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Re: [LIS-Forum] Training in LIS
by Mailing List Admin 07 May '07

07 May '07

On Fri, 4 May 2007, Subbiah Arunachalam wrote: Dear Ms Vasumathi Sriganesh: Thanks very much for these perceptive and insightful comments. I am overwhelmed with work, meetings and conferences and hence could not reply to anyone who cared to comment on my concerns about training. I fully agree with you that we have very few great librarians. Fortunately, I have had the good fortune of knowing some of them. I also know of some current librarians who are committed and who try hard to excel. But the majority is what I am concerned about. You have mentioned the Knowledge Commission. Please write to Mr Sam Pitroda and suggest that NKC should do something about the dwindling standards in this profession. Best wishes. Arun > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Vasumathi Sriganesh <vasu(a)qmedin.com> > To: Subbiah Arunachalam <subbiah_a(a)yahoo.com>; lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in; naglaxman(a)yahoo.com > Cc: haravu(a)newgenlib.com > Sent: Thursday, 12 April, 2007 12:42:39 PM > Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Training in LIS > > Dear Dr. Arunachalam > > You have really touched a very deep chord. We can no longer reject the truth > that we are faced with - however bitter it is. I know I have talked about > all these things to many people on one or more of these lists and definitely > with the individuals cc-ed on this list. I am also aware that there are a > handful of excellent dedicated librarians in India - but the number is > dwindling alarmingly.Also - they are buried deep in their institutions and > do not spread their wings across - mostly because they not permitted to. I > am praying hard that the National Knowledge Commission's findings and > reports may do some resurrection for the profession. > > There are two things about this entire issue: > > 1) There is a "Vicious Circle" that we are talking about. - Poor quality > librarians (being produced in masses) ----> projecting the profession in a > poor light ---> not attracting the kinds of salaries that MBAs / IT > professionals or even next lower levels do ----> and thus no really good > students enter the profession. I mentioned "Circle" and because I am writing > in an email - I had to put down the entire thing in a linear fashion. The > circle obviously has no beginning. One grim reality is - except in rare > situations, the number of librarians who would send their children into this > profession is miniscule. If we ourselves will not - how do we expect good > candidates to come in? Today's scenario is that the average starting salary > for a Fresh MBA from a reputed instn is Rs. 50,000/- and I wonder how many > seniors in the LIS profession, take that much home at the fag end of their > careers (if we leave aside some Corporate librarians) > > 2) Where do we begin? I believe there must be lots of parallel processing. > > a) Strong Foundations - School and college libraries need to be given very > high importance. The focus must be - > i) To inculcate the love of reading and information seeking in children / > teenagers > ii) To sow the seeds of the importance of libraries in their lives > The former will make them good library users AND good educated individuals ; > the latter will make them give the due importance to libraries - whatever > position they may be in.........and importantly if they are in decision > making positions > > b) At a very Massive Level - promote awareness of the importance of the > profession - and make good students take it up. In a country of Dr. SRR, I > think that easily 8-9/10 people to whom I say "I have done Lib & Info Sc" > ask me if it is a Diploma after the 10th or 12th. This is something we need > to be ashamed of. People know about BBA / BMS / BMM etc - courses that are > all just a few years old, but how come they know practically nothing about > Lib & Info Sciences? > > c) While we are getting good students in, we have to parallely ensure that > they have good jobs with good starting salaries, when they graduate. There > has to be some "handshake" between the process of these students getting > trained and organizations taking them in and starting them on doing > something by which they really produce measurable results in at least one > year. Also importantly, Communication and Soft skills simply MUST be > included in the curriculum. > > As I said - fundamentally - all three processes have to go on and then each > feeds into the other. > > Finally - I guess - the real question is "WHO WILL BELL THE CAT"? Take all > this to the major change that we seek? We need a bunch of people who will > work tirelessly towards this - and not give up - and hand over the baton to > the right people as and when required. > > Vasumathi Sriganesh > Director, QMed Services > A-3, Shubham Centre, Cardinal Gracious Road > Chakala, Andheri East, Mumbai 400099, India > Tel: 91-22-40054474 / 75 Fax: 91-22-40054358 > Indian Medical Sites- www.qmedin.com/medsites > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Subbiah Arunachalam" <subbiah_a(a)yahoo.com> > To: <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>; <naglaxman(a)yahoo.com>; > <iatlis-owner(a)yahoogroups.com> > Cc: <haravu(a)newgenlib.com> > Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2007 6:32 PM > Subject: [LIS-Forum] Training in LIS > > >> Friends: >> >> I am concerned about the quality of training we >> provide in our country to would be librarians and >> information scientists. > > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > _______________________________________________ > LIS-Forum mailing list > LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! 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Requires - the post - Librarian - in The National Institute of Technology, karnataka..
by sri priya 07 May '07

