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Is this the world’s “most awesome library”?
by Jayadev P Hiremath 08 Jan '13

08 Jan '13

Is this the world’s “most awesome library”? by Kevin Murphy That depends on whether you’re the type of person who agrees that bionic librarians, chaise lounges and the ability to converse at an above-whisper volume is preferable to the hushed, green lamp, bookshelf environment that’s been the norm for the last century. This February, the students and faculty of North Carolina State University will officially unveil their preference when the new James B. Hunt Library in Raleigh celebrates its grand opening. More than six years in the making, and designed by Snøhetta (the firm behind New York’s 9/11 Memorial), the library is garnering much praise from media and architecture firms alike for its innovative use of technology and a layout that encourages student interaction and collaboration. The AP reports: 1.5 million books are stored in more than 18,000 metal bins, retrievable by robots when a student requests one. The book robot, known as a bookBot … slides between rows of bins 50 feet deep and 120 feet high. A staffer files a student’s request for a book on a computer, and the robot locates the right bin, pulls it out and leaves the bin in front of the staffer, who locates the right book and takes it to the student. To save room, the books are stored by size, not another filing system. And the system does save space, taking up about one-ninth of the room needed to store 1.5 million books on shelves. When students look for a book, however, they can see it on a virtual shelf as they would under the Library of Congress system. But they also can refine the search by other parameters — for peer-reviewed material, for example — and the virtual shelf will reconfigure itself to those refinements. More than robots fetching books (how ironic!), the library’s real leap into the future gains focus when looking at the space’s floor plan, which seems to find inspiration in the Google/Facebook/Twitter type of offices currently employing an “open” and “fun” environment that’s supposedly conducive to brainstorming and collaboration. To wit, there are 100 areas for collaborative study; walls made of whiteboards; a traditional library area with about 40,000 books on shelves; and a snack bar on the first floor. And yes, food and drink are allowed here. As is talking. The more than 20 styles of funky chairs, including a sort of continuous chaise lounge, caught the eye of Jennifer Leary, a first-year doctoral student in textiles from San Francisco. The layout is conducive to studying, she said. “As a student, when you come into a library, you kind of want to find your space,” she said. “And all the variety gives you freedom to think, ‘OK, do I want to be in a rigid chair today or more laid back? Do I want to be near the window? What kind of view do I want to see?’ Such developments signal a change in expectations. Rather than quiet places of study, surrounded by rows and rows of books, the library of the future houses books in closed stacks and tends to be a place where ideas are conceived and shared, becoming much more like a laboratory, where inspiration arrives as much from discussion as words written on paper. Open offices and libraries work for some, not others. When it comes to whether these spaces actually increase creativity and synchronize workflow, the jury is still out. But one thing is for sure, colleges and universities increase their appeal when showing off shiny, technologically advanced libraries to potential students — and the James B. Hunt Library is not just a gift for students, it’s an investment on the part of the taxpayers of North Carolina, who contributed $115 million to the 220,000-square-foot-building. So far it’s been a wise investment, at least according to real estate and architecture site Curbed.com, which says “Raleigh, N.C., has seen the future … [the James B. Hunt Library] may even be enough to reseat MVRDV’s Book Mountain as the world’s most awesome library.” -- Warm regards. Jayadev P Hiremath Independent Libraries Professional (Former Librarian - IBS,Kuwait) E-mail : jayadevh(a)hotmail.com LinkedIn : http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jayadev-p-hiremath/44/12a/2a0 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Sciencedirect papers
by Mahesh *Y* 08 Jan '13

08 Jan '13

Dear LIS Professional These are the journal details, please send me the topics asap :) thanku :) <http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00134686> *1 ) Electrochemical study on copper cementation from cyanide liquors using zinc* Electrochimica Acta <http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00134686> Volume 44, Issue 10<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00134686/44/10>, January 1999, Pages 1617–1625 2) *Copper recovery by the cementation method* Hydrometallurgy <http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/0304386X> Volume 47, Issue 1<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/0304386X/47/1>, November 1997, Pages 69–90 -- -- *With Regards* ** * Mahesh.Y Librarian, Shri Pillappa College of Engineering, Bangalore-89. ** Mob: 09916388727 * -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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IATLIS General Body Meeting on 21 March 2013 at DRTC, Bangalore
by HPS Kalra 08 Jan '13

