- LIS-Forum - ncsi.iisc.ernet.in

Reminder on Dr. TBR Memorial Seminar on Emerging ICT Skills for Information Professionals - 2007
by Maruthu Pandian 26 Oct '07

26 Oct '07

Dear Professionals, This is a gentle reminder about the forthcoming "Dr. TBR Memorial Seminar on Emerging ICT Skills for Information Professionals - 2007", being organized under the aegis of Dr.TBR Memorial by NCSI-Net. This Seminar is being conducted for the benefit of students and young professionals. The response to the seminar is very encouraging. We will be able to accommodate few more students and professionals for the seminar. In view of this, we have extended the deadline for registration till Wednesday, 31 October 2007. The details of the seminar are given below. Seminar Title: Dr. TBR Memorial Seminar on Emerging ICT Skills for Information Professionals - 2007 Date: November 03, 2007 (Saturday) Venue: National Centre for Science Information (NCSI), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore - 560012 Target audience: Students of Library & Information science course or its equivalent & budding information professionals. Seminar coverage: The Seminar is conducted with an intention to create an awareness amongst the students and budding budding information professionals about the latest developments in the information and communication technologies applicable to LIS profession. This year's Seminar will give an overview of Library Automation, open source software for Library Automation, and Open Access resources and tools relevant to information professionals. There will also be a session dealing with career building strategies and job opportunities for LIS professionals. Registration fee: Rs. 150/- for Students and Rs. 200 for budding professionals. Kindly bring this to the attention of the budding professionals and encourage them to attend the seminar. Participation in the seminar will also get an opportunity to interact with professionals working in the industry and academia. For further information, please visit the Seminar website at: http://ncsi-net.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/seminar/index.html Registration form is available at: http://ncsi-net.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/seminar/registration2007.html For further queries, please contact hipandian(a)gmail.com , umpradeep(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

1 0

OCA vs Google & Microsoft
by Mailing List Admin 26 Oct '07

26 Oct '07

Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 06:32:33 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <subbiah.arunachalam(a)gmail.com> *NYU students ask university to join OCA<http://www.earlham.edu/%7Epeters/fos/2007/10/nyu-students-ask-university-to…> * NYU should digitize library content<http://media.www.nyunews.com/media/storage/paper869/news/2007/10/24/Opinion…>, *Washington Square News*, October 24, 2007. An editorial arguing that New York University <http://www.nyu.edu/> should join with the Open Content Alliance <http://www.opencontentalliance.org/>, not the Google Library project <http://print.google.com/googleprint/library.html>, to digitize the books in the NYU library. Excerpt: Since 2004, Google has been making thousands of books available to readers - including college students - online; Microsoft has also joined this effort. Both work with major university and research libraries, covering the costs of book scanning while requesting a non-exclusive agreement in return. Once a library has signed on, its scanned materials become solely accessible through either the Microsoft or Google search engines. The program, which counts universities such as Harvard, Oxford, and Stanford as participants, has recently come under criticism from a non-profit group called the Open Content Alliance. OCA raised concerns voiced by many other libraries: By trusting either Google or Microsoft to scan, store, and allow access to these libraries' content, the public would end up being dependent on the decisions of either corporation. While access is free today, what would stop either company from charging an access fee for its contents tomorrow? The Open Content Alliance, and the like-minded Boston Library Consortium, counters this oligopolist vision by arguing for a consortium of universities and private contributors who would create, finance and manage a similar book-scanning effort. Theoretically, this diffuse membership would prevent the type of unilateral decision-making some fear from Google or Microsoft. This option is not without its costs. While Google and Microsoft scan a library's contents for free, OCA members must pay up to $30 per book. We believe this is a price worth paying....Such a database would better serve all NYU students by saving on research and check-out time while, more significantly, expanding each student's access to content by freeing it from its physical quantity and location.... We recognize that costs must be investigated before NYU can or should commit itself to either system. Whatever the numbers, we urge the administration to digitize NYU's library content. [image: Permanent link to this post]<http://www.earlham.edu/%7Epeters/fos/2007/10/nyu-students-ask-university-to…>Posted by Peter Suber at 10/25/2007 12:28:00 PM.

