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UGC NET / SET Cut-Off Percentage of Marks is not constant
by Praveen Kumar V 04 Oct '12

04 Oct '12

Dear Friends UGC NET / SET Cut-Off Percentage of Marks is not constant in all subjects and also not constant in next coming exams, its depends on paper standard and number of candidates appearing and qualifying the exam , The maximum qualifying percentage is 3% of total appearing for the exam in each Subject see the AP SET results for example: http://osmania.ac.in/index.htm Thank you, With regards PRAVEEN KUMAR V E mail: mail_praveen12(a)yahoo.co.in Phone: 93930 11696, 94948 44571 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Library Professionals for Retro-conversion of Language Books.
by sufian ahmad 04 Oct '12

04 Oct '12

Dear Moderator! Kindly circulate the below given message: Sahitya Akademi Library is in the process of Retro-conversion of Bangla, Assamese, Malayalam, and Sindhi languag books. Library professional having knowledge of MARC21 and typing knowlege in concerned languages will be preferred. Payment will be made on entry basis. Interested persons may contact urgently. -- Sufian Ahmad (Librarian) Sahitya Akademi, 35, Rabindra Bhawan, Mandi House, Delhi-110001 Contact No.: 9873634083 Email: ahmad.sufian(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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"IIA Library Blog Launched"- Feedback (Dr.Christina Birdie)
by praba 04 Oct '12

04 Oct '12

Dear Friends,     IIA Library has launched its library blog recently and we are happy to mention that our faculty and students find it very informative, useful and sometimes fun to read those items posted in the blog. http://libraryastrophysics.wordpress.com/    We would like to know from other libraries their experiences and the feedback from users if you have launched similar efforts. With Regards,Christina Birdie, Librarian, IIA, Bangalore. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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LIBRARY SERVICE IS MANDATORY IN ALL SCHOOLS FROM KG ONWARDS
by Mailing List Admin 03 Oct '12

03 Oct '12

Dr. A.T. Francis francisaloor(a)yahoo.com Wed Oct 3 09:59:18 IST 2012 Dear all, Let me share some points on the views of Sinu Manoharan, posted in LIS Forum. We in Kerala is running or developing Model School, Model Police Station, Model Village Office, Model Hospital, Model Panchayath and so on. But, it is the fate of poor people in Kerala that they have to settle/satisfy with the Schools controlled by Govt. of Kerala. In these schools, even though there is no library and self learning system, students will get promotion in all classes. Here there is no effective mechanism to assess the quality and capability of these students in comparison with other students. But, it is a fact that all well to do parents, including Civil Service personnel, teachers, farmers, industrialists etc., are eager to select the CBSE or ICSE or even Internationals Systems for their children. I fear that is there any deliberate thinking from the political leadership or higher officials of the Govt. not to provide library service in the Kerala Govt. controlled schools and at the same time admitting their children in CBSE or ICSE or International Schools. Sometimes this may be an indirect conspiracy to keep away the poor people always poor by denying their primary necessity or quality education. But, as a library professional we should keep our philosophy and ethics of the profession to provide quality information and knowledge to all. In this race, first we should unite together through library associations and fight for the primary requirement of our society. Though, I am not satisfied with the activities of our associations, in this juncture, it is high time to evaluate ourselves and find out "in how many associations we are members?." Let me disclose that I am a Life Member of four national associations. This membership was took 25 years back immediately on completed BLISc. I hope one day the children of poor people can enjoy good library services. 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 at yahoo.com

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Article Request
by Lijesh T K 03 Oct '12

03 Oct '12

Dear Professionals, If any library holds below mentioned articles. Please send me. Some tropical american and african weeds that have invaded the state of bihar Srivastava, J.G Journal of the indian botancial society, 43: 102-112 (1964) The Varying success of invaders Williamson, M Ecology 77: 1661-1666 (1996) Alien Invaders Moore, P.D Nature 403: 492-493 (2000) Some exotic ornamentals of Kashmir Singh, G; Misri, B Indian Journal of Horticulture 31: 834 (1974) Growth analysis using frequent small harvests Hughes, A.P; Freeman, P.R Journal of Applied Ecology 4: 553-560 (1967) Growth Formula: their use and abuse Radford, P.J Crop Science 7: 171-175 (1967) Lanatana inssects in India Rao Ramachandra, Y Journal of Indian Entomological Services 5: 239-314 (1920) Exotic flora of Allahabad district Sharma, B.D; Pandey, D.S Bulletin of Botancial survey of India (1984) Thanking you...... By, Lijesh T.K Project Fellow (Library) Kerala Forest Research Institute (KFRI), Peechi, Thrissur, Kerala. Visit: http://www.libraryjobs4u.blogspot.com/ E-journals: http://libraryjobs4u.blogspot.in/p/e-books.html E-Books: http://libraryjobs4u.blogspot.in/p/e-books_22.html E-Repositories: http://libraryjobs4u.blogspot.in/p/e-repositories.html E-Theses: http://libraryjobs4u.blogspot.in/p/e-theses.html Useful Links: http://libraryjobs4u.blogspot.in/p/useful-links.html -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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LIBRARY SERVICE IS MANDATORY IN ALL SCHOOLS FROM KG ONWARDS
by Dr. A.T. Francis 03 Oct '12

