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Suddden and Sad Demise of Dr. Gayatri Mohapatra
by db_ramesh＠yahoo.com 06 Apr '09

06 Apr '09

Dear LIS Professionals, Dr. Gayatri Mohapatra, HOD, Department of Library & Information Science, Utkal University, Orissa passed away on 4th April 2008 at Cuttack by a massive heart attack at Cuttack. I know Madam Mohapatra for the last two decades. She was a very sincere, straight forward and helpful professional. Her sudden and demise is a great loss to our LIS profession and especially to the Department of Library & Information Science, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar. May the departed soul rest in peace. D. B. Ramesh -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Walk In Interview
by Dr Divya Srivastava 06 Apr '09

06 Apr '09

Pl put up on the Forum site. Candidates are invited for a walk in Interview on 17th April 09, at 2.00 pm, at Indian Council of Medical Research’s Head Quarter’s with CV on plain paper for the following *purely temporary* *post** *of Research Scientist I: Consolidated Salary (per month)—Rs 15,760/-under the DST Project “*Preparation of Directory of Indian Science & Technology (including Medical) Journals*” for *only one year* * * Post No1- Essential Qualification-- First Class Master degree (Life/Biological Sciences) Desirable Qualification-- Master in Library & Information Science (MLIS)). Post No 2- Essential Qualification---First Class Master degree (MCA / MSc in Computer Science) Desirable Qualification-- Experience in developing software, utility Programmes and data processing. Dr (Mrs) Divya Srivastava Scientist "E" Division of Publication & Information Indian Council of Medical Research (HQ) New Delhi 110029 Phone: 011 26588344 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Sad demise of Dr. Gayatri Mahapatra
by sushanta kumar pathy 06 Apr '09

06 Apr '09

Dear Professional,I expressed my feelings for the untimely sad demise of Dr. Gayatri Mohaptra and pray to god for peace of her soul. Though I did not get opportunity to meet her, I learnt/ heard a lot from the professionals. I wish all our professionals to pray for her soul.Rgds,Sushanta Sushanta Kumar Pathy Head Librarian In-Charge Resource Centre National Institute of Fashion Technology, Ministry of Textiles, Govt. of India Gandhinagar, Gujarat(INDIA) Ph. 079-23241849(Off) 09898162677 (M) http://www.gandhinagar.nift.ac.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Sad demise of Gayatri Madam
by Dr.B.Sahoo 06 Apr '09

06 Apr '09

The sad demise of Dr. Gayatri Mohapatra, my first teacher in my library science career is definitely a great loss to the profession specially to Dept. of LIb & Inf. Science , Utkal University. I am extremly sorry and I could not belive the news, when I got the through LIS Forum by Dr. Basudev mohanty our professional collegue. I lost my great teacher. O' God ! Banambar Sahoo Dr. B. Sahoo, MLIS, Ph.D Asst. Lib & Inf. officer Regional Medical Research Centre (ICMR) Chandrasekharpur, Bhubaneswar Tel: 0674-2301412, Fax: 2301351 Email: sahoo(a)icmr.org.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Sad Demise of Dr. Gayatri Mohapatra, HOD, LIS, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar
by Basudev Mohanty 06 Apr '09

06 Apr '09

Dear Professional Friends, We are very sad to inform you that our beloved Mam' Dr. Gayatri Mohapatra, HOD, Department of Library & Information Science, Utkal University, Orissa passed away on 4th April 2008 at Cuttack on her way to hospital by a massive heart attack. Mam' was an outstanding library professional and information science teacher in India. Her professional colleagues at Utkal University with other information professionals, research fellows, students and relatives paid tribute to Mam, who was cremated with at the Swargadwara, Puri on 5th April 2008 afternoon. It is indeed a great loss our profession. May the departed soul rest in peace on eternity. Basudev Mohanty ______________________________________________________________ Librarian | Infosys Technologies Limited | Bhubaneswar, Orissa Library VOIP: 674 30 71415 / 71363 | M: 9437132870 **************** CAUTION - Disclaimer ***************** This e-mail contains PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION intended solely for the use of the addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender by e-mail and delete the original message. Further, you are not to copy, disclose, or distribute this e-mail or its contents to any other person and any such actions are unlawful. This e-mail may contain viruses. Infosys has taken every reasonable precaution to minimize this risk, but is not liable for any damage you may sustain as a result of any virus in this e-mail. You should carry out your own virus checks before opening the e-mail or attachment. Infosys reserves the right to monitor and review the content of all messages sent to or from this e-mail address. Messages sent to or from this e-mail address may be stored on the Infosys e-mail system. ***INFOSYS******** End of Disclaimer ********INFOSYS*** -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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IMPLEMENTATION OF KOHA IN SCHOOL LIBRARIES
by soumi sanyal 05 Apr '09

