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emoluments offered to library professionals
by bhawna vashishtha 21 Aug '09

21 Aug '09

We read many advertisement for vacancy on various posts. What I feel is that emoluments offered to library professionals particularly in *private institutions* are much less as compared to the people of same calibre working in other professions. One more thing I would like to share, in India if want to apply for any higher designations we have been always asked to prove our credentials in terms of percentage of marks in MLIS, BLIS, and through UGCNet etc. But if we try to find out our employability in any international institutions what I have observed that most of the nicely paid jobs require a software engineer or people trained in specific fields of computer science profession as most of the work is handled by software. Is this indicate that this is the time when we need a drastic change in our curriculum? And requires people who are in this profession by choice rather then BY CHANCE. Bhawna Vashishtha Semi Professional Assistant Delhi University -- 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 false 21 Aug '09

21 Aug '09

Dear sir/madam, Though blogs and social networking sites are new communication medium, there are lots of questions that we need to short out before moving from e-mail list to new set of technologies. The major concern is –commenting feature. There are instances people simply abandoning their blogs because of the trouble they have had by anonymous commenter. One instance is Kathy Sierra’s controversy. After Sierra’s controversy Tim O’Rielly has to start "support responsible commenting" movement to keep away people from posing threats through blogs. The longevity of blogging discussion is also a debatable issue. Twitter you have to limit for 140 characters. Another thing is searching and archiving in e-mail list is much easier than some of new media tools. Social networking sites are not allowed in most of the organizations. Experimenting with new tools is imperative. Post-modern thinking of death of the author is extending to death of the e-mail lists. (recently there is a long and vibrant discussion has taken place on this topic in web4lib forum based on the article -. Change or Die: Scholarly E-Mail Lists, Once Vibrant, Fight for Relevance by Jeffrey R. Young) Love Cricket? Check out live scores, photos, video highlights and more. Click here http://cricket.yahoo.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Vacancy for the post of "Information Management Trainee"
by anand bandi 21 Aug '09

21 Aug '09

National Institute of Fashion Technology, Mumbai invites application for the post of "Information Management Trainee" for its main Campus at New Bombay and the City Center at Churchgate from the fresh MLISc Candidates. Interested candidates may post their CV to the undersigned on or before 31st August, 2009. The selected candidate will be paid the stipend of Rs 6000=00 PM. Dr.A.N.Bandi, Head, Resource Centre, National Institute of Fashion Technology, NIFT Campus, Plot No.15, Sector 4, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai - 410 210. Ph.91-22-27747080/81 Mobile : 09892192799 e-mail: anb321in(a)yahoo.co.in anbandi(a)rediffmail.com website:www.niftindia.com See the Web's breaking stories, chosen by people like you. Check out Yahoo! Buzz. http://in.buzz.yahoo.com/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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W3C
by kuber kumbar 21 Aug '09

21 Aug '09

Dear Librarian, W3C InfoWorld - Expanding its Semantic Web technology stack, the W3C (World Wide Consortium) announced this week a standard to bridge knowledge organization systems like classifications, thesauri and taxonomies to linked data. The Semantic Web is intended to make it easier to search for relevant documents and information on the Web. With the W3C SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System) standard, enterprises, social networking applications, government portals and others managing large collections of items, such as books, news reports and blog entries, can leverage linked data capabilities. SKOS provides a model for expressing basic structure and content of concepts, such as thesauri, subject heading lists and taxonomies. Different communities can use SKOS to link vocabularies to the Semantic Web. SKOS enables subject headings to be used to broaden or narrow queries for discovering resources. By publishing subject headings in SKOS, the U.S. Library of Congress, for example, has made them available to the "linked data community," the W3C said. For example, a query about books on Chinese literature can be narrowed to "Chinese drama" or "Chinese children's plays." New routes are created for discovering information. "Active participation from the library and information science community in the development of SKOS over the past seven years has been key to ensuring that SKOS meets a variety of needs," said Thomas Baker, co-chair of the Semantic Web Deployment Working Group, which published SKOS, in a statement released by W3C. "One goal in creating SKOS was to provide new uses for well-established knowledge organization systems by providing a bridge to the linked data cloud." Serving as an application of the W3C RDF (Resource Description Framework), SKOS is part of a Semantic Web stack that also includes such technologies as OWL (Web Ontology Language). While both SKOS and OWL can be used to define vocabularies, SKOS differs in that it is a simple language with just a few features tuned for sharing and linking knowledge organization systems. OWL offers a general framework for knowledge representation and offers additional capabilities in spaces such as business rule processing. KUBERA K.P LIBRARIAN Sir.M. Visvesvaraya Institute of Technology. Yahoo! recommends that you upgrade to the new and safer Internet Explorer 8. http://downloads.yahoo.com/in/internetexplorer/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Google Insights for Search Adds More Languages, Forecasting
by Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy 21 Aug '09