03 Oct '12

Dear all, Let me share some points on the views of Sinu Manoharan, posted in LIS Forum. We in Kerala is running or developing Model School, Model Police Station, Model Village Office, Model Hospital, Model Panchayath and so on. But, it is the fate of poor people in Kerala that they have to settle/satisfy with the Schools controlled by Govt. of Kerala. In these schools, even though there is no library and self learning system, students will get promotion in all classes. Here there is no effective mechanism to assess the quality and capability of these students in comparison with other students. But, it is a fact that all well to do parents, including Civil Service personnel, teachers, farmers, industrialists etc., are eager to select the CBSE or ICSE or even Internationals Systems for their children. I fear that is there any deliberate thinking from the political leadership or higher officials of the Govt. not to provide library service in the Kerala Govt. controlled schools and at the same time admitting their children in CBSE or ICSE or International Schools. Sometimes this may be an indirect conspiracy to keep away the poor people always poor by denying their primary necessity or quality education. But, as a library professional we should keep our philosophy and ethics of the profession to provide quality information and knowledge to all. In this race, first we should unite together through library associations and fight for the primary requirement of our society. Though, I am not satisfied with the activities of our associations, in this juncture, it is high time to evaluate ourselves and find out "in how many associations we are members?." Let me disclose that I am a Life Member of four national associations. This membership was took 25 years back immediately on completed BLISc. I hope one day the children of poor people can enjoy good library services. 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 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Postponement of Refresher Course in Library and Information Science
by M Bavakutty 03 Oct '12

03 Oct '12

Dear Professional colleagues, Subject: Postponement of the Refresher Course in Library and Information Science The Refresher Course in Library and Information Science proposed to be conducted from 8th October 2012 by the Kannur University Academic Staff College in collaboration with the Department of Library and Information Science, Thalassery Campus has been postponed to 28th November to 18th December 2012 due to some administrative difficulties. The College Librarians/ Asst. Librarians and teachers of Library and Information Science who are interested may apply immediately.The application form can be down loaded from the site of the Kannur University,Academic Staff College.The Course Director is Prof. M. Bavakutty. -- Dr.M.Bavakutty Professor and Head, Dept. of Library and Information Science, Kannur University Palayad Centre. Thalassery 670 661 Kerala Phone: 09037902716 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Science Researchers on Google Scholar, Web of Science, and PubMed, with Implications for Library Collections Budgets
by Dr. J. K. Vijayakumar 02 Oct '12

02 Oct '12

"In this fast changing environment the best advice is to be in close contact with your researchers as they change their information seeking behaviors in response to the changes in the discovery tools available to them". No library will pay for A&I databases, if no one is using/preferring them, especially when the budget is shrinking. "Science researchers at the University of California Santa Cruz were surveyed about their article database use and preferences in order to inform collection budget choices. Web of Science was the single most used database, selected by 41.6%. Statistically there was no difference between PubMed (21.5%) and Google Scholar (18.7%) as the second most popular database. 83% of those surveyed had used Google Scholar and an additional 13% had not used it but would like to try it. Very few databases account for the most use, and subject-specific databases are used less than big multidisciplinary databases (PubMed is the exception). While Google Scholar is favored for its ease of use and speed, those who prefer Web of Science feel more confident about the quality of their results than do those who prefer Google Scholar. When asked to choose between paying for article database access or paying for journal subscriptions, 66% of researchers chose to keep journal subscriptions, while 34% chose to keep article databases." Read the full-text article from http://www.istl.org/10-fall/refereed3.html ---------------- Dr. J. K. VIJAYAKUMAR, http://www.linkedin.com/in/vijayakumarjk -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Missing of Library Books
by Gouri Shankar Sharma 02 Oct '12

02 Oct '12

Dear All Library Professionals 1. How many books write-off every year by library? 2. Without Security & insufficient manpower who is responsible for missing books of library? -- *Thanks and Regards GOURI SHANKAR* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Fw: [GOAL] Latin America - IR regional cooperation
by Subbiah Arunachalam 02 Oct '12

02 Oct '12

----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Dominique Babini <dasbabini(a)gmail.com> To: goal(a)eprints.org Sent: Saturday, 29 September 2012, 15:12 Subject: [GOAL] Latin America - IR regional cooperation La Referencia (Latin America network of national systems of institutional repositories) http://lareferencia.redclara.net/ project with support from IADB Initial agreements: - - Members are countries, 8 initial countries (Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Brasil, Colombia, México, Venezuela) - - Regional harvester in RedCLARA will harvest from national harvester of institutional repositories - - Contents: posprint peer-review articles + postgraduate theses + research reports (metadata must indicate if content has been peer-reviewed) - - Standards and tools for regional project: DRIVER + DSpace + Qualified Dublin Core - - Formal launching: Meeting of Ministers of Science and Technology from Latin America, Buenos Aires, 26-27 November 2012 Source: Presentation from Fernando Ardito at ETD 2012, Lima, Peru http://www.etd2012.edu.pe/pdf/presentation/FArditoETD2012.pdf _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list GOAL(a)eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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