07 May '07

National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, a premier institute imparting excellent technical education at Undergraduate, Postgraduate and Doctoral levels, invites applications from Indian Nationals who are exceptionally bright and motivated with an established record of independent, high quality research and commitment to teaching/ research for faculty positions at level of Professors, Assistant Professors and Lecturers. This is a Standing Advertisement for Faculty. Candidates who meet the requirement may apply anytime during the year. Applications are also invited for administrative posts of Registrar, Librarian, Physical Director, Workshop Superintendent, Medical Officer and Deputy Registrar(Accounts) for direct recruitment / on deputation. More more details Visit :---- http://www.nitk.ac.in/ Source : Deccan Herald - 2/5/07 Regards, S.Sripriya --------------------------------- 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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Interview with Tim Berners-Lee, Business Week, April 2007
by Babita Pattanaik 06 May '07

06 May '07

Dear Professional, Let's watchout, What The inventor of the Web explains--- how the new Semantic Web could have profound effects on the growth of knowledge and innovation. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Q&A with Tim Berners-Lee [Tim Berners-Lee is far from finished with the World Wide Web. Having invented the Web in 1989, he's now working on ways to make it a whole lot smarter. For the last decade or so, as director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Berners-Lee has been working on an effort he's dubbed the "Semantic Web." At the heart of the Semantic Web is technology that makes it easier for people to find and correlate the information they need, whether that data resides on a Web site, in a corporate database, or in desktop software. The Semantic Web, as Berners-Lee envisions it, represents a change so profound that it's not always easy for others to grasp. This isn't the first time he's encountered that problem. "It was really hard explaining the Web before people just got used to it because they didn't even have words like click and jump and page," Berners-Lee says. In a recent conversation with BusinessWeek.com writer Rachael King, Berners-Lee discussed his vision for the Semantic Web and how it can alter the way companies operate. Edited excerpts follow. ] Q: It seems one of the problems the Semantic Web can solve is helping unlock information in various silos, in different software applications, and different places that currently cannot be connected easily. ANS: Exactly. When you use the word "silos," that's the word we hear when somebody in the enterprise talks about the stovepipe problem. Different words for the same problem: that business information inside the company is managed by different sorts of software, and you have to go to a different person and learn a different program to see it. Any enterprise CEO really ought to be able to ask a question that involves connecting data across the organization, be able to run a company effectively, and especially to be able to respond to unexpected events. Most organizations are missing this ability to connect all the data together. Q: Even outside data can be integrated, as I understand it. ANS: Absolutely. Anybody making real decisions uses data from many sources, produced by many sorts of organizations, and we're stymied. We tend to have to use backs of envelopes to do this and people have to put data in spreadsheets, which they painfully prepare. In a way, the Semantic Web is a bit like having all the databases out there as one big database. It's difficult to imagine the power that you're going to have when so many different sorts of data are available. Q: It seems to me that we're overwhelmed with data and this might be a good way to help us find the data we need. ANS: When you can treat something as data, your querying can be much more powerful. Q: In your speech at Princeton last year, you said that maybe you