptable without any apprehension : 1. An institution (S) to provide support such as data conversion, migration, customization and online support, for a nominal fee. 2. A Government institution to fund periodic regional Workshops and training programmes on Koha, the way CDS/ISIS was promoted by NISSAT. Opportunity may be given to professionals to give demos of additional utilities developed by them. NISSAT did this during the CDS/ISIS workshops. 3. Ready to use SQL statements to generate certain outputs/queries which are not possible at present. Such statments can be run either from MySQL prompt or from Koha's customised menus. 4. Directory of Indian experts in Koha who can offer help voluntarily. 5. A team of librarians to suggest required customization to suit requirements of Indian libraries. 6. Directory of companies who offer Koha services on cloud or at sites. 7. Directory of institutions who are using all the modules of Koha. 8. Introducing Koha or any OSS in LIS syllabus. thanks, G.K.Manjunath Chief Librarian IGIDR, Mumbai > > On Wed, 3 Apr 2013, Mailing List Admin wrote: > >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 02:10:34 -0700 (PDT) >> From: Subbiah Arunachalam <subbiah_a(a)yahoo.com> >> >> At last people are beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel! Many >> institutions have squandered public funds - all coming from taxpayers - on >> commercially marketed software when excellent software is available for >> free. Prof. ARD Prasad, Director of DRTC at ISI, B'lore, has been advocating >> the adoption of open source software for years but barring a few others have >> ignored his recommendation. Yes, go for KOHA. There is a worldwide community >> of KOHA users and you can always learn from each other.� >> >> SA >> >> >> ________________________________ >> From: ARAGONDA L MOORTHY <almoorthy52(a)gmail.com> >> To: Swati Bhattacharyya <swati(a)iimcal.ac.in> >> Cc: Dr. Rama K C Patro <rkcpatro(a)iimtobu.ac.in>; >> lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in >> Sent: Thursday, 28 March 2013, 14:06 >> Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] kindly mail 2 forum members >> >> Dear ALL, >> This is reg LibSys. We too faced problems in using the software in 2005-06 >> at DRDL, Hyderabad. We switched over from Libris to LibSys. For data >> export, they took enormous time. The Engineer who visited DRDL, Hyderabad >> took data on CD to facilitate export of OPAC data. But after 6 months >> expressed inability to export saying some lame excuse. Again they took the >> data and took more time. Meanwhile I joined DESIDOC in 2006, and was able >> to call their senior executives to solve the problem. All this took more >> than 1 year. Again they charge exorbitantly for maintenance. I understand >> it has the largest customer base in India and so they are dictating term >> (Monopoly). LIS professionals have to unitedly take on such issues raising >> in National Forums like Conferences, etc. >> Whenever we suggest a new facility--utility--improvement, they take and >> improve the software. But our intellectual capital >> (suggestions/improvements) do not get any rewards. The are used to bring >> new release with increased price tag. >> Why can't we use KOHa or NEWGENLI--the open source software???? >> AL MOORTHY >> >> -- >> This message has been scanned for viruses and >> dangerous content by MailScanner, and is >> believed to be clean. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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