08 Jan '13

Dear Life member of IATLIS, Annual General Meeting of the Indian Association of Teachers of Library and Information Science (IATLIS) will be held on 21 March 2013 at DRTC, Bangalore. Details are given in the enclosed notice. HPS Kalra General Secretary, IATLIS. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Indian Association of Teachers of Library and Information Science C/o Department of Library and Information Science Punjabi University, Patiala No: IATLIS/GBM/2013 Date: 8-01-2013. The 2013 Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Association will be held on Thursday, 21 March 2013 at 4.00 p.m. at the venue of the XXIX National Conference of the Association, Documentation Research and Training Centre, Indian Statistical Institute, 8th Mile, Mysore Road, Bangalore to transact the following agenda: Agenda 1. To confirm the minutes of the last Annual General Meeting held on 27 November 2011 at Gujarat University, Ahmedabad. 2. To adopt Annual Report for the period December 2011 – February 2013. 3. To adopt Audited Statement of Accounts for the period 1 April 2011 – 31 March 2012. 4. To discuss any other matter with the permission of the Chair. Presence of the members is earnestly solicited. General Secretary ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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SRELS Lecture - Reminder
by SARADA RANGANATHAN ENDOWMENT FOR LIBRARY SCIENCE 08 Jan '13

08 Jan '13

Dear Moderator : Kindly arrange to announce the following invitation for the benefit of lis-forum members. Yours truly, K.N. Prasad Executive Officer Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science Bangalore *** Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science (SRELS), Bangalore and Ranganathan Centre for Information Studies (RCIS), Bangalore cordially invite you to a lecture by Mr. Shion Guha Graduate Research Assistant, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York on Cross-campus collaboration : A Scientometric and Network Case Study of Publication Activity Across two Campuses of a Single Institution Dr. I.K. Ravichandra Rao Formerly, Professor and Head, Documentation Research and Training Centre, Bangalore presides on Tuesday, 15th January 2013 at 6.30 p.m. at SRELS, 702, 42nd Cross, 3rd Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalore 560 010 RSVP: K.N. Prasad – Ph: (080) 23305109 E-mail: srels(a)dataone.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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300 Post Doctoral Fellowships for Indian Scholars in United States under Singh‐Obama Knowledge Initiative
by Dr. J. K. Vijayakumar 07 Jan '13

07 Jan '13

The University Grants Commission invites applications for 300 Post Doctoral Fellowships for Indian Scholars in United States for the year 2012 under Singh‐Obama 21st Century Knowledge Initiative 2012. The applicant should be a permanent teacher within 40 years of age as on Dec. 31, 2012, in an institution recognized under 2(f) and 12B of UGC Act and should possess a Ph.D. Degree in the respective field. Details of the scheme can be accessed from http://www.ugc.ac.in/more/sing_obamaaddvertise100512.pdf ------------ Dr. J. K. VIJAYAKUMAR, http://twitter.com/jkvijayakumar -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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CSI eNewsletter of Jan 2013
by Mohan HR 07 Jan '13

