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Re: [LIS-Forum] Koha 2.2.9 has been released
by vimal kumar 10 May '07

10 May '07

Open source software and Indian libraries I think open source ILS like Koha not popular in India because the lack of awareness and technical expertise in installation and maintenance. Koha still now its developing stage and now more suitable for small libraries. PMB (www.sigb.net) is another well featured open source ILS, but its website still in French language. Open source library software projects are highly relying with library professionals and users to its error fixing, suggestions for new features, documentation and translation. They already succeeded in the build of basic functional modules and features essential for a library management system. In the current state, the open source automation systems offer only promise and potential and are not yet a viable option for a run-of-the-mill library. In the present situation small libraries are the main users of open source library management systems. Most of the libraries in India do not have the in-house expertise to support library automation softwares, and also dont have the ability to train staff on the use of the new technologies. Software service agencies and professionals are needed to come forward for the implementation and ongoing support of open source software solutions in libraries. Our libraries still approaching the small commercial ILS vendors for library automation. In many instances they failed to provide ongoing services and updates. Lack of open standards in commercial ILS makes problems while conversion and export of bibliographic data. SOUL is to be adapt the features of 4th generation ILS. Our LIS schools and professional organizations are still follows the head in sand approach towards awareness and training in open source softwares useful in libraries. Indian Government can try to frame an open source policy to encourage the use of open source software in academic institutions and libraries same as in the model of UK government (http://www.govtalk.gov.uk/policydocs/policydocs_document.asp?docnum=905) Vimal Kumar Asst. Librarian Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 www.asb.edu.in/vimal --------------------------------- Ahhh...imagining that irresistible "new car" smell? Check outnew cars at Yahoo! Autos. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Need to Promote free library software
by Rajan 10 May '07

10 May '07

Dear Mr Manjunath, It would be better if you collect the list of libraries that uses other freely availble library packages like Weblis etc and publish it under different categories with the contact details of the persons well versed with the software so that anyone can get the expertise easily or clarify the doubts easily. It seems that we should identify volunteers who would have an inclination to help other libraries to install and overcome initial issues. The volunteers should charge only travel and other minimal expenses from institutions that cannot pay much. There would be at least some who have interest to propagate IT applications by this way. We can bring more libraries under the fold of IT applications, if someone could facilitates this work a little further. Best Regards, K Rajasekharan Librarian , Kerala Institute of Local Administration Mulagunnathukavu, Thrissur -680581 Ph 0487- 2204097 (O), 2201428 ( R) Message: 3 Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 17:30:36 +0530 (India Standard Time) From: "G.K.MANJUNATH" <gkm(a)igidr.ac.in> Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Koha 2.2.9 has been released To: vimal kumar <vimal0212(a)yahoo.com> Cc: LIS Forum <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Message-ID: <Pine.WNT.4.64.0705081727120.1228@gkm> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed I would like to know, how many libraries in India are successfully using all the modules of Koha or this software still remains a topic of academic interest. I will compile a list of such libraries and experts in this area and host it from our site. thanks G.K.Manjunath Chief Librarian Indira Gandhi Inst of Development Research Film City Road Santosh Nagar Goregaon(East ) MUMBAI - 400 065 Phone: 28416544 On Tue, 8 May 2007, vimal kumar wrote: > > Koha 2.2.9 has been released and available for download from > > http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/koha/koha-2.2.9.tar.gz -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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JRF need help for Ph D
by Apurba Jyoti Majumder 10 May '07

10 May '07

> > I have qualified for JRF in recently published NET results. i want to > do research in the area "internet & LIS" or related areas like "consortia or > internet based library services". i need help for choice of suitable topic and interested guide. Apurba jyoti Majumder Gauhati University apurbajyoti(a)gmail.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Useful Links : Search Engines
by Muniraj. T 10 May '07

