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Free online publications on Social Science (Corruption) from Transperancy International
by Kshirod 26 Jun '08

26 Jun '08

Dear Professional, Transparency International, the global civil society organisation leading the fight against corruption, brings people together in a powerful worldwide coalition to end the devastating impact of corruption on men, women and children around the world. TI's mission is to create change towards a world free of corruption. For the publications list please click on the following link: http://www.transparency.org/publications/publications/subject -- Kshirod Das National Institute of Technology Roukela Rourkela-769 008, Orissa -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Library Building for Central Power Research Institute
by Rakesh Singh 25 Jun '08

25 Jun '08

> Dear Smt Deshpande and Fellow LIC Professionals, > (copying my response to everybody to start the discussion on this topic) > I don't have ready access to the standard IS:1553, but have read it before. > It says that the library should be located at a place which has some scope > for enlargement, etc. etc... However, I am sure, it would have been written > in an era before the Wifi. I am not sure, if your library is wifi, but it > will definitely become one in the next 2-3 years. You must be wondering, why > I am referring to wifi while discussing Library. Because I believe that wifi > has given a boost to the place called library and information centre. I > believe library to be a place which can spark ideas to be discussed later. > Sitting in the library, if you come up with an idea, there should be a place > immediately outside the library where you can go and discuss it with the > colleauges / friends. And if required, come back and do some more research. > Therefore, I have no objection in the LIC being next door the cafe (provided > your LIC is AC and therefore sound proof and therefore the cafe noise will > not disrupt the purpose of LIC). I see the cafe becoming an extension of the > LIC. In my experience, it is not difficult to implement the 'Eatables not > Allowed' rule. > > > > Gone are the days, when people were coming to the Library for information. > Information is spread everywhere on the net, which is searchable via google > search (Scholar, books, etc.). But I see library more of a place of idea > generation and getting good leads to look for quality information. Most of > the time you get information on the Net and therefore it is essential that > the library should be wifi and therefore create a place and provide an > unique experience where the users can go through the actual books and scroll > through the information on the net (more and more people now own Laptop with > wifi capability. In the next couple of years, every reader will have a > laptop). Books have to live with the information available on Internet and > therefore should be capable of delivering more than the information. > > > > Therefore, I think, you should fight for > > · putting some computers in the library not only to search the > catalogue but to surf internet (chatting strictly prohibited, your server > administrator can implement this rule) > > · all the tables should have electricity points where people can > connect their laptops, cell phones, etc. These days even cell phone have > internet browsing capabilities and people are more adept in using the cell > phone, even while searching for information (REMEMBER iphone popularity is > not because it makes good phone calls but because internet browsing is a > pleasure on iphone) > > · The inside layout should be done in a way that it does not > resemble an archives but a modern library and information centre. Don't > trust the architects, they have weird ideas about the libraries; do get > involved in planning the internal design of the library. > > · The office space of the librarian should be accessible to the > users. He should be more of an accessible person rather than one sitting in > the office closed from all four sides. > > > > Regarding the standard IS… which says that library should have scope for > enlargement - gone are the days when more books meant more space required; > now more internet usage puts the question – 'Why do you need more library > space when everything is available on net?" > > > > With apologies to those who do not agree with me, > Best regards, > > Rakesh Singh > > New Delhi > > > > > > On 6/24/08, *lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in* < > lis-forum-request(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> wrote: > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:28:57 +0530 > From: "Vijayalakshmi" <vrd(a)cpri.in> > Subject: [LIS-Forum] library building - reg > To: <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> > Cc: mail2all(a)cpri.in > Message-ID: <000d01c8d506$fe804b80$021c10ac(a)library.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Dear Sir, > > Central Power Research Institute, Bangalore is building a building for > Library and Information Centre above the canteen. > > The question is > > 1. Where should be library building located? > 2. Whether above the canteen or centrally located in > a separate building considering points mentioned in the > standard IS:1553? > > Kindly enlighten me in this regad. > > (Smt. V.R.DESHPANDE) > SENIOR LIBRARIAN > LIBRARY AND INFORMATION CENTRE, > CENTRAL POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE, > P.B.NO.8066, SADASHIVANAGAR POST, > BANGALORE - 560 080 > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > > -- Rakesh Singh U15/45 FF, Pink Town House DLF Phase III Gurgaon, Haryana -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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information
by pawan sharma 25 Jun '08