had made a mistake in naming it the Semantic Web. Do you think the name confuses some people? ANS: I don't think it's a very good name but we're stuck with it now. The word semantics is used by different groups to mean different things. But now people understand that the Semantic Web is the Data Web. I think we could have called it the Data Web. It would have been simpler. I got in a lot of trouble for calling the World Wide Web "www" because it was so long and difficult to pronounce. At the end, when people understand what it is, they understand that it connects all applications together or gives them access to data across the company when they see a few general Semantic Web applications. Q: Some of the early work with the Semantic Web seems to have been done by government agencies such as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the National Aeronautics & Space Administration. Why do you think the government has been an early adopter of this technology? ANS: I understand that DARPA had its own serious problems with huge amounts of data from all different sources about all sorts of things. So, they saw the Semantic Web rightly as something that was aimed directly at solving the problems they had on a large scale. I know that DARPA then funded some of the early development. Q: You have touched on the idea that the Semantic Web will make it easier to discover cures for diseases. How will it do that? ANS: Well, when a drug company looks at a disease, they take the specific symptoms that are connected with specific proteins inside a human cell which might lead to those symptoms. So the art of finding the drug is to find the chemical that will interfere with the bad things happening and encourage the good things happening inside the cell, which involves understanding the genetics and all the connections between the proteins and the symptoms of the disease. It also requires looking at all the other connections, whether there are federal regulations about the use of the protein and how it's been used before. We've got government regulatory information, clinical trial data, the genomics data, and the proteomics data that are all in different departments and different pieces of software. A scientist who is going through that creative process of brainstorming to find something that could possibly solve the disease has to somehow keep everything in their head at the same time or be able to explore all these different axes in a connected way. The Semantic Web is a technology designed to specifically do thatto open up the boundaries between the silos, to allow scientists to explore hypotheses, to look at how things connect in new combinations that have never before been dreamt of. Q: The Semantic Web makes it so much easier to find and correlate information about nearly anything, including people. What happens if that information gets into the wrong hands? Is there anything that can be done to safeguard privacy? ANS: Here at [MIT], we are doing research and building systems that are aware of the social issues. They are aware of privacy constraints, of the appropriate uses of information. We think it's important to build systems that help you do the right thing, but also we're building systems that, when they take data from many, many sources and combine it and allow you to come to a conclusion, are transparent in the sense that you can ask them what they based their decision on and they can go back and you can check if these are things that are appropriate to use and that you feel are trustworthy. Q: Developing Semantic Web standards has taken years. Has it taken a long time because the Semantic Web is so complex? ANS: The Semantic Web isn't inherently complex. The Semantic Web language, at its heart, is very, very simple. It's just about the relationships between things. Ms Babita Pattanaik (lecturer) North Orissa Univerisity Orissa -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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NACLIN 2007 from November 20-23, 2007 at New Delhi
by Sangeeta Kaul 05 May '07

