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Survey of Greenstone Digital Library Software
by anu＠ncsi.iisc.ernet.in 24 Aug '09

24 Aug '09

Apologies for cross posting Dear Professional, As you are aware, Greenstone Digital Library Software (GSDL), a free software developed by the University of Waikato, New Zealand, is a major Digital Library software in South Asian region. Different institutions/individuals are already developing Interfaces in some of the Indian languages. With a view to promoting further work on and practical applications of the software a survey of the institutions and individuals in SAARC region who are using or intending to use or have attended workshop(s) on the software or otherwise interested in GSDL, is being undertaken. This survey is mainly supported by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) of Canada. UNESCO, Paris and eIFL, Netherlands, are also promoting this software. The results of the survey will be made available to others also, on request. A survey instrument (for individuals and institutions) is made available online at: http://dharmaganja.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/greenstone (for individuals) http://dharmaganja.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/greenstone-inst (for institutions) The survey instrument consists of five parts: Personal Information, Digital Library Activities, Digital Library Support and Services, GSDL Use & Support and Organizational Structure of Future Digital Library Support organization. We request you to fill in the survey instrument as completely as possible. We assure you that whatever information you provide us will be used only for academic purpose and will be kept confidential. Please fill either the institutional or the individual survey instrument and return to us as early as possible, in any case not later than 22nd September 2009. We will appreciate it if you could kindly distribute this to other persons in your country who are involved in GSDL. Alternatively, please provide us the list of address/email ids to which we shall send the survey instrument. Thanks in advance!! Regards, Dr.Anuradha.K.T. National Centre for Science Information Indian Institute of Science Karnataka, Bangalore 560 012 FAX:(+91-80) 23601426/23600683 Tel:(+91-80) 23600271/22932511

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Request
by Vara Lakshmi Rudrabhatla 24 Aug '09

24 Aug '09

Dear friends I request you to send me a copy of the following article, if available in your library. One of the authors of the article is in need of it urgently. C.S.T.Sastry, D.S.Mngala and D. Vijaya. Sensitive Spectroscopic methods for the estimation of mesomic acid with sodium nitrite and sulphuric acid. INDIAN DRUGS V.22, 1985 PP 653 Thanks Varalakshmi -- Dr. RSR Varalakshmi Professor, Dept. of Library and Information Science., Andhra University. Visakhapatnam. _________________________________________________________________ We all see it as it is. But on MSN India, the difference lies in perspective. http://in.msn.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Immediate Requirement of Library Trainee
by Jayant Tripathy 24 Aug '09

24 Aug '09

Dear Sirs/Colleagues, Kindly bring the following announcement to the notice of interested candidates and also request you to recommend potential candidates. ------------------------------ ------------------------------ --------------------- Sub: Immediate Requirement of One Post of Library Trainee at IBS Kolkata IBS Kolkata is looking for a candidate to work as 'Library Trainee' for its fully computerized, air conditioned Knowledge Centre (Library). The applicant should be a fresh Post Graduate in Library & Information Science (MLISc) and conversant with latest IT application to Library Science. Duration of Training is for a period of one year on a purely contractual basis. The selected candidate will get a fixed stipend with no other facilities / benefits except casual leave. Trainee will be provided with an opportunity to work in different sections of the Library in general and classification of books following Dewey Decimal Classification Scheme in particular. Interested candidates should send their CV along with latest scanned photo graph through E-mail only to jayantz(a)gmail.com immediately. ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------ Thanks & Regards Jayanta Kumar Tripathy Librarian IBS Kolkata WDC Building Plot No. J-3, Block - GP Sector- V, Salt Lake City Kolkata - 700 091 Mobile : 09163797872 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Internet Resources Newsletter: Sept 2009 issue
by MacLeod, Roderick A 24 Aug '09

