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Books across the border
by Jayadev P Hiremath 25 Apr '05

25 Apr '05

Books across the border Publishers look to storm Wagah FE "We want to set up three Corner Bookstores in Lahore by the year-end, one in a coffee parlour," says Wadhwa, who also has his eye on Indian border cities like Amritsar and Ludhiana. The Corner Bookstore will also strengthen its presence in the Urdu-speaking belt of Lucknow and Kanpur. "The Urdu publishing industry is pretty vibrant in Pakistan. There is big demand for good Urdu literature in India. So we'll try to tie up with local publishers in Pakistan," says Wadhwa. Last August, Najam Sethi, chief of Vanguard Books, Lahore, entered into an distribution agreement with Foundation Books of India, New Delhi. The editor of The Friday Times had enthused that Pakistani books would be available in India for the first time since 1965. "Indian audiences are keen to read literature, Islamic and philosophy books by Pakistani authors," says Manas Saikia, chief executive, Foundation Books. Even better, Delhi-based Manohar Publishers' turnover from Pakistan is Rs 10 lakh, with their books distributed in Pakistan by Vanguard Books. Last month, The Pakistan Publishers and Booksellers Association, in collaboration with the Federation of Indian Publishers, organised the Lahore international book fair. About 40 Indian publishers participated in LIFB and over 150 people from the country visited Lahore. Indian publishers who participated in the fair included names like National Book Trust, Jaico, Orient Longman, Oxford, Sage and S Chand. "Pakistan is a good market for technical and scientific books. Moreover, the textbook market is the biggest in the country," says Ramesh Jain, proprietor of Manohar Publishers. Manohar is also in talks with publisher/bookseller Feroze Sons of Lahore and is looking at a co-publication arrangement. "They are one of the oldest publishers in Pakistan," says Jain. Meanwhile, Delhi-based Sage Publications has published two books written by Pakistani authors in the recent past. Politics of Identity: Ethnic Nationalism and the State of Pakistan by Adeel Khan has done pretty well in India. " We have managed to sell about 400-500 copies in the last five months. The response has been pretty encouraging," says Tejeshwar Singh, managing director, Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd. Sage also publishes Asian Journal of Management. The material is put together by faculty members of the prestigious Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). "We have good relations with a few distributors and stockists in Pakistan. We have done a few special promotions with them in the recent past. The reading interests across the border are pretty much similar," comments Singh. With Track Two diplomacy gaining ground, publishers feel that books can help remove misconceptions that prevail in both countries. "They help in sharing points of view. We come to know their version of a particular subject," says Singh of Sage. Adds Jain,"Hordes of Pakistani publishers descend on the Delhi Book Fair and buy loads of books." But the trade is not without its pitfalls. For one, Indian books are being rampantly pirated across the border. "Once the market opens up and the book trade gains momentum, then piracy will automatically be curtailed," points out Jain. "Piracy knows no nationality. This is not particular to Indo-Pak trade," chuckles Singh. As book trade gains momentum, a larger issue pertains to tackling culturally sensitive issues. "Pakistanis fear cultural invasion from India," points out an industry source. For instance, books on Bollywood and Indian music have a huge fan follwing across the border. "90% of our books are international ones and as a policy we don't stock non-secular and culturally sensitive books," says Wadhwa of the Corner Bookstore.

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Fw: Literature on Gartner report
by Mailing List Manager 25 Apr '05

25 Apr '05

Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 12:22:56 +0530 From: Appasaheb Naikal <naikal(a)mahindrabt.com> Dear All, Please read my request as "Gartner report on software benchmark" With regards Appasaheb Naikal MBT Mumbai Library Tel: 022- 56792000 Ext. 7438 Fax: 022-28478959 Library URL: http://10.3.4.130/slim Visit us at: www.mahindrabt.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Appasaheb Naikal To: LIS Net yahoo group Cc: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in ; nmlis(a)yahoogroups.com Sent: April 25, 2005 11:12 AM Subject: Literature on Gardner report Dear Professionals, I am looking for some latest reports or links on "Gardner's report on software benchmark" Request you to share if you have any literature on this subject. Thanks in advance With regards Appasaheb Naikal MBT Mumbai Library Tel: 022- 56792000 Ext. 7438 Fax: 022-28478959 Visit us at: www.mahindrabt.com

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Literature on Gardner report
by Appasaheb Naikal 25 Apr '05

