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Congrats to Dr chakravarthi. New director of RRRLF
by naglaxman 29 Dec '14

29 Dec '14

Hi frnds I join every professional in the country along with members of Telangana Library Association to congratulate Dr Chakravarthi on the occasion of his taking over as DG of RRRLF. We wish him all success in his new job. Hope the public libraries will see a new direction and enhanced growth under his leadership. God bless him and strengthen him to serve more to people of this country under the leadership of Sri MODI JI. LAXMAN RAO On Dec 28, 2014 11:38 AM, "P. S. Mukhopadhyay" <psmukhopadhyay(a)gmail.com> wrote: -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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National Mission on Libraries: Disseminating Knowledge for the Developing Societies
by Bidyarthi Dutta 29 Dec '14

29 Dec '14

Call For Paper: 2nd Announcement UGC Sponsored Two Day National Seminar March 12-13, 2015 Organised by *Department of Library and Information Science* Vidyasagar University Midnapore – 721 102 West Bengal, India Sub Themes - Public Library Networking in India - Public Librarianship in India - Role of National Informatics Centre Network (NICNET), India - Role of Raja Rammohun Roy Library Foundation (RRRLF) - Role of National Knowledge Commission (NKC) - Role of National and Regional Level Library Associations - Creation of National Virtual Libraries of India (NVLI) - Setting up of NML Model Libraries - NML and Public Libraries - NML and Future of Higher Education in India - Recommendations of Different Education Commissions of India and NML - NML and Future of Different Library System We invite articles on the above-mentioned sub-themes. Full paper in MS-Word 2007 format and of maximum 3000 words using APA Style of citation in CD or by e-mail and a hard copy of the same must reach us on or before Friday, January 23, 2015. An edited volume will be published with the selected articles presented in the seminar along with some invited papers. Important dates: Deadline for sending abstract (400-500 words): January 10, 2015; Notification of acceptance of paper: January 15, 2015; Deadline for sending full paper: January 23, 2015; The papers to be submitted must follow the specifications as listed below:- 1. Format: MS-Word 2007 2. Font: Calibri (Body) 3. Font size-Title: 16 4. Font size-Author(s), Address(es) and Affiliation(s), Abstract (400-500 words) and Keywords: 14 5. No. of keywords: 7-10 6. Font size-Main text: 12 7. Indentation: Justified 8. Line spacing: 1.5 9. Margin: 1 on all sides 10. Maximum word limit: 4000 11. Reference style: APA The authors are hereby requested to clearly mention the sub-theme in the abstract. Authors of accepted papers will be communicated through e-mail. The abstract and full paper should be sent to the following address: vudlisseminar2015(a)gmail.com *N.B* *I) All manuscripts should be unpublished original work.* II) An author can contribute more than one paper. However, paper presentation by an individual author would preferably be only once throughout the seminar and for any one of his/her contributed articles. III) The author/authors should provide their name/names, address of the institution along with telephone no., fax no. and e-mail ID. -- Dr. Bidyarthi Dutta Asst. Professor Department of Library & Information Science Vidyasagar University Midnapore-721 102 West Bengal India -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Seeds distributed through public libraries
by Subbiah Arunachalam 29 Dec '14

29 Dec '14

Public libraries not just for lending and reading books. They are also places where you can get seeds (in the US). Says Cindy Conner: "Public libraries have begun to add seeds to their offerings and you will find more seed libraries as part of public library programs than any other venue." < http://www.motherearthnews.com/organic-gardening/seed-libraries-zbcz1412.as… > Arun -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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OA to culture
by Subbiah Arunachalam 29 Dec '14

29 Dec '14

Friends: Although this is a forum for ALL of library and information science, I guess most members are academic librarians interested in STEM and teachers of LIS; public librarians constitute a very small percent of the members. But thankfully special libraries do provide access to what we expect from public libraries. I have enjoyed the benefits of such catholicity of interest of special libraries for a long time. I wish to draw your attention to some great art made openly available. < http://www.openculture.com/2014/12/the-tate-digitizes-70000-works-of-art.ht… >. This site also points to other OA art collections: The British Library Puts 1,000,000 Images into the Public Domain, Making Them Free to Reuse & Remix <http://www.openculture.com/2013/12/british-library-puts-1000000-images-into…> The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 400,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use <http://www.openculture.com/2014/05/the-met-puts-400000-high-res-images-onli…> The National Gallery Makes 25,000 Images of Artwork Freely Available Online <http://www.openculture.com/2013/06/the_national_gallery_makes_25000_images_…> LA County Museum Makes 20,000 Artistic Images Available for Free Download <http://www.openculture.com/2013/03/la_county_museum_makes_20000_artistic_im…> Then, of course, we have DPLA, Europeana, and Internet Archive. There are many only we can digitize all of their collections and make them openly available to the world ... .... Arun -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Sad demise of three Professional veterans
by Ashok Asundi 29 Dec '14

