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Dr. TBR Memorial Seminar
by anitha mk 18 Oct '06

18 Oct '06

Dear members, This is to inform you that NCSI-NET, an association comprising of staff, students and alumni of NCSI, is organizing the second national level Dr. TBR Memorial Seminar, in memory of Late Dr. T.B. Rajashekar, erstwhile Associate Chairman, NCSI, IISc. It is a one day seminar targeted exclusively for the benefit of students of final year/semester Library and Information Science course or its equivalent. The details of the seminar are given below. Seminar Title : Dr. T B Rajashekar Memorial Seminar on Competencies for the budding Information Professionals in the Digital Era Date: November 11, 2006 (Saturday) Venue: National Centre for Science Information (NCSI), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore - 560012 Target audience: Students of the final year/semester of Masters in Library & Information science course or its equivalent Seminar coverage: The Seminar is conducted with an intention to create awareness amongst the budding professionals about the latest developments in the information and communication technologies applicable to our LIS profession. The present Seminar will give the students an overview of Designing the Library Websites for maximum usability and Effective Web searching. There will be a session dealing with career building strategies and job opportunities for LIS professionals. Registration fee: Rs. 150/- We are not making any arrangements for accommodation. However, we will provide names and addresses of some affordable hotels, which are in the close proximity to IISc, in the workshop web site in due course of time. Last date for registration: November 2, 2006. More details about the registration can be found at: http://ncsi-net.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/workshop/registration2006.html Kindly bring this to the attention of the students in your department and encourage them to attend the seminar. Participation in the seminar will also give an opportunity for the students to interact with fellow students from other universities and with professionals working in the industry and academia. For further information, please visit the Seminar website at: http://ncsi-net.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/workshop Registration form is available at: http://ncsi-net.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/workshop/register.doc Thanking You, Yours sincerely, Anitha M.K and Ravi Nandhan V NCSI-NET Coordinators  � Dear members, � This is to inform you that NCSI-NET, an association comprising of staff, students and alumni of NCSI, is organizing the second national level Dr. TBR Memorial Seminar, in memory of Late Dr. T.B. Rajashekar, erstwhile Associate Chairman, NCSI, IISc. It is a one day seminar targeted exclusively for the benefit of students of final year/semester Library and Information Science course or its equivalent. The details of the seminar are given below. � Seminar Title�� : Dr. T B Rajashekar Memorial Seminar on Competencies for the budding Information Professionals in the �� Digital Era � Date:�� November 11, 2006 (Saturday) � Venue:�� National Centre for Science Information (NCSI), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore - 560012 � Target audience:� Students of the final year/semester of Masters in Library & Information science course or its equivalent � Seminar coverage: The Seminar is conducted with an intention to create awareness amongst the budding professionals about the latest developments in the information and communication technologies applicable to our LIS profession. The present Seminar will give the students an overview of Designing the Library Websites for maximum usability and Effective Web searching. There will be a session dealing with career building strategies and job opportunities for LIS professionals. � Registration fee:� Rs. 150/- � We are not making any arrangements for accommodation. However, we will provide names and addresses of some affordable hotels, which are in the close proximity to IISc, in the workshop web site in due course of time. � Last date for registration: November 2, 2006 . More details about the registration can be found at: http://ncsi-net.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/workshop/registration2006.html http://ncsi-net.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/workshop/registration2006.html � � Kindly bring this to the attention of the students in your department and encourage them to attend the seminar. Participation in the seminar will also give an opportunity for the students to interact with fellow students from other universities and� with professionals working in the industry and academia. � For further information, please visit the Seminar website at: http://ncsi-net.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/workshop http://ncsi-net.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/workshop � Registration form is available at: http://ncsi-net.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/workshop/register.doc http://ncsi-net.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/workshop/register.doc � Thanking You, � Yours sincerely, Anitha M.K and Ravi Nandhan V NCSI-NET Coordinators � � �

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interesting news: "A 'library' to preserve species"
by Puttaraj Choukimath 18 Oct '06

18 Oct '06

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Article request
by A. B. NAIKAL 18 Oct '06

