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Date of Death of Sh. N. N. Gidwani
by Jagtar Singh 29 May '12

29 May '12

Dear Colleagues, If you know the date of death of Sh. N.N. Gidwani, please let me know about it. We need it to complete his profile for the forthcoming SATKAL book on 'Pillars of Indian Librarianship.' Pl take care. Regards, Jagtar Dr. Jagtar Singh, President, Indian Association of Teachers of Library and Information Science (IATLIS) & Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, Punjabi University, Patiala Pin - 147 002 (India) Email: jagtar.kindu(a)gmail.com Tel: +91 (0)175 304 6179 (Work) +91 (0)175 228 2727 (Home) Fax: +91 (0)175 228 3073 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Circular
by Anand 28 May '12

28 May '12

Dear Professionals, Thanks for showing interest to "National Conference on Managing Information Resources in Digital Environment" which will jointly organise by SIR'S New Delhi and NIFM, Faridabad, but this is to bring to your notice that due to unavoidable circumstances, the "National Conference on Managing Information Resources in Digital Environment" scheduled to be held on 30 June 2012 has been postponed. If you had sent your paper or registration that will be include in our next evevt. The date of SIRs future event will be announced shortly. Best regards, ................................................................. SIR'S Dear moderator, I would like to request you that please circulate above mail to all professional and remove this information from Event calender. Thanks ................................................................. Anand A. Jha, (Sr.Executive) Knowledge Management-CMS, Research House, 34 -B, Saket, New Delhi - 110 017 anand(a)cmsindia.org -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Urgent requirement for Library Professional/Project Assistant for LUCKNOW location
by Shilpi Jain 28 May '12

28 May '12

Urgent requirement for Library Professional/Project Assistant for LUCKNOW location Urgent requirement for Library Professional to Manage Library Automation project IN Lucknow. Qualification: Graduate with B. Lib. & Inf. Sc. / M. Lib. & Inf. Sc. Experience: Between 1 – 4 years • Essential qualifications: Knowledge of computer & Library management software and good experience in library automation. • Should have knowledge of UDC/DDC classification • Should have knowledge of Z39.5 client/server/macr21standards • Should have knowledge of keyword generation subject wise • Should have knowledge of creation of catalogue card (author/ editor card). • Should be ready to work at client site across India. • Preference will be given to Male and Lucknow candidates only. Salary: Salaries as per qualifications and experience. Apply with CV & photo by June 1, 2012 by e-mail at puneet.saini(a)totalit.co.in Puneet Kumar Chief Technical Officer Total IT Solutions Pvt. Ltd. New Delhi Mob: +91-9350515096, +91-9868625720 E-mail: puneet.saini(a)totalit.co.in Website: www.totalit.co.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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DRTC
by Amit Shaw 28 May '12

28 May '12

INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE *Documentation Research Training Centre* 8th Mile Mysore Road Bangalore – 560059 DRTC Colloquium (4) 2011-2013 *Strong Semantic: Ontology* ABSTRACT Ontology is a formal, explicit specification of shared conceptualization. Having evolved from philosophical foundations, ontology can be defined as a “hierarchical structure that formally defines the semantic relationship of a set of concepts and is used to create structured, controlled vocabularies for the discovery or exchange of information.” In computer science, ontologies have emerged from the area of artificial intelligence as a way of representing domainknowledge. In the run to realize the Semantic Web, ontologies provide an impetus that would give rise to logical reasoning, knowledge engineering and applications development in order to make the metadata on the web more semantically enriched. Currently it is a hot topic of interest in the frontier research areasand its usefulness can be perceived in a great number of applications. The aim of this colloquium is to provide a brief knowledge on the recent trends of ontology development and ontologization engineering techniques. The various ontology languages for ontology creation and some popular application tools available will also be highlighted. *Facets * 1) Introduction by Subhashis Das 2) Ontology language by Sonali Kishore Kalani 3) Ontology Engineering Tools by Amit Kumar Shaw 4) Application of Ontology by Mayukh Biswas 5) Conclusion by Anurodh Kumar Sinha Venue: DRTC Classroom Date: 30th May, 2012 Time: 2.00pm All are cordially invited (Dr. M. Krishnamurthy) Colloquium Coordinator -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Functional Requirements namespaces published
by Rahul Hiremath 28 May '12