1 0

OA and the developing countries
by Mailing List Admin 26 Oct '07

26 Oct '07

Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 05:58:04 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <subbiah.arunachalam(a)gmail.com> Friends: Please look up this article on open access and the developing countries by Carolina Rossini. <http://campus.diplomacy.edu/env/scripts/Pool/GetBin.asp?IDPool=3737> Arun

1 0

(no subject)
by sonali odak 25 Oct '07

25 Oct '07

Hello friends, This is Sonali. I have done Master in Library & information Science from Jiwaji University Gwalior(MP). My M.Lib was in Hindi medium, is there any difficulty to do in English medium because I am planning to do PGDLAN through IGNOU or MPHIL in lib sc. Can anybody tell me what is the right path after M.LIb? Can you people help me to take a right decision? Thanks and regards Sonali -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

2 1

Certificate Program in Medical Informatics
by Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy 25 Oct '07

25 Oct '07

I am forwarding in full, a message that I read in medical informatics Course. ======================================================= Certificate Program in Medical Informatics (3rd Batch) Posted by: "eHealth-Care: Software Provider" bimlesh(a)ehealth-care.net Thu Oct 25, 2007 3:23 am (PST) Dear Friends, eHCF School of Medical Informatics, promoted by eHealth-Care Foundation invite you to the distance learning program ( 3rd Batch ) leading to Certificate in Medical Informatics. The course is designed particularly for you by stalwarts in Information Technology and Medicine. If you are a general practitioner and interested in knowing in and out of Information & Communication Technology (ICT) in Medicine and not have the time to give to a full time course - this might be the course that you are looking for. By spending a few hours in 3 months, you tend to get knowledge and certified by a certificate. The course will keep you abreast of advances that affect every day medical process. eHCF School of Medical Informatics has uniquely placed to provide just the right course for the practicing Physician, Surgeons and Paramedicals. Our faculties are engaged in routine day-to-day practice of medicine and Information Technology. The course material contains information tested in the front line and apt to practice situation. We have developed easy to understand format of problem less-oriented approaches, with tele medicine focus. We are looking forward to your active participation for this course. For more details browse link: http://www.ehealth-care.net/medicalinformatics.htm Sincerely, Bimlesh Gautam eHCF School of Medical Informatics =========================== Sent by: Dr P Vyasamoorthy, Society for Serving Seniors 30, Gruhalakshmi Colony, Secunderabad 500015 Phone 27846631 / 94908 04278 http://societyforservingseniors.satyamcsr.org -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

1 0

Internet Resources Newsletter: November Issue
by MacLeod, Roderick A 25 Oct '07

25 Oct '07

____________________________________________ 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/irn156/irn156.html No subscription or registration is needed to access this free, 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 An RSS feed for the newsletter is available: http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn.rss Featured in this issue: Comment Internet Resources Newsletter by email and RSS News items of interest A-Z New & Notable Web Sites: About 100 new and notable good quality websites: new services, ejournals, directories, search engines, publishers, government sites, etexts, booksellers, portals, calls for papers, software, news services, conferences, research groups, etc, etc. Nice Web Site(s): Google Guide Chipwrapper Blogorama Selected interesting blogs, RSS feeds and news items Recent Internet books in the Library Book review: Libraries and Google, edited by William Miller and Rita M Pellen 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 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