05 May '07

Please kindly write to us if you would like to get a formal letter of invitation to participate in NACLIN 2007 =========================================================================== Tenth National Convention on Knowledge, Library and Information Networking NACLIN 2007 November 20-23, 2007 Organized by DELNET- Developing Library Network Venue : India International Centre, 40 Lodi Estate, New Delhi-110003 Theme : Libraries without boundaries : Reaching the Unreachable in Knowledge Era Libraries without Boundaries : Reaching the Unreachable in Knowledge Era The enormous growth in the ICT has made the World as Global village and there is an apparent death of distance. The convergence of the computing and communications has also brought a radical change in the way libraries and information centres have been im parting information to the users. There is a paradigm shift from the information based services to the Knowledge based services as Knowledge is considered as a most powerful fact in the development of an economy of a nation and is the fourth wave experien ced by the human lives. In these changing scenarios, the libraries have to take a proactive approach and to work for this tectonic change that the Knowledge Society will encompass in its domain. The library professionals can no longer keep themselves in t he insulated state away from the challenges which needs to be addressed by them. The Government of India has constituted under the National Knowledge Commission a special group on Libraries and Informatics and has proposed a! knowledge based society and the emergence of libraries and network centres as one of the contributing entities for developing a knowledge based society. There is a greater need to provide the citizen focused services and the library services must focus on the common man and we must ensure that the libraries are able to bridge up the gap between the two tiered society of �Knowledge haves� and �knowledge have-nots� It is with this concern that the National Convention on Knowledge, Library and Information Networking (NACLIN 2007) being organized by DELNET at New Delhi in November 2007 to debate various issues on the subject. NACLIN was conceived in the year 1998 and since then Nine National Conventions have been organized in different parts of the country in collaboration with the institutions of great repute. DELNET is celebrating the 10th NACLIN event by hosting it themselv es at New Delhi. DELNET - Developing Library Network DELNET is a major resource-sharing library network in South Asia which covers a wide spectrum of member-libraries and their resources connecting more than 1070 libraries in thirty states in India and six overseas countries. Started in 1988 at the India In ternational Centre in New Delhi it was registered as a society in 1992. Delnet is committed to pool the information about resources scattered in the libraries in the country and consolidate information through union catalogues, union lists and other data bases. This is being done to satisfy the major information requirements of students, researchers, scholars and the public in the country. DELNET is extensively providing Interlibrary Loan facilities to its member libraries in and outside the country and is one of the most widely used and popular services of DELNET. DELNET databases has crossed more than six million records. DELNET has shifted to its newly constructed building in JNU Campus in October 2005. More information ! about DELNET can be obtained at www.delnet.nic.in About the Venue India International Centre more commonly being known as IIC is the Intellectual hub of India. It is located on the outer periphery of the famous Lodi Gardens. Accommodation Accommodation can be arranged to the participants in the Institutional Guest Houses in Delhi furnished with minimum amenities on first come first served basis. Besides, accommodation (Sharing) in the hotels would also be arranged to the participants on re quest and confirmation. Delegates may indicate the request for accommodation in the registration form. Climate The climate in the month of November is pleasant ranging from 15 to 20 degrees. The temperature will be pleasant and evenings will be cool. Return Reservation All the participants are advised to make their reservations on their own in advance to avoid last minute inconvenience. Sightseeing Visits to some of the tourist places in Delhi/Agra will be arranged separately on November 24, 2007 (Saturday) at an extra cost based on the distance and duration of the trip and also the number of delegates. Those interested may kindly write to us separa tely. See more details at www.delnet.nic.in NACLIN 2007 The national convention is scheduled for four days. The first two days are exclusively designed for conducting tutorials by experts on the following topics: RFID Technology in Libraries Open Source Library Management Software The next two days will focus on the theme of the National Convention: Libraries without Boundaries : Reaching the Unreachable in Knowledge Era. The theme is divided into several sub-themes as detailed below: Sub theme 1 : Knowledge Society ? Community based Information