28 May '12

Functional Requirements namespaces published Namespaces for the Functional Requirements (FR) family of bibliographic metadata models have been published in Resource Description Framework (RDF), the basis of the Semantic Web. The models include Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR), Functional Requirements for Authority Data (FRAD), and Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Data (FRSAD). The namespaces can be accessed at http://iflastandards.info/ns/fr/. The FR element set vocabularies include RDF classes and properties corresponding to FR entities, attributes, and relationships. Each class and property has a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) for use in Semantic Web data triples. A full de-referencing service is available for each URI. When used in an ordinary Web browser, the URI displays HTML pages with human-readable information about the element or concept. When used in a semantic browser, the URI retrieves machine-readable information in RDF/XML format. It is also possible to retrieve this format using an ordinary Web browser. For example, the URI for the FRBR entity-relationship (FRBRer) model’s Group 1 entity “Work” is http://iflastandards.info/ns/fr/frbr/frbrer/C1001. To retrieve the RDF/XML information in a normal Web browser, use http://iflastandards.info/ns/fr/frbr/frbrer/C1001.rdf; that is, add the file extension “.rdf” to the URI. Another example is the FRSAD attribute “has appellation”: the URI of the corresponding RDF property is http://iflastandards.info/ns/fr/frsad/P2003 and the RDF/XML file can be retrieved in a normal browser using the URL http://iflastandards.info/ns/fr/frsad/P2003.rdf. The element set for a specific FR model can be accessed as follows: * FRBRer: http://iflastandards.info/ns/fr/frbr/frbrer/ * FRAD: http://iflastandards.info/ns/fr/frad/ * FRSAD: http://iflastandards.info/ns/fr/frsad/ The FR namespaces are maintained and accessed using the Open Metadata Registry (http://metadataregistry.org/) These element sets reflect the current published models, however, as the FR family is in the process of being consolidated, this may result in the eventual deprecation of some URIs Namespaces for the Functional Requirements (FR) family of bibliographic metadata models have been published in Resource Description Framework (RDF), the basis of the Semantic Web. The models include Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR), Functional Requirements for Authority Data (FRAD), and Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Data (FRSAD). The namespaces can be accessed at http://iflastandards.info/ns/fr/. The FR element set vocabularies include RDF classes and properties corresponding to FR entities, attributes, and relationships. Each class and property has a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) for use in Semantic Web data triples. A full de-referencing service is available for each URI. When used in an ordinary Web browser, the URI displays HTML pages with human-readable information about the element or concept. When used in a semantic browser, the URI retrieves machine-readable information in RDF/XML format. It is also possible to retrieve this format using an ordinary Web browser. For example, the URI for the FRBR entity-relationship (FRBRer) model’s Group 1 entity “Work” is http://iflastandards.info/ns/fr/frbr/frbrer/C1001. To retrieve the RDF/XML information in a normal Web browser, use http://iflastandards.info/ns/fr/frbr/frbrer/C1001.rdf; that is, add the file extension “.rdf” to the URI. Another example is the FRSAD attribute “has appellation”: the URI of the corresponding RDF property is http://iflastandards.info/ns/fr/frsad/P2003 and the RDF/XML file can be retrieved in a normal browser using the URL http://iflastandards.info/ns/fr/frsad/P2003.rdf. The element set for a specific FR model can be accessed as follows: * FRBRer: http://iflastandards.info/ns/fr/frbr/frbrer/ * FRAD: http://iflastandards.info/ns/fr/frad/ * FRSAD: http://iflastandards.info/ns/fr/frsad/ The FR namespaces are maintained and accessed using the Open Metadata Registry (http://metadataregistry.org/) These element sets reflect the current published models, however, as the FR family is in the process of being consolidated, this may result in the eventual deprecation of some URIs -- Rahul R. Hiremath Librarian, N.S.S.College of Commerce and Economics, 94, M.P.Mill Compound, Behind A.C.Market, Tardeo, Mumbai - 400 034 Mobile 9867325650 http://rahulrh.yolasite.com/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Seminar on “Library and Web tools for E-Learning and Teaching” in Kerala Agricultural University on 25-06-2012
by Dr. A.T. Francis 28 May '12