10 May '07

Dear Professionals, This is a Services based on metadata that is harvested using the OAI metadata harvesting protocol. Service Implementer Description Protocol versions Arc (source) Old Dominion University A federated search services based on metadata harvested from several OAI compliant repositories. Uses JDK1.4, Tomcat 4.0x, and a RDBMS server (e.g. Oracle, MySQL). 1.1, 2.0 Avano, a marine and aquatic sciences OAI harvester (template) Bibliothèque La Pérouse Avano is an OAI harvester that offers a central access to electronic resources about marine and aquatic sciences (aquaculture, fisheries, geosciences, biology, water pollution...). The resources are harvested from several Open Archives, including from non-specialized marine repositories. 1.1, 2.0 BASE: Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (template) Bielefeld University Library BASE integrates scientific OAI-resources as one information type among others into the local digital library environment, together with catalogues, article databases, and digitised collections. The search interface features many characteristics of internet search engines, thus offers a new type of search interface for a local digital library. BASE uses the search technology of FAST Search & Transfer. To learn more about the project see http://www.base-search.net/about_project_english.html 1.1, 2.0 Callima (template) infoball Callima is a search engine for scientific articles from various subject areas and sources. It provides a single point of access to a significant number of Open Archives. 1.1, 2.0 Cross Archive Search Services for Indian Repositories (CASSIR) (template) National Centre for Science Information (NCSI), Indian Institute of Science , Bangalore This service is a part of the ongoing project "Development of OAI-Based Institutional Research Repository Services in India ", sponsored by Department of Scientific & Industrial Research, Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India. This project is being carried out at National Centre for Science Information (NCSI), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore . The service will harvest metadata as per the OAI-PMH protocol from the registered OA repositories in India . The coverage of the service is Science, Engineering, Technology, Medicine etc. 1.1, 2.0 citebaseSearch (template) Southampton University The citebase Search service provides users with the facility for searching across multiple archives with results ranked according to many criteria, such as creation date and citation impact. 1.1, 2.0 Clio-i Service Provider of Science Documents (template) Liber Laboratory, UFPE, Brazil The Clio-i is a system to colect informations from anywhere repository which follow the OAI-PMH protocol. It can havester complete documents, offering simple and advanced search engine, document visualization, use of video, audio, text, and image archives for the users. In this case, it colect information about science from OAI repositories. 1.1, 2.0 colLib (template) colLib A collaborative platform for organizing Open Access materials in Library & Information Science (LIS). colLib harvests metadata-records from OAI-PMH-compliant repositories and enables manual 'tagging' of these records to cluster them by subject or other meaningful categories. Tags are represented by pages in a wiki, that can be annotated with links to related tags, external links and any other text deemed relevant. 1.1, 2.0 CYCLADES (template) European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) CYCLADES is a system, designed to provide an open collaborative virtual archive environment, which (among others) supports users, communities (and their members) with functionality for (i) advanced SEARCH in large, heterogeneous, multidisciplinary OAI compliant digital archives (ii) COLLABORATIVE work; and (iii) FILTERING and RECOMMENDATION of records, users, communities and collections. CYCLADES allows users to register any OAI archive to CYCLADES , which then will be automatically harvested and indexed. 1.1, 2.0 digitAlexandria digitAlexandria The digitAlexandria is a cross-platform system, composed by a set of very handy and fast tools, designed for building digital archives of any complexity, from the personal archive of a single researcher up to the repository of a big institution, such as a University or Research Centrer. It is based on a peer to peer network and is compatible with the Open Archives Protocol. 2.0 Directory and OAI Harvester (template) Ministerio de Cultura de España (Ministry of Culture of Spain ) Two diferent applications. On one side, a Directory about the projects and initiatives of digitalization existing in Spain . On the other side, a Harvester of the same records gathered from some of those databases and that can be consulted jointly the web address of these will always be provided to a ccess the digitized document, by using Metadata harvesting techniques. 