07 Jan '13

Dear all, CSI eNL wishes its readers a Happy New Year - 2013. You can now access the CSI eNewsletter of Jan 2013 at http://www.csi-chennai.org/csi-enl/csi-enl-2013-01-01.pdf and also at the CSI KM Portal at http://www.csi-india.org/web/csi/enewsletter For the archives of this newsletter, pl. visit http://www.csi-chennai.org/csi-enl/csi-enl-archives.htm or at http://www.csi-india.org/web/csi/archives You are free to forward this mail to your contacts who may like the information presented in the mail. With regards HR Mohan Chairman -- eNewsletter Committee, IEEE CS & PCS Madras http://infoforuse.blogspot.com/ Contents ======= -- CSI eNL wishes its readers a Happy 2013 -- Welcome to the Home of the Future -- The top 10 strategic technology trends for 2013 from Gartner -- The top five in-demand IT certifications for 2013 -- 14 global cybersecurity challenges for 2013 -- Security Resolutions for 2013 -- SaaS in 2013: Companies and Trends to Watch -- 13 E-Commerce Trends for 2013 -- Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Information Archiving -- The Technology Outlook for STEM+ Education 2012-2017 -- Computer Engineering: Feeling the heat -- 10 things to try when applications won't work with Windows 8 -- Use Real-time Compression to Reduce Storage Cost -- Five amazing things made reality by M2M technology -- The trouble with hurried solutions -- The White House’s long-awaited Digital Strategy -- Understanding the Three Most Common Open Source Licenses -- Open Source Compliance in the Application Development Space -- Discovery Channel - Global Warming, What You Need To Know: (1 hr 27 min 32 sec -- Nature: 2012 Review of the Year -- eBook: A Data Quality Primer -- eBook: Clearing the Air -- eBook: Conquering the Cloud -- (IN)SECURE Magazine -- eBook: "Modern Malware for Dummies -- Video: Google's Larry Page Talks Privacy, EU Troubles in Rare Interview -- Video: Defending the Data Center -- Video: TED Talks: How do we consume data? (08.08), may 2012 -- Opportunity -- Announcements -- ICT Events -- ICT News: Voices & Views -- ICT News: Telecom, Govt, Policy, Compliance -- ICT News: IT Manpower, Staffing & Top Moves -- ICT News: Company News: Tie-ups, Joint Ventures, New Initiatives -- Book: Hacking Exposed 7 Network Security Secrets and Solution, 7/e (TMH) -- Book: Digital and Analog Communication Systems (Wiley) -- Book: Software Testing: Principles and Practices (Pearson) -- Book: Bioinformatics Programming Using Python (Shroff Publishers) -- Book: Persuasive Reports and Proposals (Universities Press) -- Book: Leadership Skills (Universities Press) -- Book: Rigorous Software Development: An Introduction to Program Verification (Springer) -- Book: Windows Networking Tools: The Complete Guide to Management, Troubleshooting, and Security (CRC Press) -- About the CSI-eNewsletter -- Contributions to CSI-eNewsletter InfoQuiz–2013-01-01 =============== TWELVE Prizes to Win – FOUR Prizes of Rs. 500/- each and EIGHT books 1. Name the song video which made history as the first ever video on You Tube to reach 1 billion views. 2. GET THE QUESTION FROM THE PAGE 7 OF THE CSI eNL at http://www.csi-chennai.org/csi-enl/csi-enl-2013-01-01.pdf 3. “An idea can change your life” is the tagline of ------ 4. GET THE QUESTION FROM THE PAGE 7 OF THE CSI eNL at http://www.csi-chennai.org/csi-enl/csi-enl-2013-01-01.pdf 5. The popular “Linux For You” magazine is now known/renamed as ------ Answers to be provided to ALL FIVE questions. Question 2 & 4 are to be picked from the page 7 of the CSI eNL at http://www.csi-chennai.org/csi-enl/csi-enl-2013-01-01.pdf Email your answers by 31st Jan 2013 to csi.infoquiz(a)gmail.com with subject “infoquiz-2013-01-01”. Please provide your name, designation, company/institution, full postal address (to send the prize) and the contact phone nos. after the answers. There are TWELVE prizes to win. TWO prizes of Rs. 500/= each by SRA Systems (www.srasys.com) and TWO prizes of Rs. 500/= each by VictoryMind Educare Services. EIGHT prizes will be in the form of books which are briefly reviewed in this edition of the newsletter. They are being offered by Tata McGraw Hill Education Pvt. Ltd (www.tmhshop.com/) Wiley India Pvt. Ltd (www.wileyindia.com) Pearson Education (http://www.pearsoned.co.in) Shroff Publishers & Distributors Pvt. Ltd (www.shroffpublishers.com) Universities Press (www.universitiespress.com) Springer (www.springer.com) and CRC Press (www.crcpress.com) Answers along with the winners’ info will be published in the next issue. Answers & Winners of InfoQuiz-2012-12-01 =============================== Texting/SMS, Ajit Balakrishnan, Google Glass, Pope Benedict, Section 66 (A) Rs. 500/= from SRA Systems: Deepak Mangal (Mathura) & N. Thimmappa (Bangalore) Rs. 500/= from VictoryMind Edu Services: Liny Varghese (Kochi) & G.Jose Moses (Rajahmundry) Book from Tata McGraw Hill Education Pvt Ltd: Ch. Sravanalaxmi (Visakapatnam) Book from Wiley India Pvt Ltd: Shalini Aggarwal (New Delhi) Book from Pearson Education: Nadeem Ahmad (Darbhanga, Bihar) Book from Shroff Publishers & Distributors: Guru Dutta Padhy (Pune) Book from Universities Press: M Venu Gopal (Visakapatnam) Book from Digital Empowerment Foundation: Bijoy Ketan Panda (Bhubaneswar) Book from Springer: Pramod Kumar Jha (Hyderabad) Book from CRC Press: T.U. Peter (Chennai) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Application for Librayr Professionals
by swati＠iimcal.ac.in 07 Jan '13