28 May '12

Seminar on “Library and Web tools for E-Learning and Teaching” in Kerala Agricultural University on 25-06-2012 The College of Horticulture, Kerala Agricultural University, Thrissur in association with the Kerala Library Association, Trivandrum is organising a Seminar on “Library and Web tools for E-Learning and Teaching” with the details given below: Seminar Sub themes:- Library and Web Tools, Teaching Role of Librarians in Internet Era, E-Learning and Teaching, Digital Document Delivery etc. Date & Time:- 25-06-2012 (Monday), 9am-5pm. Location:- College of Horticulture is situated in the Main Campus of the Kerala Agricultural University which is 10 km away from Thrissur city on the NH 47 linking Thrissur, Palakkad and Coimbatore. Paper Submission:- Full Papers not more than 5 A4 size pages, Short Papers or Posters to the Seminar should be submitted on or before 15-06-2012. Acceptance of the papers will be intimated before 17-06-2012. Participation & Registration:- Participation to the seminar is open to all qualified Library Education Teachers / Library Professionals. They should register in advance by e-mail. Registration to the Seminar is free. Working lunch and refreshments will be provided by the organizers. Contact for registration or further details:- 1. Dr. A.T. Francis, Head, Library, College of Horticulture; Phone (o): 0487-2438511; (m) 9496839409; e-mail: francis.at(a)kau.in; francisaloor(a)yahoo.com 2. Smt. V.S. Swapna, Library, College of Horticulture; Phone (o): 0487-2438513; (m) 9446434149; e-mail: swapna.vs(a)kau.in; swapnabenn(a)gmail.com3. Websites: www.kau.edu or www.kauhort.in or http://www.keralalibraryassociation.org Dr. A.T. FRANCIS, MCom, MLISc, 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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Access2research
by Subbiah Arunachalam 27 May '12

27 May '12

Friends: Here is the full text of a conversation between Richard Poynder, the UK-based technology journalist and chronicler of developments in open access, and John Willinsky, a senior fellow in entrepreneurship at the Ewing Kauffman Foundation and a former head of Science Commons. Willinsky is one of the small group that traveled recently to Washington to meet with the folks at the Office of Science and Technology Policy to win their support for open access. The Wethepeople petition this group floated a few days ago to persuade the Obama administration has already been signed by more than 16,500 people. I request all members of LIS-Forum, OADL, IASLIC, ILA, IATLIS, and DELNET to sign the petition well before the deadline of 19 June. They may also publicize the petition among patrons of their libraries. After all this is a petition by the public from around the world. Subbiah Arunachalam Q&A with John Wilbanks. RP: There have been a number of petitions in support of Open Access in the past few years. What is new and different about the one you started on May 20th? JW: First, it wasn't just me — it wasMichael Carroll, Heather Joseph, Mike Rossner, too. Second, I think what's new is that we realised the debate had hit a ceiling. We can argue for the NIH policy, we can argue against RWA. But we have to fundamentally change the dynamic of the debate, and you can do that by going straight to the people in an organised way. I'm not sure that's been done before in OA. Most of our declarations are inside baseball. Third, we used the wethepeople platform. Carl Malamud was the first one that I know of who used it in the open space, and his petition showed how hard it is to get 25,000 signatures. But it has the potential to really open the debate up that we needed. We don't know what it will do, but it can't hurt to have a strong public vote in favour of OA. RP: This is very much a call for the public (rather than the research community) to support Open Access. Why should the public care? What is in it for them? What, in a nutshell, is your message to ordinary citizens? JW: I think we get at that in the petition itself. It's taxpayer funded research, taxpayers should all have the right to access it. Public funds should create public goods. RP: You need to get 25,000 signatures within 30 days. What does that win if you succeed: a response from the White House, a debate in Congress, new legislation, or something else? JW: We don't know. At the least we get a response. Hopefully we get a policy change, a conversation about implementing the request in the petition. Once we hit our number we need to turn up the pressure on the Administration to make a meaningful response. It’s just tough RP: I read that you came up with the idea of the petition after meeting the Science Advisor to President Obama John Holdren. What was that meeting, and what happened in it that led you to conclude that a petition was needed? JW: Four of us — Mike Carroll, Heather Joseph, Mike Rossner, and me — met with the OSTP staff earlier in May. It was a very nice meeting. They listened to us, they clearly had studied the issues. But they can't make any promises. And it's tough, because you know the publishers have fulltime staff devoted to these meetings and we can pull off one every now and then. It's just tough. RP: The petition is for "free access over the Internet to scientific journal articles arising from taxpayer-funded research". Producing scientific journal articles is not a cost-free process is it? Are you asking the public to find additional money to meet the costs of providing free access, or is the money already in the system somewhere but needing to be re-allocated? JW: This petition asks for a policy implementation of public access across the US Government — focused on access more than mechanisms. But in the NIH case and elsewhere, one method is to include the cost of publication in the funding itself. When you're looking at grants in science research they're tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars. A line item of $2,000 for an article fee isn't a significant hurdle. RP: In 2001 a group of Open Access advocates called for the “free and unrestricted online availability" of journal articles. Why, eleven years later, are you having to make the same call? If what you are asking for were logical, feasible and cost-effective surely it would have happened by now? JW: Because change takes a long time. And academic publishing is protected from some of the winds that have buffeted other content industries — the costs are hidden to the scientists at elite universities, and the desire to publish in the top journals is strong. But scientists are getting used to having the content they want in their personal life, and the gulf with how their professional content is managed is only growing. On top of that, citizens are getting more and more likely to bump into paywalls and get frustrated. Entrepreneurs are unable to try and disrupt scholarly search and publishing. And we're all more densely networked than we were ten years ago. The screwed-upness of the system is getting harder and harder to hide. And the success of PLoS, BioMed Central, Hindawi, and other open publishers is showing that there's money to be made in different access models. It takes time to change a hidebound industry. There's a lot of money to be made in selling scholarly journals, and a long history of resistance to change. I think the movement's gone pretty quickly actually viewed in that light. RP: What would be the best outcome of the petition in your view? JW: The extension of the NIH policy across all US federal agencies. Even better would be a shorter embargo period. RP: Thank you for your time. -- 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 Ajay Kum Sharma 27 May '12