1 0

UNITED STATES: DIGITAL RESOURCES:
by KR. Senthil Kumar 25 Oct '07

25 Oct '07

Princeton Public Library - Research Online (Digital Genealogy Collections) http://www.princeto n.lib.nj. us/research/ links/genealogy- digital.html<http://www.princeton.lib.nj.us/research/links/genealogy-digital.html> Digital Libraries Indexes By State or Region A - F G - L M - N O - S T - Z Other Digital Libraries In many cases, you can search for a keyword (title or subject) to find state, county, city, town, church or family histories; directories; government documents; and biographies or autobiographies. American Memory (Library of Congress) Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers (Library of Congress) Digital Quaker Collection (Earlham School of Religion) Documenting the American South (University of North Carolina) Family History Archive (Brigham Young University) Google Books (Author or Title Search) Live Search Books Making of America (Cornell University) Making of America (University of Michigan) Perry-Castaneda Map Collection: Historical Maps (University of Texas) Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection (Cornell University) Useful for clergy, anti-slavery activists, African Americans, local history Their Own Words (Dickinson College) Indexes Library of American Civilization Titles Available Free on the Web (Quinnipiac University) The Online Books Page (University of Pennsylvania) By State or Region, A-Z Be sure to check the state and county sites within the USGenWeb Project and the USGenWeb Archives for any county in which you are doing research. They may contain digitized material or links to it. Alabama ADAH Databases (Alabama Department of Archives & History) Alabama Mosaic Historic Postcards of Alabama Alaska Alaska's Digital Archives Alaska's Gold Lode: A Database of Alaskan Primary Sources Appalachia Appalachian Treasures Gateway Archives of Appalachia Digital Library of Appalachia Arizona Arizona Genealogy Birth and Death Certificates PDF images of the original certificates Arizona State University Libraries Online Collections Hayden Arizona Pioneer Biographies Historical Photograph Collection at the Arizona State Archives Little Cowpuncher: Rural School Newspaper of Southern Arizona Southwest Electronic Text Center (University of Arizona Library) includes Books of the Southwest and selected Journal of Arizona History articles Through Our Parents' Eyes: History & Culture of Southern Arizona California Anne T. Kent California Room (Marin County Free Library) Digitized oral histories, photo albums, maps and more. Calisphere (UC Libraries) Thousands of images and primary source documents, 19th-20th centuries. Digital Anaheim (Anaheim Public Library) Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection Online Archive of California Regional Oral History Office (University of California, Berkeley) Sacramento History Online San Fernando Valley History Digital Library San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection (SF Public Library) San Joaquin Valley & Sierra Foothills Photo Heritage University of California History Digital Archives Includes University of California In Memoriam. Colorado Colorado's Historic Newspaper Collection Colorado Plateau Colorado Plateau Digital Archives Connecticut Colonial Connecticut Records, 1636-1776 Connecticut History Online Quinnipiac's Digitized Connecticut History Books Yale University Manuscripts & Archives Digital Images Database Florida Florida History & Heritage Collection (Florida State University Libraries) Florida Memory Project PALMM: Publication of Archival, Library & Museum Materials Collections range from books and periodicals to the Sanborn Fire Maps for Florida cities. Georgia Digital Library of Georgia Georgia Historic Books Georgia Historic Newspapers The New Georgia Encyclopedia <snip> Also see: Archives and Historical Societies with Online Records http://www.nmgs. org/linkarc. htm <http://www.nmgs.org/linkarc.htm> CoSA - Primary Sources from State Archives http://www.statearc hivists.org/ arc/education/ primsources_ states.htm<http://www.statearchivists.org/arc/education/primsources_states.htm> CoSA - State Archives Collections Online: Directory of Digital Collections, Virtual Exhibits, and State Memory Projects http://www.statearc hivists.org/ arc/education/ online_coll. htm<http://www.statearchivists.org/arc/education/online_coll.htm> -- KR.SENTHIL KUMAR MCA LIBRARIAN KARPAGAM COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING COIMBATORE -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

1 0

Supplying Journal Articles - Does it Violate ( P.S. Manjunatha)
by Manju manju 25 Oct '07

25 Oct '07

Hi, The following website provides a details of Library copyright and fair. http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/l-intro.htm P.S. MANJUNATHA BNMIT SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES BANGALORE -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

1 0

Pronetos-Professor's Network
by Mailing List Admin 25 Oct '07

25 Oct '07

Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:44:18 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <subbiah.arunachalam(a)gmail.com> *Official launch of Pronetos<http://www.earlham.edu/%7Epeters/fos/2007/10/official-launch-of-pronetos.ht…> * Pronetos <http://www.pronetos.com/> ("Professor's Network") has officially launched. From yesterday's announcement <http://blog.pronetos.com/?p=59>: Our development team at OpenSourcery <http://opensourcery.com/> has put the finishing touches on the site, and it's now open for general use!... What you see before you now is just the beginning. In the next 60 days, to augment the community, we will be rolling out some unique publishing tools designed especially around the needs of scholars. First and foremost, these tools reinforce our commitment to Open Access<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access>. In fact, we hope that our members will immediately begin using Pronetos as a global research archive<http://people.ccmr.cornell.edu/%7Eginsparg/blurb/pg00bmc.html>, as Paul Ginsparg has described. The next iteration of Pronetos, due in the next 30 days, will have document versioning and threaded comments. You can already post content to the site, and get comments on it, but the next iteration will be a huge step forward. The community of experts that gathers at Pronetos will be able to peer-review works in any field. And we'll archive that work forever. And we'll never lock your work away in a private subscription database. We want people to see your research. On Pronetos they will.... PS: Pronetos is a combination networking site and repository. I first blogged<http://www.earlham.edu/%7Epeters/fos/2007/05/new-networking-site-and-reposi…>it when it went online in May 2007. [image: Permanent link to this post] <http://www.earlham.edu/%7Epeters/fos/2007/10/official-launch-of-pronetos.ht…>Posted by Peter Suber at 10/24/2007 11:07:00 AM.

1 0

RFID and Libraries
by Krishnan 25 Oct '07

25 Oct '07

I am collecting data on use of RFID technology in the Indian libraries. If your library of if you know of a library using RFID technology, please let me know I would need the name of the library software in use and the name of the vendor from where the library procured RFID system Is it necessary to procure RFID system from the vendor of the library system? What are the compatibility issues? Has any one tried to procured these from two different vendors and integrated the two to get a good system? You may directly respond to me - I will summarize the result for the lis-forum Thanks in advance Krishnan -- Dr. S.Krishnan Head, Information Division National Chemical Laboratory Pashan Road PUNE 411008, INDIA e-mail: s.krishnan(a)ncl.res.in Tel: +91-20-25902650 Fax: +91-20-25902850 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

1 0