25 Jun '08

Dear Professional i am confused in AICTE-Norms. acc to AICTE norms at the time of opening a institution we requires 150 titles with 1000 volumes but after that if we required more copies for the same title than in that condition no information is their. acutally in my library we have more than 15 copies of a single title and now we are in the processes for accredation for a deemed university and i think at the time of acredation we face some problems. with regard *Pawan Kumar Sharma* *Dy. Librarian* *ITM Universe* * * -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Need information on eligibility and scale
by Dayanand Kamble 25 Jun '08

25 Jun '08

Dear All, I want the exact information (with concerened GR if possible) on the elegibility criteria for all library posts (i. e. Librarian, Asst. Librarian, Library Assistant and Library Attendent) and their respective grade scale for collge library as per AICTE and University Rules. please give me the exact information if possible with GR proof. thank u. Dayanand Kamble Librarian Indira School of Business Studies Wakad, Pune kamblelibrarian(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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Books Write -off Rule
by IES Library 25 Jun '08

25 Jun '08

Dear All, I want the exact rule for the Write-off of the missing books . After how many Stock verification it is permissible to write them off. please give me the exact principle. thank u. Madhura Deodhar Librarian IES Management College Opp. Lilavati Hospital, Bandra Reclamation Bandra West M-50 library.mcrc(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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Recruitment: Applications for Teaching Positions :Bundelkhand University, kanpur
by sri priya 25 Jun '08

25 Jun '08

Recruitment: Applications for Teaching Positions for Reader and Lecturer For more details see this link: http://www.bujhansi.org/_recru/recru_home.html Application - Pdf: http://www.bujhansi.org/_recru/_pdf/Adv_01June08.pdf Regards, S.Sripriya -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Re- OAI-PMH
by Mailing List Admin 25 Jun '08

25 Jun '08

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: 24 Jun 2008 10:09:39 -0000 From: manoj kumar pant <manojpant2(a)rediffmail.com> This is some of the articles on OAI PMH However article by is Lynch, Clifford is very good for more technical aspec= ts you can follow the bibliographic references . Carl Lagoze and Herbert Van de Sompel (2001). "The Open Archives Initiative= : Building a Low-Barrier Interoperability Framework". Proceedings of the fi= rst ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL'01): 54-62. Lynch, Clifford A. (2001). "Metadata harvesting and the open archives initi= ative". ARL Bimonthly Report 217. Frank McCown, Xiaoming Liu, Michael L. Nelson and Mohammed Zubair (March/Ap= ril 2006). "Search Engine Coverage of the OAI-PMH Corpus". IEEE Internet Co= mputing 10 (2): 66=9673. Herbert Van de Sompel and Carl Lagoze (2000). "The Santa Fe Convention of t= he Open Archives Initiative". D-Lib Magazine 6 (2). doi:10.1045/february200= 0-vandesompel-oai. Herbert Van de Sompel, Jeffrey A. Young, and Thomas B. Hickey (2003). "Usin= g the OAI-PMH ... Differently". D-Lib Magazine 9 (7/8). doi:10.1045/10.1045= /july2003-young (inactive 2008-06-21).