07 Jan '13

Moderator is requested to post this message: A Human Resource Agency is inviting applications from qualified library professionals. Selected candidates will be placed at the library of Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. After filling out currently vacant positions, a panel of such professionals will be prepared which will remain valid for one year. Depending on future vacancies, professionals from the panel may be called for interview. The other important information regarding these appointments: 1. The candidates will be recruited by the Human Resource Agency. All positions carry the benefits of PF, ESI, Mediclaim as applicable. 2. The recruited candidates will be placed at the library of IIM Calcutta. 3. Selected candidates will have to perform shift duty along with other professionals in this category. Currently two shifts are operational – one is 9:15 AM – 5:45 PM and the other is 4:00 PM – 12:00 AM. There can be changes in the timings of these shifts or more shifts may be created in future if work situation demands so. 4. Selected candidates will be provided shared single accommodation inside the campus (no family accommodation). 5. Candidates must possess M. Lib.Sc. However, candidates possessing B.Lib.Sc and with exceptional experience of working in other places may also be considered. 6. Depending on experiences and performance in the interview, the selected candidates will be placed in one of the following pay-group: (i) Rs 18000/ p.m. for candidates with working experiences of 18-24 months in large academic/technical libraries (ii) Rs 16000/ p.m. for candidates with working experiences of 12-15 months in large academic/technical libraries (iii) Rs 14000/ p.m. for candidates with little or no exposure to library work but who would prove their interest in work during the interview. Interested candidates must send their resume to udskolkata(a)uds.in with a copy to librarian(a)iimcal.ac.in immediately. Applications will be received till January 16, 2013. -- Swati Bhattacharyya Librarian Indian Institute of Management Calcutta Joka, Diamond Harbor Road Kolkata - 700104 Ph: +91-33-2467-8300/01 (extn: O:416; R: 106) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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National Workshop on Koha
by john jeraud 07 Jan '13

07 Jan '13

Dear moderator, Lourdes Matha Institute of Hotel Management and Catering Technology, Trivandrum (approved by AICTE and affliated under University of Kerala) is conducting a two day Workshop on Koha on 26th and 27th of January 2013 at Trivandrum. Resource Person : Dr. Sunita Barve, NCL Pune Investment : Rs. 3000/- which includes food & accommodation For Further details please contact , John at 0-8907-888-000 or 0-8907-900-111 or mail to : johnjeraud(a)gmail.com please publish, thanking you John Jeraud Librarian, LMIHMCT Trivandrum 695 574 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Assistant Librarian Job @ University of Agricultural Sciences, Raichur
by Veeru 07 Jan '13

07 Jan '13

Dear Professionals, University of Agricultural Sciences, Raichur - Teachers University of Agricultural Sciences, Raichur, KA Advt No.R/Rectt/Direct posts/Advt.8&9/2012-13 *Assistant Librarian (02)- SC-1 / UR-1* *2.Qualification:* i. Good Academic record with at least 55% of the marks at the Master Degree in Library Science / Information Science from a recognized Indian University, or an equivalent Degree from a Foreign University. ii. Candidates should have cleared the National Eligibility Test (NET) in Library Science for Assistant Professor post conducted by the ASRB/UGC/CSIR or a similar test accredited by the ICAR/ICMR/NCERT/UGC/CSIR i.e., (a) For Agriculture/Animal Husbandry/ Veterinary/ Fisheries disciplines, ASRB/ ICAR NET in the concerned subject is prescribed (b) For Humanities, Languages, etc., UGC NET is prescribed (c) For Pure Sciences, CSIR NET is prescribed iii. Ph.D. is desirable. 2.*Scale of pay Rs*. 15600-39100+6000 AGP *more details visit*:*-http://www.uasraichur.edu.in/* http://www.tngovernmentjobs.in/2013/01/university-of-agricultural-s...<http://www.tngovernmentjobs.in/2013/01/university-of-agricultural-sciences.…> *Last date* 01.02.2013 -- Thanks and Warm Regards Virupaksh. B. H Library and Information Assistant National Library of India, Kolkata-700027 Email Id: *veerulis(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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Inside The Library of Congress's Mission To Organize 170 Billion Tweets
by Jayadev P Hiremath 05 Jan '13

