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E-Content 2016 - Keynote Speakers announced
by Soji Mathew 11 Nov '16

11 Nov '16

Dear Forum members, Greetings from Informatics! We are pleased to announce the Keynote speakers for E-Content 2016 - "Library Services & Management - A Platform Approach". I. Ahmedabad - Tuesday, November 22, 2016 Dr. Jagdish Arora - Director, INFLIBNET Centre II. Bhubaneswar - Thursday, November 24, 2016 Prof. R. V. Rajakumar - Director, Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar III. Chandigarh - Friday, November 25, 2016 Prof. A. K. Grover - Vice Chancellor, Panjab University IV. Hyderabad - Monday, November 21, 2016 will be announced soon Please register yourself for participating in the seminar to listen to these eminent speakers. Registration is mandatory and free. Kindly visit https://goo.gl/cvh0eX for registration. Hurry up... Only few seats left... Thank you. Regards, E-Content 2016 Team Informatics, Bangalore events(a)informaticsglobal.com -- *Confidentiality Notice: *T*his electronic message transmission, including any attachment(s), may contain confidential, proprietary, or privileged information from Informatics Publishing Limited. If you are not the intended recipient, be advised that any dissemination, copying, distribution, printing or use of the contents of the information contained in this electronic message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this electronic message by error, please destroy all copies of the message and contact the sender immediately by either replying to this message or calling 91-80-40387777.* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Shodhganga not popular in some TN universities
by Subbiah Arunachalam 11 Nov '16

11 Nov '16

Not all universities in Tamil Nadu seem to be keen to place the Ph D theses in the designated national repository (Shodhganga). University of Madras has deposited less than 800 and Annamalai University less than 400. Madurai Kamaraj University is in with a single digit presence. Please see < http://m.thehindu.com/news/cities/Madurai/mku-yet-to-make-its-theses-availa… >. In contrast, Anna University has more than 3,900 and Bharathiar Univrersity more than 3,200. Bharathidasan University has about 2,900 and Mnonmaniam Sundaranar has about 2,300. Research scholars will benefit by placing their theses in a national open access repository. It should not be difficult at all as virtually all theses now are born digital (composed on PCs / laptops). MKU yet to make its theses available in ‘Shodhganga’ Updated: November 10, 2016 05:36 IST PonVasanth Arunachalam [image: http://m.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/03075/09Nov_MAPVANS2__GU_3075028d.…] *1,12,500 theses from 280 universities have been made available in the portal* The Ph. D theses available in Madurai Kamaraj Unviersity, numbering around 4,000, were yet to be made available in ‘Shodhganga’ portal, the national open access platform for research work. This is despite signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) way back in 2012 with Information and Library Network Centre (INFLIBNET Centre) of University Grants Commission, which is managing the portal. ‘Shodhganga’ was launched in 2011 with the objective of making all research theses from universities in India available on a single platform. Apart from being a single repository to access research work from across the country based on research areas and other categories, the initiative also aimed at reducing plagiarism in research work. According to data available in ‘Shodhganga,’ around 1,12,500 theses from nearly 280 universities have so far been made available in the portal. However, the contribution from MKU has been just one so far, a theses from Department of Library Sciences, uploaded in 2015. In comparison, majority of the State-run universities have made hundreds of their theses available in the platform. For instance, Anna University tops the list in Tamil Nadu with 3,969 theses available in the portal. Universities from southern districts like Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Alagappa University and Mother Teresa Women’s University have also made 2319, 350 and 253 theses available respectively. A senior professor from the university said that there were exemplary research work done in MKU in the past, particularly from departments like School of Social Sciences and School of Biological Sciences, which if made available in the portal would be of immense use to researchers. A senior official from the university blamed the delay on INFLIBNET Centre. He said that there were about 3,500 theses in the library which were to be digitized from printed format, which would be a labour intensive work involving scanning of lakhs of pages. “As per the MoU, INFLIBNET Centre had to provide fund for the digitisation work. But it is yet to be sanctioned,” he said. He added that approval was pending from INFLIBNET Centre even to upload 603 theses submitted to MKU in the recent years, which were already available in the digital format. -- Arun http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4658 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9925-2009 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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International Conference on “Current Trends in Library and Information Services”-CTLIS-2017 @ DBIT
by Vinod Kumar Boyanagari 11 Nov '16