21 Aug '09

Learn how trends in Google Searching can help running your business. Google Insights for Search Adds More Languages, Forecasting Posted: 20 Aug 2009 08:07 AM PDT Google announced in a blog post this week new features for its Google Insights for Search, available at http://www.google.com/insights/search/. The new features include lots more languages (a total of 39!) and even a forecasting feature. Have you used Google Insights for Search? You can enter one or more search terms, specify factors like a time range, type of search (news, images, Web, etc.) and geographic area of the world, and Google will give you a graph of how much that search has been requested over time, along with pointers to news stories about your query and information on the search’s popularity in different geographic areas. Take a look at an example screenshot I did for the search recycling. ============= Dr P Vyasamoorthy, 30 Gruhalakshmi Colony Secunderabad 500015 Ph 040-27846631 / 9490804278 http://www.google.com/profiles/vyasamoorthy. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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INVITATION FOR SEMINAR
by Elan Ramesh 21 Aug '09

21 Aug '09

Dear Professional Colleagues, --- INVITATION IndianJournals. com & University Library Teacher's Association of A.P contentedly announces & invites you to its up-coming conference on "Scholorly Information & Communication in Web Environment" on 29th August, 2009 (Saturday), at "Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) Hall, Osmania University Campus, Hyderabad. To confirm your participation please send enclosed registration from to us, for further details you may contact: Hyderabad: Dr. V. Nireekshana Babu General Secretary Uni. Library Teacher's Association of A.P Mobile No: 09848220878 Email: vnbabu_2004@ yahoo.co. in CONFERENCE AIM: To highlight the ongoing world wide professional development and invitiatives. Aslo, efforts to enhance the visibility of Indian contents through Indianjournals. com. The basic goal is to provide global-exposure, web Widely to Academicians, Researchers and Scholars at national and international level. REGISTRATION FEE: You can do spot registration by paying Rs. 100/- at registration desk. VENUE: Indian Council of Social Research Hall, Southern Regional Centre, Osmania University Campus, Hyderabad 500007, India. The participation certification certificate will be issued to all the participants. 9:30 am to 10:00am Registration SESSION-I INAGURAL SESSION 10:00am - 11:15 am Welcome Address Mr. Sandeep Gurwara Director Marketing- Indianjournals. com Prof. G. Sujatha Head, University Library-Dr.B. R. Ambedkar Open University, Hyderabad Keynote Address Prof. R.K Mishra Director-Institute of Public Enterprise, Hyderabad Special Address Mr. Greesh Kumar Behal General Manager-Indianjourn als.com Chief guest Address Sri D.Sridhar Babu