Systems ? Knowledge Centres ? Delivery of Services ? Knowledge Based Systems : Case Studies ? E-Governance ? Training of Public in the Use of ICT based resources ? Community Participation Patterns Sub theme 2 : ICT Implementation ? Knowledge Tools/Technology ? Development of Knowledge Portals ? Delivery Mechanisms ? Knowledge Harvesting ? Knowledge Warehouses ? Knowledge Cultivation ? Access Mechanisms Sub theme 3 : Knowledge Resources ? Knowledge Portals ? Digital Libraries ? E-journals ? Creation of Content in Local Languages ? Knowledge Sharing ? Knowledge Networks ? Traditional Knowledge Sub theme 4 : LIS Education, Training & Research ? Skills and Competency Development ? Evaluation of Existing Teaching Facilities : Case Studies ? Continuing Education ? E-learning ? Training Centres ? Status of Research Activities in LIS ? Roadmap for LIS Education and Research Submission of Papers Participants are welcome to contribute papers for presentation at the National Convention on the above sub-themes and related themes. The Papers should be based on research surveys, case studies or action plans rather than theoretical explanations. Paper s should reach The Director, DELNET, JNU Campus, Nelson Mandela Road, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi-110070 on or before September 30,2007. They should be submitted on A4 size paper along with an electronic copy or sent through E-mail. It must be enclosed with t he details of the author i.e. name of the author, designation, title of the article, abstract, name of the affiliating Institution, Mailing address, telephone number, fax number and E-mail address. The contributors will be communicated about the acceptanc e of the paper by Director, DELNET to enable them to present their papers. Please ensure that the paper submitted should not have already been published elsewhere. The editors will have the right to edit the papers before ac! ceptance is communicated. ADDRESS FOR THE COMMUNICATION Registration/Accommodation Submission of Papers Sangeeta Kaul Dr. H K Kaul Organizing Secretary, NACLIN 2007 Director Network Manager DELNET-Developing Library Network DELNET-Developing Library Network JNU Campus JNU Campus Nelson Mandela Road Nelson Mandela Road Vasant Kunj Vasant Kunj New Delhi - 110070 New Delhi-110070 Tel.: 91-11-32471001, 32471010 Tel: 91-11-32471001, 32471010 Fax: 91-11-32471009 Mobile : 9810329992 Mobile�: 9891016667 Email:sangs@delnet.ren.nic.in Email:hkkaul@delnet.ren.nic.in naclin2007(a)yahoo.co.in hkkaul(a)gmail.com NACLIN 2007 Tenth NATIONAL CONVENTION ON KNOWLEDGE, LIBRARY AND INFORMATION NETWORKING Libraries without boundaries : Reaching the Unreachable in Knowledge Era November 20-23, 2007 Venue: India International Centre, New Delhi REGISTRATION FORM Name (in block letters): Dr./Mr./Ms./Mrs./Prof ................... Designation:......................................................... Organisation: ...................................................... Address:.......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... PIN ..........State .............. Country ....... Phone: STD Code...... Office.........Res ............ Mobile ........ Email:..........................................Fax: ................ Accompanying Person(s) : .......... Accommodation required: Yes/No ....... If yes, please mention the dates from ................... to ........ Travel Schedule: Date Time Mode(Train name/Flt details) Arrival Departure Payment details : I am enclosing Demand Draft No .........dated...... for Rs. ....... drawn on ............................ towards participation fee/ and accommodation charges for five days stay in the guest hosue. ( Please pay only the Registration fe e if you do not want the guest house facilities). Place: Date: Signature:............. REGISTRATION FEES (comprising of pre-conference Tutorials and Convention) Delegates from India/SAARC Countries DELNET member Libraries : Rs 2500 per delegate DELNET Non-members : Rs 3500 per delegate LIS Professionals from Delhi and NCR Region : Rs 2500 per delegate Delegates from Non-SAARC Countries : US $ 150 per delegate Please note : Additional delegate from the same organization will be provided 25% discount. Accompanying Person (non LIS professional, family member) : Rs 1000 per person for attending the Convention, Accommodation charges will be extra. Accommodation charges : Rs 1500 per delegate On-the-spot Registration is also available The filled-in registration forms and the payment should be sent to : Ms Sangeeta Kaul, Organizing Secretary, NACLIN 2007 Network Manager DELNET-Developing Library Network JNU Campus Nelson Mandela Road Vasant Kunj, New Delhi-110070 Payment Details : The payment should be sent through a demand draft to be made in favour of �DELNET� and payable at New Delhi. The Institutions in Delhi, NCR can make the payments through cheque also. Dates to Remember Last Date for Registration November 15, 2007 Last Date for Submission of Papers September 30, 2007 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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SCHEME FOR IGNOU-DEC RESEARCH AND TEACHING ASSISTANTSHIPS (RTA)
by Puna Das 04 May '07