18 Oct '06

Dear all, Greetings from S. P. Jain Center of Management, Singapore. One of our student need below mentioned 2 articles for his project work. If anybody is subscribing to these journals, kindly send me a soft copy of the same. Thanks in advance for your kind help. 1. Title: A Delphi Forecast for the Singapore Tourism Industry: Future Scenario and Marketing Implications Author(s): Yeong Wee Yong, Kau Ah Keng, Tan Leng Leng Journal: European Journal of Marketing ISSN: 0309-0566 Year: 1989 Volume: 23 Issue: 11 Page: 15 - 26 Pub: MCB UP Ltd. 2. Title:The Concept of a Tourist Area Cycle of Evolution: Implications for Management of Resources Author: Butler, R.W. (1980), Journal: Canadian Geographer, Vol 31 (1) With Regards Appasaheb Naikal Librarian S P Jain Center of Management Singapore --------------------------------- How low will we go? Check out Yahoo! Messengers low PC-to-Phone call rates. Dear all, Greetings from S. P. Jain Center of Management, Singapore . One of our student need below mentioned 2 articles for his project work. If anybody is subscribing to these journals, kindly send me a soft copy of the same. Thanks in advance for your kind help. 1. Title: A Delphi Forecast for the Singapore Tourism Industry: Future Scenario and Marketing Implications Author(s): Yeong Wee Yong, Kau Ah Keng, Tan Leng Leng Journal: European Journal of Marketing ISSN: 0309-0566 Year: 1989 Volume: 23 Issue: 11 Page: 15 - 26 Pub: MCB UP Ltd. 2. Title: The Concept of a Tourist Area Cycle of Evolution: Implications for Management of Resources Author: Butler , R.W. (1980), Journal: Canadian Geographer, Vol 31 (1) With Regards Appasaheb Naikal Librarian S P Jain Center of Management Singapore How low will we go? Check out Yahoo! Messengers low http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/postman8/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/ev… PC-to-Phone call rates.

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10th Anniversary Version of Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
by Charles W. Bailey, Jr. 18 Oct '06

18 Oct '06

Version 64 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 2,780 articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. http://epress.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html This is the 10th anniversary version of SEPB, whose first version was published in October 1996: http://epress.lib.uh.edu/sepb/archive/01/sepb.html The PDF version of SEPB is produced annually. The 2005 PDF file is available (Version 60, published 12/9/2005). http://epress.lib.uh.edu/sepb/archive/60/sepb.pdf The Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals, by the same author, provides much more in-depth coverage of the open access movement and related topics (e.g., disciplinary archives, e-prints, institutional repositories, open access journals, and the Open Archives Initiative) than SEPB does. http://www.digital-scholarship.com/oab/oab.htm The Open Access Webliography (with Ho) complements the OAB, providing access to a number of Websites related to open access topics. http://www.digital-scholarship.com/cwb/oaw.htm Changes in This Version The bibliography has the following sections (revised sections are marked with an asterisk): Table of Contents 1 Economic Issues* 2 Electronic Books and Texts 2.1 Case Studies and History* 2.2 General Works* 2.3 Library Issues 3 Electronic Serials 3.1 Case Studies and History* 3.2 Critiques 3.3 Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals* 3.4 General Works* 3.5 Library Issues* 3.6 Research* 4 General Works* 5 Legal Issues 5.1 Intellectual Property Rights* 5.2 License Agreements* 6 Library Issues 6.1 Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata* 6.2 Digital Libraries* 6.3 General Works* 6.4 Information Integrity and Preservation* 7 New Publishing Models* 8 Publisher Issues* 8.1 Digital Rights Management* 9 Repositories, E-Prints, and OAI* Appendix A. Related Bibliographies Appendix B. About the Author Appendix C. SEPB Use Statistics Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources includes the following sections: Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata Digital Libraries* Electronic Books and Texts* Electronic Serials General Electronic Publishing* Images* Legal* Preservation* Publishers Repositories, E-Prints, and OAI* SGML and Related Standards Further Information about SEPB The HTML version of SEPB is designed for interactive use. Each major section is a separate file. There are links to sources that are freely available on the Internet. It can be can be searched using Boolean operators. The HTML document includes three sections not found in the Acrobat file: (1) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (biweekly list of new resources; also available by mailing list--see second URL--and RSS Feed--see third URL) http://epress.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepw.htm http://epress.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepwlist.htm http://feeds.feedburner.com/ScholarlyElectronicPublishingWeblogrss (2) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources (directory of over 270 related Web sites) http://epress.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepr.htm (3) Archive (prior versions of the bibliography) http://epress.lib.uh.edu/sepb/archive/sepa.htm The 2005 annual PDF file is designed for printing. The printed bibliography is over 210 pages long. The PDF file is over 560 KB. Related Article An article about the bibliography has been published in The Journal of Electronic Publishing: http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-02/bailey.html -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Assistant Dean for Digital Library Planning and Development, University of Houston Libraries E-Mail: cbailey(a)uh.edu Publications: http://www.digital-scholarship.com/ (Provides access to DigitalKoans, Open Access Bibliography, Open Access Webliography, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog, and others)