Minister for Higher Educatation- Govt. of AP Guest of Honor's Address Prof. K.c. Reddy Chairman- State council of Higher Education, Govt. of AP Presidential remarks Prof. T. Tirupathi Rao Vice Chancellor-Osmania Unviersity, Hyderabad 11:15 am to 11:30 am TEA BREAK SESSION –II PANEL DISCUSSION 11:30 to 1:30pm Chaired by: Dr. Gangan Prathap Direcor- National institute of Science Communication & Information Resources, Delhi Eminent Speakers Prof. B. Ramesh Babu Libraian- University of Madras. Dr. ( Mrs.) Aruna T. Kumar Assistant Editor ( Eng) –Directorate of Information and Publications of Agriculture, Delhi Mr. S. Srinivas Librarian- ICRISAT, Hyderabad Dr. P. Divakar Group Leader-CCMB, Hyderabad Dr. K Veeranjaneyulu Librarian-Acharya N G Ranga Agricultural University, Hyderabad 01:30 pm to 2:30pm LUNCH BREAK SESSION-III OPEN FORUM 2:30pm to 3:30pm Chaired by : Dr. M Koteshwar Rao Librarian-Universit y of Hyderabad Prof. S. Sudharshan Rao Principal –Osmania University Art College, Hyderabad. Dr. K Veeranjaneyulu Librarian-Acharya N G Ranga Agricultural University, Hyderabad Mrs. V. Revathi I/c University Librarian , Osmania University, Hyderabad VALEDICITORY SESSION 3:30 pm to 3:45pm Vote of Thanks: Dr. P Venkata Ramana Associate Professor and Head –JNTU Library, Hyderabad 3:45pm to 4:00 pm TEA Second National Seminar/ Conference On "Scholarly Information and Communication in Web Environment" August 29th 2009, Osmania University Campus, ICSSR Hall REGISTRATION FORM Dear Sir / Madam I am interested to participate in the above seminar Name of the Participant : Designation : Address : (Office) : Residence : Phone : Office : Phone Residence : Mobile : E – Mail ID: Web Site (if any): Please deposit cash amount of Rupees One Hundred only at the time of registration along with this form. Dated : Signature : Note : * Enclose a photo copy of your ID Card Please return this form duly filled in to : Dr. V. Nireekshana Babu General Secretary Uni. Library Teacher's Association of A.P. P.S. Telugu University Library Nampally Hyderabad – 500 004, Andhra Pradesh INDIA Phone : 09848220878, E – Mail : vnbabu_2004@ yahoo.co. in __._,_.___ Messages in this topic (1) Reply (via web post) | Start a new topic Messages | Links | Database | Members | Calendar MARKETPLACE Mom Power: Discover the community of moms doing more for their families, for the world and for each other Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch format to Traditional Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe Recent Activity 1 New MembersVisit Your Group Group Charity Stop Cyberbullying Keep your kids safe from bullying Yahoo! Groups Small Business Group A community for small business owners Weight Management Group on Yahoo! Groups Join the challenge and lose weight. . __,_._,___ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Updates from ICAL-2009
by Rajesh Singh 21 Aug '09