1.1,2.0 DL-Harvest University of Arizona DL-Harvest is a federated archive, a service of DLIST. It brings together full-text, scholarly materials in the Information Sciences from many different OAI-PMH compliant repositories. 2.0 DP9 (template) Old Dominion University DP9 is an open source gateway service that allows general search engines, like Google, to index OAI-compliant archives. It stands between the crawler and the archive, intercepts the crawler's requests, forwards them to the archive, and translates the archive's output from XML into HTML. This allows OAI archives hidden in the deep Internet to be indexed by search engines that don't venture into the deep internet. DP9 also supports OAI name resolution and service linking. 1.1, 2.0 GEO-LEO (template en, de) Lower Saxony State and University Library Göttingen (SUB) and the University Library "Georgius Agricola" of the Technische Universitt Bergakademie Freiberg (UBF) The Virtual Library GEO-LEO (www.geo-leo.org) offers searching and browsing in about 6 million earth sciences and mining related bibliograhphic records. GEO-LEO is also a Service Provider harvesting repositories with the above mentioned thematic content. The GEO-LEO Web-Interface allows a one stop retrieval and access to full textes from repositories, librarian catalogues and other databases. GEO-LEO and GEO-LEOe-docs are performed by the Lower Saxony State and University Library Göttingen (SUB) and the University Library "Georgius Agricola" of the Technische Universitt Bergakademie Freiberg (UBF). The Project is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). 1.1, 2.0 iCite (template) iCite An automatic citation indexing system covering physics journals. 2.0 MeIND (template) Hochschulbibliothekszentrum des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen The Service-Provider covers all subjects form different data-providers in Germany . The Pub-Types include doctoral theses, diploma, articles, magazines and digitised materials. 2.0 METALIS (template) AEPIC Project METALIS is a Service Provider for the Library and Information Science field. We harvest metadata from institutions that offer full-text papers and documents about Library and Information Science 2.0 NCSTRL (template) Old Dominion University University of Virginia Virginia Tech NCSTRL provides unified access to technical reports and eprints from computer science departments, institutes and laboratories. This is an OAI-based implementation of the NCSTRL project (see Davis & Lagoze, JASIS 51(3) for a full history of the original NCSTRL project). This version replaces the Dienst architecture and protcol with the OAI metadata harvesting protocol. 1.1, 2.0 OAIster University of Michigan Libraries Digital Library Production Service OAIster provides a search service on OAI archives. You can learn more about a particular institution's collection at oaister.umdl.umich.edu/viewcolls.html. 1.1, 2.0 OASIC (template) CCSD OASIC is a search engine for french articles, memories and thesis in Communication and Information Sciences. It provides a single point of access to a significant number of Open Archives in these areas. 2.0 Openarchives.eu (template) Horizons Unlimited srl ( Bologna , Italy ) Openarchives.eu is the European guide to OAI-PMH compliant digital repositories in the world. This is not a search engine to find metadata stored in the repositories but a searchable index of the repositories themselves. This portal uses repositories and collection descriptions harvested from the University of Illinois OAI-PMH Data Provider Registry. The search engine and other editorial contents that complete the originary database have been developed by Horizons Unlimited srl (Bologna, Italy) A section on "Digital Objects" allows metadata searching through a number of other service providers (OAIster, arXiv, RePEc, CiteSeer, NCSTRL, PubMed Central, Pleiadi). We also offer Google searching of all the repositories' web sites through Google Co-op. 1.0, 1.1, 2.0 Perseus (template) Perseus The Perseus system harvests registered OAI repositories and incorporates the information into its search interface. 1.1, 2.0 Public Knowledge Harvester (template) U. of British Columbia Discipline-specific OAI metadata harvesting service. 1.1, 2.0 PLEIADI: Portale per la Letteratura scientifica Elettronica Italiana su Archivi aperti e Depositi Istituzionali (template) The CASPUR and CILEA cosortia PLEIADI project aims at building a national platform that offers centralized access to the scholarly literature archived in Italian repositories. 2.0 Repository Explorer Virginia Tech An interactive, web-based tool to test repositories for compliancy with various levels of the Open Archives Initiative Protocol. 