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Opening for Junior Officer at HSBC Operations and Processing Enterprise - Chennai
by om prakash ram 17 Oct '06

17 Oct '06

Dear all,We are looking for full time Junior Documentation officer (Male Candidates only) at HSBC Operations and Processing Enterprise, ChennaiQualification:Masters Degree in Library and Information Science / Documentation with at least 55%Should have very good communication skillsGood at using MS Office toolsKnowledge in using Digital library software / systemsExperience in Archives Management DesirableMinimum One-year experienceSalary 8K PMInterested Candidates may come for a walk in interview on 29th October 2006 between 10 AM to 3 PM at below given address.HSBC, Ground Floor,No.30, Rajaji SalaiChennai - 600001Land Mark: Opposite to Beach Railway Station.Good Luck!!!Warm Regards,Omprakash Ram044-25252169\"The more you love what you are doing, The more successful it will be for you\". ~ Jerry Gillies Dear all, We are looking for full time Junior Documentation officer (Male Candidates only) at HSBC Operations and Processing Enterprise, Chennai Qualification: Masters Degree in Library and Information Science / Documentation with at least 55% Should have very good communication skills Good at using MS Office tools Knowledge in using Digital library software / systems Experience in Archives Management Desirable Minimum One-year experience Salary 8K PM Interested Candidates may come for a walk in interview on 29th October 2006 between 10 AM to 3 PM at below given address. HSBC, Ground Floor, No.30, Rajaji Salai Chennai - 600001 Land Mark: Opposite to Beach Railway Station. Good Luck!!! Warm Regards, Omprakash Ram 044-25252169 "The more you love what you are doing, The more successful it will be for you". ~ Jerry Gillies 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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OutsourcingNewsclippings
by B sridhara 17 Oct '06

17 Oct '06

Dear colleagues, We are interested to outsource our News clippings service and looking for Delhi based people/company. Job involves, 1. Scanning and editing 15-20 news per day 2. Conversion of images to Tif,Jpeg etc 3. Naming of images/news according to our well defined format. 4. Converting images into pdf text readable 5. Converted pdf images into single file(Just like e-book) 6. E-mail to at least more than 100 address 7. Finally entering data and uploading into our news clipping database. For further information regarding this can contact me through mail (This may including your manpower your hardware software etc) If anybody know who are involved in such activites may pl be informed to them. Warm regards Sridhara B Scientist DESIDOC Dear colleagues, We are interested to outsource our News clippings service and looking for Delhi based people/company. Job involves, 1. Scanning and editing 15-20 news per day 2. Conversion of images to Tif,Jpeg etc 3. Naming of images/news according to our well defined format. 4. Converting images into pdf text readable 5. Converted pdf images into single file(Just like e-book) 6. E-mail to at least more than 100 address 7. Finally entering data and uploading into our news clipping database. For further information regarding this can contact me through mail (This may including your manpower your hardware software etc) If anybody know who are involved in such activites may pl be informed to them. Warm regards Sridhara B Scientist DESIDOC 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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RE: [LIS-Forum] Declining reading habits
by Aman Jha 17 Oct '06

