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Library Automation in Public Libraries: Need & Importance
by DP Tripathi 14 Dec '14

14 Dec '14

Library Automation in Public Libraries: Need and Importance Public Library is a kind of library which is accessed by general public, funded by public sources and managed by library professionals. Basically public library is supported by taxes, governed by a body or board to serve the public interest, open to all. This kind of library is found throughout the world and is different from school libraries, college or university libraries. This kind of library allows its users to access and use of books, journals, magazines, maps and atlases, reference books etc. under the duty of social obligations. Public Library has different kind of users' category such as Children, Students, House Wives, Senior Citizens, Managers, Doctors, and Lawyers etc. These libraries also provide the same services being provided by any academic or special library. Thus, it becomes necessary to automate this kind of library also. Library Automation is the process which replace the manual work in mechanical way so as to make the work easy and fast. By library automation, the housekeeping operation can be mechanized easily and the bibliographic record can also be utilized by another library. Library automation not only brings the speed & accuracy but also economy and help in providing quick and prompt library services. In general, the importance of library automation will be as: a) Better access to the collection b) Resource sharing with other libraries c) Consistency in the collection d) Help in federated searching e) Removal from clerical and duplicacy work/job f) Accuracy in report generation Thanks, -- ********************* D. P. Tripathi Assistant Librarian Biju Patnaik Central Library NIT Rourkela Odisha - 769008 ********************** -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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People's Archive of Rural India
by Subbiah Arunachalam 14 Dec '14

14 Dec '14

Friend's: Today's The Hindu (Chennai Edition, Magazine section, p.2; 14 Dec 2014) carries an article on an excellent initiative - a multimedia archive on Rural India. To be launched on 20 December 2014, this archive "uses cutting edge technology and new forms of storytelling to document and reflect the energies of rural Indians." The archive is fully open access (CC 4.0). The PARI network, founded by Mr P Sainath, began its work of digitization in 2011. They hope to continue the work with crowd sourcing. I did not know about this project till I read about it today. But my impression is it deserves support. Please keep visiting < http://www.ruralindiaonline.org/>. Most members of LIS-Forum are familiar with the use of the Internet, the web and the archiving technology through IRs, PubMed Central, arXiv, the many databases of astronomy and biology, etc. The PARI archive is about (rural) people, their lives and their engagement with the external world. Dame Wendy Hall and her colleagues in the emerging field of Web Science will be very pleased with it. Best wishes. Arun -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Contribution of paper
by Manoj Kumar Verma 14 Dec '14

14 Dec '14

Dear Professionals, I am happy to inform you that Department of Library and Information Science, BHU is going to publish a Festschrift volume in Honor of Shri LMP Singh, Ex- Librarian, Central Library, BHU Varanasi(UP). The details about Festschrift volume is available on: http://lmpsingh.wordpress.com/. All Library professionals are requested to kindly contribute a paper for this Festschrift volume and pay you regards to a very senior person of our profession who spend his whole life to serve BHU Library. Thanking you -- Dr. Manoj Kumar Verma Assistant Professor Department of Library and Information Science Mizoram University(a Central University) Aizawl-796004 Contact No.- 09774003201(M) 0-9436707900(M) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Student Seminar
by drtc＠isibang.ac.in 12 Dec '14

12 Dec '14

INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE Documentation Research & Training Centre 8th Mile, Mysore Road, RVCE Post Bangalore-560 059 Seminar- 7 2014 Information Architecture and Libraries ABSTRACT In this digital era Information Architecture is becoming an emerging topic in the LIS field which enables libraries to be more attractive. It is concerned with the organisation, structuring and labelling of information with respect to users' perspective and not from technical perspective. A number of library websites, specially academic libraries have been designed with this concept although website designing is coming under this concept whether we strictly follow the procedures or not. This paper reflects the basic concepts and process of Information Architecture, jobs of information architects and its implication in libraries. An ongoing project done by Duke University Libraries is included that will give a clear idea about the implementation of IA in libraries. Speaker: Dibakar Sen Date: 15th December, 2014 Time: 2 p.m. Venue: DRTC, ISI Bangalore. All are cordially invited Seminar Coordinator Biswanath Dutta -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Recruitment of Library & Inf. Assistant – (3 posts), Trainee – (1 post), Information Scientists - (1 post) and Programme Coordinator – (1 post).
by Kishor Satpathy 12 Dec '14