21 Aug '09

Dear Professional Colleagues, I have regularly been updating you and providing various details regarding ICAL- 2009, with a promise to make it a Conference with Difference. This Conference is going to be a conference with a difference—in terms of content, delegation, stalwart international speakers, interaction and discussions, and the outcome.We are thankful to all the professional for their overwhelming response to the call for papers. We have received more than 170 papers contributions, which are in the process of peer review. The objective of the conference is to reposition the Academic Libraries by taking advantage of modern developments in the field of ICT; management techniques including change management; scholarly communications; advocacy; user-vendor-librarians interface etc. and develop a ROAD MAP which can be used by the governmental agencies for upgrading the library systems in India. We have developed a document having the conceptual framework which provides a framework on how various facets are conceived. A good number of International experts have already consented to be present in the Conference. The list of Prominent International Speakers is available at: http://library.du.ac.in/ocs/index.php/ical/ Besides, we are organizing a “Pre-Conference Tutorial on Virtual Referencing” Experts from OCLC will conduct the Pre-Conference Tutorial on Virtual Referencing to explore real time virtual reference service, including the know how of a reference management service called Question Point. For details please visit: http://crl.du.ac.in/ical09/pctvr.htm Today, poster sessions are an integral part of the conference programs. ICAL-2009 has also made provision for poster presentations of high quality research papers during the conference and publish the same in conference proceeding. The best poster, selected by a group of experts, will be awarded. For details please visit: http://crl.du.ac.in/ical09/postpap/poster.htm Friends, we expect a similar response for Registration in the conference. Delhi is the capital of country and all arrangements needs to be made in advance to keep our promise to make it a Conference with Difference. I request all the professional to register for the conference well in advance and avoid last minute registration. This will definitely help us to make all necessary arrangements. Professionals who wish to participate in the Conference and are in need of accomodation are requested to let us know the details including date of arrival and departure on following mail : narenderkumar59(a)yahoo.com KINDLY NOTE THE FOLLOWING 1. The Conference is scheduled from 5th to 8th October, 2009. A Pre-Conference Tutorial on Virtual Referencing is scheduled for 5th October, 2009. The inaugural function of the conference will take place on 5th October, 2009, evening. 2. The last date of registration is 30th August, 2009. 3. The registration payment is to be made by local Cheque/ Demand Draft prepared in favour of Registrar, University of Delhi, Payable at Delhi (India). 4. All are requested to register for both the Pre-Conference Tutorial as well as the conference. For further registration details and form please visit: http://crl.du.ac.in/ical09/downloads.htm For details please visit:http://library.du.ac.in/ocs or http://crl.du.ac.in/ical09 For all queries and further details, please contact: ICAL 2009 Conference Secretariat Dr. S. Majumdar, Organising Secretary, ICAL C/o University Librarian, Central Library, University of Delhi New Delhi - 110 007, India Phone - 91-11-27666034, 27667848 Fax - 91-11-27666034 E-mail: ical2009.os(a)gmail.com with regards Rajesh Singh Dy. Librarian E-Resources & Training Central Library University Of Delhi DELHI-110 007 011-27666404, 27667848 http://crl.du.ac.in/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Journal article..
by Dr.Poornima Narayana 20 Aug '09

20 Aug '09

Dear Professionals One of our scientist is in urgent need of an article appearing in "Jl of Thermal Science" (Springer title) with the details: "Shock Wave Induced Separation COntrol by Streamwise VOrtices, R. SZWABA, Vol. 14, No. 3, 2005". Any library/information center subscribing to this particular journal is requested to send the paper, preferably in soft copy at the earliest. Regards Poornima Narayana ------------------------------------------------------------ Dr.Poornima Narayana Fulbright Scholar Contact: 080-25086080/6081(O) Head, ICAST 080-26682781 (R) N.A.L E mail: poornima(a)nal.res.in HAL Airport Road poornima.narayana(a)gmail.com Bangalore 560 017 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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It is great professional loss
by Jagtar Singh 20 Aug '09

20 Aug '09

Though at the end of the day a man is all alone, yet it is great loss to the profession. Such a nice soul's untimely departure is unbearable . May God, the Almighty, give peace to the departed soul and strength to the family members to bear this loss. Jagtar -- Dr. Jagtar Singh, Professor and Head, Department of Library and Information Science, Dean, Faculty of Education and Information Science Punjabi University, Patiala Pin - 147 002 (India) Email: jagtar.kindu(a)gmail.com Tel: +91 (0)175 304 6462 & 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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Request artical
by Pawan Agrawal 20 Aug '09

20 Aug '09

Dear Library Professionals, I need one artical by Akil Bilgrami, "two concepts of secularism, economic and political weekly, 9th July 1994. I could not find link for this articals. If anybody have this artical in e-form please provide me. -- Thanks and Regards Pawan R. Agrawal Assistant Librarian SBSK Medical Institute and Reseach Centre Library Sumandeep Vidyapeeth University At & Post. Piparia. 02668-245264 Ph. 9376135580 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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