17 Oct '06

This I believe may not be true. I think exposure to digital media has diverted the attention of print media readers towards digital media reading/viewing. I don't think reading habbit has declined at all. Well, you can say 'reading habbit has changed'. If this is the case then there shoule not be anything to surprise. Because the whole world is changing, Economy is shifting towards developing countries. Knowledge generation and flow of information are happening more in India and China and other emerging economies. This I am saying because 94 per cent of the economic growth of a country is due to growth in knowledge generation and dissemination. And if knowledge generation and information dissemination is more in India, that means there are more users/readers. "Nobel laureate economist Robert Solow showed that seven-eighth of the growth of US from 1900 to 1950 was accounted for by technical progress, while only one-eighth was driven by capital. A study by Denison, of factors contributing to the growth of the US economy from 1929 to 1982, attributes 94 per cent of that growth to factors relating to knowledge generation and dissemination: 64 per cent of this is linked to advances in knowledge generation (i.e. R&D) and another 30 per cent to advances in education. By one recent estimate, 50-60 per cent of all industrial output is based on information." [Quoted from 'India vision 2020: the report'] Regards, Aman Jha Librarian Confederation of Indian Industry Plot No 249-F, Udyog Vihar, Phase IV Sector 18, Gurgaon - 122015 (Haryana) Tel: 0124-4014060-67 aman.jha(a)ciionline.org http://www.ciionline.org -----Original Message----- From: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in [mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] On Behalf Of Parinita Samant Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 9:49 AM To: lis-forum-bounces(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in; lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] Declining reading habits Importance: High Dear All, Declining reading habits are one of the major concerns of nearly all libraries today. Has anyone conducted a survey regarding why the reading habits are declining? What is it that users prefer to read today, and why? Does age, marital status, position or income play any major role in influencing reading? Has anyone conducted any such survey? Could you tell me the results that you got? Can you give me any information on this - any institute or person who has conducted such a survey and why? I am planning to hold such a survey, and would appreciate any help/ guidance that you could give me. Thanks & Regards Parinita Samant HexaVarsity Mumbai Library Hexaware Technologies Ltd 152, Millennium Business Park, Sect -IIIA Block, TTC Industrial Area Mahape, Navi Mumbai 400710 67919595 - Xt- 9707 ************************************************************************ *************************************************** This e-mail communication and any attachments may be privileged and confidential to Hexaware and are intended only for the use of the recipients named above. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not review, disclose, disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail and attachments. If you have received this email in error, please delete the same alongwith all attachments thereto and notify us immediately at mailadmin(a)hexaware.com . ************************************************************************ *************************************************** DISCLAIMER:The information in this message may be privileged. If you have received it by mistake please notify the sender by return e-mail and delete the message from your system. Any unauthorised use or dissemination of this message in whole or in part is strictly prohibited. Any information in this message that does not relate to official business shall be understood to be neither given nor endorsed by the Confederation of Indian Industry.

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concerns of libraries and librarians
by Enukonda Rama Reddy 17 Oct '06