29 Dec '14

Dear All LIS Professionals It is painful to inform you that in the last few days we have lost two well known professional veterans. They are Sri D.N.Nagaraja Rao, Sri T.V. Venkataramanaiah and Dr. Velaga Venkatappaiah. Sri Nagaraja rao served at Mysore in NIE and Ramakrishna School and has been doing free consultancy to many young professionals. Despite his age and unable to walk steadily, he seldom missed any LIS conference and would cherish the proceedings. Has always loved the profession and has also excelled in CDS/ISIS Micro version and has build databases on some rare items. I had an opportunity visit his house at Mysore and saw a good personal library. He was 82 years old. Sri Venkataramanaiah, Ret. (VRS) Dy. Librarian, Bangalore University, Bangalore was a close associate of Sri B.S. Keshavan. Sri Venkatamanaiah worked in National Library of India and was associated with the National Bibliography of Indian Literature compiled under the able editorial leadership of Sri Keshavan. A scholar in Kannada Literature, served the University ardently and built a collection of Kannada Works in Bangalore University known as "Karnatakana" which provided scholars all material under one roof. He has many compilations to his credit. Brought out many bibliographic tools and India Book House assigned work to compile a bibliography of their publications. Sri Venkatamanaiah has compiled works on Idioms on more than two hundred subjects. For example idioms on Bhatki, Jnana, Marriage and so on. I used to get his works on gratis and I have about 100 of them with me. It is treasure house of kannada works and for this tremendous work he was given a commemoration as "SUKTI RATNAKAR". We have lost a great librarian cum kannada scholar. He had a great personal respect, he took VRS because he was abused by a Student at Bangalore University during his service, and the authorities that be then did not make efforts to retain him and let him go. He was 82 years old. Recently I got a message from Dr. Karisiddappa that Dr. Velega Vekatappaiah has passed away. Dr. Velaga an expert in Public Lbrary system and has authored many books in Telagu to popularise the LIS through regional language. Dr Venkatappaiah has also revised in 1994 the model public library Act, first brought out by DR.SRR. He was also closely associated with Prof. PN Kaula and has been looking after his Endowments very well. He was 82 it is very sad hear the demise of these three veterans with whom I had a very close contact and relations and I knew them very well personally. I pray Almighty on behalf all professional fraternity, to their souls to RIP. With profound regards to the departed souls. Prof. A.Y.Asundi -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Nature blog covers India's OA policy
by Subbiah Arunachalam 29 Dec '14

29 Dec '14

A Nature blog has reported the OA policy of DBT and DST. Please see < http://blogs.nature.com/indigenus/2014/12/india-unveils-new-open-access-pol… >. Let us hope other funding agencies, research institutions and universities follow the example of DBT and DST. Arun -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Re: [LIS-Forum] EPW publishes the research paper of a Librarian
by Puna Das 29 Dec '14

29 Dec '14

Dear Dr. Bhattacharyya, Greetings! With the rapid advancement of open access to knowledge due to a strong global open access movement, things are changing very fast. Patnaik (author of this paper) is probably aware of recent developments with respect to rights retention by the authors through the “SPARC Author Addendum to Publication Agreement” (available at www.sparc.arl.org/sites/default/files/Access-Reuse_Addendum.pdf ). This instrument is nowadays used widely across the world to grant license-to-publish (LTP) to the publishers, and retaining copyrights by the authors or their funding/ affiliating institutions. Authors are now empowered to deny any copyright transfer to commercial publishers, rather insist on signing an LTP with the publishers. “DBT and DST Open Access Policy: Policy on Open Access to DBT and DST Funded Research”, approved and finalized in December 2014, is also supportive to the cause of retention of copyrights by the authors. UNESCO just launches an Open Access Curricula for researchers and librarians (available at http://bit.ly/1xb0Pti) This licensing aspect is discussed in great details in a module of this open access curricula. Interested researchers can take a note of this. Patnaik may offer an updated scenario after examining the “SPARC Author Addendum to Publication Agreement”, “DBT and DST Open Access Policy” and “UNESCO Open Access Curricula for Researchers and Librarians”. Her findings will be completely different than what is presented in this paper. With Best Regards Anup ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 14:15:07 +0530 From: "Swati Bhattacharyya ." <swati(a)iimcal.ac.in> To: "lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in" <lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>, MANLIBNET-india(a)yahoogroups.com Subject: [LIS-Forum] EPW publishes the research paper of a Librarian Economic & Political Weekly - popularly known as EPW and a prestigious journal from India has recently published a research paper of Dr. K. Rama Patnaik - the Librarian of IIM Bangalore. Please refer to the issue published in December 20, 2014. Sincerely, Swati Bhattacharyya, Ph.D. Librarian Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Joka, Diamond Harbor Road, Kolkata - 700104, India Phone: 91-33-2467-8300 (Bus extn: 416; Res extn: 106) Library: http://library.iimcal.ac.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Koha latest 3.18.1 Livdvd (easykoha.iso)
by Vinod Kumar Mishra 29 Dec '14