04 May '07

SCHEME FOR IGNOU-DEC RESEARCH AND TEACHING ASSISTANTSHIPS (RTA) Objective The objective of the scheme is to attract the best talents in to teaching-cum-research in the areas of Open and Distance Learning/Teaching and Research in discipline-based as well as general Open and Distance Learning pedagogy. This will provide opportunities to the researchers to undertake advanced studies and research and teaching in the field of Open and Distance Learning. The candidate will register for Ph. D. under the rules of the University. Eligibility Consistently top academic records from School to P.G. Level with minimum 55% marks or an equivalent grade B+ in a seven point scale in Master’s degree (50 per cent marks or an equivalent grade in case of SC/ST/PH category). The age limit will be 25 years as on 1st July of the year of Award, relaxable by 5 years for women candidates and SC/ST/PH. Duration The tenure of the RTA will be initially for three years. Upon expiry of this period, the work of the Research & Teaching Assistant (RTA) will be evaluated by experts. If the research work is found satisfactory, his/her tenure will be extended for a further period of two years under the enhanced emoluments of the Senior Research and Teaching Assistantship. Thus, the total period of Research & Teaching Assistantship (RTA and SRTA) will be five years, with no further provision of extension. Financial assistance The value of Research & Teaching Assistantship shall be Rs. 10,000/- + HRA per month for the first three years with an annual contingent grant of Rs. 20,000/-. At the end of three years, the work done by the Research & Teaching Assistant (RTA) will be assessed in a manner as prescribed by the Research Council. The Research & Teaching Assistantship for the fourth and subsequent year will be Rs. 12,000/- p.m. + HRA. There will be no change in the amount of contingent grant and it will remain at the same level as in the first three years. An amount of Rs. 5,000/- per Research and Teaching Assistant (RTA) per year will be paid as overhead charges by the University to the School/Division/Centre/SOUs/CCIs/ DEIs/institutions where the Research and Teaching Assistant (RTA) will be working for providing infrastructural facilities to the Research & Teaching Assistant (RTA). Terms and Conditions (a) The Research & Teaching Assistantship will be tenable at Schools and Divisions in the Headquarters/Regional Centres of the University/ SOUs/ CCIs/ DEIs/any other institution recognized by the University. (b) The Research & Teaching Assistant (RTA) will do whole time research work under the approved guide in a subject selected by him/her and approved by the Research Council. (c) The candidate under the Research & Teaching Assistantship (RTA) scheme has to assist in the teaching/course preparation/design in the concerned School/Division/Institution for a minimum of 5 hours per week along with full time research. (d) The Research & Teaching Assistant (RTA) shall present to the University, through his/her supervisor, half yearly report on the progress of his/her work and the University/Institution will maintain a record of progress done by the Research & Teaching Assistant (RTA) by obtaining the same for every six months during the tenure, of the Research & Teaching Assistantship. (e) If a Research & Teaching Assistant (RTA) wishes to relinquish the Research & Teaching Assistantship during the tenure it should be done with the prior approval of the University. (f) The Research & Teaching Assistant (RTA) shall not accept or hold any appointment paid or otherwise or receive any emoluments, salary, stipend etc. from any other source during the tenure of the award. For More Details See: www.ignou.ac.in/adv/admission_ann.htm Application Form: www.ignou.ac.in/adv/RTA/Form%20RTA-Computer%20Div.doc ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Anup Kumar Das New Delhi www.anupkumardas.blogspot.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger. Download Now! http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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An innovative approach to managing Library
by Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy 04 May '07