05 Apr '09

DEAR PROFESSIONALS; Iam a school librarian working in Apeejay school,Salt Lake, Kolkata. Iam happy to inform that open source software Koha has proved to be a boon to me.Without investing a huge amount of money I have successfully implemented Koha for developing a complete integrated library system.Its easy to use and there is ample scope for modification according to your needs.School libraries should come forward and participate in this open source movement as its the only way to automate your library without spending a penny.Besides this school libraries can serve its future learners more effectively and provide them the feel of automation which they will normally feel in public, college and university libraries. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Long-term preservation of Open Access Journals secured
by Charu 05 Apr '09

05 Apr '09

Respected Friends, Greetings for the day, The Directory of Open Access Journal (DOAJ), Lund University Libraries, Sweden and the e-Depot of the National Library of the Netherlands (KB) announced on 3rd April 2009 the start of a cooperation in order to secure long-term preservation of open access journals. The Swedish Library Association is generously acting as sponsor. In order to secure long-term preservation of open access journals on 3rd April 2009 The Directory of Open Access Journal (DOAJ) - Lund University Libraries, Sweden and the e-Depot of the National Library of the Netherlands (KB) announced the start of a collaboration. This is sposonred by Swedish Library Associaitons. For further details please visit the following link: http://openlink-charu.blogspot.com/ Regards, Miss Charu Mathur, Delhi. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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NewGenLib on Windows Vista
by N.S. Harinarayana 04 Apr '09

04 Apr '09

In the wonderful workshop recently concluded at the Department of Library and Information Science, University of Mysore, Mysore, there was a problem of installing NewGenLib on Windows vista platform. I am sure that the NewGenLib developers are working on this issue. In the meanwhile, if any one has already solved the problem and come out with some solution, I would like to know about it. -- N.S. Harinarayana Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore, Manasagangotri Mysore 570 006 Off. Ph: (0821) 2419393 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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UGC mandatory qualification
by rajendra kumar panda 04 Apr '09

04 Apr '09

Dear listed members, Adding to recent discussion of UGC qualification for the post of Asstt. Librarian in college and university or similar grades in non academic library, UGC NET/SET qualification should be mandatory (according my opinion) to maintain the quality of service and job, NET/SET exams are higher standard in quality, there is no question of partiality and petting towards candidates, the met question papers are set by chosen top most LIS people and evaluation method is similar too. Besides one’s subject knowledge candidates must have general ability to think scientifically and logically to respond an environment judiciously and rationally. The functional credibility of some of Indian universities is well known to most of us. It is not much difficult to obtain M.Phill / Ph.D degree. In this process always there is nepotism and favoritism prevails. On other side, there are plenty of evidence people with having first class careers could not qualify LIS all India written tests conducted by various govt. bodies and most of the Govt appointed LIS professionals working in various top level positions are directly appointed on the basis of career and qualification marks. Since last two decades, there are hearing of dithering between UGC NET/SET relax and mandatory. Knowledge Commission of India is also suggested in favour of essentiality. I think every LIS people should prove their credentials by qualifying highest body exams. thanks -- R.K.Panda Librarian Kendriya Vidyalaya -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Scrutinizing LIS-Forum posting
by Baban Chavan 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

Respected, Dr.Gaudar I Fully agree with you sentiments. It is realy a troublsome job for moderator to go through the posting by members if it is not relevent & therefore every professional should always take care while posting their messages, as the professionals not from india but also from abroad reads the messages. However ,some of our people having a good contents but not written in good English or badly written shold not be ignored as we are non English people and even some professionals are not having English as their medium of instructions upto M.L.I.S. stage so they are poor in English.Therefore these type of messages must be cosidered with moderators editing and approval as there may be regional impact due to regional languges. With regards Baban Chavan Librarain Sangamner College Sangamner Maharashtra.422605 babanchavan(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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