24 Aug '09

____________________________________________ Internet Resources Newsletter ____________________________________________ The latest edition of the FREE monthly newsletter for academics, students and researchers is now available at: http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn175/irn175.html No subscription or registration is needed to access this full-text newsletter at the above site. You can also subscribe to the free, full-text email version at: http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn.html There's also an RSS feed for the newsletter: http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn.rss Featured in this issue: Comment Internet Resources Newsletter by email and RSS Random Quotes News items of interest Best Book Websites A-Z New & Notable Web Sites: About 100 new and notable websites: new services, ejournals, directories, search engines, publishers, social networks, government sites, booksellers, calls for papers, software, news services, conferences, research groups, plus anything else of interest, etc, etc. Nice Web Site(s): Bus Tracker Edinburgh Blogorama and Twittersphere Selected interesting blogs, RSS feeds, Twitter items, related news items, etc Recent Internet Books in the Library Get a life! Leisure Time After hours Published by Heriot-Watt University Library, and edited by Roddy MacLeod (R.A.MacLeod(a)hw.ac.uk) Catherine Ure and Marion Kennedy -- Heriot-Watt University is a Scottish charity registered under charity number SC000278. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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State Level Celebration of Dr Ranganathan’s Day
by Sujatha H R 24 Aug '09

24 Aug '09

State Level Celebration of Dr Ranganathan’s Day Karnataka State College Librarians Association (KSCLA) and Department of Collegiate Education, Government of Karnataka, had jointly organized for the 1st time the Celebration of Dr S R Ranganathan’s Day as the Librarian’s day on August 12, 2009 at Maharani’s Science College in Bangalore . Mr Kadadevaramatt S. L, president of KSCLA, in his introductory note spoke on the relevance of the celebration of Dr S. R. Ranganathan's day as Librarian's Day. Prof V. G. Talawar, released the association's quarterly newsletter edited by B. S. Malwad. He reminded us of the contributions of Dr SRR to library classification, cataloguing, and the five laws of Library Science and his role in passing Public Library Bills in the different states of India. Sri A.S. Srikanth, Principal Secretary, Dept of Higher Education inaugurated the programmme. In his presidential address he recollected his meeting with Dr Ranganathan in his child hood days and his birth day is being celebrated as State Level Day and Karnataka is the first state in this regard. He highlighted the role of libraries and librarian's in the academic environments. Dr (Mrs) N. Nagambikadevi, Commissioner for Higher Education was the Chief Guest and inaugurated the association's (www.karcollegelibrarians.net) designed and developed by Mr Veeru Uppin. She stressed the importance of library and the librarians in her speech. She also mentioned grievances if any, of librarians will be sorted out and parity with teachers will be maintained. Sri Basavaraj Horatti, Former Minister and MLA was another Chief Guest and recollected how he was able to convince the officers for issue of Government order to celebrate Dr Ranganathan’s Day as State Level Celebration Day and urged the Principal Secretary and the Commissioner to solve all pending problems of Librarians and payment of arrears due to 1996 UGC fixation on par with teachers. Prof Kodandaramaiah, Director of Collegiate Education, Smt Kamlamma, Additional Director of Collegiate Education, Prof A.M. Narahari, President of Karnataka State University Teachers Association, and Principal (i/c) of Maharani Science college were also present. Doyen among Librarians Sri S R Gunjal and the past President of KSCLA Sri T C Gadad were felicitated for their contribution to library science and library profession. Six Librarians, who are the recipients of Ph D.during the year were felicitated during the occasion. Mr Mahesh Horkeri proposed the vote of thanks and Smt Sujatha from Theosophical College , Hospet compeered the programme. About 350 librarians from all over Karnataka attended the function. It was a grand function and organized in a befitting manner for the 1st time at State Level. Report by Dr H R Sujatha, Librarian (SG), S V S College. Bantwal-574211, D K -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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award by the TELUGU UNIVERSITY, HYDERABAD
by Prof. N. Laxman Rao. 24 Aug '09

24 Aug '09

DEAR FRIENDS AND SENIOR ACADEMIC FRIENDS I am happy to inform you that POTTI SREE RAMULU TELUGU UNIVERSITY, HYDERABAD selected me for giving the PARVATANENI GANGADHAR RAO MEMORIAL AWARD for the recognition of services rendered in the field of LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE. This award will be given on 31 Aug 2009 at 6. 00 pm at The POTTI SREE RAMULU TELUGU UNIVERSITY Auditorium, Hyderabad. I thank the University authorities especially Prof Bhoomaiah, Vice Chancellor of the University for selecting me for this award. I feel it is the support, kindness and best wishes of all my professional and academic friends given to me from time to time has resulted in getting this award. I thank all my friends and senior colleagues for their continuous guidance and support, with best regards LAXMAN RAO Prof. N.LAXMAN RAO, UGC- EMERITUS PROFESSOR, Dept of Library & Information Science, Osmania University, HYDERABAD- 500 007 (INDIA) President, Association of British Scholars (Hyderabad Chapter) +91-9246547599 (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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LIS-Forum to the next level of communication & collaboration
by M Nandeesha 23 Aug '09