17 Oct '06

Dear Professional colleagues, I am writing to get views of this group on the pressing issues that Indian Libraries and Library Users are facing. It is a good idea to look into them with more focus to improve the functioning of our libraries in providing the services to the users. We constantly hear the decline in the Users coming to the libraries. We need to identify the reasons. There may be many reasons. We may have to restructure our libraries and also the way we are working now. It is time we identify the core issues that the libraries need to concentrate on from the Library Users point of view. I retired as Librarian, University of Hyderabad during the early part of 2006. regards, Rama Reddy Dr. E. Rama Reddy University Librarian (Retd.), Flat # 4, Siddartha Apartments 22 Santosh Nagar Colony, Mehdipatnam HYDERABAD-500 028, A.P. India Tel: 040-2351-2877 mobile: 094404 18727 enukondar(a)yahoo.co.in enukondar(a)gmail.com --------------------------------- Find out what India is talking about on - Yahoo! Answers India Send FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger Version 8. Get it NOW Dear Professional colleagues, I am writing to get views of this group on the pressing issues that Indian Libraries and Library Users are facing. It is a good idea to look into them with more focus to improve the functioning of our libraries in providing the services to the users. We constantly hear the decline in the Users coming to the libraries. We need to identify the reasons. There may be many reasons. We may have to restructure our libraries and also the way we are working now. It is time we identify the core issues that the libraries need to concentrate on from the Library Users point of view. I retired as Librarian, University of Hyderabad during the early part of 2006. regards, Rama Reddy Dr. E. Rama Reddy University Librarian (Retd.), Flat # 4, Siddartha Apartments 22 Santosh Nagar Colony, Mehdipatnam HYDERABAD-500 028, A.P. India Tel: 040-2351-2877 mobile: 094404 18727 mailto:enukondar@yahoo.co.in enukondar(a)yahoo.co.in mailto:enukondar@gmail.com enukondar(a)gmail.com Find out what India is talking about on - http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/yanswers/*http://in.answers.yahoo.com/ Yahoo! Answers India Send FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger Version 8. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/messengertagline/*http://in.messenger.yahoo.… Get it NOW

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Declining reading habits
by Parinita Samant 17 Oct '06

17 Oct '06

Dear All, Declining reading habits are one of the major concerns of nearly all libraries today. Has anyone conducted a survey regarding why the reading habits are declining? What is it that users prefer to read today, and why? Does age, marital status, position or income play any major role in influencing reading? Has anyone conducted any such survey? Could you tell me the results that you got? Can you give me any information on this - any institute or person who has conducted such a survey and why? I am planning to hold such a survey, and would appreciate any help/ guidance that you could give me. Thanks & Regards Parinita Samant HexaVarsity Mumbai Library Hexaware Technologies Ltd 152, Millennium Business Park, Sect -IIIA Block, TTC Industrial Area Mahape, Navi Mumbai 400710 67919595 - Xt- 9707 *************************************************************************************************************************** This e-mail communication and any attachments may be privileged and confidential to Hexaware and are intended only for the use of the recipients named above. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not review, disclose, disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail and attachments. If you have received this email in error, please delete the same alongwith all attachments thereto and notify us immediately at mailadmin(a)hexaware.com . *************************************************************************************************************************** Declining reading habits Dear All, Declining reading habits are one of the major concerns of nearly all libraries today. Has anyone conducted a survey regarding why the reading habits are declining? What is it that users prefer to read today, a nd why? Does age, marital status, position or income play any major role in influencing reading? Has anyone conducted any such survey? Could you tell me the results that you got? Can you give me any information on this – any institute or person who has conducted such a survey and why? I am planning to hold such a survey, and would appreciate any help/ guidance that you could give me. [A] Thanks &� Regards � Parinita Samant HexaVarsity Mumbai Library Hexaware Technologies Ltd 152, Millennium Business Park, Sect -IIIA Block, TTC Industrial Area Mahape, Navi Mumbai 400710 67919595 - Xt- 9707 *************************************************************************************************************************** This e-mail communication and any attachments may be privileged and confidential to Hexaware and are intended only for the use of the recipients named above. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not review, disclose, disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail and attachments. If you have received this email in error, please delete the same alongwith all attachments thereto and notify us immediately at mailadmin(a)hexaware.com . ***************************************************************************************************************************

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Very good article on Actionable URLs (Dlib October 2006)
by noufal palliparamban 17 Oct '06

17 Oct '06

Please see the link http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october06/cole/10cole.html Regards Noufal.P.P IIT Kanpur --------------------------------- Find out what India is talking about on - Yahoo! Answers India Send FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger Version 8. Get it NOW Please see the link http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october06/cole/10cole.html http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october06/cole/10cole.html Regards Noufal.P.P IIT Kanpur Find out what India is talking about on - http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/yanswers/*http://in.answers.yahoo.com/ Yahoo! Answers India Send FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger Version 8. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/in/messengertagline/*http://in.messenger.yahoo.… Get it NOW

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