12 Dec '14

Apologies For Cross Postings Dear All, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY SILCHAR-788 010 (Assam) will be recruiting Library & Inf. Assistant – (3 posts), Trainee – (1 post), Information Scientists - (1 post) and Programme Coordinator – (1 post) through WALK-IN-INTERVIEW. The details are given below: The following posts are to be filled up on Contractual basis through a walk-in-interview on 07.01.2015 at 10.30 AM in RPC Hall at NIT Silchar. Library & Inf. Assistant – (3 posts), Trainee – (1 post), Information Scientists - (1 post) and Programme Coordinator – (1 post). For details qualifications and job descriptions of these posts, please refer to the Institute website:http://www.nits.ac.in/employment/jobs/Corrigendum_WalkIn_Interview_28122014.pdf http://www.nits.ac.in/employment/jobs/NATIONAL_INSTITUTE_OF_TECHNOLOGY_SILC… http://www.nits.ac.in/employment/jobs/Job_Profile_Library_Info_Assistant_Tr… http://www.nits.ac.in/ Salary: Negotiable. Eligible candidates are to submit their complete bio-data along with photocopies of all testimonials, one copy of photograph (passport size) and all original documents to be produced at the time of interview. Thanks & Regards, Dr. Kishor Chandra SatpathyInstitute Librarian & Organizing Secretary, WNL-2015NIT SilcharTel: +91-9435175531 (M)E-mail : wnl2015(a)gmail.com Please attend NITS & Univ. of Illinois joint Int. Conf .WNL-2015. For deatils please visit our conference website / blog: http://lvpnits.wix.com/wnlconference2k15https://www.facebook.com/WNL2015htt… -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Request for fulltext article
by Mamtha's Gmail 12 Dec '14

12 Dec '14

Dear professional friends, One of our postgraduate students requires the following reference . Kindly please provide a copy of this article if available in your library. 1.Cancer Detect Prev. <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3742502#> 1986;9(3-4):219-25.Detection of oral cancer using basic health workers in an area of high oral cancer incidence in India. Mehta FS <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Mehta%20FS%5BAuthor%5D&cauthor=true…> , Gupta PC <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Gupta%20PC%5BAuthor%5D&cauthor=true…> , Bhonsle RB <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Bhonsle%20RB%5BAuthor%5D&cauthor=tr…> , Murti PR <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Murti%20PR%5BAuthor%5D&cauthor=true…> , Daftary DK <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Daftary%20DK%5BAuthor%5D&cauthor=tr…> , Pindborg JJ <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Pindborg%20JJ%5BAuthor%5D&cauthor=t…> . -- *Thank you & Regards* *Mrs Mamatha P. Kumar* *Chief Librarian* *Central Library* *Yenepoya University* *Yenepoya University **|** University Road, Deralakatte **|** Mangalore 575018 **|** Karnataka **|* * India*T: +91 824 22046668/69/70 *|* Extn 310 *|*F: +91 824 2204667 *|* www.yenepoya.edu.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Disruptive technologies
by Subbiah Arunachalam 12 Dec '14

12 Dec '14

Friends: If you have not embraced new technologies for your libraries yet, you might want to read this one-page article on "Can libraries survive disruptive technologies?" http://www.cilip.org.uk/cilip/blog/can-libraries-survive-disruptive-technol… Best. Arun -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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New version of liblivecd-1.5 (DSpace/Koha/Drupal)
by Sunita Barve 11 Dec '14