23 Aug '09

Dear All, LIS-Forum was launched in November, 1994 by NCSI under the leadership of late Dr. T.B. Rajashekar as a current awareness tool for improving professional knowledge and competence of LIS professionals in India. The vision of Dr Rajashekar has benefited all library & information professionals in enhancing their knowledge and also helped in professional networking. Time keeps moving & with it brings in a lot of changes in all aspects. In the recent years, the changes in technological areas are tremendous with Web 2.0 applications. The success of web 2.0 applications can be evidenced with the high usage rate of Blogs, Wikis, Social Networking Sites, etc. So, the way people communicate & collaborate is taking a new shape. Professional/Social Networking sites like LinkedIn.com, FaceBook.com, etc are being used by most of the people across the world to communicate & collaborate for professional & personal needs. So, in view of the developments in the professional networking area, do you think it's time for LIS-Forum to move on to the next level of communication & collaboration by having a "professional networking site"? Your feedback please Few Benefits of Professional Networking Sites: (1) User details will help to know each other better (2) Helps in networking & expanding network easily (3) Helps in locating experts (4) Serves as a knowledge repository (5) Discussions can be categorized (6) Each member can have their own space/presence If the responses are positive for having a LIS-Forum professional network site, then NCSI may kindly take up this suitably & explore the options. One such platform which can be explored is www.ning.com - an online platform for creating social networks. Regards, M Nandeesha Tata Consultancy Services Mailto: m.nandeesha(a)tcs.com Website: http://www.tcs.com ____________________________________________ Experience certainty. IT Services Business Solutions Outsourcing ____________________________________________ ForwardSourceID:NT0006A0FA =====-----=====-----===== Notice: The information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, use, review, distribution, printing or copying of the information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it are strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us by reply e-mail or telephone and immediately and permanently delete the message and any attachments. Thank you -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Govt of Maharashtra UGC Pay scale-implementation-Govt Order
by Prof. N. Laxman Rao. 22 Aug '09

22 Aug '09

--- On Sat, 22/8/09, Prof. N. Laxman Rao. <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> wrote: From: Prof. N. Laxman Rao. <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com> Subject: Govt of Maharashtra UGC Pay scale-implementation-Govt Order To: naglaxman(a)yahoo.com, iatlis(a)yahoogroups.com, nmlis(a)yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, 22 August, 2009, 3:40 PM please see the Mahrashtra govt Order for implementation of 6 th pay scale for the Universities and colleges. u can find this on the Mahrashtra Govt Website and also on Pune University library (jaykar Library) home page- www.unipune.ernet.in withing all the mahrashtra teachers a happy implementation with best wishes laxman rao Prof. N.LAXMAN RAO, UGC- EMERITUS PROFESSOR, Dept of Library & Information Science, Osmania University, HYDERABAD- 500 007 (INDIA) President, Association of British Scholars (Hyderabad Chapter) +91-9246547599 (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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New service on mlosc
by Ajay Kamble 22 Aug '09

22 Aug '09

Dear all, As we got suggestion from our member, Ms Anjali Londhe, Maharashtra Librarians Online Study Circle have included a new page "LIS Job seekers" to our site www.mlsc.co.nr. All the new entrants in LIS and also working personnels seeking job can send their resumes to us on mlosc(a)googlegroups.com and we will publish them to our website... All the respected senior professionals and colleague librarians are requested to go through the resumes of this personals, if they have some openings at their institutions... -- Ajay M. Kamble Librarian Annasaheb Vartak Arts, Commerce, Science College, Vasai Road (W), Dist. Thane - 401202 www.mlsc.co.nr www.ajaykamble.co.nr -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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(no subject)
by MADHU BHATT 22 Aug '09

22 Aug '09

Dear Professionals, I fully agree to Bhawanas sentiments, as we are still living in an era where people are still weighed on the basis of eligibility of M.Lib/Net. A Person who joins on the basis of professionhal choice can be more productive than a person who joins "By Chance" Madhu Bhatt Resource Centre (HIV/AIDS) DSSW Delhi Univeristy -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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