25 Apr '05

Dear Professionals, I am looking for some latest reports or links on "Gardner's report on software benchmark" Request you to share if you have any literature on this subject. Thanks in advance With regards Appasaheb Naikal MBT Mumbai Library Tel: 022- 56792000 Ext. 7438 Fax: 022-28478959 Visit us at: www.mahindrabt.com ********************************************************* Disclaimer: The contents of this E-mail (including the contents of the enclosure(s) or attachment(s) if any) are privileged and confidential material of MBT and should not be disclosed to, used by or copied in any manner by anyone other than the intended addressee(s). In case you are not the desired addressee, you should delete this message and/or re-direct it to the sender. The views expressed in this E-mail message (including the enclosure(s) or attachment(s) if any) are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views of MBT. This e-mail message including attachment/(s), if any, is believed to be free of any virus. However, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that it is virus free and MBT is not responsible for any loss or damage arising in any way from its use ******************************************************** Dear Professionals, I am looking for some latest reports or links on "Gardner's report on software benchmark" Request you to share if you have any literature on this subject. Thanks in advance With regards Appasaheb Naikal MBT Mumbai Library Tel: 022- 56792000 Ext. 7438 Fax: 022-28478959 Visit us at: http://www.mahindrabt.com www.mahindrabt.com ********************************************************* Disclaimer: The contents of this E-mail (including the contents of the enclosure(s) or attachment(s) if any) are privileged and confidential material of MBT and should not be disclosed to, used by or copied in any manner by anyone other than the intended addressee(s). In case you are not the desired addressee, you should delete this message and/or re-direct it to the sender. The views expressed in this E-mail message (including the enclosure(s) or attachment(s) if any) are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views of MBT. This e-mail message including attachment/(s), if any, is believed to be free of any virus. However, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that it is virus free and MBT is not responsible for any loss or damage arising in any way from its use ********************************************************

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Lecture on "Copyright in the Digital Era"
by Sangeeta Kaul, Network Manager, DELNET 23 Apr '05

23 Apr '05

DELNET-Developing Library Network British Council Division and India International Centre cordially invite you to a lecture on Copyright in the Digital Era by Prof. Paul Sturges Editor of 'International Encyclopedia of Information and Library Science' and Deputy Head, Dept of Information Science, Loughborough University Leicestershire, U.K. on Wednesday, May 4, 2005 at 6:30 pm at the India International Centre (Conference Room I) 40 Max Muller Marg, New Delhi-110003 Tea : 6:00 p.m. RSVP: 24610802 _______________________________________________________________________________ Sangeeta Kaul Network Manager DELNET India International Centre 40 Lodi Estate New Delhi-110003 INDIA Tel.: 91-11-24610802, 24619328 FAX : 91-11-24619325 Web : www.delnet.nic.in ________________________________________________________________________________

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INASP Newsletter No. 28, Spring 2005
by Subbiah Arunachalam 22 Apr '05

22 Apr '05

Friends: Please look up INASP NEWSLETTER No. 28, Spring 2005, devoted to accessing and managing agricultural information. Their website is www.inasp.info and their email address is inasp(a)inasp.info. Arun Friends: Please look up INASP NEWSLETTER No. 28, Spring 2005, devoted to accessing and managing agricultural information. Their website is http://www.inasp.info www.inasp.info and their email address is mailto:inasp@inasp.info inasp(a)inasp.info . Arun

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Innovative e-learning system launched as open source software
by Madhuresh 22 Apr '05

22 Apr '05

Many of you will be interested to know about this s/w. Madhuresh Singhal Aurigene Discovery Technologies Limited, Electronic City, phase II, Hosur Road, Bangalore 560100 Phone 28521314-16 Ext.- 422 Mobile 98861 82822 E-mail: madhureshsinghal(a)yahoo.com http://nettalk2.tripod.com/ -----Original Message----- From: ELEARN-OPENSOURCE [mailto:ELEARN-OPENSOURCE@LST.IIEP-UNESCO.ORG] On Behalf Of David Glasson Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 5:01 AM To: ELEARN-OPENSOURCE(a)LST.IIEP-UNESCO.ORG Subject: [IIEP] LAMS now Open Source Dear All, Please see below the Media Release about LAMS becoming Open Source last Wednesday. All the best, David Glasson Innovative e-learning system launched as open source software April 2005 Following successful trials at Macquarie University and over 40 schools and 35 universities/colleges in UK and Australia during 2004, the revolutionary new e-learning system known as LAMS - the Learning Activity Management System - was officially launched as freely available open source software on Wednesday 13 April. LAMS is an innovative software program that allows teachers to design, manage and deliver online collaborative learning activities while giving students an interactive environment in which to do their work. It is effective in various modes of delivery (face to face, distance), and while it has obvious applications within the school and university sectors, it can be equally well applied to other educational settings, such as corporate and vocational training. Teachers use LAMS to design a sequence of learning activities for students that includes content and collaborative tasks. It then runs the sequence of tasks for students, allowing teachers to monitor and track student progress. It has impressed many senior educators who have followed its progress in a series of trials around the world prior to its official launch, with the software already being used at two of the world's top universities, Oxford and Cambridge, as well as several Australian universities. LAMS is also being trialled in more than 40 schools and 15 polytechnics in Britain, the US and a number of schools in Australia, including Tara Anglican School for Girls, Normanhurst Boys High School and Glenorie Public School. LAMS has the potential to dramatically increase student engagement and learning: in one K-12 school pilot evaluation, only 16 per cent of students were willing to discuss ideas in front of their peers in the classroom, but over 83 per cent of the same students were willing to discuss their ideas via 'chat' and other collaborative facilities within LAMS. "The decision to make LAMS freely available as open source software will be of significant benefit to education worldwide, in keeping with the founding spirit of the World Wide Web," says Professor of Learning Technology at Macquarie University and inventor of LAMS, James Dalziel. "We know from the many trials that LAMS has a profound impact on both teachers and students and could transform not just e-learning, but education itself," Dalziel adds. The open source launch of the software under the General Public Licence (GPL) means that users will be able to look at, use and modify it freely. Linux and Apache are some of the best-known examples of open source software. Open source GPL software is also characterised by the fact that any user who modifies it and then redistributes it, must make the modified version also 'open source' (GPL). LAMS is managed by the not-for-profit LAMS Foundation, with implementation services provided by LAMS International Pty Ltd. Both organisations are supported by Macquarie University. For more information visit www.lamsinternational.com and www.lamsfoundation.org. LAMS was launched as open source software by Macquarie University Vice-Chancellor Professor Di Yerbury on Wednesday 13 April 2005 in the Yerbury Room, Macquarie University. Prior the launch a three-hour pre-launch workshop was held to demonstrate how the concepts of learning design and its implementation in the LAMS software can transform education and training. Contact: David Glasson. dglasson(a)lamsinternational.com. Telephone +61 2 98509793 Jonathan Clare jclare(a)lamsinternational.com. Telephone +61 2 9850 8652 Professor James Dalziel, james(a)lamsfoundation.com. Telephone +0412 512218

