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Faculty Status for Academic Library Professionals
by Pandurang Konnur 28 Sep '16

28 Sep '16

*Dear Professional Friends,* I am happy to inform all of you that the IALA has filed its memorandum to the Pay Review Committee of UGC for consideration of including our demands in the recommendations of 7th PRC of UGC. Some time back I had given a call through this forum to all the Academic Librarians to send the anomalies to be included in our appeal. I thank everybody who have responded to our call. We have tried our best it include all the sentiments of our Academic Librarians in the petition. The following are the points which we have included in our 26 pages of our petition. If at all there are any more issues left out, I request all of you to kindly alert us. We will include the same in another additional representation. If at all any other LIS Professional Associations are desirous of using our petition and submit to the PRC, they are most welcome. Please send us an email; we will forward you the text of the petition. You may add/delete/modify as per your requirement and submit the same to the PRC. We will again share our PPTs to be presented before the PRC visit to our regions and project our profession unitedly. Thanking you, Dr.P.V.Konnur President IALA pvkonnur(a)gmail.com Points included in the Memorandum *Faculty Status for **Academic Library Professionals:* A concept document on the provision of faculty status to the library professionals in Universities and Colleges submitted by INDIAN ACADEMIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION (Regd) Bangalore · *Indian Academic Library Association* · *Knowledge Society* · *National Knowledge Commission Recommendations on Libraries* · *Recommendations: * · *Staffing requirement in Academic Libraries* · *Skills required to fulfill the changing role of libraries* · *Current Status of Higher Education* · *Excellence in Academics: Recommendation of Various Committees* · *Higher Education Commissions’ & Expert Committees’ Recommendations on the Importance of Library in Higher Education:* · *Academic Role of Librarians at par with Teachers* · *Standard criteria for Academic Status* · *Academic Responsibility of Librarians* · *Impact of Information and Communication Technology on Libraries * · *Role of Librarians in Digital Environment * · *New Skills Required for Changing Role of Librarian* · *Impact of Academic Status* · Standard Parameters Used By Pay Review Committees o *Direct Recruitments:* o *Career Advancement:* · *Anomalies in the UGC Regulations 2010 & Remedial Measures* · Comparative Statement of Anomalies between Faculty and Library Positions · *Promotional Opportunities for Information Scientists* · *Recommended Measures for the Improvement of Status of Librarians in Universities and Colleges in the Country* · *Extend New Designations of Asst. Professor, Associate Professor and Professor in Library and Information Services to Librarians in Universities and Colleges for uniformity and Parity* · *Impact of new designation of Asst. Professor, Associate Professor and Professor in Library and Information Services to librarians in Universities and Colleges* · *Prescribe Same Uniform qualifications and experience of Faculty for appointment and Promotion of Librarians* · *Provide same pay scales, status and Career Advancement promotional opportunities of faculty to that of* *Librarians.* · *Extend all other benefits like study leave, sabbatical leave, superannuation age etc of teachers to the Librarians without any discrimination.* · *Constitution of UGC Library Review Committee for University and College Libraries* · *Measures suggested for the improvement of academic libraries in the county are give in * · *Summary of Recommended Measures* · *Conclusion * · *Annexure – I* · *Measures suggested for the improvement of Academic Libraries in India* · *Annexure –II* · *Designations of Heads of Libraries of the Prestigious National R & D Institutions* *Dr. P. V. Konnur* *Director Prasaranga,* *Adviser, VTU Consortium,* *Visvesvaraya Technological University,* *Belagavi - 590 018* Present Res: # 1075, "*Ganga Nivas*" 5th 'A' Main, Ist stage, IInd Phase, Gokul, Bangalore- 560 054 Karnataka State, (India) Mobile : 09449679737 E-Mail : pvkonnur(a)gmail.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Student's Seminar-4
by drtc＠isibang.ac.in 28 Sep '16