29 Dec '14

Dear All I have just uploaded Koha latest version 3.18.1 livedvd (easykoha.iso) at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/vkmkoha/files/ How to install on dual booting (Windows and Linux): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mg8h394E28 Please Feel free to contact for any help. With regards, Vinod Kumar Mishra, Assistant Librarian, Biju Patnaik Central Library, NIT Rourkela, Mob:91+9439420860 91+6612462103 (O) email: vinod_librarian(a)rediffmail.com : mishravk79(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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Workshop on Knowledge Analytics in Corporate Sector]
by mailman＠ncsi.iisc.ernet.in 29 Dec '14

29 Dec '14

From: Ravichandra <ikrrao(a)hotmail.com> Date: Mon 12/29/2014 10:18 AM Workshop on Knowledge Analytics in Corporate Sector (TEQIP-II/COE Sponsored), Tue, 13 January 2015 Venue: Tech Park Seminar Hall, PES Institute of Technology Who can attend? The workshop should be of interest to students, and teachers of Computer science, knowledge and Information management professionals, Faculty and students of PESIT and other engineering colleges as well as professionals from the industry. Registration is free of cost, but all participants must register online well before the event. How to register? To register for a KAnOE Workshop, please goto http://kanoe.org/workshopregistration.html and click appropriate button. Venue: Tech Park Seminar Hall, PES University, BSK 3rd Stage, Bangalore 560085. AGENDA: Tuesday, 13 January 2015 9:30 - 09:50 : Registration and Welcome 9:50 - 10:00 : Opening Remarks by Dr. I. K. Ravichandra Rao, Visiting Scientist, KAnOE 10:00 - 11:20 - Mr. N. V. Sathyanarayana, CEO and Managing Director, Informatics Ltd., Bangalore - Analytics in Information Industry 11:20 - 11:40 - Coffee break 11:40 - 1:00 - Dr. K. K. Chowdhury, Professor, SQC and OR Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore - Analytics in Industrial Quality Control 1:00 - 2:00 - Lunch 2:00 - 3:30 - Dr. J. K. Suresh, Designated Partner, KenAble Consultants, LLP., Bangalore - Analytics in Knowledge Management 3:30 - Tea For any queries, please write to ontology(a)pes.edu Director Centre for Knowledge Analytics and Ontological Engineering PES Institute of Technology Bangalore 560 085.

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Open Acess, Open Science, Open Data...yes they are cool! But, what next??
by Sri Amudha Sankar 29 Dec '14

29 Dec '14

Dear Colleagues, Here's something new and interesting!! Keep reading! How do we find if our works all that had been made open for wider accessibility really had better impact in the society? That's where altmetrics come into the scene by tracking scholarly impact beyond h-index or journal impact factor or other traditional metrics we are using already! Impactstory is a researcher-run non-profit, funded by the NSF. They’ve created a website that compiles all the citations, downloads, tweets, Mendeley bookmarks, and so on for all of your research products... articles, data sets, slides, software, etc. It’ll also pull in your new products automatically, and send you email alerts whenever any of your products has a new impact. It’s a great way to stay up-to-date on your research impact, and discover research impact you didn’t even know you had! Here are some example Impactstory profiles: 1) https://impactstory.org/CarlBoettiger <https://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimpactstory%2Eorg%2FCar…> 2) https://impactstory.org/SridharGutam <https://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimpactstory%2Eorg%2FSri…> . If you’re interested, you can sign up for a free 30-day trial here: https://impactstory.org/signup <https://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimpactstory%2Eorg%2Fsig…> I'm an Impactstory Advisor! So feel free to contact me further! Best, Sri Amudha S, Research Scholar, Dept of Library and Information Science, Pondicherry University. Mob : 91-9443936630. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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