11 Nov '16

Dear Sir / Madam, It gives me enormous pleasure to inform you Don Bosco Institute of Technology (DBIT) Library has organizing a International Conference on “Current Trends in Library and Information Services”-CTLIS-2017 during 5th to 7th January, 2017. We request you to make the conference a success with your participation and sharing your valuable experience and expertise with us. *Paper can submit on the following Themes:* Applications of Tools & Technologies in LIS Best Practice & Case Studies Collection Development Electronic Resources Human Resources Management in Library Information and Knowledge Services Information Literacy IOT & Library Apps Knowledge Organisation & Retrieval Library Automation & open Source Software Marketing of information Resources & Services Resource Sharing Application of Social Media in LIS *For more details please visit* : http://www.icctest.in/call.html *Contact Info:* Mr. Somaraya B Tallolli Librarian & Organising co-chair Don Bosco Institute of Technology Bangaluru, Karnataka, India sbtallolli(a)gmail.com +91 94 49960206, 8553948128 With regards, B.VINOD KUMAR ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN M.S.RAMAIAH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (AUTONOMOUS) ISO 9001-2008 Certified Institution and Accredited by NBA M.S.RAMAIAH NAGAR BANGALORE 560054 PH: 080 23600822/23606934 EXT 312 & 107 MOB: 9035756919 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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paper
by Subhash Khode 10 Nov '16

10 Nov '16

Dear Librarians Kindly arrange following paper for me Mark Stover <http://www.emeraldinsight.com/author/Stover%2C+Mark>, "Making tacit knowledge explicit: the Ready Reference Database as codified knowledge",Reference Services Review, (2004) Vol. 32 Iss: 2, pp.164 - 173 Dr. Subhash Khode Librarian Shri Vaishnav Vidyapeeth University, Indore -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Article Request
by Rajesh K 10 Nov '16

10 Nov '16

Dear professionals, Does anybody has access to the full text of the following article pls send to me. as it is urgently required by one of our research scholar. The details are as below : *Back to definitions: Cognition, semantics, and lexicography -Anna Wierzbicka <https://www.degruyter.com/abstract/j/lexi.1992.8.issue-1/9783110244120.146/…>* Thanks and Regards, Rajesh K Library Assistant NIAS Bengaluru -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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English Proficiency Programme by Prof Bhaskar Dasgupta, IIT Kanpur January 2017
by Bhavesh Patel 10 Nov '16

10 Nov '16

I am happy to share you the information regarding “English Proficiency Programme by Prof. Bhaskar Dasgupta, IIT Kanpur” You will find the purpose of this initiativehttp://home.iitk.ac.in/~dasgupta/teaching/English/ EPPTheme.pdf . This is one the best course I have came across through NPTEL Certification Course in 2015. Now IIT Kanpur offering this course online mode. Anybody can participate in this course. English proficiency is most important requirement for LIS professional in their career. English improvement need systematic efforts and this course definitely benefit the LIS professionals. I request all LIS professionals to join the course and reap the benefit for the future career success. Course duration is four month and course fee is only Rs 1500/- Course "PELT 2017" is starting from January 2017 , http://home.iitk.ac.in/~dasgupta/teaching/English/EPP2017.html [For NPTEL 2015 course lecture, please visit You Tube and Search the keywords combination “bhaskar dasgupta” and “NOC15 Jul-Sep HS12 <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWl0DV6O5bY9eClflK2vJQA>”. Listen Video 1 about the Introduction Lecture.] -- ******************************************************************With Warm Regards,* *Bhavesh Patel* *Librarian,* *Gharada Institute of Technology (GIT),* *A/P - Lavel, Tal - Khed, Dist. Ratnagiri- 415 708Pin code - 415 708. * *Tel. 91 2356 262798 Ext. 270* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Libraries are not just places for reading
by Subbiah Arunachalam 10 Nov '16