28 Sep '16

INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE Documentation Research & Training Centre 8th Mile, Mysore Road, RVCE Post Bangalore, 560 059 SEMINAR-4 Record to Data: An evolving scenario of Bibliographic information. Abstract Library record has been designed to be read and interpreted by the librarians and users. The rich record management is one of the forte of librarianship and in today's web environment, these bibliographic records can be an asset in making the web smarter. Librarians have achieved in making records machine readable and facilitate the exchange of records within the community, but there is a gap to enable the machine to manage and interpret these records so as to integrate into applications to provide information services on the Internet. Unless we call upon these changing course, libraries are bound to fall out. Therefore, it has become imperative to revamp or reconstruct in the light of semantic web so that Libraries remain relevant. Changes are seen in the services that libraries provide, the content and the information that is created and disseminated by making data in library silos visible on the web, so as to achieve rich user experience in the information ecosystem. In this seminar, the importance of Bibliographic Record shall be discussed, in relation to, changing scenario of the web and the evolutionary activity towards Bibliographic information. The different models, the framework that is being developed, the working groups, projects based on this advancement and the open challenges, shall be a part of the discussion. Speaker: ALOVI ZHIMOMI Date: 29-09-2016 Time: 2 p.m. Venue: DRTC Class Room(G-21), ISI Bangalore. All are cordially invited. Coordinator Dr. Biswanath Dutta -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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National Digital Library OR National Metadata Library OR National Union Catalogue ?
by vinod mishra 27 Sep '16

27 Sep '16

Dear All, National Digital Library (NDL) hosted by IIT Kharagpur https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/index.php seems to be one of the biggest and best project to provide full text educational materials for all.I just searched and find it is nothing but collection of metadata from various sources and has been dumped at one place. For example as per its link top items are: Book 715536 Article 279582 Audio lecture 206336 Thesis 95259 Chapter 49502 Journal 37726 Question paper 33888 But i don't think all are available in full text even 30/40 % and the full text which is available is either already available in open access or subscribed by the concern institutes. For example the e-books, articles etc. Further, The thesis of IIT'S/IIM'S/IISc are not at all available on this portal and you may get error message while attempting to access full text as they are on Intranet. Further, in many cases you may not get resource location information as usually provided in Union catalogue for example Springer e-books catalogue has been blindly uploaded their without full text access or location of library where full text is subscribed. So my view is as per its present shape its name should be National Metadata Library (NML) . Please suggest or give your feedback as i am too much expecting from this huge amount project. -- With Regards, Vinod Kumar Mishra, Assistant Librarian, Biju Patnaik Central Library (BPCL), NIT Rourkela, Sundergadh-769008, Odisha, India. Mob:91+9439420860 Website: http://mishravk.com/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Please upload this news in LIS-Forum
by Mohan V 27 Sep '16

27 Sep '16

*National Workshop cum Training on Digital Library Management* 25-26 November 2016 to be held at CMFRI Cochin-682018 *Library and Documentation Centre* of CMFRI is one of the best-specialized libraries in the field of fisheries and marine science and plays a vital role in the collection building and dissemination of scientific information to meet the present and future needs of the Institute. The state of the art library has a good collection of books and journals and over 300 scientific periodicals. The digital library with substantial digital resources including videos is accessible from the Headquarters at Kochi as well as from the Regional/Research Centres. Library extends its services to users at HQs, Regional/Research Centres of CMFRI and also to students and researchers from other Institutions, State Fisheries Departments, Universities and Colleges. *About the Workshop cum Training* The Workshop aims to share among library professionals new concepts of digital storage of Information as well as retrieval, management of the challenges in digital libraries with the growing impact of modern Information technologies in collection development, organization, utilization and services of information, networking of libraries, consortia mode of acquisition and maintenance of digital libraries and developing soft skills of library professionals. *Topics * o Digital and Open Access Library o Digitization & Networking o Digital Preservation o Open Source Software o Multimedia and Mobile applications o IPR, Copyright and Open Access Digital divide o Institutional Open Access Repository o Library Consortium o Crisis Management in Digital Libraries *Schedule* Day 1-Training Sessions (5) by Experts in the field Day 2 - Paper Presentations Awards Best Oral Presentation (3) *Call for Papers* Participants are invited to submit original articles related to all aspects of Digital knowledge Management. Accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings. Soft copies of the papers should be submitted as soft copies as email attachments to *cmfrilibrary(a)gmail.com* <cmfrilibrary(a)gmail.com> *Guidelines for Paper Submission* The text of paper should be written in MS Word format with A4 size, 1.25 margins, 12 font size, Times New Roman, 1.15 line space. Paper must be written in English with an abstract. *Registration Information* Registration is limited to 100 participants. *Who can attend?* Library and Information Science professionals in Research Institutes, Universities, Colleges and other Institutions and Library Science Students. Registration Fee o Library Professionals : Rs.1000.00 o Library Science Students : Rs. 500.00 Registration fee includes conference kit, Lunch and refreshments. Registered participants can attend the Conference with or without paper. Dates to Remember Last date for receipt of Abstracts : 15th October 2016 Last date for receipt of Full Paper : 30th October 2016 Last date for Registration : 30th October 2016 *How to apply* Duly filled in application in the enclosed format along with a Demand Draft for the required fee as Registration fee is to be reached at the following address on or before 30th October. Smt. P. Geetha Co-ordinator "*National Workshop cum Training on Digital Library Management”* ICAR - Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Post Box No. 1603, Ernakulam North P.O., Kochi - 682018, Kerala, India Phone: 91 484 2394867/2391407 Extn. 218 Fax: 91 484 2394909/2396685 Email: cmfrilibrary(a)gmail.com Assistant Co-ordinators Dr. V. Mohan Mob No. 9846497631 Shri.ArunSurendran Mob No. 9847539724 *Boarding, Lodging and Travel* Accommodation will be arranged on request. Travel and accommodation expenses to be borne by the participants/sponsoring institutes. *Venue* CMFRI is located near to the High Court of Kerala, Cochin o 4 Km from Ernakulam Junction (South) Railway Station o 2 Km from Ernakulam Town (North) Railway Station o 30 Km from Kochi International Airport -- Dr. V. Mohan Library & Documentation Centre CMFRI Cochin-682018 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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(ICSE) Pattern International school Library books Requirement.
by Dadasaheb Magar 27 Sep '16