1.0, 1.1, 2.0 SAIL-Eprints (template) CNR - Area della Ricerca di Bologna SAIL-eprints (Search, Alert, Impact and Link) is an electronic open access service provider for finding scientific or technical documents, published or unpublished, in Chemistry, Physics, Engineering, Materials Sciences, anotechnologies, Microelectronics, Computer Sciences, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Earth Sciences, Meteorology, Oceanography, Agriculture, and related application activities. SAIL-eprints has been designed primarily to collect information on scientific documents (metadata) authored by CNR researchers and deposited as preprints or postprints in CNR institutional open access archives. Also, SAIL-eprints collects metadata from other data repositories all over the world publishing materials in the same scientific fields. 2.0 ScientificCommons (template) ScientificCommons The major aim of the project is to develop a communication medium for scientific knowledge products which are freely accessible to the public. A key objective is to support the Open Access movement and the rapidly growing number of electronic publication archives that admit to the free distribution and access to scientific knowledge. In order to provide more insides within the scientific community and to leverage the retrieval of individually relevant publications for each user, relationships between publications and authors are explored. Therefore ScientificCommons.org identifies authors across the available archives and across disciplinary, institutional and technological boundaries making social and professional relationships of the authors transparent and visible to anyone. More then six million authors have been extracted (March 2007) forming more then 23 million author publication relations. These relationships enable the creation of author profiles including an almost complete publication list, information about the publication period and the related co-authors. Furthermore a citation extraction of the full text documents allows the creation of even more relations between the publication and authors. 2.0 Scirus (template) Scirus Scirus distinguishes itself from existing search engines by concentrating on scientific content only and by searching both web and (often proprietary) databases. Scirus' aim is to provide scientists with one comprehensive search platform covering both the web and the normally "invisible" databases. Scirus now harvests Open Archives data. 1.1, 2.0 Sheet Music Consortium (template) UCLA The Sheet Music Consortium is a group of libraries working toward the goal of building an open collection of digitized sheet music using the Open Archives Initiative:Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. Harvested metadata about sheet music in participating collections is hosted by the UCLA Digital Library Program, which provides an access service via this metadata to sheet music records at the host libraries. Member institutions and data providers have chosen to catalog their sheet music in different ways, but a very large proportion of the original sheets in participating collections has been digitized, allowing users direct access to the music itself and - in many cases - covers and advertisements that offer evidence of the cultural context in which the songs were published. 2.0 SuUB Bremen State and University Library Bremen The State and University Library Bremen - Germany offers a library catalogue called SuUB Bremen , where selected OAI-data providers are included. The search engine delivers record about localized library ressources of print and electronic materials (books, journals, doctoral thesis, articles, magazines, reports, etc.). Data-providers include: arXiv.org, bieSOn, Humboldt University of Berlin, Australian National University EPrints2 Archive, Elektronische Publikationen der Universität München, Münster University , Oldenburg University , PANGAEA, Library of Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bibliotheksservice-Zentrum Baden-Württemberg, BioMed Centra, and PubMed Central. 2.0 TORII (template) International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste , Italy Unified access to various open archives (Physics and Computer Science). Filtering and advanced searching. Personalization. For more information, see the TIPS consortium web pages at http://tips.sissa.it Regards, MUNIRAJU.T Department of Library and Information Science. t_muniraj(a)yahoo.co.in http://muniraj.t.googlepages.com/ http://www.lisresearch.blogspot.com/ --------------------------------- Heres a new way to find what you're looking for - Yahoo! 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Vacancy - please go through my comments too
by rupesh kumar 10 May '07