27 May '12

Dear Library Professionals, One of our Faculty member has urgently required the below article for his reference & research purpose. It would be highly appreciated if any one send this article in soft copy version. Article Title: Medicine and physical exercise in ancient India. Author(s): Ganorkar SW, Mandal HV. Source Journal: Journal of Sport Medicine and Physical Fitness Year: 1973 Jun; Vol No. (Issue No.): 13(2) Page range: 134-136 -- Thanks and regards. Ajay Kumar Sharma Assistant Librarian & In-charge, Journal Section, Central Library, Visva Bharati, Santiniketan - 731235, Bolpur, Birbhum, West Bengal & Webmaster of ABSLA Email: ajaysharma.lib(a)visva-bharati.ac.in Mobile No.: +91 9735111064 Web: http://www.absla.org/ajay.html Web Blog: http://www.blogger.com/home?pli=1 *********************************************************** 1. Join today Digital Library Discussion Forum http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/dlrg 2. Join today LIS-Forum mailing list http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Information regarding Media Library
by gt mahesh 26 May '12

26 May '12

Dear Moderator Please post the message in LIS Forum,, Dear LIS Professionals, I have pre-registered for PhD program at the DLIS, Mysore University, Mysore, i have chosen to work on the area of information seeking behaviour of media professionals under the title "Information needs and seeking behaviour of Media Professionals in Southern Karnataka",, under the guidance of Dr. Adithya Kumari H, Associate Professor, Dept of Library and Information Science, University of Mysore, Mysore. I hereby request my LIS profesionals to those who are working in Media Libraries to give their contact address/phone number/e-mail,,, and also i request the professional friends to give me inputs /suggestions if any in this regard, -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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UCSF IMPLEMENTS POLICY TO MAKE RESEARCH PAPERS FREELY ACCESSIBLE TO PUBLIC
by Mailing List Admin 25 May '12

25 May '12

Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 16:03:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Subbiah Arunachalam <subbiah_a(a)yahoo.com> University of California, San Francisco Press Release May 23, 2012 Health Sciences Campus Becomes Largest in Nation to Adopt Open-access Policy The UCSF Academic Senate has voted to make electronic versions of current and future scientific articles freely available to the public, helping to reverse decades of practice on the part of medical and scientific journal publishers to restrict access to research results. The unanimous vote of the faculty senate makes UCSF the largest scientific institution in the nation to adopt an open-access policy and among the first public universities to do so. Full press release: http://www.ucsf.edu/news/2012/05/12056/ucsf-implements-policy-make-research… Full text of policy and supporting documents http://senate.ucsf.edu/2011-2012/j-lib-openaccess.html

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