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Institutional Repository Questionnaire with a humble request...
by Rupak Chakravarty 25 Jun '08

25 Jun '08

Dear Repository Managers and Administrators (INDIA), I'm Rupak Chakravarty, Lecturer-cum-Assistant Librarian at theDepartment of Library & Information Science, Panjab University,Chandigarh. I'm doing PhD onthe topic "Open Access Institutional Repositories: role of University Libraries in India". To collect data I have prepared a questionnaire. I most humbly request you to fill it. The questionnaire is available online at: http://creator.zoho.com/rupakzoho/research-survey OR http://creator.zoho.com/rupakzoho/research-survey/form/3/ (if the link does not works initially, please refresh) May I also request you to upload (email attachment.) any document whichyou think can add value to my research work (the upload optionavailable in the questionnaire is not working). For collectingadditional data, I'll use the databases available online including theIndian IRs. I understand that you will have to spare time form your hecticschedule but it is my humble request, please help me as without thisdata, I'll unable to complete my research work. Please feel free tomake any suggestion to add value to my study. After filling the online questionnaire please press the submitbutton. The data filled by you will arrive at my inbox directly. Thequestionnaire contains 83 questions and at the outset my seem lengthy,but being online and all the options available (radio button, dropdown,multiselect etc), it will take much lesser time. As you press the submit button, the date will come to me. Thank you for all your help and kindness. Thank you for finding time for me. Regards Rupak Chakravarty Lecturer-cum-Assistant Librarian Department of Library & Information Science Panjab University, Chandigarh - 160014 INDIA Website: http://libsc.puchd.ac.in Phone # (0172) 2700459(R) (0172) 2534775(O) 9217133380(M) Email: rupak2811(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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Info about PGDLAN Course
by Narayan Barse 25 Jun '08

25 Jun '08

* * * * *Dear professionals,* *As you know, libraries have evolved from being a collection of chained books to Networked Multimedia Learning Resource Centres accessible 24 X 7, disregard of physical boundaries. Library Science education has tried to be in tune with the changing time. But the pace is not matching with that of technology. * * * *It is observed that the Library and Information Science syllabus being taught at the Indian universities has its limitations as far as ICT component is concerned, as technology keeps on changing very fast. However, on the other hand, the need for the professionals having ICT skills is ever increasing in modern libraries and information centers. * * * *In view the above, The Department of Library and Information Science, Joshi-Bedekar College, Thane is happy to announce an autonomous course leading to the Post-Graduate Diploma in Library Automation and Networking (PGDLAN). This is a proactive effort to bridge the knowledge gap. It is an attempt to develop a band of technology savvy librarians to take on new challenges. Please visit * *http://www.vpmthane.org/prospect%202006/Prospectus_of_PGDLAN.htm*<http://www.vpmthane.org/prospect%202006/Prospectus_of_PGDLAN.htm> * to see the course content and online application .* * * *This initiative is aimed at working librarians in and around the city of Mumbai and Thane. Please depute or nominate your library staff for the PGDLAN course. The course is designed to empower library staff to introduce new state-of-the-art information services in your library.* * * *With Regards.* * *-- Barse N. S. Librarian and Coordinator Department of Lib & Information Science VPM's Joshi-Bedekar College 'Janadweep' Chendani, Bundar Rd, Thane (West) Pin- 400601 MS, India =========================== Phone No: 022 25384591 Cell :09969051287 =========================== -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Educate us on Firefox Plugins
by Rajan 24 Jun '08

24 Jun '08

Dear Shri Sukhdev Singh, It would be useful for many, if you point out the Mozilla Firefox Plugins that are of much use to librarians. 'Stumble upon' and 'Zotero' are the two Plugins I am familiar with. Those who are so familiar with the emerging technologies and learn them easily, can educate the fellow librarians in developing their capabilities, as Mr Vimal Kumar helped us learn installing PMB, by using the Lis- Forum as a tool. Best Regards, K Rajasekharan Librarian, Kerala Institute of Local Administration(KILA) Mulagunnathukavu, Thrissur - 680581 On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Sukhdev Singh <esukhdev(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Friends,> > Just to share a news with you. > Firefox 3 has been released yesterday. It can be download from > http://mozilla.com . There are number of useful Plug-ins available for > it. Because of these plug-ins, Firefox is my favourite and default > internet browser.> > -- Sukhdev Singh, NIC. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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