10 May '07

Details of Vacancy Position Vacant: Librarian Company Name BASE Company Profile: Training and Consultancy Services in Education Job Description: To manage library having more than 4000 technical books Desired Profile : Candidates with previous experience of managing library. Should have basic knowledge of computers. Should be dedicated and willing to work hard. Minimum Experience: 14 years Maximum Experience: 20 years Industry Type: Education / Training / Teaching Functional Area: Teaching / Education Annual Salary: Librarians with experience residing around Basavanagudi preferred Location : Bangalore Education: UG - Any Graduate - Any Specialization PG - Post Graduation Not Required Keywords : LIbrary, Librarian Contact Information Name Shankar..... Email careers(a)base-education.co.in Telephone 91-080-26620442 Website http://www.base-education.co.in Address: BASE 27, Bull Temple Road Basavangudi Bangalore - Karnataka ,IN 560004 Job Posted on naurkri.com on 09 May 2007 ==================================================== My Comments: BASE is one of the best institutions offering quality education to lakhs of students in Bangalore. But, if you see the required qualification here in this Ad, one (a layman) is most likely to get a feeling that there's no need to have a qualified person for managing a library. It is at this point where I have an objection. If institutions like BASE do not give due importance in employing qualified staff for library, how can one expect other similar institutions to do it? Anticipating your comments... Thanks & Regards, Rupesh Kumar A Department of Library & Information Science Bangalore University a_rupeshkumar(a)yahoo.com http://lislog.blogspot.com http://a.rupeshkumar.googlepages.com --------------------------------- Ahhh...imagining that irresistible "new car" smell? Check outnew cars at Yahoo! Autos. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Information and Knowledge Management (IKM) TRAINEES, NCSI
by Francis Jayakanth 10 May '07

10 May '07

Dear Member: Please find below a copy of the advertisement for the next batch of IKM training programme offered by NCSI, IISc. - Francis NCSI, IISc NATIONAL CENTRE FOR SCIENCE INFORMATION (NCSI) INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE BANGALORE- 560012 REQUIRES Information and Knowledge Management (IKM) TRAINEES No. of positions: 11 [GEN-5, OBC-2, SC-1 and Sponsored Candidates-03] Advt. No.R(IB)008-4/2007. Minimum Qualifications: 1. A Bachelor's Degree with at least First Class in any subject followed by a 2 year Post-Graduate degree or recognized equivalent qualification with First class in Education or Management or Library and Information Science or Journalism or Communication. 2. SC candidates with pass class will also be considered. 3. The sponsored candidates should forward their applications through proper channel. No stipend will be paid to sponsored candidates. Training is for a period of 18 months w.e.f. 01.08.2007 on a stipend of Rs.5,000/- per month (Fixed). Visit our web site at http://www.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/training/ for details about the training programme and registration of applications ONLINE. Conditions: Candidates who possess the qualifying degree/s as on the date of advertisement can apply. However, those who are in the final year/semester of the qualifying examinations expecting to complete all exams/project and degree latest by 31.07.2007 can also apply. Note: Candidates (except sponsored) possessing Library & Information Science qualification and desirous of applying for Trainee in JRD Tata Memorial Library, IISc also (apart from NCSI)[details at http://www.library.iisc.ernet.in/trainee/application.html] need to send only one application stating their order of preference in the appropriate column in the application form. GENERAL CONDITIONS Candidates who are desirous to be considered strictly on the aforesaid conditions should fill the electronic Online Application Registration form (The Online Registration form will be accessible from Monday, 14th May 2007). Thereafter,a hard copy of the online application registration form with xerox copies of Marks Cards, Caste Certificate of SC, ST, OBC (OBC certificate should be in the GOI format for reservations of jobs), in case of Physically Handicapped candidates, copy of the medical certificate in the prescribed form issued by the Competent Medical Authority for the purpose of employment, should be sent to ASSISTANT REGISTRAR, UNIT-lB, INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE, BANGALORE - 560 012, superscribing on the envelope "Application for the post of IKM Trainee / JRD Tata Memorial Library Trainee / IKM & JRD Tata Memorial Library Trainee" on or before 06.06.2007. Incomplete applications and applications in a format other than those displayed on the web are liable to be rejected. Dated: 07th May 2007 REGISTRAR