04 May '07

Dear Friends Please see the following announcement. We have started a small library for members and others of our society. It is library meant for senior citizens -- books of interest for this age group are specially collected. Our library is co-located in the premises of an already established successfully running subscription library called ARESS Book Club. The collections are maintained in two separate sequences. Maintenace and circulation done by ARESS staff. Clientelete of both libraries stand to gain by a larger collection of books to choose. Both libraries gain by virtue of increased customers. Separate accounts are kept. === Here is the announcement about it ============ Society for Serving Seniors SSS LIBRARY 2nd May 2007 We are happy to announce the starting of Library Services. This is the first time that two libraries under different managements are co-located in the same premises for the mutual benefit of all concerned. Location: The Library is co-located at the premises of ARESS Library. ARESS library is a not for profit circulating library managed by ARESS Group at Plot Number 6, Sitaramnagar, near Diamond Point Sikh Village, Secunderabad 500009 Contact: Ms Radha Devi, ARESS Book Club Phone: 65648869. Or Dr P Vyasamoorthy, President, SSS, 27846631. Timings: 8.30 am to 8.30 pm. Collection: Fiction, Personality development, Health & Medicine, Religion Spirituality, yoga, investment, law & general books. Emphasis will be on books of interest to senior citizens. A list of books is available in the premises for consultation. Most of the books are obtained through donation from members and other individuals. ARESS library has its own rich collection of over a thousand books in Telugu & English, borrow-able upon payment of a "lending-fee". Terms and Conditions: 1. SSS Members Associate Members of SSS can borrow books after payment of a refundable caution deposit of Rs 250/-. Books from SSS Collection will be lent without any lending-fee. Books have to be returned within one month of issue. Books damaged or lost will have to be compensated – by replacement of a copy or by payment of 50% of the price of the book. The value of the book, as determined by Library in charge will be final for this purpose. If SSS member wants to borrow ARESS books he has to pay lending-fee and abide by other terms and conditions, if any. No fresh deposit is needed. 2. ARESS Members ARESS members may borrow SSS books upon payment of lending-fee. ARESS members are encouraged to become Associate Members of SSS – Details enquire at the library counter. We are grateful to several donors like Sri Badrinarayanan, Sri Rajendra Rao, Prof Viruru Subba Rao, Sri Pappu and last but not the least to Ms Radha Devi for book donations through her. Further Donations of Books are welcome. Suggestions for improvement of Library services are welcome. =============== end of announcement ====== Dr P Vyasamoorthy, Society for Serving Seniors 30, Gruhalakshmi Colony, Secunderabad 500015 Phone 27846631 http://societyforservingseniors.satyamcsr.org -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Govt will have a say in MPhil, PhD progs??? TOI 4/05/07 Mumbai edition
by A. B. NAIKAL 04 May '07

04 May '07

Govt will have a say in MPhil, PhD progs TIMES NEWS NETWORK Mumbai: In a move that has been panned by academicians, the state has asked colleges wanting to offer MPhil and PhD to get a clearance from the government. This will be in addition to the universitys approval process. At present, colleges across Maharashtra are required to apply to the university they are affiliated to if they want to offer these programmes. The varsity, in turn, appoints a local inspection committee, which visits the institution to check whether the required facilities and faculty are available. The state government has no role in this process. As per the new rule, the state government will have a say in accepting or rejecting applications from colleges to offer MPhil and PhD. Principal secretary (higher and technical education) Joyce Shankaran said that with the University Grants Commission (UGC) permitting MPhil degree holders to enter the teaching profession without appearing for the National Eligibility Test (NET) or State Eligibility Test, several students have enrolled for MPhil and PhD. This has prompted the state to step in as it wants to monitor quality standards. Shankaran said the directors (higher education) office will have to be kept in the loop on the approval process. The UGC recently made changes in the eligibility criteria for college/varsity lectureship following the recommendation of the Mungekar Committee, which was set up to review utility, effectiveness and continuity of the NET. Acting on the interim report of the committee, the UGC announced that MPhil and PhD candidates would be exempted from taking the NET. While MPhil candidates will be eligible for teaching at the undergraduate level, PhD fellows will be eligible for postgraduate teaching. However, academicians view this move as government interference. The principal of a well-known college said the state was trying to make money as MPhil and PhD courses were becoming popular. Now, we will have to grease the palms of clerks in Mantralaya to get approvals. When academicians and experts of a university conduct checks on our campus and faculty, why does the government want second-level checks? asked a senior guide in the Pune university. Best regards Naikal __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Japanese man on one-man mission to distribute books by bicycle
by madhuresh.singhal 04 May '07