10 Nov '16

Public libraries can be 'human libraries': http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-37833302 Please don't miss the video. Best wishes. Arun http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4658 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9925-2009 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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IR in China
by Subbiah Arunachalam 10 Nov '16

10 Nov '16

China is doing well in the Institutional Repositories space. https://blogs.openaire.eu/?p=1342 Arun http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4658 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9925-2009 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Fwd: Internet's Core Resources are a Global Public Good - They Cannot Remain Subject to One Country's Jurisdiction
by Subbiah Arunachalam 10 Nov '16

10 Nov '16

Friends: All of us information professionals and the communities we serve have a stake in the Internet and how it is managed. Internet is a public good and it should remain that way for ever. Arun http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4658 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9925-2009 *Subject: Internet's Core Resources are a Global Public Good - They Cannot Remain Subject to One Country's Jurisdiction* This statement was issued by 8 Indian civil society organizations, supported by 2 key global networks, involved with internet governance issues, to the meeting of ICANN in Hyderabad, India from 3 to 9 November 2016. The Centre for Internet & Society was one of the 8 organizations that drafted this statement. Recently, the US gave up its role of signing entries to the Internet's root zone file, which represents the addressing system for the global Internet. This is about the Internet addresses that end with .com, .net, and so on, and the numbers associated with each of them that help us navigate the Internet. We thank and congratulate the US government for taking this important step in the right direction. However, the organisation that manages this system, ICANN,[1] <http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/internets-core-resources-are-…> a US non-profit, continues to be under US jurisdiction, and hence subject to its courts, legislature and executive agencies. Keeping such an important global public infrastructure under US jurisdiction is expected to become a very problematic means of extending US laws and policies across the world. We the undersigned therefore appeal that urgent steps be taken to transit ICANN from its current US jurisdiction. Only then can ICANN become a truly global organisation.[2] <http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/internets-core-resources-are-…> We would like to make it clear that our objection is not directed particularly against the US; we are simply against an important global public infrastructure being subject to a single country's jurisdiction. *Domain name system as a key lever of global control* A few new top level domains like .xxx and .africa are already under litigation in the US, whereby there is every chance that its law could interfere with ICANN's (global) policy decisions. Businesses in different parts of the world seeking top level domain names like .Amazon, and, hypothetically, .Ghaniancompany, will have to be mindful of de facto extension of US jurisdiction over them. US agencies can nullify the allocation of such top level domain names, causing damage to a business similar to that of losing a trade name, plus losing all the 'connections', including email based ones, linked to that domain name. For instance, consider the risks that an Indian generic drugs company, say with a top level domain, .genericdrugs, will remain exposed to. Sector specific top level domain names like .insurance, health, .transport, and so on, are emerging, with clear rules for inclusion-exclusion. These can become de facto global regulatory rules for that sector. .Pharmacy has been allocated to a US pharmaceutical group which decides who gets domain names under it. Public advocacy groups have protested [3] <http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/internets-core-resources-are-…> that these rules will be employed to impose drugs-related US intellectual property standards globally. Similar problematic possibilities can be imagined in other sectors; ICANN could set “safety standards”, as per US law, for obtaining .car. Country domain names like .br and .ph remain subject to US jurisdiction. Iran's .ir was recently sought to be seized by some US private parties because of alleged Iranian support to terrorism. Although the plea was turned down, another court in another case may decide otherwise. With the 'Internet of Things', almost everything, including critical infrastructure, in every country will be on the network. Other countries cannot feel comfortable to have at the core of the Internet’s addressing system an organisation that can be dictated by one government. *ICANN must become a truly global body* Eleven years ago, in 2005, the Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus at the World Summit on the Information Society demanded that ICANN should “negotiate an appropriate host country agreement to replace its California Incorporation”. A process is currently under-way within ICANN to consider the jurisdiction issue. It is important that this process provides recommendations that will enable ICANN to become a truly global body, for appropriate governance of very important global public goods. Below are some options, and there could be others, that are available for ICANN to transit from US jurisdiction. 