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Kalpakkam Calling !
by Jayakumar, C 10 May '07

10 May '07

Dear Friends, Please find below READIT-2007 conference information. Please find time to submit papers and participate in the conference. Sorry for cross posting. With best wishes, C. Jayakumar Information Systems Scientific Information Resource Division (SIRD) Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR) Kalpakkam - 603 102 Tamil Nadu, India Phone : 044 - 2748 0096 & 044 - 2748 0500 Extn. 22419 Fax : 044 - 2748 0096 email : jay(a)igcar.gov.in (Please note the change in domain name) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- REcent Advances in Information Science & Technology" (READIT-2007) Date : July 11-13, 2007 Venue : Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam Conference URL : http://www.malakc.org MAdras Library Association - Kalpakkam Chapter is organising two day National Conference on REcent Advances in Information Science & Technology" (READIT-2007) during July 12-13 2007. MALA-KC and Scientific Information Resource Division (SIRD), IGCAR have been conducting a series of conferences on "Recent Advances in Information Science & Technology" from 1995. The proposed conference will have invited talks by experts in the field and contributed paper presentations from Researchers. A pre-conference tutorial on "Web Tools and IT Enabled Services" is also being arranged for the benefit of Information Professionals on July 11 2007. Call for Papers The conference will consist of invited talks and contributed papers. Contributed papers, on any of the following theme and the sub-topics are welcome. Theme: Information to Knowledge: Technology and Professionals Sub-topics Ø Library as Knowledge Centers Ø Digital Infrastructure and Technology Integration Ø Document Management and Resource Generation Ø Digital Preservation Issues Ø Information Security Ø Knowledge Environment and Professionals Ø Knowledge - A Commodity Important Dates Pre-registration (with abstract) : 23rd May 2007 Intimation of acceptance : 30th May 2007 Receipt of completed papers : 22nd June 2007 Last date for registration : 29th June 2007 Address for Correspondence: Shri M. Somasekharan Convener, READIT-2007 Head, Scientific Information Resource Division (SIRD) Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR) Kalpakkam - 603 102 Tamil Nadu, India Phone : (044) 2748 0281 Fax : (044) 2748 0096 e-mail: readit(a)igcar.gov.in or soma(a)igcar.gov.in Conference URL : http://www.malakc.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Research in Progress in LIS Since 1989....
by Chintha Nagabhushanam 09 May '07

09 May '07

Dear all You can find big list of Research in Progress in Library & Info. Science Ph.D's registered since 1989 to 2005 in All Indian Universities Hope it is more useful for who are planning to do Ph.D. & LIS teachers http://www.akhilamatrix.com/RIP.htm Best of Luck

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posting of a request
by annie Joseph 09 May '07

09 May '07

Sir, Our TIRC like to procure data capturing unit and barcode scanner. Please post the following message Kindly provide details like Company, price and indian dealers of data capturing unit and barcode scanners suseela NPOL, Thrikkakara, Kochi-21 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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GreenstoneWiki
by champe mishra 09 May '07

09 May '07

Dear Professional, Are you a Greenstone user? Looking for documentation to help you build better collections?? This is the place for you! You can take resouce and FAQs support for creating a digital library using Greenstone with the help of online collaboration tool like GreenstoneWiki.For details you may refer : http://greenstonewiki.cs.waikato.ac.nz/wiki/index.php/GreenstoneWiki Wish You All The Best. Regards, Champeswar Mishra, Library and Information Centre (LIC) Indian Institute Of Management,Kozhikode IIM Campus P.O., Kunnamagalam, Kerla , India, pin-673571 Phone no- 0495-2809143 -147,148 Fax: +91-495-2803010-11 Email:champeswar@gmail.com --------------------------------- Office firewalls, cyber cafes, college labs, don't allow you to download CHAT? Here's a solution! -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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