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5th annual Mumbai International Book Fair
by Mailing List Manager 26 Dec '06

26 Dec '06

From: Mangesh Ghodke mangesh.ghodke(a)pidilite.com On 12/26/2006 10:50 AM ----- 5th annual Mumbai International Book Fair 12th - 21st January 2007 Grand Hyatt Exhibition Grounds India is one of the ten biggest book publishing centers in the world and is only third, after USA and UK, as far as the number of English titles is concerned. Mumbai is India's biggest market for all kinds of books. The 5th annual Mumbai International Book Fair is your exclusive opportunity to reach out to over one lakh book lovers, in India's largest metropolis: Mumbai. MIBF is organised by Good Governance India Foundation, a trust dedicated to the promotion of literacy and reading as a habit. Now you can be assured of high quality of service, backed by our proven experience and performance, at a very affordable price. More details at http://fairfest.com/mibf/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanx & Regards, Mangesh Ghodke Librarian, Pidilite Industries Ltd., RamKrishna Mandir Road, P.O.Box 17411, Andheri (East), Mumbai - 400 059, INDIA. Tel: +91-022-28357832 / 7267 (Direct) Fax: +91-022-28357700 Cell: 9892201993 www.pidilite.com

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Check out this page at UNESCO-CI
by Mailing List Manager 26 Dec '06

26 Dec '06

Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 05:29:40 +0100 (CET) From: K.R.Mulla <krmulla(a)gmail.com> K.R.Mulla has emailed you a link to an interesting page at UNESCO-CI. Anna-Amalia Library in Weimar, Germany, to reopen in October 2007 after 2004 fire Page URL: http://portal.unesco.org/ci/admin/ev.php?URL_ID=23678&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_S… Page Title: Anna-Amalia Library in Weimar, Germany, to reopen in October 2007 after 2004 fire (News) Page Description: The Anna-Amalia Library, part of the World Heritage site of Classical Weimar in Germany, which was inscribed on the UNESCO List in 1998, will reopen in October 2007, i.e. three years after it was damaged by a fire. ------------------------- UNESCO-CI http://portal.unesco.org/ci/admin/

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Wikipedia Founder to Launch Search Engine
by Farooque Shaheen 26 Dec '06

26 Dec '06

The founder of the vastly popular Web encyclopedia Wikipedia is planning on developing Wikiasari, an Internet search engine which will compete with Yahoo and Google. In an interview with The Times of London, Jimmy Wales mentioned that his web site search engine will utilize the same user-based technology that Wikipedia uses. Feeling that Google's computer-based algorithmic searches can be sometimes easily manipulated, Wikiasari hopes that user-based human judgment will be significantly better. Because spammers and commercial ventures are learning and adapting to be able to manipulate Google's search methods, Wikiasari may have a viable alternative search method. http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=5454 Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 Ext. 4105 VOIP- 40366 The founder of the vastly popular Web encyclopedia Wikipedia is planning on developing Wikiasari, an Internet search engine which will compete with Yahoo and Google. �In an interview with The Times of London, Jimmy Wales mentioned that his web site search engine will utilize the same user-based technology that Wikipedia uses. Feeling that Google's computer-based algorithmic searches can be sometimes easily manipulated, Wikiasari hopes that user-based human judgment will be significantly better. �Because spammers and commercial ventures are learning and adapting to be able to manipulate Google's search methods, Wikiasari may have a viable alternative search method. http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=5454 Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 Ext. 4105 VOIP- 40366

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FreePint Index 1997-2006
by vimal kumar 26 Dec '06

26 Dec '06

Dear Friend, FreePint, a popular free email newsletter useful for Information professionals published its index of 1997-2006. It arranged on the basis of subject keywords. This issue consists a range of interesting topics. Everybody can find their own topic of interest in the index. http://www.freepint.com/issues/06indexb.htm#issue Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com www.asb.edu.in __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com FreePint, a popular free email newsletter useful for Information professionals published its index of 1997-2006. It arranged on the basis of subject keywords. This issue consists a range of interesting topics. Everybody can find their own topic of interest in the index. http://www.freepint.com/issues/06indexb.htm#issue Vimal Kumar Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 vimal0212(a)yahoo.com www.asb.edu.in __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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by Vijay Raghav Tiwari 26 Dec '06

26 Dec '06

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CDS/ISIS users information required
by yashas bv 24 Dec '06

24 Dec '06

Dear all, If anyone has the information of libraries/professionals who are using CDS/ISIS database for automation please let me know. i need infromation about the metodology bieng undertaken. please give me their contact address. thank you Yashaswini __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Dear all, If anyone has the information of libraries/professionals who are using CDS/ISIS database for automation please let me know. i need infromation about the metodology bieng undertaken. please give me their contact address. thank you Yashaswini __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Full Text Freely Available Science & Technology Journal
by dibya pradhan 23 Dec '06

23 Dec '06

Dear Professional Advanced Industrial Science and Technology: AIST http://www.aist.go.jp/index_en.html Full text of this journal is freely available. (Try for this) Dibya Kishor Pradhan NIT, Rourkela Dear Professional Advanced Industrial Science and Technology: AIST http://www.aist.go.jp/index_en.html Full text of this journal is freely available. (Try for this) Dibya Kishor Pradhan NIT, Rourkela http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigclick.cgi/www.rediff.com/signa… http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigimpress.cgi/www.rediff.com/sig…

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by abhishek kumar yadav 22 Dec '06