27 Sep '16

Dear Professionals, Our Parent organization has decided to start one (*ICSE*) Pattern International school ,concerning to this we need the list of books ,some name of magazines,or concerning other things. so those professionals knows about this ,or suggest source regarding this. Thanks & Regards. Mr. Magar D.S. Spicer Adventist University Pune Mob.no 9970606622 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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workshop on Research Methodology, SPSS, and Reference Management MENDELEY
by Silpa K 27 Sep '16

27 Sep '16

Dear Sir, Central Library of College of Engineering Thalassery, Kannur , Kerala is organizing 5 Day Workshop on *Research Methodology, Data Analysis using SPSS and Reference Management using MENDELEY.* *Date: 18-22* *October **2016 * Venue: College of Engineering Thalassery Resource persons; Dr. K.P. Vijayakumar, Kerala University Dr. Dineshan Koovakai, University of Calicut Mr. Jabir , Research Consultant Fees: Rs.500/- for Non TEQIP Institutions Rs. 2000/- for TEQIP Institutions for more details please visit our Library Website *library.cethalassery.in <http://library.cethalassery.in> * Participation: priority given to participants from kerala. *Silpa K.* Librarian College of Engineering Thalassery, Kannur, Kerala 9447074987, 9400057376 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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NBA Accreditation of Engineering Library reg.
by Joseph Zacharia 27 Sep '16

27 Sep '16

Dear friends/Sirs, I would like to know the details regarding *NBA accreditation of Engineering Institution LIBRARY*. Anybody among us who have knowledge in this regard, may kindly provide me the guidelines. Thanks in advance. JOSEPH ZACHARIA +91 9947997767 -- Regards *JOSEPH ZACHARIA* *Chakkalackel (H)* *Edathua P O-689 573* *Alappuzha (Dist.)* *Mob: +91 9947997767* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Vacancy of Assistant Librarian in Indian Institute of Information Technology Vadodara (IIIT Vadodara)
by Subhodip Bid 26 Sep '16

26 Sep '16

*Number of Vacancy: *1 Posts *Educational Qualification:* Master's degree in Library Science / Information Science / Documentation science or an equivalent professional degree with at least 55% marks or equivalent grade point average with relevant experience of six years after the qualifying degree, out of which one year should be in a supervisory post with GP of Rs. 4800 and above or equivalent. Applicants should have demonstrated the ability to use library software and experience in library computerization. For applicants with Ph.D. degree in relevant discipline, duration of Ph.D. up to three years will be counted towards experience. *Pay Scale:* *INR* Rs. 15600-39100 + Grade Pay Rs. 5400/- *Age Limit:* 40 years. *Last Date:* 13th October 2016 For more details: http://iiitvadodara.ac.in/pdf/Advt2.pdf -- SUBHODIP BID M.Sc,M.L.I.S, AIS Library & Information Assistant National Library, Kolkata -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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NET Coaching in Library & Information Science in Thrissur
by mailman＠ncsi.iisc.ernet.in 25 Sep '16