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Workshop on ICT for Information Managment at IIT Bombay
by Daulat Jotwani 21 Apr '05

21 Apr '05

Dear All The Central Library, IIT Bombay is organizing a "Workshop on Informtion-communication technologies for Information Management in Scientific & Technical Institutions" on 16-20 May 2005. The workshop is sponsored by the AICTE and INDEST Consortium. The details of the programme etc. can be seen in the attached file. The workshop is mainly targatted at those LIS Professionals who are working in the enginering educational and research institution or INDEST participating institutions or who plan to join the consortium soon. Interested persons may rush their applications immediately. There is no registration fee and accomodation on sharing basis will be provided free. Thanks. -- Daulat Jotwani Librarian Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay Powai, Mumbai 400076 Phone 91-22-25768920, 91-22-25720227

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Article requested
by Yashwant G Kanade 21 Apr '05

21 Apr '05

Dear Members, Could you kindly help me to get this article? L. Rao Ayyagari, W. J. Tietjen, Preliminary isolation of male-inhibitory pheromone of the spider<i>Schizocosa ocreata</i> (Araneae, Lycosidae), Journal of Chemical Ecology (Historical Archive), Volume 13, Issue 2, Feb 1987, Pages 237 - 244 With Regards Yashwant Kanade CES, IISc, Bangalore-12.

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Request for course list
by mallikamh mallikamh 21 Apr '05

21 Apr '05

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Google Rolls out Test of Personalized Search Tool
by Farooque Shaheen 21 Apr '05

21 Apr '05

Users who routinely can't find Web sites they previously located using Google's search engine are getting some help from the Mountain View, California, company. To assist users in looking for previously found, but now misplaced, Web site links, Google is introducing a new service that logs users' Web search queries on the site and the results they click on. To access the service, called My Search History, users need a Google account, which can be obtained for free by entering an e-mail address and a password. Once users log in to the service, all their queries and clicked-on search results are stored in a Google server. A user's search history is password-protected to prevent unauthorized users from accessing it. On the back end, Google is collecting usage information and tying it to the user's log-on information, IP address, browser type, browser language and any cookies that uniquely identify the browser. HOW IT WORKS Users can view their search history by date, or they can search through it from a query box devoted to that purpose. The new service indexes the full text of all Web pages a user clicked on from the results page.Users have the options of suspending the service to prevent it from recording certain searches or of eliminating it altogether. Users can also prune the history list by manually removing items. Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449 Users who routinely can't find Web sites they previously located using Google's search engine are getting some help from the Mountain View, California, company. To assist users in looking for previously found, but now misplaced, Web site links, Google is introducing a new service that logs users' Web search queries on the site and the results they click on. To access the service, called My Search History, users need a Google account, which can be obtained for free by entering an e-mail address and a password. Once users log in to the service, all their queries and clicked-on search results are stored in a Google server. A user's search history is password-protected to prevent unauthorized users from accessing it. On the back end, Google is collecting usage information and tying it to the user's log-on information, IP address, browser type, browser language and any cookies that uniquely identify the browser . HOW IT WORKS Users can view their search history by date, or they can search through it from a query box devoted to that purpose. The new service indexes the full text of all Web pages a user clicked on from the results page.Users have the options of suspending the service to prevent it from recording certain searches or of eliminating it altogether. Users can also prune the history list by manually removing items. Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor India Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105 Mobile-9342507449

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