22 Dec '06

Dear Friends, Could any one of you tell me wheteher any software is available that can convert PDF to .DOc. If it is free tell me... Thanks, Regards Abhishek InfoMedia, New Delhi Dear Friends, Could any one of you tell me wheteher any software is available that can convert PDF to .DOc. If it is free tell me... Thanks, Regards Abhishek InfoMedia, New Delhi http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigclick.cgi/www.rediff.com/signa… http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/sigimpress.cgi/www.rediff.com/sig…

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The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online
by noufal palliparamban 22 Dec '06

22 Dec '06

Hi This site contains Darwin's complete publications, many handwritten manuscripts and the largest Darwin Plaese see the URL :http://darwin-online.org.uk/ Noufal.P.P Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger. Download Now! http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php Hi This site contains Darwin's complete publications, many handwritten manuscripts and the largest Darwin Plaese see the URL :http://darwin-online.org.uk/ Noufal.P.P Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger. Download Now! http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php

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Need for democratizing knowledge
by Mailing List Manager 22 Dec '06

22 Dec '06

Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 11:58:53 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends:=0D In the US, there is a growing awareness among scientists, librarians, the g= eneral public and even the Congressmen that all publicly-funded research mu= st be available through open access. The UK, Australia and Europe are not f= ar behind. Ironically, in developing countries where the need for free and = open access to information is much greater, awareness is rather slow in com= ing. Enlightened librarians and other professionals can play a central role= in not only bringing about such awareness but also in making open access a= reality. =0D Open access to knowledge is especially important in the area of medicine an= d even more important in areas such as community health and cost-effective = rural healthcare delivery. The last two days I was listening to some excell= ent talks at the ICICI Knowledge Park sponsored Conference on "Improving Pu= blic Health in India: Need for Innovative Solutions in Healthcare Delivery.= " My friends Abhay and Rani Bang have perfected and IMPLEMENTED a low-cost = method of delivering babies in remote villages and hamlets of Gadchiroli di= strict of Maharashtra with the help of LOCAL WOMEN whom they have trained. = And Mr Amarjit Singh, Commissionar of Health, Government of Gujarat, told u= s about a public-private partnership (between the state government and priv= ate practitioners) that has reduced infant and birth-related mother mortali= ty rates considerably in the first ten months of the programme. Two differe= nt solutions to the same problem. The Bangs' programme is replicated in UP.= The Gujarat programme, which was started as a pilot in five backward distr= icts of the state, is now being expanded to cover the entire state. To be h= onest I have known the Gadchiroli programme for about a year, because Abhay= was featured in Time. Abhay's work was done in India and I live and work i= n India and I am considered a very well-informed person and yet I had to kn= ow his work from Time magazine! I have not heard about the Gujarat governme= nt programme at all till I heard Mr Singh. I am sure that is the case with = most of us including policy makers, bureaucrats, civil societies and doctor= s. =0D There were two talks on diabetes in India. Dr Mohan from Chennai spoke abou= t how his own group of institutions - a money-earning profit-oriented hospi= tal, a research foundation and a charitable arm - is able to deal with poor= patients who cannot afford to get diagnosed in the first place and get tre= ated later on. His team has developed a simple test which includes three or= four questions and a waist measurement to predict diabetes. Dr C S Yajnik = of KEM, Pune, told us that it was adiposity rather than obesity one should = worry about. Although most Indian babies are thinner (and looking weaker) t= han babies born in the UK and Europe, our babies have a much higher body fa= t content. He also told us about the futility of giving high doses of folat= e to pregnant mothers (after a few weeks of the onset of pregnancy); instea= d we should be giving them vitamin B12. Both are excellent research effort= s and more so relevant to India. I am sure both Mohan and Yajnik have publi= shed their work in good international journals and it is more than likely m= any Indian diabetologists and general practitioners do not have access to t= hose journals. =0D Whether it is regular academic/clinical research or it is research aimed at= democratising access to low-cost healthcare delivery, what we need in comm= on is to democratise knowledge - making knowledge reach everyone cocerned. = I am glad that Mr Vaghul and friends who founded the Park called it the ICI= CI KNOWLEDGE Park acknowledging the central role knowledge plays in industr= y, economy, healthcare, agriculture and everything else we do and we need t= o do. =0D Both Vaghul and Dr Nachiket Mor, the chairman of the Steering Committee of = the two-day conference, talked briefly about the reach of the ICICI Bank (a= nd group of companies) in rural India. Thanks to the reach, one could take = the message (and knowledge) to the rural poor. But there is another great c= hallenge. Taking knowledge to the educated elite - the scientists and resea= rchers, policy makers, captains of industry, the professors and professiona= ls, practising doctors. Fortunately, thanks to developments in the area of = Internet and web technologies, that challenge could be met in a cost effect= ive manner. =0D Each research and higher education institution performing research should b= e persuaded to set up what is called an interoperable institutional open ac= cess archive. I will not go into the details now, but will just say that th= e software for setting up such interconnected archive is ABSOLUTELY FREE an= d the expertise is available in India. The Indian Institute of Science, for= example, has its own institutional archive. Every paper Mohan or Yajnik wr= ites cn be deposited in such archives {as full text and metadata} and anyon= e anywhere with an Internet connection can access those papers. Both Amarji= t Singh and Abahy can deposit a writeup on their work for the rest of the w= orld to read. =0D I have made a submission to the National Knowledge Commission and the idea = has been accepted and I hope will be implemented eventually. I suggest that= ICICI Knowledge Park and those who attended the Hyderabad Conference need = not wait till the government accepts the idea and acts on it and move ahaed= and facilitate not only setting up such archives but also other initiative= s to democratise knowledge. =0D Best wishes.=0D Subbiah Arunachalam=0D

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