25 Sep '16

---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: NET Coaching in Library & Information Science in Thrissur From: "Dr. A.T. Francis" <francisaloor(a)yahoo.com> Date: Sun, September 25, 2016 9:36 am -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Academic Library Association (ALA) and Kerala Library Association(KLA) are jointly organizing Free NET Coaching in Library & Information Science for the December 2016 Examination. Classes are going in Kerala Agricultural University (KAU) Central Library, Vellanikkara, Thrissur, during Sundays and holidays.This is the 7th Coaching Programme conducted in Thrissur, the 1st, 5th and 6th Batches were held in KAU and the 2nd, 3rd and 4th in St. Thomas College, Thrissur. A good number of students have already cleared NET and some of them with JRF through this coaching.Fore more details and registration contact: Dr. A.T. Francis, University Librarian, KAU, President, ALA, President, KLA Thrissur Region & Course Director: 9496839409; francislaoor(a)yahoo.com or Shri. K. Rajendran, Chief Librarian, Kerala Sahitya Akademy & Secretary, KLA Thrissur Region: 9446637555 or Sri. Sanjo Jose, Librarian, St. Thomas' College, Thrissur & General Secretary, ALA: 8156884113 or Dr. V.S. Swapna, Treasurer, ALA: 9446434149. Dr. A.T. FRANCIS, MCom, MLISc, NET, PhD UNIVERSITY LIBRARIAN Kerala Agricultural University Thrissur - 680 656, India, 91-9496839409 (m) francisaloor(a)yahoo.com

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INFORMATICS STUDIES: Invitation to Contribute Papers for Volume 4 (Issue 1) 2017
by Academic Librarians' Association India 25 Sep '16

25 Sep '16

*INFORMATICS STUDIES: Invitation to Contribute Papers for Volume 4 (Issue 1) 2017* Informatics Studies the journal promoted by Centre for Informatics Research and Development launched is a media for discussing the emerging trends in theory and application of Information Science. The journal will focus on –Information Infrastructures, Knowledge Management, Institutional Repositories, Digital Library/Archive, Cloud Computing Solutions for Libraries, Unicode, Multi-linguality and Interoperability Issues, Thesauri and Ontologies, Semantics, Metadata and Retrieval, Resources Discovery Solutions, Online Resources Usability Issues, Open Access Initiatives, OAI –PMH, MARC 21, Consortia, IPR, Information Literacy, Training and education of Professionals, Performance Measurement and Metrics, Setting Service Quality Standards etc. Informatics Studies is a peer reviewed journal with ISSN: 2320-530X. Detailed list of topics to be covered by the journal, and author guidelines are available at informaticsstudies.in Informatics Studies Volume 3 Issue 4 (October – December 2016) will be published in 1st October 2016. Authors of the earlier volumes include: Anjali Gulati; Antonella De Robbio; Bino Jose; Chithra, J S; Egbert de Smet; Ernest J Mann; Ernesto Spinak; Gupta, B M; Imma Subirats Coll, Jasimudeen S; Jayapradeep, M; John Brownlee; Jon Gregson; Nason Bimbe; Patrick R Penland; Rachel Playforth; Rajendran, K; Ram Awatar Ojha; Ramina Mukundan; Ritu Gupta; Sufian Ahmed; Tomy Varghese; Vishnu V A. We are happy to invite research papers for publication in Informatics Studies Volume 4 Issue 1 to be published in January 2017. Papers can be submitted for the issue upto 1st December 2016. Papers can be uploaded at informaticsstudies.in or can be send to: editor(a)informaticsstudies.in as MS Word file attache as per standards prescribed in the journal website. Dr. R. Raman Nair. Editor, Informatics Studies, Centre for Informatics Research and Development, Trivandrum – 69043, India -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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