1. ICANN can get incorporated under international law. Any such agreement should make ICANN an international (not intergovernmental) body, fully preserving current ICANN functions and processes. This does not mean instituting intergovernmental oversight over ICANN. 2. ICANN can move core internet operators among multiple jurisdictions, i.e. ICANN (policy body for Internet identifiers), PTI [4] <http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/internets-core-resources-are-…> (the operational body) and the Root Zone Maintainer must be spread across multiple jurisdictions. With three different jurisdictions over these complementary functions, the possibility of any single one being fruitfully able to interfere in ICANN's global governance role will be minimized. 3. ICANN can institute a fundamental bylaw that its global governance processes will brook no interference from US jurisdiction. If any such interference is encountered, parameters of which can be clearly pre-defined, a process of shifting of ICANN to another jurisdiction will automatically set in. A full set-up – with registered HQ, root file maintenance system, etc – will be kept ready as a redundancy in another jurisdiction for this purpose. [5] <http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/internets-core-resources-are-…> Chances are overwhelming that given the existence of this bylaw, and a fully workable exit option being kept ready at hand, no US state agency, including its courts, will consider it meaningful to try and enforce its writ. This arrangement could therefore act in perpetuity as a guarantee against jurisdictional interference without actually having ICANN to move out of the US. 4. The US government can give ICANN jurisdictional immunity under the United States International Organisations Immunities Act . There is precedent of US giving such immunity to non-profit organisations like ICANN. [6] <http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/internets-core-resources-are-…> Such immunity must be designed in such a way that still ensures ICANN's accountability to the global community, protecting the community's enforcement power and mechanisms. Such immunity extends only to application of public law of the US on ICANN decisions and not private law as chosen by any contracting parties. US registries/registrars, with the assent of ICANN, can choose the jurisdiction of any state of the US for adjudicating their contracts with ICANN. Similarly, registries/registrars from other countries should be able to choose their respective jurisdictions for such contracts. We do acknowledge that, over the years, there has been an appreciable progress in internationalising participation in ICANN's processes, including participation from governments in the Governmental Advisory Committee. However, positive as this is, it does not address the problem of a single country having overall jurisdiction over its decisions. Issued by the following India based organisation: - Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore - IT for Change, Bangalore - Free Software Movement of India, Hyderabad - Society for Knowledge Commons, New Delhi - Digital Empowerment Foundation, New Delhi - Delhi Science Forum, New Delhi - Software Freedom Law Centre - India, New Delhi - Third World Network - India, New Delhi Supported by the following global networks: - Association For Progressive Communications - Just Net Coalition For any clarification or inquiries you may may write to or call: - Parminder Jeet Singh: parminder(a)itforchange.net +91 98459 49445, or - Vidushi Marda: vidushi(a)cis-india.org +91 99860 92252 [1] Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers [2] The “NetMundial Multistakeholder Statement” , endorsed by a large number of governments and other stakeholders, including ICANN and US government, called for ICANN to become a “truly international and global organization”. [3] See, https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130515/00145123090/ big-pharma-firms-seeking-pharmacy-domain-to-crowd-out- legitimate-foreign-pharmacies.shtml [4] Public Technical Identifier, a newly incorporated body to carry out the operational aspects of managing Internet's identifiers. [5] This can be at one of the existing non US global offices of ICANN, or the location of one of the 3 non-US root servers. Section 24.1 of ICANN Bylaws say, “The principal office for the transaction of the business of shall be in the County of Los Angeles, State of California, United States of America. may also have an ad ditional office or offices within or outside the United States of America as it may from time to time establish”. [6] E.g., International Fertilizer and Development Center was designated as a public, nonprofit, international organisation by US Presidential Decree, granting it immunities under United States International Organisations Immunities Act . See https://archive.icann.org/en/psc/corell-24aug06.html ---------

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Vacancy of Asst. Librarian
by C.T.Kantharaj (CTK) 09 Nov '16

09 Nov '16

There is a vacancy for the post of Asst. Librarian in our library. Candidates, who have M.L.I.Sc. qualification and ready to work in shift duties can send their resumes to librarian(a)citech.edu.in with regards, C.T.Kantharaj Librarian, Cambridge Institute of Technology, K.R.Puram, Bangalore - 560036 -------------------------------- Phone: 080-25618798 / 99 Mobile: 9448611800 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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