04 May '07

You might be interested to read this recent news appeared in Monsters and Critics. I am copying below the news item, which is taken from its website http://news.monstersandcritics.com/asiapacific/news/article_1298616.php/ Japanese_man_on_one-man_mission_to_distribute_books_by_bicycle Japanese man on one-man mission to distribute books by bicycle May 1, 2007, 6:19 GMT Tokyo - Kazuhiro Doi is on a one-man mission to change the world by pulling a mobile library on a bicycle around Japan. For more than two years, the 28-year-old has been distributing books on the environment, civil disputes and other social issues on a custom-made bicycle with a waterwheel-shaped bookshelf across his native Japan, the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper reported Tuesday. Doi left his home in the central prefecture of Aichi in January, 2005, initially to ask libraries around the country to carry a book published by a non-profit organization Think the Earth. The book documents the gravity of environmental destruction with about 100 photographs, including those of a mountain of industrial waste, children injured in a chemical factory accident in India and penguins covered with crude oil. When Doi first flipped through the pages, he was shocked and moved. 'I was slapped by what careless deeds human beings have imposed on Earth,' Doi told the newspaper. After spending sleepless nights contemplating what he could do, Doi quit his full-time job and began a bicycle journey to Japan's libraries, but not all libraries have been supportive of Doi's insistence that they carry the photo book. He then decided he had to be the library himself. After modifying his bicycle and building his waterwheel bookshelf, Doi began cycling with a library of about 20 books and giving them away to passersby who show interest in his mission. It's a library, but the users need not return the books. Doi said that instead, he hopes the books circulate among friends and in communities so many readers could learn about what is going on in the rest of the world. Another project he has devised during his travels is to establish book centres. Doi has been leaving a few books at restaurants, community centres and other social venues if the owners make environmentally friendly changes. An owner of a ramen noodle joint, for instance, agreed to use reuseable chopsticks rather than disposable ones, Doi said on a radio talk show. After news of his mission began spreading, Doi has been treated to meals or provided accommodation, but he also lands short-term, part-time jobs to buy food and books to distribute. Doi has so far visited about 1,200 libraries in 13 of Japan's 47 prefectures. By the time he turns 30, Doi said he hopes to have dropped by all the libraries in the country. Regards Madhuresh Singhal Assoc. Res. Scientist - Inf. Sc. Advinus Therapeutics Pvt. Ltd. 21 & 22, Phase 2, Peenya Industrial Area, Bangalore - 560058 Phone: +91 80 28394959; Mobile 098861 82822 E-mail: madhureshsinghal(a)yahoo.com http://nettalk2.tripod.com/ ************************************************************************************************ This email and its attachments are confidential and proprietary to Advinus Therapeutics Pvt. Ltd. and are meant for the intended recipient only. If you are not the intended recipient, do not take any actions based on the contents of this message, except to permanently delete the message and its attachments and inform the sender immediately. ************************************************************************************************ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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New Websites
by Thapar, Amit 04 May '07

04 May '07

How To Conduct a Job Interview http://www.bnet.com/2403-13056_23-52947.html Advice on how to get the most mileage out of a short interview to get a strong sense of how a job candidate will fit with your organization's needs Visuwords online graphical dictionary http://www.visuwords.com/ This is fascinating, a kind of visual thesaurus. Type in a word and an animation displays a mouseover definition and a kind of neural network of associations and related concepts. "Book," for example, is part of a conceptual universe including account books and ledgers, notebooks, sketch books, coffee table books, paperbacks, holy books, etc. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Require a librarian
by usha alagappan 03 May '07

03 May '07

Please post the following message on the forum: Virgin Animations Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore urgently requires a librarian. Fresher / Retired Librarians can also apply. Interested candidates can send their Resumes to kannan.gsa(a)gmail.com or mail to the following address: The Head of Operations Virgin Animations Pvt. Ltd 16 Houdin Road Ulsoor Bangalore 560 042 Thanks Usha Alagappan -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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