11 Dec '14

Dear all, We are happy to inform about the new release of LibLiveDVD version 1.5. LibliveDVD is made available now for 32bit and 64bit machines. Both these versions can be downloaded from following link: https://sourceforge.net/projects/liblivecd/files/Version-1.5/ The current version of LibLiveDVD contains lubuntu 14.04.01 LTS, Dspace-4.2, Koha-3.18 & Drupal 7.34. All these three software are pre-configured and pre-installed. Along with DSpace, Koha & Drupal, DVD also contains following server related software preinstalled such as:- Apache2 Web Server, Openssh, ftp Server, MySQL Server, PostGreSQL Server, Courier/Exim4 Mail Server, SquirrelMail Web Mail Client, Teamviewer and Minimum desktop environment. Drupal Content Management Open Source Software is added considering the requirements from libraries to create their library websites with dynamic look plus managing variety of content types. Koha is installed through lubuntu packages which will allow users to upgrade Koha with just two commands such as "apt-get update" & "apt-get upgrade koha-common". After installing libliveDVD login to root and upgrade your koha before using it on production machine. The web installation part of Koha and Drupal is as well preconfigured in the DVD. Koha can directly be run by logging with user 'koha_library' with password 'library'. Drupal can be run by logging with user 'drupal' with password 'library'. There is no need to run any web installation part for Koha and Drupal now. To input multilingual data in DSpace/Koha, IBUS input method is also installed on the DVD. Teamviewer 10 is preinstalled to share desktop, Abiword for editing/reading word documents, gnumeric for using spreadsheets, vim/gedit for text editing and epdfview for reading PDF files, ssh for remote login. Libreoffice and multimedia related software are excluded from the DVD and these can easily be installed by running "System Tools-Synaptic Package Manager". If the synaptic “reload” does not work try changing repositories links to http://archives.ubuntu.com/ubuntu instead of http://in.archives.ubuntu.com/ubuntu and then search and install any other required software. lUbuntu operating system (Lightweight Operating System) is chosen considering requirements from libraries where libraries have low configuration desktops in their libraries but still wish to initiate their library web sites, initiate library automation, as well as wish to create digital libraries. With old desktops try to install 32bit version of DVD. For newer configurations of machines install 64bit version of the DVD. Please follow proper installation steps to install LibLiveDVD if you wish to have dual boot i.e. windows as well as linux installation on your machines. We would greatly appreciate your valuable feedback. Please send any feed back to: ard(a)drtc.isibang.ac.in ; ardprasad(a)gmail.com OR sunitabarve(a)gmail.com ; sa.barve(a)ncl.res.in reg, Sunita Barve, Ph. D. Senior Technical Officer National Chemical Laboratory Dr, Homi Bhaba Road Pune 411008, INDIA Email :sunitabarve@gmail.com ; sa.barve(a)ncl.res.in http://sunitabarve.googlepages.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Vacancy of Asst. Librarian & Librarian Post at IIT Roorkee
by Mukesh Anand 11 Dec '14

11 Dec '14

Hon'ble Members, There is Vacancy of Asst. Librarian & Librarian Post at IIT Roorkee Brief detail is followed Assistant Librarian 01 post - ST PB 3 Rs. 15,600-39,100 & AGP Rs. 6000/- Librarian 01 post - UR PB 4 Rs. 37,400-67,000 & AGP Rs. 10,000/- Last date for both the post is 31/12/2014 Visit the website 1. www.iitr.ac.in 2.Go to Quick Links on Home Page 3. Other Job Openings 4. Non Academic Jobs with Thanx & Regards, Mukesh Anand Library & Information Assistant National Academy of Indian Railways Vadodara (Gujarat0 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Junior Library & Information Assistant : 02 posts
by Sathish Naik H 11 Dec '14

11 Dec '14

1. *How to Apply* : Application form in the prescribed format complete in all respect, with the 'RGIPT- Rae Bareli Centre, Post applied for______' clearly super scribed on the envelope, should reach at the following address by registered post by *05/01/2015* : *The Registrar, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology, Ratapur Chowk, Raebareli - 229316 (U.P.) * Please view http://rgipt.ac.in/ for details and application form. -- Regards Sathish Naik H 9980925754 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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