05 Jan '13

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Library of Congress says it's amassed about 170 billion tweets since it began collecting an archive of all Twitter messages in 2010. Twitter is donating its archive to the library, going back to the first one posted in 2006. Library Director of Communications Gayle Osterberg wrote in a blog post Friday that the volume of tweets it receives has grown from 140 million daily in February 2011 to nearly half a billion tweets each day in late 2012. Librarians have been developing a system to preserve and organize the collection. Now the library is shifting its focus to handle the technical challenges of making such a massive archive available to researchers. The library may work with a private partner to provide access because its own search technology is slow. Inside The Library of Congress's Mission To Organize 170 Billion Tweets By Sarah Kessler | January 4, 2013 Turning 170 billion tweets into a usable archive is a challenge that the nation's largest library has never seen before. The Deputy Librarian of Congress talks with Fast Company about where to start. When the Library of Congress began archiving new tweets in February 2011, it would transfer about 140 million new tweets each day from temporary servers onto magnetic film. By the next October, that number had soared to about 400 million tweets per day. There are now about 170 billion tweets in the archive, which also includes a collection of all tweets going back to 2006 that the library acquired from Twitter in 2010. The library’s two compressed copies of the data total 133.2 terabytes. “It’s a few cabinets of tape,” explains Robert Dizard, the deputy librarian at the Library of Congress. “It’s not a roomful or roomfuls. And that’s just a testament of the storage capacity of tape.” The size of Twitter is on the order of the size of the Internet, just in tweets instead of web pages. Since the library signed an agreement with Twitter in 2010 that gave it access to historical tweets, a small team of its staff have been working to establish a sustainable process for acquiring and storing tweets. Now they’re transitioning their efforts to the significantly more difficult challenge of providing access to the archive they've built. Running a search term through a body of data as big as the tweet archive, Dizard says, could take more than 24 hours. The archived tweets are already indexed by time, but an hour of tweets could contain millions of 140-character snippets--not so helpful for someone doing research about a specific topic. The library has experience with large digital collections. It regularly archives, for instance, websites, government databases, and policy events. But Twitter is new territory. “It’s not only very large,” Dizard says. “It’s expanding daily and at an increasing velocity. The variety of tweets is high.” Not even Twitter, which employs some of the best engineers in Silicon Valley, has attempted to create a searchable archive of tweets. That’s partly because the commercial demand for historical access pales in comparison to that for real-time advertising. But the massive server space and resources such a project would consume are certainly another factor. Jamie de Guerre, VP Product at Topsy, a private company that provides some access to the Twitter archive, compares the task of indexing Twitter to indexing the entire Internet. “Google’s index of the entire Internet ranges from about, in some estimates, 45 billion web pages to 125 billion web pages,” he told Fast Company in a recent interview. “So the size of Twitter is on the order of the size of the Internet, just in tweets instead of web pages. Having all of that data available, being able to query across and return a large data file to a user is definitely quite a challenge.” In its first step to addressing the challenge, the library is talking with third-party companies that could potentially manage access to the archive. Given current resources, a solution for access is not likely to be a search engine that can locate a specific tweet. Dizard says he has no idea how a viable solution might look, but that abandoning the project isn't an option. “Our mission is to collect, preserve, and provide access to creative and historical record of America,” he says. “We’re looking at Twitter from a research and scholarship perspective as providing a reflection of everyday life as well as showing the development and impact of significant events. You also have the record and recordings of individuals. Which are also valuable.” “I look at Twitter as a start of what the Library will be doing in the medium and long-term,” Dizard says. “Not a test of whether we’ll collect social media at all.” -- Warm regards. Jayadev P Hiremath Independent Libraries Professional (Former Librarian - IBS,Kuwait) E-mail : jayadevh(a)hotmail.com LinkedIn : http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jayadev-p-hiremath/44/12a/2a0 Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/people/Jayadev-P-Hiremath/603802230 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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